The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-05-15
THE CALIFORNIAN
ALI, SORTS OF ITEMS.

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with one or two gentlemen, taken contract
on the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad, IN
Ohio, amounting to million and nall Oh
dollars. They advertise for 1000 laooreiS'
promising steady employment Tor TWO years.
at Sl.2j per day.
The conscription promotes matfinohy 30
more marriage licenses were granted IN Dai,l-
more during last March than during the
same month last year.
woman in Leavenworth, Kansas, was
fined 81 some days since for wearing long
train less in the street.
In Hamilton, Toronto and London in
Canada, it is estimated there are thirty tons
of American silver, and the merchants will
only take it at per cent discount.
The subscriptions to the fve-twenty loan
on Friday, reached five millions of dollars,
the largest days work yet done. The sales
o. these bonds for the last four days of April
were 29,760, 120, ana since the adjournment
of Congress, period Of only eight weeks,
the amount is over $4J,OOO,OOO. Subscrip-
tons are daily increasing from the border
of confidence in the government in sections
which have been hostile, that is at the same
time unexpected and gratifying.
Gen Lewis Cass, who has been for some
two months past the guest of his son-in-law.
Henry Ledyard, in Newport, K. l., has so
far recovered his health, which was quite
feeble when he first came there, as to be able
to appear in public.
The Milwaukee papers say the large receipts
of wheat in that city for several weeks past,
60 to show that crop Of 1892 was much larger
than has heretofore been counted on.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, it is stated, is
to leave for Europe the first of June, to be
absent four months.
The system of telegraphing American news
from Liverpool to London, is said to be
under the direction of southern agents who
manage the thing after their own fashion.
The reports are invariably partisan, and in
strange contrast with the accounts published
IN our newspapers.
A letter from Washington, N. C., tells the
story OF brave negro who lost his life during
the siege -" A fiat full of soldiers. with a
few negroes, attempted to land at Rodman's
Point. but were repulsed by terrible fire of
rebel bulets-all tumbling into the boat and
lying fiat to escape being shot. Meanwhile
the boat stuck fast on the shore, when this
noble African said Somebody's got to die
to git US out of dis, and it may as well be
me' He then deliberately got out and
pushed the boat off and fell into it, pierced
by five bullets. DIR Ware afterwards ampu-
tated leg and resected part of one bone
in the arm but the man of course died"
REBEL CoNsCRIPTs REFUsIN TO FIGHr.-
A letter from the army of Ksntucky, dated
at Danville, April 4, in ~. Cincinnati
Gazette, says:
"The affair at nutton's Hill, as a brilliant
thing on our part, and most disastrous de-
feat to the rebels. Scott, Carter and Pc
gram quarelled on the field, and after the
action Scott and Carter We're sent to Knox
vile under arrest. Yesterday Pegram him.
self was ordered to Knoxville, also under
arrest. The rebel loss in killed, wounded,
drowned and missing is admitted to be five
hundred. The defeat was a route, and the
decentralization extreme. The Tennessee con-
scripts refused to fight. Pegram made a
speech to them, in which he informed them
that the Yankees were much exasperated, and
Lad issued orders to give them no quarter.
They must fight OF die; they had reached the
last ditch. They were forced to remain with
reluctance, and bit Oft the ball end of their
cartridges, fired in the air, and exhibited so
much Discrimination for the fight that they
were sent finally to the rear to aid in the
crossing. A wounded conscript told me that
he never fired upon Union man, and never
would. He said no conscripted Tel.nesseean,
Albanian or North Carolinian would ever
fire upon their Federal friends. The Louis
lana rebels did the fighting"
The dwelling house and wood shed of Mr.
o. II. Dickinson, on east hill in Williams
town, were entirely consumed by fire Monday
night, April 81, together with 100 cords wood
prepared for stove use, large supply of
provision and a chamber filled with bedding.
The fire caught from a sap house, situated
near the wood-shed, and was first discovered
by neighbor who aroused the sleeping in
mates. Neighbors came promptly to their
assistance and by their timely exertions sue
ceeded in clearing the lower part of the house
of most of its furniture and valuables. No
insurance. IFaHons Daily.
Assignees and others holding orders for
allotted pay of the Second, Third, Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth Regiments, and Company
&C Of the Ninth Regiment, are notified that
returns have come to hand for November.
Dece mber, January, and February, and the
State Treasurer is prepared to pay the sums
received in the usual way.
Mr.. L. A. Hlsel, of Burlington, is now
engaged in the manufacture of tar and tur-
pentne from pitch pine stumps, an enter
prise which was started last Fall by Messrs.
Frederick Smith and S. P. Cole, and which
is now in his hands. The business is vet in its
infancy, but Mr. Edgell expects shortly to be
able to turn out over three hundred gallons
of tar and one hundred gallons of turpentine
per week. The distilation, also, produces
pyrolginous acid in considerable quantities,
substance used in print mills for setting col
ors. The tar produced is a very superior
article, as it is made in retorts, and is clearer
than the Newbern tar. North Carolina will
have to "look to her laurels. -Walton's
Daily.
"A son of the Emerald Isle meeting coun-
tryman whose face was not perfectly remem-
oefed after salating him cordially, INQUIRED