CORRESPONDENCE. the principles, so that I have great faith for the future increase of Zion's children. I feel well in my labors, and I have rejoiced in my associations with the Saints in this land, as also for the society of my brethren. The Lord has blessed me in my labors and I have had health, so that I have no reason to complain, even if I wanted to, but I do not; on the contrary, I take pleasure in trying to do all I can to assist in building up the kingdom of God. Remember us to the brethren in the office. Accept kind love for yourself. May God bless you and prosper his kingdom is the sincere desire of your brother, as ever, M. F. FARNSWORTH. BRISTOL DISTRICT. [The following letter has been lost sight of for some time; the most appropriate notice the subject can receive is the insertion of the letter:-] Bath, July 30, 1863. President Cannon. Dear Brother,-At the time and bustle of the emigration I omitted to forward to you the account of the death of Elder Edward G. Davis, and I should be pleased to have his death noticed in the Star. Elder Davis died on the 22nd of May, 1863, aged 37, of dropsy, leaving a wife and four children; he has been a member of this Church fifteen years, and for the last four years he has been President of the Bath Branch. Brother Davis was a faithful man, and died strong in the faith. He was greatly beloved while living and when he was buried his friends perfectly covered him with beautiful flowers and have since planted choice flowers over his 578 Dear Brother, I arrived here on the evening of the 22nd, and fully realized the expected pleasure of meeting brother Brown at the station. He took me to his room, and I will assure you it was quite a relief to me to meet a guide, a brother and a friend in a great city like this. Brother Brown took me round through the city and pointed out to me the principal places of note, such as Edinburgh Castle, College Museum, Industrial Museum, Palace of Holyrood (which places I visited), and a great many more distinguished places, too numerous to mention. In the meantime we visited nearly all the brethren residing in this city. The Saints here, as far as I am able to judge, are enjoying the spirit of the Gospel. Yesterday (Sunday) the Saints had three meetings. I was called upon to preach, to which I responded and addressed them, in my weakness, for thirty or forty minutes. The Elders here are preaching out of doors. Brother Brown and myself went down to the meadows after visited two meetings, one at one corner the afternoon meeting yesterday, and of the meadows and the other at the entrance at the foot of the street. Brother M'Kinzie was preaching at one place and had a very large gathering and good order. Some will listen a while very attentively, but as soon as you begin to preach about revelation, prophesying, angels and the gifts of the Gospel, they have heard enough. I have been kindly received by the Saints here and made very welcome, comforting to me and for which I am which, you know, among strangers, is We start, in a day or two, to travel out and visit the different very thankful. Branches. 57 SUMMARY OF NEWS. SUMMARY OF NEWS. ENGLAND.-There is no news of a very exciting nature from any portion of the British Empire. The papers are, of course, filled with the usual daily details of assaults, seductions, rapes, suicides, robberies and murders, but these have become so common that they fail to excite much comment. The most important topic at present, is the alleged unjustifiable interference with British commerce by the cruisers of the Federal Government. It is hoped, however, a peaceable solution of the question will be arrived at. FRANCE.-In consequence of the publication of a pamphlet on political questions by certain Arch-Bishops and Bishops of France, which the Government disapproved, and consequently suppressed, the Emperor has issued a decree, which, though doubtless just, is full of important consequences for the future. The Bishops and clergy are informed that their episcopal functions and powers are exclusively spiritual, and when they overstep the bounds of ecclesiastical doctrine and discipline, and meddle with temporal affairs, they are acting simply as citizens, and are amenable to the same restrictions and penalties which attach to lay politicians. The Emperor is also said to feel very much chagrined at England's refusal to unite with France in joint action in behalf of Poland, but that, although anxious to assist the latter, he will not do so without the co-operation of England. MEXICO. It is now considered doubtful whether the Archduke Maximillian will accept the throne of Mexico, at any rate unless France will guarantee its possession. This, probably, results from the decisive stand which the United States is said to have taken against the establishment of a monarchial Government in Mexico. Several Mexican towns have sent in their adherence to the vote of the Notables of Mexico. General Comonfort has recommended the troops to submit to the will of the nation. POLAND.