Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-11-17
Miscellan e US.


Secretary Harlan has decided that all PEN
sions granted prior TO the commencement OF
the late rebellion accrue from and after the
date of the Presidents proclamation declar-
ing the State in which the pensioner lived to
he in insurrectIon.
A bill was introduced into the Tennessee
Senate, Tuesday for dividing up and selling
:. auction the, Hermitage, the late President
Jsckson's homestead, except two acres in
closing his grave.
A Washington despatch says: Chief JUS
.icc Chase objects 10 having Davis tried at
Richmond, Tie urges postponment of the
Hial IN I'll after Congress meets. 1t Is said
that be wished Congress to provide for tue
.se stecianJ. The President wishes the
.rIal immediately. and urges it upon the
Chef Justice.
The Surgeon of the Atlanta states that
ihe majority of her passengers were emil
rsB,s from Switzerland and the southern
psrt Of Germany. They came by the way
Of Paris, where the cholera was raging, to
Hsvre. end while there, several died in
bosrding houses attended by government
rhFsicitus
Unusual facilities were afforded by the
ofcials for their shipment, and the anxiety
to place them on shipboard was DO great as
to cause inquiries on the part OF the officers
Of the ship.
We must look TO the persons at Havre as to
the csuse for the disease on board the vessel.
Since the passengers were removed from
the ship but few cares have occurred. those
in inildish form.
WirE has been sentences to be hung to-
morrow.
The Surgeons engaged IN preparing the
medical statistics of the rebellion have ascer-
tanned tba; the average mortality in the
union hospitals throughout the country was
less than nine per cent. The mortality in
the English and French hospitals during the
Crimean war was nearly fifty per cent.
the number Of post routes restored in the
South is 24l, converting Is .553 miles Of ser
vice. The cost t. the government by the
late contracts is 1895, ,796 less than by the
contracts in existence at the outbreak Of the
rebellion for the same amount of service.
Locomotives and cars used on military
railroads have been sold to southern railroad
companies to the amount OF upward Of two
millions of dollars, on credit.
information mas been received from the
Sandwich Islands that Brigham Young has
s,nt colony of Mormons there. which may
lie the advance guard of the saints who
are becoming discontented Rith Utah.
where their wives are becoming demurahzed
by the Union soldiers. For some years past
Yankee sea captain has been eDdeavoring
10 obtain contract 70 remove the Mormons
10 sOne ocean isle. and 1t appears that Brig
ham Young is now seriously considering a
hegira. But the British and French do not
fancy the establishment OF vlrtually United
States outpost in the tar seas, and their
representative have written 10 their respec-
tive home governments, who in turn have
directed the ministers 10 inquire into the
matter.
1t is now stated that there is no excitment
IN Toronto about the Fenians. The banks
have extra guards, but that Is from fear OF
burglars
BuIlcy tie 0ntariu raider is IN Scotland
having been heard from at Glasgow lie
was taken for FeDisn, at londonderry and
was under arrest several hours.
Steamer Yosemite, of the California Steam
Navigation Company, Sacramento and San
Frarciscp line, was blown into a perfect
wreck by the explosion OF one of her boilers
Oct. IL, on her downward trip TO San Fran
cisco She was lying at the wharf at Rio
Vista at the tint of the catastrophe 1t is
reported that forty of her passengers have
been killed and many were wounded. There
were in the hold twenty FIVE Or thirty CHI
nese, nearly all OF whom were killed. Steam
WIS blowing of at the time al % pounds
pressure, but 1t il thought the sudden rush |
Of Passengers to one side, changing the rela-
tive position of the water in the boilers, |
caused a too sudden generation Of steam.
While the American Express wagon for
delivering money packages was going It's |
rounds IN Chicago Thursday, it was dscoy- |
cred that satcbel containing SAC, 900 had |
been taken from the wagon. The detective
force is at work, and have caught the thieves.
In Baltimore they are raising money to
help raise the long-tslked of statue of Stone
wall jackson, which is to be set up in Rich
mond We haven't yet heard of statue
Of WIZ st Andersonvile
While coal Commands SIG ton in Bos-
ton, it sells for SIS in Elizabethtown, n. j.
This provost that combination and specula-
tlon Lave something to do with high prices
Oi fuel in this part OF the country.
Two new lodges for infringing the reven-
ue laws have been extensively carried out
by our Canadian neighbors. One is the in
PRODUCTION of whiskey by means OF tin lin
ings inherited in -four barrels. Out Of 100
barrels seized IS contained TIN Innings, hold
ing IRON three to FIVE gallons. Exten-
Give smuggling of meersehaum pipes inserted
IN lOay,s OF bread, have been detected.