AMERICA.

St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 21, 1867. President F. D. Richards.

Dear Brother,-As I stated in a former letter I would at some future time send you a full report of my labors in the United States, I now avail myself of an opportunity, and will give you the facts in as concise a manner as possible.

After visiting Philadelphia, and reorganizing that Branch according to the desire of President William H. Miles, I visited my relations in Michigan and Iowa, and preached to them. By this time my money was nearly all spent, so in order to recruit my purse, I bought an axe and went into the woods to cut cord wood for about three weeks. As soon as I had earned sufficient money to pay my fare to St. Louis I came, and according to the wish of President Miles, commenced publishing and delivering lectures, Elder E. W. Tullidge assisting. Í

met him in St. Louis. We labored together, reorganized the St. Louis Branch, and delivered many lectures, which were all advertised in the Mo. Republican. Brother Tullidge left me in Feb. last, and returned to New York. I have remained in St. Louis and vicinity ever since, only when I have been doing business on the frontiers for the emigrating Saints from St. Louis.

The Lord, through President Young, saw fit to call me to labor in the States another year; I responded to the call, and have been doing all the good I could up to this time. I see the Lord, through me, has done some good for Zion. We have a large and comfortable hall on Broadway to hold our meetings, much better than the one we had last winter. I have also succeeded in opening two private hou

ses for meetings in the suburbs of the city. Several have been baptized during the summer. Five or six missionaries from Utah sent to the States, called on us; these brethren are going to the Southern States.

I have already received and sold about 20 hymn-books, with a few other Church books. Fifteen STARS are taken regularly in St. Louis. I am doing all I can to distribute the written word. Several now expect to cross the Plains for Utah next year. The Lord has been and still is helping me to revive the work in St. Louis, I give him all the glory.

Several old Saints have revived, come forward, and renewed their covenants with the Lord. We have a few real good Saints, and a few who have need of being schooled longer before they can be called good. The Saints and some friends love and respects me as a servant of God. I obey the Word of Wisdom myself, and I teach good and wholesome doctrine to all people. I have many apostate influences to contend with in St. Louis. Ever since Zion has begun to travel, St. Louis has caught her dross and scum; yet there are good people in this great city, and throughout this great Republic.

Please remember me kindly to the Saints and Elders of that mission. I have labored in England six years, made many acquaintances, and the Lord gave me many friends. God bless the English Saints, with all who are laboring for the welfare of Zion.

Brother Franklin, I am but a poor writer, but when the good Spirit is with me, I can talk a little and think more.

Please accept my kind love, the same to all the brethren in the office. Yours in the bonds of love,

LORENZO D. RUDD

New York, Sept. 23, 1867.

President F. D. Richards.

Dear Brother, -We expect to hold a Conference here on the 13th of October, and after that will make you a remittance for books and papers had since July. As we expect a good gathering of the Saints, we will be able to sell some books to those wanting them. I have run the subscription list of the STARS, in the States, up to 85 already, and if I can, will make it reach 100. I frequently have calls for books from clergymen and others, by mail, and if this Mission could have a few on hand to accommodate, it might prove a blessing to many.

Brother L. D. Rudd writes me from St. Louis, that he has frequent calls for books. He will hold a Conference, Oct. 6th, in that city, and report to our Conference on the 13th, when I will send you a brief report for publication in the STAR, that you may know of the prospects of the work in this land.

Quite an excitement was created among the newspaper fraternity, by the publication of a reported sermon in the Tabernacle, on the 8th of September, by Elder Sloan and President Kimball, on the unjust and tyrannical laws of Congress against polygamy. Ben. Wade threatens to move for a repeal of the Organic Act, and other and sundry retaliatory measures, upon the impudent "Mormons," for daring to question the honesty and patriotism of President Johnson's Rump Congress. Well, I suppose, we must let them work at it, they will make "Mormonism" popular after a while, whether we will or not.

A little information in regard to the Saints who have migrated this year to the States, no doubt would be acceptable. Those located in this city, Williamsburg, and vicinity, have generally obtained employment. Many are doing well, and, I think, quite a number will be successful in saving enough to get gathered with the Saints next year. Things look bright for a good fall business, and should no political or financial trouble intervene, it is thought business in the spring will be very good; it is hopeful that it will thus prove a real benefit and blessing to the Saints.

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I must here close, by promising a fuller report of the condition and prosperity of the Saints after Conference, and my kind regards to all the brethren with you. God bless you forever. Your brother in the Gospel, WILLIAM H. MILES.

