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The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09
The Concurrent Resolution

On Friday the Senate adopted the
House ccncuTcnt resolution which is
as follows;
,Resclcei, (hy ti,o House of Repre-
sscntatives, Wfe Scuate concurring),
Fhat in'ersfcc TO close agitation upon
'a,ouestioa which seems likely to dis.
Eeufb rlfe action of the Government, as
well as to quiet the uncertainty which
sexis,s in the minds of the people Of
tnc eleven States which have been dc
ciared in instruction, no Senator OF
Representative shall be admitted into
either branch of Congress from any OF
said States till Congress shall have de
clarel such States entitled to repre-
sentauon.
The vote was twenty-nine to eigh-
aeen. Among the minority were the
following Republicans: Mossrs. Cow
an, Dixon, Norton, Stewart, Van Win
kle, Doolittle and Morgan. Mr.. Foot
of our State was absent on account of
sickness, but his colleague, Mr. Poland,
said, If present, no would have voted for
the resolution The other absentees,
Messrs. Howard and Wright, would
doubtless have voted the same way.
Thus have the House and Senate de-
clared by a very emphatic vote, their
right to determine the fitness of the
eleven rebellious States for representa-
ton in Congress.
Mr. Davis, of Ky, took part in the
final debate and made most disgrace
full speech. Not content with denying
the constitutionality of the resolution,
he said that the Southern Senators
and those who were in favor of receiv
ing them in the Senate, constituted
majority of the whole number of Sena-
tors. 'If these two" he added, CUNT
ed, the President could communicate
with them as the constitutional body,
and, by the Eternal he would advise
him to do it tomorrow. He further
more declared that he would sooner
trust the Southern Senators than the
northern members Of the Senate If
the views of Davis are those of the
southern applicants for admission to
Congress, they had better remain for
n considerable time on the "anxious
seat" His language was as treasona-
BILE as any ever uttered in the Halls
of Congress, and for less offensive
words Mr.. Powell of the same State
was expelled. Will Mr.. Davis be ex-
PEELED?
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09
President of the United State

Mr.. BORIS ON THE PRESIDENT CoURsE.
John Minor Bolts gives his opinion
of President Johnson's course in let
ter just published, in which he says:
II am not one of those who enter
tain the opinion. that Mr.. Johnson has
intended or means now to make any
concessions to the Copperhcads of the
North or the Coppertails of the South
To tho credit Of human nature be il
said, that our history has furnished not
even one instance of such revolving
turpitude and deprayity as would be
exhibited by his regeneration at such
a time as this, and under such circum-
stances MS now exist"
Mr.. Bolts, however, evidently places
no great dependence upon some of
The recons tructed rebels
81 am not silly enough he says, "to
apprehend another rebellion, but L do
fear the ascendency of this party to
power, and / do fear that the power Of
the country should by any misfortune
become involved in a foreign war,
which | have every reason to believe
is anxiously prayed for by many who
have recently taken the oath of strict
fidelity to the United States, as con-
tanned in the amnesty oath.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

RALLY, FENIANs. The stirring APP
peal issued by the Fenian secretary of
civil affairs is strangely misinterprcted.
There is nothing warlike about it.,
There is no intimation that fighting is
intended anywhere 1t is money that
is called for, not men; and the con-
tributions are to be "inobilizcd" II
any jealous and selfsacriicing Fenian
does not quite understand what the
process of modifying funds is, let him
visit the splendid headquarters in New
York-both sets of them 1t takes a
great many modified contributions
daily to keep up the rival establish
ments, with all their governmental de-
partments, their officers and retainers
In fact the financial department AYERS
that it has to strain every nerve to
supply the bravo men in these gaps
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

The UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. The
following statement is made as to the
students in the University of Virginia
at Charlottesville
"The large majority of the students
have seen service in the Confederate
army, as colonies, majors, captains and
lieutenants, few, of course, having
been in the ranks. Among the list of
students ! noticed the names of the
following Benjamin Wood, jr, son
Of Mr.. Wood of the New York Daily
Necs; A. w, Pope, nephew of the
Federal General Pope; Hugh Davis
and r. Davis Parish nephews of Mr.
jefferson Davis; w. w, Foote, son Of
Ex-senator Foote, of Mississippi; J.
W. Wilmer, son of Bishop Wilmer, Of
Alabama; and Charles l.. Rivers, son
of Hon. Alex. Rivers, Of Charlottos-
vile, Va"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

NEW HAMpsHiRE.--The election in
this State for Governor and other
State Officers takes place on the 18th
INST, and there is every reason to be-
lieve that the Republicans will again
be triumphant. The Republican State
Committee have canvased nearly every
town and ward in the State and give
the following figures: Frederick
Smyth, republican, 36,364; John G..
Sinclair, democrat, 1880; doubtful
1888. When we bear in mind how
accurate the canvass has been for sew
eral years past, we cannot but believe
that the above figures are nearly cor
rect. The democrats are emitting nc
effort to carry the State, but they are
doomed to disappointment.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

MoDERArIoN,-The New York Tri-
6une gives to its friends in Congress the
following temperate advice, in the
present state of affairs:
But while the prospect is thus
clouded, we entreat the majority in
either house to act considerably.
moderately, temperately Where they
cannot get whole loaf, let them take
half quarter; yes, crust-any
thing that tends, if but by n span,
toward making this land of impair,
tai laws and equal rights. He is a
mailman who says, i will have all or
nothing, when it is not at his option
to have all. Acting in public capa-
city no one has a right to let his pas
SION, OF pride, or wilfulness, impede
the achievement Of any good what
ever.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09
EXECUTIVE NTANeIoN-

Washington, d. G. Aug is, 1865
Coz. Ij'm. L. .ShdrkeH jack son, Mss:
| am grati6ed to see that you have or
gained your Convention without diff
ficulty | hope that without delay
your Convention Will amend your
State Constitution, abolishing slavery,
and denying to all future Legislatures
the power to legislate that there is
property in man; also that they will
adopt the amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States abolishing
slavery. If you could extend the cleo
tive franchise to all persons of color
who can read the Constitution of the
United States in English, and write
their names, and to all persons of col
or who own real estate valued at not
less than $3.50, and pay taxes thereon,
you would completely disarm the Cad
versary, and set an example the other
States will follow. This you can do
with perfect safety, and you thus place
the Southern States, with reference to
free persons of color, upon the same
basis with the Free States. | hope
and trust your Convention will do
this, and as consequence the radi-
calls, who are wild upon negro fran
chise, will be completely foiled in
their attempts to keep the Southern
States from renewing their relations
to the Union, by not accepting their
Senators and Representatives.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

The ARGUMENT or ABUSE. The
Nashville Times makes the following
sensible remarks concerning the evil
influence of such papers as the Rich
mond Examiner controlled by the fe-
rocious Pollard:
Abuse is always popular with the
masses. If a vagahond begins to
abuse another yagabond upon the
strsat corner, crowd will quickly
collect Many newspaper is read
merely for It's obscenity and profanity,
and it is melancholy confession that
the more shrewish the pen the more
general the applause, North and South.
he who blackguards the rebels in one
section or the Yankees in tile other.
generally gets the most praise and Pc
rusal. But such, whilst it makes the
more judicious grieve, does not
represent the governing sense of 9th
er people. We cannot afford it in the
South. The fight is already uphill
Sork. and Jordon is hard road TO
travel. Our worst enemies are our
iinruiy telnpers. our indiscretons and
blatant pretenders. who, without hav-
ing contributed anything to the war
while 1t was going on, now hope to
make mp by poise what they lacked in
courage. II is sad, ii is strange how
many people they are able to deceive,
not only in the North but in the
South"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

