Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-20

49, "a man who'll mallcloualN SCI tfe W /
n barn. sand Mr.. SLOW, sand burn up 70 |
cows, ought to be kicked 10 death 10y a /
iackass, and I'd ike TO do it," Slow IS
very severe sometimes. ....-
There will soon be eight thousand
"unbleaohed Americans in the Depart
ment of the South, and it is intimated
that they are to garrison Charleston.
They had a "frst rate " mad dog in
Pouehkeepsie the other day-but he
didn't bite anybody, He went into sew
eral stores probably because he wanted
mus sim, and not finding what he wanted,
went out again, Clever dog that.
Two petrifed men have been found
near Castlemaine, in Australia. They
were in a sitting posture--veins, muscles,
finger nails, teeth, &c, all perfect, One
had stone AK by his side,
The neatest conundrum, not yet in
print, we believe, is as ollows " Why is
| the happest of the vowes 2" The an
swer is, :" Because is IN the midst OF
bliss is 10 he'll, and all the others are
in purgatory."
The Richmond Enquirer of the 4th
closes its leader in the following despond-
ing strain;
g We insist on telling the naked truth
and the naked truth is, that the Contede-
raey has no hope in the world save the
prowess of its own soldiers. If this be
fear and despair, make the most of IT."
Joe DAVIS is brother OF jeff. Joe
and JEFF had plantation in partnership
out near jackson, Miss, and said planta
ton was well stocked with negroes
These negroes are now nearly all of them
under the stars and stripes, some of them
as soldiers, and some as cooks and ser
wants for federal officers. joe is living
upon his plantation, and scarcely enough
of his niggers are faithful to him to carry
home his subsistence, which he is obliged
to draw from the commissariat Of the ar
my of the Union.
- A violent tornado visited Cleveland,
Ohio. Tuesday afternoon. The atmos-
phere all the morning had been sultry and
oppressive, and at halfpast two furious
storm set in from the northwest, sweeping
everything before it. 1t lasted only eight
minutes. but darkened the air and scat
tered wreck and disaster on all sides, un-
roofing houses, overturuing chmueys tear
ing up trees, etc The American house on
Superior street, the johnson house, the
Waring block, the Cleveland Wooden
Mil, the Pttsburg Railroad Depot, and
other buildings were among those which
lost their roofs. Fortunately the shipping
was but little injured,
- The glorious old days Of Weeks
burg-those days wien the bowie-kulle
and revolver were supreme-when dueIs
were Of daily.oocurrence,-when gamblers
shot down citizens, and citizens hung gam
blers to lamp-posts-when assaslnatlons
TOOK place daily, aud excited no adherence,
and were succeeded by no punishment
when every other house was a gambling
he'll. and every other gentleman you met
A gambler when the chyalry vapored,
and strutted, and hurled wordy defiance
at the Yankee those palmy, glorious
DAYS have passed away forever.
Mrs. Sawyer and her children recent
" went under flag OF truce to Richmond
10 see the husband and father condemned
| to be hang on account Of the shooting o
, q snv hy order of Gen. burnside. They
f were heartesslv refused admission to tn
+ prison. An infant of Mrs. Cunningham
. the wife of rebel prisoner at Camp MOI
# ton. fell from window at indianapolis an
a was killed. Gen. Wilcox immedlatei
r sent for the husband and father and pa
rolled him till the next day noon that h
= might comfort the bereaved mother an
+ attend the funeral of the child. The tw
y cases illustrate the difference between bar
n barism and civil izatlon
r Queen Victoria has written a mob
: letter. expressing her detestatlon Tor sue
performances as the exhibition OF tema
=. Blondns on tight 70 pes, and her horr
that one of her subje cts should have be-
e sacrificed by the demo alIzlng taste +
e performances sos disgusting, She cal
3 unon the Mayor of Birmingham; whe
Is Madame Generve was killed the 9TH
Q dav by the breaking Of a rope, to use b
a influence and authority to prevent Ill
V performances there in future. This door
d female Bolndinism in England. 1t W
- henceforth be as unfa shionable as it is /
0 human.
= The trials of the New York rioters tn
N far have resulted in sentences covering
: century of imprisonments, which will
70 increased tentold before the work is co
l. cluded. The Commercial says that in a.
~ dltion, hundreds of persons have fed Il
v city or Turk in closest hiding, haunted
" their horrible crimes aud dreadIng ARE
70 at every moment. Scores are MANNED i
: life, and hosts of poor families are left
is great desttu.ion, with the public symp
ID thy necessarily diverted from them, viii
they suffer marited retrbution for the
own participation in the fendish orgies
- this carnival of violence The prisons a
v waiting fer the convicted felons of the ri
week These are some of the results al
" lessons that the mob may lay to hea
Il and which will be likely to deter othe
Id from undertaking second outbreak.