The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-01-08

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Congress ressesIahled Thursday
H. he seaa.e several protests against
ia reduction 4 ttc sectional ea7ouer
and against o. imposition q duty 3
certain articles. scre referrod % tho
committee ga finance Tho eonadera.
tson q the bll b almi, Nebraska pas
postponed antl Monday u The House
inflammation vas aslei iof is relation -
the steamship Evening Star and tIac
steamer Commodore : DISCUSSION
tool place 90 Sir sto1enss substitute
for ibe cemmjltee's bll 10 restore the
soaihern States but no action waF
reached
Dr Watson shot . negro III Rich
mond, some months since Fl driving
agalns, his carriage The murderer
boasted II the crime, but the ci'il au-
thorities took no action He Was brought
before 4 military commission and the
trial begun Last week The president
dissolved the commission aud the muir.
derot gncs ID large. Under the militia
~ commission his conviction would
have bcen certain Tho ground upon
which Mr.. Johnson issued his order Il
that the supreme Court has decided the
trial q civilians by military commission
to be Illegal But Il tho EVIL auth0ri-
ties age unwilling 70 90 justice, whore
aro the freedmen TO obtain protection
except through such commissions If
AIr Johnson takes away this safeguard
be Is bound ID justice and humanity to
zee that some equally efficient protec-
ton il afforded At present it seems
that negroes may be killed with perfect
impuni'y IN most oftho Southern Statoa.
Mr. Wendell Phillips has mounted
the impeachment hobby Iii his last
speech he contcnded that Mr.. john
son should be impeachcd a. al hazards.
II congress can end no specific changes
he would have him imp cached on gem
cral grounds Itwould be sublime
spectacle, h. says, "for tho American
people to arraign their chief magistrate
in the faee Of the world, for his attempt,
by hypocrisy and treason, 70 corrupt
their moral sense and baulk their VIC
tory over an inhumau aud bloody sys-
tenn
IN his report upon the condition Of
Carolina, Gen Sickles relates that Ill
one case, whore freedman was MUIR
dered. the two men who killed llim at
upon the coronor'a jury, and united IN
the verdict that tho deceased came to
his death by cause unknown. There
is a sort Of savage humor in this, which
amuses while it makes us shudder s.
When criminal puts on the robes Of
justice, and IN hor name decides against
his victim. surely impudence can go no
further
Over two million dollars ii mutilated
and.worn ont notes have boon return
ed TO the treasury, where they arc plac-
cd in an immense revolving iron 9lin-
der, carefully locked, through which q
heated stream Of acids passes SO that
The ink is completely removed, and d
mass o. pulp remains. This is bleach
cd aud manufactured into envelopes for
he use Of the treasury department.
Large amounts Of mutilated aud worn
ont fractional currency are thus decom-
posed, and reconstructed into envelopes
Vermont Agricultural Society.
AT the annual meeting Of the Yer.
State Agricultural Society, holden al
Rutland, on Wednesday last, the follow.
ne board of officers were chose for tht
The year ensuing
Prcsiaeai John Gregory, Mortified
Ftce Presidents Henry keycs, Nh.
bury, Henry q Root, Bennington; II
s. Morse. Shelburne, Victor Wright
Middlchury
Ttoasmcr Joseph W. Colburn
Springfield
Secretary Henry CLARK Rutland.
Bodrdo Dir foF Edwin Hammond
Middlsbury. Wm. r. Sanford, Orwell
Geo. Cambeil, Westminster. Ehiai
ClcaselAnd, Coventry; Henry Haywood
Clarendon, Henry b Kent, Dorset
VIM q Brown. Fairhaven: n. B SAT