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Lake City, last week. The cause was
that he had married the second wife Of a
Mormon and claimed her children.
CONGRESS The ways and means COM
mittce reported the new tax bill on We'd
ncsday reducing the burdens of taxation
some forty or fifty millions, and changing
and equalzing TO some extent those taxes
that remain. The habcas corpus
bill, intended to protect United States
officers for acts done during the war,
carrJ ing up their cases from the State to
the United States courts. was passed by
the Senate, but SO amended that the
House refused to concur, and the matter
is now before committee of conference
Among tho bills passed is one authorizing
the president to take such measures as he
may deem proper to prevent the introduc
ton of the cholera or other infectious
diseases. The provost marshal's bureau
has been abolished, and the Northern
Pacific Railroad bill has been killed. A
recess for Congress is talked Of but
Speaker Colfax says that it cannot com
mcncc before the first of July. Mr.
Sumner presented petition for the cx-
n,,Is;on Of y nrro,t nn,,;, c., lao, Soc, en-;
that should the civil rights bill pass and
become a law, he would feel compelled to
regard himself as an enemy OF the govern
mcnt. Mr. Davis said the language was
correct, but when taken in connection
with the context had different meaning
from what was attributed. Thus the
matter dropped. The bill for the admis-
sion of Colorado as State has passed
the Senate Senators Poland and Ed
munds both voted for the amendment to
admit Colorado with unconditional suf-
fragc, and that amendment having failed
they voted against the bill. On MONDAY
the reconstruction committee reported a
Joint resolution in both Houses which had
been agreed upon last Saturday. 1t pro-
vides for amendments to the constitution
accompanied by bill admitting congress
sional delegates from such southern states
as may ratiry these amendments. The
amendments cover these points -
FDA -Forbids distinction in civil
rights by state legislation on account Of
race or color.
.Second.-Bases representation on pop
ulation, but excludes classes excluded
from suffrage in any state.
1hnd.--Disfanchiscs until after 1870,
so far as voting for federal officers is con-
cerned, all who took part in the rebel
lion.
FourM -Repudiates rebel debts.
EWM.-Gives Congress power TO lrgis-
late for the enforcement of these amend
ments.
1t is understood that in the committee
all of the 10 members voted for it except
the three copperheads, Senator johnson,
and Representatives Order and Rogers.
We may infer therefore, that it represents
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TIE CHOLERA Below New YoRK.-
Thirteen new cases of cholera and five
deaths have occurred at the New York
quarantine since the last reports, and the
prospect is now favorable for a speedy
suppression of the disease. There are
90 now in hospital, and but few anShg
them whose recovery is doubtful. Srhc
type of cholera which has prevailed was
mild, and the disease was apparently not
contagious. 1t seems to have been man.
aged with comparative ease alter decent
Accommodations had been provided for the
sick and other passengers on the cholera
ship Virginia, A thousand of them we're
first transferred to the steamer Illinois,
which has not boilers to cook for 200,
and then had no stewards to serve food,
and, worst Of all, no provisions to cook,
so that some Of the passengers had bat
one meal in forty-eight hours and poor
one at that. This treatment doubtless
induced cholera with many persons who,
Ivy decent usage would have escaped it.
DIR. Swinburnc, the health officer, at
tcmpts to excuse the barbarous treatment
to which the sick were subjected in their
transfer to the hospital ship, by saying
that it is the same process which has
been used for the last twenty-five years,
which only makes it twenty-five times
more outrageous.
No new cases of cholera have occurred
on the steamship England since her de-
parture from Halifax and arrival at New
York, and her passengers, who are vr-
tually imprisoned at the quarantine, are
getting very indignant. The health Of
iiccr recommends that the cargoes of both
the England and Virginia be allowed to
discharge, and the health commissioners
will doubtless concur after which the
cabin passengers on both vessels will be
released. The government has granted
the use of the steamer Empire City and
sloop-ofwar Saratoga, if they should be
needed at the quarantine. permission
to use Sandy Hook as a site for hospitals
has been obtained, as the government
considers that it has no authority to take
the grounds except for military purposes,
and nothing can be done with the Jersey
authorities.
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CHEAP SPEECuEs.-A Washington let
ter states that the members of the press
gang at Washington write hour speeches
for members of Congress as cheap AS S25
each. This is rhculously small price,
but the manufacturers evidently take good
care to furnish corrcspondingly cheap
article. Thsrcon3tituents of the honora-
bic members have tue most reason to COM
plain. When they get copies of the Con-
gressional Globe, containg speeches spoken
10y their members, some at least feel I'M
der sort of obligation TO read them, and
really this is no small task, unless a man
has plenty of leisure, strong nerves and
no objection to boring himself occasionally
as public duty. But members of Con-
gress who must make speech, or at
least print one, and have nothing to say
and don't know how to say it, ought to
employ the best Bohemians in the market,
and pay from 500 to 5000 for an hours
speech, and so give their admiring consti-
tuents something the reading of which
shall not be positive outrage on their
nature and forbcarancc. ,-.Sm1gdcM Re
puJhcdH.
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Gen. GRANTS VISIT TO RICHMOND
Gen. Grants visit to Richmond was
marked with many pleasing incidents and
gratifying results. People tlocked to see
him in large numbers, from curiosity no
doubt = but during his stay he was called
upon respectfully by such persons as
Robert Ould, ex-rebel Commissioner for
Exchange of Prisoners; Gen. Joseph
Anderson of the Tredegar Iron Works
Mayor Mayo, Generals Wickham and
IIenningsen, Judges Lyons and Meredith,
Hill Carter, Walter Harrison and many
other influential citizens. The ladies also
called upon Mrs. Grant freely, and every
one who came manifested becoming feel
ings and sentiments The railroad COM
pany placed Il special car at his disposal,
the Spottswood Hotel assigned him Il
large suit OF rooms, the Ballard House Of
iered to do the same, and every one We'd
TO contribute to his comfort and pleasure.
lie dlned once with Gen. Turner, tenn
porarily commanding visited Fort IIar-
rison and other points Of interest, and
returned well pleased with his visit
Cor. " Y. Herald.
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TIE BuRDELL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
REVELATION. Many of our readers re-
member the murder of DR.. Burdell in
Bond street, New York, several years
ago, in which a notorious Mrs. Cunning
ham was implicated, and put on trial on
charge of having canscd the Doctors
death.
A man now in the Ncwburyport, Mass
Jail for burglary, named Chas. II. Col
den, states that he was very intimate
with Mrs. Cunningham and her family,
and knew all abont the projected murder
of DR.. Burdcll, in Bond street, several
years ago. lie says, among others things
that Mrs. Cunningham offered him S25,
600 and her daughter Augusta in mar.
riage, if he would murder DR.. Burdcll,
by whose death she Mrs. Cunningham
would get 100000. lie declined the
job, but took Augusta to the theatre. re-
turning with her to Bond street, and slept
in the house that night, knowing before
he went TO bed that the murder had been
committed.
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Southern Destitution aud the Freed
mems Bureau.

