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“There are men who desert the
“altars of a Lost Cause round which
“thev once stood with the blood in their
“hearts panting for libation, and who
“kneel to offer homage at the altars of
“successful wrong. There are men who
“trample underfoot the very standards
“that once floated proudly over them.
“There are men base enough to lift
“their hands against the very rights for
“which they once uplifted swords. We
“are not such. For us principle is
“ principle , right is right—yesterday—
“to-day—to-morrow — for ever. Sub
“mission to right, is not surrender of
“right. We yield to one, but shall never
“yield up the other."
Father Ryan.
[From the Springfield Republican. :
REBEL MILITARY GENIUS.
LONG6TREET, JOE JOHNSON AND THE VACANT
BKIGADIERSHIPS.
The New York Evening Mail takes
offense at the casual remark of the Re
publican that “on many accounts it is to
be regretted we are not yet far enough
advanced to take advantage of the splen
did military talent of the South.' ’ The
Mail expresses the opinion that the
gallant regular officers, graduates of
West Point before the war, who remained
true to the flag/’ would not appreciate
such magnanimity. Now, if we may
venture to assume to kriow as much
about the regular army as the Mail, we
would assert that, setting aside the selfish
consideration that increasing tne num
ber of applicants would dimmish their
own individual chances of promotion,
the officers of that service generally
would give a cordial welcome to a fair
proportion of appointments from among
the distinguished soldiers of the South.
That fact does not make it right or de
sirable ; nor did we express ourselves
finally or unreservedly as in favor of
such a course ; but only intended to give
expression to a proper and patriotic
feeling of regret, that the army of the
United States should, from any cause, be
deprived of at least one-half the highest
military talent of the land.
Our difference with the Mail is on
two points. The Mail understands that
the regular army is maintained, if not
chiefly, at least among other things, to
reward the graduates of West Pomt who
remained true in the recent conflict. On
the contrary, we regard it as the purpose
of an army to have the most perfect
instruments attainable, for attack or de
fense against the public enemy. There
are seventeen general officers m the
army, besides departmenal officers hold
ing that rank. Now we do not suppose
it possible for any sensible man to assert
that seventeen men can be taken from
the late Union army, and not include
eight, at least (let us be that much
patriotic,) who are surpassed in every
military qualification by citizens of the
United States who followed the Con
federate fortunes in the war. Nor does
the Mad seriously believe that if Ewell,
Longstreet, Mahone, or Dick Taylor were
to accept positions in the l nited States
service, they would, in any such reason
able contingency as it becomes a states
man to consider plot against the country,
refuse to obey the orders of their supe
riors, or act any otherwisj than as brave
and faithful soldiers. If this is so, the
reason for excluding them must be either
to punish them, or to reward loyal offi
cers. As to punishing any man, at this
time, for participation in the rebellion,
the views of the Republican are too well
known to need statement here. Nor do
we believe that the country can afford to
reward even the most faithful and well
intentioned officer by promoting him to a
position in the military or civil service,
when there is a better man for the place.
It is right to give a preference, and a
considerable preference to Union officers;
but when it comes to a choice between
Joe Johnston and S. P. Heintzelman,
the country sacrifices a good deal tor the
sake of rewarding an indifferent sort of
hero, if it chooses the latter.
The second error of the Mad , as we
conceive it, is regarding the admission of
late rebels to the military service as
something peculiarly dangerous. But
why ? Many of the Southern officers,
it is true, went with their States in the
war; but did not the Southern politicians
also? Nay, there was this difference,
that almost every Southern officer thiew
his influence against secession until it
was inevitable and accomplished, while
the politicians desired it and plotted it,
and forced it upon the people. Take
Ewell for example, Lee’s ablest Lieuten
ant after Jackson, whom he succeeded.
If there was a man in the South who
honestly deprecated secession, remon
strated against it, and strove against it to
the last, it was Richard S Ewell. Now,
as between the soldier and the politican
in this case, we would trust the soldier,
and admit him first to favor. Take
Longstreet: there is not a more truly
reconstructed man in the South than this
bold, vigilant and sagacious soldier. His
loyalty is unchallenged, his political
disabilities have been removed by special
grace of Congress; were he to enter
Congress as a Senator from his native
State, he would receive a perfect ovation.
