Signed letters of recommendation to James Brown and Peter Haws to collect funds in Mississippi and Alabama.
Elder Brigham Young moved out of his log cabin into a new brick house, small, but comfortable and convenient.
The steamer Amaranth landed at Nauvoo the Saints who had left Liverpool in the Yorkshire under the care of Elders Thomas Bullock and Richard Rushton, all well; and also some Saints who had left there more recently in the Swanton.
News arrived that General Charles Napier gained a brilliant victory near Hyderabad, after a dreadful combat of three hours. The Belochee army of twenty-two thousand men were completely overthrown by twenty-seven hundred English troops, who sustained a loss of only two hundred and fifty killed and wounded, including eighteen officers.
Four hundred and fifty clergymen have lately seceded from the Church of Scotland, being nearly one-half of the whole number.
CHAPTER XXII.
FORMS OF CREDENTIALS OF THE TWELVE—CONFERENCE At MANCHESTER, ENGLAND—DEATH OF JUDGE ELIAS HIGBEE—"THE PURPOSE OF GATHERING," A DISCOURSE BY THE PROPHET.
Thursday, June 1, 1843.—Presided in the city council, which passed "An ordinance to establish a ferry across the Mississippi river at the city of Nauvoo."
And also passed "An ordinance respecting mad dogs and other animals."