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Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01
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Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

have given the Plantation Bitters to hum
dreds OF our disabled soldiers with the astonishing
effect g. W. II. ANDREWS,
supt Soldiers Home, Cincinnati, ..
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

! have been great sufferer from Dyspep'
STA, and had to abandon preaching.
The Plantation Bitters have cured me-
REV ]. s. CATHORN, Rochester, y. Y.
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e Thou wilt send me two bottles more Of
thy Plantation Bitters. My wife has been greatly brne-
fitted by their use. Thy friend,
ASA CURRlN, PHILADELPHIA Pa.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

By the steamer Novia scotian, at Portland, we
learn that the Hibernian, Hansa and City of New
York had arrived out.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01
The l[0niienr SAWS :

"If the Emperor has determined on the principle
of reduction of the war expenditure, the means by
which the reduction is to be accomplished are not
yet decided upon.
The Daily Ncrs is indignant at the tone Of the
military dispatches and newspaper correspondents
at Jamaica, which, it thinks proves that the 'fero
city we dcnOunce in savagcs can take possession OF
English hearts and mercy and justice can he for
gotten BY English officers thoroughly as by In
dams and Cossacks"
The Times says that the authorities appear to
have acted with commendable promptnes' IN ia
,'aic, the chief of the rebels having been
cantured. tried by martial law, and executed at
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

TOR LIVERPOOL.-Th British bark, Il
i WHITE STAR. Captain RoDIcK, now at City ~
Point, will be de patched Immediately TO LiN BIZ,
pool. For freight OF POO hogsheads Tobaeeoah anu
CASKIE BROS,
decl-lw Seventh and Franklin street
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

The highest nUnb.r of prisoners in the Old Capitol
| at anv one time during the rebellion was l,O04 but
according to theocal returns to-day there are but
| nlnrnn cor fnnl LhnIn
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

Official returf received at the Freedmen's Bureau
show that of til 10 600 negroes sent down Cape Fear
river in March 1865, TO Wilmington by General
Sherman, 000died from l7th March to 3lst of May
for the want Ofmedcal attention, which it was i'm
possible to aIod them at the time. Since the estab
iishment of It'd medical department of the Freed
mems Bureau in North Carolina, the mortality
among the freklmen has greatly decreased
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-12-01

WITH HOUSE.
There was large crowd of visitors at the Execu-
tive Mansion today. among them Generals Hancocs
and Rousseau, Setatars DoOittle and Trumbull, and
Hon Horace MAYNARD, of Tennessee.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

PLoF. BAKERS CoScERT.-A select and
cultivated audience. and of good number
considering the inclemency Of the evening,
attended the Concert Friday evening, and
doubtless felt themselves well repaid for 60
ing-aside from the pleasure which all take
IN encouraging home talent. Miss Tenant
has a clear ringing voice, Of considerable
power, which, when by sufficient cultivation
it becomes perfectly true throughout its reg
lister, will be remarkably fine one. She
was enthusiastically eneored after singing
the aria "She led hIm through the trackless
wild, and responded with the Scotch bal
lad ''DOwn the burn, which was also hear
tily applauded. Prof Baker sang bass so
10 from the Messiah, and Russell's Maniac.
and was literally applauded. Mr.. Proctor
played with excellent taste and expression
piece by Krug, and pretty Mazurka, and
in response to hearty encore, gave "the
Mocking Bird with HOfman's brilliant
variations. Perhaps the most noticeable
feature was the singing Of the class of l6
young lads and misses, who rendered some Of
the'choruses from Faust, Martha and LON
bardi, in a manner which did high credit to
themselves and their instructor.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29
Jericho, Vt.
Miscellany.

