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DREAM REMARKABLY FULFILLED.
•liev. L. W. Lewis, in IBs “Reminis
cences of the War,” now being publish
ed in the Texas Christian Advocate, re
lates the annexed remarkable instance
as literally true. The battle referred to
was that of l’rairie Grove, in Northwest
Arkansas, fought December ith, 1862:
A curious fulfillment of a dream oc.- j
eurred at this battle under my own eye. |
A man by the name of Joe \\ illiatns, j
bad told a dream to many of his fellow |
Boldiets, some of whom had related it to
me, months previous to the occurrence,
which 1 now relate :
He dreamed that wo crossed a riter,
marched over a mounuin and encamped ]
near a church located in a wood near ]
which a terrible battle ensued, and in « |
charge just as we crossed the ravine he j
was shot in the breast. On the cvci
memorable Ilh of December, 1862, as we|
moved in double quick to ta ■ out pi toe |
in the line of battle, then already hot y j
engaged we passed Prairie Grove Church;
a small frame building belonging to the j
Cumberland Presbyterians. I was riding j
on the flank of the command and oppo j
site to Williams, as we came in view of
the house. “That is the church, Colonel, j
1 saw in my dream,” said he. I made no j
reply and never thought of the matter a
gain until in the evening, we had bn, !
ken the enemy’s line and were in full j
pursuit when we came up >n a dry rav j
ine ill the wood, and Williams said ;!
on the other side of this hollow 1 j
was shot in my dream, and 1 will stick j
my hat under my shirt. Hailing the ue-,
tion to the Word as he run along he doub
led it up and crammed it in Ids bosom— j
scarcely had he adjusted it before a min- j
nic ball knocked him out of the line.
Jumping up quickly he pulled his j
hav waved it over his head and shouted.
“I’m all light!” The ball bad goue
through four thicknesses of his hat, rais-j
ed a black spot the size of a man’s' hand !
just over his heart and dropped into lmt
shoe.
THE COMING GIRL.
She will vote, will be of some use in j
the world, will cook her own food, will ]
earn her own living, and will not die an j
old maid. The coming girl will not j
wear the Grecian Betul, dance the J
german, ignore all pussibdi ticsof know ;
ing how to work, will not endeavor to ;
break the hearts of unsophisticated young ;
men, will spell correctly understand j
English before she affects will j
preside with equal grace at the piano
and the washboard, will spin more yarn ?
for the house than the street, will not;
despise her plainly clad mother, her poor j
relations or the hand of ari honest work- !
er, will wear a bonnet, speak good plain
utdisping English, will darn her own
stocking, will know how to bake dough
nuts, will not read tho ledger oftener
than she does the Bible.
The coming girl will walk five'milps
a day, if need be, to keep her cheeks in
glow, will mind her health her physical
development and her mother will adopt
a costume both sensible and conducive
to comfort and health; will not confound
hypocrisy with politeness, will riot place
lying to please instead ot frankness; will
have the courage io cut an unwelcome
acquaintance, will not think that refine
ment is French duplicity that assumed
hospitality where hate dwells in the
heart, is better than outspoken condem
nation ; will not confound grace of move
ment with silly affectation will not re
gard tho ond of her being to have a beau
wili not smile and am le, and be a vil
lian still.
The coming girl will not. look to Pari
hut to reason for her fashions ; wilp not
aim to follow a foolish fashion because
lit" mis and dressmakers R,.vo decreed
it ; will not tortue her b> dy, shrivel bet
soul with puerilities or ruin it wifi wine
and pleasure- In short the coming g .
will seek' to glorify her maker and to en
joy mentally his works D;
her aim, and her life a living rea.Ay
Church Union.
OX THE SAXOS
1 wroto on tho marge of tin* so a to-day
A name to my ho.irt most sweet ;
An-1 tho swift wavos washed tin* words away
Ere the line could stand complete.
Then I cried to the jealous sea, “Forbear
To inar what in love 1 trace !
Thy signs are around me everywhere,
Grant mine but a little pace.
“Forbear in thy pride to dash the name
1 love from thy glittering sand ;
’Tis a little meed 1 ask of fame.
That on thy brow it may stand.’’
And l wrote again, with eager haste.
The name I had writ before ;
But my labor and love were only waste,
On the shifting, sparkling shore.
The sea. with a victor's mocking shout,
Marched over the sands again ;
And the precious name was trodden out
Like a dream that dies in pain.
And like the vanished trace on the beach
Os the darling name 1 wrote.
