The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-05-13

wAsaIssras, D. G., April %, 1871.

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The Southern Claims Commission have not
yet designated the persans who ara % take
testimony At rarious points rhers suchlagents
will be needed; nor have they determined ur-
On the manner of taking testimony a. viii be
least expensive to claimants. thew having to
nay for it. and at the same time prntecs the
interests Of the Government. Claimants
worli often save themselves great deal Of
trouble BY making sure that they can prove
their loyalty during the war and alsa that
their property was taken hy those who were
authorized to take il. orfhat the property went
into the service of the Government and not
into the possession of the numerous Ben.
Rulers who took all that they could Law
| their hands on. mean no reflection on the
officers Of our army generally. but "let tie
CALLED iades wipce;" who are guilty-know
best themselves.
The Radical Jenkenses of the Press herald
the arrival home of Ulysses let, from his cleo
/ tioneering "fsrm trip" and he exnects that
by showing his wooden head to tbs pnpulace
between Washington and his farm that he has
healed M the big split which be made in the
Radical party. That it is not fixed up will
b. made quite apparent by the discussion
when he will realize that Sumner still lives"
and kicks.
Rumor hath it that we are to have an ar
bitraiion composed of the Emperors Of Aus
tria, Prussia and Russia and representatives
Of Great Britain aud the United States. Sec
rotary Fish to represent Us, 10 settle all
questions of international law arising cut of
the Alabama claims, ard to decide the ques-
tons on the facts as accepted by the High
Commission who have agreed to the arbitra-
ton. As nothing definite is kown as 10 what
the Commissioners have done receive this
cum grano sails.
lack Chandler, the blatant Michigander,
had hobby which he straddled at every op-
portuni.y-that of gouging the eyes out of
the British Lion, pinching it's ears until it
sqaealed and maltreating it generally. lack
was the George Francis Train of the Senate
on the question of swallowing England whole.
lie generally spread the American Eagle
overhead and under its tapping wings be
shook his fist at Great Britain until the En-
pire was all Of a tremhle: bat lately change
has come over the spirit Of his dream and the
Fenians have lost their thunderer, not that
Jack loved the Fenians did he thunder, hut
because he hated England, and now that
bate, once so noisy, is turned to calm and
subdued admiration of the English nation
and especially the nobility whom Jack once
thought had horns. The report that Tack
was going to oppose the treaty is without
foundation and the Tribune, knowing what a
terrible summersault he has made comes to
the rescGe and says I'VE need peace now, and
there is no doubt that lie will support any
treaty in which the rights Of American claim
ants are respected and our national claims
duly recognized" The truth il, the Eng
lish determined as shrewd diplomats and
statesmen, to draw the roar of this clustering
hraggart in the Senate and in opposition to
the treaty, which they came over to make and
of course they intend to get the best of US in
it, and 50 they bore with Chandler's vulgsri,
ty and i'll breeding; they behaved more than
civil TO him and the result is the Duke of
Michigan Is convert to the beauty Of titled
class ard as Greeley says wants peace. Zach
ariah's Occupations gene. the British Lion
still roaretb and the voice of Chandler il
hushed
The Radicals of Mr.. O. S. Wiuans district
/ have sent him note as fellows We send
You copy of the Bible and strong rope.
Ask your friends tifyou have anvil to assist
you. Should you return to Dunkirk. we will
try and have you viewed from the standpoint
ynu deserve" Is not this Ku-Kluxing ?
/ Why don't Grant put the Second New York
District under martial law &c. All Mr.. VIM
ans is guilty of is going back on bis Radical
friends in the New York Legislature. Would
net a case of this kind az the South be God
send to the Radicals? Why the army would
be marched into the insurrectionary district
inside of "a hours, but its only done BY Radi-
Gals in the North, that's all.
The health OF Chief Justic Chase, is i'm
proving slowly, he purposes after the adj
iournment of the Court to visit the Bethesda
mineral spring in Wisconsin to drink of its
waters to improve his shattered health. The
medicinal properties of this spring are quite
wonderful; it cures, beyond question, Bright e
disease, hitherto considered incurahle, Diabe-
ties and similar diseases and it acts ike a
charm in Scarlet Fever, the faculty here use
it and endorse it very highly. trust that
the curative power of this modern pool Of
Bethesda may entirely restore the Chief Jus
tice, as the country cannot afford TO lose him
at this period of our terrible trial.
| The Republicans praises the stone from the
Buena Vista quarries of which their new
building is to be constructed and says: lit
would harmonic we'll with ou- Seneca. y
',0ur Seneca is the stone in which Ulysses
4 = >rl Tho rsnr a,pnof he ~ ;,