ABOUT THE MORMONS. The telegraphic news which reaches us from Utah is often startling but seldom trustworthy. One time we were told that the "Saints" were at loggerheads, and a number of them had been read out of the Mormon Church by Brigham Young himself. Subsequent accounts by mail failed to confirm the story. On Friday last another story is telegraphed equally startling, and as we have no doubt the event will prove equally untruthful. It was to the effect that the Mormon Elders were making speeches stirring up sedition, and boasting that they would not obey the laws of Congress. These stories, of course, come from the "Gentiles," who, living among the Mormons, and not admitted to their social life, hate the "Saints" intensely. It is from this adverse and angry minority that the people of the country get their impressions of the Mormons.

Some time or other this Mormon question will come up for settlement, and it is therefore desirable that the public mind should not be bedeviled by the inventions of their personal enemies. Leaving out of view polygamy, the leaders of this strange sect must be credited with some good and even wonderful exploits. They have taken the most degraded population of Great Britain, the Welsh miners and English laborers, and have trained them into ways of thrift, sobriety, cleanliness, and a certain kind of intelligence. They have literally changed a desert into a garden, and soon an opulent State will appear in what but a few years since was a howling wilderness. For the present we ought to let the Mormons alone. They are helping to populate a thinly settled section with hard-working and intelligently directed people. We can safely trust to time and a sufficiently large Gentile population to rid us of polygamy; but in the interim let us

close our ears against the stories of their personal enemies. - New York World.

ENGLAND.

Bristol, Oct. 9, 1867.

President F. D. Richards.

Dear Brother, I feel to address a few lines to you in accordance with your kind invitation to the brethren to communicate with you.

I am very thankful to say that, with but little exception, my health has continued to improve ever since I left my home in Tooele county, for which I feel to offer my gratitude and thanks to God, for I realise his hand in this as well as in all other things pertain ing to my welfare and health, and my faith is that I shall be preserved from sickness and from all evil during my stay in the nations, in accordance with the word of the Lord. I have been observing the Word of Wisdom since I embarked on the City of London at New York, and I am thankful to say that already I find good results therefrom, and realise that the Lord is not backward in his promise connected therewith.

I am very happy to say that I find my fellow-laborers, brothers Anderson and Gibbs, very agreeable persons; I enjoy their society, and feel to be united with them in the councils and labors of this Conference, and it affords me pleasure to find this feeling reciprocated by them. I find the influence of the Spirit rest upon us in our meetings, to enable us to speak with freedom of the great things of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and I believe we may anticipate some good to follow our weak endeavors to spread a knowledge of true and righteous principles. I return you thanks for the kindness extended me to visit my relatives. I have borne a faithful testimony to two families of them, which has resulted in the baptism of my eldest brother, and I sincerely hope that the seed sown may yet bring forth good fruit in the hearts of the others. I have yet to visit another sister and her husband, at Ford, near Devonport, where, with the kind consent of brother Anderson, I intend going next week. Judging from their earnest and pressing invitation, I

hope to be an instrument of good to them.

I have travelled through a great part of the Conference visiting the Saints, whom I have found generally to be poor people, though mostly warm-hearted and kind, and ever ready, according to their means, to assist the work. I held meetings in different places with them, some of which were attended by strangers, or people of the world, whom we had invited by going to their houses, or on meeting them in different places in the neighborhood of the several meetings. I have also attended and spoken at some of the out-door meetings in and about Bristol; as yet we perceive but little fruits of our labors; but in some of the places we have hopes of a few coming forward for baptisin.

My great desire and earnest prayer is, that I may be blessed with the gift and power of the Holy Ghost, and with the spirit and power of my office and calling in the holy Priesthood, so that I may be faithful and obedient, and may realise all the words of the Prophets unto me, and that I may be enabled, when the time comes, to return home with the blessings of God and his servants, and also with the testimony of a good conscience.

With prayers for your welfare, and for the success of the work of God, I remain, with kind love and respects to you, and to the brethren in the office, your brother in the covenant,

GEORGE W. BURRIDGE.

Bradford, Sept. 20, 1867. President F. D. Richards.

Dear Brother, I have left my field of labor, namely, the Hull Conference, according to your counsel and permission, to return to my family and work for our emigration. In doing so, I would like to address a line to you. I feel it very much leaving the Saints of the Hull Conference, as I was very much attached to them. There I first heard the Gospel, 11 years since, was called to the Priesthood soon after, and was sent forth into the town and surrounding country, to bear testimony of the everlasting Gospel restored to the earth in these the last days, through Joseph Smith, whom God had called to usher in this the last