point which you consider equal to death itself. I was obliged, however, to figure pretty closely in order to get out here but since my arrival, I cannot say that I have been any way distressed for want or worries, although it has been coming in to me rather more slowly that I expected before leaving the East. I have been here six months and I have just about money enough - all told - to carry me back, not to "Old Virginia", but to old Boston. My friend Johnson was entirely too sanguine in the inducements held out for me to come to Wisconsin. The Academy which I have been teaching here began with me and after two terms, has carded with my retiring from its head, those not having sufficient materials in the place to support an academy - most all Dutch, or rather Germans. I shall leave Sauk City in a few days more, not knowing however at what place I shall next come to a stand. At all events, my route shall be towards the rising sun. I am going to try to earn some money by giving Dramatic Readings and Recitations. I have some hope that I can do quite well at the business. I have tried on two occasions, and made about two dollars each time. Notwithstanding this encouragement at commencing it is quite a precarious and unreliable source of income. , , Sauk City is not so large a place as I expected to find - about a thousand inhabitants, nine tenths of which are Germans. Consequently, the society is very far from what I desire. , , The Cholera has been making terrible havoc amongst us during the frost season. In the village and in the prairie around us probably lost ten per cent of the population have been [...] off by it. We have three cases in the house where I am boarding, two of which proved fatal; one being the landlord and the other, Mrs. Johnson, wife of my friend, J. W. Johnson