Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-11-30
Miscellaneous Items.

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Miscellaneous Items.
The navel vessels sold since the
close Of the rebellion brought $2,s90,.
400.
The Canal Commissioners Of New
York have decided to close the canals on
the 18th Of December,
Charles Dickens son has been n.
Gently appointed Judge at Melbourne,
Australia.
"A Brooklyn gentleman was followed
Into his residence by desperate few
nights since, and choked until he hand.
ed over to the villain the contents Of his
purse, sl0s
--0n election day at Opelika, AM, q
body of negroes came to that city, AMI
informed their employer that they wish.
ed to vote. n
Over $500, 900, 900 worth of railroad
property belonging to the Government
has been sold TO Southern railroad com.
panies on credit, and their notes taken.
some of them 10 run two years and
over.
1t is said that a military commits
sion has been ordered on the strength Of
complaints by the Prussian government,
for the purpose of investigating charges
against the Massachusetts State author.
tiles of enlisting PrussisA subjects with
a view to fill their quotas during the
late war.
1t is proposed, says Titusvilie pa
per, to lay down twelve miles of tubing
from Pithole to Titusville, for the con.
veyance Of oil without the delay and OK.
pense of teaming. The following is the
estimate: Allowing two thousand bar
rels per day to pass through the tube,
sixty thousand barrels of Oil would paI'
for the whole capital stock, $3.50, 600, q /
the present rate Of teaming, in sasrcj
days. 81
-Bartholde Dresser. late clerk i
the office ct the Second Auditor Of th e
r--.sufy Department, and his two COZ !.
federates, william Rubee and Harmo q
dossman, who were arrested on chare e
OF attempting to carry out huge frau d
on the government by the abstraction ,f
the vouchers of soldiers claims, ha re
been committed for trial in default If
bail to the amonnt of thirty. five thou :
sand dollars in the aggregate. his
sfafed that the accused have made, sog T.
THE CRITICAL STATE OF TAzHes q IN
THE Rio GRANDE.-There is some da1g er
of military complications on the 10
Grande that will materially shorten dr.
Stewards diplomatic labor in the set tie.
ment of the Mexican question. Tha lib.
erals are still hanging around Mata mo-
ras, which is on the south bank Of the
narrow river, opposite to Browns Vile
on our side, where Gen. Weitzel as q
respectable military force. His sol ldiers
are disposed to sympathiZe with - le lib.
erals to the extent of crossing the river,
each with musket and forty r0y lnds OF
ball cartridge, and they can haN lily be
restrained. Weitzel himself ev identity
believes the Monroe doctrine so' nething
more than an empty abstraction !.
Our warin Mexico, in 1876, was &C.
cidentally brought on by Gen. Taylor in
stumbling upon an armed Mex can force
on a slip of disputed territo ~. The
same thing may happen again and Con-
gress, as in 1846, may be sut ldenly re-
quired to. come to the relief o the State
Department.
We guess that in PreSider t Johnsons
message to Congress there win be some
valuable hints given to Lou is Napoleon
and his man Macmillan. If not before,
we shall have the ground broken on f.Sis
Mexican problem with the meeting of
Congress-