Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-11-03
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The famous Flora Temple was sold
on Tuesday in Baltimore for $4,000. @.
j. Presbury was the purchaser, I
There Is to be grand billiard tour
nament at Toronto, Canada, November
2lst, All our big players will DO there.
There was wedding at Poughkeep-
sic, N. ", the other day, and the cere-
mony was performed by Presbyterian
clergyman In Episcopal robes in Dutch
Reformed church.
AT the great procession of Union
men In Washington last week, the sons
of Indiana bore transparency on
which was engraved the pithy motto,
among others, Fear God and hate
snakes"
The Missouri Republican srgues
against the re election of Samuel Knox
In the First st, Louis Congressional Dis
trlct, that he comes from Puritan
stock, and Is attached to Protestant
church" Strong arguments these.
"A plot has just been discovered to
cheat the New York Union soldiers out
of their votes by Withdrawing the vote
as cast from the original envelope and
substituting copperhead ticket. An
investigation OF the affair is to be made
Immediately.
The five dollar bank bills of the
Southbridge, Mass. bank have a por-
trait of Mcclellan upon them. One of
the bills recently came back to the bank
with this Inscription
eye gods hov easy public sense was cheated
hat cheap applause the Jersey welk n shook
When Little Mac was Rlor fed and treated,
AS hath soldier fr the stump forsook;
Pope was TIE only foe he e'er debated.
Tlenton the only town he ever took"
Henry Winter Davis of Maryland
spoke to an immense audience In Phila-
delphia, Tuesday evening. He and Ben
Wade are working hard to expiate the
mischief of their manifesto, and with
good success. -ze g
George Francis Train makes funny
disclosures about the Chicago conven-
ton. The democratic leaders must be
greatly vexed that they let him into the
secrets of the party. He says: ain the
morning Pendleton told men that so
help me God, / will do all can to beat
Mcclellan. At ten o'clock they offered
him the vice presidency and he went
over" .... =
The New York News approves Mr..
Pendleton's late letter, and understands
him to be against coercion and for "a
Union based upon the acknowledgment
of the sovereignty of the states, and de-
pendent on the consent of the people,"
Democrats in favor of a secession Union
will now see their way clear to vote for
Pendleton.
The democrats of Miami county,
Indiana, undertook some sharp practice
at tie late election which did not pay
well. They regarded their senatorial
district so safe that they thought
they could colonize enough voters
in Cass county to create majority
They sent $50 and lost the election in
both counties. 49,
1t is easy to be mistaken. Monday
young woman readily identified the
features of the man mysteriously MUIR
dered in Brooklyn some time SINCE and
described his clothes even to rents she
had mended. She said he was a soldier,
had recently married her, and the next
day got his civil dress and disappeared.
She was so much overcome that she
tainted, but on producing her marriage
certificate it appeared that she was mar
ried on the 7th inst, while the first part
of the murdered man was found three
days previous. & ~ sys
1t appears by the latest advices that
the captured steamer Roanoke after
leaving Havana received on board a
number of passengers who approached
in boats, and who turned out to be con-
federates, under Braine and Parr. At
ter the capture Braine proposed to the
captain of the Roanoke to bond the YES
sci for $4,000 in gold. The proposal
was declined. Braine and his associates
who were placed on trial at Bermuda,
have all been liberated. 8at Is
Here is what the Hartford Times calls
an animated style" of. political speak
ing, as INDUCED in by one John B. Har-
rington in that city last week: 'If these
money changers and treason mongers-
referring to the administration-canno
be driven out Of Washington by ballots
we must drive them out if it takes fire
and sword, grape and shrapnel to do it!
And If none else will do it, our Irish cit
liens, who have taken an oath before
High Heaven, will do It," s+r-- "
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