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Cretan Victories over the Turks

The Constantinople correspondent
of the Tribune has authentic accounts
from private sources in Crete of two
victories over the Turks. The general
particulars are as follows:
after the last attempt of Mustapha
Pasha to penetrate the Businesses of
Sphakia, he returned and concentrated
his troops chiefly at Canea and at
Rethymo, announcing as usual that
the rebellion was at an end, and the
whole island quiet. But the Cretans
pressed down so near to these towns
that he found it necessary to send out
two strong columns to attack them
and drive them back to the mountains.
The troops sent from Canea were un-
der the command of Anil Pasha, and
numbered some FIVE thousand men.
They marched directly upon Omalo,
but on the l1th, 18th and 18th of Feb
ruary they suffered heavy loss in vain
attempts to force mountain pass
The next day they retreated, but soon
found the passes occupied i'll their rear
They encamped in ravine and re-
NAMED nearly week, unable either
to advance or retreat. The Cretans
were not strong enough to attack them
openly, but they harassed them night
and day, on two successive nights fore
ing their way into the very centre q
the Turkish camp. The Turkish
troops suffered terribly, but were al
last relieved by large force sent tC
their rescue by Mustapha Pasha. The
whole force then fell back to Canea
making no attempt to advance.
At the same time a strong body o
troops started from Rethymo with {
view of penetrating into the district o
Amari and dispensing the rebels there
= On the 18th of February when the,
, were still near Rethymo, the insur
, gents, under the command of Coroneo
and others, attacked them suddenl,
from all sides. The attack was unex
pected The Turks were entangled il
the narrow de6les of the mountains
and after an obstinate battle they re
treated in great disorder to Rethymo
the Cretans pursuing them up TO III
very walls of the town.
In this battle the Cretaps capture
2 cannons, 3 flags, $50 mules lade
, with provisions, and n large number {
: prisoners. In both these affairs th
u Turks lost heavily in killed an
. wounded. On the arrival of the fyin
> troops at Rethymo the Mussulmar
were so exasperated that they con
: menced n massacre of the Christian
} which was checked with great difficu
!, ty after five or six had been murdere'
i Another severe skirmish is reporte,
y but private adyices give no particuli
about it,
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The Extra Session.

Tho extra session of the Legislature
which convened on Wednesday, adj
journed Friday afternoon. the neces-
sary legislation i'll regard to the Ben
nington and Rutland Railroad having
been accomplished 1t was supposed
that our "Solons" would conine them
selves strictly to the business for
which Gov. Dillingham; called the OK
ira session, but other bills were pass
ed. Sixteen bills in all, were passed,
rs follows:
Authorizing mortgage of Benning-
ton x Rutland road
Authorizing towns on Bennington &
Rutland road to issue town bonds.
Authorizing towns on the line OF the
proposed Montpelier a st. Johnsbury
and Essex Co. roads to issue town
bonds.
Authorizing certain towns to aid in
constructing the Woodstock & Rut-
land road.
To incorporate the Rutland r. II Co
To incorporate the Peoples Gas
light Co, of Rutland; the Bennington
Gas light Co; the American Homo 4
box Co, the Northern Telegraph Co.
and the Cain 4 Drake Marble Co, o.
Pittsford
Ceding to the L. S, site for Custom
House in Newport
To pay the Secretaries and Clerks
of the Senate and House.
TO provide for expenses of he speci
al session. appropriating $4,000 70
that purpose.
70 punish breaches of the peace an,
uHlawful combinations to prevent me-
from laboriBg IN mills, 4Gairies on Oh
railroads
To establish the Rutland grade,
school.
To prevent lie, trnei.Ga o! FISH Il
pounds or set nets
Oh these the bills granting PERM!
SION TO the towns named 10 issue tow
bonds Ia aid OF the Montpelier and S
Johnsbnry and Woodstock roads. "A
similar IN terms 10 that of the Bel
nington and huHsnd- road, and wei
passed, as 4 matter Of course, withol
opposition or debate
Oae Of the most important ones
that incorporating the Rutland Ra
road Company.
The act incorporating the Rutla
Railroad Company, is one Of the Inc
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A Frenchman on Fen ianIsm.

