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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25
The Sub-Treasury.

The passage ofthis bill of denominations by
the House of Representatives., in a manner SO
Objectionable and offensive to the rights of the
. majority, has been every where received with
indignant surprise by the whole country. f.
ven the Journal of Commerce, which indirect
" contributed to the elevation of the party that
have thus forced it by dint Of party might,
through one branch of Congress, express its
loud dsapproval of the measure. II says:
awe havc,not seen this bill of folly and
madness 10 which the House of Representa-
tives have given their sanction. The leading
features, however, are two, viz: that n scpa-
rate department is arranged, where the money
o! the government is TO be kept separated from
the money of the people, and that the rcvc-
nucs of the government are TO be collected
and it's disbursements made in specie. Both
these features are so preposterous, utterly
revolving 10 the intelligence of the age, so bar
berous IN their entire character, that we did
not expect to see them again adopted by either
House of Congress-
The bill is bald and naked in deformities-
The specie clause has no exceptions TO it, and
all Government dues are to be paid in gold
and silver alone. Pos.agcs are to be paid in
specie, as well as custom house duties, and
payments of land and for all miscellaneous
expenses, Specie when shipped to be fol-
lowed by some Government officer or other
who is to act as a Sub. Sub. Treasurer and to
receive six dollars day and all expenses paid.
The Wing members offered a great many a.
mendments to make the bill more acceptable
but each of them was most unccrimoniousiy
rejected.
And why was this bill passed. The cores
poGdent of the Boston Courier speaking ofthe
Debate upon il in the House, says:
"The debate, as it was conducted in the
House of Representatives, was bold avowol
of the doctrine, that all banks were unneces-
sary-that no more should be chnrtcred-that
those already in existence should be defeated,
and that the least delinquency on the part
of single Institution should be met by Judge
Lynch and mob law. 1t was the wise ma Kim
of Burke, that when bad men combine, good
men should unite; and the combination now
made at the seat of government, against the
common good, ought to put the good men of
the country upon their guard to prevent the
evil desiuned ~
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25
Cheaper than the British,

The Washington correspondent of the BAL
timore Patriot furnishes some additional re-
suits of visit to TIE room of the post office
committee of the House of Representatives. in
which the British Agent has been so long DOM
iciled with specimens of British goods, to aid
in breaking Town American manufactures.
We make an extract
visited the Committee rooms again to-day
and saw still more to convince me of the utili-
ty ofthe Tariff and that an increase of duties
does not, when competition and improvements
in machinery flourish enhance the price of
manufactured clothsS For example, Mr. Ed
monds exhibits in the Committee Room, a
black casamere, manufactured at Lowell
which in 1912, under the low Tariff, cost
81, l2A per yard. The same cloth manufac-
tured at the same place last year, was priced
at 81 ,55 per yard, Another kind cost in 1912
from 81 80 to $1,s5 per yard. Now the same
quality of goods can be furnished in New
York at $40. Another piece still, that sold
for $l,70 in 1S42, now brings but $3.50.
In the article of sattinetts, the Americans
beat the British most effectually Two speci-
mems were exhibited, the American one being
considered, by all present, at least Z cents in
the yard better than the English-and yet
both articles were priced, the English at Liv-
erpool at 80 cents, and the American at New
York at 30 cents.
IN all the articles / examined and compar-
ed, found but one of the British specimens
that could be purchased cheaper in Liverpool,
without including the Tariff, than the same
kind and quality could be purchased in New
York or Boston or Philadelphia. The excep-
ton was broadcloth priced at $1,75 to 81, 90.
How then, if our goods of all kinds are as
cheap in the United States, as the same kind
and quality ofgooas are in England, are our
people to get them cheaper by breaking down
the present Tariff would like to have some
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25
SYMPATHY FOR THE SLAVE.

