Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-01
News of the Week,

which have been disastrous beyond
even those of last spring and fall
The rains had been quite heavy, melt
ing the snow, breaking up the rivers
and carrying the ice into a jam, thus
setting the water back and overflow
ing the whole country. The flood was
extremely severe in the region of Au-
gusta, Hallowell and intermediate
towns. The losses in Maine are set
at over a million dollars One firm
in Hallowell had over three hundred
barrels Of -four submerged. The wa
ter was four feet deep in A. d W.
Sprague's Manufacturing Co. Mill
1t will cost $4,000 to rebuild a rail
road bridge at Augusta.
The democrats of Connecticut held
their state convention at New Haven
last Tuesday, at which James L. En-
glish was nominated for governor, aad
julius Z. Hotchkiss for lieutenant gov
ernor. II. B. Graves was president
of the convention, who pronounced
the fifteenth amendment "a lie, a cheat,
and fraud" and that there never
was a time when the GODDESS of Lib.
erty was so at stake as at the present
A woman's suffrage convention was
held at Rutland last Monday evening,
and also the following day and eve
ming. 1t was presided over by Hon.
5. VI. Dorr. Julia Ward Howe. VIM.
Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Ada G. Bowles,
Rev. A. Brown of Brattlebor1, Col.
Albert Clarke and Rev. William G.
Walker OF st. Adams, and Henry
Clark of Rutland made addresses
The convention is said to have been
largely attended and pronounced a
success. These meetings are to be
held in every county in the state, and
80 we may expect ere long that the air
of Orleans will he pierced 10y the az.
onizing walls OF these false rclormcrs
Well, we shall be happy to hear them
and listen to their arguments. We
opine however, that about all these
meetings will amount to will be tc
learn the orators in the movement the
geography of the state, When the
day OF election comes the whole qucS
ton Of female suffrage will meet will
cold reception at the hands Of tn,
people of the state. The sober sens'
Of the community revolts at the idea
The total cost Of the public build
ings in the District of Columbia, &C
cording to late report Of the secre
tary of the treasury, has been, up t
January l, 1870, $43, 72649O 50.
Col. Baker had a fight with Indian
in Montana, surprising their camp a
Pigeon Indian village, Jan. 23d. Tn
details of the fight just reported t
the Indian Bureau at Washington
show 173 to have been killed, and 0
this number only fifteen were 6ghtin
men; 80 women were killed; ther
were so children killed under twelv
years Of age, and many of them wer
in their mothers arms. Pretty tong
we think, when a christian governmer
resorts to the wholesale butchery O
women and children. 1t is mode q
warfare that VIC should be ashamed
repeat. Let us hear no more Of Il
British wing Sepoys from Il
mouths of their cannon.
The house Of representatives. by
vote Of los to 10, on Monday VOTE
to pass a resolution adding S50,00t
900 to the volume of our currenc
What does this mean? Is congre
going to take the back track and ilot
the country with greenbacks, and v
ter the currency till it is ouce mo
as worthless as in the times when 90
ranged from l.50 to $50? Ii so
had best 20 the whole figure and ha
another war. We are sorry to s
the house vote thus. We had mu
rather it would vote to retire Il
amount from circulation. True, tin
would be harder, but we should be
much nearer paying our debts and s
nearer the goal Of specie paymen
when we should hear the honest RI
of real money instead of the dec
tive rustic OF its counterfeit. I
senate may not concur with the hou
and our opinion is that ii will not
Increasing the currency will be a I
sent relief, but it will only prolc
the agonies Of the poor. Let congI
look more to the welfare of the
ture and less to the comforts of
present hour and it will show C
mendable patriotism. We are ha
to add that all three Of Vermont's
resentatives voted against the res
ticn.
The steamer Emma, which wa
a. trip from Memphis to Cinciul
struck snag on the 2lst, took
and burned. Ten or twelve lives '
lost.
Among the most notable event
the week we have to record the d
of Hon. Arson BurliDgame, +
Extraordinary and Minister Pie
Tertiary from China to the wester
tons, who died at ST. PeterSb'
Russia. last Tuesday. His death