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f ... A MEMORIAL.
[There have been few more beautiful poem* than
Hue written. It wm on readies it that George D.
Prentice said: “One might afaoit wish to die, if
he knew ibat so beautiful a tribute as this would be
written to hie meiory.* , J "
On tho bosom of a river,
„ Where the sun unloosed his quiver
Aod the starlight gleamed forever,
Sailed a vessel llaht and free.
Morning do»-drops hung like manna
On the bright folos of her banner,
And the zephyrs rote to fan her,
Softly to the radiant sea.
AtUsr prow a pilot beaming
. In the gtuh of youth stood dreaming,
And he is glorious sousing
. i-.ko an angel from abu«o.
'inrcagh hi: hair ihs b-erssis sported,
Aud is on the wave be ilna el.
Oft that pilot, anocl-'hrostsd,
WarbiiTfl laya of hope and iovo.
Through those looks s > b'ilhely flowing,
Buds of laurel bloom wtra blowing,
And bis bandi aroo wore throwing,
Music from a lyre of gold.
Swiftly down the atrotm be glided,
Soft the purple wive divided,
And a rainbow arch abided
Oh his canvas’ snowy fold.
Anx'onB hearts with fond devotion
tVa’cbed him sailing to the ocean.
Braved that never wild commotion'
'Mtd.tlio elements miabl r'se.
And he sosmed'like stun Apollo
Chitrming summer winds to follow,
While the water flag's caro'la
Trembled to his music sighs.
But tbrso purple waves enchanted,
Bol'ed beside a city haunted
By an awful spell that daunted
Evcrv comer to tbo elioro.
Night shades tank tho air encumbered,
And tho pale marble sta’ue numbored
Where the lotuB eaters slumbered,
And awokoto life no more.
Then there rushed with lightning quickness
O’er his face a mortal slckne-s,
And tho dew iu f.arful thickness
Gatin red o’er histimpb s fair.
And there ssopt a dying murmur
Through the lovely South, rn summer,
As the boiutoons pilot comor
Perished by that city there.
Still rolls on ihat radiant river
And the sun unbinds his quiver,
And the sunlight strcamB forevtr
On Its bosom as beforj.
But the vcsmI’s rainbow banner
Greets no more the gav savanna,
And that p lot’s lute drops manna
On the purple wsves no more.
the brigade of cavalry by which I was
captured was scouring the country and
freely taking from the unprotected
wople the little which was left to them
eir future subsistence. From the
DAVIS AND SHERMAN.
The President of the hate Confederacy
Goes for Tcctimseh’s Scalp-A Vitriolic
Kpistle.
The St. Louis Times of Friday, pub
lishes a letter form Jefferson Davis to a
gentleman of that city, in which he
sav3 of Sherman’s Memoirs:
The malice that seeks to revive the
nefariously oncooted and long since
exploded slander which connected my
name with the assassication of Presi
dent Lincoln is quite in oharaoter with
tho man who so oond noted his invasion
of the south as to render “ Sherman's
bummers ” the synonym of pillage, ar
son, cruelty to the helpless, mnrder of
nonoombatants, and who closed his ca
reer of arson with a false accusation
against Gen. Hampton, in regard to the
burning of Columbia, S. C.
But the question arises, why did
Gen.Sbcrman,at the date of his reported
conversation with Gen. J. E. Johnston,
suppose me capable of complicity in
the assassination of President Lincoln?
Gen. Sherman was never personally ac
quainted with me, and from those who
knew me, either in the United States
army or in civil life, he surely learned
nothing to justify such suspicion. In
the conduct of the war between the
States, despite of many baseless accu
sations, we oa t proudly point to a
record which shows a strict adherence to
the nBages of war between civilized na
tions. On what, then, did the sus
picion of Gen. Sherman rest? Was it
not that, proceeding on the rule of
judging others by one’s self, he asoribed
to me tho murderous and malicious
traits of his own nature ? He reports a
conversation with President Lincoln,
from which is to be inferred a desire to
have authority for departing from the
course which, as a soldier, he most
have known was usual and proper
toward prisoners of war. Did he hope
to get inBtraotions for the slaughter of
the confederacy’s president and cab
inet-officers, as set forth in the orders
of Col. Dahlgreen, when he made his
statement of G on. Sherman, we learn
that a story had been told to the effect
that I was carrying in wagons millions
of specie to the south, and therefore,
we are left to conclude, was made that
expedition, in violation of the agree
ment of surrender. Though the story
of the millions is now admitted by Gan. i
Sherman have been a fiction, the ad
mission is made iu such terms ; s would j
lead the reader to suppose that X
had been traveling with wagon transpor
tation, and had a few thousand dollars
of specie in a valise, but neither suppo
sition wonld be true. I had recently
joined the wagon train, and was about to
leave when captured. My only baggage
was a valise, which was packed on a
mnle, and contained no specie. The
few thousand dollars of specie were in
a pair of saddle-bags belonging to Sec
retary Reagan. Whether that money
ever readied the United States treasury,
Mr. Reagan, from whom it was taken,
may be able to learn after he shall have
assumed his functions a3 a representa
tive in the United States congress.
