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THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 7, 1864 U. G. BENEDICT, mnd Proprietors. BURLINGTON FRTDAT MORNING OCTOBER 7, 1864. THK WEKKLY FREE TKESS. Is published every Friday morning, containing the news of the week from all parts, interesting correspondence from the army, and local and general intelligence. TERMS. Two Dollars per year if paid absolutely in advance, otherwise S2.50 per year. Single co pie" C cents. For rates of Advertising, 4c., inquire at the Free Prim Ornci, So. 6 College St, Burling ton. Vt. GEO. W. & G. G. BENEDICT, Editors & Proprietors I'MON NATIONAL TICKET. IUB PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON. UNION ST.VTK CONVENTION. The Freemen of the State of Vermont who are iu faior of the election of ABRAHAM i.V COJ..V and A.YDREW JOH.YSO.Y; are hereby notified to meet m Mass Convention at BURLINGTON, ON TUESDAY, THE lira DAY OF OCTOrER. next, for the purpose of nominating raiid'slates for Presidential Electors. In ! supported ut the approaching election. John W.Stewart, 1 SronnAitii 11. Colet, j LlVt RETT B. EsGLESDT, I Slate Dtolet C. De-n.msost, Jonathan Ross, Committee. IIlnrt Clack, I Guism. Wilkiss. J THE TtTE CONVENTION. jrratid Mw Convention of the freemen oi Vermont, l favor the election of Lin .iiln aid Johnson, is called to assemble at l;..,iH.gt..i TUESDAY NEXT Oct. 11th. Tib- spueifci' duly, of the Convention is to nominaio the Klectors who shall cast the ton ..I V. riooiit for Lincoln and Johnson, in t!.e Vitvbml Collcgc,and it may be thought t.int m- rimpl- duty calls for no great as semblage ol ! l'eoplc. Hut the intention is to jjalu- lb- Convention also a grand rati-firati-n wlimj and Union Rally. Kor such a rtirji.M- trn thousand of the yeomen of Verni.Mii -agHt to be glad to come together, mid iiihm a i. do K, we venture to say, will r-gi, t r lf k.)H. V i occasion promises to ltc one . . .-t. Among the speakers pos-.- . tu In- prwent arc Hon. Uu- -f .New York and fien. Kich Wc understand that Oov, MassidiuH-tts, Hull. Lvxan lbany, and fcENATOR Foote of been initel and are expected j Convention. Tlie Union Club i proij- to contribute to the .V V .Vmisw Thm Vt - . i , . .. i; .. m ' thr best mustr to be ohtainedin jVisic Engine, j d have alrwvdy secured for that puito ii.iuores ci-lebrated Band, which hn H.l lil,.fr W ri.i.i. .-st ()... I'i.i- , equal (Dttdworth's), and no su . ' e country. The Citizen of i. will be glad to welcome all loyal -, be there few ur many, and to them tin hipitalitie of the "c trust our brethren of the Union .-.1 part of the SUU- will rouse and -e itl. Hitl that we shall k-c a gr- " inUm-Hftie rally, which will - t.,i Vt-ruiMid ies no half-hearted 1 , Ahraluiin LiiKMln and Andy John- "f. . will help powerfully to roll up the Urn , iajority ol 23.111(1, which cran give if .-ill IV.miikntml KtrrriW)-. Hie nominatiun of I'r idential Klect4ir, u rat the Vermont ut r Abraham IJikmIu fur I'n-sident and A in i .w JnhnHiii for Vice I'l indent, is the item ppjju-r f the Convention to "Id in thi- place tm- 1 1 tit inn. Able ja-vics are alo eiin-eJe"!, and a the Rail- r !- rarry for ball fare, we eijiect to see !! and inthusiattic r-ssemblage. Itis un- .. ,-ofid we lulieve that tho entire ticktt of 'It tors, twn at large and one for each con- gitssionai dtict, will be made up on that occasion. A to electors, we so- that the Titius suggests the name of Hon. Daniel Kellogg, of Itrattlchoro and Hon. G. W. firandcy of Vergennes. fur electors at large. Mr. Grandey, being the Post Master of Ver- ginnes, is constitutionally ineligible. We ihinkHou.Daniel Kelloggand Hon.HomcrE. Kojoe of lierkshirc would lie eminently suit able men for electors at large. Elijah Cleave- Und of Coventry, one of the staunch and iruc men of Orleans County, long and favor ably known in the legislative balls of th suite, would he an excellent selection as elector from the Third district. The Henels and the Copperhead. The intense interest which the rebel lead ers in the South take in theorcrationsof the copperhead leaders at the North and AVest is remarkable. Illustrations of this fact are seen in all directions. Of these, not the least is a letter by Henry S. Footer member of the Rebel Congress, fromTennessee.which was published in the Richmond Whig in the early part of last month and addressed "to the free and independent citizens of the Confederate States". Tho fore part of his letter is occupied with a general review of the heroism of their armies, of the lack of generous sympathy from the monarchical governments of Europe, and of the influx of what he calls "the thieves and roblicrs of foreign lands, the wretched paujers of Ger many and Italy, of Holland and of Ireland," to swell the union ranks. All this even (he says) was not enough ; but the members of an ignorant, servile race have been incited to insurrection and deeds of dark iniquity and hideous violence against those who had kindly redeemed them from their original state of barbarity and heatliness, and instilled into them the rudiments of civilization and j Christianity ; bad watched over their weakness and protected it ; hid assiduously supplied i ,Z 1 7, v u ,i .ClT -1 a I tenee. andshitldrf them from all those evils and , P1?!'??" I n be hand, of their present hypocritical pro- , tectors. With such pcent.al evidences of mjs- , chief at work in.that region which it is our good , fortune to possess, it is not at all surpnsmz that we have been compelled to witness such , cenot devasution, of murder and rapine, ; such as no authentic historian has heretofore depicted ; and which surpass in horror all that has been made known to us in the grim and ghastly career of an Alaric, an Attila, a Ghen gis Khan, or a Tamerlane-! TAe vagabondism and rascality vhich had been for years accumulating in the populous cities of the .VoriA, aare been gathered up and organized for our destruction- The ignoble sons of plunder have been sent upon their in fernal mission to the South, vaaVr the command for the most part of monsters in human shape. In whose ruffianly bosoms was to be found no pity tor human suffering ; no respect for the es tablished principles of social justice : no regard no apparent veneration for the plainly preacrib- ed demand of tba Deity ft!mal zor tne weu unuersiouu ruien tu nouieu war W. Editors But, at last, this rebel member of Con- !,. c brw. Te, -Cnrlb- grew eec some gleams of hope. The Sorth- ern democracy has began to more, ana "tho tyrants in Washington havo begun to fear ' ... . .... such a terrible revolution among the millions whom tbey have hcrctolore so wickedly do- ceived and betrayed, that they will them- 1 inverse oi atannara s oiau were an wouuoeu. selves, in the end, be with difficulty saved I Thus far Gen. Stannard himself wan un from tho scaffold or the informal justice of j hurt, being spared to