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A Letter from General SiiiclitK-A
Strong Indorsement of tlie Pre»-
Ident.
Carrollton, Mo., May 1,1866.
; Messrs. Clark IL Green, W. C. B. Gillespie, D. K.
! Turk, Macon, Mo.,
Gentleman .• I deeply regret iny inability
to comply with my engagement at your place
on Monday next. The sudden niid serious
indisposition of n member of my family makes
it imperative on me to remain at home until
it be God’s will to relieve me from anxiety.—
I beg that you will make this known to your
people ns. my apology for failing to attend,
and I desire this the more because I make it a
FLORIDA.
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have learned to use.
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f wp l*xio»,Ae., can be cured by using Plants
Bitters.
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Yowr. middle aged, and old, arc delighted with
ju effects. ^
"~j t first trial always has a marked good effect.
\o change of diet is necessary while using
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AS GOOD AS NEW:
tiif confederate dead.
We invite serious attention to the comma-
nication signed “Women of Resaca.” The
iul'ject is one that now, beyond all others,
appeals most strongly to the Southern heart
llow vain to suy we do not love and admire
jml revere those who yielded up their lives
lor us! How unnatural to suppose that we
•liould neglect their mouldering remains and
leave them to bleach, forgotten and unno
ticed, beneath the storms of heaven! They
were otir own brothers—our fathers—our sons
-onr friends. They fought for what they
conceived to be our good, and they died de
fending the cause they had espoused—their
cause and our cause. Let not our souls be so
dead to humanity, dead to gratitude, dead to
patriotism, dead to pride and honor, as to re
fuse a decent sepulture to our departed broth
ers ; as to permit the names and memory of
the gallant Confederate soldiers, who laid
their lives, n willing sacrifice, upon their
country's altar, to go down so suddenly and
shamefully into the dark sc-a of oblivion.
All honor to the noble women of the South
who have taken upon themselves the grateful
task of honoring the names and memory of
our Confederate dead, and ol preserving, un-
deseerated. their sad remain!
God speed them in their humane and pa
triotic work, and enable them to carry it for
ward to a full and glorious consummation.—
Let them know* that our sympathies are with
t'ueu, and that purse and pen and platform
are freely offered, ns willing co-ndjutors in
their sacred undertaking. And let them,
from one end of our land to the other, rise in
the might of their love and beauty and patri
otism anil tender sympathy, and, by combin
ed eflorts, rescue from oblivion the name anil
fame of their gallant defenders. Suffer it not
to l»e that another section shall honor the re
mains and memory of their friends, and greet
the morning sun with proud monuments,
blazoning forth the heroic deeds of \heir
dead, while we pci mit the hones of our heroes
to lie unburied, nml the names and fame of
our martyrs to rcinain“u»wcpt,unhonored and
unsung.”
CORN—COTTON—STABBING.
Newton, Ga., May 25tli, 1866.
Niton Daily Telegraph:—Left your inter
ring city on Southwestern train for this
point. As the cars run very slow, I had an
opportunity of examining into the condition
of the crops on the route. From Macon to
^litliville, I must confess, they looked to be
in a very poor , condition—cotton and corn
' tv small, and also full of grass and weeds,
that if it is saved from being ruined it will
'on miracle. From Smithvillc to Albany,
the prospect was brighter: cotton and corn
much larger and cleaner, yet some fields I no-
«1 were considerably in the grass.
From Albany to Newton, the change was
***‘1 greater for the better. I saw corn on
5iTcr «l plantations tasseling; and cotton up-
ta the plantation of Henry Williams, about
tl gftt miles from this place in bloom. The
crops on the road from thence here arc in first
rate order.
A difficulty occurred on the 28d inst., at
he plantation of Cotton Jones, four miles
from this place, hetweeri'two freedmen, Ricli-
“Ul Jones and Edward Jones, in which the
latter was stabbed in the abdomen by the for
mer. lrom the effects of which, lie died on
Jcstcrday, Richard Jones was arrested by
! il °f the Frecdmcn’s Bureau, Mr. B.
• Lawton, unil turned over to the civil nu-
! 10r ’hVs to be dealt with. Ho is now in the
la!1, k of the Sheriff of the county. The case
'rtll be investigated to-morrow before three
ttdiees of the Inferior Court.
Cassie.
Lvery SATonDAY.—This Weekly is, in our
opinion, precisely what it claims to be—a
journal of choice reading selected from cur-
re °t literature. The editor has the range of
^ the English and Continental Reviews,
•'lagazincs, and first-class Weeklin, which
Pitas into their service the ablest. Wisest and
fattiest writers of Europe. From this almost
juimcnso storehouse he selects that which ho
5 C1 best adapted to suit the taste and in
digence of the American people.
/Fhe selections in the numlicrs already issu-
i " a ’ e embraced a wide Tnriety of topics—
of interest to cultivated minds, and nearly
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point never to fail in an engagement of this
kind, except under the pressure of overruling
circumstances. If I can nt any time hereafter
atone for this failure it will afford me great
pleasure to do so.
I have never been more thoroughly con
vinced of the great necessity for exertion than
at the present moment. The peril ot the
present hour can hardly he overrated. In
this I agree with the President, and think it
would be treason to the Constitution and the
Union for men to think as I do to continue
silent anil indifferent nt such a crisis. A few
years of civil war did the work of centuries in
altering and deteriorating the character of
a people, and none but strong and privileged
races ever fully recover from such deteriora
tion.
