The Journal does not contain a great variety
of matter; but it is all readable and mostly to
the point; one column only being set apart
for levity and fiction. It contains a story
headed The Twins or Selling a Widow; which
tells how one Doctor Williamson, formerly of
Staten Island, cured the widow Mehitable of
scandal-mongering, by telling her that twins
had been born at the house of the Widow Sally,
which twins, after great gossiping, proved to be
only puppies. This column is filled up with
quaint and puritanical anecdotes. "A
woman was walking, and a man looked at her
and followed her. The woman said, 'Why
do you follow me? He answered,
'Because I have fallen in love with you.' The
woman said, 'Why are you in love with me?
My sister is much handsomer than me; she
is coming after me, go and make love to her.'
The man turned back and saw a woman with
an ugly face. Being greatly displeased, he
went again to the other woman and said,
'Why did you tell a story?' The woman
answered, 'Neither did you speak truth; for
if you are in love with me, why did you go
after another woman?' The man was
confounded." We should rather think he
was.

Next comes some original poetry from the
pen of Miss E. K. Snow, who seems to be the
L. E. L. of the Great Salt Lake City. The
verses are not good, but they are very pious.
Let us pass on to an instalment of "The
History of Joseph Smith," which fills the
next four columns and a half. It is in the
form of a diary. The period referred to is
July, 1838, when the Mormons, yet in their
infancy, wandered about over the continent
of America in search of a resting-place.

"Tuesday, 10th.—This morning the Councillors
of the Camp drew up six resolutions, which were
unanimously adopted in substance, as follows:
First, the Engineer shall receive advice from the
Councillors concerning his duties.—Second. At
four o'clock A.M. the horn shall blow for rising;
and at twenty minutes past four for prayers, at
which time each overseer shall see that 'the
inmates of his tent are ready for worship.—Third.
The head of each division shall keep a roll of all
his able-bodied men to stand guard in turn, as
called for by the Engineer; one half in the former,
the other half in the latter, part of the night—
Fourth. Each company of the camp is entitled to
an equal proportion of the milk, whether they own
the cows or not —Fifth. Thomas Butterfield shall
be appointed herdsman to drive the cows and
stock, and see that they are taken care of and call
for assistance when needed.—Sixth. That, in no
case at present, shall the camp move more than
fifteen miles per day, unless circumstances
absolutely require it.

"Wednesday, 11th.—The camp moved eleven
miles, and tarried over night at Chippeway; and
although they were thoroughly drenched with a
heavy shower, and retired to their lodgings wet,
one man, who had been troubled with the rheumatism,
said next morning (Thursday, 12th) he had
not felt so well and spry for a long time. . . .
Friday, 13th, passed on to Mohican, seventeen
miles, exciting great curiosity among the inhabitants;
attended with some hard speeches about
Jo Smith; while one honest-looking Dutchman
said he wished he was ready to go along with
them. . . . N. B. Baldwin preferred a charge
against Abraham Bond for murmuring and other
un-Christian-like conduct. After hearing both
parties the Council referred them to the company
of their own tent for settlement."

These wandering Mormons had to undergo
much persecution; but they met it with
firmness and constancy, fed, it must be
admitted, with superstition, and supported by
astounding miracles. Thus on Tuesday the
17th, we find that

"The Court was in session at Mansfield, and
the case of the imprisoned brethren was called
up at eight this morning; but no bill was found,
and they were discharged at four minutes past
one P. M., and joined the camp at seven, having
travelled twenty-two miles. While in prison they
prayed and sung, and rejoiced that they were
counted worthy to suffer; and in the night a light
equal to noonday burst into the prison. Elder
Dunham took out his watch and saw that it was
three minutes past one, and he received a testimony
that they would be liberated the same hour
that afternoon, which proved true. Thursday,
19th. Encamped on a prairie in a line for the first
time. In their travels this day they fell in with a
Lamanite of the Wyandot tribe. Elder Parker
gave him the stick of Joseph, which pleased him
much. When he saw the camp moving he
exclaimed, 'Dis surprise me 'mazingly.' Sunday,
22nd. Received a salute of rotten eggs from a house
as we passed; administered the sacrament for the
first time on their journey. Monday, 23rd, a
wheel of a waggon, heavily loaded, ran over the
leg of Elder Peck's son, which nearly severed the
flesh to the bone; Elder Peck laid his hands on
his son in the name of the Lord, and he was able
to walk; and the next morning there was not so
much as a coloured spot to be seen on the leg!
Tuesday, 24th, while the sisters were washing, the
brethren chopped seven acres of underwood, and
reaped and bound three acres of wheat, for which
they received nineteen dollars."

Further on we have some details of the
sort of opposition they met with in America.

''Some two weeks previous to this Judge Morin,
who lived at Mill Post, informed John D. Lee and
Levi Stewart that it was determined by the mob to
prevent the Mormons from voting at the election
on the sixth day of August, and thereby elect
Colonel William P. Peniston, who led the mob in
Clay County. He also advised them to go
prepared for an attack, to stand their ground, and
have their rights. The brethren, hoping better
things, gave little heed to Judge Morin's friendly
counsel, and repaired to the polls at Gallatin, the
shire town of Davies County, without weapons.
About eleven o'clock A. M., William P. Peniston
ascended the head of a barrel and harangued the
electors for the purpose of exciting them against
the Mormons, saying that the Mormon leaders
were a set of horse thieves, liars, counterfeiters,
&c., and you know that they profess to heal the
sick, cast out devils, &c.; and you know that is a
lie: that the members of the church were dupes,
and not too good to take a false oath on any
common occasion; that they would steal, and did not
conceive property safe where they were; that he
was opposed to their settling there, and if they
suffered the Mormons to vote, the people would
soon lose their suffrage; and, said he (addressing
the saints), 'I headed a mob to drive you out
of Clay County, and would not prevent your being
mobbed now.' When Richard (called Dick)
Welding, the mob bully, just drunk enough for