Look to the following paragraph. IF Sd
party men would exercise themselves in do
ing good to the blacks instead of sacrificing
them in pursuit Of party supremacy, how
much better evidence should we have of the
purity of their principles. The leaders of the
Sd party have sponged no less than , or$300,-
600 from the people of the free States within
the last 6 years under pretence of benefitting
the slaves-but the slaves have not realized
the value of loaf of bread from this large
sum. 1t has been spent by the leaders upon
themselves, many of whom, no doubt, have re-
sorted to the business they are in because
they were too lazy to work and earn their bread
like honest men,
"Eleven hundred and fifty dollars were col
lected at the Allen-st. Methodist Church We'd
nesday evening for tina benefit ofthe liberated
Africans of the Shaver Pons. This makes
1850 collected publicly in New York for this
object. George Barker, agent OF the N. Y. 5.
Colonization Society, also acknowledges the
receipt of eight hundred dollars from'A friend
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25
From the Mildlebury Galaxy.

G~F9Thc following article TO those who arc
ignorant of the marvellous facts which are
disclosed by the science of Geology, will ex-
plnin the: theory of our article on "Geologi-
cui Annexation," published last week:
INSTABILITY OF CONTINENTS.
The ocean has ever been the emblem ofin-
stability, and Continents have been regarded
as fixed. Yet science shows us that the re-
verse is rue. The waters of the ocean cam
not permanently change their level, while
continents have ever been rising above or sub
siding below the surface of the ocean.
The country around the Baltic is now gradu-
ally rising at the rate, in different parts oftwo
to four feet in century. Some countries are
suddenly raised by earthquakes, while others
are depressed. Some parts of England have
been successfully beneath the sea, then dry
land, next the bottom ola bay, again the bed
ofthe ocean, then the shore of the ocean, aud
nre now in the interior. When New England
was an island, an extensive portion of this
continent was depressed, and has since risen
nnequally in different parts, about the St.
Lawrence 500 feet, in the valley of Lake
Champlain 400 feet on most of its eastern
coast
At n period inconceivahly more remote,
while New England was either an island or
attached TO continent now in the bed fthe
Atlantic there was no adjacent continent of
New York and the other States, but New
York itself was mostly beneath the ocean,
and marine shells and delicate corals, such as
inhabit only warm oceans, abounded ON its
western shore, where is now the basin of lake
Champlain. Innumerable trilobites animals
resembling crabs,) also swarmed in this
warm ocean.
Probably the mountainous region ofNew
York was then large nearly circular island,
extending from Lake Champlain nearly to
Lake Ontario, and from Chateaugay nearly
. to the Mohawk. 1t is not however within
the short periods of human history that these
vast changes have been consummated. The
monuments of Roman antiquity in Italy are
connected only with the latest portion of the
last change.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25


WEBSTER AND 1NGERSOLL. II will
be rccollected that Ingersol charged Mr. Web
ster with using and not accounting for the So.
cret service fund while he was Secretary of
State This fund, by law, is under the control
of the President and can be drawn only upon
his sanction. Mr. Webster challenges investi-
CATION and dciies his enemies II seems that
so far from being guilty in the manner charg.
ed, hc settled the account and squared it with
his successor when he retired, There was 4
deficiency of s. 900, for which Mr. W. had no
vouchers. He paid the $1,000, though he
was aware where the vouchers were. After
wards he procured the vouchers, presented
them at the proper place, when the $1,000
were paid back to him. So it appears that af-
ter leaving office, till this time, the Govern
ment owed Mr. w. $1,000. So much for the
vile attempt TO injurc him by the man who adj
mits he once declared that "had he lived in
the days of the Revolution he would have been
a Tory"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

REcANrArIos. Henry Clnpp, Editor of the
Lynn Pioneer, has come out q rcnounced the
a6surdties into which he has been driven by
his connection with the ultra abolition party
the dcnunciotion of Ministers and every body
and every thing else of decency-like the
specializing lecturers traversing this State and
the Juntp of the "Grecn-Mouutain Free
man He says that he pursued the course
he did against his better judgment, and thanks
heaven the spell is broken and he "breathes
frcer" This ultraism is running down hill
pretty fast in Massachusetts, as it will every
where, when people see fully its evil conse-
quences. When it is fairly dead, it will be a
jubilee day for the abused slaves of the coun.
try
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

