Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY Of' NEWS.
Augusta, Ca, has ice for the first time in
four years.
The force of the navy is to be reduced from
$4,000 to $4,000 men.
Col. Hamilton, the private secretary of JEFF.
Davis has been sent to Fort McHenry.
Col. Jesse C. Little, formerly of Peterboro',
N. H., is city marshal of Great Salt Lake City,
Utah.
The Peterboro' On. H. Transcript says the
cotton factories in that town are about starting
all their works.
The family of the late Albin Beard, Esq,
have sold the Nashua Telegraph to G. A. White
and r. W. Berry of Boston.
Prof. Mccullough, the alleged protector of
the ncendiary fires in New York, has been sent
TO Fort Delaware, and Gen. Harris to Libby
Prison.
The Manchester IN. H. Mirror comes out
under new heading, enlarged and improved.
1t is now called 1.-THE Mirror and Farmer" and
is lively paper.
At gay party in Mount Zion, Illinois, few
evenings since, beautiful young lady suddenly
exclaimed: "Oh, am so sick !" and fell dead.
A physician who was present, after an examn-
alton, announced that her death was caused by
tight lacing.
The Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond,
have been leased by the United States TO the
owners, Joseph r. Anderson and his partners,
who have commenced business again as iron
manufacturers, these works being held by Gov
eminent agents as confscable property.
Green Smith, son of Gerritt Smith, and late.
ly an officer of the 18th N. Y. heavy artillery,
sends to Secretary McCuloch check for S4O9-
IA, money received by him as pay for his SER
vices, it being the desire of his father that he
should give his services to the government in
its hour of need.
The ST. Louis Democrat mentions as "fact
eloquently significant of the confidence felt in
the reality and permanence of peace, and in the
confidence of our new constitution as forever
discriminating the commonwealth from pro-
slavery fossilsm, that not less than 10000 acres
of public lands were sold during the 8 months
ending July l, at the single land Office of Boon
vile, Mo. This is in addition to the sales of
lands by private parties and companies through
out the State, and it shows that the State is
fast filing up by emigration from other parts
of the country and from the Old World.
Admiral Farragut recently visited Ports
mouth, N. H. He was received at the Concord
and Portsmouth depot by William H. Hackett,
ESQ.,, President of the Common Council, who
presented him to the citizens present, when
cheer upon cheer arose to the gallant hero OF
New Orleans. The Admiral at once proceeded
to the Navy Yard slip and embarked in the
steamer Fox to the Yard where he was received
by Admiral Bailey and the other naval officers
attached to the Yard. A salute was fired, and
the Admiral proceeded with his wife to the res
idence of Admiral Bailey, whose guest he is to
be for the present.
Aprovision of the constitution lately adopted
in Missouri makes it obligatory upon every
preacher and teacher of religion, and every
teacher of any school, public or private, to take
subscribe and file his oath of loyalty within &C
days after the 18th day of July instant, on pen.
atty of fine of $500, or imprisonment in the
county jail for six months, if they continue to
teach or preach without taking and filing the
oath.
The. Quartermaster General has ordered the
officers of that department, on duty in charge
of the several principal posts, to report to him
without delay the number of interments regis.
tered. during the war, white and black, loyal
and disloyal, and to have them separately emu
merated. All officers of the same department
who have made interments on batte-felds dur.
ing the war, have also been ordered to report
the number of the same, giving the localities
dates OF battles, and dates of interments.
The Chicago Times has two columns of re-
ports from the great growing counties of Hi
nois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota-al o.
which encourage the expectation that the forth
coming harvest in all that region will be one o
the most bountiful on record, Notwithstanding
the serious damage by recent severe storms
In Indiana alone, there would seem TO be som,
doubt as to the yield of wheat on account
injuries received from rain and rust. In man,
places the stalk has not been cut, the yield be
ing SO poor. The hay crop, on the contrary, i
very fine, and promises in some places yiel
five times as large as that Of the previous sea
son. Corn, oats and potatoes are all thriving
finely, and give indications of an abundan
yield.
Capt Henry Wirz, lately prison-keeper a
Andersonville. is shortly to be put on trial 70
the cruelty and barbarity practced by him upo
our prisoners confined at that place. The mi
i'ary commission sitting in Washington, c
which Brig. Gen. A. B. Underwood is Pres
dent, Col. N. p Chapman. of the war depar,
ment, is Judge Advocate, has been directed
try the case. The charges embrace a list ,
atrocities that are little short of fiendish, an
will arouse the indignation Of the civilized worl,