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. THE FEDERAL UNION,
( Cornerof Hancock and Wilkinsonstrcets.)
, OPPOSITE TOKCOITRT HOUSE.
IICCHTOV, SISBET & CO.„Stale Printers.
Tuesday Morning, November 21,18G5,
THE kLECTIOKt.'
Witlrgrcat unanimity the people of
Georgia have chosen Judge Ohaa. J.
Jenkins their Governor. This we
hope is an omen of the peace and har
mony, and unity of purpose, which
will characterise the government of
the State, and the conduct of the peo
ple for the next two years.
Congress. ,
The returns come in slowly, but we
have very little doubt of the election
of the following gentlemen to the Con
gress of the U. S.
2nd District, Philip Cook.
4th “ E. G. Cabaniss.
5th- “ J. D. Matthews.
Gth “ J. H. Christy.
7th “ W. # T. Wofford.
, For names of Senators and Repre
sentatives chosen, we refer to the list
below.
SENATORS ELECTED.
1st Dist. Gea. S. Owens.
Oth Dist. Jgroes Dickey.
10th Dist. P J Strozier.
1J th Dist. O P Beall.
18th “ Win. Gibson.
20th’ “ L. H. Kenan.
22d “ J .J Gresham. •
23rd Dist. T J Simmons.
24th “ BA Thornton.
25th “AW Reddiup.
26th “ T M Carter.
2tth “ J. A. Crawford.
28th Dist D Butler.
29th “ H. R Casey.
:50th “ J. S. Gholston.
54th “ Dr Alanson.
:55th “ .1 E Johnson,
noth “ W A Turner.
38th Dist. W Hubbard,
42d C. H. Smith
43d Dist J A W Johnson.
A I.EISOX SOON FORGOTTEN.
No people ever suffered front War
more than we of the late Confederate
States, so called. We are bankrupt,
our social fabric shattered, our ener
gies paralyzed, and even hope dead
within us. We have lost everything
we most prized, and have not been
permitted the privilege of saving our
self-respect and honor from the gener
al wreck. But despite all this woe
and want, we did hope thattf)ur peo
ple had J earned one lesson which
would, through patience and persever
ance, in a measure,atone for the loss of
our personal property,apd publi? pros
perity as a people. We have often ex
pressed thig opinion, and heard others
make use of it, that we had learned
one great lesson, which would do more
than all else to repair our ruined for
tunes, and recuperate our wasted en
ergies—that was the important lesson
of ECONOMY. Vow sadly we have
been disappointed, let the experience
of every day proclaim. Instead of
practicing the most rigid economy in
all things, we are to-day, in propor
tion to our advantages, and surround
ing circumstances, a more extravagant
people than we ever were before the
War. Day after day, and week after
week, stocks of the finest goods, em
bracing mostly articles of luxury, ap
pear in our midst and disappear, as if
by magic, to be replaced again and
again with others mpre costly and
more luxurious. The wonder is,
where all the money comes from to
keep our merchants so busy buying
and selling. But the money doqp
come from some Source. There is
something mysterious in all this to us.
Not one man m a hundred is ready to Early—J. b. Brown.
settle old debts, lie is SO pressed: yet | Decatur—B.F. Powell, T. A. Swearingen.
1 J Lee—Sami. Lindsay,
nineteen out of twenty manage to Polk—j. l Dodds.
get enough of the National currency,
to enable them to eat drink and be
merry, and keep sons and daughters,
idlers and drones in the hive, dad in
purple and fine linen. Here in our
own very unpretending Metropolis,
there has
bushel of meal to sell. Cornbread
has “played out/’ and nothing but
Yankee notions suits the popular taste.
Some men tell us that the negroes do
much the heaviest trading, especially
in articles of line texture
vor. This may, and no doubt does,
account in part for the astounding
REPRESENTATIVES,
llaldwin—S. McComb.
Washington—T. O. Wicker, W. G. Robson.
Hancock—T. J. Smith, C.*W, Dubose.
Jones—W. T. McCullough.
Muscogee—J. 31. Russell, R. J. Moses.
Putnam—Thomas G. Lawson.
Morgan—Wm. Woods.
Fulton—T. W J. Hill, R. P. Maddox.
