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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

One dav last week four horse team.
owned by S. NJ. West 4 Son. Arlington.
while crossing the bridge over the Batten-
kill. near by the railroad station, was pre-
cipitated some distance down into water
five feet deep. owing to the giving way of
the bridge. The driver and horses sustain
ed but slight hurts.
Four or five houses were entered in Ben
nington. on Wednesday, while their occu-
pants were absent attending the celebra-
ton. and three of them robbed of silver and
money to the amount of two or three huh
dred dollars in each case.
| Bennington battle was celebrated this
year with unusual eclat. Ex-Governor
Hall presided; the 18th regiment Vermont
organized militia performed escort duty
Rev. f. II. Chaplin of New York delivered
the Grafton, and brief speeches were made
by Maj. Generals Joseph Hooker, Seymour.
Stannard and Carr, Generals Phelps and
Foster. Gov. Smith and Lieut.. Gov. Dilling-
ham. The services were followed by a
special meeting of the Vermont historical
society. at which G. G. Benedict Esq. OF
Burlington, read a paper on Gettysburg
battle, and L. L. butcher Esq. of st. Al
bans. read serio-comic history of old fash
Toned June trainings. We hope to give a
full report of the meeting next week.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
John Spear, aged IA years, son of VIM.
II. Spear OF Burlington, was drowned on
Saturday afternoon last in Lake Champlain.
He fell out of boat.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
The Newsdealer learns that G. w. Beld-
ing, Esq, of London. England, native OF
LamOille county has agreed to give 81, 900
a year for the purpose OF paying the tuition
of children who have lost father in defence
of his country in the late war. The schools
at johnson. MOrrisville and Stowe are the
ones designated for the attendance of such
scholars.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Edith Wheatley, daughter of Nathaniel
6 Wheatley of BrOoktield, is called smart
girl, though but fifteen years of age, She
has this season raked 100 tons of hay land
while guiding the rake she quietly pursued
her knitting. A big story. Provided it's
true, how many gentlemen lOafers are there
about the streets of B. smoking cigars,
drinking beer and talking large, who had
better have done this manual labor, and
let the girls pursue avocations better adapt
ed to their sex.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
A party of five gentlemen of Rutland.
! caught one thousand and twenty-eight trout
out of Furnace Brook one day.
Elisha Cotton of Sherburne, caught a
bear in a trap few days ago. The bear
was in the trap two or three days or more
and when found was dead.
, Rutland people are agitating the question
OF making their flourishing village city
STATE AT LARGE.
, Col. Charles Mundie. late A. A. G. of the
I'd division. 9Th corps, has been assigned tC
mastering duty in Vermont, and makes hi
headquarters at Burlington.
The military rendezvous at Burlingtol
8 has been broken up, and the paymaster
quartermaster and mastering officer are or
;. dered to BrattlebOrO.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
4 LOUD CALL FROM VARNUM'S!

Friends. give your attention moment and we
will tell YOU something that will interest YOU.
All who are owing must call and adjust their
accounts Immediately, VIC cannot continue our
business unless VIC can have our dues
Hereafter no goods Will "a. sold or more than
one months credit.
We are bound to sell cheaper than the cheapest
from now till the Fall trade opens, that we may
close out our present stock of goods
Please call and examine our stock before pur-
chasing elsewhere. On every article that will
uear a reduction from war prices. you shall have
the benefit oft J. & L. Z. VARNUM
Peacham, Aug S. 1865. 63G5
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TIL; CA L f DON IA n
LOCAL AND STATE ITEMS.

~ ~ "ula,v0r to make The CAIEnoSIAN valuable
fr s irH "S; and our i..cds in Caledonia Essex and
Orleans counties will confer great favor to US and
adj vy materially to the interest the paper by sending
Us local items in brief legibe form
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
ADDISON COUNTY.

A son of Lira Elliot of Lincoln, aged ten
years, has been ill the past year. Though
having ravenous appetite, he grew ema-
ciated. His physician gave him some med
icine that produced nausea and he was
choked by the appearance of snake which
required all his force to draw from his
mouth. 1t was striped and eighteen inches
in length. His snakeshipis now in the pos
session of DR.. Hire of Lincoln, and the boy
is cOnvalescing.
Within few weeks, Mr.. Peter Senville
and wife, of Vergennes, have lost three chill
dren. two girls and a boy, by that terrible
disease, diptheria.
VIM. Partch of Bristol, pleaded guilty to
thirty charges of violations of the prohibit
orv liquor law. and was fined $500. They
are putting the liquor sellers through in Ad-
olson county.
E. Hibbard Phelps of Orwell, a graduate
of the class of 1861 at Middlebury, and a
poet of some note, was recently poisoned by
vaccination, and will not probably recover.
Mr.. Thomas Purington of Starksboro,
has a pair of cattle, Z years old. weighing
5000 lbs. and each girting s feet inches.
They are of dark brown color, and for
beauty and symmetry of form, can hardly
be eXcelled.
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In JAIL.

