The morning call., 1891-01-11

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SSALIFoRNIA's CONTINGENT w. 81.
ASESS g.. City. d) Brigadier- General r. H.
AzS1} Orion, x-Adjutant-General Of the
State of Cahfernia-who, by the way, was
the last to be mustered out on January 4,
1867, of the soldiers Of CalifOrnia-has pub
Iished a Record Of California Men in the
War of the Rebellion" and from his COM
plete and admirable work are CLEANED the
answers 10 your questions. To quote from
him:
The State OF California, being located far away
from the more active scenes OF the war, was not
called uIOn TO furnish troops for immediate Serv-
ice against Confederate soldiers, and no quota
was assigned 10 Il; yet duIing the war calls were
made upon Il for several regiments and b2ltal-
ions, aggregstlng more than 10000 men (l3,420
Ia be eXscD besides 5GO Who were enlisted
within Us bCicerS and became part OF the quota
OF Tie State Of Massachusetts, and eight COM
panieS raised for Washington Territory. win
tie exception OF those enlisted for Massachu-
sets. The California forces took no part In any of
the great battles Of Tie war; Vet the service they
rendered was CT as great Importance as that rem
dered 10y those from other States.
q When it was found that the California
Volunteers were being kept CT this Coast a
proposition was made 10 the State of Massa-
chusetts to raise a company here. take it
East and credit it to the quota Of that State.
portation were guaranteed. The State of
Massachusetts was pairing large bounttes
for volunteers; this bounty, it was decided.
should be paid into the company fund and
used for the purpose of paying the expenses
Of The company. On the 9th Of October,
1862. Captain J. Sewell Reed KILLED Febru-
airy 10. 1864 in the action with Mosby's
cueTTllaS al GAINESVILLE Va received the
necessary authority from Governor Andrew
Of Massachusetts, and on the following day
recruiting commenced, Assembly Hall, 10
Gated on the northwest corner OF kearnY
and Post streets w ere the White House
now stands, was made the headquarters.
In three weeks over 800 men had offered .
themselves for enrolment One hundred
were selected and mustered into service,
and on December 1lth sailed on the
steamer Golden Age for the East. This was
the california Hundred" which became
Z y %
Cavalry, tlen consisting OF 4 battalion OF
four companies. Is The success attending
the raising Of the California Hundred"
and the large number presenting themselves
Tor enlistment, induced others to offer to
raise four more Companies under the same
conditions. After {, nSiderable negotiation
with the authorities at Washington aud
Massachusetts, permission was received by
Major ID. W. {. Thompson, on January 10.
lStj, to raise a battalion of four companies,
which were rapidly recruited, and on the
2lSt Of March, 1853 left FIR the East by the
steamer Constitution. They were also as
signed TO the Second Massachusetts Cavalry,
and designated as Companies Z, F, l. and
VI. a. The late Maj Zebdiel B. Adams
Commanded Company b OF tile battalion,
and Company / of the Second Massachusetts
Cavalry. % CAPTAIN Charles :. Eigeubradt
KILLED IN battle August %, 1864, in Shenan-
dcah Valley commanded Company a Of the
battalion aud Company L Of the regiment.
RAILROADS IN CHNA-C. K, City. 1t
was not until after the conclusion of the
treaty in 1860 that attempts were made to
induce the Government of China to permit
the Introduction Of railways and telegraphs
into China but to all such counsel the En-
peroT's advisers turned tor long a deaf ear
Not that they were Ignorant of the advan-
tageS 10 be derived, but they considered
that these advantages would be dearly
bought if the purchase price Of these weap-
ons OF progress was to be the admittance of
foreigners into the interior of the vast do
main, coupled with the held on the soil,
which would be acquired were lines of rail
ways and telegraph to be constructed
through the provinces. More recently, how
ever, the hard and fast line laid down by
the Peklng Maudarins has been overstepped.
though not without decided opposition.
Iramways at several of the arsenals
had been emplOyed, when, on June 3.
1876, the first line Of railroad in China
was oreued for traffic, extending from
Shanghai tOe Woosung, distanceBof
twelve miles. In December it was
moObed by the natives and for a time WAS
forced to stop running. Gaining the favor
OF the people and of the Government il
was operated again in 1877, beginning with
the Chinese New Year, on February 22d;
but on October 3lst again ceased running
having passed into the hands Of the Govern
ment. In 1852 the only railroad was one
eight miles long, running to the Kaipipr
coal mines, about seventy miles northeast of
TlentsIu, and used for carving coal from
the mines to Hok-ou, situated on the Pc
tang, rlYer ten miles north Of the Peiho,
and subsequently extended to deep water on
the hrst-named river. The original road OF
1876 encountered riotous opposition and
was finally torn up by order Of the author
tiles. In 1854, Ii Hung-Chang, the progress
I've Niceroy, persuaded the central Govern
meut to sanction the introduction of rail-
roads IN principle, and even to begin the
construction Of certain lines, their strategic
political aud economical Importance hav-
ing been impressed upon the authorities
by the French war. a liae was proposed
from PekinS to Iientsin, another from Tent
sin south ward to Chm KianC-fu. another In
connect Marking with Hangchow or ShaDg-
hai, and fourth to connect Canton with
Nanking, near the southern frontier In
1901 the Government authorized the con-
structlon OF railway north of the Peiho
from Iaku To IIentsin, being a continual
uon oil the coal line. and in 1888 the road to
length of about cighty-six miles was com.
pleted from tine Petang River to Iientsin
VIA Iaku. 1t was opened for traffic i'm De-
tober, 1888. An imperial decree was issued
ordering It's extension TO Tungchow, twelve
miles from Picking, but the project was aban-
dOned, and again declared against when it
came up for discussion In 1889. On August
9th OF that year an imperial decree was is
sued sancuonIDg railroad from Peking to
Hankow-a length Of nearly 800 mies-to
be built as soon as possible. Then il should
be added that short line has been running
Tor some time on the island Of Formosa: and
this Is the extent of CAina's railway inter
eSts.
PoET-LAUREATE-T. s., Lovelock, Cal.
The custom Of cTowning a poet with laurel
adopted by the Romans who borrowed this.
as many other things, from their more cult
ured neighbors Of the East. The English.
who in turn have inherited many of these
customs, have by graceful fiction awarded
the laurel to the best poet Of the passing
generation in the shape of yearly pension,
and hence the phrase ''poet-laureate" With
the ancients, the poets who received the
crown were the ones who succeeded in the
public contests. In the twelfth century the
custom was revived in Germany by the En-
I error, who invented the title of p0et-Iaure-
ate. Petrarch was crowned in 1871 at the
Roman capital, which event attached new
Interest 10 the title. The early history of
the ldureateship in England is traditional,
the story running that Edward Ill, in 1867
aud emulating the coronation of Petrarch,
granted the Office to Chaucer with a yearly
pension OF 100 marks and a tierce of rare
Malvoisie wine. In 1850 the laureaieship
was made patent office 10 the gift of the
Lord Chamberlain, and the salary was in
creased from 100 marks to as many pounds,
and tierce of Canary wine was added.
which in Sduthey's time QSl3-43) was com