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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06
TFoR THE CALEDoNIAN.1

Mr. ED1Ton:-I he improvement which has re-
Gently been made in the system of education is
subject of pleasing contemplation t" the philan-
,hropist In all our Literary institutions, from the
University to the humblest district school, this inn
provement is manifest, and promises to furnish not
only better scholars in all tho learned professions
but a more intelligent community To me it has
given signal satisfaction, when visiting schools, as
often do TO find the children Of the poorest families
instructed in those branches OF knowledge, which,
but few years ago, were confined almost wholly
within the walls of Colleges, and even in some,
which, halfa century ago, were scarcely known in
the first institutions of learning IN our land There
is however, room for still greater Improvements;
and with all desire to contribute my mite to an OBJ
ject so Important | would suggest, with Difference,
to the instructors of youth and children, that too
little attention is paid to the subject OF conversations
Children not taught 10 speak with propriety
their own mother tongue. A multitude Of vulgar
isms have, know not how, become the common
dialect of the community; and these transmitted
from parents to children, even in the most inte
gent families, with remarkable uniformity. How
extensively these vulgarisms prevail, in our coun-
try, know not; but know that, within hundred
miles Of tho granite State House of Vermont, young
gentlemen and ladies may be heard using such Ian
guage the following: ale done good business"
'Aly father come from Boston last week. g sec
great big hawk yesterday" "He don't hnO,0
nothing about it,.
Ladies, of the first responsibility, may also be
ticed TO repeat, less than hundred times in
minute, the important phrase, "says L." My inn
preston is, MIR Editor, that English families use in
conversation much more correct language than
American families of the same grade as to general
education. and l am confident the former are, in
conversation, far more interesting than the latter
Even among the low Irish emIgrants, we often
find persons ofboth sexes, whose colloqual powers
sufficient to put to the blush many Of our best
educated families. These hints suggested with
the hope that some person, qualified to do justice
the will favor the public with his thoughts
and that the respectable body who compose the lit
craft of State, and, especially, Instructors in
our Colleges and Academies, will bestow such at
tention upon it will result in eevating youth
and children to the standard of correct language, in
conversation, and better cultivation and more in
teresting oftheir colloquial faculties.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

I moved on Monday last, to lay on the table; tins
motion was then rejected. MIR Hopkins of.VIrsnia
had moved TO reconsider that motion; and this Ias
motion was pending when the subject was dropped
last week. a.,
Mr. Everett, Of VT, being about to address the
House tins motion,
The Chair decided that it was not a dobateaoie
question, inusmuch as the vote proposed to DC re-
considered was upon motion which was not de-
bateablc.
Mr. Everett took an appeal from the decision OF
the Chair, but Withdrew il subsequently, requesting
to have that decision entered on the journal
The Speaker said thatit would be done
MIR Everett demanded the yeas and nays on lh I,
question of reconsideration, which were oroered'
and tho motion to reconsider prevailed ny inc io'-
lowing votc-yeas 12l nays 50
The question recurring on the motion to lay the
memorial on the table
MIR Fillmore demanded the yeas and nays; WhicH
being ordered, the question was decided III the al
firmatlve-yeas 1872, nays Sc. 49,,
The House thdn took up the special order, being
the Mississippi Election question c.-c, Ill.,
Mr. Bronson addressed the House IN favor OF me
sitting members. Mr. Jenier of Maryland and MI
Robertson of Virginia, advocated the claims OF
Mcssrs. Prentiss and Word. The House adjourned,
leaving Mr. Legare in possession of the floor Tor to-
morrow
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

n-5-The report of the Pension Commissioners
states the number of deaths ofpersons eceiving pen
sons in VT. to have been during year prior to last
October 122. The amount of money paid to pen
s,oners in Vermont during the year $4,000.
The number of those who have died and who had
received pensions for services performed during the
PevoIntion is not stated. The last winter fatal
to great number Of the veterans OF the keVoiu
ton, probably in consequence OF the severe coiu
weather. During the spring, as we noticed by inc
newspapers at the time, deaths from among 'ne'r
ranks were unusually frequent. All now hVihs OF
these worthless must be old men, and natufe' II not
disease, will sooa number them with their comPat-
riots in arms, who have gone before them to that
bourne from whence no traveller returns-to the
Ian where dwells the immortal spirit of their illus
trious Chief-GEoRGE WASHINGTON.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

