President Buchanan asks for four more regiments to help quell "rebellion."
16th I spent a part of the day in the office I was in poor health
many are taken sick through the whole territory with a kind
of Deistemper or pestilence that almost evry one is taken with
it contains chills fever, cold & caugh it confines people to ther
Houses for 3 or 4 days then they go about again but few if any
of the Saints die with it
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