Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-12-18
WHOLE NO. 1888.

The stOrming OF the ridge IN the great bat
tie before Chattanooga on the 26th ul'. is thus
described by an officer in report to the War
Department:
+" The storming of the ridge by our troops
was one Of the greatest miracles in military
history No man who climbs the ascent by
any Of the roads that lead along its front can
believe that $4,000 men we're moved upon its
broken and crumbled face unless It was his
fortune to witness the deed. Ii seems as asv-
ful as visible interpositon Of God Neither
Gen. Grsnt nor Gen. Thomas intended II.
Their orders were to carry the rifle pits along
the base of the ridge and cut off their oocu-
pants, but when this was accomplished the
unaccountabe spirit Of the troops re them
boldly up the imPractcable sleeps, over the
glistoning rife pits on the crest and the thirty
cannon enfladng every gully.
The order to storm appears TO have been
given simultaneously by Gems. Sheridan and
Wood, because from the gallant achievment
befo'c Chattanooga the men we're not to be
held back
Hopeless as The attempt appeared to mill.
tary prudenoe,t the generals caught theinspira-
ton Of the men aud were ready themselves to
undertake impossibilities."
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Mr.. Lincoln has been tested as few govern
ors have ever been tested, aud though be may
not always have risen fully to the level of a
great emergency, he has seldom failed to dis
play noble impartiality, great hrmness of
purpose, and sagacious. if somewhat utilita-
rian. Judgment. We believe juster man
never held the reins of government.-L London
Spectator
mau by the name Of Abijah Gardiner,
found dead on Friday, Dec 4. on Lake
street, west of the residence of Wm. n.
Smith. Esq st Albans The cause of his
death is not known. His face was covered
with blood, which, it is thought. was occa-
stoned by MS fall.
Ludlow has not only furnished the one
man requited as her quota Of volunteers, but
five more, says the hutlaud Herald.
The Hartford Times-tho central and cou-
trolling organ Of the opposition party in Con-
necticut--cxptesses itsolf in favor Of the on
listment Of negroes in the armies Of the Uni
ted States IL recommends that the quota Of
the town Of Hartford be raised by procuring
the whole number of colorcd volunteers, If
possible
An old man, says the Boston Journal, a
convict at the state prison, where he has been
confined twenty-one years and five months,
was pardoled on Thanksgiving day. The
sudden announcement caused the old man to
weep like a child. He was sixty-seven years
old, and his family Of sons and daughters bad
grown up respectable men and women, and a
son was then in the Office below awaiting to
take his old father home to eat Thangsgiv-
ing dinner with him and his family
/ Thirty editors and printers were among the
killed and wounded at Cheamauga.
Mrs Fairbanks widow Of the late Louis
/ FarbOnk-, OF Georgia, was so severely burn
ed Monday evening that she lived but a
few hours after 1t is supposed while warm
ing her feet by the stove after the rest Of the
family had retired, her clothes caught fire in
some way. Her screams aroused the family
but assistance came too late to save her life.
A Mr. Pingrey, from NJ Holly, brake
man on the Rutland 81 Burlington railroad
WAS killed near Gassett's Station, on tina
+ road, last Saturday 5th inst. He was stand
ind upon car Of the freight train, and wa
knocked off by coming in contact with tn,
roof Of covered bridge, and when discover
ed was dead.
Frederick Billings, Esq, OF San Francisco
has removed with his family to New Yorl
City where he sill in future reside