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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

PORK. - Hollis Day of Coventry, re-
Gently slaughtered a hog fifteen months
and twenty-three days old which weighed
SAB pounds.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29
Local and state TENS.

WEST RUTLAND.-Divine services will
be held at the Catholic church in West
Rutland next Sabbath at the usual
hours. Rev. Thomas Halpine officates.
THE ''CoI. MERRILL, We yesterday
had the pleasure of inspecting fine new
locomotive just turned out at the ma
chine shop of the Rutland & Burlington
Railroad company in this place and
called the "Col. Merrill" in honor of the
we'll known able and efficient superin-
tendent of the road. The new machine
weighs about q tons, has Is inch
cylinder, with twenty-five inch stroke
of piston and five-foot driving wheels,
and is considered one of the most power
full engines on the road. She is one of
the most neatly finished machines we
have ever had the pleasure Of eXamin-
ing, being supplied with all the latest
and most modern Improvements. Her
"cab" is a personifcatiOn of parlor
furniture being finished in black walnut,
with raised roof aud ground glass win
dows, presenting to the beholder a de-
gree Of comfort, power and durability
rarely witnessed upon locomotive. The
"Col. Merrill" was built under the i'm
mediate superintendent and direction
of N L. Davis, Esq, the accomplished
master mechanic of the Rutland & Bur-
lington road, who though he has turned
ont many q handsome piece of mechan-
ism during his connection with the ma
chine shops of the company, feels just
pride in this his last and most perfect
work of art. The new machine is in
tended to run on the mail train between
this place and Burlington. Long may
she wave"
CHEERING,-Col. Joyce town grand ju-
ror informs us that not single case OF
drunkenness or disorderly conduct has
come within his knowledge the past
week. This speaks well for the law and
order of our town, and we can only hope
that such may be the Colone's weekly
report.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

Cons To tbs WEST ISpIRs.-The sen.
Tor editor of Burlington Free Press, Geo.
W. Benedict, ESQ, in company With his
estimshle wife, has taken passage to the
West Indies, where he proposes spending
the winter for the benefit OF his health.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

SHARP SHoorING.-George A. Sterling
of Warren, shot an owl off the top of
two STORY barn, last Saturday night
about ten o'clock, which measured four
feet and eight inches from tip to tip of
the wings There was a moon, but
cloudy.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

REMovAL.-We learn that Alfred Buck
ley, Esq, has been appointed postmaster
at Granville, N. Y, in place of B. F.
Ottarson, ESQ., removed. Mr.. Ottarson
has held the Office for over five years
past, and by constant personal attention
to its duties, has rendered it one of the
best kept postoffices within the range OF
our observation. But Mr.. 0. has been
lifelong advocate of liberty, equality
and progress, and as such, Of course,
could expect no favors from the "powers
that be-"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

WoULDN'T TAKE IT.-Hon. John Howe,
Jr., of Brandon, Senator from this coun-
ty, and Franklin P. Ball, Representative
from Springfield, refused to take their
extra pay, voted by the General Assem-
bly,, SAL each, so the amount still remains
in the hands of the State Treasurer.
This act is indeed worthy Of notice.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

E1 The Washington National Repub-
licau proclaims with the voice Of su-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

personal Gen. Samuel P. Spear
who commanded the right wing OF the
Fenian army of invasion, at Pigeon
Hill, C. E, last summer, has been ap-
pointed acting Secretary of War Of the
Roberts wing of the Fenlan Brother.
hood, vice Gen. Thomas w. Sweeney, re-
signed,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

PATEETs-Patcnts were issued to the fol-
lowing Vermonters for the week ending
Nov. Goth:
J. R. Rumrill of Hartford, for i'm
provement ia water wheels.
Denuis Lane of Montpelier, for M
provement 10 saw mills
Andrew T Merriman of Rutland, and
Thomas Ross Of MddIebury, Vt, as
sgners to selves and ], B. Reynolds
and R. Barrett of Rutland, Vt, for i'm
proved machine for channelsiug stones.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

national Wool, GRowER's AssocIA.
TIoN.-At the annual meeting Of the Ma
tioual Wool. Growers Association re.
Gently held at Cleveland, Henry Clark
Esq, of Poultney was reelected Treas
Urcr, and Hon. Edwin Hammond Of
Middlebury, a member of the Executive
Committee.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

