Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-20
From New York.

New York, 10. The committee of Kings
County Medical Society report 1854 cases of
small pox in Brooklyn, for the year ending
July list. The past month averaged eight
new cases per day. The physicians will
probably make a united effort for a general
vaccination.
The horse plague is affecting the stables of
the Brooklyn City and Long Island Railroad
Companies.
The funeral of Clinton Gilbert the victim
OF the Brooklyn whiskey raid, was largely at
tended to-day. There is much excitement
among the revenue officers of that district,
and rumors are thick that extreme repressive
measures will be taken against the illicit
whiskey region,
The deaths in New York the past week
were S57, and in Brooklyn 346, showing
heavy increase. None of the deaths in this
city resulted from typhus or typhoid fevers, a
circumstance unprecedented in any previous
week since the organization of Metropolitan
Board Of Health in 1866.
The number of deaths from the riot report
ed to the board of health in this city up to to-
day, was 46, all but two of whom have been
identified.
Another effigy OF Gov. Hoffman was sus-
pended in Brooklyn this afternoon by the
New York riot.
1t is reported that number of wealthy
men are organizing a company in opposition
to that organized in Brooklyn for the purpose
OF establishing a railroad with steamboat COM
munication to Boston. The road is to be
built from Patihogne to Orient Point, from
which place passengers will be taken to Bos-
ton. The Southside Railroad stockholders
are said to be interested in the project, as it
will greatly benefit their road.
The jury in the trial of J. V. w. Buck
bout, for the murder of Alfred Randall, at
Sleepy Halow, on the LIST day of January
1871, returned a verdict this forenoon of
guilty of murder in the first degree, with a
recommendation for mercy. The court sem
fenced the prisoner to be hanged on Friday,
Sept. lst. Buckhout retained his customary
firmness throughout the whole proceedings
1t is understood that from the commencement
OF their deliberations the jury stood eleven
Tor conviction and one for acqutal. The jury
was out all night.
The second triennal reunion of the Army
OF the James was largely attended to-day.
All the corps which formed that army were
represented. Generals Devins, Hincks and
Graham were present. General Porter sent
notice to the meeting that President Grant
and himself would be unable to be present on
account of other engagements. General
Devins III an address of welcome said 'sCom-
RAIDS, congratulate you that we have been
permitted to assemble again at this, our sec
ond triennial reunion, after the battle has
been fought and the victory won in the
great war of theunion. 1t has been objected
to that the legitimate tendency of such an or
ganization as ours is to encourage continued
emnity towards those with whom we were
lately at war, and that they betray an un-
Willingness to allow their angry passions to
subside which were excited by our late con-
troversy. No charge could be more unjust
than this there is no body of men more anx-
lous to be at peace with all their fellow coun-
trymen than those who were soldiers of the
Federal army; there were no utterances
more cordial than those which proceeded
from every gathering of theirs in favor of OBJ
llvlon, and forgetfullness to individuals who
were in the ranks of the armies lately OPP
posed to them, but they cannot, and ought not
to forget the great principles for which so
many have laid down their lives, and they
have right to expect that though out of the
vast region which they subdued and rescued
from rebellion there shall be peace, not
hollow, but permanent, and the words 81 am
an American citizen" no matter how poor or
humble the individual who utters them shall
carry with them as weighty spell as did
they in the ancient worlds almost magic
words II am Roman citizen As idle as
be these suggestions that such associations en-
courage war spirit, and exalt martial glory
in the eyes of those who participate in them,
they have no such tendency. No men in the
world know better than we who have fought
through this how terrible war is and how
countless are the miseries which it brings in
its train. When your hear this fippant,
boastful talk, which is so common about new
wars, my comrads, it is in almost every in
stance from those who have taken no part in
that through which we have lately passed
In all ages, and of all the curses which have
afflicted man, and which have retarded his
progress, which impoverished the people and
degraded nations, war has been among the
worst. 1t can only be justified in great and
solemn cause that the American people had
when they resolved that the government of
our fathers should not be destroyed, and that
the liberty bequeathed to them should be pre-
served"
In the absence of General Terry Major
General Duncan delivered an grafton, which
consisted of a review of the record of the
Army of the James. A poem entitled cad
vance Guard" was read by Colonel John Hay