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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

FOREIGN IrEMs.-The French Corps
Leigslatif, though consisting of the most
devoted partisans of the Emperor,
are Enthusiastically in favor of putting
an end to the French Expedition in
Mexico The Committee upon the
Supplementary Credits, requested by
the Government, advises this course
unanimously.
King Christian of Denmark has issued
a proclamation to the Danish army. in
which he assures them that the honor
Of the country shall be upheld if needful
by force of arms, and declares that no
life can be too precious to be sacrificed
for the salvation of the Fatherland
Acknowledging the superior numbers of
their opponents, the King reminds his
troops that courage and discipline go
farther to secure the victory than mere
numerical superiority
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

How PRICES ARE RArsED.-Congress
proposes duty on cotton of two cents
a pound, whereupon all the small deal
ers in spool cotton propose to advance
the price one cent upon each SPOOL Now
as pound of raw cotton will make
over one hundred spools of sewing cot
ton, it is not easy to appreciate the JUS
tice of this large advance in the price Of
very necessary and important article
in daily use. But, while it is not easy
to appreciate this fact, it is but charac-
teristic of the advance in prices upon
two-thirds of the articles in daily use.
Just hint at a tax of any kind, and
forthwith the price is put up ten, twen-
ty, thirty, fifty and hundred per cent.
The rule is to put up the price once when
the tax is proposed, and once more when
it is passed. And if the duty fails, the
price is kept up.-Worla
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

A TOUCHING INCIpENr.---An officer, just
returned from the West, relates a touch
ing incident of the loyalty and tenden-
cy of many of the inhabitants of that
nominally secesh land After the battle
at Bean Station, the rebels were guilty
of all manner of indignity toward the
slain. They stripped their bodies, and
shot persons who came near the battle
field to show any attention to the dead.
The body of a little drummer boy was
left naked and exposed Near by, in a
humble house, there were two little girls,
the eldest but sixteen, who resolved to
give the bodya decent burial. They
took the night for their task. With ham
mer and nails in hand, and boards on
their shoulders, they sought the place
where the body of the dead drummer
boy lay From their own scanty ward
robe, they clothed the body for the grave
With their own hands they made rude
coffin, into which they reverently put the
dead boy. They dug the grave and low
cred the body into it and covered it over.
The noise of the hammering brought
some of the rebels to the spot. The sight
was too much for them. Not word
was Spoheui uo oic iheSiieicu, anu WHICH
the sacred rites of burial were performed,
all separated, and the little drummer boy
sleeps undisturbed in his grave on the
battlefield. Such tenderness and hero
ism deserves to run along the line Of
coming generations with the story of
the woman who broke the alabaster box
on the feet of the Savior, and with her
who of her penury cast her two mites
into the treasury.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28
Mr.. M0RRILL.-The Boston .jolrnall

Mr., MoRRILL.-The Boston Journals
Washington correspondent thus speaks
of the Hon. Justin s. Morrill,:
Foreign gentlemen visiting the House
of Representatives always inquire for the
author Of the Morrill, Tariff, which
they have been falsely taught by seces-
sionists is one of the causes OF the re-
bellion. Nor is there in the Capitol .
better specimen of practical, intelli-
gent, industrious, and above all, honest
legislator, than is personified in the
senior Representative from the Green
Mountain State. lie was born up
among those pleasant hills in 1910, re-
ceiyed an academic education, and kept
a store until the year 1S4S, when he re-
tired from mercantile pursuits to culti-
yate the soil. In 1857 he took his seat
in Congress, and although he makes no
oratorical displays, he enjoys deser-
vedly high reputation as working
member Of the committee on ways and
means. Mr.. Morrill, is yet in the full
yigor of health, rather tall, with what
are called stern Roman features, a clear
blue eve, brown hair and side whiskcrs,
and a very common sense look. Those
who find him unwilling to favor their
individual interests in the adjustment
of tariffs or taxes don't like him, but
those who can appreciate his services in
advancing the industry and in strength
ening the finances of Ae ooant'y, look
upon him as the right man in the right
place"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

tg jacksonville, upon the st. Johns
river, Fla, about forty miles inland from
St. Augustine, was re-occupied by Union
troops on the 9th A letter from there
says :-"Union refugees continue to
crowd into St. Augustine. They are
chiefly of the farming class. Their re-
ports all agree as to the stringency OF
the new rebel conscription. All white
males between the ages of Is and So are
collected and driven to the nearest mill
tary depot, at Pilatka. These harsh
measures are creating great dissatisfac-
tion among the native population of
Florida. The people living nearest to
st. Augustine are very anxious to secure
Federal protection"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

IL A staff officer who left knoxville
on the 14th brought informs On to Gin
cinnati that Longstreet had been re-
inforced with twenty thousand men and
was advancing on Knoxville, pushing
Granger's force before him. 1t was
thought that our army would be COM
PEELED to fall back to the entrance at
Knoxville.
1t was reported that John Morgan, at
the head of twenty thousand cavalry,
was about to make a movement to cut
off communications between Knoxville
and Chattanooga, or for raid in Ken
lucky.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28
THE "NAYGURS."
Br MILES o'RRILLY OF THE n. Y. 47rH.


