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Thursday morn'g Oct. 14. 52. Very pleasant. We were all up at 4 o'clk. to help Mr. McKie[?] off. He staid with us just[?] a week, & seemed well satisfied with his visit to Buckfield. He left Mrs. McKie[?] here who will return to N. York with Mrs Arrowsmith in about 2 weeks. Mr. Barnes has just straddled up to the door & notified me that I may have the pleasure of wheeling the soap grease up to the pot ash this forenoon. There is a mass meeting, a Liberal Democratic Mass meeting at Paris today. The Buckfield Band have gone over. All the Democratic Mass gatherings for Pearce[?] & King, in this State, have been failures. The people feel no enthusiasm in the canvass for President.

    I see our government is likely to have some trouble with the Cuban authorities.  Their late treatment of the commanders of the steam ship Crescent City, & of the American Bark[?] Cornelius[?], needs to be inquired into; & if it be found they have abused our Flag[?], & will not make due acknowledgement & reparation of their wrong, the U.S. Authorities must cuff their ears til[?] they will behave properly, that is all. ---
    It is cold husking this morning, & it looks like the brewing of a snow storm.  The weather has changed since sunrise.  I have to come into the house often to warm up.  I heard Persis[?] saying, this morning, that Thompson had bled again; & that, he told her his bleeding was occasioned by violent exercise in scuffling[?].  It is very probable the injury so[?] unnecessarily occasioned, may destroy him.  What a pity to see such a strong, well proportioned, young man ruined in such a way.  Take warning, my son, & never throw