Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-07-18
Letter Fro m Michigan.
CEsrERv1L1H, Mich, July 8, 1862.

MIR. EDITOR :-AItei ionS 'NN'
hermit me once more to offer few
thoughts for your spirited little paper.
l have an opportunity to see the country
papers here, and also their editors, but in
either, or both these respects, Lamoille
County is as well furnished as the best OF
them 49,.
About the first of April last, | closed
my agency work for the Bible Union, ex-
pecting to have returned to Vermont be-
fore this time; but my attention was just
then turned to this place, where | have
since remained, supplying the pulpit of
the Baptist Church. How pleasant an
experience it is, after ''resignsng' e } the
charge of dear people, and travelling in
a strange country for time, to drop into
so beautiful place as this, and find a
fine meeting house, nice Church and
congregation, an interesting Sabbath
School, have the friendly hand extended
and the kind invitation given, stay with
us, and be our minister what shall we
do for you?''
The churches West pay better salaries
and require less toll of their ministers,
than East.
1t would be very pleasant indeed, to
be minister, if it were not for the triple
treatment few years experience teaches
him he is sure to catch. There is class
in every place, who cannot at first think
we'll enough, then little enough, and last
ly ill enough of him; at which last stage
he must either "retire in good .srder," or
"skedaddle"
must repeat here what | have written
before, that this is beautiful, beautiful
country. Nothing could be added to its
loneliness, unless it were a real old Green
Mountain, now and then, in place of the
nice little lakes that abound in Michigan.
Otherwise no finer country need be desired
this side of the blessed land Of Canaan.
The prospect for crops is good. Fruit
is plenty especially peaches, which for a
few years past have been scarce. Many
pieces of wheat are injured by insects,
but the crop generally is full average in
yield, and being greater number of acres
than usual, the greatest plenty is in store.
Wheat harvest has already commenced.
The season here is very backward for
Michigan, and corn small, yet some of it
stands as high as tall mans shoulders.
To person accustomed to seeing two and
three acres of corn in field, one of TWEEN
ty-Gve acres, appears like very respecta-
bic patch"
The fever for raising peppermint here,
is something like that for hop-raising in
Vermont. About two-thirds of all the
peppermint oil used in the world, is made
in this (St. Joseph county.
The hay crop is very luxuriant and
abundant One does not know the full
meaning of "pigs in the clover" until
he has seen a Michigan pasture. Imag-
inc a field of clover all in bloom, half
knee high and more, and there are many
of them, all dotted over with pigs, sheep,
cows and horses, and you have scene in
which the characters evidently "joy their
selves" Growth, growth, growth, is man.
ifest in everything west, both in vegeta-
ton, and in the enterprises and pursuits
of tie people
/ Yet, with all the thrift, intelligence,
and patriotism of the great West, New
England and New York hold undisputed
and patriarchal sway over the western
mind. Home" to many is still East
Though their interests and permanent res
licences are here, the mention of the home
left behind, causes throb of the heart
that swells into secret wish to return
there. This will not be so with the gen
Grafton now growing up here, and yet New
England will ever be regarded as the era
die of Liberty, and bulwark to Freedom
Literature has its seat in the East
Not that good schools, even the very best
are wanting; nor that people lack genera
intelligence, far from it; still the appel
lation, "Athens of America" is conceded
at once as more fitting for. Boston thar