The echoes will be of my tuneful speech,
As into silence they float.
My song, at the sea, is ended now,
And leaves on its sands no name ;
God’s fingers only furrow its brow,
Ills breath in its voice is fame !
FEMALE AFFECTION.
Woman is not half so selfish a ciea
ttire as man. When man is in love, the
object of lis passion is himself. When
woman is enamored of man she forgets
herself the world, and all that it contains
and wislr.-s to exist only- for the object
of her affection. How few men make
any violent sacrifice to sentiment. How
many women does every man know who
have sacrificed fortunes and honors to
noble, pure and disinterested motives !
A man mounts a breach ; he braves dan
ger and obtains a victory. This is glo
rious and great. He has Berved his
country he lias acquired fame preferment
riches. Whenever he appears respect
awaits him, admiration attends him,
crowds press to meet him, and theatres
receive him with hursts of applause. -
His glory does not, die with him. History
preserves his memory from oblivion.—
That thought cheers his dying hour—
and his L-st words, prom .need with
f. eble pleasure, are 1 shall not die.
A woman sends her husband to war;
she lives but in that husband. Her soul
goes w ith him. She trembles lor the
safety of the land. Kvf-ry billow that
swells she thinks it to be his tomb; every
ball that flies, she imagines is directed
against him. A brilliant capital a,, 4l. >ars
to her a dreary desert ; her universe
was a man, and that man her terrors,
tell her, is in danger. Her days are
days of sorrow; her nights are sleepless.
She sits immovable ; her morning in all
the dignity and composure of grief like
Agrippa in his chair ; and when at night
she seeks repose, repose has tied her
couch; the silent tear steals down her
cheek and wets her pdlow ; or if, by
chance exhausted nature finds an hour’s
slumber, her distempered soul sues in
that, sleep a bleeding lover, or his man
wled corpse Time passes and her grief
it oi a sh nil worn out at length by too
much U.ideniess, she falls a victim ol
too exquisite sensibility and sinks will,
sorrow to the grave 1 No cold, unfeel
ing reader ! these arc not the pictures ol
my own creation. They' arc neither
changed nor embellished, hut faithfully
copied from nature.
"JINED IN.”
The Montgomery ( Alabama) Mail gives
the following account of a negro mar
riage ceremony that took place in that
county not long since, Saul the sable
parson addressing the auditors :
“Here is a couple who have walked
out tonight, wishing to be jined in, and
tin o’ love and wishing all dem dat have
any ting twixt them, come forward and
speak now, if not, let dem hold dar peace
now and forever more. I wants every
ear to hear, and every heart to enjoy.
“Mr. Jim Thompson whomsoever
stands lastly by your left side, do you
take her for your dearly beloved wife,
to wait on hot through sickness and
t rough health, safe and be safe, holy
and be holy loving and be loving; do
you love her father ; do you love be:
mother ; do you love her brothers ; do
y-ou love her sisters ; do you love her
master ; do you love her mistress ; but
do you love God the best ? Answer —I
do.
“Miss Mary Thompson, whomsoever
stands fastly by your right side, do yon
take to be your beloved husband, to wait
on him through health and through con
nection, safe and be safe, holy and be
holy ; do you love his mother ; do you
love Lis mother ; do you love his sister
do you love God (he best ?”
Answer—"l will.” I shall pronounce
Miss Mary fasti) by the right hand and
I shall pronounce you both to beman
and wife, by the Commandments of God
1 We shall hopes and trusting through
i God, that you may iive right—that you
i mvy die right, now and forevermore. —
| Now Mr. Jim slew your bride.
I Let us sing a liime:
! “Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,
Ye wretched sinners are, &o.”
! “Buy a trunk, Pat?” said a dealer.
I “And what for should I buy a trunk ?”
i rejoined Pat.
! “To put your clothes n,” was the re
j p'y
“And go naV 1 1 Tfi, ~ -11 a bit tv
j The first q 11 that ever disturbed
linen, was the ...man question, and it
I will probably be the last.
HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAK AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., OCTOBER 23, 1868.
