The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-14
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, JUNE IL, 1862.

ammo his c1mrades Now, though ne ga!d i
big price Tor the cheese, he cleared : % III
the transaction. lhe soldier Keeps J"'t - mIC-i
money to spend anyhow II 1t Won 0t|
bushel. ten pounds o: ga.iun. why u VIII Guy
peck five pounds or par, ana 10 Is az tue
same to him. The mon spen! ana "a l.
perfectly satisfied. | cannu. stop 10 poI lsIy
many, or any, scenes !haJ we witness around
the suffers stand and table. have already
given you one suffer scene, ana until some one
beats tina, will keep in tine background.
Next comes the broker and exchanGe business
among each other My readers mus excuse 1
short paren,nesis. o finish an unfinished let
Ger l.. something thar seldom 90. - the best
YOU can and you will make b0tCh OF II 50 L
have no expectations OF making this at al en-
tertalning IN fact, took IL out this morning
to destroy it, as it is now lOrty-ei5ht houis since
| finished the last sentenCe-iOrty-eIgh hours oi
constant hard service, most OF the time IN the
rain and fully half the time III the face and Eyes
and under the Batteries OF the enemy Just the
very place to put soldiers 10 mAke them cross
and grabbed. However, this ~ no sermon-iar
from it-but " let US continue the exercises
&c They have " bears and - bulls IN all
Street. but no such sharpers and suckers as you
can find in the army, who do large business on
small scale, and on pay day, or during the
week, misers, spendthrltts and honest men may
all add to their fund OF financial Information.
Jim owes John and John owes Sam, and Sam,
jim and John have demands and debts tnI ough-
out the regiment. squad here and squad
there, every man with fist full oil &" tender
and notes, and all talking finance at once, This
conversation more than doubling anything ever
heard on Change. But look and listen, and no
hali thatt Npu I'm,
land they have churches, sabbath schools aud
missionaries, or chapans in the army. All
that was ever learned at the Saturday horse
trade, or old fashioned jack knife swap Of
our taderland is LrougAtin play in making these
final settlements. Now ana then jim or John
is Il little short, say dollar or Two, but he is
not to he ruled off the board OF trade and e.
change. With capital OF Six bits or dollar
you see him make short Gus to the nearest
suffers shop, where he invests his last dime in
crackers, or oranges Or cigars, or sugar, or her
ring. Returning on double quick he takes
possession Of the first convenient log or stump
and opens OUT 10 " sell and get gam is his
motto, and, to say nothing about what the boys
have = reached he III a few minutes has Gade
from three 10 i've times the amount OF his capt
tai. He is now on Change again and prepared
to meet his dun paper, and to make loans on
first anu second class securities In the course
.; two days all broker and debt business is over,
and the scene changes. But no matter abou,
HE change-idie hours make mischief in the best
regulated families Another day goes by, and
still another, I'LL the week finally passes By
tins time Vermont and the sutler have got most
ut the money and the credit system opens brisk
again, uery brisk, Interest and principal being
about one and the same thing. Your cores
pondent, by being ~ little personal. can illus.
trate army usury 10 perfection. Being sudden
ly called on for subscription Of fifteen dollars,
ABOUT midway between two pay days, he made
the loan, expecting OF course to pay q reasona
Die interest. In i've weeks the debt WAS paid
but it took twenty dollars to do it, What kind
of interest is that, five dollars fifteen for five
weeks. But that is nothing if you only let
arithmetic alone and keep your patriotism up
to the right pitch.
Now all this, and much more that | nave not
the patience 20 write for this out-oI-datc letter,
is payday in the army The old adage about
money and the stced that /, makes $50" holds
true IN the army. In fact money in the army
after the second or third day Is of but little ac-
count 1t represents notting-saye the greedi-
ness, passions aud folly OF the camp. It makes
many sick and more toost-and that's all, un-
less it be the best evidence have ever yet gwen
you that-Such IS life.
Yours, DC. SEE. SEE Ess