But it seems to be regarded as something
little less than treason to express a re
gret that the sword of so accomplished
a soldier cannot be at his country’s com
mand. Now this seems to us something
very like nonsense. A disloyal General
to-day would not be half as much to be
dreaded as a disloyal Senator ; yet you
shall meet a score of men who will advo
cate the removal of all political disabili
ties, to one who dares to speak above his
breath of appointing Ewell or Long
street to commands in the army. We
are willing to admit that such a step would
be a serious one, and should not be taken
without ample deliberation; we do not
advocate it, in any sense as a thing to be
done at once or done anyhow ; but we
shall take the liberty to repeat that it is
a pity the United States cannot avail
itself of the splendid military talent of
the South ; and we believe that no long
time will pass, before the sole test in
the army or in the State will be ability
and present loyalty. Does anybody
suppose that, if the United States were
to be involved in a general war, Massa
chusetts and New York regiments would
not fight side by side with the troops of
South Carolina and Alabama, and under
commanders taken indifferently from the
Union and the Rebel armies of five
years ago ? If it would be safe and
proper then, why is it wrong or danger
ous now ?
Stonewall Jackson’s Fame. —The
Kansas City Journal says : “A few
weeks since, General Shields, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in this dis
trict, advertised a meeting at New Gar
den, a little town on the line of Clay and
Rav counties, often called “Hell’s Half
Acre.” At the proper time the meeting
was organized, and the Chairman intro
duced Shields in the following manner :
“Fellow-citizens, permit me to introduce
to you a man whose name is a household
word all over the land, a patriot of two
hemispheres; a statesman ; the com
panion of Clay and Benton ; a soldier;
the hero of Cerro Gordo ; the man who
poured out his blood like water for his
country ; the hero of the Potomac; the
man who came nearer whipping Stone
wall Jackson than any other man—but
he didn't whip him, by a d—d sight.”
“Prison Prose and Poetry of the
South.” —Col. B. 11. Jones, 60th Ya.
Infantry, informs us that he is about
issuing a second edition of the above
work, and wants Agents for its sale in this
section of the South. References will be
required. Address B. H. Jones, Lewis
burg, West Ya.
ORIGINAL ANECDOTES OF GENERAL
JACKSON-
The following interesting reminiscences
of the “old hero of the hermitage,” from
the pen of Col. T. B. Thorpe (Tom
Owen, the Bee Hunter.) recently ap
peared :
“General Jackson not only stood by
his friends, but he was slow to believe
anything against those in whom he put
confidence. One of the most honored
and oldest citizens now residing in Wash
ington informed us that just after h;s
arrival in that city, then a young man,
Mr. Woodbury, then Secretary of the
Treasury under Gen. Jackson, said to
him that he was on his way to the *Yv bite
House’ to inform the Genera! that one ot
his especial appointees was a defaulter.
Mr. Woodbury said jarther, that the
General was slow to believe anything
against his friends, and that he expected
that he, the General, would say or do
something unpleasant when he neard the
statement. Mr. Woodbury then took
our informant along on the pretence of
introducing him to the President, but
really to divide the expected fire that
would be evolved by the real business
of the contemplated interview. The
General was found in his favorite room,
with his feet against the mantel, enjoying
the heat of a hickory wood fire, and the
solace of his favorite corn-cob pipe. Mr.
Woodbury, after a few unimportant re
marks, at last stated the object of his
visit. The moment the General com
prehended Mr. oodbury’s statement he
brought his feet to the floor with a crash,
sprang up. and, almost livid with anger,
said that he believed the charges made
against his old friend were faise. He
added ; ‘This man fought by my side in
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the Florida war; I know he was brave,
and I believe he is an honest man. Mr.