Bibb—T. Hardeman, W. S. Moughon.
Whiyield—J. A. Glenn, M. P. Quilian.
RichmondA'CO. Barnes, C. Sneed.
Upson—. Wamble.
Monroe—Cnbiniss, Woodard.
Spalding—J. D. Stewart. -
Pike—1’. H. McDowell j
Chatham—G 1* Hnrrinar.,P. M. Russell.
Pnln?ki—C. C. Ivibbee.--
Raudolph—L. C. Sale.
Newton—A. W. Evins. J. P Simms-
Cobb—J. O. Gartrell, N. II. Green.
Crawford—T. F. Gibson. »
Donghertv—\V. J. Vason.
Talbot—R. M^ Willis, W. R Hall.
Coweta—J. K Stallings, J. W. Tench.
Taylor—Robert Search ft. *
Claike—F. W. Adams, Dr. Durham. ?
Troup—F. A. Frost, K. A. T. Ridley.
Butts—W. Hodge
Harris—Hudson, Hargett.
Floyd—G. \V. Thomas, W. A. Wood*.
Baker—J. II. Hand.
Wilcox—D. Johnsrji.
Chattahoochee—W. McDongald.
Jasper o-IJayiie*. •
Oglctliorpe—McWhorter, Davenport.
Elbert—W. II. Mattox.
Walton—J. M. Shephard, J. F. Robertson.
Gwinnett—T. II. Mitchell, S. Martin.
Clayton—Byington.
Fayette—Red wine.
Sumpter—Reese, Spear.
Campbell—J. M. Edge.
Henry—A. J. Cloud. Jun. Johnson.
Polk—J.
Terrell—P. L. Willburn.
Cherokee—E. C. Hardin, J. J. A. Sharp.
Gordon—John W. Stanton, Geo. Harlan.
Catoosa—E. M. Dodson.
Wilkes—I. McLenden.
* From the 3?aabvillo Exchanges.
By the Mails. . •
New York, Nov. 11.—The morn
ing papers contain the following in re
lation to the execution of Wirz and
the fact in connection with Wirz’s im
prisonment, which it has not been
deemed expedient to publish hereto
fore, may now be given to the public.
This is no less than the attempt to
poison Wirz. When Mrs. Wirz came
here it was the desire of the Govern
ment to give her every facility for en
joying interviews with her husband,
with only such precautions as were in-
despensably necessary. The first in
terview of Mrs. W. with her husband,
was in his ceil just after the com
mencement of his trial. Their meet
ing was not all of a character that
would be expected betweeq man and
wife under such circumstances. There
was no appearance of tenderness, no
embrace or kiss, no tears, no apparent
emotion of any kind on the part, of
either. The lady’s first words were :
‘How are Wirz?’ ‘Well,’ he answered
in a gloomy voice, ‘I am getting along
pretty well.’ She looked at him a
moment and her next words were :
‘When did you • have on a clean shirt
last? I never saw you look so dirty
in my life.’ Wirz replied that lie had
one on within the last week, and began
to complain of his misfortunes. Their
conversation throughout was cold and
flippant, and indicated either that
their relations had not been very
pleasant previously or that they were
not really married.
She took leave of him in the usual
manner, and Gen. Baker, the officer in
charge, made arrangements that she
should see him twice a week. The
second interview was*as cool and de
void of affection as the first. The
third interview was on Sunday, Octo
ber 20. The two exchanged common
place salutations, as before, and in
dulged iu common-place conversation.
Gen. Baker saw Mrs. Wirz draw pff
her glyve and saw again a motion of<
her hand, as though there was some
thing in it .which she desired to con
ceal. As she rose to go, she stepped
up to Wirz, and for the first time made
a movement to kiss him. Gen. Baker
stood at tlieir side, where he could see
the m eting of their lips. It was not
a quick, passionate kiss, and General
j Baker noticed that they occupied a
longer time than necessary, and that
i the government of thi^r !ips was rath-
jer peculiar for a kiss. 0
I As their lips parted, General Baker
iwas convinced that she had passed)
something from
and that he was about to swallow it.
