The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-05-30
THE CALIFORNIAN.

O. The diptheria has killsd eight child
rem within three weeks at Bingham, Maine,
being the entire family OF James Hamp-
ton. On the 4th inst. five little ones lay
dead together in his desolated house.
o. A newspaper publisher at Albany,
recently sued Bradford o. Wait for seven
years subscription to his paper, and the de-
linquent subscriber had to pay in judgment
and costs between 5000 and $500. Moral
pay the printer.
e Tell me, angelic hosts, ye ministers OF
love-shall swindled printers here below,
have no redress above? The shining angel
band replied, "To US is knowledge given !;
delinquents on the printers books can never
enter heaven"
n Col Rowland of the 10th New York
volunt GERS, now with McClellan's advance,
sends to the sanitary commission check for
$1,000, with the letter, in which he says, 81
have seen too many instances of the great
good the commission is doing not to be
grateful for its work, and at the same time
anxious to help it in the only way l know
how"
REBEL BARBARITIEs.-We have seen a let
ter written by Vermonter, a member of
Berdan's sharpshooters, from West Point
since the battle there, in which the writer
says that many of our dead were found with
their threats cut. They had wounds which
showed that the rebels had perpetrated this
fiendish barbarity upon hel plessly wounded
men. Can any one suggest the cause of this
barbarsm, if it be not what Senator Sumner
called the "Barbarism of Slavery" ?-Free-
man.
B Speaker Grow writes to a friend as
follows :-"This Congress is redeeming in
good faith all its pledges to the people. |,
may seem to the country to move slowly, but
no Congress before it has, in the same time
accomplished so much for the future greatness
and glory of the republic: the national CAPT.
tai free forever; slavery prohibited in al
territories; the public domain set apart and
consecrated in free homes and free men
the Pacific railroad authorized the policy o.
gradual emancipation inaugurated, besides
war measures"
C. The term 'rebels" begins to be rath
err indefinite. There are two kinds of rebels
we have to deal with those who, bearing
arms, openly refuse the recognition of the
old Union and those who have chosen
the safer and more cowardly way of perfdi
ously destroying it with plots and intrigues
and insidious attacks The one we meet or
the battlefield; but what would be the result
of the bloody strife, if in the meantime the
other should succeed in depriving US of the
prize for which we are fighting? The dan
gers rea,ening from the one are known
but if the people do not soon realize the
more concealed dangers arising from the 9th
er, and do not in time put an end to the
work of these traitors in the mask of union
ism, the hope Of the Republic is hopelessl!
doomed.-N. \. Stats Zeitmg.
F Capt Newton, one of the rebels cap
tured on the march to Richmond, states thai
previous to the battle of Balls Bluff, FEEDER
al courier was captured on the Drainesvillt
turnpike, with dispatches addressed to Ger
Mccall, ordering a reconnaissance in force o
the country above Drainesville in the direc
ton of Goose Creek, ard mentioning that {
similar demonstration would be made by the
forces of Gen Stone. The interception Of
these dispatches was the cause of the defea,
of the federal forces at Balls Bluff. When
the northern press blamed Gen Stone fol-
this defeat, Colonel Jordan sent under fas
of truce copy of this dispatch, with an ex
PLANTATION Of its interception, as an act due t.
Gen Stone under the circumstances. Thi
written explanation from Col Jordan, wa
found among the papers of Gen Stone, ant
is supposed to have led to his arrest. |
these statements are sustained they will g
FAR IN eyonproIp Zen Stone