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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

SALE OF \ NOTED RACER-The cele-
br.,ted racing stallion, Kentucky, has
been sold TO Mr.. Leonard W. Jerome OF
New York, for $4,000. Kentucky was
bred by John NJ Clay of Kentucky, and
sold in 1868, when two years old, along
with Arcola, his half brother, 10 his re-
cent owners for 5000 Since that time
he has won $1,000 in stakes. never was
defeated but once, and has the name Of
being matchless in point of speed and en-
duranee. lie Will be kept hereafter for
stock purposes.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

y Southern paper records the trial of
a man charged with stealing corn from a
neighbours crib. The evidence went TO
show that the man had been found with
his hand in an aperture in the crib. safely
fastened in steel trap, set for the pur-
pose of catching the thief 1t was also in
evidence that two empty corn sacks were
found lying at the feet of the entrapped
individual. The decision of the magistrate,
however, was, that there was no proof
that the prisoner had stolen any corn, and
as TO being caught in steel trap, any
gentleman had a perfect right to stick his
hand in one if he felt inclined TO do So.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19
legislature OF Vermont.
COadellssd from waiton's Dsily.

MoNTrEIIER, Thursday, Oct IL
Both houses met at 10, A N, pursu-
ant 10 law, and proceeded TO organize for
the session. The senate was called 10 or
der by his honor, a H. Gardner, the
president Prayer 10y the Rev. Pliny III.
White, OF Coventry. On call of the roll
ali the senators answered, except Mr.. Gay
OF Windsor county
The president appointed a committee
of one from each county 10 canvass votes
for state officers. Geo. lde of Lyndon
Was the member from Caledonia. Henry
Clark OF Pouiiney, and James :. Peck of
Montpelier, were then elected clerk and
assistant clerk, and Rev. Pliny III. White
chaplain
The house was called TO order al 10,
A NJ, by Hon. George Nichols, the secre-
tary Of stale Reading Of the Scriptures
and prayer 10y the Rev. Mr. Tenney Of
Theitord The roll of members was call
ed by the secretary Of state nearly all the
members being present and responding to
their names. The oath of Office was ad-
ministered TO the members collectively by
the secretary of state.
John W. Stewart Of Middlebury wa.
then elected speaker, riua pooe, and john
III. Flagg Of Bennington, clerk. Mr..
Rounds OF Chester and Mr.. Ross of ST
Johnsbury, were appointed a committee
TO notify Mr.. Stewart of his election as
speaker, and conduct him TO the char,
and they performed The duty assigned
them. Mr.. Stewart made a very briet
speech
On motion the clerk was directed to
furnish each member and officer of the
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

You have no children, madam o. said
the particular proprietor of a quiet house
before letting lady the best apartments.
''Ihey are in the cemetery was the
gloomy reply \ tear was attempted on
the part OF the landlord, the agreement
was signed, and the next day the lady ar
rived with couple of youngsters. Il
thought your children were in the Gene
tery," said the landlord $50 they were
Yesterday, SIR was the reply, placing a
few flowers on the grave of our former
landlord, who WAS nervous. and TO the
truth, so irritable that Il under
stand, madam, said the enraged owner,
''your children killed him."
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

~ the great interest which all visitors
will manifest to examine these tablets
would be likely TO lead TO considerable
confusion i'll the representatives hall and
senate chamber, Gen. Pitkin has taken
two colorS of each command and suspend
ed them in the area III front of the repre-
sentatives' hall. and under these colors
are placed the tablets bearing the record
of the gallant services of the brave men
who followed their colorS through 80
many engagements. Conspicuous among
them is the large tablet of the lst caval-
ry. containing the names of the seventy
two battles participated in by that gal
liant regiment, and through which it Won
a reputation for courage and dash and
achievement, second to that of no organ
ization in the army. As legislators 90 in
and out every day under these colors, elo-
quent beyond human speech with their
heroic history, they can but remember
through what perlls the country has been
saved from the hands of traitors: and
may they be reminded, also, that the We
tories OF peace may be no less renowned
than those of war: that Vermont has nO
vet completed her part OF the work OF say
ing the nation from the rule OF traitors
that it is now for our state, through he
senators and representatives in the nation
al councils, to bear her part in the states
manship OF this crisis as honorablY, witt
as much self-Sacriticing fidelity TO the wei
fare of the republic, as were exhibited b
the ..boys in blue whose devotion an
achievements these flags and tablets illus
} trate.-.uontpeiier Freeman.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

