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Chicago situated on Chicago river at its entrance into the lake on its western shore, in 1830 contained but five or six log houses; it now contains from 20 to 30 thousand has five Temperance hotels, more than twenty periodicals 4 large public and 17 Select schools, 23 churches; it has a Medical College a [Marine?] Hospital, Retreat for the Insane, &c has been called the 'Moral Lighthouse of the West'; Please to call on Miss Lizzie Doe, give my love to her and say that I am watching the mails for a letter from her.