Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-08-03

THE CRors.-The abstract of crop returns
for July, just issued from the Department of
Agriculture, shows the prospect of year Of
average fruiifulness. The present indica-
tions, as marked by thousands of correspon-
dents of the department. point to an average
of about eight and one-haf tenths Of an aver
age crop in quantity of wheat, of a quality
that will make it equal in value to last years
crop. The testimony from all qautters rem
ders it certain THAI the quality will be excel
lent The showing is much more favorable
than in the June report. Winter barley is
In very nearly the same condition as the
wheat. The oat crop has been nominally
good-almost beyond precedent. The con.
dition of pastures is generally above the
average. With the exception of Maine and
New Hampshire, every State reports great
er breadth Of corn than usual. somewhat
diminished average of sorghum is indicated.
There is nearly an average breadth Of lax
In every State more potatoes than usual were
planted, which promised better than usual.
The prospect for apples is not as good as us
ual, and no fruit upon the list makes so poor
a show as peaches.
A correspondent of the Memphis Post,
travelling in Alabama, says ~ found the
mountain settlers to be very poor, but unani-
mously loyal. They treated me very shyly
at first, but after learning that | was not an
enemy, it appeared that they could not con-
tent themselves by doing enough. The soil
on these mountains is too poor to produce
either corn or cotton very WE'LL and the peo-
pie are certainly on fair way to starvation.
They have no prospect for subsistence next
year. All the corn they can possibly raise
J mill ,,nF Lac ~ -. u
little cotton each family can produce will no
more than make them clothes"
ARREST OF CoUNrERFEIrERs.-A extern
sive counterieiting establishment was broken
up a few nights since, about 81 miles down
the Mississippi River from Memphis. The
rendezvous was u cave containing large
room about two hundred feet by sixty, the
entrance to which was artfully concealed A
| complete set of instruments and copper plates
already engraved, &c, were found, with
about $4,000 worth of excellently engraved
greenbscks OF the denominations of fives, tens.
twenties and ifties, and 50 200 worth Of two
cent revenue stamps were found. The conn.
lerfeiters, numbering thirteen were arrested.
Nashville is surrounded by tiara of earth.
works, rising in massey battlements from riv-
er to river, and forming perfect crescent
pierced by streets and avenues. These bat
Elements pass over dozen hills, EN- bracine
in the circuit some of the best views in the
southwest. 1t is now proposed to appropr-
ate several thousand dollars, aud connect all
these works by winding avenue, ten miles
long.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
publishes a tabular statement of the number
Of gold watches in the United States. for
which the tax was paid up to the end Of las
March. The aggregate is O,53O; Of tax
paid, SilS,6Ol The largest number was in |
New York he tax amounting to Sl07 268
the next, Massachusetts,, amounting to Si5.- |
Ais P; the smallest, Idaho amounting to SIS. |
The dstillery of II. C. Manning, in Madi. |
son, Wisconsin has been seized by United |
States officers for violating the revenue law,
and placed in the hands of the United States
Collector. 1t is alleged that from six to nine !
thousand gallons have been fraudulenty dis
posed Of without payment Of tax.
They have ghost in one OF the interior
towns in Kentucky, who appears to watch
men, in the dreary hours of night, and seiz-
ing their coat tails muTmurs in sepulchrsl |
tones " lost, lost" Pistols have been fred |
ct him. but OF course without any effect.
The wigwarm for the Philadelphia conven-
ton, on the corner Of Broad and Wallace
streets, will cover the block. There are to
be three main entrances.
A young girl belonging to a first family of
Indianapolis, being jealous Of an elder sister,
procured stick of nitrate Of silver, and dis.
solved it in her sisters wash pitcher. The
result is that the latter has turned black, and
callers are told that she is i'll of a contagious
disease. She will grow white again in time.