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Vol. 7....Xo. '21,
TlilKSDAY MOKMXG, MAY 'if.
what we auk fh;htix; for.
In glancing at the foreign news we cannot j
fail to ohsf vh that the apprehension is quite j
too prevalent, even among the intelligent !
oijnialist!- of Europe, that one of the objects I
of the present contest of our (general Govern
ment asraint the secessionists is the einanci
jiHtion ol ih' -laves. Thus, a Paris journal,
the lifcui- hfiu Maudes, speaking of the
Auv-rican crisis, says :
Legality (droit), justice, and prudence,
have been on the side of the Federal Gov-
eminent. If this fatal war must break out.
' liberal Europe cannot hesitate between the
" two camps ; its pravers will accompany the
" cause ot the North, the cau-e of human lib
" erty, of emancipation, ajainst the cynical
' and violent party of slavery."
It is not singular, perhaps that such no
tions should obtain abroad, for besides the
fact of it being conceded that slavery is the
prime cause and the real occasion of the
present rebellion, the rebels have asserted all
along that the North purposed interference
with slavery in the Southern States, whenever
it should obtain the control of the national
Government, and it is not surprising that in
telligent foreigners should have been misled
by this sectional clamor.
lint while it is true that the South has reb
t iled fo: the only purpose o! strengthening
slavery, and of erecting a ( iovernmeiit in
which that institution shall be the recognized
corner stone, as proclaimed by " Vice Presi
dent Stephens," the object of the General
Government in waging war i- not to exterm
inate slavery, but simply to vindicate the
right of the Federal Government to continued
existence, to enfoicc its laws, and to cause
its authority and its tlag to be respected
throughout the national borders. The Gov
ernment lias no unconstitutional purposes.
Slavery exists under the shield of State sov
ereignty, and the General Government will
not, and does not propose to lay so much as a
finger upon the reserved rights of the States,
its whole object being to repel treasonable
attacks, to put down rebellion, and adniinisj
a punishment to traitors so stern and awful
that its memorable lesson shall be a warning
and a terror to that class of miscreants forall
time. And it is important that we of the
North should constantly bear in mind the dis
tinetien that we are waging no warfare
against slavery as it exists in the South, nor
against slaveholders, as such, but against reb
els, and traitors, and plunderers ot" national
property: against those who would tear down
the pillars of government and demolish the
temple of liberty which our fathers, with so
much cost of blood and treasure, erected for
as. We are not 'carrying the war into Af
rica," but into rebel camps and against re
bellious ton es. In the grand contest now
waging, it is no part of our mission to stir up
a servile insurrection, with all its attendant
unspeakable horrors. May heaven protect
the innocent women and helpless children of
the South from such an awful calamity. But,
by the blessing of God attending us, as it did
our lathers in the Revolution, we will use the
whole might of the national arm, by land and
bv sea. in a war of extermination upon all
traitors to our glorious government and Hag.
Writh our lives and our fortur.es we will up
hold the cause of constitutional freedom
against the assaults of anarchy and despo
tism and this is the only real issue involved
in the conflict.
A CASE 1-OU STEPHENS.
We are constantly being reminded by pro"
voking examples, of the assumption of Vice
President Stephens' that the ipiintessence,the
fink, the 'loner, th rip-, (,,; ro-ten) fruit,
or whatever you will ".ii! it. of civilization, is
to be found only in that region where African
servitude lies at the base of the social fabric
He triumphantly, and w.; thought, a little
egotistically and arrogantly.pointed the world
to the " Confederate States of America" as
affording the best types of social refinement,
the widest spread and most diffused intelli
gence, and the highest advancement in the
code of honor and morals, as also in the Chris
tian graces ; while he very austerely assigned
to the North the humble position of the poor
Publican" who stood in the market-place and
cried, " God be merciful to me, a sinner !"
All this made the speech of the " Vice Presi
dent" of the Imperial Republic sound very
pretty indeed. It was no doubt grateful and
charming to the highly cultivated " Confed
erate" ear.and soothing to the Confe ferate"
conscience and heart, and must have mate
rially elevated the contemptuous uplifting of
the " Confederate'' nose at quand.im Yankee
brethren, the while it put the Northern n- se
considerably out of joint.
