Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-12-18
miscellaneous I,en,.

Thie ;o e., So"a a'e the largest ever n.3 n
IN T' !; Is lar 'rom being true, The grco, ma0
a,' Is az loe nremlin of Moscow Tb,s qua
~ in cal,ore, rs feet long, and WEIGHS ", az y
us 1 almost au tons, 1t was made tvo 4 ~
i dred and seyonty-six years ago. '''''' Two smN
! A few months ago the Tordon ~.
pronounced the Peninsula campaign under No NJ
Clellan the most sorry failure in histor, % ~
/ Now that 1t is possible to use his name ,., :
the vulgar Yankee Government, il sn SIS,os
discovers that he is the " ost aecomn ,Iselly
General in the Federal army" '''0'0
The Revenue Bill introduced ;r,hon
by Mr. Stevens was not the act Of o. Va's
mttee OF ways and means, of which NJ, Von'
VEINS Is chairman, nor did Mr.. Stevens ~. ot'
with Secretary Chase about It, The ,,sn usus
expression is decidedly against the nSo r@uM
measure-lntating the currency still mol"
the issue of hundreds of millions adj;
"green-backs." This could only be tole ,.0aa
If bank bills We're thrown out of circnI l,ateu
Tor we want no more diluton of the cnr.s'
ey. The Judgment of the country is clo ,sa'
| against Mr.. Stevens proposed kitino SH
rotary Chase opposes it, also wv
The demand for postal currency contrn..
undated. Gen. skinner, United States Trsa'
, urer, states that at the present rates ~ oaa
straction the government will not be able y
su ply the demand within year. When III.
taken into consideration that only III d3aaN
have been issued, thus leaving S36 OdN0o
more to be issued, some idea may he formed Il
| the immense amount of small change which
has been withdrawn from circulation.
| No foreign orator has come to our shor..
| recently who is comparable to Mason ,Iono.
| the young Irish champion of freedom who bs,'
| been speaking in New York. His sueoess :
New York has been as brilliant as it was !,
London.
| Seventeen suits have been commenced i,
Norfolk against the Wise family, CONSISTING NJ
Henry A., John j. H., George ID, ana q
Jennings, for the recovery of debts VARYING !,
amount from two hundred and fifty TO on,
| thousand dollars.
The following items are CLEANED from tn.
latest foreign advioes: The Liuerpool Cham.
Der OF Commerce has adopted a resolnto,
against the abolition of bockades The bnl.
let from Garibaldis wound has been eytracts3
The cha ces of Prince Alfred being elected
hlng OF Greece seem to improve, but Russia
Is said TO have already protested against Il,
and French journals display a conadetabl,
jealousy.
The news from Mexico, brought BY III.
steamer Eagle from Havana, is important
The French troops at Tampjco are SUFFERING
eariuliy from sickness. Jalapa and Alvarads
have been occupied by the French President
Juarez has issued proclamation inaictipg The
punishment of death on all who shall carry
dispatches to or from the French army. The
consequence Is that no courier from the ctv Of
Mexico had reached the coast before the last
mail left. All communication between the in.
terror and the coast is now virtually cut off,
The discussion of the arrests, in the Sen.
ate on Monday was very interesting Mr..
Salisbury contended that the people had mo-
nounced against all such arbitrary proceedings
at the receut elections.
MIR. Wilson. of Massachusetts. claimed that
no such question was settled by the elections.
The only thing settled was, that the Repubh-
can party could not raise men enough to send
to the field to whip traitors, and still have men
enough at home TO vote down Northern DEM
ocrats; that was all that was settled. He
thought tour-tiiths of the men who are fighting
the battles Of the countrw would vote to sus-
tain the President. He was for exertipq every
effort to rnt down the rebellion, and to crush
out traitors everywhere.
Mr. Dolttle commended that there was no
oppression on the part of the government,
when man was arrested on suspicion and
was offered his liberty if he would take the
oath of allegiance. 1t could be no o,,nsession
to loyal man TO take such ,at We =.
IN state Of war, and ~ ID GOV" e.
energetic mea"' - the ffeSioene must taNe
ment ..-,fes TO preserve this go'o'n-
:, and the people are determined, IN spite
Of treason in the South or North, and IN spite
of all Intervention from any quarter, that this
government shall live.
Mr.. Sherman of Ohio, (republicanl favored
the adoption of all these resolutions of inquiry
which were offered in good faith.
Mr.. Trumbull of Illinois, (republican) SAID
as he could not see any practical benefit to DC
attained IN passing these resolutions, he was
inclined to vote against them. He thought
these arrests had been unfortunate and mpol-
have held that the power of suspending the
writ of hsbeas corpus was legislative power.
1t is not from any sympathy with traiters that
there IS great feeling on this subject; but pc
cause it is feared that this is an exercise OF an
unnecessary and arbitrary power,
There is great activity now in launching
war vessels. The strange piece of naval ar
chitecture in the Brookln navy yard, known
under the name of the =" What is 1t, ]" Is to DC
completed at once, and set ahoat. The b@as
is it is huge box, nearly fifteen feet high ana
twelve feet wide, or Whereabouts. tits eaulkeo
so as TO be almost air tight, and has an inter-
nal diameter of about twenty-four feet, anu anu
looks very like tunnel inside. The gun wiz l
be within, and although in firing, will protirtluss
through the portfolio, a porch or "portc9
covers its muzzle. That is all that can pe
known of the What is 1t, which may be sup,
marine battery with an air gun, or Delano
Internal machine, for all the outside puoh'
know