The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-03-18
NEWS ITEMS.

- Il w. ITEMS
Connecticut river is free from
below Bellows Falls.
The Connecticut election viii
cur on the first Monday in April.
The United States public ia I
March 1864, is stated to be, in g7g,
G T fifteen hundred millions ofdola,
The Medical Director pronoupv
the quarters Of the Invalid Com,
Burlington the best in the DEPARTING
The New York State Inebr,
Asylum is to be dedicated on the If.
of June, 1864
"A letter from the Army Of the P /
tomac says all ladies have been oris
ed to leave as soon as possible.
Government advertises for SOIL
cavalry horses, to be delivered at Mont
peher
During the year ending last d.
cember nearly 100000 emigrants ar.
rived in the United States, I73ON
landing at New York alone
Navigation on the North Rive
has been resumed already; and t
boats ply between New York aud 81
bany.
Hon. J.. T.. Chittenden, Reg.e
Of the L. s Treasury, was the on
on the occasion of the opening Of
Grand National Fair at Washing
on the 22d ult.
Capt Abijah Keith, Of MoutpeHs
has moved to Chicago, having enien
into a partnership in the wholesale al
goods business with Keith, Savage .
Co, of that city
4 house fN Of friends called ura
Rev. Geo. H. Clark, at St Johnsb1r
Centre, on the evening Of March
Sth, aud left behind So as token
regard for their pastor cqiedoaE
II is supposed that the two al
panios Of drafted men at Brattebr
viii this spring be sent to the trout Q.
the company Of lst Battalion Inyl-
Corps now forming be put on duty
their place
The Fireman Office at MontpeE
was discovered to be on fire SnE
afternoon but by the timely apple
ton of a few pals of water a conf
grafton was ayerted. The cause Of q
fire remains a mystery.
We are sorry to learn that Lia.
Gov Dillingham; has met with an ssD
dent, by stepping upon the ears VI
in motion, which promises to be q
serious, and may make him lame Fl
life Iiahoa's DaRy
In the late raid of Gen. Kilpaina
on Richmond, honorable mention I
made of the gallant part taken lnhs.
Lieut.. Col. Preston and Capt CI.
mings, of the Vermont Cavalry a-
Danville soldiers, and both good Hsl
ers, rs has been shown not only IN t-
hut ON former occasions A0ah y
Frederick +. Streeter, who vasH
Gently burg at Medina, for the mira
Of the Coy family, was formerly ~
Der at Bellows Falls, and aecoTdins
the St. JchhsbNy Cale6oNiaR IS tsle
ed TO have set the fire which destroy
so much of that village ~ 1860
THE Richford Copper Ml4
Company" which was incorpota'elg
the Vermont Legislature last NoTy
Der, have duly organized by the y
pointment of Lucius II. Gof, tsl, /
Richford, rs President, and NJ , !, !.
mer, Esq, as Agent. The act OF u.
poration was granted "ior the pulF
of mining. working and selling %Fl
and copper ores in the Cotn4
Franklin. y
The grounds ON which Ja'.
Richie at ST Johns. \. b., before W. y. i
the pirates were brought on VII
heobds corpus, ordered their relea|c y.
the 10th inst, were that the I. . ~ 4,
eminent had made no req1lsltlo1 i
them that the parties not having I'll
in the United States after Their pis =.
cal acts were committed, they mg h. n
come within treaty provisions enc n h
thermore that no proper olieei N
had eognizance of the matter ~"
proceedings did not comply WIN F'
er formalities.
The New York Herald estlnla ,.
that $4,000 are expended eaen q, ~
in placesof amusement in that ei', y,
| $4,000 more than i'll Paris. W. sIs
that Broadway was never - Tbe
with magnificent dressed ladles, ya
were never seen before in New m
such numbers of private and y - +re
3 equipages, such evidences o. \
wealth and prosperity. sure aSpo
have not as yet realized the N d
ances or privations of war - ells
P hotels and boarding houses ai' 20 \
and, although prices have rlSs ,,o,tun
, 90 per day, they are l'"f1 In Vi,
for further accommodation 1T ba
! of this influx of travellers We ~" bote
t new and more magnifleen' ted 81
D There should be n number "'
further up town.