We have clromicled. within the past
year. the pardon by President johnson of
not less than forty persons convicted of
counterfeiting the national shinplasters-
We should ike TO know. first. if any per-
son has been convicted of this crime
whom the president has not pardoned;
secondly, if any one could counterfeit the
national currency under such circumstan-
ces that the president would not promptly
set him AT liberty-TTJne
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

AN EXPLANATION foR BEECHER.-
Rev. Theodore l. Cuyler thinks he has
discovered the secret of Ward Beecher's
fall from political orthodoxy: ''The
trouble with my eloquent brother just
now is that his theology is tainting his
politics. He never had enough of the pu-
nltlre element in his preaching. His
whole theology has mainly consisted in
tine single word love; and has always
Lacked the Calvinistic backbone of his
grand old father The result is that
when he now breaches .magnanimity to
the SOUTH he ignores punishment of the
crime of treason, as well as justice to the
negro, and protection TO the white loyal
ISIS. The Cleveland letter would have
come better from Universalist than from
son of Staunch old Lyman Beecher''
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19
4 brilliant Record.

The legislature al lis last session passed
4 resolution directing the quartermaster
general to place under the colors OF each
regiment and battery displayed in the cap
itol, a tablet containing the names of the
engagements in which such organizations
have participated. Gen. Pilkin has, in
pursuance OF this resolution, procured
twenty rich and beautifully engraved sill
Yer tablets. We have no room 10 give
the names of the battles written on this
record OF glorious patriotism, cut the sum-
mary Is a follows:
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

\ contemporary referring to aspirants
for political Office being brought out be-
fore the public by means OF ''calls" nu-
merou>ly signed, instead of coming out
flat-footed, in the old fashioned way, says
If reminds him of the story of O. Mulligan
and his wife '.Bi'ldy,'' said U'MulIlgan
TO his wife, ''it's a bad cowld We have. a
drap of the crayther ud do We no har-
rum ''0ch, hone" said Biddy, live
taken the plidge, but We can mix drink,
Jimmy, and force me TO swally it."
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19
4 Pantheist minister met DR. Emmon

4 PantheiSt minister met DIR. Emmons
one day, and abruptly asked, ''NIr. En-
mond-, how old are you p Sixty, sir;
and how old are you!'' '.As old as the
creation" was the answer. in a triumph
ant tone. Then You are of the same
are with Adam and Eve p Certainly
| was in the garden when they were"
Il have always hearl that there was
third person in the garden with Them"
replied the doctor with great GOODNESS,
''but | never knew before that it was
vou.'
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

The Paris Charivari represents a
Prussian general sitting on marble bench
in public garden, smoking a cigar. a
pretty little girl whom he has been no.
ticing says to him e: General, my papa
likes you very much.' "What Is your
papa's business, my dear ?'' '.He makes
wooden legs"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

OUR WAR EXPENsES.-The Middle
bury Register makes the statement, from
statistics in the auditors office, that the
bounties paid to volunteers, substitutes
and drafted men, with expenses attending
the same, as paid by the several towns IN
Vermont, except four which have failed
to make returns. isS5.2I04i2 So The
total war expenses of the state are eonsid-
erably over ten millions.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

There is something exquisite in an
Americans reply 10 the European travel
Ter, when he asked him if he had just
crossed the Alps: ''Wal, now you call
my attention TO the fact, guess i did pass
risin' ground
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

g The practice of advertising letters
in newspapers has been discontinued by
order of the post Office department.
Hereafter written list of all letters ar
irving in this place, which have remained
in the office uncalled for more than one
week, will be posted in the office for in
spection. Those not called for within
one month after they are thus posted will
he returned to tlfe Dead Letter Office.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

