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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

EIGHr-uOrR STRIKE FAILURE
The reaction from the eight-hour strike
at Chicago Is complete. Most of the
men have gone to work ON the ten hour
system, and curse the demagogues who
mi-led and deceived them. while few
are 50 wild As to insist that the next leg
lslature shall amend the law so as to for
bid any mans working more than eight
hours day. The trades assembly.
which includes representatives from all
the leagues, has passed resolutions con-
demnrng the violent proceedings of the
lst OF May, and good feeling is generally
restored. Chicago has at least done a
good thing for the rest of the country by
demonstrating the folly of attempting to
regulate the hours and terms of labor by
legislation. Ifrepeated elsewhere it will
be generally understood to be what it
really is, an attempt OF the politicians to
cajole the workingmen for party pur-
poses,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17
THfOH State Convention.

Union Republican State Convention viii be holder
At Mon'pcli. r, on TIL RSDAY, THE TIIlR1IETI
DAY or MAY. 1851, a. II O'Clock 4. ", for the pur
pose of nominating candidates for Governor Lieutenant
Governor AMI Treasurer to be Supported st the Annual
S't'r Elect Il in September next.
The state committee having been instructed to call
this a drlega'c convention have fixed upon the fol-
lowing Ia il If representation
one delegate for each town, and al additional dele
gat for every Lundr AID fifty votes cast for Paul
D.ng'.lm AZ tie Last ta.c election.
Il II sp-gcstc hat town choose substitutes IL vel
a. deea,cs 20 that they may not be unreprscnted in
the convention
delegates or their substitutes should provide them
-cvc with credentials, signed by the crtary of their
r. sicctiyc primary mceiings
The appotionmen will therefore lie acGoldn NJ the
.ubiointd table
BURNAM MARTIN,
DUDLEY {. DENISON,
HENRY CLARK,
JOSEPH POLAND,
GEO II. RlGELOW,
M. STONE,
MON State Commit e.
1AI'
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17
The Winsted Conn Herald adds

The Winsted Conn Herald adds IL
lis ''Standing heads that of '.DiyorccS.' -
and inserts the list between the marriages
and deaths
Senator Stewart of Nevada. Is about
70 take the stump in Mississippi, in favor
of the republican platform.
The operation performed on tine poor
little Prince Imperial must have been 4
terrible one. His leg was disarticulate,l
at the knee ioint-which means that the
lower joint was removed from IFS socket
SO a. 10 enable the surgeons TO directly
reach the cause of the malady from which
he had suffered 50 much. lie Is now t.
covering rapidly.
ACCESSIoNS To ORTHODOX CHrEcIIES.
i The Congregationalist has report,
showing that GIL members were added
10 the Orthodox Congregational churcllc,
in Massachusetts, May SIS in New
Hampshire. Il in Vermont. 10 in Rhode
Island, and 81 in Connecticut total.
100. The additions in Boston were A.
follows: DIR. Webb's, IS; Park street.
lG; DIR. Kinks, s; DIR. Alden's, L.:
Rev. J. 5. Bingham's, ). The indica-
tlOns are that the numbers will be larger
in many churches ut the next commm-
ion, in July.
The world certainly grows tolerant as
1t grows older. 1t is on record that les
than hundred years ago, viz: in 40
the English Parliament enacted that
''whoever shall impose upon, and betrav
into matrimony any of His Maiestv's
male subjects by scents, paints. cosmetic
washes, artificial teeth, false hair. Span
lsh wool, iron stays, hoops, high heeled
shoes, or bOlstered hips should be pros
ecuted for witchcraft, and that the mar
riage should be null and void"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17
The Farce Deer.
DAVIS RELEASED.
RIcnMOND, Nav Is

