Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-01
review of the Week.

L RAAoSA oLu hbhusCN LILO p6Oplc. 4u0 I'LL.
prisonment of Messrs. White and Rams
dell, reporters for the New York Tribune,
is all but universally condemned. How
ever, the unfortunate reporters have pleas
ant accommodations and are boarded
luxuriously at the public expense. But
even all this will not make up for the loss
of liberty, and especially in the case of
one of the reporters who has sick child
at home.-Horace Greeley is in Texas
speaking to people who are willing lis
teners. In other days he would have
found bis audience composed of men who
would have been in favor of lynching the
great sage of Chappaqua.--Th treaty
with Great Britain was ratified by the
Senate of the United States on Wednes.
day, May Gath, at 10h. Som, p. m. The
number of Senators present and voting
sixty-two (62). The number required for
ratification was forty-two (42) The vote
stood For ratification, fifty (50) ; against
it, twelve 12). Thus there were eight
spare votes Had the Senate been full
when the vote was taken the ratifying
party would have been stronger; but as
it was, as near two thirds of all the Sena-
tors as well as can be made out voted for
ratification. There are seventy ga SEN
ators, and fifty are two-thirds of seventy
five (75). All amendments offered to the
treaty were rejected by large majorities.
Thus the treaty of Washington is an &C.
complished fact, there being no
doubt of the English governments
course concerning it, and so the two great
English speaking nations have organised
peace and made it permanent. Had Presi-
dent Grant no other claim to reelection
he could found a solid one on the brilliant
success of this great measure, for it is,
emphatically, his work, and will make
him as famous in the history of peace as
already he is in the history of war
Southern corn and Southern cotton are
reported to be in bad way. Too little
water is killing the one, and too many
worms are eating the other. - Twelve
thousand persons had died from yellow
fever, at Bnenes Ayres, down to the 18th
of April, and almost one hundred and
forty thousand persons had left the place,
and as only forty thousand remained
there, and the population was two hun
dred thousand before the pestilence broke
out, how the number remaining was
ascertained is not stated, aud it is not
probable that census was taken. The
average number of deaths daily was four
hundred and fifty, and it was thought the
force of the fever was abatiug. Later
news says that the number of deaths was
one hundred day at the close of April
Charles Eacker was hanged at Fonda
last Friday in the yard adjoining the Jail
He maintained the utmost frmness up to
the last moment, and died protesting his
innocence. BE was convicted of the muir
der of Thomas E. Burdick, at ST. Johns
vile, on the evening of the Fourth of Ju.
ly, 1870. Burdick had entered the bar
room for a glass of water for bis
daughter who was present at a
dance held at the place, when
Eacker approached him ard shot him.
Burdick died within twenty fur hours.
A number of Trojans were present at the
execution-The Vendome Column is to
be restored, and so are soma other things
that were destroyed by the Reds. If the
French restore seyery thing destroyed by
the Reds, they will have a formidable ad-
dition made to their war bills. If those
fellows had remained in power a little
longer, not unlikely they would have car
ried out the idea involved in the declara-
ton made by Frenchman long ago. that
the people of France never would have
chance for self-government till the car
cass of Napoleon 1, should have been
thrown into the Seine. That would have
been iconoclasm with a vengeance. Ger. !
many has paid England for the golfers i
she sunk in the Seine last year-Eng- {
lands hop crop his been blighted This ,
makes holders and growers of crops else .
where dance for joy.-After loss of
nearly 100000 lives and one-third of what =
was once the most beautiful city in the g
world, most of the Communists in Paris s
have surrendered. For days past the +
sewers of the city ran red with blood. :
The palace OF the Tuilleries has been O
burned down and many valuable works of r
'rt destroyed. On Monday the 22d, co.. d
100 troops had entered Paris. The CITY 7
vas isolated, tie Germans having cut g
he Northern Railway. Gen. Domsbrow r.
Xxi was reported captured, but then he had a
escaped; third report says that he had II
ought to escape from Paris, and that he Il
md bis commend were surrounded, and Il
would be taken. There was much hard "
lighting In the streets of Paris, and the b
oss of life must have been great on Mon ii
ay, on which day three-fourths of the 81
ity were taken by the government troops. 3
~ noon of Tuesday almost the entire Ell
ity was at their com mand. Some of
be details of the fighting show that it OF
lust have been very like series of massa- pl
reS,-but that is way they have of do. la
lg things in France; and the worst that M
AS done on Monday and Tuesday last pa
i'd not go beyond what took place in
any of street fights that happened in the In
arly years of Louis Philippe's time. So is
'r as appears, all that was accomplished Sc
the opening of this week might have In
9en done many weeks ago, and yet silly m
d Theirs had the folly to speak in the til
ssembly of the victory won on Sunday fu
if it had been something of the most WI
character, A French victory tn
something astonishing, to be sure-but su
hen Frenchmen fight among themselves. ly
lie party must get the better of the
her, and so French victory then is I'm. M
'oidabie' or, most certainly, we op
yer should hear of anything so en- fol-
ely ont of the line of late presidents. ha
lere was considerable fighting on fro