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1, 2, & 3rd I spent the time ploughing oats& sewing oats
except the 1st day of April I Attended a party at
the Bath House, about 50 JGentlemen & 100 Ladies present
I Addressed the assembley at 8 oclock in the evening &
returned Home The presidency & Twelve & those that Had
[FIGURE 16] been at work in the Council House assisted in the endowmts
were washed & annointed I did not get word of it & was
not present. The eastern Mail arived this evening which
had been anxiously looked for for many weeks the
Mail was large I Received 34 letters one from Azmon Woodruff
[FIGURE 10] one from Thompson & one from Ozem Woodruff & one from
I. F. Carter. A large Amount of Papers were Received &
contained much news from various sources. A Fire in
Phil[adelphia] $200000 of Dollars loss A water spout destroyed 500 lives
& much property Dredful steem Boat Disasters & fires all
over the country All Europe in commotion England preparing
for war. warm times in Congress because the Utah Judges
had gone home and made reports against the Judges Mormons
Govornor Yougng & others
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