Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-11
"RECORD-UNION - RELIANCE.

EDS. RECORD UNION viii you please inform
me, in order to decide question of dispute,
whether an American-bOm resident in Rhode
Island must own real or personal property in
order to be entitled to vote? G.. Z.
Unless the law of that State has been
very recently changed, it is as follows:
All citizens of the United States native
or naturalized, without regard to color,
possessed of a freehold of 1874, or renting
for 81 per annum, and all native citizens
paying either property tax OF 81 or vol
untary registry of 81, who have resided in
the State two years, and six months i'll the
town in which they offer to vote, are legally
authorized voters"
A well-known resident of Marysville, re-
ferring to the recent suggestion of the
RECoRD-UNIoN to erect a monument to the
memory of General Grant in the Capitol
grounds, takes occasion to suggest that the
people of the valley. erect also another
monument with proper inscriptions upon
it. placed well aloft stating the agency
which is burylng up the valley, so that
in future, when our homes are all covered
or swept away with debris the children yet
unborn may learn by looking at the soil
tary shaft that in past ages there were in
the Sacramento valley cities and towns
This suggestion recalls a fact that was
witnessed by the committee from the San
IdLCtSCO DpdIO Vi lIdtlt, WHICH, NlSllCO
the Iuba, Feather and Bear River valleys
and the mountains in 1881 in connection
with the debris problem. While the COM
mittee was visiting the region along the
east side of the Bear river, below Wheat
land, the tops of two marble slabs marked
the place where burial ground was deeply
submerged beneath the desoation of debris
overflow. A prominent gentleman from
the neighborhood, who was State official,
pointing to one of the tombstones in
formed the committee that it marked the
last resting place of his brother. He said
the remains were at first laid away at Nico-
laus, but the ground becoming wet from
filling up the bed of Feather river with
debris, they were removed to the site
pointed out to the committee, which was
very high second bench land, and when Sc
lected was believed to be above any posi-
BILE reach of debris destruction. A few
years only had, however, proved the con-
trary, for the debris deposits had not OILY
reached the high plateau and covered it,
but had deeply effaced all trace of graves
and headstOnes except the two, and was
fast approaching the top of these. All that
remained of the inscriptions at top of the
marble stones were the words Sacred to the
Memory" and which impressively illus
trated that nothing was sacred" against
the destructive onward march of the debris
avalanche.
EDS. RECORD UNION The subscriber was
an A. d. c. to the Commander of the
Third Division, Second Corps, during the
war of the rebellion. | reported nv
division to General Wright, commanding
Sixth Army Corps, Sd April, 1865. While
a light battery was Smelling Wright's
headquarters, Grant and Parker (the
latter an Indian chief and aide)
rode up. Grant disnounted and gave
his bride rein to Parker. There were
no orderlies present. The General took
out his field glass. | dismounted and
thought it would be notorious if | were the
first to pick him from the ground if some
sharpshooter or a venturesome piece of
shell entertained the commander of all
our forces. Such was not, how ever. the
case. He placed the glass in its resting
place. and, after mounting, asked Colonel
Parker for light, at the same time taking
a cigar from his vest-pocket. Parker, finger
ing for fuse, responded, General, have
no match" | was standing about ten PAGES
from them, when the General turned
to me, saying. Captain, please give me a
light" At the time / was smoking a corn
col pipe, bought from darkey on the
skirmish line the preceding day. | replied,
General | have no Matches Said he.
Oh, thatll do" and stuck his cigar into
my corncob and thus taking light rode
! away. The next time saw the hero was
at the grand review at Washington, D. c..
after the close Of the war. d.