<​April 21​> I rode out in the , & in the afternoon went to my .

There was an officer drill of the .

<​22​> The cohorts of the were in exercise this day; my staff came out with me, & spent the day in riding, exercising & <​or​> <​&​> organizing; & sitting in Court Martial, to ascertain to what staff , Surgeon General; , Adjutant General; & Commissary General; belonged.

<​Sunday 23​> 9 to 10 a.m. at home, heard read Truthiana No 6; also the minutes of special , which I revised.

11 a. m. meeting at the , , , , , , , present. prayed. Prest. preached on the subject of Salvation, & the commenced their mission to build the ; & for the salvation of the , it was necessary that the public building should be erected, &c.

preached in the afternoon, showing the rapid increase of during the past three years.

called for 25 hands to go with him to the , to get lumber for the .

Prest. instructed the laborers on the to commence next morning, even if they have to beg food of their neighbors to commence with, & requested familes to board hands, till means could be procured.

<​24​> In the morning I took my children a pleasure ride in the carriage.

at 1 p m the , , , , , & met in my , & agreed <​to go​> to , Iowa; & spend the next Sabbath, & devise means to secure the property which has been purchased of , by the Nauvoo House Trustees. & voted go on a mission to — & to Tuscaloosa; <​Ala.​> & that be instructed to return home immediately— & that Mr. be respectfully requested, immediately to furnish the with a draft of the exterior & interior of the .

<​Prince Louis Napoleon <​claimant of the Imperial throne of ,​> writes from his prison at Ham, to the Parisian journals, that “I would prefer captivity on the French soil, to freedome in Exile.”​>

<​25​> Called at <​In​> the in the morning, & heard <​read​> the report of the proceedings of the yesterday.

& other Masons came to see me concerning , <​when​> who was threatening revenge on , I replied, if he injured , he would be cursed. I was told that Grand Master <​G. M. Jonathan​> Nye was dead, which caused the following remark. “When Nye was here trying to pull me by the nose & trample on me, I enquired of the Lord if I was to be led by the nose & cuffed <​about​> by such a man”, I received for answer “wait a minute”; Nye is dead, and any man or mason who attempts to ride me down, and oppress me, will run against the boss of Jehovah’s buckler; & will be quickly moved out of the way. Nye was <​is​> <​was​> an hypocritical Presbyterian preacher, & is <​was​> known to have violated his oath as a Master Mason <​& committed adultery,​> & <​he has​> started an opposition Lodge <​on the Hill, called the Nye <​[illegible]​> Lodge,​> on which subject I replied “they will do us all the evil <​injury​> they can, but let them go ahead, altho it will result in a division of the Lodge”. Nye fearing the execution of his Oath, <​penalty of the City ordinances on Adultery​> speedily fled from , and is now dead. <​soon after died suddenly in . at . Iowa. *​> <​* his funeral was attended by , , & <​& ​> as a deputation from the Nauvoo Lodge, a donation from several lodges defrayed the expenses of his funeral[.] at the time the coffin was lowered into the grave there was about two feet of water in it.​>

at 3¼ pm rain fell in torrents, & wind blew strong <​from N. W. several barns were blown down;​> so dark for 15 minutes, could not see to write— considerable hail fell The Creeks rose very high, the land covered with water. [p. 27]