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RUTLAND HERALD. WXPSE8DA.Y, FEBRUARY 8, 1865. 1 Peace mt vrarw Most of the ware that have been car- tied on between separate nations have been occasioned by some dispute about boundary, a failure to observe the fcrms of an existing treaty, an injury to kdw private cltteen, an alleged encroachment on the territory of an ally, or some Infringement of neutral rights. The is, that after the parties have fought 1 awhile, both agree to abate somewhat 1 of their original pretensions, or, perhaps, as In the case of the war of 1812, they conclude a treaty of peace and leave the jKlutsof controversy wholly unsct- tied. Mr.

Hogg, the Ettrlck Shepherd, illustrates the origin and the results of national wars by squabbles which sometimes occurred between and the down streetcrs" of his native town. A youngster from up-town happens to look fiercely at a down-streeter, when the latter says, "What are ye glowering at me for 7" The latter responds, Perhaps I can look where I choose." I'll have none o' your slang." "Help yourself." By this time the two parties have marshalled their "clans," and at It they go, with tooth and nail, and with bucTi other weapons and missiles as they can Mad furor arma minis-bat neither party gaining any decided advantage over the other. At last one of the leaders, with hardly breath enough to speak a word, says, "If you'll uit I will." "Which conditions the other promptly accepts, and the fight is ended. The fact of the case appears to be, that there Is a certain amount of pugnacity, or what the phrenologist calls eorabatlvencss, In all men. It Is a very good element In Us place.

It Is opposed to timidity and Jalnt-heartedness. It enables us to grapple with difficulties and snrmonnt obstacles. It also prompts us to resist those who would Infringe upon our rights, or endanger our lives. The rough who finds himself spilin for a fight," unless he has a good one at least as often as once a week, has altogether too big a bump," either for his own good or the peace and safety of the community and the braggadocio whose courago is greatest when his distance from danger Is greatest, like the kid on the roof uttering defiance to the wolf on the ground, is most em- phatically a nuisance. But the war In which we are engaged Is of an entirely different character from those first mentioned.

It Is not one which can end as soon as" the mere pugnacity of either party is whipped out, by a compromise which shall Involve no submission on either side. It Is a war for our very existence as a natiorf, and it cannot end until that existence la secure. The people on both sides have had enough of fighting to satisfy any warlike appetite. It has been proved again and again that the common soldiers of the two hostile parties have now no hatred towards each other. On, the con-' trary, they are ever ready to exchange friendly greetings when they have an opportunity.

The pretence which has been set up by southern agitators that the yi two races are Incompatible, is mere moonshine. This is no war of subjuga-) tion, except in the case of a few willful 1 and besotted leaders. But so long "as those leaders have an army at their -command, so long they cannot be expected to negotiate their own political destruction by a voluntary sur-' render. We are not of those, therefore, 7 who Are at all surprised that the recent peaec negotiations are pronounced a failure. If they may have the effect of thowlng any more clearly to the people, south or north, who it is and what it Is that keeps up this Internecine strife, so that they may bend their energies more forcibly to removing the cause or exter- TQlriatlng the guilty agents, then some trood will have been accomplished.

But until Lee's army is destroyed, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan aud Thomas are the most efficient peace-makers, and the peo- pie of the North will be doing most towards restoring much desired peace when Ihey labor hardest to supply men and means to these generals, and are distracted from this labor by so-. galled peace missions." Diplomatic Correspohbbkce. The first volume of the diplomatic corres-' pondence has been printed, making nine hundred pages. It refers to our affairs Great Britain, but does not coffi- the record. Another volume is to follow under this head.

