But to return again to our subject. We found the place for the city, and the brethren were instructed to gather immediately into it, and soon they should be organized according to the laws of God. A more particular history of this city may be expected hereafter, perhaps at its organization and dedication. We found a new route home, saving, I should think, three or four miles. We arrived at Far West about the close of day. The High Priests met at Brother Pea's at Far West, and received Levi Richards into their quorum. [Sidenote: Rumors of Mobs Gathering.] _Sunday, 2_.--The First Presidency attended meeting as usual in the morning. I tarried at home in the evening to examine the Church records, and spent a part of the time in company with a gentleman from Livingston county, who had become considerably excited, on account of a large collection of people, as he said, to take Joseph Smith, Jun., and Lyman Wight, for going to one Adam Black's in Daviess county; and as the said {69} President Smith and Colonel Wight had resisted the officer who had endeavored to take them, accordingly these men are assembling to take them--as they say. They are collecting from every part of the country, to Daviess county. Report says that they are collecting from eleven counties, to help take two men who had never resisted the law or officer, nor had they thought of doing so, and this their enemies knew at the same time, or many of them at least knew it. This looks a little too much like mobocracy, it foretells some evil intentions. The whole of upper Missouri is in an uproar and confusion. [Sidenote: An Appeal to Gen. Atchison.] This evening I sent for General Atchison, of Liberty, Clay county, who is the major general of this division--to come and counsel with us, and to see if we could not put a stop to this collection of people, and to put a stop to hostilities in Daviess county. I also sent a letter to Judge King containing a petition for him to assist in putting down and scattering the mob collecting in Daviess county. _Monday, 3_.--Nothing of importance occurred today. Reports come in concerning the collection of a mob in Daviess county, which has been collecting ever since the election in Daviess county, on the sixth of August last. I was at home most of the day. This evening General Atchison arrived in Far West. [Sidenote: Consultation with General Atchison.] _Tuesday, 4_.--This day I spent in council with General Atchison. He says he will do all in his power to disperse the mob. We employed him and Alexander Doniphan (his partner) as our counsel in law. They are considered the first lawyers in upper Missouri. [Sidenote: The Prophet and Sidney Rigdon Study Law.] President Rigdon and myself commenced this day the study of law, under the instruction of Generals Atchison and Doniphan. They think, by diligent application, we can be admitted to the bar in twelve months. [Sidenote: The Prophet and Lyman Wight to submit to Trial.]