Now. in view of these lofty pretension of
to a very dirty fellow who edits and publishes
to the world every week, that brightest of all j
mundane luminaries , the Vicksburg Sun.
He falls far below Mr. Stephens' standard of j
Southern honor and decency. He is not chiv- j
alrous. Neither is he refined. We don't be- j
lieve he is imbued with the christian spirit, j
He is evidently no true son of the " Confed- !
eracy." He must have been born and ac-
quired his education in jjpme of the low pot- I
houses of the North. (Such institutions are
not to be found in Mississippi.) We wish to
point Mr. Stephens to this fellow's views of
commercial honor and fair dealing, contained
in the following extract. Says the editor of
the Sun :
It may be aid that mercantile honor de
mands the payment of ail business debts.
Politeness demands that if an article is asked
for, civilly, and if the asker has any cl.iiin
upon it, that it should be delivered up. H e
have, already the name of not paying our debts :
the infamous lie is spread broad-cast through
out the land. As ire now hare the name,
and the very Northern merchants who know
it to the. contrary do not take pains to con
tradict the report, why not hace the gain as
well .'"
Mr. Stephens will notice that the Sun pro
poses repudiation, as a sort of remedy for the
wound which Mississippi has had inflicted
upon her reputation, by ' the report that site
dos not pay htr d:bls." This, we suppose,
on the strength of that vulgar recipe that
' the hair of the same do.; will cure." We
trust that Vice Pi esiden? '" Stephens will!
i
repudiate " tin- scamp.
Meanwhile, in behilf of the " Northern j
merchants who know to the ontrary," we
hasten to " contradict the report" that Miss
issippi " does not pay her debts.'" We are
at a loss to divine how a report so injurious
to that noble State, which is the very soul of
commercial honor, could have got abroad.
We denv, most emphatically, that the State
of Mississippi ever r'-pudi it-d her own bonds.
We denv that any of her bond are lying
unliquidated in the hands of any body, wheth
er individual or corporate, either in this coun
try or Europe. We " contradict the report "
that JefF. Davis has been the chief advocate
and defender of repudiation. On the con
trary, we assert, in the most fearless manner,
that he has ever counselled Mississippi " to
walk up to the captain's office and settle,"
and Mississippi has always given due heed
to the voice of her darling Jeff. These slan
ders and reproaches which are cast upon j
Mississippi, and President Davis," are no
doubt the base invention of a set of malignant
followers of that ' Illinois beast, Abe Lincoln."
as he is truthfully and gracefully styled by
the Charleston Mercury, and circulated with
the evident purpose of injuring the unbound
ed credit which the ' Confederate States "
so happily enjoy in the great commercial
centers of Europe. We repeat, that Missis
sippi has always 'paid her debts," and we
hope Mr. Stephens will see to it that she is
not now, for the first time, drawn into a course
of repudiation by the centripetal force of
that Sun which revolves on its axis once a
week, down there in Vicksburg.
FAIRHAVEN.
From accounts received from Fairhaven,
it appears that the people of that town are
wide awake to the importance cfthe events
of the times. Flags are flying from many of
the principal buildings in the'village, and the
people seem determined not to be outdone
by any in their manifestations of loyality and
patriotism.
A large meeting convened at the beat of
the drum on the Common in front of the
meeting house, on Saturday evening, for the
purpose of enrolling a company of volunteers,
when about to. good fellows and true, put their
names to the paper. After some excellent
remarks from II. G. Wool, Esq., and others.
the meeting adjourned till Monday evening,
j The multitude again assembled, pursuant
to adjournment, at the Town Hall, on Mon
day evening at 7 o'clock, and proceeded to
nominate Col. A. Allen, Moderator, and II.
G. Wood, Esq.. Secretary. After the roll
call, a committee was appointed to procure
arms for the company, anil such other busi
ness as was deemed necessary and proper
was transacted, after which the meeting
adjournod.
The company immediately commenced
drilling, under Col. Allen, and will hold
i regular meetings for drill hereafter at such
IT
'' times af may be designated.
