Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-06-25
Miseellameeas Itcsns,


Richmond papers state that Gen. Hum
phrey Marshal, Of Kentucky, takes charge
Of the late General Tilghman's brigade
near Vicksburg,
An old lady in New Hampshire has
san apron which has cost already over
$780," Ii is part of the wedding-dress
of her mother. 1t is made Of silk, costing
So per yard more than hundred years
ago. Adding compound interest, the cost
is as stated above.
A REBEL CONVERSATIONAL correspond
ent Of the Richmond Inquirer, Of the 18th,
bowls tremendously over Yankee raids
into the Peninsular counties. He says
This is the seventh county in the last four
weeks that they have pillaged, and if this
thing continues the people will be left to
starve. These counties have furnished
large supplies to the government, I'D will
the government now leave us dependent
and defenceless +?
PEACE OR DIsUNIoN.-The Louisville
Journal denounces in strong language the
doctrines of the Fernando Wood Peace
Convention, and says, "when Mr.. Wood
and his fellow actors call for peace they
mean disunion, and when they advocate
disunion they are advocating treason
There can be no escape from this charge.
Can iniamy, madness or treachery find a
lower depth to the deep and damning deg
radiation of such an advocaov %
Il A letter to the Cincinnati Ga
zette says, "a few days since, Pemberton
showed 500 negroes through his lines.
Grant selected the stoutest and best from
among the number to be used to advan-.
tage, either with muskets or spades in
their hands, and sent the remainder back
for the'rebels to feed, with polite request
to the rebel general that he should not try
that game any more"
SURRENDER OF A REBEL STEAMER
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune reports
that about June 7, the steamer Lady Wal
ton, in charge Of her Captain and six men,
came out Of the Arkansas river and sur
rendered to our gunboat Tyler. They re-
port no fertilization except near Pine Bluff.
Provisions plenty, and Prices army NOV
ing southwsrds.
ILLNESS OF ADMIRAL FooTE. - Rear
Admiral Foote, who reached New York a
few days since, is now lying dangerously
i'll at the Astor House. His physicians
and friends however, entertain hopes of his
recovery.
I Gen. Blunt has forbidden the
circulation of the Caucasian, Chicago
Times, Columbus Crisis, Cincinnati En-
quirer, and New York World in his de-
partment
Mr.. Hugh w. Green, lately of North
field and of the executive council, as we'll
as of the Massachusetts, Ploughman, has
bought the Troy N. " Wing newspa-
per, and will assume its management the
LIST Of July. The Wing was formerly the
leading journal of Troy, and the organ of
the Wing party; but latteriy it has been
tending to the wreng side of the public
questions, and has lost power and circula-
ton. Mr.. Green, who is an old journalist,
and an able and shrewd politician, means
to give 1T new life and character.
The EXCITEMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA
When Gov. Curtin issued his call for
troops for the defense of Pennsylvania, the
proprietors of the Philadelphia DSu1, a
daily paper, Immediately suspended publ
cation and organized company. Every
man in the Office volunteered - editors,
printers, and all.
| The intrenchments thrown up at Harris
burg already cover space of some two OF
three milos, and will eventually command
every available approach to the city.
e The Louisville Journal says Il
any body up north is dissatisfied with fed.
eral money, let him go South and get con
federate money. If anybody is dissatis
fed with the United States taxes, let him
90 South and pay Southern taxes. II
any body is dissatisfied with the United
States CONSUMPTION, let him 60 South and
enjoy the benefits of Southern conscrip.
tion.
| MARYLAND UNION MEN.-The Union
State Convention that recently met il
Baltimore resolved that the uncondtion.
al Union men of Maryland ought to vett
for no candidate for Congress who doe,
not avow himself in favor of giving 8
hearty support to the whole policy of the
Administration, and pledge himself to en-.
ter and abide by the Administration eau.
Gus for Speaker of the House of Repre-.
sontatives." and that " the policy of eman
cipation ought to be inaugurated in Mary
land"
i Rev. L. Starr King thus addresses
the California farmers s'Subdue the lus,
for immense ranches. If you have ffty
acres and burn for fifty more, annex thu
fifty that lie beneath the fifty you now own
and gain your title by subsoil plow.--
Own deep thus by agriculture, not wide
by scratchiculture."
g. A. T. Stewart the merchant
prince of New York, dispatched the ship
Mary Edison with a cargo of pro-
visions for the poor of Ireland, at an ex-
pense of $4,000, and one hundred and
fifty to two hundred emigrants are to be
brought back free of cost.
| e. A lady well advanced in maid
enhood at her marriage requested the
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