--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1840 to 1841. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 2 number: 1 published: 1840-11-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“To the Saints Scattered Abroad,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 1 (November 1, 1840): 207." printed_title: TO THE SAINTS SCATTERED ABROAD. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n01.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1 start_page: 207 end_page: 207 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-11-01_2_1 publication_year: 1840 --- # To the Saints Scattered Abroad Be it known that Elder Josiah Butterfield, (one of the Presidents of the Quorum of Seventies,) was arraigned before the Quorum on the 4th of Oct. last and tried for a number of criminal charges. But the Quorum are happy, publicly to announce, that after a patient and candid investigation, the charges were unsustained, and Pres't Butterfield stands acquited [acquitted] by the counsel and Quorum. Z. PULCIPHER, Chair. A. P. Rockwood, Clerk.