Tame Lo,o- Backed Car
Some tell us tits burning shame
To make the naygurs fight;
An tha the thra 9 Of benz kilt
Belongs but TO the white;
But as for me, upon my sowl
III let sambo be murdered in place OF myself
On every day in the year
On every day IN he year, boys,
And every hour in the day,
The right to be kilt III divide wild him,
An diyil word Il say.
Ia battles wild oommotion
shouldn at all object
If sambo's body should stop ball
That vas comm for me direct;
And the prod Of a Southern bagnet.
So liberal are we here,
I'll rrsiSR and let sambo take il
On every day in the year
On evers day in the year, bows
An wild none OF your nasty pride,
All my right in Southern bagnet prod
Wild Sambo I'll divide.
The men who object 10 sambn,
Should take his place and fight;
Aud it's better to have a naygur's hue
Than liver that's wake an white:
Though "a nbo's lack as the ace Of spades,
Ills finger thriggcr can rull,
And his eve runs straight on the barrel sights
From unier his tha CD of wool
SO hear me all boys, darlngs,
Don't think I'm tipp n You chaff
The ght to be killed III divide wild him,
And give him the largest half
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28
FROM CHArrAsoocA.-Trains are now

FROM CHATTANooGA.-Trai are now
running regularly between Chattanooga
and Nashville The arrival of supplies
is large, and full rations are again is
sued to the troops A large number of
recruits are constantly arriving, sutfi-
cient to balance the number of veterans
going home. The desertions from the
rebel army are very numerous, $50 de-
serting at one time on Monday laet.
The rebel army at Dalton is reported to
be 10000 strong, aud so reduced in sup
plies that they are killing their best
mules for supplies of meat.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

How ABRAHAM FLANKED THE VALLAND-
IGHAMITEs-Gov. Bebb represents the
enthusiasm and unanimity Of the West
in favor of Mr. Lincoln's reelection as
without parallel. The enthusiasm for
Gen. Harrison did not equal it. He at
tributes the rousing defeat of Vallandig-
ham and the squelching of copperhead-
ism in all the West to Mr. Lincoln's
shrewd reception of the committee who
called on him to obtain reversal of the
decree of banishment. They called to
make political capital out of the visit
with no expectation that the President
would yield to their request Had the
President been imperious-denounced
them as traitors and threatened them
with arrest-they would have got the
capital they sought But when he did
not ask them to vouch for Vallandig-
hams loyalty or conduct, but simply for
their own-asking them TO admit in
writing that war eXisted-that it was
just war on the part of the government
that they would present no obstacle
to its prosecution to the raising of men
or the appropriation of funds to put
down the rebellion--he would grant
their request-they retired astonished.
The conditions of return for the exile
were submitted to Wood and other
friends of the exied patriot, who deci-
ded that to accept the conditions would
be to hoist the peace party into the air
by its own petard, and could not be &C
cepted. But the terms of release few on
the wings of the wind through all the
land-the refusal of the men to accept
the terms contrasted with their professed
loyalty, was written as If with pencil
of fire--the cry of persecution was hush
ed--the fire of the enemy drawn-the
sentence of banishment approved-and
the whole West made ready to support
the adroit President for another term
Bsvleigh IN tie Boston Journal.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28
SHARP PRAoTIoE.--The New York
Times relates the following -

AihiSS iciutSS tut ioiiOWiuS
The captain of certain sloop, run
ming between that city and Rockaway,
recently perpetrated some very sharp
practice on parties who attempted to
convert him into blockade runner
When in New York, on several occasions
the captain had made public boasts of
the speed of his craft, OF his familiarity
with every inch of the eastern shore of
Virginia, and of his ability to sail in
with his eyes shut Some men doing
business ON South street, and who, it is
suspected, have made successful ventures
to the South, hearing of all this, APP
preached him with inducements to load
his sloop and run the blockade. Three
times was he approached, twice refusing,
and finally, on being promised share in
the profits and indemnity for the sloop
should she be taken, he assented. The
cargo was genuine, boots, shoes, etc.
The sloop was loaded and apparently at
tracted no attention from the authori-
ties 1t was arranged that she should
set out on dark night The night
came, the captain had been previously
dined and wined and wished bon poyage.
Off he slid, and all was well, the con-
signors jubilant and in expectancy of
heavy profits. But the captain sailed
straight for Rockaway, where he dis
charged his cargo and contlscated it to
himself The next day the shippers
were made cognizant OF the fact and,
Notwithstanding their Indignation, were,
and are, of course, powerless. To pros
ecute they dare not; that to them would
be ruin. So they have merely to reflect
upon the great wrong they were attempt
ing to commit, and if reflection makes
them better and wiser men the 81, 900 the
captain has made and the tens of thous-
ands they have lost, are well made and
well lost. The names of the parties are
not made public. .s. .........
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

