Pete county have raised 51 teams, labors in the cotton country, suffering which take nearly all the available materially from sore eyes. He boasts work-cattle in that county. of good health and general prosperity. There are nine settlements, containing over 25 men each, and many other places of smaller numbers. Many newly-discovered springs and small creeks that have never been known before by whites, have sprung into existence since the country has been settled by the Saints, which give promise for many valuable cattle farms and ranches, while St. George itself is one of the cities of the country.

Brother E. T. Benson returned to Cache county from his services in the Legislative Assembly. He has visited all the settlements in the county, eleven in number, comforting the hearts of the people with the good things of the kingdom, and stirring them up to diligence in preparing for the emigration season. As an evidence of the result, most of the brethren drove their cattle to the several yards, and told the Bishops to take what cattle they wanted, which secured first-class cattle for the expedition, consisting of 53 teams, of four yoke of cattle each, with a complete outfit of guards and teamsters. Bishop William Preston is captain, and takes charge of the company. Thomas Irvin is assistant captain.

Notwithstanding Col. Connor and his soldiers destroyed some 250 men, women and children of the Indians, the latter have manifested no hostilities to any of the Saints, or disposition to disturb any of the settlements, excepting their accustomed petty stealing. Some of the braves threaten to disturb the emigration to the gold mines, and no doubt they will.

The settlements in Cache Valley have been on the continual increase, and still there is plenty of room for 100,000 Saints to get a living. It is a fine country for grain and vegetables.

Brother Lorenzo Snow's field of labor is less extensive than brother Benson's. The results in relation to the Indians have been something similar to Cache; it is more a point of arrival and departure for trains to California and Nevada, and this brings the Indians more in contact with them, and some traders go up there.

Brother Orson Pratt has travelled and preached and lectured considerably in Tooele and Davis counties. He has lately suffered a severe attack of pleura pneumonia. He expects to return to St. George.

Brothers C. C. Rich, A. M. Lyman, J. Taylor and F. D. Richards have been preaching in this city and the adjoining counties, as much as their ability and state of health would permit.

Brother E. Snow is also attending the Conference. He has continued his

The prospect is good that you will have a very efficient body of young recruiting officers.

The President and several of the Twelve held a two days' meeting at Bountiful, in Davis county, dedicating the meeting-house, which is a building of a highly creditable character, well finished.

A disposition on the part of a few of the Federal authorities to get up a military interference with President B. Young and our affairs generally, has created no small indignation here. Hostilities were prevented by countermovements of e semi-military character, which conveyed a direct and conclusive evidence that the commencement of hostilities for the present was not politic. The excitement has passed off, and the building of a Tabernacle, 250 feet long and 150 wide, is now under contemplation. The theatre has been well attended, and is a great point of attraction. Its inside finish is highly creditable.

April 10th.

The Conference has selected 47 missionaries to be sent to your assistance. I give you a list of their names:

Isaac Bullock, Wm. W. Riter, Collins Moore Gillet, Benjamin Stringham, Charles S. Kimball, David P. Kimball, Wm. Perry Nebeker, Oscar F. Lyons, James Alma Cunningham, Joseph Romney, Evan A. Richards, Jonas Nutall Beck, John Sharp, jun., John Evan Evans, Ensign Israel Stocking, Samuel L. Sprague, jun., Finley C. Free, Harry Luff, Joseph Henry Felt, Julius Sextus Fullmer, Alfred Lee, John Gray, Henson Walker, Robert Watson, jun., Oswell Knight, Elnathan Eldridge, jun., Heber John Richards, Stephen W. Alley, Frederick Walter

