The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24

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Tribune says:-We are officially authorized
to say that the Government continue to in
force the draft, all opposition to the contrary
notwithstanding; that the notice of suspeI-
sion by Col Nugent was unauthorized and
unknown by the Secretary OF War or
Provost Marshal General, and that the alleg-
ed discontinuance of the draft, on account of
the technical legal question relating to the
recent enlistment of thirty dozen men, is
unfounde'l. The reply of Secretary Stanton
to Adjutant.- Gen. Sprague on the l4th was,
" the draft will 60 on soon as peace is re-
stored"
Artificial limbs are furnished to soldier by
the government. upon application to DIR
! Charles McDougal, medical director at New
York
The tune of the conscripts.-" We are
coming, Father Abraham, three hundred dat
lars more"
A valuble but aged dog in San Francisco
has been provided with costly set of false
teeth by his doting owners-a fire company.
/ The hereditary Prince Frederick Ferdi-
nand, heir to the throne of Denmark, uncle
to the present King, died suddenly on the
10Th ult
When man hath taken new wife, he
shall not 90 out to war;
he shall be free at home one year, and shall
cheer up his wife"
This is the scripture rule and the question
is whittier the drafting of newly married men
is religiously valid.
Isaac Hill, long the head and master-spirit
of New Hampshire democracy" cnee de-
clared that I" he who does not support the
government in time of war is either traitor
or coward" Mr. Franklin Pierce, leader
of the New Hampshire " democracy o. to-
its existence is homicidal madness" and
should be stopped at once. Is he, according
to Hills test, d traitor or coward?
Instead of suspending the draft wouldn',
1t be better TO suspend few Of those VINO
oppose it?
Jatf Davis has decided not to execute the
two Union officers selected for that honor
The excess of rebel risoners in our hands
has doubtless compelled this respect for the
laws of civilized warfare.
The Louisville Journal said, some DAYS
ago, that if Banks would take Port Hudson
he should be honored with the title of The
Banks of the Mississippi" He has done ii,
and he is the Banks of the Mississippi.
!, An eminent jurist has pronounced the sur
render of Nicksbarg unconstitutional because
Gen Grant denied the rebels the consii,u-
uonal right OF bearing arms. and Illegal be
cause done on the fourth OF July, Il day on
contracts can be legally executed. The sur
render must therefore be repeated on Il husi-
ness day and the constitution altered, before
the act can be sustained. He might have
added that the contract 10 surrender is void
also because it was done by Pemberton un-
der compulSion.
Burleigh writes to the Boston Journal tha;
a marked feature of the riots iD New York
was the utter helplessneSS of our people and
the sullen despair that induced them at once
TO surrender to the mob. A halfdozen rag
ged loating fellows 60 into an establishment;
IN which from ten to one hundred men work.
Instead OF calling down the hands ard with
revoivers shooting the miscreants dead, the
concern is closed. This was done a, the
Harpers and similar establishments. A
small party called on the proprietors of the
knlcAerbocker line eff omnibuses. He was
ordered to shut up his establishment or they
would burn II down. The concern employs
over three hundred men. In the room Of
calling in the aid OF drivers and othes. not
usually very delicate men, the leader of the
gang extorted and was paid $50.
A man who was resting himself on the
city hall steps in Nes York. on Thursday
night, was set upon by tive garroters, one of
whom he knocked down and then secured
the other. Being man o: powerful
strength, he dragged them both to the police
office, where they were locked up The
thieves acknowledged that they had woke up
the wrong customer.
Secretary STATION said the other day: If
single regiment of Lees army gets back
into Virginia, in an organized condition. it
will prove that am totally unfit to be sscre-
! tary of waf." Amen,