Sixty years have elapsed since another
distinguished democrat, Aaron Burr,
who was tried in Richmond for treason F.:
he also having failed to be elected Presi-
dent of the United States, and then ell
deavorcd to establish a new government,
of which he hoped to be the head. There
had previously been several trials for
treason; in 1875 Vigol and Mitchell,
two leaders of the Whisky insurgents,
were judicially convicted Of high treason,
and in 1893 John Fries, also of Pen
nsylvania, was tried and sentenced to
death.
The trial is to take place in the United
States Court House, a three story fire
proof granite building, erected in 1856,
which stood unscathed during the great
fire at the rebel evacuation. The post
office is in the lower story, and in the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

one feature of nobleness either of cour-
age or manlines-, and lacking no circum-
stance of atrocious villainy to give it the
most conspicuous infamy. What of his
punishment?
The Constitution declares that trel-
son against the nited States shall con-
Sist only in levying war against them, or
in adhering to their enemies, giving them
aid and comfort This Is tolerably
plain and if the crime of Davis is not
defined by this clause in the organic law,
there can be no such thing as treason.
The facts are notorious. The law is
clear. Yet Davis has had apartments,
most luxuriousIy furnished, at Fortress
Monroe, for two years, and he has been
50 well fed and attended it is conceded by
lis friends that he is in better health and
spirits than when he first entered the
Fortress and the probability that he Is
ever to be punished for his gigantic crime
has grown less and less every day his
trial has been delayed. Assassins have,
in the meantime, been hung - one
woman. and upon evidence not the
-trongcst, Persons who have robbed
the mail, or counterfelted the paper mo-
ncy Of the country have been convicted
and put in jails. Smugglers have been
brought TO grief Illicit distillers of
whi,kcy have been hunted down and
brought to justice. The petty criminals
who have peddled bogus half-dimes, have
been pursued and arrested by govern
ment detectives. But the man who,
more than any one else, brought rebel
lion and all its fearful consequences upon
the nation, has yet gone unpuniShed in
fact has been scarcely less a pcrplexity to
the government at Fortress Monroe than
he was at Richmond The time has
most certainly come to put an end to
this exhibition Of How not to do it.
Ii treason is hereafter TO be rcckOned As
Il crime. the trial should proceed. If
treason is to be counted as only a politi-
cal imdi>cretion, let the President and
Mrs. Cobb pardon Davis, and he will
then be sufficiently whitewaShed to be
elected a senator for reconstructed Mis-
,issippi, and to take his old place in the
Senate Chamber at Washington. The
government cannot longer hover half
way between the heaven of clear and
Justice. and the he'll of COM
picity with traitors and treason, without
imminent peril CT a fatal plunge into the
black abyss"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

e. Some Paris surgeons lately tried a
curious experiment with the head of a
man who had been guilIotincd They
injected into It's arteries fresh arterial
blood taken from doc. and shortly
attcrward tie head gave unmistakable
signs of life. The color returned TO the
cheeks and lips, the eyes opened brightly
and gazed upon those around, the lips
moved as if attempting vainly 10 speak.
and the entire face bore the resemblance
10 active life. 10 soon Is the operator
ceased TO inject the life blood Of the dog.
the appearance of death rapidly succeed
ed. 1t was earnestly held by The emf
nent surgical gentlemen in attendance.
that during the operation the brain WIS
in natural action. and that the lip> tried
TO utter the last thought which found
resting place in themind OF the condemn
al
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

The RAILEoAD.-At 4 meeting OF the
Montpelier committee. on SATURDAY. even
img. engineer Lin>lev reported that both
the Cabot and MoIlv'> brook routes from
Montpelier to st. .JohnSbury are practi-
cable, with grades comparing flvorably
with other Vermont roads. and at a
cost Of about so. 900 per mile-or from
ten 10 eleven hundred thousand dollars.
the distances being from forty 10 forty
three miles. On the whole line, from
Montpelier to Portland. he thinks there
will hr n" up trade goin" east TO exceed
90 feet 10 the mile. and none goina west
to exceed 20 feet. The Rutland and
Burlington road has 10 feet grade. and
the Western Tin Mass 81. Montpelier
i asked TO contribute 20, 00n-Uai-
jon'> Dug
We understand the friends of the road
are ut work in Danyillc. procuring names
TO Il contract loaning the credit of the
town, Tor the building of the new road.
and that they are meeting with good
success.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