Exceedingly painful accounts continue
to reach US of distress and starvation in
the State of Alabama. A Montgomery
paper says: "Scenes are witnessed daily
that would draw tears from the stoutest
hearts. AS many as three hundred wo-
men have been seen around the Court
House on days when rations were expect
ed-most of them having walked from
Fifteen TO twenty miles" Another ac.
count tells of ptiful distress throughout
Northern Alabama, but adds that there
are Series of suffering humanity. nearer
at hand-that within forty miles of Mont
gomery there are " seven hundred families
in actual want Of food to sustain life"
The relief afforded by government through
the agency of the Freedmen's Bureau is
Insufficient, and urgent appeals are made
% Northern charity. Yet the freedmens
bureau bill has been abused and was
vetoed because it provided fof the extern
sion Of the bureau and gave it greater
efficiency. The number of whites assist
ed by the bureau is greater than the num-
Der of blacks, as The figures for the first
quarter of the current year in Arkansas
shows, They are as follows:
No. OF rations issued to Whites, 234, OG3
" " Blacks, $1,000
Or, between seven and eight times as
many to white as black men.
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senator Edmnnds.

The following handsome compliment
was paid to our new Senator, Mr.. Ed
munds, by "Periey" of the Boston JommaL
in giving an account of the discussions
relative TO the admissio on of Colorado as a
State. lie says:
The remarks of the new Senator from
Vermont were especially eloquent and to
the point. The State which he repres-
cntcd, he said, never tolerated any dis
lincions in political equality on account
OF race We have now entire control
over the subject, and it is our duty to
exercise it nor should it be urged that
this control has never been exercised be-
fore. lie was Democrat in the fullest
sense Of the term, as he understood it, in
favor of the political equality of all men,
nor was he willing to yield principle for
temporary political advantage. When
Mr. Edmunds concluded his able remarks,
Mr.. Sumner rose and thanked him for
.ii~t ILL ~,"3I .nIo.. - "
oil human rights.
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METHODIST.

