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Fitchburg R.R. Stock about the best in the world. holders doubled or quadrupled their money. Vt.& Ms. now 75 1/2 to 80 or 90 but. constantly gaining reputation. had to contend with greatest obstacles & adverse influences. If a new road is built across the mountain Vt.& Ms. will be equal to Fitchburg or better yet. Politics. have I written you any thing thereof? the real if not then breaking up of Old party lines. Merely nominal. There is but one great question before the country. If Silas Albright had lived to be candidate for Pres. 9/10 of the Whigs of Mass. at least would have voted for him If Taylor is nominated all Southern Democrats as well as whigs vote for him. but No true Whigs at the north. Mass. at least. at least none who do not vote for Caleb Cushing for governor, in opposition from Geo. N. Briggs. You have too poor an opinion of folks in general. The worst thing I have against the Mercantile profession -- its tendency to harden the face of a man like a flint against his fellow man. -- to shut up and freeze down all those kind warm sympathies gushing from a true human heart, which honor, ennoble & exalt, as they purify and bless, the whole human existence. Fallen human nature is doubtless bad enough; Do not give up what you may almost call the only good thing about it. Chief Engineer Edwards hired me. Monthly Pay Roll, looks out for the wages. Vt.& Ms. R.R. Co. is responsible. You say the World is well enough on some sunny day &c., It depends only on one's own mind to have all one's days sunny days