"THE 'ARGUS,' ALBANY, _12 Decr., 1867_.
"DEAR TILDEN,--I received your check for $500, which was welcome,
because we were hard up for money at this _Argus_ office. The
convention will owe us some $10,000, but we must wait for the
Legislature and the Campbells to pay us in the spring. For the same
reason, if you have not placed the $3000 belonging to Mrs. C., I will
take it. She can pay part of it on the house she bought, and then I
want to buy in Richmond's shares in the _Argus_. I ought to have them
at half price, in view of a certain indebtedness of the late chn. of a
State committee.
"We will adjourn the convention till spring, in spite of you. Unless
the weather is too cold I will be down to New York. I want to talk of
the Presidency, the Cabinet, the Governorship, and of yourself first
and last.
"Yours ever,
"WILLIAM CASSIDY."