Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-04-09
From the Daily Of April 8.
Local and State Items.

THE LAST ENGAGEMENT OF THE VT
CAVALRY. - The following particulars
were told in Washington on Friday last,
concerning the last unfortunate engage
ment of the Vermont Cavalry:
Capt. III. c. Flint, with detachment
of men, went ont to look after Capt. Mos
by's Cavalry, which he had learned were
in the neighborhood of Broad Run, on
which the engagement occurred. He
found Mosby, who was lying in ambush
for him, behind wall of fence. As the
detachment under Capt. Flint was passing
or approaching this line of rebel defense,
unsuspicious of the proximity Of the reb-
els, they received deadly volley at close
range. This fire threw our cavalry, com
posed chiefly of new men and unframed
horses, into confusion, when they were
assailed by the rebel cavalry and very Sc
verely handled. Capt Flint and Lieut..
Josiah Grout, Jr., were killed in the at
tempt to rally their men, showing the ut
most galantry in their Intellectual endea
vors. Lieut.. Chas. A. Woodbury. is also
among the missing.
Capt. Flint and Lieut.. Grout both went
out in the Lamoille County company, the
former as First Lieutenant and the latter as
| Second Lieutenant. Both have high
reputation for their competency, bravery,
and uniform trustworthiness as officers -
| Their loss is deeply and sadly felt in the
regiment. Lieut. Woodbury. went ont as
the Orderly Of the same company, and
had been promoted He was a bold and
gallant soldier.
Has PLYMouTH SEoEDED AT the
request of the writer we copy the follow
ing letter from the Windsor Journal, in
reply 10 paragraph which originally APP
peared in that paper
tyson Furnace, VI, March 80, 1868.
Ma EDITOR IL NV attention having
been called TO an article in the journal of
the 9Th inst, headed Has Plydsoath Sc
esdaal?n / find your correspondent, over
the assumed signature of "plymoath,' =
makes unauthorized use of my name to
publish tgo distinct lalsehoods. First,
am made the prime mover of vote Of the
town to s'instruct the town treasurer not
to prosecute in case any man refused to
pay the tax,on his dog" | believe it is
generally understood, even by those that
make no pretensons to knowledge of
town business, that the treasurer has no
power to enforce the payment of taxes,
that duty being by law part of the busi
ness of the constable and collector, there
fore the falsity as well as the ignorance of
the first statement appears plainly on its
face.
Second, the undersigned Is made to ask
the town to "instruct the listers not to
take the dogs on the tax list at ALL" This
is, qualify it as yon may, bare malicious
falsehood; no such motion was made, ad-
vocated or 7oted for by me; neither was
there any attempt on my part to have pro-
cured the making of such movement IN the
town meeting referred to.
The originator of these statements knew
them 10 be false when he made them, if he
was sane at the time.
Now, Mr.. Editor, it is supposed, even
here, that We are part of the State of
Vermont, and cannot be written into Sc
cession by your correspondent, who seems
to have been attacked with dog on the
brain, about the time our Legislature was
in session last fall, and now in the incipient
stages of Hydrophobda.
Respectfully yours,
j. w. STIcKNEy.
PURcHAsED.-We learn that Otis 2.
Clay has purchased the Stage property
between Chester and Factory Point.
, AppoINTED.-Wm.B B. Burton Esq, OF
, the mercantile firm OF Cone and Burton
is appointed Postmaster at Manchester
vice +. W. Hoyt resigned.
PERsoNAL.-Major l.. D. Clark, Of the
19th repiment has RESIGNED