JUDGE CoURsoL-rhe infamous Judge
Coursol, OF 81 Alnans raid notoriety, now
turns up is Canadian general oi militia
The Canadian bench can well afford TO
snare him.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

The democrats have rendered an impor-
tant service to the republican party. They
have promptly and gladly taken an un-
worthy and unsound president off their
hands. They have relieved us of a man
that would have embarrassed US, and
have undertaken to carry one that vii
crush them.-Portmouth ". H. Journal
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19
"Wh II | can read my title clear
man-ions in the skie-,
I'll bid { .reAe,lt L ev,ry fear
And ipe INV We ping eves.r

Here weakness prevented him, and he
whispered to his wife. You finish it,
He slept good deal, but seemed al
ways conscious of his wite's presence, fire.
quently putting up his restless hand to
touch her face, and remind himself, in hi:
blindness. of her loved features. When
he talked it was of his unfinished work
his convictions of the justice Of the cause
in which he fell, his anxieties of his wife
left alone in cruel world, and of his ell
emies and murderers, always forglvingly
as if they knew not what they did. A
different times, too, he spoke Of the riot
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1866-10-19

WI I,;.iA A " W. & X q L Il,
CLAIM AGENT,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL OR AT LAW,
R,,rn< VI.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21
Presidents Veto.

The veto of that gigantic and monstrous leg
islative product, the Freedmen's Bureau bill,
is the most important and interesting event of
these eventhal times. The grounds on which
the President rests his veto are in harmonious
accord with those views Of the Constitution,
and those opinions Of general policy, indicated
by him in his several addresses to delegations
that have waited on him from time to time. The
unreseryed candor and courageous energy dis
played by the President in the message accom-
psnying the veto, proclaim him distinctly as Of
the ANDREW JACKSON stamp Of Presidents, and
will attract to him the confidence and support
Of the masses Of the people. What will be its
effect upon parties and party action in Congress
will presently be shown. Speculation on this
subjest is needless and Improbable. The fact
itself will be developed as soon almost as inge-
nious speeulations could be- giycnto the public.
The veto, of course, created intense excite
ment in Washington. 1t fell upon the Radicals
like a thunder-bolt. We can afford to await,
with at least a reasonable degree Of patience.
for the denouemeHt in Congress.
We present this important message to our
readers. 1t speaks for itself, and needs no
comment or elucidation.
p. Sit will be seen from our Washington
telegram that the Senate have failed to pass
the bill over the Presidents veto. This is the
Waterloo of the Radicals.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21
Call Of a observation-disclosures

On Monday last, in the Senate, Mr.. MEADE
offered resolution enquiring into the n~eccssi-
ty and expediency Of calling a State Conven-
ton for the purpose Of amending the present
or adopting a new Constitution.
We cannot imagine a more inopportune time
for the presentation of this subject than the
present. But ten working days remain, and
the business before the committees and the two
houses Of the General Assembly is Of sufficient
volume and importance to occupy all their
time.
But, leaving this out of consideration, what
propriety is there at this time in calling a Con-
.ventionf The Legislature itself but recently
had an emphatic reminder, by an order from
the Military Commandant Of this District, that
its legislation is subject to revision aud repeal.
The same restriction would apply to a Conveu-
ton, and cripple it for all purposes Of useful
ness. The theory Of a Convention is that it
embodies the supreme-the entire organic
power Of the State. Its distinctive function is
TO make the fundamental law. How can it
perform that function when it is trammelled by
a power greater than itself. When We say
that the status Of Virginia is still unsettled +;
that she is denied representation in Congress ;
that she is not yet recognized in her place in the
Union, and that she is subject, IN all her action,
to Federal and military control-we say 1t not
in The spirit of opposition to authority, but to
show, by imposing and memorable facts, that she
IS not yet prepared to think even of calling a
Convention for the purpose Indicated. Let Us
wait, as patiently as may be, until the auspi-
cious period shall arrive when a Convention
would be a Convention in the true sense Of
that word. We can imagine how, in these
times of sudden and complete change, and
when, too, the President is making brave, pa
triotic and vigorous efforts to reinyeSt the
Southern States IN their suspended franchises,
a c~opiuucture of circumstances may, at no dis
tant day, arise in. which such a Convention
could properly be held in Virginia. That pc
riod, however, has not yet arrived, nor can its
advent, during the session Of this Legislature,
be reasonably anticipated. 1t would be mwise
to anticipate its superyentiOn at any given pc
Rod after the adjournment, and base legislation
upon such an uncertain conjecture. The bet
ter course, it seems to us, would be to wait un
til that suspicious period has actually arrived,
and then call q Convention.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21
Rinderpest and Small-pOx-Latest Develop
ments.

