than we can buy them. The paper is the heaviest job before us: it will require a large amount. We have been troubled for want of paper all the winter. The hands in the are willing to do all they can; there is good order in the office and if the hands get any thing they are satisfied. If we could construct a mill and manufacture our own paper, so that we could have enough, we could do double the work we have done. The ink we could buy because it does not cost much. There is an immense amount of business which could be done by poor people. If we could have ten thousand dollars we could put ten times the number of hands to work that we now can. If we had been able to do this all the while we might have saved thousands of dollars, instead of [p. [314]]