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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

haps, wish he were less cautious, but you
would be grateful that he is SO true TO all
that you have at heart. Believe me, there
fore, you are wrong, and ! regret it the
more because desire to see all our friends
stand firm together.
If write strongly, it is because | feel
strongly, for my constant and intimate inter-
course with the President, beginning with
the 4th Of March, not only binds me pecu-
liarly to his Administration, but gives me a
personal as well as political interest in see
ing that justice is done him.
Believe me, my dear sir,
With much regard,
Ever faithfully yours,
CHARLES SUMNER.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20
Right Of Property in slaves.

The people of the south never charged
That the general government has infringed
upon their rights, while their commissioners
to foreign countries, and others Of their
prominent men, allege that they had no APP
prehcnsion that the government would in
fringe upon them. The truth is, history
will record the significant fact that the
rights of the slaye-holding people of the
south never stood firmer under the govern
ment since the Inauguration of president
Washington than when the insurgent states
bolted from the Union.
Slavery is not national--it is local con-
cern-but it is entitled, under the constitu-
ton, to be undisturbed by outside interven-
ton. 1t is fully entitled to this considera-
ton, and il should receive it, but no more.
1t is local, and is entitled TO all the sanctity
Of private property in the locality where it
legally exists. 1t ought not to be crowded
upon any state or territory against The tcaA
" TIC PoUptc " s"c" st0to " tcffttVfy'
The constitutional provision exemptine
the African slave trade from congressional
prohibition in 1909 thus recognizing the
right to abolish it after that time--the sub.
sequent legislation prohibiting the traffic
and making that traffic piracy, and to be
punished as such--the ordinance of con
gress excluding slavery from the territories
were all based upon the universally recog
nized principle that slavery is a local con
Germ, and that property in slaves is not I
con'~'cw property right, to be carried int
Massachusetts, Vermont, or wherever thu
owner may choose to go.
Slavery is repugnapt TO large portion
of the people Of the free states, as it onc'
was to very many in the slave states. Th'
people Of the south might justly claim tina
congress and the north should LEI their in
stitution alone, but they had no right to ex
pect us to fall down and worship it, or Il
demand that congress should intervene t
protect 1t.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

SERIOUS AccrpEN T TO VERMONT SOL
DIERs.--We have seen letter from Capt.
II. r. Stoushton, Of Co. Z. I'd Regiment
U. S. S. s., Augur's brigade, to the Gov
ernor of Vermont, giving the condition Of
the I'd Company VT U. S. Sharp Shoot.
ers, and the details of an accident that be-
fel some Of the men. The letter is dated
" Haymarket, Va, June 4th," and from it
we make the following extract :-PheeWi.r
"We are reduced TO small working num-
bers by sickness and discharges, so much so
that of the 81 men brought from Vermont,
l could only march "a last Thursday, when
we started to the assistance Of Gen. Banks
in-the Shenandoah Valley. We marched
Thursday and Friday a distance of45 miles,
and on Saturday took the cars at Cailett's
Station for Front Royal, and proceeded via
Manassas junction, through Thoroughface
Gap, and were beyond that point about 10
miles, when train following ours ran into
our train and wounded about 25 of my men,
rendering them unfit for duty, at least for
a while-seven OF whom were good deal
injured but think not beyond recovery.
Both Lieutenants were slightly Injured and
do NOT report for duty for few days. The
manner in which we were injured was as
follows my company was in box car and
another company was on platform car in
our rear when the train ran into us il drove
the platform car entirely through our car,
and it was wonder that it did not kill any
of the men. One other company suffered
in similar manner, only they had one man
killed. This reduction leaves only about
80 men all told that report for duty. l think
in a few days we shall be able to count on
few more, but such an accident as that
was uses up men more than any one can
tell. Many of their injuries are internel
rendering medical aid almost of no avail !;
time only can effect cure"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20
New York, June 10.

New York, June 10.
At this fight the enemy's loss was heavy.
-Four hundred of their dead, by actual count,
we're found dead on one field. From the
number OF their dead scattered over other
parts of the battle-ground, ii is believed that
200 more of their dead were on the field,
making GOO, beside the officers who were
carried away. Gen. Stewart was killed,
Gen. Elsie wounded, Col. Houghton NOR
tally wounded, and Gen. jackson wounded
in the wrist.
The following wounded Vermonters ar.
rived here last evening, and are in the New
England rooms -
Andrew jackson, Co. l, Fifth.
Benjamin Place, Co. d, Sixth.
Charles f. Sanborn, Co. E, Second.
Charles c. Goodman, Co. E, Second.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20
Th Tim q ..
BELLOWS FALLS. JUNE 20, 1862.
state Convention.

