The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-03-23

~ Don't send patent mouse-trap'. NAM
u,,.b pippius, or any other such truck to
!, r;s Napoleon. He doesn't need them and
~ receive them, while our minister to
p,,;, !, put to the trouble of sending them
hack. A short time since the legation re-
wed from somebody in Connecticut an i'm
,snse pincushion intended as present to
ne Empress One man sent from Florida a
shell, which he had picked up on the sea
coast. and which had on it, naturally engrav.
81 an almos, perfect letter IN" 1t is not
uncommon to receive sets of harness, spurs,
1c and one man from away out in Missouri
..,. :, barrel Of bacon over for hi, Majesty $
.ar.e:.
~ A New York policeman found a we'll
filed ca-pv. bag the other night, and took it
~ the station house. A singular movement
a,d noise IN the inside caused him to open it
and fine boy about week old was disclo-
sed. with supply Of costly baby clothing
se.ch showed its mother to be probably i'll
coed circumstances and able to take care of
her own baby.
II They were taking "Old Jakey," ne
cro seventy years DID, to his grave, at Cleve-
land, Ohio, last Monday, when the horse took
..igt. and the hearse was overturned and the
cy!sin smashed. An unexpected effect was
Ia: The old niger stood on his feet and
taa.ed after The mOurners, who ran for dear
lie. lie was taken home and is apparently
good for ten years more, his apparen, death
having been oaly fit. The lucky accident
10 The hearse saved him.
o An anomaly Of New York justice is
a..nessed in that city. Alderman Richard
Barry. who is under sentence to the peniten-
,.4sy for assault and battery, and is at pres.
en-: nominally in custody OF Captain bowling
upon bench warrant, has been for three
days filling the chair of Justice Connolly, a,
the Iombs police court. There are those SC
peculiar as to consider it odd that convict
cd criminal should be selected to administer
Justice to rogues.
@ Caleb Cushing evidently believes that
the dear people are pretty learned, or else he
mans to stun them by his remarkable vocab-
l.ary. In his late democratic speech in Con-
n,ttlcut he said :-"lf that power, that fame,
p. the Union is to be Frustrated, let it
be IN some long future generation; in the
LAY, Of the senilily and caduc.ty Of the
world in the days of the corruption Of the
approaching cataclysm of the universe"
-" If the price of beef at Charleston be
twenty-five cents pound already, would it
IL. be we'll for the delegates to "save Their
aeon"
tFWilliam S. Bailey, having removed his
Free South establishment from Kentucky to
Hamilton county, Ohio, he has since been
waited upon by II Committee OF Newporters,
and notified that unless he leaves his life
Viii be IN peril.
o. John Brown is the name Of dele
gate to Charleston, selected by the democrats
Q, IillI>dale, Michigan. We wonder if he
vii be admitted?
- Judge Stump Of Baltimore, whose alb
slrd decisions have furnished so much
amusement, has been removed from the bench
" the governor, as the result of an address
% that effect by the legislature. The judge
L.. issued farewell address, in when he
4vc.ayes his only otiense was drunkenness on
,Ie bench, and seems to think that small
matter.