Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-01-22
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Schools, before making change, would do
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/ OF the Progressive Series, compiled by Salem
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! The lower numbers of the Series, we learn,
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plates, with many net0 aud beautiful iluustra-
tions; but no changes will be made ia the tex
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A new number, entitled " The Progressive
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ries, for the purpose Of furnishing additional
reading matter for the Primary aud lnterme-
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er numbers ofthe SERIES plan which bears
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ets IN every part OF our country have UNIFORM
ly testified.
To the Fourth number of the series, fifty
two pages of very chplce selections have been
added and, so far a we acquainted, no
similar work now embraces 80 great "a variety
of rhetorical exercises, which are so ,oeH a.
d1pied to the grade of schol rs for whom this
Reader Is designed
The Filth, or Evolutionary Reader, now the
most complete and practical work published,
we understand, is also to be enlarged by the
addition Of several pages more OF the most
popular standard pieces in the Euglish Ian
guage, embracing every variety ofstyle appro-
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With all these improvements and additions,
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it is more extensively used in New England
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eHer Jan. 0, 1864.
Chicago has 90 churches. and 1892 liquor
shops.
A deserter was lately sawed in two in
New York saw mill.
Major Bruce Cameron, son of the ex-sec-
rotary of war, who was recently placed upon
the retired army list with paymasters pay,
is dead
Mr.. Wil,on said, in the Senate, " | think
we have in the army 100000 men, Of which
400, 900 are effective soldiers. do not think
the rebels have over 225, 700. | have good
reasons for this belief. think the rebellion
will be crushed out by October"
A special Washington dispatch says that
President Lincoln has received letter from
General Banks, containing the assurance that
he would soon complete the organization Of
the State government of Louisiana
The Presidents amnesty proclamation will
soon be presented to the rebel prisoners now
! in our custody. Their number is over forty
! thousand. IL Is estimated thht lhlrty per
cent. will take the prescribed oath.
Half dozen Virginians living at Vienna,
who refused to take the oath, have been sent
to the old capitol prison.
Tue great New York sanitary fair is post
poned from February % to March DC. A
special building for it's accommodation has got
to be erected.
The Express tram which left st. Louis for
Chicago, December 81, was six days in max
ing the tIip
Cul Aldrich's Indian commission, while in
Minnesota, examined 2940 claims for relief,
amounting TO 81 ,458, 900, Eleven thousand
persons we're examined. aad their testimony
showed that some eight hundred persons were
bulchered by the lnuians. The $4,000 900
appropriated at the last session of Congress,
was distributed among some 400 Of the most
needy Besides the forfeited Sioux annuities,
bill is being prepared 20 appropriate ST.
100, 900 for the e'ief Of the Minnesotians.
Washington dispatches wholly deny the
truth Of the repor, that the rebel government
has offered to sell its cotton in the Southwest
so far from il, they are now removing the cot
ton that is exposed to capture