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Coins Nathaniel Leavitt, Wilford Wood Bogual Matthew Lyon, Henry Lash Raymond Franklin Merrill, Joshua Ib yanoo GaAUSMITH Whitney, Richard HaLoParker, Chas. of PSThe postage on all foreign Who Sayner, Justins WixomesOrson letters is now required to be paid in Pratt, juna, John L. Dalton, So HaHill coin, which bas disappeared from cireu Martin Wood, William S. S. Willis, Wlation since Uncle Sam began to manuDr Huntingdon, George M Brown, facture and issue greenbacks" by the Charles A. Benson, Brigham Y Lamb cordo egnids boog odt diin olqooq Boedofwhomureceived their blessing-lib of qu modt ride bas mobgaid yesterday, the residue reside in the noterine od ENGLANDerg ai soc country and were absent. You willst edt to Liverpooly May 5, 1863.58 discover sthey are mostly young men, President George Q Cannons to teom and some of them need fatherly super- od Nision. The most of them sustain the bot Dear Brother character that would say they are leave this my native land to gather to capable of doing goods too others and the bosom of the Church in the west, I guiding themselves, and it is believed have seated myself to give you a brief that like the sons of Ammonithey will account of my labors, which have exbecome mighty menive ai latino tended a little over seven years. Fortwo days the Conference was held in the open air.ibero vidgid & to April 12th to The Presidency and severn the of Twelve had their annual dinner with Mrs. Jane Blackhurst yesterday, she being the first fruits of Mormonism" in Ireland. She was in high glee. The President related a number of incidents which occurred on board the ship Ship Rochester, in which the Twelve reTurned from England, Jane being a fellow-passengersize out 101 911

My first Mission, taken in 1858, WAS to the Channel Islands, where I labored

two years, I was appointed in March, 1858, to the Southampton Conference, where I labored ten months, and the subsequent four years in the Chelten ham and Worcester Conferences. In these Conferences, as in all others where I have travelled, I have found many friends whose acts of kindness, at least while memory lasts, will not be forgotten by me. I trust that each of them will accept my best thanks for all favors received, ando pray that Heaven's blessings may attend them. In bidding them adieu, I realize that I leave many who have proven themselves worthy of the appellation, friend, by years of uniform kindness. This gives rise to feelings of sorrow, and especially when I reflect that at they long for the privilege 19f gathering, to Zion, that they may spend their strength in building her up and in making her, more powerful on the earth. To-day their To strength is being spent in building up kingdoms aud that will perish while if in Zion they pursued the right course they would be spending their strength in building up a kingdom which is destined to be as permanent as the throne of God. May Heaven grant that soon get there dei 0 Ded they may As regards my labers during oper The past two years, we have succes ied in bantizing about six persons into the Church, and, including this season's emigration, about that number will have emigrated and if humble my

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efforts have been acceptable to my they will refrain from doing what is brethren, I am satisfied. I have tried debasing and wrong and will do what in my feeble way to do what I could is ennobling and right; and thus they towards furthering the cause of truth, will be saved. That all who embrace blessing the Saints and endearing their the t truth will live to it; that it may hearts to the work. My feelings to-day quickly spread throughout the wide respecting the truth are as they have domains of earth; that you and your' been the last ten years. I felt to love associates may have increased joy in the truth then, when it was first your labors in seeing the honest yield. preached to me, and I love it to-day: obedience unto the truth, that they may my desire is to see it spread. I know be saved, and that God may be glorified, that it possesses power to cheer and is the sincere wish and prayer of your

bless, likewise to save; and if the Saints will live to the truth as we teach it,

brother,

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WILLIAM THURGOOD.

ENGLAND. The Wellington Monument which has been erected in this town was inaugurated on Saturday, the 16th instant. The municipal authorities and the volunteers took part in the ceremony, which was witnessed by an immense assembly. The Polish party in the House of Commons are not quite satisfied with the steps which her Majesty's Government 29th instant Viscount Raynham has taken to obtain from Russia those rights which the Poles claim.

intends to move that-"In the opinion of this House, Great Britain, by having been a party to the Treaty of Vienna, assisted in placing a portion of ancient Poland in subjection to Russia, under stipulations favorable to Poland, which have been grossly and systematically violated by Russia, who has thereby forfeited all claim under that treaty to that country."