John Lemoine thus concludes an
article upon "Fenianism" in the Jour
nal des Debats:
"rhe English government is much
more embarrassed than it chooses to
acknowledge by this impalpable and
inapprehensible movement. 1t has all
the strength necessary to put down
disorder, but not enough to reestab-
lish order Do what it will, say what
it will, order does not reign in that
eternal Warsaw of Ireland The Fe-
nian revolt is not an agitation for re-
form, which may be satisfied by n re-
/ form bill; nor laborer's strike, which
may be ended by a compromise or by
WEAKNESS. 1t is not political move
ment which may be terminated by the
admission of IA new class to the priv
leges of old classes. 1t is an undis-
guised reyolutinary and social move
ment which has for its principle a
change of the form of government
and for its object the transmission Of
property. 1t is as hostile to the
Catholic Church as to the English
Government 1t is an agrarian revo
luton in the full meaning of the term
The Fenians are not an offspring
without parents. They cannot b'
called proiem SINE matre natam. Thei
, ancestors are United Irishmen, White
boys, Hearts of Oak, &c. Their mo
ther is Misery, with her cortege or fam
inc, fever and pestilence.
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VoTING FOR DEMocRAr.-Du During the
recent charter election in Troy, the
negro voters who appeared at the polls
and they are quite numerous in that
city-almost invariably voted for the
Democratic candidate for Mayor, Mr..
Flagg. The reason for this are said
to be, that Mr.. Flagg is the Superin-
tenlent of a Sabbath school in which
black and white children are treated
with marked impartiality; that he was
prominent and efficient in securing q
handsome appropriation for colored
school; and that he has uniformly re-
garded this class ms human beings,
entitled TO respect and consideration
at his hands-thus running counter to
the uniform practice and prejudice of
his Party.
The position of these colored voters
proves that they have sufficient intelli-
gence to comprehend the value of their
franchise; and enough of gratitude to
remember those at whose hands they
are the recipients of kindness. 1t is
interesting MS showing what may be
expected when the blacks of the South
are admitted to the polls, and given
the weight of their numbers in con-
trolling political movements. There,
as here, it is reasonable to suppose
that the colored voters will remember
who have been their friends, and that
the weight of their influence will be
cast on the side of the Party which
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In General.

"A swan was caught out West late
ly by its feet CHANGING to freeze in the
ice of river.
The newest thing i'll the dancing
way in Paris is cotillon in which
there are twenty-four dancers repre-.
senting dominoes in the game of dom
inoos.
Skates, with q warming of the toes
apparatus. is the latest novelty NJ
Paris. The idea has come little too
late for the ice season.
1t is proposed in the French ar
my to suppress bands of music for the
cavalry regiments and replace them by
a number of trumpeters.
AT the last ball given at the Tuil-
cries, the dress of the empress consist
ed of skirt of tulle, embroidered with
ten large white OASIS (Marghertics)
three rows of roses without leaves
forming the trimming of the bottom
of the dress.
An inquest was held in Lon don,
recently, on the body Of German no
blcman, who had become so impover
ished that of late he and his wife had
worked a mangle He lost his life
through drinking water from glass
which had contained strychnine.
Cats are said to be at this mo-
ment in great demand at Lucerne, il
Switzerland, and to be selling at a higl
price, in consequence of a malady
which has greatly thinned their mum
bers The head of the animal swell'
rapidly. 1t refuses all nourishment
and soon drops down dead.
Every man desires to live long
but no man would be old.
The number of paupers in thu
British Empire is steadily increasing.
.-"Why do you show favor to you
enemies instead of destroying them :?
said chieftain to the Emperor Sigis
mund. do | not destroy my enemie
10y making them my friends?' wa
the Emperor's noble reply.
"A theological school for colore,
ministers has been established in Au
gusta, Georgia, with thirty attendants
A reverend gentleman Of high cultur
has been assigned to the charge of it.
A young man in Iowa has bee
defrauded by his uncle of $4,000
worth of property
The cable dispatches show a hea
w demand for United States Securi
ties in London, with an improvement
ae compared with the closing figure
OF Friday evening. State bonds an
railway securities are likewise highe
This is good news. 1t ought to lowe
the price of gold on this side, an
have a corresponding influence or tn
value OF produce and merchandise
The locomotive now runs four hur
dred and fifty miles west Of ST. LOU
and the track is being laid at the RAT
, of mile every day.
Cert Smith writes against cor
5 fscation and white Acknowledgement
0 Stewart, the merchant prime
e gave Mr. Peabody grand dinner
/ New York
I "A Galvesto paper publishes Il
g following laconic item ,-"An unhnOv
a man was found with his head q
about ten o'clock on Wednesday ever
ing.
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A Red Rag In the Face or John
Bull.