Most nations have to pass through a second
conservative rcvolution.to recover their lost
position, and if we escape from that calamity
it will he by a violent political struggle,
amounting in substance to a revolution. "The
had passions of human nature once stimulat
ed by war, survive the occasion and make the
period that succeed sone of bitter revenge and
cruel persecution. It was at first hoped and
believed by the friends of human freedom ev
erywhere, that onr new pcoplc,educated under
the benign and elevating influence of lilierty,
would show to the world that a defeated par
ty in a civil war could accept their defeat
with dignity, and return to their natnral al
legiance without any feeling of dishonor or
degradation, and that the victorious party,
disdaining the base and cowardly gratifica
tion of revenge, and confident of their own
strength, justice and magnanimity, could wel
come back their erring brethren without seek
ing or desiring to insult, humiliate or degrade
them, or render them unworthy of that high
destiny which should be the pride and boast
of the free-horn citizens of the only great Re
public in the world. This would have exalt
ed our National character in the estimation
of Christianity, and like all public conduct
which is truly great and noble, would re
dound to the highest interest and advantage
of our own country. But all of these bright
hopes have l>cen doomed to sad and bitter
disappointment.
The leaders of the present Congress are
giving the most convincing proof that a sin
gle despot, however cruel, can lie more mag
nanimous anil merciful than the inflamed
fanatical representatives of a free people.—
They arc not content with trying to humili
ate, degrade anil dishonor the whole South
ern people, en matte, loyal and rebel, but they
are determined to perpetuate that degrada
tion and fasten it upon their innocent poster
ity, l>y divesting them of all political power,
and investing their slaves of yesterday with
full political power to dominate over them.
They imagine, and perhaps rightly, that no
human punishment could degrade the South
ern whites like that of investing their recent
slaves with power to decide upon their des
tiny.
There is a coldly calculated, refined vin
dictiveness in this tba' would do credit to
the denizens of a darker region than their
Ethiopian policy can ever make the South.—
And beside the gratification of impish re
venge, this policy promises them peculiar po
litical advantages; for it is one of the char
acteristics of the cold-blooded faction, that in
even gratifying their revenge they never lose
sight of their own immediate interest. The
whole political power cf the South, when
once Africanized, can be made available by
suitable agents, under their Civil Rights bill,
and such other kindred measures as they may
be able to pass over the President’s veto.
The swarm of agents with which they in
tend to . inundnte the South under this bill,
would be an intolerable alHiction under any
circumstances; but when it is remcraljcrcd that
this brood of mean, petty, hungry officials arc
to be sent there to take charge ot the negroes
anil sustain them against the whites, and to
enforce negro equality, we may form some
slight idea of the pretty little Radical pande
monium they mean to establish in that devo
ted region. To even discuss the unconstitu
tionally of this bill would be treating it with
too much respect. No, man who understands
our system of Government will dare to urge
that Congress 1ms the power to enter the
States, select out a portion of their citizens,
change their civil status, place them under
special protection, semi special agents to sus
tain them against the rest of the citizens, and
remove them when necessary from under
State laws and State tribunals, and place them
under the sole guardianship and protection of
the General Government. It would wrong
their intelligence to suppose it constitutional.
President Johnson could not act with such
men. No American who has a white con
science cau. The conscience has to be black
ened in America, or crimsoned in Europe, to
make a Republican sufficiently black or suffi
ciently red to do the work of a thoroughly
radicalised fanatic.
If this country is to be saved from going
the way of all other Republics on this Conti
nent, we will owe it, under God, to Andrew
Johnson. If -we are ever again to have any
thing worthy of being called a Union, we will
owe it to his loyalty and intrepidity. But a
Union kept together by bayonets, or what is
worsfe, by a swarm of official vermin, appoint
ed under the Civil Rights bill; to interfere
with the laws, tribunals nnd rights of the
States, nnd the hereditary constitutional lib
erty of the people, is not worth an hour's pre
nervation. No, let us have a real Union—a
Union of hearts, laws, rights and privileges,
or no Union. The people will have no radi
calized Union, with New England for its head
ami Texas for its tail. We will have nu
A Proclamation !>y Gov. Walker.
parade it in their ccltmns, until the mines
of their readers are poisoned against us, ard
they mistake the act of *ne lawless individual
for the uniform conduit of the whole com;
Fellow-Citizens :—The President has { munitv.
proclaimed that the insurrection which here- i On the other hand sojae of our Southcri
tofore existed in Florida “is at an end, and i papers notice nothing gcpd in the Nortlg bit
henceforth to be so regarded.” The Becre- i cull with equal caro evety instance of elopc
tnrv of War has ordered that though this I meat, murder, theft, robbery, arson, burgh-
proclamation does not remove martial law, i ryt starvation, destitution, Mormonism, tee
yet martial law shall be resorted to only in love, &c., until their readers are taught to
cases where justice cannot lie had before the believe that the North is utterly corrupt—
civil tribunals. And Maj.-Gen. Foster, in | Now this is all wrong. I have lived all my
General Orders, No. 28, with words of com- life at the South and have been much at the
of
plimentto the good behavior and loyalty
our people, has restored to the civil courts
full jurisdiction over all cases whatsoever,
and withdrawn all military control except in
a few specified cases.
