You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now." That was sixty-five dollars a month.
"You know," he said, "I received fifteen hundred dollars a year when I was there; and Mr.Potts is receiving eighteen hundred.

I think it would be right to start you at fifteen hundred dollars, and after a while if you succeed you will get the eighteen hundred.

Would that be satisfactory ?" "Oh, please," I said, "don't speak to me of money!" It was not a case of mere hire and salary, and then and there my promotion was sealed.

I was to have a department to myself, and instead of signing "T.A.S." orders between Pittsburgh and Altoona would now be signed "A.C." That was glory enough for me.
The order appointing me superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division was issued December 1, 1859.

Preparations for removing the family were made at once.