---
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: 14
published: 1841-05-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“From the Belleville Advocate,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 14 (May 15, 1841): 419."
printed_title: From the Belleville Advocate.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n14.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_1841-05-15_2_14
start_page: 419
end_page: 419
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 1841 (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_1841-05-15_2_14
  publication_year: 1841
---

# From the Belleville Advocate

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Mr. Boyd: I have read with much interest, the "Inaugural Address" of Dr. John C. Bennett, of the city of Nauvoo, which was delivered to the City Council on the 3rd of February last, as published in the "Times and Seasons."

It is a document which, I think, is entitled to the particular notice of our respectable fellow-citizens; and if it should meet your views, as it does mine, diffusing a will to promote morality and science, I would be proud to see it in its verbatum [verbatim] character, portrayed in the columns of your widely-circulating paper, the "Belleville Advocate."

I am and have been long acquainted with Dr. Bennett, both as a physician, and minister of the Gospel; and his present character in the military department of this State, is not inferior to any in existence, throughout the Union.

With this communication, you will receive the Address.

With sentiments of respect,

I have the honor to be,

Yours, respectfully, &c.

W. G. Goforth.

Belleville, Ill. March 22, 1841.

We should be happy to comply with the requst [request] of our worthy and estemed [esteemed] M. D. friend, "Old Pills" to publish the "Address," entire, which he was kind enough to furnish us; but the press of other matter prevents. We have given it an attentive perusal; and heartily concur with the sentiments contained therein. Certainly, they ought to be the guide of those who are placed in immediate authority over the morals of community, and Mayor Bennett clearly understands his duties. We shall make some extracts from his speech; and earnestly commend them to our readers. We think, our "town" Trustees might profit by the example that is set them, by the Mayor of Nauvoo.

For the Rocky Mountains.-The steamer Trapper, belonging to the American Fur Company left here yesterday for the Yellow stone river. On board were a large number of hunters, all of whom appeared in the highest spirits; and the deck was strewed with their paraphernalia. A number of the fair sex were standing on the levee, with the heart-felt tear in their eyes, as they waved their handkerchiefs and sighed an adieu, when the boat left the landing. She will be absent about four months. Our Eastern brethren expatiate on the pleasures of a trip with their Atlantic steamers; out, pshaw, it is nothing in comparison to our inland voyage. There, all is dull and monotonous, nothing to relieve the eye; nothing to attract the attention, excepting perhaps a Mother Cary's chicken, or the fin of a shark. Here, every day brings a change of scenery, each vieing [vying] with the other in grandeur. What a glorious trip for a worshipper of nature.-St. Louis Bu. April 8.th.

-> We hope to be able to lay before our readers in our next, an important revelation, given to Pres't J. Smith some time ago, which has not yet been published.