The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-07-30


The exports OF Now Orleans during tho quarter
ending the 30th June, have amour ted in value
TO upwards of twenty two millions of dollars.
Flour selling at Louisville on the 18th inst
at S4,75; Grain rs cts, The crops throughout tho
country represented very abundant.
Winois.-All the officers of State left Vandala on
the LIST instant for Springfield, tho new scat ofgov-
eminent of this state.
The cry IS still, 'thoy RUN. A clerk in the land
Office at Washington has 'Stoart,couted," to the
tune Of So ,74S 05. That will do pretty well for
such Roguery seems TO be contagious amongst Van
Burcns pets.
Spanish proverb says that the Jews ruin them
selves at their pass overs, the moors al their mar
riages, and the christians their lawsuits.
The New Orleans Pycaune tells story of an
Alligator hunt which occurred not far from that city
not long since. Four men, in two days and half
killed sir hundred and fifty seocn of the monsters.
Tho only way to kill them is with rifle ball, the
vulnerable spot being the eye.
The People in some part of tho South and West
arc complaining bitterly of the excessive drought,
while at the East they arc drenched with rain. AT
Boston, says tho Transcript, 1t has rained some
every day for thirty nine days.
Alexander McGayhoy, the owner of plantation
at Yazo, Miss, and Lewis &. Ross his ovcrsecr,
have been held TO bail, the latter in So 900 prn
cipa and the farmer in 81 900 accessory, TO the
murder of ono of McGayhoys slaves, who was
whipped to death by Ross
"A Father Murdcrcd By his Son.-Wllliam Pierce
of Malone, Franklin county, NJ Y. has been convic-
ted for tho murder Of his father, and sentenced to
be hung on tho Cd day Of September next. The
father and son were il the woods chopping when
dispute arose, which terminated thus fatally, by
blow in the breast with sharp axe. The prisoner
is not IL years old.
The first Baptist Church in Providence, r. /.
will celebrate its two hundredth anniversary this
autumn. 1t was founded in the days of Roger Will
liams.
Parents who cndcavor to protect their children from
labor, and encourage them to seek self indulgence
instead of annating them to become industri
and useful possible, fooshly and GER
tanly preparing them for Il hard and thorny bed to
lay upon at subsequent period Of their lives
The Albany Argus quotes John c. Calhoun,
whom Gen. Jackson threatened to hang for Trea-
son, in favor of the Sub Treasury. Mr. Calhoun
has assigned his for being in fnvcr of this
scheme, that it will njure the business an! cripple
the enterprise of the North.
The Canadiau Prisoners 1t having been found
mpracticabIe TO put the Canadian prisoners upon
their trial in England, in conformity with the sug-
gcstion in the judgement Of tho Court of Exche-
quer, the Government has notified to them that up.
entering into personal securities not to return to
Canada, :hoy will be released.
.auother Sacarttoout.-Tho Rogorsyille CTenuos- |
seo) paper informs US that Gen. Nathaniel Smith, |
Inf En,iu cor tho
has fled to Texas, with from 20 to 500, 900 orUn-
Gle Sans money in his pocket, having first sold off
bis own property and pocketod the proceeds.
Fourth Of July 0ccidents-Tho Editor of the
Harrisburg Chronicle says that no has counted the
accidents in which lives were lost, injuries were
done to persons by tho of powder on the 4th
inst and that up this the is forty seccn
killed, and nineteen manned, majority ofthom for
life.
Bachelors Dcclaralions.- The Bachelor Club Of
4ittsburg celebrated tho 18th in glorious style, with
&oasts' songs, speeches, &C., highly appropriate 81
concluding by the unanimous adoption Of a De- |
claration of independence, which proclaimed tho
following
"We hold these truths to be solf-evidont-
that all men created SINGLE"
Mormon Prisoners Escapod-The Columbia Pa !
triot of the 9th says, that Party p Pratt Morris
Phelps and King Folett, three of the Mormon DIS
onors, escaped from the Jail of that county on the
evening of the 18th inst. Tho Deputy Sheriff,
however, retook the last and brought him back to
confinement Pursuit is still made after tho othe.
two
Release Of .MacKenzic.-The publishers of the
three papers IN Rochester have recommend the i'm
mediate signing and presentation of petitions TO
Inc PRESIDENT, for the release from fine and impris-
onment of William Lyon Mackenzie.
Mr. Sergeant S. PrentisS, of Mississippi is spoken
of as the probable successor of Mr. Walker in the |