The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-25
GREEN MOUNTAiN Fl&lEMAN, JUNE %. loo2.

department, OF AL Others the most difficult and
annoying TO manage.
The mail last evening brought quite u
batch Of home papers, with their budgets OF
news, State, local and military. Reading along
very quietly first noticed your remarks about
Pierce s" new and delightful beverage, man
ufaetured from dandelion and yellowdOck, and
as | read aloud, IL dozen soldiers wanted TO swap
their coffee rations for yellow-dock. ~ Then
again another paragraph phone OF the many that
attract but little attention DIT home, but here
are read with anxiety. read this aloud, and
over it quite an argument arose. You had
given in detail IN short paragraph, the num-
Der of men sent to the war from this, that and
the other town. But none OF those mentioned
seemed to tally very large, and one claimed that
his towu had sent more than any other, and
then another set up his claim for some other
place. So they pushed the arithmetic jam up
against their argument and Us | now recollect,
the towns OF Troy, Hydepark and Roxbury
got the advantage, or rather the ascendency. |
was not the only one from Montpelier in that
crowd, and | very we'll knew that there was as
much latent if not working patriotism there as
in any other town in the State, but not being
familiar with the musters that had been made
in the town, | could NOT get right down to the
figure work. My friend, however, had long
head and a good memory, SC he went to work
invoicing the fighting weight sent out by Mont
pelier to the army. He commenced the count
on his fingers, hut it took all his fingers and
one toe to boot, before he completed the roll
of suffers. d" Eleven suffers, tally that, Char
ley, and now for soldiers de fuCto' tie com
menced a new count, and as he began to STAIN
mer and stagger, and looked "a little worried
just as he got up even with the sutler estimate,
| grew impatient and began mysel! to be Il ht;le
uneasy, and every now and then would tell hun
to 20 on, ~ - 90 Oh, " IS that is n halt. y
Up to " elghteen,' and there was an awful
drag, but by a good deal OF head-scratching
and finger musing he finally got his count up 10
twenty-five, anL there halted and went INTO
water quarters. Having no other authority |
WAS compelled TO take that count NJ correct, but
at the same time elt satisfied that If 1T was
wrong you would speedily correct it. Twenty
two soldiers and eleven suffers Not exactly
half and half, but in thai series of progression.
Now do MT tell this joke, neither do |
give it as It correct counG OF the nurnber OF men
sent by Mon pelier to The war, for know 1t is
not. as there must be many in the 7th and 9Th
Regiments, and also in the Cavalry, that we
know nothing 1T bout, but simply as one Of "a
thousand camp incidents, most of which are
worth preserving The sutlor item may posi-
bly, draw the fire Of some spunky or cnvious co
temporary; but never mind, let EN- fire, g make
a ring and give them fair fight, and if we
can't win by regular approaches, we certainly
can" dig ny to them.
A dsserter came in to-day. lie reports the
rsbels short for provisions, and the citizen pop
ulaton nearly destitute and almost starving.
have other items of interest, but as | shall
write again to morrow, will not enlarge upon
this. Yours, &c, SEE. SEE. Ess