Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-07-18
WHAT SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN THINK

WHAT SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN THINK
-Erastus Brooks, editor of the New York
Express, writes to his paper from Washington
as follows:
"What seems to me more important from
the South, however, are several interviews
with southern men, on the Union side, and
some Of whom are holding important legisla-
tive or elected positions In our Government.
One of the most intelligent gentlemen from
Tennessee predicts that in sixty days our
troops will be in Richmond, and the back
bone of the rebellion broken. mother, from
the same State, but in higher position here,
looks upon Virginia, North Carolina and
Tennessee as all to be restored to the Union,
first, by the advance of our troops, and sec
ondly, by the more than willing cooperation
OF the friends of the Uni on IN these States
Secession and rebellion are spoken of by
such as an abscess which must be cast out by
the sword of war when mider treatment
fails. This class Of men demand, very nat
urally and very properly, that the friends of
the Government and of the Union at the
South shall be sustained by the Federal ar
mics Their very lives depend upon it
The supporters of rebellion show no mercy
to them at home, and would hang them to-
morrow if they could catch them. When
rebels combine, surely patriots should unite
Prominent men in Maryland declare to me
that the disunion sentiment in their State,
though intensely active, and personally most
respectable, is numerically very weak
CAPTAIN MONTGOMERY HEARD FROM
"A private letter dated Osawatomie, Kan
sas, July LIST, states that Montgomery had
gone into Missouri on the Government Secret
hay Rar nc nd a on val ryr
company Of 100 men, and a company or
more OF infantry, numbering $50 men, all
picked and good fighters, and that he had al
ready had brush with the enemy. 1t seems
that Montgomery guard was fired upon, at
about twenty miles beyond West Point, by
thirty ambushed rebels, and two of his men
killed and several wounded. The main body
being close at hand, were Immediately drawn
up IN battle array, a charge was made, and
not man of the thirty lived TO tell the tale.
The writer goes on TO state that "Montgom-
ery's special business is no doubt to cut off the
retreat OF Claib Jackson, in the South, and
if anybody can do it he can,
NORTHERN FORTS TO BE PUT UPON
WAR FoOTING.-The Champlain Citizen
learns that Fort Montgomery at RouseS
Point, is to be placed on war footing at
once and that active preparations to that end
are in progress. The Government probably
thinks it well, in view OF the precautionary"
increase Cf British forces in Canada to take
some precautionary measures for the protec-
of the frontier.
AccIDENT.-The Whitehall Chronicle
says that VIM. Collins and Edward Sui lvan
were severely burned by powder, caused by
the premature discharge OF cannon, on the
4th, in the east part Of that town.
CoUSTERFEIT.-Five dollar counterfeit
bills on the Bradford bank are in circulation
They are well executed, printed on red-tint-
ed paper, and calculated to deceive. The
genuine bills are printed on paper which has
no red tint.
The Barracks at Pittsburgh are to be oc-
cupied by the wives and children OF the sol
diers lately stationed in Texas, Fort Pickens,
Fort Sumter and other points-125 women
and about 800 children.
Gausha A Grow is described as a slender
man, of swarthy complexion, with Jet black
whiskers, and thrifty moustaches of the same
hue.
The Milwaukee Zouayes have been pre- |
sented with 81 900 ia gold by the several /
banks and bankers of Milwaukee, as testi !
monial ofthe appreciation of their services in |
quelling the late riot.
james Richardson of Montpelier has shown /
the Editor of the Freeman corn-stalk over /
forty inches in length and nicely tassled out,
grown from seed planted only month since.
President Pease will deliver an address be-
fore the Theological So-iety at the coming
Commencement at Dartmouth College.
SAD CAsUALTY.-A lad of some ten years,
named Frank T. Hawey, was drowned IN
Middlebury on the 4th He went into the
water to battle, and got beyond his depth.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Mr.. Etheridge the new clerk of the House
has excited some surprise and gained much,
praise, BY establishing a rule that he will not
employ any man who trequents gambling
saloons or keeps liquor about his room at the
capitol.
A Martinsburg, Va, letter of the 9Th inst,
to the New York Tribune, states that when
the renforcements that have been ordered
ordered for Gen. Patterson's column arrive,
the force under his command will be about
81, 900 men.