The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-11-27
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llasua5rn Nov %. 1864

The close uf my laai lrllef WhA followed by
>. ID. Bradlay's argument on "Wednesday
morning aud evening, occupying five hours 3
necessarily rambling and a. times slightly te-
diaus but there we're thoughts Ia H. beauti-
fil and grand, The ruins Of Nineyah, he
said, bat recently brought 20 our gaze, aher
lapse flour thousand years, give us a'hia-
tory Of architectural nrt with them which we
cannot excel and may not equal, Ito hoped,
as those RUNE we're an utterauce from them
% ~, this great public Worls-our state house
would be au utlerauce 10 the future, hun
dreds Of years hence, Of opr sense Of art and
desiring this, he would not mar il by Yankee
sharpness or mutilate by aLailac patches and
patches Of stone, where solid granite alone
would stand the test Of those centuries I!
This was art having a body without soul
q Nonus-de-Molcis Of pHe-a corregio in
icafcr coiosi
The committee have a a great work to
do before their report will be ready and Of IL
hereafter
Mr., Chadwick has sent through the scna.
torial niill bills incoporadn the Caledonia
County Mutual Fire Insurance co., and a BIN
20 incorporate tho ST. JoRnsbuy Cornet
Band, The bill 10 incorporate the st. Johns
bury Academy Of Music has passed to o lhrd
reading In the House. | do not see why an
Insurance Company II tho bin pass the
House, may not do profitable business for
ITSELF and O saving one 10 the community
and no 10 tho band aud Academy Of Music.
We knor Ia whom the taste is--for
have we not "darhenGd Gus eyes that We
might quicken our carsi' Success 10 thee,
Oh, Claude aud may thou feel the rocks
drawing into Thy pockets, ~ did the harmo'
NOUS sounds Of Orphous, enchanting the
rocks Of Olympus draw them, and trees and
beasts arcr him, as sung in the ayoutc
Greek legend.
The committee on banks reported In favor
Of relieving the ST. Albuns Bank from the
penalty hanging over her for uon-rcdcnption,
but after a warm debate the "rural districts"
refused 20 COME to the score, and therefore,
la common with one or two others, she pays
forfeit,
A rcpor, favorable to aholisbing the gcner-
al banking law, was also made but the "eoun-
Try mcmhcrs' were again down on monopo.
lies, aud we're ready 10 follow daniel Gar
bclD though he led them into the lions den.
You will notice the bill raising the Judges
salaries has passed, not, however, without be
ing warmly contested. The members on
their first term were generally afraid Of j.,
seeing certain defeat next year, "at the pres
cut extraordinary juncluro Of affairs" il they
went homo to cnragcd constituents with this
Atlas upon their shoulders. Tho member
from Canaan, however, stood up like his an
cicHt fjirHds, and went iu for Judge Poland
didn't know him when he took his seat
upon the bench the first time up in little Es-
sex, hale, hearty, aud full of fire aud youth
Mat Is he nor? Ten years has taken more
out on him-has added more White 10 his
baird, than | can got out Of J. w. Cooper, on
his farm IN itrcHiy years. tst Us gre en-
far pay" And they did, or at least fair
er by voting flS00,-and In great measure
il il owing to the tcn-ycars-ago acquaintance
Of our honest farmer with nu honest Jud
for, let me whisper, some such speech hus
more effect in the House than all the proics
sioual men put together When a cooper
gcta once hold, he "heads"----opposition
Ia the Senate the education bill has been
wy ur7rt -rrrrtvUd -gumC rough handling, by
way Of amendments, though the main fca-
Tucs remain. Nichosons bill for protection
of fugitive slaves wus urged strongly 10y him,
but finally indefinitely postponed. Like its
paternity, twas too.wordy.
"a bill has been referred to the committee
ON public buildings for holding the next leg
isla,urc at Burlington, unless the state house
be completed by August, lS50-the meaning
of which is,-"Gontleman Of Montpelier, who
signed that bond, walk up to the Treasurcr's
office and pay" The signers arc undisturb-
cd, aud think if the state can put up with the
Inconvenience, they can with the appearance.
This appropriation for completing the
State House." had some inporiapee-it is
getting to be insipidj and really places some
parts OF our state, as regards its Instructions
to its members, in an unenviable, not TO say
puerile light. The bill introduced by the
member from Drattleboro, 20 hold the next
Legislature at Burlington; and treated by
some Of the committee to whom it was re-
rerred, as deserving ahcir attention, when it
only deserved contempt, must strike his con.
sti,ucnts, and the intelligent men Of Vermont,
as trining with serious interests. If an ap.
is made conditioned upon the
payment Of 100000 by Montpelier, the State
Housewife not be Finished another season.
Members won't understand that the bond
has nothing to do with an appropriation, but
connect them as indissolubly as the Siamese
Twins-while the true way is, appropriate
the necessary sum TO finish the State House
and then, if any one owes the state, it can
discussion has been had to-day upon the