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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04

g An ex-editor from Dubuque went to
Washington some time ago to get an office.
After dancing attendance for some time on
the men in power, he gave it up as bad Job
and went to Alexandria and hung out his
shinsle as physician. At the end of the
week ne had made $50 over and shove ex-
penses, and his good success still continues.
If any of his patients die, he consoles him.
self with the thought that the citizens OF
Alexandria are nearly all secessionists.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04
@ VIVA: Com Foote wants is some heav-

g VIVA: Com Foote wants is some heav-
ily plated gunboats, like the Merrimac.-
At almost every point where they have wa
ter batteries the rebels are found to be in
possession of large l2S-pounders, which will
tear everything to pieces less than Al iach
iron plating. They are no doubt English
cannon brought over in the Bermuda and o,h-
er English steamers which have run the block
ade. They are probably Blakely guns, which
are quite as effective as the Armstrong. the
latter having only the great advantage of
being much lighter and consequently handled
and moved with greater facility.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04
The Presidents Emancipation Message
in England.

The presidents emancipation message at
tracts much attention in England, though lit
tie time has yet elapsed for newspaper COM
ment. The Liverpool Post says there can be
no doubt it will have incalculable effect in
Europe, and that the effect will be most ia
yorable to the northern cause.
The London Times, in an editorial on the
subject, says it is the most important news
since the split. The presidents avowed OBJ
iect is to recover to the Union the border
states. The proposition is important. not
for its intrinsic likelihood of acceptance, bu,
simply because it is proposition and is the
first bid made towards putting an end to the
war. We may hope others may follow, and
that the North may gradually rise in its off
ers until something acceptable has been put
forth. The only reply of the South to Mr. Lin
coin, has been resolution of the confederate
House Of Representatives, to burn all the
cotton and tobacco that may be l., danger O
falling into the hands Of the invaders. II
every point of view the proposal of the pres
ident gives great scope for speculation anc
perhaps some glimpse of hope; but it is to
what it may herald and not for what it is
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04
How the Virginia is to be Used up.

In the debate in the Senate, on the Stew
ems floating battery. Senator Pomerov of
Kansas expressed his opinion that it will soon
be demonstrated that any wooden vessel, any
large ocean steamer, for instance. can run
down such battery as the Virginia formerly
the Merrimacl and sink her. He said if he
was captain of the Minnesota he woui light
en- her. except in the stem, and put her al
her highest speed. and run her upon the Nir
sinia and sink her. The Boston CONNER
cial Bulletin says on the same subject:
IF The Minnesota. or any other vessel of
the same size. should run bows on with a
speed of twelve knots an hour, striking the
Merrimac on her broadSide. she would sink
her AS for instance in 1899 the ship Co.
lumbar. 800 tons, lying at Damon's wharf,
Charlestown. parted her bow hawser, and
swinging with the tide run bows on against
Charlestown bridge and cut it through. In
1911. the ship En- Whitney. of 400 tons. COM
ing up the harbor with her three topsails set.
run three quarters Of her length into
the end of Long Wharf. In 1850. i ship 60
ing up to the Decks in Liverpool became un-
manageable and run into the stone pier head.
moving the stones some twelve or thirteen
feet, and doing but comparatively little dam
age to the ship. We believe there is tact
and skill enough in our navy to dispose of
the Merrimac if she ventures out of Nor
folk"
These sagacious and prophetic hints are
getting common, and since half the people
hereabouts already know what the project TO
be tried in Hampton Roads is. an the rebels
are unquestionably well informed on the sub
ject,there can be 10 harm in printing the fact
that the ocean steamers Vanderbilt and Ara
60 have been armed with strong iron prows,
and are now awaiting the appearance of the
Virginia. to try upon her the experiment sug-
gested. 1t is also stated that their upper
works are protected by covering of cotton
bales, which are more impervious to cannon
balls than iron. The experiment will be Il
novel and exciting one, and if it shall turn
out that iron-clad vessels can thus be destroy.
ed by vessels of superior speed and momen'
tum. new and important elements will be in
troduced into the calculation of the value o.
mailed ships of war. The Virginia is un
doubtedly ready to come out, and if she doe:
not soon appear it will indicate that the reb
els have lost confidence in her impregnabil
ity.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04

