Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1863-08-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

WINK DAYS. ?urn t.C11.-170—i:11.11. afAV U.M.F. I. F. I. F. a Wedne4day ...Aug 26 3 2. 3 57 IS 4 15 4 12 10 Thur4dAy Fridlty . Saturday ..... 29 016 6 37 F V 3 9 19 9 II Sunday Monday.. .. 31 I 7 42 0 24 0 30 o 1/ 6 Tuesday ... I I 2 24 5 I 0: 4 b 18 2  WONDERFUL IF Tat:E.—The following strange sun/ is going the round of the French journals :—An English photographer, Lr. Warner, lately photographed the eye of an ox a few Irmrs after death; and on examining the impression hrough a microscope distinctly perceived depicted on she retina the ixact delineation of the stones with which the slaughter-house was p iced, being the la•t object which affected the vision of the animal on bendiog down its head to receive the fatal blow. The consegoence deduced from this very apocryphal story is, that it the eye of a murdered man be photographed a few hours after death the likeness of the murderer will be found on his retina, that being the last object he can have seen during the death struggle.— Oaligna3di.  MAIIS \FRE OF A FAMILY liY NEGRO SOLDltiall.--ki the New York World on the 12th instant, the following letter, written on board the steamer Liberty, No. 2, August oth, is published:—" When this bat stopped at Beekham's Landing to-day the news of one of the saddest and most shocking crimes recorded in the history of the war was communicated to the passengers by an eye-witness. Beekham's Landing is twelve miles below Island No. 10 in Ohio county, Tennessee, immediately south of Kentucky State line. About ten o'clock a.en , August 4th, 1863, eighteen black United States soldiers direct from Island No. 10, their station arrived at the home on the Landing, fully armed with muskets, aide arms, and pistols, and murdered the whole of old Mr Breckhams's family then present on the place. The family consisted of Benjamin Beckham, aged 79 years ; his son Frank, aged 40 years; Laura, aged 14t Kate, 10; Caroline, 7 : and little Richard, aged two years. The mother and one of the children were lucks ily absent on a visit, and escaped the fate of their indred. The negroes killed old father Beckham and is ion Frank by horribly matilating their halies—by clubbing, cutting, bayoneting, and shooting; and then wound up their fiendish work by throwing the dead int) 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 majmity of passengers who went ashore to see the evidence of this diabolical work. The black wretches fired severel times at one of Ow neighbours, who related to us the differ, nt incidents, but he escaped unharmed. A majority of tl e demons were apprehended by some Federal cave Ty hite) before they reached the island. Iy informs, t further relates that some time ago a chaplain of one et the negro regiments of the island accompanied an armed baud to the house of Mr. Beckham for the purpose of recovering the child of one of the women, tilt, prope:ty of Mr. Beckham, and now a runaway on the islarni. He refused to deliver the child, wed this seems to I e the warrant for the murder. The neibourhood, =allay made up of old men, women, and children, is fearfully Owned for its safety.