Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-01-07

A five dollar gold piece was lately soids
confederate notes.
A new church has been built ut san
Francisco for T. Starr King at cost.of
100000. There is a debt of Sc, 900 upon
it, and Mr.. King has told his congrega-
ton that he will not preach in the new
church until the debt is paid.
Eli Thayer has opened an et.ice in
New York to promote organized emil
grafton from Europe. The special object
is to repopulate the recovered States Of
the South
SOLITARY confinement of prisoners
has been abandoned in the State prison
of Michigan on account of the evil con-
sequences attendant upon the punish
ment; most of those so confined quickly
becoming hopelessly insane.
1t requires force of fourteen thou
sand men and a monthy outlay OF two
millions of dollars, to manage the gov
eminent horse hospitals at Washington.
The poor muskets brought from
Europe are going back again, since we
have enough batter ones than our own.
The steamship Bavaria, of the Hamburg
line, takes out from New York this week
eight hundred cases, or about twenty
thousand stand.
The number of disasters that oc-
CURED on the Western lakes, from the
arst Of April of last year to the first of
December, were three hundred and fifty,
being az increase of fifty over the num-
!! Der for last year, and seventy-five in
crease over the number for 1861.
To ascertain the length of the day
and night, at any time Of the year, dou-
BILE the time of the suns rising, which
gives the length of the night, and double
the time of its setting, which gives the
length of the day This is simple
method which, we guess few people are
aware Of
Among the curiosites at the Cncin-
natl Sanitary Fair, are cotton from JEFF.
Davis plantation, cane cut from the
tree under which Gen. Grant and Penn
berton arranged the terms Of surrender
pieces Of Plymouth Rock, rebel flags, a
tea pot of General Washington, bull
from Pope Leo, and sand from the desert
of Sahara.
The New York Herald has all along
condemned the military policy of the
Government against slavery It now
advocates the election to the Presidency
of General Grant, who has taken the
most decided grounds against slavery as
a rebel power that must be utterly de-
stroyed to insure the overthrow of the
rebellion and the restoration Of honora-
BILE peace. A queer digger" is the Sa-
tanic, any way 1t is relished most for
its audacity
An amusing typographical error oc-
CURED in one of the New York papers,
in printing Gen Halleck's report of War
Operations. The General, who enjoys
the sobriquet of " Old Brains" wrote in
depreciation of the immense cost of ar
my transportation, and made out case
for himself by saying that tour trains
have been materially reduced during the
year" Imagine his disgust when he
found the boast printed sour brains have
been materially reducedl' Artemus
Ward might add an. B.-This is sar-
kasm."
Lizzie Compton, a bright young lady
Of sixteen, was brought to Louisville the
other day, dressed in soldiers clothes.
Her history, during the past eighteen
months, is strange and romantic. She
served in seven different regiments, and
participated in several battles At Fred
effcksburg she was seriously wounded,
but recovered, and followed the fortunes
of war, which cast her from the Army
of the Potomac to the Army Of the Cum
berland. She fought in the battle Of
Green River Bridge on the Fourth of
July last, and received wound which
disabled her for q short time. She has
been discovered and mustered out Of ser
vice seven or eight times, but imme-
diately re-enlisted in another regiment.