articles of trade, and live stock have fallen thirty per centum.
 Greencastle Indiana June 15, 1861
 This is the last Sabbath that will find me a student.  Althoug I am far from having a thorough education; but will have to remain content for a time with the partial knowledge I have of many branches of literature.
 I have enjoyed myself well during the time that I have been here; but it has been far from being the most happy period of my life; from the fact that I have been confined to my room to constantly in study, and when I was not in my room I was attending lecture, church, or reciting at college; hence my chief enjoyment was in the Platonean society.
 I now look back upon my past life with impunity, when I thought that I was a good
