Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-12-04
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t,Ui,L M ul N'e' W -
cus,imuon'
thousand men ara still lacking from
'. .,,r, Nh .,nlgau, and Gey Blair has Is
y" ''.r, rive orders Tor dralt 10 commence
r....ha V. Johnson, who ran for Vice
~n 1'', ,n,p the Douglas ticket in 1850,
os' |elected To the Confederate Senate
Georgia
a.. BRADFORD, wife of the Governor OF
I,mI i a strong secesh woman, She
o"sntjy leA her husband aud gone TO
hmond
Man women and children are leaving
| hp BIZ every possible conveyance, and
general impression that 1t must fall
| ,De hands of the tederals,
fredericksburg is not occupied by the
n. in force, merely a picket guard being
soneA within the city. The soldiers Of both
rs often get within hailng distance,
The Cincinnati Enquirer learns that Col,
Neil who hung ten citizens of Palmyra,
IL retaliation for the supposed abduction
:, Union citizen of that place, was not in
.ryice of the United States, but of the
Ne militia of Missouri. .. 4...
The rebel Congress have appropriated
100000 for the defence of the Cumberland
Tennessee rivers. The rebel Congress Is
tal at "approprating,p and the rebel ar
les sui greater. F
"A large quantity Of clothing was shipped
!, week from New York to the department
/ The Gulf, for the fugitive blacks there who
in the employ of the government. This
|thing is gotten up very cheaply, and is issued
the blacks at cost price, the amount to be
Quoted from their wages.
The Boston Post says that an officer, who
isses to be authority on the subject of
asy t...etics, tore off the seat of his breeches
n bis spurs, The other day, in attempting to
count from his hGEse.
Ohio is the greatest wool growing State,
\ York and Pennsylvania next, Michigan
| Is fourth. New Jersey raises more pota-7
I than any other State by tive to one.
IA long list of army quartermasters has
Ia made out preparatory TO their discharge
n the service for neglecting their duties
The New York Tribune states that the
p.dent lately remarked to a friend "that
considered the Emancipation triumph IN
lSouri of more enduring consequence than
\ Republican defeats IN Pennsylvania, Ohio,
b New York"
Gen. Bcagg's plantation near Thibodeax
DOW in possession of the United States, and
completely cleared out. Gen. Shepley,
Military Governor of Louisiana, has issued an
(rer for the election OF members OF Congress
Esn that State to the United States House OF
at Washington.
Lieut.. L. Wise, son of Henry A. has
Esn taken prisoner while maniiestly acting as
nbel spy in Col. Shoaks' camp near Calhoun,
Een,ucky. Letters were found upon him con
|Lsjvely proving him a spy. No litter person
|oad be found for proper treatment IN that
aracter by the laws of war.
The draft ia Maryland is nearly an entire
|ahre. 1t is supposed by the state military
eahorities that the net result TO the federal
INV will be some fifteen hundred men out o.
Ia eight thousand drafted. The assertions
Ire going on at fearful rate every day. Nc
|ss than FIVE hundred have escaped from the
|spdezvous near Baltimore already. Tht
kards have been caught in eonnlving at thu
Escapes. In one case four men We're allowe<
b get of for $40 apiece.
Over fifty thousand shelter-te were fur
kished last week to the army of Gen. Rose
I7aDs. A rebel telegram from Murfreesboro
F,nn,. to the Richmond papers say that 10
Esrans has declared his determination TO sub
tue southern people as he proceeds south. Ih
k,ernative will be offered, he says, of allegi
al.e to the Union or forced within the rebe
fas He will apply the same law to womer
. ssl children. His idea is to throw an i'm
nense population on the South, to consum
|Taa. b. .qps!ders our limited supplies. and thu
|saye us into SUBJ agation.
A riaed coo FOUNDER gun is rapidly ap
preaching completion at Elswick, England
lis weight when finished will be % IL tons
aDd its length Ia feet 10 inches. The QUITE
diameter is to be feet 4 inches at the Preeet
and , foot 9 IL inches at the muasle. I'll
bore Of the gun will be rather more than /
inches, and the greatest thickness of metal
the breech about 10 inches at the muzz
4 % inches.
-Europsan Journals are taking the gabb
Of John Tan Buren, and his fellows, about lie
ting our " maynard sisters depart IN peace
for sober earnest Even as shreMd a pap
as the Paris Moniteur fehctates its'lf up
the assumption that the recent elections test
" the progress of the peace opinion, which a
pears likely to command majority in L
next Congress-
We knew, of course, that such eXpressio
were mere rhetorical tiourshes; but we to-
pains to remind our Democratic friends tn
the effect of such talk in Richmond and
europe, would be bad. We tried to lmprt
upon their plastic minds the fact that there "
danger of their position being misinterpret
that strangers would set them down as c
posed to the war, and would quote the elect
Of their candidate as a sonunciamento in
vor of peace. For which, of course, we we
denounced as " sanderers," &c., &c. TIL
now see the justice of our caution in the
depreciation gwen by Europeans to the Il
election.
Stirring events may soon be heard
along the Mississippi. Between rs, 600 a
$4,000 troops have passed down the n,