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POLAND. Letters received from Warsaw state that, on the 10th instant, the Revolutionary Town Captain, in order to prevent the emigration of desponding citizens, issued a proclamation forbidding any person to leave Poland without a passport from the National Government. The Provincial Revolutionary Committee for Lithuania has published a reply to the Imperial ukase granting an amnesty, which says,As the object of the insurrection is not to obtain concessions from the Emperor, but to establish the indepencence of the whole of Poland within the frontiers which existed before its partition, the national struggle shall continue until the last Muscovite soldier has been driven from these Polish provinces or till the last Polish army has ceased to fight." Between the 8th and 10th instant an insurrection broke out at five different points of Volhynia. The insurgents confined in Galicia have all refused to avail themselves of the amnesty, in spite of the solicitations of the Russian agents.

AMERICA. The Persia brings accounts of two most desperate battles fought in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg on Saturday, the 2nd, and Sunday, the 3rd of May, in which the Federal army under General Hooker appears to have been driven back for a distance of several miles by the Confederates under General Stonewall Jackson. It is supposed that another and more decisive battle took place on Monday, the 4th of May; hub the Federal Government had not allowed a single fact with regard to it to be communicated to the public up to six o'clock when the Persia sailed that Hooker's

on Tuesday. Reports were in circuits, however, were in circulation to entire army had been destroyed. the effect that the, Federals had entered Richmond without a struggles Had any

such event occurred, or had the day in any degree improved the

position of the Federal army, the had the strongest reasons, not only for publishing the news with the uthide promptitude, but for circulating t through every part of the Union without the loss of a single hour.

VARIETIES-POETRY.

VARIETIES.

IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR DEBATING SOCIETIES.-In sickness, which suffers the most, a short man or a long one? In other words, isn't there a greater pang in six

SENTIMENT FOR NORTH AND SOUTH.-A speedy end to this fratricidal war, and a fast arrival to the Millennium and reign of universal peace; when we shall see babyshows of little children a playin' with rattle-snakes.-Punch.

NOTICE.-If any of our readers have Vol. III of the Nauvoo Times and Seasons which they are willing to dispose of, they will confer a favor by communicating with the Editor of this paper immediately.

MARRIED:

At Preston, on the 27th of April, by Elder P. P. Pratt, Elder John F. Smith to C. V. Vernon, both of the Hull Conference.

DIED:

She was a On Friday morning, May 8th, very suddenly, of apoplexy, sister Isabella Newby, aged 57. good Saint, an exemplary wife, a kind and indulgent mother, and was much beloved by all who knew her.

POETRY.

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MUST BE FREE.

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COURT PROCEEDINGS IN UTAH TERRITORY.

PRESENTMENT OF THE GRAND JURY OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND
CLOSING ADDRESS OF THE HON. CHIEF JUSTICE J. F. KINNEY.

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To the Honorable United States District | Salt Lake City aforesaid, for the use of
Court for the Third Judicial District
of Utah Territory, now in session at
Great Salt Lake City :-

We, the United States Grand Jurors for the said Third Judicial District, in the discharge of a duty due the Court and community, and in accordance with a time-honored custom, when anything Lotoriously offensive or deleterious to the health of the people, or that is obnoxious and revolting in its character, exists, to make presentment thereof to the Court, beg leave to make this statement of facts, and ask that it may be spread upon the records of the Court.

We desire to state, that before the commencement of the nuisance hereinafter complained of, there was and still is an ancient watercourse or stream, commonly called Red Butte creek, flowing from the mountains east of Great Salt Lake City, county of Great Salt Lake, the waters of which, either in the original channel of said stream, or in artificial channels, canals, sects, or ditches constructed for that purpose, were and are conducted into Great

the inhabitants thereof, to wit, for the in the fourth and first municipal wards use and benefit of the people residing of said city, some three thousand of whom did and do use the said water, and were and are entirely dependent upon it, not only for irrigating, but for drinking and culinary purposes.

That, on or about the 20th day of October, A.D. 1862, there was established, on or near said watercourse or watercourses, in the suburbs of Great Salt Lake City and within the limits of the said corporation, a military encampment called Camp Douglas, where have since been stationed a large body of troops commonly known as California Volunteers," who have, since the establishment of said military encampment as aforesaid, erected stables, yards, corrals or inclosures for their animals, on or near said watercourses; have diverted the water, or part thereof, from its former channels, and caused it to run through the yards thus built for their stock, and from thence into another watercourse leading into said city; have placed obstructions in the stream; have built privies on or close