A Mass Convention of the Freemen Of
Vermont will be held at Montpelier, on the
9th day Of July next, at eleven o'clock A.
NJ, to romsnate candidates for Governor,
Lieut.. Governor, and Treasurer, to be sup
ported at the ensuing election.
All who are in favor of sustaining the
Constitution and the Union, and Of support
eng the National Administration in the pre-
sent crisis of the country, are ccrdislly invit-
ed to attend.
II. HnNEY BAXTER,
j. GREGORY SMITH, Republican
r. w. CLARKE, State Com'ttee.
June 5, 1862.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

MoRE STABBISG AT THE CoNSECrI-
ctr STATE PEIsoS.-We learn from the
Hartford papers that on last Friday even
ing, as the prisoners at Weaihersfeld were
about leaving the shoe shop, three years
convict, named Jones, stabbed Mr.. Josiah
Buck, one of the overseers, with an old shoe
knife. He had secreted the knife in his
handkerchief, and aherward succeeded ia
putting it into bis hat, and as they were
forming into line he ran at Mr.. Buck and
stabbed him, inflicted a wound in the aldo
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20
Windsor County Republican
Convention.

TIE REPUBLICANS OF WINDSOR CoUN-
Try are notified that the County Convention,
for the nomination Of County Officers to be
supported at the next annual election, will
be held at the Town HALL, IN WooD-
STOCK, on Friday, the eleventh day Of July,
a. d. 1862, at eleven o'clock in the fore
NOON
The Republicans ofthe County are there
fore requested to meet, BY THEIR DELE
GATES, IN County Convention, at the time
and place named, for the purpose above set
forth.
At the last Republican County Conven-
sion for this County the following resolution
was adopted:
R,so,red That the County Committee be In tructed
call the next Convention Delegate Convention and that
esch town In the County be entitled delegates
additional delegate for every fifty Republican
in such town, at tbs cenens meeting prior the
Convention 4f
The number Of delegates which each
town in the county is entitled to in the Con-
gention under the foregoing resolution, is as
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

Always purchase the best: it IS
settled fact that cheap articles are aS-
Much more necessary is it that IN bOlDi !;
medicine you get the best, therefore y i: I:
have a cough, dyspepsia, rhematIsm,
ache, fever and ague, or any other ~ u
some disease, buy some of Doci. OF z
Homeopathic Curaiives, there IS ~
thing better than his preparations y y
% cts. per box, complete assort0eIa B.
different kinds. Sold by 0. +. WOO 4.
lows Falls, i. n. Thorn, BratileOOWrr ;sss.
ents. Phillip Lee. Proprietor, loo v"
street, New York.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

A bill has passed congress presclo7
an additional osth to be taken by grand
petit jurors serving in the United "
courts, to the effect that they have y
true to the constitution. have not take'
arms nor counseled nor rendered any /
sistance, aid or comfort to any state orsD
in revolt. This will facilitate the due
ministratton Of the law when the lnsus
states are restored 10 the Union.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

sey's division at the battle of Fair Oaks
He still, however, cely withdraws it in part,
and speaks of "gocd coaduct' us exceptional
in the division
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

Gen. Mcclellan has sent dispatch to the
Secretary of War in part retraciiig his
charge of cowardice made against Gen. Ca
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-20

tits hoped that every town in the County
will be fully represented in the Convention
by the authorized number of delegates.
CHARLES p. MARSH,
LUTHER ADAMS Republican
JAMES G. HENRY, County
WILLIAM +. LEWIS Committee.
WIN. w. HOWARD,
Woodstock, w., June IL, 1862.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13
Genera! Lee 5 Address.