RHODE ISLAND. Resolutions have been passed
by the Legislature of this State recinding the reso-
lutions adopted by that body in JAM 1887 instruct
ing their Senators in Congress to vote for the Ex-
pungng Resolutions. They were adopted by vote
of 33 to 20. Resolutions also have been adopted
by the same body dcnouncing the Sub Treasury
scheme and the experiments upon the currency by
the administration.
The Legislature in revising the criminal code,
amended the law that instead of Imprisonment
for life as punishment for murder, punishment by
death has been substituted. The amendment pre-
vailed by vote of 81 TO "a.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

and living under more perfectly republican gov
vernment than is enjoyed by the people of any 9th
or State IN the Union, proverbially jealous OF their
rights, and quick to discern and no less hasly
pei tho least Infringement of thom and yielding 10
no community under heaven in general diligence,
SHOULD for so many years have been completely
hoodwinked, and bamboozled, by their rulers, whom
they have over regarded their own servants, as
sembling from year to year by their own direction,
to execute their own pleasure!
Surely it is time for the people 10 arise, in their
might, and spurn these unconstitutional shacklcs,
and claim the constitutional right of euery man, 400
man, and child, TO sell rum in any quantity, great
small just as they sell wheat, butter, cheese, and
milk; any law, custom, usage, to the contrary
notwithstanding. FREEMAN OF VERMONT.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

057Mr Rhett, member Of Congress from South
Carolina, has published address in the Wash
ngton papers 10 his constituents, in defence of the
position which he has lately assumed, and upon
which he calls upon the South to rally. He in
ssts upon amendment of the Constitution, con-
tanning additional guarantees for the "domestc in
sttutons' of tho South, or in this is refused,
an immediate dissolution of the Union.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06
UYThe Boston Dapers state that the

U37The Boston papers state that the principal
debtors to the exploded Pet, the Commonwealth
bank buying up the bills of that Institution at
discount Of 80 per cont. with which they cancel
their obligations to the bank. These men wers the
directors of the bank at the time Of its failure and
knew we'll its condition, yet they issued large
amount of their bills during the six days prior to the
explosion. Among those indebted is Governor
Hill of New Hampshire, whose responsibilities a.
mount to 100000, and he like others has an agent
in Boston employed in purchasing the bills of such
as are so unfortunate as to hold them. The people
will learn to their sorrow the honesty of office
holders, who cry aloud against banks, when every
one with which they connected is transformed
into shaving shop. A knowledge of their own
re item concerns, made by their own thirst for
plumber, ought to them to abhor system that
has enabled them to fill their pockets at the public
expense.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

rTWhile the discussion of the troubles in the
Province of Upper Canada was pending in the Par
lament of that Province, some Of the speakers
talked of demanding of the U. States the amount
of their bill of expenses in suppressing the Patriots
These impudent services ola foreign kingdom are
maddoned by their Should they present
their bill it would doubtless meet with warm re-
ception, and be greeted with little of the spirit OF
seventy-six
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

CONGRESS- The Mississippi contested election
has thus far occupied upwards of weeks time in
the House of Representatives. 1t is contest be-
tween the administration party and the people of
Mississippi, and its result matter of conjec-
ture, To the administration and to the country the
decision of this question Of great imporance;-if
the decision should be favorable TO the Van Buren,
members, Claiborne and Gholson, the prospect of
the success of the Sub Treasury project will be
brighter, and adverse decision would rretrieva-
bly, seal its fate. Let the decision be what it may,
it is the opinion of intelligent politicians that the
bill cannot pass The majority against it at the
ira session some or TO-; since when not few
of the members who voted in its favor have been in
structod by their continents, by expression of
sentiments adverse to this measure. Several ad
ministraon Senators have received instructions to
oppose its passage direct from their Legislatures and
it is said that Mr. Grundy of Tennessee will obey
them. Notwithstanding, the bill will pass the SEN
ate. Should it however become law, measure
fianght with injury to the interest of the people,
as that must be, would notbe tolerated by them
They would order their servants, at the first cleo
lion TO expunge 1t from the statute book.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

GJ'At the request of Governor Jenison and Gen.
Wool, delegates from the frontier towns met on
the 26lh of January at St Adams, 10 consult upon
measures of defence, if any deemed necessa-
ry. 1T the opinion of the citizens that the cir
cImstances did not warrant call upon the militia,
and that if the General Government would furnish
them with arms they would project themselves
Gen Wool is at st Adams waiting for orders from
Washington.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

