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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15
STATE OF VERMONT.
Y PAUL DILLINGHAM;, GOVERNOR.
a PROCLAMATION.

AT the request of the Legislature, in
accordance with the customs of the faith
ers, and in conformity with my own wish
es and purpose, hereby appoint TnuEs-
DAY, the SEVENTH DAY Of DECEMBEI,
Next, to be observed by the people of
this State, as Il day of public I hanksgiv-
ing, Prayer and Praise TO Almighty God
Praise is comely; comcly indeed when
offered to Him whose mercy cndureth
forever.
To every enlightened mind, to each
heart of flesh, the mercics of God in
Christ are constantly suggesting innumer-
able causes of gratitude .and lhanksgiv-
Ing.
Looking over the year now drawing to
close we are led to exclaim, what had
not God done tor US
The struggle for national existence is
closed, the great rebellion is conquered
and It's foundation destroyed.
Peace with It's countless blessings again
smile upon us; and through the darkness
OF the past, CLEANS of light of great
hope-hope Of Il restored Union and last
ing concord.
In our own State a promising seed
time has been followed by an abundant
harvest
Honest labor in every department of
life has received its full reward.
Our political, civil and religious liber-
ties have been preserved unimpaired.
Free schools, and free Bible are ours,
each III harmony with the other, counter
acting ignorance and sin.
For these and the rlch and glorious
hope set before us in the Gospel of the
ever blessed Christ, let us on that day lay
ABIDE our usual avocations, assemble in
our several places of worship, and there
render to God our humble thanks for all
the mercies His love has conferred upon
us.
Given under my hand and seal of the
State, in Executive Chamber at
Montpelier, this seventh day of No
vember, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty
five, and of the independence of the
United States the ninetieth.
PAUL DILLINGHAM;.
BY his Excelency, the Governor,
CHARLES NJ GAY.
Sec. of Civil and Military Affairs
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CoNFEDFRATF CoTrON AND BoNps
There are still some men lett in the South
who hope To save something of the money
that, foolishly or on compulsion, they in
uested in the rebel experiment. The
Southern Sentinel, printed at Columbia.
Miss, argues that As the confederate poy-
eminent was myth, contracts with it
are invalid, and the cotton sid to it must
revert to the original owners The ar
gument is very pretty, hut it will not save
the cotton. The Mobile Tribune takes
a more practical view and says:
1--WE are quite certain that not one
dollar of confederate bonds or treasury
notes, or cotton owned by the confederacy
will be Of the least service to any man
that lays a claim to it. We should as
soon expect next month lot of negroes
TO be put on the stand for public sale at
auction. Any one who nurses "a delusion
in regard to the matter, had better discard
it at once. lie can find repose in not
hoping for any profit from this source"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

