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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

1 zINc.-A large proportion of the pub
lie may not be aware that the use of
zinc vessels for domestic purposes is ex-
tremely dangerous. Vinegar, cider,
wine, and in fact all acids which have
remained in zinc, become poisons more
or less violent; this is even the case
with milk, which contains a powerful
acid termed acid lactique. Various
cases of sickness and collie, and even
many deaths of young children, have
occurred, the cause of which has been
clearly traced to the use OF milk that
has been in contact with this metal. -
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

PERsoNAL.-In speaking of the recent
change in the superintendency of the
New York and Harlem Railroad, the
New York World pays the following
handsome compliment to E. A. Chaplin,
Esq, whose removal from this place is
so universally regretted
"The Harlem Company has been for
tunate in securing for Superintendent
and manager, gentleman thoroughly
familiar with railroad management,
Hon. E. A. Chaplin, of Vermont for many
years one of the leading railroad men in
the state Mr. Chaplin is, moreover,
known as an enterprising, public-spirit-
ed man. and we are glad to learn that he
is already in active charge of one of the
principal lines Of railway leading out
from this city" HE
A volume Of Poems by the late Miss
A. W. sprague, of Plymouth, is now in
press in Boston, and will be published
in few days by william White g. Co.,
1853 Washington street.
Rev. W.. W.. ATwATEH who has been
stationed over the Methodist Society in
Vergennes, commenced his labors there
last Sunday, preaching two interesting
and impressive discourses. s1at
DR.. VIM. B. LuND Of Burlington, who
graduated at the University of Michigan
this spring has been appointed Assis-
tant Surgeon of Volunteers and assigned
to duty in one of the hospitals at Alex
andria. 7sE 1Q3
Mr.. SAMUEL j. MERRIAM of Brandon,
was recently offered $500 for four eve
lambs, one year old this spring, by Mr..
John L. Elkhart of Ohio. ir
LIEUT. THOMAS HALL was MORALLY
wounded on the 9th, in Louisiana, and
died on the 10th Of April He was a
native of Bennington, though a resident
of Hoosick Falls, N. Z. when he entered
the army, and was thirty-two years old
at his death. He was nephew of Ex-
Gov. Hall .tat
ADRIAN TOWNSEND of Berlin, has lived
upon the same farm for over 60 years.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12


SERIOUS AocrpaHr.-Mr, z. L, Carr,
foreman in the Planning Min of Bowman
e. Mansfield, in this village, was severe
ly injured about Q O'Clock yesterday
morning. While in the act of reaching
over the planer his sleeve was caught
and his arm drawn down upon the
knives of the cylinder, Pieces of flesh,
weighing altogether some half pound,
were cut or torn from the arm between
the elbow and shoulder, The wound
was attended with profuse bleeding, the
main artery of the arm being severed.
Mr.. Carr was taken to the Drug Store of
Pond g. Morse, where he was attended
by Drs. Pond and Fox, and was thence
taken to his house, by Mr.. Mansfield.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

INFORMATION WANrED.--Mrs. Ednah
Rockwell, of Rutland, desires informa-
ton of the whereabouts of her son Will
liam Rockwell, aged fourteen years, who
has recently been at work in Ira, and
ran away with some other boys on Sun
day night last. The boy has dark hair
and eyes, and had on, when he went
away checked pants, coat and vest.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

SurcIDs.-A man named Shoals, pain
ter, at Brattleboro, committed suicide
on Sunday last, by hanging himself in
his barn. There seems to be little doubt
that he was insane, owing partly IL not
wholly, to the death Of his wife some
time since, and to poor health.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

FRESH BBKP-Monday mornings 9
O'Clock tram from Bennington to North
Bennington, struck cow standing upon
the track, Transforming her into fresh
beef in double quick time
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

Y The statement that "Gen. Halleck
had been assigned to the Cavalry Bu-
reau. !" turns out to be, incorrect. The
truth, is, the Cavalry Bureau has recent
y been directed to report to him, as
Chief of staff, as other branches of the
service do ~
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

PHoToaRAPHs.-Thos desiring good
photographs at moderate prices should
consult the advertisement of Mr.. James
o. Merrill, in our columns. He is again
in the rooms, now newly fitted up, in
Clark's Block, from which he was driven
by the fire last winter. Give him call.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