The lower House of Congress took
action last week, which will not be re.
garded with much favor by our Eng
lsh cousins.
Mr.. Banks, from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported Joint roso-
luton declaring that the people of
the United States cannot regard the
proposed confederation of the provin-
ces on the northern frontier of this
country without extreme solicitude;
that n confederation of States on this
continent extending from ocean to
ocean, established without consulting
the people of the provinces, and found
ed on monarchical principles, cannot
be considered otherwise than as in
contradiction of the traditions and
constantly declared principles of this
government, cndangering most impor-
tant interests and tending to increase
and perpctuato the cmbarrassments
already existing between the two gov
crnmcnts.
After some discussion the resolution
was passed without division
Mr.. Banks also. from The same Com
mittee, reported a resolution declar
ing that the House extends its sympa-
thy to the people of Ireland and Cana
Ga, in all their just efforts to maintain
their Independence as States, to Gle
vatc their people and to extend and
perpetuato the principles of liberty.
Mr. Washburne, of Wisconsin, offer
ed an additional resolution as an
amendment, declaring that while sym
pathizing with the people OF Ireland
the House believes that the present
{ Fenian movement must prove entirely
imperative, and that any encourage
me mt to it 10y resolution unaccom
panied by force, could only result il
$ involving Irishmen in difficulty from
which their brethren would be power
less to extricate them.
Mr. Banks said that the proposition
had been before the Committee an,
I had been rejected, the Committee no
deeming that matter in which
T. should interfere He hoped tn
l. amendment would not be adopted.
e The amendment was rejected-10 t
102 and the resolution was adopted
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NIRs. President Johnson. Tho APP
pearance of the Presidents wife, at u
late reception at the White House, is
thus described:
Mrs Johnson appeared at the re-
ception for the first time. | felt a
deep anxiety to see the woman who
had taught her husband to read, aud
inspired him with that lofty ambition
which led to place and power She
stood near the President to his right;
pale, thin, stamped with care and sick
ness, a countenance of thoughtful sad
ness an expression of deep curiosity.
Looking for moment at each person
introduced, her eyes would drop i'm
mediately in meditative thoughtful
ness, as if her mind and heart were
filed with thoughts and emotions ar.
different from the siddy throng pass
ing by. All who know her speak vel
of her"
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Kentucky Magnanimity.

In a recent speech at Lexington
Ky, Mr. Helm, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of that State, made
the acknowledgements in regard to those
Kentuckians who served in tho Union
army during the war:
wherever i see a man in the I'm
ion army, or a Union man las such
men have been called who is consci-
entious and honest in believing that
he is acting in the discharge of his
duty rs citizen and showing his al
legiance to the Government, aud who
has, in the exercise of the duty he is
called upon to perform, recognized
the binding effect of the Constitution
of his country, and respected his
neighbors, and performed his duty as
became him as soldier and gentle
man. | can take such men by the
hand, aud do it with all the cordial ty
that could have done before the war
notwith standing am smarting under
keen sense of heavy loss caused by
Inc war.
It's certainly very kind in Mr.
Holm to express a willingness to for
give those men who fought to pre-
sorys the integrity Of their country on'
government bat il occurs to most 10y
al men that those who need forgive
meas are the men who fought 70 DIES
3 troy tho government. rather than thos
p who laborel TO uphold it. 1t is n
wonder that those OF the kentaaL
d Democrats who make any pretensior
It toeither past. or present loyalty are n
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PAY OF ARMY OFFICERS. The pay OF
the officers Of the regular army on its
present peace footing is as follows:
Gen. Grant, SlS,120; Lieut. General
sherman, SLASH; Major General Hal
leck, $77l7; Major General Meade,
S77l7; Major General Sheridan, S7717t
Major General Thomas, $7717; Briga-
der General Mcdowell, S55l7 Brig
adler General Rosecrans, $5516; Coils,
$500; Lieut.. Coils, S3994; Majors
$3765; Captains, 5000; First Leuten.
ants, $2713; ana Second Lieutenants
S2653.
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BURLINGTON A HEALTHY PLACE. DR.. 5.
w. Thayer, of Burlington, whose emf
nence in his profession gives the high
est value to the statement, says in his
recent report as Health Officers of this
city, pneumonia is comparatively a
rare disease in this locality, and Con
sumptiyes and Asthmatics are less in
number than in many of the smaller
towns in the interior of the State
Typhus, Typhoid and Malignant Fe,
vers have not occurred here as an cpl
demic for more than a quarter of q
century. There have not been more
than one or two cases of Typhoid Fe-
yer in this city, originating here, fol
the last fifteen years Dysentery and
Congestive Diseases are comparatively
rare in this city. Group, Diphtheria
and Laryngitis have been less preya-
lent and fatal here than in many other
towns in the State. Free Press
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BY Paul Dillingham;, Governor,


