word before retiring, "to give her love to her dear boy".  So soon I must bid the old home adieu! and twill never be home to us again, No never can we roam as a guest over the ever green fields which our father's possessed for its present owner will not be a congenial neighbor, but will be as a "thorn in the flesh" he has treated father shamefully, and even threatened to put him out of his own house, for father has a right to stay till the first of May, but this with many other things we will talk over, in the future, to which I look constantly, with hope, and anxiety.  May Our Father hasten the day of the peace of this Nation, and our reunion.  As I said before, we can not see what is in store for us in the future, "behind a frowning providence He often hides a smiling face; This great affliction may work out for us, as a nation a greater salvation, than His life could have done, selfsacrificing though it was.  But we should rejoice as well as mourn now, that we have an all wise Ruler, Who guides as well, the destinies of Nations as men.  O, that we might look to him at all times, under all trials, and adversities in life!  But I fear our voices are oftener heard in murmurings and repinings, than in praise and thanksgiving.  But let us my dear husband learn to trust Him more implicitly, for no lasting calamity