He sprang toward Wirz and
him by the throat, partly choking him
tor an instant. -.General Baker
manded him to open his mouth, and as j
he did so spit out a little ball which I
T/ie President dissatisfied with, the ac
tion of North anti South Carolina.—
Washington, Nov. 10.—The Secretary
of State to-day telegraphed Provision
al Governor Perry to continue to act
as Governor of South Carolina until
relieved by the President’s orders.4**
He says that the President regrets
that neither the Convention nor the
Legislature had repudiated tl»e war
debt of the State, and that South Car
olina seems to decline adopting the
Constitutional amendment of the Fed
eral Constitution abolishing slavery.
Yesterday Secretary Seward tele
graphed Governor Perry, for,the Pres
ident, that an early adoption of the
amendment was deemed peculiarly in*-
portant, and especially desirable, with
reference to the general situation of
the Union, and that;the President’s
opinion on this subject, before express
ed, remains unchanged.
The President to-day, in response
to an address from delegates from the
North Carolina delegation, said that
although the State had done well, the
acceptance of the Congressional anti
slavery amendment was peculiarly im
portant to a successful restoration.
Provisional Governor Holden had
been instructed to continue‘Governor
until relieved by express orders.
to make, wilt go far toward confirming tbe
good opinion the President has on more
than one occasion expressed of the South,
ern people. He now has the views of a
gentleman in whose judgment be has entire
confidence, and these views exactly coin
cide with his own. The people of the
^South' can bp trusted with the powers
which legitimately belong to States in tbe
fullest confidence that they will not abuse
this trust. This fact has been fully de
monstrated in the work df restoration in
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia The
people everywhere in the South regard
the President as their friend, and they
will cordially sustain him in his great work
of restoring the Southern States to their
place in the Union.— Ndshville Dispatch.
Tiif Prospect.—Our readers are doubt
less aware that President Johnson has in
formed the provisional governors of North
and South Carolina, also of Mississippi to
retain their places, until expressly ordered
by him, to abdicate. This policy we may
also expect in Georgia. In common with
the people we deprecate exceedingly, that
our pro\isional dependence is to be con
tinued, and would willingly make any rea
sonable sacrifices, to the end, that civil
law and a position in the Union might be
insured. Our prosperity and security,
nay, our very existence depends upon it;
and all that is necessvry, is for President
.Johnson to indicate clearly to our people
his wishes with regard to our conduct and
policy, so that we may understand defi
nitely our position, to insure compliance
and obedience. Our people are not con
tumacious and stubborn. They are not
only willing but anxious to conform strict
ly to the policy of President Johnson.—
They see clearly, that their future de
pend.* to a great extent, iljkm securing re
liable labor, controlled by themselves, in
their own way. They appreciate the ne
cessity of local legislation and State gov
ernment. All they ask, is to he told wliai
to do—to *he shown in what they have
failed to come up to the. requirements of
the administration.— Telegraph.
“Tiie Prospect.’’—We endorse every word of
our contemporary of tlie Telegraph, in an article
we take from him, with the above caption. Geor-
not been, for many days, a £‘ a has done everything President Johnson staked
her to do as a condition precedent to her restora
tion to the Union. If he has any further require
ment to make of us, we beg he will do so in plain
words nnd at the earliest possible moment. We
are all tired of a provisional dependence, and de
sire that civil law shall taka the place of military
law. At any rate we implore the President To let
and rich fla- I us.know what else we have got to do.to Ire able
to enjoy the privileges and exercise tLe rights of
free citizens of the United States.
. . , , , n -ti i Important to those Coxcerxed.*—We
tact, that ten stoics now Oll)l>h icre, L ave g 00( j au tJ,ority for saying that all men over
where two or three, before the War,
were ample enough for all ordinary
purposes of trade. But there is an
other solution to the enigma, and one
that is no less patent than pernicious.
Our people,so long deprived of the
luxuries they were accustomed to’en-
joy before the blockade shut them out,
now that they are again admitted,
rush headlong and blindly into the
most foolish extravagance, seemingly
without power to restrain their vo
racious appetites. Jeans and liorye-
spun are no longer badges of honor;
nothing will do but cassimeers and cal
icoes, broad cloth and poplins. No
one thinks of-laying *up money for a
rainy day, but nearly everybody’s
motto seems to be, “to-day we live,
to-morrow we die.”