This corresoondence commences as far back as November 27, 1863, with a letter from Minister Adams to Mr. Seward 1 with regard to the Alexandra case, the facts connected with which are already Jkmllbur to the public. Some of the subjects of correspond-! ance between Mr. Seward, Mr. Adams, Lord Lyons, Earl Russell, the Lairds and others, are British neutrality, Brit-, tob.

sympathy, The Laird Ironclads, The Chesapeake Piracy, Blockade Bunning, Alexandra, British Aid to the Re-v belilon, and the Monroe Doctrine. We have room only for a short extract on the subject of the LaUd Iron Clads. On T-'-i the 2d of February, 1861, Her Majesty's Treasurer wrote to Laird Brothers tii am desired by the Lords Commis-- doners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you that Her Majesty's Oovern-inent cannot permit the Iron-clad ves-gel, built In your yard and now under gelMrte, to be completed." The Laird reply. "It must be apparent that this continued delay Id bringing the matter to a lel an act of injustice to ourselves and the owners of the ships." Tiie Treasury Informs them that the "In- formation" win be niea in a icw uujb. Thi Failure at PKTaafBffao.

The committee on the conduct of the war made their report to Congress on Monday in reference to the failure of the attack upon Petersburg on July 30. The Idea of a mine was suggested by Plea-ants of a Pennsylvania regiment, and most of the mining was doue by his command. Gen. Burtiskle took a division of colored troops, the only division of colored troops that he had, and put them in special training, Intending to have them head tlie assaulting column, Gen. Meade didn't approve of leading the assaulting column with black troops, and Oen.

Grant sustained him In his objectiou. So the storming column was led by white troops. Gen. Meade gave a peremptory order for withdrawal against Gen. Buruside's earnest protestations, as he believed the movement could have been pushed to success.

The committee attributed the failure of the attack to the radical change that was made in the arrangements on the very eve of the attack. Oen. Grant thinks the absence of division commanders from their troops had something to do with the failure, but expresses his belief that If Burnside had followed out his own plans he would have been successful. The report entirely frees Gen. Burnside from the responsibility of the failure, aud seems to throw it upon Gen.

Meade. But as Gen. Meade's position was sustained, and approved by the lieutenant general, ought not to receive very harsh censure. Publication op the List op Incomes. --The following reply from Commissioner Lewis to a letter of inquiry seems conclusive as to the rightfulness of publishing the list of incomes.

Mr. Lewis pays little heed to the questions of taste and feeling which are involved In the matter, but regards It solely in connection with the public interest and intent of the Jaw Treasury Department, TMKNT, i al Revenue, Feb. 3, 1866.) Oppick op Interna Washington Sir: The twenty-seventh section of the act of June 30, 1864, provides that one correct copy of each list shall remain with the assessor, 'and shall be open to the Insjiection of auy person who may apply to inspect the same." This, it will be observed, applies to a time after the lists shall have been completed, and after a copy has gone into the hands of the collector. The object of the law seems to have been to afford every tax-payer an opportunity of ascertaining what returns his neighbors have made. He is interested in these returns because the burden of the national dues is a common cause, and every person should be required to pay his due proportion of it.

The lists being thus open to a general inspection, how can an assessor prevent a person entitled to examine it from making a copy. It would, I apprehend, be an abridgment of his right, to say you may use your eyes in the examination of a list, but you may not use your fingers in transferring what you see to pa per. Certainly a roan who has reaa it cannot be prohibited of making a note of all he can remember of it, in writing, afterwards. It is better, I think, to allow him to make a copy with the list before him, when he can do it accurately, than to have it reported from memory, liable to great Inaccuracies. I would, therefore, say, let any one take a copy that will provided that no Interference with the business of the office be occasioned.

What use he may make of it is neither your business nor mine. Joseph Lewis, Commissioner. To Assessor. An American Strikes Oil rs Europe. The wonders of the petroleum oil discovery will never cease.

Last year Colonel Gowen, of Boston, the gentleman who had the contract for getting up the sunken Russian ships in the harbor of Sebastopol, was coming down from St. Petersburg through Georgia and CirCassla, when in the neighborhood of the sea of Azof, he stumbled on some oil wells which the natives were working in a very indifferent way, and which the Colonel bought. He tien came to Paris and London, organized a company and sent out men to work the welis, and ships to carry to London and Liverpool the products, and they are now paying handsome dividends. But what is more surprising still, the Colonel, in returning from the Black Sea to Tarls, stopped on his way at the Island of Samos, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean sea, where he found and bought another oil well. What is still more curious, this well was spoken of by Herodotus, the great Greek historian, 460 years before Christ, and from that day to this no one has thought of turning to use this important discovery.