superintend and talc an infuriated and maadened populace." i the glory of a splendid repulse of the enemy The operations at Chicago give him great I on the following day, in which lie held the encouragement. He says: Tf it b-tens that Moni-and entree rjlatform has been adopted in the Chicago Democratic Convention, and out-and-out peace candidates for the Presidency have been nominated, then it must be moat evident to men of the shrewdnc-s and sagacity of TVm. II. Seward and his unprin cipled accomplices, that the defeat of their cor rupt and dishonored fiction in the approaching Presidential election; that if McClellan and Pendleton are elected, outraged and indignant public tentiment vrill demandthe arraignment, trial and deserved punishment of iheenormout traitors and murderers vho are reponsible be fore tlod and man for all the abominable crimes and mischiefs irhich this uniardonable irar has produced; and they will, most natural ly, aim to evade the menaced puuishnent. Mr. H. S. Foote further thinks the proba bilities are in favor of the opinion that the powers that be at Washington will send to the Confederate authorities projiositions of peace. He is sure the latter ought to allow the former to make the first moic in this matter; but when such propositions haic been mado he thinks the Confederate author ities ought to entertain them, if they are of a character which will allow them with hon or to do so. A refusal to listen to a proposed armistice would, he says, "enable the black republican leaders to rc-inflame tbe war spirit of the North, and bring about thi cer tain dfjeatof the peace parly there, noic strug gling so earmslly for the ascendancy." He is also clear that the Chicago Conven tion meant nothing but peace, as follows : The Chicago Convention has now nominated its candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres idency, and enunciated aplaiformof principles. The action of that body seems to be well-nigh unanimous in regard to all important questions. I hold it to be most certain, whatever opinion may be uttered in certain quarters to the con trary, that the platform is in distinct and irre concilable opposition to the further prosecution ojlhe irar for any purpose triiatccer; theseeond resolution of said pUtform is of unmistakable import, and how any man of discerning mind can entertain a different view of the matter, I am at a loss to conceive. The resolution relerred to, in the most emphatic manner denounces the experiment of war," as a means of restoring the Union; declares that "justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare demand that im mediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostil ities;" while though 'he most earnest desire is expressed for the restoration of the Union by peaceable means, there it nvt the least hint of intended restraint of any kind vhatertr. The proposed Convention of the Suites, be says, could bo only " consultative " in its character, and no harm could oonio of it : In relation to the dinger of our people being seduced by the conventional expedient into re construction under tbe Federal Constitution, those who fear this can know but little of the character and settlod opinions of our people, and evince a distrust of their capacity for self government, which they have done nothing to justify. As to the nominee at Chicago, I shall say nothing but this: McOelUn's general avail ability as a candidateis undoubted; Ais u-ithni-nessto runupon a genuine peace platjurm, commits him fully as to his future action in the erent of his flection, and hit asmcialion with Mr. Vendition of Ohio, rhost out spoken peace proclinties are so wtll Anoa-n, ' make assur ance doubly sure," in regard to the course of any Administration at the head of irhick ht might be placed. Finally Mr. II. S. Foote predicts that if the CKcago nominees arc defeated, the Northern States which vote for them will go into rebellion and join the confederate States: "Should the Chicago nominee be defeated, as I believe to be scarcely possible, such a result would be so clearly attributable to force or fraud, on the part of the unprincipled faction now in power, that it could not be reasonably expected that the great body of the States Rights Democracy of the North, now so fully and de liberately committed to inflexible opposition to the atrocious despotism organized in n asn ington city, would be found willing to submit to that despotism for four years more. venture to predict, therefore, that should MeCltllan and Pendleton be defeated, the Slates ist vaira the Republican Preside Mai ticket kall be found to hare failed, with a rieie to securing themselves from threatened enslavement, wilt tliemselres promptly seeeae jrom Ike federal L nion, that one or more new Confederacies. based on true States Rights principles, mill be immediately formed, uwieA mutt naturally seek a military alliance with the Confederate Stales, after which, as is most manifest, this most un natural and exhausting war would be soon promptly brought to an end," And now, how many intelligent freemen, among our readers, propose to goto tbe tills and ote exactly to suit this open-mouthed, red-handed rebel and bis fellow chiefs of tho rebellion 1 Vermont's righting C3encral. THE BATTLES OF CUAPIN S TARX. Wc are pained to learn of tho severe wound (involving the loss of his right arm) of Gen. Geo. J. Stanuard of Vermont, commanding the 1st Division of tho Ic'th Army Corps, in tho recent actions north of Jame6 River. A casualty which withdraws so active and capable an officer from the ser vice for a time is a public disaster, while it excites the sympathy of a wide circle of his personal and admiring friends. We select from the different accounts, the portions describing thopart taken by Gen. Stannard's command. In the rapid advance to Chapin's Tarm on Friday morning, Gen. Stannard's division had the advance of the lbth corps, and opened the battle by a gallant and success ful assault on the enemy's strongest work. The Times" correspondent savs of it : Skirmishing began, and our men were pushed forwara rapidly, driving the rebel pickets be fore them, until tbey came to the first line of works at Chapin's firm, eleven miles from Richmond. Stannard's Division of the Eight eenth Corps, was in advance. They formed in line of battle, and moved up steadily toward the work, which was large, mounting two 100 pounders, one 8-inch columbiad, and one 01 pounder. Undaunted by the heavy fire of this fortification, and other works connected with it. Gen. Stannard formed his troops for assault. With drums beating and colors flaunt ing, they made a superb charge, carrying the tort under a severe tire. Another correrjnindent says : The fort was carried, but only after a series of most bloody encounters. One eye-witness says, that " the glacis of tbe fort after the bat- i tie, presented a horrible sight The heavy guns I tuld with deadly effect on the storming party, and its glacis was covered with the dead and j b had fallen in the assault The rebel , om Iine f orlkS w when the attack commenced, early in the day, . h reinforements from RichmonJ whiIe tbe fi b?a progre,,iu(;. 