Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1872 — General Meade. [ARTICLE]

General Meade.

The telegraph brings this morning the surprising intelligence that General George E. Meade died last night, at Philadelphia, of pnennrorrrar —\77 i 7 Ll General Meade was a comparatively young man—fifty-six. lie. was bom at Cadiz, in Spain, when his father was United States Consul. Graduating at West Point in 1835, he passed through the Mexican war as Lieutenant, and became a Captain ip 1856. In August, 1862. the President appointed him Briga-dier-General of Volunteers, and his first conspicuous service was .at Games’ Mill, in June, 1862. At Malvern Hill he was Sirvr>TeiywemfKle4i--lii-rve«-igrHtiotT'of'hiS" ability as a division commander at Antietam, he was made Major-General, and directed a cotps at Fredericksburg and Clmncellorsville. In June,-1863, he became Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Potomac, and on the 4th of July following the North was cheered by th great victory of Gettysburg, in which Meade took nearly 14,000 prisoners, and his commission as Brigadier of the regular army was dated from that day. He commanded the Army of the Potomac in its operations against Richmond in 1864, winning from General Grant the superlative “the right man in the right place.” In August, 1864", he was promoted to a Major-Generalship of the regular army; and his forces did memorable service at the Wilderness, Spottsyl vania,. Cold Harbor, and in the seige of Petersburg. He wore his well earned laurels with the modesty of a soldier, and falls into his grave universally regretted.— Chicago Pont. A method of preparing photographic transparencies upon paper—pictures suitable for stereoscopic use —is described in the French journals. Some thick alhurnenized paper is chosen for the purpose, which has been well sized. This is sensitized in thaordinary manner, and, after drying, printed utujera negative in the pressurefraine—the face, or albumenized surface of the paper, being turned away from the negative, and not placed in contact with the negative film as usual. The printing operation is cari ried on rather longer than when the face of the naper ia being printed, so that an. exceedingly vigorous picture is procured. The depth of the print can, only, be correctly judged by an examination of the paper by transmitted light, as the image is-formed in the body itself, and j not simply upon the surface of the re- | verse side of the sheet. The coloring of the picture is also proceeded with on the reverse,'and fiot upon the albumenized face of the paper, and for this reason the laving on of the colors is verv much simplified—^any prthe standard water colors being suitable for the purpose. No spots Or patches are produced, the tints spreadling uniformly oyer paper. ■ —Vermont proposes to'have more pub- | lie libraries, arid to this-end a scheme is ; before the Legislature which recommends ; the appropriation of f 150,060 for this purpose. The fund is to be distributed aiming the towns,according to, their pop- | ulfttwvtis, each town to provide a suitable j building, and nil be subject to the I Trustees of the !?tatc Library, the whole i scheme to be voted on by the towns at the annual March meetings. ■ —Herr Drieghach, the great Hondamer, is now aa Ohio farf&eiy v ' JV,;'