Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-03-23
Miscellaneous Items

Robert Cobb Kennedy, one of the
New York hotel burners, has been SEN
fenced to death and will be hung soon.
He is now in Fort Lafayette
Prof. Silliman tells us that the tin
mines in Cornwall, England, were worked
in the time OF Solomon and tin from
these mines was used IN the bronze that
ornamented the Jewish temple.
A laborer in the treasury department
at Washington named Davis found
$4,000 package of notes while he was
sweeping out last Saturday He hand
ed it over to the secretary, rare hon
esty.
A cotton mandatory is to be erect
ed in San Francisco. The staple is to
be procured from SinalOa, Utah, and the
Sandwich Islands, while the efforts are
making to cultivate it in California.
The slave pens in Louisville Ky, like
those Of Baltimore, Washington and
New Orleans, have been broken up. On
the l4th instant, General Palmer Or
dared the release OF all the slaves con-
fined in Louisville
"A Charleston correspondent says
that secure Union League has existed
in Charleston during the rebellion. DR..
Mackey was the chief officer; Gov. AK
en- Judge BUST, and five hundred others
were members.
In 4 country theatre there were only
seven persons in the house one night.
The pit took Otfense at the miserable
acting of performer, and Kissed him
energetically; whereupOn the manager
brought his company on the stage, and
>Oat-Atssea the visitors.
The rebel Legislature of Louisiana,
which has been holding three weeks
session in some unknown place, has just
adjourned. No account OF their doings
has been published but it is fair to
presume that two of the three weeks
were devoted to the removal OF the cap
ital from place to place, as the misera-
BILE fugutiyes were stirred up by Union
demonstrations.
j. NJ. Wells was inaugurated as
Governor of free Louisiana on the 4th,
for the uneXplred term of Gov. Hahn,
who is elected United States Senator.
Mr.. Wells has been Union man from
the start, and sacrificed his slaves at the
beginning of the war rather than aid
the rebellion.
The Chicago Journal is treading on
dangerous ground, as will be seen by
the following notice to quit" which
was served on it the other day Mr..
Editur, Eff you doant stop a bloawn
aboute the First Ward in ure paper you
may get inter trubbel The First Ward
are oil rite. By trubbel I mean gitten
licked. Ures, First Ward" Judging
from his spelling we should call this
First Ward brother of ARENAS.
The Hon. Daniel Voorhees,, Judge
Hughes, late of the Court of Claims,
and j. II. Bradley, have been retained
to defend Miss Harris, who recently
killed Burroughs, clerk in the Treas
ury Department at Washington.
1t is stated that a marriage ceremo-
ny was recently performed in CRANKY,
Conn, during which the officiating cler-
gyman forgot himself, and prayed
that the family and friends Of the de-
ceased" might be watched over. The
mistake interfered somewhat with the
solemnity Of the proceedings
An interesting discovery has just
been made in tumulus at EkaterinOs-
low, in Russia. 1t consists Of treas
ure which formerly belonged to u chief
Of the Huns. Among the different ar
ticles is heavy gold djadem, large
collar, bracelets, and drinking cups with
handles formed by animals, the whole OF
which are in gold of remarkable work
manship.
The story that the French authori-
ties at MatamOras had elected the Unit
ed States Consul at that place is eAectu-
ally exploded by the official statement
that we had no Consul there Mr.. Wood
is a commercial agent only, having no
diplomatic status, and, besides, even he
has not been sent off, but he is now reg
ularly attending to the business Of his
agency.
The attempt 10 grow oranges and
lemons In California is every year be-
coming more suCc> sui. The principal
groves are at Los Angeles, where there
are half dozen men engaged in the
business, and where last year about
$4,000 orfnges and 10000 lemons were
grown. This year nearly 100000 oranges
md 10000 lemons have been raised in
that vicinity.
-Sherman's march through the Caro-
linas, living upon the country as he
goes, is equivalent to collecting an in
come tax from the rebels, and adding
the saving of the cost of his army to
the resources of the Government. This
is mode of collecting United States
tax that the rebels did not think of
when they ridiculed the financial meas
ures of the Government.
The Albany Evening Journal has
commenced under its new management,
Postmaster Dawson and George W. De-
mers being joint principal editors. The
Journal says the arrangement was made
with the full knowledge and consent of
Mr.. Weed and other prominent republi-
cans, and felicitates itself upon the &C
QUESTION Of Mr.. Demers and "the
more perfect consolidation and harmony
Of the Union party of the state" The