IPA premium of $50 has been offered in n
York, for the best tract on the question of the
propriety Of dancing by church members, and
the expedency Of teaching it to our children.
Upon this subject the Tribune makes some
good suggestions, especially upon dancing At
home. 1t says:
eve heartily concur in the propriety of the
above offer, and trust il will attract general at
tenton. We trus, the tract which will receive
the premium win consider thoroughly the
subject OF Dancing, show how and why the
popular abominHtion of dancing in hot, crowd
ed rooms, from fair bcd.tineto daylight, with
hot and heavy supper after midnight, alter
mating in himsy garments from an atmosphere
Of frost to one ofsteam, tricked out for Vanity
FAIR and mixed up with all sorts Of company,
ought 10 be condemned and stunned, not only
by deyout Christians but by all considerate
human beings. We believe the right sort of
Tract would show also that there is such a
thing AS innocent, healthful, eommedable dane.
ing, to he practsed in family or social circles,
wish ten instead of hundred persons TO twenty
feet square Of room, at scasonablc hours, & for
reasonable periods only, with but light SIP
per before and none at all after 1.-THE young
dancing modestly among their intimate friends
with the elder relatives looking on. We trus,
the tract selected will consider all kinds of
Dancing, and not sweepingly, rccklessly con-
denim the good for the fault ofthc bad"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

ISIT FAIR' We have noticed that certain
locofoco papers do not give a journal ofthe do
ings of Congress, thus showing what men of
all parties do, but give simply detached frag-
ments, such as suit their party bias. We do
not think this very fair dealing towards the
readers ofsuch prints, though II may keep
them in ignorance We confess that there
may be reasons why such prints may wish to
hide some ofthc dongs of their party in Con-
gross, and we may suppose they may be actual
ly ashamed 10 publish them. As an instance
ofunfairncss, one of these prints gives the
charges of Ingersoll against Webster, without
Mr. Adams reply, which, if given, would show
that in the nature of the circumstances lnger-
soils charges must all be false. Really, when
party has got SO degraded that its editors are
ashamed to publish, fairly, their public trans
actions, we should think it about time for them
to lcaveit.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25
Stra TUAEIEEWAHs
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, Is46
British, All Over.

brlLlSnJ All OVers
The papers in the British interest in this
country, are at the present time giving publici-
ty to an article headed ,'Will not three hundred
thousand do;' which is in part from the old
federal y. Y. Post and the rest from the L.
MON at Washington 1t pretends to give the
profits of the Merrmock Cotton Manufacture
ing Company at Lowell, though it does so
falsely. The article asks Mr. Appleton, the
President of the company, some questions, and
he has answered them. He admits the profits
have been good the past year, but some S70,-
600 less than tho article referred to declares
them to have been, without making deductions
for insurance q. wear 81 tear Some years they
have done barely living busincss-but those
things are not taken into account by the ad.
vocates of British interest The article thinks
with such profits, ouch as the author gucsscs
at, our ports better be opened TO competition
from obroad-of course from good England.
Wen, what then' Mr. Appleton says that
some British cotton workers have made, for
1884 and lsf5, one hundred per cent But
our British democrats would rather pay this
profit 10 British Lords than To Americana
Mr. Appleton accountavcry well for the sue
cess OF thr Merrihack 20. the past year-it
has been unusual--and owing to the superior
article they make, their superior improvements
and the opening ofthe China market for the
sale of cotton goods
lie answers the Post by saying, al believe
this company may confidently appeal to the
dealers in prints in Pearl street, whether an
equal quantity of British prints has ever been
Imported so truly cheap and economical to the
wrarcr, as those made by this company
AS to the grievance which so much troubles
yon OF an excess OF profits, apprehend that
A little unr' with moderate degree OF pa
"rnc" on your part wall afford You relief. II
You arc disposed TO speculate and instead of
'''''h' WI" guarantee ten per cent Tor the
next I'VE yeaTs,y you can obtain handsome
premium for doing So
we now come To the main point TIL" part
oi ''' article giving large ana false pr"h's, is
rom pr't'sh Sonrce-t Is from the AGENT
vi HE MANCHESTER (England) MAN
" AZ O"E9-how occupying Iocoioco
committee roo" III our capitol at Washington
showing Df'''sh gooas with their prices and
A"'rc"n specimens Of INC same (poor art-
eIeS ana h'gh and false prices put upon them
~ mas o''" P'o'eu) gooos' 10 ihuuee the u -
!" g'' Ni'" go'us o' England ra'her than oil
N"''''','' ''i"'u'"''u''rs, ne Is inc man 'hn'
g"' 'P '"e "'''o'e respecting the M'rrm'eN
70, u'u "h'e" P"P'rS III tic 10 more ir'eho'y
10 pr't'sh uiah American industry are now
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

