
          Your letter gives me the only intelligence I have received from Princeton
 except through the papers. The project of gas-lighting is then in actual
 course of execution! Well done! Poor [Willy?] be not hard upon
 him�we know his failing of old�he does not write letters
 with a willing mind, and so not a scratch of his pen has 
 pricked my ear since I have been in these �delectable mountains.�
 You need not say anything to him about it. I have not set
 him a good example in the matter, not having written to him myself.
 ergo, he might retort the accustion of being so illiterate.


 I am glad to hear of him and his employment & should be
 still more glad to hear from him. The news from [insert: your] house is particularly 
 acceptable: I have seen a little of the same mercantile
 Literay excitement in the columns of the Corner or else the Express
 Is our time there were four different nomination tickets, me under 
 the other in the same column; & in the column adjoining, two
 directly contradicting �Cards� about Saul [Samual?] P. Titus as nominee for 
 the Presidency. Hastings I suppose & hope continues undisturbed in
 his post of honor & usefulness.


 I am very much interested in what you say about Henry. Let
 us still pray for him, for praying health is never spent in vain. 
 Here I must stop. my paper my time being both exhausted, before
 the arrears of chat and talk are brought up.


 Love to Mrs. Torry �whose improved health
 it delights me to hear of, � and to the girls, & Haste. I suppose I
 shall find [?] from wonderfully. Ever cordially yours.


 Reuben Lowrie 


 [cross writing: Every word about Clermont is precious.]
        