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Year: 1871

GENERAL HooKER's OPINION OF GEN.
THoMAs.-At the reunion of the Army of
the Cumberland in Detroit, last week, Gen.
Hooker, alluding to the record of the army,
said:


1t had at the head of it the ablest, the most
Just and the most beloved man ever knew.
L never shall know his equal. / never sup
posed man of his merit could live. There
is on record the name of but one man who
was his equal. / need not name him to you.
His is a character that we all may aim at and
aspire to, but can never reach. Geu. George
III. Thomas was nearer to it privately, official
ly and publicly than any man ever knew.
Without any great stress of the Imagination
we can imagine Gen. Thomas to be with us
to-day. Here are his emblems of authority
and power. We saw him in peril and out of
peril; we saw him when it was no question
with him whether it was his duty to be at the
front of the rank or the rear. He was al
ways at the front of the army, and he was
always successful; and the men who were in
the rear rank were always unsuccessful. The
general must identify himself with his troops
in their peril, or they will never see anything
of him. With Mcclellan it was different.
You might have fastened locomotive to him
and you could not have drawn him to the
front
Year: 1871

on Secretary Fish at the Arlington House,
to officially inform him of the arrival of the
grand duke, and to make preliminary ar
rangements for his presentation to the
PRESIDENT tomorrow, which will probably
take place at noen


About halfpast eight o'clock number Of
foreign ministers called to pay their respects
to the grand duke.


Grand Duke Alexis came by q special
train of four cars-a baggage, two parlors
and hotel car-gotten up in the most gor-
geOus and expensive style.
Year: 1871

FATAL CALAMIrY.-John o Hara, farmer re-
siding near Pleasant Grove Creek, in the western
port on OF this county, was accidentally drowned
in that stream on Saturday last. AS We learn,
SO'Hara had been to Sacramento and was return
Ing home with his four horse team, and on at
tempting to ford the stream was swept down il,
team and ell, and himself and two of the horses
.drowpe1. Two Of the horses becoming detached


from the wagon reached dry land and were


saved. 1t is supposed that o Hara had miscal-
.culated the depth Of the stream and force Of the
current, and thus lost his life. O'Hara was an
old settler in the neghborhood and brothor-in-
jaw to Richard Fuller, and a man Of energetic.


thrifty and Industrious habits. Search was be


ing made for the body but it had not been re-
covered at last accounts. Deceased was about
.thirty-seyen years old.
Year: 1871

NEW CHANNEL.-Thore was rumor on the
streets to-day to the effect that Bear river being
.hlled to oyerfowlng by the late rains, has worn
Tor itself new channel, aud that its waters have
11orsaken the old bed for a shorter route to the
Sacramento, by way of Dry creek. This ming
iing OF waters is said to have taken place some
where below Lincoln.-Ndtioaat Gdseite Dee. 81


lhis Information probably reached Nevada
IRON Wheatland,abo the point where Bear river
Is most likely to take its 'new departure" from
the old channel In that neghborhood the
channel is so filled up with the washings from
mountain mines that it is higher than the coun-
try south of it, and it would not be strange if its
waters should sweep off southwest, across the
mouths of Coon creek and Auburn ravine, and
find an outlet in the big tule between Nicholas
and Lincoln
Year: 1871

NUNCHAUsEN OUT DoNE.-I entered
barber's and asked the boss "Could he
shave note tor me-" He answered, ono,
So got shaved. He used ice cream for
lather; it was an improvement on the old
style, because when you get a dab in the
mouth it tastes better than soap. The fel.
low had razor that he had been cutting
oil-cloth with, and | thought of scream,
all the while | sat there | saw queer
sight out his back window There was a
fellow bobbiug up and down The barber
said it was fellow who six months ago
jumped off a six story building He had
on thick soled India rubber shoes He
struck on the pavement and had been.
bounding up and down ever since. Each,
time he went up he went quarter of an
inch less in hight, and they calculated
that by the thirteenth of November he.
would be restored to the bosom of his
family. He told me that they fed him ty
filling India rubber balls with hash, and
ne catches them on the bound | told
him that was good quality of rubber,
and | asked him how many stories his
building had. He said ''fve" "Well, ;"
said |, "you bad better add the one you
have told me, and you will have SIX
Year: 1871

