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I was treated so coolly that I did not make a stop of more than ten minutes. When I left he told me that if I camped in the vicinity to call again. He pointed out his Son to me a growing man of about 18 but did not introduce him, otherwise than that his family were well, he said nothing about his affairs. I would not call on him again if I were encamped in the town. He told me to say to his friends north that he was doing about as bad as a man could do, that the last barrel of Flour he bought he paid $200 two hundred dollars for and that clothing was higher still in proportion. Did you not write me a long time ago that Franklin had been burnt by the Gun Boats. I heard it from some source and I do not know how. That is all a load, for there has never been any buildings burnt there by Gun Boats or any thing else