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

Lit by no tkill OF mine.
he following dialogue on"sharp shooting"
took place between Virginiau and Yankee
picket: IL say, can you fellows shooli"
"Wsll, | reckon We can some. Down in
Mississippi we can knock bumble-bee off
thistle bow at three hundred yards" "Oh,
that amt nothing to the way we shewt up in
Vermont / belonged to military company
ther', with hundred men in each company,
and we went out for practice every week.
The cap'n draws us up in single file, and sets
a cider barrel rolling down the hill, and each
man takes his shot at the bung-hole as it
turns up. II is afterwards examined, and il
there is a shot that didn't go in the bung g-hole
the member who missed it is expelled. / be-
longed to the company ten years. and there
ain't been nobody expelled yet"
Late accounts from Havana state that the
traitor Breckinridge is there, staying at
second class boarding house in that city, the
proprietors Of which keep him free OF charge.
Those who knew bim intimately in years
gone by say he has greatly changed. His
former robust and vigorous frame has been
considerably reduced, and be is frequently
lost in fits of abstraction. Instead Of, as
formerly, being lively and animated in con-
versation, he is moody and taciturn, speaking
only to his intimate friends. He intends to
leave Havana for Spain.
Some starting facts have been developed
before Gen. Hunters commission by the re-
call Of one witnesses-Conoyer, alias Wal
lace-who having returned to Canada to pro-
cure certified copy Of the court record Of
the st. Albsns raiders case, was compelled,
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life in case of noncompliance, to sign and
swear au affidavit contradicting his previous
testimony before the commission. Escaping
from them at last be again appears in court
to reiterate and add to his former disclosures.
The rebel Gen. Ewell, in a letter from
Fort Warren to a friend in Richmond, posi-
lively denies having had any connection with
the hIes by which great portion of Rich
mond was destroyed, and states that much
valuable property was saved only by the
strenuous exertions Of the engineers and 9TH
er troops. The Richmond Republic, in which
the letter appears, attributes the FIRE to orders
from the rebel Congress.
Gen. Ewell's excuse for his rebellious con-
duct is that be saw prominent Northern men,
in and out Of Congress, advocating secession,
and declaring that the rebels were right, and
he was led to believe that a dissolution of the
Union was inevitable. and therefore, though
very reluctantly, resigned his commission in
the national army and entered that Of jeff
Davis.
Richmond property owners propose to wait
ON the President at Washington and endeAy-
OF to procure some action which will remove
the uncertainty now hanging over the titles
to property there and if successful, then to
proceed to New York for the purpose of me-
goliating loan to rebuild the squares des-
troyed by FIRE.
? At the cemetery where the remains of Mrs.
Seward were buried, bird peIched itself in
tree directly ove the grave, and mingled
its clear, cheerful ringing melody with the
solemn tones Of the clergyman, as be COM
mitled the body to the earth. with the words,
=" Dust to dust, ashes 70 ashes"
The work of properly interring the bodies
of national soldiers lying exposed on the
Wilderness battle field commenced on the
18th inst. and has been completed. A board
giving the name and regiment has been placed
at the head of the grave OF every one whose
remains could be identified.
AhS SieiohOht Wv IL huNoCate says u
lady in Unity not long since became the
mother OF a fine daughter. A few days after,
CopPerhead neighbor happening in, said to
the mother, We'll, suppose you'll call it
Abe Lincoln" NO." she replied, I'm
sorry can t. Like your friend Jeff, il will
wear petticoats " " CoPperhead vamosed.
The number of witnesses examined by the
government in the assassination trial case
was 1893 for the defense l63 /; total number
pages Of testimony illegal cap) 1900. making
a solid pile of manuscript somewhat over
26 inches high the arguments will make in
edition, 700,
Col. Robert Ould and Lieutenant Colonel
Hatch. late rebel Commissioners of Exchange
Captain Motif and Major Darlington, late
Provost Marshal of Richmond. have been re-
leased on parole from Castle Thunder.
Governor Holden. OF North Carolina. has
already appointed Justices of of the Peace
in over thirty Counties. One Of the duties
of these Justices will be to administer the
oath of allegiance to persons who are -desir-
Gus to vote for the election of the State Con-
vention.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has taken up her re-
sidence for the time being at Savannah, Ga.
She is represented as being in & very destute
condition, although at the time of her hus-
bands arrest il was said she was allowed to
retain several thousand dollars in gold.
Southern planters propose to let out their
plantations in small lots to any body, black OF
white, taheing percentage of the crops for
ret.