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the wedding by my trip northward last week, but I enclose the card. I want you to get the Atlantic regularly to read - if in no other way, buy it and give it to Mary. If you must borrow money to get along do so, but I shall send you some very soon, when it is convenient to get a draft on Chicago. Greenbacks are at a premium of five per cent on New York Exchange; having gone up from three to five since I came. Last year, N.Y Exchange was at a premium of five over greenbacks. The gold mines are making a better show every day. Thorpe has not come down from the mountains yet. I expected him last Thursday. When our mint gets established, the Government will finish Greenbacks for "Retort" in abundance. As it is now - the premium on Gold more than pays all the expenses of mining in well established Lodes. You did not tell me the name of the man who gave father the iron pyrites.