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DEsERTER SHOT. - Some excitement
has been occasioned in Whitehall and
other parts of Washington Co., N Y, by
the shooting of deserter named Howk,
a mile east of Comstock's Landing. He
was treacherous fellow, and had long
defied civil officers. Monday night, ia
bez Knights, a soldier, endeavored to
arrest him at his house. Howk fired
three shots-each grazing Knights per-
son. They clinched, and the deserter
was getting the best of it, when Knights
shot Howk dead. A warrant for muir
der was issued, but the Sheriff forbade
his deputies from serving it-as the act
was clearly committed in self-defence
Phineas Howk, the deceased, was about
twenty seven years of age, and married
Troy Times.
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WOMEN SLANDERERs.- was hardly
credible that northern newspaper could
be found so utterly demented by its ven
omous pro-slayery partisanship, so lost
to every prompting Of decency, selfres
spect and respect for the opinion and
feelings Of an outraged public, as to
? originate the late foul SANDER upon the
devoted and noble band of New England
lady teachers at Port Royal. What the
SANDER was our readers know, and it is
too coarse and foul for repetition. Now
what is to be said of a newspaper, which
not only at first eagerly caught up and
reproduced the disgusting lie, but after
it had been publicly branded as such by
the very man upon whose authority it
was pretended to have been Substantive
ted, only reproduces and reiterates it,
The communication of Rev. L. Billings
Of Brattleboro, which has appeared ID
our paper, tracing the atrocious calumny
to its source and branding it as ven-
omous lie, was published In the New
York Tribune of Saturday. On Monday,
with this letter before it, the New York
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UNION NATIONAL CONVENTION.

The undersigned, who, by original appointment,
or subsequent designation to I'll vacancies, con-
stituting the Executive Committee created by the
National Convention held at Chicago on the 10th
day Of May, 1860, do hereby call upon all quail
ded voters who desire the unconditional mainte-
nance of the Union, the supremacy Of the Constr
tute, and the complete suppression OF the exist
ing rebellion, with the cause thereof by vigorous
war aud all apt and efficient means, to send dele
MORE, ON TUESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY
OF JUNE, 1864, at u o'clock, noon, for the pur-
pose Of presenting candidates for the ofices Of
President and Vice President of the United states.
Zach State having a representation In Congress
will be entitled TO as many delegates as shall be
equal to twice the number of electors TO which
such State is entitled in the Electoral College o.
the United States.
EDWIN d. MORGAN, New York, Chairman,
CHARLES ]. GILMAN, Maine.
L. BRAINARD, Vermont.
J. z. GOODRICH, Massachusetts,.
THOMAS G. TURNER, Rhode Island,
GIDEON WELLES, Connecticut.
. DEFINING DUER, New Jersey.
8 EDWARD MCPHERSON, Pennsylvania.
: N. b. SMIrIIERS, Delaware.
J.E. WAGNER, Maryland. .u.
= THOMAS SpoONER, Ohio.
a II. s. LANE, Indiana.
SAMUEL @. CASEY, Kentucky. s
4. PECK, Illinois.
HERBERT NJ, HoXIE, Iowa.
AUSTIN BLAIR, Michigan.
- CARL SCHURZ, Wisconsin.
w. d. WASHBURN, Minnesota.
q CORNELIUS COLE. California
WILLIAM A. PHILLIPS Es.nsss.'
o. II. IRISH, Nebraska.
= JOSEPH GERHARDT, District Of Columbia
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Local aud stase Items.

