The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-08-13

| There about 1000 miles of Railroad in the
United States-capital $40 100000.
The steamboat Albany, lately made the trip
from New York to Albany,16O miIesin eight hours
and one minute, being the shortest passage ever
known.
Horses and Cattle should be placed SO they may
provide themselves well with pure water during
the warm weather. Do not some farmers neglect
this too much
| Travelling Cabinet. Tho Richmond Enquirer
announces that Messrs Forsyth and Ponset have
left Washington to join the President in New York
The administration doing "ta business at
electioneerng just now.
Eleven of the Prescott prisoners have been re-
leased. Their names are-David DefeId, John
NJ. Jones, Oliver Lawton, Edgar Rogers, Garrus
Powers, Samuel Livingston, Trueman Chapman,
Levi Chapman, John Graves, Alonzo Mallhiut,
Bapstita Raso.
Ss Col Prince has been elected Chairman Of the
General Sessions of the Peace for the Western Dis
trict of Upper Canada. He is patti ern of Mag
strate
The CHEROKEE WAR. A letter published in
the St Louis Republican, gives more partcu
among the Cherokee Indians than we have
seen in any former statements. The principal
facts are embraced in the following a6ridge-
ment:-
On the 22d of June about forty half and full
biooded Cherokee Indians came to the house Of
John Ridge, distinguished Cherokee, and Just
about daylight entered his chamber unperCeived
by any of the family aud burst a cap at his head,
which awoke HIM, who then saw and felt his
impending fate no doubt, and called on his as
sailans for mercy. Finding the instrument of
death which they had presented, failed IN its ia
tai purpose they took him out Of his bed from
beside his wife, carried him into the yard, and
there butchered him. by stabbng him in the bo-
DIV twenty seven times They then threw him
up in the air as far they could, and when his
dying body reached the ground, each one stamp
ed upon the body as they marched over it IN SIM
gle file, until the last man had accomplished his
fiendish purpose. This tragedy was executed
in the presence of his wife, children and servants.
The party after killing Ridge, took up their line
of march in pursuit OF M aIor Ridge, the father
of John, who had the day before started with
his servant, to visit some friends in Van Buren,,
Arkansas The party over took Major Ridge
in the evening of the 22d, and killed him on his
horse, by shooting him. This report is doubt
less true. 1t is also reported that Elias Boudi-
not and Colonel Bell and six other principal men
OF the Ridge party, have shared the fate of the
unfortunate John Ridge and his father The
cause which led to this event. has grown out o
the dissatisfaction Of perhaps maotity of the
old Cherokee nation, in opposition TO the treaty
familiary called the Ridge Treaty. and those
other persons said to be killed are some OF the
prominent men, who, with the Ridges and 9th
ers, concluded the treaty wild: Mr. Schermerhorn
and Governor Carroll, a few years since, the
history of which is well known. The re-
cent congregation of the whole nation, has
afresh these old feuds. The friends
of Major Ridge and his son John have sworn
eternal vengeance against son!e of the head men
Of the nation of the other party. John Ridge
a gentleman of hgly cultivated mind, hav-
ing received liberal education at one of the
colleges in Connecticut, where he married Miss
Northrop. Major Ridge and his were both
considered wealthy, and were extensively en-
gagged in mercantile busneks. Major Ridge was
tormily one of the principal chiefs of his nation
aud commanded n battalion of his countrymen
under General Jackson against the Creeks du-
ring the last war; and although unlctered was
altogether a man OF strong and discrimina-
ting mind. His intercourse with the intelligent
and wealthy gave him the appearance ola veal
thy souhernor. He was kind hospitable- and
about sixty five years of age. John Ridge was
about 81 years of age. He left wife and six
children. The death of the two Ridges will long
be regretted by their friends and acquaintance.
The intercourse between the whites and Chero-
KEGS passing TO and fro, has not, yet, been in.
terrupted. Persons having business in the ma
ton and at the fort go usual.
Heroic ADVENTURE. Niagara Falls July 25.
There is a man living within the sound of these
glorious falls, named Joel Robinson who de-
serves to be mmortalized as the hero of an
adventure which, for intrepidty and gallantry,
has never been excelled.
The new bridge connecting Iris Island with
the American shore, is you aware built over
IheRnp,ds, scarcely quarter of mile above
the Falls. The Channel is here filed with rocks,
and the current covered with foam, dashes along
ut the rate oftwenty miles an hour. A work
man named Chaplin engaged in covering the
bridge, this afternoon, accidentally slipped, and
was precIpitated into the whirl below;--he was
carried with fearful rapidity down the stream,
nd ,t,hIa