Let us pause and reflect how much 1 letter
our condition is at present than it waa this
day twelve months ago. About this time
last year the military entered our capital and
took possession of the whole of our State. A
Provost-Marshal, with a company of soldiers,
was stationed in every town aiid neighbor
hood, anil their will was the only law we
knew. The functions of our civil magistrates
were entirely suspended. Our Executive
and several others of our eminent citizens
weic in prison. Our laborers were not
the field. There was but little food and no
money in the country. We had lost nearly
all our personal property, and the United
States Marshal was threatening to confiscate,
seize and take from us what wealth we still
possessed in the shape of real estate. An he
roic resolve to sutler without a murmur what
ever the conqueror might choose to inflict
was visible on the countenances of some,
while despair took possession of the souls and
painted itself upon the faces of others of our
people. Let us turn from the contempla
tion of so painful a scene- and consider our
present condition.
Our capital is again occupied by an execu
tive and other officers chosen by the people
—the laws are administered by judicial offi
cers regularly appointed under the Constitu
tion. The provost marshals and the troops
arc gone. The prison doors have been un
barred—onr citizens are again at liberty.—
Our laborers arc again in our fields, which
E remise an abundant harvest Our people
ave enough of money to supply the
necessaries and even some of the luxuries of
life, and we feci easy in the possession of our
lands. The confiscated property has nearly
all been restored, and even the tax sales are
being declared null and void. The sullen
resolves of our people to suffer in silence, and
the utterances of despair have been converted
into expressions of confidence in, and loyalty
to the geucral government Life and energy
and industry are everywhere visible.
The question naturally presents itself, to
whom arc we indebted for this great change?
And the answer is that, next to God, our
thanks are due to the President of the United
States. By his wise reconstruction policy he
has led us.stcp'by step, and little by little,
until by almost insensible degrees he has con
ducted us out of the “Slough of Despond,”
and placed our feet upon the high ground of
Hope. But, fellow-citizens, I am pained to
be obliged to say to you that the President
finds himself, on account of what he has done
us, under great difficulties. The entire
Southern delegation being excluded, there is
in Congress a majority of two-thirds against
him. He stands almost alone ou the ram
parts of the Constitution, but, thank God, he
has an undaunted heart and a stalwart arm
with which he wields the flaming sword of jus
tice and truth. His enemies pay no attention
to his warning against their infractions of the
Constitution, but seem madly resolved to
rush into consolidation and centralism, which
he pronounces as dangerous a heresy as seces
sion itself. They say that what he ho3 done
for us makes him a usurper.
They say that we are disloyal and rebel
lious and unfit for the enjoyment ofcivil lib
erty. He says that we “arc well anil loyally
North, and the result of my observatioi is,
while too much vice exists in. either section,
yet the good in both vastly preponderate. —
And, besides this, we are brethren, anc 1 why
should brethren strive to blacken the diame
ters of each other? The God of Battles has
irrevocably decreed that we are one people.
We must learn to live together as brKhren—
“Behold how good and how». v.-i-nt it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity. Itis
like the precious ointment upon the head
that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s
beard, that ran down to the skirts ot his gar
ments.”
The great aim of every good citizen now
should be to let “by-goncs bf by-gones.”—
Our people, I trust will, with pne accord, ig
nore all dissensions on account of past politi
cal differences. Peace, quiet, repose and rest
are what the country now requires. Let us
not rake over the ashes of the pas: and blow
into flame the expiring embers of discord.—
Many crimes committed during the war doubt
less deserve puni lmient, but iiasmueh as
they were not punished at the tine, and most
ot them had a political origu, I think it
would be best now, as a matter of policy, to
permit most, if not all of than, to sleep in
oblivion.
But in the punishment of ril crimes that
have been committed since tlu surrender, not
already passed upon by the nilitary, or that
may hereafter be committed, i recommend, ns
before stated, the utmost vigilance. Aside
from the right, justice and propriety of the
thing, the exercise of civil aitliority depends
r n it, for you will see fron General Orders
28 that the military tribunals may still
be resorted to in any Cast when it shall be
made to appear by atfidarits, to the satisfac
tion of the Major-General commanding, that
justice will not lie done oefore’a cival tribu
nal. I sincerely trust ttat no such case may
occur. If those charged with the enforcement
of the laws will do their duty, no such case
can occur.
You will remark that General Orders No.
28 revoke General Orders No. 4. You will
remember that it was General Orders No. 4
that prohibited punishment by stripes anil
pillory. Thus you will preceive that civil
courts arc left untrammled in the administra
tion of all our laws.
Under existing circumstances, with a peni
tentiary', house of correction, or suitable jails,
those punishments may be absolutely neces
sary in some cases ; but under the circum
stances of our present condition, I recom
mend that a very sparing use be made of them
and that they be resorted to only in cases
where no other punishment will answer as
well. I am making application to have
transferred to this State the United States
Arsenal at Chattahoochee, to bu used as a
penitentiary anil house of correction; and if
nty application shall be successful, I shall re
commend to the legislature to dispense with
stripes and pillory altogether.