How to Dig tine Sweet Potatoe.
j Editors Southern Cultivator. —Last
spring there were several valuable com
munications in your journal, on prepar
ing for setting oftt and cultivation of the
sweet potato—differing according to the
soils cultivated—by your different con
tributors. I was benefitted by their pe
rusa’s 1 never knew so well before how
to Ret out slips, with ease, dispatch and
success. 1 refer to the use of ail foot
board or stick about 2 inches across the
j point, to push the slip in the ground and
I the pressure of the dirt to the plant by
the foot. With the ground in good work
ing order—and it never should bo wet
ter it avoidable—many of tho plants will
never know (as the saying) that they
have been moved. None of your sue
cessful potato raisers, however told me
Imw to dig thorn. Possibly because the
; time for so doing was too far off and it
might bo iorgotter. 1 have learned how
to dig them accidentally, and can per
form that part much better than the
raising and keeping—though I am toler
ably' successful in the former. As lam
always willing to give an equivalent for
what I receive from others, I will give
you the plan, for the benefit of all not
already! posted—being satisfied that
when tried, it will never be abandoned
for any other. There is a regular potato
plow, but I have never seen one. I Blip
pose that would be the implement to use
if on hand. If not put a long (not too
large) shovel, full in the middle, on an
ordinary plow stock. The shovel com
ing' with the Brinly would he just right.
Hitch a pair of good mules or horses and
split the ridge with the first furrow-
The,driver upon getting to the end look
ing hack will think someone has come
behind him with a basket of potatoes,
and strewed them along the furrow.—
The beauty is in the fact, that if the plow
has been put in as deep as the team could
pull it. steadily, the shovel point has
gone below and lifted the roots and there
will be scarcely one cut. Then with
the same, or single horse split either side
-first picking up—and your potatoes
are all dug. Under the old regime, with
scooters or hoes, or tho first alone, many'
of the r sits were ruined, by running on
either side and then splitting. The vines
should fit st be gotten off, or they may
choke the plow, so as to lift it out of the
ground. Mine never bother me, for 1
feed thorn off to the hogs milch cows arid
mules, all eating them greedily, befitting
my ntnek and potatoes too 1 am now
cutting either oiße of the row, some 12
inches .from the hill, witli an -iff scythe,
pulling off by running a scooter down
each middle, and feeding. The vines
put out again rapidly, hut are checked
to hc>lp the growth of tiie potato.
Very respectfully',
J. T. Wing held.
Washington, Ga.. Sept. 12, 18(18.
AN EXTINGUISHER.
|)r. R- attended a masquerade b-’L
In the motley’ and happy throng lie falls
in with a fair pilgrim in black silk whose
charming person, snow white neck, and
bewitchingly coquitisli airs awaken in
his soul the most rapturous love. She
cast up-.n him looks of the most languish
tenderness ; he revels in the hope of litv
ing made a blissful conquest. lie mus
ters up his courage and ventures to ad
dress her:
“Who are thou lovely mask I” asked
the doctor, almost melted in the glow ol |
love.
“Is it possible you don't know me j
doctor ?”
“Upon my honor I do not know thee.” ,
"Bethink yourself dear doctor.”
“Alas ! thou art ssiirely the gracious j
fair one who has appeared to me to day j
for the fourth time to open the gates of
bliss.”
‘•You’re mistaken doctor T ain no fairy.
“I am the well known lady to whom
you have now these nine weeks been in
debted in the sum of two dollars and sev
en shillings for washing and ironing.”
The doctor stood like a petrified her
ring.
That sect known as the adventists
and all persons who believe in a second
visitation of divine wrath upon earth,
are greatly agitated during these earth
quake times, when there is apparently
no security to ho had eith'er upon the
land or afloat upon the sea. Three meet
ings were held of the sect in New York
on Sunday. At one of these Brother
Brown delivered a sermon on earthquakes
taking for his text the 25th chapter of
St Luke, the predictious of which he
said would surely take placj, and that
shortly, judging by the recent calamity
in South America. He said the “awful.
! shaking” may commence at any time
In conclusion, Brother Brown announced
: that providing the earthquake did not be .
gin before another Sabbath, he would be
with the congregation again and address j
| them. .
j A Grave Joke, —Two gentlemen were,
! recently walking through a cemetery in
i a neighboring town one of whom dis
i covered a playing-card y laying in the
path. “A queer place for card playing,'
said he.
“Yes and spades are trumps in tins
lorality,” rejoined his companion,
~,,b0 nought a patriarchal turkey “I
.. , . iioin -ays he, my wife bile
i ;ion uid.den crow! My wife
i , pot we.L six pounds of taters,
kick ’em l out; he mus a bin as
| old dat Meiooaiuta.”
WIT WHEN WANTED.
The facetious Watty Morrison, as he
was commonly called, was eir renting the
commanding officer of a regiment at Ft.
