With respect to the Carthage meeting, I take upon myself to deny the charges _in toto,_ and challenge them to the proof. If we harbor horse-thieves among us, as is basely asserted, let the man that has lost his horse publish his name and the name of the villain, or how he knows him to be a Mormon, and where he is harbored, that we may have something more than vague assertions. They well know that no such proof can be produced, but that the charges had their birth in the minds of one or two heartless scoundrels thirsting for revenge for their late disappointments. The whole of the charges are a tissue of falsehoods {44} got up with the idea of intimidating a peaceable body of citizens. But, sir, we set such designing knaves at defiance and laugh at their threats, treating them with utter contempt, but ever ready to abide by the truth. JOHN GREENHOW. Elder Reuben Hedlock wrote the following letter:-- _Elder Reuben Hedlock to the First Presidency._ LIVERPOOL, October 4, 1843. _To the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, greeting:--_ DEAR AND MUCH ESTEEMED BRETHREN,--I hasten to inform you of my arrival in Liverpool on the 30th day of September, in company with Elders John Cairns, James Sloan and wife, James Houston, and William G. Jermon. We left six of the Twelve in the city of New York, the 2nd day of September, and came on board of the ship _Columbus_. Our passage money was five dollars. We had a very hard passage. We were very much crowded in the steerage. There were 236 persons--Dutch, Irish, English and Scotch, and as dirty as any I ever saw. We were not much sick; the weather was cold. Had it been otherwise, we should have suffered more. A steamer leaves for New York today, and I thought I would announce to you my arrival by this opportunity, and such information as I was in possession of up to this date. There is a ship to sail on the 14th instant, by which I shall write you again.