As Major-Gen! Foster has now practically
relinquished all control over the civil affairs
of the State, I deem it a fitting occasion to
express, in behalf of tho State, my high ap
preciation of the wisdom, justice, moderation
and kindness with which he has exercised the
functions of his high command. Had he been
the chosen Executive of the people instead of
the Commanding-General ot a conquering
power, he could not have manifested more
solicitude for our welfare.
Ia conclusion, fellow-citizens, I will borrow
disposed,” and that all the laws, both State I the language of the Governor of Georgia, and
anil Federal, may be enforced by the civil tri- j say, “ I congratulate you upon this earnest of
bnnals. They denounce him as a traitor, and I coming restoration to interior self-govern-
if we may regard the utterances of their news- ; ment. In our condition, neither conscious
papers, they are gathering strength to ini- j rectitude of intention, nor noisy, unbecoming
peach and remove him from his high office, i professions of it, will avail aught. Practical
Floridians were never known to turn their 1 demonstrations, which incredulity itself can-
backs on friend or foe, and therefore you ask j not gainsay, and nothing less, will work out
whatcanwedo for the magnanimous man our redemption.”
who thus bares his breast in our behalf against i D. S. WALKER,
such fearful odds ? My answer is that the .
best way in which we can assist him and to j —— —*
serve the cause of truth, justice and the Con- j qew. Santa Anna.—The New York Herald
stitution ol our country, is to keep cool and 1 _ . . .
quiet, obey the laws, and by the daily beauty , pabWhcs an account of an interview of one
of our lives, force conviction ou the minds of of its reporters with General Santa Anna, of
all that every lawless act, any indiscreet ex- i Mexico, now at Elizabctbport, New Jersey, to
pression that may be uttered, is immediately j w j lom the General stated fully his object in
exaggerated and published broadcast over , . . .. ■ /-
the Northern States with the view of making ! com,n 3 1° the United S.atcs at this time,
it appear that the President is wrong anil his I He says that he has come to aid and unite the
enemies right. We arc passing through a tear- j Liberal party, and wishes to organize a new
ful ordeal.
The eyes of the world are upon us. Let us,
therefore, be wise as serpents and harmless as
doves. In times like these, it is the duty of
every good citizen not only to obey the Con
stitution nnd laws himself, but to see as for
as possible that every one else does so, for
each is now held responsible lor all, and all if Mexico. thcy are false ; tliey are ]
are held responsible for each. 'I hereforc, I ftn( j disconnected portions of a pri
republican movement to drive the French
from Mexico. The money for this purpose
must be raised outside of Mexico. In regard
to the letters to 3Iaximilian, he says:
“As to the letters attributed to me setting
forth that I accepted Maximilian as Emperor
mutilated
private cor-
Union with eleven States out or Africanized.
The war, it is true, has made us a patient
people, anil taught us to submit to any kind of
government; but this must not be mistaken
for a blind, ignorant, or slavish submission.
We will start up wide awake some bright
morning and conclude that a rump Congress
and a rump Union at the same time are not
quite the thing for this country; and so sure
as we open our eyes to this fact, we will
do what Col. Pride did with the rump
Parliament—send the rump Congress to seek
the devil—anywhere else except in "Washing
ton and bring back a whole Union, in all its
beauty and mqjesty, the greatest and noblest
political structure in the world. To effect
this peaceably, we must have a thorough or
ganization of the people. Every man who
wants to preserve the Constitution and the
Union ought to enter a Johnson Club. We
owe it to tho noble stann trked by the Presi
dent to sustain him; and what is more, wo
owe it to the country, and to the principles of
constitutional liberty, to sustain his policy so
long as lie sustains the Constitution anil the
Union. The Radical faction must be put
down by a pcan.iWp or - ani/ation, or tli
w " u 1 J •' 1”“V i of evervtliiD*'"00il that Is Hone 111 tin
country wilFdnlt ' V". 1 •'/" ,• uh-u w7th aio .-very instance
revolution. Gentlemen,, I h.i\e the honor to j creat or small, real or imagini
be, your obedient servant, Jas. Shields ’
charge, not only every officer, but every man respondencc which my enemies have con-
in the State, to be vigilant in the exercise ol g tmed to do me harm; but in a few days I
all liis duties ns a loyal citizen ot the united supply tho missing parts, and restore
States, to see that all crime is instantly pun- tl|c incorrect sentences in a statement which
ished, and that all the laws, ami particularly j nm now preparing for the press. The in-
thoac for the protection ot tho ireedmen, are siuuation that I have an eye to the loan you
duly executed. mention is absurd, for, in the first place, my
All the greater crimes, such as murder, ar- private fortune places me beyond the thirst
son, &c., having since the surrender ot Gen. 0 f wealth, and secondly, there docs not ap-
Jolinston up to this time been. punishable pear to l>e much probability of the loan being
alone by tho military, our magistrates aud endorsed by Congress,
people have falleu into the habit of looking “Our next remark was: ‘General, you do
alone to the military for the arrest of offend- Dot seem to be in favor with the Mexican Le
ers; hut hereafter this will not be the case, .ration at Washington; they characterize you
The military have ceased to arrest, except up- n9 a p rc , l( .j, spy,”
on the warrant of the civil magistrates. I Santa Anna (excitedly.) “A French spv,
urge the magistrates aud people themselves to j n( i cw i j nl tdI1 you> Scnor> ^ imlch of
he prompt to apprehend anil punish all vio- R French spy that I am willing in my old age
latore of Jaws, ot whatever grades. to leave my quiet retirement and buckle on
I know that our people are loyal, and 1 feel „,y 8Wor ,i again in response to the call of my
under no necessity, therefore, ot impressing oppressed countrymen, anil fight at their
the duty ot loyalty upon them, but 1 wish to i 1U!U | until j g C e the last Frenchman and the
warn them particularly against all expressions last Austrian driven into their boats. I creat-
of impatience which lain, by any system ot oil tho Republic of Mexico forty years ago,
torturing, be construed into utterances ol dis- aml j wish to it rc8to red before I die.