LIEING.-An easy az it IL to lie. l am
sstonished that thare are so few engaged in
The bizzness, and that so few fust-rate lies
are ever told.
am not prepared to say how mutch real
SIN thare IL what IL kalled light-coloured
lie. that haz no maliss or evil result in it,
but have alwus nOtised that the heft ov
mankind love to excel in awl they undertake,
and can't tell how long a man would be
willing to tell white lies for fun when he
might be turning an honest penny for HIM
self by telling black ones.
Mon don't generally bckum drunkards by
confning themselfs stricktly tew sweet sidcr
Lleing is the lowest grade of sin,-it is
more cowardly than stealing, bekause thare
iz less risk in it, it is more demoralizing
than burglary, bekause thare IL no cure for
tit is more dangerous than swareing, be-
kause swareing don't hurt emmy boldly else,
it waz the fust sin committed, bekause it
was the eazye and most natral, and it will
probably be the last one committed, bekause
no man ever gifts so poor and degraded but
what he kan tell quite respeckabel lie.
Lieing IL sed tew be eonsutushionall in
sum folks,-so IL the itch constitutional,
because folks hang around WHARF it IL, and
won't doktOr for it after they git caught by
it.
Finally might az well own it have
told few very fair lies myself, but kant
reckoleckt ov one.
That feel proud oy now.
Saturday Press. JOSH. BILLINGS
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General Grants Report.

Gen. Grants report on the condition oftho
Southern States, will command attention
from the high position of its author, and
have value from the general confidence in his
sound sense and fairness. 1t would be more
valuable, doubtless, If Its conclusions were
based on longer and wider observation. \
day each at Raleigh, Savannah, and Angus
ia, and two days at Charleston, Is not as ex-
tensive a tour OF inspection as can be con-
ceived Of But doubtless Gen. GIANT has had
manv means of arriving at conclusions on
the condition Of the South in addition to his
peronal observations on his late hasty tour.
Two of his conclusions, at any rate, will be
readily accepted, viz, that United States
garrisons must be maintained throughout
the South. and that the freedmen must have
friendly care and laws to protect them.
We are sorry. however, that the General
did not take more time and give the country
a somewhat more explicit and detailed re-
port. a document from him on the condi-
tion of the rebel States, prepared with the
elearness and care which marked his military
report, would be invaluable just now.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29
Scraps.

The new back-hair twist which has super
seded the waterfall, is called the water
wheel.
Brigham Young is, indeed, pillar OF Salt
Lake. His ideas of a wife is-LOfs.
The sugar wcdding-thirty days after
MARRIAGES. the newest thing.
A western paper says the best way to kill
bed-bugs is to chain their hind lego to a tree
then 20 round in front and make mouths at
them,
.'Dear Harry You ask me what sort of 4
game am playing with Jack Graham for
Clarissa's hand. ! have to say, in reply, it
is game of double or quits, and the result
is that double and he quits"
A Western farmer, investing his accumu-
lations in U. S. bonds, was asked by the
clerk what denomination be would have them
in, Having never heard that word used,
excepting to distinguish the religious sects,
be replied "Well, you may give me part
in old school Presbyterian, to please the old
lady, but give me the heft ont in Free-wiil
Baptist"
Root-black boy to returned soldier
".Black your boots, sir make 'em SHINE J
Looking to his unpublished 'gunboats In
contemplative way, the war worn veteran
replied, We'll, don't care if YOU do-fall
in promptly, though Urchin to comrade
near by, i say, Bill. lond us hand won''
ysr! I've got an army contract.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