\ young man who calls himself Walter
Iluckins was arrested at Bradford Tuesday
last and brought to this place, charged with
going away from the hotel here with
out paying his bill, the day of the circus.
lie was committed to ail....H G. Aldrich,
Of Lyndon, having put himself outside of
considerable rot-gut, assaulted boy eleven
or twelve years old named McMullen, and
was arrested and fined ten dollars and costs
IN default ofwhich he was locked up by
uncle David After remaining in jail a
week he became sober and likewise peni
tent, and friend came down Thursday
and took him home.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
The Slate Quarry III HdterfGrd.

The Slate Quarry IL WdterfOrd.
We have recently heard, from time to
time, of the progress made, and the encour-
aging prospects, in the development of the
slate quarry in Waterford, and to assure
ourselves OF the truth in the matter, few
days since visited the quarry. We found
that we had heard only part of the story.
The progress made and the richness of the
deposit exceeded cur expectations. Mr..
A. d. Hagar, our state geologist. did not
exaggerate the extent of this quarry, when
he describes it as follows:
THE height of the ledge as determined
by barometrical measurement is 166 feet.
the thickness of the slate strata is about %
rods. and for distance Of One-tOurth of a
mile the slate continues very straight and
regular, thus forming one OF the most eX-
tensive deposits in the state
Mr.. Hager speaks in the highest terms of
the quality of the slate, even when the
ledge was but slightly opened, as it had
been upon the top only, at the time OF bis
examination. Within few months Messrs.
Webster and Ramsay commenced opening
the deposit from the east side of the ledge
and they have penetrated it several feet, SO
that. from the base of the opening it is
nearly l66 feet to the top, and they are now
working the material, which they find not
! only in abundance, but OF the best quality
found in the state. 1t is tough, straight
and in color, beautiful.
The position of the strata is nearly per
pendicular, and therefore of easy extrac-
ton. Furthermore. at the base Of the open.
inc rails are laid and the waste material is
taken in cars and carried few rods and
dumped OH in ravine below. This is ar
advantage rarely obtained at any quarry
1t materially lessons the expense of getting
out the slate. This quarry cannot but be q
source of large profit to the proprietors
1t is located but little over four miles from
the depot at Passumpsic village. with de-
scending grade, and from the Passumpsit
road can be easily taken to the centre O.
New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Connect
cut. and the seabOard cities of the New
England States and n. Y. city.
The Brownsville slate quarry, located 4
miles from Bangor. Me-, now furnishes tn,
country large supplies of slate. yet it i
transported 4S miles to Bangor upon wag
ons. This quarry worked, last year, $3.50,
900 in value. The Waterford slate is repre-
sented to be equal to the Brownsville slate
Indeed workmen who have worked slate il
Europe and America for fifteen or twent,
years, told us that they had never seen any
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
Brief Locals