loyalty. Such expressions are all reported to mc ^ t jj C jig^jean flag waving over the
the North and magnified and made to play an c jty of Mexico onco more, let me see a Consti-
important partrn the war upon the President tutional President and a Constitutional Con-
Evcry intemperate paragraph in a newspaper gress-then all I shall wish for will be to die.
is particularly adapted to this puroose-and Tlli3 is the sununit of n , amb ition. Toinor-
bere I beg leave to say that I think it is high row j di8patcU au officer of my staff to PrC3 .
time the-custom which has so long prevailed ident Juarez to state to him my future plan
among °“ r awl newspapers, both regarding my country, and I shall also send a
South and North, and with such disastrous communication to Scnor Romero, explaining
results, of speaking evil of each other, should m y views to him, and requesting his co-oper-
be desisted^ from-it is a custom certainly at * on in grand work oi the salvation of
much more honored m the breach than in the tbe Mexican Republic at this thq eleventh
observance, anil is proiluctive of nothing but hour.”
evil. continually. I am sorry to say that some
of our Southern newspapers are copying too „ .
closely the bad example set by some in the , The financial report of the mvcstiga-
North. The only object of certain journals ring committee oflcuian affairs is kept strict*
would seem to be to prejudice one section of v 8e< ? ct ' Stephens has positively refused to
the couutry against the other. So they in- the press. Frenisthis it may he in-
crease their subscription lists and enlarge their ^ l0 * rom creditable
advertising columns, th5v appear not to care to 0 Mahoney and his satellites. m , ,
what becomes of the country. The Northern
papers of this class n j< et fls odious all notice ES?” The Judges of the Supreme Court,
' —* V1 —good that is done in the South, whose opinions are adverse to the. coustitu-
ce of law- tionality of the teat oath, are Messrs; Clifford,
inary, and Wayne, Mclson and Grier, with one doubtful
\f?f~ We take especial pl*!asure in comply
ing with the request of the ladies of‘Rich
mond, by laying the subjoined feeling appeal
before our lady readers of this State:
TO THE WOXEN OP THE SOUTH.
Richmond is begirt with an army of Con
federate dead. The hallowed precincts of
our cemeteries are rendered still more sacrctl
by their graves—to be counted by tens of
thousands of martyred heroes; around us
were bloody battle-fields, and here were the
most crowded hospitals. The dead of both
are sleeping in Hollywood and Oakwood.
Not alone the fallen of Virginia are buried
here. Your loved and lost, brave and chival
rous spirits, whom we, too, learned to love,
repose side by side with ours. The greater
proportion of your best and bravest young
men, cheered by your blessings and strength
ened by your prayers, came to Virginia to
battle for our common cause.
Many, oh! how many of them fell on bat
tle-fields or died in our hospitals, the victims
of disease engendered by the exposures of
arduous campaigns ?
There is no country upon whose roll of
honor shall be inscribed the names of the
Confederate dead. They died for and with
their cause.
Their courage and devotion obtained the
plaudits of admiring nations. But it is the
recollection of their suficrings, their patience,
and their untimely end, that most tenderly
endears their memory to us. Dying, thby left
us the guardianship of their graves. It is a
grateful service, due alike to them and to
their surviving friends. Let us keep green
the turf above their heads and build monu
ments to mark for generations yet to come the
place of their repose.
A society has been formed in the city of
Richmond entitled “The Memorial Associa
tion.”
The object of this Society arc to collect
funds to be applied in enclosing, arranging,
returfing, and otherwise placing in order, the
graves of the Confederate dead interred in the
cemeteries of Richmond, so that the nftnesof
our fallen soldiers may be permanently pre
served from oblivion, and their last resting-
places saved from the slightest appearance of
neglect or want of care.
All persons who make donations for the
purpose of carrying out the objects of this So
ciety are enrolled as members of the same.
We would respectfully snggest to the ladies
of the South to form auxiliary societies,-co
operating witti us in carrying out the objects
above stated. As soon as such societies arc
formed, it is hoped that they will correspond
with this Association. Letters may be ad
dressed and contributions sent to
Jilts. Wsr. H. MacFarland,
President.
All Southern papers are requested to insert
anil call attention to the above appeal.
Acts of tlie General Conference or
the IHethodist Church,
The action of the General Conference may
bo summed up in the following items:
1. The name of the Church, it was resolved
changed to “Episcopal Jlethoilist Church,”
provided, that three-fourths of all the mem
bers cf the several annual Conferences shall
concur therein.
