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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

ought to have another-one sufficiently honest as
to exclude n story so notoriouslv false ms the one
ed to sell poor men for debts. He never did this
lie simply voted TO sell out the time Of CRIMINALS
and let them work and earn their fines and costs Of
trial, and thus regain their freedom, instead of
keeping them in Jail at the public expense, and de
prived Of the facilities of earning money to release
themselves from the penalty of their Offences
There is now on the statute books of Vermont a
law, the same in principle TO the voted for by
General HARRISON. The story in the State paper is
an outrageous perversion Of truth, and an insu, to
mems understanding.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

The "Boon' Lick Times" comes to us from Mis-
sonr-a new Harrison per-pubIished by CYRIL
C. CADY a late g,aduate ofthe N. II. Patrio, OF.
fee Mr. G. says he voted once for Van Buren,, but
he has discovered his error, and shall now endeav-
or to make amends for the past, by his utmost ef.
forts to secure the election OF Gen. Harrison He
cannot stand Van Burenism any longer. The Times
promises to be an able auxiliary in dissipating the
miss of Van Burenism which have been as death.
dews to the business and happiness of the people
of Missouri we'll as TO those of other parts of the
country. We glad to see our friend embracing
true Democracy-and he has our wishes for the
success of his paper and the cause in that Benton.
ridden State
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

u The story that many Indians were moving
about near Detroit with apparent hostile intentions
proves to be erroneous They were merely NOV
ing in pursuit Of the annuities, &c.-which they
receive at some place in that region. So we learn
from western paper.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

GPThe Hon Thaddeus Belts, a Senator in Con.
gress from Connecticut, died in Washington
Monday of last week. Mr. Belts Wing. His
place will be supplied at the next session of the
Legislature, which will be in May
The venerable Judge White, at the latest dates
dangerously i'll at his residence in Tennessee.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

FIRE. The Clothing Mill, Grist Mill Saw Mill,
and Single Machine, located in Lyman, opposite
to McIndoes Falls, together with large quantity
of lumber, were destroyed by fife last Thursday
morning. The loss is very heavY
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

"A strangsr-aoihas. Gen. Fenten, keen.eyed
hunter Of this town, trapped large Otter in the
Passumpsic opposite TO this village last week.
Good luck for any man these hard times.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14
All the towns in the State heard from butts.
ELECTIONSIN NEW YORK.

The Albsny Journal gives a list of the superv-
sors elected in New York up to this time, in 20
Counties, which is
In 1885, The V. b. party elected, in 30 Cos. $50
GO Wing 24G
This year, in same counties, Van Buren, 239
Wing 258
Showing a handsome gain from last year when
The Wings carried the State by about ten thousand
majority of the popular vote. Tie Journal adds
"The town meetings, therefore, have resulted so
far, even auspicousIy than they did last year.
The Wing party is sounder and healthier than
1t has been. And wtla, 1t is firmly united, for
the first time upon the Presidential question:; and
goes into the conflict with perfect convection of
its power to command success, and an indomitnbe
resolution to exert that power the utmost Those
who doubt--if such there be--ihat New York will
cast her forty two Electoral Votes for Harrison,
msread and msinterprit all the signs of the times.
Those who knOD this State of whatever party
see the handwriting upon The WALL against Van
Buren,, as legibIy aud fenriulIy it reveal
ed to an Oppressor of the People in another age.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14
From the Washington .Nadisonian.
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

The following table is made up from letter OF
the Secretary of the Treasury of the tn''eu
States, to the Committee Retrenchment (APri'
9th, 1900 and from public documents since 'ha'
date
Expenses Of the Gonermmsm from NE 4'h 81 HA'e"'
1880, to the 3lst Dec 1882
Fron, A,b M arch 1899, TO 3lst Dec.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

@t,os0 or ,534 rs
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

Betoeen q "Bad" Currency and "Better" Cur.
rGnCy
Or The Currlncy as IL aonS feao gears ago, and the
pr6Sfnk Yan Buren, Currency.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-04-14

Total in Genl. Washington's
Administration,
Average each year, s., 066 ,524
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
VERMONT.

