The Vermont Record and Farmer from Brattleboro, Vermont • 1

BR ATTLBBORO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1867. NUMBER 7. VOL. VI. In all' some ten horses, thirty head of cattle and two hundred sheep were lost.

The entire damage cannot be less than $40,000. Miss Williamson was an estimable young lady, and was soon to have been married. The body, cause on every lino of It there is the Impress of the man and of the times. "The Resentment of the Green Mountain Boys," was not a penalty to he despised, as Benjamin had discov ered to his sorrow at Sunderland only six days before the date of this letter, and as the Arlington Dutchman was taught at the catamount tavern in Bennington. Autographs of Allen are very rare, and this is quite, likely te sell for more dollars than there arc- lines in It.

Will not some son of Vermont purchase it, either Tor himself, or to give to the Vermont Historical Society? P. H. w. Gen. A.

P. Blunt, of Richmond, has been visiting bis friends In Caledonia county. Sheffield did more than ber part In tbe war, has paid all her debt and is ready to fight again. Walter H. Burton, son of the late Dea.

Isaac Burton, of Manchester, died at Fort Lin- -coin, Kansas, on the 28th of Dec 1860. Daniel Wheeler of Cavendish, formerly on Gen. Weitzcl's staff, has been appointed second Lieutenant in the Regular atmy.and is stationed at Fort Hamilton, New York harbor. Dr. Horace Hail, late Assistant Surgeon of the 9ih Yt Regiment, has relinquished bis charge ofthe U.

S. General Hospital in 18ih Street, Chicago, and resumed the practice ol his profession at St. Albans. Proh bition vriit License. 1 Tho Burlington Times, not long since, devoted a column to the condemnation of the Prohibitory Liquor Law and su-rgested In Its stead some thing after the style of the If.

T. Excise Law which, by the way, is nothing more nor less than a stupendous and damnable monopoly. The Record replied to the article of the Time setting forth its objectlois to a law which would in any way license the infernal rum traffic and making especial reference to the glaring inconsistencies of the Excise Law of New Tork. The Timeha paid no attention to the reply of the Record. Why dies it net still further defend the rum traffic? Will It and the Montpelter Argus, and the Rutland Courier (pret'y company for the Burlington Times!) please read the following communication, ftora the pen pf Dr.

Charles Jewett and answer it if they cant "Mb. Enrroitf In a brief communication which I tent you recently, I sought to expose the bad logic of thote: who demand the repeal of your prohibitoiy law, on the ground that its provisions are not respected, while tbey clamor lor a return to the system of license which was trid in all the New England States for over half a century and proved every wheie an utter failure inasmuch as tb.3 sale and use of liquors increased under that system far beyond the increase of our population, and drunkenness and its terrible concomitants became so universal as to alarm thoughtful and good men in all parts ol New England and led, in part, to those organized and ytemltic effort to check its further progress geoeraHy known as the Temperance Reform. sU.wrAriV.''.1''''-'.': '-V- With these- facts, in view, why will the- opponents of prohibition persist iu commending to us an old, exploded and effete system, which the good sense of the people long since condemned Do they think we have forgotten bow matters progressed tinder the license system Aside from its inefficiency a a check to the production of drunkenness and a means of protection to the gTeat interests ol society, material, social, moral, educational, governmental and religious, all imperilled by the presence of the drink or liquor traffic, there, are unanswerable objections to the license syetemj'1' It must logically lead -and mewt If continued will lead to the licensing of every other species of vicious and sinful indulgence whl 'h bad men may persist in The U.S. Treasury Department has conXV- menced paying the claims or the heirs of ceased soldiers for the additional bounty ot $109. gianted by the act of July 28, I860, Yf pons ta- terested will please take notice.

')( 1 A Washington dispatch that nndet the Equalization Bounty claims for additional bounty have been; flicA tn the Second Auditor's office and 100,000 more in the Paymas-' tor Gcneial't office. Applications for bounty are still flowing in at tbe rate of over 1,000 a day. Mrs. Lois Matthews, widow of Timothy Mat thews, died in Middlebury reoently, aged 95 years. For several years she has bee.u a pension-er, on account of the services of It husband In -the revolutionary war.