F Our secession BOBBY has written an
other piece for the Boston Post. 80
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04
g Adjutant General Washburn sends
US the following circular relative to discharg-
ed soldiers -
ADJ. AND INSPECTOR Gems OFFICE, }
WOODSTOCK, March L.. 1862.

You will confer favor upon discharged
soldiers and the relatives of deceased SOL
diers, resident in the town where YOU reside,
if You will communicate to them that full in
structions and all necessary forms, will be
furnished. Oh application to this office, to any
person entitled to arrearages of pay and
bounty from the United States. The forms
have been prepared in order to enable the
claimants to make their own papers. without
the necessity of employing and paying agents
for that purpose.
Very Respectfully.
PETER I. WAsHBURN, Adj. and lns. Gen.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04

e The total number killed of Com
Foote'S expedition up TO last Monday was
four; wounded. sixteen and missing, four
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-04

PETER 7. WAsHBURN, Adj. and Ins. Gen.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27

the late elecuon. The leaders of the party that
came into power two years sgo TO win
success. made great promises to the people.
and they have not redeemed those promises.
nor sought to redeem them, and a dis
appointed and indignant people have administered
rebuke. Ineficiency. partiality and corruption
have pervaded the public service, and just and
honest people have passed their verdict upon it.
The Constitution has been trampled upon and
the citizen imprisoned and denied a trial, and
Constitution loving and just people have de-
manded restoration of their rights. Abolition
lists have sought to control the policy of the Ad
ministration and to place their purpose above the
Constitution Of the country and to make the sup
posed interest of the negro paramount to the
rights of the white man, and a great people,
mighty in their conservatism, have now said to
President LlScoLS, We stand by you in the resio-
ration Of the -Univu, ia the maintenance Of the
Constitution and in the enforcement of the laws,
but we demand that the institutions of our coun-
try. as our fathers made them, shall be preserved
terpose their policy between the Constitution and
the people.
In kindness. but frankly, wesay to the defeated
politicians of Indiana, your course has lost you
the confidence OF the people. and that confidence
has again returned to the stable and ancient
Democratic party. and the voice of the people on
last uesday is the result.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
Another KiUk.

The Journal since the election of Mr. LINCOLN
to the Presidency has advocated and favored a
peaceful separation Of the StateS-permitting all
that desired to leave the old Union to go in peace
aud establish a cOniederacy of their own. Ii has
favored the war only for mercenary considera-
tions because it and It's friends could make money
out of it, and not upon principle or policy, for
did il not declare with great vehemence and so
lemnty that civil war would be a thousand fold
worse evil than the loss Of dozen Statesf
The Republican central organ has got new
kink. According TO its theory the secession OF
South Carolina, which it justified as being IN
harmony with the philosophy of our government
and the revolutionary principle upon which il is
based, was a virtual dissolution of the Union.
it so stated when the news came that thar State
had peaceably slid off from its connection with
the balance Of the States. 1t is now cautiously
but artfully broachng new idea-a new combi-
nation for the Northwestern States. Daily il in
ssts that the result of the recent election ia Ind-
ana and Ohio is a verdict of their people in favo
of uniting the destiny of the Northwest and the
South under one Government. II will not ac-
cept itself, permit any one else to place diff
ferent construction Of that expression Of public
sentiment. Knowing that il would be both i'm
prudent and impolitic to openly advocate the idea
which it says the late election emphatcally de
clares, it takes the next best method of accom-
plshing that object BY boldly avowing that the
people by large majority have decided for it.
By repeating and reafirming with great peril
nacity and apparent candor this view of the ques-
ton, it hopes by famliarizing the public mind
with the idea OF annexation to the Southern Con-
iederacy, to finally persuade them to believe that
that was their purpose when they deposited their
votes in the ballot box.
The sentiment of the poet will forcibly apply
to this attempted generalization Of public senti-
ment by the Journal and its present policy:
Vice is q monster Of so frightful mien,
As 70 be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face.
We irst endure, then pity, then embrace.
Such is the philosophy OF the Journal.
However repugnsnt to 'he people of the North
west may be the idea of secession from the old and
union with the Southern COnfederacy. il hopes
by keeping the subject ever before them TO make
them familiar with her face" 50 that the mon
ster which at first they would have hated. they
will "6rst endure. then pity. then embrace"
The Journal has also another purpose in view
in its new kink. 1t encourages and gives life to
the rebellion by advertising to the South that
majority of the people of Indiana are traitors to
their own Government and are in favor of union
with that of the rebels.
Beware of wolves in sleeps clothing.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
WHOLE NO. 1,216.