The following appointments for the
burlington District were made at the
Vermont Annual Conference recently held
at Montpelier:
ID. p. Ilulburd, Presiding E1,lcr.
BWAi"gtoa.--J. McAnn and Mex. Pet.
ty
lImooSLi-Danicl Lewis.
IIHi,toa-L. S. Walker.
.SfeDmne.-L. z. Cushman.
Hmesbmgh.-E. n. Howe.
HHkSJo'o.--C. ii, Richmond.
.nonkton-C. A. Stevens.
Fe,17Sbwgh, Charlotte and Vrgcnnes. -
ii. +. Austin and A. j. Ingalls,.
II;gJToye.-To be supplied.
B,GtoL-G. c. Bancroft.
". Addison ald Panton - G.. IL.
Townsend.
.Udilhbmy-B. Eaton.
Lcicester, Goshen AMI W. .SaAsJuy.-
w. Ford and w. ii. Dean.
Whiting and O,7ceH.-To be supplied.
Bundon.-R Morgan.
PiStod. T.. Metcaf.
f. Pttstord and Mendon.-F L. Low
EFT
Ruland.-D. w. Dayton.
BenSOn-C. II. IIawley.
LincoA.-E. B. Half.
Rpton.-To be supplied by A. w.
Eastman.
B,idport and Sliorehan. TO be sup
piled by j. IL. Headley.
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STRANGE STATEMENT. In n Norfolk
IVA } letter in the Tribune the writer says
a statement was made to him few days
ago by an ex-rcbel officer OF Stoncwall
Jackson's command, which on subsequent
inquiry he discovered TO be true Speak
ing Of jackson, his old associate said if lie
had been in command of the rebel army
after Antietam, the war would have been
brought TO a close for that "Jackson
proposed to Lee and others officers that
Mcclellan should be dclcately approached
with a proposition to place him (McClel-
LAM in command of both the Union and
rebel armi $, and then dictate TO the Adj
ministration satisfactory terms for peace,
which at that time would have been the
dcposing of Mr.. Lincoln :" but jeff Davis
got wind OF the plan and it fell through
awe thought the scccsh officers said,
"that the United States government had
become aware of such plan, and that
was the way that we accounted for the
fact OF Mcclellan being relieved from the
command of the army"
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BOSTON MARKET.
FLOUR and MEAL
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.
WEDNESDAY, April q

" Wednesday NpTII 20
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vrginia.-Coarsc, 40
80; Medium. 50@j5; Fine, jj@62 Extra, ga
6s.
mdiana.-Coarsc, 40 a 80; Medium, 5O@53 ;
Fine, 53@G0.
Michean.-Coarsc, 400 80; Medium, 5O@5j ;
Fine, 5j@G0
New York and Vcrmont-Coarse, 459i7; Me
dunn, $1,000 Fine, 1902; Extra, 52CD55.
Illinois and Wisconsin.-Coarsc 4j@i7 Me-
dunn, 1000 Fine, 50@53
Iowa and Minnesota. Coarse ij61 Il Medium,
i7@j0; Fine, 50eDi3.
Canada.-Combing SO6Sj Mixed, 55@62 ;
Clothing, 42GiS; Tub, 50Sjj.
Pulled.--Extra, 556DjO; Supcrfne, iJGj0 No.
l, 30@33 Super Lambs. 35QlO; Canada Lambs
10 Western super, 35@l9.
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NITRo-G LYCERiNE.- AT q meeting of
the Section on Engineering and Mcchan-
cal Science of the Association for the
Advancement of Science and Art in New
York, on Tuesday evening, Prof Scelcy
called attention TO the subject Of nitro
glycerlnc oil, and characterized the ac-
ton Of certain members of Congress in
reference to the sale and transportation
Of this oil as very amusing and unworthy
Of craftsmanship in this age The same
furorc and panic had existed in reference
to gun-cotton, and yet that had been
Adams Express Company, and it had
been manufactured and stored in build
ings where there were hundreds of living
beings, and yet no accident had occurred.
Gun-cotton was kept wet, transported
wet. Hence the safety. On one occa-
sion an explosion took place on steam
boat on the Mississippi, which was caused
from dry gun cotton which had in it a
little excess of acid. Had this been re-
leased before packing, there would have
been no spontaneous combustion. This
excess of acid was really, he believed, the
cause Of the recent explosions of nitro
elycerine at Panama and San Francisco;
!. ----.-,,, -"inneo the oxcesS OF
acid, as had been done with gun cotton,
and make the transportation, storage and
handling of it safe beyond Il pcradventure
He said that in Il short time our people
would find out that nitro-g lyccrine was "a
safer commodity to transport than gun
powder.
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an amount equal to the tax which they
have paid in their finished condition.
Taxes on tea and coffee are not changed,
but the rates on adutcrated articles are
increased. There is reduction on mo-
lasses and sugar. The principle on which
the tax bill has been drawn was recon-
mendcd by the revenue commission. 1t
simplifes The revenue system, levies taxes
on fewer articles, and reduces materially
the tax on raw material.
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EXCISE TAX NOTICE.