A bride and bridegroom from Romu-
lus. Michigan, recently attracted some at
tention in Detroit, where they went for
their matrimonial tour. by the fact that
they had never before had any experience
in wedlock, and were each over eighty.
Year: 1871

A wood wagon driven by negro youth
Yesterday about ii o'clock a. m, ran into
the hind wheel of a buggy in front OF the
Battle House, shivering several spokes and
otherwise injuring the wheel as to render it
unfit for further service until repaired. Mr..
Thompson, Of Edgefeld, and a lady and
child were in the buggy at the time. They
had to leave the vehicle in the street. The
driver of the wagon generously gave Mr..
Thompson three dollars and twenty cents,
all the money he had, with which to have
the wheel mended.
Year: 1871

CHICAGO, Nov. 18.-The charred remains
of John McDevitt, the celebrated billiard
player, were this afternoon found under
the ruins of the Tribune building. He was
seen on the morning of the fire in front OF
the building somewhat intoxicated, and re-
fused to make his escape when urged by a
friend to do so, declaring that he was not
afraid of being burned. The body was re-
cognized by the pantaloons he had on.
Year: 1871

Mrs. VIM. Nichol has presented Mrs.
Gen. Battle, of the Battle House, with some
butter, the make Of which in artistic design
and beauty of finish, cannot be excelled by
any we have ever seen made from the best
and most perfect moulds. 1t is of rich
yellow color, and is made of small rolls in
the shape of Columnar cone, so as to rep
resent a honeysuckle covering post. In
different places are humming birds of butter
feeding on the berries which dot the vines
here and there. This gift is in a plate
covered with a glass vase and may be seen
in the reading room of the Battle House.
Year: 1871

GESTION.


To the Editors of the Union and American.


If am correctly informed, there are two
or more propositions before the Legislature
to create additional judicial circuits. The
complaint is that the Judges are "over-
worked" The Legislature is called upon
TO relieve them from their suffering, and the
people therefore must pay additional salaries
to new judges, out of the abundance of
their compassion. This is getting to be the
fashionable judicial affection - "over-
worked We presume the Judges now in
Office understood the character of the labor
to be performed before they solicited the
people to give them the "iob." In most
cases they were decidedly anxious to do the
work. Their contract is a very easy one.
There is nothing compulsory in their under
taking. They are not bound to destroy
themselves for the good of the country.
They can hand in their checks" at any
moment. They can resign. Nobody will
interpose an objection. There are many
men in the ranks who will do a little
extra labor for the sake of promotion. In
no circuit in the State viii the judgeship be
q 5eggar. We need no new circuits. The
peopic want to pay no more salaries. If
any gentleman is afflicted, let him not ask
the State 10 'relieve" him by paying an ad-
ditional 5000 year to another man. We
can't afford TO pay such premiums when ju-
dical material is so plentiful in the market.
Let the .'oyerwOrked'' gentlemen fall back
upon their constitutional rights and resign,
and let them not stand upon the order of
their resignation, but resign at once. Let
them suffer no longer, and let the Legisla-
ture bear in mind that the people of the
State want no more Judicial salaries put
upon them. CUMBERLAND.
Year: 1871

We publish III full THIS morning the con-
tract for the lease of the penitentiary with
the accompanying message of the Governor,
and the communication Of the inspectors.
II. will be seen that the Governor ''heartily
approves the contract He does not be-
lieve that ''the State can work the conyict
labor with profit.r The Inspectors deem
lit best to make the lease because of the
many yicissitudes, changes and fuc-
tuations in the marts where they
sell their manufactures and find employ
ment for their unskilled labor. They think
it best to accept of certainty Of thirty
thousand dollars, and in this We cordially
agree with them. We are of those who
believe that no railroad, turnpike, Peniten=
tiary, or other institution can be continu-
ousIy run by the State under political man
agement without great expense to the
State. The Iessees may clear the thirty
thousand dollars and still make
profit for themselves, but it is
not in human nature for the State TO clear
expenses in the changes and and vicissitudes
of political management. The Penitentia-
- ~, it is true, was made to punish crime,
and not to raise revenue, but this lease viii
not be Objectionable to an empty treasury
because it contributes thirty thousand dol
lars annually. We therefore cordially con
cur with the Governor in his hearty ap-
proval of the contract. The accu-
racy with which the instrument
of lease is drawn and the ezactness with
which the interests of the State are pro
tected, show clearly the legal acmen and
precision of the Attorney General of the
State, Col Heiskell, by whom the instru-
ment was drawn, at the request of the
Governor. A noticeable feature is that the
State is not responsible for any loss by fire
nor is required to rebuild or repair in event
Of destruction by fire or other casualty,
which was unfortunately omitted in the
Ward & Briggs lease.
Year: 1871