How TIE PRESIDENT Looks To ,
YANKEE WOMAN" NJ {. \. " saw
President johnson in the White Hons,
grounds the other day, and writes OF hin
TO the Independent. thus:
Then we looked forth. and brheld An.
drew. He issued from the lower ~
gions of the White House, unattended.
E.schewing the hard gravel of the ave.
nues, he took kindly TO the turf. lie in,
spected the new music stand opposite hi.
windows. lie stopped 10 watch I'll,
base ball club PLAYING down IN ia,
meadows ; pausel 10 look al two tum,
bling boys rolling on the grass. all whit,
with pollen fuz. lie came lciSurclv on
this man al the head of the nation AMI
when We met HIM face 10 face. at last.
our question WAS answered. Treasury
people. the man over wonder docs not
look tired at all Nor vanquislicl vctny->
nor impeachment committees. nor 4 bel
lIgercnt congress. nor Disguised people.
have been powerful enough 10 DESTROY
this mans satisfaction in himself lie
did not look burIened. nor weary. nor
disconnected, nor sick His step WAS
strong. and confident. and slow there
seemed to be no pressure OF public care,
nor of official duty behind it. \ smile
frightened the cl"-1ci lines OF his face.
Inharmonious and passionate, in IL
happier moments it i not an unkinl
face, nor one that il Is easy 10 believe
wholly untrue. And fho~. who know
him well declare that. though preIulice,l
and obstinate 10 the last decree, Andrew
Johnson is not dishonest He Was dressed
like a gentleman of leisure. with 4 >cru-
puloTs nicely. IN itself sufficient 10 at
tract attention. To me biz "auM. Grand
predecessor walked by his side. How
different in his uncouth costume from
this elegantly attired gentleman, glovcd.
caned, his iron gray hair rolled smoothly
under. walking placidly on the green
g.;,s> under the trees
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17
1857 United States. 1867.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Third Collection District, Vermont,


In purslancr Of The p7ovisio OF he Ercise Isxs Of
the nited SiScs notice Il he7by gwen that appeals
viii b. lie r1 and Get rninei relative 20 sv erroneous
excessive valuations, meTation- OF assessments
maie by the Asi-tAnt A-sessOrs snd urned Nv said
y,ar ending December 81 l>s6 articles in Schedule
A, snd Special Taxes for the wear ending Nav lS6S
a. my Office IN St Alhsns from the 18th 10 the trn day
OF Msy, 1914, inclusive. and al Ippeal- the Assessor
ss Aforesaid must be made In writing snd must srf
tie particular cause matter thing, respecting which
decision IF rcqaeted, and must, moreover sta.e The
ground or principle Of error complain Of
HENRY Z. ADAMS Assessor
St Adams, April - 1866, ss-5
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

\ CoNIGAL TRAGEpY.-An unfortu-
nate bachelor but more unhappy Bene-
diet. rs we learn from the Exeter (N ii. }
News Letter, had the following expert
encc> last week. His name * Almon
Davis, and he i 4 farm laborer Tired
OF single life he proposed marriage 10 a
maiden living in the same house. She
declined, but received present of SIC
and slipped off TO Boston. On the same
day he made a similar offer TO another
maid, who accepted him. along with 4
SD watch, and the marriage ceremony
was performed by magistrate. But as
soon a it was concluded the new Mrs
Davis declared she would neither eat,
drink nor sleep with her spouse, but she
held on TO the watch The disappointed
and injured man became desperate and
tried 10 cut his own throat, but made
only a slight wound.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

The new Bankrupt law goes into op-
Grafton on the first of June. Rules OF
practice and procedure under it have been
compiled and approved by the Judges OF
the United States Supreme court, and
will be promulgated in season for use
when the act takes effect. A large num-
Der OF persons, it is anticipated will take
benefit of the act, and a large amount OF
bankruptcy business will probably be
transacted during the coming year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

SHnCKING Darn HY SUrrocAnoN.
-Thc following are the details of the
dcath by >utlocation Of two servant girl-
at the Molavian seminary for Young Ia
lies at Bethlehem. Pa. on SUNDAY ni.ht
week:
Seven servant girl> slept together in a
room i'll the basement. under the >em:na-
~ dinin" room. where was Il large stove.
tn g:l> from which. owing To the damp
heavy weather, WAS forced down IN open
fiuc i'll the chime, into the room where
the servant girls were sleeping. One of
tn girls did no; retire till about o'clock
and on entering the room noticed blood
on the walls. heard groaning 10y those
asleep IN the room. and WAS somewhat
affected by the @;s>. Dropping her lamp.
she ran. @rcatlv atiri"hted. to the house
keepers room. and told her that the Urls
had been murdered The housekerper
and her two daughters became panic
stricken, locked themselves in their room.
and did not even attempt 10 alarm the
Waterman on the streets, which they
could easily have done from their win
dow, and remained paralyzcd with fear
till morning. The unfortunate servant
girls We're thus left without relief. When
daylight gave the houSckecpcr courage TO
alarm the house terrible scene present
itself, Hannah Hawk and Susan Man
hertz. who Sept respectively nj each end
OF Tho room. were found dead. the pill
lows, bedding. &C., bc>pattcrcd with
blood. Eliza Fchr. the cook. was on
the floor. and. il seems, had been awak-
cned bv the screams and groanings otthe
other women. and got up, lit Il candle
when losing consciousness, She fell and
remembered no more till restored To con-
sciousnc>> next day. The other four,
whose beds were in the centre of the
room, Were found insenSih!e. but Were
soon restored and are now we'll again {:
the Others are not out of danger vet.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

