The Leavenworth weekly times., 1875-03-25

able, ard VIII tend - Ole snothcrs con-
fort, while We can do -.
Never ge; the idea into yoar head that
writ, - YOU a. sense OF duty No, dear:
write 20 you as Z sense OF pleasure. see
more real comfort in writing TO you than
anything else, and / will say trul:, in look
Ing over my past life, this feeling never
was experienced in the remo;est degree IN
Ill now, and kHor if / erer loved woman
on earth, i. i you, and never !oced before
if this be love. | viii now close this and
take il to the Office, and perhaps / NAV get
another from you. How glad would be.
And now goodbye, sweet love, from your
own dear, devoted
The next OF the correspondence seems to
have been written in a melancholy mood:
THURSDAY, Feb. 4, 1879
q, \. NJ.
Good sao,5iag, niy duIliag.
This makes seven days and but one letter
from you. Who is it now who is becoming
tired ,rriiiag' | have written YOU nearly
every day in the meantime Yesterday /
was disappointed. | thought sure | would
Mrs T. She has her old girl back again
bllt We ~ sID. sSlit SAYS rllC
has been sick. | received one also from
Harry he, too, is in trouble. His chum
at college has written him that young
lady in Boston who Harry was sweet on,
&c, tells him that she had heard all about
Harry THAT when at Exeter, and also
while in Cambridge he WAS the most dissi-
pated yo,ug nan in his class. That at home
he is the same" You see the most correct,
the most virtuous will be slandered lie is in
peck of trouble about it, and writes for
me 10 answer what he is 10 do about it.
shall write him that il young lady that
cares for him is disposed TO believe such
things upon mere report, without asking
him il true, Is not worth frelting about,
and TO not make any reply TO it or say a
word. That to so live that the vile slam
derers will be put to shame. VIII | do
right in such advice? For if the girl did
really care anything for him, she ought not
| TO believe such thing, and that she is be-
meath his notice-simply let the insult
pass.
Wei, Col. Gilpatrick left for home last
night. He will probably reach home
Sunday morning, remaining over one day in
| Chicago. | wish it were me that would SCI
YOU 50 soon. | can assure, | am becoming
anxious you would think so If you uer,
rrih me these mornings before gel om Of bod
j get right up and come in here, light tn,
| gas, and commence writing 10 You. Don't
think L am going to yield before | com,
home to you, my only dear street precious one
Oh, | become so dari1us THAT word will do
when | think OF the sweet and delightful
EMBRACES, have had from yoa, and tn,
1 of fl,az. I 80, f,,F.r I ,,-I-n
you were here Just now, and find your arm
stealing around my neck, and a warm
sweet kiss upon my lip, Oh Goi-may The
next three er four weeks quickly pas.
slept alone last night for the first time for !
long time. Col. Gilpatrick would crawl in
to my bed instead Of his father-in-law' 5
He said was Il nicer bed-iellow than he
But i don't care 10 have a man with ME.
l am 4 little more encouraged about III,
business affairs, as the committee who has
claim of mine before them made 4 repOr
that my client should be pad. | only fea
the G,Hc is 80 short that | cannot get i
through, but will work early and late.
was on the floor of Congress, Yesterday, TO
several hours. IL was very exciting. Ben
Butler was forcing his Civil Rights Bill
on. Several of the Southern fellows wen
for him, but old Ben" is smart, and to-da,
the bill will pass the Lower House. ! wa
at the Indian Department for two hour,
Then, last night, | had call from till
p. NJ, from q. Grant, the Presidents brother
| dined with him at the hotel last week an,
he is quite Sociable. He Is the one who ha
succeeded Durfee X Peck, Of Leavenwortl
in the Indian tyd6s up the Missouri. He
a nice fellow, plain and quite sensible.
Yesterday morning, when | was writIn
10 you, it was raining very hard, while mol
it i very cold, and the mud is frozen. 1t
daylight, although am writing this vet b
gaslight, my curtains being down. mu,
put on my overcoat, | iini | have bee
writing Just A. | rrawled out OF bed, excep
my socks, which | pulled on. | want t
ask YOU about yourfelf. Iou sal
you were going TO get weighed, and il yo
had i1!ien of Won would not speak Of
aga.a. \aw, dear, | hope You have nC
, gricvcd yourself in addition to that cold III
Ill you are reduced in flesh. Tell me Il
about it. What is your usual weight
How much you weigh now, &C.? Becaus,
when | come | want 10 see that fresl
healthy look that YOU have always SCENE
10 enjoy. don't want TO find You lookin
hall sick, weak and worried. | will g,
weighed to-day can find a place, and -e
how | have come out III the conflict. Th
General has caawled out and is standing j
two feet of me. | can't write while any on
is so near. ! imagine they are looking oyt
my shoulder. So goodbye, darling
sweet kiss for you.
, Yours, as ever,