George to pardon a poor fellow sent to
the halberds,
The latter granted his request on con
dition that Mr. Morrison should grant
the first favor which he asked, that being
to perform tho'ceromcny of baptism for
a young puppy. A merry party of gen
tlemen were invited to the christening.
Morrison desired the Major to hold up the
dog.
“As I am a minister of the Kirk of
Scotland,” said ho, "1 must proceed ac
cordingly.”
The officer replied that he required no
more.
‘ Well then, Major, I begin with the
usual question : You acknowledge your
self the lather of th s puppy ?”
The Major felt tho force of the joke
and threw down the animal.
Thus did the witty minister turn the
laugh against the onsnarer, who intend
ed to deride the sacred ordinance.
On another occasion, when a young
officer scoffed at tho parade of study to
which churchmen assigned their right, of
remuneration for labor, and offered to
take a bet that he would preach half an
hour upon a verso or section of a verse
from any part of scripture. Mr. Morri
son accepted the wager, and pointed out
the following words :
“And the ass opened his mouth and
spoke."
Tho former, however, declined employ
ing his eloquence on that passage, and |
thereby was put to confusion.
The Jews. -We find the JVdlewing ar
ticle in tho last issue of the Recordei:
The Jews are a nation that was never
bo’ii to die ; the purest aristocracy ol
the world ; tiie chosen people of God ;
the living ruins 11 a nation more ancient
and illustrious’than Greece or Rome;
the chosen and select nation of antiquity
to he the hearer of God’s will and teach
ings to mankind.
We see in the Jews of to day, the
counterpart of those who served in Egypt
who made Palestine consecrated ground
who made Jei lisalem the glory of the
world in the days of Solomon ; who gave
to the world the Bible and a Saviour.
The Jew has never been rightly under- ,
stood or appreciated ; and a blind reli
gious zeal lias persecuted him with a]
bitter malignity that no other nation
has ever felt; but true to his religion
i,..d i,; H God, he has never forsaken the
faith of his tamo,.,. Being no proselyte
he never entered the field of pronely to
isms but pursued thejeven tenor his
way, and only resisted aggression when
aggrieved.
The crucifixion of Christ was just and
right in (their eyes cccording to their
laWHjiior are they yet convinced, after
eighteen hundred years of experiem
and suffering wit!: their Bible bet- ■
them that it was for that sin that they
now suffer as a dispersed people ; they
reason from a different ivtand point alto
gether.
It is lolly to hate the Jew, simply be
cause he is a Jew, and denies the Chris
tian faith. Our Saviour was a Jew; the
greater portion of the Bible is Jewish;
the ten commandments which constitute
the basis of our mortality arc Jewish.—
I And wlmt wo are to-day as a. Christian
I people we owe it to the Jew as our Spir-
I itiial hall brother.
| A bettor day and a more enlightened
feeling is dav'ing upon them, and they
will take that position in the world that
their worth, merit, eneigy, enterprise
] and intelligence demand.
An Kninm’s Opinion. —An Eastern ed
itor says that a man in New York got j
himself into trouble by marrying two
wives- A Western editor replies many j
men in th it section had done the same
by marrying one. A Northern editor re
torts that quite a number of his acquain i
tances found trouble enough by barely ;
promising to marry, without going any ;
further. A Southern editor says that a j
friend of his was bothered enough when ;
simply found in company with another j
man’s wife.
Among the gifts to a newly married ;
pair at a town in New Jersey the other ;
evening, was a broom sent t<> the lady', i
accompanied with the following senti
ment :
This trilling gift accept from me,
Its use I would commend;
In sunshine use the brushy part,
In storms the other end.”
Two Irishmen were put in prison—
one for stealing a cow and the other for j
stealing a watch.
’ “Mik said the cowstealer, one day,
j “what o’clock is it 1” \
i “Oeb, Pat, I havu’t my watch handy,
! but I think it’s about milking time”
j A wag on being asked what he had
so dinner, rep!i“d, “A lean wife and the
| ruin of man sauce ” His dinner cousis-!
j ted of a spare rib and apple sauoe.
Two gentlemen fishing ; sharp hoy ap
pears. “Well, sir, git any bites ?’ ‘Lots
of ’em.’ ‘Yes, un - r your hat.’ Race
between the boy and stones —boy a little
ahead.
Never f get the kindness which oth
ers do for y.iu, nor remind others of the
| kindness which you do for them.
