Show new A ew ne news uva s of yesterday by ID J EDWARDS I 1 F I 1 ao would have changed history thurlow weed weeds chat about the et ef fort to nominate daniel S dick inson for vice president with lincoln how flow different would have been the course of american history right after the tie dole close of the civil war sald s ild thurlow weed to me a year or two before tle his death which occurred in issa bad we been able to accomplish abat hat a good many of us trough would ba be a very wise thing to do at the time of the convention in 1864 which aich nominated abraham lincoln for preel prest dent the famous old whig and lican political leader paused for an in stunt and re reached acIed out his hand to towards me eo to that he might feel feet roy my hand cince since he was then almost blind did you ever see daniel S dickin son he asked did you ever fear tear him speak if you did you were for I 1 believe belt ve he came from a lit kit tie town on the site of a mountain in northwestern called gohen go hen and that in hi his early life tie he expected to be a tailor out but he was a born bom orator did you ever hear him I 1 told mr mir eed that I 1 had seen and heard daniel S dickinson in me 1 summer 1 of 1863 and that he greatly resembled physically henry ward deecher excepting that he was a taller man s yes that Is to to mr weed replied ho ile wore bis big hair long as beecher did ho was also smooth shaven and he had the same projecting or full till eyes which I 1 long ago learned arc are one of the best physical evidences of the power of oratory nou ou heard him make a political speech I 1 presume I 1 replied that mr sir dickinson hid bid come to connecticut not to make political speeches but instead to speak for the cause of the union ind so to speak ai ail to encourage men to enlist oh I 1 remember that time very well mr weid wed we d replied it was wa lust jual after the draft riots in 1863 an I 1 en list ments were elow slow it was nera ary sary to nil fill up depleted regiments I 1 mr ir dickinson wai sent for to 0 o make speeches in connecticut Mass arnu etta and rhode island these i speeches rekindled the excitement and enthusiasm which prevailed in new england during the first year of the war that he certainly did in my town ton I 1 replied mr dickinson spoke in the public square there was as a great crowd around the platform after be te tinis finished bed tome twenty five tie or thirty young men stepped out of that crowd W went ent to the platform and gave their names to the enlisting officer who sat at a table there now continued mr tr weed ou v will III understand why by so many lepus laicans thought that it would bo be the nicest A step to take tahe to nominate dan lei ie S dickinson for or vice president falth ith lincoln at the republican na tanal tonal convention in the spring of 1864 dickinson was universally rec as 08 one of the greatest living orators of the united states lie fie had been united state states senator from new york lie had been a democrat all along and a warm friend of president Preil dent franklin pierce but when war began he was wa one of the first to put barty arty behind him 1 I I never nes er knew exactly v by the plan to nominate daniel S 8 dickinson for first colonel of negroes 0 how robert G shaw though citizen of massachusetts first enlisted with the seventh new york regiment fifty years ago one of the most fa ol 01 0 the many regiments bat that ought fought on the union aide side in the civil war marched down don Uro aday new york tor ter the front in response neu to Lin lincoln colne first call for volunteer volunteers the seventh new york marching with it to ar as a private went mat that scicli of a massachusetts family which ard been teen prominent from evolution revolution ary days who was dest to lecome the leader rl the first regiment ol 01 berro soldiers lold lera formed under state au sit dhority in the earth robert G blaw ahli fact la Is so little known that mot most ol 01 the biographies of colonel khaw shaw state that at the outbreak of the war he entered the service with the sec poe ond massachusetts as a second lieu tenant yet thero Is tle roster of seventh regiment v ith shaw A name upon it 11 to prove that shaw saw din fr eel ser vice vict in the civil vaar ar with the W wrong that tha ingalls righted V rong 1 6 how the brilliant Kartan Tool back his HI caustic remark about sen son ator star logan thinking ho he wa was thinking in general grant an article in which be he frankly z witted that be he bad had been in gross error in im puling to major general fitzjohn Fit ijohn for por ter conduct at the second battle of bull run in august 1862 which justl bed fled the verdict of a court m artial illy which general porter was cashiered carble red dismissed dismiss cd from rom the army and forever prohibited from rom holding any office un der the united state states government As A a result ol 01 general grants magnani