Last week the types persisted in max
ing Mr.. Graves loss at 1920 when it was
in reality 1920.
The Union school committee of Rutland
have secured the services of Miss Mary j.
Dutton as preceptress. Miss DuttOn has
been for long time teacher in the Union
school here. and is well qualified for the inn
pOrtant post she has been called to fill at
Rutland.
As we 90 to press, the August term of
the supreme court is in session here. held
by Judges Adds, Pierpoint. Barrett and
Peck. 1t will probably close Friday.
The party who propose to take trip
of from six months to a year in Europe.
mentioned last week, are to be joined by
another of our citizens. Dr. Selim Newell.
who is persuaded to 90 abroad for his
health. which has been failing for nearly a
year past. At present advices the party
consists of DR.. Newell and Rev. E. c. Cum
mings of this town, and DR.. J. P. Bancroft
aud Rev. MIR. Parker Of Concord, n. H.
They have engaged passage in the Cunard
steamship China, which sails from Boston
Aug. 30.
The month of August has been unusu-
ally sickly in this town. Dysentery has
been the prevailing disease, with quite a
number of fevers lately. Fortunately there
have not been many fatal cases, although
there have been as many as five adult per-
sons sick in single family at one time.
while several households have numbered
two and three sick ones both large and
small. Female help is very scarce, and al
most unattainable at any price, for which
we can mainly thank the runners from fac
tories who have been through the country
Offering great Inducements to dOmestics to
20 to the cities and work in the mills.
The railroad company have lately add
ed to their repair shops in this place, and
have just procured a new stationary engine
OF 4O-horse power to drive their machinery
Railroad street is steadily growing in bust
ness and population, and tenements are in
Great demand.
We learn that Mr.. Geo. H. Ide of this
town has been engaged as preceptor Of the
grammar school in this village. Mr.. Ide
graduated at Dartmouth college this sum-
mer, where he stood high in scholarship.
and We think the committee fortunate in Sc
curing his services.
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l BERATION...This certifes that have
1given my son, Levi N. Kendall, his time to
transact business for himself, and shall neither
claim his earnings nor pay his debts after this
date. DAVID P. KENDALL.
EMMA S: KENDALL, Witness.
Sheffield, July Is, 1865. 65-67'
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
COLLECTORS NOTICE.

United States Internal Revenue Taxes.
Notice is hereby given that the annual Taxes
of the ID Collection District of Vermont. upon
Incomes. Licenses, Carriages. Billiard Tables
Watches. Musical Instruments, Plate. &C.. under
the provisions OF the various act, Of Congress.
authorizing an Internal Revenue, are now due
and payable, and that nv deputies Will attend,
at the following PAGES, to receive the same, viz
Caledonia County.
Collectors Office, st. Johnsbury House. ST.
JohnsburY, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. 4, ), 6 and I.
Hurlburt's Hotel. Waterford. FRIDAY. Sert. &
Daring's Hotel. Lyndon. Monday, Sept. II.
Ruggles' Hotel, Lyndon Center, Tuesday. Sept
Webb's Hotel, East Burke, Wednesday, Sep. l3
Trull's Hotel, West Burke. Thursday, Sept. a.
Sutton Corner, FRIDAY. Sept ID
Folsom's Hotel. Sheffield, Saturday, from A.
NJ. to II NJ. Sept Is.
Miles Hotel, Wheelock, Saturday p. VI Sep. I6
Smiths Hotel, Danville, Monday. Sept Is.
East Hardwick, Tuesday, Sept. l9, from A. N
to I'm.
South Hardwick, from to p NJ. same day.
Peacham Corner. Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Ford's Hotel, Barnet. Thursday. Sept. 81.
Coossuck House, Wells River, FRIDAY. Sent %
Monthly returns, due and unpaid, will be re-
ceived at the above times and places
Taxes can be RENTED by other persons. or b,
mail, for which receipts and licenses will be re-
turned.
CHARLES s DANA,
Collector ID District Of Vermont.
st. Johnsbury. Aug. II. 1865. 64-66
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
N SEASON THIS TIME.

All persons who buy Books. Paper. Stationery,
&C., &C.. are hereby informed that the
Claremont Manufacturing Company.
of Claremont, N. 81.
have got their SAMPLES of
DIARIES FOR 1866,
and are prepared tn take orders for
E L 6 MY
varieties of size quality or binding. and that they
will be happy to send their
DESCRIPTIVE WHOLESALE PRICE LIST,
in which thirty six kinds are so minutely describ
ed that there is scarcely any need of seeing the
goods before ordering. to any DEALER request
ing the same by mail.
Those who had the c. NJ. Co.'S Diaries iastyea
need only to be told tina. they are mainly made by
the same parties this year, and will be found to
surpass any other manufacture in every point Of
excellence of workmanship.
Dealers who have learned the advantage of hav-
ing good work and having it in season, will please
take this gentle hint and get their names as near
as possible at the top of the order book. GIGS
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
- AGE MOTT ICE.
New Arrangement on an Old Line!
Tri Weekly Stage between
ST. JOHNSBURY& MONTPELIER
..nN.--.r1rNr r-ru rp.rNs Al r.rri rSn

