Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-04-14
Mi.cellanee,.s Items.

Inc estimated cost of the proposed
subterranean railway from the Bowling
Green 10 the Central Park in New York
/ Ia S4,260,O00.
The Union party have just carried
Saratoga Springs by 800 majority, II
never went anything but democratic
before.
According to the census of 1860 New
York State had million of foreign resi-
dents, which n fourth part of all in
the United States and also fourth OF
the total population of the State.
some Indiana soldiers on a scout in
the mountains of Georgia, came upon a
house occupied only by an old woman,
Wei, old lady, what are you secesh2"
said the leader, Nc" said she. "What
then ~ Baptist said she promptly,
and always was"
"A lady missionary at New York
asked some boys who were playing mar
bles last Sunday If they knew where
boys went TO who played marbles on
Sunday Some of en- goes down on
the docks, was the answer.
SECRETARY Stanton in reply to SEN
ate resolution calling for an order OF
Gen. Dix relative to the Maryland cleo
ton, responds that no such document is
known to the officers of his department,
nor has 1t been found In its archives.
Seeing chicken-coop ON frequent
trips between Washington and Alexan-
dria, an inspector guessed that when
cocktails were abundant, whisky
must be a near neighbor. And so it
proved. The bottom of the coop was a
tin box, containing several gallons.
"A few days ago, Sergt. Fish, First
Connecticut Cavalry, while on picket
near HARDWOOD Church, was captured
by rebel bushwhackers, and shot three
times with his own pistol, and left for
dead at tie roadside He was subse-
quently brought into camp, but no
hopes are entertained Of his recovery.
Three other members of the same regi-
ment were wounded the same day, ard
two others captured.
One comfy, only, in New York vo-
ted against the soldiers. Hamilton coun-
ty gives Ill votes for the soldiers to 1a9
against them. This exhibition of the
true virus of the copperhead' is near
~ equalled by Richmond county, which
gives 68l for to o42 against. Democra-
cy reigns supreme in these counties.
"A schoolmaster in one of the neigh
boring towns, while on his morning
walk, passed by the door Of neighbor,
who was excavating pig trough.
"Why," said the schoolmaster, Mr.,
have you not furniture enough yet o.
Yes, said the man, 6 enough for my
own family, but expect to board the
schoolmaster this winter, and am ma
king preparations
1t is said that when Gen. Grant was
going down to Washington one
day this week, when the train, having
attached to it the special car, stopped
at Brandy Station some soldiers who
were waiting to go down, asked if they
could not get into that car "No," was
the answer of an officer; this is Gen,
Grants special car" Whereupon Grant,
who was sitting by the window, spoke
and said, "Gen. Grant occupies only one
seat; the soldiers can ride"
"A soldier lay in lady's house, bad
~ wounded. A MaJor-General RODE up
to the door. His orderly took his horse.
He got of, went in, and sat down by the
dying mans side. Taking out a little
book, he read from it, G Let not your
heart be troubled &c. He then knelt
down and offered up prayer to God for
that dying soldier. Arising from his
knees, he bent down and kissed him and
said, Capt G., we shall meet in
heaven" He then rode off. That Cen
eral was Maj General Howard.
Miss Webb, the copperhead oratress,
lectured in Cincinnati a few nights since.
The Gazette says of the effort eve
think Talleyrand' criticism on the young
authors book will apply most admirably
to Miss Webb's lecture { 1t had some
new things in it, and some good things
but the new things Were not good and
the good things were not new. The new
things were her own; the good things
were the extracts she made from Miss
Dickinson's address, and the Song of
the Shirt before mentioned. Miss Webb
does not furnish very Strong meat for
Democratic babes"