RUTLAND COUNTY CouRT.-The follow
ing Is summary of the business done
on Tuesday and Wednesday, the goth
and S0th inst, which we give, combin-
ing the hearings and decisions OF the
two days together;
No. 25-Enoch Smith VS.. R. & B. r. r..
Co. r, R, Thrall and L, Edgerton for
plaintiff; r. Picrpoint for defendant
Hearing on report of auditors, and
Judgment for defendants.
No. l62-Rutland Co. Park VS.. Admin
istrators of Chas. Burt. c. X. Williams
for plaintiffs W. II. Smith and L. N.
Briggs for defendants, Judgment for
plaintiffs. Exceptions by defendants.
No. l72-AIVasa Briggs VS.. John II.
Boyd. L. Edgerton and H. G Wood for
plaintiff; Prout and Dunton, and E. n
Briggs for defendant, Assumpsit, Judg-
ment for plaintiff. Exceptions by defend
ant. ..s.s
Nos. 224, 225-Thrall & Pond and r,
Ii. I0rall vs., Executor Vi iodtc AuottiiCN-
son. R. r. Thrall for plaintiffs; Prout
and Dunton for defendant. Hearing on
report of auditors. Reports in both
cases recommitted.
No. 252-Moses Colburn VS.. Levi Har'
vey. Ejectment s, Fullam for plain
tiff; E. Fisher for defendant. judgment
for plaintiff for possession Of premises
No, 1S6-Lincoln VS.. Edgerton. Judg
ment for defendant. ....s
The case of Fisher, ADM vs.. r. r
Thrall-C. c. Dewey and E. N. Brigg
for plaintiff; r. r. Thrall and j. Prou
fu' defendant-was commenced yester
day and vii! be concluded to-day.
Also, the case of j. II. Langdon VS.. r
R. Thral. Motion to amend the minute
of court. -... AL. ..assa4
The court may adjourn to day, after
patient, protracted and tedious examina
ton of cases, arduous for one in the full
enjoyment of healthful powers; bu
much more arduous for one who has sui
fered from i'll health, as the Chief Judg
has during the present term.
Il
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ENGLISH KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICANS
Walford's Men Of the Time, published
in London in 1862, and considered good
authority in England has these anus
ingly laundering accounts of some
American celebrities -
BLAIR, MONTGOMERY. An American
statesman is the son of-Francis b.
Blair. = He pursued his legal
studies at st. Louis, and President
Pierce made him member of the court
of claims, of which post, however, he
was deprived by President Buchanan.
OF late years he has resided at Mont
gomery Castle, near Silver Spring, in
Maryland, where he is much respected
and beloved. In 1861 he was nominated
minister of marine in President Lincoln's
cabinet. @
WELLS, GIDEON. An American states
man he has been actively engaged in
the field of politics since 1892 He is a
native of the state Of Cincinnati, and was
originally democrat, but of late years
has fallen into the ranks of the repubIi-
cans. Van Buren, made him postmaster
at Hartford. In 1860 he was one of the
delegates to the convention at Chicago,
and he was also member of the COM
mittee appointed to nominate Lincoln at
Springfield. In 1861 he was appointed
POSTMASTER, general by President Lincoln.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, president of the
United States was born in Kentucky in
1909 He lost his father when quite
young, and therefore never gained but
the rudest education. He became sue
cessiyely farm laborer a mule driver.
and a boatman on the Mississippi.
Having spent some time as laborer in
Illinois, he served as a volunteer in the
New Salem company in Florida, and re-
turned home with the rank of captain,
and with the reputation of being man
of great ebility. i y = In 1916 he
was elected to Congress, srheye he sat three
years, and in which he became notorious
as an abolitionist, and on the Wilmot
proviso he voted for the measure. A foe
to popular cries and territorial agrandise-
| ment, he resisted Douglas, and opposed
| the Mexican war as unconstitutional
In l849, and again in 1854, Mr.. Lincoln
retired from politics, and devoted him
self afresh to law. In the latter wear he
was an unsuccessful candidate for Illinois.
| = In 1858 he was again de-
feated at Illinois. Two years later he
was put forward by his party for the
presidentship in the republican and alb
| CLIFTON interest and so great was the
enthusiasm raised in his favor, that he
was elected against such formidable RI
walls as Douglas, Bell, Breckenridge, Lane
and Everett.
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Foreign News.

