The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-02-19

taking him at "close hugs" with one arm, whilst,
with stick not larger than an ox-goad, he beat
the creature until ii died! 1t is, perhaps, unne-
cessary to say that Mr. Spaulding is one of our
most intelligent ana respectable Wings, and that
he regards his late exploit as typical of ho sue
which is to crown the efforts of the party to
which he belongs at the next Presidential cleo
ton.
The skin of the wolf is now at the store of Il.
Chadbourn g. Co., and measures from Zip 10
tip, 5 feet inches
WASHINGTON, Feb. /, 1889.
The cabinet OF Mterdte,rS, collected here by
the strange taste of Mr. Van Buren,, begin 10 feel
alarmed at the movements OF the Committee of
Investigation at New York. They have reason
| to be, for il the wings manage their affairs with
any ordinary degree of discretion for the next
| eighteen months, there seems no reasonable
doubt but that The reelection of Mr. Van Buren,
can be defeated. | am told that several serious
nsultations have already been held on the pros
poets Of the country, and that the Diet erinination
of Congress to prosecute their investigations in
to every branch of the public service, has alarm
ed more than any thing that has yet taken
| place. The corruption and venality of the party
in power has been so great, their terrible waste
of the public moneys unparalleled that it seems
| to me utterly impossible that Mr. Van Buren,
stand before the Indignation of the public mind,
now thoroughly walked up 10 its enormilies
! by the delalcallons of the New York Custom
House
But the New York Custom House forms
ly very small part of the enormous waste, cor
ruption, and robbery OF the present party. The
Boston Custom House, it is we'll known, has
plundered the government equally so, the partic-
ulars of which may be found in the failure of the
Commonwealth Bank If the inquiry were
prosecuted further, have no doubt but the Phil
adelphiu, Baltimore, and new Orleans Custom
Houses would be found equally corrupt and rot
ten.
But perhaps the Post Office Department, under
the management of the immaculate Amos Ken
dali, is in the most rotten and bankrupt condi-
ton of all others From authority of which
have not particle of doubt, learn shat the Post
Office Department is at this moment bankrupt
for nearly Seuen hundred thousand dollars This
deficiency has been created by the incompetent
cy, waste, profusion and bad management of
Amos Kendall. In the contracts for carrying
the mail, persons who have faithfully performed
public services have been refused their inst dues
while political layores, all over the country,
have received on many occasions three times
the value for the same services that independent
men received. In one route in Pennsylvania,
it is said that $4,000 have been paid for what
never exceeded $40 900 before Amos Kendall
entered office.
On every hand, and in every department., the
same corruption, waste, extravaganza, and MIS-
management exists No party in this country
ever abused their trust much as the party
now i'll power. l never could have believed
them so bad and so corrupt until came here &
satisfied myself on the spot. The investigating
Committee may well make them tremble in their
seats. Without any virtue or integrity, they are,
in addition, set of the most miserable mbeciles
that ever disgraced any country.
HORRIBLE MURDER. We have seldom had cause
to record more fearful crime, committed thro'
the influence of rum, than the following which
is,related in the FIemigsburg Kentuckian Of jar.
18th. 1t may he added to the thousands of
arguments in favor of shutting up tipping shops,
those pests of civilized community:
A Son Murdered by his Father-JMore horrible
effects of htemperance. We are credibIy inform
Ell that Mr. Hampton of Mason County, KY,
was the murderer of his own son, a boy of about
IL years of bye. He was habitually inemper-
ate, and had sent his son to a neighhoring house
for rum, who upon returning informed his father
that he had accidentally broken the jug and split
the iiquor.-Upon learning these facts the faith
or became enraged, and procuring rope hung
| nun up by the ceiling until life was extinct. Al
though this occurrence is said to have occurred
last week, we have not learned as yet the perpe-
traitor of this foul and unnatural deed has been
| arrested
LYNcHING IN OHIo.-The Canton Repository,
OF the olst OF January, records the following out
rages:-"We regret that Judge Lynch has com
menced operations in Stark county. few
nights since fifty or sixty persons assembled at
Berln and caught German doctor, stripped
nun, led him about somes distance and tarred
Nun. In Huron, Huron county, Ohio a
few days since two negroes were arrested on a
charge OF committing an assault on German |
woman. On examination one was committed,
the other released. The one released was taken
by mob, whipped and muated so as to cause
ms death. And all the negroes in the town had
Doen notlf1ed 10 leave in few hours"
we cannot account for the rise in the price of
leaiher.-Lynn Record.
We can. The leg-Treasurers are using up
shoe leather fast as to keep the market in a
safe of almost complete exhaustion.