A Republican friend. speaking of the effect Of
JoE WRIeHr's recent canvass Of Indiana. SAYS ir
is a remarkable fact that with two or three ex-
ceptons the counties wherein he spoke 1--we given
large increased Democratic vote and the coun-
ties he did not visit gave Republican gam. AS
an Illustration. he stated that the Governor failed
in his appointment in Warrick and Posey and
there the Republican vote is largely augmented,
but in jackson, Floyd. vanderburg. Sullivan.
Vigo. Allen, &C., &C., his influence was most
deleterious to the cause he espoused. as is shosn
by the large increase in the Democratic vote.
The Governor bOasted that he had made seventy
FIVE speeches during the canvass and behold the
result If he had made one hundred and fifty
they would have added twenty thousand 10 the
Democratic majority.
We suggest these facts for consideration to the
phiosophiziog mind of the learned pig of the
Journal, and in connection inquire whether JoE
WRIGHT has been worth to the Republican cause
the price paid for him by our Republican friends.
We ra.her think they won the elephant in the
raffle, and that they will find the keeping of him
rather an expensive business. They have got
him on hand to provide for anyhow. and he is a
mighty hungry man. The political sOmersault
of the ex Governor. and its results. will point
moral, if it will not adorn tale. The moral is.
it is always safer to stick to your principles and
your friends.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
Nerroen Preferred.

One or two thousand bodied black refu-
gees aA employed in the Quartermaster's De
partment here and upon the defenses about Wash
ington at reduced wages. The amount saved on
the difference between their pay and that OF white
laborers is much more than sufficient TO support
the FIVE or six hundred colored women and child
rem in the Government hands. This is derived
from official persons, who say the contrabands are
really a source of Government profit.
So writes the Washington correspondent of the
St. Louis Democrat This only gives preference
to niggers over white laborers, whose wives and
children may starve for all that the Abolitionists
care, il only the negro women and children are
provided for The next move is to substitute the
"colored gentlemen" in place Of white mechanics
and so on until the darling idea of the Jacobins,
that the nigger is equal to the white man, and
more so" is practically operative.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27

During a late visit at Louisville Governor
MoRToS stated to coterie of his political friepds
that the success of the Republican party in the
election then soon to take place in this State
would be inevitable. He gave as reasons for the
conclusion, that all the influential men of Indiana
all the elite of Indiana society. all the patronage
of the national and State Governments, were ex-
ertng their influence for that result. These con-
sderations he thought sufficient to warrant his
expressing the most G1doubted confidence in
the success of his party friends. Like the msgi-
clan he considered it only necessary to move his
wand over the State to direct the thoughts and
action of the people into the channel he desired.
complete than the illusion produced by the most
accomplished professor Of the maj gical art He
tried the trick of turning rice into bon bons. but
when he opened his box the rice, and not the bon
bons, would appear.
His ExcelleDcy and a good many other
foolish people may learn one lesson from
the recent expression of public sentiment
in Indiana, and that is that influential people
and the 'elite'' of society-the bubbles that float
upon the surface-may exercise very powerful
influence upon public sentiment when upon the
right side. but when upon the wrong track they
have to go where the wind listeta. 1t is evident
that the Republican leaders have very different
impression of public opinion since the election
from what they had before. If not better per-
haps they may be wiser men, if it is possible for
them to learn wisdom.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
DanieI webster committed.