baltimore. Sept. iit' Gen. Lee h&s 'ss'."d
tat following proclamation:
HEADQUARTERS. ARMY OF NcRTR y VA,
No,r tcedcWcAto"n, sep. =.
10 MF Pf"pi. Of Noyy!ls16
lc Is right ihaS yor ohon'1 Nro" ih@ purp"ea
t'.ll has brought tie army unJer nv c2mmttil
v,th,n toe limits OF y"a1 Stat, 50 tar as that
purpose concerns yourselves.
HI" Eeopr; 81 The tUniedeI4i" @iar' haze
heE wetonci v;l!t ,no cfeyl *ymItny the
&rouga aud "utragar mas have been INFLICTED
nron tie citizens u nc COMMUNICABLE aihed
u the States u the South y Loe strongest &c
cisl, political and commercial tea, anna reduced
70 the con4uIon {! q c5uqor;eu provinces under
the presence q Supporting tho constitution, BUS
IA y!ol4Ijon Jfs ,uos: yaIutbe trov'sjonr
Your cltiz Is hay. o""n arE-S.2l ,nd lioYris
gnCd upon o. ca3r5' al 'oH.yiry ~ all iofhe
q law. '}:;hlilao Inohiy ps''rnt against
tlia outrage. I'd 10y venerable aNI INNS
'rious Mary handler, 10 whom, n better Gays, no
citizen arIcascG ipr risht III van, "&s ;Ee"ted
with scOrn and cOntc.npJ.
The government OF your chlet city has been
usurped by nriueI strangers. Your Legisla' uie
has been dissolved BY tao unlawful rt.est OF It's
members. Freedom OF the press ana Of specca
have been SUPER, ssCd Words have been de-
clared oian>es by al arbitrary decree Of The
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13

schemers" TIE said " schemers," ;" lar as we o'''
understand, being the legally cCnS'llu''u io"'''''
representatives of sundry loyal States % tle VI"
ION. Tni, talk may he idle-it Is certainty I'd"
,-rou> and discracetUl, SO far as Il means " Ca"
mean nothing at all. The military arm OF 'nG
Retublc is its arm and not It's head. Inc hnh'
yo ce upon the policy Of the great SausBle We are
making rests with Tie people and theF rel"
tatiyes 1t cannot and it shall not be taken rom
them BY any clique whatever, be that chque Tx
ecutve or Military.
The NOBLE of The United States intend to be
victorious in this war upon which they have siaked
such tremendous values OF treasure and OF me-
They intend To p eserve not only the present uh''y
Int the self respect, the Liberty, and the inlufe
of the nation, and they intend to preserve these,
Mt whatever cost to local institutions and proyln-
cial passion,. From the rank and file oi tue Ma
,ional Army, they have 10 fears. These men are
blood Of their blood, nd one flesh with them.
But if (Which We by no means yet beheve) there
EXISTS among the accidental leaders o. toe army
anr djsDosition to mistake the o2jec'S ~ their
comn,isSl n, any delu>inu IA 20 tn" power vested
in them. and any tendency 20 believe inHl the
American people Of tie Free States will accept
military settlement Of their score with the rebel
Ion, patched up without reference TO the convc-
tons of any grea, section Of Tie Free State. 1t
viii be well for the victim, of 50 pelious IA ha!iu-
cination to emancipa:e themselves At once from
lis E4.a! sway. We have had enough Of The cob-
bier ;ransgrcssing his last. We have suffered
enough from politicians assuming to be Gtnerai>.
W. have no, 50 much patience left as vii. toer,
ate experiments II SIa;e,made by Generals turned
loEljcmu>. Our commanders in he fed have
one pain duty 70 DO TO fnd and bea, the armies
of lic rebellion. They have not done this work
We, so handsomely thai w cUn afford TO spare
them for ,iew exer,op> in another quarter. And
vhrl, they shall have done il, tie issues OF victory,
We beg leave en1 phati ally to say, viii remain 10
be controlled By the people themselves, and b!
the eN tiicit delegates Of their explicit will.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13
q anted.

