Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-11-27
Local and State Items.

ENoisE LANES Ne attention Of owre,
ers is called to the advertisement of tho ~
leotor for the First District of this State y,
lshed this morning, They will learn Lpu'
from when and where their taxes NAV ba
as well the penalty for not attending 10 y
matter.
PRoTRAoTED MEETING IN CAsr,pro
We are requested TO say that Rev. Fdr
Burnham, independent Evangelist whohasL,l
preaching in Rutland for the past two weo,
Is to commence protracted meeting in u
Christian Chapel in Castleton, Sunday MI
23d, continuing over two Sabbaths.
CouNTERFEITs.--A telegram of tbo on
inst, says the counterfeit ten dollar hin ]
the Bank of Royalton, were then in cjrm.
ton in Boston. MATT y
ASSISTANT SURGEoNs.-The FOLLOWING
pointments of assistant surgeons of volmfsa
have just been made at Washington, A
Woodward and L, d, Harlow of Vernon !
DEATH OF A VT. SoLDIER.-In lie,
recent deaths at hospital in Washington i y
name of VIM. G. Spaulding, Co. C, l2tb n
ISLAND HoUsE.-The Island House Al p
lows Falls has been taken by a Mr.. Tah Al
Lancaster, N. Fl.
RED~cED.-The Franklin County Hs,,
has contracted itself in size, to counterac
expansion in the price of paper.
PRaMoTED.-Lieut. Edw. W. Smith
of the late Rev. DR.. Smith of st. Adams y
a graduate Of the University of Vemo,
has been promoted to majority. Maj sm
is attached u the staff of Gen. Hunter ., .
sistant Adjutant General
LADIss RELIEF
Mrs. DIR. Thayer and Mrs. Geo. K. p,
have been delegated from Burlington tO Il
council of ladies, to be held at Wssbinpto.
on Saturday, the ed, and Monday, the 2ld
in accordance with the suggestion Of the s, /,
tary Commission, to confer with its officers
reference to the supplies for sick and wound
men,
The CoNrRAaAND MusKErs 1t apes,
says the Burlington Times, from the follows
statement, that other transactions in arms hsv
been going on with rather poor success. II
fact that the below mentioned guns were md
New York, and had the same immediate d.,
tination as those which We're seized here, max
it probable that they were despatched by 1
same reputable" operators. Thus the b,
ton Herald of Nov, II, says:
:" We learn from private but entirely nj
able source, that Provost Marshal Simeon Drs
per, Of New York, succeeded, a day or u,
since, in capturing 500 cases of Enfield rid
! most of them while in tranSitu for the Soul
DiG Canada. The object ostensibly was
ship the rifles from Quebec per steamer chsI
tered to convey them to some port on d
, Mexican coast from whence they could casl
besent into ecessla. he whole developmal
of the seizure will, 1t is surmised, impllaI
several well known and hitherto reputable nj
ldents Of New York"
OFFfrgRs sTRIcEEH PROM fHE RoLLs-
The Washington correspondent of the n.
7isssS under date Of the 10Th inst, saws thi
one hundred officers. absent from their con
mands without Rave being the first ln,aL
ment Of the one THOUSAND who are marked Z
dismissal, we're Yesterday struck from the 70.
of the army, and their names will be pubhshe
in General Order stating the offences Of eact
which order will be sent to Governors Of d
loyal States for publication in official Stat
journals, and with the direction that none
the men 50 dismissed shall ever hereafter b
commissioned. The military gulll1tme is nj
fully at work, aud the lreslden' is resolyaY
rid the service Of all skulkers, towards, drunk
ards, shutters and men incompetent for thsI
positions. Secret Provost Marshal of phh'
delphla to-day sent on an additional ia
hearty four hundred officers. who have oaf
loating without leave in hotels and boardn,
houses Of that city. Similar visitatons ar
being made IN New York. hosion and el'e
where.
Lieut.. Col. CoIburn, one Of the member
Of ten. Mctlellan's staff recently arrested
. and sent to Washington, then released and or
dered report for duty. takes charge, a
said, Of an important bureau in the AdluIan
Generals office at Washington. Capt Dn
ane, the other officer arrested at the same TINE
is ordered to re. ort to Gen. Brannon in Soa'0
Carolina. a
The PRoCLAmArtoN.--A special dsI"'
to the Boston Herald of yesterday, states 'A'
President Lincoln, in an interview with 'N
Yates, of Illinois, on the Goth inst, sad 'n'
he would not modify his characterization f'S
clamation. In his annual message the RE-
dent will reiterate his determination to sSD
by the proclamation.
OoTToN SPECULATIoN.-The Chicago ." !.
| bune insists that Eovarno,ant shoud llnlnu"