Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-01-30
Military Matters.


Military Matters.
DR.. L. N. S. Morgan having declined the APP
pointment of Surgeon Of the 18th Regiment, on
account of sickness in his family, DR.. Fran /
els W. Kelley, Assistant Surgeon, has been pro-
noted to fill tn vacancy and Dr. Enoch Blanch-
ard Of Lyndon succeeds DR.. Kelley as Assistant
Surgeon of that Regiment
Adjutont William c. Holbrook of the 18th
Vermont Regiment, has received and accepted
the appointment of Major in the 9TH Regiment
He s young mar Of uncommon military abil-
ity and he will be valuable acquisition to the
regiment he is about to enter. lie is now at
home laboring under severe indisposition
arising from exposure in the service on the Pc
tomac.
Six companies of the 9TH Regiment are now
in camp and three others are now nearly full.
Duncans Battery attached to the Sth Regi-
ment have three pieces of ordnance from the
Arsenal at Vcrgennes, with which to exercises
two of the guns are Founders and the other
is 0 FOUNDER.
First Lieutenant J ohm S. Tyler of Company C,
2rd Vermont Regiment has been promoted to
Captain of the same, in place of l.. a. Todd,
resigned. 2nd Lieut.. Henry C. Campbell of
the same company has been promoted to lst
Lieutenant; and Orderly Serguant Elijah Wales
is promoted to End Lieutenant. Lieut. Wales
has served faithfully and well as Orderly ever
since the organization of the company; he is
faithful and brave and we rejoice at his promo
ton. Capt. Tyler and Lieut. Campbell are well
worthy the confidence placed in them.
THE WEATHER for few days past is deserv-
ing particular mention. \ continued storm Of
sevc'aI days was concluded Saturday evening
in deposit of several inches of fine hail which
impeded pedestrianism and locomotion. The
train over the Vermont and Massachusetts rail
road which lett here Saturday morning only
reach ed Gardner at nine O'Clock in the evening
and the up train, due here about five o'clock
Saturday afternoon, came in at six O'Clock
Sunday morning.
The wind blew in ftful gusts all day Sunday;
rolling the hail into the creviccs on the railroad
tracks, and filling up the excavations in the
| h ghways, to such an extent that all the travel
ling was very uncertain tie next day. Tie en-
CINE attached to the down train for Boston,
| Monday morning, ran off the track twice in
Vernon and only got started again in the after
noon. Arriving at CIRCUITS it waited for the
branch train from Greenfield and was still
waiting there when the up train from Boston,
which came in at seven o'clock, passed it. The
down Northern train, due here at half past two
in the afternoon did not arrive until eleven
o'clock at night. On some of the highways
out of Brattleboro the travel was greatly OBJ
suucted. The stage from Wilmington, due at
half past eight in the morning, did not reach
here until FIVE in the afternoon The driver
reports that many Of the drifts, of which the
road was full, were so hard that they would
bear up his horses. We are informed that the
driver carried the mail from Marlboro to VIII
mington and back again, travelling on snow
shoes distance of twenty miles.
There must now be very nearly three feet of
snow on the ground Of an unusually heavy,
compact quality. Those of our readers who
have not strong roofs to their buildings will do
well to look to them or serious accidents may
happen.
A MODEL PRoCLAMATIoN.-A little less than
one hundred years since the population Of Cum
berland County, including the present counties
of Windham and Windsor, were divided be-
tween the workers" and those who recognized
the authority of the pretended State of Yer
mont" At that time the town of Guilford
which was then the most populous town in the
State, was divided into two parties who were
bitterly opposed to each other. The new State
$ having attempted to exercise jurisdiction the
f "Iorkers" of that town rcbelled and attempted
:. an Instruction. Gen. Ethan Allen was drcc-
= ted to call out the militia of Vermont to sup
e press the instruction. He soon visited the
= infected region with an adequate force and is
n sued the following characteristic Proclamation
(Which we respectfully commend to the alten-
ton and for the study of modern Brgadiers)
viz:
r 81, Ethan Allen, declare that unless the peo-
pie OF Guiltord pcaceaby submit to the au-
8 thorlty OF Vermont, the town shall be made as
S deSolote as were the cities Of Sodom and Com
orrah."
$ 1t is hardly necessary to observe that Ethan
Aliens reputation for truth and veracity was
such that this Proclamation ended the rebel.
lion at once "Red tope' hadn't been intro,
duced into Vermont at that day
We are credibly informed that several sur.
5 reptltious attempts were made by designing
men TO secure the allotment of the pay of some