We shall expect to hear good accounts; from
the gallant Fairhaven volunteers-
Erratum. In the 6th paragraph of our
answer to 'M. G.,' of Kentucky, under date
of the 23d inst., a line was accidentally left
out. The passage referred to should read :
"By the provisions of the fugitive, Slave law,
everv Northern freeman is made, what eve
ry Southern gejitleintn intuitively shrinks
", 1 ot h-r "
RUTLAND,
THURSDAY
MIDDLETOWN,
A military Company was formed in Mid
dletownon Saturday, the 18th in-t. Warren
McClure was chosen Captain, Homer South
wick, first Lieut., William Clift, 2d., Reuben
Spaulding 1st Sergt., Edgar Harrington, 2d.,
Jerome II. Coleman, 3d., J. F. Haynesi 4th.
Corporals, Henry McClure, 1st., Robert
Park, 2d., Preston Southworth, 3d., Sylva
nus Whitmore, 4th., and Charles McClure,
Clerk.
Over forty were enrolled on Saturday, and
several more have expressed a desire to join
the company. It is expected that there will
be over sixty members of the company with
in a week. They are thus far made up of
young men of the right stamp. They have
already engageil a competent man to drill
them, and are making arrangements for their
uniform and equipments. Go ahead boys.
IOur readers will not fail to notice from
the letter which we publish this morning,
written by one of the officers of the Rutland
Light Guard, to a friend in this village, that
the Vermont Regiment at Fortress Monroe,
is sulleiing privations for the want of suffi
cient and wholesome food. W e are pained
to learn that such is the fact. While the
Massachusetts troops are constantly being i
furnished with supplies from home, we in
Vermont are doing nothing in this line for j
the brave men who have gone tort h from our !
hou es to the battle field. Cannot something I
be done for our boys V We call the atten
tion of our State authorities, and of our breth
ren of the Pre-s to the subject. If move- !
nient were only organized to send provosions i
to our regiment, there are hundreds of farm- '
ers, merchants and otlwrs in Venneiit who ;
would gladly couttibute butter, cheeese, po- J
tatoes, and other substantial edibles, of which J
we have an abundance. The-e supplies, be- !
sides alleviating the wants and privations of
the men in camp, will afford them the cheer
ing assurance that our hearts are with them, j
and that we are anxiously and tenderly mind
ful of their welfare.
LETTER FROM FORTRESS MONROE
Fort Monroe, May 15, isfii.
We landed here Monday morning, but
have not gone into the fort. We are en
tramped between two walls of the Fort, and
under cover of the parapet guns. We made
a quick passage from New York. We left
there at 5 i. M- Saturday, and anchored off
Cape Charles Sunday evening, and landed
Monday morning. The Fort is impregnable,
and an attempt to take it would cot thou
sands of lives ; but Gov. Letcher says he is
going to take it if it costs the lives of 10,000
men. I don't see how he can take it. for
when the bombardment commences, we can
draw in four feet of water from the ocean,
which will prevent the shells from exploding.
There are two tiers of guns, one on the top,
which is called the parapet : the other is le
low thera, and arched over with stone and
brick, so the men are entirely protected from
the balls from the enemy. The guns are of
a very large size, 8 and 10 inch Columbiads.
The big gun. ' Floyd," is down at the land
ing, and outside of the walls ; it points North,
and is the largest gun ever cast.
When we came here there were but 1,000
Massachusetts troops and 3o'i regulars. Our
regiment increased the garrison to about
2,100, and since we landed 200 more troops
from Massachusetts have landed, making
about 2,300 men. Before we left home I
saw it stated in the papers there were 2,800
men here, so you see how much the papers
know about it. We are going to remove into
the Fort to morrow.
Col. Dimmick, chief . S. officer in com
mand here, says ours is the finest regiment
he ever saw. I think Vermont may feel
proud of her regiment, for it is said on all
hands, to be the finest body of men yet sent
into the field.
There will be hard fighting. We are not
very well fed. We don't get bread enough,
nor enough of anything. The Massachusetts
troops have butter, cheese, potatoes, a pple-t-auce,
preserved meats, solidified milk, &c,
sent to them. We have to drink rain-water,
there being no wells here. The s' cesiot)ists
have cut oil our supplies of tiesh provisions'
The inside of the Fort is not so pleasant
as I expected, but then it will do for three
months.