"GREAT NicroRY FOR THE SourH. -
Under this heading the Norfolk IVA. y
Post thus begins an editorial on the
Presidents veto of the Froedmen's
Bureau bill:
"Since the morning of July %, 1861,
when the news of the great Southern
victory achieved by Beauregard over
Mcdowell, and the awful rout of the
Federal army on the plains of Ma
nassas, was borne through the South.
on the wings of the wind, as it were,
carrying JOY and jubilation into every
loyal Southern household, and glad
dening every true Southern heart.
there has been no news received with
so much rejoicing by the people of the
South, as that contained in this dis
patch informing them the President
had vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau
bill. This is the greatest victory they
have achieved during the greater
than any of the feats OF arms of Stone
wall Jackson or Robert Il. Lee; and it
has given them more pleasure than
had General Lee been elected Cover
nor of Virginia. They have found an
ally in the President worth more to
them than the alliance of France or
England, and they now begin to see,
even rs they saw foreshadowcd at
Manassas, the fual triumph Of the
great Southern cause.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

LIE LEADERSHIP OF THE DEMOCRACY. -
an amusing colloquy took place in
Congress. Friday, in regard to the lead
eershlp OF the Democracy in the House.
Mr. Rogers denied the assertion of
republican members that he held this
position, and the coveted honor went
begging. Mr.. Niblack said that the
Democracy had no leader, but fought
each ON his own account, as gueriilas,
TO which Mr. Window replied that the
vote OF the Democracy last session
against the bill to punish guerillas was
now explained.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

GIN. GRANT The Washington cor
respondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial writes as follows:
Hon. Benz. Eggleston, an old friend
OF Gen Grant and his family, called
on the General a day or two AGO. and
had little social chat with him on the
condition Of the country. He asked
him what he thought of the Freed
mems Bureau Bill. Grant replied
that he liked it very well, except that
he thought it ought to be entirely in
the hands of the army, instead of, as
1t Is, half civil and half military. As
the civil authorities could do NOTHING
without the military in regulating the
relations between the freedmen and
the people Of the South, he believed
that instead of civil agents and sub
agents, the entire machinery ought to
be worked by tho army.
On the subject of admitting the
Southern States TO representation.
Grant said he was in favor of LETTING
any loyal man in the South vote for
Congressman, and if they elected low
al men, all right Eggleston asked
him "A little surprised at this conser-
yatlsm how many loyal men he
thought had been elected in the South
About six, including Tennessee. said
Grant. As to withdrawing the troops
from the South, as some were in favor
of, Grant said he had no idea of doing
anything OF the kind. He couldn't
tell when it might be done. but eyi.
IDENTITY not just yet.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

IHE ALBANY BRIDaE. The railroad
orlage across the Hudson at Albany,
which the Iroians, the Erie Railroad
ana other powers, SO long and bitterly
opposed IN the New York Assembly, is
opened and trains run across. Ii is
nearly a mile long; rests On twenty one
piers; has two draws of ITO feet each;
contains over two million feet of lum-
per; has been twenty months in build
ing and cost 81, 100000.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

THREE LADIES Frozen TO DEATH.
Paut Feb. p. Three persons were
frozen to death, and three others bad
~ frozen, i'll Morton county, during
the recent cold snap, under the follow
ing circumstances: They were attend
ing singing school near Chain Lake.
on the night Of the 18th inst. and
about s O'Clock severe snow storm
coming up, they were afraid to remain
longer, and started for home, dis
lance Of a mile and a half, with an OK
team. After remaining out two nights
and day, the team got home, driven
by one of the boys, the only one able
to walk, having on the sled the girls
locked together in the cold embrace OF
death, another girl badly frozen, and
the boys not quite SO bad. The boy
that was frozen the least SAYS he sun
posed the cattle would 90 home. but
instead went in another direction, and
stopped in Il large marsh about mile
from the school house, where they re-
mained two nights and day. When
it cleared SO that they could see. they
started for home, and arrived in the
condition above stated.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

esJ- The Manchester Mirror pub
fishes the following naughty remark,
found IN an article in the Union DEM
ocra year ago:
Three quarters Of the mechanics of
this city are better qualified, except,
perhaps, in habits of drunkenness, for
Vice President than Andrew John-
son !"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

