Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-12-08

Dlstrlct OF COlumOlA, az - GsnlnEtOn. IL was
a gift of upward of three thousand dollars
from the Mission Sabbath School at Aintab,
in Syria. Aintab is about seventy miles from
Aleppo, and the population consists Of Turks,
Greeks, and Armenian Christians. A letter
accompanied the gift, containing most hear
ty congratulation upon the successful termin-
alton Of our national difficulties, and an espe-
cial expression of rejoicing at the result
achieved in the Liberation of the negro race.
Major Moore, Of the Burial Bureau. reports
the total number of dead Union soldiers up
to yesterday as follows:
Washington, 15,4l2.
Andersbnville, l2,9l8.
Richmond and vicinity, 10000,
Nashville, 80 900.
The Wilderness, 1900.
So down to the minor battlefelds. Every
grave is identified when possible, but there
are over | l 600 around this city whose names
and regiments are unknown.
1t is understood that Adjutant General
Thomas will soon be retired from the army,
and that Gen. Townsend is to be his success
or.
A proposition, emanating from Washing
ton, is being made TO the National Banks
throughout Aut tpuhhi1 lph fNAN"o w
the purpose OF securing an amendment by
Congress to the National Banking law, by
which the profit on the loss Of circulation
shall accrue to the banks instead of to the
government. When necessary, the proper
committee to Congress will probably secure
its passage without the peculiar influences
thus invoked.
THE SITUATION IN KENTUCKY. The
Chicago Tribune says the classes who we're
lately in rebellion in Kentucky, having been
beaten in the field, are carrying the war into
the courts. AZ they themselves furnish both
the judges and juries in those sections of
Kentucky in which the war is progressing,
they are toletably sure of the victory, so long
as they are allowed to fight it out on that
line" Not only has General Palmer been
indicted for sustaining the acts of Congress
freeing the slaves in that State, but whenever
an officer or private Of the Union army can be
shown to have fought against rebels. or inn
pressed their property, he is indicted for muir
der or robbery.
Counterfeit fives on the Bank of Fiskhill,
New York, are in circulation at Burlington.
A we'll dressed man, having black cap, with
a scar under his left eye, passed one of these
W NuhNohhN oNOhAhS fAN -
& Miller, corner OF Main and Church streets.
Constable White was soon informed Of the
fact and proceeded to look DIP the counterfeit
or, but he made good his escape, as up to
this time nothing has been seen OF him.
The Nashville Union says: "The German
farmers of Texas have agian raised cotton
crop of superior quality to any grown by slave
labor. 1t is of a cleaner, fairer fabric. and
will bring the highest market price. When
the farmer works his own cotton, it is tended
and haldled at every stage with the utmost
care, and this care brings out the greatest
skill. The delusion that cotton cannot be
cultivated by free labor is getting rapidly dis
proved by actual experiment. 1t is probable
that free labor will produce more and better
cotton than has ever been raised before" or
course it will.
Washington dispatch states that the
Secretary of the Treasury endorses the recon-
mendation of the Comptroller to remove the
Currency Bureau to New York, and to in
crease the capital of national banks.
Diptheria is raging in Cambridge. Six
members OF the family of Andrew Chase Of
that town have died with malignant dipthera
within the short space of two weeks. A
mother and daughter we're buried in one
grave.
Mr.. Lyman L. Knapp, formerly Lieutenant
Colonel of the l7th Vermont, has become the
editor and proprietor Of the Middlebury Reg
lister.
The December Term Of Lamoille County
Court, Judge Wilson presiding, will be held
at Hydepark, commencing on Tuesday next,
December 9th, 1865.
FRKE LABOR AT THE SoUTH.-A South
ern editor, owning a Lousisna plantation,
made bargain with 80 negroes to cultivate
the land. They were to pay half OF the ex-
pense for rent, and take half Of the crop
The laborers are jealous and enthusiastic,
and the profits of the proprietor on the 500
acres are $4,000, larger sum, as he shows,
than he could have realized under the old
system Such results as this ought to carry
conviction to all men who honestly wish to
have the labor question wisely settled.
Capt Roswell @. Vaughn, OF St.Johnsbury,
| late Of the Commisary Department, has been
commissioned Major by brevet.
A Washington dispatch says IL has been
decided in the Treasury Department that
banks which enter into the purchase OF muiil-
ated currency will not be allowed TO receive al
the redemption bureau any advance upon the
sum at which it was bought, and no packages
Of mulilated notes containing less Than five
hundred dollars are redeemed.
Having surrendered their charters and be-
come national banks, and the liability TO re-
deem the old bills having closed by legal limi
tation, the Maine papers state that the hol'
ders of the State bills of the Market bank o
Bangor, and of the Auburn bank Of Auburn
in that State, cannot now enforce their pay
ment at law. ...ei 5000
1t is asserted by one who has proved III
efficacy that certain cure for cancer is thu
juice Of the sheep sorrel or saggitate. express
ed, and exposed on pewter plate in the sur
until somewhat jellied. Apply il on the skin
over and aIouad the cancer.