We have a Post Office in the Fort, but
have to send oil" the mail only when oppor
tunity occurs. There are some sick ones
here, but none in our company. James
Congdon is in the hospital.
'I here are several men-of-war in the bay.
I must close now, for it is time to send to the
office. K.
Glenwood Lady's Seminary.
-We
learn that this School, at Brattleboro, is still
in very successful operation. One hundred
and fifteen pupils are in attendance. Of
these more than eighty are boarders in Mr.
Orcutt's family. The graduating class num
bers more than tweny. Twelve Teachers
are permanently employed.
The village of Shosan. in the south part of
Salem, N. Y.. has furnished between 20 and 30
volunteers, and her citizens subscribed to the re
lief fund nearly two thousand dollars.
It is stated that the Gen. Frost who command
ed the rebel troops taken prisoners at St. Louis,
is a N;w Yorker He cane from the Mohawk
VT..
MORNING, MAY 23,
ANOTHER LETTER FROM THE
PORTRESS.
Fout Monboe, Point Comfort, )
May 15, 1861. J
We arrived hete till safe and sound, on Mon
day the 13th. We came from New York on
Saturday la-t on board the Alabama. She is a
splen fid sienmer. I was sea sick only one day.
Ve hail a very pleasant passage. The sea was
almost a dead ca:m. We are camped outside
the Fort, but inide the water battery and pick
etts. We expect to remove inside the Fort to
morrow forenoon. There are 23 thirty-two
pounders in t fie water battery. The Fort cov
ers 75 acres of land, and has 176 thirty two
pounders for barbette guns, and an equal num
ber of asraate guns, besides a monar battery
consisting of 10 mor'nrs. all in the Fort. The
Fort is surround-d with a water ditch about 75
feet wide ud the wmer is about 20 feet deep.
The Fort has four gu'es with bridges across the
ditch. On the inm le ,f the ditch the stone wall
of the Fort rises some 40 feet h'gh j on the out
side, a wall 15 feet high. There are about 2 300
troops here in all The Fort from the inside
looks more like Boston Common than like a
Fort. It is all laid out in walks and squares.
There are any quantity of shade trees and flower
gardens. It is as warm and pleasant here now,
as it is in Vermont in July. It is the pleasant
est place I ever was in. We go and wash every
morning on the beach. We can go from 5 a.
m., until 11 a.m. We are mounting guns every
day, and the eomniander of the Fort says if they
let him have five days more, he can defend the
Fort against (lie world We are in a great hur
ry here. I can't write half I want to, nor ask
many questions about home You know how I
am situated Write and send Rutland papers.
' J. 1.
VERMONT ITEMS.
Win. B. Hatch has been appointed
deputy Quarter Master General of the Ver
mont forces.
S3,000 has been voted by the patriotic
citizens of Georgia, for the families of volun
teers. Messrs. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, have
recovered SC.00O damages of a New Orleans
man, for infringement of a patent, but the
Court refuses to order the money collected,
because the Fairbanks are Northern men.
The contracts for carrying the mail on
the several routes radiating from Brattleboro,
for the four years from the 1st of July, 1861,
have been awarded as follow.? : from Brattle
loro to Townsend, to Otis Bard well, of Rut
land; forg325 per annum ; from Brattleboro
to North Adams, to Benjamin Eames of Hal
ifax ; from Brattleboro to Williamsville and
Dover, to Joseph Reed of Dover ; from Brat
tleboro to Wilmington and Bennigton, to
Win- Childs of Wilmington ; from Brattle
boro to Keene, N- II., to Oscar Coolidge of
Bhesterfield, N. II-
Mr. Alex. G. Harris, formerly of the Cale
donian ot'-ce, is Captain of a company ot
Hoosiers, who are encamped at Springfield,
Illinois. -'
At his own request, the Rev. S. M.
Plympton has been dismissed from the pasto
rate of the Congregational Church at White
River.
The Messenger, (St. Albans.) says, the
Cavalry company formed in Burlington will
probably disband, as it has been informed
that it cannot be accepted, as the requisite
number of companies for the next two regi
ments have already been accepted.
The small pox has made its appearance
in St. Johnsbury, brought there by a woman
from Canada.
Th school house district No. 16, Bur
lington, was burned on Saturday morning.
Cost, 82,500. Insured.