Ds5- The Secretary Of the Treasury
has just issued the following Circular
TO Collectors of Customs. and others:
TEEAsURl DEPARTMENT,
March LIST, 1866
You have been heretofore advised
that the Reciprocity Treaty, between
the United States and Her British
Majesty proclaimed on the 18th OF
September, 1854, viii expire on the
18th inst. In the absence OF any in
struction from this Department to the
contrary, You will please consider the
several tariff acts, now in force, as your
guide IN the assessment and collection
of duties Oh any goods, wares and
merchandise imported on and after
the 18th inst, into the United States
from the British Provinces. At such
ports as are without appraisers, and
when the responsibility Of appraisine
the value and determining the classif-
cation of goods, wares, sc, rest Upon
Collector Of Customs, the utmost care
should be exercised. In determining
the value Of any goods, wares, &c, i'm
ported from any of the British Prov
inces, it is competent for an appraiser,
q any one acting Us appraiser, to take
the actual market value in the princi-
pal markets of either Of the Provinces
Of Great Britain.
(Signedl, H. McCULLocu,
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

Action is what these gallant men call
for-not men, not even guns or pow
der-but action, immediate action--in
sending along contributions to be mo-
bilized. 1t is big thing. How long
will they keep it up ?-Sprinafeid Re-
BujlicQn.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

ry- Colonel Bowers, Adiutant-Gen-
eral on General Grants staff Was in
stantly killed, on the 9th inst, at Car
rIson's Station, on the Hudson River
hailroad, in attempting to get on the
tram as 1t was starting from the Sta
ton.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

LETTER FROM THE President. --Presi
dent Johnson last summer sent the
following letter to Provisional Cover
nor Sharkey, of Mississippi, which
will be read with a good deal of inter-
est at this time:
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

nay~ At an annual meeting of the
New England Agricultural Society,
held in Boston, March l, the following
officers were elected:
President; DR., Geo. b. Loring, Sa-
lem, Mass
Secretary; Daniel Needham, Boston.
Treasurer. Isaac X. Gage, Fisher
vile, n. II.
Vice-President for Vermont Daniel
Kimball, Rutland
Vermont Trustees George Camp
bell, Westminster; Henry Clark,
Pouitney; Eben Bridge, Pomfret;
Thomas Sanders, Brookfeld; ID, II.
Potter, ST. Adams.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

Hard Up.There is an old demo-
erat in Montpelier who declares that
he has lost all confidence in WHIT
men--in johnson, in his minister in
ms doctor, (who is himselfl and now
he Is IN favor OF Fred Douglas as the
next President. 'A0
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

New Custom HOUSES The Miscel-
laneous Appropriation Bill was con-
sidered in Committee of the whole in
Congress Friday. Among the items
agreed upon were the following: for a
Custom House at st. Adams, Vt, $10,-
600; for a Custom House at Island
Pond, $4,000
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

ABOUT SO. The despatch from Mr..
Seward which Mr.. Garrison called a
"besotted telegram" was as follows:
NV YORK, Feb. %, 1866.
"lt is all right and safe. The Union
IS restored and the country safe. The
Presidents speech is triumphant, and
the country will be happy.
W. H. SEWARD.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

gss~ Our thanks are duo TO mem
bess Of Congrass J. =. Morrill, and
fofins Baxter, for valuable public
documents.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-09

By On the evening of the 9th inst,
Fred Douglas leclured in Alexandria
Va, protected by a military guard.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-09
HIisCellaneOus Items.