DRAFT IN GEN. BUTLER's DEPARTMENT.
A Washington letter says: "The enroll
ment of all the able-bodied persons be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty five
in the department of Gen. Butler, is said
to have been concluded, and draft will
be made therefrom for the purpose Of
carrying out the plans which that Gene
raj has on foot. There was no distinc-
tion of color observed in the enrolment" 7"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

The CAVALRY RRoIMgsr.-A note
from the Burlington Times correspond
ent in the cavalry says the regiment
has been very busy Of late, building
quarters for the men and horses at Ste
vensburg. But small proportion Of
the men will re-enlist
Lieut.. Col Preston, who has been in
command for some time past, labored
hard to induce the regiment to re-enlist
so as to go home and re-organize. Near
ly all the old soldiers would have re-en-
listed had they been sure the regiment
would be re-oyyaaised. But as the regi-
ment is now full Numbering 1907 men,
besides the % who have recently been
paroled by the rebels) there will be no
opportunity for reorganization.
The men are very comfortably situa-
ted, as far as quarters are concerned, but
their duty is very severe. One hundred
and sixty-two is the daily detail for
picket, and in the extreme cold weather
this duty is very hard. But our brave
cavalrymen do not repine under all these
privationS As one of them earnestly
writes us-"We know we are the van
guard of the nation, looking daily upon
its foes across the cold, turbid Rapidan,
and, although our toes are frost-bitten,
and our bodies are chilled in the cold,
frosty winds, the spirit of the soldier is
not chilled, nor does he complain of the
hardShipS"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

REBEL DErEAT.--A special despatch
to the Philadelphia Inquirer, dated Chat
tanooga, Jan. %, says: A surprise and
skirmish took place near Strawberry
Plains on the 10th, resulting in the cap
ture of the whole rebel party, numbering
two hundred, among whom are Major
General Vance and staff -Four of the
officers were recognized as paroled at
vicksburg, when the party arrived here
last night"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

GoLD IN BRITISH AMERICA.-We have
circumstantial accounts, says the To.
ronto Globe, of the discovery OF gold in
large quantities on this side of the Rocky
Mountains, within British territory
1t was discovered by American miners,
who are fiocking to the locality-Bow
river-in large numbers. Bow river is
a tributary of the south branch OF the
Saskatchewan. The country is fertile
and the climate mild.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

s.g The genuineness of the article
purporting to come from DeBow's Re
view, for the publication of which his
Review was said to have been suppress
ed and himself thrown into prison, is
questioned 1t first appeared in the
New York Evening Post and was copied,
sometimes with elaborate leaders, into
other journals. We made some extracts
from it in our paper of Monday, which
we copied from the Boston Journal. The
few PREDATORY remarks we made to it,
were true enough generally, if Mr.. De
Bows particular conversion was falsely
reported. We considered it remarka-
BILE case, but finding it reported, with
extracts from the article, and with full
credit, in journals of such high respecta-
bility, there was nothing to confirm any
suspicion of its authenticity.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

THg NAVAL RAcE.-The sum of three
thousand dollars, it is stated, has been
raised in the Navy Department to pay
the expenses of the race to which the
Kin Kang has baen invited and the
money has been forwarded to Fortress
Monroe, where the gunboat is to meet
her rival, and take neck -and-neck start
for New York.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

IL The Secretary of the Navy has
challenged the owners of the Boston
steamers Merrimac and Mississippi to
race with the U. S. sloop Ticonderoga.
So we are to have two grand naval
races, the Eutaw against the Kin Kiang
and the Ticonderoga against Boston
steamer
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

i9' The capture of rebel mail in
West Virginia has strengthened the
opinion formed of the effect which the
Presidents amnesty proclamation is pro-
ducing in the South. Almost every let
ter in the intercepted correspondence al
ludes to the proclamation, and in terms
favorable, more or less, to the measure.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

For NORTH CARoLISA.--Capt. VIM. +.
Reynolds, OF the 9th Vermont, left Brattle-
boro on Friday for Newbern, N. G., in
command of over 400 men for the Ninth
regiment. tE
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

5S9~ At a meeting of the Union Cen
tral Committee of New York City, held
last Saturday night, resolutions were
unanimously adopted in favor of the re-
election of President Lincoln.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