A TERRIFIC ExPLosroN.-About half
past eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,
an explosion like the report of a heayyI
cannon was heard throughout the lower
part Of the city it was found to have ocI
Cured at the Wyoming Hotel, No. SAD
Greenwich street, and twenty-Iour nerl
sons, inmates of the house and dwellerl
OF the neghborhood, were wounded. twa
OF the number quite seriously. Mr.. Stodl
dard, landlord of the Wyoming, says that
on the 2lst OF August last Mr.. Theodore
Lecrs, German recently arrived. took
lodgings at the Wyoming, and brought
with his luggage box. This box was
slowed away in a corner Of the bar.ronm.
and there it remained until SUNDAY morn
ing last, when some person tossed the box
over, and probably broke bottle. ns
shortly after the box was found to be on
fire. 1t was taken up by the porter and
thrown into the gutter in front of the no.
tel, and it had hardly struck the cnrhstone
when the explosion occurred. The effect
OF the explosion was terrific. The office
OF the hotel, which is also used As n bar
room, was filled with persons all of whom
were Frustrated. Many were wounded
10y flying pieces Of glass, while Others
were hurled across the room and dashed
with violence against the walls, bar stove
and furniture. No one escaped without
some injury. The hotel was seriously
injured. Not pane of glass was left in
the windows. every door was burst omen.
some taken off their hinges. and Others
split from top to bottom The mirror.
IN the parlors, two very fine and costly
ones were shivercd to atoms. The fur
n'lure IN the pallors and other apartments
was broken and displaced. Beds were
thrown across rooms chairs, stands and
tables were not only thrown down, but
IN many instances hurled against the
walls with sufficient force to break them.
The buildings on the block between
Duane and Jay streets, on which the
hotel Is situated, were also much Injured
Every window was shattered, the doors
OF the stores and dwellings broken omen.
and the chimneys thrown down. When
the box exploded, it tore hole in the
pavement about four feet square. and two
and half deep, sending the heavy rim
OF the curb across the street. Singular
to state, not Il particle of the box. its
contents, or the hag-stone on which it
stood are to be found. About one-half
OF the stone, which was four feet SQUARE.
and two inches thick, still remained. but
the remainder had disappeared. Leers
was Immediately found. and states that
when he was leaving Hamburg a mer-
chant said he would give him a demiiohn
OF chemical oil, which he cou d sell il
America to advantage; he did not ex
plain to him any IF the properties of the
oil, and Leers says he knew nothing about
the contents other than this.
The substance contained in the box is
supposed to have been nitro. clycerine
which Is said to be ten times more ex-
poslve than gunpowder. -Ne,c York
Observer.
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"rhe tide of emigration sets hither-
ward very strongly, now that the war is
over and there can be no doubt that
Kansas, and Missouri also, are to adj
vance with unexampled progress for many
year to come. And yet the beginning
has not started Leavenworth, but ten
years old, has a population of 10000 !;
and is doing an immense business in a
mercantile way.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

1HE STRICKLAND REMEDIES. - We
have for some time felt it our duty. or AN
agreeable privilege, at least, to say a word
IN favor Of DR.. Stricklands Remedies;
aud simply from the reason that we know
them TO be good. all, we believe tina,
they are represented to be.
Dr. Strickland resides in Cincinnati
lie WAS successful physician; and after
thoroughly testing Il few leading remedies
OF his own preparing, he concluded that
he could do mo good for community (anl
probably quite rs much tor hinseltj if he
would quit practice and 90 to scattering
some OF these medicines throughout the
country. For two years or more lie has
been doing this, and with success. we
believe, seldom met with before in such
enterprises.
Some OF these remedies are advertised
in our paper; but that is neither here nor
thcre-we know them To he good. and
can recommend them to the afflicted
Not long since we were in II town on the
Wabash, and had occasion to prescribe
one of these remedies-''Sirick Pile
Ointment" There were three drug stores
in the place, and each of them had had
the remedy. but was out and had ordered
more. They told us that the remedy was
very popular and that thencould hardly
keep supply, it went off 50 rapidly. We
have spoken of this remedy belorc-hav-
ing known it to he thoroughly tested, in
numerous cases during the past year, and
perfect success in every instance. And
so it is with his remedy for Diarrhea or
Cholera, and his Cough Balsam. They
are all genuine, made to cure or to give
relief, prepared by the Doctor himself,
aud may at least be classed among the
best remedies that are put up for sale.
Druggists now buy them, right out, and
have no difficulty in selling them. Gee.
C. Go0l'rm d Co., Boston, sole Agents
for A. Strickland & Co of CINCINNATI
Indianapolis Daily Gazette.
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There is Il general movement among
the soldiers OF the United States to obtain
bounty lands. 1t has taken a form of
'Soldiers' League" and seems to be a
movement in the right direction. One of
the articles Of the League is as follows:
"ARr. 10: Whereas, Congress by an
Act entitled the Homestead Bill, has
granted TO any one who will settle and
occupy for term Of years, lands; and
Whereas, the great mass of Union SOL
dlers who have returned, or the widows
orphans, or parents Of our brave com
rades, who have fallen in the service of
our country are unable TO avail them
selves Of This liberal gift by occupation
Therefore, we deem it just and right
that Congress should be induced TO make
II distinction, and should grant Bounty
Lands TO the soldiers, who have by their
patriotism, preserved the existence of this
nation; without requiring of them ms
condition that they should settle upon
said Ian TO secure the title thereto.
And that Congress should set apart "A por-
ton of the public domain for that purpose
or grant and give to the Union soldiers
such other compensation as shall he wor-
my and magnanlmous nation.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15
RUTLAND s BURLINGTON RAILROAD.


