Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-08-04

neI lnht ne COulu not ioreRO tne temptation
to ask her whether she was married, and il
she was not to tell her he would be pleased
to make her a visit, as be had no wife,-mean-
time displaying his breast-pin and putting on
his best airs
The young woman was so much annoyed
at the foppish appearance Of the young man
that she told him she was married, and, point
ing to black man who was at work in the
garden, ironically said, " He is my hus-
band y What" says the young man, " he
your husbsnd why, was never so surpris-
ed in my life ~ Says the woman, " can
prising than that" What can that be 7"
| calculated the other, Why, l have a
sister who is good deal handsomer than am
and she married a copperhead r The man
left suddenly - Vermont Record.
One Of the fret articles written by Mr..
Dana for the Chicago Republican is denial
of statement Of Junius II. Browne, who
was imprisoned long time at the South with
Mr.. Richardson, that Mr.. Stanton is respon.
sible for the suferngs of Union prisoners at
the South. Mr.. Dana, who was, until re-
recently, Assistant Secretary Of War, says:
mo man of all the thousands who Lam
gushed in the cruelties Of rebel bonds can
rightfully say that Mr.. Stanton is responsible
for one moment Of his tortures. The truth
is, that special efforts were made by the War
Department to procure the release of Mr.
Browne, and his companion, Mr.. Richardson;
but those in power at Richmond were, for
some reason Of their own, unwilling to sur
render them, and refused and finally, after
all other means had been exhausted, and when
the notorious Pollard of Richmond (who
had been released on his parole to negotiate
the exchange Of Messrs. Browne and Rich
ardson for himself and some other Southern
leterdtew who had been captured by our
forces) had failed to return according to his
promise, orders were given to Gen. Butler to
seize and hold as hostages for these two gen.
tlemen number of prominent citizens Of
Virginia, who resided near enough to our
lines to be within reach Of a cavalry party
Messrs. Browne and Richardson escaped
before these orders were executed but it is
the fault of James A. Seldom, and not of
Edwin M. Stanton, that they were not soon
per at liberty"
When Stoneman's cavalry entered Sails
bury, N. c., last spring, and caused the pre-
cipltate flight Of the rebel garrison there with
its few prisoners, Major John II. Gee, for
Military Prison at that point, and who was
one of the greatest brutes and most cruel
tyrants that ever disgraced the South, hur-
ried toward Charlotte, and has never since
been heard Of A gentleman from Salisbury,
long resident there, says that Gee was shot
dead near Charlotte by rebel deserter who
had vowed vengeance against the Major
for some brutality, and who "bushwhacked'
he vii Hair uhi ha nj III a
pine thicket. OF all the scoundrels who
systematically starved and froze our brave
soldiers in the prison pens of the South, there
was none more infamous, none more deserv-
ing of the fate which seems to have overtaken
him, than Gee. He it was who, when asked
if full rations could not be given the starved
and dying Union prisoners in December, 1894
as the storehouses were full, replied: mo
give them quarter rations; its more thar
they deserve" He too was responsible fol
the cold-blooded massacre of our captive,
there when the attempted outbreak occurred
on the 25th of November last. We hop,
the report Of his death is we'll founded, fol
such william as be should not be permitted
to live.
THE RICHMOND ELEcTIoN.-For Mayor
4. Sturdivant received 1885 votes, and TAYLOR
l.
other officers the result was about the same
The Unionism of both candidates for Mayor
was very weak. Sturdivant denounced al
liars all who charged him with secessionim
but nevertheless receivec the votes of all
those whose feelings ran that way. In nearly
: every instance where the soldiers of the late
rebel army were candidates, they were elected
$ by large msjorities. The Richmond papers
Of cd full of ~,
election. Tho Republic (Union) regulates
e the vote Of Richmond, and declares it affords
no indication of the sentiment of the people
: of Virginia. The Times is jublant. and as
a serts that those elected are as good loyal
1 msn ,heir opponents. Inc Bulletin which
= is just as disloyal as it dares to be, says =
o The election of yesterday simply mean,
s that the people OF Virginia, so far at least AZ
e Richmond can be taken as a representative o
n that people, turn not with the spirit of tn
e craven and the renegade from opinions which
their kith and kin have died for"
1t is related by Raleigh correspondent
o who has just " discovered" the incident
4 that party of Sherman's " bummers" CAM
: to house near Raleigh, in the course OF tn,
great march, and entering in the usual un
J ceremonious style made their way up Stare
In the first room they entered, was seated tn,
: lady of the house,--a Northern lady. in fact
q though they did not know it-engsged il
3 spinning. She threw down her work in SOM
: alarm on seeing the soldiers, but the leade
= Of the latter stopped abruptly, saying, "Boys
don't touch thing in the house. This
the first lady I've seen at work in Carolina
and I'll be - il she shant be protected"
A letter has been received from Miss CLAIR
4 Barton, who accompanied the party sent e
Apdersonville to select site for Nationa
Cemetery and to properly inter the bodies o
our soldiers who died there. Miss Barton
e says =" The grounds for the cemetry have
been selected and the work OF interment i.
I going on. Two hundred and seven.y-si,
: bodies of soldiers who were murdered fol
stepping beyond the dead line in search o
n food and water we're disinterred in one day
. They were buried on the spot where they fell.
e Adjutant General Thomas estimates tn,
0 present strength of the negro troops now il
o service at little less than one hundred thou,
y gand men Inst nreyiona IN the closa of ,hs