The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-02-22

farm | mentioned at $4,000, that
will, when put into shape, keep two
hundred COWS, while there is a home
market for cheese at twenty cents,
might, | think, he made profitable.
The intervael, well titled, will produce
from two to four tons OF hay on the
acre, and the boats will take it at the
bank at from ten to twenty dollars
There are but few sheep here, but
they do well, running out all winter
with little hay thrown to them. The
native cattle are very fine, closely re
sembling the Durhams, but l do not
think them superior mixers. | think
beeves would sell as well here as with
you, and they could be raised and fat
ted at about one-half the cost there
Corn is SO plenty chat the horses
are mostly spoiled by overlooking be-
fore they reach their prime; besides
l do not think that, aside from few
thoroughbred there are many good
blooded horses here.
The roads are generally in bad con-
dition; bridges often gone, but schools
are being rapidly introduced The
great advantage of this region is the
climate. 1t is true, this has been IA
cold winter, the thermometer going Of
ten down to 15o above and once to 50
above, but it is rarely MS cold as now.
This winter came in warm, and | am
now sitting with raised windows, the
thermometer 600 above, and the
breeze and sky are as soft as any !
ever felt or saw. Indeed the skies
here are exceedingly deep and soft
and beautifully they are not to be com
pared with your skies at home, and
cannot believe that fairer skies ever
bent even over italy than bend ovei
= us to-day.
The waters here are pure and swift
springs are abundant; lung diseases
are almost unknown, and if it were
not for accident, war and whiskey, W.
we might all yet die of old age.
Society here is of course inferior t.
yours, and yet in some respects it i
better There is more of charity anC
less Of bigotry than there. We ar
living much nearer nature than you
venison is our daily meat and | hav
! recently been in a mountain regiol
where not one house in twenty had
stove, and not half of the house
boosted a glass window, where Their
y was rarely but one room below, il
which there were usually several beds
. An old woman asked a friend of min
p if it was really so, that the folks i
the North was so ornery that the
used black iron boxes, called stoves
stead of ireplaces, SO bright AM
q CHEEKY like" apparently believing
% impossible.
The ignorance and so frequent erro
/. Of the common people, results natur
ally from the barrier against travt
that the Shareholders 50 long main
- tanned The strength and intensity c
this feeling of exclusion is eviden
from the frequent recorded suits 70
violation of privacy" based on th
g laying out of roads near their premi
! SEES and is, l think, well expressed i
the vehement remonstrance of larg
. land holder here, against propose
- turnpike. The true Virginia turn
pike is bride path, Sir, bride patti
Va and that uery crooked
There are four churches in thi
b. town, Episcopal, Presbyterian, an
eff two Methodists. North and South. %
10 Most of the members of the two frs
A. churches are rebel The Methods
r North is composed entirely of loyi
re people, and the Methodist South Ell
j. tirely of rebels.
I The Episcopal church had. until r,
Is Gently, a most excellent Rector, but
T. now without any. The Presbyterian
have a good preacher, but he is t
II, last worn out by the bitter feud i
IN the church, and will soon leave Th
OF will be a great calamity, as probabl
IN his successor will be an ex-rebel char
lain. There is also an African churc
ce building. The Presbyterian Sabbat
lg School numbers 100 and the Episc'
st. palian and Methodist are nearly
ok large. There are five or six connie
IS, schools in town, and an academy, al
It, one or two schools for Negroes.
'f- the former the male teachers get eigh
IS, dollars a month, and the female thirt
e. The Principal at the Academy sc
or fifteen hundred year.
IFS This region is well adapted to fru
rs oOJ c,ra,,a c,,ltura ond ahOun dv in q