Cambridgeport Dear Brother Badlam As the steamer is to leave New York in few days again, I feel disposed to forward you a few lines again & give you an Index of what News their is going on in this county the last I herd from you was the letter written at San Francisco after you had been there 5 days. Your family are all well up to this date Mary & Sarah are going to a private school at present. Sister Badlam does not seem to have a chance to sell much if any varnish. They have vary close work to get along at present I think. The same is the case with myself, yet when she calls upon me I divide with, her I hope you will be able to send sumthing to her this fall in some way, I do not make this remark because I have a thought that you forgot your family, I know better than that for I believe they occupy a strong place in your heart & thoughts day by day, but I name it because I think It will be a hard matter for them to depend upon Mr McClure th[r]ough the winter, or to [Chance]. I will also say that a few days since I recieved a good letter from the presidentcy of the Church in the valley of the Salt Lake president Young councelles me to come to the valley Next summer & bring all I can with me. I am therefore now making my calculations to go to the west in the Spring but I do not know how I can get means to do it with or where it will come from. And if your circumstances were such as to put any thing in my way to help me about getting out, I should recieve it with a greatful Heart & if an oppertunity offered would reward you for it. As to News I will say that during the Last two weeks the New York & Boston papers and scores of others papers in the states are full of Mormonism. The Latter Day Saints in the valley of the Mountains Have organized an indipendent Sovreign State Government Appointed a Governor (Brigham Young) & all necessary officers, & have two Representatives (A W Babbitt & Dr Bernhisel) to congress to lay before the Government their petition to be recieved as a State into the Union the whole procedings are published in nearly all the Eastern papers & most of the papers advocate the cause & say recieve them into