Even the English traders of these later days, who have control of the commerce of the island, have blindly walked over this important source of wealth without perceiving it. Col. Gowen has bought fifteen acres of ground at the ordinary price of land on the island. Ops AnT Ahead." The Army and Navy Journal thus felicitously puts the advautage we have obtained in the war by Geneial Sherman's recent successful march Our own belief is that Sherman's great campaign will be found to have cut the Gordian knot of the war. By widely dividing his army, and then whipping his adversary's entire force with one-balf, he has put us army ahead of the enemy a fatal superioiity of pieces on the board of war.

So soon as that terrible discovery Was made known to the Southern people, the cry Tor terms began to Durst forth it was a splendid stroke, whose influence, we prophecy, will yet come to be felt as the masterpiece, nitnerto, or the war. tJTForney's Chronicle has abandoned its peace ground, which nas given rise to much comment. It says "We must conquer a peace. The' sword of justice must execute tne wors wmca tne roily of blinded leaders would not accredit to the art of pacification. On the whole, the only apparent result of the peace mission has been to inspire all loyal men with a fresh determination that the re belllon must be put down by the sword, and that the sooner it is done the bet.

ter." Legislative aid In the aocoraplUh- THE RUTLAND HER ALP, THURSDAY, PEB11UAY i), 1804. ment of this good work will be Intro-duced Into Congress at an early day, and it is very probable that Mr. Sumner's proposition to enable a majority of the loyal States to ratify the emancipation amendment may be adopted. Thb Talibst Diplomat of Moobrh Times. Old Abe la not only taller than other men in physical stature, but in diplomacy he towers above all his compels.

He conducts diplomatic mutters as Napoleon did war, contrary to teachings of schools, but In a way to win. He has shown more ability and skill In this little by-play with the rebels than is contained In all the ponderous volumes of Mr. Seward's diplomatic correspondence. 1. Herald.

fctT "Please, mister, give mo alight 1" said a ragged urchin, with a briar-wood pipe in his hand, to a dandified chap who was puffing away at a merschauin about the size of a kitten's head, as he was promenading the street. Bless me," exclaimed the dandy, "a shaver like you smoke." "Yeas," drawled the young'nu. "we gentlemen all smoke now-adays." JjtTThere are now three States in what was formerly called the "Old dominion" the governments at Wheeling, (West Virginia,) Richmond and Alexandria. The case of the Alexandrian government is now in controversy. Hon.

Joseph Segur will present his credentials this week as Senator from the State of Virginia. This will lead to the decision of the question by the Senate whether the State is entitled to recognition. She has no representatives iu the House, those who presented themselves as members being ruled out. flfThe duty on paper is not likely to come off, notwithstanding the great majority of the House for the abrogation. The manufacturers have been working in powerful force in Washington against It; the other side has employed no counteracting lobby influences; the press itself, is even divided, the most powerful, though least numerous, declaring their indifference or their opposition, either from avowed selfish motives or fr consistency of protective doctrines and so this promising experiment for an element of foreign competition in the cost of paper is not to be made paper is to continue as high as the cohesion and greed of manufacturers can sustain it, and the slaughter of weak newspapers and the high cost of all of them must go on.

Southekn Independence. The Richmond Enquirer has an article on the employment of slave soldiers which concludes by saying It is by no means certain that any ultra measure of gradual or general emancipation could attain the purpose of freedom. There is no proposition from European powers to guaranty our Independence on condition of emancipation. There Is no assurance that these powers could execute such a guaranty. For these and other reasons there is no reason to suppose that the Southern States will adopt any fmeasure looking to a general or even special emancipation.

The time has not arrived for such a measure. It is confidently hoped that it never may. But it may be well for our enemies and our friends in Europe to know that our people prefer any and every result to reunion with onr oppressors, and that if the alternative be presented between reconstruction and emancipation, general or special, there will be no hesitation in preferring the latter, since the first involves not only subjugation, but emancipation, with all its train of evils and dishonor. Happily with the reaction of public courage and the patriotic dedication of all our means to the great purpose of freedom, no such ultra measures are now necessary. The repeal of the slaveholder's exemptions, the abolition of post the recommendation to dedicate all the cottont tobacco and specie of the country to the pay and maintenance of the army are all measures which will greatly strengthen and encourage our people and soldiers.

