The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-02-03

The president has said that he
does not consider postmaster or any
other officer as having a right to re-
appointment after four years service
This is cheering for the outs and
alarming for the ms
George p. Marsh, American min
lister at Turin, has presented to the
United States sanitary commission the
copyright of his late valuable works,
entitled Man and Nature
New three cent pieces are to be
issued soon.
Massachusetts pays So week to
support her conyicts in prisons.
The Illinois Central railroad sold
26,442, POS acres of land for 81, sos, $50
during 1864.
The total coal trade Of Pennsyl-
vania, last year, hard and bituminous,
was about l4,000,0 600 tons
The treasury department designs
paying all acquisitions to January l, by
the end of the present month.
They say that some of the richest
oil wells in Pennsylvania and Vir-
5inia were discovered by using hazel
twigs as divining rods.
"A bill to consolidate the Harlem
and Hudson river railroads, between
New York and Albany, is before the
New York legislature.
The steamer Melville, lately lost be-
tween New York and Hilton Head,
was valued.at $4,000, and her cargo
at $4,000 Both We're fully insured.
--Venison is the cheapest meat in
the New York market.-l0 to zoe
pound at retail. Beef 20 to 35c, pork
20 to 30, mutton Is to %, chickens
and turkeys % to 30.
The New York sanitary and COM
post manufacturing company offer to
sweep the streets of New York for
$780, 900 year, but say nothing about
removing the rubbish, which Mayor
Gunther says will cost 100000 more.
The United States Mail, the Off
cial paper of the post Office depart
ment, says that postmasters are obliged
to receive all treasury notes for stamps
and hostages, if clearly genuine, no
matter how torn or defaced they may
be, provided one-twentieth part there
Of be not missing and fractional cur
rency, if not one-tenth part be missing.
six hundred of the eight hundred
rebel prisoners captured at Fort Gaines
have been exchanged in Mobile har-
Dor. The remainder have died or la
ken tho oath of allegiance.
The present indications are that
Gen. Thomas army will not soon
move from its present position on the
Tennessee river, as winter quarters are
being constructed.
Richmond papers contain a de-
bate in the rebel Congress which
shows that the committee on Foreign
relations, to which was referred the
peace propositions, reported unani-
mously in favor of sending commits
sioners to sue for peace. 1t also shows
that this action has produced a rup-
ture between jeff Davis and the Rich
mond oligarchy on one side, and Con-
gress, representing the people, on the
other, which is shaking the whole
frame work of the confederacy. Mr.
Orr of South Carolina declared that
the people were determined that i'll
some form the craftsmanship of the
country shall be invoked in an honest
effort to end the carnival of death by
negotiation. The debate is the most
important that has occurred during
the war.
A rebel paper, in referring to the
recent failure of Gen. Butler to take
Fort Fisher, states that it is of the
highest importance that it should be
held, for the reason that more than
half of their supplies had been received
through the blockade OF Whining
ton