VARIOUS NEWS ITEMS.
In Iowa more surface has been seeded
to wheat than even last year. In southern
Iowa and northern Illinois the winter wheat
never looked more promising.
The Pennsylvania Women's Nurse
Corps have been incorporated by the Legis
lature, and Gov. Curtin has signed the bill
crea'ing a loan of S3,000,000 for arming the
State.
The health of the troops at Washington
is remarkably good. Not a single death from
sickness has occurred.
A gentleman while out at the Relay
House, a day or two ago, saw a company of
ladies who were afraid to pass through the
camp. On making their fears known, Gen.
Butler stepped up and said : "Ladies, don't
be afraid to pass ; I have left just as dear a
wife at home as your husbands think you are
to them. All my men here mostly (pointing
to the troops,) left their dear wives and
children at home. You need not fear to
pass. If any one should offend you. he would
be visited with immediate punishment."
It is needless to add that the ladies "took
courage" and passed on.
An Editor in Llck. We are pleased
to learn that Mr. Geo. A. Martin, formerly
connected with this office, and now editor of
the Lake Shore Mirror, at Silver Creek,
Chautauquee Co., N.Y., has been appointed
Deputy Collector at Silver Creek.
New Patents. The following patents
have recently been issued to citizens of Ver
mont :
C. O. Luce, of Brandon, Vr., assignor to
himself, F. M. Strong and I. F. Estabrook of
of same place for improved washing machine,
L. S. Bundy and L. F. Edgarson of Hyde
Park, for improvement in corn shelters.
Earl Guyer of Wolcolt, Vt., lor improved
vegetable cutter.
The Boston Traveler States on the au-
thority of a naval officer that Mr. Davis.when
a member of the cabinet wrote to many of
the Southern navy officers upon the subject
of this rebellion, and received replies com
promising themselves, and hence, with the
fear of an exposure which Mr. Davis had the
power to make, they have thrown up their
old positions and joined hands with the rebel
irr veicti
18G1.
The Montpelier Bora of the Right
Spirit. The Patriot oflast week, in speak
in ; of Capt. Randall's Company of that placef
says : j
" When Capt. Randall communicated to
the Capital Guards, at their Armory on Mon
day evening, that the order of enlistment had
been changed from two to three years, we
happened to be present. Capt. R., in his re
marks to the Company, informed them that
they were released from all obligations under
th enlistment paper they had signed, but
that he should be ready the next morning to
receive names for three years' service. The
ranks of the Company being quite full, he
then asked for an informal expression on the
question of time. Eieryhand in the Company
in a most emphatic response, and as if this
were not enough, up went a shower of caps
amidst cheers and the wildest enthusiasm.
Before ten o'clock the next morning, the 77
names were duly enrolled."
Daughters of the Regiment. The
editor of the Vermonter, who was in New
York at the time the Vermont Volunteers
were in that city, gives, among other things,
the following interesting item concerning the
Regiment :
"After the Regiment had started, two la
dies were found in the cars, resolved to go as
nurses, a Miss Dorsey of Cornwall, and a
Miss Grace of Middlebury, who has a brother
in the Regiment. They were voted in, and
each member took an oath to shoot every man
that offers them an insult.
Work at the Springfield Akmokt. A
correspondent of the Lowell Courier, who has
recently visited the U. S. Armory, at Spring
field, says : j
I found alterations, extensions and improve
ments in all deoarttnents going on ; new rnachi
nery arriving al no-t daily, and is at once put in
operation. The createst activity prevails in all
departments. Employees are require-! to work
twelve hours per day. The Minnie rifle is the
arm made here since 1855, aod eighty are finish
ed ofT daily. Six weeks henee it is expected
three thousand will be turned out monthly, which
was the full capacity of these works and those
at Harper's Ferry previous to the destruction of
the latter.
One hundred and sixty thousand stand of arms
were stored in the arsenal at th" breaking out of
thi war. Pan of them were Minnie rifle , and
part of the make of from 1842 to 1S55 smooth
bore otherwise ft fir9t-rate article. Fifty thou
sand are still thec, which are being sent off rap
idly, and we sbacl soon see that celebrated arsen
al, where a few days ago were stored 400,000
arms, empty.
