Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-12-04
From Orleans County.
lRAsBURon, Nov. 29, 1862.

am1SS.
In the first place. then, the snow storm
of the 9th was considerably heavier in
this county than in Lamoille, as indicated
by the amount of it still upon the ground.
After entering Craftsbury. on the Wild
Branch, found the snow SO thick as al
most to make good sleighing; and this
was the case for nearly all the way to
this place. In some placss the drifts Of
snow we're quite prominent. and in one
place in Albany, the drifts had fairly
crowded the travel out Of the road track.
Two or three inches Of snow, in addition
to that now on the ground, would make
good sleighing.
think the rain storm of Wednesday
and Thursday must have been heavier
than in Lamoille County, for the mea-
dows in Craftsbury and in Albany and
lrasburgh seem to have been completely
flooded and Jack Frost, seemingly think
ing to confne the food, covered the whole
with about two inches of ice, which now
lies all over the meadow.
On the way up, at Hubbell's, met
H. Cady and G. F. Douglass, from Stowe,
who had been through Lowell, Westfeld,
Troy, Coventry, Irasburgh, &C., on a
specializing tour, presume for cannot
suppose that they could be out on such a
jaunt, in the present state of the roads,
unless there was something in the wind"
and l knew that politics give no occasion
for travel in this direction. Whatever
else they may have been after, they seem
ed to be considerably interested in look
ing after whatever amount of starch the
manufacturers Of that article might have
on hand. They said they had bought a
little. While here was surprised to
learn that oats had taken sudden rise,
and that they could hardly be bought for
40 cents, and that some farmers were not
willing to sell at any price just now. A
few days ago, any amount of them might
have been bought for two shillings If
farm produce keeps going up in this way,
| don't see but we shall all have to 90 to
farming in order to get living, for me-
chanics and business men will have to pay
the farmers all the money they have in
order to keep soul and body together. l
can't see for the life of me, why farmers
need to complain of hard times, for if
they have to pay high price for what
they buy, they also get high price for
what they have to SELL But about starch.
Don't you think that these gentlemen
think that cotton is going to come down,
or in some way come in, or come on, or in
some way do BETTER so that manufacto-
ries can again commence operations, and
so need little more of this article than
formerly? Seems to me it smells little
in that direction.
But to change the subject, Irasburgh
has improved more this season than for
several years before. Ira Allen has near
ly completed his new house, and the new
county boarding house, calculated to be
strong enough to be safe place for any
body or anything in the shape of villains
is so far completed as to have the roof on.
IT the county seat, for the removal of
which SO much effort was made two years
ago. is to be here as long as that stands.
| don't think Irasburgh need have any
fears of losing it for at least a few years.
But the woman of the house is uneasy
for me to quit and go To-, we'll. I
don't suppose she cares where, if I will
only take myself out of the way--for she
says it is late. and time folks we're abed.
By the way, what do you think of women,
any how? But | needn't have asked you,
Isuppose, for, never having been "tied" to
one, you Of course know but little about
them. As for me. however, | say "bles-
sed be liberty" I don't mean political
liberty, for we all want that, but mean
the liberty to 60 and come when you
please and nobody to worry about you if
you don't do "just So" After all
kind o banker after them some times, but
when | think Of the idea of being tied to
one of them for life-one Of those dear
creatures who seem to talk, and act, and
think, and feel, and dress, and live, and