Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-30
miscsllanesus Items.

field Mass arsenal,
--Quantrell, the guerrilla, Is not dead, !
but has been made brigadier, and now
commands all the guerrilla bands in
Missouri, which he !s reorgan,aing.
The total number of prisoners cap
tured by Grant since tae commencement
of the present cam,aign Gas officially re-
portedl is about. 900.
in gocd society we are required to
do o5liSmg things to one another in
genteel society we are only required 10
say them. a.
Some intercepted letters show that
the Georgia rebels are terribly afraid OF
"fighting Joe Hooker" They say when
he assaults fort he always goes thro'.
General Burbridges march of nine
ty miles in twenty-four hours IN pur-
suit OF Morgan's men, was one OF the
most astonishing OF all this war. Where
has it parallel r. .sw- as iI
I'm the United States circuit court
of Illinois, Judge Davis and Treat have
decided the enrolment act is constl-
tutional. The case was MADE up by the
copperheads to test the constitutionality
of the law, and there is now no further
question.
The Chicago Tribune publishes the
following recipe, which ii recommends
as a remedy for secesh hankerings and
Comprehension. OF each drug one dram
is required Socotrine, Aloes. Jalap As
safnetida, Strychnine, Arsenic. Make
into ten pills, and give one every three
hours.
Coal is selling in Troy at $40 and
SIC. so per ton. In many other cities it
is as high as Sl2 and $l4 per ton, At
Honesdale Pa, any quantity from one
to thousand tons can be bought at the
rate of 81 per ton. The difficulty seems
to be with the transportation lines.
Petersburg is an important railroad
centre. 1t has road to City Point on
the James, 10 miles the Nor folk road,
| so the Southwestern road, to Weldon,
N. c., GA miles, and Wilmington, l62
| the road to Lynchburg, 1913 miles and
that to Richmond % miles.
One letter from Bermuda Hundred
represents that Gen. Gilmore had the
| best reasons for not attacking Peters
| burg he knew the enemy had been
| largely reinforced and there was no reaS-
enable prospect of taking the place. The
| conflicting accounts show plainly
enough that there is not a good nnder-
standing between the commanding gen.
eral and his officers. <
in New York last Friday, as we
learn from the Evening Post, a respecta-
BILE woman the widow of a deceased sol
dior, dressed in deep mourning, was
dragged by two men, policeman and
| the conductor of car, out of one of the
| Eighth avenue cars into the street and
there left. She was clean, orderly, in ev-
cry way decent. But she was black
that was her offense. 1t is to be made
a test case in the courts.
Bishop Brownell, the senior bishop
of the United States, has appointed
Bishop McIlvaine, Of Ohio, to go to
Paris this summer, to consecrate the
new Episcopal church recently built
there by American citizens, with permits
sion Of the French Government. He
will probably leave for Europe early
next month
| Extensive contributions were levied
on the flower gardens about Frankfort
KY, for the purpose of making a mag,
nifcent floral wreath with which to en-
circle the brows of John Morgan, wher
he should enter the place. The wretch
was made and was to be presented by
the transient young ladies of the Capito
Hotel. The presentation speech was
written, memorized and rehearsed. Mr.
Morgan however, didn't call. w f
A Correspondent of an Italian pa
per speaks in terms of admiration OF {
young American passenger in the ltal
/ ian frigate Re Galantuomo, who, while
the vessel was pitching in the storm
with twelve bullocks, the water casks
the gun carriages, and the men rolling
about the deck, and the broken mast
beating against the side of the ship with
a noise like cannon, propped himsel
firmly against bulwark and exclaimed
I"What magnificent sight!"
A New Yorker in Philadelphia says
the sanitary fair of the latter city sur
passes that of New York every way
better planned and arranged and NOR,
tastefully decorated. The avenues, maiT
and side, of the building make wall
of two and q half miles Two and ;
hall miles of American flag evergreen
endless variety Of roses--every pur
chaseable article under the sun for use,
ornament or gratifcation-and double
row (hve miles, of beautiful, smiling
elegantly dressed ladies'
Gen. Butler lately ordered two gam.
blers from Norfolk, who went to Bermu.
da Hundreds to rob the soldiers, to be
set to work in the trenches. One Of
them pleaded that he had served under
the General at the beginning Of the war
|'sVery WE'LL" said the General, "serve
! with me now at the end of it," The
other begged off, telling the General to
remember his family at Norfolk. "Well,
am not doing anything to disgrace
| your family" "But they won't know
what has become of men "True, Da-
venport, print this order in the Norfolk
papers, and then his family can see
where he is. ...5.,l, .-t.q
\ Letters from two soldier boys were
received by their mothers in New Haven
on Monday one from Jimmy Bryan,