The neighbors flocked in, had many | bill, and found that we had sufficient inquiries to make, and were very to pay our passages to Columbus, to anxious we should tarry and preach in which place we took passage in the the place. The stage came along stage and tarried over night. about 10 o'clock, and we went on our way for Kirtland.

While in Pleasant Garden we obtained some money, so that with the five dollars we previously had, amounted to $13,50. When we got into the stage, we did not expect to be able to ride but a short distance. We rode as far as Indianapolis, paid our passages, and found we had suflicient means to take our passages for Richmond, Ia.

When we arrived at this place we found we had means to take us to Dayton, to which place we proceeded and tarried over night, waiting for another line of stages. We expected to stop here and preach until we got means to pursue our journey. I went to my trunk to get money to pay my

When I paid my bill I found I had sufficient to pay our passages to Wooster. We tarried till the after part of the day, and then took passage for Wooster. When we arrived there I went to my trunk again to get money to pay our bill, and found sufficient to pay our passages to Cleveland.

When we got to a little town called Strongsville, towards evening, within about 20 miles of Cleveland, I had a strong impression to stop at a tavern when I first came into the town, but the stage did not stop there, so we went on. We arrived at Cleveland about 11 o'clock, and took lodgings and remained till next morning.

(To be continued.)

THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1863.

VISIT TO THE SCANDINAVIAN MISSION.

We have just returned from a visit to the Branches and Conferences of the Church in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, composing the Scandinavian Mission ; and as a sketch of our proceedings and the condition of the Work of God in those lands may possess some interest for the Elders and Saints in this Mission, we take the opportunity of laying a few items before them. Leaving Elder Richard Bentley in charge of the business of the office, we started for Hull on the 15th of August, and sailed from the latter port on the morning of the 16th, landing at Hamburg on the 18th, where we were met by Elder Jesse N. Smith, President of the Scandinavian Mission. Proceeding from there to Altona on the same evening, thence by rail to Kiel, and the remainder of the journey by steamer and rail, we reached Copenhagen on the 19th. We held meeting with the Saints at their hall in that city on Sunday the 23rd, and enjoyed the meeting very much. On the 24th, President Smith and ourself sailed for Gottenborg, Sweden, which city we reached on the 25th, and were met, upon landing, by Elder Holberg, from the Valley, who left there in the spring of 1862, Elder Söderborg, President of the Gottenborg Conference, and several other Elders and Saints. We held meeting that evening and had the privilege of addressing

a crowded house of Saints and strangers, who listened with great attention and interest. In the morning we took rail to Stockholm, distant 42 6-10th Swedish miles, (each Swedish mile being nearly seven English miles,) and received a warm welcome from the Elders and Saints. Among the former were Elders Winberg and Swenson-on a mission from Zion to Scandinavia-and Elder Flygare, the President of the Stockholm Conference, and Elder Ericson, who is engaged in translating the Book of Mormon into the Swedish language. We held an evening meeting here with the Saints, in their hall; and on Sunday we met twice in Conference with them, several Elders and Saints having come in from adjacent Conferences and Branches to meet with us; many strangers were present at these meetings and an excellent spirit prevailed. Returning to Gottenborg we held another evening meeting there, on the 2nd of September, and we found that our previous meeting had been productive of some good, as one man who had been present at that meeting, and had been much impressed by what he had heard, had been baptized and was confirmed that evening, and others were much interested. We embarked at Gottenborg at

2 a.m. on the 3rd of September for Christiania, Norway, which place we reached on the evening of the same day. Some hundreds of Saints, with Elder J. P. R. Johnson (who is presiding in Norway, and who left Zion on a mission to Scandinavia in the fall of 1860) and other Elders were assembled at the wharf when we landed, and the meeting was a very warm and impressive one. While at Christiania we held a two days' Conference, on the 5th and 6th of September, with the Elders and Saints, some of the former having walked several hundred miles to be present at these meetings. We also met with them in public on three other occasions, all of which meetings we enjoyed exceedingly. On the 12th of September we embarked (brother Johnson accompanying us with the intention of attending the General Conference of Elders) on the steamer for Copenhagen, which city we reached, after a thirty-four hours' passage, on the afternoon of the 13th. The General Conference of the Priesthood of the Scandinavian Mission convened in Copenhagen on the 18th and 19th of September, and was followed, on Sunday the 20th, by a General Conference of the Elders and Saints in a large hall which was specially procured for the occasion. The instructions which were given on those occasions, and the spirit which prevailed, filled all with joy and love, and we rejoiced together in the privileges and opportunities which we possessed as servants and Saints of God. On Monday, the 21st of September, we bade the Elders and Saints farewell, and, in company with President Jesse N. Smith, who kindly accompanied us as far as Hamburg-and from whom we had not been separated while we were in the Mission-we started on our return to England. We reached Hull in the afternoon of the 24th, and held meeting with the Saints of that Branch-Elders Bull and Nicholson being also present-on the evening of the 25th; and on the 26th, after an absence of six weeks, reached Liverpool. We are quite unable, in a brief sketch like the present, to do justice to the feelings we entertain towards the Elders and Saints in Scandinavia, for the kindness universally shown on all hands to brother Smith and ourself while visiting them, and the pleasure we have experienced in their society in public meetings and in social intercourse. The visit has been one of unalloyed pleasure to us, and has made such an impression upon us as, we trust, will never be erased. The presence and the teachings of the Ellers from Zion are very highly valued by the Saints throughout those lands; they honor their counsels