Four other widow ladies reside in that town, Mrs. Goodrich, aged 96; -Mrs. Chaplin, Mrs. Foot and all over 90 years ol age. Myron S.

Horton, son of Joseph Hortoa, of Mt. Holly, has lately been appointed' cashier of the Massachusetts branch of tbe -Etna Lift Insurance Co. of Hartford, office -at 2T State street Boston, Mr. Horton served in a Mssf sachusetts regiment the good wishes of bis many friends in Vftr2 mont for his usefulness and success Bloater and they would' not be welcome visitors in faRhlcnable bar-rooms. They cannot afford mint Julep aud aristocratic brandy punches, but they cm enjoy hugely even poor whiskey poured from a black bottle In a subterranean dog-hole.

It is not democratic to supply moderate, drinking gentlemen to whom itimuhuts ore not yet a necessity, and forbid It to those a little further advanced, who are perfectly wretched without it for the time. Why provision for the formation of artificial appetites if they are not to be gratified? It would be as sensible to provide by law for the dissemination of the itch and by another statute, forbid (snitching. The whole liquor system is accursed of God and at war with all the. interests of human society. Away with it." Now, gentlemen, defenders of the license system, oppose rs of the prohibitory law and therefore advocates of rum drinkin? and rum selling, let us hear what you have to say further? lhe late Fre3het The.ruin of last Saturday appears to have done considerable damage in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, carrying away bridges, buildings, lumber, etc.

In Rhode Island the canal bank of be White Reck Manufacturing company broke through, so that a portion of the village known as Stillmanvllle was submerged. The water ran Into some of the cellars, washing out everything in them. In this State and throughout the northern portion of New England generally a heavy rain fell but not in sufficient quantity to break up the ice in the rivers. Which set in so severely on Sunday proved Wneflcial in checking the thaw, and preventing th feeders of the larger New England rivers Irom throwing theif. floods into the main chanuels and breaking' ijipltift lc4-near Utelr Sad Calamity at "West Hirti The village of West Hartfvi; Wiud.or County, was the scene of a terriole disaster on Sunday last.

Tbe village consists of a church, school bouse, two stores and some thirty dwellings, and is situated on the Vsrrnjnt 'Cjatra! Railroad, about eight miles fram White River Junction. White River flows south of the village, the village being upon Its north bank soun ten feet above the usual river course; The river became obstructed with ice in fact entirely filled so that the water course was turned into tbe village street. The first intimsMon the in-habi ants had of trouble it being early, 7 o'clock in the morning and before tbey had risen was the surging waters around their dwellings, and upon looking out they saw the flood coming down upon them In all its force. Only two persons appeared to be up at first, Col. S.

Vil'gry and a young man named Brown, who were stopping for the night at tba hotel. They roused the family ofthe landlord, ran to tbe barn and loosed the horses and young Brown also went to rouse the neighbors. Col. Pingry describes the scene at this time as a body of ice higher than the houses aud some two hundred feet in width, a surging, boiling, crushing bearing down upon the village. He fled for his Hie, and was well nigh safe when he heard a cry for assistance from Miss Frank Williamson, a young lady some twenty years of age, who was just being overtaken by the angry flood.

He went to ber aid, and they were making their way at best tbey could for high land, when Miss Williamson, fTantic with excitement, caught hold of a stone post, and the two became separated. At this instant the Col. was covered with a mass of Ice and when he aose was some thirty feet from Miss W. By the aid of those upon the shore the Col. was rescued, but Miss W.

was borne under tbe flood and drowned. This was the only loss of Hie. The bridge over White River, a covered structure some 150 feet In length, was swept away. F. Holt A and Hazen West, mer chants, bad goods damaged to the amount of nearly $1,000 each.

The hotel, owned by Allen E. Williamson, is a complete wreck. Mr. W. also bad another house moved from its foundation some fifteen feet and set into the street.

Ho also lost two horses. Dr. Tucker had a two story house undermined. Allen Hays' barn is a wreck and he lost a flue yoke of oxen, and three horses. Silas H.

Hazen lost his entire flock of 138 sheep and his barn and large sheds are also wrecked. Wiilard Hazen lost two horses and two cows and his barn were wrecked. Chas. Beckwith lived In the upper house ofthe village. He beard the rurging waters and carried his babe to a place of saiety, then returned and assisted his wife and boy, who barely escaped with their lives.