THE YOUNG ANIMAL MAN.-Tbe helpless
ness of infancy appeals to all that is ehival-
ric and Christian in our hearts, but to dig
nifty it is pre-eminently a stranger. \
charming and popular writer-On the whole,
| EN- not sure that it was not my own sell -
once affirmed that baby is a beast, and
gave great offence thereby; yet it seems to
me that no unprejudiced person can observe
an infant of tender weeks sprawling and
squirmlng in the bath-tub, and not confess
that it looks more like little pink frog than
anything else. And here is a Jamie, not
only weeks. but months and years old, set
ting his young affections on candy and DIM
ner and eating in general, with an appal-
ling intensity. 1t is humiliating to see how
easily he is moved by an appeal to his appe-
tite. | blush for my race, remembering
the sparkle of his eyes over dainty dish.
and the abandonment Of his devotion to it,
the enthusiasm with which his feet
spring, and his voice rings through the
house, to announce the fact " Dinnah mo-
weh-wy dinnah mo- weh-wy !" To the
naked eye, he appears to think as much OF
eating as cat, or q chicken. or dog
Reasons and rights he is slow to compre-
bend; but his conscience is always open to
conviction, and his will pliable to higher
law, when a stick of candy is in the case.
His bread-and-butter is to him what science
was to Newton and he has been known to
reply abstractedly to a question put to him
in the height of his enjoyment. Don't
talk t me nowi' This is not dignity, sure
ly. Is it total deprayity Gail Hamilton
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Personal.

Capt and Brcvet Major Ogden Read, son
of Recorder Read, arrived home Friday,
having been honorably mustered out of the
service. with his regiment, the 39th eolored
Infantry. This was three years regiment,
and the men were generally anxious to be
mustered out. Capt Read has been on du-
ty recently at Fort Caswell, and still later
as Judge Advocate of Court Martial, at
Wilmington, N. G.
Hon. +. Z. Woodbridge, NJ. C., was in
town last week, in attendance on the Burton
and Clark Arbitration.
Rev. J. ID. Kingsbury, lately of Winoos-
XII, has received unanimous invitation to
the pastorate Of the lst Congregational
Church Of Bradford, Mass, with a salary of
fifteen hundred dollars.
1t is reported that that a person answer
ing the description of Mr.. uubbell, the
missing cashier of the Missisquoi Bank, was
seen in Toledo, Ohio, on Saturday last.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

2. The supply of such Freedmen as are ahl
to read, multitudes Of whom are rapidly learn
ing for the purpose Of perusing the Inspire
Word before they die. To meet the wants Of tn
aged among them, an edition of the Gospel o
John, in large prinr. is just prepared.
Having labored the past year as army agen
Of the Bible Society among the soldiers, citizeni
and freedmen Of Virginia and North Carolina
the subscriber can testify to the interesting char
acter and vast importance Of these efforts.
3. The circulation Of the Spanish Scriptures
in Mexico and South America, where agents are
at work and where hundreds Of thousands Of
copies will be gladly received and read by the
people. r1 .L IT, -
| 4. The printing Of the new version of the
Arabic Scriptures, the 6rst edition Of which.
together with the preparation Of the electretype
plates, will cost the Society this year from sew
enty to eighty thousand dollars The Arabic is
the spoken language Of one hundred and twenty
millions of people. If, aier the plates are in-
ished, we can print two hundred thousand cop
les annually for one hundred and twenty years.
We should just put ore Bible in each family -
Provided the race remains numerically the same,
in six hundred years we could furnish il. Bible
to each individual i -
While called to these unusual efforts, the or
binary work cannot safely be neglected. The
Bible has been wisely pronounced the Charter Of
Liberty to the world, and our recent national
experience teaches US, in every possible way to
develop and strengthen the elements Of free
government. To do it We must keep the Bible
in the hands Of the masses.
1t is thought important that every communi
ty should be csnyassed and supplied once in
five years. 1t is much more than that since this
work has been done throughout this State At
IFS annual meeting, the Vermont Bible Society
voted to re-canvass the State. Two agents are
already in the field for this purpose, and others
will be employed as soon as suitable men can
be found.
Sister States are responding nobly to the
voice Of Providence calling US to enlarged liber-
ality Massachusetts, Bible Society has apprO-
priated five thousand dollars for the Arabic |
Scriptures. Illinois is endeavoring to make her |
special Jubilee Offering fifty thousand dollars.
Others are making similar efforts. We trust |
Vermont will not be behind her sister States in |
this sublime effort. A large increase Of funds
seems Indispensable to the discharge Of our OBJ
ligstiOns.
The agent can visit comparatively lew Of the
churches. May we not rely upon pastors Of
every name, to bring the cause faithfully before
their people And will not every lover of the
Bible, however humble his means, contribute
bis mite, and those of larger stewardship give
As God hath prOspered We do not ask you to
turn aside other benevolent objects which the
Bible has developed, but do not forget this time.
honOred and Heaven-honored institution in this
most interesting crisis of its history.
WM II. GILBERT,
Agent An. and VT Bible Societies.
BrattlebOro. Dee. II. 1860
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The Bible Society.


