Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-10-06

the past week or Two. lhe price to-day IL
10 IL 30 cents per pound. 1t is difficult
to get an order taken at all. Dealers say
there is a scarcity Of stock and that water is
short at the mills. Letter paper is quoted at
so cents, and fine fat paper at 40 40 l.2c
WAsHINeroN, Oct g.
1t Is believed that on Gen. Grants return
to this city, which will be sometime this
week, several important military measures
are to be initiated, among which the with.
drawal Of nearly all the volunteer troops in
the South and the discharge Of the Veteran
Reserve Corps, it being held that recruiting
for the regular army is brisk enough to ena-
BILE that bnanch Of the service to do all the
work necessary to be done it that direction.
The Assistant Commissioner Of the Freed
mems Village near Alexandria, Va, has re-
ported to Gen. Howard thst during the month
of September there were near three hundred
and nine freedmen subsisted at that village,
at cost Of s4s2,l 1888 About one-half this
number are old and infrm people.
letter from Columbia, S. c., received
here to-day, states that the freedmen 10 that
State are circulating petitions praying the
President not to order the withdrawal Of the
federal troops. The letter concludes by say
ing if the troops are withdrawn the coloted
people will be no better off than they we're
before the war. The only thing that prevents
their reduction to slavery again is the pres-
ence Of the boys in blue.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
decided that publishers of newspapers whose
receipts therefrom exceed one thousand dol
lars annually should be licensed as manufac-
turers, and such license will cover all sales
OF their manufactures at or from the place OF
publication, and also the printing and sale Of
billheads, circulars, &c.
NEW York, Oc:. g.
The Herald says that the European capital
lists now here have decided to lay double
track on the Erie railroad, from New York
to the junction with Atlantic and Great
Western railroad at Salamanca. shortening
the distance on the Erie road about seventy
miles. The building Of the railroad bridge
across the Niagara, near Buffalo, will cost
$4,000 900, and the extension of the branches
of the Great Western road from all the prin-
c;pal points with their original designs will
cause an expenditure Of over 500 600 600.
The Herald has the following in its special
Washington dispatch:
The United States district court for the
eastern district of Virginia. now in session,
has been chiefly occupied during the last fe "
days With confscation cases. Libes have
been only fled in such questions, and orders
have been made thus far granting dismissal
from the calendar Of upward of one hundred
cases on payment OF costs"
Secretary Harlan of the interior depart
ment is snxiously endeavoring to inaugurate
certain reforms in that department. o. Sat-
urday he addressed circular to the heads of
bureaus, in which he enioins upon those off.
elals determination to exact as much labor
and attention to the business of the govern
ment from every officer and employee in the
department, as il they were working in the
Secretary's own interest, and paid by him out
OF his own pocket.
Suits are to be instituted by the post Office
department against postmssters in the south
ern states who were in office at the time of
tue breaking out of the late rebellion, and
are found to be indebted to the government.
PILADELrHIA, Oct. 2.
There was quite Sensation in st. Marks
Episcopal Church yesterday, by the appear
ance OF Rev. Dr. Wilmer in the Church. He
was pastor of the church before the war broke |
out, and his secesh proclivities induced him
10 leave and go South with large amount OF
baggage, which was retained at Fortress
Monroe by the government. The Doctor APP
pesred in the chancel to assist in the celebra- |
ton of the holy communion service, and
large portion of the congregation left the
church in disgust.
NEW York, Oct. 8.
The Times Washington dispatch says the |
statement that Gen. Palmer is to be removed
from the command of the Department OF
Kentucky is untrue. Green Clay Smith
however aid by Gov. Bramet has made eff
forts to accomplish that cad and Smith be-
lieving that slavery still exists in Kentucky,
that state never having gone out of the Union,
and Gen. Palmer is acting on the ground that |
1t is abolished there as elsewhere.
The Steamer Star of the Union, brings
New Orleans dates OF Sept 22d.
The Times City of Mexico correspondent
says, the arrest of Liberals and those suspect
ed Of Liberalism airs SO numerous, that it will
soon take one half the nation to guard the
prisoners. The barborous orders are issue,
by the French commanders. On the 18Th
August. the Austrian garrison Of the Tenn
can composed of 500 men. we're attacked and
annihilated by the Liberals. A Belgian de
tschment OF 100 had been captured in Micho
can.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. g.
Gov. Brownlow delivered his annual mes
sage to-day. In regard to the new subject
OF legislation the wishes of the loyal people
OF the State should be consulted for they ar
always right. He recommends an amendmen
and addition to the franchise law, but says:
am by no means an advocate of its re
peal" Guilty rebels should be treated wi h
severity in proportion to their offences. The
mass OF them not less than Acknowledgement.
and the leaders with neither mercy nor for
bearance. Convinced that the white and
colored people cannot live together politically
or socially as equals, he advocates the setting
apart Of some portion Of the national terri
tory, best adapted for the purpose, for a nation
of freedmen. President Johnson's recon
struction policy is endorsed as the sole hope
OF the country.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 20.
The State Convention to-day adopted or
dinances ordering the election Of state officers
on the first Monday in November legalzing
the marriages Of negroes authorizing coun-
ty commissioners to provide for INDECENT and |
helpless negroes and directing judicial Off