Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-08-22
Items of News.

Inc WeeteTn papers give terrible account
OF steamboat disaster IN Thunder Bay, Lake
Huron, which occurred on " edhesday night Of
last week TIE propeliers Meteor and Pewabio
came III collision, aud the latter sunk 10 three
minutes auergards causing the loss Of seventy
tge 10 one hundred lives.
CHOLERA IS SrAlS. The State Department
this morning received intelligence from the Unl-
ted States Consul, dated July Z7th, Port Mahon,
that he had received Official notice. that the
cholera bad made lu appearance on the coast OF
Spain. Toe cisll Governor OF the Island had
gwen directions that proper care should be given
TO prevent the spreading Of the disease, should
vessels arrive SAVING It On board he Consul
remarks, Ia his dlspttch to the State Depart
ment, Ihat g this IS the principal quarantine
station IN the Mediterranean and the iulorma-
ton may be accepted as true
10 response to the CONF iaints Of soldiers who
now demand that they should be mustered ont
because they enlisted TOR three years, or during
the war, Maj ten. Terry, commanding the De
partment OF Virginia, defines the term " during
the war to mean " as long as any military ne
cCsslty exists IN the late insurrectonary State"
An inventory taken by direction oil the Chief
OF Ordnance, OF rebe ct res captured at Macon,
ga by Gen. Wilson, shows 81 pieces of arti-
larry, 10 steam engines, $50 pieces of various
kinds OF new machinery, great many naval
stores brought up from Pensacola together with
the books Of the Pensacola navy yard co. 900
pounds eordage, lighthouse furniture Of every
kind, 100 900 pounds copper in sheets, bolts
and rods, 400 tons bar iron, fresh from John
Bulls domlnions immense quantities OF chem
lcals 10000 rounds shot and shell, freshly cast
1000 tons cast iron, 30 900 stand captured
arms, together with large lot ofpis OILS IN pro-
cess Of completion The estimated value OF
these stores is S2O0O,000,
pERsoSAL.-Col A. Potter, of pittsled Mass,
commander OF the Bath Massachusetts Regiment
OF that State, was married ut Bennington, on
Tuesday OF last week, 70 Sarah NJ. only daugh-
ter Of Hon. I. McD .niels of that place. The
wedding was largely attended, and was an unu
sually brilliant one Tor that section. The bridal
presents amounted TO neat total Of $50 0O0,
while the bridal dress adOrnmeuls and feast
were in keeping as to costly excellence,
RAILROAD SuRvEY-D. G. Linsley, Esq., Chief
]
has been during the pas, fortnight surveying
the proposed route for branch railroad from
Waterbury, to Stowe The route IS said to 10
comparatively easy and there is good prospect
that the road may be built by next or the sue
ceedng season ihe legislature will he pet-
toned for n charter this tall,
Speaker Coiax recently told the Nevada miners
I tkat haze - vxa
would soon have left Davis hanging between
Heaven and earth, as not fit for either. The
miners liked that kind Of talk and cheered in
mensey.
Andrew Thompson loved Mary Fillmore, and
Mary Owed another man" still more. This
vas at Smyrna, Deeware. Mary went out walk
! ing with her lover and Andres sha, her dead.
lie is to be sent to Washington for trial. a
/ Jury Of women ought to try him, one of whom
viii kiss him for his mother" when he is &C.
quilted,
The old f!gate Congress was raised at Fortress
Monroe. Sunday morning. and started for Nor,
folk. While of Sewas Pon, she got aground
and additional steam power was applied She
got oil with flood tide, proceeded up TIA Eliza
beth river, 'nd at II O'Clock was at Bakers land
| ing, Norfolk.
Among the passengers on the ship William
Nelson, lately burned at sea, were Fnnz Meyer
and his wife, Swiss emigrants seeking an Amer
lean home. In the confusion incident to tue
efforts to save life the husband and wife separa,,
ted The husband was picked up by boat, ana
the vile supported herself On a fragment OF .
spar Tor two whole days until she was picked
up BY the vessel on which her husband ~a+
She also kept with her thoso two days an inan'
fourteen days olj. which bad bceo LETT by 10
parents % perish sustaining its life by the mos,
ture from her own mouth. This brave lady ana
her husband arrived at New York last week sne
has given birth to child on the voyage iro"
liayp.
A negro woman who was baptized few sun SUI,
avs ego at huntsville. Ala, came iorlh ifOu,
the water shouting, - Freed from slavery ire''
from Sin, blees God aud General Grant,