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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-01
The MendelssOhn Concerts.

Friday and Saturday evenings of this week
are especially commended to the universal
croaker family who groan over the lack of
amusements of a first-class character in St
Johnsbury. All our lovers of true music
know what to expect, and are sure to be nres-
ent at the first note and to all who don t
know we say, 90 and hear or forever after re-
greet that you missed the most classical con-
certs ever given in New England. We give
below the program for the first evening"
There will be an entire change in the second
evenings program, in which Miss Curtis will
appear in three songs.
PROGRAM FOR THE FIRST EVENING:
l-Overture to Martha. Flotow.
2-Fantaisie :or Flute on Macbeth, Briccialdi
(Robert Goering.)
3-'Saut la France air from La File du
Regiment, Donizetti.
Miss E. C. Curtis)
4-Rode's Air, originally composed for the vi
oln, (Ihos. Ryan, Rode.
Transcribed for the Saxophone, an instrument
invented by A. SAKE. of Paris, and performed ON
for the first time in this country by Mr. Ryan
Duo from Linda, for Quintette, Donizetti.
PART II.
G-SOlo for Violoncello, on fayorite airs,
(Wulf Fries.) Hummer
7-Norah the Pride of Kildare, Irish Ballad,
Miss Curtis Barry.
S-Pleyel Hymn, with original variations,
Pleyel.
9-Canzone and Chorus, from Tn ballo in Mas
chera. Verdi.
l0-Fantaisie forVio!in on Massaniello, Alard.
carl Meisel.)
l1''-Columbia the Gem the Ocean," patriot
ic air
l2-"Drinking Chorus, Ballad and La Sicil-
lene, from Robert lie Diable, Meyerbeer.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-01
DACK PAY AND BOUNTIES.

Back pay and bountics due deceased soldiers
and pensions for persons entitled thereto hy Acts
of Congress. Will be obtained by the subscriber
for reasonable compensation
THERON HOWARD.
ST Johnsbury. June ). 1867 9S-lSll'
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-01

Elisha May will commence a term of high
school at West Concord on Tuesday, Sept 9.
E. Woodbury. commences grammar school
at Concord Corner, Sept 90. Albert r. Hen
drick begins grammar school at East Burke
Sept ..
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-01
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

Of Gold. Silver and other kinds of bows Nv
assortment and experience are such that can
fully supply the wants of those who can be help
ed, equal 10 any optician, and AT one fourth less
price. Mrs C. c. CHILps continues TO manufac
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-08-01
q TATE OF YER Mt.
Eesov nic<r;o+

A true copyo of record.
81 Attest, Asa L. FRENCH, Judge.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

NAVAL MATTERs.-There is, il is said, vast
activity in all the ship yards of the United
States. At the Brooklyn some 4,500 men are
engaged, at Charlestown. 1000. aud so on,
while all the private ship yards are busy also.
Since the passage by Congress, says the New
York World, of the appropriation for supply
ing the country with these indispensable vessels
the iron -cladl, the Navy Department, for
obvious reasons, has avoided all publicity as to
what it intended to do. Enough, however, has
been said to enable US to inform the public
that in the opinion of the heads Of the Gov
ernment, next Fall, say by October, the United
States will be the strongest naval power on
earth, in the matter of efficient iron clad vessels.
All the available means at the disposal Of the
Navy Department are now employed, day and
night, in completing the vessels that have been
commenced. Thirteen iIon-clad craft are now
under way, embracing a number of improved
Monitors and more than one powerful steam
ram for ocean use. Next Fall may see Eng
land and France with large feet of mailed
ships, but it is believed by officials, on this
side of the ocean, conversant with the facts,
that the American feet now building will be
more than a match for the mailed ships of
those two nations combined. There ale tel
Monitors, " only more so" now on the stocks,
aud six of them will soon be finished. Each
will be much larger than the original Monitor,
viii have two turrets and heavier guns than
those used by the Monitor. -Four of the iron
vessels are being constructed on the Mississippi
and the others on the Eastern yards. But
these new war vessels will be armed with The
most powerful weapons known to m03ar1 Wa
fare, and calculated to throw the heaviost pro
jectiles ever launched from cannon's mou-l.
The armament of some of these vessels vii h
composed of smooth bore guns of l5-i1ch cali
ber throwing balls Of 4j0 pounds, and rihed
guns of l2iuch caliber, carrying balls of 500
pounds-and many Of them steel-pointed at
that.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

