Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

MORMON SETTLEMENTS.
written by a Salt Lake City poetess, on the receipt
of the telegraph news of the assassination of President Lincoln
Every home and hall was shrouded,
Every thoroughfare was still,
Every brow was darkly clouded,
Every heart was faint and chill.
O! the inky drop of poison
In our bitter draught of grief!
0! the sorrow of a nation
Mourning for its murdered chief.
Strongest arms were closely folded,
Most impassioned lips at rest;
Scarcely s,eemtd a heaving motion
In the nation's wounded breast.
Tears were frozen in their sources,
Blushes burned themselves away,
Language bled through broken heart threads,
Lips had nothing else to say.
Yet there was a marble sorrow
In each still face, chiselled deep,
Something more than words could utter,
Something more than tears could weep.
O! the land he loved will miss him,
Miss him in its hour of need!
Mourns the nation for the nati,n,
Till its tear-drops inward bleed.
The government of the Mormons bears a resemblance to that of Turkey. Mahomet, the founder
of Mahometan religion, was subject to epileptic fits
which furnished him with convenient opportunities
for communications with the "Spirit Land," in which
he received new chapters to be added to the Koran
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