
          more resembling Steam doctoring in its nature and effects than the true
 system of reduction & depletion. R's appointment was a matter of no less [?]
 to you than myself and only shows that he has been riding the 'great ass'
 call'd [called] Politics but which will one day Rick them all off when they will
 have to descend to their former employments as stump orators and barroom
 speechifyers. Such dirty proceedings must fairly 'stink in one's nostrils'
 and I am glad that I am beyond their reach.


 We have had no cholora or symptoms of it here and such is the
 extreme salubrity of the climate that we are led to believe we will not.
 I have never seen a case of genuine fever since my residence here nor in fact
 hardly any disease except Colds & Catarrhs.


 Yours truly
 N.S. Jarvis


 Dr John Torrey

        