ERRATTAs.-The statement that Lar
kin G. Mead has been commissioned to
execute soldiers monument for Brat
tleboro is a mistake. The monument is
for st. Johnsbury.
The st. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN says:
Several of the State papers announce
the removal of E. D. Redington as PEN
sion agent. E. D. is the son of E. c., the
agent removed, and we are requested by
him to state that he does not wish the
sins of the father visited upon the sons"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-29

SABA little son of Emore Chase Of
Concord Corners, last July broke one of
mis- limbs. The fracture was a very pain
full one, and the little fellow was just
recovering from its effects, when one day
last week he fell again and broke the
bone in the same place as before.
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The Captains General of Cuba.

A Havana correspondent of the New
Orleans Crescent gives an account of
the festivities attending the departure
of Dulce, the late Governor General
of Cuba, and adds:
Probably no other Governor Gen
eral was ever So popular with the ere
oles. The affair must have cost some
5000 to 10000 dollars, besides, he
was presented on board with box,
to be opened by him out Mt sea, and
said to contain over $4,000 in hard
cash The Office of Governor General
is very lucrative one. The salary is
twice that of our President, while the
inside pickings are supposed to be
much larger Concha was said to have
carried away 100000. Serrano
was almost bankrupt, and being IA
vorite of the Queen was, at his own in
stance, appointed captain general here
with a view Of recuperating his for
tunes. He made enough. / do not
know, but intelligent and knowing
people say that Dulce must have
made a million. Each new captain
general has new state carriage and
four horses furnished free of expense,
and he has three palaces. Only one
of these buildings is called a palace;
but the one in the Cerro, called Quin.
ia de los Molinos, is what we in the
States would term palace 1t is 0
large and exceedingly lovely spot
with all the appliance and comforts
of advanced civilization. The other
and summer residence, at Mariana
/ Give miles from the outer limits O
Hayana) is also magnificent resi-
dence. The Governor General o
Cuba is well provided for Having al
almost royal sway, and representing
in his person and powers his sovereign
with, in some respects, more author
ity than the sovereign herself --h'
is recognized emphatically, as per
son great in authority.
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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1866.

famine which ragged in Canaan, Pha-
roah offered him sheep. oxen and cam
els. Horses would doubtless have been
added had they then existed, or had
thcy been domcsticated in Egypt.
Fifty years afterwards, when Abraham
iourneved to Mount Moriah, to offer
up his only son, he rode upon an ass,
which with all his wealth and power
he would not have done had the horse
been known. Thirty years later an
account is given Of the number of oxen,
sheep, camels, goats and asses which
Jacob sent to appease the anger OF
Esau, but no horses are mentioned.
Twonty-four years after this, when
famine again devastated Canaan, and
Jacob sent into Egypt TO buy corn we
first hear Of horses. Wagons drawn
by horses were sent by Joseph into
Canaan to bring his father into Egypt.
Even then, however, horses do not
seem to have been used as beasts ci
burden, for the corn which was to be
conveyed some hundreds Of miles to
afford sustenancc to Jacobs large
household, was carried on asses. =
Jonnoi If Commerce
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Dress in England.