THE TIIKKE KISSES.
j I have threo kisses in my life,
So sweet and sacred unto me,
That now till death dews rest on tli«m,
My lips shall lossless be.
One kiss was given in ohihlliood’s hour,
ily one who never gave another :
In life and death 1 still shall fuel
That last kiss of my Mother.
The second burned my lips for years,
For years my wild heart reeled in bliss,
At every memory of the hour
When my lips felt young love’s lirst kiss.
The last kiss of the sacred three
Had all the woe which e’er can move
The heart of woman it was pressed
Upon the dead lipsof iny love.
When lips have felt the dying kiss.
And full (lie kiss of burning love,
And kissed tho dead—then never more
In kissing should they think to move 1
A STORM O?THOUGIITS.
First, a great thought comes into the
bosom that God is good—and good to
me and mine; then, the thought comes
that lie is purity itself—his head like the
spotless wool, and the driven snow: then
that ho is mindful ol all mankind and
| pours blessings even into the lap of the
| unmindful and ungrateful ; then that his
judgments and apparent severities aie
the greatest possible mercies and will so
appear when the veil of earth is rent as
under ; then that the great and good be
ing is like an immense fountain located
in the centre of the moral and natural
world, over whose broad surface no hu
man eye, aided by all tho inventions of
j art has power to travel—a gushing
I spring rolling a “sea of glass” and waves
|of cryslial—throb after throb—to the
remotest bounds of the universe—gush
ing out in music and rolling away like
the cloudy and rolling cataracts hey nd
the stormmelted mountains. Thicker
and thicker shoot intoiny soul grand and
illimitable thoughts of God ! My bos m
swells with the immortal afflatus, and i
wish 1 was a spirit in Heaven.
Some wag has started a story to the
effect that a country chap went to a
llartfard printing office, the other day to
get some postage stamps printed Hu
"wanted ’em real bad, to put on a letter
he had written to a gal, and it cost too
much to buy ’em of the post office fel
lers.”
A husband, on being told, the other
j evening, that his wife bad lost her tom
j per replied that lie was glad of it for it
was a very had one.
Serial Hotice.
PROCLARISATIGH.
JJy Hie Govcrnoi 1 .
Whereas, Notwithstanding the Exec
uiiv<- !’: illation of September 14th,
many lawless acts have occurred
.• violation thereof, whereby the lives
and property ol citizens have been de
stroyed, the right of free speech impair
ed, the performances of tho duties of the
offices to which citizens have been elec
ted, denied, the lives of the citizens so
threatened as to cause them to abandon
their homes and property; and
Whereas, “the protection of persons
and property’ is the paramount duty of
government, and shall be impartial and
i complete;” and
| Whereas, the sheriff of each county
1 is, by law, charged with the preserva
i tion of life, property and peace in each
jcounty;
Now, therefore, I, Rufus B Bullock,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
the army and navy of the .State of Geor
gia, and of the militia thereof, do here
by’ issue this, iny proclamation, charging
and commanding the said Sheriff’s, and
each and every other civil officer in eve
ry county in this State, to see to it that
the lives and property of all citizens,
and the peace of the community, are
preserved, and that, ail persons are pro
tected in the free exercise of their civil
and political rights and privileges.—
And further, to make known that for
failure in the performance of duty, the
said Sheriffs and other civil officers will
be held to a strict accountability under
the law. And, to charge upon every
person, resident in this State, that they
render prompt and willing obedience to
the said Sheriffs and other civil officer,
under all circumstances whatsoever; and
| that they demand from the said offi
! cers, protection, when threatened or dis
! turbed in their person or property, or
: with denial of political or civil rights;
i and, that failiug to receive such protec
; tion, they report facts to this depart
; ment.
The following extract from General
j Orders No. 21, dated October 8, 1808,
! from Headquarters Department of the j
1 South, is published for the information |
of civil officers and the general public,
by which it wili ho seen that said civil
' officers will, in the performances of their
duties, be sustained by tho military pow
! or of the United States.
Given under my hand, and the great
! seal of tho State, ut the Capilol, in the
city of Atlanta, this 9th day of October,
in the year of our Lord eighteen hun
dred and sixty.cight, and of the inde
pendence of the United States the nine
third,
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor.
By tho G ivcrnor:
i David G. Uottixo, Sec’y of St -te.
