Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-12-14

ANOTHER LETTER FROM BARTHOLOMEW
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Many months have passed since last I
wrote you, and enGevored to enlist your
sympathies in my behalf. I am con-
stitutionally led to believe that disap-
pointments fence my lot about, and from
this lot there is no escape. Still fresh
in my memory remains my visit to st.
Adams last summer, and the cold re-
ception which l received from the
TRANSCRIPT sheet, in the shape of
wet blanket thrown over my business.
Circumstances compel me to advise
with you again, and to forget those
grievances which stranger can only
know, and which can only be
aggravated by publishing my studied
letters in your paper. My friends are
few in the States, and very few any
wnere, and if write 10 you it is for the
reason that l am unable to chose my
friends and that you are as good as any
assist me.
Upon ms return from St. Adams last
summer, went into the Quarter-mas-
ters business, of which you have already
been made acquainted. AS post
Deen severe, for l early learned that
the clerks could Issue the war ma .erial
in my absence as W I'll. o I'd all that was
necessary for me to do, was, to happen
around occasionally and sign my name.
l was not obliged to go uron drills or to
appear at dress-parades even, except to
be mustered for pay. My insignia of
lank was worn constantly, which was a
passport to the best of society. Every
body noticed my shoulder straps and be.
lieved me better than private soldier
for that reason, wnich opinions very
muca delighted me. AS lime moved
on, l became greatly pleased with my
position and my only anxiety was, that
the Fe man troubles might continue.
Many of the soldiers of my regiment
had served in the United States army.
and prided themselves upon their drill,
exceedingly. 1t was not necessary taat
l should have any controversy with
them in this matter as quarter-master's
ability is not compromised in this bust
ness. What were they to Bartholomew
st. Clair! Although I had not served
in the army of the States, my standing
was better for that reason; I was not
suspected of being tainted. with Fenian-
ism, and they were. How had theil
services been obtained by the States
by Yankee sharpers and SUI osttute bro.
kers who made large sums of money out
CT them as they passed from hand to
hand, at each successive sale. Enough
OF this kind of proceeding. and suffi-
cient number of this class of soldiers
would prove to be death blow to the
New Dominion. My regiment was not
regarded with the highest favor by the
Canadian authorities, but this was no
fault of mine.
During the greatest excitement we
were never sent to the front where our
soldiers might become influenced by the
Yankee Fenians, but the regiment was
retained is corps of observation, with
little more to do than to observe the eb-
bling and flowing of the Lake tide at st.
Johns, and to obtain our regular ralions:
The rations as general thing have been
furnished in abundance, and when the |
rank and file have been well supplied |
there was peace in the camp, and the
men would endure any number of days
in the guard house. Belonging to the
corps of observation, remember ON
one occasion, that, as the schooner
Daniel Webster" supposed to be | den
with Fenian arms, was sweeping down
upon US one dark night before strong
South wind, at Rouse's Point she ran
into the "draw" of The Vermont Central
bridge. The bridge was closed
at the time-was thu strongest, and
Fri ned her masts can to the deck from
'tsm to stern in an instant, and her Cap