The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-24
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markable case Of forty-tude. He
threatens the rebels like forty" too.
The Springfield Republican SAYS
Gen. Butler understands how to de-
fend himself better against the charges
Of the newspaper than against those of
Beanregard.
The Mess's. Fairbanks have near
ly completed the cellar and foundation
of new scale shop, to be brick, three
stories high, and situated at the north
extremity of their group of shops,
where the old boarding house former
ly stood.
"A bill has passed the Connecticut
Legislature providing for fine of S25
upon railroad companies that neglect
to carry a certain quantity Of good
drinking water in passenger cars.
Secretary Stanton has set apart a
portion of Gen. Lees Arlington estate
as a cemetery for our soldiers dying in
Virginia. The estate is nov cultivated
by colony of free negroes. Such is
one of the fit retributions of the war
1t is said that physicians in good
standing are wanted immediately by
the medical directory of the East for
contract United States service i'll Wash
ington, the West, the Gulf and the
army general hospital near New York
Vim. Lloyd Garrison was one of
the spectators at the Baltimore Con
yention He visited the Jail wherein
he was imprisoned thirty-four years
ago, for his testimony against the di-
vinity of slavery.
The late resolution Of Congress for
the printing of ten thousand copies of
the official reports of the armies of the
United States since December, 1860,
will make a large job of priting. The
reports viii make ten octave volumes
of 500 pages each.
The Cincinnati Gaselie SAYS two
thirds crop of winter wheat may be
calculated on from at least ten central
and northwestern states and of spring
wheat there viii be a greater yield
than ever before, both on account OF
the greater breadth Of ground sown
and the favorable weather FORTS growth
Two peddlers i'll Pennsylvania
have invented rev and profitable
! line of business. One of them tray
day in advance of the other, and re-
fused to receive notes OF certain
bank rs worthless, and the people
gladly trade with the other, who said
he would take the notes, as he was in
debt to the bank.
In boring for salt water at Peoria,
H., the drill has reached the depth 776
feet At 100 feet a fye-foot seam of
coal was found; ut 207, salt water; at
225, another stratum of coal three feet
in thickness; at 734, a large stream of
water impregnated with sulphur This
water flows upward with such force as
to lift the heavy weights attached to
the drill, and discharges $4,000 gallons
every twenty-four hours.
"A Washington dispatch to the Jou-
nal says the widow of the late EXPIRES
ident John Tyler has written to Pres
ident lincoln complaining that Gen.
Wild has arrested slave owner who
had been logging his female chattels,
and that the General had him tied, and
permitted the women to repay the
blows with interest. Mrs. Tyler is in
dionant that n Virginia gentleman
should have been treated thus.
The daughter of a wealthy Fifth
Avenue man in New York, twenty
years old and pretty, eloped with a
young man of rather weak intellect
and only II, last week She insisted
on having the matter done up by
elopement, and the swain consented
but he is in trouble now, rs he cannot
support himself, much less his wife,
whose angry pater fanfIias don't give
her a cent.
The new cents recently authorized
to be issued have appeared. They are
made almost entirely of copper. The
circumference of the new com is the
same rs that of the nickel cents, but
thoy are thinner and much lighter. 1t
is hoped that their comparative cheap
ness will prevent boarding, and when
they become plenty, those who find
pleasure in such an amusement, will
be able again to jingle money in their
pockets. % .aA
"A meeting of ladies in favor Of
the plan Of retrenchment was held re-
Gently in Chicago. The meeting was
well attended, but the Times says;
"The appearance of many ladies showed
that up to the present time the eco
nomical movement had not been adopt
ed. Pretty loves of bonnets trimmed
with tasteful or the most gaudy Of rib
bons, were to be seeu in all directions.
Silk dresses rustled all over the hall,
while several wore handsome lace
shawls and cloaks certainly the pro-
duct of foreign looms"