Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-30
REBEL TELEGRAPHlC DISPATCHES

Nashville, Jan 2l
The city is full of rumors, but there is
nothing reliable from Forts Henry and
Donelson.
Captain Wharton has been elected Colo.
mel OF the Texas Rangers. In accepting the
position he SAID, Terrys death must be
avenged before his leaving Kentucky,
Five companies Of the Rangers, with
Wharton, have gone on a scout in the yIcini-
ty of Green River.
The sixty days Mississippi troops have re-
turned home from Bowling Green.
SUSPICIOUS MOVEMENTS OF FEDERAL
.+ VESSELS. .ae
Nashville, Jan. 90.
There has been federal movement up the
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, but il
must have been a mere ieint. The federals
fred few shells from their cunboats into the
woods below Fort Henry, but the gunboats
did not come within the range OF our guns
The latest Intelligence reports that the feder-
ais have retired. @
A few federal gunboats came within three
or four miles OF Fort Donelson ON Saturday,
but hey returned after firing few shots in
the woods.
above has been received.
DETENTION OF RAILROAD TRAINS, sc.
Lynehburg, Va, Jan. 20.
No trains have reached here from the West
during the past two days, in consequence Of
accidents on the roads. On Saturday night
the train, when near Marian, ran into land
slide, which SO disabled tn engine as to rem
der it unable to proceed. A dispatch was
then sent to the central depot, distance about
sixty miles, for an engine which was prompt
ly sent forward. In the meantime freigh,
engine was procured near the slide, and was
attached 10 the delayed train, which pro-
ceeded eastward, but had not gone over tlf-
teen miles when it came in collision with the
engine from the central depot, resulting 10
the partial destruction OF both engines, break
ing the legs of soldier on the train, and
causing severe injuries to several other per
sons. A heavy rain, accompanied with
thunder and lightning, prevailed here las,
evening.
A family in Akron, Ohio, has in If a
little girl about four years old, and little
boy about six. They have been cautioned
in there strife after hens eggs, not to take
away the nest egg but one morning the lit
tie girl reached the nest first, seized an egg
and started for the house. Her disappointed
brother followed, crying, Smother mother
Suzy, she's been and got the egg the old hen
measures by !"
The Canadian military authorities have
determined to establish forthwith line of tel
egraphic communication between Halifax and
Quebec, because the lines in Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick are in the hands of an
American company at fixed rentals.
A GRACE.-A corpulent gentleman with
a capacious stomach, rose at public dinner
to return thanks, which he did by laying bis
hands quite attractvely upon his stomach,
and saying {" We thank Thee for these bless-
ngs so beautifully spread, and our capacity
to enjoy them
The following is the last grand effort of
magniloquence. 1t is luminous render
ing of the vulgar and common place term
of 'clear out =
"Enubilate the atmosphere of your
presence by calling into action your quiz
escent motive power, and transferring the
material elements which compose your
terrestrial organization to some other part
Of this mundane sphere"
Gen. Mcclellan is out again, although
necessarily careful of his health. He is
somewhat thinner than he was before his
indisposition, but is in excellent spirits,
and his friends have the fullest confidence
| in his success,
The Tecumseh (Mich.) Herald says
that the wife of John W. Norris, of Man.
chester, was found dead in her bed on the
morning of the 9th inst. Her weight was
about four hundred pounds. During the
warm days of last summer she was obliged
to take up her abode in the cellar in order
to withstand the heat.
Lloyd Harrison, first Lieut. in Sherman's
battery, is So essionist.
| Wyatt, late gardener at the White House,
is a secessionist.