1t is easy to OverdO good thing,
and the slip between the cup and
the lip" is so readily found. A me-
ehanic by the name of Dubois, and
a resident of the city of Detroit, took
to drinking, and was speedily trans
formed from q hard-wOrking man 10
a drinking sot. His good wife scOlded,
entreated, diminished the thickness
of his beard without use of a razor,
but could make no change. One
night Dubois arrived home and found
his wife and coat bad changed places
the latter lay on the floor and the
former suspended from the hook. Up
rushed Dubois to the rescue, took his
wife down, and after much labor
brought her to her senses, The at
tempt at suicide completely sobered
him, and like Obadiah 0ldbuck, he
turned over a new leaf. He promised
never TO drink a@ain, and be probably
would have kept his word il his wife
had been able 10 keep her Own
counsel. But she was Just smart
enough to inform her neighbors that
the apparent hanging was put up
job, the rope being tied under her
arms. The knowledge of this practi-
cal joke coming TO Dubois ears, he
thTashed the whole family, then per-
formed some extraordinary feats OF
furniture smashing, and finally len
the premises, and has not been seen
since.
Year: 1871

The New York Evening Post says
that in hateity: ''Smart young school
ma'ams entirely without the aid Of q
sewing machine, frequently collar and
cuff small boy in less than thirty
seconds"
Year: 1871

It was highly desirable that this rapid
diminution should take place, both to
strengthen the credit of the country and
to convince its citizens of their entire
ability to meet every dollar of liability
without bankrupting them, but in view
of the accomplishment of these desirable
ends OF the rapid development of the re-
sources of the country, its increasing
ability to meet large demands, and the
amount already paid, it is not desirable
that the present resources of the country
should continue to be taxed In order 10
continue this rapid payment. ! there
fore recommend a modification of both
the tariff and internal. tax laws. rec
ommend that all taxes from internal
sources be abolished, except those on
spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, and
tobacco in its various forms from stamps
In readjusting the tariff l suggest that
careful estimate shall be made of the
amount of surplus revenue collected un-
der the present laws after providing for
the current expenses of the government,
the interest account and sinking fund,
and that this surplus be reduced in such


manner as to afford the greatest relief to
the greatest number. There are many
articles not produced at home, such as
medicines compounded, etc, from which
yery little revenue is derived, but which
enter into general use. All such articles
I recommend be placed on the free list.
Should further reduction prove advisa-
BILE, would then recommend that it be
made upon those articles which can bear
it without disturbing home production
or reducing the wages of American
labor. I have not entered into figures,
because to do so would be to repeat all
that has been laid before you in the re-
port Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Year: 1871

The number of immigrants ignor-
ant of our laws and habits and coming
into our country annually has become
so great, and the impOsItions prae-
tieed upon them so numerous and fla
grant that I suggest Congressional ac-
ton for their protection. 1t seems to
me fair subject for legislation by
Congress. / cannot now state as fully
as l desire, the nature of complaints
made by immigrants of the treatment
they receive, but will endeavor to do
so during the session Of Congress,
particularly if the subject should re-
ceiYe your attention.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Anson Bartlett, of Ohio, is
writing a series of articles OH dairy
ing for the Ohio Farmer. lie says
the calf whose stomach is to be saved
for chcese-making should not be less
than six days old when killed, and
should have been fed Oh good healthy
milk, and got in perfect healthy
condition. For several days before
killing it should be muzzled, TO pre-
vent its licking dirt or eating solid
food. When killed it should be by
chopping its head off with an axe, or
SO as to thoroughly bleed it, and save
the stomach from being congested.
H0 says:


After the skin is OIL, if the carcass
is of no further value except for the
rennet, make an opening in the abdO-
men just back of the sternum or
brisket bcne, insert the hand and take
out the stomachs which adhere to-
gether; search where the small intes-
tine leads off from the second stom-
ach ; this may be readily distinguished
from the escophagus or gullot, by its
being smaller and leading directly
among the entrails, while the esco-
phagus leads through the diaphragm
into the thorax. Cut off this small
intestine about two inches from the
stomach, grasp it firmly with one
hand, and also at the same time with
the same hand grasp the other end Of
this second stomach, near where the
union is with the first stomach; then
with knife separate the two stom-
achs, (the dividing line is very easily
SEEM, and you hold il your hand the
rennet.


