Messrs. PIXLEY & SUTTON:

San Francisco.

GENTLEMEN: Your favor of the 31st ult., forwarded

me from San Francisco, has been duly

rec'd, and contents thereof noted.

My time is at present so fully occupied by my

duties as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention

that I can only jot down a brief report of my

recollections on this head. When I return to

S.F., I shall be happy to give you any further information