Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-16
Miscellaneous Items.

A seal weighing rs poudds was late.
~ shot in the HudScd river He had
wandered some distance from his native
Arctic regions.
me Argus tells US that Gov. Sey-
mour seeks " the repose OF private life"
He can have what he seeks then.
The Saratoga hotels opened June
1st, according to promise, and quite
number of early guests are already drop
ping in.
The total receipts of the st. Louis
Sanitary Fair were over half million
dollars, and Gen. Hancock received the
army sword which was voted for.
The World having exhausted its
puhery of Fremont, now takes to prais-
ing John Cochrane. Only last Fail it
abused him with all the power of its
violent rhetoric.
A dry goods house in New York sold
twelve thousand dollars worth of dry
goods to one lady, last week. She was
probably getting ready to join the anti
foreign goods league.
1t is said of the female volunteers
occasionally found in our army, that
they pant for adventure and pant for
glory, and having pair of pants they
put them on.
The loyal economical ladies of
Washington are agitating the subject Of
change in their badge, having it in
mind to select one not made up wholly
from imported materials.
Il shall not" says the President,
return to slavery any person who is
free by the terms of the proclamation,
or by any act of Congress" And yet
this man, according to Wendell Phillips
and his Cleveland friends, is false to
freedom.
The most violent thunder storm and
tornado ever known in Minnesota occur
red at st. Paul on Sunday the 28th ult,
Trees were uprooted and a great num-
Der of buildings destroyed The rain
which fell, however, was very accept
able, as Minnesota has long been suffer
ing from very severe drought.
David Thurston, for some time past
American Vice Consul at Toronto, Cam
ada West, has been ordered to take the
post Of Consul General made vacant by
the death of Joshua r. Giddings.
The New York Tribune asserts that
| in the Missouri campaign, and that OF
| the Shenandoah Valley, Gen. Fremont
showed high soldierly qualities. But it
was anything but sodierly to resign In
| milf because the exigencies of the ser
VIM him, m Ia q a SnhnrHipat re
command.
The beef spectators at New York,
who have reaped such golden haryests
for the past few weeks, came to grief
this week. People refused to buy cattle
at the exhorbitant rates at which they
were held, and large number of beeyes
We're left uDsold, occasioning a loss o.
several thousand dollars to their avar-
icious owners.
One of the horse cases on trial be-
fore court martial at Washington, was
concluded Wednesday by the conviction
and sentence of Samuel S. Smoat, con-
tractor, to pay fine of $4,000, and to
be imprisoned until the payment is made.
The cases of John Spicer of Illinois and
1t was JEFF Davis, then our secreta-
ry of war, who compelled Crawford, the
artist to substitute helmet for the lib
erty cap he proposed to place on the stat
ue of Freedom he modelled for the dome
of the capitol. JEFF objected to the cap
because it was the badge Of emancipa-
ton with the Greeks.
The Richmond Enquirer gives list
of II 100 rebel wounded who have been
sent to hospitals from Lees army, and
5000 from Beauregard's command. This
probably covers about half the total
losses. Add then II, 900 taken prisoners
by Grant and Butler, and four or five
thousand killed outright, and we can
approximate to the rebel losses thus far
during this memorable campaign.
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, has issued
his proclamation ordering peremptorily
all the civil officers of the State to report
immediately for duty in the army. II
they disobey they are notified that it VIII
be ''at their peril" He says I: LAS
many of them as are protected from con-
scription by their official positions,
should not hesitate moment, in great
emergency like the present, to fly TO
arms to repel the enemy" The rebellion
is sweeping up its last fragments o.
strength. 1t is nearly done for, thanks
to God and our brave armies.