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From the Albany, IN. W Argus and
Atlas.
GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.

GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.
The following beautiful lines are from
the pen of Mr.. Flanders, of Malone, vic
tim Of the Bastile.]
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,e,x- Tbe traitor. Wendell phillips, r.

Ray The traitor, Wendell Phillips, il
speech recently delivered in New York
City, used the following reasonable LAM
guage:- Liberty to the slave or death -
The Uaion. lie is the leader Of the "a.
ministra'ion party, which in the eyes of
abolitionists it is treason to oppose.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-02-25
HURRAH! HURRAH!-A VICTORY
OF THE, PEOPLE-PRESIDENT
LINCOLN'S OWN STATE, ILL
NOIS, DECLARES FOR PEACE.

The most important item of news I'VE
have had in long time is the following
in the telegraph column of the city papers
yesterday morning. threads as follows:
ssPEACE RESOLUTIONS.
sSpR1Ner1ELD, ILLINOIS. February H.
Peace resolutions passed the House to-day
by vote of So against 28." aa,a}
So the Legislature Of President Lin
coins own State, great, glorious, patriotic
Illinois, which has sent moro than one
hundred aud ftty thousand troops to the
field, pronounces for peace by majority
of almost two to one, They call for q
general convention of the States at Louis.
Vile. According to General Rosecrans
the people of Illinois and the Legislature
of Illinois, who sustain this movement, ar,
traitors. What a libel upon common
sense.-Csn. Eng.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30
4 Story With Il Moral.


One OF our subscribers thinks We are rath-
er pointed in Cur announcement OF last week
that W. should publish the naiAes and amounts
cue from those de!ihqnen's whose accounts
nave renamed unpaid from three to tour
wears anu i'o>e WHOSE papers nave oeen
STOPPED. ai''. afrel;asF'S remain unpaid
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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30
Who are Copper-Heads.

At recent meeting of democrats in New
Jersey it is reported that ex-Gov Price said
" The Union is broken, and that the states
fall back into the original elements. the same
as before the constitution was adopted" -
What becomes Of Vermont? Is she a part
of New York and part of New Hampshire
and at war with both What of the new
states, formed subsequent to the constitution ?
We count the Ex-Governor as "copper-
head, who spirits poison. Thomas Dunn
English, a member elect of the New Jersey
legislature. went even further than Price. He
said :-"lf this war on the South is continued
longer. he did not hesitate to say We would
have war at the North--at our own hearth
stones. If the administration would not
heed the lessons of the late elections-if they
would persist in the violation of state and
popular rights-,he people would seek rem
edy in the constitution but if that should
fail, they would turn upon them the mouths
OF their cannon and the points of their sa
bres." We set down English as a copper
head, though in charity perhaps We ought to
count him insane Turning to another col
umn of the paper (N. Y. Evening POST from
which we have quoted, We find an account of
speeches in latel democratic caucus in Hi
nois. Hon W. ~ Richardson,'a "a member of
the present Congress and just elected L. S.
Senator, is reported 10 have said: that be
did not believe the rebels can be subdued.
and II they could. he did not Hiak Hey ought
To Je." Richard Merrick said: he did not
know which was the greatest treason, the
government at Washington or the govern
ment at Richmond One Goudy declared
hin self unequivocally for revolution ;" and
Il committee of the caucus entertained res
olutlon TO force the governor Of Illinois TO
Withdraw the troops of that state from the
Union army. These men, and all like them.
are the men We mean when We speak of cop
per-heads. We mean wrong-headed men,
unreasonable men, dangerous men, unpatri-
otto men. If such are TO abound, and Ger
tainly if such are to be sustained to any con-
siderable extent by the people of the North,
in our Judgment the country is lost. A word
as to Senator Richardson: We know that
he labors sometimes urder high excitement.
1t may be that at such a moment he gave
utterancc TO the sentiment attributed to him.
We hope SO, fer We should esteem it a calam-
ity to find men in his position entertaining
such sentiments. Parker of New JERSEY
said he was for giving to the South all the
! old guarantees as to slavery, and even more
| if necessary. We lay no stress on that as
evidence of infidelity 10 the Union. but rath-
er the contrary. 1t only shows that he is
ready to extend slavery TO any extent in the
Union: sentiment which certainly major
ity Of the North oanrot Yet entertain.-I IiIai-
| TOMS IjdIy.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30
A Bank Of England Incident.

