Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-11-21
miscellaneous Items.


More than three, flfths OF all the
Americans who sent goods TO the Paris
Exhibition were awarded premiums
In Montreal a little French news
paper is published expressly to advocate
annexation to the United States.
When the Pacific railroad and the
Suez canal are completed we can steam
it around the world in ninety days.
A general funding scheme for the
whole national debt, extending the
times OF payment, is one OF the projects
talked about. ...-
A gusDo company working on the
island of Navoss, in the West Indies has
sent an agent to Washington to hire rs
negro laborSrs.
e. A. SAKE, Assistant Superintendent
Of the Pacific railroad of California,
was lately arrested at Sacramento for
frauds on the company, amounting to
$4,000. s..s ...t
The Atlantic Mail steamship com.
pany of New York has contracted to
carry the malls from New York to
Nassau, the Bahamas and Havana, after
January 80, 1858
The famous yacht Henrietta, once
Benefits, win be the first prize in the
Gettysburg gift enterprise for the beDe.
fit OF the soldiers national cemetery st
that place.
Two coaches, on the English plan,
are to be placed on the Hartford and
New Haven railway next month. They
will contain six, eight and ten passen.
gers, and be furnished like psrlor.
Lack of water is supposed to have
caused the explosion in Reese, Graft &
Dull's rolling mill at Pittsburg, Pa,
Friday, by which twenty persons were
killed. Fragments OF the boilers show
them to have been made OF the best
charcoal hammered Iron.
Staple articles have declined in price
at New York, within the year past, as
follows Cotton from 8S to 16 cents per
pound, bleached Wamsutta sheetings
from 80 to 26 / 2 cents per yard, pig
iron from s5l TO s42 per ton, and mess
pork from s25.75 to $50. so per barrel.
Riots OF the most serious kind are
now an every day occurrence in England.
With Fsnlapism, trades. rnionism, pau
perism, and famine prices for all kinds
of provisions, there Is prospect of an
abundance OF trouble for the coming
Winter.
Senator Corbett OF Oregon, has been
staying for a few days with his father-in
law, Mir. Jaeger Of Albany, N. Y. AL
though 8 native OF Massachusetts,, Mr.. G.
resided In Washington County, N. Y, for
many years previous to his emigration
to Oregon, where he has been since 1850,
and where, as merchant and flnancier
unequaled by any other citizen of that
young State. He is s decided Republi-
can. ..ta raE sin1 ...#
A private company has resolved on
starting line OF steamers between
France and Brazil, and purchased four
vessels In England for the purpose, O.
these vessels, two, each Of 1000 tons
measurement, have already undertaken
voyages; another, the Potion, 5000
tons, left q few days back and the
fourth Is to leave on the 18th OF Noyem.
Der. ....,.,
The New York constitutional con-
vention reassembled st Albany, Tuesday,
pursuant to its adjournment, and after
appropriate eulogistic services in men,
DRY OF the late David L. Seymour OF
. Troy, a member of the convention, who
died recently al Lanesboro, adjourned,
At caucus OF the republican members
in the afternoon it was resolved tocou-
tinue the session and perfect the work
begun. .5 #' -' T.f'f.e .A