England b, Position. We copy from
the debates in Parliament the following
statement of the Under-Secretary for foreign
Affairs, in answer to certain questions pro
pounded by Lord Malmesbury :
"Lord Wodehouse I need scarcely assure
my noble friend, that the Government, in
common with him, and I feel confident every
one of her Majesty's subjects, have learned
with the deepeit regret the intelligence of
the dissensions that have taken place in the
United States. We have also received with
the utmost concern the accounts to which my
noble friend has alluded, informing us that
those dissensions have brought that country
to the brink of civil war if indeed civil war
may not be said to have already broken out
within her territories ; and in answer to the
question, what steps have been taken by her
Majesty's Ministers to avert this great calam
ity for a great calamity it undoubtedly must
prove to be, not only to the Americans them
selves, but to England, which is so closely
connected witi them by the ties of kindred ;
I have to state, that after the tnos mature
deliberation, the Government came to the
conclusion that it was not desirable that this
country should intrude her advice or counsel,
on the' Government of the United States.
(Hear, Hear.)
However grteat the interest which we may
feel in the welfare of her people, and howev
er anxious we' might be to rescue them from
the misfortune which appears to be impen
ding over their heads, we yet thought that
a great and independent nation might not
welcome rdvi(Je given with respect to her
internal atTaits, if that advice were proffered
without being solicited. The instructions,
therefore, given to Lord Lyons were, that he
6hould,on every fitting occasion, expiess the
earnest desire entertained by her Majesty's
Government, that the differences which pre
vail between the Northern and Southern
States of America should be arranged. He
has not, however, been instructed to give
either, "officiously," or "officially," any coun
sel or advice to the American Government,
unless such counsel or advice should be ask
ed for by the contending parties themselves.
That is the answer I Lave to give to the ques-
1 tion of my noble friend. It naturally follows
that her Majesty s ministers nave not een
in communication with any foreign Govern
ment as to any steps being taken of the na
ture of those to which he has alluded. (Hear,
Hear.)
Senator Johnson's style of esVassing in j
Tennessee is thus described in the Washing
ton National Republican :
"The style of Mr. Johnson's canvassing
may be judged from the commencement of
his speech at Cleveland, Tenn., where threats
stromal liim hr.il Vwpn larcelv indulged in.
I He told the crowd that he 'did not come here
to be .shot, Out to stiooi : mat n mere was 10
be a fight, he and his friends were ready for
it, and" that he preferred fnishinfi up the fight
ing before making his speech. Nobody com
ing forward to fight, the intrepid Senator
proceeded to speak, and by the time he had
finished, nineteen-twentieths of the audience
were with him. He told them among other
things, that 'Jefl Davis and the Governor of
the State ought to be hanged, and would be
banged, at that not far distant period when
the judicial power of the Government could
be brought to near upon lueui.
The statement that the Whitehall Company
(..f Vobir.tOT". te"l j is1-i !vri-!.' (.-'
JPItICK THRKK CKNTS
to 1 .50 PKlt YKAlt.
ANECDOTE.
-o -"-..uiwaKMunimii, wno
went by the name of "Whispering John,"
------- -.f.i,viuiu iu naicuio. reopL
said ho talked ai though he were brought no
in a null. One cold morning he walked into
a public house, and called out in his usual
tblirwlarintv vsIva .
"Good morning, landlord, how are you ?"
"Very well, how do you do ?"
"O. I'm Well, but Pm an frAA 1 ,n 1..-.II-
T - vou uai n 1
talk." '
Just fbpn a w... .. - . ,l 1
.. ui, .uus irdicuer wag wu
niVflpnt ran im a !.. I II t .
, ..... U1, i mo isuuiuru exclaiming :
"I lease have my horse brought as soon as
possible.
"Why, what is the matter V asked the
landlord.
"Nothing," replied the traveller, "but I
want to get away before that man thaws l"
VIKOIMA TO THE NORTH.
Thu rpeaki the nortnign Old Domioioa
Jo Northern btat her track opmioo :
FIRST.
Move hot a rnou : tii coercion,
The iffoal for our prompt dUpenioo.
FSCOXD.
Wait, till I make my fall decuiou,
Be it for colon or divitiion,
THIRD.
If I declare my ultimatum.