As the years wane the people more fully realize
the greatness of WEBSTER. What SHAKsPEARE
was in literature, WEBSTER was in craftsmanship.
He was ocean minded. There is scarcely
phase of our political affairs, even in these ex-
traordinary times, upon which his speeches do not
furnish appropriate comment and wise counsel.
Read this:
disdain, altogether the character Of an un-
committed man. / am committed, fully com
mitted; committed to the full extent of all that
am and all that hope, to the Constitution of the
country, to its love and reverence; to its defense
and maintenance, 20 its warm commendation TO
every American heart and to its vindlcation and
just praise. before all mankind. And am com
mitted against everything which, in my judgment
may weaken. endanger or destroy it. am COM
mitted against the encouragement oflocal parties
and local feelings; / am committed against all;
any and every arrangement of the powers of the
several Departments Of the Government, against
any derogaton from the constitutional authority
of Congress, and especially against all extension
of the Executive power; and am committed
against any attempt to rule the free people OF
this country by the patronage of the Government
itself am committed, fully and entirely CON-
mitted. against making the Government the
peoples master.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
From the ST. Louis Republican
The Dnpx.t.r EtcwnI,.ffn.,

Hallelujahl The wisdom, the judgment, and
the patriotism of the people-ther ability to gov
ern themselves-has again been asserted in the
result of the recent elections in Indiana, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania; and we have a right to shout
Hallelujah The people have engaged in revo-
luton which is to work out their political saliva
tion, and to bring back all the States to glori-
Gus Union-6rSt IN discardng, as they are now,
monsrous troubles upon the country, and put
to aid the President in the adoption of such
measures will insure the restoration OF peace
and the Union of the States.
No political revolution has ever been accom-
plished under equally adverse circumstances, and
yet no revolution ever more thorough and
astonishing than that which was achieved by the
people of Ohio and Indiana ard in all probability
Pennsylvania, on Tuesday last. No army yet
marshalel in the field against the rebel hosts
could have hoped, in its most sanguine moments
Tor 50 splendid a vi tory: victory, too. achieved
without the loss of a single Iife-without any
traordinary excitemeDt-without the expenditure
of hundreds of millions Of money-but simply b,
the aid of the ballot-box-that mute instrument
TO which we have been referred by Gen. McClel
Ian for the settlement of all our political and sec
tioDal differences; and to which, II Southeri
States and Southern Congressman had been tru'
to themselves and the Union. the appeal woul'
not have been made in vainl The votes OF tn
States last Tuesday show 1.-THE votes to be give
on the 4th Of November will confirm il. kevolu
tons commenced under such auspices never g
Backward
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27

When the English Parliament declared in 1915
that this was "a great and eficacious remedy"
they apparently spoke for the present age, as well
as their own, and especially for this nation, as its
existence in our National and most of the State
Constitutions fully teStifes. At the present time,
however, this safeguard against the encroachment
of an absolute prerogative can not be enumerated
among the rights of the American citizen The
British Government did not dare to override it..
even in the case of Napoleon, when they held him
a prisoner on board the Beilerophon-but hurried
him of to sea, and TO bis island prison in the
southern hemisphere, without regard to the safety
of the ship or the preparations for the voyage, in
order to avoid the great Writ of Liberty.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
INDIANAPOLIS IND, MONDAY OCTOBER q, 1862

