The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-09-28

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purchased the Crowinshield library in Bos-
ton, has taken it to London and there real.
lied from It's sale at auction about So 900.
Eliot's New Testament in the Indian Ian
guage sold for $3.50 ; the first edition Of
Mi!ton's Poems for S26,G2 the book Of
Mormon for $40: and copies of the Bible
belonging TO eminent fathers for fabulous
prices, that of Coverdale bringing $40.
C Paran Stevens, who keeps the Fifth
Avenue Hotel in New York, keeps also the
Continental Hotel of Philadelphia, the Re-
we're House and the fremont House of Bos-
ton, the Battle House, Mobile, and the Point
Clear House, Point Clear, Alabama, in all
SIX tirst-c!ass hotels, involving capital and
current expenses of several millions of dol
lars. Mr.. Stevens is a native of Claremont.
y. II.
e The Prince Of Wales. according ;oti.e
correspondent Of Buffalo paper. was so de-
Lighted with Blordin's feais at Niagara. that
he gave tht little Frenchma.. a gift Of SlUG0
in hard cash.
~ AT the United States Mint in Phila
delphia three millions of gold dollars are
Cow being melted and reco;ned into double
eagles, in pursuance Of an order from the
Secretary of the Treasury
e John B. Cough, the eminen, temper
ancc advocate, will deliver his first lecture
since his return from Europe. at the Cooper
Institute, in New York, on Monday evening
Oct. LIST. under the auspices Of :he Young
Mems Christian Association.
" S. f. Flanagan. a Douglas candidate
for States Attorney in Illinois, has cone on.
in an able letter for Lincoln. He SAYS that
Douglas is still his first choice, and he has
been ardently laboring for him, but he fines
by this means that he is only aiding the eec-
ton of disunionist-John {. Breckenridge
Nor does he wish to throw the election into
Congress for the benefit of Joe Lane.
WHAT CONES OF ADvERTIsING.-Spaul
& Co. of New York, the great prepared
glue men, have cleared 100000 within
year past, on the sale of their glue, which
they attribute, in the main, to the policy Of
extensive advertising. They went into it on
the Bonner scale; and so satisfactory has
been the result-the already immense de-
mand for the article steadily and rapidly in
creasrg-that they expect to loom up in still
more magnificent proportions in the columns
Of the press during the ensuing year. So
much for faith in advertising, and bold and
juGicious action founded thereon.
u Great preparations are making at
New York for the Wide Awake demonsira-
ton in that city, Oct. Sd, when 10000 torch
es are expected to be shown.
IL Vim. S. Mcclure of Maine. was whip-
ped at Grahamvile, S. C., last week, for tam
pering with slaves, and was shipped North
via Charleston. The Charleston Mercury
says served him right which we say too if
he did tamper with slaves but the South
erners have an easy way of convicting
Northern man Of this crime
| O. The late Gen. Walker, the fllibuster
leader, was born at Nashville, Tenn, in 1874,
ard was consequently but &c years Of age
He graduated at the University of Nashville
taking the highest konors of his class, and
studied medicine in Philadelphia and Paris.
He had distas,e for medicine, and after
wards went into the law at New Orleans
but that city was too quiet for him and he
vent to California, where the manifest des.
tiny" idea took possession Of him and direct
Cd the future current of his life COL Rrd-
Ter, who was shot with Walker in Honduras.
was native Of Alabama, and served win
credit in the Mexican war. He became ac-
quain ted with Walker in California, AID il.
1855 he sold his property there and joined
Walker in Nicaragua. He was regarded as
brave and generous man.
C The Prince Of Wales, now Baron
RentrewD at Chicago, on SATURDAY, visited
one ofthe immense grain elevators for which
that city is famous. He subsequently, exhib-
tied himself on the balcony of the hotel TO
the assembled American sovereigns Whohad
congregated in large numbers The Prince,
later in the day, left town for tie hunting
grounds, where he will spend serera! days IN
the sports of the chase.
O. The New York Commercial Adr6,tt-
ser, the Oldest daily in that city, grows face
tious in its old but vigorous age 1t thus
heads the dispatches about the Prince OF
Waless movements
"Exit-PRHCE OF WALES"