\ YOUNG Nermonter, who owned a pet
black bear, was bantered recently by couple
Of young sportsmen from Boston. who had
gone up the wilds of the Green Mountain State
for hunt, to let them try their dogs three
rather powerful ereatures) upon bis pet, he
(the bear TO be kept chained to a post by q
chain about twelve feet long. The Vermont
boy, unable to resist the appeal of five new and
bright half dollars, and having faith in his pet,
agreed TO the trial. The result was three dead
dogs. two mortified Bosionians, one triumphant
bear, and a jubilant Vermont juvenile
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09
The Mobile Gunboat Story---0ur Own
Iron Navy.


\ dispatch comes from Memphis, that 9
feet Of ten iroa-clad English gunboats fully
equipped. had arrived at Mobile foe the use Of
the Southern Confedevacy, and that three more
were on the way. We do rot believe the story.
In the first place, DO such feet could leave the
shores of England without their departure be-
ing made known 10 or Government and, in
the second place, they would not have to run
the blockade BY diut of superior strength"
as the dispatch reads, but would, of course,
have taken the bloekadiug fee; into Mobile
with them, for we have no vessels II the neigh
borhood of that city which could have main
tanned on hours contest with one Of them II
they mount thirty guns each," and sre mailed
with six,inch ironH However, the story may
be true, but what can they in the end effect
1t viii follow in the natural order Of things
that they must become prizes TO our Govern
ment. Before this month Of August shall have
rolled by, the United States Government will
have an iron clad navy at its command equal
to that of all England and France combined.
ErisSon's feet of nine " Monitors" each two
hundred feet long and forty,six feet beam, and
armed with the heaviest ordnance known to
naval warfare, viii be ready for service by the
middle of the present month. Besides, the
the new Ironsides,' Whitney's iron boat, the
large shotproof iron-vessel building at the
Morgan Works, and the " Roanoke" ." with her
three turrets and heavy deck and side-armor,
will be ready before the lst of September.
These vessels might clear the seas of all the
craft afoat. For the Western rivers large
feet of fatbottomed and powerful ron-boats
have been commenced by Mr. Fad, of St.
Louis. They will only draw three and half
feet and with the vessels we already have in
those waters, will speedily clear the Mississip-
pi of all the Arkansas the rebels may have
there. Viewing our immense naval prepara-
tIons, the New York Herald remarks:
Europe will view with astonizhment this
prodgious display of energy and mechanical
resources. 1t was supposed that our power
"Nuau OC tdSAOl ~ tuC uAIUuSt III aflUlDg ana
sustaining an army of seven hundred thousand
men, in addition TO the cost of maintaining our
active fighting vessels and enormous blocka-
ding fleets. Yet, while thus vigorously carry
ing on the greatest war ever known, we have
created an impregnable feet of nearly four
hundred vessels Of all kinds, and one hundred
and thirty thousand seamen, that Will enable /
US to defy all opponents. Our commerce, man
ufactures and resources are more than double /
those of England when she carried on q war of T
fifteen years with Napoleon and came out vie
torious at last. The rebels are growing weak
er every day; the Union feeling is spreading,
and we will be ready to defy all the maritime
Powers OF Europe combined IN less than tu0
months.
What opposition can few rebel gunboats
at Mobile offer to such power as this? They
will be afraid to show their noses out at sea,
even admitting they have arrived.
San Francisco Herald.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

JOLLY YASKEE PRIsoSERs.-The Selma
lAlabama) Reporter Of 18th June says;
The Yankee officers of the Prentiss brig
ade, who were captured at Shiloh, were re-
moved from Selma yesterday by detachment
of Col Kents regiment. They are to be quar-
tered in -, We understand, and exchanged
according 10 the usages of war. They are q
bearty-loOking set, Prentiss 10 particular, who
seems TO be the very impersonation of impU-
deuce. The Yankee prisoners. unlike the cap
tive Jews in Babylon, have not refused to
sing, and otherwise amuse themselves while in
Selma On the night before TIER departure.
they al joined their voices in singing the Rsf
White and Blue, which, We las-1, 7Tas eai.e
respectable p--fcrrs-ce"
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

