Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-06-17

thal earrlts good deal o scene with H. is the
adjustment Ol accounts with tho sutIer. who
Tor months has l4bjred udustrously a. eupply
such necessities and such uxurles as the law al
lows no man - more wortuy Of bis pay than
tue Euller, even II b. has made IL profit that ln
Oh established communities would be counted
a' father steep gam but as many may not see
thls exactly az we DO, ! viii smp!ya that the
greediuess OF the soldier and not the ayarice of
the sutler, likes the high and eXtrayagant price
NJ "hich goods are sold. One illustration is
enough ~ demonstrate this. One day last week
our Sutler came into camp, and among other
thlhgS ne bad lew cheeees. ilo sOld at fair
prone, bat not fast enough. Whoreupon "A sol
dlrr bought wuOle cheese and retailed it out
among his comrades Now, though he paid
h'2 price for the cheese he cleared Sl1.34 in
the transaction. The soldier keeps lust 70 much
money to spend anyhow il 10 won't buy
bnshei ten pounds or q gallon why 1t will buy
peck, five pounds or pint, and il Is ali the
same 70 him. The money - spent and he j,
perfectly satisfied. ! canuot stop 10 portray
many, or any, scenes that We witness around
the suffers stand and table. have already
S'geo yoa one sd'llr scene, and unt some one
beats that will keep 10 the background
Next comes the broker ana exchange business
among each other. Ny readers mus excuse a
'hort parenlhess. 10 finish an unfinished let.
ter ls something that seldJm do. II the b..t
you can and you viii make botch OF IT, 50
have 100 expectations oi making tins at all en-
iertainug IN tact, ! iook 10 out MS morning
u dee roy TO- as 1t is now lOrty-plght hours since
hulshtJ the last sonteuce--lurty EIGHT hours of
CONSTANT harj service, most Of the time m the
ram anl fully bali the time IN the lace aud eyes
and under the atterl Jt the enemy Just ihe
very place 70 put soldiers 10 make them cross
and grabbed However. tiis n no scryuu-mr
from it-but iet us continue the exercises,
Gc They have " beans aud . bulis" Ia Wall
Street butt such sAArpers aud ouekers as you
can hnd IN the army, ~h1 do large business On
a small scale, and IN pay day or during the
week. nilsers, spendtrllts and honest men nav
all add 10 thaf fund Ot ,inaura Information.
jim owes John and John owes sam, ana sam,
jim ana Jlan have demands and debts through.
out The regiment 4 squad here aud squad
there every man with iist tall Oi " tender
ana notes, AMI all i4lku. finance at once. his
conversation more than doubling anything ever
heard on Change. Bat look anu listen. and no
outsiier would ever believe that ~ New Eng
land they have churches, sabbath schools and
ssi-ei....,.~i.s, -t.4. ttess.s ..s-.y
thai was ever learned as the saturday horse
trade, or old fashioned pck knile swap" Of
our iId"rland i brougbtln play in making these
final settlements Now aud then Jim or John
Is a illtle short, saya dollar Jr Two. but he is
not to be ruled III the board Of ra1e and ex-
change. With capi al Vi six bits " dollar
you see him make short cut 10 the nearest
suuer' shop, where he invests hls last dime in
crackers. or oranges, or cigars or sugar, or her
rlng. Returning On double quick he takes
possession Of the first convenient log or stump
and opens out. To " sell and get gain Is hs
motto, aad, to say nothing about what he BOYS
have - reached, he W. "a lew minutes has made
from three to i've times tie amount ut hIs capl-
tai. lie rs now on Change again and prepared
TO meet hls dun paper, and TO make loans on
hret and second class securities In the course
OF two days all broker ami debt business Is over.
and the scene changes But no matter about
the change-idle hours make mischief in the best
regulated families Another day goes by, ana
suh another, ill the week finally passes. BY
TINS time Vermont ana the suller have got most
oi the money and the credit system opens brisk
again, Uay briss interest and prtcpal being
about one ANA the same thiug Your CORES
tfate army usury to perfection. b my sudden
ly called On for a subscupu n oi fifteen dollars.
about .aldway between Two Iay dals. he made
the loan, expecting Of course To pay a reasona
bic Interest. 10 live weeks TIE delt was pad,
but t tu1e tSenty dollars 90 dolt What kind
% interests that, tive dollars on fifteen for five
weeks But ;hat Is nothing It you only les
arihmctte alone and keep Your patriotism up
to tde right pltcl.
Now ull tins, and much more that nave not
tne patience % write for tins out.1,-date letter,
Is pay-lay In che ARMY The old adagc about
mOnry aud the stled inat II maets 20, holds
true IN tdo army Ia iatt money IN the army
alter tbesocond or ,hird day Is oi be, lttc ae-
count. IL itrcprcseuts aoth'ag-saye the greedl-
ness, passions anu folly OF the camp 1t makes
many sick and more iooish-and that's all, un-
less it be the best evidence have ever yet gwen
you that-Such IS dJe
Yours, iSc. SEE. Sen ESs.