{306} I dreamed last night that I was swimming in a river of pure water, clear as crystal, over a shoal of fish of the largest size I ever saw. They were directly under my belly. I was astonished, and felt afraid that they might drown me or do me injury. The _Wasp_ has the following editorial:-- _The Nauvoo Charter--A Guaranteed Perpetual Succession_. What reliance can be placed upon a legislature that will one session grant a charter to a city, with "_perpetual succession_," and another session take it away? We expect, however, that this honorable body believe in the common adage--"Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken," and we have sometimes ourselves seen boys crying for their marbles again, after they have given them away. We suppose, however, with them, that the words "_perpetual succession_" do not mean what they say. The house, in the dignity of its standing, passes a bill, at the request of the people, telling them that they shall have a charter granting them several privileges, and telling them that it shall be _perpetual_, without any repealing clause. It is made a law, and the grand seal of state appended to it. The people, on the good faith of the state, go to work and improve under the provisions of that charter. Companies are formed, buildings are erected, and money expended; but by-and-by they find out that they have been leaning upon a broken reed, that there is no dependence to be placed in government, that they [the legislature] have broken their most sacred promises, violated their plighted faith, and wantonly and wickedly sought to injure thousands of men who relied on their promises, by an unprecedented, unconstitutional, and tyrannical law, trampling under foot the faith of the state, and virtually saying that the members of the legislature that granted the charter were all fools or knaves, and that we, the pure representatives of the people, must break the plighted faith of the state to set them right! The _New York Herald_ gives a list of indebtedness of the several states who refuse to pay the same, as follows:-- _Indebtedness of the States_. Pennsylvania, $29,129,123; Georgia, $3,184,323; Indiana, $12,129,339; Maryland, $20,901,040; Louisiana, $21,213,000; Mississippi, $5,500,000; Illinois, $13,836,379; Alabama, $9,843,536; Arkansas, $3,900,000; Michigan, $5,611,000; Florida, $3,500,000. {307} A great fire at Valparaiso, unequalled heretofore in Chili. Damage $2,000,000. _Thursday, 16_.--In the office, reading papers, and gave counsel to Brother Hyrum, Dr. Foster, and many others. _Friday, 17_.--Part of the day in my office; the remainder at home. Settled with Father Perry; gave him a deed for eighty acres of land and city lot, and prophesied that it would not be six months before he could sell it for cash.