-Returns from the Polish battle-field, in the shape of details of engagements which have already been telegraphed, furnish unmistakable proofs of the strength and vitality of the insurrection. The contending parties were on no occasion equal in numbers, the Russians generally prepondering; but the Poles fought with a desperation and valor which overcame difficulties, and in several instances gained a victory under circumstances of the most discouraging nature. At Dubbeln, near Riga, Miss Hanianoff, a young Polish lady, has died from the effects of the knout, administered by order of Mouravieff, because she would wear mourning. The notes sent by England, France and Austria, to Russia, are said to be identical in their conclusion. They request the serious consideration of the Russian Power to the gravity of the present situation, and intimate that Russia will be responsible for any serious consequences which may arise from the rejection of their friendly advice. AMERICA. There has been no change in the positions of the armies of the Potomac. General Meade has sent in his resignation; it is supposed that either General Grant or General Rosecranz will succeed him. The Federal gunboats made an unsuccessful reconnaissance up James River: a torpedo was exploded under the Commodore Barney, lifting her ten feet out of the water, seriously injuring her and washing 30 men overboard. Important correspondence has taken place between Governor Seymour, of New York, and President Lincoln, in reference to the draft. Governor Seymour wishes the draft suspended, which the President refuses to do. The Governor intimates that the draft will again meet with resistance if persisted in. Much alarm prevails in New York. On the 4th of August, 18 Federal negro soldiers, from Island No. 10, on the Mississippi, proceeded to Beckham's Landing, in Tennessee, and murdered a Mr. Beckham and his family of six persons. It is said the Southern Government has determined to arm the whole able-bodied negro population, to resist Federal aggressions. The New York Herald says that Mr. Cassius M. Clay has entered into an offensive and defensive alliance, on behalf VARIETIES. 575 of his Government, with Russia. President Lincoln has issued a retaliatory order, to the effect that there shall be hanging for hanging and shooting for shooting on the Union side as far as such punishments are inflicted by the Confederates it further declares that for every black man in the military service of the United States who may, upon capture, be sent into slavery, a white Confederate prisoner will be kept in prison at hard labor. All accounts from Washington concur in stating that further military movements in the Northern States depend entirely upon the filling up of the army by the Conscription Act: the New York Herald says that if this be really so, a long pause in the campaign may be expected. In the case of the British steamer Peterhoff, the United States District Court has delivered a decision condemning the vessel upon evidence proving the illegality of her alleged mission to Matamoras. A collision has taken place between the "Copperheads" and the Union men in Iowa; it is reported that the former number 4,000, and are fully armed: the military have been despatched to the scene of conflict. THE soldier's great risk is that of becoming extinguished before he can become distinguished. A cross husband and father at the head of the table makes the best dinner unpalatable and indigestible. "Very well," said A Yankee boy had a whole Dutch cheese set before him by a waggish friend, who, however, gave him no knife. "This is a funny cheese, Uncle Joe; but where shall I cut it?" "Oh," said the grinning friend, "cut it where you like." the Yankee, coolly putting it under his arm, "I'll cut it at home." EXPENSE OF WAR.-Give me the money that has been paid in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman and child, in an attire that kings and queens would be proud of. I will build a school-house upon every hill side, and in every valley over the whole habitable earth. I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every State, and fill it with able professors. I will crown every hill with a church consecrated to the promulgation of the Gospel of Peace. I will support in the pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another, round the earth's broad circumference, and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like a universal holocaust to heaven.-American Paper. DREADFUL TRAGEDY.-A most horrible crime has been committed at Beckham's Landing, twelve miles below Island No. Ten, in Obion county, Tennessee, immediately south of the Kentucky state line. About ten o'clock a. m. on the 4th of August, 18 black United States soldiers, direct from Island No. Ten, their station, arrived at the home on the Landing, fully armed with muskets, side-arms and pistols, and murdered the whole of old Mr. Beckham's family then present on the place. The family consisted of Benjamin Beckham, aged 70 years; his son Frank, aged 40 years; Laura, aged 14; Kate, 10; Caroline, 7; and little Richard, aged 2 years. The mother and one of the children ware luckily absent on a visit, and escaped the fate of their kindred. The negroes killed old father Beckham and his son Frank by horribly mutilating their bodies-by clubbing, cutting, bayoneting and shooting, and wound up their fiendish work by throwing the dead bodies into the river. They then drove the three girls and boy into the river at the point of the bayonet, clubbing them with the butt ends of their muskets whilst running. The bodies of father Beckham and the youngest boy have been recovered, and were seen by the majority of passengers who went ashore to see the evidence of this diabolical work. The black wretches fired several times at one of the neighbors, who related to us the different incidents, but he escaped unharmed. A majority of the demons were apprehended by some Fedaral cavalry (white) before they reached the Island. My informant further related that some time ago a chaplain of one of the negro regiments on the Island accompanied an armed band to the house of Mr. Beckham for the purpose of recovering the child of one of the women, the property of Mr. Beckham, and now a runaway on the Island. He refused to deliver the child, and this seems to be the warrant for this murder. American Paper. A GLIMPSE OF LIGHT AS TO ANCIENT AMERICA.