0ne iu - . m tM grj.,, took the V . 4. . - d Md f ,nJ in th mr of ,h cnf.mb oth worll5 Uruve th.m out before them.- This division lost eery one of its bngade com. manders either in killed cr wounded. Gen. Bumham was killed, and Cols. Stevens and Donohue were wounded. The N. Y. IVoriTi correspondent says of this part of the battle . Gen. Stannard's Division of the Eichteicth army corps, wen for it-elf imperishable ho. irs. , This division captured the only redoubts Uken along the rebel line. 1 Correspondent or tbe Hera!dat: j ...,. . . i The action in which Gen. Bornham received his fatal shot was in an assault of Gen. Stannard's division upon some powerful works in the vicin- Uy of Chapin's Bluff, which took plzo hut ' I Thursday, and was part of a grand series of ud- firmhed movements north of the Jama IUrer. j chmcter of ,he fighting doM osy u knoKn ny tie fMt taAi gt.mnanl's division lost all its I brigade commanders and 000 men and officers i killed and wounded. Staff officers fared rather j " " n.TderinT'thc short Tme thVcTmbat j lasted. Capt. Berry, Lieut, Ladd and Capt, I captured fort against three desperate assaults j ' i i . i . r i ' I ul enemy, maue uuuer uejeii uci. Lee in person, and inflicted a loss on the rebels which more than balanced tho losses of bii own division the day before, receiving himself before the close of the action, tbe wound which has cost him bis arm. Vio copy again from tbe iAraWs account: B Jnfbrmntion was received during th; morning that heavy reinforcements bad reaehel the ene my during tbe night In front of Stannard the whole of Hoke's rebel division from Petersburg, was malted, and an attack from them was mo mentarily expected. It was known that it would be a serious and desperate attempt tu retake tbe works, a Gen. Lee himself wu in command. The enemy were discovered about 2 P. M., massing in a woods directly opposite the fort captured yesterday, ami in half an hour they charged with a wild 3 ell in three heavy columns of attack. The rams at the same time opened ujm our position, and our line wa enfiladed by the tire from the rebel battery on the river. The men, howecr, stood steady to their posts, ami receive the rebel, with so hot. so well-directed and incessant a fire that thev broke in confusion ,nri rt th. .s.u ar wiib, aim Twiee again they were rallied by their officers ami returned to the charge, but only with the simc resu t. until tmnllv. l.rokcn and riismrited they fell back in irredeemable confusion, leating The nrtinrrs rpmrt fi lhmiutKl nt 1est. tillnl ami wounded. Over 300 prisoners were taken by us, including many officers and the greater part of the feth North Carolina regiment Among those captured are several field offieersand Capt. Maguire, inspector general of Clingman's staff. The regimenU! flags were taken all by Stan- nard s division. Two of them were captured by the 13th Connecticut, and 1Mb Pennsylvania. Gen. Siannard. of Gettysburg and Coal liar- borfm, was wouisleil in the right arm and oompelle.1 to leave the field. He has elicit! du- ing the last two dsys fighting the warmest com- mend.tion from his commanding officers 1 by the vision, vapt Kent, Asst Adjt t,eti 1 on tien, Stannard's staff, is also among tbe wounded. (Sen. Stannard arrived in Washington jes terday. a appears from the following dis patch to the Associated Press Wahi.to., Oct ii. Ike mail boat to-day from City Pomt brought to Washington General Stannard, commanding 1st division of lblh Corps, who lost his right arm in the recent en gagement. Four of bis aids are also wounds!. Among them are Capt. Kemp and Lt. Hnbbell. The fortunes of war, and the recognition of bis qualities as a fighting general, bale given Gen. Stannard the front in every great action in which he has been engaged, and have carried him ivisonally into the thickest of the fight, while bis men, fighting under his cool eye and cheered by bis close presence with them, have invariably done brave and successful fighting At Gettysliurgh he held the front on the left centre, and by tile flank attark of his brigade on Picket ts division, secured tbe re pulse of the enemy's greatt rlmrg". a piece of sen ice u inch alone should have se cured him tbe Major General's double Mar. He was severely wounded then, iu the rh;ht thigh, and lost a stiff uffi cr shot through both legs. At Coal Harbor he had thr brant of tbe fight, was wounded again in the Kg, and lost every loan of his stall killed or wounded. In the first adr.tnec on IVti isburgh (im. Stannard led the advance, ami captured the most important line of works, establishing his lines subsequent!! and holding them for weeks within Im ards of the eiu-ins works. II, re he was asrain wounded in the hand. He is now wounded f tr the 01r'A time. losing the brave rig!.t arm that has so often pointtd the path of gl ry and lh-n-rv to his troop, and h is e-un lost aim t all his Stafl. Vermont, we Isiicve. is enti tled to another Maior (ieneral, and we know oi no Brigadier in the Army who is better entitled to the rank, or will bear its rcspon sibihtits more worthily than Gen. Geo. J. Stannard. A Copperhend Ifn Nniled. To the Editors of the free Pi ess ; Gentlemen My attention has been called to an editorial article in the Burlington Sentinel ot the 30th nit, containing a statement that President Lincoln "demands and receives his pay (salary) in gold or gold certificates, while the soldiers of his armies have to take their pay in green-backs," Sr. The editor of the Sentinel has been made the victim of a very idle imposition, and it appears singular to me that he should have hazarded such an assertion, when, with a very little trouble, he could have ascertained whether it was true or false. It is false in every particular. Thesalaryof President Lincoln, like those of all other officers on the civil list, is paid by warrants, regularly entered in the Register's Office, where all these accounts are kept Neither himself nor any other officer of the Government (except those actually employed on foreign service, for which special provision is made by law) has been paid in coin s:nee the passage cf the act authorizing the issue of legil tender notes. Tbe President's silary has been regularly paid by a draft on the Treasury in legal tender notes, with tbe rvgular deduction of the tax on salaries. Such was cer tainly the ease up to the loth of August last, the date of my resignation as Register of the Treasury. It may not be irrelevant tn state in this connection, a fact well known to many offi cers of the Treasury, that upon the passage of the act imposing a tax upon salaries, a question was made whether it applied to the President and Cabinet, and that Mr. Lincoln peremptorily refused to have any exception made in his case a determination in which tbe Cabinet agreed with him, and the deduction from all tbescsala ries has ever since been made. Very truly yours, L '.. CHtTTENnrv Burlington, Tuesday morning, Oct. 4lh. The article of tbe Sentinel to which Mr. Chittenden, late U. S. Register of tbe Treas ury, alludes, i tbe following "Jefl. Da vis's salary Is nominal)y$-is,0)0a ear,bnt by the depreciation of the Confederate money, is equal tu but Jl.rslO; and vn this practically he has to live. Erctmko Abraham Lincoln's salary is leg.dly a year: bnt his legal tender" money having ' depreciated to less than half its i-m-oil value" i he refuses to take it, and dem ieds and receives " pay iu gold or gold eertifieao-.. while th - soldiers f h.s armies have to take rteir pay in he nit ti- ..j i..