Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-06-30
Miscell.neeus I,s,ns.
-Memminger, the rebel Secretary OF
the Treasury, has resigned.

thousand rebel prisoners, Of whom $500
are officers. H -... ..,
Ten thousand meals were cooked in
one day last week at the Philadelphia
Fair "kitchen," HH. a.f
The $4,000 stolen from an army
paymaster at Louisville several days
ago, has been found and returned to
him. 4
"A Dutchman describes New Workers
as berry fine people, who go apout der
streets scheatlng each oder, and deY call
dat pizziness. s." .no ...Ea a
e The bill providing for compensation
to postmasters by salaries instead of
commission, passed the Senate ON Sat
urday,
Gov. Hall of Missouri, who is on
the shady side Of so, married Miss Oil
yer, daughter of the Secretary of State,
and blooming miss Of II, last week.
The Grand Jury of New York, in
the case of the seizure OF the World |
and Journal oil Commerce, refused to |
find bill of Indictment against Gen.
Dix, or any other person or persons.
. An exchange paper very gravely in
forms us that n young man who was re-
Gently bathing In the Missouri river,
seeing number of ladies approach,
drowned himself from moves of deli
cacy . .t.
p An immense Lincoln and Johnson
ratification meeting was held in New
Haven, Conn, last Friday evening
Gov. buckingham was one of the speak
ers. Some eight thousand persons were
present. #uF" H.T
"A camp Of rebel conscripts ON the
Hendersonvillc road, six miles from At
lanta, on the 18th, broke for our lines
They numbered eight hundred, six hun
bred Of whom got in and remain; two
hundred were recaptured by the rebels.
"A South Jersey editor says; The
best cure for dyspepsia is TO collect the
bills for newspaper. If that don't
give you an appetite you might as well
sell you stomach for old tripe and have
done with it. r.r -.... ....r.-. .ss
The photolithographlc copy of Col.
Dahlgrenie order for the destruction of
Richmond has been received from Lon
don, and is pronounced forgery by Col.
Dahlgren's friends. Neither the order
nor the signature is in his handwrit
ing. - -.... Hr- .-li
The St. Louis Democrat atfirms that
five of the Blair-Clayba delegates who
were refused seats in the Baltimore Con-
vention, Figured prominently in the
proceedings of the Peace Democratic
Convention" in that city, and calls their
names
An army letter from Petersburg,
says that during the fight on Friday one
of our boys either becoming short of
ammunition or in the hurry of the engage
ment, fred the ramrod of his gun from
his musket. On the subsequent cap
ture Of the works two rebels were found
dead and completely transtixed with the
iron shaft.
! "A gentleman went into a copper
head newspaper Office recently TO insert
a legal advertisement which he was
anxious to have in paper of small cir
culation. While talking with the clerk
about the price he made the remark that
greenbacks were no better than confed-
crate money, whereupon the gentleman
took the bill receipted and paid it in
confederate rags, bundle of which he
had received from his son in the army.
How are yon copperhead ? '"
d The gold gamblers have given some
other allied professions a hint. The
dealers in lottery tickets, the heads of
societies for the promotion of counter
feiting, the publishers of indecent books
and the great body of the professional
gamblers of the country, are, it is said
on the point of making a demonstra-
ton against the laws which pronounce
their operations Illegal, on the ground
that these enactments interfere with
the natural laws of trade" and that
"such things settle themselves better
than legislation can settle them"
"A loyal woman in Loudon county,
Va, the other day refused to pay two
hundred and fifty dollars demanded
by party of guerrillas to prevent the
burning of her house. The rebels had
already fired her barn. She told them
to go ahead and burn all that she own
ed tif she had thousands under her
feet she would not give them one cent"
They burned the house as matter of
coarse. l fg.r us
Chicago must be getting in a bad
way. The mayors charged with re-
ceiving $1,000 bride from a street rail-
way company the controller with a
fraudulent use of the public money a
police commissioner is arrested on a
state warrant for adultery; the superin-
tendent of police is enjoined" for usur
patton of office This, in addition to
about half dozen scandalous cases,
sundry robberies and two murders, from
the record for about a month.
' "A terrible drouth prevails in Texas
and in louisiana The prairies are SO
baked and so cracked into assures that
horseback travel is dangerous and
wheels impossible Cattle are dying in
great numbers because the springs,
creeks, bayous and rivers are dried A
recent traveller by the gulf coast says
that he passed thousands of carcasses. of
cattle which had come to the sea shore
and drank salt water until they died.
The effect of this upon the rebel supplies
from Texas can easily be seen. They de-
pend upon Texas for. their beef. o
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