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no other such chance for money, & are disposed to save
what they have. They look ahead just like other folks.

Mr Warren is quite enthusiastic. He
has never seen these things before, negroes—cotton—
schools—rebels in their subjugated glory, and he is at
this moment stuffing his gaping valise with specimen of
whatever a valise will contain—Mr. W. is evidently to
have a museum. He & Mr Savage are just in from
a tour of a few hours to Davis Bend. Jeff.^s plantation
&c &c. Do you want any garlic from his garden,
or negroes toe nails—furniture from the gopher holes of
the besieged Vicksburg—bullets, flowers, leaves, pebbles, or
other curiosities of intrinsic or associated value?
You will look for articles now in the Tract Journal
of great interest. However Mr. W. does really
seem to be waking up to some things which he had
not thought of before. This meeting here away is quite
providential—I am quite ^very well this morning. The
rest in the rain of yesterday has quite refreshed me.
My clothes a little tattered, shirts [tender?]—stockings wollen
one pair only, & so of flannels—But expect to get on
in some way as I have often done in the field before.

Dont expect me now till I come, in—my plans
of rapid return are broken up by this avalanch of