The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16

X nownothingism into Maine In 1854: |
when the more independent democrats
we're disguised with Frank Pierce's bind
ing the party to the iuggernaut of slavery |
when portion Of the wings and portion |
of the democrats were almost perfectly IN
accord with each other and diSapproved of
the residue of their own respective parties.
A private meeting of seven from each party
was held and a plan agreed upon: COM
mittee went to Boston in February, obtain
ed the Knownothing seed, formed a GEN.
trail organization, filled the state with its
branches called "twigs" and in August
they knew they could poll So 900 votes
election came and with it thunder clap
from an apparently cloudless sky to whig
and democrat, for the Knownothings car
ried the state and the same class of men
have ever since controlled 1t, electing gov
ernors, United States senators, ETC.: Know
nottingham being mere blind to pillow up
the old parties and organize more manly
one, in sympathy with real republication
aud true progress there being no earthly
reason to dread foreigners up in ''down
east where papacy is nowhere.
@. b. Gaffney of Rochester, N. H-,clerk
of the senate naval committee, who was on
the staff of Gen. e. II. Ripley, tells plea
SAINT stories of the capture and occupation
of Richmond, Va, and promises to make
the general a visit next summer.
A welcome gift lie the eighth annual re.
port Of the bureau of statistics, volume
of over 600 pages, containing list Of the
vessels, merchant, revenue, marine and
naval up to June last this volume hay
ing one peculiarly, long sought to be in
serted until this last year, viz D.: an engrav-
ing containing pictures of the "hags of
the international code OF signals" The
number, signal letters, rig, name, tonnage
and home port of every registered vessel
are also given, thus enabling the voyager
to identify every vessel in sight and read
| its signal messages. Thus an oblique
white triangle with red spot in the center
| il IN a sentence is c.; if alone "Yes;" a
blue oblique triangle with white spot in
the center, If in center is d, if alone
| "No;" a red oblque triangle with white
spot in the center is F an orange colored
square flag is @; white flag with blue
| square in center is s, etc, etc.
| One can crafty his curiosity and learn
much in the library and collections of the
army medical museum. The hospital
records alone contain 16, 900 volumes the
names of 800, 900 dead soldiers are there
alphabetically arranged. The Oldest book
is manuscript dated l347; two volumes
folio contain portraits of eminent natural
lists and physicians of almost all ages ant
nations, with biographical notices in Ger
man manuscript; such quaint old cos
tunes, such queer wigs, such queerly
trimmed and untrimmed boards, such
variety of grotesque phizes, it is as anus
ing as a play. There are over dozen vol
umes folio of the writings of DR.. Hippo
crates who lived four or five centuries
before Christ and of DR.. Galen who liveC
one or two hundred years after Christ al
written in Greek and Latin; if they wer
translated into English the medical wisdom
of two thousasd years ago might furnish
funny contrast with present allopathic
homeopathic and eclectriC emplricism ant
J science. There is almost complete set o
the philosophical transactions of the roya
society from 1900 Isaac Newton, presi
dent, to the present time. Then there ar
the Papyrie Ebers, being photographs o
old Egyptian hieroglyphics, which Eher
contends he can prove to be as old as 100
b. c., or older than Moses; reminding on
of the Egyptian novel, love story, tran!
lated from the oldest of these hieroglyphici
and published recently in the Eclect
Magazine. II. II.