-..; t.. . i ., i. anctber four years hard money for himself, and of largely depreciated mcney fcr the people." Burlington Sentinel, Sept. 30tt. We give the two paragraphs, jut as tbcv stand in the entind. The object isupTcirt-nz enough, rir : to disparage in the mind of tbe credulous reader, the President of the United States in coinnrison with thc President of the rebel Confederacy. Wc pljcc thc patri-oti-m which aimed to produce such an edict ' - " uuj(u, u, uk w ur re-rm-ltsi nt a very low mark, at any rate ; and still . . . , ... , ",UTt: m wl:Pn " ',,me at thc "P-'ifC or truth. Whether tbe statement about Jeff. Divis' salary is true or fabe, we do not know nor is it ol any .iinscqncncv to kuow. The 1'sjScl.jod of thc SentmtVs statement at p; knmln' Kry. M emFha ically exposed by Mr. Chittenden, is of mo:e 1 who baa manifested disregard for tho Con importance. The ramc falso statement in ' stitution or entertained disunion sentiments, substance has been made inothercopperbead The greater portion of his address howeTer papers, ana ss positively denied, tv e pre- 6UIne !t continuc t0 maie thouSh hardly in the Sentinel, we think) and circu- lated with hundreds of other Iks about the President, so" long as there is a hope left that any weak-minded voter can le influenced by it. We shall sec if the Sentinel has the de cency to eorrrct tlee slander. Vermonters at lMattsburch. r . r i.... ,i Forty years ago, within a few days, tlwre was a notable influx of Venuonten. at Platts burgh ; but tl.cn they went in sloops, bat tcaus, skilTs. and any thing fire which ouild float nnd carry men eager to repel the Brit- . . . , .... , ii. i,.,-.. ih invaders. i cJneMlty Plattsuurgh saw again a powerful body of Vermonters pour ing on to their whanc from the steamboat Cunadi, and filling their street", to join the multitude assembled from Northern New York to hear words of instruction and 1 n oouragcuient for the great liattlcnt the polls, to come off on the Mb of Novemln-r next. The foes thry now have to meet are those of their own household, not British enemies, but rcMs and tebel sympathizers engaged in i work in which the British aristocracy take , . . , . . . T ' of I'l.itWsurgh heights and I'lattslHirgh bay, ' ' ' I "- .!. v..ii.iiu.' v-ll" mmum in- , nesday morning to Plattsburg. with many j Othcrs.ill allHboutlOIIO.with bannersand mar j tial music ami an tiergreen tree burnc before tK.m aIlj ,,..; in tbv;r mlK t.iattend the ' . : j "no" meeting at I lattsburg. TJ ,,MOS c.v.lll-AIfiN :i.UII. , Tbe first meeting of the Union Club, in their j MK ieh,uarters,llou.lsy eTCning,w attended ' , .. ,.-,.,, ' by a crowd of lojal citizens that filled the hall, 1 overflowed into the entrance ways and piazza, j , cn,,! many to go away for want of standing I Hun. Levi UnderwooJ, the President of tbe J Club, being absent from town, Vice President ' Hon. A. I Catlin called the meeting to order and with some brief remarks introduced Gen. T( W. C. (Tart. Rn. Clarlie rrnceedel to ! , . ,. . . u: i '""""" vi!r..-uh audience on tbe formation of this Club be said that we were not gathered to secure a victory for j any party. The Club did not represent the re publican party, nor the democratic pirty, not by no manner of means." Tbe mottoes arouad j the Hall indicated iti character. They War the , names of oar victorious generals of all parties; tbey read, "no compromise with traitors," "no 1 party but our couutry," and tbey show this to 1 be the party of tbe f 'nion. Gen. Clarke went 1 on to show the composition of the two parties in I tbe political contest, to discuss the records of the candidates, to show the importance of the contest, and to urge active etfbrt on every patri ot. In conclusion he declared the Hail t he d dicale-l to the cau of Union, of Emaneipstisn I and of Free Government, such as tbe world comes here to witness aud enjoy, and such as e pro- pee 10 hand dowu unimpaired to (Osttnty. The general was abundantly apptaoded at the close. Hon. G. F. Edmund, m some spirited re marks showed the immense impurtanee of re electing Mr. Lincoln by an overwhelming ma jority, as a means of iieiling the rebellion, and saving expenditure of lives in the War. He reported the action taken by the Kiccutiie Committee, 111 reference to providing headquir ters, dtsTuineitts &c. an! also stated that tkey had presented an invitation to the lk-tuoeratk Club, inviting a public discussion of the psaes before the people, l-y designated stealers 00 each side. To this tbe reply of Mr. M. Xoyts, President of the Democratic Club, was that tie proposition would be laid before their Club at its next regular meeting. Mr. S. A. Hainis. of New Vork city, was next called out by G. II. lhgelow, lia made a capital speech. He ceaparl the Chi cago platform to the Frenchman's description of a " cocktail." " Vou puts in some braodee to make it strong am! some water te make it weak some pepper to make it hot and seme ice to make it cool; some sugar to make its sect and some hit ters to male it sour," you call ita cocktail but I call it on- ,rand rantradirhon. So the Chicago conspirators had put into their phtform a hint at war to make it strong, ami a great dell of peace to make it weak ; they had put iu a little pa triotism to make it hot, anil a great deal of dis loyalty to make it cool; a little Union talk to make it sweet, awl a great deal of abu-e of the supporters of the Union to make it sour, the result was one grtud contradiction. .or. naynes said .ew lork was alwivs a doubtful state : but cxpresse.1 his belief that il wonhl be earned for Lincoln ,t Johnson by oO,. 