For a few days past it has been very hot and the ground is now very dry indeed. Our political squables and quarrels have subsided very much and I am in hopes we shall have better times in this State hereafter. In my last letter to Eliza I enclosed a three dollar bill for many. I believe it ws on a vermont bank. I have not recd any answer to the letter which makes me suspicious that she did not receive the letter.
Property is now very low here.
Oxen from 20 to 40 dollars a yoke horses all prices from 10 to 80 dollars. Goods have risen some since the speculations in Cotton. They travel up the current of the Mississippi at the rate of about 100 miles per day and some times more. You will learn by this circumstance that Steam boats are very plenty on the Ohio river some times I am told there are twenty at a time at Louisville. New boats are building in great numbers in different places on the Ohio River.