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Show THE VETERANS. The years are telling rapidly now on the old veterans of the Civil War. A great host of them has passed through this city this year, going to and returning from San Francisco and never before be-fore were so many exhibitions of decrepitude in their ranks. They are all nearlng the border land; their final march is drawing close to where will be heard the last sunset gun. A friend tells us of their late visit to San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The Governor of the state, the Mayor and Chief of Police met and decided by acclamation that while the veterans were there they should own the state and city. So a room was fixed up furnished with com- fortable beds and every member of the police force was instructed to keep & fatherly watch upon the veterans, that if one imbibed too much a carriage was to be called and the veteran sent to ' the improvised home, permitted to sleep as long as he pleased and when he awoke he was to be furnished a drink and dismissed with a blessing. bless-ing. The result was that many of them when ready to leave declared that they had never before, not even in the old days, gone through so lively a campaign or had their wounds healed so tenderly. But the marching is well-nigh over. They are reaching near that crisis when they will go down by companies and by regiments. May the God of Battles smooth their last path and make" their good night here but a painless prelude to the everlasting ever-lasting dawn. |