HALIFAX, March 30-ll A. N.
Tie Africa, from Liverpool 10Th, via
Queenstown goth, has arrived. Her
dates are three days later.
The belligerents in Denmark show IN
creased activity The Germans are Wig
orously prosecuting the siege of Duppel.
A cabinet counsel was held in London
on Saturday afternoon. A late Berlin
dispatch says the Prussians were ready
to open fire across the Wemimderg,-
The Danish iron-clad Drake had been re-
pulsed. The Danish batteries were all
armed with French rifed guns.
The American ship North Atlantic,
bound to Boston and partially loaded,
had been destroyed by fire at Calcutta.
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Herald just repeats the satanic lie. Yet,
we fear there are not many of the habit
ual readers of that sheet who win mani
fest any indignation for its malignant
persistence in what it knows to be the
most loathsome libel, possible TO be i'm
agined, upon as pure, patriotic, selfsac-
rldcing women as ever breathed. Few
will rebuke it, probably, even by ceasing
to read and patronize its every day reck-
less and develish falsehoods,, and mis-
representations Of all that is noble and
pure under the sun. 1t is impossible
that there exists greater living ex-
ample of the total depravity Of human
nature, than the editor of the satanic"
New York Herald,
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disgrace of a Union OFFICER.

New York, March 80.
Major Alexander s. Hill, Eighteenth
Regiment corps dahique, has been SEN
fenced to degradation from his rank in
presence Of his troops, and confinement
at Dry Tortugas one year. Gen. Banks
in approving the sentence says: The
offence, an attempt to effect by violence
advantages over powerless women, Is
disgraceful to himself and criminal in
the eyes of God and man. The country
does not wish in its service men. who so
disgrace the uniform they wearp
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From ashingtOn.
WASHINGTON, March so.

- WAsHINGToN, March 30.
Mr.. Richard Smith, for many years
Cashier of the Branch Bank of the Uni
ted States, in this city, and late Cashier
of the Bank of the Metropolis, died last
night, aged seventy-eight years.
The State Department has been official
ly advised that the port OF Nustadt IN
Holsten, is now bleckaded by the Dan
ish Government.
The President has signed the bin to
carry into effect the treaty with Ecuador,
for the mutual adjustment of claims.
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sg Gail Borden of Wassaic, N. Y,
has discovered a process by which he
condenses apple juice, before it has been
fermented, to one-seventieth of its orig
inal bulk by boiling it down in vacuo.
1T neither sours, moulds, dries or abb
serbs water and can be carried any
where and kept for any length of time
desired. The addition of six times its
own bulk of water will make it into
sweet cider. The condensed juice sells
for 80 cents pound.
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From Knoxville.

~ NEW YoRK, March 80.
The Knoxville correspondent of the
Tribune, dating March 20, says Our
force at Morristown has been marched
back to Mossey Creek, in order to keep
better communication with Knoxville.
The rebel headquarters are said to be
at Granville, and they still hold Bulls
Gan
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1t should be stated to the credit of
the 45th Massachusetts Regiment that
after the battle of Olustee in Florida a
few of the men after covering the re-
treat of our army, drew. train of cars
containing wounded men to Jackson
vile, % miles, the engine having be-
come disabled. This regiment is made
up of ''niggers" whom the Copperhe ads
affect so much to despise. N
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wendell