THE LIQUOR BusINEss.-The authori-
ties of the Town and the VillageOf Brat
tleboro have combined to put stop to
the illegal sale Of intoxicating liquors
there,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

s%" 1t is said that four of the rebel
Major General Vance's staff recently
captured with him, were recognized as
having been paroled at Vicksburg.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

BRANDON BANK--The Brandon Bank
declared dividend of per cent. on the
capital stock in December last, payable
ON the 1st inst.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

The Senate, on Tuesday, confirmed,
without dissenting voice, the nomina-
ton of Richard Busted, of New YORK,
as Judge Of the United States District
Court of Alabama.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the stockhol-
ders of the Vermont and Boston Tele-
graph Company will be held at White
River junction on the 9th instant, to
elect nine directors for the year ensuing,
and to transact any other business which
may be properly brought before them. :
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

SHEEP SALRs-Mr. Jesse Kinds, OF
Brandon has recently sold from his flock
eighteen Merino sheep for S2000-twelve
for $1,000, and six for $500.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

AT one of Cora Hatch's recent free
love and spirit-rapping lectures ut New
York, young man took occasion TO
show up his father who had deserted
his wife and family to live with Cora.
No attempts were made by either party
to deny the charges.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

g The Springfield Republican asks
what military order is like lady cross
ing the street ON wet day! Dress up
in front and close up in the rear.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

John G. SAKE was injured by ali-
road accident last week. while ca route 70
lecture at Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

INDEBTED are indebted to Hon.
Solomon Foot for valuable public docu-
mente.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

REBEL RESPECT FOR NBUTRALITY.-The
Montreal Herald is stimulated by the Of
fetal announcement at Richmond that
an expedition was lately fitted out in
Canada to rescue the rebel prisoners at
Johnson's Island, TO make the following
comments; ..
This disposes of all the doubts which
Were for party purposes raised in some
of our Canadian journals, as to the reality
of the attempt to commit breach of our
neutrality, and involve us, and not only
us, but the Empire, in a useless and dis
astrous war 1t shows that nothing
frustrated this piratical design but the
action of the British Minister at Wash
ington, in conjunction with his Excel
lency the Governor General, and the Pro
vincial Ministry.
"We hardly know which most to ad-
mire-the audacity of the original de-
sign contrived in utter contempt of In
ternational law, and the wishes of the
British Government, or this bold avowal
of deliberate insult. 1t cannot, how
ever fail to enlighten public opinion
here as to the desperate character of the
Government presided over by Mr. Jeifer-
son Davis, and to show that any encour-
agement offered to the agents of that
Government is likely to lead directly
into conflict with the wishes of our
own"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28


GEN. BUTLER SILBNoEs THE NoN-RE-
sisrAyTs.-A sect of non-fightlng Chris
tians at Norfolk, Va. called Perfection
lists, having declined to swear allegiance
to any earthly government, Gen.s Butler
puts them down with the following piece
of logic:
HEADQUARTERS 18TH ARMY CORPS, !
Ft Monroe, Va, Jan. 10.
J. f. Dozier, E. II. Beasely and Others
Gentlemen | have read your petition
to Gen Barnes, setting forth your OBJ
iections to swearing allegiance to any
earthly government. The first reason
which YOU set forth is that all human
governments are necessary evil, and
are continued in existence only by the
permission of Jehovah until the time
arrives for the establishment of His
Kingdom, and in the establishment Of
which all others will be subdued unto
it, thus fulfilling that declaration in the
Sth of Daniel and 14th verse, &c. You
therein establish to your own satisfac-
ton three points First, that govern
ment, although an evil, is necessary
one; second, that for time it is permit
ted to exist by the wisdom of Jehovah
third, that the time at which a period
is to be put to its existence is not come;
therefore you ought to swear allegiance
to the government of the United States.
First, because, though an evil, you adj
init it to be necessary second, though
an evil, you admit that it is permitted
by the wisdom of Jehovah, and that it
is not for his creatures to question the
wisdom of his acts; third, you may
claim to be excused when Jehovah's s
government is substituted, which period
you admit has not yet arrived.
Your obedient servant,
BENJAMIN i Butler.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

PBRsoNAL.-Col. S. b. Wells of Athens,
has received the appointment of Assist
ant Door-keeper of the House OF Repre-,
sentatives at Washington which Office
he will hold until the 4th Of March,
1865, with a salary of $1,000 per annum.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-28

GEOLOGICAL LEcTUREs.-It will be seen
by notice in our advertising columns,
that Prof. William Denton proposes to
deliver a course of six lectures at Town
Hall in this village, commencing on
Monday evening next, upon the subject
of Geology, its science aud its poetry"
illustrated by numerous paintings Prof.
Denton, as will be seen by the testimoni-
ais contained in the advertisement else
where, comes with recommendations
from high sources. The first lecture is
free, and all are invited to attend.