Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-07

Oh each was pinned a placarQ read
ing: "Thus the South retaliates for
the arrest of Skilton and Harbridge,"
referring to the arrest of the former
for abusing negro, and the latter
tor attempting to carry pestilential
woolens into New York. No arrests
were made.
Horace B. Pratt, formerly of Bing-
hamton, died in Oil City a few days
since, under peculiar circumstances.
Mr.. Pratt, in swallowing a lump of
sugar, felt something stick in his
throat, which was understood after
wards to be a beard from a wheat |
stalk. An abscess soon formed in
his throat, which finally burst, and he
was sufocated before medical aid
could reach him.
A few days since, little girl three
and half years old, died at Carlisle,
Pa, from drinking whiskey. The
poor child was taken by her father, a
tinker, named McMullen, into a pub
lie house, and was invited to partake
of six penny-worth of whiskey he had
ordered. She drank a small quantity |
was seized with a succession of fits,
and upon being removed home, died.
A party of Cincinnati visitors at
Newport, who had made an abun-
dance of money at the Saratoga
races, were bathing the other day,
and while their clothes were in the
dressing-rooms on the beach, they
were plundered Of 100000 in money,
and $4,000 in other valuables. The
checks and notes were returned by
mail the next day from Boston, but
the greenbacks and diamond rings
remain to be discovered.
The centennial celebration of Yer
gennes occurred on Wednesday, with
an Grafton by Representative Fred
erick E. Woodbridge, and poem by
George Parker, both residents of the
town. A procession visited the grave
of Daniel Mcintosh, soldier under
Gen. Wolfe, at Quebec, who was the
first white settler in the town, in
1855, and died July IA, 1903.
JEFF. DAVIS AND THE PHILADELPHIA
CONVENTIONAL correspondent of the
Alexandria IVA Gazette has had an
interview with jeff. Davis, and informs
the public that "the illustrious prison
er" fully indorses the Couch-and-Or
Convention recently held in that city.
Davis even goes so far as to pray that
good may result from its action. This
is certainly gratifying to his friends
and the members of that body, to be
Endorsed by Davis ought to be suffi-
cient, and it probably is.
The editor of the State Register,
Springfield, ILL.,, is one of the most
bitter copperheads in the Union. He
was, withal, a vindictive Hbeler of
Mr.. Lincoln, during his whole public
life. He said constantly whatever
mean things he could think of, not
only against Mr.. Lincoln, but the
Union army Generals and party
Ind now Mr.. Johnson appoints him
Pension Agent IN the place ofthe Re
publican incumbent, mho acas the life
tony friend and counselor of Mr.. Lin
coin! When it was determined to
remove the Union incumbent because
of his refusal to join the Philadelphia
movement, the intention was to ap-
point some Republican in his place.
But no Republican could be found mean
enough 10 sell himself: and the Presi-
dent had to take up with the copper
head libeler of Abraham Lincoln.
HEALTH OF NAPOLEON.-A Paris
letter says that the Emperor Napoleon
is suffering from diabetes, accompanied
by attacks Of tainting fits, which some
times last for considerable time
Such is the certainty with which a
catastrophe is expected at St. Cloud
that the officers on guard at the palace,
on being suddenly called out to pre-
sent arms to the Empress of Mexico,
exclaimed: "He is dead He is
dead! fancying that His Majesty was
no more. There is now a general
anxiety in the public mind. Both
friends and enemies of the present dy-
nasty look with awe at the probabili-
ty of a general upset. Napoleon the
Thirds government has been one of
such a personal character, that it would
seem that he once away, the whole
machinery must come to sudden
stop.-BoStOn Journal.
SOLDIERS EXTRA BoUNTIEs.-Just
before Congress adjourned it passed a
bill giving extra bounties to soldiers,
and made every necessary provision
which was in its power to have them
paid Immediately. Secretary Stanton
also appointed a board, when Gen.
Candy as it's President, to decide up
on the proper construction of the law
and to frame rules for the guidance
of the different departments in paying
these claims. Reports from Washing
ton state that these rules have been
suppressed by the President and no
bounties can be paid till he gives his
permission. Over forty thousand
claims of discharged soldiers are now
on file in the pay department, and
probably not one of these is made out
correctly for want of the necessary
rules and blanks which Gen. Candy s
board have prepared. Besides this
an order has been issued to the Sec.
, ond Auditor of the Treasury not to
; have these bounties paid until further