Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-11-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Gen. Pleasanton's official dispatches
confirm previous reports of the cap
ture of the rebel Generals Marmaduke
and Cabell.
In the Dodd case, at indianapolis,
Ind, E. A. Davis, one of his counsel, has
withdrawn, because he would not de-
fend man guilty of such crime.
Sixteen disorderly characters. sus-
pected of being rebel raiders from Can
ada, were arrested in SanGusky, Ohio,
one day last week.
"A gold dealer at Troy, N. Y. got a
little tight the other day and paid So for
new nickel cent, thinking he had
bought s. gold piece at an immense
discount.
One provision of the Nevada consti-
stittion is, that in civil cases three
fourths of a jury may render verdict
the same as if the whole panel agreed.
In Scotland a majority decides YER
dict.
The well known mathematician,
BENZ. Gleenleaf of Bradford, Mass, died
| on Friday last at his residence in that
town, at the ripe old age of seventy eight
| years. Mr. Greenleaf graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1871.
President Lincoln made q little
speech to the AID Massachusetts regi-
ment Monday afternoon He alluded to
| the change in Maryland since the "bloOdy
| sixth" passed through Baltimore, and
congratulated them that on their way
home they would pass through free
| Maryland.
Specimens of the new style of frac-
! tional currency to supercede that now
| in circulation have been prepared at
| the treasury department. Every effort
will be made to guard against counter
| feiting, which prevails to large extent
with the present issue. The new cur
rency will be of different sizes, gradual
ed according to several denominations
The New York Express Mcclellan
print cautions the public against EEK
citing rumors and details of battles
fought and victories never won" as the
important election approaches. Here is
the distinct confession that the report
| Of federal victories is damaging to the
| Mcclellan party. Why do such accounts
| thus operate?
The rebel raider Wheeler is only %
years old and very small. He is a la
dies man. At ball in Carlisle, Pa,
just before the war he got tight, and be-
coming aware that the ladies were turn
ing up their noses at him, he soliloquised
thus Wheeler you are drunk Wheel
er the gals are laughing at you Wheel
er you had better go home p' And he
did.
-"Let fresh victories crown our arms
and the peace party if there be such at
the North, can elect it's candidate"
Such are the words of Davis to the reb
els in his last speech. "Hurrah for Nc
Clellau |" Such was the cry from Hoods
soldiers in the late attack upon Reseca.
So the arch rebel invokes fercer fight to
help the Chicago nominee, and so the
rebel rank and file shout his name as
their battle cry.-Neso York Times
"A Louisville paper says that when
the guerrilas made an attack on the
train on the Lexington Railroad, last
Tuesday, Hon. Montgomery Blair, who
was a passenger, took child from its
mothers arms, stepped from the cars
with the bright cherub pressed to his
bosom, claimed 10 be the father of the
rosy checked darling, was very tender
and solicitous in regard to it's welfare,
and played his part so well that the
guerrillas passed him blythe ex-mem-
Der of the cabinet thus escaping cap
ture.
-"What will Mcclellan do?" That
is pertinent question. If elected he |
must make a cabinet. Who else can he |
call to that cabinet but the representa- |
tive leaders of his party2 And these |
are the very men, from Horatio Sey- |
mour to Vallandigham, who construct
ed the Chicago submission platform. |
Under such circumstances il Is arrant |
dishonesty to attempt to palm off Nc |
Clellan as war candidate He is with |
his party he cannot move without it; |
he becomes part of its platform, and |
no matter what he may say on his own |
account, he is the representative of the |
party uOiicV and must WELD tn ita svcau !