The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-11-23
From Montpelier.

The legislature will probably adjourn next
Tuesday, in season for the members to 20
home to Thanksgiving. No important &C.
ton has yet been had. The state treasury
defacation holds out as topic of remark,
but does not hold out las predicteD in the
extent Of the defalcation. The amount will
ne reduced, it is said, 10 near $4,000, while
the state will be able to save perhaps $780,
600 on the treasurer's bonds, reducing the
margin of loss to a comparatively small sum-
There have been legislative investigations in
20 the affairs of the ST. Adams and North
! field banks, instituted on rumors of misman-
! cement which we're not sustained by the
facts. The state house debt question is
standing matter, with lots of speeches and
all kinds of propositions for paying the debt
to citizens Of Montpelier. The voice of the
people is that the debt should be paid, (some
S42OOO) and the state hereafter own its own
property The bill, however, has been lost
in the House.
A bill to enlarge the limits Of divorce has
passed. A bill to establish an agricultural
bureau for the state has passed the Senate
twice, in different forms, but the farmers in
the House will not listen to the proposition,
and have killed it. A DILL to abolish the
county grand jury system is under debate,
with able speeches on both sides. A bill to
enable selectmen to license vctualing saloons
was amended by the severely temperance
men to the effect that ale or beer should not
be sold in them under heavy penalties, and
in that shape, being disowned by its natural
parents, was killed. A bill to enable relig-
ious societies to tax their pews for the sup
port Of the gospel, or sell the slips of delin.
quents under an appraisment, was killed ii
was intended to cut off the dead-head sys.
tenn of pew owners who don't join the par.
ish, and so was voted down as Infringing
that clause in the constitution switch guar.
antees freedom of worship" A bill to tax
dogs for the benefit of sheep-owners, has
been voted down in the popular branch. Nc
new acts have been introduced for the pro-
lection of the state treasury in future, but
the governor has made the matter subject
of special recommendation, and something
will be done when the investigating commit
tee report this week.
A bill is before the legislature to prevent
prize-ighting, making every person who shall
engage in any such fight punishable by i'm
prisonment not more than ten years, or b!
fine not more than $1,000 and every aid
second, or surgeon, by imprisonment no
more than five years, or by fine not to exceed
1000, and every resident of the state VIII
goes out of it to engage in such fight, sub
ject to the same punishment as an aid, sec
ond or surgeon to any such fight within tn
state.
Charles Church of Norwich, Conn.,, arrive,
at Montpelier the other day, claiming to hav
requisition from Gov. buckingham for tn
arrest of 0. A. Burton of St. Adams, chars
/ ed with an embezzlement of $4,000 from tn
I.itchfeld (Ct.) bank. AS he offered to set:l
it for $500 or Whereabouts, his mission wa
: construed into an attempt at extortion, an
he has been arrested and put under $l,OO
i bonds for trial.
A bill has been introduced into the legis
lature, incorporating, in the main, the sng
gestion made by Rev. MIR. Balch of Ludlow
a in an address before the Sons of Temperate
; near the beginning of the session, providing
that all packages containing Intoxicating liq
uor. brought or found within the state, NO
distinctly marked with the name of the sen
= der and the sendee, and the kind and qualit
: of the liquor, should by reason of that fac
be contraband, aud liable to be spilled with
out further ceremony.