The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-03

instructing their senator's and request
ing their Representatives to vote in
favor of repeating the duty on printing
paper >
MIR. Greeley thinks Congress will
make great mistake if it adjourns
without so amending its legislation to-
wards rebels and the rebellion rs to
give the president full power over the
whole matter when he wants to nego-
tate peace. Evidently the president
does not intend to obtain a peace by
any such method. That's the difference.
MIR. Garrison intends to discon-
tinue his Liberator, considering its
mission accomplished.
Gen. Saxton lately held a meet
ing of colored people in Savannah to
explain to them Gen. Sherman's late
order for their settlement There
were many "amens,' with tears, sobs
and laughter, when the general spoke
of their freedom, and at the close of
his speech they burst out of their own
accord in the hymn, "My country, It's
of thee"
Now that Wilmington is close to
the rebel trade, attention will be who'll
ly directed to Mexico, through whose
ports, it is claimed, sufficient cotton
can be sent abroad to pay regularly
the interest on tho rebel bonds, and
keep a handsome balance on hand
beside. The rebels assert that they
have the money in London to meet
the March and September payments
"A communication published in
the Richmond Examiner, says the reb-
els do not want any more soldiers, be-
cause they cannot feed and clothe any
more, which fact the writer AYERS OF
his own knowledge, and offers evil
dence to show, if it is necessary.
The Montreal Witness has pc
titioned the Canadian Legislature to
be allowed sale of its papers at the
railroad stations, complaining that
the Grand Trunk Railroad allows
none but the Telegraph to be Sold
which is "Secesh" paper and calcu-
lated to give travellers a wrong i'm
preston of the sentiment of Mont
real. s,ss sig
) FL 1AittY -fETo % rebel battle-aags-
lnsyen4een,sefI thea sean1t bred ,'nt, the,
IIagyast rs q asIlsiIle IA thse l5tlailof lDo-I
eember last, were preselitsd To the
sVaia Debartr4ehts0 nisA VednesdaysslUf
the II Aotlief hags. fifteen iufs them
were presented by their fortunate
captors, and Secretary Stanton, after
making them little speech, gave all
a flrlough of 30 days.
-Brigadier-General Joseph Hays,
captured last September in the move
ment which resulted in our permanent
occupation of the Weldon Railroad,
has returned on parole from Rich
mond, and will soon be exchanged.
Several weeks prior to his release,
General Hays was paroled in Rich
mond for the purpose of attending to
the distribution of supplies forwarded
to our prisoners. During that time
he distributed six thousand blankets,
twenty-five hundred suits of clothing.
and twelve hundred boxes of supplies,
principally among the prisoners at
Richmond, Danville and Salisbury,
which did much toward alternating
their condition.
-Washingtons birthday was not
celebrated in Richmond This was
partly, perhaps, because the ODD of
February is also noted in the rebel
States as the birthday of the confeder-
acy and the day of the first organiza-
ton of Jefferson Davis. Very natur-
ally, the rebels did not feel much like
celebrating either of these events very
extensively last week.
Two negro women have been ar
rested in Richmond, charged with the
theft of "a bale of confederate notes"
San Francisco, in common with
the rest of the nation, celebrated the
fall of Charleston on Washington S
birthday.
In the last number of the Knox
vile Wing, Parson Brownlow thus
modestly unfolds his plans for the flu
ture Many of our old friends and
readers are anxious to know what will
be the fate of the Wing if we are elect
ed Governor. 1t will continue, and
we will continue to be the Nashville
correspondent of the Knoxville Wing,
and to interest our East Tennessee
subscribers fully as much as if we were
here all the time. We truss that no
friend has formed so low an estimate
of our abilities as to suppose for
moment that we can't govern one State