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engagement.  The conventioneer left us this evening for his Sunday School meeting & on his return bade us "good bye" as he intended to go home early in the morning.
Read the President's message to Father after dinner.  He objects to the military government of the southern states to the enfranchisement of the negro, to the bill passed near the close of last session preventing him from appointing government officers or rather making such appointments invalid unless ratified by congress.  recommends a return to specie payment in part and shows the evil of our present inflated paper currency.  Father says to return to specie payment [[underline]]in part[[/underline]] would be still worse than to remain as we are.  Now Gold is a commodity and but a small portion comparatively goes out of the country but if currency much more of it would be spent for foreign goods.  It
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would go to foreign lands and leave us our worthless paper.  The more foreign commerce we have where we have to give ^[[out]] gold and receive paper ^[[at home]] be worse for us.
We have been quite pleased this evening by the arrival of six numbers of the Bazaar a magazine of fashion for wh. we have subscribed and all of including the S.S. conventioneer dived into them hoop skirts & head gear.  Train dress & short ones, how to arrange one's back hair & how to crisp front locks with [[?]] & [[?]] stories to fill up spaces such are the contents of the valuable paper.  If we are not attired well now it will certainly not be the fault of Mr. Harper.  Mr. Gill brought in Mrs. Dale's' book, "The court, the market & the college, but it was quite cut out by the fashions.  Father looked through it but laid it down soon.
6th  Another day with Father's bust