Back from the terribly crmsoncd feid
Terrible words are thuuder-tost,
Full Of the wrath that will not yielu'
Full Of revenge for bs;rleslo lost.
Hark to the echo, a. it cros'
The Capital making faces wan
" End this murderous holocaust
Abraham Lincoln. give va MAS -
" Give us a Man Of God. mould.
Born 10 marshal his fellow men;
One whose fame il nc; bought and sold
At the stroke Of politicians pen
Give us the man, Of thousands ten,
Ft to do as well Is TO plan
Give a rallying cry, and then.
Abraham Lincoln, give " NAS"
No leader 10 shirk h. boastnG Toe,
And to march and counter-msrch our brave.
Tii they fade like g,o5ts in the marches low,
And the swamp grass covers each namelesS grave
Nor another, whose fatal banners wave
Ave in disasters fatal van
Nor another to blu.-r ard lie and rave
Abraham Lincoln. give us a Man :!
Hears ere eorrowins in the North
While the sister rivers seek the main
Red with life blood flowing forth
Who shall gather it mp again
Though we march tothc tattle plain
Firmly as when the STRIFE began.
Shall our Offering b. in vain
Abrahs m Lincoln, give T. 9 Han -
- Is there never in all thc land,
One on whose might the may lean ;
are all the common Iner 50 grand,
a no tiilp6 ~ mean
What if your failur" may have ben
H. trying t. make good breah OF bran
Nf worthless metal Il weapon keen
Abraham Lincoln, .fnd US MAXI
" @ wewlll follow him e ths death
Where the focman8 fercrs columns are
o. We viii l.-e our lLlcr, b. ,a;h
Cheering for every sacred star
His, to marshal rs nigh and jar
Ours, 10 baltic patriots ca"
When hero leads thc Holy war
Abraham lincoln. give Us a MANI
--EdmUnd {. Stedntdh
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13

RENGNrD The Free Press learns tfoH 't T,r.
"cfth} sources that Col. lompbins OF '"' that
mont t4vatry Regiment has resigned, anu
MS tesisnnuou Vas accepted.
The following are tie commissioned o'l'''.
tine Company Of nine months militia, FeH"'''
in Lamoille County -
Captd'", Joseph j. Boypton Stove
LIST. L,em. Andgcw j. Davis, CamOrlus'
I'd. Liem. Frank Kcntield, Morristowp'
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13

The invasion has apparently failed, however,
OF ono thing. The rebels 10 Maryland do not
seem to have manifested such an ardent sympathy
with the rebel cause as to rush into Gen Lees
army in any numbers. They are ready to sell
provisions to his soldiers, TO give them informa
ton, and to assist them in thousand ways
short of actually Shouldering the musket, and
joining his standards. If TIE invaders ex-
pected any great increase Of their fighting
strength by crossing the Potomac. they have
been NEST signalIy disappointed; and it is by
no means &C! tain i,rat their movement westerly.
and away from Baltimore, Is not partly, if not
wholly chargeable To this disappoin;mcnt
Bn: while We cannot blind ourselves to the
patent advantages winch this rebc, movement
viii bring to their cause temporarily, It rus
thus far seemed, ana stul seems, t. De The II, -
hazardous AMI desperate play of thas: oonfedy-
rate gamblers thar coUid possibly be made, ana
one that can onlysuccecd thyoug', the most Ut
'el lncap@clty of those who have in charge the
mana getnent 81 our forces and the conduct IF
the "ar. / thsy suffer Gen. Lees army 10
remain Nosth o, the Potomac FOR any length Of
time, ana .ac'. to retnrn again 10 Virginia. or
leave Tor SOM otler field Of operations, anu 40
not substantially cnt i" pieces aud destroy its
strength as an army, The rcbele viii gain al
they mad ANY reason to hoQe ior in this Invasion
But II, Gu tne ether haud, they pursue fgnG,aad
destroy these .uvadIn, ;rators, ther it must be
that We shall have the game ali in cor own
hands, and can turn the tables an The Suuth, if
there &c such disposition in hgh places, with
!. vengeance. 1t seems to an uum,litarY observer
that II We are any matcA !Vr tie South,
man ior luar, genera Tor genera, cabinet far
cabinet, and Presideu, !or President Septem-
Der, 1862, would prove the most disaeIf Gus month
that rebellion has yet seen, and the rebel iowa
ie's Nou d be welcomed by bioody hands IL
loEpitHh!e groves 1t is now w, only touest,un
ot government, /! is u question " manhood,
and It Will be written OF Ms hereafter, II We
AL raw, hat We failed 5ecausc we hau net tht,
'1uh the manhood, the genln> thai could WIN
ucceAs. We Shall then desana the Judgment u
)0r Southern enemies, ana shall h9urc IN his
DRY, az We shall deserve To- ar an ,1!er.,. re.
as msre Fch'.ljrg Yankees.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-13

COMPULSORY CHEERING FOR THE UNION We
heard Capt. Browns company Or at least a
portion Of them, Friday evening, breaking the
usual monotonous quiet of our village by ring
ing cheers, and inquriug the cause, ascertained
that they had been taking in hand d supposed
rebel sylnpathmar, one Of tho Crane jury in at
tendance on he court. ard had hccn very ur-
gently porsuading bin to voluntarily give three
cheers for the Union TIE precise persuasionS
used we have not learned. but we understand
they proved efiectual in he case. The Boys
being anxious to do what they could to suppress
rebellion. began with this as their first case and
their success was quite fattering. We hope thc
conversion VIII prove 4 permanent one, as we
think it viii, while those VINO assisted in the
work remain IN town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-05-03
The Chesapeake and Albemarle
Canal DESTROYED.

