p.

George Hasards health has been poor all sum-
mer - his mother & Robert & wife with one
of Elisabeth's children went to the Drs
last week - found them quite smart - his
mother & the little girl staid & the Dr. said
he would carry them down when they wished
to go - Rowland E. is at home - I guess he
works a little & hunts more - said he had
quite a mind to go to the war a while
ago - but had got entirely over it -

Dr. Cram died very suddenly, so did cousin
Lucia Hasard - John Wheeler died while I
was there -

Nancy Wing was buried last 4th day
the funeral was very large - George Davis,
George Dagget, Thomas & Henry Town were
bearers - -

I suppose thee has noticed in the daily
the strange account of uncle Garner -
it appears that his secret had been a
great burden to him - & I regret that the
poor man could not have divulged it
sooner -

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We had a female minister from
near New York at our quarterly meeting.
I think she is a very gifted woman -
we expect her here tomorrow -
I do not feel as if her views in re-
lation to going to war, are quite severe
enough - she feels great sympathy and
charity for such as think it their duty
to go & says if she had a son going with such
feelings she should tell him as Gen. Green's
mother did "never to let her hear of his being
shot in the back" - but I can truely say,
I would rather my son should run, than
to shoot a man-

As thee gets the Legislatuve news more mi-
nutely than we do I need say nothing of that.
I went up yesterday and took another look
at Ethan - & "Still my wonder grew" -

Now for a little gossip - I hear that
Betty wears a likeness in her bosom pin -
That Austin Templeton & Mary Foster
are to be married - That John Hath-
away & Ellen Libbey are ditto - That Captain
Foster told Levi, when he was writing
home, that Wm. Stevens had got back into
camp again