We published in our issue Of yesterday an
extract from a Philadelphia newspaper, stating
that adisease, imilar in all appearances to the
rinderpeSt, has broken out among the cattle in
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. 1t was
deemed Of sufficient Importance for legislative
action, aud a special committee was appointed
by the State Senate to " thoroughly investigate
the report from Montgomery county" When
travelling plaques prevail, whether among hu-
man beings or domestic animals, there is al
WAYS a feveriSh anxiety in the public mind.
Our apprehensiOnS prepare US to cOntOund cases
Of ordinary disease with cases of the dreaded
pestilence. We forget that certain symptoms
are common TO many diseases and when we
see before us a case marked by any of the tca-
lures and symptoms Of the plague, we easily
persuade ourselves that it IS the plague. Such
may be the case in regard to the apprehensionS
existing in Pennsylvania.
1t is possible, however, that the cattle dis
ease that has appeared there is the much
dreaded rinderpest. II so, it may extend, and
it becomes us all to possess ourselves Of all
available information in regard to its treat
ment. 1t has appeared in numerous countries
and at different epOchS, sometimes remaining,
as in Russia, for years, and sweeping OFT hun
dreds of thousands of valuable cattle. Al
though, whenever and whereverit has appeared
1t has been made the subject OF close study
aud investigation, no satisfactory result has
been reached as to the proper medical treat
ment. Almost every conceivable remedy
has been tried thousands of the carcasSes O
the diseased animals have been disSected their
viscera, StomaehS, trachia and other organ.
carefully examined, with the view of detecting
the nature OF the disease, and thus get on the
track Of proper remedial agents. II has now
been assumed 10 be one disease nov another
and been treated accordingly. bpt without
beneficial results. Hitherto ii has NOT rrova,
amenable to any practice. The learning Of n.
subject has been recently most industriorst
studied. IL has been aScertained that A.,
theory that it corresponds with smallpox i
the human subject is no new theory. lives,
CATION reveals the fact that this theory had i
origin in a former age. But it does not appe,
that it was so firmly established as to lead
any satisfactory experiments in the way
vaccination. 1t appears, indeed, to have bee
rather a conjecture or hypothesis than a sc
tied theory. RANAzzISA, in ms account of Il
cattle plague that prevailed in Italy in III
refers to its resemblance to smallpox, as al
does LAUCIsI.
"The Economist, T" an English periodical, d
votes an article to the subject, and cites son
of the most recent observations and sugge
tons of medical authorities. The small-pc
theory is revived by Dr.. PARSONS and D
CaARLEs MURcHIsoN, a lecturer at the Middl
sex hospital.
DIR. Parsons says the animals which hav
died of the plague show small-Pox-Hke pu
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21
The New York Herald contains the following dis
TRAGIC AFFAIR IN NEW YORK.
A Mother Murders Her Three Children, and At.
tempts Selr-Destruction.

Soon after 7 O'clock on Saturday evening, the pc.
lice of the twenty-secOnd precinct were informed
that a terrible tragedy had taken place at 236 West
Forty. seventh street-a wooden shanty, the residence
of John Roth, Il German mechanic. l~tappears that
upon his returning home from his work, he found the
woman With whom he cohabited, Anastina Schotz
also a German, and twenty-siX years OF age
living at the foot of the bed in a state ol
insensibiIity, %hilc on the bed lay hcI
three children dead, but still warm. Roth tried
to arouse the woman, and failing, he gave the
alarm, when Drs. }. Lewis and Il. Stewart, tried the
stomach pumps aud other remedies, which SO far Ic'
vived her that she, it is thought, will recover. The
names of her children are Caroline, aged 6 yeals, the
fruit of a marriage with herGhusband Schotz, from
whom she has been separated for some years john
two aud a half years old, and Willie, eighteen
months, the fruit of her union with Roth. The Ply
sicians think that the children had been suifocated,
but by what means, and whether poison was also
administered or not, was not ascertained. 1t is pre-
sumcd that the woman took poison of some kind.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21

