SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 1863.

MY DEAR OLD MAN!--Here we are in our

second week at Frisco and you will be glad to

know playing to steadily increasing biz, having

signed for two weeks more, certain. I didn't like

to mention it when I wrote you last, but things

were very queer after we left Denver, and "Treasury"

was a mockery till we got to Bluefoot

Springs, which is a mining town, where we showed

in the hotel dining-room. Then there was a