Show red reu E bisho bishop p WILLIAM IVILLIA 31 B bunge BUDGE U D GE is authorize to act as GENERAL AGENT for the NB NEWS mews TVS throughout cache county bount POTTS pottsville spottsville VILLE schuyle III lii copenh Co Penn december 2nd and 1868 editor deseret dear brother for some time past ii 0 have desired t to 0 write you brother D M stewart fc and myself landed in this county ten days ag ago aoi goi in the enjoyment of good health and buoyant spirits on a travelling velling tra mission through the middle and south eastern States I 1 left miho MIAo url uri june of the pro gred t the work there and in alabama your ybur readers have previously been apprised apprise dt through the publication of president john browns communications lant anu Imy my own to president geo A smith since I 1 le leffa ft the south I 1 learn of the revival df the ku klux with other omens of misery while there I 1 was often reminded of the scripture which says sayi for they have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind the people of this land commenced the disfiguring of their countenances by blacking their faces june 1844 when they killed the prophet through whom god offered this nation salvation from the feuds that now threaten its destruction 1 I 1 Trema remained ined in southern ill ili from july ibb until aug ath preaching in sie tie several veral neighborhoods where large congregations gregat ions lons with good attention were ever present I 1 then than went to st louis louia where I 1 aw awaited tilted the arrival from Oni onealia alia aila of president irm arm ander and bro 0 stuart who had been meek looking after our emigration soan soo n after their arrival bro stuart and myself were appointed pot anted to travel and labor in our present field through tho the teachings and example of bro stuart a good work had been done in the branch at st louis some fifty emigrated the present year and a number of good faithful saints were and are still there now under the watch care of president J brown while in that city and in the society oi of the saints I 1 enjoyed myself much otherwise but few days would have sufficed to give me a desire to again seek the country where less of mans and more of gods works meet our gaze when we are in the rural districts and solitude has become to us monotonous we desire a change and our fane faney fancy y is tickled with a contemplated visit to the city we love the country for there as our vision extends over the varied scenery of undulating landscape we see godliness in the order displayed I 1 by the great architect we hear the warble of the winged songsters song tha the rippling brook and the roaring cataract in fact our thoughts run in a channel enabling us to see majesty in the towering trees beauty in natures fields sublimity in the towering bills and tind in all one grand panorama of order harmony and iove love love iove there is likewise a measure of joy in the association of a great city we are awakened at first with a feeling of security and amidst the countless thousands of our fellow men we throw off all feelings of gloom and take joy in being jostled along by the mass of animated beings anxiously plodding with nervous tread the fancied high road to happiness in the panorama of a city in this century we are pleased most when we scrutinize scrutinize least our admiration is awakened in viewing the magnificent edifices towering steeples and grand receptacle of the nine fine arts but rut 13 ut a few turns around town change our admiration into sorrow because we find on every hand traces of vice and iniquity on the morning of sept brother stu stuart art and liosel myself f crossed the I 1 father of waters to east st louis and got aboard the cars for our present field of labor our mission is to visit localities from whence calls had bad come for gospel messen messengers ers era our first hait bait was in knox c county 0 anty indiana nj lana iana where we labo labored for about two weeks with a welcome reception after organizing a small branch of the church and appointing brother james hooper an ex baptist minister twe traveled southeast through the c lantry preaching to anxious and hospitable people whom we found on every hand band wo we arrived at cannelton connelton Can nelton anthe ohio river biver and found a family of saints with whom we spent four days pleasantly at the end of that time we embarked on a steamer for cincinnati ein cin nati where we landed oct there we sojourned sojourn ed six sim days visiting ani ani fe aching teaching a number of old saints who had lost much of their former warm feeling for the truth however they had a free testimony many to bear of the restoration tor to ration atlon of the gospel to this thib generation we started from cincinnati feeling thankful that we we wee 0 by the blessing of of god permitted to wei wet gavel and disseminate blessings casings among scattered israel our next halt of any length was made on the line of ohio and pennsylvania in the counties of and mercer where we labored for more than two weeks during this time we held four meetings organized a branch of some nineteen saints and took our leave for tyis this place where we found a few sal saints n Is scattered over about fifteen miles of country they gathered here on last sabbath when after baptising baptizing bap six persons we organized them and entitled this the pottsville spottsville Potts ville branch ten more are to be baptised baptized sed this evening we depart from here tomorrow to morrow leaving some forty saints united as one in feeling as saints everage eve ever rare are they all rejoice at our visit and have spared nothing in administering to our wants we go to shenandoah to hold a meeting and then to scranton where we hear there is a few saints the brethren generally think of emigrating hext next summer we expect by invitation of prest miles allies to spend a few days visiting the saints in new york then bur way will be south through philadelphia and washington into virginia and the carolinas the 1 the almighty emi eXI have attend e all the time timo upon my home homo 1867 in a degree far surpassing my most sanguine hopes and I 1 believe they will continue As ever eldr your brother in the tho kingdom of god WARREN N dusenberry SALT SAT LAKE CITY dec editor evening news dear sir I 1 like fancy it consorts with my and that is why I 1 so admire your echo city correspondent of the foth last he is a fanciful writer and tells some bome good things the arrivals at echo city I 1 cannot speak of the sole cause why more buildings were not erected there a week ago was the lack of lumber but your present correspondent saw only one petticoat in echo city on the dinst not a child and lots of lazy idle men some with dry goods exposed and no buyers there was a bridge over echo creek a toll bridge I 1 enquired by what authority it was erected was willing to pay the toll on receiving the information tiong but felt somewhat lao IYo bothered to use an Irish mans phrase when I 1 recollected that no person had the right to build such an institution in this territory without the th sanction odthe of the legislature and Cong congress tess had taken such power from it in the march of so that no toll bridges could be erected