Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-30
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ion citizens several months ago.
--Twenty-six Knights of the Golden
Circle have been arrested at St. Louis
and consigned to Jail for reasonable
and disloyal practices.
PSI "A New York paper says there are
twenty thousand rebel women in the
boarding houses of that city.
The Chicago Times, the leading cop
perhead organ of the Northwest, warmly
admires Gen. Fremont's acceptance let
ter.
The World calls Mcclellan ''the I'm
ished soldierof the day." That paper is
rarely so happy or so truthful.
Mr.. John NJ. Clay, living near Lex
ington, lost S25, 900 worth of race horses
by the Morgan raiders Among them
was the famous "Skedaddle" for which
he was recently offered at st. Louis,
S8000
The mails from theWashington post
Office are immense. 1t is Impossible
to get the army mail off promptly. On
Sunday, 65,700 letters were dispatched
from that office. rs.
Gold brokers want to make prices
appear higher than they are. One in
Baltimore offered 202, but when a man
brought him $1,000 worth of gold, he
backed down, and would offer only
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The Louisville Journal reports that
an army paymaster at that point was
recently robbed of $4,000, which was
| distracted from his safe. Measures have
| been taken which it is believed will re-.
suit in the detection Of the thief and the
recovery Of the stolen money
AN, evidence of presence of mind
worthy of consideration by all young
women who read by candle or gas light,
| is related by an English paper, of la
| DIV whose dress caught fire from such
| cause. and being in her bedroom she i'm
| mediately jumped into bed and drew the
clothes over her; and having thus put
4 out the fire without difficulty she es-
/ capped without material injury.
Southern papers give a horrible ac-
| count of the execution of fourteen deser-
tiers from the army at Dalton, Ga. They
| were sentenced to be shot, and the affair
was SO bunglingly managed that some
twenty minutes were occupied in &C
complishing it, the groans and yells OF
the men who were only wounded at the
first volley, being heartrending in the
extreme.
| "A young fellow named George W..
Nichols, but calling himself by some
other name, recently hired team at
Brattleboro to 60 to Lyndon, Mass, and
Intentionally tipped it off bank in Col
eraine, and then called on the selectmen
for damages, but did not gGete item them. By
similar game he succeeded in getting
SIS out of the town Of Orange, Mass,
$68 out of Wendall, Mass, and $4l out
| of Ashfield, Mass. He is undoubtedly
| the same gentleman whose operations In
Alstead and NARROW, N. H., etc, were
| exposed some time since. 5af
GA Peace Democrat in the New
! York News, says: ''If am to vote tc
defeat Abrahaa Lincoln, AID not for d
principle, think the latel Gen. Fremont
is the most available man" That is ex-
| actly the way Fremont put it-s0ithost a
, . .,gyticle Of principle. r. aaIem
The rebel papers Ietlee that theil
Walkers get appropriately shot in the
foot. At Spottsylvania Court House
Brig Gen. Henry H. Walker, of APP.
Hills corps, lost his foot In D. H.
HIPS attack upon the intrenched camp
at Bermuda Hundreds, Brig. Gen. W. S.
Walker was severely wounded in the
foot, and taken prisoner Mai Gen. H.
T. Walker was shot through the foot in
the recent engagement near Dallas, Ga.
between Johnston and Sherman.
| THE editors Of the Chicago Times,
(copperhead) having been sued for libel,
consisting of defamation Of female char
acters have petitioned foT q change of
venue, representing that the inhabitants
OF Cook county are so prejudiced against
them that they will not receive an i'm
partial trial. The prayer was granted
and the case set for trial in Lake county.
1T seems that after all the prema-
ture Boosting of the McClellanites, Gen.
Grant had no idea of repeating the young
Napoleon's peninsula campaign. In get
ting to the south side, it became neces-
sary to pass over McClellan's battle
grounds, that was all. isis.
The Union League of New York are
/ 6oAH5 w puiShoSC anu pICccut VI Oe0S.
Grant and Hancock the two horses, "Sir
Archie" and Black Hawk" which
were recently captured by the rebels,
the one while on the way to be presen-
ted to Gen. j. Z. B. Stuart, and the
other while carrying his master, guer-
rilla chief, who was endeavoring to es-
cape from Union scouting party.
An inquisitive clerk in the dead
letter Office, curious to find ont how
many letters were written without a
postscript, made an investigation last
week, and found that out of 1854 letters
written by females, only 1875 were
without postscripts. Some of the other
letters contained three postscripts.
AT Princeton, N. J., the other night,
the cOpperhead collegians had meeting
in honor of vallandi2ham's return,
when they cheered Justify for JEFF Davis
and the southern confederacy. The next
night the loyal students burned Mr. VAL
landigham in effigy, cheered old Abe,
Grant, aud everybody else that was loyal
and then were addressed by the profess
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