| Show llin MIDWAY wAy vay sep jtb editor Je Deseret seret newn sin I 1 noticed in ehe the columns of your paper that you spose of somo men havin havic havics gone on an indian ind hunt to recover stolen horses I 1 thought I 1 would give you voa a true statement of the trip we started from midway city eight in number and struck the trail at the head of daniels kanyon and were ivere fortunate to keep it till we arrived at uintah mintah tah the government reservation of this territory tory but without any success save obtaining information from one of 0 indians that our horses had bad cosmod crossed green oreen niver elver two days before wo ve arrived an au indian of rabbis band volunteered to guide us and four of our company started arain again after three days hard bard riding we arrived at the white river reservation in colorado two hundred miles front UInta hand hana four hundred miles from Midway we found four head olour horses but they came near costing us our scalps as we rode into the indian c camp camp imp in the brush before we va knew it and it was only with much rauch persuasion on the tho part of our indian guide that they became reconciled and agreed to give us un our stock we were treated with great courtesy by mr ur brown who has charge of the white biver river reservation he nuion anion among gother other kindnesses provided us with plenty of provisions respectfully DAVID W LV ILOw aug 1870 editor deseret unab dear bro bno I 1 take pleasure plea piea suro in informing you with regard to affairs in this far off part of the lords vineyard bro bra beauchamp arrived here on an the esth of last april and ats stayed with us a little lettla over a onta month during which time amid much opposition he was indefatigable in spreading the principles of oar our most holy falth faith and had the tha privilege of establishing a branch here hone comprising seventeen seven teen mena mera members since bro beauchamp heau Bean champ left here 1 I 1 have had bad the pleasure of baptizing three persons which increases our number to twenty one of these brother d G M W clark dark left here by the july mail mall boat en CA rout route for utah it is however hovi hori ever more than likely that he may have to stay a short time in san francisco the saints here under my chargo charge cliar cilar goare are united and enjoy the spirit of peace and have a great desire to gather to zion for the attainment of which chich desire they are laboring hard there are several inquirers whom I 1 ex expect act will come forward ere long and embrace the gospel bro beauchamp is in ia sydney and has been very ill bulb bubl am an informed inform ed lis his nis health is improving ee ila is much respected by the tha saints here at earlori and throughout australia I 1 believe be he will despite the opposition of satan and his emissaries accomplish com a vast amount of good in these lilosa lands in be december camber comber uail if all ali be well will be bo held hold the first latter day saints conference in sew hew zealand your brother in the gospel ALLINGTON 5 cotna AND THE f I 1 c thi following correspondence was written britten by F 1 D 0 11 of the troy rimes times from this city it is interestIng as showing the views of one orie visitor who expresses presses es those thoss of the party with whom he traveled brigham young is a man of great power poirer as an organizer and a ruler M elder eldar ider lder smith said in reply to the qa question estion what shall the government do with the indians give them over to president young and give him 8 per jear year and he will take caro care of them and there will never be any trouble I 1 do not doubt it at all one of our nur ladles thought mr lir young looked like washington freis he is stout and in full vigor rf mind and body the labor which bo he oer ner performs forms ia immense ills his own personal t is very great he ila owns mills factories ac tories and ranch ranches and cattle by the thousands hou sands uis bis domestic affairs must command madl madi cf ef hi for he takes a fatherly interest in each one of his 49 children and no man could fill his bis place except ae he reduced everything to a perfect science of f r system y st em and order such is Bri brigham brichant ohana chana koung young oung his influence over his bia people is is aimont almost unlimited in sait salt lake he lie is re veren cea ced as the pro prophet phet phot priest and kin king a ills ris enemies say his bis reign ia is despotic and the mormons cormons Mor inong are slaves the tha recruits to zhe the faith are aro drawn dhawn from the poorer classes ia a denmark wales and Engla england nl at honne they possessed nothing bat atiteo fabj poverty bangham advances the 2 money noney for lor their iare tare out here there when whan they arrive they are furnish furnished edwith with a piece of land and begin the world on