The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-01-27

They have struck oil Mt Chicago,
only 33 feet below the surface.
There is bill before the New
York legislature to establish a paid
fire department in New York city.
A Partisan, M. Graof, has invent
ed flying machine, and is soon
going to try flying from the towers of
Notre Dame.
A United States Judge in Cincin-
matt has decided that no tax can be
imposed upon legacies received from
the sale of real estate.
The benevolence of Louisville is
taxed to care for seventy-fve cham
bermaids who lost all they had at the
burning of the Gait House.
The cold in Southern Michigan
and Northern Indiana has been so
severe this winter as to kill all the
peach trees, except upon the lake
shore.
"A bill taxing State bank circu-
lation very heavily is being prepared
in the treasury department and will be
received with favor by many congress
men, heretofore opposed to such a
measure.
1t is reported that Gen. Lee has
been made commander of all the rebel
forces, and that he will leave Beaure-
gard in charge of the defenses of Rich
mond, while he goes south to conduct
the campaign against Sherman. The
rebel sympathizers say Lee hopes to
defeat Sherman, and be ready in the
spring to invade Pennsylvania again
that he has no fear Of Grant taking
Richmond
Western capitalists are forming a
steamship company at st. Louis, and
are making arrangements to carry flour
from louisville and st. Louis TO New
York at 81, so a barrel.
One of the New York rebel incen-
diaries was lately arrested at Detroit.
He gave his name as Cobb, but regis
tered himself at New York as Sidney
Stanton.
"A general movement is on foot
among western railroad managers in
view of the increased cost. Of fuel in
particular and of construction, repairs
and other expenses in general, to re-
duce the speed of passenger trains to
a maximum of twenty miles per hour.
Gen. Grant has been in Washing
ton and testified briefly before the war
committee on the Fort Fisher question,
in which there is little interest now
that events have settled it.
Henderson, late naval officer at
New York, is to be tried before naval
court martial, instead Of civil court,
for fraud There has been strong
effort to hush the matter up, but with
out success.
- Mr.. Everett wrote to Mr.. Bonner
of the New York Lsdger. on the 30th
of December, that the French mission
had been mentioned to him, but not
by him, that he doubted whether he
should accept it if offered, and that
two years ago he declined to go abroad
on confidential mission for the gov
eminent to all the leading courts, with
a secretary and an allowance equal to
the highest salary, and permission to
stay as long as he thought expedient
in each capital
The House of Representatives, on
Monday, passed by vote of 81 to 40
the joint resolution reducing the duty
Oh foreign printing paper to B per cent
al valorem. The Senate will un
doubtedly concur, and newspaper pub
fishers will find relief from the higl
prices of the paper manufacturers o
this country, by importing foreign pa
per.
Fifty-seven years ago few lads
in Boston formed society for mutua
improvement in defamation. Severa
of the members became men of note
Among the survivors, Rev n. l.
rockingham, ID. d., and Hon. G. G
Loring, are the most widely known
Prominent among those who have died
are Rev. IT, w. T. Greenwood, ID. ID.
and Edward Everett.
An advertisement appears in the
Selma (Alabama) Dispatch, offering
to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, vii
liam H. Seward and Andrew johnson
for the sum Of one million dollars $50
900 in advance and the balance wher
the job is done. This is declared tC
be the only thing that can bring peace
"A joint resolution against nego
tiation, concession or compromise, anC
declaring for war until the rebels sub
NIT to the authority of the government
and obey the constitution and laws
was presented to the Senate on Mon
day. 1t should pass both Houses b.
the entire republican vote at least
The rebels stoutly affirm that they vii
listen to no terms but disunion. Fight
ing is the only alternative till they arr
chastised into a better mind.