THE FFrEcr OF DuTIEs on Prices. We
find in rho Journal of Commerce, paper
which should take some note ofthc circum-
stance, an extract from n letter written by o.
tnrd, DupIy & Co in which they say that in
consequences ofthe proposed reduction ofthe
duty on Brandy in England, the article had
advanced twenty-five percent. in France
win the Journal ofcommerce explain how
this corresponds with the doctrine that the
price ofan imported article is enhanced by
tho amount OF duty paid upon it? Here we
see that the prospect merely of reducing the
duty on Brandy AT once raises the price in the
place reproduction. So it was when the du-
~ was taken from Rice in Cuba. Rice did
not fall materially there, but it instantly rose
here?- No fact is better established than that
the produces of an imported article suffers for
a large portion ofthc duty,-BWlington Free
Press
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

BIhTHs AND DEATHS. The births in the
United States yearly, are from 400, 600 TO
300, 600. Ofthis number ofchildren, one in
fifteen or more than q, 900 are still born
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

NEW-ORLEANS. The Wings elected
their candidate for Mayor in NewOreans, on
the 9th inst.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

CoNSEcTIoUT.--Th House is loco by ma
jority and the Senate by one Upon the sec
ond trial the Wings came out and voted nobly
in some towns increasing their vote over 100
from the Governor vote. In other towns
those DEVASTATING Sd partyites turned in and
voted for Texas Locofocos instead of voting
for Anti-Savery and Ant-Texus Wings
How they must lore Anti-Slovcry. Their
number is small in Connecticut and likely to
be smaller yet, as, according to the returns
we have seen, it has fallen Off since last year
about 300.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

CuARAcrERIsrIc. The Green Mountain
Slanderer quotes Sd party letter writer and
locofoco paper to prove that the Wings in
tend to support Henry Clay for the Presiden-
cy again. This is news. AS to the fact, we
see no evidence oft, only that few Of his
personal friends may choose tn do so--as to
the wing party they have no candidate nor do
they talk of any one in particular. Their
candidate will be, most likely, either Gen.
Scott or the Hon. John McLeaR-both good
and true---and they have not, like Mr. Birney,
sold slaves, sweating under the lash in the
swamps of the Southern States. ...-
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

of the hair splitters g. metaphyscians attempt
to solve this problem.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25
II H Il G A 4 IL ID d N Il A N.