The Vermont Patriot of the Cd inst
says the Legislature adjourned on Friday
morning, after session of three weeks
Both branches were strongly Federal
and the majority have, Of course, done
just what they pleased. We have nc
lime this week to review their acts. Suc
flee it to say, that they have reuolutionis
ed tho county of Washington, by placing
it under the control of an entire set Of
Federal officers, and chartered two banks,
(Montpeler and Poultney,) aid rechar,
tered four more, bennington, DanvlIe,
Rutland, and Vergennes, y without giving
adequate security TO the public for the
redemption of their bills-no private pro.
perty by bond, mortgage, Or otherwise
Perhaps they will be able to satisfy the
people that this is right, but we doubt it
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
EXCELLENT

The following, from the Mobile Reg.
lister. is an excellent hit at some of the
Wing fashions of the present day:
How TO MAKE TIMES GooD.-CoIIect
all the money due te you, and lavish it on
lOg-cabIns, hard-cider frolics, and lying
banners--then call your creditors togeth,
er and give them a note payable when
the election Of Harrison shall have made
times so easy that labor will be abolish.
eG.
A NEW WAY To MAKE MONEY PLENTY
Get the Legislature to pass an act au.
thorizing every man who has one hun.
dred dollars, to put it in b1nk, ard is.
sue his promises to pay three hundred
dollars, and induce the people TO take
these promises as money.
How TO MAKE POTATOES PLENTY
Get the Legislature to pass an act au
Morizing cvery man whO has hundred
bushels of potatoes, TO issue his promises
to dcLiOer A. b. or 6sarer three hundred
bushels, and induce the people to take
these promises as potatoes.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17


FoRT Russell, L. +. Oct. .. 1910.
On the 9Th inst. an express rider, boar.
ing the United States Mail from Palatka
to Fort Tanning, E. F. was attacked BY a
party of Indians about eight miles from
Fort Russell, his horse killed under him,
and the mail bag with its contents taken
possession Of by the Indians. The mail
rider, after his horse fell, was pursued on
foot by four of the hostile party, distance
of four miles to Orange Creek, where the
savages, finding they we're likely TO be dis
tanced in the race, hauted, gave whoop,
and returned back TO their comrades, who
were busiIy engaged in opening the mail
A party of mounted men from Fort Rus
sci were Immediately ordered out in pur-
suit, but on arriving at the spot, could
discover nothing more oftbe Indians than
such evidences as they thought proper to
leave behind them. The horse of the
express rider lay dead near the road, and
sundry letters and papers were found scat
tered among the palmettoes. One news
paper, the New York American, was, for
some reason or other, particularly distin-
guished by the savages.-It was di5cov-
cred in the crotch Of stick which the
Indians had erected in the road, and on
being opened was found TO contain fifty
seven straws or slips, doubtless intended
to signify the strength of the war party.
Each column of the American was beau
tiied by a broad stripe of red and black
paint (war-painD Whether this was done
for the purpose of exhibiting the hostility
of the Seminoles to that particular print,
can only be determined from "Wid Cat'
himself, to whose party the red rascals are
supposed to belong:
On the morning after the affair above
related Lieut.. McKnsey, who was re-
turning to Fort Holmes, from scout, was
SO fortunate as TO discover the way bill,
and subsequently greater portion of the
package supposed to be lost--The Indians
seemed to have left them in disgust or
prehapS fearing the result of the express
ridet's escape, they deemed it more pru-
dent to pack off with what was their own,
than TO remain behind unpackIng what
was not their own. Lieut.. Patten with
party Of mounted men, passed the place
ofattack on the evening previous, at which
time not the last sign of an enemy could
be discovered. A few hours afterwards,
a solitary horseman arrives at the identical
spot, when, presto-change! the woods
are alive with Indians, and the startled
wayfarer saves his life only by flight, hasty
as Unprecedented. Such is Florida!
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17

