Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-26
Miscellaneous Items.

Counterfeit $50 bills on the First
National bank of Portland is In circula-
ton.
A marble statue of Washington IT.
wing is to be erected in the vestlouie OF |
the church erected as 8 memorial to him
in Sleepy Hollow.
lanes Brooks and Fernando Wood
are among the New York delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention.
1t is now said that the little brig
Vision, which ostensibly started to cross
the Atlantic couple of years ago was
really a blockade runner, and TOOK
small but valuable cargo OF quinine to
the people of Charleston.
Reports from Apalachicola, Florida,
state that schooner containing eighty
Ave negroes, enticed from various parts
of the State, has been seized by the
limited States authorities. The vessel
was about to sail to Cuba, where the
blacks would be sold The commander
rave his name as John F. Bonner, from
Cincinnati. He was arrested.
We find the following in the Phila-
delphia Bulletin: "When the Attorney
General babe adieu to the President, the
latter jocularly referred to him as
Speed, the parting guest
The attempts of Congress to induce Mr..
johnson to keep shady, by passing
things over his head, are deserving OF
2 all praise this hot weather.
e Herr Louis Staab, formerly teacher
of music in St. Louis, took out protec'
, ton papers during the war to escape
tbe service. A little while ago he went
y to Europe. There he applied to the
r American consul for protection papers
s as an American citizen, but the lattel
Y being posted, Staab could not get tht
protection of the stars and stripes, SO Mt
had to enter the Prussian army and ngn
10 for fatherland.
d The Southern journals are earnestly
II urging their Northern democratic 1rieho'
=, to change their party name, as us ioen
81 LITIGATION with the cause OF reoeillon ma
J. rendered it so odious to the mass
,e Northern people as to render 1t lncapa
BILE hereafter of political victory.
ANONYMOUS circulars are being sen
l. IN the Union men of Louisiana, warnln!
e. them that longer to remain in that Stat
er than a given period will subject then
3, TO the danger Of assassination. Genera
tie Sheridan is endeavoring to ferret out tn
Il, authors.
Su There is considerable speculation
on n who will be chosen Vice Presider
as ,ro TEN of the Senate before the adjourn
W mont Senators Pomeroy, Wade an
~. Sherman are mentioned, out IL 10 conI'
.. ded that the east should have IL, as I'll
~ President and Speaker OF the house al
both from the west
Darius Hiatt, a German farmer, +
he siding in Franklin county, Me-, on Tue
,g, dav last took long butchers knl
rn- home. cut his wife's throat, threw s
Ill thonsaud dollars in greenbacks into q
do stove and then ended the scene by Gu
iia ting his own throat. A granu-chiio >"
ne the only witness present.
nv THE Norwich Bulletin, in speakll
~ of Senator Dixon's endorsement OF :
his Philadelphia Convention, says;
- has chosen to abandon the party OF !
he union. for new concern, Whlch III
vve live a month, but for whose longer OK
+be tence the omens are decidedly unpro
,re. tious. He goes into a lonely district
ION We shake hands st parting, and only
,iIv him to give our kind remembrance
70 John Bell, Willard Fillmore, James
chairman and those other conseryat
souls who used to enliven the country
with their solemn songs over dissev
arls ed union"
taly in Charleston, S. c., on Mond
the Judge Bryan, in the United States Coz
decided that the existence of peace
sent President Johnsons plo1.a Sn,nn Of
by April z, declaring tne supp. Ii,co,
t to insurrection, revokes President Llhco
-taly proclamation of 1858, and that es
,dri. citizen Is entitled to the dement's Oh
writ of habeas corpus.