A JUST TRIBUTE TO Hon. JOSEPH HoLT.-
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Times writes under date of June 30th
as follows:
The Commission on Gun Contracts, 50
long in session at Washington, is about end
ing their labors, and the Senate has called foI
their report When the work of the Commits
sion is published, it will be seen that Hon
Joseph Holt has won a new claim on the
gratitude of the nation by his patient and
practical dealing with the mountain of corrup
tion that had overwhelmed the War Depart
ment with rotten contracts last winter. The
Commission had no legal existence. 1t was
merely an advisory Board, instituted by Sec
retary Stanton, to adjust amicably between
contractors and the Government, the inordi-
nate orders for arms issued under Secretary
Cameron. So successful have Messrs. Holt
and Owen been that contracts for l 100000
muskets have been reduced to about 650,000
and prices for the guns that are to be made
for the Government will be in many cases
largely reduced. The saving effected to the
Government by this wholesome review and
amicable adjustment can only be reckoned by
millions In dwelling on this important sub
ject we are renewedly impressed with the value
to the Government of single citizen possessed
of the talent and character to be useful. Mr..
Holt, by his brief administration of the War
Department at the close of Mr. Buchanan s
term of office, saved the Union from utter
overthrow. BY his speeches before vast pub
lie assemblies. at later day, be awoke the
nation to arms and thrilled it with an eloquence
unknown before; and now, retiring for almost
year from the noisy forum and the active
arena of conflict, he patiently devotes his time
to uncoveriDg the frauds Of individuals that, in
their gigantic aggregate, threatened to bank
rupt the Government, not only in money but
in character. There is no glory-certainly no
qualification of personal kind-in this sort of
work but the millions Of citizens who must
pay will remember and in time reward it."
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

SOLE TRADERs.-An act was passed in
April, providing that any married woman
wishing to transact business in her own name
must first advertise for four weeks notice of
her intention to apply TO the District Court
for permission to do SO. At the expiration OF
this notice she is to be examined By the Court
as to the reasons which induce her to make
the application, and upon such examination
the Court may grant or refuse her request,
which request any creditor of her husband
may oppose by showing that it is intended TO-
or will. prevent such creditor from collecting
bis debt from the husband. In addition 10
this, the statute requires other formalities, and
provides that every woman who is uow a sole
trader shall cease to be such on the first Of
November, unless prior to that time she com
plies with the provisions of the new law.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

WHEN Pierre Soule, now a prisoner at Fort
Warren, invited General Butler to send the
Federal troops outside the limits of New Or
leans, the General, in bis very plain and en-
phatic answer, said:
Lam aware that at this hour there is al
organization here established for the purpose
of assassinating my men by detail but l
warn you that if shot is fred from any house,
that house will never again cover a mortals
head and if can discover the perpetrator Of
the deed, the place that now knows bin shall
know him DO more forever. have the power
to suppress this unruly element in our midst
and mean so TO use it that, il very short
period. shall be able to ride through the en-
tire CITY free from insult and danger, or else
this metropolis shall be desert from the plains
Of Cbalnette TO the outssi-ts Of Ca-roliron.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09
The Crooked Foot-Path.
BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

An here it Is, the sliding rail
That marks the old remembered spot
The gap that struck Cur school-boy trail,
The crooked path across the lot.
Il left the road by school and church,
4 peneiled shadow, nothing more,
That parted from the silver birch,
And ended al the farm house door.
No line or compass traced its plan;
With frequent bends 10 left or right,
In aimless, wayward curls it ran,
But always kept the door in sight.
The gabled porch the woodbine green
The broken milestone at the mill
Though many road may stretch between,
The truant child can see them still.
No rocks across the pathway lie
No fallen trunk is O er il thrown
And yet it winds, we know not why,
And turns as if for tree or stone.
Perhaps some lover trod the way,
With shaking knee or leaping heart
And 50. it often runs astray
With sinuous sweep or sudden start.
Or one, perchance, with clouded brain,
From some unholy banquet reeled,-
And since, our devious steps maintain
His track across the trodden field.
Nay, deem not thus-no earthborn will
Could ever trace faultless line;
Our truest steps are human still
To walk answering were divine
Truants from love, we dream of wrath;
o, rather let US trust the more
Through all the wanderings of the path,
We still can see our Fathers door.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