Woodbury, who retreated to avoid the
first effects of the explosion, now stepped
forward and said that he had been unu
sually careful to inform himself, and that
he was forced to believe that the charges
were true. He then added, as if to
mollify the General, ‘I would like to have
you, Mr. President, nominate someone
for the place.’ ‘I will nominate no one,'
said the General, interrupting Mr. Wood
bury, at the same time choking to keep
down his feelings. ‘Put in the vacant
place whom you please, but, mark me,
Mr. Woodbury, I shall examine into this
case myself, and it my friend has been
wronged, I will grind the guilty parties
into the earth, just as I do this pipe,’ as
he threw the old corn-cob on the floor,
and ground it up under the heel of his
boot. Mr. Woodbury gave his young
friend a signal, and the two hastily re
treated. On reaching the open air Mr.
Woodbury said, ‘Thank God, that un
pleasant duty is performed. I hope I
will never have to perform another one
of the kind.’ ”
It useless to say of a man governed by
principles so noble, where his personal
relations are concerned, that his public
life could be a failure ; at least it could
not be a failure under a popular form of
government. But this feature of strong
personality was still farther illustrated
by a prominent act of General Jackson’s
Administration. Soon after he was
inaugurated he appointed a then obscure
young man, named Gwirm, subsequently
distinguished as United States Senator
Gwinn, to the best paying office in his
gift, viz., United States Marshal of Mis
sissippi. The Senate was politically op
posed to the General, and it rejected the
appointment. The General sent it in a
second time, and again it was rejected.
Nothing, up to this era, exceeded the
party indignation and abuse that was
showered upon the General for his viola
tion of usage “and the Constitution,” by
such an unparalleled outrage of renomi
nating a person to the Senate who had
been rejected. Rut General Jackson
kept Gwinn in office until his successor
was confirmed, and thus fought the battle
with the Senate, keeping the country in
hot water and taxing his party for de
fence. This continued for four long
years. With General Jackson’s second
term came a Senate politically favorable,
and Gwinn was now nominated for the
third time, and was confirmed, and thus
ended the strife.
Hon. Alexander Barrow, United States
Senator, who was a sort of Godchild of
General Jackson’s, informed us that,
after many years of estrangement on
account of political differences, he paid
a last visit to “the Hermitage.” He
found the once stalwart “Old Hickory” ;
doubled almost with age and suffering.
Mr. Barrow said he was agreeably sur
prised that the General made no allu-
sious to the disagreements of times past,
but as strength would permit, talked
only kindly of “old times.” As Mr.
Barrow was about to leave, he said,
: “General, as you have alluded to the past,
if it is proper and right, tell me why you
kept through your first Presidential term
yourself and all your friends in trouble,
by persisting in keeping Mr. Gwinn,
Marshal of Mississippi.” The old Gene
ral at the allusion, straightened up, his
eye assumed some of his natural bright
ness, and he said, “When my mother
fled with me and my brother from the
oppression of the British, who held
possession of North Carolina, and we
settled in Tennessee, we were very, very
poor. My brother had a long sickness
(occasioned by a wound received from a
British officer, for refusing to do some
menial service) and finally died. In
the midst of our distress and poverty, an
old Baptist Minister called at our log
cabin, and spoke the first kind words
my mother heard in her new home ; and
this good man continued to call, and he
finally made our house his lodging place,
and continued to prefer it, when better
ones in the neighborhood were at his
service. Years rolled on, and this good
man died. Well, Sir,” continued the
General, with a great deal of feeling,
“when the news was brought me that I
was elected President, I put up my
hands and exclaimed : “Thank God for
that, for it will enable me to give the
best office under the Government to the
son of the old Minister who was the
friend of my mother, and of me in my
youth,’ and I kept my promise, and, if it
had been necessary, I would have sacri
ficed rav office before he should have
been removed.”
PAT AND THE DEACON-
Some months ago, as Deacon Ingalls of
Swampscot, R. I-, was traveling through
the western part of the State of.New
York, he fell in with an Irishman who
had lately arrived in this country, and
was in search of a brother who had come
before him and settled in some of the
diggings in that part of the country.
