Evening Attend Two "fandangos." Girls Not Very

Busy Replying To Letters From Divers Office-seekers. They Come By The Dozens.

[t]his Free And Easy Old-bachelor Sort Of Life Is Quite Full Of Fun And Jollity. Pease And Myself Room Together; And Everything Like Order And Neatness Is Banished From Our Presence As A Nuisance--old Letters And Old Boots And Shoes, Duds Clean And Duds Dirty, Books And Newspapers, Tooth-brushes, Shoe-brushes, And Clothes-brushes, All Heaped Together On Chairs, Settees, Etc., In Dusty And "most Admired Confusion." Now, What Is There Imaginable In Clean, Tidy Private Life Equal To This?

The Religion Of The Bible Is The Best In The World. I See The Infinite Value Of Religion. Let It Be Always Encouraged. A World Ofsuperstition And Folly Have Grown Up Around Its Forms And Ceremonies. But The Truth In It Is One Of The Deep Sentiments In Human Nature.

These Semi-traitors [union Generals Who Were Not Hostile To Slavery] Must Be Watched. Let Us Be Careful Who Become Army Leaders In The Reorganized Army At The End Of This Rebellion. The Man Who Thinks That The Perpetuity Of Slavery Is Essential To The Existence Of The Union, Is Unfit To Be Trusted. The Deadliest Enemy The Union Has Is Slavery - In Fact, Its Only Enemy.

Universal Suffrage Is Sound In Principle. The Radical Element Is Right.