The new Monroe doctrine is IF
any man hoists the American flag in
New Orleans, shoot him on the spot"
"A New Orleans policeman fred five
shots at one defenceless negro during the
riot, and killed him.
The Post Surgeon at Atlanta, Ga,
informs the New York Health Officer
that parties there are shipping infected
rags North.
The Albany Journal produces for
gotten Federal statute prohibiting APP
pointees of the President during the re-
cess of Congress from drawing their sa.
aries until after their nomination is con-
frmed.
The needle gun is losing its fame
since it has been discovered that its
wounds don't kill. Or 10000 wounded
men taken to Vienna, not S per cent.
were fatally hurt.
BY order of the British government,
a criminal was recently executed at Ba-
roda, India, by being dragged through
the streets Of the city bound to the foot
or an elephant.
Two husbands in Iowa recently
traded wives, one giving the other $500
to boot. The citizens didn't like the
STYLE, and drove the husband who had
received the "bootn from the county,
with his new wife. The other couple
yet remain.
Speaking of young man who is in
the habit of serenading the young ladies
of that city, the Selma Messenger says t:
"For having heard him declare in tune
full strains, TO each of six young ladies,
10 one evening, that she was all the
world to him, we can safely endorse him
as the most harmonious Tyre Of our
acquaintance"
DIR. Dostie, wounded in the conven-
ton riot at New Orleans on Monday
week, died on Sunday last. Rev. Mir
Horton, who acted as chaplain of the
convention, also died on Sunday. Three
policemen, wounded by the negroes, arr
not expected to live. Several wounded
negroes have died and Others will die
The entire loss Of life will be nearly
fifty.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-09

The CHOLERA. - Telegraphic reports
show that the cholera is making steady
progress in and around New York, while
there have been cases at Louisville, KY,
st. Louis, Mo, and other points far in
land. The disease has questionably
obtained q foothold in this country, and
will no doubt extend it's ravages during
this month and September, which are
the most unhealthy months Of the year,
and especially prolific in bowel diseases.
Various causes cOnspire to make these
months the most critical Of all to the
general health. The fervid heats Of the
early part of summer have reduced the
tone and vitality of the system; the sui
try, humid atmosphere of dog days de-
presses still more the vital energies, and
there is general relaxation of the bod
lily powers, which favors the develop.
ment of disease. These two causes are
intensified in localities where sufficient
attention is not given to sanitary pre-.
cautions, and collections Of offal, foul
sinks, stagnant pools of water, &C., are
allowed to poison she atmosphere. Then
at this season Of the year the markets
are filled with unripe and decayiug fruit,
which is eagerly purchased and eaten
by the younger portion of the communi-
ty, and not unfrequeptly by those who
are old enough to know better. This
indigestible and semi-putrid fruit, taken
into the stomach at q season when its
powers are weakened, is almost sure to
superinduce some one Of the various
forms of bowel complaints, all OF which
are always dangerous, and at this time
specially so.
In view, therefore, Of the steady in
crease of the dreaded Asiatic cholera, it
behooves every one to be careful to eat
none but fully ripe and sound fruit and
vegetables, to maintain personal cleanli-
ness, and see that no cause Of disease is
permitted to exist in or near his home
or his place of business. AS the same
time the public authorities cannot be
too vigilant in enforcing every possible
sanitary measure for the removal of ex-
ternal sources of disease.-BostOn Jour-
nal.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-08-09

The RIGHT OF FREE SPRBCH.-The New
York Evening Post states the case fully
in the following paragraph
The members of the convention, in
country which allows the liberty of pub
lie meetings, had a right to come togeth
er at any time they pleased, and for the
discussion of any subject in which they
might feel an interest. They had right
to take any name which they might
fancy, and pretend to any authority
which they might choose to arrogate,
and propose any change in existing in
situations which might seem to them
good, so long as they took no steps to
enforce their pretended authority or to
impose their amended institutions upon
the people by violent means or prepara-
tious for violence. If the conductors Of
the Daily News and the World were to
come together at one Of their offices and
call themselves a convention Of delegates
for the State Of New York, and propose
a constitution for the state legalizing
negro slavery, this would be no unlaw-
full assembly-false as the pretence on
which it acted might be. No grand jury
would indict; no public prosecutor
would lodge any information; there
would be no arrest-if the persons con-
cerned chose to amuse themselves in
that manner, the law and the adminis-
traitors of the law would have no reason
to interfere. Fancy the President of the
United States ordering Mr.. Courtney to
call on Gen. Hooker to send military
force to suppress such an assembly, and
the absurdity needs no comment to make
| it apparent.