~~ElcctrO- .Magaetic Telegraph. We were among
a number who witnessed on Tuesday an exhibition
of the new elegia apis invented by Professor Morse,
of the New York University, and were more than
gratifed by the success which has rewarded his la
bors. There can be scarcely doubt that new
and wonderful triumph over time and space has
here been achieved. BY means of his apparatus, a
communication was conveyed through an extent of
ten miles instantaneously, and an important SEN
tence was prepared for transmission, transmitted,
reduced again to language and read to the company
in etght minutes Had the distance been ten or one
hundred times as great, the time required would
Will not be regarded bold prediction by any
one who has examined the Professors apparatus,
that foreign intelligence which reached this city in
the morning may be published in New Orleans be-
fore night when Geographic communication be-
tween the two cities shall have been established,
The expense (about 5000 per me) seems the only
obstacle to its immediate accomplishment.
.Neso- YORKER,
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

u The New York papers state that Mr. Dicker-
Secretary of the Navy, rendered his resIg-
nation to the President, who declined accepting it
unless the whole Cabinet would "follow in his
foosteps'
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

The whole number of pension
ers in the United States is A. ,766. OF these,
AL in Wnssarhuset,s 2535 in Connerticnt o04 IN
Rhode Island, 2497 in Vermont, S636 in New
York, l l66 in New Jersey, 2649 in Pennsylva
mia, Al in Delaware, 457 in Maryland, 1854 in
Virginia, 1870 in North Carolina, Glib in South
Carolina, $50 in Georgia, 81 in Mississippi, SO
Alabama, ~ in Louisiana, 2059 in Tennessee,
1855 in Kentucky 1904 in Ohio 7Sl in Indiana,
322 in Illinois. 1868 Missouri, 81 in Florida, 25
in Arkansas, 175 in Michigan 5 in Wisconsin,
I42 in District of Columbia. The number Of
pensioners added to the list from Oct. 81, 1886,
to Oct. 81, 1887, gill. Deaths during same pc
Rod, 1916.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

Hon. LuclUs BARNARD member of the Maine
Senate from Lincoln Country fell dead when retr-
ing from the Senate Chamber, the 25th ull. He
was in perfect health and unusually good spirits dur
ing the day.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-02-06

On the night of the 10Th ult. the Mansfield Fac
tory, situated in Mansfield, Conn. was consumed by
fire, together with the machinery machine shop,
and saw mill. Loss estimated from 10, 600 to $l2,-
000-No insurance.
Each member of the Indiana Legislature has
cording to custom prevalent in that State declar
ed his politics in writing. 1t appears that the num-
Der of Wings in that body is ST. and the number of
Van Burenies, including the Conservatives, 43.
The Rochester Democrat of the Esd January says
tina MIR Mckenzie left that city that morning fox
Washington.
Tho latest brilliant achievement OF Gen Jesupis
recorded in the following extrac: from letter dat
cd Gurey's Ferry, Jan. I7-"Gen. Jesup came
across eight Indians, took one and killed another"
THIS throws the 'ueni, uidi, of Caesar COM
pletely into the shade.
One hundred and forty sick and wounded United
States troops and Missouri volunteers, from Florida,
arrived at New Orleans the 10Th ut. in charge of
DIR Lee. -
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the mole paths of crime, into dreary ca'ei' "
dripping poison, and Kissing SNAKES anu "a''N
syeherinp yapours. Alas! the serpents huhs
from his bosom, and the poison-drops rom IT'S
tongue. and now he knew where in truth nc
was.
Wild. and with unutterable grief he cried up
ward TO the heavens, " Oh . restore uhlo Inc NY
youth Oh Father! place me yet again upon INC
choosing point of life, that my choice may oo'
alb how differcnt"
Bit his Father end his youth were long since
no more. He bcheld crr-ghts dancing "'h"u''
the ,orasses and dying away above The tomb
vord, and he said " they are my iIl-spent days"
lie beheld star gliding downward from the sky
schjmmerng as itfel and then vanishing upon
the earth.
oft is l." said his bleeding heart and the
snake teeth of remorse griped yet deeper into
his wounds. His kindng fancy showed MN
sIeep- wanderers gliding over the roofs, ana the
wind-mills raised their threatening arms MS II to
destroy, and in the empty death-housc sole re-
naming scull began slowly to clothe Itself IN
his ncaments.
In the midst OF his ugony,there suddenly stream
ed down from the chIrch turret The neW-years
melody like far off and sacred symphonies.
Melting feelings began TO steal over him, he ga
Zcd around to the remotest horizon and tar a.
broad over the earth, and he thought upon the
companions ofhis youth, now better and happier
than himself, and bcheld them teachers of the
world, fathers of beloved children, men o'er-load-
ed with blessings and he said, " even us ye now
Il, Il II, mn ,niS
cned eve this frs-nght, had but so resolved and,
We beloved Parents how blessed were had but
fulfilled your new-years wishes and counsels!
Amid these feveris membranes of his
youth days, it Sc cmed to him that the scull Which
had assumed his own lineaments in the death
house. reared itself aloit, and, in accordance
with the superstition which on the new-ycar's
night brings spirits and the future before the Wis
ION, it put OF the semblancc ola living youth,
even the beautiful boy of the Capitol, and thus
his own roseate form was bitterly conjured up
before him.
He could gaze upon it no longer he yelled
his eyes and thousand burning tears streamed
down in the snow--ouce more, yet still in an
guish and bewilderment did he lightly murmur,
"Return, oh yet again return my youth days to
mel"
And they did return: for he had but dreamed
thus fearully in the new years night, and he
was still youth. His extravaganccs alone were
no dream; and he thanked God that thus in
youth he could retreat from the corrupting paths
of vice, and set forward his pilgrimage upon
that sun. path which leads into the pure land of
harvests.
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HO Mariners.

