The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-06-18
Letter from Kentucky,



plants, such as oueumbers beans, corn, toma-
toes, and even grapoyines, have yielded 20
ils freezing touch, The hopes Of many @
yegotablo-loyer land who Is not one p are
thus nipped ia The bud-as many other hue
man expectations me doomed % perish ere
they bloom,
But while we ore thrown In the shade In
his respect, our farming population general
81, are 10 "high clover" or At least, high
wheat and barley which grain, ~ well as rye
and oata, never had a Tanker growth, nor
offered a better prospect ofa buuHteous yield,
The high prices By reason Of tho European
war, or the speculative effort Of the country,
nre highly remuueulIye 20 tho agricultural
thrift Of the land,
BoyAriHrE IA thus doing O good part llo-
nam parismj Tor American industry, howev-
crit may opcraie upon the population aud
productions Of Europe. Harvest, bay tho
way, n commencing with as this morning
MONSIEUR lAHfB leads oG with bib patent
horsc-aclng machine, 70 be followed briskly
Zoo ten days, by Messrs WHAT and RYE
Sin OArs il spring crop, and comes In At
later period, KEd Cons looks thHity,
while the iyrant ToHAcco IL still abed, and
waiting the genial influence Of the SHOWERS
This sovereign Of the palate, however, might
as well continue an Ur1lid until the couti-
mental soyercigu' have had their dll Of fight
Ing
A prominent feature Of Kentucky society
during the "mcfry month Of May" just end.
cd, was that Of social gatherings or piouics,
Almost every ucghborhood has had its Re-
union, or IL is economy termed, which "c,cry.
body and his family" attends, throwing aside,
for the timc-heirg, labor and care, A band
OF music, two or three rural addresses,
darce ON the green, basket dinner with
lemonade promscuous promenade on the
"hluc-Rrl's" hcgeath the ,allnrmcd trees, the
presence u candidates counting the dear
people VEiIe The beauX are counting The
belle towers, the whole wound up with vii
,irrcr-ti ~ u-frriug Of the "wcc
small hours" Of night constitute the usual
variety NJ such social Reunions a flaming
newspaper report Of proceedings, with nu
iH1iai touching on the "brght particular
stars" that illuminate the day, follows ia the
'neXt issue" as 'necessary consequence" Of
the reality.
Another good feature in our county Is the
establishment n Teachers Association, ~
auxiliary 10 the state association organized
last winter. The former meets monthly ~
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the public With literary addresses, essays and
discussions. II has succecSlcd ia creating an
increased interest in the cause Of education,
than whichno other has'lighcr claim olShcur
lcctous and efforts Of the people, The stgc
association publishes a weekly papcr-thc
Kentucky Family Journalism which much
talent entnirg and taste are diGplalel, 10th
~ IT, -e,Iji"f, and IT, Gown correspondence
Carey, the master murderer, is to be hung
in the iailyard at Mnpsvilc on Friday, the
2tth inst 4 Few days ago he nearly effect
ell his escape 10y saving Of the bars Of a
CRATE. An lri'hman who was in jail with
him would thump on the floor, and drown
the noise Of the-sow while It was operating
on the bars He, however. was detected at
the -uirk Of time" aud is now mauncled
with massive irons, and will no doubt swing
Oh, on the day fixed for his execution.
The great excitement in Kentucky. Just
now, is political one. The wonderful i'm
HFt5i=e If TIRE tf'7o5ition strength in the "Old
Dominion" and the wrangling of the lmpo-
si,ion party upon the doctrine Of non-ntcr-
ycntion, together with the strong disun;on
feeling among the Democracy Of the extreme
south, Us vented at the recent southern CON
'cntion, are doing much TO harm the great
in the central states, aud
strengthens the vigorous arm Of the Opposi- (
ton. MogoiIin and Bell, and a host Of OK,
pcctant Congressman and State Legislators
are daily on the stamp, scoring each o,ner,
their positions, and soliciting the .
sufraEcs Of the "dear people,
Some Of the Democratic candidates take /
the ground that Congress should in no case .
either for the enlargement, restric- .
ton, or protection Of slavery in the terrific .
ries. Others maintain that such protection .
should be extended IN ertren,e cases, without
Opposition are united on the ground Of pro-
lection to slave property, until such time as
The people, in framing state constitution, /
may decide upon the retention or abolition .
IF the peculiar institution" This doctrine
Of course, if carried out, would, while il paci- !
lies the south, create practically, all our ter
ritories into Free States, as the emigration .
thereto from the south can never compete
successfully with that from the north. For
he sake of Union, this concession TO slavery
IS thought by them to be patriotic. The
doctrine of non-intervention is maintained .
by the Democracy, from the fear that if the
power to intervene at all by Congress is adj
nitted. that power will be employed, not in
he protection, but in the abolition of slavery.
But this, by the way, us explanatory Of the