000 majority and they meant to make it 100,000. In cknsing he alluded to the influence of Ver- mont on the campaign and to the action of her brigade which had fought so nobly both with bullets and ballots. Loud applause followed the telling hits of this speech. Three cheers were then proposed by Mr. Bige elow, and were given with a will for Gin. Stan nard, as foremost among Vermont's gallant sup porters of the Union in the field. Gen. Clarke read a quotation from the Boston Post stating that the soldiers were all for Mc Clellan, and brought as evidence to tkeconfrary a vote taken that day at the U. S. General Hos pital in this place, which stood Lincoln 103, McCleUan 31. Mr. Ilolcrt S. Styles also mentioned several well authenticated indications of sentiment among the soldiers of different States, in direct contradiction of the 'oi' assertion. Some stirring remarks urging, his hearers to united and active exertion, were made byj. S. Adams Ksq. Gen. Clark sang a humorous and pithy cam paign song, which we shall copy another day. and which was received with much laughter and applau-e. He also introduced the following resolution which was unanimously adopted. llt.rsu. This CIul' bat heard with regret that some ron has ualleieasly Injared ths trr.ii.. rent) of tbe Democratic AssMlatlon In this villages therefor Aierf, That this Club deoonnee all suea acts of violence, by whatever partfzaos ttev may tsj cemmitted, and while this Clutt has ni reason in suppose that it was committed by any eapjiorter of laneoln and Johnson, ft feel hound to say that this set i? uaworlhy of acy meraUx of anv sirt) or csssunuBfty. The Glea Club interspersed the sie-vls with i serne excellent patriotic song. It was iMisl that the Clan attend the Pl.tts- ' burgh rally, ma bud, and that Gilnxre's Rami engaged by the club for the coming State loiiTention sod alter the singing of the fine ' aiusiigti lijimi "li.sl Se the Mate," to the ' tits of America, by the Glee (.Tub and full ' " ,. ,. , ... i audiencc standing, the me, to g adj. urnel. Timothi P. IIkuhllo's Adhkrss Hon. Timoth) P. Ritlheld. "dtUKx ratic" candidate lor gmernor, uddresMsl tbe democratic as-sa-iati.ii' of Itiitlinztoiint t heir hall Tut sday eniiig. lie iindi-rtiwik to s!iu thai ttu di UHicraiic Jsirty is tbe true Union Jsirty, ard that the Republican ur Union party so arc called is a disuuion orgnnizatin. In pnsif of tlie first ssiion In-refiriisl io the history ol ibeurmocntic rsr.andcl.alletid aov , . " - one to name a leading man ol the party. , !ijtnl i-zwiner.t ot iu policy, was devoted w we oiner orancn oi nis bud- ' V. that is, to proving that the Republican party is n disunion tauty. He founded his argument for establishing this position upon i certain statements mado in the New Vork Tribune Nov. -0 1801, and upon statements made by Henry Ward Beecher, John P. Hale, William Loyi Garrison and Secretary FeN-endc. He insisted that theso men are . fair reentatiies of the party he was as- sailing, and that the quotations he made i ... from them convicted tho party of disregard' ! mg the Constitution and entertaining dis i union sentiments. There was added to this main argument j lamentations for the waste of War, com ' niendation of tbe Chicago platform an lauda ationofden McClellan. He characterized 1 McClellan ai "one of the purest men since I Washington and one of the bravest heroes 1 in the American annals." He spnki- in ex I prcs-ive terms ot those who opjsise the pro ject of "pice mn." To quote his own word-"I'eace men, theysay, 'jt-ace sneaks.' I A little minister in our vicinity preached upon jieaee sneaks the other day. Poor ig- . I lt,lnt, 1..,,,,. .- B.M j . ,, , ... . n. -! " nw "ni vi.ju (vlM time to use his ow 11 language, I don't . . ,, ,, , , : say it was a pcaco sneak." Mr. Redfield ! continued to speak in a similar way, of the anostlcs , 1 The address occupied an hour or more in 1 Wery nnd was li-tened to by perhaps two hundred people. Political discission is rsosi-icT Tbe Democratic association Toted Tuesday evening to accept the challenge of the Union Club of Burlington, to a public discussion of issues involved in the present campaign. We hope soon to 1 able to announce that arrange ments have been completed ami the time fixed for such discussiun. Fug raising. The new anil handsome flaguf the Union Campaign Club, was thrown to tho breeze Monday amid tho cheers of the sjectators. It is a fine large National flag, bearing the names of Lincoln and Johnson, and fills a good -irt of tho space lxtween the Court House and the Un ion headquarters. The Mate Convention, Positive assurances bare been received by the State Committee, that Hon. RICHARD BUS TEED and Hon. R. F. ANDREWS, of New York, will aUress the Union Mass State Con vention at Burlington on the 11th in-t. L. B. ENGLKSBY. For the Committee. The Committee hope soon to be able to an nounce other speakers for the occasion. Nor Bad. Harj-er's Weekly this week las a goal cut of Little .Mac, in bis erlsbra teil bsjn-hnek feat. With a quakrr linnnet on his bind, a sword in bis hand, and tbe pi.- of vieo in his mouth, w itb one Cut on his black horse "War ", and the other on the white donkey "Peaee-at-any-priee" Mae is going round the ring. Pendleton.with his dove in a cage .also U strides the donkey, and a legend below, inform- lis that the celebrated animal Peace-at-any-price. was "Sired by John Hull, and dam'd by America." The Secretary of the Treasury announces that be will receive Projosals, until Oct. 14th, for forty millions of 5-20 Bonds. The 5-lXls have nlways been so popular that a lib, eral premium is rxjectul, and a considerable amount will prolnbly I taken on foreign account. The 7.30 loan will not ! inter fired with, awl remains the most convenient investment at pur that is now in the market, while the "Proposals" may be desirable for banks and capitalists. The subscriptions to the V-30s have already amounted tu over forty-five millions. Vt. Prisomrs at Cjiirleto. Tho fol lowing is a list of Vermont officers recently confined at Suvaunah, but who, with others, to the number in the aggregate, 600 have sent to Charleston where there are now aliout twelve hundred Union officers in the jail yards Bouton, C. W., Captain Co. D. Ith Vermont. i-napin, 11. u. capt la C, ' Cirr. C. W., 1st Lieut. Co. F. Chase, II. It., 1st Lieut. Co. E, 1st Vt Art'y. Usher, L. W., 2d Lieut Co. G, Ith Vt Gillagher, J.. 1st Lieut. Co. A. Ith Vt -Morse, A., 1st Lieut, Co. F, 1st Vt artillery. .uniurws, .A. v., JSl bieUt UO. 00. Needham, J. B , 1st Lieut Co. 11, Ith Vf. Pierce W. IV.. 1st Lieut. Co. D. do. Parker, E. B., 2d Lieut Co. B, Ist Vt artil lery. Sowles. G. A., 2d Lieut Co. K, da. do. Richards. L. S., 1st Lieut. Co. A. 1st Vt. Heavy Artillery. Sargeant, M. S. 2d Lieut. Co. F, do. Hvrr, E. R, 2d Lieut Co. H. do. McWain, E. I, 2d Lieut. Co. II, do. Smith. L. B., 2d Lieut. Co. F, do. Ross, G., Lieut. Co. B, ;th Vt Holman, W. C, 1st Lieut Co. G, 9th Vt. Correll, H., 2d Lieut. Co. K, 2d Vt Volunteers, Hountj-Jumpcrs, Rebels. The Alt. Eve. Journal gives tho following extract from a jirivato letter to a friend in Albany. The letter is from U. S. General Hospital, No. 2, Chattanooga, Tenn. Sept. 22. The show of sentiment in the several lepartmcntsof the hospital is worth noticinz It needs no comment : 'By order of the Surgeon in chane ws took a vote in this Hospital yesterday. The Hospital is in three departments one for the volnnwr. one for the bounty jumpers, and one for tbe liens, in tne volunteers ward Lincoln receiTr,! 