The November Elections passed off
quiciIy and in every case resulted i'll the
complete triumph of the Union party.
This expression OF the views Of the people
in nine States is significant 1t is cspeci-
ally 50 to President Johnson and the next
Congress The President is ASSURED that
he is in no danger OF suffering mariyrlUm
for going in advance of public opinion
and that he is sustained in enforcing the
amendment of each state constitution 81
as 10 prohibit slavery, and compelling the
population OF the rebel debt Congress
Is notified that the people demand that
READ votes shall be the basis of rcpresen
talion, that the qualification necessary for
The elective franchise shall be intelligence
and education. and not color, that diSloy-
atty shall not be rewarded with an increase
OF power. an | that treason shall not be
struck from the catalogue of crimes.
Congress assemblies in about three weeks
Their duties at this session will not be
mere boys play but earnest work. Many
pcrplcxng subjects will arise. They will
have to contend against Wing evils
sct-perpctuatng evils, which if they are
not corrected now, must long continue to
exist as an incubus upon the freedom and
prosperity Of our institutions, as Il bar to
Justice, and as IL reward to crime and
cruelty.
This is the first time since the adoption
Of the constitution that Our system Of I'M
equal representation could be corrected.
LIT this opportunity pass and we may
rever have another \ party brought
into power, and kept in it, hy such means
as the privilege of representing not only
Themselves but two,Gths of their oppo-
ncnir, while their opponents are powcrleso
through Northumberland, will never
voluntarily yield up that power. The
people demand that the power of inhct-
ing this injustice, of perprtnatlng an evil
;" srbvcrsivc of the first principles of free
dom and equality, shall never be given to
amy section again.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

GEN. BRIsCoE's CAsE.-The sentence
in the case of Brevet Brig. Gen. Joseph
&. Briscoe, Colonel of the Tooth Pennsyl-
vania regiment for embezzling government
funds at Lynchburg, Va, is, that he be
cashiered and dishonorably dismissed the
service, be disqualified from holding any
office of honor, trust or profit under the
United States government, forfeit all pay
and allowances now due or which NAV
become due to him, and be confined at
hord labor for five years. The findings
and sentence have been approved and
confirmed by the Secretary OF War but
in view of the high testimonials TO his
former good character and gallantry by
Gems. Meade, Hancock, Stoneman, Glib
bons, Terry and Sickles, so much of the
sentence as imposes confinement is remit
ted
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

MExIco,-The unhappy country of
Mexico has reached that stage of civil war
where the conqueror lays aside the obi
cations of the belligerent and assumes the
duties of an eXccuIioncr. Our readers are
familiar with the decree of Maximilan.
which assumes that the opposition Of
.]uarcz has descended into IA bandits war.
and that Juarez having abandoned Mex.
leo, all who follow him are to be outlawed
and treated rs enemies of mankind, lie
speaks of the Mexican followers of the
President as 'misled and misinformed.'
carried away 10y unpatrotic passions. >
and assisted by demornlizcd persons ,
and an 'unprincipled solliery,' the last
sad remnants Of the civil wars 1t seems
very odd TO find a ruler dcnouncing Juarez
and his followers rs the sad remnants of
the civil wars and at the same time IN.
viting TO his Court such remnants rs
Kirby Smith, Mngruder, W. Allen. and
Sterling Price but this is matter. of
Imperial taste, and none of our business
He may keep rs many rebels a- he plea,es.
and give them nice offices but il seems
odd that he should be SO speedy to de-
nouncc the devoted follower, of .Juarez for
clinging to their chief, while he rewards
the followers of jeff Davis for Defending
their master, and exprlriating themselves
out of love for treason,-N Y. Tribune.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

Hon. Isaac Newton, Commissioner of
Agriculture reports that the injury to the
wheat crop by wet weather was over-es-
timatcd in his August report, and that
the deficit under last years crop was
merely nominal, willie there is q much
greater oat and hay crop. Corn is all
that could be desired-the largest ever
grown IN the United States.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

