Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-13
Political Notes.

The subject OF temperance is being
agitated in Maryland and there is to be
State Convention in August.
The Mayor OF Augusta, Ga, an
nounces in his message that there Is just
$40 in the treasury with which to pay a
floating debt of $4,000.
The Republican State Convention OF
Maine is called to meet at Augusta,
June 81, to nominate candidate for
Governor.
The Tribune goes in for taxing the
country so that the revenue shall keep
up to $500, 100000 year, and the national
debt be paid in ten years.
Said an Englishman to Neal Dow
the other day, "When will the United
States pay the Confederate bonds"
"When you pay the Fenian," replied
Neal.
The Detroit (Mich.) lawyers are
trying to prevail on the State constitu-
tional convention to abolish the elective
judiciary system, and substitute that Of
appointment, with terms OF increased
length and salary.
The difference between an accident
and misfortune is explained in this
way: 'If Wendell Phillips should fall
into the river" says the definition, "it
would be an accident. If he should get
out again it would be misfortune"
The last that was seen of ex,Vice
President Breckenridge, Of the defunct
Confedracy, he was taking sherry cob
blers at one of the tables of the Ameri-
can restaurant in the Paris Exhibition,
with a couble Of agents OF Northern
sewing machine companies.
"A national convention OF ale and
| larger beer brewers is now in session in
Chicago, assembled for the purpose Of
taking immediate action in regard to
| the attempts that were being made in
different States "by certain fanatical in
dividuals, to prevent the manufacture
and consumption of beer and ale"
-Lerd Monck, the newly appointed
Viceroy OF the Dominion Of Canada, has
been Governor General of Canada since
1862, and has given general satisfaction,
He has been member of the British
parliament, and has given much atten-
ton to agriculture, having carried of
several prizes for the superiority of his
cattle at the agricultural exhibition in
Paris In 1862.
! -Thaddeus Stevens has issusd cir.
cular inviting all those who suffered in
property by Lees invasion Of Pennsyl-
vania to forward him list of their
claims, as he says he intends to "press
the payment of the damages done to
loyal men out of the cOnflsCated proper
ty of the conquered belligerents." He
suggests, also, that the loyal men Of all
the States who have been plundered by
rebel raiders or confscsted by the Con-
federate States, or either OF them to
form associations and furnish similar
statistics.
"A Southern correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune says that after much
observation, he begins to discern certain
points, viz. First, that the only party
organization, having principle, and
acting on the aggressive, is the Republi-
can party. 1t is doing well wherever
there is a good infusion of the right
stripe Of Northern men. The negroes in
all the towns along the main lines OF
travel are very radical. Secondly, there
is bitterer feeling prevailing against
the North, against the Union and Con.
gress, than has existed before. The
major portion Of the old prO-slavery
rebel element have determined to do
nothing in support of reconstruction.