20; McClellan, 71; Fremont. 10. Jn th. twunty-jumpers ward, Lincoln, 10; Mac., 25; Fremont, 7. In Rebs. ward. Slat. 31 r.i- coin, 3. "My sister sent me 100 copies of both plat forms, and when I received them you never saw such anxiety as the soldiers exhibited in trying to get them. I took them around and give them to the wont Copperheads I could find, to let them see the ditferrnce in the two. Now, we soldiers find that one is doirg all it can for the soldiers and ailors, while tbe other sajs o .to,, nor aoout tne rebellion, and impliedly asserts that wc are fighting agaiost i a noncrweran never mil .In.- v.. t arms. Uut we in the field think different ca we huedriien the Rels. U0 miles this snmmT ' IT"', " V" '!f!" !.lf M"t ,Pn' ' Wim I'iimm Wooi. Says. "H elect ed. I ..In sntisheit that fasti. Mrl'lellali ' T .. i ' . , m. I l " K' i" - oo win rt-ioe- win, without r.-jsid t thi-- he u.ai I im. esli p Ms SS. 'lure H. ill t! in lie our agtnt and the ci ul oui George Francis Train s.is " Di- i-eaee Imltrrs are all lweli r, "Tis tlo-lirst tiu.r li nt iti lats ittueed to l,4t. .i sinking ship. Virtue nurt. t'i wiih its re .m id. 'You can't bring us lock." n.'il Wwl, Mullah, and Mi-Masters, 'uidi-s von etrntjjier than wt are, and we Vi ,w ton A '"".J lus CuniputtJ that if the women of luuriea would ns n-e with the extra ilu.i, ,;, , lllrlr ,lrr,v tug ol $1,000,000 would be effoctol. Chittenden Co. Court. October 8. In French rt. Humphrey, the jury were riot able to agree, were discharged witboct verdict .WVreaanfz Bank rs Tcirn of Burlington wa tried" by ttetourt" on Satuday. This was an ai'tion to recover about 32,000, being money paid on drafta of the late Town Treasurer, above the amount of deposits credited to tha Town. Edmunds for plff. Hard ton deft. Charles Uaynts vs Burlington, was trie! to day. This is an action for damages to the building on the corner cf White and College streets, by reason of the pool of water near College St Phelpa and French for pl'ff. Edmunds and Hard for dft. A number of persons charged with crime were arraigned this morning. .'of guilty was tbe plea of John Pecor to a charge of larceny ; f Mitchell Brown to a charge of assaulting officer ; of Gen. Rivers to charge of larceny; of Emma Colbn. to .charge oi gross lewuness; oi laomai jxvniru 10 j anting. charge of passing counterfeit money, and of ' Our troo took some thirty prisoners yes John McDonald to that of murder. Mary Gero, tcrdny. among whom is a lieutenant on (.en. a child of about ten years of age. pleaded guilty I Ha-nlrfun staff. r A henvv rain storm has prevailed all day. to an indictment for larceny. The appearance I .in.vcntil,J. mo,emen's to any omsidera (among depraved and hardened criminals) of (,1c extent. the last named, a little girl of very intelligent W. D. McGRF.GOK. and interesting looks and modest demeanor, ought to 1 conclusive of tho necessity of the immediate establishment of a house of correc tion for juvenile offenders, where such may be punished, if necessary, without danger of fatal contagion. Fir mix's Drill. Tin- Semi-annual in- ........... - spection and drill ot the fire Department ot i . , J , . ' r inund cannot much longer stand the siege Burlington took place lnd.iy afternoon. Ilow in pmgrrs-. All hen- are full of hope The Volunteers. Iloxer No. 3, and Ethan , ,if success- Our soldiers are in high spirits Allen No. 4, and Hook and Udder Co. were and exja-ct soon to achieve the greatest re out in uniform, paraded through Church St. "" ' and round tu tbe Park, and were then exer-' A Headquarters army of the Potomac dis- cised and inspected by the Chief Engineer. Itch dated the 2d I says .: 1 . ,. i No fighting on this line to-dav. The relx-I" The playing of the Engines and tbe condi- ft linek ,,,; mornjnj!. t,, ,llt.ir 1;ne ( wurka tion of the apparatus was lound to ! satis- which runs from tbe lead works to the south fJCtorT- ( road or near it. J 1 This position of tbe rrUls is a strong one, ,. I and cannot easily 1 earned. A division of Lui-tt IUrrm. Sillrrs j the 2d cori has advanced to Boynton Koad, some facts brought to our notice wr appro- ,rr urtiitrti the enemy wvgun their supplies hend some of our dealers who sell casks to Petersburg. Two lines of works were ,. , , . , ., -i found unoccupied, only a skirmish line ots- which have had spirits or coal oil in. with , ,ll(lTanw-awl the nMa ff' tbe U.S. Inspectors marks thereon, are not j .fc a uUr tni0j went forward. Near tbe aware that they subject themselves to a 100 penalty for each cask or package so sold. U. V. M. Sociitt Elutions. Tbefollow- ing aro the officers elected by the Society for j Keligious Inquiry Inr the ensuing term. ( President. J. H. Worcester. Jr. ' Met Pretident. II. Belknap. i Cor. Src. L. L. Wood. Fee. Set, C. E. Tarker. Treasurer W. S. Cilley. Tin Ladies" Festival. The receipii of the Festival in aid of the Soldier's Aid So ciety, amounted to $590 and will net the Society about 475. This is doing very well. " The London Morning Herald, a bitter tory concern, and as bitter an enemy of this country, after showing that the Chicago platform menus peace, and that the candi dates nominated at Chicago represent the principles of that platform, adds, "We trust, then, that the democrats may succeed m electing McClellan as the next President of the Union. ' WorNDKD. We are sorry to see that Lieut John A. Hicks of Burlington, of the Tenth Vermont was wound ed in the thigh at the battle of the Ope quan. He is now in hospital at Harper's Ferry. The N. Y. Herald also reports the follow ing wounded officers of the Tenth ; 1st. Lieut. Lemuel A. Abbott, Co. I, up per jaw: 1st Lieut. George E. Davis, Co. D, (Burlington) ear slightly. Accidents Daniel Flaherty, of Burling ton, in tbo employ of the Vt. Central, had a foot crushed under tho wheels, wnile shack ling cars, at Essex Junction on Wednesday. Charles Hurley ,of Burlington, member of the 7th Vt., received a severe injury to his head by jumping from the Rutland ears on Wednesday. A SicN'orTHx rmr-s. Thursday morning. on tbe up train on the KutUnd and Burling ton Railroad, a tally of the passengers' opin ions on the presidential question, resulted as follows .- Men tor Lincoln . 7 " " .McClellan . IS " " Jeff. Davis . . 1 Ladies for Lincoln . . 66 " McClellan . 