Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-06-15
Summary Of News.

Antoine Probst the murderer of the Deer
ing family, was hanged at Philadelphia on
the Sth inst, nine weeks after the crime was
committed.
A dispatch from Oregon states that Re-
publican Congressman has been elected for
the fortieth Congress. This is the first cleo
Twelve cases Of nitro-giycerlue ....-.l -
New York on Friday last, and the owner,
Prof. Baum of Hamburg, requested permits
sion to land it. TWAS stored by permission
of the Fire Commissioners in a shanty on
EightyNthird street and Ninth avenue.
Brig. Gen. A l.. Quincy, formerly of New
York, and now of Selma, Alabama, in for
warding the demonstration of the Union Of
fcers and soldiers against an increase of the
cotton taxes, states that there are 20 officers
and 200 men of his late regiment in Alaba-
ma, and at least 5000 Northern emigrants
in that State, nearly all of whom are engage
ed in the cultivation of cotton. Assuming
that the culture of cotton cannot prove prof
liable with the proposed tax, he says the
Northern men will leave the State if it be
imposed, and that the Southern States can
never become purged of disloyalty without
the emigration of Northern men.
A part Of the Congressional Committee
sent to investigate the Memphis riots have
returned and give deplorable account of
tllc VI lHey represent uIc
rebel spirit to be rampant in Memphis, and
the city government to be in the hands of
Irlsnmen, who did not enter the rebel army,
but who are now more disloyal than rebel
soldiers. This latter class of citizens are
disposed to be orderly, and did not partici-
pate in the recent riots. The police are said
to be Irish to man, and are charged with
being the principal actors in the negro kill
ing and burning Of churches and school
houses. The Committee also assert that
many Northern men in Memphis, engaged
in specializing, are as bad as original seces-
sionists, and that it is not safe to carry a
Union flag in the streets. Military protec-
ton they consider indispensable not only to
the Union men, but to the safety of the
property of all.
The costly iron bridge which the New
Haven, Hartford & Springfield Railroad
Company have been for several months
erecting across the Connecticut river at
Warehouse Point is now completed with the
exception of an iron railing ON the top, which
is being put On. The cost ofthe bridge will
be S564,7S4.
An artist, delegated by the government
of Switzerland to select some historic sub
ject connected with our late war to repro
duce on canvas, is now in Washington. The
painting when completed is designed to be
exhibited at Berne.
The new five cent piece is to be of the
same size as the three dollar gold coin Eff
ty pieces laid in straight line will make the
''metre" or unit of French measure 1t will
also be so near eight-tenths of an inch that
no ordinary measurement will detect the
difference. Three of these coins will weigh
an half ounce, and be convenient for post
age weight
The Circuit Court in Richmond, Va, re-
opened Wednesday morning, when the AS
sistant District Attorney read the answers
of the Government to the questions of the
counsel for Davis, as to his trial. After a
few remarks by Mr. Brady and Judge I'm
derwood, the court adjourned until the sec
ond Tuesday in October, when, it was sta
ted, the trial you'd begin, the Chief Justice
presiding.
The Agricultural Report for April esti-
mates the increase in value of the live stock
in the United States since Jan. 1865 at S112,-
OO2,2l6, also the value of sheep annually de-
stroyed by dogs at S975,514.
According to the NORTHAMPTON Gazette
tobacco plonts said to bv lJac h ward and
somewhat scarce The dull market for to-
bacco induces farmers of small means, who
must sell their crop speedily or be cramped
for money, to put in something that will
7 bring the cash at sight. Many farmers
ihSi4 olu SiOp vi anu no
customers. The larger farmers, who are
able to hold their crop one or two years, il
necessary, will probably plant US much this
season as ever, and some will plant more
The Nation says On Wednesday June G
Seguin's Point, at the southern end of Sta
ten Island, was seized with high hand by
Mr. Schultz. He was acting Tor the Board
of Health, the Commissioners of Emigra-
ton, and the Quarantine Commissioners, and
was at the head of eighty-fve policemen
who were supported by the guns of the Uni
ted States revenue cutter Cdyugd. On two
occasions previously the Staten Islanders
have risen in mobs and destroyed quaran-
tine buildings, and this time they met the
invading police with violent language but
the State authorities are decidedly in earn
est, and the action they have just taken will
meet with the almost unanimous approval
OF the State and of the country. 1t is so
much the whole country's concern that it is
not very easy to see why, on legal or other
grounds, the State of New Jersey cannot be
forced by the Federal Government to allow
Sandy Hook, by far the best site for quar-
antlne buildings, TO be used for that purnose
But permanent buildings are already bepun
on West Bank, and for temporary use Sc
gums Point will serve very well At any
rate, we shall no longer kill emigrants in
the lower bay who have survived the perils
of shipwreck and of Imprisonment with the
plague on the ocean and got over here to
their land of promise.
Nearly all the cases of cholera reported