FrenchGeorgeH18580518_002

judge and acts the same. I think it is one of the
best things for Marcus that ever happened to him, and
if he had not got it I think it would have been
equally bad, because he would have placed his
defeat when the ground that his conduct had
not been what it ought to have been, and others
thinking so. I am very much afraid would have
discouraged him! However it is all righti now
thanks to Doct. Jackson who stood by him, through
it all like a brother.
I am very glad to notice your
promotion to {illegible} you won't be fashionable
but honest in the discharge ot your trust.
in regard to the lumber
business it seems to me that you ought to keep the old
Mill at work if possible. I understand that logs can
be bot for less than the cost of cutting and getting to
arket if so you can make lumber very cheap and
sooner or later you must sell for good price. True I
don't knkow but the sale will have to be made
so late that the interest will cut it all up but
if wrong there is a cheap as here it certainly would
be a good opperation to saw away.
I shall expect your wife