a London correspondent Of the Chi
clpO Ii1buie writes as follows
There has never been a time during
the present reign in England when SO
much money has been spent, as at the
present period, upon dresses Our
( fair ones are running u race in extay-
agance. In many families the cost per
person for dress averages $1,000 year
- this, of course exclusive Of iewelry.
For single dress, prices varying from
$40 to $3.50 are frequently paid 1t
is in the rareness of material and its
amount that the excess usually con-
sists, not in the skill or art of the de-
sign. During this week | have been
present at the opening of what is called
the international Horticultural Exhi-
btion, in the fashionable part Of Lon
don-an occasion on which the tickets
of admission were one guinea, and
there l saw the prevalent wastefulness
displayed in the morning dress
Trains of satin, some yards long,
were seen dragging over gravel walks
and collecting all foreign matter from
the grass. Lace was there in shawls
and cloaks, which used to be worn only
in very small quantities by our grand
mothers. As to our bonnets, very soon
they viii disappear, if they continue to
diminish at the rate they have followed
for the last two or three seasons. They
have dwindled into something Of the
size Of a broad piece Of ribbon, but the
shapes that are chosen are scarcely TO
be numbered Watching the fine fig
nres Of many of oUr English. girls, sur
rounded by an immense breadth Of
some exquisite precious stuff and
wearing on their heads some odd jun
bic of ribbons and flowers We are fire.
quently forced 10 admire; but if, ia the
midst Of our nominations, the form
arises in our minds Of the chaste and
natural style Of a few years back, with
its simple adornmeut and harmony
with the native grace-or Of a classical
drapery such as Mile. Rachel used to
wear in her tragedies these walking
bales Of goods, these diapers and
dressmakers' models, cease to charm.
Can any kind OF dress be suited to
rs which prevents the exercise Of
muscles and limbs The countesses
and duchesses whom / saw on Tues
day at Kensington We're exposed to q
hundred mishaps. To walk with such
trappings is difficulty, but to walk.
and to stop, and to turn round, is
danger. You may take your hat off
to lady, these days, but if you adj
vance to shake her little hand, you
auster her, for you may tread upon
her dress. Ii she is alarmed, her adj
mirer is still more so, Some men
have acquired the greatest dexterity
in avoiding an unfortunate step, for
there are men who can stand on any
thing on the spire OF St. Paul's, but to
the average, the modern garb of our
ladies is n snare and a vexation."
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-07-13
LincOln's Last Inauguration.

From Frank Hoore's ADet dofes. 2
The days Of omens and presages are
past. The Roman warriors and sages
were frequently influenced in the
most important acts, by the feeding
of the sacred chickens, the fight of a
flock of birds, or the quivering of the
flesh of victim
The appearances of nature which
take place at the time of great histori-
cal events are often long remembered,
aud subsequent occurrences reflect
upon them a striking and painful en-
phasis.
This is true of the following Incl
dent, which was witnessed. at the sec
ond Inauguration of President Lin
coin, by the editor of this volume
The 4th of March, 1865, rs commonly
happens in tho latitude of Washing
ton, was one Of those itful March
days when cloud and sunshine chase
each other, in vivid alienation, across
the landscape. The editor was stand
ing, with Hon. S. b. Colby, Register
of the Treasury, on the Senate portico
Of the Capitol, in the midst of the vast
and expectant throng, who were await
ing, with suppressed enthusiasm, the
stepping out of that tall, familiar fig
ure that had for four years moved at
the head of our public affairs.
He who now sits in the Executive
chair had Just made that famous
speech in which the plebian extraction
of "A great number of the prominent
men of America was so distinctly
brought forward All eyes we're now
turned in one direction; and at this
instant the gaunt figure, surmounted
by the kindly face, was seen moving
forward to the place where the Chief
Justice Of the United States was wait
ing to administer the sacred oath of
office.
AT this moment bar of bright sun
light, bursting through the riffs of a
flying cloud, rested for moment up
on the head of Lincoln, and surround
ed it with a halo which was greeted
with murmurs of admiration and ex-
CARNATIONS of delight from thousands
Of bps 1t lasted but an instant.
The deep shadow of storm-cloud
swept across the Capitol, and the vast
crowd by which it was surrounded;
and that head, which q moment be-
fore had been bright with an unnat-
ural lustre, was shrouded now in
gloom.
A month had hardly passed before
hundreds who saw the phenomenon
were wondering whether the tragedy
of April mad not been dimly prehgured
in the flying clouds of that fitful day
in March.
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The Horse.