UNION DEAD AT CHATTANOOGA
There about two thousand unknown
graves" of soldiers in the Union Gene
terry at Chattanooga. Nearly all these
were killed at Chickamauga. and were
buried by the rebels. Their rank is IN
known As well as their names. for the
rebels invariably cut the shoulder straps
off the clothing of our dead before burial
and in some few cases they stripped the
corpse entirely of clothing, The remains
of Union and rebel soldiers are di>lin-
guished in this way: Even when every
particle of the clothing has lecayed with
the flesh 1t covered, there attaches TO the
bones. which alone remain in the ground
Il mold, which is blue or gray, according
to the uniform in which the poor fellow
was killed. The blue is much more posi-
tive thap the gray, but enough even OF
the latter adhcres to tell that the crave
is of one who fought on the wron" side
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17
BLANKS FOR SALE.

Department Cards, 20 cts. per Dozen
Teachers Licenses, 20 cts. per Dozen
Marriage Certificates, Is cts. per Dozen
Tax Bills, sI.00 per Hundred.
Receipts, so cts. per Hundred.
sF- Sent by mail on receipt OF price.
CN. STONE & 90,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

''ON To RICHMOND. by reference
to Pc"lcy', dispatches ii will be seen that
Horace Grcciry has made another son to
Richmond''-not. however, this time to
2obblc up the army of the Confcdcracy.
but to 90 bail for its President Oh
rOn,istcncv. thou NrL a irWcl
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

UHTUH "cPuO''0u'r' Ut 0t. 0VF'T''U"'J y
a m ting Of the mon Republicans of The town of st.
ohn.bury il called to be holden Al the Town Hall, on
saturday evening, the 15h inst, at o'clock, for the
purpose of choosing -four delegates and SUI stitutc to at
tend the state Convention to be- holden Montpelier
On the 3oh inst III Ter tn cal OF thu Union State
Committee of May / +. A. WALKER,
St JoAusburv Nav TO- l>G, For Town Com
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-05-17

Town CAUCrs. - by notice given
above. 1T will be seen that the Republic
can, of 81. .]ohnsbury are invited to meet
at the town hail on Saturday evening of
next week. 10 elect delegates TO attend
the state convention on the 3Oth. The
Republicans should turn ont to these
caucu,cs and choose their best men as
delegates And We urge upon other
town, also to send their leading men to
Montpelier as delegates or substitutes to
the State convention
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09
PennsyIvania Finances.

The State Senate of Pennsylvania, April 1,
1854 on motion of the Hon. George Conneu,
proceeded to consider a bill prepared and re-
ported BY him, as Chairman of the Committee
on Finance, entitled IAN Act relating TO the
payment of interest on the public debt"
The bill, emitting the preamble read as GOl-
lows. and was so passed by the Legislature:--
BE u enacted, etc., That so much of approved
hundred and d forty as requires the Interest on The
and that the said interest shall be paid by the state
such notes as have been or shall be declared BY any
@ law OF the United States of America, to be lawful
or private, within the United States.
In support of this measure that Senator de-
livered, on the occasion of its passing the
Senate, one of the ablest and most forcible
arguments ever made before that body. From
the moment Of its introduction the bill had met,
from the opposition side of the Senate the
most violent contest. Men like Clymer and
Wallace became its bitterest opponents; and this
great measure of public good, which has
already, through the eloqVence, ability, and
energy Of Senator Connell, saved to the tax
payers of the State the enormous sum of FOUR
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, was
fercely contested by the above named Senators
from Berks and Clear6eld through every stage
of the proceeding, and by every means, honor
able and dishonorable, known in parliamentary
warfare. And when at last vote came to be
taken on the final passage OF the bill, the entire
Democratic portion of the Senate, led by Ciy-
mer and Wallace, with one solitary exception,
voted solid against it.
They only enunciated the ShdrsUood doc
trine that the National Currency was not claw
ful money of the United States" and at a time
when our country struggled in its apparent
death throes, Senator Connell fought its worst
enemies in the Senate at Harrisburg, who strug.
gled to put upon record the declaration that
Pennsylvania had rejected as so much worth
less paper that which the Congress of the United
States, the money-making power, had declared
by solemn enactment to be '1egal-tender" and
proper national currency.
We append from our able Harrisburg contem-
porary, the Daily Telegraph, a statement show
ing the amount of interest due semi-annually,
since the passage of the act; the price of gold
each day the interest fell due, and the additional
cost to the State if the interest had been re.
ouired in specie:-
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09
The OmciaI Figures in Regard to Rebel
njsfTanchisementi in Virginia.

