Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-28

ca we've taking coal. etc. on board. Later
the squadron went to falmouth for sup
plies. So the Russian Prince will
not reach this country till October
shall be pretty we'll advanced. He'll have
a chance to see the poetical part of our
year the Indian Summer, which is one of
the things that is worth Europeans
while to cross the sea to look upon, so that
he may be able to compare it with the
Martinmas Summer of the old world.
That is not bad thing, but our second
summer is the finest display of the two.
According to all accounts Gloucester's
fishing vessels have lost about dozen men
a month in the present year-a great
price to pay for the fishing business, and
showing how hazardous it is.-Cenneoti-
cuts apple crop was small one, and her
cider vintage will be nothing to speak of.
Professor d. FL. Mahan, who has been
honorably connected with the Military
Academy, at West Point, SIS pupil and
teacher, for half century, and who was
a good military author, and most res
pectable man, committed suicide en- the
10Th by jumping into the Hudson river,
from a steamboat. AS he never came to
the surface, it is supposed that the wheel
strnck him, an assistance that he had pro-
badly counted upon, for when a man has
screwed up his courage up to the killing
place, it is presumable that he means to
make thorough work of it. He acted with
great deliberation, removing his ceat and
overshoes, and taking his final plunge
bath with the utmost GOODNESS. He was
not out of health, and his position was
good, and he was about seventy years old,
time of life when man may be said to
be free from all Illusions, and therefore
likely to wait for the coming of the hour
that cannot be far off with the calm
ness of a philosopher or the faith
of christian so that it is very diff
cult to account for his rash conduct
Probably it is the old story-fatigue and
the weariness consequent on the constant
recurrence of the same round of duties.
One suicide left behind him az the reason
for violating the canon against self
slaughter that he had become tired of
daily buttoning and unbuttoning, mean
ing that he couldn't endure constant same
ness, and for q change was ready to Jump
the life to come. Perhaps this was the
case with Professor Mahan. Lilies
BORE" he may have said to himself-"let's
try what there is beyond it." Aud SO
overheard he went, and marred a good
name and set bad example to his fellow
men, Men of culture are under special
obligations to face firmly the ills OF exist
ence, whether they are facts or fanoies,
and it is strange indeed the old men of
culture should have to resort to suicide.
Insanity alone can excuse such conduct,
aad there ia not the slightest reason for
surprising that Professor Mahan was mad
man-sava in the sense that every sui
eide i. mad at the moment he takes his
lifo.-Jamaica is threatened with squat
ter war. Squatter sovereignty is disliked
by many Jamaicana, but they may have
to bow before 1.-THE last dodge of the
grassheppers is to eat the Connecticut to-
bacco crop. They are IS bad as meu-or
worse, for men only chew the weed, or
swallow it through the nose. The last
restoration spoken Of is that of Mr.. Sum
rer to the craftsmanship of the Senate's
committee on Foreign Relations. It il
said chat Mr.. Cameron will re 4dly retire
from the post, and that Mr.. Sumner will
az reality return to II.