2. Lay representation—four laymen, one of
whom may be a local preacher, (to be elected
by the District Stewards, or in such way as
the annual Conference may direct,) to each
Presiding Elder’s District in the annual Con
ference ; and equal number ot laymen and
clergyman as representatives to the General
Conference, excepting the number be odd,
then the advantage of the odd number to be
given to the clerical portion—the lay mem
bers of the annual Conference to elect the
lay representatives to the General Conference,
anil the clerical members to elect the clerical
representatives. Upon the request of one-
fifth of the General Conference, the laymen
and the clergyman can form two distinct
houses, when a concurrent majority will be
necessary to pass any law. This action, how
ever, is subject to the same confirmation and
approval of three-fourths of all the preachers
in the several annual Conferences.
The limit of the Pastorate has been extend
ed from two to four years. .
4. A system of Church Meetings was
adopted, to be held once a month, if practi
cable, otherwise once a quarter—to be presid-
cd,over by the preacher in charge. The ob
ject of it is to put the membership more
thoroughly in connection with the various
enterprises of tie church.
5. The probationary system has been abro
gated—members are to be received formally
by tho preacher in charge, according to the
form of tho baptismal service, or some other
form in an appendix to the Discipline.
6. Class-meetings is placed upon the same
footing with prayer-meeting, and is no longer
a test of membership.
7. The missionary society is divided into a
Domestic anil a Foreign Missionary Society,
with distinct Boards, Secretaries and Treasu
ries—the former located at Nashville, and
the latter at Baltimore.
8. Everything in the Discipline in regard
to the men and women sitting apart in the
Church, has been taken out.
9. Tlie whole matter of the quarterage, has
been merged into a real support.
10. Everything advisory in regard to dress
is taken out; anil so to all that part which
requires preachers to consult the Presiding
Elder upon the delicate subject of matri
mony.
11. No traveling preacher can be proposed
to an Annual Conference for ordination, ex
cept he shall have passed an examination bc-
What Two Virginia Girls Did.—Among
the strangers in Philadelphia at this moment
are two ladies from Jlartinsburg, West Vir
ginia. __ Yesterday they were purchasing a
seed drill, a mowing machine,and other agri
cultural implements, whose cost in the ag
gregate was about eight hundred dollars.—
Their home was very close to the theatre of
the late war. Between the two contending
armies their houses and their barns were
burned, their horses and their cattle driven
off, their only brother conscripted into the
rebel army, aud themselves left utterly desti
tute and homeless. Any one who, seeing a
young Iaily such as wc saw yesterday, had
been told that she had personally ploughed
anil planted many acres of land, would "have
laughed to scorn the party so informing him.
Such, however, is literally the case.
We learned the facts from a gentleman re
siding in the vicinity. The smoking ruins of
the farm upon which these young people re
sided had scarcely cooled when the neighbors
clubbed together, built tiicm a log house, and
extemporized them a sort of barn. Horses
were loaned to them, and the girls with their
own hands ploughed tho ground and seeded
it with corn. The crop grew apace, and with
their own hands they harvested it. They
sold it to good advantage. They had owned
forty-seven negro slaves. Some of these went
into the Union army, others deserted the lo
cality. The girls were left alone to battle
with the vicissitudes of the war.
Our informant, whose respectability is be
yond a question, says that these girls produc
ed by their work in the field more decided
and productive results than were accomplish
ed by the entire gang of slaves. They toiled
for three years, nnd now have a comfortable
house and most substantial barns upon their
property, while improvements have been
made upon it to an extent that makes it of
considerable more 'value than before the torch
of conflicting armies reduced its building to
ashes. One of the young ladies has since mar
ried, but the others still do duty as their own
“ovcrsers,”and they themselves purchased yes
terday and directed the shipment ot the ag
ricultural implements to which we have above
referred. The wonder to the dealer was,
that a lady, delicately gloved, and attired as
though she had never overstepped the bounds
ot the boudoir, should descant experiment
ally and intelligently upon the respective
merits of the different reaping machines, and
upon the comparative value of the different
patents tor threshing out the cereals.
These young ladies were educated in Phil
adelphia, and were well known to many of
our best people.—Phil. American.
Tiie President and Mr. Davis.—It will
afford the Southern people pleasure to read
the following paragraph, when they remem
her that the paper from which it is copied
(the New York Times) speaks by request of
Mr. Johnson in thus relieving him of the odi
um of a wicked slander
“Unscrupulous partisan journals are con
tinually reiterating the statement that the pro
clamation issued by the President on the 2d
day of May, 1865, offering a reward for the
capture of Davis, Clay, and others wa3 issued
upon his own motion and founded upon his
own belief that the murder of Jlr. Lincoln
and attempted assasination of Jfr. Seward
were incited and procured by Davis, Clay,
and others. The radical organ here repeats
the assertion, anil says Judge Holt had noth
ing to do with the imprisonment and contin
ued incarceration of the parties on this charge,
The truth is, that the President did not him
self investigate any of the alleged facts and
evidence upon which the proclamation was
issued. It was based entirely upon the state
ment furnished by Judge Holt from the Bu
reau of Military Justice. The exigency of the
occasion precluded the idea of thorough in
vestigation by the President of the volumin
ous anti generally circumstantial proofs on
file in the Bureau of Military Justice. Mr.
