The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-11
mud. That looked western! Where Penn

s,lvania takes drink out of Lake Erie l
saw spruce trees, and coming into New York
there were hemlocks and beeches and big
naples. That looked decidedly eastern -
For more than three years had not seen a
spruce, beech or hemlock, and now l be-
gan to think of cumming excursions with
"Dave," when he used to climb the trees, dig
the gum off with my knife, and would stay
at the bottom, save my pants and have him
freed. And then those maples-well, |
wont say anything about how my thoughts
ran back to the gathering sap, chilling down"
and sugaring off of yore, but the conductor
sung out Buffalo! change cars for New York
and Albany" almost before | knew it. There
may be no poetry in such trees to you practi-
cal Vermonters, but 60 out West, where there
are none, and then see.
In Iowa five cent pieces are the smallest
change. Ifyou want any apples you must
buy five cents worth, or if you have two
three cent pieces, the apple pedder may con-
descend to give you five cents worth of APP
Piles for them. But if you want to exchange
them at par go to the post office. Only the
postmaster knows their real value. And
have you any stray coppers in your pocket !?
Exchange them for postage stamps. They
have no other USE They are not legal ten
der in Iowa. DO you want newspaper, you
must pay five cents, be it for a New York
quarto or little western daily. You soon
become accustomed to value half dime as
you used to value cent, and you part with
it as freely; and thus your dollar is at eighty
per cent. discount. But come East again
there cents are seen. Apples penny apiece
-"Eyening Post penny, sir" and you be.
/ gin to get misery. A five cent piece becomes
wonderfully enlarged in your eyes. Fact
1t is long time since half dime appeared
so valuable to me. Two or three Lords Pray
ers might be engraved upon it with ease.
l can't stop to tell of the beauties of this
town; how favorably an eastern village com
pareS with many western cities; nor how
eastern people seem to think the western
states still an unpeopled wilderness; but
must tell you, for the benefit of your readers
how the good people of Batavia and vicinity
are alive to the fact that Kerosene Oil ha:
wonderful medicinal qualities. don't regre
my journey from the West to learn it.
hasten to lay the important facts before al
ailing public. Rub it on your corns, and i
cures them; apply it to bunnians, and the,
kindly disappear; battle with it your chil
blains, and they will trouble you no more
Yea, rheumatic joints lose their aches ant
stiffness by lis aid, and two ladies in SYRIA
cuse have been nearly cured of consumption
| ought not to speak of these things lightly
for am gravely assured that an importan
revolution is about to ,ranspire in the medi
cine line. Let US hope so.
From the recruiting rendezvous at Madi
son, Wis, | have been transferred, by order
from headquarters, to the recruiting rendez
vous at Dubuque, Iowa; from that to Bata
via, \. y, and now orders have arrived trans
terring me to Detroit, Mich, tiny next lette
to YOU may be from there,) and | begin t
think that government intends to make NJ
Inspector General Of something. am sen
about enough to know how. Some of thes
days hope to get into service. This travel
ing about, harmlessly, isn't what | enliste,
FOR, bu; perhaps my recruiting qualities ar
considered by my superiors better than m
probable pluck on the field. NJ. J. S.