Gold Rush Era Letters

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