The following diagram shows the position in which the Legion was drawn up:
{ 5} [Diagram: Legion's position during parade.]
A violent shock of an earthquake is reported to have been experienced at the island of St. Domingo, at twenty minutes past seven, p. m. It was also felt at St. Marc, Gonaives, and Cape Haytien, and at various places from Port-au-Prince, to the base of the Rocky Mountains, comprising a distance of 1,500 miles. At Santiago de Cuba the cathedral and several extensive buildings were prostrated. About ten thousand persons were killed at Cape Haytien.
{ 6}_Sunday, 8_.--Attended meeting at the grove, and heard Elder Rigdon preach.
After meeting many persons were baptized, some in the font, others in the river.
Eighty persons killed and as many wounded, by an accident on the Paris and Versailles railroad, the carriages being consumed by fire, and their passengers roasted alive.
_Monday, 9_.--Spent the day with my family.
_Tuesday, 10_.--Transacted a variety of business at the store, printing office, &c.
By letter from Elder Levi Richards, dated at Liverpool, we learn that the work is progressing in the north of England, namely, Carlisle, Brampton, Burnstones, Alstone, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he has been laboring for a few weeks.
_Wednesday, 11_.--Called with my clerk at Brother Joseph W. Coolidge's to examine a new cabinet for the Temple Recorder's office; also called at Bishop Knight's; dictated several letters and other items of a business nature.
_Thursday, 12_.--Dictated a letter to Elder Rigdon concerning certain difficulties, or surmises which existed and attended the meeting of the Female Relief Society, the house being filled to overflowing. There was a heavy thunderstorm at the close of the meeting.
_Friday, 13_.--Received a letter from Sidney Rigdon in reply to mine of yesterday.
Spent most of the day in my garden and with my family.
Dictated the following letter to Horace R. Hotchkiss, Esq.
_The Prophet's Letter to Horace R. Hotchkiss.--Explaining why the Former had taken Advantage of the Bankrupt Law_.
Dear Sir--I proceed without delay to give a hasty reply to yours of the 12th ultimo, just received. My engagements will not admit of a lengthy detail of events and circumstances which have transpired to bring about that state of things which now exists in this place, as before { 7} you receive this you will probably be apprised of the failure of myself and brethren to execute our designs in paying off our contracts, or in other words, that we have been compelled to pay our debts by the most popular method; that is by petitioning for the privilege of general bankruptcy, a principle so popular at the present moment throughout the Union.