19 36 110 106 Majority for Lincoln Hair Working. See advertisement Mi-s Tower in another column. of Banc or Birungton. Tbe Bank of Bur lington declared an extra dividend Oct. 1, of five per cent. SrvEN-rn Virront. The Seventh Vermont Regiment, under command of Col. Holbrook, was to leave New York Monday, en route for New Orleans. Rebel Hons. The Charleston Courier says : "' If ire hold our oirn. and nrevsnt farther military successes on the part of our foes, there is every prospect mat JlcCIellsn will be elected, and Au election upon the Chicago platform mutt lead to peace and our independence." The "prospect" of the Courier must he getting rather obscure by this time. Clearly it thinks there is small ground for the rebels to build hopes upon, onless McCleUan can 1 elected. How Union College votes A vote was taken on the 27tb September, among tie students of Union College, which resulted as follows : Lincoln 123, McCMlan 30. That college desert e its name. Mioolkacsx Collwij. Tbe 10.000 do nsuil t.s Middlehnry College by the late Mrs WnltLaof JLtoi. has llern jsiid, and six urn m-ool-iiKoips me tlicreby twtablisbed. Pk.-is it - .-surgeon I!. Walter Carpenter, '.'th Vi. L. at nome on a short furlough. IW Master General. Hon. William Detiison, Ex-Gov. ot Ohio, was sworn into olbi-c as Post-Master General i n Saturday Bur Hcnt. For several weeks pant the tcsidents living some two miles from West Randolph, Vt., had disvuirred the workings i '-ar. Notice having U-en given to the -qle of Randolph and Braintree. they turned out on Thursday injyearch of bruin. A ring was formed, and after n exciting iliieeof some eight hours, the bear was d ien within one uiiiei.f West Randolph lillage, and was shot by Mr. Charlts Hub bard. The bear weighed some 30u lbs. and wv, aali at action for JSOV). News ol Ihc War. A Washington dispatch dated the 3d says: Passengers who left City Point at ten o'clock yesterday morning report that at that time there was heavy firing on the right and left or Petersburg but Tory little in front. Tne entire army was in motion and the indications were that a general engage--nent was meditated. HunqcARTiRS Arut Potoiiac, Oct. 2. Tho enemy attacked a division of Avers yesterday, but were repulsed with heavy loss. This was tbe only fighting on the left yister day, with the exception of an atttck by Wade Hampton's cavalry on Gregg's cavalry on Vaugban road, when the reikis wen driven back with a god deal of loss and we captured some prisoners. Our loss was very light. The army is now strongly entrenched, and a lattlo may occur any moment. Our loss on Friday is not yet definitely ascertained. The enemy claims to have taken a numV-r of prisoners from the ninth army corps that day. 4 !...!.. 1 s..t ,A' d !i(rtrv nvir j s(,criJlltl ; ,h'c Valla-J, and say ho was re- jVtres Monroe dispatch of the 2d says : Heavy firing has been beard all the morning on the north side of tbe James but nothing imjortant has Urn received as to the result, ltehcl fugitives of all classes an- pouring into Bermuda Hundrid inoery conceivable man ner. Some are coming down tbe river on ral'tB in their eagerness to escatie from the iails of the t'onfivleraey. Itcbel officers now ,.riHitn..rM in nor hiiru!.. uv tfi.-r think Kieh- Boynton Koad a very formidable line ot di fences was found, behind which the rebels were posted in hcavyforcc.lt was not deemed advisable to attack and our men fell back and occupy a safe position. They lost a few wounded in the advance. Our loss on Friday is greater that at first stated. The total of killed, wounded and prisoners foots,up not far from two thousand. More than half of them were taken prisoners. This occurred in consequence of a gap being left between tart of tbe Fifth and Ninth turps, through which the enemy charged and flanked tne 2d division of tbe Oth corps. Among the cnsultics are Lieut. Col. Otis, commanding the first brigade of Aycr'a di vision, (.ten. Avers was wounded in the face but not seriously. A shell from one of tbe rebel ba items grazed Gen. Meadc'i Iswtledgs to-day, and took a piece from tbe tail of Gen. Humphrey's horse, and en tered tbe ground between Gess. Bartlett and Griffin. Fortunately it did not explode. Tbe mail boat from City Point reports heavy skirmishing on the north side ol James river Sunday afternoon and evening. A Louisville dispatch of tbe 4th says : Two freight trains were captured and burned by guerrillas on tbe Nashville ruad last night. A Nashville dispatch of tbe 4th says : On Saturday Gen. Bulord with port of Jorrest'a oommand.including all bis artillery .attacked Athens, Ala., shelling tbe place for two hours and demanded its surrender from the commandant. Col. Wade ot 73d Ind. who refused. Buford soon after retired. tears ot an attack on Columbia are un founded. Forrest having gone in the direc tion of Florence, and was then below Mount Pleasant. A Urge force of mechanics and laborers were engnged in repairing the railroad and telegraph. It is believed railroad commuci cation will be oien to Pulaski during the week. Telegraphs from Athens announce numer our guerrilla bands operating near the city Irom tour to eigut miles on several roads. Last week two or three commi-aion and for age trains were captured, the wagons disa- oleU and the drivers carried on A party just from Chattanooga report that a aemana lor tne surrender ot ualton, Oa. was made yesterday by a body of rebels. claiming to I Forrest's forcs. No further particulars received. Seventeen months ago the Kichmond Hj7, speaking of McClellan. "aid. "How fortunate for u that he was chosen chief of the Yankee army '" It would be still more fortunate if he should be chosen chief of tbe Yankee nation ' The laboring men who wants a new dress for his wife is now compelled to pay 75 cents a yard for it. When we had a democratic president he eould buv it for 12 cents. i , - rrtmaenre t oh. Yes, and if your democratic president had had the spunk of a torn cat or tho patriotism of a bounty juuijT, thc price would not haTC oeen ennaneea by war. rrovidcnee Journal, ToJiacco should not b chewed, hut s chew, ed. If a man is given to liquor. let not liquor or. itcii iu mm. Your oldest story becomes new when you nave a new auditor. Conscience is a monitor ! In too many cases it is iron clad. Garden sauce from tbe Shenandoah val ley Early heats. Gen. Early's name is Jubal, and the day ot aiuoai ti. nas come. Appropriate : The McClellan club at Hartford have taken rooms lately occuried as a coffin warehouse. (jueen Victoria has another grandson. Her dauehter of Prussia, the English Prin cess Royal, has given birth to another boy. Confederate currency is now worth, at Richmond, about 2j cents on tbe gold dol lar, and the mils ot the lower denominations hardly pass for tho worth of the paper they arc printed on. Fortt Million Srvrv-TuiRTiEsScBsCRisExi. The subscriptions to this popular loan are now over forty million dollars, and they continue to come in at tbe rate of about a million a day. The public are satisfied that there are no ether investments so profitable as I. S. securities. While nearly all the hundreds of mirllanno stocks sold in the New York market have been j declining for several weeks (in many instances ! twenty-five rr cent). Government stocks hats remained firm; and while lender" loan very sparingly, and at high rates, on the best mer cantile raper. they have plenty of money to lend on Government paper, at as low rates as eter. While the Government needs the p-siple's mon ey, and pays for it liberally, it offers the highest jsjssible consideration besides, and that is, safety- Died. In Kiumsikl, oet-ttli. Ami StsrrLU. tis-l.v, tar and 6 inontlis. In WillLston, Iset. 2, Anna Wlotloar, wlfa of the latt Nathaiiiet Moslow, and mother by marrlaee . nee In Oetois r. Tbeas-sspmepumntber1i,"j, o, th. R.v. .