GENERAL Rufus kING.-The Eastern tele.
graphic dispatches have frequently of late made
mention of Gen. Rufus King. The Boston
Post says of him:
Geo. Rufus King. who takes Fremont's
command, educated himself in hard study and
good service at West Point to know some
thing of the trade he Is now in. He entered
the Military Academy as a cadet in the year
1929. and graduated on the 30th of June,
1888, standing No in bis class. On the 1st
of July, 1888, be was appointed a brevet
Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers,
and resigned the service September so, 1886.
From 1886 to 1888 he was Assistant Engineer
of the New York and Erie Railroad. and from
1889 to lS43 occupied the position of Adju-
tant General of the State of New York
From lS4l to l645 he was the associate edI-
tor of the Albany Journal. after which be be-
came the editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel.
When this Administration came in, it gave
him the mission TO Rome but true to West
Point he gave up honor and ease in the In
perial City to serve his country on the field
He is the son of Charles King, of Columbia
College, and grandson of Rufus King, once
Senator from New York. 1t is estimated that
Gen. Pope will be at the head of over seventy
thousand well trained troops, aud that with
these he can successfully contend against Jack
son, and hold any force in check that might be
sent forward to threaten Washington city. He
is bold, well-seasoned and thorough soldier,
and with his experience in the West, and his
knowledge of the public wants and expecta-
tions, he ought to vitalize the campaign in the
valley, and turn the tide in our favor. We
now hold an immense tract Of land in middle
Virginia, and with this advantage ought sue
cessfully to expose and oppose every aggressive
movement.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

TEyAcrTY OF THE SEA ToRroIsE.-To Tortoises
are generally remarkable for tenacity of life.
According to Sir J. E. Tenant, turtles are sold
piecemeal while still alive in the market place
of Jaffna. A broad knife, from twelve to
eighteen inches long, is first inserted at the
left side of the turtle, and the operators, gene
rally women, introduces one hand to scoop out
the blood which oozes freely. The blade is
next passed around till the lower shell is de-
tached, and placed on one side, when the inter-
nal organs are exposed to view in full action
As every customer chooses the part he prefers,
and pays for it by weight, each of the fins is
successively removed, with the selected por
tions of the fat and flesh while the turtle
shows by its contortions that every act of sew
erance is productive of agony. In this state it
lies for hours writhng in the sun, the heart and
the head being usually the last portions select
ed, and till the latter is cut of, the swapping
of the mouth and the opening and closing of
the eyes, prove, even when the shell is nearly
divested of its contents that life is still inher-
ent. Rdi, among other cruel experiments, re-
moved every particle of brain from a land tor
toise in the beginning of November, yet it
lived on till the beginning of May. On an
other occasion, he cut off the head of one of
these creatures, and when twelve days after
wards, he opened the body, he saw the heart
beating, and the blood enter and leave it.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09
ADVERTISEMENTS
Agents for Record.
Business Notice.

Messrs. THo's CALLow and D. NJ. BISHOP, having
urchased interests in the RECORD Newspaper and
Job Printing establishment will hereafter be asso-
ciated in conducting the business of the same. No
change will be made in the Editorial control of the
Paper.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

ExAxPLE-We profit more by the faults
than by the successes of others.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

\ WILD man was lately found in the woods
of jackson county. Indiana, captured, and ia
ken 10 the superintendent of the poor to be
cared for When taken be was found lying
behind tree. thinly clad, and asleep. The
unfortunate man says that for the past fourteen
years he has subsisted almost entirely upon
roots, herbs. and berries, and during that time
but rarely met with any human being. Since
bis capture be has partaksn of but little nou.
rishment, and the indications are that his life
Is fast ebbing away. Al efforts to ascertain
BIS Dsme and pa7entsge have proved useless.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09