In accordance with immomorial custom and
with profound sense Of its appropriateness, 1
do hereby appoint FRIDAY, the 10th day Of
April next, To be observed as a day of Humlia-
ton, Fasting and Prayer by all the people Of this
State. And most earnestly invite them ON that
day to abstain from their usual omplOymcnts:
to assemble in their usual places OF pubic Won
ship. and there earnestly engage IN services
suitable to the occasion.
Heartily confessing our sins, as individuals
and as people, to Almighty God, and humbly
seeking their forgiveness; let us earnestly pray
that lac Will inspire all our hearts with lively
gratitude for an His mercies past and present.
Let us implore him for all in authority that
they may have wisdom, love justice know the
right, and knowing dare maintain il.
That He will mcrcitully regard the people OF
and spiritual, teaching us while temperance,
industry and frugahty are necessary to matori
al success, that truth, forbearance and charity
are no less 50, to religious prosperity.
That He viii bcstoW special blessings on al
our insti tuhons Of learning; that lie will gram
prosp Gritty TO our churches, bounty snd plcnt,
TO our people, and cheering reward to all law
FIJI industry;
And that He will graciously preserve as from
pcstilence, give rs health, and our undying low
for true liberty, equal laws, and an undohled re
ligion.
Given under my hand and seal of tho State, il
Executive Chamber at Montpelier
this 9th day Of March, in the year o
l., 5. our Lord one thousand eight hundre,
and siXty-seyen, and of the indepond
cnce of the United States the ninety
first PAUL DIILINGHAM.
BY his Exccllency the Governor
NM. l.. DILLGNGHAM,
Secretary of Civil and
Military Affairs.
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Southern Disgust with the PreSi'
dent.

Since the utter helplessness of the
President, as against Congress, has
been made apparent, he gets little
consideration in the South. This may
be ungrateful in the Southern people,
but it is human nature. The Macon
GA journal and Messenger, in an
article upon the Presidents enforce
mont Of the reconstruction bill which
he had denounced as unconstitutional
and oppressive, says
And now we hope President John
sons opposition to the Government
viii cease He was opposed to it so
long, and induced our people to OPP
pose It 50 long, holding out to us the
false idea that he would do something
for us, that he has done us infinitely
more harm than all other men and
all other causes combined, But for
him we would long ago have been adj.
mitted into the Union and upon far
better terms than we shall now be
able to obtain. He has been the
most effective enemy we have had. ~
Our noble President, after believing
in the cities of the West, like one of
the mad prairie bulls of that great
section, now 'roars you as gently as
any sucking dove" All the thunder
which he poured against Congress,
from the Olympus of the White House
Turns out to be PickwickiRn thunder,
so far as Congress is concerned, but it
has recoiled with deadly effect upon
the presidents Southern friends -
And such is President Johnson such
the man who has lured us ON to our
destruction. Let us have done with
all this knavery and folly. We pre-.
fer trusting our fate to open enemies
to trusting it to false friends. We pre-.
fer old Ben. Wade, old Thad Stevens
and old Horace Greeley to Johnson o
Tennessee and Johnson of Maryland.
Senator Sherman declared that i
the Southern people complained tina
, the military act was harsh, that the,
had their northern democratic friend
to thank for it, since they had vote
down an amendment which was quit
mitigation of the severity of the c
S rginal bill. This is so, and we hav
e a good many other things to than
our northern democratic friends for -
We have to thank them that they Ell
= couraged us to sccede, and then whir
e ped us for doing so. We have to than
o them since the cessation of the wa
/ that they again feed us with falls
hopes. Wa have to Thank them fC
70 keeping up the evaporation of IL
northern people against us. The nortl
ern democrats have lent helpir
hand wherever failure has been ce
tain to be the result; and now the eX
gency demands new men, new mea
re ures, and new policy. Men who 70
Il. merly led at the South are not up
the demands of the crisis We ne,
. an infusion of new and vigorous your
u blood into the veins of our goyernme
lg policy blood that has been generat
ed under the present circumstances 20
~ immediate surroundings. The old-i
gy politicians and fossil remains of
- antiquated press, are not capable
" approaching our present position.
S. Nourished III their infancy and fed
"a. their prime upon ideas which ha
been forever destroyed, they are stai
ing in their old age, by endeayoring
= live upon the shadows that yet ling
9 behind the substance which has elu
ed their grasp"
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COMPLIMENT TO Mn. SUMNER. Gen.
Cushing, in his published argument in
the Meade case, says:
81 beg leave to read from a recent
report of Mr.. Sumner, Chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Relations
of the Senate of the United States, not
only because of the eminent ability
displayed in the report itself, and Of
the all comprehensive knowledge OF
public law possessed by Mr. Sumner
and his great experience in public af.
fairs, but because of the force and
truth with which he enunciated Tia,
doctrines l shall presently propose t.
prove by citations from law books.
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THE TRANSCRIPT.
Friday. April 5, 1907.
The Connecticut Election.

