Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-04-29
WooL GROWERS CONVENTION

with sundry resolutions recommending
an increased duty on wool, committee
reported a memorial to congress closing
with petition that duty be imposed
on all foreign woods as follows;
That the wool be classified into three
grades, viz q: coarse, medium, and fine
and put specific and also an ad valorem
duty on each grade, with a home vaIua'
ton. On the first grade, or coarse wool
valued in our ports at eighteen cents pei
pound or under, three cents specific and
twenty per cent ad valorem. On medi-
lm, value in our ports at eighteen to
e It's per pound, six cents
specific and twenty per cent ad valorem
and on the fine grades or all wool valued
in our ports at more than twenty-foul
cents per pound, ten cents specific and
twenty per cent ad valorem. The home
valuation to be made to depend more
on the quality of the wool than its con-
Windsor Journal.
A CURIosITY.-Mr. Luther X. Dru--
ry, Of Highgate, has mentioned to US the
discovery at Alton, Illinois, last Februa-
ry, Of four iron wheels weighing sixty
pounds apiece, which were found one
hundred and twenty feet below the sur
face of the earth. A shaft was sunk
feet through granite, then four
feet through blue clay, then twenty-three
feet through Soapstone to a-vein of coal
six inches thick-then through soapstone
and white granite rock thirty-fve feet
then through slate stone ten inches
then through a bed of coal thirtyNtwo
inches to the spot where these wheels
laid.
How came they there and whose were
they? These questions are more easily
asked than answered. We present the
matter as told to US by Mr.. Drury and
allow others to solve the prOblem.-Tran.
script
DEATH OF Col. THOMAS REED
Died at Montpelier, on Tuesday evening
April 10, of paralysis, Col. THOMAS
REED, oldest son of the late Thomas
Reed of Montpelier. Col Reed came to
in his boyhood, and has spent
lis life here, filling responsible and infu-
initial positions in its business affairs. He
vas bred to the law, and was the oldest
member IF the bar Of this county at his
cath but although man of strong in
elect and energy, he abandoned the bar
D take charge of the first bank of Mont
elier as cashier, of which he was subs
President, and in that bank he
ontinued until the establishment of the
|ermont bank, in which he became in
crested with his late brother and Presi-
lent of b a institution, Hezekiah II.
Reed. AS Gnancier, Col. Reed was
,ery successful, and his reputation was
Ugh, not only among bankers Of the
itate, but wherever he was known. In
all matters Of public interest, in church,
village, town, state and nation, he was a
nan OF decided opinions, aud those opin.
ons were always strongly expressed-in
politics, however, except in conversation,
lis habit usually was to express hif
'iews through the press. He was a Wig.
,rous writer, and the columns of the
Waterman we're often the m d u m
through which he addressed the public.
He was in tho seventy>second year Of
lis age WaLton'S Journal.
SEVENTH REGIMENT.-A small bat
lie was fought at Pollard, near Pensa-
,ola, Fla, on the I'd, between the rebel
roops there and the Federal troops un>
Ter Gen. Ashboth. Skirmishing began
It about noon. At 3 o'clock our caval-
y charged on the rebel cavalry supper
ed by infantry. A portion of Col. Hol-
brooks brigade, consisting of the 9TH
Vt. Vols, 18th N. Y. cavalry and 18th
egiment Corps d'Afrique, formed the re.
erve of our forces, and being ski!lfully
the rebles were whipped two
o one as the rebel officers taken prison
re- acknowledge.
The correspondence of the Boston
Traveller, from which we obtain tn e
bove facts, says:
1T is impossible to give the correct
lumber engaged on either side, as our
orces were in two places. The rebels
7ere commanded by Col. Randolph who
ad a narrow escape. The rebel loss
'as two-thirds larger than ours; our in
Try being greater in the cavalry than in
'ntry. Surgeon c. H. Newhall was
on the field, and, with no small
mount Of bravery, CALAMITY cared for