1 A Southern editor in attempting
to compliment Gen Pillow as a battle
SCARED veteran" was made by the types
to call him a Sbattle scared veteran. ;,
In the next issue the mistake was so far,
corrected as to style him ''bottle
SCARED veteran" nv ...,.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

Mrs Mrs Rebecca Sherwood, of Fort
1owaru, mas secured patent for an im-
p.oseinent an reducing straw and other
S s substances to a pulp In manufac-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

Nearly all the horses in and about
Richmond have been impressed for Gen..
Lees army, and the Enquirer says>the
citizens will have to draw theff own
hearses.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

Fiss.-A tire broke out at the depot
at Westminster on Tuesday, and totally
destroyed the building and . small
quantity of freight The origin of the
fire Is a mystery The loss on the build
ing is some $780, on which there was
an insurance Of about one half
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

HIGH PRIcEs-The climax is reached.
Messrs. Pond & Morse, of this village,
sold an OK few days since, at the rate
of eighty-sevsn a,sa a half cents per pound I'M
dressed. NJ
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

SRcvRxD.-In response to the request
of the Governor that each town in the
State furnish one man towards filling
up the Seventeenth regiment, our Select
men have secured q recruit for this
town. Let each town in the State do
likewise and the ranks of the Seventeenth
will be full.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12
THE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD THURSDAY, MAY H. 1864

THs CAnrAiaH.-The campaign long
awaited, but almost dreaded for the gi-
gantic scale of it's operations, the terri
BILE magnitude OF its expected conflicts
and the mighty influence of it's results
upon the issue of the war for the Un-
ion, has opened. The forward move
ment has commenced, and with breath
less suspense the nation is hourly ex-
pecting the clash of arms, With, the
great preparations made, the large ar
mics in the field, and the hitherto irwin
chile Grant at their head, steady conf
dence is felt in the result But defeats
are always possible in war, ana IN view
of such possibility, the following sugges-
lions, though they sound rather strange
ly coming from the source they do (the
New York World,) are sensible and wor-
thy of study and remembrance Ass
Deservedly great as is the confidence
of the country in General Grant, it would
be criminally incautious to inculcate
upon the public mind the idea that the
success Of our cause is staked upon the
result of this campaign. 1t is import
ant that the public feeling should be
trained to such mvincible determination
that the result of no battle can be tri-
umph for the peace party, General Grant
has by far too sound head TO stake ev-
erything upon single throw of the die
IT. by some untoward interposition of
fortune, he should be beaten, it will be
merely the loss of so many men, and a
retreat; not disorderly rout, much
less the destruction of his army. The
evil to be dreaded is that public feeling
would wilt under such a calamity, and
that party opposed to the further pros
ecution of the war would get the upper
hand As careful and forecasting pro
vision should be made against this as
against any other consequence of posi-
BILE defeat. A quailing of the public
heart under reverse, at this stage of
the war, would be more ominous than
anything else that could possibly take
place.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12


RIcHsoSD.-The New York Evening
Post thinks the removal of certain bu-
reaus of the Confederate Government to
the south from Richmond, which has
been spoken of in the rebel papers, has
been going on for several months, and
has been contemplated ever since the
battle at Chattanooga decided the result
Of the Western campaign. The mere re-
moval of the official records and ac-
counts, however does not mean that
Richmond is to be abandoned by the
rebel troops, so long as they can hold it,
The Post says alr. I
at means, perhaps, that they will pre-
fer to give up the city, rather than stand
Il siege within its defences; it means,
too, in all probability, that in his Sum
mer campaign, Lee does not intend to
be embarrassed with the care of a CAPT
tai, as he was last year and that he in
tends to move, without reference to the
safety of Richmond. We believe that
Gems Grant and Meade will in the same
way carry out their plans, without ref
erence to the safety of Washington,
fear for which has on several occasions
interfered mischievouslv with the move
ments and successes of the army. Grant
does not, of course, mean to let the ene-
my get him into corner, and then call
on the President, as Mcclellan did, to
help him out of the scrape, by sending
all the troops away from the capital to
field farther from it than was the enc
my's more powerful army" g.
According to the Richmond papers the
clerks removed south were females, and
the Petersburg Express thus refers to
them
= some hundred and thirty ladies, EN-
ployed as note-signing clerks in the
Treasury Department at Richmond, pass
ed through this city yesterday, en- route
for Columbia, s. c., where they are here
after to conduct their peculiar bra nch of
business. 1t has, been ascertained that
living is cheaper in Columbia chow much
we do not know than it is in Richmond,
and the policy of the government, which
is an economical one, is to remove their
field of operations thither" N2oI y"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