Ali but four of the fanatical representatives OF
radical abolitcnism have been driven into OBJ.
scurity by the voice of the people of Ohio. Such
at least is the look OF things now. The vote up
on the State ticket will show a m iiorty of TWEEN
to thousand against AbOtionism, in 4 State " hic
gave President Lincoln forty four thousand votes
over Douglas OF all the radicals now in Con
gress. Ashley is the only one left to point the
finger OF scorn at.
Indiana has also done nobly She has left
Dunn and Colfax at home. and elected a majori-
ty of DemOcrats-possibly all except three-to
the next House of Representatives-elected a
Legislature which will make choice of a true
Union man-a man who will give to the COnsIi-
tuition and the Government an earnst and hearty
support-and then clinched all by giving to the
State ticket majority of at least ten thousand.
From Pennsylvania. we are without as full ac-
counts. bat this very TACT justifes the belief that
all Is right there. The defeat of Grow, the Al
clifton Speaker of the House. is as good an in.
dex want of the extent of the revolution in
that State. and We content to wait for details
Meanwhile, all hail to Ohio, Indiana and Penn.
sylvania--they are redeemed from the curse of
AbOlitionism
What else remains? The revolution will 60
onward with the force Of an avalanche The
people are weary and disgusted with that radi
caiism so prevalent in the present Congress which
would destroy the Government: sooner than give
up political power.
New York next month will vote more over
whelmingly against that radicalism than Ohio
has done. Massachusetts is preparing to follow
suit Michigan will be revolu.ionized, and the
"blood letting" Chandler will share the fate of
Sumner in Massachusetts New Jersey will be
all right, and our near DeighbOr. Illinois, never
ont done in anything. will vindicate her reputa-
ton by electing majority of conservative men
to the House. She is already terribly aroused by
the attempt to food her territory with the run
away negroes, whose very presence is offensive
to the people, and with whom they DO not want
to come in contact in any way. While this good
work is being done in those States. Missouri
should not be found wanting in the hour of
trial
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
Address of n. A. R. Nelson To the
People OF East Tennessee.

In all the speeches which made to you in the
spring and Summer of 1861, as well as in print
ed address the people of the State, on OF about
the Goth Of May, 1861. declared, in substance,
that if had believed it was the object OF the
North to subjugate the South and to emancipate
our slaves, in violation of the Constitution, l
would have gone as far as the farthest IN advo-
eating resistance to the utmost extent
Ny attention has just been called to a procla-
nation issued by the President Of the United
States on the 22d Of September, 1862, m which
he declares that ION the 6rst day of January, IN
the year OF our Lord one thousand eight Hundred
and sixty three, all persons held as slaves within
any State, or any designated part Of State, the
people whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States shall be Iienceforward ard for
ever free, and the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military and nava
authority, will recognize and maintain The free
dom Of such persons, and viii do act act.
10 reDress such persons, or any of them, il
any efforts they may make for their actual free
dom"
need scarcely remind you that ore of th'
evils which dreaded and predicted as the result
of the efforts which were made 10 dissolve tn
Union was that. in the progress Of the war, the
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27

fatted. The arrangements made to pack for the
English and ether markets in he Old World, ex-
ceed anything ever thought OF before. and. un-
less some mighty change shquid take place be
tween this and the middle of December the great
bulk of the crop wlll be packed IN boxes, and it
and the lard shipped to England and the cont
nent; and the high price OF cooperase and the un-
usually large stock of old brl. pork on hand will
deter dealers from packing in this shape. This
being the case, then, the price will be regulated
altogether by the rates OF sterling exchange. and
that by the prosecution of the war; and hence it
is that we regard the trade in rerk prospectively
in a dangerous position. IL msy prove profitable
or the reverse, the chances being about equal in
both aspects Of the case. II Is quite probable
that The competition will be strong. and that this
will lead TO high prices seem inevitable.