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himself Dictator of Poland, and proceeded to organize a temporary but effective Government. Many engagements have taken place with varying results; but the "Insurgents" are steadily gaining ground notwithstanding the atrocious cruelties practiced by the Russian, and particularly the Cossack, troops. Polish question is engaging the attention of all the Cabinets of Europe, and threatens to turn its peaceful cities and verdant plains into warlike camps and bloody fields.

AMERICA. The attack on Charleston has not yet taken place, partly owing to the want of unanimity and subordination in the Federal armies in that neighborhood, consequent upon the enlistment of negroes into the army, and many of them receiving commissions. White officers are thus compelled to associate with them on an equality or resign. Many have chosen the latter alternative; and the two great measures of the Administration-the Emancipation Proclamation and the Enlistment of Negroes—threaten to be quite as injurious to the interests of the North as to those of the South. The three most important acts of the recently adjourned Federal Congress are,-first, The power granted to the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus at pleasure; secondly, The Conscription Act, which makes all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 subject to military duty at the call of the President; and, thirdly, The adoption of Mr. Chase's financial scheme, which authorises a fresh issue of some $1,100,000,000 in greenbacks and other United States securities.

Great fears are entertained of a revolution in the Northern States. The Confederates had captured another Federal gunboat on the Mississippi, and the latter were apprehensive of an attack on their fleet at New Orleans by the former. The Federals have, however, succeeded at last in destroying the celebrated steamer Nashville.

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Saturday, April 4, 1863.

PREPARATIONS OF THE NATIONS FOR THE COMING

STRUGGLE.

introduced into naval warfare, and a necessity created for guns of a range and calibre sufficient to cope with these floating iron batteries; this want has been supplied and been followed by the proposition to surround our seaports, forts and arsenals with what may be, more literally than figuratively termed, a wall of iron. But these efforts and precautions will all fail and fall short of their desired effects, and, instead of the art of war being brought to such perfection in the present age that battles can be fought and the destiny of nations decided with little or no loss of life, as some reputedly great and wise men in this generation have predicted, we confidently assert, and, as we have done years since, faithfully warn the inhabitants of the earth, that they will devise means of destroying each other at a more rapid and fearful rate than the history of the world affords us any account of before; and that by the sword and by bloodshed, by famine and pestilence, by earthquakes and by plagues shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to mourn and to feel the chastening hand of an Almighty God, until a full end is made of the existing institutions and organizations of all nations.

These reflections, though they have often occurred to our minds before, were suggested anew by perusing the following extract which we take from the Liverpool Mercury:

"The Times says that the experiments at Shoeburyness, on Tuesday, prove the superiority of the available means of attack over those of defence. A steam floating battery for harbor duty, but capable of passing from port to port, might be safely covered with 12-inch plate, and, armed with four of the 300pounders with which Sir William Armstrong did such tremendous mischief on Tuesday, would be as much an overmatch and object of terror to the strongest armour-ships as armour-ships are now to wooden ones. To guard against the possible visits of such craft from any part of the channel to our arsenals and dockyards, it is evident that guns for land and harbor service, at least, must be increased to even greater than their present colossal proportions. Not a year since Sir William astonished and almost alarmed the old school of artillerists by appearing at Shoebury with a 300-pounder. Yet 300-pounders are, to say the least, not

uncommon now, and Sir William, again leading the way, has made a 600-pounder, weighing 24 tons, throwing a rifled ball of 600 lb., or a shell of 590 lb., to hold a 25 lb. bursting charge of powder. This gigantic piece of ordnance will be tried at

Shoeburyness in the course of a month,
with a certainty of smashing to fragments
any plates yet forged or rolled, and
before twelve months are out we shall
see one at least, if not more, 1000-pounder
These are the
guns of the same kind.
ordnance that every day's experience
shows we shall really want for our sea
forts, breakwater-heads, mouths of har-
bors and banks of important rivers-guns
that can send their shells through the
thickest plates we can make in England
(and thicker ones are never likely to
come to us from abroad)-guns that can
smash armour of such weight as even
harbor-duty vessels could not be made to
Not till we have such guns as
float with.
these can we consider ourselves safe, in
case of war with any naval continental
Power, from the slow-st-aining, half-
sunken 10 or 12-inch plated floating
batteries, which would otherwise be sure,
in calm weather, to come crawling along
our coast from dock to dock and arsenal
to arsenal, alike defying and destroying
all."

But all these precautions are worse than useless, for they are lulling the people into a false security. It is written "Cursed is he that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm," and equally cursed and disappointed will those be who put their trust in ironplated ships or forts, big guns or any of the appliances of modern warfare. England's safety lies not in these. There is a God who rules in the heavens and works his pleasure among the children of men, who sets up one and puts down another, and if the people of Great Britain and their rulers would turn unto him with full purpose of heart and be governed by his laws and directed by the counsels of his servants, they would be more effectually protected from their enemies in the coming terrible struggle than they ever will be by all the precautionary defensive means which the greatest geniuses and wisest statesmen, aided by the developments of science, can devise. But this they will not do, therefore it will be with them as with the ancient Jews, "their house will be left unto them desolate "

The fact is, that notwithstanding the

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ability and shrewdness, the political | God never designed the world to be sagacity and long experience of the governed by mere physical force, and rulers and statesmen of the earth, they that there are principles more powerful do not understand the true principles of to control men than the sword or the government. They have tried, during bayonet, and which will form a stronger a succession of ages and under a variety bulwark of defence around those who of despotic as well as constitutional are faithful to the governmental trust political systems, to govern the people confided in them by God and man, than so as to bring about confidence and the mercenary hosts of the tyrant with harmony, but in every instance they their glittering forests of steel, or all have signally failed. Just at the the navies or forts which the world has juncture when man's wisdom and ever seen. The government of Godingenuity were at fault, God stepped the only true system of governmentforward and revealed the true system will render all these unnecessary, beof government and the only one that cause love is its ruling principle, and its can give peace and prosperity to a dis- bulwarks will be the brave and willing tracted world. But the kings and gov- hearts of its millions of loyal and ernors of the world will not be counsel- happy subjects in every part of the led by him, therefore they must learn, world. by a fearfully bitter experience, that

THE CONSUMPTION DECREED UPON ALL NATIONS.