WILLIAMS CoLLEGE.-A correspondent
send us the following The Freshmen
class has but 81 names on the catalogue,
and there are only III students in college.
Their number is smaller than it has been
for many years,-Two members of the
Sophomore class have been dismissed,
which is a mid form of expulsion, for
endeavoring to enforce the rule, prev
alent among College students, that Fresh
men shall not carry canes during the first
term. Others of the same class have been
punished by fines and probations Ralph
Waldo Emerson is to deliver in the Con-
gregational Vestry before the Adelphic
Union, a series of six lectures on Gamer
lean Life These lectures begin on
Tuesday evening. Nov 7th, conclude on
the following Tuesday. The Gymnasium
is being fitted for use under the direction
of Charles II. Treat, graduate of the
class of 63, who has been appointed to
the Profes. orship-Prof. Albert Hopkins
has been presented with gold watch,
valued at $500, by the people of the town.
Hon. Joseph White made the presen-
tation Notwithstanding coming on
the last day OF November, makes our
term one week longer than usual.-Berk-
shire Courier.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

Mr.. Mercer appeals to the public for
donations of dried or can fruit, condensed
milk, oranges, lemons, apples, tea, sugar,
&C., for the use of the 600 ladies who
will sail for Washington Territory about
the 18th or 18th ofthis month. His adj
dress is No. 81 West street. The voyage
will las: three or four months, and the
only food yet provided for the fair expat-
rates is crackers and salt junk.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

A delegation of North Carolinians
waited qpon the president yesterday and
told him what their state convention had
done toward getting the state back into
the Union. The president informed
them that the Endorsement of the abolition
amendment would be a sine qua non for
the resumption of former relations with
the general government. The provision
al governors of both the Carolinas will be
continued in office for the present.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

Two Irishmen, chums, approached the
polls in Central City, Colorado, TO per-
form the highest duty and privilege of an
American citizen. No. l chucked in a
vote Against the Constitution and ''For
Negro Suffrage" No. 2 says: "Yhat
the divil are you voting that way for
Shure, and we don't want nagur suffragel"
"Och to HI with the nagur," replied
No. |, let him suffer and be id to him."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

Gotischalk, the pianist, and one lie
Gay of San Francisco, Cal, recently en-
ticed two young ladies from female
seminary near that city and ruined them.
The matter becoming public, the gay
Lotharios were oblige6 to leave the city
on a Panama steamer, disguised as coal
miners, 10 escape the vengeance of the
indignant citizens.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

A curious railroad accident occurred at
Clinton, Conn, few days ago. An ex-
press train was approaching, when a
COW annoyed by small dog, dashed up
on the rails. When the train had passed
the COW lay with her head cut off, and
the little dog, with his tail cut off, sat
between the rails looking after the retir-
ing carr with face indicative of the
most intense as.onishmcnt and disgust.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

APPLES The Palmyra (N,Y,) Courier
says vast quantity Of apples are coming
to market from Wayne county, and that
Eastern buyers have been deceived into
paying high prices by false cry of scar
city. The Rochester Union says the same
is true OF other counties of Western New
York, and adds: "rhe prices which
have been paid for apples this fall are
beyond all precedent and wholly unwar-
ranled, Those Eastern people who have
bought for consumption have been cheat
ed, or cheated themselves. Some who
have bought apples to hold TILL winter or
spring may find themselves bitten"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

A colored man named Levi j. Purnell
was committed for trial at Boston recent
ly, for polygamy, he having two white
wives and one black one living He is
80 black that charcoal would make
white mark on him.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15
Sec. of Civil and Military Affairs

The steamer Ocean Queen arrived at
New York Friday, with Panama dates
Of the 3lst ult. The isthmus Of Panama
had been visited by terrible gale at the
same time that 50 much damage was
done on the American coast. The i'm.
provement of the cemetery at Panama
for the inlerment of foreigners is progress
ing lavorably.
spain has declared war against Chill,
and Admiral Iaseja, commanding the
Spanish squadron, declared all the ports
OF Chill blockaded on the oath ult, civ.
ing vessels then in port ten days to clear
The admiral proposes TO maintain the
blockade by means of cruisers, and the
CHILEAN diplomatic corps have made an
emphatic protest against that kind of
blockade, The English line of steamers
between Panama and Valparaiso would
receive no passengers or freight for any
point south Of Bolivia, but the mails car
ried by these steamers would be received
at CabVa by an English gunboat, and
conveyed along the CHILEAN coast The
declaration of war had caused great ex-
citenent in Chill and business was entire
ly suspended, The CHILEAN Congress had
authorized a loan of twenty million dol
lars, and the executive had been invested
with unlimited power to raise troops, pro-
cure ships, &c.
The Bolivian government is gaining
victories over the revolutionisis there, and
the rebels in Peru are getting disahected
among themselves.
The murder of Barrios in Central
America Is not Strengthening the security
of Duena's government. Foreign news
papers containing comments on his death
are suppressed by the government.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

