A new panic is hereabouts. The impressment of sorghum syrup, wheat, beef, &c., is daily expected. Mr Purefoy told me that he was expecting the officer every hour at his house (to-day). He wanted to sell me syrup at $10. Govt is giving $5. Now to me this movement so early in this neighborhood will interfere with the life of the University more seriously than the conscribing of our students. For if our eating houses cannot get food for our students, even those under 17 cannot come or cannot stay here. Mr Purefoy says he is resolved that hereafter he will have nothing on and that Govt. can impress but page torn. He will continue to make corn but nothing else. Is there no mode of stopping this process here? With the food in the immediate neighborhood gone & no horses for hauling in from a distance, we town-folks will be in a serious dilemma before the year is out. The officials of Govt ought to be very discreet in a work that is at all times terrific to the people.

Examples are sometimes easier to follow than precepts. So my walk to Mr Purefoy's revealed that the impressing of wood from the lands of the Trustees goes on bravely. The students that room out of the buildings are in a bad fix. Prof. Fetter says he cannot haul for them. If we (Faculty folks) cd get our hauling paid in wood, there might be some relief to such folks, by making the haulers sell to our students, or by some other such regulation.

We are well. I wish I could add hopeful of getting our desires.