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Pay roll has not yet come round the second time. Changes of busimess &c. having disarranged matters. Pay day for the two months probably be along about Jan. 1st. I am given to understand that wages are $40. per month, probably will be no higher than that until ng, although Mg. Field tells me he is going to resign this division to ? and I probably have, with a little assistance or oversight from him about care & responsibility of a $600, 800 a year Engineer. However you have no business to say any thing of small wages. In you Mercantile line, you would consider $400 a year, $99 per month, good wages. I had that the first Mo. at the rate of $480 per year. Next summer probably $300 for six months. At the best part of my situation is my advantages for improvement. Place in the Northfield is now the principal office of this RailRoad. This is no small advantage to a young Engineer. Better yet for me the being on the spot, and having to do with the building of this t? Bridge across the Connecticut River to this place, which is to be fully al?, by contract superior, to any thing of the kind in U.S. built by the best builders in the country. Why the chance for an Engineer invaluable. I do not know as I would take a thousand dolls for it. In my next I hope I shall have the pleasure of remitting the balance of my debt to you; I hope you have not felt the want. I directed a letter to you a week or two since, but judge you had not received it at the date of your last. Tomorrow the Cars on the Vt & Mass., for the first time, run up as far as Athol. Cousin Joseph's little baby is sick, or was last night. Next Thursday is to be a "Donation Party" at the house of Rev Mr Jones. Oh Dear what shall I "carry in my hand ? Are admonitions on the close of writing entirely past hope upon our brother Eliab. Do you please to write frequently, particularly, and much. I expect this letter will find you at Bangor. Aff. I. S.