Accept my tsrmb, ul ibaJI nut .em
FOURTH.
I ben. I'll remain, while I m inclined lu,
Seceding when I bare a mind to.
LttuU't I,mn Af.
" Tue.Stkam Gcx." A correspondent of
the Courier and Enquirer, saw the steam gun
recently captured in Baltimore, before it left
the machine shop where it was made. He
could not imagine, at first, what it was.
Finally, he says. I set it down for a Potato
Planter, but should never have guessed a
gun, as it was so ricketty on its legs that it
would scarcely stand alone, much less knock
down a regiment of soldiers. They finally
let it shoot, and the way it threw the bullets
was a caution to the engineer, and as it was
full as liable to kill him as any other man, and
a little more so, they let it rest until recently.
An organized band of armed ruffians
was broken up in Indiana last week. They
hail attacked the office of the Treasurer of
Martin county blown ojeii th safe with
gunpowder, and extracted l,ioo in money.
The Home Guard was on the alert and be
fore the gang could escape with the booty,
they received a round of lead. One waa
killed, two wounded, and nine iu all taken
prisoners, after a desperate resistance. Tho
band is said to consist of about one hundred
members, and the citizens are determined to
root ttiem out by the rifle and halter.
A Larue Army. The State of Ohio is
now organizinj for action 100,000 cen in
addition to the number demanded in the re
quisition of the President all of whom are
to be held subject to immediate transfer into
the " active army of operations," while tie
State military authorities estimate the total
number of" militia of reserve" at the enor
mous figure of 000,000 the whole of which
gigantic force al. are (in the words ol the
Adjutant-General) to be brought as soon ai
possible into a condition " to meet any de
mand the exigencies ot the Union may re
quire." United States Loans. The Treasury
Department now has two loans to dispose of
one under the act of June, 18J0, for four
teen millions, and the other under the act of
last February for nine millions. The former
can only be issued at par, at a rate not ex
ceeding six per cent, and has been adverti
sed for several days. The latter can be is
sued below par it necessary, and it is now
reported, that after consultation with New
York capitalists, the Secret try'calls for bids,
with the expectation of issuing it at about
the present market rate for the United
States six per cents., which is not far from
ninety. For the other loan, which cannot
be issued Lelow par, the Secr-tury of the
Treasury will be obliged to issue the con
vertible Treasury notes.
A Montgomery letter in the New Orlean
Delta, says :
Nothing can be ascertained here in re
spect to the policy that will be pursued re
specting Fort Pickens. Our army stationed
at this j oint is maintained at an exense ex
ceeding ten thousand dollars per diem."
Ot'R Geverals. (Jen. Scott entered the
army in 10. lie was educated for the bar.
He is 7 J. Gen. Wool entered th army in
112, with the rank of Captain. Gen. Har
ney entered the army in 1M1K, as 21 Lieuten
of the fir-t Infantry. He was born in Ken
tucky. He is ;5 years of age. Mrevet Brig
adier General, Joseph G. Totten, Col. of
Engineers, is one of the oldest officers in the
army, having entered it from Connecticut in
1805. He resigned in 180(, and was ap
pointed 2d Lieutenant of Engineers in 1803.
Green Corn- and New Flour. The
Galveston Civilian of the 3d inst. says :
" Well uVied roasting ears of Indian corn are
among the delicacies of the season ; and wa
have now before us a moderate feed from the
garden of Col. Hose, of the 4th ward. We
have already mentioned a receipt of flour
from new wheat, and now rejoice in tha
midst of the ears of aboiiginal grain, with a
sense of independence, that the Cairo block
ade cannot disturb."
Singular Bequest. Miss Thsody Dick
mson, late of Brattleboro, and recently de
ceased, left the income of her dwelling house
for the benifit of her pet dog, a small cur
about the size of two cats. After the death
of the dog the property reverts to a nephew,
who can apply at his leisure the old maxim,
" if you love me, love my dog."
The Cambridge ("N. Y.) Company, ol 82 men,
Cart. Mcivie, left that village Friday afternoou
J fur their place of rendezvous at Troy.'1
"You want nothing, do you ?" said Pat,
"beda l an' if it's no'hiny vnn want, you'll
tl l ) ''. ' " ' "'' v. w.
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