We are already
people, and advice
practice economy in all things apper
taining to ourselves and our families,
may seem to be irrelevant and inadmis
sible ; but we are poor, very poor, if
we h(*ve not learned at least one les
son from the trouble* of the times.—
If we choose to throw’ away the only
real benefit that the War conferred,
we of this day and generation, «or our
children, will ever live to see a return
of that material prosperity which
blessed us and honored us as a people
before the evil days came upon us.
Holden defeated.-—W. \V. Holden
has been defeated in the election for Gov
ernor of the State of Korth Carolina, by
10,000 majority. His successful competi
tor is a gentleman named Worth— a very
worthy man no doubt,
an impoverished
and counsel to
the ape of G5, who look no part in the war, and
all widows, fat the time Gen. Sherman’s Army in
jured their property.) will be re imbursed by the
U. S. Government, for damages.
The Assessor is already at work in the neigh
boring county of Hancock, ascertaining damages,
so far as respects the two classes of onr people
above named. This will be gratifying intelli
gence to many of our afflicted and sutfering peo
ple.
Vote of Jones County.
Governor—Chas. J. Jenkins, - 3G2
Congress—E. G. Cabnn)6S, - 854
Dr. Simmons. - -2
Senate—James F. Barron, - - 252
f E. S. Griffin, - - - 84
Represents ti vcs.
Wm. T. McCullough, - - 15G
A. J. Middlebrooks, - - 174
Executive Appointments.—By di
rection or request of the State Convention,
. . Provisional Governor Johnson, has ap-
ier mouth into nif?,|pointed two most excellent committees,
who are to make reports in order that they
caught j may belaid before the next Legislature.
One of these committees is composed
Com-! °f the Hons. Thomas P. SaS’old, of Mor
gan ; Charles J. Jofdan, of Jasper ; and
O. A. Lochrane, of Bibb. This commit
tee is raised to investigate the financial
the transac-
past four or five years, and
w ill commence their labors at the capital
on the 20th inst.
The other committee consists of Messrs.
E. Starnes, of Richmond ; Linton Ste-
_!pbens, of Hancock; Wm. Hope Hull, of
j Clark ; Logan E. Bleckley, of Fulton;
; a ml L. X Whittle, of Bibb. This com-
I mittee is raised to prepare a code of laws
uadi it I f 0 r the protection* and governmwt of the
mediate i'reedmen and free'dwomen of Georgia, and
to report the same at the earliest practica
ble period to lay before tbe Legislature
of the State.—Journal <$• Messenger.
The latter committee is now at work in
this city.—Eds. Fed.'Union.
was not again allowed to
Wirz Hung.—Henry Wirz was hung
at Washington City on the 10th inst. He
died calmly, protesting his innocence to
the last. Wirz and Bdwin M. Stanton
will meet at ike final casting up of ac
counts, and the great Judge may reverse
the judgment of the Court below. No
man'ic so responsible for tlie suffering of
the Union soldiers at Andersonville, as
Mr. Lincoln’s Sec’y of War, because lie
refused, again and again, to exchange them
when public sentiment, both North and
South, loudly demanded it.
Wrong.—We take the following from
the Columbus Sun.
The Legislature of Georgia assembles
at Milledgevillo on the first Monday in
December, which is the 4th.
Instead of being nominated by the Gov
ernor and confirmed by the Senate, as
heretofore, Judges of the Superior Courts
of Georgia are hereafter to ho elected by
the Legislature.
The Judges of tbe Superior Courts are
hereafter to be elected by the people, not by
the Legislature. The Jndges of tbe Su
preme Court are elected by the Legisla,-
ture.
he partly crushed, and which General j aflairs of „ ie Stale , coveri
Baker picked up. it was somewhat | tinn , of , he past four m . fivi
similar to an acorn, and was ascertain
ed to be strychnine, iffclosed in silk
and coated liquorice. In. getting up,
Mrs. Wirz had probably dexterously
conveyed it to his mouth. In a mo
ment more Wirz would have swallow
ed it, r.nd as soon as the outside coat
ing had dissolved in his stomach
would have caused his im
death.
