Since I saw him before, your father had taken a course of Calomel, and was salivated, so that for three weeks he could not speak. All this was intended for the benefit of his liver. I trust you are now enjoying your Sweet potatoes. A Mr. Kinney, of Rock Island, says in the Prairie Farmer, that he cultivates a variety of the Sweet Potato which is hardy at the North, and can be kept through the winter. Probably you had better try them.
Female education is quite costly, to what it used to be.
I suppose that within two years you will be able to come from Freeport to Caseyville by Rail Road - following the Central R. R. to the Central City in Marion Co., and then turning to the right on the Ohio and Mississippi R. R. which will land you at Caseyville. The obituary of our Legislature has thus far prevented this road from being constructed, lest it might benefit St. Louis. The cholera has prevailed this fall at Caseyville, and carried off about ten. Caseyville will doubtless ever remain a sickly place, so long as any body remains there to be sick. Mr. Andrew Jackson Swain has married one of Horatio McCray's daughters, and lives directly opposite the place where Judge Bingham's wife was born.