Ind; he said it was only a hard cold and cough, and when he wrote expected to go to his regiment in a few days, which had been ordered to Chattanooga; he sent his grandfather 30,00 by express; poor boy! he will earn his money hard enough; you must write to him whether you hear from him or not, Emma wrote him last week, and I will write to him in a few days.  Em and I are going to Desmoines tomorrow, when I hope to hear from you again.
 You will remember the morning you left fathers, Jackson stopped with his brother Ike, well Ike was married last week to a daughter of the proprieter of the Palmyra wollen factory; I suppose he has done well financially; Our folks made them a dinner, at Jackson's request; Jack was at our church yesterday with Bro Potter he thinks Potter is a No. 1 fellow.  There will be services at our church on Thanksgiving day but we are all going to Rising Sun to hear Mr Bird, his church is trying to turn him off again, they have advertised in a Cincinnati paper for a new minister; if you get the Register you will see a communication from Mr Bird on the subject.  I attended the Ladies State Convention, and listened to two speeches and a lengthy report from Mrs Wittenmeyer, and for the life of me I can't see that she made mat