The Commercials Washington dis
patch says, the President has informed an
Ex-Confederate General that it is not his
present intention to pardon any more
civil or military leaders of the rebellion.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

The Post Office Departments receipts
for the last fiscal year exceeded the ex-
penditures eight hundred and sixty-one
thousand dollars. The re-establshment
of the southern mail routes will change
the balance this year.
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Death of Senator Collamcr.

Death of Senator Collamcr.
This sad event, which has Cor some
days been expected, was telegraphcd Til.
morning. Friday 10Th, shortly after the
inal adjournment of the Legislature.
Jacob Collamer was born at Troy. \. Y.
in 1872, and was consequently at his
death about II years of age, lie came
to Vermont at an early day. with his
father, who settled in Chittenden County
Without fortune, but with high ambition
anu strong Sclt-rcliauce, the boy, by in
dustry and economy, worked himself up
to and through the University of Vermont
graduating in 1910. lie then entered
upon the study of law and was admitted
tc the bar in 1913, rendering military
service, however, for a portion of the war
Of lSl2-l4, and in that capacity organ
'z'ng, at Montpelier, several of the com
panlcs raised i'll central and eastern Yer.
mont to resist the invasion of Plattsburch
by the british.
lie came first To Montpelier to enter
npon his profession here, but finding the
town well supplied with lawyers, he went
to the late Hon. Dcnnison Smith of
Barre, who introduced him to practice in
Orange County. where he made his first
plea, IN defence OF II school-rnaster for
whipping Il scholar. 1t was n successful
one, TO the great surprise of its author.
as he once told us. Speedily he acquired
high reputation as lawyer, and cuntin.
ned for twenty years at the bar, serving
also as member Of the House of Repres-
entativcs. From 1898 to 1871 he was IA
judge Of the Supreme Court; from. 1913
to !Sl9,a member Of Congress in 1919
%, il member of President Taylor's cab
met, us Postmaster General. and suisse
quenly a Judge of the Suprnme Court till
lSo4, when he was elected to the l.. 5.
Senate, and reelected in 1860
In that body of the most distinguished
men of the country, Senator Csllamer
1T once took high rank. and maintained
it to the last. There have been more
polished speakers, there, and menof hlch-
cr scholarships; but no speaker more clear
more irlicitous in illustration, or sounder
in law or logic There have been some
who X elled him in particular subject,
but taking Senator ColIamer all in all.
for his experience, his clear knowledge OF
the Constitution and the laws in their an
plicaion to all questions o: legislation and
and the faculty of bringing
all his great knowledge instantly to prac
teal Use on any emergency, he was with
ont rival IN the senate. 1t is much 10
say of any man, but we believe Senator
Collamer deserved the rank we have here
accorded. And his great abilities had
fitting crown in an inspected christian
character His integrity as a Senator
was the integrity of the upright Judge.
his course guided always by clear sense
Of right and hence he was independent.
conscientious, and command
ed reverence for his character and con-
flcnce in his judgment, as well as adj
Tor his great abilities. Truly.
' erInOnt has lost her greatest man of re-
cent times IIditoR's JomWM
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

ca" Governor johnson of Georgia, has
tclegraphed to the President that the
Georgia State Convention has repudated
the rebel war debt by vote of 1873 to
IL.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

es5- Look out for counterfeit $50 legal
tender notes. They are said TO be very
closely initiated and DANGEROUS.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-11-15

The cholera on board the steamship
Atlanta in New York harbor has nearly
or wholly ceased.