Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-08-04
Town Meeting.


The meeting yesterday was organized
with Moses Lester Esq Moderator, and
A. L. Brown ESQ. Clerk.
AS we entered the hall Mr.. Cain was
making the remark that few recruits
had been obtained at an average expense
OF $3.50, and substitutes at $500. Mr..
McDaniels then remarked that he had
been serenaded by troupe Of IA contra
bands who had come up to enlist, and he
would therefore offer the following, which
we copy verbatim
"Resolved and voted, that we invest
the officers Of our Home Guard or Leag-
uers with recruiting powers to go into
the Old Dominion, or other parts Of Dix
ie to recruit able bodied men Of African
descent to fill our present quota, and all
future quotas or calls from Abraham the
First. at price not exceeding Two thon-
sand dollars for each man so recruited,
and to pay said recruits for their time
not exceeding $40 per day each man, and
all their incidental expenses" Gap
plause.)
Various amendments were offered, and
spirited remarks were made by Messrs.
Brown, CAIN Billings, Page, Everts, In
gram and Dorr.
Mr.. McDaniel's resolutson was finally
laid on the table.
Mr.. Billings moved that the selectmen
pay 81 600 to each recruit, and he insist
ed with greater eanestness, that men
who go South with ninety-nine chance s
in q hundred that they will never come
back again ought to have at least thou
sand dollars. In reply to this, Mr.. Cain,
among many other pertinent remarks,
said there were other ways to kill a
goose besides cutting its head off. The
effect of such a measure would be to pre-
vent this town from getting any men at
all, because the select men would come
in from surrounding towns and by offer
ing larger bounties would carry off the
men. He rather intimated that Mr.. Bill.
lings, being large taxpayer designed
to"Rile" the whole business by this meth
cd.
Messrs. Page, Everts, and Dorr ex
pressed similar views with regard to the
effect of offering a specified sum, and il
was finally voted almost unanimously
that the sum of 100000 be raised to b.
used by the Selectm9n at their discretion
in obtaining recruits.
Mr.. Page in the course Of his remark
stated one or two facts which are of gen
eral interest. 1t has been ascertainet
that Vermont is entitled to credi of 81.
men-we presume on account of person
who have enlisted in the navy. Thes
have been apportioned to the towns &C
cording to their quotas, Of which Rut
land gets twelve.
We may reasonably hope to obtain
few colored recruits from "Dixie," an
in the opinion of Mr.. Page there is II
reasonable doubt that the quota of Rut
land will be obtained without draft.
With regard to the method of raisin
the money, it was voted to levy tax {
100 per cent to be paid on or before o.
tober /, and all those who's thus pa
shall be entitled to discount eff ten pc
cent. 1t is thought that in this way 8
least $4,000 ready money could be mad
available for the use of the selectmen.-
1t was also voted that the selectmen /
authorized to draw orders in pieces {
500 and $500 and that the payment I
these be provided for by the issue
$4,000 bonds, bearing interest at p,
cent, and payable in 1868, 1869, 1877
and so on.
Some other votes of minor importan,
were passed, but we believe the abo'
are the principal ones.
There was very large representatiC
of the "furrin' element present, and
stranger suddenly dropping in mig
have supposed he had entered a bu
beat or cockpit instead of a pla
where respectable citizens were tryil
to deliberate on matters of the grave
importance. If there are any influe
tial Yankees who have wondrous XIII
fellow feeling towards this species
the gems hama, or If there are any Gle;