Johnson had occupied the Presidential chair
but a little over two weeks when Judge
Holt’s reports was presented to him, anil he
was so burdened *with official cares that he
could not, if he had been disposed, have
thoroughly examined the testimony ; nor was
there probably any necessity for such scruti
ny, for the custom has been generally to take
tlie reports and statements of heads of de
partments as the basis for the President’s
official action.”
Southern Enterprise.—ThcN. Y. Times
pays the lollowing compliment to Southern
credit and enterprise:
“Wc notice from time to time the depart
ure from the Southern States for Europe of
agents in the interests ot Southern railroads
and of various manufacturing and industrial
activities. They go to borrow capital for
the purpose of resuscitating the fortunes of
the South. Beauregard has just started to
Europe on a mission of this kind in behalf
of the Louisiana railroad, and several of the
Georgia anil Virginia lines are about to lie
represented abroad by Commissioners with a
similar object in view. We trust that suc
cess will crown these efforts. There is no
reason why the capitalists, who loan their
rnony to almost any of the industrial enter
prises of the South, should not reap Jarge
returns from it. The incomparable resources
of the Southern States, are but in the infancy
of their devclopemcnt, and their growth from
this time forward, should be more rapid anil
vigorous than ever before.
Crops in Southwestern Georgia.—We
learn through Hon. J. J. Floyd, that the corn
crop in Southwestern Georgia promises unu
sually well. There will not boa half crop of
fore the Conference Committees to their satis-! cotton. The freeiimen are performing onlj
faction in the prescribed course of study.
12. It is recommended that, lor the present.
Biblical Chair be established in connection
with each of our Colleges, for the theological
education of young preachers.
13. Several important changes in the bona- :
dories of Conferences were made; for which l
we refer to the Committee on Boundaries ; |
and North-west Texas, the Columbia, the Mo- |
bile, and the Montgomery Conferences were •
formed. The name of the “Rio Grande” Con
ference was changed to West Texas, and that
of the “Ouachita” Conference to Little Rock.
The Kansas Conference was divided between
tolerably well. Those of them who were wise
enough to remain with their former masters
are doing well. Hirelings are idle and indif
ferent. The women will riot work at all.—
There is great complaint made of obnoxious
persons tampering with negroes and inducing
them to violate contracts. The Judge trav
eled through Culhoun, Terrell, Randolph,
Lee and Sumter counties.—Intelligencer.
p^~ThcLondon Times closes an article on
the American negroes as follows:
“Their place, there is no denying it, is ser-
vice and submission. A law of nature we
the Missouri and St Louis Conferences. The- cannot nUer, qnd the best their friends can do
St. Louis, the Missouri, the Baltimore, the fo^hcA'is to find out the position and oc
cupation that fit tiieir quality the best, and
advise them to accept them cheerfully.”
St. Louis, the Missouri, the Baltimore, the
Virginia, the Georgia, and the East Texas arc
permitted to divide during the next lour
years, if they sluill deem it expedient and de
sirable so to do.
The Virginia Union Convention, which
14. The vote on licensing preachers and | ^ ia sess io . n for two days at Alexan-
rccommending persons for ordination, is to be ■ d r,a i adjourned sine die on the lbtli inst., of-
taken by balLotin the Quarterly Conference. *er adoptinga series of resolutions in favorof
15. The colored members of the church arc impartial suffrage. The only dissenting voice
to be formed into their own Quarterly anil i of any importance was that of John Minor
Annual Conferences, the latter at the discre- j Botts . Chairman of the Convention.
tion of the Bishops, with a view to their ulti-! ‘ ,
mutely forming their own General Confer- Gen. James Longstreet, late of the Contcd-
cnee. Meanwlnlethe Bishops of our church oratearmy, was recentlyin San Antonia Tcx-
arc authorized to confer with the Bishops of *>• The most remarkable circumstanCe con-
the African 3L E. Church, with a view to a ^
union between our colored churches and that fo L'm by the baud ot t c x l nitcd bt.ites
church. It is also recommended that day ! Cavalry.
schools and Sabbath schools be formed among 23F“There is a cat in Goldsboro, N. C.,
the colored people, whenever practicable. ! now engaged in the responsible duty of rear-
ing nine members of a family -four kittens
by the Washington Artdley hall, in New Or- hef and inimediatelv asemed the task ot
leans, for the disabled members of the corps ~ ^ tho orphan J0U ‘ g .
[From the Crescent Monthly
LEE TO THE ItExlR.
An Incident of the American IFar.
BY JOHN R. THOMPSON.
Dawn of » pleasant morning in JMav,
Broke through the "\Vilderne3S cool and gay,
Whilst perched in the tallest tree-tops, the birds
Were paroling Mendelssohn’s “Songs without
words.”
Far from the haunts of men remote,
The brook brawled on with a liquid note.
And nature, all tranquil and lovely, wore
The smile of tho spring, as in Eden of yore.
Little by little, as daylight increased,
And deepened the roseate flush in the east—
Little by little, did the morning reveal
Two long glittering lines of steel.
Where two hundred thou.-and bayonets gleam,
Tipped with the light of the earliest beam,
Ana the faces are sullen and grim to see,
In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee.
All of a sudden, ere rose the sun.
Pealed on the silence, the opening sun—
A littlo white puff of smoke there came.
And anon the valley was wreathed in flame,
Down on the left of the rebel lines,
Where a breastwork stands in a copse of pines,
Before the rebels their ranks can form,
The Yankees have carried the place by storm.