We await the result these measures-, in which we have great con fidence. Should ulterior measures be necessary we are convinced that the wisdom and love of freedom, inborn with the people of the South, will Inspire them with the courage necessary to any measure essential to honor or independencei" A Brief Visit' prom thb Leadbb op the Lake Erie Pirates. Burleigh, who stands charged as. the leader of the gang or rebel pirates by wnom the steamers Philo Parsons and Island Queen were captured, and whose examination before the Canadian courts has kept two nations on the qvi vive, and led to belliger ent rumors innumerable, having finally been given up by the authorities across the line, passed through this city yesterday, on his way to Michigan, in charge of Deputy United States Marshals Demmick and James Henry. JUurlelgh was nantled over to these officers In Toronto night before last, and honored with a special train and a guard or twenty soldiers, lie arrived at Clifton yesterday morning about'3 o'clock, where his guard wasdismissed and himself brought to this side.

He arrived here ou the early morning train, and was taken' to the Wadsworth House, where he was relieved of his iron ornaments, but not of te strict attentions of the officers in charge. At 1:65 P. M. he was put on board the Lake Shore train, and is now, or soon will be, In Detroit, to stand a trial which will determine the stretching of his neck. Davis, who brought him the commission from Jeff Davis, whereby it was hoped he would be shielded from the provisions of the Extradition treaty, is now mnder sentence of death, and will be executed on the 17th Inst.

Burleigh answers well to the descriptions given of him, and is anything but a burly-locking desperado. He did not evince any desire to make acquaintances during his stay here, and was as short in his speech as his shrift should be, if the charges against him are substantiated by the courts. Bvffdk Eiprt, Feb. A2K. Thr Uoodteab Patekt Estrssion.

The family of the late Charles Goodyear have petitioned Congress for a further extension of the celebrated patent for Tulcaniilng India rubber. The grounds upon which extension Is asked, are informed, are the following: ilr. Ooodyear devoted twenty-seven years la the Investigation of the properties of India rubber, during which, he made the discovery upon which the greater I part of the india-rubber manufactured i in the civilized world is now founded. I The business employs, in the united States alone, about fifty thousand persons, and yields an annual tevenue to the Government, In duties and taxes, of about three quarters of a million. But, while creating this vast and important business, Goodyear was involved iu Immense expenses In del'endine his rights against infringements, and In applying the material to new uses.

Consequently he dlid Insolvent, leaving a wife and six children wlthont provision. His heirs represent that it was his devotion to the development of his discovery, from which the public derive great advantages, that prevented his reaping the pecuniary reward which the patent law was designed to secure to iuveutors. The claim of this family to a lair hearing seems unquestionable, and, we trust, they will have it. New York Timet. Hon.

1. W. Snow, the newly elected United States Senator from Arkansas, was in New York on Saturday, and will proceed to Washingtou this week. The Union men of Aikausas have had a long and a hard struggle, but have finally succeeded in placing the Government of the State in loyal hands. They have elected Senators and Representatives, and took part iu the late Presidential election, iu strict accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.

To a Soldier of the I'ulou. The following lines were sent to a soldier In the Army of the Totomac from a young lady in New Hampshire. They are of general application, aud deserve to be printed. fiod bles you, sollierl When our sky Was hetvy i'h impending woe, When traitors raised the buttle -cry. When lear met tear in every eye, You rushtd to meet our fom.

bless Viu, soldier! Scarred and worn, Wturiid witti marchings, watching, pmn, All rattle-stained nd battle-torn. Bravely have all your task been borne--You hove not fought in vain. God blew you, soldi-rg! When the dove Of reace the engle's nest shall Bhare, With home aim hearts made warm with love, With iiys below, with oya iibore, Ood bleaj you here and thire I West Viroiia Frer. West Virginia is free. Erected into a state and admitted into the Union with a constitution prohibiting slavery, only ajer a term of year, she now has abolished this remnant of barbarism.