His house and barn were badly damaged. Henry est was caught between a floating timber and a fence, but escaped by climbing a tree and was taken off after remaining there nearly an hour. Families were taken from second story from rcofs and attics. The rush of waters through tho streets continued the entire day, BY D. L.

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Record. editorial ...25 Prohibition v. run License The Late Htd Calamity at West Hartford ....85 The Dream-tand Grave Poetry. 25 Obituary Autograph of Ethun ...25 Roll of Honor 25 Important toWoldiers 25 Ths BupWui Of 'v 2 TempB rirn'9 26 8Utti tew. ....28 TheChlpliaskct Westminster Farmers' Club 25 The BranJon Farmers' Club .......25 Poultry and Poultry ........25 Winter Car of Kheep ,,.....25 Pure Water for Animals Under the Sjtspbenns at Ilnuie Vermont State Agricultural Society.

Vlck's Catalogue. Vermont and the Paris Eihlbllloa. .26 Hews of the Week .29 Proeewling of Congress The Kallroud Trouble ..28 impeachment ,24 A New Kiillroad Another Veto Vetoed A tlog lu Hoops. .26 P'l5JiSHsors 28 tW Test. 28 Chips.

A ofthe Rutland Independent rtj-f Poland's suggeation of a single kirw jil'slar'5' ears for President and YleePresi- "What! an Andrew John- LovojSKrmcK. Mr. John Woodman for tba last-thirty-two years has rung the bell id this village. Who has bad a longer service than this? jBurton Standard. lfsny cme has we should like to be tolled.

Chester Diamatic Association-had another fall house on Monday evening, and played the drunkard wilu charming success, Bellows Fulls Tine. Playing tbe drunkard with charming success isn't confined strictly to dramatic associations in Vermont ''--'yJliJ The largest contribution ever given by a single individual wuile living, to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, has just been paid by a member in Vermont. The sum was M.OOO.-Et. Wby it not the name of this libeial gentleman given? VI. Transcript.

A sensible question. A man who will subscribe that amount to a Home Mission ought to be known. Let's have his name, by all means. Walton's little daily is waking up of late. Hearlt: cross-drained Burllnirlniilari aava 'Ihev don't mix any water with their- liquor at Mont-pelier, or Hud much use fur water any way.r Pray don't make any nastier than necessary.

Burlington has got to take water after Montpel-ler has used it. Better reduce your and make 'riends of ad up-stream, neighbors." We commend the above to the notice of the Burlington Time. The Montpelier Freeman gcti off the following bit of witty history "Mr. R. Covell, of Berlin, we pmume is the eldest subscrib to the Freeman, and has paid for It until January, 18(18.

Be will be 89 years old in February. His hale and hearty old age is, undoubtedly, owim to the fact that he reads the una every week, and pays for it invariably jn advance. This is bet ter than medicine or an uisuranca against accidents." A large number of out subscribers will never lie of old age, we fear. A ghost has appeared to a relict of a lamented delinquent subscriber, saying: "Jessie, pay my newspaper accounts and let me rest in peace." Ex. have a few subscribers who, if they should die now, would kick mctalic coffins all to Union.

And we have a number, who, if death should overtake them thia minute, would smash a hermetically sealed sarcophagus into atoms as small the soul of the man who never pays "i printer. Parties who don't want to engage in the Wandering Jew business in another world please pay up. The Newport Exprett in its last issue makes th following remarks to which we call the attention of our readers In general and our bosl-aeea men in particular: "The man who does not read the advertisements in his home paper, can never be said to poited. The advertisement indicate not only the bubiness enterprise of the place lu WntCh thev nrA nuKlial. a liH, enier- When you see a man who adver-usea, yon may be certain of finding a good stock wgoods in his stole, that he keeps wit the mar-ei and sells cheaper than those who do not ad-lr Ju want go.d bargains always pat-llaS lv wbJ Tail 'uemselve.

of the advan- 1 a tnrougn the advertising column! yvujc paper. at last accounts had not been recovered, although some five hundred men have been constantly engaged In the search. For the particulars of this sod and ruinous oc- curre ice we are indebted to Mr. A. G.

