Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-07-28

Withdrawn from their protection. well-to-
do colored man was sued for a claim Of seven
ty-hve dollars the evidence OF the white
plaintiff was taken that of various colored
men offered by the defendant was refused
the officer in charge Of the Freedmen's Blu
reau at that place appeared and cited the or
ders Of that bureau Of the War Department,
TO show that the Justice had no juris diction
in the case the magistrate proceeded, gave
judgment in full for the plaintiff. aud issued
an execution the Superintendent Of Freed
men placed guard around the property lev
led on, and reported the case TO General How
ard, who has written a letter TO the Mayor Of
Alexandria, requesting that all cases arising
between colored men, and between oolored
and white men, may be turned over to the
military tribunals.
II the request is not complied with the
military authorities will be called upon to en-
force the orders Of the department. At pres
ent freedmen have no chance at all before the
local courts Of Alexandria. The Mayor and
other magistrates declare boldly that they
will adhere TO the old Virginia law, and that
whenever any law comEels them to receive the
testimony of a negro they will at once resign.
JuDeR COUNSEL AND THE ST. ALBANs
RAID.--A Toronto, Canada, letter says that
Commissioner Terrence, who was appointed
by the Government to inves tigate the charges
brought against Judge Counsel on his dis
charging from custoday the st. Adams raid
efs, has sent in his report, enonerating the
Judge from every thing but error in judg-
ment. The Judges friends in the ministry
insist upon his reinstatement in Office, while
others of the ministry and am ng themMessrs.
McDougall and Cartier, insist on his dismis-
sal. Mr.. McDougall was one of the ministry
that suspended Judge Coursol from his funo-
tions. and his reinstatement would necessari-
ly condemn the act Of the ministry who sus-
pended him. This rumor YES rise to anoth-
er, which is that Judge Coursol, in the event
of his dismissal, is to cont, It the next Mon
tIeal election with Mr.. Cartier, and with ev-
cry probability Of success.
The st. Louis Democrat says Gen. Pope
has taken measures to prot ct the great en-
grant routes in the territories and punish the
Indians, who have of late become very trou-
blesome. There are well organized expedit-
ions on foot which will soon bring them to
reason and to seek peace in earnest. BY the
end of next fall they will have suffered e.
nough chastisement TO satisfy them for years
to come. and, as Gen. Pope has succeeded in
squelching the Indian policy that has been so
fertile a source Of trouble In the past, we may
expect that the highways to the mountains
will become and remain as secure as those
across Missouri or Iowa.
In Montana territory there is league OF
nearly all the tribes against the whites
They have killed a number of settlers, and
the people are calling for war OF extermin-
alton, proposing that government should
offer bounty for Indian scaps.
The rebel guns and ordnance stores cap
tured at Richmond, great in numbers and
quantity, are now in course of shipment to
Fortress Monroe and points further North
The guns comprise a lot taken from Drury's
Bluff, of the Armstrong pattern, but made
Mt Richmond Also rude brass pieces OF
Southern make, and quaint old French guns,
which were stored away in government ar
senals, and which were brought forth to do
service by the rebel authorities in the hour OF
need.
I The returns OF uuNeu Of public l~n3e VA Ms
states of the Northwest show that immigra
ton is tending rapidly in that direction. Tn,
sales for the month OF June of lands unde
the homestead law, for actual settlement
were In Minnesota 1000 acres in Mich
igan 6777 acres, and in Nebraska 1916 acres
while in the state of Minnesota no less thai
$1,000 acress were filed under the pre-emp
ton law.
L. Orr Of South Carolina, says that tn,
Southern people unite in condemnation o
jeff. Davis, and agree that il it had not beer
for him the war would have ceased two year
ago. He also asserts that the management
| Of our financial matters and the Commercial
/ prosperity incident thereto was more disprit
| ing to the South than the success of our arms
and contributed greatly to the final submis
sion of the rebels.
The Charleston Courier cautions the North
ern people against believing the reports of il
treatment of negroes of that state and dis
agreements between freedmen and late slave
holders. SO far as we can learn, says The
/ Courier, the new system Of labor is working
admirably.
/ The proclamation OF Gov Bramlette o
/ Kentucky, on the franchise law, issued on thu
I l9sh inst, requires Iigid enforcement Of thu
legal enactment which DISTINGUISHES and ex
/ patriates every citizen of Kentucky who re
fuses to take the oath of allegiance.
A'bil has been presented to the United
States Of rent for the Libby Prison sine
I April 8, 1865. 1t is suggested that the mex
( thing will be the presentation Of an sccoun
/ by the owner of the land near Andersonville
where 1900 murdered Uuion soldiers Ii,
/ buried.
There are six hundred women in Richmond
making up garments for the negro troops il
| Texas. They make from 81 to SO per week
Among them are not few representatives o
the " first families" 1t lie creditable to then
that they are willing to work.
1t has been asserted that an examination O
files will develop the fact that the Journal
who plead the strongest for the hanging o
old John Brown, five years ago, are now tn,
most anxious that jeff Davis and his con
fereres should escape the same end.
Sergeant Boston Corbett, whose sure ain
/ put Booth beyond the pale of Military ri
bunsl and saved him the modification o
stretching hemp, is lying sick in Washing
ton Hospital, with recurring attack of tn,
disease which came so near killing him a
! Andersonville.
/ Fifteen hundred horses aud mules brokl