under the circumstances this is the main pointon my communication ni for much feeling existed on the matter watter I 1 rode oven over the bridge twice the last time wl with th the local mail carrier both of us determined to give the bridge builder a chance to stop us pistol in hand and compel us to stand and deliver but both I 1 think were known for tor no person spoke to either the morning before some teamsters were stopped and after a quarrel paid half price the bridge was principally constructed from the debris of the old county bridge which makes the tho imposition more glaring mr bromley proposed buying the bridge and making it free and offered the constructor twenty nive five dollars orbr over cost to make it so judge judg a hinckley has his an eye to the matter and may interfere if the charge for crossing ia Is continued for it is a I 1 have no wish to conflict with your correspondent but I 1 am a man of plain facts and feelings and believe echo city will never have much of an exist ance anca excel except on parchment VIATOR burks BURRS GARDEN GARDET tazewell co va dec 1868 prest prett brigham Brig bain hain young dear dac brother having reported regularly every two weeks to elder john brown president of this mission and knowing that through hinl him an accorn account D of my labors faus haus faas been duly transmitted to headquarters I 1 may on this account have defer deferred red writing to you longer than I 1 should we have or organized anizel three branches of the church namely the surry county branch N C with 49 members smyth county branch va with 26 members and the burks garden branch with 21 24 members and have baptized 14 others not included included in these branches three of whom with a family of five children emigrated to ogden city this last season among those baptized lately is a baptist preacher by the name of wm L gillespie of new garden russel co va also his wife and daughter brother gillespie has a good education is a man of considerable ability and influence is humble and teachable and expects to emigrate besl season icv to utah something like one hundred from our field of labor are expecting to gather up with the saints next season and they wish to start as early as practicable as they will be out of employment not having in any crops an and to hire out here does docs not pay some are very pa poor or and how they ever can raise the necessary funds to pay heir way through ugh I 1 cannot tell tel J vp can buy through tickets from C greensboro oro N C oue the richmond and danville and baltimore and ohio railroads vice via richmond and washington to omaha for awen ly dollars which I 1 consider very cheap and it is the best beat we can do on the virginia and tennessee railroad or by water the fare would be double that any instruction on the subject of emigration from you would be thankfully received since on this mission wo we have borne a faithful testimony in many places where we have not baptized any as well as where we have baptized our journals will show that we have not hot been idle we of course have opposition and find enemies to the truth but we have never been ill treated and nothing in the shape of a mob has ever disturbed us or made its appearance not one of our meetings or baptisms has ever been disturbed by disorderly persons but on the contrary our meetings have been noted for the attention and good behavior that have prevailed we have never been refused but one church and that was a fine new methodist church at mt alt airy N C and a few days after it was struck with lightning and completely torn to pieces from the top of the belfry to the foundation rocks so that it was easier to build a new one thau than to repair it it has beel been and is a source of much satisfaction to me to know that the spirit of the lord is with me bearing testimony to the truth and carrying it home to the hearts of the people we have been from the first gain gaining lur tur upon the feelings of the people our influence is on the tha increase and we have many more calls than we can fill many who were at first much opposed are now our best bost friends and some that gathered together to mob elder rideout some years ago before the war would now do anything for ils us we have confined ourselves to the first principles of the gospel we have preached faith repentance and baptism for the remission of sins the laying on of hands for the gift ift of the holy ghost the gifts and blessings the organization of the church with apostles and prophets ac together with tithing the book of mormon the building up of the kingdom of god on the earth and also plural marriage all the people know that we practice it but they have it all wrong and look at it in the worst possible light therefore teaching it has been a necessity in nearly all the places where we have introduced ined trod ed the gospel after we had taught the first principles I 1 have preach preached sd them several sermons on that subject and always with good effect many have come forward and offered themselves for baptism who have said they would have done it sooner but for misunderstanding that subject and they said further they never would have been baptized had bad they not received more light on that principle elders eiders T B lewis and bell were appointed by president brown to join us in this field of labor elder eider bell beil has not yet arrived elder lewis arrived here the middle of september full fall of the spirit and testimony of the gospel having prea pred preached ebed hilway his way from the ohio river through h kentucky to this place he baptized one made many friends friend and removed much of the prejudice that existed bro lewis has been laboring in company with us since his arrival thus becoming thoroughly acquainted quain ted with the virginia portion of our mission mission and we intend to roll the burden of this portion upon his shoulders as bro coray and I 1 are to leave here tomorrow to morrow for north carolina to resume our labors in that direction the corn crops have been very good both here and in north carolina this season better than for many years money is very scarce and it is only by the most rigid economy that the people can live the war drained the country of its specie of 1 its ta cattle and horses and its best men and since then they have not recovered sufficiently to be able to produce anything to spare that will bring money into the country thus you can see that it will be hard for those of our brethren and sisters wishing to gather up to get the money to pay their way the country is added flooded with young women unmarried w with th no 0 prospect of marrying some of the best of these we have baptized some of these baptized will never be able to gather out without help for they could not make maky the money here necessary to emigrate in a lifetime all the saints that expect to emigrate next season are pre preparing with all their energies to get ready and I 1 uta am asked every day how soon in the spring can they go all seem to be anxious to get brough as early in la the season as possible bros coray and lewis join with me in love to you presidents smith and wells ever praying for your welfare and prosperity I 1 remain your brother in the cause of truth HENRY G BOYLE |