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at a blast, and clears square as a brick, within 4 miles. All down hill. Timber abundant. You speak of the space to be filled at the Ends. The bridge builders have nothing to do with moving Earth. It would be something of an item, an embankment 20 or 30 feet for two or three thousand feet in length. You ask if the R.R. bridges are covered bridges. For R.R. bridges usually not. They may be or not, as it pleases. The general plan patent is the same in all. different modifications. Postage on letters to Bangor, I think ought not to be double. The ordinary Mail route via Railroads & Boston may be two or three miles over the Legal 300. But there are certainly Mail routes via Keene & Portsmouth, which would be very much less. I think the fault must be in your Gen. Miller. as only Bangor letters are to me thus charged. Milo letters single. You say the name of the new Bank in Bangor is nearly the same as unclear. Which letter or letters of said name do they alter? is it amended as well as altered? I am impatient to receive the Poetical productions of which you speak; hope they will come by the earliest opportunity. Did I tell you that I had received a pressing invitation to Lecture before the Warwick Lyceum? I am however both to much engaged in other matters, and to intellectually indolent in any matters not connected with my business, which I am obliged to enter into, to attempt any such thing. The Pressure of the Money Market is Awful. To raise money here abouts they say is imposible. (sic) Stock holders will not pay in assessments December estimates on Vt. & Mass. were a few days since met by Sixty days Drafts. These Drafts, best paper possible. they find it impossible to get Cashed, discounted, at Banks of City or Country. While a few months since One did not need go to the Banks, They would send 50 ms. their agents to cash Drafts for Contractors. What the poor Contractors will do I know not. dependent of course upon these Monthly estimates to pay men and all expenses. They have already reduced wages of laborers to $.70 per day, going lower. How the poor beings live I hardly see.

Written upside down across the top: Since the 1st of Jan we have been expecting our Pay Roll cashed. I do not mean