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shifting about but has never got ahead any. Still I am
in hope that he will pay me bye & bye as then an no
hard feelings between us & he is now tending Bar for $80 pr
month & found. For my part I am going to commence
work for Wm Shipley [William Shipley] this afternoon & work a few days till
I can do better which I think I can do soon, as I have
written to Mr Tucker for goods & when I recieve [receive] them I
can make money & I wish you would speak in favor of
his sending them. What I have written above please keep
every word of to yourselves as I have written Mr Tucker
all I wish him to know about the matter & if you should
see O. W. Fisk or write him do not hint a single word but
what every thing is all right as far as you knows.

Samuel Tucker came down here from up country
last week monday night having met with rather poor
success & he has not as yet decided what to do but will now
soon make up his mind. We were pleased to see each
other & he told me a great deal of news about P. which
I had not heard of before. He is well but like myself,
feels anxious to hear from some of you folks as he is no
better off than I am as he has not as yet recieved [received] a single
letter from his folks since he arrived here although there
is one here for him now somewhere but he has not got
it yet as it was sent up country to him so that he just
missed it.

There has been a splendid ring manufactured
here which is to be presented by three or four gentlemen of
this city to Genl Frank Pierce [General Frank Pierce] of N.H. the democratic
Nominee for President. It is of solid gold & weighs a