The DRAFT IN THB FIRST CoSGREssToN-
AL DIsrRIcr--Only half dozen or so re-
cruits are wanted to all up all the def
ciencies last reported in this Congress
ional District AS the deficient towns
are rapidly recruiting the needed men,
this small number, still lacking, will
without doubt be speedily made up, and
no draft is expected, therefore, in this
District.
On the LIST of May there was an aggre-
gate excess in the District of no less
than seven hundred and three men,
over all calls up to the present time
This number will be slightly increased
by those subsequently reported, and still
to be furnished as above. We challenge
any Congressional District in New Eng
land to show larger surplus. aaa
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-05-12

How THE SOLDIERS SLEEP. You would
wonder, think, to see whole army
corps, as Ihaye, without shred of a
tent to bless themselves with, lying any
where and everywhere in an all-night
rain and not q growl nor grumble.
was curious too whether the pluck and
good nature were washed out Of them,
and so I made my way out of the snug,
dry quarters / am ashamed to say | oc-
cupied, at FIVE in the morning, to see
what water had done with them. Moth
ing! Each soaked blanket Matched out
as jolly a fellow as you would wish to
see-muddy, dripping, half foundered
forth they came, wringing themselves
out as they went with the look of a
troop of "wet down" ROSTERS in full
rain storm, plumage at half-mast, but
hearts trumps every time. If they
swore-and some did--it was with q
laugh; sleepy fires were stirred up
then came the-coffee, and they were as
good as new.-B. r. Taylor.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
J. B. GIBSON, Secretary.
Continental Money.

The first issue was made in IT'S. The
depreciation began in three years afterwards,
and went on as follows:
March, 1878, S in coin was worth S1,75
in paper.
September. 1878, 81 in coin was worth
81 in paper.
March, 1870 81 in coin was worth SIC
in paper.
September, 177s, 81 in coin was worth
SO in paper.
March, 1880. 81 in coin was worth 500
in paper.
December, 1880, 81 in coin was worth
500 in paper.
May, 1881, 81 in coin worth $500 in pa
per.
Not long after these days, the holder Of
government money paid twenty thousand
dollars for ham, aud ten thousand dollars
for half pound of Tea. B Nobody could COM
plain that the debt was not fairly contracted :.
But failure and reputation were none the
less inevitable N. Y. Mercantile Journal.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
rThe "loyalists" of The North and

@The "loy alists" of the North and
East have a new agony" in the person oil
George Thompson, an English abolitionist
and disuDiouist. A correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Gazette thus notices the "Graud
Entree" upon the stage of the Philadelphia
Academy of Music: !!
dSome minutes before 8 o'clock martial
music proceeded from behind the stage
Soon thereafter the officers Of coLoTed reei-
n1ents marched in with drums beating and
flag flying. Az outburst CT applause greeted
them. 1t is not long since it would have
been dangerous for colored troops, or the
officers OF colored troops, or any one who
should favor this arm of the service, any
where. or in any way, to make display OF
themselves in Philadelphia. Now they are
enthusiastically received, as they march on
the stage of the Academy OF Music oy
vast audience. This is another favorable
sign. 1 begin to think Philadelphia is her
self sgaiD-that the spirit of rs is revived,
and that Independence Hall is, after all,
about in the right place."
After Mr.. Thompson told the audience of
his former experience, present hopes and
other things. be, in the language of the cor
respondent, "m ade another points"
when this rebellion commenced" he
remarked. "you were fighting for political
Union. This was its first stage; bat now
you are contending for universal enlarcjpG-
tiotl."
The effect of this telling point, is thus
described:
"The audience was now fairly unclaimed.
They clapped and shonted; hats and hand
kerchiefs waved and boisterous applause,
indicating unbounded enthusiasm, drown ed
the voice of the speaker for some minutes.
Verify, Mr.. Thompson must have con-
Guided, there is change, and America is
herself again."
The abolitionist's welcome in Washing
ton City was marked and distinguished
He lectured in the Hall of the House Of Re-
personalities, was escorted by the Vice
President, and honored % by the presence
of Lincoln. members OF the Cabinet, Sena-
tors and Representatives,.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
steel-clad Blockade Runners.

