Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-02-13
VERMONT ITEMS.

6YPerley T.. Pitkin, Of M0ntpelie,
Quartermaster of the I'd Vernon, Reg
ment and one OF the very best Quar,e,.
masters in the Volunteer Service, has w,
ceived u recognition of his merit in III.
shape OF an appointment as Assistant
Quartermaster in the Regular Army, with
the rank OF Captain; and viii be probs.
bly, assigned the Quartermastership of The
Vermont Brigade.
His capable Assistant, Mr.. Stone is 10
succeed him in the Quartermastership Of
the End Regiment.
LTD. G. Linsley, OF Windsor, the ca
pable engineer of the VT. * Canada R
r. Tunnel, and VIM. b. Hatch, son, O
DR.. II. Hatch OF Burlington, and iormerE,
Commissary for the Vermont Regimeots
under Governor Fairbanks, are named a.
mong the corporators in bill which has
been introduced in Congress to charter a
company for street railroad through
Pennsylvania avenue in Washington.
A BEAUTIFUL METEoR.-About 81,
o'clock this Wednesday morning, me-
teor of unusual size and beauty was seen
to fall to the east OF this place. Its bril-
liancy seemed more like the sudden burs>
ing out of burning chimney, and gradu.
ally diminished as it approached the earth.
Its like is rarely seem WoIton's Jo,raal,
BRAVERY OF TIRE lRIsH.-The eart
has never shaken to the tread of a mot
splendid soldie. han tho Irish regimena
in the British service, since Nimrod iouk
ded the earliest empire of the earth tn To-.
present hour. In both hemispheres and
under every sky, Irishmen, alike distit
guished as combattants in the ranks and
as commanders at the head of armies, have
hewn their victorious way across thOG
sand battle fields, and in every sea they
have welded the thunder of our foatin,
bulwarks, and nobly sustained the hone
of our flag; and when our armies haw
sustained an occasional reverse it ha
been ascertained that on at least one men,
orable day the fortune of the field Wa
turned against us by the proves of exp
| triated Irishmen. -MaacheSte Revteso.
eyIt is said that the flag of truce, sent tb
other day by the rebels with some secret me,
sage, has not yet been answered. Althougs
something purporting to be the substance d
the communication the flag covered has. bee,
put forth, it is said that the true character d
the business has not yet been made public
~ The Government has ordered tb
chartering of all the large transports pre-
durable in New York, for South coas
expedition for which service it is sail
part of the army of the Potomac will h
detached.
MONEY DEFINED AT THE SoUTH.-Ths
Norfolk correspondent of the Richmona
Dispatch gives the following account of The
miscellaneous trash that goes for money id
| rebellion
ADO you call this money ?" Leaning oys
| the counter, puzzled volunteer was endes,
| oring TO reckon up the change Just paid oa
| by the sleek haired clerk. Before him Law 4
quantity of mutilated bills, ragged and drrI
pieces of paper, bits Of card board, printe!
checks, few copper pennies, milk ticken
postage stamps, and other interesting spec
| mems of the present outrageous coin OF th
| realm" Over and over again the puzzle
| volunteer essayed to count the pile of villsis
| GUS currency, and over and over again BIZ
.ailed to find 1t satisfactory. 1t was too mud
or his rustic arithmetic; the problem was to-
| difficult TO solve upon only ten fingers. Tn
| bysianders laughed. The money was sprea'
out upon showcase, as young ladies lsy.
| cards upon a table in telling fortunes, and ta
soldier stood before it searchingly examinin,
every piece, DO you call this money 2" h
asked, taking up small yellow psrallelogrsa
looking very like the brass card on the topd.
a sardne box. "Do you call this money 4
holding up an advertisement of fine Hayani
cigars-"And this"-a bill for Is cents, ia
which some weak-minded printer had CONT
raving mad in different kinds of type. "Goof
for one shave; (reading slowly Dick, ts
barber" "Do you call this money ?" tn
sleek haired clerk was puzzled also. al
| pass all over town it will, SIR" Once NOR
the soldier scrutinized the ragged and incos
gruous pile, and grasping it in one hand 81
liloquized: $50 this is money bah (! les
it stuff. Why, a. man might hold his hand
full, and then have but thirty-seven aDd /
half cents money /" .,-
--Rumors 60 to show, that Secretar
of War Stanton will speedily resume Il
fact, as he has commenced to do in fore
the conduct of the war which usage sn
departmental law give him the right Z
| do. Hs
--"Heroine' is perhaps as peculiar wrT
as any in our language. The first two 4
tiers of il are male, the first three are femai
the first four brave man, and the whof
brave woman.
| CoINoIDENcE.-T There was a greS
comet and also great vintage in lella
and Russian war took place in 1917
the ruin of Napoleon /. There wa
great comet in 1858. and the vintage ~
magnificent, and now we have the ltaDl
war;. which some confidently assert v
prove ruinous to Napolean III.