Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-01-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

look snd read better and are filled with large
amount of advertising.
The Superintendent of the Freedmen's Blu
reau at Huntsville, Ala, has his hands full in
witnessing contracts between employers and The
freedmen. Many farmers have supplied them
selves with laborers and but small portion of
the negroes are unemployed for the present
wear. Frst-cass hands without encumbrOnce
have hired for 5000 per year, with rations,
quarters and wood, the negro to clolhe himself
and pay his own doctors bill
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad hiss /
begun a suit against its late President for ST.
600, 900 damages, in permitting the Confeder-
ate Government to use the road and its ma
chinery during the war.
The Maryland authorities have undertaken
TO carry out the State law which fordids the
education Of negro children, and have given
the teacher of one colored school notice to quit.
She has brought the case TO General Howald's
notice. and he directs her TO proceed with her
school and rely on the general Governmental
protection.
The public printing for the year ending on
the thirteth of September last cost one million
seven hundred and thirty-one thousand five
hundred and sixty-fve dollars; Of ifa thiS rsBm
per- PgT''A ~
Ex-General Heath, Pillow, Hood, Longstreet
and other Southern leaders have been in Gin
cinnati lately and engaged sixteen hundred
width laborers and purchased eight hundred
cotton ploughs.
A new business has been started at Worces-
ter by the Worcester Forge and Bolt Company
for the manufacture of bolts by machinery.
The capital stock is $4,000, and the mill will
be 100 by so feet, and work up 800 tons of
iron year.
Seven colored men, representing large num-
bers of colored citizens North and South and in
the District of Columbia, being authorized to
speak, publish a card addressed to the mem
bers Of Congress, respectfully submitting that
in the issue now pending before Congress Tor
the extension of the franchise, its action should
be based on the idea that there can, of right,
be no privileged class before the law in re-
publican government and they seriously and
most earnestly object to any discrimination in
such qualification account of cpior because
TO do so would be invidously affecting them,
and exposing them to similar class legislation
throughout the land, and thus make them liable
TO the greatest injustice.
An important witness for the Government in
the case against ex-rebel Gen. Mercer, charged
with executing certain military prisoners just
before the occupation OF Savannah by Union
troops, has been found in the person OF W. IL.
Evans, late Lieutenant in the ooh Pa Vols.
He is the only witness who can identify Gen.
Mercer as the officer who gave the order for
the execution. Heswil testify that, on given
day in 1864 just before the Federal occupation
of Savannah, Mercer rode over to the post
prison, a short distance from the above city,
and ordered the summary execution of seven
Federal soldiers then in captivity, merely TO
prevent their being recapturcd by our forces.
The lieutenant remembers the order given by
Mercer TO be as follows :--"Bring out and
hang those damned Yankee soldiers higher
than Kaman ever hung, and send them to hell,
where they ought TO have been long ago"
There has been organized, up to the present
time, sixteen hundred and thirty National
Banks, with an aggregate capital of four hun
bred and nine millions of dollars. The total
amount of bonds deposited in the Treasury for
security for circulation is three hundred and ten
millions of dollars. 1t appears from the returns
that some of the States have received more
than their apportonment, especially New York
and Massachusetts.
Referring to the passage of the bill for I'M
qualified negro suffrage in the District of Col
umbia Washington correspondent, under date
OF 18th inst, says: There is no seeming abate-
ment in the opposition of the people here to
this proposed suffrage. II is hard to say what
will result from it. Already the hand of the
incendiury has been busy among the humble
houses of the negroes. while one of their church
es has been fired. Crime and bloodshed are
vote. Coupled with this are all kinds of threats
of assassination. Senator Sumner received
warning of plot to take his life and six other
Senators on February Sth. mischievous and
dangerous. but unknown element, is certainly
at work. The Chaplain in the House prayed
that the hand of the assassin might not be up
lifted again in Washington.
The report of Col. Whitlesy, A ssistant Com
missioner of the Free1mans Bureau in North
,,,h e, 81,
conduct of the freedmen. 1t says "The idle
and conscience begotten fears Of instruction
have passed away. All admit that more quiz
ct and orderly Christmas has never been en-
loved in this region"
The President has approved of the resolu-
ton of Congress accepting the invitation to
join in the French Exposition, and his approval
has been formally communicated to the French
government.
Over five hundsed original Union men of
Alabama, noted for their answering fidelity to
the national cause, have forwarded petition
to Washington. setting forth that they are pro.
scribed in that State as "traitors TO the South"
recounting the continued bitterness and vio-
lence of the men recently in arms against the
government, and deprecating the withdrawal OF
the Federal troops from that State.
The New York Tribune chronicles the fact
that on Thursday for the first time in our coun-
trys history, colored contractor received pay
for carrying the mail. His route is in Virginia,
but he finds that the Vrginians raise no objec-
tions to having their mailbag carried by col
ored man-if they can receive their letters in
no other way.
James Harlan, now Secretary of the Interior,
has been elected U. S. Senator from Iowa, for
the long term beginning in 1867. Ex-Goy.
Kirkwood was elected for the short term.
Information has been received from Wash
inglon stating that the seventh Vermont regi-
ment will soon be mustered out of service and
it may be expected at Burlington at an early
day.
Senator Foot made an elaborate speech in
the Senate, on Monday the 10Th inst, on the
power of Congress to regulate commerce among
the several States. The bill under consd-
Grafton is the one which is intended to hit the
Camden and Amboy monopoly, as well as that
of the Baltimore and Ohio. This speech ex-
hibits much research and is convincing as an
argument. 1t deals entirely with the legal as
pect OF the question.
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TEACHING.
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