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J.R. Hubbard & Co. Bankers Paola, Kanasas, Nov 12 1868. Dear Father I am over in Paola this morning, and I thought I would get a small check and and send you on account of winter's clothing for the children. I wish I could send you more, but better this than nothing. We are both well, although I have been about 30 miles north of this place to Olathe and have not been home since day before yesterday. They are busy on the road, grading for the railroad from Kansas City, and there is some prospect that the cars will be in Paola within 7 or eight miles of Osawatomie by New Years, or if not then at all events early next summer. We expect this will be a great event in the material history of this part of the country. How much we rejoice over the result of the election, and not less in the marked progress of the country in the direction of equal rights. Universal suffrage triumphant in Minnesota and Iowa and a heavy vote for it, presaging some future triumphs even in old border ruffian Missouri. Surely