Msssrs. EdiioTs:
Permit me through your columns,
to address few facts to the friends of the Bible
cause in Vermont
The American Bible Society is now in the ff-
tieth year of its operations, having been organ
lied on the second Wednesday Of May, 1Sl6.-
Just as the year has opened upon US, God in
his Providence has summoned US to several new
endeavOrs Of great importance and magnitude,
thus crowning and honoring our humble labors
in the past
We seem to be thus called upon to celebrate
our Jubeilee Year by undertaking the following
extraordinary enterprises f: l.t
l. The re-supply or the South, where vast
proportion Of the people are now without Bibles
and anxious to receive them, and where meas
ures are inaugurated for circulating at least :
600, 900 copies.
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For the Free Press
THE DYING YEAR,
Voice Of the dying year

Voice Of the dying year
hear thee murm ring 'mong the trembling pines,
Tby bitter plant among the trailing vines.
Or. like some breaker from the moaning sea,
Wailing in dismal tones thy destiny
Voice of the dying year
I bear thee moan in accents sad and low,
As drawing near the great abyss, thy woe
Breaks forth like waves that chafe the fettered
rock,
Nadly rebounding meath the giants stroke.
Is this the end of all thy hopes, the fear
That ike a curtain fringed the op'ningl year !?
The pealing chime, resounding stroke on stroke,
Proclaimed thy birth, the solemn stiffness brokel
Is this the end of thy fresh morning song,
That on the midn air was waft alsng,
Voice of the dying year
SPEAK to my heart; unto my conscience speak,
Speak to my soul; in kindly utt'rance break
Tbste'er Of wisdom sage thou may'st impart
And bind thy precept on my changeful heart.
amid the signing of the wintry blast
That st the midnight hour is hurrying past,
hear Plaintive wail-the midnight bell
With solemn tone resOunds thy sad death knell,
Voice of the dying year
AMELIA
Jericho VI.
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EXTENSION OF TIE BREAKwATER.-We are
glad to learn that measures are in progress
to procure from Congress an extension of the
breakwater in our bay. Mr.. Henry Rolte,
who is giving his attention to the subject,
informs us that an extension Of 1900 feet is
needed on the north end fully to proto ct the
lumber whaTves, while as much more will
be required in time on the south end to
guard the proposed improvements about the
Rutland dock and the iron works. If seeur-
ed, it is probable these additions will be
placed p 0 or 300 feet further out into the
bay than the present breakwater, thus leay-
ing intervals through which vessel, can pass
in and out
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Ghe 6ree prsss.
GEO. w. & G. G. BENEDICT,
Etifors and Propri.tors.
BURLINGTON
FRIDAY MORNING DEC. 90. 1866.
The Progress of Reconstruction.

Inc TTssress OF Reconstruction.
Proclamations and messages, and reports
from high officials, follow each other now-a-
days, with a rapidity almost bewildcring,
and many of them of length entirely be-
yond the limits of the smaller papers. Sec
rotary Seward has, by order of the President,
addressed dispatches to the Provisional Gov
ernor and Governor elect of Georgia, similar
to those directed to the same officials in Ala
bama, by which the former is relieved from
dutyand the latter ordered to enter upon the
discharge Of his gubernatorial functions.
While Congress is laboring under the i'm
preston that the question OF reconstruction
rests upon as action, and is taking its time
to consider on what terms the rebel States
shall be admitted, the President and Secre-
tary Of State, in the Proclamation announc-
ing the adoption of the Constit utional amend
ment, place seven of those States in the list
Of States in the Union have fully remittsd
to the charge Of their own citizens, or of the
Governors chosen by them, the government
of two of those States, and will doubtless
at once take similar action with reference to
every seeded State that has adopted the
amendment. The question naturally occurs,
if those States are in the Union sufficiently
to cooperate, and secure official recognition
with the rest in that most important action,
the amendment of the Constitution, and to
be allowed the choice of their governors and
the conduct Of their own affairs, why are
they not in, sufficiently to have a reprcsen
tation in Congress Are we to have States
Of the Union, without representation in the
National Legislature That seems to be
possible, for Congress has the sole control OF
the admission of its own members, and may
decline to be crowded along any faster than
it chooses, by President or Secretary. Still |
it would be 4 painful anomaly, and ono
which no patriot can desire to see continued !
a day longer than is necessary.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