WENDELL NJ
outstanding the severe storm prevail
ing last evening, Mr.. Phillips met full
audience to listen TO his lecture. For
about an hour and half he held his
hearers bound by the charm Of his ora
tory and carried them on, in the main,
in agreement with the fundamental
idea of his theory Of &c Reconstruction"
In other words, as expressed by himself,
there was probably little disagreement
between himself and his audience as to
the goal" to be arrived at; the question
was as TO the best OF most practicable
mode of attaining it and the men whom
we should choose to guide US thereto.
Mr.. Phillips opinion of the President is
well known, and it is only necessary to
say here, that he expressed it in frank
and sincere way giving him credit for
the right steps he has taken and ex-
pressing his dissatisfaction with him
for his failure, in the lecturers view,
to make his steps quicker and longer.
While the audience did not, we think,
sympathise with this part, which was,
here at least but a brief part, Of the lee
ture there was no disposition of course
to abridge his right to express his con
victions, and his hearers honored him
none the less for his candor and
honest purpose, in this as in everything
else he said. We do not think they
were shaken in the conviction that,
while extremists on one side have com
planned of Mr.. Lincoln's being too slow
or Of his failure to reach far enough, and
extremists on the other side have COM
planned of his being too fast or reaching
too far, the mean which he has pursued is
in this, as in most things else, the golden
one--is nearest the practical and safe
one in which to start the nation on .tc
that goal which all lovers of theil
country, Mr.. Phillips included, have ir
view OF Mr.. Phillips as lecturer, il
is unnecessary to speak He is every
where known as one of the most finished
eloquent and accomplished speakers O
the country, and his audience dispersed
ten-fold repaid for having improved the
opportunity to hear him.
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PLAIN SPEAKiNG,-The following from
the Manchester IN. H. Union Of March
Goth, which paper has the detestable
distinction of having originated the
SANDER upon the lady teachers at Port
Royal, is worthy of such source, and
has the merit of being plainly spoken,
though it has none other
:" Is this a war for the restoration Of
the Union under the present Constitu-
tion2 Nobody preteads that 1t is. THEN
WE SHALL NOT SUPPORT IT OR EScoUR-
AGE 1T IN ANY Way
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A PALPABLE HIr.-While the matter
of the alleged military interference with
elections was being discussed in the
Senate few days since, speech was
made by Senator Howard, in the course
of which occurred the following decid-
ed hit at those who have harped upon
this subject for the purpose of making
capital against the Administration, and
who are, of course, all ardent admirers
of Mcclellan. He said that the only au-
thenticated case of such interference
was McClellans order to Gen. Banks, at
Muddy Greek, Maryland, of October rs,
1861, instructing him to detail forces at
the different polls to protect Union vot-
ers, and to hold in confinement those
who were in collision with the rebels
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Arrival of Prizes.

$780, NEW YORK, March 81.
The steamer Shawshone has arrived at
Washington with schooner, sloop and
thirteen boats, containing salt, tobacco,
grain, &c, captured from the rebels on
Ware and York rivers.
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Wool GROWERS CONVENTION. = The
Wool-Growers Of Addison County are to
meet in the Town Hall in Middlebury,
on Wednesday the 9Th of April, at ten
o'clock a. m, for the purpose of taking
measures to petition Congress for an in
crease Of duty on wool.
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LIZA story is related of an enterprIs-
ing editor in an interior town, VINO
finding the body of man hanging 10 d
lamp post one night, after his own pa pa
per had gone to press, cut it down ana
carried it home, to prevent his rlvai
rom publishing the news, and was NH
self indicted for the murder. e 'S"s
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FIRST DISTRICT AHEAD.-Provost Mar
shall General Fry reports the following
number Of men deficient in New England
under all calls for troops, March A.
Maine, 6,64l; New Hampshire, 2,42s;
Vermont, 10; Massachusetts, 20,5e2 !;
Rhode Island, 1853; Connecticut, 2,574.
In Vermont the first Congressional
District is the only one reported in ex-
cess, and it is the only one, in excess, in
New England
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CONCERT. - Mr.. Rollin X. Sherman
will give concert with his Juvenile
Glass, consisting of nearly hundred
little girls and young misses, at Town
Hall, Rutland, Friday evening, April
8th. For particulars see programme.
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NJ NEW Il UHh, NItI t1V.-
The New York Custom House inyesti-
CATION has developed an extensive trade
between parties in the North and the
rebel agent at Matamoras. Arrests have
been made -. ...
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The BARKER FAMILY.-This celebra-
ted Family will give a Grand Concert at
Town Hall in this village, on Fast Day
evening, April Eth. The Barker Family
is too well known to require any ex-
tended notice of their musical merits
from us. Wewill content ourselves with
copying the following from the Bur-
lington Free Press, in relation to one of
their concerts given in Burlington;
The Barker Family gave concert
here Tuesday evening, to a well-filled
and pleased house. Of the pieces per-
formed, we notice particularly the songs
Unfurl the glorious Banner Tell me
is my Father coming 7" and the violin
cello Solo by Charlie Barker, the Stan
dard Bearer ?" also Works songs of a
thousand Years, and the " Overture"
to Rossini's "Turco in Italia" We adj
wise all who may have an opportunity,
to attend"
The dates of their concerts in some
other towns will be found in our adver-
Using columns.
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RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1864.