Stars and Stripes o’er the silent wave,
Where many a hero has found a grave,
And the gallant Confederates strive in vain.
The ground they have drenched with, their
blood to regain!
Yet louder the thunder of battle roared—
Yet a deadlier fire on their columns poured—
Slaughter, infernal, rode with despair,
Furies twain, through the smoky air.
Not far off, in tho saddle there sat, s
A gray bearded man, with a black slouch hat;
Not muck moved by the fire was he,
Calm and resolute Robert Lee.
Quick and watchful, he kept his eye
On two bold rebel brigades close by—
Reserves, that were standing (and dying) at case
Where the tempest of wrath toppled over the
trees.
For still with their loud, deep, bull-dog bay,
The Yankee batteries blazed away,
And with every murderous second that sped.
A dozen brave'fellows, alas! fell dead.
The grand old gray-beard rode to tho space,
Where death and his victims stood face to face,
And silently waved his old slouch hat!
A world of meaning there was in that!
“Follow me! Steady! We’ll save tho day!”
This was what he seemed to say !
And to the light of his glorious eye
The bold brigade thu3 made reply—
“We’ll go forward, but you must go back”—.
And they moved not an inch in the perilous
track;
“Go to tho rear, we’ll send them to h—1!”
Then the sour.dof the battle was lost in their yell.
Turning his bridle, Robert Lee
Rode to the rear. Like the waves of the sea,
Bursting the dykes in their overflow,
Madly his veterans dashed on the foe.
And backward in terror that foe was driven.
Their banners rent and their ejlumn3 riven,
Wherever the tide of battle rolled.
Over the wilderness, wood and wold.
Sunset, out of a crimson sky,
Steamed over a field of a ruddier dye,
And the brook ran on with a purple stain,
From the blood o'f ten thousand foemen slain.
Seasons have passed since that day and year.
Again o’er its pebbles the brook runs clear,
And the field in a richer green is drest
Where the dead of terrible conflict rest.
Hushed in the roll of the rebel drum.
The sabres are sheathed, and the cannons are
dumb,
And Fate, with pitiless hand, has furled
The flag that once challenged the gaze of tho
world.
But tho famo of tho Wilderness fight abides,
And down into history grandly rides,
Calm and unmoved, as in battle he sat,
The gray-bearded man, in the black slouch hat.
Southern BapliM Convention.
Russelville, Ky., May 22.—The Southern
Baptist Convention met this morning, Dr. H.
Hell, of Georgia, in the chair. Delegates
tVcre present from Maryland. District of Co
lumbia, Virginia, North anil South Carolinas,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Jlississippi.
The following permanent officers were
elected: P. H. Mcll, President; S. L. Helm,
of Kentucky, J.B. Jeter, of Virginia, R. B. C.
Howell, of Tennessee, and A. P. Williams, of
Missouri. Vice Presidents; George B. Taylor
of Virginia, and W. Pope Yooman, of Ken
tucky, Secretaries.
Interesting and touching addresses were
delivered by Jlessrs. Jeter, Fuller, Poindex
ter and P. II. Jlell.
The report of the Sunday School Board,
located at Greenville, South Carolina, was
read by Rev. John A. Broadus; that of the
Domestic Jlission Board, at Marion, Alabama,
by Rev. JI. T. Sumner, and that of the Bible
Society at Nashville by Rev. James P. Boyce.
AH of these societies are all in a flourishing
condition, except the Bible Board, which has
been abolished. The Domestic Jlissions
receipts from Kentucky alone the past year
amounted to over §17,000, anil proportional
ly front other States, despite the ravages of
war.
A report was read, stating that the Colisi-
um Place Baptist Church, New Orleans, which
is the property of this Convention, and was
seized by the military authorities in 1862,
has just been restored by order of General
Canby.
Drs. Fuller nnd Sampson preached to-night
to crowded authorities.
Close Preaching.—The following illus
trations of some revivals of religion and of
the piety of some people, as given several
years ago, by a colored preacLer in Montgom
ery, Alabama, is forcible and instructive.—
Alas! must it be so ? “Bymeby ’vivals gone,
and dare dey lie till nodder ’vival.”
“My bredren,” said he, “God bless your
souls, ’ligion is like de Alabama river. In de
spring come fresh, and bring in all de ole
logs, slabs and sticks, dat hab been lyin’ on
de bank, and carry dem down in de current.
Bymeby de water go down—den a log cotcli
here on dis island, den a slab gits cotched on
de shore, and de sticks on de bushe3—anil
dcre dey lie, withrin’ and dryin’ till come
anoiler fresh. Jus’ so dare come ’vival of
ligion—ilia ole sinner brought in, dat ole
backslider brought back, an’ de cle folk
seem cornin’, and mighty good time. But
bredren, God bless your souls; bymeby ’vi
vals is gone; den ilis olo sinner is stuck on
his own sin, den dat ole backslider is cotched
where he was afore, on jus’ such a rock—den
one arter 'noder dat ted got ’Hgion lies all
along de shore, and dere dey lie ‘.ill 'nodor
’rival. Belubbccl bredren, God bless your
soul’s keep in de current.”
One o!
“he fights the
have added tli.
low in the
Brown’.ov.'s deleavers says,
di-vil with fire." He might
i he exrecis to fight Brown-
r . •