This day the teachers met in Nauvoo, and organized into a quorum, by appointing Elisha Averett, president; James Huntsman and Elijah Averett, counselors; Samuel Eggleston, scribe; and eleven members. _Monday, 10_.--Elder Taylor returned to Nauvoo and found Emma gaining slowly. My health and spirits are good. _Tuesday, 11_.--From the _Times and Seasons_:-- _Announcement Concerning Temple Committee Affairs_. _To the Saints at Nauvoo and Scattered Abroad:_ This may certify that President Joseph Smith, the trustee-in-trust for the Temple, called upon the Temple committee on the 1st instant to present their books and accounts for examination, and to give account of their work at the temple. After carefully and attentively examining and comparing their books and accounts, the trustee expressed himself well satisfied with the proceedings and labors of the committee, and ordered that this be published in the _Times and Seasons_, that the Saints may know the facts, and be thereby encouraged to double their exertions and forward means to roll on the building of the Temple in Nauvoo. It was also ordered that the recorder's office be henceforth removed to the committee house near the Temple. All property and means must therefore be brought to that place, where it will be recorded in due form. WILLIAM CLAYTON. Clerk and Recorder of the Temple. NAUVOO, October 11, 1842. _Thursday, 13_.--The brethren arrived from Wisconsin {170} with a raft of about 90,000 feet of boards and 24,000 cubic feet of timber for the Temple and Nauvoo House. _Saturday 15_.--Brother John D. Parker returned to Nauvoo and informed my friends that I was well. _Sunday, 16_.--I copy the following from the _New York Herald_: THE MORMONS. ARLINGTON HOUSE, October 16, 1841. _General J. G. Bennett:_ SIR:--Some time since I addressed a letter to Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, in answer to a letter of his introducing to "my kind attention," a friend of his from the holy city of Nauvoo. In this letter I expressed my regret that the quarrel between him and John C. Bennett should have at all found its way to the public eye, this being the sole cause of placing him in his present awkward situation. I likewise commiserated with him in his affliction, and signed myself at the conclusion of my letter, as his friend, which I really am, and the friend of all good Mormons, as well as other good men.