
          one typhoid fever. Ague is so common 
that we do not count it. The let alone 
treatment is splendid in most everything 
not ague. Nothing short of quinin will 
stop that. We get daily war news through 
the Detroit papers. I just skim them & 
wait until I get a two days old Trib. [Tribune] 
before I make up my mind. Michigan 
is doing far more in proportion to her 
population than New York. Our little 
community has given up nine of its best 
boys to go under Fremont. I lost some 
of my best friends thus. I get the 
kindest & most touching letters from them. 
In addition to other things I drill the 
students twice a week, reviving my 
old military knowledge which had long 
ago been laid by as useless. I am glad 
that Herb. [Herbert Torrey] has a place in the assay office. 
I infer from your letter that Mr. [Dunsing?] 
is superintendent of the assay office. If 
so I am surprised that he did not make 
me an offer of a place. I should 
not have accepted it, but after all 
the trouble I have had with the thing 
it would have been rather gratifying. 
When one acts from principle he 
must get his own reward in so 
doing as he need expect little beyond 
that. I have recently taken out &
        