Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-03-06
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Cleveland Herald makes the following
sensible remarks in regard to local papers:-
1--WE know of nothing that is more dis
hearteuing to the publisher of a county news
paper than to be told, as be often is when so
Letting subscribers IL take the Tribune, or
some other huge weekly and it costs me
only 81 a year, and contains twice the amount
of reading yours does when the yearly re-
ceipts of one week Of the office named above
would be double the yearly receipts of his
county paper, and when it the foreign papers
were published seventy years, II would not
result in as much benefit to himself and the
county in which he lives as would single
weeks edition of his own paper.
Recollect, that if a home paper is to be
supported, home influence must do it. A
county 'aquires prominence through its paper
more than in any other way, and to him who
has county interests at stake, his home paper
is necessity. Never should such a man take
a paper printed away from home until he is
able to take second paper. His first will
be his home sheet, and he will so identify his
own interest with that of his county, as TO
consider the payment Of his subscription a
matter Of every day duty as much as the pay
ment Of his taxes
The rebels profess to contemn the effort
our folks are making to divert the current Of
the Mississippi opposite Nicksburg. They
assert that about six to nine feet below the
surface Of the soil lies bed Of stiff blue clay
from seven to ten feet thick. Below this Is
quicksand. and it is only when the water
comes in contact with the quicksand that
there is danger OF abrasion by the current ac-
Ting on it, We presume our engineers dis
covered this fact Of fact 1t be- some time
since, and have gone to work accordingly
and cut down through the clay.
A Hilton Head letter in the New York
Herald says the negro troops. as soon as then
organization is perfected, are to be employed
solely for the purposes for which the Govern
ment authorized Gen. Saxton to raise them
| They will protect plantations and possibly dc
some duty behind the walls Of the fortfca
/ tons, with whites to manage and govern
/ them but they will in no case be brigaded Of
/ classed with the white volunteers.
A rich story is told Of the boys in the q
regiment. 1t seems that the men of the 26tt
New Jersey regiment had repeatedly stoleI
/ the fresh meat from the Vermont boys, in tn,
night, and appropriated it to their own use
/ Some of the Vermont boys thereupon killed
a dog, dressed it neatly and hung it up il
! quarters in the Quartermasters department
/ The Jerseys" mistaking it for mutton, stol,
/ it, as usual, and bore it off in triumph. TIT
! Vermonters were on the watch, and ascer
tanned that it was served up next day upon tht
table of some of the Jersey officers. The JOKE
soon became public, and the Jerseys ar,
/ greeted, when they visit the camps of thu
Vermonters, with " bow-wow-wow," by
way of friendly salutaton.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in leitel
communicated to the Senate on Friday last
says that no printing paper was included il
the recent statement of imports of pape
/ from the collectors of new York and Boston
and that none whatever has been imported
under the present tariff, so that monopolist
have had full swing in its manufacture and il
the regulation Of its price.
President Lincoln has issued proclama
] ton calling an extraordinary session of Senal
to meet on the 4th day Of March at noon t
receive and act npon such communications a
may be made to 1t on the part of the Execu
tive. These communications will mainly,
not altogether include military and civil nom
nations.
new style of postage stamps-of tire
centers is now being issued. The die is tn
same as the old one, but they are printed Il
brown color on dark buff colored paper
and are somewhat like, in color, the twenty
five cent postal currency.
There is man in Portsmouth, N. H., VIII
sends Valentine to local benevolent societ
every year, with twenty-five dollars enclosed
He has repeated the act for twenty years, an
is still unknown.
The office Of the Leavenworth Kansas In
quirer was destroyed by mob on the lot
inst. The Inquirer has been from the first
tratorous sheet and on the night before
was mobbed filed its office with armed mer
as if defying assault.
The I'd N. H. regiment, home from tn
wars, arrived at 2 10 o'clock this P. M
They partake ola collation. in Fanuiel Hall
after which they will proceed Immediately t
Concord
Cen Fremont has returned here and vii
certainly soon be assigned to very impor
tant command.