Abolitionism, and now the representative of
the conditional Uuonsm so elegantly illustra-
ted by Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts,,
thus, in an apologetic manner, intimated that
he conceded in the views concerning the
scouudrel Washington, and proposed to veil
the statue of the greatest OF men. He said
" He should be 10th to affix to the name OF
Washington the epithet which Mr. Remond
did. He knew his defects-the effect of his
evil example but let Us remember his times
his education-let US remember the good ser
vice be did once and again for the sentiment
of liberty Washington was sinner. 1t be-
came an American to cover bis face when be
placed his bust among the great men of the
world. for it was stained with great gout OF
blood. Yet be was great man, had great
virtues, aud be woald not give him the name
of scoundrel, because there were too many for
whom they shonld keep that name"
And this was meeting Of men who are now
pretending TO the name of Unionists, who are
upheld as bright and shining lights of patriot
ism. who are received on the floor of the Senate
of the United States with distinguished honor
T by the Vice President.
/ Is any other record necessary than that oi
this ore meeting 10 shoT where the Abolition
The weekly Butte record., 1862-08-09

A HlsT.-Ha that would enjoy the fruit
must not gather the aower.
Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-12-18
THE HUUsEk EEPER,s
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Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-12-18

Frederic ksbusg 70 Hanover Court House,
or BY the water roure, and was n nv
opinion consistent with the safety Of the
capital.
@. What forces could the enemy II
that tine tavs disposed Of for the
threatening Of Warrington, and BY what
routes, and st what time, could they
have been moved
A. General McClslsn stated that hs
was perfectly wiling to answer this
question il the court desired. but he
would ask i! it was not somewhat i,rsle.
want, and assuming rather too much lat
itude!
The court was then cleared, when.
after the expiration Of about an hour,
the doors were re opened and the de-
cision Of the court announced that the
luestioa had been Withdrawn.
The examination by the court Was
then resumed.
@. What was the defiance at any one
time between the picke,s Of Gens. Nc
Dowell and Porters
A. do not know what tho position
Of Gen. McDoweI's was. understood
sometime after the occupation Of Hauo.
yer Court House by Gen. Porter, that .
portion Of Gen. McDowel's cavalry was
twelve miles from there, but ! do not
know it. ! cannot even tell who told
me; but did no, know the position Of
iGen. MoDowell's pickets.
Q. You state that you received the
fullest cooperation from Gen. Mcdowell
in the plans and movements connected
with the Peninsula campaign. A .
corps commander, had be knowledge Of
these plans, and was he consulted 10 re-
spect to them?
A. Yes.
q. Were these plans for the Peninsu' q
campaign, which embraced the employ.
nent Of the corps Of Gen. Mcdowell
known to the War Department OF to the
l'res,denti
. A. Yes.
Q. You stated that troops were de-
aimed for the defences Of Warrington
Did those plans provide for force t.
> be retained from the troops then unde
your command, and, If 50, how large
vas the force to be retained, and wha
/ troops were to compose IL?
A. Gen. Mcclellan asked, inasnucl
!. A this opened . new branch Of inquiry
!. that time might be allowed him II
which to answer the question.
:. Granted.
Q. Have you any kno~lsdge Of th
!, circumstances which led to the deten
ton 81 Gen. Mcdowell and the torms
!. ton Of the Department Of the lsappa
!, hammock At the time that Department
d wss formed
A. had none At the time.
.. Did the formation Of that Depar,
n ment and the detention Of Mcdowell re
= duce the means winch had been srrang
d ed before you left Washington to pros
Al ecute the campaign!
!. A. Yes.
q. 10 you know whether Gener'
Mcdowell had any completely in prt
curing or inducing the formation Of III
Department Of the Rsppahannock, q
> re lucing your FORGET
:. A. do not know.
:. Q. Was there any reply by you
= :, the kilograms Of Gen. McDowell, {
= other notice to him, showing that %
:, desired his CO operation !?
. A. think no reply to General Nj
Dowell, but the War Department vi
H., informed that | wanted the troops,
;. 9. BY General McDowell-Do va
y recolect Of the order to McDowe ], il
+. forming him bis corps would be the la
- to embark that is, after Sumner ",
sent to him from the steamer Comm
- dore after you had lett the Peuinsu!s
- A. ! think it was, and wrote a grel
" nono,. IN hal aSoanoe