Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-08-04

Bonds we're missed from the Treasury, and all
efforts to account for their disappearance fail
ed. The bonds were incomplete and useless,
but the coupons, be signed, could be used,
and eventually led to the detection Of the
robber, upon whom suspicion had fallen at
his resignation Of his place 10 the loan branch
of the Treasury last December. Since that
time he has been living extensively in idle
ness, all the time having the eyes of the de-
tectives upon him. until the missing links in
the evidence were supplied by late develop
ments. He was rested in New York. The
bonds had been destroyed, but the coupons.
with the exception Of about eight thousand
which has been used, were found.
A young man from Worcester, Mass, a
private in the 9th regiment, in the battle Of
! Cold Harbor, year ago, was hit by a ball in
the chin, which badly fractured the bone, and
tore out several teeth. Another ball hit the
right shoulder, fractured the shoulder blade,
and remains undiscovered. The third ball
passed through his abdomen and brought
him to the ground. His companions drag
ged him to hole where his body and head
could not be seen by the enemy but his
legs being exposed, one ball passed through
the calf Of his leg, another cut deep groove
through his shin, another cut through the
top OF the instep, another carried away the
next to the great toe. He lay in the hole all
day, and was then taken prisoner and starved
for several months, yet this young man is
now in Worcester, Mass, erect and in good
health, and not perceptibly lame. His name
is K. p. lockwood.
Attorney General Speed. at the request Of
President Johnson, is preparing an elaborate
B. n ha af . ha Of ~
recent trial OF the assassination conspirators
by military tribunal. The grounds taken
by MIR. Speed in justification of that mode Of
trial are That at the time of the assassin
alton Of President Lincoln fagrsnt war was
in progress that the city OF Washington was
in reality military camp and policed by
United States soldiers that the declaration q
Of martial law in the District Of Columbia had
never been revoked that az the time Of tie
tragedy the city was under military rule, and
that for a long time prior to the assassination
the Presidents person and residence were
guarded by the military forces"
GEN. GRANT's ToUR.-A correspo spondent
IN Washington writes US as follows under
date of July "a:
"Gen. Grant and family start this evening
on tour to Canada through New England.
He will not allow me TO say when he will
pass through Boston. The party consists of
the following persons, viz: 1t. Gen. Ulysses
S. Grant Mrs. Jalia Grant and four children,
viz: Frederick Grant, aged Is; Ulysses s.
Grant, Jr., aged l3; Ellen W. Grant, aged
/ 10; Jesse K. Grant. aged I. Col. Bsbcock
Col. Porter Col. Adam Bsdeau (privste Sec
rstsry to Gen. Grant y Col. Parker Indian
and Civil Engineer to Gen. Grant.
Some Georgia papers are trying to make a
sensation by predicting a st. Domingo massa-
ere by the negroes. 1t would seem that some
sense of the wild justice of retaliation must
haunt their imsg ginations. Where the negroes
are decently treated no one suspects massa-
ere but where those who have toiled life
time for nothing are now refused the privi-
lege Of laboring for their own bread on the
soil their blood and sweat have enriched for
its owners, it cannot be at all wonderful that
the fear Of disorder should prevail.
There will be reunion Of the descend
ants Of the late Holland Weeks at the resi-
dence Of +. II. Weeks, Esq, in Salisbury,
VT. Sept. T. 1865. his family trace their
ancestry direct TO John Alden, the strip
ling who first leaped upon Mammoth Rock"
and afterwards courted Prescila Mullnz by
proxy ior Ahpt. mlies CtdnOlsns ana tn6u
married her himself. The descendants are
numerous and may be found in almost every
State in the Union.
About $50 900 worth of defaced or worn
out fractional currency is destroyed per day.
aud it's place supplied with new, the entire
amount in circulation being upwards OF S2l,-
000, 600. No more three cent notes are to
be issued, the act OF Congress prohibiting
them, and five cent notes are also to be grad
uslly withdrawn
A note from Cyrus w. Fields, dated Lon
don, July / l, says: | leave here on Thurs
day, 3lh inst, and the Great Eastern will
sail from the More on Saturday, 18th. Ex-
pect to leave Valentia about the 18th ard to
arrive at Hearts Content during the first of
August. Everything is going on to our en-
tire satisfaction.
1t is said that eighty plantations in Louisi-
ana have recently been confsc'ted. These
embrace many of the finest sugar estates of
the tounthern country. Mr.. Conway, the
government agent is making arrangements
to divide up these estates into forty acre lots
for freedmen and poor whites.
John Hill, the last member OF bush
! whaeking party who surrendered at Lexing-
ton, Mo, was taken from the house of the
sheriff at Warsaw, where he was held on the
charge Of murder, on the 10th inst. by
party of mounted men. who took him across
Usage river and shot him, putting thirty or
forty bullets into his body.
JEFF. Davis and his followers got up the re-
bellion for the pretended purpose of render
ing their property in slaves secure. And
now JEFF. Davis is in prison awaiting trial for
his life, and his ex-slaves are cultyating his
fine plantation of two thousand acres in Miss
issippi for their own benefit, remarks the
Louisville Journal.
The Richmond Wing Of Monday says the
state zeal Of Virginia has been materially
altered by the new state government The
device is the same. but the words " Liberty
and Union now appear above the Goddess
of Liberty trAmpling uPon the PROSTATE form
Of tyranny.
Reconstruction meetings are taking place
in all parts of Georgia, and leading citizens