We often look with wonder and awe
upon the many fine specimens OF this
noble animal which are seen in our
cities What would man be and villa,
could he do without "a horse. His
presence and the service and the bone-
fits which he bestows upon man, seem
to us alone a sufficient proof Of the
existence of God and of the degree of
care and protection which lie exercises
toward man A hundred amin ais,
quite as useful and as capable of being
domestieated for the service of man,
might easily have been created by the
same power that made the horse.
This one, however, was sufficient, and
as the Creator only designs to furnish
us with what is necessary for our use
and requisite for the Development of
our faculties, only this one was given.
We confess that we have often la
mented the fate of the horse, when we
have seen him, as he frequently does.
eyincing not only more OF the virtues
of usefulness, amiability and effort, but
even higher degree of intelligence
than his owner or driver. One is
sometimes strongly tempted to believe
if this animal could walk erect and
possessed hands and the power OF
speech he would be the superior of
man, and to wonder If all his intelli-
gence, doeility and usefulness are never
to receive any other reward than his
measure of corn and oats, until the
time comes for him to end his briei
but laborious and useful existence.
We cannot resist the thought, some
times, that he is a higher intelligence
than we suppose, perhaps fallen
spirit, degraded in it's embodiment,
and working out life of probation
and penance, and we never look at a
fine, intelligent horse, without feeling
in some degree an increase ofreyerencC
and thankfulness to the Almighty
Creator.
The Bible seems to decide the point
that the first domestication Of the
horse was IN Egypt and not in Arabia
as some has supposed. When the
Israelites came into Canaan we fine
that the Canaanites went out to fight
against them, with many chariots and
horsemen.
Six hundred years after the time JUS
referred to, Arabia had no horses
Solomon imported silver gold ano
spices from Arabia, but all the horses
for his own cavalry and chariots, ht
procured from Egypt. In this place
it is mentioned that horse brough
from Egypt cost one hundred and fifty
shekels of silver, which at two shilling
three pence each, the accepted value
of a shekel of silver, amount 20 abou
AT sterling, an enormous sum TO
those days.
Though the horse had long been thu
i companion and the servant of man
yet his native country cannot will
certainty be traced. 1t seems proba
} BILE that he was first domesticated il
Egypt, but the precise period is no
! known. About two thousand year
before the birth of Christ, when Abra
ham was driven into Egypt by tn
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Florence Nightingale and the Ital-
ians.

Florence Nightingale has written "a
letter to the Cavaliere Sebastiano
Fenzi, one of the Committee for or
ganizing n system of volunteer assis-
lance 10 the hospital department of
the army. 1t contains the results of
her experience on the matters in, ones
ton, obtained in the Crimea and
otherwise, and concludes as follows:
am helpless invalid, entirely
prisoner to my room, and overwhelmed
with business. Otherwise how gladly
would. | answer to your call, and come
to do my little best for you in the dear
city where / was born. If the giving
of my miserable life could hasten your
success but by half an hour, how glad
iy would / give it. But you will not
wait for success, or for martyrs, or for
volunteers, or for soldiers. Our old
General, Lord Clyde, Che is dead
now, was standing at the port of
Balaclava when, eleven years ago, the
Italian Bersagliere were landing, and
he turned round and said to his com
panion a man high in office, 81 wish
to hide my FACET blush for ourselves
when see the perfect way in which
those glorious troops are brought up
to their work. And what have not
the Italians done since in these eleven
years ?-the work almost of eleven
centuries. J. too, remember the Ital-
ian (Sardinan) hospitals on the heights
of Balaclava, and their admirable gov
ernuent; and since then what has not
the progress been? | wish. you God
speed with my whole heart, and beg
that you will believe me, sir, your ever
faithful servant,
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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Bag Agood story is told of Bouvart,
a celebrated French physician. On
entering one morning the chamber of
n Marquis, whom he had attended
through very dangerous illness, he
was accosted by his noble patient ia
the following terms:
"Good day to you, Mr.. Bouvart; ]
feel quite in spirits; l think my fever
has left me-
Il am sure it has, replied Bouvart,
drily. "The very first expression your
lordship used, convinced me of it,"
"Pray explain yourself"
"Nothing is easier. In the first
days of your illness, when your life
was in danger, i was your dearest
friend; as you began to get better. ]
was your good Bouvart; and now l
am Mr.. Bouvart. Depend upon it,
you are quite recovered"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-07-13
Truth.