and receive with eagerness the instructions they have to impart to them, and bear testimony by their actions that they have had the love of God implanted in their hearts, whereby they are enabled to value the truth and the Priesthood which He has again restored to the earth. They are exerting themselves with all diligence to procure the means necessary to emancipate themselves from Babylon, and the prospect, so far as we could learn from the reports of the Elders, is that the emigration for the coming season, from the most of the Conferences in that Mission, will be but little, if any, below that of the past spring. The calls for Elders are very numerous-more than can be supplied at present, and there is every reason to think that thousands will yet receive the Gospel in those lands and be gathered therefrom to Zion. In Sweden and Norway there are large fields stretching out before the Elders to the far north, which, for the want of time, they have not yet been able to penetrate. They have only been able to skirt along the edges, and labor in a few places which have been most convenient and accessible. But what they have accomplished warrants the belief that many of the inhabitants of the places yet unvisited will yield a ready acquiescence to the principles of truth when they shall have the privilege of hearing them. They are a kind-hearted, simple-minded, noble race, and when they comprehend the truth are very firm in clinging to it. Freedom of conscience is now enjoyed to a far greater extent than formerly in Sweden and Norway, yet there is still room for considerable more liberty in this direction.

The meetings in which we had the privilege of participating with the Saints, in the various places which we visited, were of a very interesting character. The Spirit of the Lord was there, and was felt to a goodly extent by all who assembled with pure motives. The spirit of instruction rested upon all who spoke. Particularly was this the case during the days when we met in General Conference; and we have cause to anticipate that much good will result from the counsels and instructions imparted to the Priesthood on that occasion. A heavy book debt, which has been hanging over the Mission, was taken into consideration, and counsel was given respecting the best method of liquidating it and freeing the Mission from embarrassment-counsel which was very acceptable to President Smith and the Elders, and which they unanimously determined to adopt.

The presence and the assistance of the Elders who have been recently appointed to Scandinavia will be very acceptable to the Saints there, more especially when they master the language, which they are energetically and cheerfully striving to do.

Upon leaving, we were requested by the Elders and Saints to bear their greetings and love to their fellow-servants and brethren and sisters in Great Britain. They are interested in the Work of God and all connected with it in this land. Their faith and prayers and works are united with the faith and prayers and works of the faithful sons and daughters of God in this and all other lands, to bring to pass that reign of peace and righteousness which will admit of the will of God being done on the earth as it is done in heaven.

ELDERS WEST AND B. YOUNG, JUN.-We are pleased to learn, by letter from these brethren, of their safe arrival at Atchison, K.T., in good health, after a safe and speedy passage. By letter from Elder G. A. Smith,

ABSTRACT OF CORRESPONDENCE.

651 abstracts from which appear in another page, we have also received the pleasing intelligence of their safe arrival in Salt Lake City, on the 27th of August, after an unusually short trip of twenty-six days and a few hours from Liverpool, the quickest passage ever made between the two points of which we have any knowledge.

A CORRECTION.

