I have just received your favor of the
14th inst. I am glad to hear from you, and that you
have survived the exposures to which you have been sub-
jected. If the weather where you have been has been
equally severe with that which we have had in this
locality, you must have encountered serious risk in being
out traveling. We have had colder weather probably
than ever before since we came to these mountains.
For a few days, however, it has moderated very much
and it has been thawing. There are very few houses
in the city which have water pipes leading into them
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where they have not burst, and the plumbers are said
to be working night and day, and even Sundays, to
repair the leaks.
There is nothing particularly new to write
about, and there is no special labor that I have to
assign you where you are. Everything is moving along
very quietly at present. A report, however, has reached
us that the Marshal intends to change the arrange-
ment which he has with his deputies, and instead of
giving them a salary, to give them a commission on
the work they do. If this be true, and they should
operate hereafter upon that principle, we may reasonably
expect more activity on their part in their efforts to dis-
cover those under indictment, or against whom they
may hope to be successful in bringing in convictions.
We are expecting Brother John H. Smith to
arrive every day. Brother Lyman is already here. Brother L. Snow and M. Thatcher are at their homes. Brother E. Snow is in the south. The other brethren are
here in the city, with the exception of Brother Teas-
dale, from whom we hear good reports concerning his
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labors.
With love to yourself and the Elders and Saints
where you may be, in which the brethren with me join,