Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-09-07
Miscellaneous Items.

Warning to ladies.-Tat,le begins
with T.
The marine losses for August show
an aggregate of thirty five vessels, hav-
ing a value of S2.7l7000.
The farmers around Petersburg
are afraid to pillow up their land for fear
Of striking unexploded shells.
The National Intelligencer says the
President will soon bestow promotion
on Gems VIM. B. Franklin and "Baldy"
Smith.
Thirty Laplanders, dressed in furs
and skins, accompanie by twelve Swedes,
have arrived in ST. Paul to settle in Min
nesOta.
1t is said that the Emperor OF the
French will not allow the Prince lmpe-
rial to confess in the ordinary way but
that number of questions, drawn up
by himself, are put by the father.con-
lessor to the Prince in the presence and
hearing of q third person. No other
questions are allowed.
Thirteen brothers and sisters-the
oldest not twenty years of age-now lie
side by side in graveyard near Walkers
vile, Md, all of whom died of dip
liberia. Eight Of them have died with
in the past four weeks.
A Cork (Ireland) paper says the Fe,
mans are very active in that city and
neighborhood. Large crowds regularly
assemble for drill, and illegal gather
ings are no longer held ia out-of. the
way places, but in open day, and the
members avow their intentions without
reserve.
"A French editor has given the fol-
lowing sensible description of the effect
of an advertisement The first time
man sees au advertisement he takes no
notice of it; the second time he looks
at the name; the third time he looks at
the price; the fourth time he reads it;
the fifth time he speaks Of it to his wife;
the sixth time he buys.
The office seekers are not all dead
yet Preston King, the new collector at
New York, has about 1000 offices at his
disposal, and there are already some
20 900 applicants, most of whom are
evidently doomed TO disappointment.
There are some 1900 applicants for the
position of third auditor of the treasury
at Washington, now held by John Will
son Of Chicago who is suggested as the
probable chief OF the executive bureau,
provided that Congress authorizes it.
Its gratifying to observe the spirit
with which the Southern people enter
into the national banking system. APP
pliCatiOns have been received by the
Comptroller OF the Currency from almost
every place Of Importance in the South
for the establishment of banks, with
capitals varying from fifty to five hun
dred thousand dollars. Among the APP
piCatiOns lately received are those from
Newbern, Wilmington, Raleigh and
Charlotte, North Carolina; Charleston
and Columbia, South Carolina Savan-
nah and Augusta, Georgia; Mobile, Sell
ma, Atlanta, Montgomery and Hunts
vile, Alabama Helena, Arkansas and
at Houston and Galveston, Texas.
Gen. Logan, the special friend of the
late Stephen A. Douglas, made a speech
in Morgan county, Illinois, a few days
ago in which he said that the recon-
struCtiOn policy of the present admins
was willing to endorse it as long as
there was any hope of its success. He
confessed, however, that he did not like
this wholesale system of pardoning reb-
els. He was opposed to the restoration
Of rights of citizenship until the rebels
had brought forth fruits meet for re-
pentance. He cautioned his auditory in
the most pungent terms to avoid COM
paniOnship or determination with any
person or party who had sympathized
with rebellion or it's aiders and abet-
tors.
"A mad bull got loose in New York
on Thursday and made raid up Green
witch street After tossing a policeman
into the air, the animal made a great
excitement among the ladies by depriv-
ing one Of them Of her Crinohne. A lit
tie boy was tossed through a second
story window, and several persons badly
gored. The bull finally bounded into
china shop and made terrible havoc
among the crockery, TIE Infatuated
beast was finally shot by policeman.
Seth Kinman, the California hunter
who presented an elk-horn chair to Mr..
Lincoln, has constructed another for Mr..
Johnson. 1t is made of two grizzly
bears captured by himself. The four
legs, with the feet and claws in perfec-
ton, are those of huge grizzly bear,
while the arms are the arms and paws
Of another grizzly, The back and sides
are also ornamented with immense
claws. The seat is soft and exceeding
ly comfortable; but the great feature"
of the institution" is, that by touching
cord the head Of a monster grizzly
bear, with extended jaws, will dart from
under the seat, swapping and crashing
its teeth as natural as life.
Nor YET READY.-A short time since
we noticed the call for convention of
the Bishops of the Methodist Church,
South, and expressed the hope that it