Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-04
THE NEW YEAR AT THE CAP
IGAL

A citixanS' meeting was ALEC 10
meet in the Senate Chamber last night
at l0:3O O'Clock, but it was four mi
utes past ii o'clock before 1t was called
to order by Judge Patterson. who
called for the nomination of a chair.
man. General kittrell Was nomina
ted. but declined aud placed in nomi
nation senator Clapp, who was unani-
mously chosen. Judge Patterson and
John McTarnahan were chosen Vice
Presidents, and &. A. v. Putnam, SEC
rotary.
On motion Of Judge Patterson, the
meeting opened with prayer by Rev.
Mr.. Teyis, who briefly recruited the
nations progress in greatness n in
voked the Divine blessing on the la
TONS coming thousand years.
Judge Patterson admoniShed the
citizens that the speeches must neces-
sarily he short, AS when the hour OF II
O'clock "a struck the firing of can
non. the ringing of bells aud the blow
ing of whistles would prevent any n
being beard. e.
Colonel Dow was the first speaker
called. lie was introduced from the
| Presidents desk and spoke very
briefly, hut wound up with a grand
peroration in favor of the American
Union, which he declared should not
| only lie "one and indivI~ibIe," but
"the guiding star of nations and the
brotherhood of man."
General Kittrell was next called.
| He was glad, he said, to meet his fell
low citizens OF the welcoming of the
Centennial Year amid the firing of
cannon and the clangor of bells. Dur
ing his speech he alluded To the late
internecine war, but thanked God that
our nationality Is yet intact and our
country still free. He declared that
the last hundred years had
made the most wonderful centu-
nv known tn history. Within that time
our country had risen to first rank
among the Powers OF the earth; Napo
leon had been raised from the rank of
a subaltern to be the most powerful
monarch on earth and had finally been
conquered, banished and ctafed his
life away on a lone island; Wellington
had come and gone and scarcely any
thing bur the memory OF him at Water
100 remained. But greater than the
achievements of military heroes had
been those of science i'm the century in
which the United States had grown.
aud among the greatest of these were
the application OF steam to the propei-
INK vi DtbAtS anu JAIN Au0 VIC IlNct
tion of the electic telegraph. He dwelt
upon u incompatible system of gov
eminent and concluded with this SEM
teuce: The Union is one and INSOFAR
able and cannot he divided. [Greata
plause.
During the delivery of General Kit
trell's speech ANDY Wright entered in
the uniform OF a Continental soldier.
George e. Tyrrell was next called
for. He responded by reciting brakes
Address to the American Flag"
Colonel Dow offered a sentiment Ia
1.-THE Press" and Mr.. Mighels and
Mr.. Parkinson were called upon to re-
spond to it. Mr.. Mighels not being
present. Mr.. Parkinson responded.
Mr.. McTarnahan offered a few re-
marks. He thought the next Centen
NAL might show the Unired States oc-
cupying the most OF the Western hem
isplers.
Colonel Dow exhibited a Continental
IS note, issued one hundred years ago.
The audience then rose and sung
My country, Ills Of thee" when. II
o'clock having arrived, three cheers
were given for the New Year, and the
nesting adjourned amid the firing OF
cannon. the blaze or bonfireS, the ring
ing Of bells, ihs blowing Of whistles,
the ex plosion Of rockets and the shouts
of an enthusiastic people.