magnant action which he called a 11 act ct of justice congress passed a bill remo removing virg some of the penalties pro pre by the court martial the there r were however some technical defect to this bill and general arthur waa wa compelled to veto it it hut but in the first administration or president CIL cllveland veland another bill became a law bv which the sentence of ex general porter wn was expunged and he was restored to the united states army with the rank ol 01 colonel at the time the co to called fitzjohn porter bill came before the cenate u 11 the ot of president ar thur public interest Inte was as grea preal Illi aroused there were many senators who accept el general grant grants that beneral porter hid bid been unjustly sentenced while others were sincerely convinced that he the verdict of the court martial was fully justified by general porter porters conduct at the sec see ond and null bull run it was observed by a number of senators sea alors about this time that gent u john began logan one of the senators from roni illinois contracted the calill of spending an hour our or two every after noon pacing back and forth before the screen which concealed the cloak room irom from the cenate senate I 1 hamber gen ersi enl logan always wore a frock coat which carried coat tails of unusual length reaching below his lits vae knee llo presented a striking picture as be lowly slowly paced kick tick and forth along the rear tear aeple ills 1 bead lead covered as it was with thick mae masses tes of very black hair loch rt of which strayed frequent IT ly over his hi forehead td and were tossed back with ith an impatient jerk of the head wa was bent forward as a though he were swid org the outlines of the floor occasionally Occa tonally he would thrust his hi hand hands be beneath bla big roat cost tails and cause then to nap violently lie seemed absorbed in deep bat but there were sen gen fiton stairs who thought he be was posing Ini ingalls ralls said a colleague to the ago brilliant senator from kansas Ir ingall galls hair have ca noticed logan pacing ir hack back and forth at the rear of pe h t thi chimber ruber lie haf on o do ing trig thi of now for several cays u each afternoon what do you suppose it meana means la to he posing to the galleries Rall gall erles ye I 1 have observed this new d de t vf if john lorans logan a said ingalls I 1 am persuaded however that he iq 1 not doing this spectacular pacing baric back and forth with intent to catch the eye of the gallery be does not need to d do that for the eye of the gallery la Is al a way ways fixed more or less upon him I 1 i arn m that logan thinks he Is 13 thinking two days later logaa began R i kirech welch which afterwards became tra dit ional lonal in the senate it was as in op pori position tion to the bill which it passed would a relieve general porter fron the stigma and penalties consequent upon the undine finding ol 01 the court const martial the speech occupied several day days in its delivery logan was never more ef rec tive never did bis big rude ana yet powerful oratory so command the son en ate one of his most attentive listener alter after the first day was senator ag f gill ill of or hadras when I 1 speech wait wail finished ingalls wag was the first 1 to con eon him and having done that he out and need he be senator to whom hom bf be had bad aalf aid that logan thought he be was thinking 1 I 1 ans nit mistaken stalKen in whal what I 1 mid wild to you the othir day about I 1 ogan in gills contested ed john logan wa was really thinking and what hat he thought hf hy his blis now told us in this thi great speech copyright iiii 1 17 1 7 R i 1 I rewards all rights reserved measuring raindrop raindrops mr nir spencer C russell at a meeting of the british royal meteorological society described how hor he obtained ree of the actual size alz of raindrops it ib said tho the had led left film I 1 to conclude that the most sati tory results aero ero gasen by the use of plaster IT or parts 01 0 fine flour placed in three inch shallow trays to a depth of one ral an one half inches rain 1 drops daring during six thunder stormi storms had been registered yielding a wl of ids drops up into tb the e f sites twenty five nt fire millimeter millimeters 40 of four millimeters 48 of three nil mil limiters 35 of two millimeters an 1 I 15 of one millimeter the largest largess drops occurred at tho commencement of the storm grading off as the norm storm progressed before a fall of hall a marked increase in to drop size was apparent hard on an ht he lawyers A new york man recen recently tIr bad his will written by his twelve year cia soc sor tae lawyer lawyers clat see an art way war to break it if vice ice president preil dent with lincoln in miscarried we knew that he tie would receive anywhere fron from a hundred and sixty to two ti undred votes ID in tin convention ve we thought that strength of that kind and the fut fat