TOHN c. CROSMAN, manufactures and md l Keeps
~ constantly for sale, at his shop, STRAW W
TIERS. which for usefulness and cheapness are SUI
norior 10 any other machine of lie kind in use, as
will appear by the following testimony OF ,i zen
STRAW CUTTER.
The undersigned having used the straw cutters u;is
made by John C. Crosman of st. JohnsbHry, give
il ms our opinion that in cheapness, duraDity ana
usefulness they exceed any machine in known use,
rs fodder saving machines.
1t is not liable to get out OF repair, occupying a
very small space, and so light to be easily carried
under the arm We cheerfully recommend the use
Of it to every farmer, for the purpose OF cutting
straw hay or corn fodder fully believing that 1t VIII
in one winter save in fodder more than double the
'"p0"'' CHARLES ROBERTS,
JOSEPH II. INGALLS,
SlLAS HOUGHTON,
T.. b. CHASE,
E. FAIRBANKS,
EZRA lDE
LEONARD HARRINGTON,
ST. Johnsburv Plain, Sept. Z, 1887. ct
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a, e4PcNt ksaA'SaEEa.
iarVeStS.

FEVHE subscriber offers for sale his TAVERN
q STAND, consisting of buildings, new, con-
yenient, and finished in Ethe most superb style -
land, in state of high cultivation. To those who
are acquainted with the place, the business, &c.
this Stand needs recommendation. 1t is situated
in the middle of the town of Concord, where all
the public business of the town is transacted on
the Stage road leading from Burlington to GuildhalI
in the largest town in the County. 1t possesses
many advantages above other taverns, inasmuch as
it is situated that tho Stage dimes at this place
four times n week, and affords good chance for
taking boardors, from the Academlcal School, stu
ated very
Those wishing to purchase, will do we'll to call
and examine for themselves. Liberal credit will
be given if preferred. BRIGHAM PIKE.
Concord, Vt. October 6, 1887. l1-Sw
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--IIo stood a)one--a shunn'd, hated thing,
For lie had been an outcast on the world,
And every vilager had heard the tale
That stamped his brow with stain OF lnlamy,
And knew the guilt that now, with keen remorse,
Gnawed at his heart with coasccss tooth of an
gush.
Disease was proying on him and he came
TO lay his wearied and his worn out frame
Beside his buried ather.--Ilis CLASSY eye,
And pale and wIlorcd check, and hollow voice
Told that his days were numbered And the pain
OF parting liie-tho torture Of the mind,
Came in the sleoplcss night and foverish day
Till wasted life just gIimmcrcd ore it died.
And yet, none needed these his racking pains;
The world passed by upon the other side,
And left him to his fate All save one
And she, m her old age, watched by his couch
md wiped The canmy sweat from his cold brow.
she alone lad wecom'd his return, and now
She sat by her poor boy, 10 cheer The hours
when chilling darkness came upon his soul,
Nor thought of her own weakness while she held
His aching brow upon her throbbing breast.
The lamp Of life went out. And then she bore
The wasted form of him she once had loved,
And laid him by his father.
There would she wander, when the dewy eve
Elad spread her sober mantle DER the world,
And sit and weep aloud Twas her only son,
That lay beneath that mouldering pile of earth,
And she forgot the errors of his life,
And thought alone Of what was lovely
She thought of him, the infant of her lap,
And heard his arlless prattlo--and she saw
The sunny ringets as thoy sportive played
O'erlls bright brow, in childhood S summer hours
She thought how proudly she had loved to dwell
Upon the opening manhood of her child,
And Of the hopes mother only knows.
She though. on these and wopt, and laid her heat
On the cold earth that press d upon her boy.
And wished her aged, widowed heart was hush'e
Within the quiet grave wherein he slept
Oh if there be within the human heart
A feeling holier than all else beside,
1t is the love that warns mothers breast
E en- for SHINING child-the only tie
That death alone can sever, and il felt
Till the lasr tLrob Of feeling is at rest.
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IMPORTANT. THE TEETHLNrG

