| 600 July 4, there was a parade and celebration at Nauvoo, at which everything passed off pleasantly. Two individuals were fined ten dollars and twenty five cents each for offering whisky for sale on the ground.
July 6, two boats started for the pineries. Of these Joseph writes:-
"Two keel boats, sloop rigged, and laden with provisions and apparatus necessary for the occasion, and manned with fifty of the brethren, started this morning on an expedition to the upper Mississippi, among the pineries, where they can join those already there, and erect mills, saw boards and plank, make shingles, hew timber, and return next spring with rafts for the temple of God, Nauvoo House, etc., to beautify the city of Nauvoo, according to the prophets."
August 31; Bishop Vinson Knight died at Nauvoo.
On August 8, Joseph Smith was arrested at Nauvoo on the charge of "being an accessary [accessory] before the fact to an assault with an intent to kill, made by one O. P. Rockwell on Lilburn W. Boggs on the night of the 6th of May, 1842." O. P. Rockwell was arrested at the same time.
Of this case so far as it concerns Joseph Smith, we give a fuller account on succeeding pages.
Joseph, as will be seen, eluded the officers by keeping himself concealed. All kinds of rumors were in circulation concerning his whereabouts, even among the saints. Some supposed he had gone to Washington to plead his cause there, some supposed that he had gone to Europe. But at a special conference held at Nauvoo, August 29, while his brother Hyrum was speaking he suddenly stepped upon the stand amid the rejoicing of the saints.
On September 1, Joseph wrote an epistle to all the saints in Nauvoo concerning the subject of baptism for the dead. 2
2 NAUVOO, September 1 1842.
To all the Saints in Nauvoo:-
1. Forasmuch as the Lord has revealed unto me that my enemies, both in Missouri and this State, were again on the pursuit of me; and inasmuch as they pursue me without a cause, and have not the least shadow
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