We spent the 9th at the Exhibition, | very faithful, they have a great rewhere the productions of all nations, spect and love towards the missionmanufactures, arts and sciences known aries; they are very poor, the heart to the world, were exhibited. The bleeds to see them working from morn field for learning was very great, but till night for scanty wages, and prowhat could we see in one day? we visions at high rates; it seems that in had only to glance at what seemed the Europe generally the condition of the most worthy of notice, it would re- artizan, in the manufacturing districts, quire a month to enable one to look is very hard, worse than slavery. at every thing, and make of it a more agreeable and useful study. The United States attracted the attention of the visitors by a most beautiful locomotive and a street car.

IN Mississippi, as appears by the new registry, the negroes have 12,000 majority; in Alabama, over 17,000 majority; in Louisiana, over 33,000 majority; in South Carolina, 13,000; the city of Charleston, in S.C., 2000 majority.

THERE are in England 34,970 lawyers, 35,483 clergymen, and 35,995 physicians.

THE mission of Sir Moses Montefiore to Roumania, in behalf of persecuted co-religionists in that province, has been completely successful.

CAPTAIN TYLER has telegraphed to the Board of Trade that on Monday he crossed the Mont Cenis Railway from St. Michael to Susa, 48 miles, at an elevation of 6700 feet, with the first engine over the line, and a train conveying a number of passengers. The company are preparing to open the line for traffic in October.

THE American correspondent of the Times, writing on August 23, declares that for many years there has not been known a more gloomy time among American merchants and tradespeople. The depression is unexampled. From Maine to Texas it is only among those engaged in the trade of breadstuffs that any cheerfulness exists. The wheat crop is 30 per cent. more abundant than in the year before the war.

THE OVERLAND MAILS IN THE MUD.-Judge A. G. Cook, who arrived a few days ago with an emigrant train across the plains, relates what he saw of mail matters on the road. The train crossed the Medicine Bow on the 23rd of June. At that place he saw a pile of mail bags, about a wagon load, lying by the side of the road in the mud. Some of them were leather sacks locked, and some canvas bags tied. He saw mail bags lying about in different places along the road, sometimes at stations and sometimes by the side of the road. In one place bags of mail matter were thrown into mud holes to walk over upon, and he walked over them himself and others did the same. Newspapers were plenty at such places; everybody had them. At another place a letter bag was found in the road cut open.

BATTLE BETWEEN UNITED STATES TROOPS AND INDIANS.-A despatch from Fort Hays, Kansas, Aug. 23, says :-"A courier has just arrived from Captain Corbin to the effect that Captain Ames had had a severe battle with 800 Indians under Satanta, on the Republican River. Their village was two miles long. Captain Ames charged twice through their wigwams. The savages fought desperately. Three of our men were killed and 25 wounded, and 30 horses lost. The Indians lost severely, but finally repulsed our troops. Our dead were left on the field. There was an immense amount of stolen stock in the Indian village. The savages surrounded our troops, and the fight lasted three days. Two of our men killed belonged to the Kansas cavalry, and one to the 12th Regulars. Captain Ames had 125 men. A strong force under Major Elliott, and some Kansas cavalry under Major Moore, leave for the Indian village, in light marching order, this morning. A severe battle is anticipated. We have not enough troops here." Another report says:-"Our loss was 35 killed, wounded, and missing. The Ind an loss was about 150. Our loss of horses was heavy. Ames says in his report that after the battle the Indians sent a flag of truce. Our scouts who answered it were told in good English, 'Tell your officers we want no peace; we are for war; we will not leave the war path.' Our flag of truce was then fired upon, and a charge was made by the Indians. The wounded are now here. A force of 300 cavalry has gone out to meet the savages. Several white men were seen aiding the Indians during the battle." The following despatch was received from Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Dodge, commander of the military detachment stationed at Plum Creek, by General Augur:-"Fifty Pawnees have just returned from a scouting expedition, under Major Frank North, directly south of this station, on the south side of the Platte. They attacked 100 Cheyennes, took a large number of scalps, killed and wounded a large number, but who were immediately taken off by Indians, or escaped in the darkness. By a sudden onset on the left flank of the enemy, the Pawnees succeeded in capturing two prisoners and several ponies, without the loss of a man.”

THOMPSON.-At South Cottonwood, July 20th, Ann Grayson, wife of Joseph Thompson, from Sheffield, England, aged 40 years and 21 days; also her infant daughter.

BOYACK-Ia Spanish Fork City, July 22nd, of putrid sore throat, Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Wiliam and Sasan Boyack, aged 2 years and 5 months

DURANT.-In American Fork, of inflammation on the lungs, on Sunday 21st inst., Edward Durant.

Traveling on the "Hudson river railroad," during the war, I perceived at a distance what appeared to be a large encampment with tents. A nearer view dispelled this impression, but revealed quite an extensive cemetery on the sloping hillside of that beautiful river.

Those tented hosts on yon green hill slope

Have sprung t their country's call,

To swell the ranks in the battle field,
Where men as the dried leaves fall.

"Neath floating banners they'll step to time,
To the music of fife and drum,

While the sunlight plavs o'er the burnished steel,
As a dream of glory come.

