The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-01-27
IN BRIEF.

The Mass. senate on Friday cOncurred
with the house in re-electing Hon Henry
Wilson L. 5. Senator from Massachusetts
for six years from the 4th of March next.
MIR. Wilson received 81 votes to 3 for
Gov. Andrew.
Refugees and deserters concur in repre-
senting that the residents are fast leaving
Richmond, convinced that Lee cannot hold
the rebel capital much longer
A Savannah belle stepped off the side
walk the other day, with poutins ex-
preston, to avoid walking under an Amer
lean flag which hung in front of an Off
GERS headquarters. General Geary. mil
itary commandment Of the city, Immediately
gave orders TO have her promenade back
aud forth under the hateful symbol for an
hour rs a warming for similar offenders.
The exchange of rebel for union prison.
erS has been recommended under Commits
sioners milford and Ould. On Thursday
six hundred rebel officers and soldiers Were
taken from Point Lookout up James river,
to be exchanged for corresponding num-
Der of our men.
Of all the coast forts seized bv the reb-
els and which Mr. Lincoln. in his inaugu-
rel. declared If the duty of the Govern
ment TO ''re-pOS>e>>. the only ones not
now in our possession are Fort Sumter.
which we have destroyed. and Fort Gas
well, which is within the grasp of the gal
liant captors of Fort Fisher
Lottery swindlcr> are about in force.
They are sending circulars 10 cre,iu!ou>
money loving people. informing them that
tickets which they have not bought have
drawn prizes of SIOO. and that a remit
tance of $40 will secure them those
amounts respectively.
The Smithsonian Institute building at
Washington was almost entirely DESTROYED
by fire Tuesday afternoon. The building
itself WAS one of the finest in Washington
or the country.
The monitor Patapsco was DESTROYED
by a torpedo off Charleston. OH the Eth
while doing picket duty Forty OF fifty OF
the crew went down with the vessel.
The OK Gen. Grant WIS repurcilaSed
10y Carlos Pierce at Boston las, Saturday.
He brought at auction $3.50
Large amounts of small bills for Ma
tional banks have already been printed,
but none are to he issued before March.
when nearly every bank can be supplied
Theodore Tilton. editor of the Irde,,ea-
dent. has returned from the west. delight
cd with It's people, who made quite a lion
of him. He has written letter in favor
Of suffrage only TO negroes who can read.
TERRr-BLE. 1t is reported in mill
tary circles" that the real secret of the
success of our second attack on Fort Fish
er is, that the rebels were Terry-iied into
SubmlSsion.-Ne'r York Erenny Post.
slows dat, Sambo? Won saws YOU
was at de battle of Bull Run, when
sees YOU at New York on the same night,
L" Yes. julius you did for sartin. Yer
see our colonel says he, bows. strike for
your country and your homes,' Well.
some struck for der country. but dis chile
struck for home. Dat splains de matter.
yer see
Gen. Terry, whom Fort Fisher has
made famous. has a sister who Is a hospi-
tai nurse in the department of the south.
and is highly esteemed by all who have
known her in that capacity.
| Gen. Terry is Connecticut man. He
entered the service in 1861 is colonel of
the 9TH Connecticut volunteers. and was
made brigadier general in Nav. 1862.
| Mr.. Theodore Tilton. while ON visit
to Chicago last week, was entertained at m
elegant banquet 10y a former fugitive slave,
now :: wealthy merchant in that CITY.
Lieut.. Davis. one of the rebel fiends who
had charge Of our starved prisoners at An
dersonville, was captured this week al
Newark, Ohio, while making his WAY
through our lines from Canada. He
would be a good subject for retaliation.
A western editor saws: "In this section
the whiskey is so weak since the war fax
struck it that it is run in candle-moulds.
frozen and sold by the stick"
The cars and the hotels in the Pennsyl-
vania oil regions are crowded to overflow
Ing with travellers and seekers after for
tunes.
The New York papers are still further
adjusting themselves to war times and the
nigh cost of paper. The New York Eve
mng Post has reduced Its pages four col
umns; the Herald has raised the price of
advertising to 4Oc line each insertion ::
the Albion, weekly, charges 12c a COPY !:
the Leader, weekly, 10: The Sunday
lines, Z, and the pictorial weeklies have
gone up to Is. A further advance in the
price of the dailies, to 5 or &c, is also
threatened.