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  At the point when I visited it times were dark because cotton was low.  The end of Autumn, Winter & Spring are the periods of monumental bustle.  As the Summer comes on the great bulk of the Merchants & Traders return to the North and the more healthy states of the Union, the foreign shipping leave principally with Cotton - then the crooks of N.O. in [[ 2 unclear words] and those who are acclimated live a life of luxury & comparative indolence.   But strangers should these views in life detain them there seldom escape the fever or 'Yellow Jack' which comes on way - after the hot weather when it is generally beautiful weather & the nights magnificent - then it is at times that death stalks about seeking whom it may devour.  The management of this terrible fever is pretty well understood, but the chief physicians & surgeons are foreigners and there is a scarcity of the Sons of Galen, for at nearly every other door "Doctor _____" is written up -
  An American from the North being asked his opinion of N.O. rolled his quid about, whittled his stick said "I guess 'tis a funny place;  Almighty up start country, when they cant show strangers why they ? themselves one half of the year one can see nothing but niggers & cotton & hears nothing but dollar-dollar-dollar - the other half one hears nothing but "Yellow Jack" and sees funerals"   X