Thousands Fly To The Northern States, To Escape The Contagion; But There Are Many Who, For Want Of Means, Are Obliged To Risk A Continued Residence At Such Periods, And It Is Amongst Those That The Yellow Fever, The Ague, Or The Flux, Plays Dreadful Havoc.

It is the custom for the small store-keepers, as well as the more affluent merchants, to confide their

Affairs at such seasons to others, and I have frequently seen advertisements in the _New Orleans Picayune_, and other papers, offering a gratuity to persons to undertake the charge in their absence.

The heat, although the summer was not far advanced, was excessive, and the thousands of mosquitoes that filled the air, especially after a fall of rain, when they seemed to burst into life in myriads spontaneously, kept up an increasing annoyance. At night this was ten-fold, for notwithstanding the gauze awnings, or bars, as they are called, which completely enveloped the bedstead, to the floor of the room, they found admittance with pertinacious audacity, and kept up a buzzing and humming about my ears that almost entirely deprived me of rest. This unceasing nuisance in the hot season, makes it difficult to keep one's equanimity of temper, and has, probably, much to do with that extreme irascibility shown by the southern inhabitants of the American continent.

The appearance and situation of hundreds of quadroon females in this city, soon attracted my attention, and deserve notice. I saw numbers of them not only at the bazaars or shops making purchases, but riding in splendid carriages through the streets.

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