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F. R. FILDES, Editor. VOL. 111. &hc (Quitman §mincr. PUMJAffEI) EVERY FRIDAY. ■ Elms OF SUBSCRIPTION. IN ADVANCE. Fm one rear *;) *f’ For six months * JrjJ For single copy 10 TERMS for advertising. invariably in advance. , u - square, (10 linos, or less.) first inserlicn l\. ,iJW ; each following insertion. SI.OO. • rWhen advertisements are continued lor one ‘ or longer, the charge will boas follows : Number of 112 Months, j 6 Month., j | 3 Month? I J 1 Month. J $5 m) $lO 00 $ !.•» 00 SSO 1111 2 SOO 1.) 00 25 00 55 00 ■$ 12 00 15 00 35 00 15 00 4 "; moo 24 00 10 00 53 00 5 . 20 00 35 00 45 00 60 00 iool’inn 35 00 *5 00 50 00 120 00 \ .. eo oo so oo 130 oo 200 00 Obituary notices, Tributes of Respect, ami all articles of a personal character, charged fur as advertisements. _ lnnn For announcing candidates for office, slo.to VHisccU ancons, 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.