Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-02-21


At recent meeting of the Bradford GuOrds
paper was drawn up and signed by the officers
of the company declining to convene under gen
eral order No. 10, as it was held by these emf
nent gentlemen to be illegal. Capt. Blodgett
prefers a "fre in the rear" to one in front.
A meeting of Union savers was held at Brad
ford on the 18th. They did not allude, in their
resolutions, to the secession, rebellion, revolu-
ton and robbery in the cotton States, but
thought the North ought to be ready to amend
the Constitution so as to satisfy the South per-
fect!y and keep them quiet. That dough won't
rise.
The three little babes of the same age, born
to Mrs. Fenton of Rutland all sickened and
died last week.
The Post Office at Woodford has been dis
continued. Cause Uncle Sam can't find any
one in town to take the appointment!
George Wheatley, constable of the town of
Brookfeld, shot himself on the 18th. Pecuni.
airy endorsements it is said, were the cause.
AT Middlebury, on the 18th, the weight of
the afternoon train on the Rutland road, broke
or displaced rail, and the passenger car was
thrown down an embankment of thirty feet and
broken to pieces. There were but six passen-
gers in the car, all of whom were badly cut and
injured, but had no bones broken.
a fellow named Buckley, who has just served
out term in the states prison at Windsor, has
been arrested at Plattsburgh n. Y, for burg
larry. He fought desperately when taken, and
resisted the officers so that it became necessary
to bind him.
Miss Kate p. Dodge, daughter of Sabin
Dodge of Barre, raised the past season four
balls of cotton from single stalk. The cotton
is as nice, apparently, as any OF Southern
growth. The dwellers in 'Secessia' better look
| to their cotton fields or Northern 'School-mams'
will teach them that if Cotton is King they
are not obliged to go South for their king
State journal.
The presidents appointment of fifteen cadets
to the West Point academy, embrace sons OF
Capt Joseph b. Plummer Of Massachusetts,,
Commodore Morris, Astronomer Mitchell, and
a grandson of Gen. Cass, with the usual num-
Der of Virginians, including a son of Extra
Billy Smith, rabid secessionist Buchanans
sym athes with the traitors will leak out
John A. Rockwell of Norwich, representa-
tive in Congress from 1s47 to 1910, from Con-
necticut, died Sunday night, at Washington, of
apopleXy He has practced law for several
years in the latter city. He was graduate OF
Yale in 1924.
The federal arsenal at Little Rock was seized
BY Arkansas volunteers on the Sth, and is now
garrisoned by 100 of the traitors. 1t contained
5000 muskets, a large quantity of ammunition,
and 80 cannon of Captain Braggs famous bat
terry
An American has gone to England to sell
the Queen family baptising machine, being
| ooI ,hot vln,, ba ie
now marrying off, are as prolific as their moth
err, the ceremony never can be performed by
hand.
From the town of Florida, Berkshire county,
there has been but one commital to the Jail in
Lenox, for crime, iii % years.
On Saturday the 9th inst, John NJ. Burrage,
of Worcester, was brought before the police
court in Worcester, on complaint of Henry A.
Willis, cashier of the Rolstone Bank, for for
ging the name of Putnam & Phelps of Leom-
inster on a check for 5000.
At the recent session of the Supreme Court
at Rutland ten divorces were granted-Amos
1'uttle of Brandon Josiah +. Parker and Dan
iel Richardson of Mt. Holly, Chancey X. Hills
of Rutland and Almira n Temple for adultery
Elizabeth Deane of Rutland and Abby l.. Toll
man for desertion and Electa NJ. Leach OF
Pawlet, Henrietta VI. Allen of Walingford and
Mary Ann Crossman of Clarendon for intolera-
BILE severity.
On Friday the Sth inst, the hop house Of
Il. Towle of IIydepark was burned with about
40 bushels of corn. The fire originated from
hot ashessin wooden vessel.
Mr.. ]. A. Ferguson of Eden, missed young
colt recently, and found it three days after in
the wheel-pit of his saw mill, having evident
ly fallen from a plank II feet above. The colt
was got out and showed no lack of spirit form
its long fast and confinement
Samuel Smell of St. Johnsbury was so frozen
in travelling on the night of the It'll inst, that
he died the next Tuesday.
Messrs Harding and Brothers wooden factory
at Winooski was damaged to the amount OIL
$500, by freshet last Wednesday.
A. +. French has in operation at Winooski
n single machine patented recently by him,
which will cut single every second, in per-
feet manner, and waste very little of the block
The machine is simple and easily kept in order
A train from Rouse's Point for Ogdensburg
on thu It'll, got stuck in a snow bank, and was
compelled to remain there all night and till the
next afternoon, notwithstanding two locomo.
tives were attached 70 it. There were twenty.
five passengers on board, who suffered from
hunger as well as cold. The latter was intense,
and as the wood of the train had given out, the
fences along the track were stripped to koeT
the passengers from freezing. A messenger
who was dispatched to them from a way station
was badly frozen The train was three days in
making a trip usually run in four or five hours
I A bridge at Rupert, on the Rutland and Wash
ington road, was carried away on Tuesday.
Personal ATTAcK.-Mr Kellogg of Illinois
attacked, Friday night, in the National Hotel
Washington, the associate editor of the Chicago
Tribune, who, as u correspondent Of that paper
from Washington, has severely reflected upon
the political course of the former. There was
not much Of fight as parties interlered to pre-
vent very bloody consequences.