St. Johnsbury Caledonian

Political Grangers.

There was an unheralded and altogether suspicious gathering of several gentlemen at White River Junction on the 18th of May, said to have been in the interest of Col. John B. Mead, for Governor. At all events, most if not all of them were patrons of husbandry, but not exactly the practical farmer sort. The Burlington Clipper calls them "mock-turtle" grangers, and goes on thus funnily to speak of one of them, whom it seems to regard as "representative of all the race:"

The leading "mock turtle" Grange from this section that was present, was our amiable fellow citizen, Gen. W. W. Henry, whose originally delicate hands have grown horny sowing that celebrated phosphate "Catarrh Snuff" over the sterile places of Vermont, and whose other agricultural benefactions are the well known and highly prized irrigant, "Johnson's Bitters," and that arch enemy of the cabbage grub, "Henry's Worm Lozenge." The General is an agricultural enthusiast, as these gifts to his day and generation of fellow farmers so eloquently attest. Wherever the general benevolently scatters his celebrated phosphate, mother earth, tickled inexpressibly in her nostrils, immediately sneezes a harvest; wherever he pours out a cornucopia of his famous "irrigator," the weeds wither: the face of nature mantles with the rosy flush of bursting flowers that mingle their loveliness with the sturdier features of the more grossly florid beet, the rotund squash, the gregarious potato, the sky pointing top-onion, the aspiring hop-vine, and the parasitic pole-bean. This is sufficient to attest the genuine, agricultural enthusiasm of the general, better known as "William the Fertilizer," without reverting to that improbable popular anecdote that the finger, for years reported by the general as lost at Cold Harbor, is now announced as cut off by a corn cutter, The general is an agricultural enthusiast, and has pledged himself to carry Burlington for Meade.

We do not know so much about Col. Meade's position, but we know that Gen. Henry is an out and out supporter of the Vermont Central ring. As a member of the senate two years ago, he voted against every measure that J. A. Hatch wanted killed, and supported every measure that the ring proposed, not excepting that infamous wharfage bill which enables the railroads to wall in and cut off navigation to his own city, save over their property and by their permission. If Col. Meade is an independent and trustworthy candidate, it is unfortunate for him that he has such support. St. Albans Messenger.