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

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A Society for the Abolition of Slavery
in the Spanish Possessions in the West
Indies" has just been organized at Mad
rid, with Senior A. arrange, Senator
and large landed proprietor in Cuba, for
its President, Another star risen on the
horizon of liberty
1t is said that the daughter of Robert
Toombs waits on his table, but that she
does not dare TO call him father; for
her name is not recorded In the leaf of
the big ha' Bible but the roll which
he threatened to call on Bunker Hill
The PlatteyUe wisconsin, Witness
notes the return home of Miss Geor-
giana Peterman, who has been for two
years drummer in the Seventh Wiscon-
sin Regiment She lives in Ellenboro,
is about twenty years old, wears sold
iers clothes and is quiet and reserved.
The startling fact has been derived
from rebel sources that during the past
two years siXty-tour thousand national
soldiers have died in rebel prisons. OF
these thirty thousand were buried at
Andersonvllle Ga. twelve thousand at
Danville, Va, and ten thousand at Rich
mond.
Gen. Grant has issued an order in
tended to put a stop to the illegal trade
now going on in the rebel States of Vir-
ginia, North and South Carolina and
Georgia. He suspends operations under
Treasury trade permits, except within
certain districts, and the military are
directed to seize all goods which may be
sent forward in contravention Of these
directions.
BY the new postal law the system
of free delivery is to be established in
every place containing population of
fifty thousand, and at such other places
as the Postmaster General, in his judg-
ment shall direct, provided that the pre-
payment on drop letters in all places
where free delivery is not established
shall be one cent only.
The Richmond Whig mentions the sui
eide of a citizen named Moore, supposed
to be caused by morbid mental depres-
sion brought on by the high prices of ev-
erything at the market house, whence
he had Just returned. The scarcity and
high prices at the markets are calcula-
ted to have a maddening effect on per-
sons of large families and small means.
Mr.. Moore was a watchman at the city
pumphouse, and leaves wife and large
family.
The Washington Chronicle says the
report that a package of S175000 in
Treasury notes had been found by a
sweeper in the Treasury Department and
returned to Mr.. McCulloch originated
from the finding of certificate for
$4,000 that was Of no earthly value to
any one except the official to whom it
;?as made In trust, which had been ac-
cidentaiiy dropped into waste news
paper basket, and was found and deliv-
cred into the proper hands.
james Watson Webb, our minister
to Brazil, lately sold an unarmed steam
eT, the Cotopaxi, to the Brazilian gov
ernment without the consent of the
master, Capt. John Goldman, or anything
of the kind, The captain refused to
acknowledge the sale and Webb waxed
wroth and threatened to send the secre-
tary of legation, the American consul
and a squad of police to seize the ship.
Goldman laughed in Webb's face and told
him he would pitch the secretary of le-
CATION overheard if he came into his
ship to seize it; the consul and chief of
police declined to interfere. and at last
accounts Webb was as mad as he could
be That Webb is u great fellow for
getting into muses..
A paragraph that a food at East
port has destroyed one or two million
dollars worth of cOmmssary stores, is
contradcted in a dispatch received by
Quartermaster-G Gen. Meigs, from Nash
vile, saying that the loss at EastpOrt is
trifiing, with the exception of the sub
merging Of fifty or sixty thousand bush
els Of grain, most of which will be
saved in q damaged state, and when
sold, will realize a part of its cost.
There has been much damage to rail
roads in the Department of Cumberland
the bridges being, many of them,
trestle bridges, built after the defeat and
expulsion of the rebel army but the
roads will all be open again by the end
of March. The troops have not suffered
from the temporary interruption of COM
muniCation.
1t is stated that few nights before
our occupation of Wilmington, about
hundred escaped Union prisoners con-
cealed there froze to death, and their
bodies were put into houses which were
set on fire and consumed The negroes
declare this to be fact.
The Chicago Post says the great pro-
jected cavalry expedition Qf any such
expedition was ever projected) from Ten
nessee river to Mobile, has been aban-
doned, and powerful army is concen-
trating under Gen. Thomas, within the
State of Tennessee, to guard the back
door Of rebel escape.
brigham Young is perfectly neutral.
In a recent sermon he said: 1.-THE
North prays that their swords may
strike into the heart of every rebel, and
say amen And the South prays that
the North may be cut down on thou
sand battle-fields,and again | say amen"
-FTom an official statement of the
results of blockade-running at Viii
mington, published in the Manchester
(Eug.) Guardian, we learn that the to-