-r. ..jron. Hubhara and e'li ttlmluw, la the Mth ynr of her Eg. . Utile ttDti..n to this on the prt f 3w2fIB .NEW O.NG f Home, Kulu!oe. Sd of the Canteen, Let Me IloM It Till 1 Mr. The Volunteer Farewell. T-ll Him I'm Rfvlj. Thete art amons the moit vopuUr Ut fmru Barlln-ton. tt iTti. U VWY' SPECIAL DESPATCH. By TruiiRArn to tbic Frfe Pxu .W 1 ORK, SM.t ft, Gold wild this afternoon at 192. WajnixcynN, Sept. Jo The Macon Telegraph of tbe 1 X tit the following a reliable estimate of M man's forces. The Army of thel'nmls-rltnj Gen. Schofieldin camp at Decatur. 2l,fKi Army or the Mississippi, Gen. Smith, 3 camp at East Point, 23,001 : Army of tit Tenn, Gen. Thomas, in camp at Atlanta 55,000. The Charlutteaville Chronicle of tlte Ii,t says Sheridan's Army is made up as Pillb, Emory "a Corps, l'Jth. llt.OOO on roil, only 14,000 fit for service. Wright's Corj, 6th, 7,000. Crook's command, CtsfsTl , (,. airy c-OW ; aggregate 35,000. The Charleston Mercury of tbe 20th m;, 100 Yankee soldiers per week aims int. tln, lines under the operation ot Order Cj. j tun ising protection to deserters. And the Rir mond Examiner ol thc 24lh says the first -stallment of several hundred of that h. left on the previous day fur an unknown point, where tbey would be put through the Yankee lines and aided to rscaj Admiral Farragut is supposed to Isr .m 1 1. way from New Orleans to New York. It .. presumed he will rttain the Hartford, h i flag-ship, as has been more than once state-, in bis correspondence. The tiking of Wilmington or even Fort Fisner is work in which the army m co-operate with tbe navy; and nt jrisent well informed jrson believes it advi-t'i, withhold from Grant, SherWan, bnermar and Car.by a single soldier. While t!-. fore no direct campaign against Wilmmit -can fie undertaken at present, it is ',:, Farragut will find nicins to ,siop M .-k' running therealaiuts. New York. .-: , ttold this momingwas selling ai 1 'Z Wasuincton. i, : As yet no advicts from thc Army Potomac are at band later than those . . ly announced. A few details only have armed ; success) on our left waa acuumpl... . (Jen. Gregg's caialry of Warren's One line of thc enemy's entrenchmen'- i taken and a considerable number if i r -crs captured. It was. reported at I uv p yesterday, that Gen. Kautx had eui-w ... -flanking the enemy with his cavalry a- ; the Danville Road. In tbe attack on i . pin's Bluff the negro troops suffered -(ien. Stannard's division tn which Ivti suflered considerably, especially in offi A very heavy rain commenced last right -has extended all over this section j feared that it prevailed in tbo army ' -Potomac and would inteferejwith it i -mcnts. President Lincoln to-day buta reprtsriji- -Tecruit in the army and had him credits the ward in this District which has d .r best to fill its quota. Gen. Banks is exjs-cted here bai'T- w Rumors or his having been tendered a t -tion in tne cabinet prevail freely. Drafting commenced in the ,Iast su' . trict here to-day, but owing to exemr.. : it will be repeated in some wards. Wasiiington O: i It should be understood that Gen. Grtc recent movements were primarily t'p vent demonstrations on Sheridan, and ' known that some 5,0(K) men were detach" . by Lee to reinforce Early on Tuesiat were called back on Thursday as soon as Butler's move was made v trt north bank of thc James River. Our -v airy advanced to the very fortificati ons Richmond on the east and north-east : were unable to effect an entrance to tbe citt One division of the tenth corps also advir ced nearly to the fortifications as a suppo' of the cavalry, ifa weak spot was found As whole thc entire movement i considered ss very considerable success. Washington, Oct M Recent letters from Charleston Harbor j not go amiss in reporting an increase blockade running there during the last i; weeks. Advices from Nassau indicate t a new lino of blockade runners is also est.' lishing. There is good warrant for sa.u; that tbe new line will not be hkeiv achieve any considerable success and Ti the old line will soon find its orcupiti -i gone. Reports, to-day indicate that Butler's for" holds the positions gained and Meade's they gained Friday. The severe ram - Saturday prevented any movement Wasulngtoi Oct. 4. 9.30 P. M Hon. Tom Corwin lelt here to-dav for'h He opens the campaign lor Lincoln i Johnson at Zanesvilleon Friday or Saturiav Tho cartel for tho tbe eichango of nav prisoners provides fur all on each side . sr nothing is said in it about race or col t prisoners. The navy department, theref expect that colored seamen will lie excharu ed the same as whites , some other partu1 believe tbat tbe rebels will not give up tl negroes. It is known that they are pursuit-; the same course relative to runaway slam captured on ves-els as when captured on lar advertising them, giving them up to owce-s if any apis?ar, and selling them for chsrgri f no owners are found. VT. MCTl'al. THE Annual Maetini of the Vermont Man Firs Iniaraoea Co. for ths ehoiea of llraci- - aod tat traDjaetion of any proptr bu-riceas, w held at their ofice on the 15th day of Oetober n: t ons o'clock P. M. CilARLES DEWEY, ferr (tontpeller, Ang. 3D, UH wlws Vermont itl ut unl Fire Inu rnncc Company. notice or assessment mm 1S4I The Members of ths Vermont Mntnal Ftrt Isfj ranev ChHspany a e hereby not'fld that rba ' lu asacesuieots have been madsbr ths Pfreetsr ll notes tn rorce on the following das. to s-n September !t, IM, i of one per cent October 2& ' i " " rveemhsr 25, , " January s. 1-4 i " ' .... .. , Pehroary t!7, i " - Mareh I. J " Vay c. " Juna Jo, ' 4 Jul) s, I Ma'.ii. H tsrt cut. for ! I"J a line Aocuat I, t-f.t. !tid pwntas to upon tli orilEa imouat of the prstafoai eew wllhoal rrtmiee to aav endorssineeU aal s 1-sU t..t:i'Trsurr.t hluCosin Mcxti" I or bsfiirt. Uis istb ilsy nf tisti.lr, sj, . Vsmlsr. .d tbo Comt-nj will and m the . rth Ppiaxnlatiirs elect to tha Leps'tta" Local Atenta nf tho Company, a ecieiiule the atni.um of asMissmest due front each reer: ,!.. I It: andthTarMrtlelllarldssiredtossel."- li mnnav f..r Ihsir ae.msnt. I fiirwarried ts f . f the Cta b or, at the prnwr time, will ,fiif4. I paD.ltrva.le. (tN Stb, -et It?9 J.T.TIICKbTON. p""' Tartscsaa't tirricr. 5Ioutller, Au;. ,1351. w3w. MIKI.UL'RN POINT I'tifllES- TERV SICE for rrerv1nt at I