"BELow PAR" During the closing up Of
the vote in the Senate upon the Oregon notice,
Mr. Allen, of Ohio, offered an amendment in
the language of Mr. Folks Message last De.
cembcr,and it was voted down by such men rs
Benton and Calhoun. surely,is not the Pres
dcnt getting down little "below par" in the
estimation of many of his own party2
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

ITJAwus o. ApAMs, has purchased the Man
chester, IN. H. American,and is now its Edi-
tor and Proprietor Mr. A. is well qualified for
the duties Of his new station--having had, A.
mong other advantages, that of an education
in printing Office The American is a
good Wing papcr,and we wish our friend sue.
cess
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

lJ'Thc Belknap Gazette copies our article
oftwo weeks ago defining the position of the
Meredith & plymouth II, Road without giving
any intimation we see that il is not correct,
and wishes TO know, we spoke of the facts
as authentic, by what authority we assumed
to spenk-aPparently upprehensive, five read
the Gazette rightly, some officer ofthat road
had told to us its condition. We used the word
authentic in its WebsteriHn scnse-meaning
true, not cBieiai-and intending to give, for the
Information of our readers, in as guarded a
manner possible, so none need take offence,
truthful statement of the prominent facts in
the case, and we still have no reason to doubt
their corrcctness,but on the contrary, the truth
Of most of what we stated has been confirmed
by subsequent information. If the Gazette
will inform us wherein we were wrong if so at
all, we viii correct all errors.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

uJA Protest against American Slavery, has
appeared, signed by 3Ol Univcrsalist Clergy
men of the U. States. All right.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

GOOD SIGNS We gave last week in a
postscript, an account of the triumph of the
Wings in Albany, N. Y. and Brooklyn, and
the result of the N. Y. City election. The
Wing gain in Albany from last year is over
600 I'm Brooklyn too, it is several hundreds.
In N. York City the Wing gain from last
Spring is'over 1000. These are good signs,
f. portend "a good day coming in the Empire
State. If the Wings do not carry that state,
next fall we shall be altogether mistaken.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

GJ-Thc daily expense of our Congress is A.
bout $2,5Oo;-thc House $4,000 and the Sen.
ate S5OO-indced, more than this, probably in.
GLIDING clerks, stationery, &c.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-04-25

by the hands Of the Rev DR. Stephen II, Tyngj
being a response to the appeal Mt the TOberna.
Gle, on Tuesday evcning.-The donor says, If
more funds should be needed to fit out the cx-
petition, please call again.
PHYSIOLOGY. DR J.P. BANCROFT, of
this town, closed on Thursday evening, a
course of Lectures upon Physiology and kind
red subjects, delivered at the Academy, more
particularly for the benefit of the students
The whole course has occupied several months,
n lecture having been delivered, generally,
every other week. The subjects have been
familiarly handled, and 80 as to make them
interesting well us highly useful The
proper means for educating the physical, NOR
al and mental powers of man, so important and
yet poorly understood, have been so clearly
developed that none who heard the lectures
could have falcd of being greatly cdifedj the
students, especially, have had the advantage
of many hints which will be of use TO them
in pursuing their studies and also in after life.
The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-01-20

9 of whom are physicians, 6 physicians not
ordained, ID school-masiers, printers and
book binders, other male and Isl female
assistant missionaries; in all, $50 persons
sent forth from this country. With these are
associated in the Missionary work, 10 native
preachers, and 1l6 other native helpers; rails
ing the whole number Of Iaborers at the sew
eraI missions, and dependant principally on
The Board, for support, TO Ass.
Under the pastoral care of these Missiona-
ries, and gathered by them, are 50 churches,
embracing 24.566 members. - printing es-
Adjustments are connected with these Mis-
sions, having 5 type and stereotype foundres,
20 presses, 30 fonts of type, and preparations
to print in more than20 different languages.
During the year under review. l47. S2l copies
Of various works have been printed for the
Missions, amounting 10 34,93O,7lO pages;
and raising the whole amount Of printing ex-
ecuied at the mission presses. or otherwise.
for The missions. 10 1895 54 pages.
Six mission seminaries for the education
Of native preachers and other helpers. have
44O pupils. q boarding schools have |. Cos
pupils. There are GIG free schools, with o..
81 pupils making the whole number of pu-
pills 30, 1877.