We have a report from England that four
new paddle steamers, built of steel and oil
great speed, are about ready to leave Liv-
erpool to engage in running the blockade
They are named the Badger, Let Her B
Fox, and Let Her Rip and were built tor
the service. Another report says that these
vessels were to have trial Of speed in a
race 10 the Isle of man on the 18th of March.
The London Post says:
Five hundred thousand bales of cotton
are stated to be now in the hands of the
Confed crate Government, while two hun
dred thousand would suffice to pay off the
whole loan. A large amount of bonds hav e
already been delivered and cotton received
in exchange, according to agreement. There
is, appa rently increased facility for running
the blockade, and the difference between the
delivery-price of cotton in the Southern
ports and that obtained for it in Liverpool
NAV stimulate the purchase of bonds; in
deed, the principal buying for the last week
has been on Liverpool account. There are
also, as we have before stated, other nego-
tiations in progress, to which we shall prob
ably before long have again toirefer.'
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14

No IRISH NEED APPLY The State OF
Main is no place for Irishmen. The Re-
publican Legislature of the State by re-
cent law have sigrifed their dislike Of the
Irish emigrants, in a very marked measure.
An act was passed, incorporating an Emil
grants Aid Society," to which was given a
bounty from the State Tresury. Of twenty
i've dollars for every emigrant between fif-
teen and fifty who should be brought into
the State. As originally composed, the law
including all emigrants, bull it was SUISSE
quently amended so as to, Exclude the Irish &.
We suppose the reason must have been be-
cause the Irish are reason converted into
good Democrats. while the Germans are
sometimes deiuded into supporting radical
Repu blicans. But we state the facts, so
so that Irishmen may give the State of
Maine d wide berth,
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
FrightfuI Explosion,

The explosion CT the boiler 10 Merr;ck &
Sons Foundry in Philadelphia, by which six
men were killed and forty wounded, has
been noticed in our dispatches. 1t was
frightful evidence Of the power of steam.
In one instance dwelling on Fifth street,
opposite the foundry, came near being lew
eled by piece Of iron girder. This bit of
metal was thrown out of the engine room,
some FIVE hundred feet, to the house in
question; and carrying away a section of the
iron area fence entered fifteen inch brick
wall. through which 1t passed, as we'll as
through the parlor back wall, and sinto the
yard beyond, where it lodged.
The boiler which exploded was rent to
ribbons. portions of it having been thrown
toward all points of the compass, some fifty
feet in a southeasterly direction from the
original location.
A second boiler adjacent to the one which
exploded. and of equal size, was lifted bod
lily from its position, as though it we're only
feathers weight. 10 the quadrangle in
which the boiler shop was located, the
ground was covered with iron, bricks and
debris of all kinds. The slate roof of the
immense blacksmith shop was perforated
with thousand holes, and in some places
great plates Of iron were rolled together like
scroll. The smoke stack was blown bodily
on the roof,of one of the machine shops, its
weight partially crushed the roof in In
the machine shops, anvils, hamm ers, axles,
wheels, bricks, &c, were 4trewn about. In
one case was a piece of massive IRON grder,
which had killed man in its course, after
the girder had been broken to fragments by
the force of the explosion.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
What Broke Up the Old Union.

