What's In A Name?

published a letter from one Louis Generau, a half breed Freuoh and Indian interprater at the agency in the northern portion of this State, which clainied that Washtenaw, formsrly " Wnshtenoug," meant " large stream " or " large river," aud now a Saline correspondent of the Tribune, we presume Wm. M. (Jregory, writes, upsetting the meaning. He says : " From a gentleman at Leech Lako, Mimi., for twenty yeara a teacher of the Indians, whom I met here two months ago, I have just received further informatiou which, if substantiated, will add much to the interest surrounding the name ' Washtenaw.' In my flrst interview ha stated that the Ojibways (the same as the Chippeways) speak the same tongue as the 'ottawattomies, and that the word "Washington" is invariably pronounced " Washtenoug." In a letter irom him, recently received, ha stateB that he has ascertained that the Indian "Washtenong " was so named by his father in honor of our Qreat Ueneral." When will the vexed question ba settlsd 't In thia season of picnics and " horso shows," as well as in the coming season of county and other fairs, the following officinl decisión is oí importance to the general publis, and eapocially so to the saloon keepers who are accuatomed to divide their business and open shop or " re" freehment " stands on picmc and fair grouuds : Tkeasuey Depaktment, ) Office of Inteenal Revenue, Washington, July 6, 1877. j Gentlemen -In reply to your inquiries in letter of the 27th uit., you are advised that a liquor dealer upon strictly closiug his regular place of business and registeriug the fact with the collector, can be purmittud to remove his special tax stamp to a picnic ground, fair ground, etc., and transad business there, at one stand, without ptiying additional special tax. The collector, of course, should not allow this to one person and refuse it to another. But the special tax stamp is merely a receipt for the tax, and is not a tícense to setl liquors. This can be obtaiued only from the local authorities. Eespectfully, Ubeen B. Raum, Couimissioner. The Abgus readers, especially those who knew and respected our oíd íellow citizeu, Hou. James Kiugsley,- and who knew him that didn't respect hiin 't - will thank us for giving place to the following paragraph from the American, pubhshed at Corunna where Judge Kmgsluy now resides : " Judge Kingsley, now in his 82d ycar, left his native State (Conuecticut) in 1823, and going to Virginia was engaged as private teacher in the family of Ludwell Lee, sou of the celebrated Richard Henry Lee, who in the Continental Congress of '76 was the first to suggest the adoption of the Declaration of Iudependence - the original of which was read at the Centeunial celebration at Philadelphia by Richard Henry Lee, one of Judge Kingsley'B pupils in 1823-4. In 1826, our friend Kingsley, as though anticipating at that early day the advice of Horace Greeley, eraigrated to the u west countries,'' and settled at Ann Arbor, when there were not a dozen families in the place, and when the entire State west of Detroit was a húwling wilderness. Moro than half a century has suice elapsed, and the judge can look back upon all these days with a consciousness of having passed the oideal of pioneer lite void of a diahonorable act and esteemed by all who know hun, tor his kind heart and inflexible integrity. On recently learniog that Judge Kingsley was stili alïve, the Hon. C. '3t. Lovell, ot Ionia, Speaker of the House in 1 85ö, enthusiastically exclaimed in his vigorous style, that when Jim Kingsley dies God will take back an honest soul, and angels ought to serenade him as he enters paradise ! "