[so.oo per Annum
NO. 37
lleaihj’ks Department op the South,
| Atlanta, Ga,, October 8, 1808.— General
\ Order*, No. 21- -Whereas, By an act cf
tlie Congress of tlio United States, ap
proved March 2d, 1865, it is made the
duty of the military authority to pre
serve the peace at the polls at any elec
tion that may he held in any of the
States;
“And, Whereas, this duty lias become
the more imperative front the existing
political excitement in the public mind,
I rum the recent organizat ion of civil gov
ernment, and from the fact that Congress
| lias by statute prohibited the organizu-
I lion of military forces in the several
.States of this Department; it is there
fore
■‘Ordered, That the several District
Commanders will, as soon as practicable,
on tlie receipt of this order, distribute
' the troops under their commands as fol
[ lows;
* * * *
j In the District of Georgia;
i “One company Sixteenth Infantry, to
| Albany.
“One company Sixteenth lufantry, to
I Columbus.
“One company Sixteenth infantry, to
' Macon.
I “One company Sixteenth Infantry, to
Augusta.
I “One company Sixteenth Infantry, to
| Washington, Wilkes county.
J “One company Sixteenth Infantry, to
i Americas.
| “One company Sixteenth Infantry, to
Thomasville.
“One company (C) Fifth Cavalry, to
| Athens.
“The campany at Savannah to be ro
| inforcod, should occasion require, by such
number of the men atFoit Pulaski es
can be spared from the post.
* * * *
“Detachments, when necessary, may
he made to points in the vicinity of each
post; but in no case, nor on any pretext
wh Dover, will detachments he sent with
out a commissioned officer, who will bo
fully instructed by uis post commander.
“The troops will be considered as in
ihe field, and supplied with the necessa
ry camp equipage; the men to bo fur
nished with common tents if practicable,
and if not practicable, with skelter tents.
Commanding officers are peimitted to
j hire quarters, temporarily, when it can
ho done for reasonable rates; but this
I will not preclude the necessity of carry
ing tents, us the c unmaiids, in all cases,
must be in readiness to move at the
shortest notice, with all supplies required
for their efficiency.
“District commanders will instruct
post commanders in their duties, and the
,< j>. sit jou of tlie civil and milita
ry powers. 'I hey witt imp, on poat*
commanders that they are to act t n aid *■
and co-operation, and in subordination
to the civil ainholiVajs, Vital tney are to
j exercise discretion and judgm lit, unbi
j ased by political or other prejudices;
! that their object should he exclusively
| to preserve the peace and uphold law
and order, and they must he satisfied
| such is the object of She civil officer call
ing on them for aid; that they must, in
all cases where time will pe. mit, apply
for instruction to superior authority, but
they must at all hazards preserve the
peace, arid not to be restrained by tech
nical points, when, in their conscieueious
judgment under the rules above set forth,
it is their duty to act. Post comman
ders, on being notified of the proposed
holding of political meetings, may send
an offic.r, and if necessary a detach
ment, to watch the proceedings and see
that the peace is preserved.
“To the people of the several States
composing the Department, (ho Mnjor
General Commanding appeals that they
wi’l co-operate with him and the civil
authorities in sustaining law and order,
in preserving the peace and in avoiding
those scenes of riot end bloodshed, and
the wanton destruction of property and
life, which has already, in some instanj
ces, been enacted in tlie Department.—
He urges abstinence from all inflamma
tory and incendiary appeals to the pas
sions; discountenancing tbo keeping open
of liquor shops on days of political meet
ings and of election; the abstaining from
carrying arms, and assert the individual
right of construing laws by force of
arms. No just cause is ever advanced
by resort to violence. Let there be char
ity and forbearance among political op
ponents, whatever may be the result i
let each good citizen determine that all
who, under the law, have the right to
the ballot shall exercise it undisturbed.
If there are disputed points of laws, let
them he referred to the conrts, and let
not mobs or political clubs, or other irre
sponsible bodies, construe and under
take to execute the law. This appeal in
made in the earnest hope that the Major
General Commanding can roly on tbo
good sense and correct judgment of the
I mass of the people, and that ho will not
j be compelled to resort to the exercise of
| the power in which he is entrusted, and
| which he wiii most reluctantly employ,
j Hut he thinks it is his duty to make
known, that so far as the power under
j his command will admit, he will not per
mit the peace to be broken, and that ho
: will not be restrained in the conscion
: tious discharge of his duty by technical
! ities of laws wdicn the present an
omalous condition of affairs were nei
ther anticipated or provided for.
“By order Major General Meade:
K 0. Drum, A. A. G.
oct 16 36 Si.