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sider it pretty well for one commencing Mercantile business to get at the rate of $400. per year. besides all that before the year is out I shall probably receive at the rate of $6.00 per year. That is perhaps I shall. And when I get two or three thousand per Annum the business will be better than yours! When the Western R.R. was built, its Engineer received $5000. per year. Why do you not keep a fire in your stove? What a cold country that Down East of yours must be! Why here we have had only two or three cold days, and those only in the imagination of the Natives. I have not been cold. As for freezing up there appears no more prospect of such a thing than there was last May. The weather lately has been a succession of long heavy Rain Storms, clearing off warm & sunny for a day or two and then another. Did your river really freeze up three weeks since? Neither ice nor snow here. I hereby commission you to rub the ears of E.W. MetCalf soundly, and charge the same to my account. or send in your bill whenever you please. You say you had no newspapers. Why. What is your Reading Room good for to you? It is every one's duty to keep informed of Public Affairs. Keep your feet dry Shingle Trade to Northfield will probably not be much The place is small, its business less. Building going on. I know of none, except Paddy Shanties. Those are never shingled. Brattleboro, 12 ms. above is quite a large town, full of business. It is however in the midst of an extensive slate region. Slate probably is cheap there as any where in the world now.