Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-08-17


the pilot boat James Funk, on THURSDAY
last. Five vessels were captured and
burned off Sandy Hook on the same d,v
by the pirate Tallahassee.
The GOLD MINES IN CAxApA.-Tbs
newspapers are telling large stories of thu
productiveness of the Chaudiere gold
mines. About 500 persons, many of them
Americans, are at work on Gilbert river
and the Chaudiere. They are sa,d to r.
alizc from five to seven dollars daily Der
man. Stories are told also, of finding
nuggets occasionally valued at from ten
to two hundred dollars. The amoubt of
the story appears to be that gold mining
companies have been formed and are apx:
ious to sell claims to others.
The VIZ. CAvALRY.-The Ist Vt. Cav.
airy is now permanently attached to the
I'd brigade, Sd division of the cavalry
corps commanded by Brig Gen. Geo. H,
Chapman, formerly Colonel of the Sd In.
DIANA cavalry. A recent letter informs
us that by recent order in reference to
the mastering out of regiments, the gal
liant LIST will go out on the 18th of Octo-
Der; and that " the boys are we'll pleased
with the idea. Free Press,
GsS The rebel Colonel Adams johnson
has issued a proclamation requiring all
persons in the rebel department of South
ern Kentucky, between the ages of eigh-
teen and forty-fve, not lawfully exempt,
to report for rebel service. to county, town
or nearest rebel camp thereto, by the 9Th,
threatening with CONSUMPTION after that
date all who do not comply with the proc.
lamation.
ca Isaiah Green of Bethel is digging
gold from the bank of Locust Creek in
that town. He gets from 50 to s. worth
per day and there is plenty more left
ca The Boston Dailics have raised
their rates to five cents per copy, thirty
cents per week.
CT The subscriptions to the $50 loan
reported to the treasury department Sat-
urday amounted to $l.O29.500. The az
gregate amount to August ID is SIS, O67,-
$50.
ca The best Havana cigars are made
from Tobacco dipped into solution Of
opium. Natural leaf tobacco never has
that peculiar effect, as will be noticed upon
smoking the best clean leaf in a pipe. 1t
is the opium in frst-rate cigar, and not
the tobacco which smokers get cnslaved
with and cannot do without. In some of
the Havana establishments, twenty thous,
and dollars worth of opium per year is
used.
Ey The probability that Mr.. Fesscn-
den will hold the treasury department but
short time seems increasing His carly
resignation is indeed predicted, mainly
because of his delicate health, which, had
he followed his own instincts would have
prevented his acceptance of the place.
The effort of his friends in Maine to
make him him his own successor In the
United States Senate, in opposition t"
Vice President Hamlin's ambition, also
indicates his purpose not to hold his pres
cnt position very long.-SpringfeH he,
publican.
SrowE.-Rev. H. P. Cutting has or
gained a Unitarian Church in Stowe.
numbering eighty members. The society
: are to occupy the fine new UDiversaIist
Church in that village. Mr.. Cutting
leaves next week to take charge OF the
First Congregational Unitarian Church III
: Winona, Mimi, and Rev. G. A, Allen o
graduate of Meadville Theological School,
) succeeds him at Stowe.-B"''"g'"
: Times.
The PLACE TO GIT WIrE-Ihe YER
: genncs Vermonter says that in Ferns
: burg, the other day, two sisters "0me"
{ grown, wero seen engaged in most essen
s TALLY aiding in harvesting the hay on'
r Of the sisters was riding the moving Ma