Pat was a strong man, a true Roman
Catholic, and had never seen the interior
of a Protestant church. Ingalls was a
pious man. He told Pat he was going to
church, and invited his new made friend
to keep him company thither, his destina
tion being a small meetinghouse near by.
There was a great rev ival there at the
time, and one of the deacons, who was a
very small man in structure invited
brother Ingalls to a seat in his pew. He
accepted the invitation followed by Pat,
who looked in vain for the altar, etc.
After he was seated, he turned around
to brother Ingalls, and, in a whisper that
conld be heard all around, he inquired:
“Sure, an’ isn’t this a heretic church?”
“Hush!” said Ingalls, if you speak a
word they will put you out”
“Devil a word will I spjeak at ail at
all,” replied Pat.
The meeting was opened with prayer
by the pastor.
Pat was eyeing him very closely, when
an old gentleman, who was standing in
the pew directly in front of Pat, shouted
Amen!”
Hist, ye devil!” rejoined Pat, in his
loud whisper, which was heard by the
minister; “be dacent and don’t make a
blockhead of yourself!”
The parson grew more fervent in his
devotions. Presently the deacon uttered
an audible groan—“ Amen!”
“Hist, ye blackguard. Have ye no
decency at all?” said Pat, at the same
time giving him a punch in the ribs
which caused him to lose his equilib
rium.
The minister stopped, and extending
his hands in suppliant manner, said:
“Brethren, we cannot be disturbed in
this way. Will someone put that man
out?”
“Yes, your reverence,” shouted Pat,
‘I will do it.”
‘ And suiting the action to the word, he
collared the deacon, and to the utter
horror of the pastor, brother Ingalls,
and the whole congregation, he dragged
him up the aisle, and, with a tremendous
kick sent him into the vestibule of the
church.
Spring Hill College. — Messrs. Edi
tors Mobile Tribune : I thankfully avail
myself of the courteous tender of the
columns of your paper to submit the fol
lowing statement of the late destruction
by fire of Spring Hill College. The in
stitution itself, some three hundred feet
and upward in length, was furnished with
three separate flights of stairs—each
supported with high and heavy balus
trading, and extending through the suc
cessive stories of the building—one in the
centre and one in each wing of the build
ing, thus located and thus erected at
points equidistant with the especial view
to safety from accidents in case of fire,
because affording three separate means of
egress from the building in time of need
or danger. Simultaneously proceeding
from different sources, so soon as the
alarm of fire was given, the Prefects of
discipline of the College, occupying
chambers on the same floor, and adjoin
ing the sleeping apartments of the stu
dents, told the latter to get up and dress.
This request was at once complied with.
Then the division of the larger boys (the
College students constituting two divi
sions,) descending by the stairways of
the southwest wing—the portion of the
building occupied by them—reached the
lower story and found egress by doors in
the front and rear of the building, which
doors stood close to the foot of the stairs
themselves. The same was done by the
division of small boys who came down
by the stairways on the south wing—the
portion of the College occupied by them
—finding safe egress by doors on the
front and rear, and near the stairway,
corresponding with similar doors on the
wing, by which the larger boys found
egress. Both divisions were accompanied
by officers o: the College having them in
charge. The greater portion of the Pro
fessors, and other inmates of the College,
found egress by the stairway, in the cen
tre of the building, where the fire origi
nated, and the flames first burst forth.
Some students, from choice—as there
was ample time to get out by the doors
on the east and west ends—came down
by the small iron pillars reaching from
the ground to the second story —a feat
performed oft and oft before by them for
mere amusement. After all the pupils,
with their Professors and other attaches
of the College, had reached the yard in
safety, a gentleman present, and for
many years a fireman of the city, re
marked that the building itself could not
be saved, but that some of the property
could ; when many of the students wished
to go back to save clothing and other
property, as the boys of the smaller divi
sion actually did their books from the
study hall on the second floor. But the
President of the College, seconded by
others, feeling that the lives of the \ou»v
entrusted to his charge were of far - n hS
value than property, forbade the stu<w!
