| Show RACY correspondence we WC flud find the following letters in tho the virginia E enterprise ante P isa of a recent date they will richly pay perusal especially the latter it may be to state for the benefit of some of our readers that chase boruck are proprietors of the san francisco Pran bisco spirit of the times a spotting in paper and R M dagget was sonic some time since one of the editors and proprietors of the golden era the status of the dramas personae will appear bioni the coi correspondence sac union SAN PRA FRANCISCO INcisco march 15 1864 sir chase ok boluck havo have instructed tile me to commence suit against yourself ot ct a al for five feet of stock in ill the bullion mine G if for vices rendered by them I 1 have deemed it best to call your attention to tile the matter to see if sonic some arrangement cannot be made in regard to it yours etc joint JOHN L kina attorney etc box 18 P 0 it M daggett virginia VIRGINIA march 16 1864 sir ir your very extraordinary note odthe of the in instant is beaole tile me the weather is warm and the character of the information imparted and the terse and businesslike business like manner in ill which it is Is I 1 given are as cool and refreshing as a shower in august 0 although a stranger 0 to you permit mo me to compliment your nerve and desperation in in assuming 6 the prosecution of such a suit as the one you tin thi eaten you d deserve e success sir and as surely is as effect follows cause you will achieve it but a very thoroll thorough 11 knowledge bowled 6 c of the character of the claim of chase boruck at least so far as it may apply to myself wai wain rants ints me in predicting that the beginning t 0 of that itofe professional assion a prosperity shadowed foreshadowed fore in your our note will not correspond with A the day upon which you became counselor tor for the firm of chase bobuck when bobuck bol uck visited virginia some months since lie he visited the bu bullion 11 oil mine and showed me a of the claim which lie ho had prepared ared for the spirit odthe of he times dimes lie he said saia he thought it would be worth five feet of ground to tiao company jio further intimated that if I 1 would g ivo ive him one foot lie thought others might inight be induced to do tile the same and thus liis his trip to washoe mi might lit be made in a measure pi as well as pleasant I 1 smiled at boluck as artemus says told him I 1 on it but if lie ho could get anything out of chappell wightman cook 11 walker alker or any of the rascally blockers dealing in the stock to sail in in 11 this is the head and front of my offending yet it will be one of the of my life that after an all honest career of twelve years in join journalism I 1 was betrayed into the condition of accessory beaole the act to so vile a scheme of newspaper prostitution tit ution should you conclude to commence suit the interest inte rost I 1 feel in your professional fess ional success impels me to warn you against claiman claiming 0 consideration for 9 valuable services rendered by your clients as is the S singular in gular fact might be that ft aiom oin the day upon which the notice of the mine mille to appeared in the spirit of the times the stock depreciated with a rapidity unparalleled except in the late del monte smash I 1 did not attribute the decline to borucka Bo rucks correspondence but less penetrating 0 and less charitable dealers did and a prosecution of boruck was seriously entertained I 1 am informed by chappell Cli appell by a number of the bullion cis in conclusion let me admonish you to be virtuous and you will be happy I 1 would further add that theitis eis is no positive dj disgrace s 6 rac 6 in in being t ji a lawyer tile the stigma 0 attaches lies to the acts of the attorney not fo 0 o the ilic in ofes sion ly the acumen and eloquence of the mys clays and websters Web of every age age remember me affectionately to boruck and believe tile me sir lyciy considerably yours etc R K al DAGGETT JOHN I 1 ali KING ICING san sail P francisco we concur it 0 A 0 WIGHTMAN it is comfortable topete to note how coolly and with what an air of satisfaction Aress rs wightman and Ch chappill Chap appall poll concur in tile the rascally scally la ia beuker clause see the closing lines of the alist paragraph r ens edg enterprise |