On the 18th ult. Brig Gen. Reno, with 6UO men
landed opposite Cobb's Point, ~. c for tIe pur-
rose, II is said, Of destroying the locks in the
D!smal Swamp Canal, but retired the same night
without efecting his object.
Commander Rowan, on the 23d, determi ned to
destroy the canal with the naval forces under his
command. The following embraces extracts
from the report Of Its successful accomplishment.
US. STEAMER COMMODORE HESKY.l
of EHzabsth City, April IS.
Sir In obedience to your order left this place
on the Odd inst In the Lockwood, with the Whit
head sSd Putnam in company, each with an
officer and detachment OF men on board; the
Lockwood towing the wrecking schooner Emma
Slade, with the apparstus for blowing up the
banks, to block up the Albemarle and Chesapeake
Canal
At the mouth Of North river we were Joined Nv
the Shawsheen, having In tow a schooner which
had bsen sent the day before to Roanoke Island
20 be filled with sand.
In the afternoon of the s3d hfty men were land
ed on each bank while a launch with a heavy I2-
Founder was sent up the canal, and with this
fo-cs, we m owed up two miles, examining the
bs ks to flnd the best place for operations.
l concluded to place the obstruction near the
mouth, that the men while at work might be Tn
der cover Of the guns Of the steamers and the
enemy be prevented from moving IL
The schooner was sunk just inside Of the canal,
and with brush, stumps, rails, trunks ef heavy
trees, aud earth, the passage vas obstructed from
the schooner about fifty yards above.
Wewere occupied from noon till sunset Of the
23d, and from 20 a.. m TILL half an hour after
sunset Of the oath.
Earth was thrown In by hand from each ban X
as far az could be; but we had no wheelbarrows TO
carry IL into the middle
IL would be well TO send a steamer there daily
until the timber 10 well water soaked aud sunk
Very respectfully, your obt serv't,
c. FLussKR, 1t. commanding.
Commander c. J. Rowan, commanding 4 g.
naval forces inner waters OF N. G.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-05-03
SECOND EDITION.
THREE O'CLOCK, y. "a.
Capture Of the Rebel Privatser Isa-
bel, Loaded with Enfield Rifles
and Rifled Cannon,

FLAG sHIP WABASH, Port Royal Ha,b II
sc, April -, 1852 -sir; have jus; time thi.
morning, before the departure Of the susaue-
hanna, to inform the Department Ct the ar
rival here of the rebel steamer Isabel ELLEN
Worley) in charge Of Lieut.. Gibson and prize
crew-she having been captured by the 81 JsgO
de Cuba. Commander Ridgeisy, enc hundred
miles north OF Absco.
She IS deeply loaded with T. L I'D rides, AID
has, 1t is supposed, TiHed cannon In her hold
which has not yet been examined. These suas
were taken on board, Of course, at one Of the
neutral colonies of orr coast.
lam Informed by Lieut.. Gibson that the 81
Jago de Cuba discovered and chased the Nash.
Vile, but the latter was much too swim for her
The Nashville also has guns on board for the reb-
els. intended TO run the blockade, II possible.
Very respectfully, your obedt serv't,
F. Dupont, Flag ohcer Cong, &c.
Hon. GIDEON WRLLss,
Secretary Navy, Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-05-03

DISHONEST SRRvANT.-On Monday last, 3 ciEI
giving the name of Martha Lucas, and rep!es 'Eg-
ing EerSelf 10 be from Charles county, MarylsGj
and without acc .IGinia1ces IN Ias city, rIn-
pioyCd by Mr. r. l. harvey, TesiS!Hg Ca >iziL
street, between aud ii, a servant. Tails
morning Mar La was non Ist., and IL ives iscoy-
cred that she lad not only Een herself away, tut
had eppTopTiattd 10 her own nee a number or
small articles, Is thinh.cs, collars. shoes, Dr.
which she took with her. The giTl Is abouE six
teen years OF age, wears a straw bonnet with Tsd
trimmings, and black veil covering her face
Housskeepers should he an the lookout, or s0ne
one else may be victimized