10 ConwxsroSpRSrs.-We cannot publish COM
munioations which come TO us without the name
Of the author attached. The name Is not requifea
Snr rnhlieation necessarily, but as q guaranty OF
rood faith on the part Of the correspondent,
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Frank Blair has requested leave
to withdraw his resignation as major
general, with view to an early return
to the field. 1t is said the President has
agreed to this, but the practical difiicul-
ty is found in the fact that Blair's yacan-
CIV has already been filled and the who're
number of major generals authorized Uy
law appointed.
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ESCAPE OF REBEL PRIsoNERs.-Twelve
rebel prisoners escaped from Camp
Douglas, Chicago, on the night of the
ed inst. They were confined in the sec
ond story. The Tribune says
Their manner of concealing their
work was most ingenious. While part
of them were at work fling off nail
heads, so that the floor might be raised,
the others sang loudly, ratified chains,
and otherwise engaged the attention of
the guard IN such manner that not
the slightest suspicion of their proceed
ings ever entered the minds Of those
over them. Reaching the ground they
borrowed their way in a zig-zag direc-
ton under the fence depositing the dirt
in an old sink, of the existence of which
Col Strong was ignorant. They CON-
menced to prepare for their escape near
ly six weeks ago At the time of their
leaving rs of the rebels were in the pris-
on, and why only twelve chose to escape
is a mystery.
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE.-The next an
nual session of the Vermont Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, will
be held in April at st. Johnsbury. 91t
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THE REBEL NAVAL REPoRT-A Success
puL FoRGERY.--The document generally
nublisbed in This country and in Europe
as report of Mr.. Mallory, secretary of
the confederate navy, is proved to have
been forgery. The interesting question
now is, who was the forger2
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THE {" You've LADIES AID SocIETY," of
Rutland, forwarded to the" Army Square
Hospital" on Friday Of last week, one
box containing q pairs OF socks, / pair
of mittens, 5 shirts, 2 pairs drawers, 8
napkins, 6 towels, IS lbs. maple sugar,
8 lbs. dried currents, Is lbs. dried apples,
5 lbs. ,prunes, 8 lbs. cheese, IA lbs. dried
beet, 4 lbs. tapicoa, 8 papers of broma,
Obs. corn starch, 8 lbs. sago, 2 lbs.
raisins, 1'bottle of wine doz lemons,
] box of figs, package of reading mat
ter. JuLTA RUGGLEs, Sec.
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WASHINGTON, March 30.
There has prevailed a heavy rain storm
throughout the night, accompanied this
morning by slight fall of snow.
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0 What is mind No NATTER
What is matter2 Never mind What is
the soul2 1t is immaterial .--Puaeh.
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ANTI-SLAvERY AMENDMENT TO THE
CoNsTITuTioN.-Our Geographic report
of the proceedings Of the House of Rep
resentatives on Monday omitted the res
olution introduced by Thaddeus Stevens
for the amendment of the Constitution.
1t was as follows:
" Slavery and involuntary seryitude,
except for the punishment of crime,
whereof the party shall have been du' 9
convicted, is forever prohibited j', .bs
United States and all the Terrific ,.sS 800
SO much of article A, sectio' q II ~ tbt
Constitution, as refers to re- deliyerv y,
of persons owing serv' - or labor escarn :,
my iiilo allo'nei . ate, is annulled." 4
The vote takein on the rejection of this
resolution stood 50 in favor and so OPP
posed. e d4s -a
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FIRE CoNPANY.-St Adams is getting
up Fire Company for the protection of
its property. sl l ei-'i' I
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M 1ERSAL REvENUE.-Th total amount
received from Vermont, according to the
last report, is s2O2,336. New Hamp-
shire, with about the same population,
but more manufactures, paid $4S3 ,692;
while Rhode Island, with less than half
the population, but larger manufactures,
paid $826,950 These figures show very
conclusively that the policy of Congress
has been to tax agriculture lightly, COM
pared with manufactures.