Adhere rigidly and undeviatingly,
to truth; but while you express what
is true, express it in a pleasing manr
ner. Truth is the picture, the man
ner is the frame that displays it to adj
vantage. Truth, conveyed in austere
and acrimonious language, seldom has
a salutary effect, since we reject the
truth, because we are prejldiced
against the mode of communication
The heart must be won before the in
tellect can be informed A man may
betray the cause of truth by his un-
seasonable zeal, as he destroys its salu,.
tary effect by the aerimony of his man
ner. Whoever would be successful
instructor must first become a mild
and affectionate friend. He who
gives way to angry invective furnishes.
q strong presumption that his cause is.
bad, since truth is supported by dis
passionate argument. The love of
truth, refusing to associate itself with
the selfish and dissocial passions, is
gentle, dignifed, and persuasive. The
understanding may not be long able
TO withstand demonstratiye evidence;
but the heart which is guarded by
prejudice and passion is generally
against argumentative reasoning. No
person will perceive truth when lac is
unwilling to find it. Many of our specu-
lative opinions, even those which are
the result of laborious research, and
the least liable to disputation, resem-
BILE rarities in the cabinet of the Gu
rious, which may be interesting to the
possessor, and to few congenial
minds, but which are of no use to the
world Many of our speculative opin-
ions cease to engage attention, not be-
cause we are agreed about their truth
or failacy, but because we are tired of
the controversy They sink into neg
lect, and. ina future age, their futility
or absurdity is acknowledged, when
they retain hold no longer on the
prejudices and passions of mankind.
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HoRRIBLE Georgia, recently,
a negro came upon three women in a
secluded out-of-the-way place, and
attempted to detain them all. Two
of them succeeded in getting away
from him, the other one he took into
the woods, tied her. and kept her
there two days without food. Her
friends found her at the end of that
time. The negro was caught, and
the lady was asked what punishment
she desired to have inflicted on this
demon. She replied she wanted his
arms cut off and then wished him
skinned alive. The sentence was exc
cuted. The negro lived about ten
minutes after the operation.
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Misfortune did not desert me here.
On seeking my wallet, / found that it
had been stolen, and that / had not a
dollar in my pocket / have faint
recollection Of not feeling particularly
amlable Just Mt that time. Out West,
IL those days, was something different
from what it is now, where You roll
over tho ground at tho rate of forty
miles an hour, and out West, with
not dollar, and no means of COM
munication but line of snail-paced
stage-coaches, was anything but de-
/ lightful.
The coach for the East was just
starting, and having watched it out OF
sight. | went back to the tavern and
sat down to think how l should get
out of my difficulty. / had been Sit
ting there for some little time, when
a man who had been warming himself
with his back to the fire drew his chair
Gear mine, and after little chat at
the weather, surprised me by asking
if wasn't Mr.. Of Providence,
Rhode Island told him / was, and
before l could return the compliment
Of asking his name he said:
do you remember the boy whom,
when You were a student in the uni
yersity, you found almost frozen in
the streets Of Providence? Do YOU re-
member that promised you for am
that boy, TO be an honest, industri-
GUS man. to behave myself, and be-
come an ornament to society? Yes,
sir, l AMI that boy, and can say, with
out fear of denial, that / am an honest
and successful man, and that what
ever ] am, morally, or socially [ am
indebted to you for it, and be shook
my hand as only a grateful man can.
Then he told me what he had been
about all these years; how by indus
try and perseverance he had won the
confidence Of his employer, had IN
time been admitted by him as part
ner, had married his partners daugh-
term a word, he was happy.
My surprise at the appearance OF
''my boy" his evident pleasure in
in meeting me, his earnest inquiries
after my welfaro-all these things at
the time l fully appreciated, and | did
not hesitate to tell him how l was sit
uated He laughed at my misfor-
tunes, hoped l "would't lie awake O.
nights grieying about them and
taking my arm, led me away. He
took me to his office, told me of his
extensive business, made me shake
hands with his father-in-law, and
don't know how many others, and
soon after, leading me up the stately
steps OF rs fine a dwelling as reason.
able man could wish to possess, be in
troduced Inc to its lovely mistress, his
wife
I passed a pleasant week under
that friendly roof, and more than once
thought, as jouneyed homewrd,
how many more such grateful haryests
might be garnered if men would be
! less misefly of the proper seed.