their own seco account urit tho the money and aid advanced ia is put in into a note which brigham hol lol jirlds ds and the new liew comer is required alred aired to pay in yearly installments which heis bels is able to do irhe flab IS isi industrious and enter W we saw av thousands of homes lomes of comfort if not P plenty id n y tithes to the tho charch are required I 1 ana and fm f m them the tha widows and orphans ax ane are supported arif allf and iho tho church organization kaalt maintained lne ine noir nor I 1 must frankly siy say that in all this I 1 isee see no tyranny brigham furnishes tho the brains and capital to start life and to do business out of which come a thon thou thousand sand saad conff comforts orts which these people never knew before and for it they return apart a part of their earnings they aro no moro more slaves llaves s than the thousands of operatives in the eastern states who toll for their support and from whose labor others are profited the amount of work cheso cormons mormons have done is astonishing the investment for irrigation alone alona amounts to the handsom handsome 6 sum bum of then there is the railroad the public highways high vaya waya on one of which we rode and the driver witban eye to business busness ness offered to keep right on ori miles up to helena tha the house housa sand fences and the city elty wall wali now noy crumbling down eight nalles kniles long built in early days to k keep off indians and the public buildings bes besides ef des deg the cultivation of nf the land T they be y manufacture their own clothes and aim alm to establish a system of home production which shall make them independent of the outside world the foundation to the temple has already cost a million of dollars it is feet by and when completed which will soon bo be its lofty spires feet in height beight ara aro to mark wark tho the mormons cormons Mor mons i devotion and sacrifice to his bis faith siew rew VIEW few OS OV DR infix N AN parson nowman bowman has certainly failed in his bis effort to achieve notoriety not notoriety orlet oriet y tairo through ugh a preaching match with brigham young nearly all the papers of standing in the count country rv including those of his own political complexion deprecate his movement as undignified useless and more or less damaging to the general cause of christianity tho the bad displayed in treating clerical affairs in the P it style is too apparent arent to be den denlea denied although that could have bave rave gave been pardoned in vew view of any substantial good being likely to result which was not the case on the tho contrary cont iary it is conceded that in the observance of all social ame amenities nitle nitie 9 the preservation or seio self respect sud and the display of courteous finesse brigham has gotten the tho better of him in the first f piao pia pla ethe athe doctor lost his bis temper te amper sald and was in consequence betrayed by brigham into issal issum nr an imprudent bombastic challenge this the prophet accepted turning the dis discussion cassi cussi a over to two of b his dis Is h henchmen ench in a ina rna mangier ru r so redolent of contempt ani ana and cons conscious ciot clot superiority per lorit as to call forth another bitter angry rejoinder from the parson in in such marke marked contrast to the mormon affability displayed that be he was was at once placed at a hopeless bo pelesa dl disadvantage addan and forced to preace preach with avith his fangs drawn he Ha therefore returns without accomplishing comp lishing auy any y good a living example of Erig barns bains great groat tact and intelligence outgeneraled gener aled if not out preached he be will have the sorry satisfaction of knowing that lie he bag has unwillingly contributed inore more to the prophets fame than any other living man it is to be hoped the lesson letson may not be lost upon the parson in considerably ies lessening the ar arrogance for which be he has baa as always been p so offensively distinguished and in teach ing him that the appointed path for the disciples of christ to tread is that of humility in interpreting scripture it is not necessary for them to create law in holding nast fast to their own peculiar opinions it is not necessary to curse ana and condemn others who differ from them if the lord wanted all his children ot of one faith ho he would probably have thein them so but it would seem lie be does not and although parson newman inay may be nore more r infallible than plus IX and anole more learned than solomon the world is not mot likely to be mado mads up entirely of par parson aon lon newman awman wo we fear he has baa devoted himself so assiduously to the study of scripture as to prejudice the worth arid and influence of other useful books ve recommend one in particular to his closer attention chesterfield ter nield field |
