Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-02-18

The New York Herald says that Gen.
Butler Is the eighth general that has
tried to take Richmond.
Corn starch is an excellent substi-
tute for eggs for culinary purposes, one
spoonful of corn starch being reckoned
as equal to a single egg,
An American named Slater has Ia
ken a contract to demolish the walls of
the burned church In Santiago for the
sum of $500. The Yankees are every
where.
Albert J. Tyrrel, the supposed muir
derer of Maria Bickford, who has been
serving in the army, was lately trans
ferred to the insane asylum of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
George Thompson, the celebrated
English abolitionist, arrived in Boston
last Saturday. The Bostonians propose
giving him public reception next
week.
MIR. Chas. F. Browne, better known
as "Artemas Ward" is lying dangerous
ly i'll at Salt Lake City, Utah, of typhoid
fever, and but slight hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery.
"A mastodon's tusk, exhumed by a
party of salt-miners in Oregon, has re
Gently been contributed to the cabinet
of the Rochester University The tusk
Is six inches in diameter at the larger.
end, and about two and half inches at
the smaller. Its length is about four
feet, which is perhaps not more than
one-half the original, .#r
The Kennebec Journal tells of
member of Co. M. I'd Maine cavalry, en-
camped in that city, who was confined
to the guard house in the evening, es-
capped the vigilance of the guard, came
into town, was married, and succeeded
in getting back unobserved to the guard
house before morning:
The Hartford Post says that when
the telegraph announced to the New
Workers the story of the destruction of
the armory, the dealers in the article
started out to purchase of each other all
the Colts revolvers on hand. Before the
engines had ceased to play on the smo-
king debris, the revolvers had advanced
from two to three dollars each in New
York, with "none for sale" ...
The rebel cotton loan in Europe has
advanced lately because of the receipt
of 2 ID per cent. upon it, and this is
not to be distributed horizontally on all
the bonds but used to take up so much
of the whole bonds as it will, by lottery.
Whenever drawn, lucky number gets
par ($100) for what cost him S3S or $40.
From beginning to end, this whole loan
is speculation, a swindle on Europe
and the South alike, for the benefit of a
few knavish citizens and pretended rep
resentatives of both.
The Boston Journal is informed on
what it calls good authority that Gen.
Kinks, who is now at Concord as Pro-
yost Marshal General of this State, has
received intimation from Gen. Butler
that he will be ordered by the Secretary
North Carolina. 1t is probable, adds
the Journal, that Gen. Kinks may leave
within week and his assumption of
command in North Carolina, where there
there are so many Massachusetts boys
who love IA fighting general" will be
matter of great satisfaction to them.
Women and children in the most
forlorn and destitute condition, some of
them almost naked, are coming into our
posts at Cape Giradeau and Pilot Knob,
Mo. Some of them are known to be.
Union refugees some of them are the
wives and children of men who have
lost their lives in the rebel army. AT
Pilot Knob are more than 1000 living in
huts and tents In the latter they could
have no fire, and many were badly froz-
Ell during the cold weather. Some of
the women and girls, to add to the half
rations supplied by the government, en-
gage in chopping wood at sixty cents a
cord.