Both Houses of her Legislature concurred in the following Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia 1. All perssns held to service or labor as slaves in this state are hereby declared free. 2. There shall hereafter be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this state, except In punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. The constitution requires no amendment, but permits this legislative act to aooumo tha validity of nraaaifi for the constitution gave no further sanction to slavery than to fix the period be-yond which slavery should not exist.

The above is therefore a complete legal emancipation, and as it takes effect immediately, is far in advance of any possible ratification of the amendment to the United States constitution. Thus early and nobly does the young state of West Virginia indicate her claim to place in the Union, which is hereafter to be a Union of free states only. Telegraphic Progress. The process of manufacturing the cable for the Atlantic telegraph is rapidly proceeding, and it is calculated that if the submergence of the line be satisfactorily accomplished, the communication between Great Britain and the American continent will be completed by the close of July next. 'There are seven coppef wires to form the conductor.

The entire length of the telegraph will miles, so that there are 16,000 miles of copper wire. Every portion of this copper wire is subjected to electric tests, to ascertain its quality for conduction, before it is allowed to be worked up. The next process is to coat these wires with eight successive coats of the insulating material, equal to an aggregate length of 18,400 miles. This core is next covered with jute, wound round it from ten strands, making 23,000 milts of jute yarn. Then comes the outer coating, formed of the tn covered iron wires.

The iron wire itself is 23,000 miles in length, and each wire is covered separately with fine strands of tarred hemp, 135,000 miles of the latter being required, making together an aggregate length of material employed of 215,000 miles, or very nearly as much as would put ten girdles round the earth, or form a line that would stretch almost from the earth to the moon. Armt Officers. The entire British army, employed at home nud in the Colonies (which now include the East Indies,) amounts to 220,981, men artillery, cavalry and infantry maintained, in these piping times of peace," at a yearly cost of $74,000,000. Of these, about one-fourth, or from thirty-three to fifty thousand, are quartered in Great Brit ain and Ireland. Let "us see how this force, actually less than Pennsylvania could readily raise on an emergency, is ofllcered In October, 1802, the date of the latest British Army List in our possession, there were three Field Marshals.

66 full Generals, 106 Lieut. Generals-170 Major Generals; 10 Genera's and 30 Major Generals on half pay 10 Generals and 133 Major Generals on nn attached pay of twenty-flve shillings sterling per day, 6 full Generals, 28 Lieut. Generals, 34 Major Generals, and 10 BrigadeGeBeral8 having local, temporary and honorary rank. Making a total of 606 Generals In the British army of 220,981 of all arms, or one General to every 865 men, officers included. Contrast this with the positive want of Generals in our army, where, ia many instances, Colonels and Lieut.

Colonels have to conimandj ilvisions in the field, and the difference will be surprising. If it be asked why has England so many i of th officers of hi gh ran there also being 606 full Colonels, each of whom may hope to become a General, if he survive long enough the ready reply Is that the army and navy fire held there pi s'bUshineiitsout of which the sons of the aristocracy, the governing erass, can be maintained, from the moment they leave school, out of money annually raised by heavy taxation from the industrial classes, who constantly toil, and are barely able to keep the wolf from their owu door. Auy one can we at a glauce how different the British system Is from ours, and we shall not Insult their common sense by suggesting which is best. The Constitdtiosau Amrndhkht. The following are tue States that will vote upou the constitutional amendment, the present polities tit the Legislatures, ami the tlmu of holding their session Name of SUUet.

folitk. Meeting of Isg. Arkansas, Cali for. l.i. Delaware, Illinois.

Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts. Missouri, Michigan. Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode island, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin, Hep. Now in session. May 8, 1866.

Now lu session. lein. Rep- Jan. Deiu. Now lu sessioa Rep.

Jan. 7, 1885. Now in sessiou, Dem. Uep. Sept.

10, I860. Now in session. April 3, 1865. Oct. 12, 1865.

