Providence permitting there will be a Conference of four days at the house of Bro. S. Gillett, in Green Vale, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., to commence on Thursday, March 2d, at 2 o'clock P. M., and continue to the evening of the 5th. Also a Conference of three days at Plumb River, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., commencing March 10th, at 2 o'clock P. M., and continue over the Sabbath into the evening of the 12th. The brethren coming on the Galena and Chicago Union R. R., will stop at Nora, four miles east of the terminus of the road, and six miles north-east of Brn. S. Gillett and W. Bates', via Green Vale P. O. Nora is sixteen miles north-east of Plumb River.
If any of the Sabbath brethren in this region wish for a general meeting, if they will give me notice by the 10th of March, I will endeavor to serve them if it is practicable.
My Post Office address for the present will be Green Vale, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., care of Wm. Bates. JOSEPH BATES.
WE were very sorry to disappoint the brethren at Lorain, by not filling our appointment there the 7th. At the close of the Oswego meeting, we were so hoarse that we could speak but little above a whisper. Other circumstances connected compelled us to give up visiting them.