The PHOTOGRAPH GALLLERIEs.-The Pho
tograph men tell the simple Truth when they
say there Is no more acceptable present to
true friend than good likeness of your
countenance, be it plain or handsome. 1t is
also true that there is probably not place
of its size that has more handsome and more
convenient Photographic establishments,
than those Of Burlington. STYLES beauti-
full gallery is but step up from the side
walk, and is worth call whether one wants
q picture or not. We warn all visitors,
however, that the attractions in the shape of
large and varied stock of photograph al
buns, pictures of well known citizens 30
life-like as to tempt any one to sit down and
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

Mr.. HErDE's PAISTINGs.-Eight paintings
by c. L. Heyde were distributed by lot last
week at the osice of Mr.. J. r. Hickok, as
follows
Mansfield Mountain, drawn by John
Lowry.
/" Sunset, St. Albans," ID. G. Wells.
:" Lake Cnamplain." ii. A. johnson.
" Black River, Upper Canada,'' j. d.
Hatch.
&" Lone Rock Point j. A Arthur.
d" Glimpse of WinOoski," ii. Austin.
Lake Champlain, " l.. Ii. Turk.
" Effect on st. Albans Bay" F. a. Platt.
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The WEATHER.-The tail of the heavy
snow storm, announced from Buffalo last
evening, appears to have reached us. Three
or four inchesOf snow fell Thursdaynight and
next morning, and runners and wheels have
held divided control IN our streets Friday.
The wind changed Friday morning from the
South to northwest gale the mercury
fell two degrees an hour during the forenoon
standing at l2o at noon and till the cold
moderates, we cannot expect much more
snow.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

MAsoNIc.-The annual session of the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge of Vermont, will be
holden at Rutland, on Wednesday, January
10, 1866. The following Railroads will car
~ persons in attendance for fare one way :
Rutland and Burlington, Vermont Valley,
Vermont and Canada, Vermont Central, Sui
liyan, Passumpsic, Western Vermont, Rut
land and Washington.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

REPORTS AND BILLs IN PRosPECT.-The
House committee on the Judiciary have de-
cided to report in favor Of SO amending the
constitution as to prohibit any assumption
in future Of the rebel debt.
Mr.. Alley of Mass, chairman Of the post
Office committee, will soon offer a resolution
10 the effect that the government shall take
possession Of the telegraph lines of the cOun-
try, and con1uct them as it does the postal
service.
The House committee on appropriations
have made reduction OF several millions
from the naval appropriations and the
committee on bankrupt law have unani-
mously agreed to report the bill offered by
Mr.. Jencks of Rhode Island.
The Judiciary committee Of the House has
agreed to report in favor Of constitutional
amendment which shall provide for a repre-
sentatiOn based on the number of voters.
They will not make the report, however, till
after the holidays.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-29

FOREIGN MISIsTERs.-It is reported from
Washington, that the President Friday
morning, nominated Lewis d. Campbell Of
Ohio, to be Minister Extraordinary to the
Republic of Mexico, in the place of Gen.
Logan, declined, and that Hon. John Bige-
low, who was appointed dd interim minister
to France, has been nominated bv the Presi-
dent for confirmation.