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Show be no apprehension of a war, would leave us to infer that the president has resolved to adopt a temporizing temporiz-ing policy towards the- Mormons. Mr. Buchanans proclivities in favor fa-vor of temporary expediencies are so strongly marked and - well known,. that we would' not be at all surprised to hear that a truce had been declared in favor of ilor-mondom, ilor-mondom, and that band oE traitors will be. allowedV to. .practice their iniquities to on indefmete period." ; Last week we:wero-vieitcd by a whirl wihdifrom, the sen that killed ar child and1 twistecF the skin completely com-pletely oft from a Native, making him look just as if he had been scalded;, destroyed about forty .houses and. carried away the roof jand belfrey of Baldwin's Church; the Bread Fruit and Kukui trees were completely wrenched , off, leaving nothing but the stumps .standing; prostrated Banana trees and Grapevine arbors,:etc.-5 arbors,:etc.-5 The famine in some parts of ?.Cararia has been awful in the I extreme. Thousands were , dying and even the most affectionate ! parents were killing and selling their . children for food." -Jlfil-lennial Star, Vol. 12, No. 52. ! i . Missionary. r To Ba Continued. . Written for Tkk Union. ' 5- . . . is',?'- . . incidents. : j ' Continued; .' - ,f A San Francisco paper says that Governor CummihE'llas not declared Utah in a state, of rebellion and had issued, a Proclamation to the citizens of the1 Territory as governor,'" The weekly chronicle has the following There are very positive indications that the Mormons Mor-mons will refuse to acknowledge any authority but their own, and there is hardly any perceiyabln indications of their intention to locate in Sonora, If they move at all, which we doubt, they will 'go t6 their Northern settlements jnear the British-possessions, -where they are' already iil league with the Indians, and where they have large quantities of grain stored away. In the Snnke river country tho ilormons have been improving and cultivating the land for the last three or four years, and have already formed-the nucleous for a colony, and there is where they will ga if they ever leave Salt' Lake. But; another" question arises. The administration already al-ready has its hands fnll" of- business bus-iness without the difficulty, and: it is quite possible that Mr. Buchanan, Bu-chanan, rather than push matters to extremes, may compromise with Brigham and appoint such a governor gov-ernor for Utah, as the peoplo may choose. The fact that no step has been taken to raise troops here for Utah in connectioni with the fact .that. Washington there appears, to |