Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-06-01

deliver the city Grafton on the Fourth of
July.
The Queens birthday was celebrated by
our neighbors in Canada and the Provinces
with great enthusiasm. While firing a sa-
lutte at Gait cannon burst killing two per-
sons.
An attempt was made on the night of May |
18th, to burn the city of Madison, Wiscon-
sin. Incendiary fires were started at five
different points, and several buildings were
burned.
Gen. Ferry was chosen U. s. Senator for
Connecticut for six years from the Sd of
March next. The Senate of Connecticut
concurred with the House in electing him
by a strict party vote-13 to 8.
Dedham, Mass, has voted to erect Me-
mortal and Town Hail. at an expense of
$4,000, on the vacant lot of land opposite
the Phoenix House. The land is to be pre-
sented to the town by the citizens of the
First Parish.
The large chair mandatory of Messrs.
Wright & Moore, in South Gardner Village,
Mass, was entirely destroyed by fire on
Tuesday evening, May 18th. Nearly one
hundred hands were thrown out of employ
ment.
Mrs. Somervlle, now in her 97th year, has
Just completed vast work, embOdying all
the latest results of science in relation to the
ultimate particles of matter Those who
have seen the MS. are assured that when the
book appears this summer it will surpass
rather than fall short of the merits of the
"Physical Geography" and connection of
4,
her the first rank among intellectual women
of England.
A shop for preparing armor for ships by
bending, planning and fitting large plates of
iron, has been recently completed at the
Portsmouth navy-yard, and furnished with
the best machinery in the country. a res
orvoir of two hundred thousand gallons ca
pacity has been commenced at the yard, and
will be completed this season, and the ex-
pense of that and other works to be per-
formed by the civil engineer of the yard dur
ing the coming year, will be four hundred
thousand dollars.
A new drama entitled, "The Life and
Death of Abraham Lincoln" has Just been
produced at the Mulhouse Theatre London.
The author, Monsieur Reuben, sketches the
martyr Presidents humble career in the first
act, and his barrister's experience in the Sec
ond. In the third act Mr.. Lincoln is at the
White House. and Booth is a sutton for the
hand of his niece, but, being refused, be-
comes his mortal enemy. Then Booth falls
i'll with JEFF. Davis and is engaged by him
to commit the murder. The last scene de-
pcts the President in his box at Ford's The
atre witnessing the tragedy of king Lear"
when the assassination takes place.
| The whole number of privateers employed
by the rebels up TO the surrender of the
L.. l..t 4
of them being steamers. The whole num-
Der of American vessels destroyed by these
pests of the sea, was 2S3, representing a
value of S25,546,000. OF the whole number
235 vessels, valued at S20,0S8, 900, were de-
stroyed, the remainder being bonded and
set free As the bonds in the case of the
latter class were generally made payable
"one year after the declaration of peace be-
tween the Confederate States and the United
States" it will be some time yet before they
are paid. The twenty millions of property
destroyed is but fraction of the loss en-
tailed upon the country by the depredations
of the pirates. Their presence upon the
seas kept our ships in port,-an idle invest
ment Of their owners capital, and gave the
carrying trade of the country to foreign
flags.
The Red river levees have given away and
the whole country is submerged from Nat
chitoches down.
All the freedmen's courts in Tennessee
have been abolished by the Assistant Com.
missioner, the law of the State making col.
ored persons competent witnesses in all the
civil courts having gone into operation. The
civil rights bill, legalizing slave marriages
giving their children the right of inheritance
and making all persons without regard tc
color equal before the law, has passed both
branches of the Tennessee Legislature, and
become law.
The resolutions passed by the new schoo
Presbyterian Assembly in its session at st
Louis were quite radical in their tone. They
approve the freedmen's bureau, rejoice a
the passage of the civil rights bill, favor ne
gro suffrage, and change of the basis o
representation in Congress, and declare that
for the vndication of national justice The
chief fomenters and representatives of the
rebellion should by due process of law, bt
consigned to punishment. A motion t.
strike out this last resolution was lost by
decided vote, and the whole series were
passed without dissenting voice.