Now in session. West Virginia RECAPITULATION. Total number of States, 36 States voting (loyal) 28 Necessary to a choice, (three-fourths of all,) 27 State legislatures now in session, 22 ltepubllcan Legislatures, 25; Democratic. 3. Thr Koll of lloson.

The following are the names of those members ol the 'Opposition in the House of Representatives who voted for the joint resolution submitting to the people of the United States the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting slavery: Joseph Bailey, Pennsylvania. Augustus U. Baldwin, Michigan. Alexander II. Croffoth, Pennsylvania.

James K. English, Connecticut, John B. Gansou, New Yord. Anson G. Herrick, New York.

Wells A. Hutchins, Ohio. Austin A. King, Missouri. Archibald McAllister, Pennsylvania.

Homer A. Nelson, New York. Moses F. Odell, New York. William Radford, New York.

John B. Steele, New York. Ezra Wheeler, Wisconsin. One hundred and seventy -five votes were cast, of which 117 were necessary to the passage of the resolution. The votes of these fourteen members of the Opposition, added to the Union vote of 105, achieved Die great triumph of i- dom.

miscellaneous Items. Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the Pittslleld Bank, of Massachusetts, are in circulation. Paul Morphy the noted chess player, has settled in Illinois, and his business is the collection of claims. S. P.

Davis, the rebel spy who is to be hung in Cincinnati, is the man who mujdered Gen. McCook. The tide for emancipation is setting in very strongly In Kentucky. She will "soon follow the lead of Maryland and Missouri. The ladies of Union Village, Maine, recently became greatly incensed at the conduct of a man in opening a liquor saloon in the village, and made a very sudden call at his place, seized his bottles, decanters, and poured the liquor out into the gutter.

Amelia Lambert, a girl of 15 was found lying on a Brooklyn sidewalk the other day sick with the small pox. She was a servant for Mr. George Swain who turned her out of the house when he found she had the small pox. Charles W. Winslow, a commission merchant at Chicago, lately committed suicide in consequence of a business embarrassment.

He left a wife and three children, and their only legacy was au I afi.cUouate letter aud 866. He had lost all his money in grain speculations. The Richmond Whig announces that i the delay iu sending Lee's nomination to the rebel Senate lor confirmation was occasioned by Davis' inability to sign the same, in consequence of a severe attack of neuralgia in the right arm aud hand. Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr, during his visit to Washington, asked and obtained permission lrom Secretary Stanton to preach in Charleston, in the fullness of time when Gen.

Butler is Military Governor of that city and South Carolina. Old crusty says that he prefers a music box in th9 house to a piano. He says it obviates the necessity of having a young master around; that it only plays when you set it agoing and that when you want to stop it, you can throw your boot at it, which you can't do at your wife. A youth of nine orteu summers who attends the Sabbath school and is one of hese infants terrible," was askej by his teacher, not long since what the phylacteries of the. Pharisees were.

"Broad hems such as ladies wear on their dresses," was the reply. But the Pharisees didn't wear them for the same reason that ladies do, did they 1 0, yes," was the wicked answer, to be seen of men." Slessrs. Hunger, White and Humphreysthe legislative committee to Investigate our city departments have returned to Albany. They dined at the Union league ciub last Friday, at Peter Cooper's on Baturday, at A. T.

Stewart's on Sunday, at Astor's ou Monday, rested on Tuesday, aud were shown the of New York ou Wednesday night. It is probable lhat they will, strenuously advocate the removal of the state capital tt tiiU metropolis. N. Y. Pkopemoh Fbakk's Lkctvbb.

evening an instructive lecture was do-11 vi red on the anatomy and physiology of the Human Eye, the use ami abuse of spectacles and diseases of the Eye, kj. cording to luvltatlon of the medical Eentlevnen of Rutland, by Prof. Franks, in th vllhigo hall of Rutland. He com-ineueed In a clear and concise manner, describing the ratnre, principle m1(j projertle of light, and the general Inwt of optic', after which was glveu a vrrf minute and scientific explanation of the anatomy, functions, physiology and ca-pabllitles uf the human eye, In health and disease. He then proceeded toshour the manner In which the eye is gratia, ally and sometimes suddenly altered In its visual capacities, so as to require tht aid of spectacles and medical attendance This was practically exhibited in a lieautlfnl way on some excellently contrived working mechanical models, which showed the gnat amount of In-Jury often done to vision from the ruls-applieation and use of improper spec tacles and medical remedies, and a want of correct Information In the optician or occlllist.

