2. This man afterwards was discovered to be an adventurer and a most desperate character. Gregg in his Prophet of Palmyra, Chapter XXX, speaks of him as "an adventurer of fine appearance and gentlemanly manners, who appeared in the county (Hancock) during the troubles; went to Nauvoo, and became intimate with Smith and the leaders; afterwards turned against them--went to Warsaw and issued a pamphlet--claiming to be an expose of Mormonism and the evil purposes and practices of the Prophet * * * He was an entire stranger to the county and its people; no one knew whence he came or what became of him afterwards, when the excitement was all over. Hence it is just to say, that the equivocal position in which he stood very justly tended to lessen confidence of the public in his statements, and his little book made slight impression. The Mormons charged that he was an adventurer of the worst class--himself a counterfeiter, etc., and that he quarreled with the Prophet and the authorities because he was detected and exposed." Gregg also says that this "Expose was much of the same character as that of General Bennett's." (Ibid). {155} CHAPTER VII. PRESIDENT SMITH'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH JOHN C. CALHOUN--CARTWRIGHT DROWNING CASE, ENGLAND--CITY GUARDS INCREASED--FEARS OF LAW AND MARKS--INVESTIGATION BY THE CITY COUNCIL--RESISTANCE OF OFFICERS AT CARTHAGE--ANTI-MORMON OBJECTIONS TO CITY ORDINANCES--THE PROPHET'S DIFFICULTIES WITH FRANCIS M. HIGBEE--REGULATIONS FOR THE SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. _Monday, January 1, 1844.--_A cold, blustering rainstorm ushered in the new year. At sunrise, Thomas Miller, James Leach, James Bridges, and John Frodsham were brought before me by the police, charged with disorderly conduct. Fined Miller $5: the others were discharged. [Sidenote: New Year's at the Mansion.] A large party took a new year's supper at my house, and had music and dancing till morning. I was in my private room with my family, Elder John Taylor and other friends. _Tuesday 2.--_Two p.m., Hyrum Dayton was brought before Mayor's court for disorderly conduct in resisting and abusing the police: fined $25 and costs. His son, Lysander Dayton, for the same offense, was sentenced to ten days' hard labor, on the public streets; and subsequently, for contempt of court, ten days more. Snow one inch deep. I here insert Mr. Calhoun's answer to my letter of inquiry, dated November 4, 1843:-- _Letter: John C. Calhoun to Joseph Smith--Defining What Former's Policy would be Towards the Saints if Elected President_. FORT HILL, December 2, 1843.