Mrs. Wirz
visit the cell. She left the city near
ly two weeks ago, not awaiting even
t$ hear her husband’s sentence or to
see him before his death. On this
trial, her cold and indifferent manner
toward her husband was noticed and
commented upon. It js not known
whether Wirz had, by any means
communicated Jiis desire to commit
suicide .to his wife, or t whe»ther it was
not partly at the instigation of out
side parties, that she wished to aid
him to do so. It is known that Wirz
had for a long time entertained no
hope of escaping the sentence of
death. It is also believed that there
were friends of Davis, Lee, and Wind
er, who feared something might be
elicited on his trial that would convict
them by legal evidence with, and
make them responsible for the Ander
sonville crimes, and who desired that
Wirz might be out of the way as
quickly as possible.
The Insurrection in Jamaica.—A let
ter from G. A, Hague, collector of the
port of Morant, Jamaica, gives furth
er particulars of the negro insurrec
tion there. He says:
The Brutality is beyond anything
you ever heard of, Baron Kettlehol’ts
head was cut oft*, and his body cut up
from trunk to heel; so was Walter
andHitchins, and a‘black man, lately
a member of the local legislature, and
an educated man and much respected;
his body was cut open and his entrails
taken out while he was alive, and this
done by -women. Martial law is pro
claimed. The Governor is here in
person, and so is the General. We
have a large military force. Many
prisoners are taken. Eighty-one are i avc
already sentenced to death, and a large | interests at the expense
portion of them have been executed
already.
All our lady friends at Port Morant
were taken to Kingston by a gunboat.
All the stores at ManchionffiUare
cleaned out. Among the killed are
the Rev. -V. Herschill of Bath, Mr.
Walton, proprietor of the Retreat Es
tate, and many others. Dr. Crowdy’s
life was spared by taking an opth not
the wound* ef any white man.
Favorable Reports from the South.—
The editor of the Nashville Dispatch thus
reports a conversation with Hon. Harry
M. Watterson recently returned from a
month’s tour in Georgia, Alabama, Mis
sissippi and Louisiana, in the capacity of
confidential agent of the Government.
The President desired correct information
in regard to the real conditions and inten
tions of the people of these States, and it
was to gain this information be dispatch
ed Mr. Watterson to the States named.
That gentleman has spent a month in
mingling with the people of those States,
and expressed himself highly gratified
with what he has heard and siren. He
found the people everywhere doing what
ever was in their power to restore the
States to their former relations to the Gov
ernment. They accept the result of the
war in good faith, and no where did he
find a spirit of discontent or a desire to
get out of the Union. How different a
liberal, unprejudiced man sees men and
things frem tbe man who carries his pre
judices to such an extent that he can see
nothing good in the Southern people. Mr.
Watterson says that wherever he went,
he found the people regarded slavery as
dead and tbe question forever settled.—
He thinks the -great hpdy of the people
are rather .pleased that “the peculiar in
stitution has been crushed out, (Hid they
now Iook forward for a higher prosperity
than the South has ever enjoyed. Their
great concern, next to the restoration of
civil authority, is to procure the labor
necessary' to cultivate their lands. In
some sections this labor is being supplied
by the freedmeu, but inbthers the negroes
have not learned what freedom means,
especially is this the case in Louisiana ;
but Mr, Watterson attributes this to in
fluence which has been exerted by men
who have sought to promote their own
of those of tbe
negroes. ,
As an Evidence of the peaceable dispo
sition of the people, Gen. Steadman, the
commander of the district of Georgia, in
formed Mr.. Watterson that as soon as the
civil government should be restored in
that State, there would be no use for the
military there. And what is true of Geor
gia in this respect, is equally trne of the
other States visited.
Such reports as his persona! observation
and inqury have enabled Mr. Wetterson
A petition signed by 15,000 ladies was
presented to the President on the 6th in
stant, asking for the pardon of Jefferson
Davis. The National Intelligencer says
“His Excellency the President gave audi
ence yesterday to a numerous delegation
of ladies from Baltimore, deputed to pre
sent a petition signed by 15,000 ladies,
seeking ttie Executive clemeucy in behalf
of Jefferson Davis. Mrs. Coleman, daugh
ter of the lamented John J. Crittenden,
addressed the President in feeling and ap
propriate .terms, to which he responded in
a most felicitous manner, regretting that
public policy prevented his yielding to
their persuasive and touching arguments.