Nourse of Brattleboro, who has visited the scene. Written for the Vermont fteoord. I The Dream-land Grave. r.M?I;.',;: -C. BV JVMA C.

B. DORB. 1 drammed last night of a lonely grave WItn the grass of years o'ergrown. Above It the wind through tbe shuddering pine Bwepl with a wailing moan A sluggish river rolled slosvly by With a slumberous monotone, While down from the depths of Ihe frowning sky One quivering st rbeam shone. And I dreamed that over that lonely grave In dumb despair I hung; No passionate prayer, no yearning cry Broke from my trembling tongue; But atlll through the weary, dreary hours To tbe desolate mound I elung, And atlll In my ear, till the mora Wat The sob of the river rung.

soul of mine In that dream-land grave What beautiful hope lay dead What dream of my youth lay buried there With the cerecloth round its bead? What love outgrown, or forgotten long, Slept well In that narrow bed What memory, born of the hallowed past, Waked not at the tears I shed I never may know I dream-land grave, Thoa keenest, thy secret well From thy dl.T, mysterious depths, no voice Cornea forth thy tale to tell, -But still, In a waking draafiij hear The river's sobbing Swell, And the wailing wind the ahudderlng Bounds like a futreral knell I 'Obituary. ji Died In Derby an. 22, Mr. Smith Emery aged yeavrs. Mr.

Emery was horn in Rockingham Feb. 7th, 1801 and being possessed of an almost giant constitution his life was ever one of toil and hardship, lie married Miss Maria L. Howe in 1823, by whom he bad fifteen children. For many years he resided In Plymouth, after which he moved to Clarendon, when, after a resilience of several years, his wife djing, ha moved to Derby and married a second wife, three children being the iruit of that union. She still survives him.

He united with the Free Will Baptist Church about the year 1837. He was possessed of a kind and obliging disposition which endeared him to a large circle of friends who will ever remember his virtues and kindnesses with feelings of mingled respect and so rmw. Of tbe eighteen childien, fifteen are now living, many of whom are occupying stations of honor and respectability tared throughout the eastern and western states. He was for many years an advocate of the rights of Ameiica's bondmen and lived to see his views and wishes tn this repect consummated arid their rights partially recognized, wish being that the rebellion might result in freedom to the slave. For several years he suffered extremely Irom rheumatic affection, which, within the past few months it became ai parent that the dropsy was also prjing upon him, but for the last few days of his life be seemed much better, so much so that a beloved daughter who was ministering to his wants ventured to go a short distance to tbe store to obtain soiue necessary articles Tor his comfort, leaving him for a short time In the care of a granddaughter, who heai'lng a atruige noise proceed from his room, immediately ran to his bedside and finding be had fallen over upon the bed she at once summoned help and medical aid.

But bis work was dons. He only lived a short time. It is however a source of g-reit consolation to bis lare circle of relatives and friends to remember thai what is their great loss is bis eternal gain. His remains were carried to Clarendon and deposited in the quiet Church vard there, the land he so much loved while living, and where after "life's lltfal fever he sleeps well." Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep. M.

C. E. Written for the Vermont Keoord. Autograph of Ethan Allen. The autograph collection of the late J.

K. Tefft of Savannah, Oa which has long had the reputation of being one of the best collections In the United States, if not the very best, i to be sold at auction in Nsw Tork, on tbe 4th of March and tbe succeeding days. Among its treasures is a letter of Ethan Allen, of which the following is a copy BtesNftroTON, February, 6, 1775. Upon the Receipt of this Tou are Forthwith Prohibited ad Forbid to Execute or in any way Officiate in tbe Office of a Justice of the Piece on tbe New Hampshire Grant', Till His Majesty Determine the controversy between the Se'tlers on these Grants and the Government of New York, on the Penalty of the Resentment of the Green Mouutain boys. Ethah Ax-lks.

To George Garner of Pownal. This document is valuable net only aa an autograph of the hero of Ticonderoga, but be- The fate of Augustus Smith, of Swanton, member of the 1st N. H. cavalry, has been ascertained. He was hung by Ihe rebels near Winchester, Virginia, with his own bridle rein, his throat cut, and shot with seven balls.

