largest majority I suppose any Prest, ever had 500,000, 200 Electoral votes McCellan 21. in reading over the returns from Iowa Regts, hardly any if one gave as large a vote Mc.  O! I tell you we all feel happy over the result. The weather still continues cold, yesterday was exceeding so, this morning the wind was from the south and today was quite warm compared with the weather for the last three or four days, thawed a great deal in the sun.  It has been quite as cold already if not colder than at any time two years ago this winter.  Poor Old Father! it keeps him going from five in the morning till away after dark to get wood and haul corn and feed, his back hurts him so badly tonight that he goes half bent; I think it is time he was selling out and getting into an easier way of living; if he hires a hand all the time which he ought to do it would take off all the profits, so that he could not make a living, and he must otherwise work hard while he stays on a farm; the man that bought Stuarts place was here this evening to try to arrange terms with father, but nothing definite was done; there don't any one seem to take a fancy to our farm, I am sure I wish they would; it would be a capital time now to sell.  The (illegible) will bring you between three and four hundred dollars and if it had been farmed rightly would have brought six hundred Austin says.  Austin sold corn the other day to the amount of 149 dol, McCalls note is cancelled at last, I calculated the intrest last night and cut your name off the notes. Now your debts are confined
