The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1855-12-08


Fuller, of Pennsylvania II
Pennington, OF New Jersey =,
And some others we're voted for. There
was no election-ll3 being necessary for
choice.
Teesrapbic dispatches of Monday eve
ming saw:
The National Americans will, it is be-
lieved, tomorrow vote for Mr.. Fuller, and
to draw the entire Democratic vote
on him, by conceding to them the Clerk and
Printer, thus forming a union against the
Free Soil factions. They deny that the Re-
pubIcans can. 10y fusion, poll more than los
votes, while lls are necessary to elect.
The President persists in refusing to print
the message.
Caucu>ses are being held tonight. 1t is
generally understood that the Republicans
and Free Sellers will concentrate to.morrow
on Mr.. Banks, and numbering 1928, that they
will be sufficient to elect him.
a caucus Of Southern H. rs and National
Democrats and Wings. numbering -, re.
solve! TO reject all fusion with the Free Soil
factions. but have no hope Of defeating them
Mcssrs. Greeley. Weed. and Seward have
been all day working to fuse the factions, and
are understood to have succeeded,
We may look for organization of the House
tomorrow, and Presidents message Wedncs-
day."
-MIs>"UHr-The Legislature OF M>sou-
RI met at Jefferson City on the 5,h On the
18th inst. motion to 20 into all election for
L. 5. Senator was defeated. Two Democrat
lc caucuses had been held, and the Benton
Democrats passed strong Anti Know Moth
ing resolutions The prospect Of any cleo
ton OF L. 5. Senator taking place. is doubt
full.
TRIAL AND SENTENCE OF ENGLISH
BANKERs.-The English bankers, S;rahan,
Paul and Bates, who sometime since failed
tor an enormous amount, have been convic-
ted of gross fraud and we're sentenced to
: fourteen years tran.porton, the heaviest in
Fiction provided in the statute. They are to
be sent to GibraIter to work with the ordina
~ convict gang at that station.
Much excitement has been produced in
the Disciples College, Bethany, Va, bv the
attempt of student named Burns to preach
against Slavery. The Southern students de-
termined 10 lynch him, but he escaped. All
the Northern students had determined 10
leave
DR.. NJ, MILAN, Of Columbus, Ohio, an
American surgeon in the Russian service,
died recently in Odessa.
The New York Tribune says:
1--WE state with entire confidence. and af-
ter extensive inquiry, that Liquor Prohibi-
ton will be upheld by our Legislature just
chosen. Whatever modification shall BE
made by thai body in the present law will be
intended and calculated to obviate the uuib.
bes and cavils Of certain lesa! and judicial
hackers Of the liquor traffic, and render the
act more effective and practical than it la.
been"
-Curled hair will soon be drug in mar
ket. The students Of Williams College re-
Gently buried the razor with appropriate Ger
emonies. and the Sophs of Yale have ais
joined the hirsute movement en- n,aSse. The
time is coming when razors will be found on
~ in museums and collections of old iron.
"A story is going the rounds, of travel
Ter coming to a swollen stream, finding a
floating log, fastened with a grape vine t.
each shore. but a strong current ran between
each end Of the log and the shore. After
spending halt day, end receiving a dozer
duckinss in getting over, he found nailed W
on post the following placard -
Two dollars fine for crossing over thi,
bridge faster than walk :"
Scene in a drug stole-tow headed bow
out Of breath, rushes in, exclaiming:-
Mother sent me down to the hosotheca
rypop to get thimblefull Of pallasollic.-
Bub'th ath thick ath the dickenth, not ekth
pected to live from one end to tother."
A Washington letter says that DR.. Chas
W. Moore, Jr., Of Boston, has been offered
the appointment of surgeon in the Russian
army, with a salary Of $4,000 per annum, and
a liberal outfit.
The American Institute has purchased
the Crystal Palace in New York, for SIS, o0(
on condition that they can procure from The
Legislature an act authorizing the Common
Council to lease them the ground for TWEEN.
ty-fv" years. The Institute takes the man
agement of the edlfce Immediately.
On Thursday evening telesrsphic MESA.
ges were despatched between New York and
New Orleans in a single circuit.
Government having six years ago institu.
ted a suit against VIM. B. Scott, formerly
Navy Agent at Washington, to recover an
alleged balance on the settlement Of bis &C.
counts, the jury this afternoon, in the Circuit
Court rendere d a verdict cf nca-lv s!anno