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Show Dkath has made terrible ravages in tho ranks of our useful public men during dur-ing the past year. One of the last prominent promi-nent characters whose lives have been snuffed out was General Si-inoi.a, of New York. Ho was a power iu congress. con-gress. Though ho was a democrat he commanded the confidence of his opponents, op-ponents, and he did net hesitate to rebuke his party associates when he believed that they wore wrong. During the last congress he bitterly attacked the opponents of pension legislation and endeared himself to all lovers of justice by his nrraignment of tho spirit by which the opposition was prompted. |