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I hope you will write me immediately to N.Y. I shall need more money - how much I do not know yet. I suppose you can get a draft from one of the merchants in Remsen or Mr. White or some one in N.Y., and enclose it in a letter directed "John R. Everett New York City," and I will get it from the general P.O. I shall wait anxiously for a letter to know what you think of my staying in N.Y. and I would not do it, unless I thought it would meet with your approval. But to speak to something else. I think I have not asked you any thing about the Shakers. About two miles and a half from here is a settlement of the Shakers. There are between 600 and 700 settled in a community there. They own between 5 and 6000 acres of land. They possess every thing in common. I have been over to see them in my walks a number of times since I have been here. There is an appearance of great comfort and great neatness about their dwellings. They have been practicing the water cure there about a year and a half. I was over there yesterday with Dr. Bedortha? and saw Philemon Stuart, the Shaker that introduced it there. He had been a practising physician on the old plan for a number of years, and I was told by one of our neighbors here that had been quite successful both among them and among others. He had been troubled himself with hereditary scrofula from infancy. He also had had catarrh of the worst description for 15 years. His digestion is now that he obliged to take digestive pills before every meal. In short? he said that 18 months ago he seemed as himself a complication of all diseases that humanity was liable to. About that time he obtained possession of Capt. Claridge's book, (the same that Mr. Edwards of Floyd has,) and as he had tried every other remedy without success, he thought he would try water, and he tried it very thoroughly according to the directions in that book. The result was that he is now a well man, and weighs 10 pounds heavier than he ever did before. He is now practicing this system successfully on