His body was discovered by a corripany ofthe 6th N. H. cavalry, and on it was found a letter and dia- ry irked "Sergeant Augustus Smith, troop -m IsrN. H. cavalry." It practic'ng.

"They will practice this In spite of prohibitory laws, therefore, let us license indulgences and derive a public revenue Irom the vice." That is the statement and the proposi tion, and it will apply just as well to houses of restitution, as to llq-lor saloons. We are told that the chief of Police for the city of Providence 1., iecently proposed to the city in an offl cial document, that, Inasmuch as the' number of prostitutes had so greatly increased of late, that special provision should be made for their accommodation in the theatres and other places of public amusement i. e. that certain parts of the house should be appropriated to their special use I A "third row" by special enactment I This certainly looks toward licerie and let the proposed arrangements, be adopted aid license will follow, What American citizen, uot himself steeped In vice, can contemplate without a blush, licensed prostitution? And yet. it would puzsle think, the most subtle casuist to point1 out the difference in principle betwepn a licensed liquor saloon and a licensed brothel.

One point of distinction is apparent, and the odds are all In favor of the brothel, ibrthis last proposes to gratify an appetite ora passion common to the race and only wrong who- In excess or indulged in ways forbidden, the liquor traffic, first creates the depraved appetite which it subsequently supplies. But what reason have we to presume that, should we consent to the licensing of liquor shops aud rum selling taverns the parties licensed would pay the slightest regard to the restrictive provisions ol the law? Restrictive provisions of some sort there must be. Of course, even those most clamorous for license would not venture to advocate the giving of license to A. B. and O.

to sell liquor, in any quantity, at all time and to all descriptions of persons, and we ask again what assurance can you give us, gentlemen, that a class of persons who never did respect any law seeking to regula'e their traffic, would do so in 'eighteen sixty seven' and thereafter? Not a man of all the advocates of license dare express, over hi own signature, the opinion that If licensed, the parties licensed will demean themselves as good citizens and obey the law under which are permitted to sell. Do not the rum sellers of New Tork city and of Brooklyn fight as desperately against the moderate and wholesome restrictions of their Excise Law, as do our rum sellers against a law of prohibition Respectable dealers, so called, who are to be licensed to furnish gentlemen 1) their mint juleps and brandy punches, will take no measures to break op the low unlicnsed grog shops, for they supply quite another class of customers. They finish off Jobs that the genteel sellers forge lor them. They should not be allowed to break them up if they would. I would be meanness double-distilled.

Ifgeu-tlemen in broadcloth who drive fast hcrtes ar.d dine sumptuously are to have their toddy, we demand it lor Sam Swizzle and Bill Boll of Honor. We have recleved another record from JJ. 8. Q. M.

General Meigs, in which we find the names of the following Vermont Soldiers: Interred at T. C. C. Clifford, Co. 6th Vt.

Reg. At Salisbury, N.C. Southwest ofPrUon. Geo. Pearson, Co.

9th Reg. In Old Cemetery, Nevburn, IT. C. JoS ph P. Church, Co.

Alvab B. Durkee, I Win. Good nougb, Thos. Hawley.F V- M. Hubbard, John Kinsley, Clarence B.Lincoln, -Henrv E.

Marsh, Ct E. Mills, Alonso D. Moses, Loyal S. Onat.K Myron A. Phlppen, c.

Elmer G. Southwick, I V. Charles Warren, I All of the 9th Regiment. Important to Soldier. Patmasteb Gknkbai-'s Orrrca, Dtvisrosr of Deferred Claims, Washington, D.C., Jan.

8, Messrs. Editors I know you would do tbe soldiers a great favor by Informing them and their attorneys, through your columns, that It would greatly lacilltate the paytrent of their bounties if they would Immediately send on to me to be filed in this department, a. Connly Clerk's certificate, stating the commencement and the expiration ofthe nota-lcs, justices ofthe peace and commissioner of deeds, before whom thev have made oath to their applications, ex cept in cases where such certificates have already been sent. Those certificates can be filed here, and avoid the necessity and expense of the County Clerk's certificate In each case. And to send on duplicate vouchers (form No.

5.) properly.