History is certain 10 record, for VIII ON So
ever will take the little pains to consult
documents, laws, and facts, that the New
England Puritan preachers, abolition lee
turers and essayists, together with the vile
school under the lead of Weed and Seward,
who hunted pelf and power without the
slightest regard to principle or to consist
ency, have been the wicked agents IN break
ing up the old Union.
That first gum was not fired by the Con-
federates at Sumter. We defy an abolition
ist even, if he be not also an ass, to read
Redpath's Life of Capt. John BrowD,' end
then say that the civil war was not begun
in Kansas. Read, in that volume, the in
vasion of Missouri by tho fanatic Brown
and his spirators-armed with Henry
Ward Beecher's Sharp's rifles. Read how
the laws of the land were trampled in the
dust-blood shed, murder committed, pro-
| perry stolen, by these infamous miscreants
ard then say, D Abolitionist, if you be not
an ass, that the first gum was fired at Sum-
ter! Read on, in Redpath's Life Of Captain
John Brown to where that crazy fanatic
threw away his life, and that of handful Of
| followers, in fisndish assault on the ham
let of Harper's Ferry, mostly occupied by
strangers from the North and from Enrope.
in the civil employment of thu United
|
the heart of a community that bad never,
in the lives Of the generation, heard a hos
tile gun, be began to STAY men-American
citizens; aud when captured. and ask ed 10hy.
responded to free the slaves@ that the Con
stitution Of the United States secured against
all such endeavors.
And the bells of the New England coz
venticles were ruDg in his honor, and tn G
Puritan pulpits resounded with landation:
to him, as one that had done his DUTI?--
And these same Puritan pulpits have talked
since about the first gum having been fired
at Sumter!
Such is the history. Such are the facts
Such have been the guilty cause of the dis
ruption of the bargain of the United States
"A bargain broken on one side, is broken on
all Sides When the Puritans maddened
Northern minds into killing American citi-
zeus in Missouri and in Virginia, to free the
slaves and when the Communities and the
J States of the North, applauded the crazy
m urderers, as having done their duty and
when they elected Abraham Lincoln in
November, 1860, to carry out what John
Brown tried in October, 1859, the Southern
States had full warning given them of the
purpose and bent of their treach erous
| lederates at the North. The first gun was
not fred at Sumter!-New York Freeman's
Journal.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
DIR. JOHN BULLS
COMPOUND GEDRON BITTERS;
The Latest and Most Important Discovery
of the Nineteehth Century.
MO MANS NAME Is MORE INTIMATELY

MO MANS NAME Is MORE INTIMATELY
IN connected with the history of the Materia
Medica of the United States, or more favorably
known as pioneer in medical discovery, than
that of JOHN BULL, OF Louisville, KY. Hisin-
imitable preparation of Sarsaparilla has long
stood at the head of the various compounds of
that valuable drug. His compound PcctoraI of
Wild Cherry has become household word
throughout the West and South; and his Worm
Lozenges, in less than a year after their intro
ducton, attained reputation as widespread as
the continent of North America. But the crown
ing glory of his life remains to be attained in his
latest discovery, or rather combination, for he
does not claim to have been the discoverer of
CEDRON, which is the basis of the Btters now
offered to the public. That honor belongs to the
native inhabitants of Central america to whom
its virtues have been known for m> re than two
hundred years. Armed with it, the Indian bids
defiance to the most deadly NAL aria, and handles
without fear the most venomous seSpents. 1t is
belief with them that while there is breath left
IN the body tho Cedron is potent to cure, no mat
tet " hat the disease may be.
While DR.. Bull is not prepared to iudorse this
extravagant pretension, he is nevertheless salts
ned from thorough examination of the evidence
relating to its virtues, that, as a remedy md
preventive for all diseases arisin,- from exposure
either to changes of weather and climate or to
the miasmatic influences, it stande without n
rival. and justly deserves the reputation it has
so long enjoyed in Central America and the West
In
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-04-14
Commercial.
NASHVILLE MARKET.

THURSDAY. April IA, 1868.
Sucar-New Orleans, 10 to 21c.
MoLAssEs.-New Orleans, Bbls 95 cents; Half
Bbls. 81.
COFFEE 45c. and advancing.
wuEAT-Red 81 80; White 81 40.
FLoUR.-Selling at from So 1907 To-,
Whsky.-MarEet firm Ross 81 Newelrs pre-
MUM sellingI at 81 90.
Crush Sugar, csc.
Gran f" 25c.
Loaf 25c.
BAooN.-Sides lSc; Hams lac; Shoulders l2c.
LARD.-10 to 12c, per b.
HEMP.-$l40 per ton.
ToBAoco.-Selling ut 7@16c TBS.
MAoKEREL.-Barrels $l4; Half bbls. $500
Quarters, No. l, 5000.
SALT.-50c. u bushel.
iRoS.-Bar Iron 4; Nail Iron S; Horse shoe
4@6c.
NAILs.-$6 25 for 10d.
RICE.-1lc. u ID.
FEATuERs.-54 cents lbs.
FLAX SEED.-S2 25@2 80 per bushel.
HEMP SEED.-SS.50 per bushel.