amusing adventure is related as having
happened to the Bank of England, which had
committed the great disrespect of refusing to
discount bill of large amount. drawn bv
Anselm ROthsehild Of Frankfort on Nathan
Rothschild of London. The bank had baurb-
tily replied " that they discounted only their
own bills, and not those of private persons
But they had to do,with one stronger than
the bank Private rSonsr' excl-r,....
Nathan Rc;hschild. when they re..or,t,l 10
hlm the fact "Privaie persons, viii make
'hese gentlemen see what sort of private per
sons We are Thee weeks afterxard Ma
'han koihsohiid, who had employed the in
terval IN gathering all the 81 notes he could
procure IN England and one the continent
presented himself at the bank a, the opening
OF the Office He drew from his pocket 4 g
note, anu they naturally counted ont FIVE
so'erelsns' at 'he same time looking quite
astUnished that the Baron Ro,hscbild sbopla
have personally troubled himself for such =
rife. The Baron examined. one by one. The
coins, and put them into a little canvass bag,
'ilen drawing out another note, a third. 4
tenth, hun!red,h, he never put the pieces
OF gold into the bag without scrupulously
examining them, AMI in some instances try
lns them In the balance. as he said, the
law gave HIN Ike right 10 do" The first
pocket boOa heins ealptei, and ih, first bag
full, he passed. them 10 his Clerk. and received
a second, end thus continued til the close OF
the bank. The baron had employed seven
hours TO change e2l,00O. But As he had
also nine employees of his house engaged in
the same manner, it resulted that the house
OF Rothschild had drawn folO,OOO in gold
from the bank, and that he had so occupied
the telers, that no other .erson could change
a single note. Everytlin. which bears the
stamp of eccentricity has always pleased the
English. They Were, therefore, the first day,
very much amused Al the little pique of Baron
ROthschild. They, however, laughed less
when they saw him returning The next DAY at
the opening of the bank, flnked by his nine
clerks, and FOLLOWED this time by many drays
destined TO carry away the specie. They
laughed no longer, when the King of bankers
said with ironic simplicity: These gentle
men refuse 10 pay my bills: l have sworn
net 10 KEEP theirs. At their leisure, only, /
no'ify them that have enough TO employ
them for two months" For two months /,
Eleven millions of gold drawn from the bank
of England.whieh,te have never possessed"
the bank took alarm. There was something
to be done. The mex: morning, notice ap-
peared in the journals that heneeforth the
bar.k would pay Rothsch:ld's bills the same
as their oSH.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30
Punishment of Children.

In the March number of the Atlantic
Monthly the Country Parson" has charm
ing little essay on The sorrows OF Child
hood" in the course of which he makes these
remarks:
AN extremely wicked way of punishinS
children is by shutting them up in dark
place. Darkness is naturally fearful to human
beings, and the stupid ghos, storiss of many
nurses make it especially fearful to a child
1t is stupid and wicked thing to send a
child on an errand on dark night. | do not
remember passing through greater trial in
my youth than once walking three miles
alone (t was not going on an errand) in the
dark, along road thichly shaded with trees.
was little fellow; but got over the dis
tance in half an hour. Part of the way was
along the wall Of churchyard- Of those
ghostiy, weedv, neg lected, aecursed-looklns
spots where stupidity has done what it can to
add circumstances of disgust and horror TO
the Christians last sleep. Nobody ever sup
posed that this walk was trial TO boy of
twelve years old, SO little are the thoughts of
children understood. And children are reti-
cent am telling now about that dismal
walk for the first time. And in the illness
of childhood children sometimes get very
close and real views of death. | remember,
when was nine years old, how every eve
ming, when l lay down to sleep, used for
about year to picture myself lying dead, till
felt as though the coffin were closing round
me. used to read at that period, with a
curious feeling of fascination, Blair's poem,
The Grave But | never dreamed Of telling
anybody about these thoughts. l believe
that thoughtful children keep most Of their
thoughts to themselves, and in respect of the
things of which they think most are as pro-
foundly alone as the Ancient Mariner III the
Pacific. | have heard of parent, an impor
tant member of a very strait sect of Pharisees
whose child, when dying, begged to be buried
not in a certain foul old hideous church yard
but in a certain cheerful cemetery. This re
quest the little sufferer made with all the en-
ergy of terror and despair. But the strait
Pharisee refused the dying request, anc
pointed out with polem;cal bitterness to the
child that he must be very wicked indeed tc
care at such time where he was to De buried
or what might be done with his body af'el
death. How should enjoy the spectacle o
that unnatural, heartless, stupid wretch tarred
and fea,hered. The dying child was caring
for thing about which Shakespeare cared
and it was not in mere human weakness, bu
by faith that Joseph when he was a-lying
gave commandment concerning his bones
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Southern Prisons.