The interview was a protracted one
and of tlie most agreeable character, and
rthe fair petitioners left the city, carrying
with them the* most pleasurable impres
sions of the President.
In declining, th* President regretted
that the national character of the question
restrained all private sympathy which
they might have awakened in him, and
made the important statement that com
plete arrangements have been made for
the early legal trial of Mr. Davis, accor
ding to the laws of the laud.
Captain Itynders.—This well known
Individual has again “turned up” at
yammany Hall, his early character
istics still reigning supreme within
him, as the following report of a re
cent address before that political as
sociation exemplifies:
Captain Itynders’ Address. '
Gentlemen, said the Captain, bar
ing his Jovian 1/rows and standing
like a tower, gentlemen, I am almost
a stranger to ‘Tammany, where I was
driven out some years ago, but an
abiding affection for the Old Wigwam
brings me once more among you.—
Why did I leave old Tammany? Be
cause she forsook the jmnciple^of the
Democratic' party, and trained with
the Black Republicans. Your mnna-l
gers are no longer true to Democratic
principles. They are trusters, for
only tricksters would nominate a man
whom they knew could not be elected,
and whom they did not intend to sup
port, as they nominated Carolan O’
Brien Bryant.
Voice—How about the Fenians ?
Captain—I shall come to that pres
ently. Don’t interrupt me. As I was
about to observe—
Voice (amid cries of‘Put him out!’)
Dry up! JJow about the Fenians '?
Captain—1 am never uncivil to any
body, but if that dirty, low-lived, con
temptible scoundrel doesn’t shut up
his jaw, I’ll come there an J kick him.
Don’t call him to order. He doesn’t
know what order is. He thinks it
means something to eat, and therefore
opens bis mouth like a damned fool.—
(Laughter.) One good kick is worth
an ocean of advice to such a miserable
unlicked cur.
Henry Ward Beecher’8 ojHnion
wall Jackson. •
It will be of interest to those vvbo 1
not read it, to peruse the felW^
from tbe pen of Beecher, was pulili?’
ed in the New York Independei.r ’’
der the heading, “The death of t T
son!” Jack '
A brave and honest foe has f a ]i
Tims. Jefferson Jackson has died •
his wounds received in the con'i °
of the battle of Chancellorsvillp 1011
the hands of his own men. Ther ^
not auother mail left in the South f S
his place, pnd the Richmond n,°
cn
take
pers
scarcely exaggerate when ' £
say that the Confederacy could Lett >-
have lost fifty thousand men. q 0 J
in council, his peculiar excellence Was
in the field. We know of no man 0il
either side that surpassed him, if any
equalled, in handling an army.
We are, in some respect, better
judges of his military talents than
Southern men, since we felt the blows
they only <4frlt. It is certain » 0 niQU
has impressed the imagination of our
soldiers and the whole community so
much as he. An unknown name at
the beginning of the war, save to his
brother officers, and to his classes in
the military school at Lexington, Yj r .
ginia, his foot steps were earlie*Hu
the field from which" now death has
withdrawn him. But in two years he
has made his name familia^in every
civilized land on the globe .1s a Gener
al of rare skill, resource and fenenrv.
No other General of tlie South
could develope so much power out of
the slender and precarious means, by
the fervid inspiration o#his own mind,
as Jackson. He had absolute control
of his men, seeming almost to fascinate
them. He drove them through march
es long and difficult, without resources,
feeding them as best lie could ; he de
livered battle as a thunder cloud dis
charges bolts, and, if the fortunes were
against him, then, with more remark
able skill than in advancing, lie held
his men together in retreat, and with
extraordinary address and courage,
eluded pursuit, sometimes fighting,
sometimes fleeing, until lie brought oil'
his forces safely. Then, almost be
fore the dust was laid upon the war
path, his *face was again towards his
enemies, and he was ready*for renew
ed conflict. His whole soul was in his
work. He had to doubt nor parley-
■frigs within himself. He put the whole
force of his being into the blows for
the worst cause man ever fought for,
as few of our Generals ha»e uverjearu-
ed to do for the best cause for which
trumpet ever sounded. Henceforth
we know him no more after the flesh.