NJ persons living in the Towns ofShorcham and
Dridl Ort, liable to rav tax under the Excise
Laws OF the United States are hereby notified that
| will be at Demiugs Hotel. Shorchum MAY 9Th
and Sh, and at +. Z. flccher's Store, Bri,iport.
May 9th and 10th, 1866 to receive statement cf
Income, Applications for License, and any business
pertaining to the assc sment Of said Tax.
Every person who shall fail to make return #
his Income 10y the Gst Monday Of May. 1866, will
be liahlc to he assessed bv the Assessor according
to the best Information which he can obtain, and
in such case the Assessor will add fifty pcr ccntum
to the amount of the items of such list.
Every person who shall deliver to an Assessor
any false or fraudulent list or statement with in
tent to evade the valuation Of his income is sub
ject to fine of tive kapired cLLiu. and in such
the list will he made out bv the Assessor ar
Assistant Assessor, and from the valuation 30
made. there can be no appeal
JOSHUA W. BOYNTON,
5;1w Assistant Assessor
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Andrew Johnson's old partner in the
tailoring business at Greenvillc, Tennes-
see, is still working at his trade in Tus-
cumbia, Alabama, and thinks it very
strange the President does not give him a
lucrative appointment, especially as his
wife is Mr.. Johnson's own cousin.
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A divorce case at Chicago has the
queer feature that the defendant looks so
nuh Ike his twin brother, his partner
in business, that the lady herself is unable
TO identify her husband, having been sep
arated from him for some time.
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FARNI FOR SALE.

A Farm Of 1856 a res of land, with Buildings,
nice Fruit and 6rst-rste water. situated N miles
north of East Midilebury, on the Bristol rosd-snd
a wood lot Of sixty acres on the Mountain. viii
be sold low, as tho owner is engaged IN other
business; the 1856 acres is all level tiable land,
about half clay and the rest loan, there Is about
thirty-iiye acres OF grain sowed Inc road divides
suit purchasers; one half of the purchase money
can be lci, on mortgage For Terms, enquire by
mail or otherwise, OF -
5. G. TISDALE,
East Middlebury Vt.
April 23l, 1866. AiSw'
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TIE NEW REVENUE BIII.-1'he ways
and means committee of the House of
which Mr.. Morrill, is chairman, reported
a tax bill last week providing a tax of .
per cent on raw cotton, and articles man
featured of cotton exclusively when ex-
ported are 10 be allowed Il drawback tf
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4 YkSIIIRE BULL.

~
The pure bred Ayrshire Ball ARGYLE, recently
introduced into this vicinity, will be kept for the
bury.
TERNIS,-s3 FOR THE SEASON.
Argyle was bred by II. II. Peters, of Southhoro',
Mass, calvcd March Is, 1862; Sire, Eglinton !;
Dam, Brenda. Eglinton was bred by John Parker,
Irvine, Scotland imported by Mr. Peters. Sire
the Carrck Bull, Dam of the Goldie family.
Brenda was bred by alexander Struthers, near
Hamilton, Scotland; imported by Mr.. Peters.
She took LIST prize in Scotland when heter.
GREGORY WELLINGTON.
ROSWELL HARRIS JR.
JOSEPH DATTELL.
BIiddleburv, May lat. 1866. 5u
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GALE OF UNCLAIMED PRO

IEKl1.
will sell at Public Auction, to the highest bid
der the following described property unless sooner
disnosed Of at Riders Wharf, so called, in Brd-
mort. in the County of Addison, and State OF Yer
mont, on the 3Oth day OF June, 4. j, 1866, at one
o'clock in the afternoon. to satisfy the legal
charges theron for freight and storage.
About 40 tons Of pressed Hay in bales, weight
HemlOck inch Boards, OF said Hay for roofing
and protection.
The above propeIt y was delivered at said wharf
on or about the first day of February, A. ID. 1861,
bv parties buying and dealing in Hay, under the
finn, name and style Of Sweet 4 Allen who
claimed to be citizens of Rochester in the State OF
New York For any information concerning said
property, enquire at the Addison House, or Ira
w. Clark's office, Middebuv, W
q. a. COLLAMER.
Sheriff of Addison County.
MidlleLmy, April 2SIh, 1866. 5i3w
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NORTH AMERICA.