that I 1 til to name on the ticket woul I 1 strengthen the ticket in new lork or state then ai as now tho ho critical state in presidential elections would in all brine bring the nomination to him e hat hait rood good ron reison to believe bat that lincola would be pleased if it dickinson wen wert nominated and that belief w was as ron eon firmed when after he the convention had done its work ne learned that lin c oln although he did not cunil hilf ana disposed to regret the nomina ion lion of andrew johnson I 1 have a al way ay been convinced that the real his hi tory of johnson Joh s nomination 16 I 1 known to only one or two men oil bit suppose a roan man of the energy tb th brill brilliancy iRney the one fine record aad ta tit it oratorical power of daniel 8 S dickin ton son had bad been nominated with uncoil in 1864 tien I 1 am convinced oui out history would have been different lot fo the four years immediately the close of the war copyright 1911 by K i ranard rd nard ards at hight rights reserved far ous new york city regiment which furnished CCO officers to the tie union out of the men who marched to the front with it on april 19 1861 I 1 have beard heard georgo george cur luf Us explain in this fashion bow how it was that colonel shan sha happened to beagin his 1 military service with the new york regiment it was due to a chance visit that robert shaw made to my house cc 01 staten island my afy wife was his ats ter and though he was of etta etts citizenship be he was voas in the baak of speaking of our staten Is am borne home as bis his other home in the winter of be was witt us from day to day bo be follower ec closely the development of the re lations between the north and thit tn south lie ile was cure zure that was war in evitable be belle believed sed that it would tie te his duty to enlist for it and with ith tha idea in mind be he became a member ol 01 the seventh regiment well ell in jbf spring the war that be he bad had looked lei ci baraw and he be went to in the as a private and we were all proud of iiii handsome ome appearance the patri atte earnestness shining in his face ani 1 bis big soldierly bearing as he marched away with his musket upon his der the seventh enlisted tat as a three months regiment at the end of that period nobert robert went back to bis his own state and aa was given bis his first commis lion in the second massachusetts then la 1 1863 18 when he was a captain came the incident of which all of ois family and especially his father was very proud massachusetts was the first state of the north to raise a regiment of negro soldiers old lers nobert robert vao as asked by governor Goor nor andrew if be would accept the colonelcy many arons thou thought glit he would decline it ills family wits wn rich they were mern members of the he roost most cultivated circles of boston and ne tie was himself a Il harvard arvard man nut but be tie told uj that he regarded it as a hist duty and opportunity to accept me offer for he believed hat that the moral effect produced ly the leading of the tb first negro regiment to in the front by a man who ars no adventurer would bi bt of great value at the bead head of regiment he again went to the front with his fathers blessing and the approval of all who ere ete near him ani he fell with many member of bis his ament at the he assault upon port lort S SR ag ncr nor in south carolina oo 00 july IS 18 ol 01 the same when the news of his death wa was received by big hi father and the father was asked what disposition should to made of his boy boys a body be he remained quiet tor for a few moments ills III head was bowed iab with sorrow borrow hat that his ron pon should have died and yet he akas wa bus us talked by the feeling of bono honorable rable pride for the brief career of this bril llant hunt and bind some ron pon at last he raised hip head and fald paid I 1 have only one anter to mako when hen you ask what hat disposition shall be mado of my eon bon s body and that Is this let ut him be burled with tho soldiers who perished with blai that I 1 am sure would have been his wish 1911 by R K J reward all reserved nr ved life rings on mountains an extraordinary example of the way in which a mountain maj afford 0 on n a small scale an sin image of the tb earths earth a climates arranged in higher circles has his been cound in the ban san francisco peak these arelene volcanoes rise out of a pla le leiu leils ils having a mean elevation of 7 feet above cea sea level the peaks are encircled with tones of vegetation ege tatlo which run almast like contour lines around then between 6 and 8 SOO feet the me yellow pine plino Is 1 the dominant tree from 8 to feel feet the dougia dougla fir the silver lir fir the cork fir and the aspen share the available round ground between and nd feet the Eng engelmann elmano lbruce and tid the foxtail pin pine take tale pos possess and ascend to tho tt tree limit sclee american |