That dream will pass when the strife is o'er,
As snow in the summer's sun,

When the pomp of war is laid a-ide,

And its thunder spent and done;
When its blood red hand stains every heart,
When broken hearts abound,

What's this-lost life, lost wealth, lost all,
With the cannon's dying sound!

I erred-no muster roll is called

On yon green hills' crowded slope;

No martial tread to its own shrill notes
Stirs pulse or heart to hope.

Yet there is an army gathered, great,
Uncounted as stars at night,

Who all have passed through life's battle field,
And sunk in its fearful fight!

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"MORMONISM."-INTOLERANCE TOWARDS IT.

and if they were dropped down in our streets without knowing where they were, their cause of wonderment would be what city they had reached that was so well ordered, quiet, and peaceable.

The "Mormons" and "Mormon- | where; ism" seem to be the standard texts for a great many people, who, whenever they are at a loss for a subject, build homilies upon them, and indulge in a great amount of gratuitous abuse heaped upon a people of whom they know comparatively little, and treating of a subject of which they know still less! To believe most of these scribblers, there is no virtue, redeeming quality, commendable practice, or praiseworthy act to be found among the Latter-day Saints. They picture us as the foulest and most degraded of civilized communities, and our Territory as a pandemonium in which everything vile and wicked flourishes freely. So absurd are they, and so widely is their abuse disseminated, that all who come here having been at all previously influenced by such statements, are utterly astonished at that which they see and hear. They find us industrious and sober; they do not see the bedizened wretch who has been dragged down to infamy carrying on her unholy traffic in our streets; they look at our citizens and see they are like men and women else

But we are "Mormons," and there seems to be something in the very name to excite their bile. The Elders who have travelled through the nations, have found how freely and cordially nearly every one with whom they would converse, would agree with them while enunciating those princi ples by which we are led and governed, so long as they did not know it was a Latter-day Saint who was speaking. But as soon as that discovery was made, in most instances there was a marked and sudden change. The very name had an influence with them, and it either stirred up the worst of feelings within them, prompting to acts of malevolence, or it inclined them to seek after a knowledge of the truth.

There is a reason for this, deeper than can be found attending the influence of any sect or party, religious or political, on the earth. They differ

with each other and with all the rest | rights, while striking at them with all continually, and there is no motive the force they possess, cannot be so sufficiently powerful to bring about a divested of common sense as not to combination of them all but one against know that their inconsistency is as shalthat one. Yet, however much they low as it is hypocritical. The reasons are divided, and however much oppo- why we are so abused, hunted down, sed to each other, they unite, as and vilified, are easily understood and against a common enemy, all the world can be plainly told, though they could over, to oppose and abuse the Latter- well bear to have more said relative day Saints. to them than we have space to say at This has been true from the day the present. In the first place, the strugChurch was organized until the pre-gle-for struggle it is-now going on sent hour. In every country where is not for the maintenance of a certain the Gospel has been preached the principle, or some erratic notion or same fruits have been manifested, and pet idea entertained by any man or the day a man or a woman in any of men on the earth; but it is for the the nations of the earth, acting upon possession of a world; it is the "irreconscientious convictions, becomes a pressible conflict" between truth and member of the Church of Jesus Christ error, which will not cease until the of Latter-day Saints, no matter how dominion of Satan ceases upon the highly they were esteemed before, earth. In this contest the powers their names are cast out as evil, and which exist in the unseen world are they are reviled, despised, abused, and engaged. The powers of darkness expersecuted where it can be done. These ercise control over the minds of many are facts known, often by very, very millions of the human family, and fill painful experience, to every Latter- them with a bitter, and, to most of day Saint who has embraced the Gos- them, unaccountable hatred to the pel where the other creeds and beliefs truth and those who have embraced are dominant. And the same into- it. On the other hand, the heavens lerant spirit which manifested itself are stirred in behalf of the work called to individuals in low jeers, petty an- "Mormonism," and the protection of noyances, throwing rotten eggs, or the Almighty has been extended over beating with clubs, in a more extend- it from the first. ed, malignant, and bitter form displayed its violence in the mobbings, burnings, drivings, and merciless acts of cruelty to which the Saints were exposed in a church capacity. And it is the same spirit which to-day vents itself in traducings, malignings, abuse, and hounding on the authorities of the nation to drive us again from our homes, that our enemies may become fat on our spoils.

We wish those who so freely vilify and abuse us, who say they only wish us to give up plurality of wives, or some other doctrine which we may believe, or they may merely say we believe, to look the matter squarely in the face, analyze their feelings, and see if they have anything like the same detestation for the wickedness and crime which they admit exist in the world, as they have for the assumed wickedness incorrectly said to exist here. Or have they made up their minds to combat light, truth, and virtue; and, while claiming the possession of upright, virtuous feelings, practically declare, with the poet's friend, "evil be thou my good?"

This thing cannot be glossed over, nor explained away by any effort of sophistry. It stands out in most glaring color, printed in our history with blood, and page-marked with the names of our martyred dead. And they who under the assumed garb of liberty pretend to be willing to accord-Deseret News. us the possession of our inalienable!

Manners are what vex or soothe, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. They give their whole form and colour to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, supply them, or totally destroy them.