-Some glass beads of unquestioned Phoenician manufacture are reported to have been found at Beverley, Canada, in an "ancient ossuary of the copper age." May it not turn out, after all, that what Plato tells us of was true, that the Atlantic was once "navigable," or had been navigated ages before his time, when warlike tribes from beyond the ocean invaded and overran all Libya and other countries in what we call " the old world ?" This would go far to explain the similarity of the ancient American temples and teacolies to ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and other structures. And, by the way, the chronologies of the Egyptian priests in Plato's time, in which tens of thousands of years were treated as a mere bagatelle, and the Greeks were regarded as conceited upstarts of recent times. are likely now to be received a little more respectfully than heretofore, considering our enlarged ideas of the antiquity of man; perhaps, too, Chinese and Indian chronologies will be reconsidered, and a little less contemptuously treated than they have been by our own conceited but improving generation.-Builder. MARRIED: In Great Salt Lake City, on the 3th June, Mr. William Neslen to Miss Eleanor A. Mitchell, both of England. DIED: In Great Salt Lake City, on the 21st May, Thomas, son of John Lyon, formerly of Scotland. In Spanish Fork City, Utah, on the 27th February, James Warner, aged 69 years. In Great Salt Lake City, on the 3rd June, of a lingering illness, Maria, wife of James Shelmerdine, formerly of stockport, England, aged 42 years. In Payson, Utah, on the 6th June, Martha English, aged 61 years, late of Sunderland, England. WANTED-Information concerning George Pugmire, filer and turner. His father has not heard from him for the last thirteen or fourteen years: any information concerning his whereabouts would be gladly received at this office; or, if he should see this, his father would be glad to receive a letter from him. Address, Jonathan Pugmire, sen., Great Salt Lake City, U.T., U.S.A. THE POETRY. -0 Three cheers for the standard of Zion And haste to the land of the free. The banner of England! how proudly OF ZION. For the pride and the pow'r of all nations, Will wave in the land of the free. Soon that time will arrive-'tis not distant- By the stern voice of war is awake. JULIA BOWRING. EDITED, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GEORGE Q. CANNON, 42, ISLINGTON. LONDON: FÖR SALE AT THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' BOOK DEPOT, 30, FLORENCE STREET, ISLINGTON; AND FROM ALL BOOKSELLERS. THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR. Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the Prophets.. The Lord God has spoken, who can but prophesy?"—AMOS. No. 37, Vol. XXV. Saturday, September 12, 1863. Price One Penny. NATIONAL CRIMES AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. It is recorded as a saying of Jesus, that "with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again," and the history of the world, both before and since his day, has abundantly proved the truth of the assertion. Thousands of the human family, of both sexes, have proved the truth of this divinely uttered aphorism in their own private experience; but it is no less true as regards nations than it is Sacred with respect to individuals. and profane history are full of striking examples of the operation of this law. Babylon,-that great and proud empire which had so immortalized itself if the term is allowable-by its wealth, its corruption, and its tyranny over the surrounding nations as to be deemed, by the Lord, a fit type to represent the great kingdom of anti-christ in the last days, has long since passed away, with all its glory and magnificence, having fallen a victim to its own insatiate rapaciousness and corruption. Greece and Rome, both, in their turn, the oppressors and enslavers of nations and the destroyers of human liberty, have each, also, reaped a most abundant and bitter harvest from the seeds of tyranny and despotism sowed by them in their days of power and prosperity. Who can trace the history of Rome and Greece, from their palmy days of glory to the present time, without being struck with the remarkable fulfilment of the Savior's words, in a national point of view, in their case. Never was nation more oppressive and tyrannical than were these two, and surely never was so proud, civilized and powerful a nation more completely humiliated, degraded, op-we might almost say literally pressed,enslaved, than have they been, until within a very recent period. Efforts are now being made to emancipate them and to restore to them a faint shadow of their former liberty and prosperity; but the curse seems still to rest upon them, and their inhabitants are so sunk in vice and so demoralized by their long degradation, that their would-be benefactors find it extremely difficult to elevate them. To turn our eyes from the Old World, Mexico affords a more modern The history of the exemplification of the practical workings of this rule. conquest of Mexico and the neighboring countries, by the Spaniards, is so full of injustice, cruelties and horrors, |