BY ELDER G. E. GROVE.

While reflecting a few weeks since on and what laws to obey, in order that the fulfilment of prophecy and revela- they might escape the evil and obtain tion given through Joseph Smith the the good, and thus enjoy "The life that Prophet of God, in the year 1832, this now is and that which is to come." sentence arrested my attention,-"Until But few, comparatively, have listened the consumption decreed hath made a to or obeyed the heavenly mandate, full end of all nations." In view of others choosing rather to enjoy the this subject my mind was led to in- pleasures of sin than yield to the quire, Has the consumption decreed peaceful influences of life; and those begun or not? Being for many years few have been hated without cause and past an observer of plans and systems driven from the abodes of civilization, that professed to have for their object as well in former as in latter days. the propagation of the principles of Yet they understood and knew God, life and salvation, I was naturally led and were able to see or had revealed to to examine the opposite-viz., those of them the past, present and future, and death and condemnation, which brought knew precisely the course mankind me to the conclusion that the consump- would take, and spake and wrote not tion decreed had begun, and was making only the things that had been, but what rapid strides towards its final accom- would transpire down to the end of plishment. There always has been, time. Therefore, the beginning of the since the day our father Adam intro- end hath already appeared. Though duced mortality into this world, a prin- the laws of death had an existence ever ciple pregnant with power, inducing since the laws of life, "For it must mankind to commit acts that would needs be that there must be an opposite shorten life. Hence discontent, jea- to all things," yet the consumption lousy, and hatred which leads to decreed upon the whole earth had, and murder, were amongst some of the has a special reference to a special earlier laws of death, which have not period of the world's history. Jesus diminished but increased-so much so, said, in his day, that nation should that from time to time God has sent his rise against nation and kingdom against servants, endued with power and autho-kingdom, yet he said it was "not yet;" rity, to instruct mankind how to act, he also said of that day and hour

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knoweth no man, &c. Hence the time | matter who comes with the laws of life was a secret with the Father until he and salvation, nor how plain they make should raise up some one whon he them, nor how accurately they prove could trust, who would believe, under- them from reason, science, analogy and stand and declare it to the world, revelation, nor how many living testithough it was to be at a time when but monies they may produce to prove the little faith should be on the earth, for divinity or truthfulness of their mission, he says, When I come shall I find they are looked upon as impostors or faith on the earth p" Such a being he fanatics, and treated with contumely, found in the "young man," Joseph insult, abuse, and often put to death. Smith, whom he chose and ordained Then, again, look what ingenuity is Prophet, Seer and Revelator to usher brought to bear to prevent human life, in the fulness of the everlasting Gospel, and what barbarity is practiced to deand through whom he has set up his stroy it; also, what preparations all kingdom never more to be thrown down, nations are making, by inventing impleand made known his mind and will to ments of destruction and marshalling this generation. Whether they will their disciplined hosts, to play each hear or forbear it mattereth not, for the their part in the great drama of human Lord hath declared, through his ser- extinction. These things, and a thouvant, that with the "rebellion of South sand others surrounding us, combined Carolina" should commence the fulfil- with the traditions of our fathers who ment of the former predictions respect- taught us " Vanity and lies and things ing the end of the world, and this wherein there is no profit," seem to generation shall not pass away till these make it difficult for many of us to bethings are fulfilled." Therefore, with lieve and comprehend the great and the boom of the first gun discharged at glorious truths which God hath revealed Fort Sumpter, was ushered in the de- from the heavens in this day for our struction of the wicked and the salva- salvation and exaltation in his kingdom. tion of the righteous, which increased Nevertheless, this is our testimony, the faith of the Saints of Latter-days That the kingdom of God is set up on who are looking for and helping to the earth, and all that will embrace the bring to pass the fulfilment of the de- doctrines taught by the Latter-day claration of the angel who heralded Saints and continue with humility to Christ's mission to this earth in the seek and cultivate the Spirit of God meridian of time-" Glory to God in the shall not only know for themselves, but highest, peace on earth and good-will shall assuredly be delivered from the toward men.' evils and calamities that must overtake the wicked and ungodly, for Christ will soon come in flaming fire, "Taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ." Amen.

It needs no particularly prophetic vision to see that the generality of mankind are industriously determined to fulfil the prophetic declaration-viz., to "make a full end of all nations," for no

THE MUSIC OF THE HEART.

Music is justly considered by all nations, both civilized and barbarous, to be a desirable and praiseworthy accomplishment; and they who can play with any degree of proficiency on one or more instruments, are regarded with a species of admiration by, and as something superior to, their less favoured or talented fellows. The guitar with its love awakening memories, the piano and its enlivening melodies, the organ

with its devotional-inspiring strains, and numerous other musical instruments engage the attention and assiduous study of those who are ambitious to excel in their use; but there is one more important, more intricate and difficult to master than any of these; whose tones are more delicate, its chords more varied, and its range of melody wider and more enchanting-it is, the human heart. Every human soul contains