The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-09-25

TIE WONDERS OF MODERN GUNNERY.-
When cur var broke out, We had no cannon
that could lombard Charleston from Fort
Sumter, distance three and three-eigths miles.
Now, We have guns that Can reach the city,
and 90 mile beyond, from Morris Island,
distance, FIVE miles. And guns have been
invented that viii carry enormous missiles
nine miles. One of these on q ship could
lombard city without being itself seen.-
Thus, an enemy can destroy an object of al
tack while out of sight and hearing For
at seven miles distance, the curvature of the
earth renders ship invisible. Such is the
progress of modern gunnery.-Rspublican.
C. In Fort Wagner sick rebel was
found, holding in his hand string connect
ed with fuse leading to the magazine. The
rebels had so placed. telling him he could
not live. and that after the fort should be full
of Yankees he must pull the string, and SO
send them all, himself included, into eternity.
But the wounded rebel, although almost
dead when our men entered the fort, had q
faint hope that perhaps he might live if
properly attended, and gave that as reason
for not pulling the string. He was taken to
an ambulance, and died while being conveyed
TO the hospital.
@ There is no pleasure that l have eH-
perienced like child's midsummer holiday
the time, mean. when two or three OF US
used 10 60 away up the brook, and take our
iinners with us, and come hoc-e at night
tired, dirty, happy. scratched beyond recog-
milton, with a greasy nosegay, three little
trout, and one stoe, The other haying been
used for brat I'll It had gone down with all
hands out of soandings. Depend upon il a
nan experiencesEo such pleasure or griefatter
fourteen as he does before, unless in some ca
ses, in his first love-naAing, when the sensa-
ton is new TO him.-Kmssley.
O. Burleigh, the New York correspond
ent of the Boston Journal, says: IF Mr.
Lincoln writes few more such letters as he
wrote to Gen Grant and 10 the Springfield
convention, the mater OF the succession viii
soon be settled. The plain, homely, humor-
Gus good sense of these letters, so credita-
bic TO the heart of the president, and SO TAX
ing with the masses, has won him troops Of
friends and done more to make him general
ly popular than anything he has Yet done.
They are the theme of universal commenia-
ton.
n Prentice hopes our folks will soon get
thousand -pounder upon Morris Island
TheL, if they catch Humphrey Marshall, they
can set fire to his big coat and breeches and
shoot him into Charleston, so that the rebels,
who have such horror of the fire of Ancient
Greece, may see whether they like the fire of
modern grease any better. To appreciate
this joke If should be known that Humphrey
Marshall is as obese as Shakspeare's Fal-
staff
q The state Of Illinois claims that she
has raised the biggest OK that has been known
since the food. His o1-ship is Eve years old
twenty-one hands high, nineteen and one
half feet in length, and weighs thirty-six
hundred pounds. That is nothing to brss
Of Vermont raised steer fe" years ago
that weighed fort, -four hundred pounds, and
il was not considered worth blowing about.
This steer was exhibited here in 1850
GA Canadian murderer who enlisted
a, substitute at Buffalo was lately sent
back on a reeuisitiOn from the Canadian
government. But be said he was glad to 60.
His brother substitutes had robbed him of
his money, watch and clothes. and he was
willing to be hung if he couldn't escape such
company any other way.