The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-05-05


/ WANTED. A shopkeeper in Philadelphia tho other
day stuck upon his door the following aconic adver-
| tisement: "a boy wanted" On going to his shop
the next morning, he beheld little urchln in bas-
ket, with the following PiIhy label; "ilere he is''
psIowA The people Of the Territory of Iowa,
to whom the Constitution recently formed by Con-
venon for It's State Government submitted for
their appreciation have rejected the same by major
ty Of some 2,b00 votes
RAILROAD ACCIDENT, We learn from Mr. Gray,
of the Lowell Express, that man was killed yester-
kay forenoon by the Lowell III o'clock train, about
two miles from this city. lie was walking upon the
Railroad track, md perceivng tho baggage train from
Lowell appronohing no stepped upon the other track,
without apparently being aware Tint the passenger
train directly behind him. lie was Instantly kill
cd. HIS name WINS Valentine Hill Of Lyman, Me-
! Boston HHGs .... .- .....
CHANGE OF FORTUNE. The riusburg Post says:
"Durng few hours attendance at Of the depots,
where provisions were stored observed several per
| sons who, on Thursday morning last, owned good
houses, und lived comfortably, and who came with
sacks and baskets to get II few poonds of -four and
! bacon"
Too Coon. II is said that Mr. Gushing, on being
! asked to dine with Mandarin Lin, discovered on the
table something Of which he exorbitunty thinking
it TO be duck Not speaking Chinese and wishing
! to know what it was he pointed to it, after no had
finished saying to hiS host nterragatiyey, "Quack,
quack, quack?" The mandarin, with equal brnvily,
replied with shake of his head ''Bow WOW wow"
| Mr. Cushings feelings can be imagined.
| THE FIRE AT PIrrsBuRG-MoRE or RUM
Our correspondent az Pitsburg writes that the fire
at Pusburg, by which large portion of the city
! laid in ashes was occasoned by drunken washer
woman, who lived on the premises where ii COM
rnencrd Washing in a very windy day, she had
kinded a lire in m old wooden building She was in
the habit OF drinking, and when the fro commenced il
| spread rapidly it could not BIO stopped Temper
! aHce Union.
APPOINTMENTS. Hon Edmund Burke, late
member of Congress from New Hampshire, has been
appointed by the President, Commissioner Of Patents
at Washington, in place of Mr Ellsworth, resigned
! Green Peas, from Norfolk, selling in the Bal
timore market on Wednesday for dollar per peck.
| The Boston Post says that Bishop Onderdouk de-
clines the mission TO the PaD-Rees and has express
ed wish for the appointment Of Consul to Brest.
Tom MARSHALL, Kentucky paper says, lately
admitted that the Wing party is right, and said he
would never be Loco Foco, aud that hs had been
mpeed by personal hostility to Mr. Clay to act as he
| did last year.
LATER FROM BRAZIL. The brig Castro, of Phil
ndeIPhia, has brough; intelligence from Rio Janeiro
to the 10Th Of March, fifteen days later than the pre-
Vious dates. II is stated in the Philadelphia Gazette,
that the difficulty which existed between the United
States and the Brazilian Governments, in reference to
TIM brig Porpose, had been amicably adjusted, thro'
! the inlerposition Of our Minister, Wise.
CHBArED THE GALLONS. Ambrose H. Jones,
under the of death for the murder ofhis step
mother, hung himself 10 the jal of Greenve district
S. c., on the l4th inst He was about fifty years of
age. In his pocket was hund the following NOTE TO
the sheriff:
"Col d. floKE: Dear Sir-I have saved YOU the
trouble AMBROSE II. JOINS.
am innocent OF the charge"
From WAsHINGToN. Morse's Telegraph re
ported, at o'clock to-day, (Monday) that there was
special Cabinet meeting then in session, the az
fairs Of Mexico. Baltimore Patriot.
The pnsburg American correets estimate, now
going the rounds of tho papers, which gives the loss
by fire in that city Mt $s,476,O 900, and adds:-'Our
estimate of the whole loss SO 900 900 thirds
Of which personal property ..