4. 1t is fact--that the Wings of Ded.
ham gave three cheers for Harrison Gray
Ous, in front ofhis house, as they were
marching to Bunker Hill, on the 10th Of
September. The orGer was distinctly
given by one of the standard bearers, and
the response was full and enthusiastic
Harrison Gray OTIS was the great leader
of the old Federal party--got up the
Hartford Conventon--was a member of
that notorious assembly, full of treason
and opposition to the war and Mr.. Madi-
sons Adminisration-said it was unbe.
coming the American people to rejoice
at the victories we obtained over the Brit
ish. For advocating such principles as
these, the Dedham wings gave him three
cheers.-Fellow-citizons, which party,
think you, is allied with the old Hartford
Convention Federalsts? Don't forget
who it was that gave three cheers for
II. G. O.-NOrfo TX (Mass.) Dem.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17

pair, with certain persons, has strange
modes Of expression."-U. S. Gas.
NOTE BY TIE GLoBE.--HlUw true the
above may be we know not. But we
show below, under the signature of the
parties concerned, and fOm this same
Federal Uuited States Gazette, what the
real Tories are doing in order to destroy
the Democratic press:
The Hon. Moses H. Grinnell has insti-
tuted suit against the Bay State Demo-
crat Of Boston, for having published a
statement from this city that Mr.. Grin
nell had absconded. &c. Mr. Wetmore
has a suit against the Boston Morning
Post for a similar offence.
The Boston Atlas says:
awe are authorized TO state that Mr..
Grinnell has commenced proce edngs a.
ganst the Albany Argus, Washington
Globe, and every other Loco -Foco pa.
per which has published the Infamous
slander Of his having absconded from
New York CITY,"
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Mr.. Editor: The counsel for Mr.. M.
II. Grinnell, in his suit against Mr.. Lew.
is Joselyn deemed it expedient to direct
Jhe Marshal to attach the printing press.
es, &c. used in the Office of the Bay
State Democrat. Their motives for so
doing are disclosed in the accompanying
document, adding only the fact that Mr..
Joselyn made no reply to the communi-
cation Of the counsel.
G. P. 81 B. R. CURTIS.
Oct. 90, 1910.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17

"Hurra for Vermont" says the Ken.
lucky WhigS-she is "up TO the hub" fol
Abolition. They claim the glory Of
revolutiOnizing the Empire State, and its
Legislature has nullifed the Constitution
Of the United States, and the law of Con.
gress passed TO enable masters to recover
fugitive slaves. "Oho, thou glorious
young giant ofthe West" say the Wings
she is TO repeal what is termed by the
Abolitionists the black IaT, passed at the
Instance of our commissioners, Messrs.
Smith and Morehead, and nullify like
New York Lou. ADJ.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
REyERsES OF FORTUNE.

The United States Marshal who has
Just completed the census of Cincinnati,
mentions these incidents:
met a man who had ruined himself
by intemperance, and was subsisting on
charity, that knew in Pittsburg in the
year 1915, owner of fine property and
store worth $4,000 dollars at that time.
The property alone, | have no doubt,
would since have brought 10000 dol
lars.
found in the person of a day Iaborer
in one of our foundries, man who had
once owned large iron establishment in
Scotland on the Carron side. He had
become involved with others, and had be-
come thereby insolvent. My sympaIhies
were the more strongly excited here from
the simple dignity, which forbore repi-
ming or complaint, the family manifested
in the case.
found also the widow of disiin-
guished professor in an eartern college,
who was at that time eating her humble
supper with her daughter, under such
circumstances of penury, that their very
table was formed of board laid across
an old barrel.
have found in the city two cases Of
disparity of age between the Oldest and
youngest brother, worthy of notice. In
one instance the oldest brother was69, the
younger 25. In the other when The faith
er was living, and aged 70 years, one
brother was 46 and tho other 2.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
EXPENSES OF LAYING p1pE.-lt will

EXPENSES OF LAYING PIPE.-lt will be
seen, on examination of the Glentworth
accounts, that more than $4,000 were
paid by ]. B. Glentworth to the illegal
voters and their keepers in Philadelphia,
besides upwards of $4,000 dollars paid
otherwise, and yet the Commercial thinks
there were but fifty or sixty additional
Wing voters here from that city. Twen-
ty.fve dollars per head would, with $l3,-
600 as the fund, bring more than sixty
pipe-layers; and if we remember that
each man was to vote from three 10 ten
times, we can account for the immense
Wing vote in l639.-N Y. Standard,
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
CONFEDERATION!