the frauds have been committed on a large scale,
and implicste so many persons, that IL Is necessary
to create 4 special commission for the purpose Of in.
vestigating them, and bringing their perpetrators 70
justice.
The agents and their associates have converted,
in many instances, very large sums TO their own use,
which belonged, in fact, either to the United States,
or to the people from whom, under one pretext and
another, the cotton was obtained.
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.
1t has been ordered by the Court that case No. G.,
erpGrie, in the matter of A.. Garland, Of Arkansas,
petitioner, be re-argued on Friday, the % OF March.
The petitioner, it will be ecollected, heretofore ap.
piled TO be readmitted to practice without being re.
quired TO take the test oath.
A FEstAN DEPUTATIoS.
The deputation appointed by the Fenian mass
meeting on Saturday night, consisting Of Mayor
Wallach. ". -. Dorln Killian. George f.. Train,
Congressman Rogers and Hogan, and several Others,
had an interview with the President this evening,
who appointed Wednesday for 4 special interview,
so that the papers regarding the recent outrages on
American citizens in Ireland can be perused and a
reply prepared.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21

list of the real estate returned delinquent for taxes
in each county and corporation to its Sheriff or col
lectOr.
A Joint resolution extending the. use of the law
books of the STATE Library for a limited period.
House bill to give effect to certain acts, con-
tracts and proceedings during the late war.
House bill to amend chapter 43 OF chapter liz oil
the Code, in relation TO land warrants
House hill 10 amend the Code in relation 70 pro-
cecdiurs in the Circuit Court of the city Of Rich
mOnd. =.
House bill in: regard to persons testifying in
cases in which they are interested. I'VE will publish
this bill nj length hereafter
A bin concerning the deposit of State funds
ON motion the House adjourned.
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21

A NEW REBELLION THlEATENED.-Thc Ken
lucky Legislature is ION the rampage, the occa-
sion thereof being that Il white man, charged with
the murder of a black man in Kentucky, was taken,
by order of General Fisk and a pOssee of colored
troops, from the civil authorities, and turned over
to n military camp. The Legislature has taken the
matter up, and one member, Mr.; CORN declared
that we were under Il centralized despOtism that the
military authorities were seeking to degrade Ken
lucky through their maleyolence; and he said that
{" if we cannot get redress in any other way, ne was
for resistance, even at the point of the bayonet, to
determine whether we are freemen or slaves. y
Mr.. Cochran went still further. lie denounced the
Government, and said that 'the community of trait
ors, with Andrew johnson at their head, were rush
ing the country into ruin. The time had not yet
come for open resistance; but when it did-when
the authorities failed to redress these wrongs-he was
for resistance 10 the death. He would rather die a
freeman than live a slave"
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-02-21

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INDUsTRIAL AGENCY.

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chants, 22s Main street, Richmond, Virginia, buy and
sell on commission all descriptions of
REAL ESTATE,
Mines Of Coal, Iron, Copper, Lead, &c. Quarric-, Fur
naces, Mills and Water Powers large estates explored
and mapped out at moderate cost; no charge Tor regis
tratiOn.
WHITE LABOR, Of every description, supplied at
short notice. Imported GUANoS and superior Ferti-
liners.
Southern Products received on Consignment.
| General Agency SOnth for "Tuitle's celebrated Hori-
zontsl Water Wheel, the reatestimprovenen known
for economy and increase Of water powers. Inventors
Agency for examining and preparing Models, Drawings
and Specifications for United States Patent Office. Gene
raj Agency of Wilder's Salamander Safes, which stood
the test in our great FIRE Wheeler X Wilson'S Sewing
Machines, universally acknowledged the best forfamily
sewing HOwe's Sewing Machines, the best in use for
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