]. B. Hines of Philadelphia who was the
Superintendent of the Va. State works and was
thrown into prison at Richmond because he
refused to fight against the North has been
lately released. He writes: " After we were
sent to Salisbury and closely confined, many
of our comrades died.
"Drs Slocum and Hoffman left Salisbury on
the 29th of October and came on through to
Washington as they should have many weeks
before. At the same time the citizen pris
oners expected to get away. AS that was
the time that Mr. VIM P. Wood, the special
commissioner from Washington was there to
see after our cases, and at that time there
we're 10 Of the prisoners including myself
brought on to Richmond, and expected to
come direct to Washington, bat when we ar
rived at Richmond we found that Mr. Wood
had been recalled by the government and that
the exchange was broken off, SO We were put
into the Libby prison and kept weeks there
amidst the horrors of all horrors. After the
military prisoners left Salisbury We had rath-
er hard life of it as the commander was
much more severe on US than before-especi-
ally after Mr. Wood, arrived as they then
found out the true sentiments of the prison.
ers-and the last accounts l hear from Sails
bury about the 1st of Dec the prisoners were
penned up in the factory building every night
and many of them without shoes, coats and
some even without caps or shirts were COM
PEELED to lay there without any covering
scarcely. And there are no windows in the
building or no fire allowed to them. The
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30

cursed rebels, soldiers of the Union walked
in peace and plenty, and happiness smiled On
all, defenders of the Union, for which this
very city suffered all the horrors of seige,
lay starving, dying, dead
Eternal justice, be thou the Judge Of this
people
One night about o'clock, a fire broke out
near the most populous part of the city. In
few moments, the wind arose, the flames
spread, and in half an hour, over one hun
dred buildings had been DESTROYED, and still
the flames rolled on.
From the window of my cell, l could see
the conAagration as it moved swiftly from
house to house, eating up everything in its
course. Dense columns of smoke rolled up
to the heavens, broad sheets of flames ex-
tended more than mile, jets of meteoric
blaze, blood red streams of fire, all lit up the
city with a grim and ugly look. Many
buildings were blown up and
THE thousand shapeless things all driven
In cloud and fame athwart the heaven,
By that tremendous blast
And down came blazing rafers strow1l
Around, and many falling stone
Deeply dented in the clay
All blackened there and burning, lay
We had been locked up and the guards,
unable to live in the hot and SUI ulphurious air
around the prison, had gone away and W.
were alone. 1t was grand sight to see the
houses blown up, the flames lick up wooden
building in ten minutes, and the violent wind
lifting whole roofs and sending them out as
elaissaries to spread the conAag:ation. The
papers stated that nearly 500 houses had
been destroyed. 1t would have pleased US
very mnch if only the jail had been left.
The story of prisoners escaping during the
fire was absurd. We were locked up in sep
arate cells, and then in tower near were
men left to watch us and troops were in the
city from the forts helping TO stop the fire
and so were all over the city.
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clothes left by the military prisoners when
th.y were paroled were denied to our citizens
by the commander, but succeeded in getting
a great many to them in the cook room for
some time. As the prisoners were destitute
of money and everything in the way of pro-
visions, when Mr. Wood was there the chance
of release looked certain. They then sold
nearly all of their available CLOTHES to get
money to buy provisions-hence their utter
destitution now"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30