to go back, there being then some risk
of being cut off from a safe return by q*
smoke or fire itself, now beginning •
extend beyond the central portion'dtC
building and communicating to the ea j!
and west wings of the College. p
the greatest danger to many of
students, after getting out safe from the
main building, was to approach too tear
the falling walls, from which they W er*
kept back by the exertions of the older
students, seconded by those of the officers
of the institution having them in charge*
The College feels profoundly grateful for
the sympathies ol the public, and f or
proffers of kind attentions from the s u V
rounding community, and from the citi
zens of Mobile, and her deepest gratitude
is felt towards her own students, wh,,
with a fearless heroism, were willing to
risk their lives, if permitted, to save from
destruction their Alma Mater, and her
most profound regret is that, in her ruins
she is forced to part from these voupp
men before finishing their education to
send them forth to the country—intelli.
gent and upright citizens, honorable and
useful members ol society— youths who
in the exercise of sound principles and
high moral bearing, would stand forth to
the world the best evidence of the parent’s
virtue and liberality in affording them the
blessings of education—young men im
bued with those lessons of duty and sacred
obligation that never desert God or
country —young men ready to rally
around the banner of virtue and morality
of truth and justice, honor and principle',
the keystone and supporting arch, en
which must rest the very existence and
cohesion of civilized society, and which
are ever requisite for the preservation of
law and order in every country.
Eye Witness.
From the Mobile Register.
Memories of Spring Hill College
—The Spring Hill College is burned to
the ground! The pecuniary loss, how
ever great, is comparatively of small mo
meet. The valuable library, the rich col
lection of minerals, botanic and other
specimens, collected by the persevering
industry of the learned Fathers, is a more
serious loss, but the many kind memories
and dear reminiscences connected with
that honored building, and which with it
has been destroyed, are an irreparable
one. Last Summer, the writer of this
visited the Spring Hill College on bad
ness, for the first time in many, many
long years. His business transacted, he
was conducted by one of the kind Fathers
to the dormitory, the refectory, and
other pdaces of interest to all visitors,
but of especial interest to him. The
memories of the past crowding on his
mind, he asked to be shown to the
Chapel, and his request being granted,
he walked at once to a particular pew,
which he recognized as that on which he
and former schoolmates, in an idle,
thoughtless, if not sinful moment, had
carved their initials. Thoughts oi the
olden time forced the moisture to his
eyes, and turning to those present, re
said : “Father, thirty-five years ago, a
thoughtless child, I knelt, time ana
again, at this very spot, and said tee
prayers my mother taught my infant lips
to offer to our Father who is in Heaven:
and now, a man, I wish to say them or:e
again. And kneeling there, lie repeatec
the Pater pui est in Cveli, and other
prayers of his childhood, more feecng.v
than he perhaps ever did or ever wm
again. How many of such sweet memo
ries have been buried in the ashes that
cover the site of that honored Alma Afo' r
of many yet living ! The Losses, the
Todds, the McCutcheons, the St. Martin*,
the Augustines, the Andrys, and au - Le
others who, thirty-seven years
inmates of the Spring Hill b’ol-go
where are they ? Many have made
mark as good, honorable and use: n i-.i
--zens; some have achieved distinct. 2 -
their various professions —most, pertly
have passed from earth to the foots:
the Great Judge of all. Yet som* •
main. Brethren, \v me memon'* •; -
past let us re moved to rear a ney * yyy
on the site of the old. that our - a -‘e J
may, on the spot so honored ty
new ties, new u-vc
our own—that, in after years, the; - L :
, look back to as we to our-. Art:-' *
Mr. John C. O’Riordan, corny-.. -y*
an inquest in the courthouse, iy
county of Kerry, on dan.
remains of Matthew Sullivan, u y_ id
found dead in his bed, on-fan-y/y
the second day of his marriage-. yyy
the evidence adduced at the jt Vyq
which was a protracted one, i- ..
that deceased, who was # a y
healthy man, had been
on January Id, alter his mar.yge ,
jury returned a verdict yJ -•*
apoplexy and excessive drink.