He is no longer a foe. We think of
him as a noble-minded gentleman, a
rare and eminent Christian. For years
he has been an active member of the
of the Presbyterian church, of which
he was a ruling elder. He nevw, in
all the occupations of the camp, ox
temptations of campaigns, lost the fer
vor of his piety, or remitted his Chris
tian duty.
We know that before every impor
tant move lie spent much time in pray
er. He had so put his soul to the
keeping of his Master that he was re
lieved from all thought of self, and
had the whole power of his life ready
for his work. Officers of Fremont’s,
army, who pursued him in his famous
retreat from the Shenandoah Valley,
found him to be greatly beloved by
the common people, among whom, in
former times, he had labored in pray
er meetings, in temperance meetings,
in every Christian word and work.—
No wonder he fought so well along a
region whose topography ho had map
ped down with prayers, exhortations
and Christian labor.
He was unselfish. He fought neith
er for reputation now, nor future per
sonal endowment. He therefore did
not fall into the ruinious habits of our
Generals, who are always neglecting
to do the things that can be done, be- .
cause they are small, but squander
time and men aud patience in getting
ready for great battles, which elude
them or defeat them. He incessantly
struck on the right and on the left,
and kept alive the fire in the hearts ot
the ill-clad, poorly fed and overwork
ed men, by the excitement of enter
prise and constant -relish ot victories,
small in detail, but whose sum
all-important.
Let no man suppose that the Xo>y l
will triumph over a fallen son with in -
suiting gratulations. No where ei^e
will the name of Jackson be n l0,e
honored. Not for the adhesion to the
cause of slavery, but for his devou 1
piety, and for his military genius.
We not unfrequently find men
are unfortunately deficient ,iu one or
gan, although remarkable for their in
tellectual acuteness and perfect p^J sl
cal health in other respects. ^ 8 ! n
timated on yesterday a melancjioh m-
stance of this sort in the Ne^ ^ or
Tribune. That journal
industry and energy in obtaining 11
latest news from all sections o> *
world, except from the unpro'® _
insurrection among the negro
of the island of Jamaica. . s
Of tfce horrible atrocities worn 1
still being committed by the j
suffragans, tbe Tribune has
Copt. Wertz's last fetter.—The fol
lowing is reported from Washington
as being the last letter written by
Capt. Wertz :
Old Capitol Prison, Nov. 10, 1SG-5.
Mr. Sciiade—Dear Sir: It is no
doubt the last time I address myself to
you. What I have said to you oftea,
I repeat—accept my thanks, my sin
cere, heartfelt thanks, for all you have
done for me. May God reward you,
I cannot. Still I have something mold
to ask of you, and I am confident you
will not refuse to receive my dying
request. Please help my poor family,
my dear wife and children. War,
cruel war, has swept everything from
me, and to-day my wifu and my chil
dren are beggars. My life is demand
ed as an atonement. I am willing to
give it, and I hope, after & while I will
be judged differently from what I am
now. If any one ought ffo come to the
relief of my family, it is the people of
the South, for whose sake I have Sac
rificed all. I know you will excuse
me for troubling you again. Fare
well, dear sir; may God bless you.
Yours thankfully,
• H. WERTZ.
Spain and Chili.—New York, Nov. 13.
—The Times' Washington special dis
patch Buys the appointment of Gen. Kil
patrick ns minister to Chili will not result
in the immediate sapercednre of the pres
ent excellent representative at Santiago,
Hon. T. H. Nelson. Gen. Kilpatrick
has three months leave of absence to visit
Europe. He will first visit Spain and
probably come to an understanding with
the queen as to our position with reference
to the aggression of Spain upon Chili; and
thence to South America, prepared to
maintain the dignity of his important mis
sion.
There is general indignation in the gov
ernment and diplomatic circles at the wan
ton attack of Spain upon Chili. The
Spanish squadron for blockade, consisting
of Seven frigates, represents the greatest
unauiimity of feeling prevailing among
tho Chilians.
Fifty woman bare recently been, ap
pointed to Southern poet offices.
nothing, although all the ot ^ er JjLg
York papers are^ull rf the atrac,®
details oftheir most diabolica
ity.—Richmond Times 9th.