Morning dark with heavy rain. I went to the Office. Election returns still are dropping in. Mr. Van Buren has lost New Jersey and gained North Carolina by which proceeding he is restored. But throughout the Country the appearances are very great indifference to the result. Mr. Van Buren is President because the people do not know of any better man. He will have large scope for his talent of conciliation.

I was occupied in Accounts and bringing up my Diary which always is backward. This must no longer be. Home. Livy. The text is now extremely easy but not so interesting being merely the military progress of the Romans in Greece, and the victories of Flamininus. Afternoon, Grahame, History of Pennsylvania. This review of the work has been beneficial to me.

I spend nearly an hour every evening in instructing my daughter who now appears to make progress. Read to my Wife extracts from that frothy production the London Court Journal,1 after which I rewrote the paper which I design to send as my last communication for the present to the Advocate.2