Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-07-06
miscellaneous Items.


nv with q respite from the Governor
postponing the execution till the 9TH OF |
July.
One of the daughters Of the Lon
don Rothschild and son of the Vienna
one were married at London on the Sth
in the tallest kind OF shape. The mar
rage ceremony was IN the Jewish formi
and the presents were magnificent Ihe
parties were cousins, it being one of the
ruling ideas of the Rothschild brothers
TO keep all their wealth in the family by
intermarriages.
There has been a Wholesale business
done at swindling returning soldiers,
particularly at Washington and vicini-
ty, where sharpers have bought up the
claims of soldiers upon the government
at an enormous discount, sometimes pay
inc less than e-fourth of the face val
ne of the claim. The would-be biters
have themselves cot bitten in many
cases, for the government won't recog-
nize the simple transfer of the soldiers
achecx books as aslegal assignment OF
the claim.
Y,
mond, has issued an order announcing
that, slavery having ceased to exist in
Virginia, all the State and municipal
laws restraing the personal liberty OF
colored persons have become obsolete,
and that hereafter the colored people
will enjoy the same personal liberty as
the whites, and De subject to only the
same restraints AID punishments. va
grancy, however, will not be permitted
on the part of tie negroes any more
than that of whit, citizens. The testi-
mony Of colored persons, he also states,
will be received in all cases before the
military courts in this department.
Mr.. Robert Dale Owen has addressed
to the Presidents long letter, remind
ing Mr.. johnson. l. Of the days in
! which they were congressman together;
2. That there is an aspect Of the negro
suffrage question that has attracted less
attention than it merits; 3. Goes into
an elaborate statistical statement OF the
proportions of white and COlOred repre-
sensations; 4. Controverts the idea Of
different political status for different
| colors. and enunciateS the axiom that
all the political power which is with
| held from The emancipated slave is
| gained by the Southern white" D.
Thenceforward pleads with great force
for the enfranchisement Of the freedmen
Mr. Owen in this lecture is even FOL
him, unusually clear, terse and vigor
| Gus in his argument.
| The exciting contest at the fair il
Chicago between the friends of Sheri
dan and Sherman, for the magnificen
goid-mounted pistol, given for thu
best General" finally closed Tuesda!
night, the vote standing: Sheridan, 1897
Sherman, 447; with two or three hun
dred scattering. Sheridan kept ahea'
the first two VEGAS, Snermon'c friend
got the start last week, but Tuesday tn
Sheridan men rallied in force and too
the prize by an overwhelming maiorit!
The silver-mounted pistol was voted t
Brig. Gen. T. o. Osborn, of Chicago, la
Colonel Of the Both Illinois. The MAJ
Il nificent $500 sword in the Philadelph
r department in Union Hall has not t
. vet been awarded, but it is hoped TIL
: it will be voted to Gen. Logan.
y There is an exciting incident co
= nected with the reprieve of Walter
the New York murderer. His couns
ex-Judge Stuart, secured the respite
Thursday evening, and Walters was
=. be hung the next morning at nil
- Counsel missed the night train at Alt
nv and had to take the boat. The ne
morning the boat struck fog near Ne
~ York, and was delayed several hou
~ The captain had more steam put on a
~ counsel was landed on the Canal strt
u wharf at half past eight. Jumping
10 to q carriage, the horses were driven
49, a headlong speed to the Toombs, VIM
~ was reached Just As the prisoner
q being led to the place Of execution.
e. g course there was excessive Joy over
result.
Henry Ward Beecher made spec
Mt in Boston, the other day, denOunci
to the legal requirement that every citi7
rs, should be able to read and write bet'
ed | he should be allowed to vote. "Cluz
Dr. ship he said, ''hag nothing to do W
las reading and writing. Talk of edu
W. tion being necessary to make vot
ore To vote only requires common hone
in and good common sense" This is p
of business for man of Mr.. Beecher's I
it ibre to be engaged in, He knows t
ect intelligence has great deal to do W
ion voting, or at least ought to have
the to talk as he did in the only State in
XII Union that makes intelligence the b'
1t of suffrage, was nther ungracious
iris use no harsher term.
nee General Hartsuf, commanding
as Petersburg, Va, has forbidden, in an
I'M fetal order, the holding Of any N
In IN meetings by the planters, to establish
lor fixed price for the labor Of negroes, 9
20" make distinctions prejudiciai to t
1aI- interests, and indifference in rate
IL" compensation for the same labor
whites and blacksis to be allowed
Il that department.
tios The Louisville Democrat asks
ovs following question: Shall the ne
nth live by the sweat of the white m
Ills facet" To which the Louisville j
CO.. nal replies: "No stree, he is goint
nea. live upon corn dodgers and ham
rmr- as he won't have any master to feed
nod whether he worts or not, it will
Root hog, or die, with him We G