Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27

THEFT IN MoNKToN.-We learn from
the Pree Press that Monday morning,
Roderek Baldwin of Mondton, awoke to
the fact that some one during the night,
had stolen his pocket book containing
$474. Deputy Sheriff Skif, took the
matter in hand, and traced the theft to a
man named Peter Colt, in the employ of
Mr. Baldwin. Colt returned the money.
He was examined before Justice Gage of
Monkton, and in default of $1,000 bail,
was taken to- Middlebury Jail to await his
trial at the next term of the County
Court
WALLINeFoRD.-Th Congregational
church and society are making quite ex-
tensive repairs upou their church edifice.
The stoves are removed and the places
they occupied filled with new seats, to
make room for the increasing number
that gather there, while the building is
to be warmed with furnace beneath.
Prof Marshall gave an entertain
ment at the District Hall last Thursday
evening. The Professor ranks well as a
gymnast, having had extensive experience
in Mons. Doucello's travelling show and
other like performances. He has trained
an entire new troupe during this.winter in
this place, and gave his first entertaine-
ment as above to large and appreciatiye
audience. He gives an entertainment
at Dandy ON Friday, and in Dorset on
Saturday of this week. ....-. r..
DRoLL SCENE AT NEGRO CAMP
PRAYER MEETING.-One of the droll
scenes of the war, and one, on the whole,
which was rather jolly in the monotonies
of camp life, was the meetings-half
dance, half prayer meeting-of the me-
'groes. One of these little gatherings has
been deftly sketched by Colonel Higgin-
son, down at Beaufort, in December,
1862:
This evening, after working themselves
I'D to the highest pitch, party suddenly
rushed off, got barrel and mounted some
man upon it, who said, "Gib anoder song
boys, and Use glib you speech J" After
some hesitation, and sundry shouts of
"rise dc sing, somebodyw and "stan' up
for Jesus, brudder!" irreverently put in
by the juveniles, they soon got upon the
John Brown song, always favorite, add
ing a iubilant verse which | had never
before heard "We'll beat Bsauregard on
de clare battlefield" Then came the
promised speech; and than seven other
speeches, by as many men, on variety of
barrels. The most eloquent, perhaps,
was by Corporal Lambkin, just ar
rived from Fernandina, who evident
ly had a previous reputation among
them. His historical references were
very interesting. He reminded them that
he had predicted this war ever since Free
mont's time, to which some of the crowd
assented; he then gave very intelligent
account of the Presidential campaign /;
and then described most impressively the
secret anxiety of the slaves in Florida to
know all about President Lincoln's cleo
tNn, and told how they all refused to
work on the 4th of March, exnecting their
freedopn to date from thai day. He
finally brought out one of the very few
really impressive appeals for the Ameri-
can flag that we have ever heard sour
mas'rs dey hab lib under de flag, dey got
dere wealth under it, and cherry ting
beautiful for dere chil'en. Under it dey
hab grind us up, and put us in dere pock-
ct for money. Bnt de fus' minute dey
tink dat ole flag mean freedom for we
colored people dey pull it right down,
and run up de flag OBJ dere own" I'm
mense applause.) But we'll neber desert
de ole flag, boys-neberl we hab lib un-
der it for eig1tteen hundred and sigty-tac0
gears, and we'll die for it nowl" With
which overpowering discharge of chro-
nology yat-long-range this most effective of
stump speeches closed. - "EditOr's
DraaCer," in Ha1per's Magazine for De-
celllhel.