The Ttcturer showed his perfect knowledge of the subject. We understand his visit to Rutland is a short one, nevertheless it will give all here and In this neighborhood an opportunity to obtain a pnir of his patent spectacles, and advice on diseases of that delicate little organ, the eye, which is an opportunity so rarely met with, that such a chance may never occur again. He la staying for a short time at the Franklin Hotel, and may be consulted from (J A. M. to 6 P.

M. daily, during his stay in Rutland. Tkmprkakck. A convention of the friends of mpcraiice and the prohibitory law in Chittcr.dcn county, Is to be held in Uurlington on Thursday the 23d for the purpose of nominating a County Commissioner. The Second Regiment, Vermont State Jlliltia, will be organize.l In Uurlinsrtou on Friday xt.

Temi'ekance at Suiam llobPiTAjL. The Sloan Hospital Temperance Club have secured the services of Rev. A. L. Cooper, to deliver a Temperance Lecture, at the Chapel Hospital, on Wednesday (this) evening, at 7 o'clock.

Military Itrms. H. S. English, of Woodstock, has been commissioned Adjutant of the 6th Vt. Geo.

H. Bailey, a graduate of Norwich University, has been appointed 1st Lieutenant of Co. 11th Vt. Vols. Rev.

John D. Cargil, who enlisted as a private from Richmond in the 5th and served three years, has now been commissioned chaplain of the same regiment. Lieut. W. Pierce, Co.

17th Vt. Vols, has been commissioned captain of his company. Union Hook and Lauder Company. At the annual meeting ofUnion Heok and Ladder Company, held at Village Hall on Monday evening. Feb.

6, the Company made choice of the following officers for the year ensuing Walter C. Landon, Foreman. Joseph M. Davis, First Assistant. James C.

Dunn, Second Assistant. H. A. Sawyer, Treasurer. John S.

Bowman, Clerk. Chester Kingsiey, Auditor. Z. Stevens, Steward. Nbw Drug Store.

The new drug store of Fenn Tuttle, in the PIbralO building near the foot of Center street, is handsomely fitted np and 'filled to overflowing with gooda in their line. Fenn Tuttle are prepared to attend to the wants of all customers, both old an! new, at both the old and new stores. Give them a call. There was a startliiig development at Mount Holy ok seminary, not long since. One of the young ladieshad just returned from a visit to the outside world, and soon after a vigilant teacher looked into her room and liscovcred a gentleman's hat there.

Another teacher also satisfied herself of the existence of the alarming object, and the pupil was forthwith summoned to the hall of judgment. It was a most delicate subject of inquiry, and the point of attack was only reached by gradual and zig-fcag approaches. The pupil, who manifested her depravity by half concealed merriment, and showed no disposition penitently "to unbosom herself, was at last brought up with a plump question as to the hat lu the room. There was a moment of painful anxious suspense, followed by a sudden collapse, when the offender confessed that she had brought in one of her father's old hats to cut up fr soles. 8he was pronounced excused, and there was great fun 1a the halls as the story circulated.

Commercial Leoislatiob. The' New York Chamber of Commerce hasadopted a resolution approving a general tax on sales of merchandise as the wisestand best means of increasing the Internal revenue, if so adjusted as not to interfere with the frequent interchange of commodities. A committee of the same body has made a report approving the bill establishing a system of bankruptcy now before Congress, and disagreeing with a communication from the Boston Board of Trade proposing a postponement of legislation on the subject. A Yankee who has been selling confederate cotton for Gen. Klrby Smith at Matamoras.

and sharing the avails witn him, lately died, and the widow refused to pay over to Smith his share of the money. Smith curses the Yankees, but ill nr. tsrf mske trouble about It, as he whs plundering his own government In thebuslnew. tie ia Denevm ams-frd an Immense fortune in that way." f.j! 1.1 p. oo 0.