The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-03-21

mists. l cannot refrain from giving you
readers specimen or two. A part of theil
tactics was to cast odium upon the governor
and other officials, whose devotion to the bes
interests of the state has never been exceed
ed. With this view, certain committee
presided over by Mr. Singleton, addressed
inquiries to Col Mcneil, of one of our volun
teer regiments, whether our soldiers had
been properly provided for in all respects by
the state authorities, and if not, whose faul,
1t was. This impudent inquiry drew forth
from the gallant colonel response which
will be likely to be remembered through the
session. The colonel said that by conde
scendlng to answer such question, he
should make as great an ass of himself as the
said Singleton had done of himself by pro.
pounding it. lie further intimated 70 the
convention, that money might be made by
=, attending to their own business; but if they
would persist in looking into matters and
things in general, alien to their proper du-
ties, he would recommend to their attention
certain "actings and doings" in the Mormon
war, with which the name of the said Single
ton was not very reputaby associated.
Take one more case to show the animus
OF this notorious body of sham soyer.
eigns. When the news of the capture of
Fort Henry was first communicated to it, in
stead OF expressing by resolves or otherwise
their joy, and their thanks to the brave men
who had achieved this important success
they gravely referred the matter to a com.
mittee, intending of course that it should be
thus smothered. But the thunders of public
Indignation were soon heard in the sky, and
the committee reported that it was all very
proper to rejoice in victory over traitors
that were seeking the overthrow of then
country by fratricidal war! Then came the
still more crushing victory at Fort Donelson
and this matter it was not deemed expedien,
to refer to committee, but they threw W
their caps and hurrahed as loudly as anybody
with how much sincerity your readers ma,
judge for themselves.
Our region of country is still suffering un.
der the paral ysis produced by the grea,
break down in our paper currency-the de-
8 preston of prices in all of our agricultural
prodGcts-the decrease Of ea!qrution from
the Edst-and the shareholders war. Oul
-, grain crops, Oh which We mainly depend
have been fair in amount and quality bu,
have been scld at prices ruinously low.
- mentioned in my last that corn would hardl,
pay the expense of raising. will here quote
passage from report of the military com
mlttee in Congress, made recently on the
. subject of the ship canal between lake Mchi
. gan and the Mississippi:
SIN many parts of Illinois. Iowa, Wiscon
sin and Minnesota, corn is burned for fuel or
allowed to rot in the fields, for want of chea.
transportation to market. The price pei
: bushel is at these points not above from sly
to ten cents
of course corn is not SO low in all points
in the states named. Here, in less than
o hundred miles from Chicago, with two rail
. road lines extending there, the price, since
last harvest, has not probably averaged &
Yankee shilling bushel.
Another very important product here.whicl
, has increased of late, has ruled extremel,
low. What would you Vermont farmer.
/, think of the times if they were obliged to
. sell their dressed hogs at from 800 to ::
=, per hundred: and vet such have been the
E prices here.
En- possant, Chicago is becoming not o1l,
] the great grain mart of the country, but tn.
y. greatest hog mart also, Cincinnati has lost
n or is about to lose, the honor of being tn,
: porkopols of the country. Chicago is carry
Q ing off the honors. Bu. porkopolis is az
=. awkward, uneuphonious compound, and
n propose to give Chicago more classical
o better sounding, but equally descriptive ap
o pellation-that of Choiropolis, the Choiropo
, lis of America.
Winter weather has held its grasp SO fa
into March firmly; but now there are indca
tons of approaching spring-of that sort OF
o weather which in your region would be hail
o ed as ushering in the sugar season DEAR
4 But, alas. no such sweet season comes to us
O simrl from the want Ct that most valuable O
e your forest trees, the sugar maple. With
little accommodation from Virgil, when h.
,, speaks of the unconscious happiness of tn
II farmer class. would say, if your farmers bu
d knew the value of the maple, they would no
= cut it down for fire wood, nor haggle an
2 murder it by unskillful tappings, as l hav
# too often seen done. Our sorghum is we
enough in its way, producing molasses a
n bout equal to the ordinary w. l. article; bu
not entitled to be named on the same da
d with your beautiful nectar, the maple honey
10 We can, at the proper time, find in our gr.
= GERS shops hard, dark colored maple sugar
= made in Michigan, which sells from twenty t
O twenty-five cents pound But, as to you
% white, soft, light maple sugar, as made of lat
-. wears, we never see a bit of it.
,. OCCIDENTAL.
'0 THE INTERNAL TAX BILL.
J. The internal tax bill reported by the way