The
Fassett Letters - Letter #96 Two sheets of blue,
lined paper making four 7¾ x 9¾” pages
Date:
May 15, 1862 Place: San Francisco From: Noah
Chittenden Fassett To: Mrs. C.H. Fassett
San
Frano May 15th/62
Mrs C. H. Fassett
Granville, O. My Dear Mother
We have Recd nothing from you for some time but do not think
very strange
of it as there is laying on the Road between here and St
Joseph Thirty Thousand letters bound this way and Twenty three thousand
for the States the Overland Mail Co say the Indians have stolen their
horses. The first States mail is due from New York by Sea to day and
hereafter we shall have a weekly mail by Water. which is slow but more
certain. We are very much elated with the late war news and hope the
Telegraph will keep ticking the same joyfull tune we get news in the
Evening papers
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of doings the previous day so when the Telegraph is in
operation we are in point of news as near as you are but sometimes the
wire is down for a week at a time. then the suspense is awfull. On the
30th day of April I enclosed in a Letter to John Sather &
Church Dft on New York for One hundred & fifty Dollars.
Enclosed find the Second in case of loss of the first. business is
getting pretty good again and we hope gradually to make up our losses
by flood &c. there are great numbers of people going to the new
mines of Cariboo & Salmon River country. how they will succeed
remains to be seen I am glad of the rush for the good of the country as
wherever a Crowd of California Miners go they develop that section and
this city is interested of course in the whole Coast. and there are
rich mines from
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the North Pole to the Equator. and I am just now
beginning to think that this Coast is not yet prospected. While ever
since I came to this country the cry has been the mines are giving out.
in one meaning of the word it was true. they have been givingout
wealth every day. and more and more every year. I have not been to
Pacheco lately but hear from there nearly every day. always consider
them well unless they write someone was sick. Our weather is now very
pleasant seemingly trying to make amends for the bad weather of the
winter. Went to hear your Rev Mr Cheney preach a few evenings since. he
is quite a smart man has a fine Church and Congregation I used to live
close by it but now I am about a mile and a half away. from your house
to town is about same distance but I do not think half as much walking
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twice as far in the City. I have not heard from Truman Fassetts family
since I returned from Mexico. I have quit Smoking. It was very hard
work but I made up my mind I would quit. and it was done. but it made
me sick for several days I shall expect Letters now regularly by the
Steamer, from Mary, John and yourself. somebody ought to give me pretty
nearly one each mail. My best Love to all, of course including Uncle
& family. Am anxious to hear how Aunt Jerusha is. I fear she
will not live long