The Democrats have carried Con-
nocticut, and OF coclsc arb very ju-
bi,ant over the result. English has a
majority of about sesrn hundred.
The democrats also carry three Of the
Congressional Districts. Hubbard IS
elected in the First District Hotchkiss
in the Second, and Wm II Rarnum
in the Fourth The Republicans eject
Sturkwcatbcr in the Th,rd District,
Both branches Of the Legislature will
bc Republican
The result Of the Connecticut cleo
ton is not entirely unexpected. The
Republican majority last year was on
" five hundred; and to overcome this
majority the Democrats have spent
thousands upon thousands of dollars.
The administration with its official
patronage gave helping hand, which,
with other things, conspired to defeat
the Republicans. The Boston Jour
Al, in speaking of the election, we'll
observes: "Its first announcement may
have a prejudicial effect upon the re-
construction movements now spring
ing up all over the South Sinister
agitators will represent it as the be-
ginning of great reaction even IN
New England, and may urge the
Southern people to pause and wait
for Democratic restoration at the
North. But further observation viii
show the falsity of all such hopes. 1t
will be seen that the Republican State
which has faltcred is not one of those
bearing the most advanced record,
but, on the contrary, the only one in
New England which has hesitated to
apply the impartial principles of the
Republican creed Had the colored
Republicans of Connecticut been al
lowed to vote, not only would this re
verse have been avoided, but the or.
ganization would have been stronger
and drawer. The error to be sure
has been repented of for the Con
neutrality-suspicious. took noble grounC
in the last campaign but its fruits
could not be wholly avcrted. Blu
again, it will be seen that the small
Democratic gains made III tins CLOSELY
contested State are not found to an,
extent in the country towns, wher'
disinterested changes of opinions ar,
most likely to be first observed but il
the large cities and manufactul I'M
places, where the corrupting influen
ces we have referred to above prevail
in an extraordinary degree All hope
therefore, of the national recuscitatio
of the Democratic party based on thi
Connecticut election, must prove fec
BILE and fleeting The South will pei
ceive that the exception only prove
the rule Of the genuine predominant
of Republican sentiment among Il
masses of the North The effect NJ
on the Republican party will only
to strengthen it in a determination
live up to its principles, to be yigilei
discreet and united, and to ensure
still going on from conquering to co
quer.
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THE REroRM SoHooL. There are 2S
boys now in the Reform School at
Waterbury. One of the great needs
Of the school, that can be furnished by
the contributions of the citizens Of the
State, is a good library for the use Of
the boys Books of narrative, history,
biography and travels would be very
gratefully received by Mr.. Pease, to be
placed in the hands OF those who are
placed under his charge.