In an article headed "Guerrilla Warfare in Missouri," and published in the thirty-eighth number of the current volume, under date of September 19th, a statement was made in the editorial comments, by which the foundation of the Temple laid in Far West, Caldwell county, Missouri, was confounded with the foundation of the Temple laid a little west of Independence, Jackson county, Missouri. As the minds of many of the Saints do not seem to be clear on this point-not seeming to be aware that there were two foundation spots for Temples designated and dedicated in the State of Missouri-we are the more particular in correcting the statement referred to. That statement reads as follows:

"More than thirty years have now elapsed since the Lord revealed to the Prophet Joseph the place where the City of Zion should be built, and the spot where the Temple of the Lord should be erected. That place was Jackson Co., Mo.-that spot was close to the town of Independence. The inhabitants of that State were determined that the city of Zion should not be built, nor a Temple erected within the limits of their State, if they could help it. They, therefore, rose en masse, and drove the Saints from their homes, burning, destroying, and murdering all before them. The day had been appointed, by revelation, to lay the foundation of the Temple; the mob vowed it should not be done-that if every other revelation of the Mormon Prophet had been fulfilled, that one should not be,-but, to their confusion, it

was.

The foundation spot for the Temple near Independence, Jackson county, the centre stake of Zion, was dedicated on the 3rd of August, 1831, by the Prophet Joseph Smith and seven other Elders, before the Saints had experienced any mob violence from the hands of their enemies in that county; but the foundation spot of the Temple in Far West, Caldwell county, was dedicated and the corner stones of the Temple were laid, (agreeably to the revelation given through the Prophet Joseph, April 26th, 1838,) on the 4th of July, 1838; and in accordance with that revelation, and a subsequent one received on the 8th of July, 1838, was re-commenced on the 26th of April, 1839, President Brigham Young and several of the Twelve Apostles and other Elders being present at the time. It is to this latter labor-the re-commencement of the laying of the foundation of the Temple at Far West, Caldwell county-and the taking leave of the Saints at that spot by the Twelve Apostles, preparatory to starting on their mission to Europe, that the portion of the comments which we have italicised above properly refers.

ABSTRACT OF CORRESPONDENCE.

AMERICA. We have been favored with the perusal of a letter from Elder George A. Smith, (dated at Salt Lake City on the 29th August) to his brother,

Elder John L. Smith, President of the Swiss and Italian Mission, from which we take the following extracts :

"I wrote you last on 30th July, after my return from the sorth with Judge Kinney. Since that time I have visited Provo, Utah county; on my return I accompanied President Young to Cache Valley, and found some teams putting out for the northern gold mines, which have broken out to an alarming extent, 400 miles north of here. President Young advised the Bishops to cut the people off from the Church who went to the gold mines, and advised the Elders to give up their licenses who went there; if they are really come here to dig for gold to resign their Priesthood first. I was sick with chills and fever and ague sweats all the time I was in Cache Valley and Box Elder, which temporary indisposition deprived me of the comfort and benefits of the expedition to a very great extent, although I spoke in public a short time in Cache Valley and in Ogden. Measures are on foot to make a settlement beyond Cub River, east of Cache Valley, where facilities of even greater promise than those in Cache invite the Saints to settle. General C. C. Rich takes charge of the settlement, and is going to sell out in Davis county, and will take his family with him. The people in this and Davis county are suffering severely from drouth; they are losing much of their fruit and most of their late crops. Perrygrine Sessions has an orchard of five acres which is literally dried up. I am happy to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of July 29th, giving an account of the visit of Elders C. W. West and B. Young, jun., to Switzerland. They arrived home yester day. Your family is well. Judge Kinney started to-day for Washington, in the coach, as Delegate for Utah in Congress, accompanied by J. S. Gibbs, U. S. Marshall * We will exercise what faith we can in your behalf, that the few heads of wheat in the Swiss bundle may be saved. The first company of emigrants arrived this afternoon. James Ferguson died last night

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NEWS FROM HOME.

From the absence of any specially interesting or exciting intelligence in the Deseret News of August 26th, we gratefully opine that peace and prosperity prevail among the citizens of Deseret, and that, with the exception of the continued drouth, which has injured the crops in many portions of the Territory, nothing of an unpleasant nature has occurred to mar the happiness and pros perity of the people.

We perceive by the Farmer's Oracle that Mr. D. Graves, of Provo, advertises seedling tea-plants for sale. We are pleased to see this, as it manifests the fecundity of Deseret, and the persevering energy which makes the "desert blossom as the rose."

The following items we extract from the News :~~

CHIEF JUSTICE TITUS.-The Hon. John Titus, of Pennsylvania, arrived here on the 7th inst., to succeed Hon. John F. Kinney as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for this Territory, and was inducted into office on the 12th, by taking the prescribed oath, administered by Governor Doty. He hails from Philadelphia, where, as we are informed, he has been engaged in the practice of law for many years.

ARRIVED.-Gen. Horace S. Eldredge and John W. Young arrived by the eastern stage last evening.