THROUGH IN THE DAYTIME.
4 Stage for the accommodation Of travel over
the above route, will commence on MONDAY.
JULY IL 1865. and run foil aws-
Leave S. Johns6ury every Monday. wednes-
day and Friday. Al A N or on the arrival OF
the Northern Passumpsie Train, passing through
Danyille IVES. Danville. East Cabot, CABOT,
Marshteli, Plainfeli. East Montpelier and ar
irving a, Montpelier in season 70 connect with the
VI central Tram gOi.-- west
Leave Montpelier every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday AZ 9 A NJ. or on the arrival OF tbs
Western Train, requesting through the towns
above named. and arriving a. s. JohIsbury II
80 y N, in season 10 CONNECT with the Pas
sum .,sic up Train
CONNECTIONS
Passengers taking this line from 81 IohnshaIy
will connect with the Stage al Danville fer Wal
den, Har1wick and Greensboro This route
also connects a. ST Iohn>bury with she routes
from that place 20 LiItleton and Lancaster, and
can reach East ST Johnsbury and West Concord
from Montpelier same day
Passengers Will dine II Narshheld each way
FRANCIS RICHARDSON, x CO,
LrCIrS $ GERRY. Driver Projectors
July IL, 1861 51if
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
Dedication.

The new Methodist Episcopal church
just finished at Guildhsll will be dedicated
with appropriate services on Friday, Sept.
l. Services will commence at II o'clock.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
HOPS AND WOOL

Burlap-suitable for sacks for hops and wool
for sale by Z JEWETT.
July Is. 81
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
INSURE AGAINST ACCIDENTS
THE TRAVELLERS INSURANCE CO

5000 CAPITAL,
i now prepared TO issue Travellers Insurance
Tickets from one day - one wear, ln>urlnE the
purchaser OF ticket Three Thousand Dol.
lars /: fatally injured and Sixty Dollars per
month during total disability mot exceeeing six
mom;h>i, when caused by accident Ia aay puzzle
conveyance il which he nay Be travelling.
TARIFF OF RATES, for $500 tickets and 500
prr month compensation:
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Hops.

We learn that in Essex county the lice
are infesting the growing hops to their
great detriment. The farmers are picking
them some two weeks earlier than usual,
and it is thought there will not be much
more than half an average crop.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
| y L w \ y ID
VALUABLE INVENTION !!
ADVANCE IN THE SCIENCE or
TIME KEEPING!
Pendulum Clock EScapement

Takes this opportunity of informing the public
that be i now prepared 20 alter all kinds Of Pen
iuli.m Clocks into this Escapemen: on shnr;
notice. All who have clocks that do not operate
l. they should, would DO well To bring them in
and have them altered II once. into the De,atch-
ed Pendulum. All Clocks so altered WAR
RAN TED. The cost of altering does not usual
y exceed that of repairing vi hout altering. This
EScapcment has been thoroughly tested ard
found To he superior III every respect 10 any Vt
brought Ia the notice OF the public. 4 clock
with ;hi, Escapemsnt may be seen in Operation
n the store Of {. c. CHIIDS, who alone has the
right for Caledoni, county.
y. B.-t;alvaniZin- with Gold or Silver on
watch eases, chains or any other articles of jew /
~.
IL Mark your Clothing-Stencil Plates and
Ink for marking your names lcgihly upon your
clothing, can be found at my store
Repairing Watches. Sc. done well and
warranted. &C. CHILDS,
Aft s; Johnsbury. Vt
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T IBERATION...This is to certify that I
Lhave this day given my son, Isaac Langavan,
his time. and shall claim no more of his earnings
nor pay any debts of his contracting.
ISAAC LANGAVAN.
St. Jshnsbury, Aug. l6. 1865. 65-67s
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LiUuOr Seizure.

On complaint of the circus managers,
calvin Morrill,. Esq. caused the arrest by
sheriff Pike of one Marshall Golf, and the
seizure of three kegs and two jugs of liquor
at the circus ground last Thursday. Golf
was fined. which with the costs amounted
20 81, and his liquor turned over to Agent
Wright of this place, who condemns the
same, thus ensuring its destruction. Golf
and his friends had been following the cir
Gus for about ten days, Ostensibly to sell
Ida. but really to sell rum; and hereto
io,e he had avoided detection. The mana
ger of the circus congratulated Mr.. Morrill,
Oh his success in bringing this rumseller to
grief. as liquor tent was a side show =
that added nothing to the cridit of the main
performance
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-08-25
oar County Fair.