This Justly celebrated Stallion will stand the en-
suing season for the accommodation of Stock
Raisers. as follows;
At the Union Stable, in Middlebury, on Tuesdays
and Wednesdays.
At Mr.. Hyde's, in New Haven, on Thursdays.
AT the Stable of II. Adams in Nergennes, on Fri
DAYS and saturdays, aud will I've at the Farm OF S.
w, Smith, in Addison, until Monday and return
to Middlebury
TERMS-SS.0 90 TO INSURE
The reputation OF this Horse as Stock getter,
is too well established to need anything said in his
favor
He is nine years old and weighs 800 pounds.
Was sired by the Old Black Hawk, Dam by the
Hamiltonian, known as the Chilson Horse.
4;3m GEO. c. ADAMS, J
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An Act TO Protect Fish in Otter Greek.
1t is hereby enacted by the General As.
semhlv of tho State of Vermont

" 10 N'1'fSNN1' VIZ y S''N''''
semby of the State of Vermont.
SEC. /. If any person shall catch or
take any fish in the waters Of Otter Creek,
or in the waters adjacent thereto, within
four years from the passage of this act,
by the use of seine, gjll-net, snare, trolling,
shooting, spearing, or any other way than
ordinary hook and line, he shall be liable
to pay the town in which he or she lives
the sum of ten dollars for each and every
fish so taken, TO be recovered on com
plant of Grand Juror, before a Justice
of the Peace, with cost of prosecution.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from
its passage.
Approved Nov. 0, 1865,
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7 OS1'.

T OST.
IL On the evening of the 2sth uit. Wallet
containing about s2l. also a note Of one hundred
dollars; said Wallet was lost between Fast MIDI
dlcbury and Toll Gate, in Hancock, VT Tie
finder will be literally rewarded by returning said
property to the subscriber at Hancock, or sending
the same by mail.
PAGE c. POTTER.
Hancock, VT, May LIST, 1866. b;3w*
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was FIVE feet long and three feet vide. The work.
men cut II perpendicularly the long way, and
in dressInR one OF the inside edges they broke
through into small aperture near the middle
each way, and discovered something in IT.
Fifteen or twenty citizens we're called around
and witnessed the dressing of the stone and the h6e-
began to give signs OF lie as soon as the breaking OF
the rock let in the air. In short time he SO med
sprightly and wide awake, but soon began to show
signs of excitement and pain. He was then placed
in tmall glass jar, which was loosely cOrked' In
this place he live unit Sunday night, june H. This
animal is OF the order Rdinde or frog tribe regu-
lar Kentucky pond frog, Just such as may he seen
on the banks of any pond now The stone in
which it was found Is solid old DIue lime;
stone, OF the old Siturian deposit, so well
fuoky, Of the regular Pdtgozoic rocks Il. e)
those containing the remains OF the eldest ami
mails known TO have existed. Now, there are some
practical man, who witnessed the liberation of this
specimen OF antiquity from his prtsOn:-
/. He was as old as the stone IN which he was i'm.
bedded That stone was formed around him no
there,
animauoT-no breathing hoies. II ne had breatned
he must have eaten, or he would have persisted.
There was no possibility Of food reaching him in
that place. Ether he was very old frog, or this is
q very young stone.
SETTLE No doubt he was contemporary of 'the
frogs of Egg pit" When he was tadpOe there
we've 10 such things as banks; no exchange on
Liverpool and New York. Greenbacks were not the
currency when he retired from the public. He lived
in very small world, but then he was monarch of
all he surveyed" Had very little opportunity to
cultivate his social tendencies; knew nothing Of the
pleasures of passing out to his front door the cool
OF the evening" and gobbling up flies and bugs and
other little deicacles of that kind. While he ex-
perenced no great emptiness on the outs de OF hum,
no doubt he experienced qulted protracted empti-
within
SPRINGFIELD KY, June 20.