Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-01-19

The total receipts from internal revenue
since the lst Of July last are SlsI ,5O0,uOO
The receipts for the year will be S5Oo,oOO,-
O0O.
The Secretary oC War has eountermanded
the orders Issued tor the mastering out the
volunteers on duty in Virginia.
There are 233 pretty waiter girl ST.
looms " IN New York. containing ll9l girls
Their daily number of visitors Is estimated
at % $50.
\ new Issue OF fifty cent fractional cur
rcncy bearing Likeness Of Gen. Spinner,
tie u. ;. Treasurer, Is ready for distribu-
ton a Washington.
The coolest thing of the late cold spellwas
the announcement Of a New Yorker who ad-
yerIiscd pain leaf fans at retail, on Monday.
Christopher Berger, aged %, has been ar
rested Tor the murder OF Miss Mary Watts,
the old lady who was found dead in her
house 10 Germantown, last Saturday. tie
has made ! partial confession.
The Cashier Of the Bank of the State Of
Maine, Bangor, says (slthough the time Of
redemption expired Dec. 81, 1861 the bills
will be redeemed a. long as any are present.
o1.
The extensive barn Of the Troy and Co
hoes Horse Railroad Co, situated about
midway between the two places, was totally
destroyed by fire "Wednesday night. About
thirty horses and seven cars. with harness
and nay, were burned Total loss, eigl teen
thousand d1llars. Only partially insured.
The sale Of pews IN Rev. II. W. Beecher's
Church this year amounted to IS, 436,
nearly three thousand dollars more than last
| year. This, with the rental Sl2, l5S makes
/ the pew income Sal ,594. Four hundred
dollars was the highest sum paid Tor choice.
Henry II. Dunno, superintendent of the
/ y. Y. < Schuylkell Coal Company, was
brutaily murdered by three men on the 10Th
while on his way to PottsyIle. No arrests
made yet.
4 despatch from Wilmington, y. c. of
the Hid SAYS two negroes supposed to be-
long to cUlored regiment at Fort Fisher
entered house near there. and fred on the
inmates. killing a Mr. Pickett, wounding a
Mrs. Carter mortality and Miss Pickett dan
geIously. Efforts were making to arrest
them.
The Adiutant-G General Of Mississippi, has
revoked the order to disarm the negroes, the
apprehended danger having passed over.
\ large lot Of cigars has been seized at
Louisville, for having counterfeit revenue
stamps on the boxes.
The San Antonio Herald, Of the third,
says it was mistaken in reporting the arrival
Of Juarez IRON FL Paso, and that it was
Ortega who came. Juartz is at Chihuahua.
The total losses by ice, at St. Louis, within
three weeks are estimated at about $780,
OO0, and will probably be larger.
Geo. Bancroft, the historian is to deliver
an address upon the lite and character OF
! President Lincoln before the two houses OF
/ CongIess in the National Hall of Representa-
/ tiyee on Monday. the l2Ih Of February prox-
/ imo.
Secretary Stanton has declined to PERMIT
the use Of the Government reservation at
Sandy Hook in New York harbor for a chol-
era hospital.
The Mobile Advertiser learns that band
Of outlaws captured the steamer Lily with
1000 bales OF cotton at Mcintosh Bluff. They
landed the passengers in the woods and took
the boat up the Tvmbigbee River.
Vessels arriving at Fortress Monroe are
now carefully searched in Consequence Of ru-
mors Of a plot 10 release JEFF. DAVIS.
i steam tug, with soldiers, nightly pat
rolls the haTbor, and passes to the Fort havs
to undergo the scrutiny Of two sets Of senti-
nel- instead Of one Jef-s health continues
good.
Gen. Sheridan in reply to a letter in the
New York N.,cs, from Gen. Early contra
dieting the United States oficirl reports OF
the Confederate forces and losses in the
Shenandoah Valley, has published letter
in the Crescent. showing that be captured
as prisoners more men than Early states
/ have been his entire force.