Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-08-17
Miscellaneous Items.

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Mrs, JEFF Davis has made an applica.
ton to President Johnson for permission
to visit her husband at Fortress Monroe,
The request will not be granted.
The number of pardons so far granted
by the President will not exceed 500.
Many applications have, however, been
favorably acted upon by the Attorney
General, but they await the Anal action
Of the President.
The rebel Gen. d. J. Hill, sent to the
Washington workhouse for drunken
ness, was put to work with the other
prisoners, but on Wednesday his fine
was paid by some Washington me-
chanics, and he was released.
There was wicked boy who, when
he was told that the best cure for the
palpitation OF the heart was to Quit
kissing the girls, said: ''If that is the
only reason for palpitatlon, say, let
her palpm
Gen. Taylor's application to the
President was not for pardon, nor for
permission to see Davis, but to be allow
ed to leave the country for France.
President Johnson told him that he
could leave if he desired, but he had
better stay and try and lead his people
in the right way hereafter.
-Barnum has sent an expedition to
Circassia for five additional muchly-
haired damsels, and another to the wilds
Of Africa to procure second edition of
Miss What-is.it. In the meantime he
runs his machine at the Winter Garden.
"A subscription paper is being secret
ly passed around among the secession
sympathizers in Washington for funds
TO aid Mrs. JEFF. Davis, who, to quote the
concluding portion of the petition, lis
in very needy circumstances" A con-
siderable amount has been raised.
Miss Edmonia Lewis, colored
leading sculptures of Richmond, has re-
Gently executed beautiful busts of Col.
Shaw and John Brown. She is soon to
leave for Italy to complete her educa-
ton, at the same time chiseling busts
of Abraham Lincoln, Horace Mann and
Others, for which she now holds orders.
1t has been industriously circulated
that the counsel for Mrs. Surratt per-
formed their services in her behalf gra-
tuitouly. 1t now appears that previous
to her execution her counsel obtained
from her an acknowledgment for $500,
secured upon her real estate.
-" Hangman Foote, has written to
Gov. BroWnlow, of Tennessee, an appli-
cation for pardon. In the course of his
letter, he says he has been aware, ever
since reaching Richmond, in 1860, that
in entering the secession movement, he
committed a grievous and most censur-
able blunder.
Gen. Duncan, in command at Will
mington, has issued a general order for
bidding the enforcement of the old State
law which disarms negroes. He fur
ther says that all arms hitherto taken
from the colored people must be imme-
diately restored to them or sent to his
headanarters. with labels showing to
whom they belong. 49,
1t is understood that Richmond will
not he allowed to hold a charter cleo
ton again until December. TITO nioh
mond and Fredericksburg railroad is
now so far completed that passengers
leaving Washington in the morning ar
rive in Richmond by three o'clock the
same afternoon. The government has
also turned over to its owners the Wash
ington and Alexandria Railroad, thus
forming an unbroken railroad line from
Washington to Richmond.
Charles w. Cheshire, one of the su-
pervisors of Kings County, N. T., man
of previous good character and social
and political standing, was tried by a
court martial recently for accepting
brides, while he was commissioner of
enrolment at Brooklyn, N. Y, and was
fined $1,000 and imprisoned six months
in the Albany penitentiary. His friends
got out a writ Of habeas corpus in his
favor day or two ago, and when it was
served at Albany it was found that he
had been transferred by the general gov
ernment to Boston. His friends claim
Cheshire's innocence.
The irrepressible conflict has lately
taken on personal phase at Savannah.
One Howell, brother-in-law to JEFF. d.
Wis, and three other insulting rebels,
were most soundly thrashed in the pres
ence of all the guests Of the Pulaski
House, by Capt. Hussey alone, for max
ing indecent and insulting remarks
about the President and our flag. Sub
sequently another rebel received similar
deserts from Capt. Hussey for doubling
the ability of one Yankee to whip four
rebels. Howell and his badly whipped
DULLES were then taken to the police sta
tion. The Republican says this lesson
was sadly needed, as Union men have
been uniformly insulted of late there,
and the thing was growing unbearable.
The rebel Brig.-Gen. Mercer has been
sent to Fort Pulaski.
VIM. Jones, alias Jack Sheppard,
was arrested in New York on Friday.
He is daredevil fellow, and only lately
escaped from Sing Sing, whittier he had
been sent for stealing $1,000 worth of
goods from in front of Broadway
store. His plan was to watch favorite
opportunity, hire cartman to take a
box of goods from the sidewalk in front
of some wholesale store, and deliver it
in a side street. Then, having it trans
ported several times, he would cover up
traces of it. In this way, he had sue
ceeded in getting hold of goods worth
many thousands of dollars.
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