When the stomach is cmpticd and
all dirt picked OIL, he salts the ends
and blows it up like a bladder, but
not SO as 20 very mach distend il,
and hangs itup in a moderately warm
place to dry. When dry, lie puts it
ii. a paper bag, to keep the dies and
moths out of it, and hangs itin II dry
place until needed for use.
Year: 1871

1t is a significant and gratifying cir
cumstance that on the passage of the


bill to put down hOuse-burning, piIIago
and bloodshed in the South, every Re
publican member of the House of Rep
resentadves, present when the vote WIS
taken, recorded his name in its favor.


On the other hand, the Democrats voted
solid against it. They took shelter un-
der the excuse that the bill commits ar
bitrary power to the President Of the


United States whereas they opposed it
lest, under its operation, Ku Klux
.scOundrels would be bereh of the power
to Overawe white and black loyal voters
in future elections. There is little force
in the objection made by Democrats in
Congress that the bill lodges too much
power in the President; for that power
will not, in the hands of man as pru-
dent as Gen. Grant, be exercised at all,


unless imperatively necessary; and if
the Ku Klux repeated their violence,


they would only laugh at a law that
has no subduing power in its provisions.
Year: 1871

Gods land, and not owned by raw


enOus and dishonest spectators
So marched right down to the cen
ter of the village, and finding va
cant space, pitched my lodge. II


was not necessary to purchase a


town-lot here, for no one, save Him
who owns all, held real estate.


A few Santee women gathered
about my squaws and chatted with
them, anxious to learn the news
from down the river. Seeing that
they were interfering with the IN
packing of the ponies and the erect
ing of the lodge, I unceremonious.
ly ordered them to be gone, and
they went quietly away. The lodge
was soon up >; the ponies unpacked
and put out to Craze. Having seen
things put in order for the night, ]
,sauntered out through the village
to learn the news.


1 was agreeably surprised, when
I learned there was a white man in
the village, who had been sent out
to the Indians as a missionary. All
the savages spoke of him as a kind
hearted, good man, who was a great
friend of the Great Spirit and of the
Big Father at Washington.


I made haste to pay my respects
to my white brother, and found
him indeed a good Christian gentle
man. He had white wife and
child, and he and they were living
comfortably and pleasantly with
these wild children of the desert. I
talked more than an hour with the
good man I; it was so delightful to
see and speak with one Of my own
blood and color. When I left him,
I promised I would return the next
day and dine with him, which did.
1t may sound strange to hear one
talk of "dining out" in an Indian
camp, but I can assure my civilized
readers the meal was none the less
wholesome or abundant on account
of the place in which it was served.


When I returned to my lodge,
1 found it surrounded by a crowd of
dirty squaws and children, who
were intent upon examining every
thing we had. I ordered them off,
and could not help laughing when
1 compared the curiosity of these
rude Indian women with that I had
seen exhibited at church, in the
States, by white women. There
they go to church, not to hear the
Gospel, but to see what their neigh
bors have to wear, and these Indian
women had come to my lodge with
the same laudable object. I am not
certain that human nature is the
same everywhere, but l am quite
certain woman nature is the same
all the world over.


From Belden The White Chief,
published by G. F. Vent, 80 West
Fourth Street, Cincinnati, and 5
College Place, New York, and sold
only by subscription.
Year: 1871

For the News.


Mary.


I knew her in childhood, for she wa
my pupil, and quiet, good girl shI
was. I knew her too, when she hat
grown to maturer years, and I saw he.
graphing with the stern realities Of life
for she was not Fortunes favored child
but with that independence that self-re
lance ever gives to the female obarac
ter, she stepped boldly into the arena o
battle, and by her energy and industry
she not only provided for her own pres.
eHt needs, and laid up something for
future day, but added many comforts to
those bound TO her by Natures tender
ties.


