Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-05-04
Miscellaneous Items,

The notorious rebel Col. Jessie and
twenty-eight Of his guerrillas were cap,
tured IN kentucky, on Monday.
In attacking the Mobile forts, Gen.
Macarthur used mortars made of gum
tree and hooped with iron, which serve>t
every purpose.
The Washington Republican says
that on the 14th instant Major General
Burnside mailed, in New York, his res
lgnation to President Lincoln. The lat
ter never received it.
We learn from the Richmond Times
OF Friday that prices of fresh meat, fish.
vegetables and salad in the market there
are at least twenty per cent. lower than
they are in Boston, and the Times saws
that half the figures specified are
enough, and complains of the extortion
of the hucksterS.
Miss DR.. Ellen B. Harmon of New
York is in trouble. A policeman arrest
ed her on Fulton street the other day
for wearing "neat, comfortable pants"
Ellen B. feels badly about it, and asks
in an injured manner what is male at.
tire q She don't see why women can't
wear pants just as well as men. Poor
Ellen
Empty bottles thrown into the sea
on the west coast of Africa have been
picked up on the coast of Ireland.
The guerrilla Mosby has $4,000
worth Of tobacco which he wants to
convert into greenbacks. This of course
increases his desire to surrender Bet
ter take the tobacco and keep the green
backs
Lee, Beauregard and Hardee pro-
Claimed in speeches aud through the
press that no lady would be safe if the
Yankees took possession Of the sun
ny land" Yet Beauregard left his wife
in New Orleans when Butler took pos
session of that city; Hardee left his
wife IN Savannah under similar circum-
stances, and Lee did the same thing at
Richmond.
The Raleigh Standard and the Raj
eigh Progress, which are still conduct
ed by their former editors, appear in
mourning and pay touching tributes to
the memory of the departed President
They call him the best friend of the
South, and pronounce his death a far
greater blow to the South than to the
North.
The late Archbishop of Dublin once
inquired Of physician, Why does the
operation of hanging kill a man 2"
Because inspiration is checked, circu.
lation stopped, and blood sufuses and
congests the brain" "BOsh !" replied
MS Grace, ait is because the rope is not
long enough to let his feet touch the
ground"
Evidence discloses that there were
ten consplrators in the assassination
plot; that at a meeting held in Mem
phis they selected by lot the assassins of
the President. Our authorities have a
letter which says tit becomes your
happy lot to destroy this tyrant. You
can select the cup, the blade or the bull
let; out yon k''ot0 the cup has once been tried.
aud it .fa'lea."
The army of the Potomac is under
going some important changes just now.
The Sixth corps has been sent to Wash |
lngton to be stationed along the Orange |
ana Alexandria Railroad, as a guard for |
that important line of communication |
The Ninth corps has moved off in sun |
port OF a large body of cavalry, and it |
Is supposed to be on the way to ioin |
Sherman. The Second and Fifth corps
are still encamped along the Southside
Railroad, near the scene of the late plo-
rious conflict.