Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-09-04

lisa, No. 496, 9th Street, or 10 W. L.
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ington, d. c.
The ORpHEus G. KERR PAPERs.-
The series of humorous and satirical pa
pers written for the New York Sunday !
Mercury by Mr.. Newell, over the eupho-
NOUS name of "Orpheus G. Kerr, has
been collected and published in book
From one of these papers we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
TAKE OFF.
"Read that ere Napoleonic
dockyment," says William, handing me
scroll. 1t was as follows;
"EpIcK.--Having noticed that the press
of the United States of America is making
a ass of itself, by giving information to
the enemy concerning the best methods
of carrying on the strategy OF war, | do
hereby assume control of all special cor
respondents, forbidding them to transact
ANYTHING but private business, neither
thew nor their wives, nor their children,
TO the third and fourth generation.
81. 1t is ordered that all advice from
editors to the War Department, to the
General Commanding, or to the generals
commanding the armies in the field, be
absolutely forbidden; as such advice Is
calculated 10 make the United States OF
America an idiot.
t -. Any newspaper publishing any
| news whatever, however obtained, shall
: he excluded from all railroads and steam
! boats. in order that country journals
, which receive the same news during the
| following year. may not be injured in cir
t kylation.
"111.-This control of special cores
pondents does not include the correspond
ent of the London Times, who wouldn't
be believed if he published all the news
:. of the next Christian era. BY order OF
WILLIAM Brown, Eskevire,
= Captain Comic Section Brigade "
e WARRIORS SPEECH.
# On reaching Accomac, my boy, we
e found Captain William Brown at the head
n of the Mackerel Brigade, dressed princi-
= pally in large sword and brass buttons,
VI taking the altitude of the sun with glass
4 instrument operated by means OF bottle
y "Ahv says William, You are just in
a, time to hear my speech to the sons OF
at Mars, previous to the capture OF Manas'
sas by the United States of America
Hereupon William mounted DEM
John laid lengthwise, and says he;
Fellow-Ancondas Having been in
formed by a gentleman who has spent tive
weeks at Manassas, that the Southern
r. Confederacy has gone south for its health
he [ have concluded that it is time to be OF
=, fensive. The great Anaconda, having
vs. eluded Barnum, is about to move the en-
vi emy's rear: .
of . Bear aloft your peaks, ye mountings,
-. Bear aloft your waves, q sea
ll' Bear YOUR sparkling crests, we tountlng
,ut For NV loves come back to me"
ed The day OF inaction is past, and no'
-, the United States of America is about
" swoop down like an exasperated eagl' O
ed the chickens left by the hawk. Are yc
ol- ready, my sagacious reptiles, to spill
nal drop or so for your soaking country Al
: you ready to rose up as one man
10 1.-The rose is red,
the The wil'lets blue,
Sugar is sweet, and
VIC And bully for you"
h a Ages to come will look down on II
err day and say They died young, L
,oa present will reply; | don't see 1t, b
ecu the present is just the last thing for us
lelr think about. Richmond is before US, al
zeal there let it remain. We shall take it
1at- few years:
alt may be for years and may be forev
Then why art thou silent, . pride OF
:, or heart
roo which is poickry. hereby divide Il
:, here splendid army into one corpse dd
'hu' NEE, and take command myself.
At the conclusion of this thrilling OF
:. ton, my boy, the corpse dammee form
h, itself into hollow square, in the CEN
liz of which appeared mail-clad ambulan'
THE COLONIZATION SCHEME EXP
ms DED.-The Washington correspondent
the New York Times under date of Al
aese %, says;
tead The Chiriqui Negro Colonization sche
loft received its quietus to. day. At the ca
= net meeting the matter came up, and
oe long and carefully considered.
YES. consequence of the representatic
&c 4Lo Costo Rioan Minister as w