The record-union., 1891-02-03

that memorable 9th day of January, 1861,
shore batteries, which had been erected
for her reception, commenced firing ON
her.
Captain MCGOWAN kept on in and sig
nailed for encouragement from Fort
sumter, but none was given. To lie
under the guns of Fort Moultrie and be
sunk was suicidal, and the Star of the
West turned back to save the lives of the
crew and property of the Government.
This act was Subsequently approved by
Mr.. Buchanan's administration, and the
country at large.
Thus Captain MCGOWAN received the
first shot fired in our civil war, and, like
many others of the old guard now passing
away, he stood by the flag until the last.
He was retired in 1882, after fifty-three
years of continuous service.
THE BELLAMIsTs MUST GO.
1t is stated at the General Land Office
that the recent examinations show that
the lands taken up by the Kaweah BELLA
mist Colony, in the Visalia Land Dis
trict, California, are principally included
within the reservation for the Sequoia
National Park, created under the Acts of
Congress of September 29th and October
l, 1890.
This colony is said to consist of about
300 families, and they claim to have ex-
pended in improvements and roads
through that hitherto almost inaccessible
locality in the vicinity of 100000 cash.
The Department claims that these set
Elements and improvements were made
without authority from the Government,
and they must necessarily stand for
feited inasmuch as the larger part cannot
be removed. The only method for them
to obtain redress being through Con-
gressional relief, the political condition of
the national party constrains me to adj
wise them to abandon all hope unless the
Farmers Alliance or Grand Army will
take up their cause.
1t is a painful thing, but nevertheless
true, that the debts due from the Govern
ment to private individuals, except in
rare instances, stand no show whatever
for payment unless there is political
party behind them. Since the Co-opera-
tive Housekeeping Association of Chi
cago, which was also started on the
Bellamy plan, has bursted, there appears
no longer anything left for them to rely
on except jawbone.
ANOTHER OLD CALIFORNIAN ACCOUNTED
FOR.
General 3. D. Fry, veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, died at the st.
Clair Hotel this evening at $50 O'Clock.
Deceased was in his office at l O'Clock,
and complained of feeling unwell and
soon tainted. He was taken to the hotel
and rallied somewhat, but in a little
while had a hemorrhage, and passed
quietly away. The General was Go years
of age. He was graduate of West Point,
and served in the United States army up
to the outbreak of the late war. He was
made Captain in the Mexican war, and
while in the Confederate service rose TO
the rank OF Brigadier-General. At Get
tysburg, while leading a charge, he was
dangerously wounded. At the close Of
the war he went to Nicaragua, and for
time was Governor of Il province there.
He was in Walkers flibustering expe-
dition. For six years the General had
made Richmond his home, being Presi-
dent of the Marshall Manufacturing Conn
pany.
The above is dispatch from Rich
mond, Virginia. Deceased will be re-
membered by all old Sacramentans as
Captain of the old Suffer Rifles. He was
succeeded by Captain NJ. d. Corse, late
of Alexandria, Virginia. Captain Corse
and j. Il. Hardenburgh were then the pro-
prietors of the Orleans Hotel. Captain
Corse was then succeeded by +. E. Eyre,
now living, a member OF the Board Of
Brokers in San Francisco.
Captain Fry was u Justice of the Peace
during his residence in Sacramento, and,
if my memory serves me, had his office
up stairs in a two-story frame building
on the corner of Fourth and j streets,
now covered by the st. George. George
". II
mento, who was Constable in Justice
Fry court at that time, will recall these
circumstances with accuracy.
A GENUINE RELIC
During the Granger boom few years
ago, it seemed to be the proper caper for
everybody to equip a literary prospecting
party to search after the origin, or name,
or both, of this well-intended organiza-
ton. Their investigations, conducted
' L. ~ -
purpose and direction, were all turned
towards finding some dark and hitherto
undiscovered epoch in ancient annals.
OF course, it had to be foreign, with some
prince or nobleman well-developed in
the background, in order to reconcile the
docking Backward tendency of the
American people. Nor was this method
OF investigation distasteful to the festive
hay-seeder. He secretly enjoyed it,
while openly claiming that true modesty
could only be found inside the Grange.
This national inconsistency of ours
finds the most forcible yet nauSeating IL
lustration to-day among our American
girls ofwealthy parentage. They invade
the portals ofthe viiest gambling dens. gin
mills and houses Of shame abroad in
search Of some habitue, If not q regular
boarder in order to drag out and marry
a European '1over,'' who happens to
have an utterly worthless title attached
to his UNANIMOUSLY worthless character.
The Farmers Alliance however, is
purely American if anything. They re-
| cede to the limit of research bordering on
| foreign Intervention, and there they
stand pat Having found an illustrious
name and patron of domestic origin, who
if alive to-day would doubtless be at the
head of the organization if he wanted to,
they halt.
No sack opponent would possess any
4ayr f,f.h Hp hn viz me
in the United States at the time of his
DEATH his estate being valued at $3.50, 900.
However much time he devoted to our
paternity there We're no snails on his
early appreciation of the eminent 1ieces-
sity of materiality.
! The following genuine letter, which is
! Just published in Washington for the
| first time, indicates who the Grand
| Farmer would be under an earlier organ
| ization:
TRUE coPy.l
Mt. VERNON, goth June. 1897.
| DEAR SIR: General Marshall, who did me
! the favor to spend an evening at this place on
| his way TO Philadelphia, confirms the report
| er's improved threshing machine, and added
that n letter TO that gentleman directed to
! your care would certainly reach him.
| AS | am extremely DESTROYS and that with
| as little delay as poSsible) to get one or two
erected, and had got the scantlng tor them on
| the plan of the Scotch machine, used by Mr..
+ Jefferson, SJeileraf Lee ana others, 4 have
taken the liberty of requesting the favour of
| your care of the enclosed letter-to which am
| induced from the consideration of not having
| possessed myself of Mr.. Bookers chrstened
name or place of abode. am always sincerely
Your affect. & H'ble servant,
G.. WASHINGTON.
Col. EDWARD CAERINGToN,l
| in
Richmond, Va.
After carefully reading the foregoing
illustrious solicitude for the advancement
OF our craft, / ask Farmer T. B. Pond.
| Farmer Stephen NJ. White, Farmer C. A.
Rurl-ley Farmer f,ouchar Ear,,,ar Wy