23rd [FIGURE] The Eastern mails arived at 1/2 past 2 oclok 23 days from Indipendance Ferrimore Little & Ephraim Hanks came with it. the shortest trip on record we learn that all Hell is boiling over against the saints in Utah we also are informed that Elder Parley <P> Pratt was murdered By [blank] MCLain who s[h]ot him in Arkansaw this was painful news to his family the papers of the United States are filled with bitter revileings against us the devil is exceding mad.