NFINFANTS. The time Of dention is a most
W important period of the infant state, and SUBJ
ject it to many complaints and dangers. Above a
tenth part of infants die at this particular juncture
by symptoms proceeding from the irritation of the
eAqusitely sensible part of the gums which
eventually induce fnver inflammation, gangrene,
twitching of the tendons, convulslons &c. which
formidable symptoms can at all times be obviated
from causing such infantile mortality, by mothers
and nurses promptly aIlaying the local irritation of
the parts. 70 effect this desirable objec., Doctor
j. L. Pdrtsh's celebrated Syrup for LNFANTILE
!EE1Hl'FG is unrlvalled, when applied to the in
fants gums, (accordng to the directions it uniyer
sally produces immediate relief; tits pleasant and
and paating that all babes will nstinctiveIy allow
the gums to be rubbed with it. This remedy has
saved thousands of infants from recurrence of
that fatal aint-couvuIsons-even after the
child had several attacks of the malady! Sold at
100 Chatham street, New York, and at the Book
store of E. P, WALTON d SON, Montpelier,
Vermont DIV
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Hook at This.

CONSTANTLY on hand and for sale at ny ~,
= Factory at H. Paddock Eutn @cs T PhNNGk
6HnOpS of G. and pannes, from TO 2 inches
lick, suitable for outside and inside doors WIN
dow Blinds Of different sizes IL;
u He would just say to the Pupc f 'na' rn nls
SouL RIinds and Doors are made OF the hrst rae
800 Nv oxnorienccd workmen, and in the latest
stye, and sold on reasonable terms. Please TO
call and look -.,,.,.,;,, .,,,,oo,,,-
N. b. All orders by Mail or otherwise puhc'u-
ally a''eh'eu TO- LINDORF MORRIS
G. 1or,,,urv Auoust 7, 1887.
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EROOESS.

FgvlIE subscribers have for sale general assert
4 ment of SCHOOL BOOKS: among which
the following Adams, Smiths, Bucher's,
Wech sand Porley,s Arithmetic; Oney's Parey's,
WoodbTdge's and Wizards large Geography; Mrs
Lncoln's Botany; Playiar's Euclid Worcester s
History; Parleey's LIST and I'd Book ofdo; Blake
Astronomy; Crumbs Geometry; Political Class
Book; Smiths Grammar; National Reader; Cas-
steal do; Porter's Rhetorical do; Young Ladies
Class Book; Classical Speaker; Blair's Rhetoric;
History U. s.; do French; French Reader;
French Grammar; lie Bruins Telemaque; History
of Louis XIV. in French; do Charles XII; Cicero $
Orations, &c. &c. Also,
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS: among which
are the Observation-Disclosures Book The Mother at
Home; Child at Home; Mothers Friend; Letters
to the Young; Six months in Convent; Mammon
"a Prize Essay; Church members Guide; Halves
Lectures TO Young Men; Memoirs of Mrs. Judson;
do of Bralnard Taylor; Bucks Dictionary; NAL
CONS Bible do; History of Martyrs; Lectures on
Dramatic Art and Literature; Bukewell's introduce
ton to Geology, with Professor Slman's Appendix;
Large and Small Bibles; Watts and Select Hymns
Toy Books, &c. &c. All of which will be sold on
the most reasonable terms
SHEDD d JEWETT
ST. Johnsbury Plain, Sept. %, 1887. S-lf