We publish this week on the first page
the premium list and committees. and on
the inside the full program and officers, OF
the fair to be held at this place the third
weekin September. A perusal of this adj
vcriSement will show the readers that the
managers of the Agricultural society and
Fair Ground company are planning for al
exhibition worthy of the society in its palmy
days before the war. Caledonia county has
the reputation of getting up, in most re-
-pects. the best fairs in the state. If this
year proves an exception it will be because
the farmers. the mechanics, the artiZans.
and the iadies are delinquent in their parts,
for we are sure that the managers are
bound to have an exhibition that will be
second to none. We have no authority for
laying that there will be anything at the
fair " not down on the bills" but we may
De called poor prophet if the society does
not give the people something extra that is
both entertaining and instructive.
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BGNk Sold.

At public sale of the Passumpsic Bank,
held on Monday of this week, the assets
struck off to f. c. Redington, Esq, at s4.Ol
per share of $50, payable October 1st.-
That is, Mr.. Redington agrees to redeem
the bills when presented, pay any outstand-
me debts, and give to the stockholders S4.Ol
per share-for which the bank turns over to
him its entire assets.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-05
KENTUCKY.
Gov. Bramlesse In Favor Of the Con.
ssisutional Amendment.

sSlsutional amendment.
'ONorNNArI, April 25.-Gen. B.isbin,
superintendent of the organization of COL
ored troops in Kentucky, has written q
letter to Gov. Brsmlette, calling attention
to the disturbed condition of labor in that
State, and urging bin to call the legisla-
ture together to pass the constitutional
amendment. The general says that the
slaves are notninally free, and that
their masters can no longer depend on
their labor He points out the evil that
must arise from the half slave and half
free condition of the State, and claims that
the passage of the amendment would quiet
the minds of the negroes and cause them
to remain at home anil till the soil, now
so much in need of their labor. More than
twenty thousand of the most valuable
slaves have already gone into the army
from Kentucky ), and the State must
choose either to have her slave population
absorbed and freed by the army, or to save
her labor to the soil by granting uncondi-
tional freedom to the slaves at home.
The Governor replies, concurring in the
opinion that slavery can no longer be re-
tanned in Kentucky, and that labor must
be re-organized on a free basis. He says
that the war has exterminated slavery apd
revolutionized public mind in regard to
it. Slavery being en.ed in the rebellious
States, the Governor thinks it should be
ended in Kentucky'by the most direct and
speedy means. he regard the passage OF
the constitutional amendment as the most
practical method. He thinks that its
adoption may save the State from dearth
of industry and from a suspension of pro-
auctions. He calls to mind the patriotism
of Kentuckians, and says they were always
for the Union with or without slavery.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-05
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF mr..
SEWARD'S ASSASSIN.

New YoRx, April 26.-The Times
Washington special says: !" Some days ago
we gave an ACCOUNT of the arrest of Payne,
who, it is alleged, attempted the assassina-
ton of Secretary Seward. Yesterday it
was discovered that this prisoner had at
tempted to take his own life by butting his
head against tie iron bars of his prison.
It was found that he had beaten his head
almost into jelly, and was bleeding pro-
fusely. A CAP was prepared for him, padded
all over, and fastened securely upon bis
head, and his hands secured SO tnat he
could not do himself any further.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-05-05

The Suffolk (Va) correspondent of the
Herald states that the rebel officers who have
arrived there report that the news of Lees sur
render reached JEFF Davis at Danville, three
days. after his proclamation and JEFF. left at
daylight next morning for Greensboro. JEFF.
stated that if hard pushed he should 90 to
Texas, where he was sure he could rally an ar
my around him and make another stand. and
that he should never leave the limits of the
Confederacy. He issued orders for cavalry to
join him. and to burn the bridges over Meber-
LIN and Roanoke Rivers, which was reported
to be done, and also for the evacuation OF
Weldon.
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Range OF Values.

WIZ. E. CRANEE, Esq, Of the Milwsu-
kee Wisconsin, writes from New York -
follows: s f..a..l-s - &c.,
There are vast differences of opinion here
among those who ale called sound and sagar
cious men, as to the range Of values during he
ensuing six months. If we should have peace
tomorrow. Lind there are few who think that
gold will sink lower than $1.40. They thus
reason; because there will be about es00. 000,-
months. But the subjugation Of the Southern
States, and the extension Of our business rela-
tons over them, will open such . vast led FOR
our currency, that, to speak with the simpleat
verify, no man however wise, can make r.
liable calculation. Only one thing l. certain.
there can be no return TO specie standard,
until large amount Of the legal tender n
Withdrawn from circulation, and no e6irt viii
be made to even attempt this before the winter
of 1866. % .- - -