A good story is told of Billy Wilson's Zou-
aves at Baton Rouge. 1t Is said that the
boy, not exactly liking their camping ground,
made a rush fsr the state prison, knocked
down the keepers. entered the building, turn
ed the KEY on the inside OF the wall gate,
locked themselves in the cells, and cried,
Now we are al home"
DIDN'T KNOW WHEN He WAS WHIPPED
A Murfresshorp' correspondent SAYS: -
wounded rebel officer, discussing the late
battle, said. Our army thinks your General
a Id Dutch fool He Gont know when ne
is whipped Curious how prevalent IS the
notion that G neral X secrans $ herman.
H. ,epresen.< the sixth -srt-a'loa OF ihe na-
tive A-ael:aaa Ruse,-2,-s i:aal!E-
NJ S2easer.,- sad member ot a IeT'
mon; I.es;,ls,ire, years 60, whom another
n,e,.b,~ had been hlackg harding for The last
half hour. Il shan't answer the gentlemans
sn.eob. 4 al.cgys acreaehcs nae terribly to
tick at aothing-N- /. Tribune
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30

A TEST OF LOYALTY.-There is one test of
unconditional ioyalty that never fails: Whtn
YOU find a man 81 inteat on finding fault with
the loyai Gnverument that he has no waste
wrath TO bes:ow on conspiracy TO break up
the Union and destroy the Republic, set HIM
down as doubtful patriot. No man, whose
heart is il the right place, viii pesmlt his
hostility to be diverted from the rebellion TO
those who are fighting II. He who thinks it
a greater crime TO arrest a babbler of disloyal
sentiments without due process of law than
to strike down the flag of his country, vii
bear vigorous watching.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30

Turner Edwin co D I'd
Turner William NJ co B 13
Taylor John NJ co 10
Wood l P co d Is
Watson Josiah co F2
Wilder D S &C F ii
Wright P c CO l 13
Wiley Geo W CO G 16
Wheelock Russell co H IA.
EDW. E. PHELPS,
Surgeon U. S. ",
Surgeon in Charge.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30

CoNUNDRUMs.-This Citizen was stopped
in the street, the other day, and had this
query propounded TO him:
Why are greenbacks like the Jews
He couldn't see il, of course, and had to
be informed that twas because they are Abra-
hams issue, and know not their redeemer -
Neu Britain Citizen.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-01-30
SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY !

.pr7mced By one rho spent thirteen
o,ly IN Richmond" Jlack hole" Charles
p nj, Caste PmcAneA Col"md'a Ja'l'
,moM hospitM. SalisJmy prison, Bell
'u,H, anil fer otler holes.
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Pealsons A NJ CO 5
Pixley James f co B 4
Moves Freeman S co E II
Noble Chas NJ co c 10
O'Neil Edward co II
Pratt Henry r CO X Is
Patterson Samuel A CO H 16
Pixley Ziba co F 13
Pearsons Orrin co 13
Paine Henry H corpco l6
Parker Ryand X co c Is
Plumb o S CO 16
Rickford Martin CO F 4
Robinson Daniel CO G 16
kathtorm Ira p co II Is
Rhodes Chas H co E3
Rice Augustine co ID 16
Robinson Chas H 60 Fl 2U SSS
Reed Thomas sergt co f 10
Reed Calvin co c II
Royace Chas II co E 3
Robinson Amos co { 3
Rust Albert co +
Roberts \ l. corp co E 6
Rand Kirk CO CO
Richardson H H co H 6
Rowe VIM H co G )
SAWYER ID I corp co b 3
Smith II H co c t
Stables ID w CO A 3
Sha.:uck VIM corp co H 2U SSS
Shoro Frank co H )
Stone Geo F. co G
Stctson VIM co II /
Smell VIM CO ID 6
Smith Martin CO F 3
Sheldon H + co E6
Sutton James co .
Stearns Francis W CO F 16
Smith Creon A co f 6
Slsco Edgar F co X l3
Stevens Cornelius Geo E2
Stratton Henry c co A II
Shepard Fa!ette co c IA
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Somers Bartholomew 6 co F Is
Shiney Joseph CO H 6
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Townsend Daniel c co ID II
Tyley John W co B5
Trainer Lawrence CO B
Trask Horace b co B l3
Thomas Hiram h CO G l5
Utley VIM CO \ 10
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Warner Edward p CO X l5
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Wilder Allen S CO II
Welman Adm ID CO 10
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Whitsett Robert co Z l6
Wilkins W W CO >
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Woodward ID c co CO
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Cooley A A co +
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Hamilton Herman H co F 10
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Huntington Geo Z co + II
Hayes Joseph II CO a 9th
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