FA1sKHooD is swift of foot, but in the long run
Truth "a sure to overtake her. During the
late campaign one Of the most persistently
avowed and widely circulated lies of the
Democracy was the assertion that, under the
Reconstruction acts, the larger portion Of the
white citizens of the Rebel CON Tmuni-
ties are disfranchised. Negro domination,
negro supremacy, white disfranchisement,
and white degradation were the cries
which were used 70 frighten and mis-
lead the people. We have frequently
taken occasion to show that, from the very
terms of the Reconstruction law, only very
small percentage of the voters in any commu-
nifty could be precluded from voting and a
few days ago we demonstrated the truth that,
at the late election in Virginia, larger proper
sion of her citizens deposited their ballots
than had ever before done so in the history Of
that State. Now the fact comes out,
at General Schofelds headquarters,
that the total number of disfranchised OoterS
In Virginia is only .Jfve thousand fOe hundred
This ia the '1ame and impotent conclusion"
to which all these charges of wholesale dis
reimbursement at last come. Their utter
falsity is fully demonstrated. But they served
their intended purpose of distracting and con-
fusing the public mind, and doubtless of tenn
porarily alternating many well-meaning voters
from the Republican party. The truth is
that under the Reconstruction law only the
Rebel leaders, the men who were prominent
in the work of breaking up the Union, are
disfranOhised. The law, instead of being harsh
in this respect, is remarkably mild. Unless
every Rebel is to be restored to full citizenship,
it is difficult to see what rule of exclusion
could be more just than that which applies
lion, did so at the expense of violating the
solemn oaths which they had taken to support
and defend the Constitution of the United
States,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09
Wendell Phillips ON the situation.


WENDELL PHILLIPS addressed large audience
at Horticultural Hall last evening, in power
ful speech of two hours duration. A erbatim
report of the same will be found in our
columns to-day. AS philosophical exposition
of the conflict of ideas in our country, and as
an impassioned and moving appeal for such a
settlement Of the great struggle as shall give
us lasting peace and concord between all sec
tiOns, this speech stands prominent even
among the productions of its distinguished
author. While few will agree to all that is
enunciated in it, yet its general tone and argu-
ment are such as must command the oonvio-
ton of the great mass of intelligent thinkers
of all parties. II the principles of our repub-
Hcan institutions are worth anything, they
must be the true principles for the settlement
of our present difficulties. A settlement on
any other basis will prove to be but hollow
truce, and in the end will but pave the way
for repeated commissions and fresh disasters.
One such terrible contest as we have already
passed through for the realization and vindi-
cation of our distinctive ideas of government
ought to be enough. To invoke another is
madness.
Mr.. Phillips criticisms upon the position of
General Grant have great force and will con-
tinue to have until, by some authoritative
expression of his views, he openly identifies
himself with the Republican cause, if he shall
ever see 6t to do so.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09


At the next session of the Legislature of Penn
sylvania a State Treasurer Is to be elected by
That body. We have no individual preference,
or no public ones, beyond desire to secure
fitting successor to the present able incumbent,
whose administration has been characterized by
remarkable ability and energy, and there is
hardly any one more competent than Senator
Connell, who, from his large experience in
finance and banking interests, his integrity and
energy, is eminently fitted tor the position, the
duties of which he would honestly and
zealouslY administer.