The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-10-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The slaveowners near Culpepper, Va, are
sending their slaves into the Union lines,
claiming they have nothing to feed them with
the coming winter. So much the better for
the chattels.
The National Horse Fair at Providence,
r. l., which opened on Wednesday, is said to
be an immense success.
Geo. Sumner, brother of the Massachu-
sets Senator, died on the 9th, at Boston, after
a long illness.
A fifty thousand dollar fire occurred on
Thursday, in East Water street, Milwaukee.
rhe third series of go bonds. 100000
O0G is nearly ready FOR issue, and the
indications are that they will soon be taken
up.
The Friend, who were drafted in Rhode
Island, and sent to Fort Columbus have been
paToled and sent home.
The Freshman Class in Dartmouth
| numbers 81 members. 4 less numoer tina
US lal
We see it stated that recruiting for the
veteran corps progresses very rapidly in the
country at large. In soLle instances a!nos,
entire regiments have re-enIisted, and appli-
cations are increasing.
BY new order fro the war department,
raw recruit now receive bounty of Mrst
hundred and two dollars.
A Locomotive exploded On the Western
(Mass.j 4. r., near West Hayen, on qnes
day evening, the 9th inst, Harvey Bills,
conduc'os, and William Nary, fireman, were
instantly killed, ard Nr. Goodrich, the road
master, and strange, VINO name was no:
snown, were dangerously wounded.
The meeting of the American board next
year will be held at Worcester.
A report comes from Cincinnati that Gen
Pope is to command corps under Gen
! Rosecrans.
Committees have been appointed bv the
City Government Of Boston to make the a.
rangements Tor the reception of the Russian
Admiral and Fleet
A boiler explosion at Newburgh N. Y.
killed three men and dangerously wounded
five more. Such explosions are no novelty
now -a'days.
The sanitary commission. now sitting at
Washington, ird their treasury getting low,
and have appointed committee to appeal to
The people for renfol cements. Between
i"nc. 1861. and Octoner. 1863, III. commits.
sion has DISTURBED Some stven million dollars
worth of supplies.
The wise ones say that ten or twelve more
Russian vessels are expected, and that the,
may not 90 away in hurry. 1t MAY have
healthy influence upon some people of a
meddlesome disposition, if the car keeps his
navy where it won't be frozen up.
The annual report of the Sons of Temper
ance reveals the instructive fact that the
numbers of the order have dwindled from
24o, 900 in 1850 to $4,000 in 1868. This
marks the decline of the temperance cause in
thirteen years.
The father of Spencer Kellogg Brown, the
Young man lately hung at Richmond as a
federal spy, went into the Fulton street
prayer meeting the other day, and requested
prayers that the death of his murdered son
might be sanctifed to himself and family.
The great seal of the new commonwealth
OF West Virginia has representatives which
sylnhsilze agriculture and mining. The
motto 's' Aontoni semper lberi; mountain
GERS always free.
a great ire occurred at Nevasta, Turkey
aug IT, DESTROYING property to the amount
of two and half million dollars and -enda.
ing six hundred Jewish families homeless