But the time came when her over
taxed body and mind succunIbed to dis
ease, and she was prostrsted upon bed
of suffering. And it was now, while
looking back to the trials and struggles
of life, and forward to the joys of
Heaven, that she expressed her willing
ness to leave the one and enter into the
other; and, after combating disease for
some weeks, she diedi But OF what a
halo lit up that death bed-scene, and it
was emphatically felt that


"Tbs chamber, where the good men meets his fate,
Is privileged beyond the common walk


q Of yrtuOus life, quite on the verge OF Heaven"


Her last work was done! No more
labor, no more care nor sorrow, for the
poor, frail girl, who had drunk deeply
of Hfe's sorrows, and tasted scantily Of
its joys!


Disease had done its work; but be-
fore the silver cord was Ioesed, as if an
gels hovered round, a calm, sweet spell
of rest and peace came over her, and
with a clear, unwavering voice, she gave
her last advice and long adieus to weep
ing friends, and with a bright and joy
Gus countenance, she spoke of her dear
Savior, and of that gold-paved City to
which she was going, and where she
hoped to meet her loved ones all.


And, as I gazed upon her calm fea-
lures, as she lay in her4cofiu, and re-
membered the closing remarks of the
officiating minister, that she was "hon-
est, virtuous, as well as a business wo-
man." I felt how terrible must be the
retributiou Of those dark hearts, that
conceived, and sent to the four winds of
Heaven, the calumny that tainted her
fair name, and wrung the burning tears
from eyes now set in death : And how
earnestly did I wish that these, as we'll
as the better class of society, (few though
they be) who were instrumental in pro-
mitigating the same, under the author
ity of "Ttey say" could stand where I
stood, and look upon the calm fea-
lures of that frail sister, and realize
the while that their malignant or care
less remarks had planted innumerable
Ithorns in her pillow, and at the same
time, hear the public announcement,
that rejoiced many a good heart that
day, that "She aOas 0irttous.p


But we remember that "No one ever
did designed injury to another, with
out doing a greater to himself"


MIN,
Year: 1871

/ Constitutional Convention.


We make the following extract from
the Constitution of the State Of Ohio


which is of interest. It is section 3
article xvi:


( AT the general election, to be held in
the year one Thousand eight hundred
ana seVenty-One, and every twentieth
1 year thereafter, the question Shall
there be a convention to revise, alter OF
amend the Constitution, shall be sub
mitted to the electors Of the State and
IN case a majority Of all the electors
voting at such an election shall decide
10 tavor of q convention, the General
Assembly, at its next session, shall pro-
vide, BY law, for the election Of dele
gates and the assembling Of such con-
vengion as is provided in the prece-
ding section but no amendment of this
Constitution, agreed upon by any con-
vention assem- bled in pursuance of this
article, shall take effect until the same
shall have been submitted to the electors
of the State, and adopted by a majority
Of those voting thereon.


The preceding sector" says the
Cincinnati Gazette, referred to above,
provides that the convention shall con-
sist of as many members as the House
Of Representatives, shall be chosen in
the same manner, and shall meet with
in three months after their election for
the purpose aforesaid. This will put
those at work who think they can see
where by pruning or grating we may
improve our Constitution. The work
involved win excite much interest and
thought, and it should, for it is a grave
one. Prepare for the task.
Year: 1871

A man in Nebraska has invented
a new, and powerful, dOuble-acting
salve, which shows powers never
before exhibited by salves Of any
kind. The inventor accidentally
cut off the tail of a tame wolf, and
Immediately applying some of the
salve to the stump, a new tail grew
out. Then picking up the old tail
he applied some of the salve TO th5
raw end of that, and a wolf grew
out; but he Was wild wolf, and
had to be shot.
Year: 1871

When the king found that his money was yearly
all gone, and that he really must live more ecouomi-
cally, he decided on sending away most Of his wise
men, There were some hundreds Of them-yery
fine old meu, aud magniGcently dressed in green
velvet gowns with gold buttons if they had fault,
it was that they always cOntradieted one another
when he asked for their adyice--aud they certainly
ate and drank enormously So, on the whole, be
was rather glad to get rid Of them. But there was
an old law which he did net dare to disobsy, which
said there must always be


"Sevsn blind Of both eyes;


Ten blind Of one eye;


Five that SEQ with both eyes


Nine that see with one eye


EQusry-How many did be kcep