The weekly union record., 1864-04-09

lively little quarrel one day last week, spiced
with the not unlikely prospect Of serious
finale The long looked for rain was the signal
for the revival of long existing feud between
two rival companies known as the Horris and
Cherokee companies-the matter al issue being
the right of way of their water, claimed by the
former through the Cherokee companys' fumes
and denied by the latter. We pretend TO ex-
press no opinion of the merits of the quarrel
as our advices are mostly er parte, bu, the
feeling manifested on both sides would seem to
lead 10 the inference that the scale of right is
pretty evenly balanced with the difference
perhaps hat the claims of the one are based
on technical and legal grounds and those OF
the other on principles of simple and natural
right as they understand it; of all distinctions
the most difficult to reconcile and arbtrate
satisfactorily. At any rate the test of right,
by sort Of mutual consent seemed to have
resolved itself into test Of strength or bluff
and the rival companies fully armed and equip
ped with knives and revolvers met for the
encounter. Affairs began to look threatening.
hard words were banded, a collision seemed
imminent, when by happy diversion ofsenti
ment the dispute ended no worse than in
ludicurous "mill' between a champion of either
party Somebody, when words were at their
hight, jumped into the fame and bending over
10 examine the water protested that he dis
covered traces Of blood and entrails flowing
past This was in jocular ausion to the
threat of an obese opponent that such an ex-
his right The sally restored some good humor
aud in the mean time the champions alluded
to representing the rival companies fell TO Ia
Heenan and fought till one got handsomely
and satisfactorily whipped, when the vanquish-
ed company acquiescing in the defeat of their
champion retired from the ground. Whether
legal redress is meditated has not yet transpi
red. While we are free 10 confess considera
ble concern for the professional success of the
enterprising NJ. D. whom report says was seen
busily whettng his scalpels and probes pend
ing the encounter, the public veal has Of
course our deepest concern, and we are pleased
to hope that better councils will prevail in
future, and that the surgical services 50 zeal.
ously proiIercd will not ueed acceptance.
CASE OF CAPT. MCLAUGHLIN.-There is
something singular in the dismissal of this
officer from the service, which the charge,
specifications and findings of the Court rather
mystify than explain. For instance, the fifth
specification in the charge is as follows !:
SPECIFICATION 5M.-In this. that he, the said
Captain Moses a. Mclaughlin ID Cavalry
c. V, did receive from Lieutenant Mex evie
J. Unger, ID Cavalry, c. V, acting Assistant
Quartermaster at Camp Babbitt, through lst
Lieutenant George u. French % Cavalry. c.
V. the sum Of twelve hundred dollars, as pay
mcnt of fraudulent voucher made out and
certified TO by Captain Moses A. Mclaughlin,
as acting Assistant Qnartermasler at Camp
Babbtt California. in favor of one William
Oldgate 10 the said amount of twelve hundred
dollars; and that he, the said Captain Moses
\. Mclaughlin, did thereby unlawfully realize
the sum of twelve hundred dollars from the
United States. This at Fort Teion, California
on or about from the 10th to the lSth of Au-
gust, 1868" The following is the finding of
Court on the same specification 'Of the 9th
specification. Guilty. except the words
through lst Lieutenant G. d. French, %
Cavalry, c. V, the sum of twelve hundred
dollars. substituting therefor the words
through iSt Lieutenant q. d. French. ID
Cavalry, c. V, the sum of one thousand dol.
lars and also except the words fraudulent
and that he, the said Captain Moses A. Me
Laugblin. did thereby unlawfully realize the
sum of twelve hundred dollars from the United
States He is here charged with fraudulently
realizing money from the Government. and
pronounced guilty in the findings except that it
was not fraudulent" as charged, and that he
did not "unlawfully realize" the money. Other
findings present the same Inconsistency. Ii is
singular that these inconsistencies should have
escaped the attention of Gen. Wright when
the action and sentence Of the Court,
against an officer whose services had been in
valuable in portion of the State particularly
troublesome 1t is the reverse of the verdict
of the trial jury who found the defendant not
guilty, but advised him not to do it again. <
RsNovED.-A. G. Simpson, our popular
book and periodical dealer, has removed his
place of business to the building formerly oc-
cupied by H. Hunts saloon, near the corner
of Montgomery and Huntoon streets. Mr..
s. has received fresh sccessions to his already
large stock, and will be enabled 10 meet or
ders from the country, to any extent, of goods
embraced 10 his liuc Wells Fareo's Express
and the Telegraph office have been also reno
we'd and occupy space in the same building.
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