Mr Birds after I finish this to see if they have heard from Empy.  Louisa was here yesterday evening a little while, my last letter was a later date than theirs; Mrs Bird called one evening last week & she said that she would like if you would mention Empy every time you write & they would tell him to do the same by you; O! I had nearly forgotten to mention our new cousin; last Wednesday I was sitting by the window & saw a wagon full of women get out at the Methodist Ministers Rev Mr Maybie's & told Mrs Bansman that I expected that they had all come in from the country to be vaccinated, as there is a case of small pox about eight miles west of here & the people are considerably alarmed, but in a few minits they all came out again & I could not imagine what they could have been doing; while Mrs Bird was sitting talking we saw a couple of ladies pass & she said isn't that Emma, I was not expecting to see her & did not know her; so Mrs Bansman sent one of the boys to tell her to come back, she did not know where I was stopping or she would have called, she said that she had come up with Lavina & Ezra to see them married & that was them that I saw drive up to the ministers; was it not too provoking that I did not recognize them?  I would certainly have gone in; I went down street with Emma to see them, they all took dinner at the Blodget house.  Ezra has improved in looks & manners a great deal since I last saw him & Vinie did look real sweet, she has been very sick lately & was very fair; I think they are well suited for each other & I am rather inclined to feel proud of my new cousin than otherwise; I must not forget to tell you about going to a copperhead meeting, sometimes called democratic; D. O. Fisick made them a speech, some things that he said did very well & were true & a great many were not; if you get the Register you will be apt to see an account of it, as I saw they noticed it in the daily; they had posted hand bills that they were to hold the meeting in the new court house, but half past seven & eight no lights in the court house, Mr B wanted Mrs B to go & insisted on my going & I felt some curiosity hear what they would say but as we got near the house we saw there was no lights & we went on to Keys & Crawfords Store, when Mr B left us to go & see what was the matter, some one had got into the room by some means & barred the doors in the inside; they put a boy in through the transom & unfastened it & rang the Methodist church bell & in a few minits there was I should think a hundred or two there wer about twenty five or thirty ladies; I tell you they all looked wealty, ladies not accepted, I think if they had got the consent of the authorities to occupy the room they ought to have had it in place until it was seen what they would do; if they did anything contrary to law & order then would have been time to stop them; well they went on at length to talk of the injustice of debaring them who had born an equal part of the tax in building that temple of justice now because they called themselves Democrats & the other party was in power to be deprived of the privilege of expressing their honest (?) sentiments, was an outrage that they hoped soon at the ballot box to find redress for, but when the straight of the story was told it seems that they had not