Steamboats, Empress and Monarch des-
trOyed by fire!
We learn from gentleman who arriv.
ed in this city yesterday afternoon, from
New Orleans, that the steamboats, EN-
press and Monarch we're burned al the
Levee of that city on the 3Oth October.
The Empress was loaded for 81. Louis,
and was to have started OIL the morning Of
that day. The fire was discovered about
a O'Clock A. M. The boat was immedi.
ately cut loose, and foated out into the
river. On the opposite side lay the Mon.
arch, which had just come out of dock
repaired and newly painted. With her
the Empress came in such near contact,
that she also took fire, and was soon
wrapped in flames. In this condition
the two boats hoated down stream, and
sunk-both total losses. The cargo Of
the Empress was principally salt. None
OF her freight was saved; even the per.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17

Aunt ARCrIc.--"Motler. who is this
Aunt Arctic lney have found down southi'
81 don't know, child,--5Oms old maid
none Of our relations, that's certain"
How TO TEACH CHILD TO Pro.
NouNoE.--A lady was recently teaching =
boy TO spell. The boy speIt c-O-i-d, but
could not pronounce it. In vain his tea
cher asked him TO think aud try. At
last she asked him, "whst do you get
when you 60 out upon ine wet side
walk OIL raiIy day. and wet your feolG"
IL gels a whipping.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
REAL TORIES.

"The Tories of Portland, Maine, have
made another attack upon the Advertiser
Of that city, for some remark which they
call libel 81 interfered with the business
Ofihe Office, although they knew that the
proprietor had other property. The at
tempt TO break down press by means
such as have been resorted TO in Maine
will if we mistake not, result in disgrace.
fuldefeat to the assailing party; but des.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17


WHO WANTS A NATIONAL BANK
In England they have a National Bank
and are suffering under its operations
Its control OF the currency. The feder
allsts want exactly such an one. they say
TO "reguLatC the currency" The people
OF England are now laboring under EN-
barrassmenls, the effect of the expansion
and contraction Of their national Bank,
similar TO those which have depressed
the business of this country since the Uni.
ted States Bank was established. We
extract the following from the United
States (Bank) Gazette of Philadelphia
and ask the people of this country if they
want another National Bank.
BANK OF ENGLAND AND STOCKS
OF ENGLAND.
The London correspondent of the New
York Courier and Enquirer says:
No favorable intelligence of any des-
criptiOn can withdraw the attention of
capitalists from the position of the Bank
OF England, which at this time is not pro-
Vided with one half of the due proper
ton of bullion, the continental changes
continuing still so unfavorable, that ex-
POrtati0n of silver was upwards of 100000
ounces in the week ending on Saturday
last, from the port ofLondon alone; and
this when we are entering upon another
year of probably very high prices for
grain, and with every probability of a
large importation of foreign corn. Though
the warlike rumors from various coun-
tries aggravate, undoubtedly, the dstem-
pered condition of the money market, il
is probable that much greater cause is
in operation by the measures of the Di-
rectors of the Bank of England for con-
tracing the currency,ly contracting the
credit Of the London merchants and the
provincial joint stock banks, and that the
value Of money will continue still further
to increase, prices still further to fall,
and tend to become still more stagnant-
unless in the event of continental ex-
changes becoming more favorable and
the bullion i'll the vaults of the Bank of
England be consequently more secure,
or unless the Government allow sus-
pension of cash paymeuts--neither of
which events are probable at this time.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
NAUGHT VERSUS AuGHT.


In aTithmetical processes, the word
aHgh is often used, enormously, instead
of naUght. The commission If go PAL
pable blunder, by educated merchants
in their counting rOoms, by lawyers at
The bar, and by students in college,
would excite surprise, il we did moi also
witness it in the school room. This last
'ael, however, explains all others.
A,GUgh is a contraction for not Gns
"'ing; thus not any thing, not Gsght,
"a"ga. CThe word is often written,
no%S'' though Walker and Worchesier
seem TO prefer the orthOgraphy, nagght:
eI'her cites good usage in It's suppOrt.)
IL always means nothing, and its arithmel-
'cai expression is chipher, or zero, O.
AHghs, on the other hand, is a contIac.
non for any thing, and it always means
something. When. therefore, IN subtrac-
ton, the operator says, taught from four
leaves four," he says what is not true:
Tor IfdVghi (nO matter how Iiule) be taken
from four, four will not be lefl.-So when
in multiplication, he says. "six times
aught is nothing" it is false; for any
thing, however small, six times repeated.
must be something. We hope ali teach.
ers will heed this, and remember, ,bs,
children never ought to be taught to say
auebt for naughr.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
ANOTHER SAILOR GIRL

