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April   rainy weather we have had this winter, he said after all we were never satisfied in the world even had we every possible happiness we should still have something to wish for. When he was in Mexico once he thought he had at last found the perfection of weather, not a cloud to shadow the unbroken sunshine but he soon found himself longing for rain [[averying?]] for some change in the bright unclouded sky above him.

Mon. 13th.   Gen. Casey's was ordered off last week but Bessie told us yesterday he was not to go. Went this afternoon to enquire if Mrs Rodgers & heard any thing from the Capt. He is in command of the Weehawken one of the ironclads in the Charleston fleet. She had received no [[strikeout]] t [[strikeout]] letter but was comforted by hearing that his vessel had been struck 50 times without damage & not a man on board injured. She is of course exceedingly anxious. Little Willie & the baby were brought in to see us. Foster has been surrounded & defeated.

Tuesday 14th.     Miss Dix was here a little while this morning she has hurt her foot. Mother asked her when she was coming home to be [[nursed/married?]]. She said when the Rebellion was over She
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April   was in better spirits than I have seen her for some time. ---- Foster has not surrendered He is at Washington (N.C.) Surrounded, but boldly challenges the Southerners to take the place. No additional news from Charleston. Father is in the Study with the Naval Commission. He expects to leave for N.Y. on Saturday. 

Capt Davis & Dr. Bache have just gone The Commission seems to have had a pleasant evening. We asked why they were laughing as they went down stairs. He said, he remarked to Capt Davis that in criticising the inventions sent for their approval, in condemning & making objection they had given exercise to their [[bad?]] passions, the architects of ruin] were always more successful than those of construction. Capt Davis said "yes, but [[underlined]] apparently [[underlined]] it had been the object of his life to suppress his virtues & [[encourage?]]  his vices, to cultivate a good stomach & a bad heart."

15th.  The carpenter came in this morning with a report that the city was in a great state of excitement, in consequence of a rumor that Harper's Ferry was in the hands of the rebels The "star" this evening says there is no foundation for such a report. The Intelligencer this morning contained an account of the 
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