Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-06-09
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.


in the Navy, has been assigned to duty on tho
Wabash now at Port Royal. lie and his clerk,
j. Corwin 1aplp, will leave Immediately in
obedience TO orders.
We notice among the let of delegates present
at Burlington &C the Annual Diocesan Couyen
ton Of tie Protestant Episcopal Church, Hon.
r Richardson, Cbap Dewey and j. W. Ellis,
from Christ Church. Montpelier. Mr.. Rich.
rdson was reelected Treasurer.
RECRUITS. Sergeant II j. Nichols, recruit
ing for the llth Vermont regiment, with bis
head quarters in this village, sent off yesterday
fifteen recruits to Brattleboro and he has some
fifteen or twenty more ready TO go.--B. Times.
Ara Barnes, the criminal who recently escaped
from Irasburg jail has been recaptured in Cana
da, and is now back again in his old quarter
We hope they will hold him this time.
The q Vermont Battery in the recent battle
near Port Hudson suffered the following casual
ties
Frank Sebastian, ia head, slightly David
Swecnier in heel, slightly.
ROBBERY The house of Lyman +. Cabot, Of
Weatbersdeld, was burglariously entered while
the family were at meeting recently, trunk
belonging 10 B9najah Dean was broken open
and ST 100 in bank bills, certificate for lG
shares Exchange Bank stock with other yalua
stock stolen therefrom. Mr. Dean offers re.
ward of $500 for the detection and apprehen.
sion Of the thief.
Tux STATE HORTICULTURAL SOclErY.--Ths
Society will hold special meeting at the Uni.
ted States Court Room in w indsor, on Wednes-
day, July l. The session will continue two
days
The jill at IrAsburg WAS broken open on Sat
urday morning last, and all the prisoners esca-
ped.
BuRGLAaY-rha Newport NeOS says on Sat-
urday night last, the Office OF G. $. Cutting,
Esq, Of West Derby, WIS entered and between
& i aud : , in scrip stolen. On Monday. s.
o. Nichols, Of West D.rby WAS arrested on
suspicion OF being tho thief. Ga Friday be
was shut up for beating sick wife. The cause
OF the whole performance was the same 1t is 10
two thirds Of our criminal cases--RUN.
" Navigation has opened on Lake Mem.
phramagog, al We learn by the Newport Ners,
the Mountain Maid " making her first trip
last Saturday.
Ga Monday, June |, barn and shed belong
ing to Farmer Wood a, Brattleboro was con.
sumcd by FIRE.
Recruiting is going on finely al Newport
Corp, NJ q. Sargent ol the 18th regiment list
artillery has already cnlstel p men 10 that
village.
A CALENDAR Clock Of the creates. nov
elites and utilities oithe lay is the calendar clock
OF the Seth Thomas Clock Company By an ings-
NOUS arrangement, calendar Is combined with
the cljck showing the day Of week, the month
and day Of the month, including the Doth ds
Of February Of leap year, pcrpstaaily and with
unisiling certainty. The advantages Of such
an arrangement are obvious. With one Of these
clocks IN sight, The trouble Of keeping separ-
ate calendar, 70 be altered daily, is dispensed
WITH while mistakes arising from neglect to
change the calendar are avoided. A glance at
the clock tells the month, the day and the hour,
with unerring accuracy. I. Z. palNSEr, Jew.
eler corner State and Nam streets, has these
clocks for sale.
CONGREGATIONAL CONVENTION, The General
Convention Of tho Congregational churches Of
Vermont will be held in MIddlebury, com
mencng on Tuesday, the 18th inst, and CON
tinuing through TaaTsliy.
NARROW EscAPR We learn that the Rev.
Mr. Cardinal, French Catholic prizes. in this
place, had IrOYdcntal escape from drown
ing on Wednes lay. lie was crossing On " the
bar" from Milton to So. Hero with horse and
carriage, when owing ~ the violence OF the Wind
and force OF the wayes, his horse lost his foot
hold and was pushed into deep water The horse
was drowned. Mr Cardinal remained 10 the
carriage 10 the water for an hour and half, when
be was discovered aud rescued from his position
BY parties on the Island who went to his ssis-
lance in bolt.-Bwingt0a SeniiHd.
PERSONAL Louis Follctt, Esq, of Buring
ton, is one of the Vice Presidents of the National
Canal Convention at Chicago.
1t. A. V. Colburn, from this State, has
been appointed Assistant Adiutant General on
I the Staifof Gen. Schofsd.
BY direction of the President, First Lieut.
John W. Jones, Of the Twelfth Uni,ed States
Infantry, VINO used TO be recruiting Othcer
here and was mastering and disbursing officer
for tins State, has been dismissed the SERVICE
Burlington Tunes.
SOMETHING TO SHow.-The Rutland Herald
says letter from The cavalry regiment, dated
the lst inst, says
Lieut.. HlzetOn, with details from comPa-
MES and ii came in yesterday with the how
ltzer. 1t was al first claimed by the 9th New
York, but Col. Mann, commander OF the post,
decided that it belonged to the Vermont boys,
and II was taken to their camp. The 9Th Mes
York brought the gun from tho field, but llaEs
ton had already taken 1t and driven the rObel'
lar beyond, and captured the prisoners taken
the tlnie There rs no question about it the
oth New York was some ways behind in the
charge and came up afterwards.
AS Mr.. joel X. Clarke of Bsadtord, peder
Of tin ware, was driving down the Hartman
hill IN Corinth, last Monday, the road being very
much quilted by the late rains, bis cart came near
Doing upset, and some tin ware falling from bis