A sngularly romantic affair has Just
been brought to our notice, namely, that
ofa female sailor having arrived here
some days ago in the ship Bucephalus.
She Isl very comeIy, interesting girl of
Is, the daughter OF British officer, and
related 10 anEnglish nobleman, who having
the misfortune to loose her mother at an
early age, was placed in an English con-
vent, with the view ultimately of taking
the veil. Whilst boarder in this place,
she, for the sake of her health, visited
occasionally some friends in the neigh.
borhood, where in the house of one she
first met the object of her attachment,
now an officer in one of The native regi-
ments. Subsequently she was consigned
to convent in Dublin, to the end that
she should take the veil. Here she re-.
mained some months, but resisting every
argument to induce her TO do so, priva-
ton, suffering, and cruel treatment at the
hands OF the lady superior, we're her lot.
She fell sick, and was conveyed to the
hospital, whence through the connivance
Ofa young English lady, an inmate of the
convent, who supplied her with means,
she made her escape in the disguise of a
boy, and formed the romantic resolution
of coming out to Bombay in search of the
young officer above mentioned. Itwould
occupy volume were we to recount the
wanderngs, and the sufferings and priva-
tons of the poor young creature in her
endeavors 10 get on board a ship bound
for Bombay. This at last she accomplish.
ed. A few days after the ship sailed,
"the strange boy" on being questioned
by the captain whence he came, proved
to be a young lady A cabin was hu-
namely allotted 10 her at once, and she
was treated exactly like a lady passenger
"Truth is strange-stranger than fction;"
and here is romance in real life that de-
cidedly elucidates The saying of the po-
EN-. The young lady's history has excl
ted considerable interest and admiration
among the society at Bombay. Proba-
bly, the whole ample page offction could
not present an instance of greater deter
mination and constancy than is exempl-
fed in this case.-BOmbGy Times.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
CANNOT RE so

We see several Of our exchange papers
have announced the death of our fellow
citizen, Geo II. Flood, ESQ, Charge
d'Alfairs to Texas. This must be a mis-
take, as we received a letter from him U
few days since, as late as the 5th of Oc-
iOber, dated at Houston. He and his fam
lily were then in good health. We do not
know how this news originated, but we
are happy 10 state that it must certainly
be incorrect.-StGtCSmGn.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
SnIPwRgcK AND Loss on LIyr

The Norfuli Beacon informs US that
the schr. Sailors Venture, Capt. Brown.
which left that port on Friday afternoon.
for the wreck oflhe brig AlVira, - miles
south Of Cape Henry, was capszed in a
heavy squall from The n. w. Oh the fol.
lowing morning at 3 A. NJ. south of CAPE
Henry, and about six miles from land.
The crew remained on the wreck until
8 A. NJ, when the mainmasl was carried
from its step, which forced the deck up
and the vessel went to pieces; two Of The
crew were drowned when the schr. cap.
sized. Capt. Brown and one Of The crew
succeeded in getting hold ola few pIanks
from the quarter deck. OIL which they held
until sundown, aud ON approaching the
shore. the seaman was drowned. Capt.
Brown, the only survivor, has arrived at
Norfolk.-Sat. COur.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17
$233,64l 80
Leaving ofthat issue out
standing

HORSE RAcING.--The Louisville Jour
nal of Monday last states that the six
teen mile race on the preceding Friday
was TOO severe for the horses engaged in
it. Sambo, who won the first heat, and
Darn'y, who won the third, died on Fri
day night. The other two are too much
injured, it is thought ever to run again.
Mary Morris, it is feared, will die.
Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-11-17

sonal effects of the officers on board we're
lost.
The Empress was supposed TO have
been set on fire. There had recently
been number Of fires in New Orleans,
and the city was believed to bo full OF
incendiares.-Cin. Gdz.