Should the course of the command
ing general of thi army in attempt
ing, at this late day, to resusci
tate a defunct slander against the presi
dent of the late confederacy, and to
which Blander not even suborned wit
nesses could give the semblance of
troth, be taken as the exponent of the
feeliog of the army, that arm of the
general government would seem to be
ill-suited to the task of late so largely
assigned to it, of preserving civil order
and of restoring harmony among the
people of the United States. For pub
lic considerations, it is to be hoped
that the ineradicable malignity of
Sherman may be an exception to the
prevaling sentiment of the United
States army.
West Tennessee Crops and Business
Prospect3.
There is more corn, wheat, oats and
potatoes and grass of different kinds
growing within two hundred miles of
Memphis than was ever known since the
country was settled by white men. The
people will need but little of these
filings from abroad. The cotton crop
will be almost a clear surplus with which
to pay off old debts and improve their
places. The lesson learned we are con
fident will be an abiding one. When a
community arrives at a conclusion after
ten years of bitter experience it is apt
to remember it. We see it stated that
one and a half millions bnshels of wheat
is growing within easy reach of the
Memphis market. Some of it is ripe
and readj for harvesting. This will
bring money into circulation five months
earlier than usual. A month from now
the effect will bo visible upon our streets
and in the advertising columns of the
newspapers. The monotony of the
long, dreary summer months will be
broken by the rattle of heavily laden
wagons and a bnstle about the depots
and landings, and on Front street, here
tofore unknown in the middle of sum
mer. It is a new departure as one of
the slowly wrought out changes of the
times. It is the adaptation of a whole
people to a new order of things, by
which they will lift themselves up from
the slavery of old habits to walk proudly
erect on tEe highway to success ana
wealth and'all that iB honorable and
ennobling.
Flowers as Health-Preservers —
It is reported that an Italian professor
has discovered that perfumes from flow
ers have a chemical effect on the atmos
phere, converting its oxygen into ozone
and thuB increasing its health-imparting
power. As the result of hiB researches,
he Btates that the essence of cherry,
laurel, lavender, mint, juniper, melons,
fennel, and Bergamot are among those
if tSTgo^: ***** of
- tv.. - O'!!!!# Wh'io «>"n Ihvioo riawnn it
Indian Cheek.
The noble red man of the forest has
hitherto been charged with divers and
sundry traits of onaraoter not redound-
ng to his credit. Among them are his
proclivity for leaving white men bald-
headed and torturing prisoners; for
drinking fire-water in unlimited quanti
ties ; for the most abstract and unqnali-
fi d laziness; for a sublime disregard of
his plighted faith; for filth and dirt of
every description and, ip fine, ior gen
era! cussedness. In addition to these
deplorable evidences of a lack of Chris
tian civilization, and those social graces
i and amenities whieh make life so de
lightful, the red man of the forest has
now developed a new feature, which has
hitherto been supposed to be the monop
oly of the pale face, namely, cheek. He
has not only developed oheek, bnt
cheek of the moat extraordinary descrip
tion-large, voluminous, approaching
the sublime.
The three gentle savages who have
developed this oheek are Spotted Tail,
Lone Horn and R9d Cloud, chiefs of
the Sioux delegation, at present in
Washington negotiating with the gov
ernment for the cession of the Black
Hills. Red Cloud opened the ball by
informing the Great Father that the
whole white race were liars, and he took
occasion to remark that he made no
exception of the company present,
which included the president, the secre
tary of the interior, the commissioner
of Indian affairs, and numerous subal
terns and stipendiaries of the depart
ments. Red Cloud having thns mildly
expressed his opinion of pale faces in
general and the administration in par
ticular, Mr. Spotted Tail, another un
tutored son of the forest, displayed his
lack of filial reverence by snapping his
fingers in the Great Father’s face, and
notifying him he must not send them to
the secretary of the interior and com
missioner of Indian affairs, who evident-
THE TALE OF A SUGAR-BOWL.
ly, iu Spotted Tail’s estimation, were
the champion liars in this mendacious
country. Next cime Mr. Lone Horn, a
plain, simple, guileless ohild of the
forest, with the evident intention of im-
E roving upon the impression made by
[essrs. Red Cloud and Spotted-Tail,
and of overwhelming the president and
his cabinet at one fell swoop. So Mr.
Lone Horn strode up in all his native
dignity, and, proudly wrapping his’
blanket about him, notified the presi
dent as follows: “I never claimed I
owned all the country before to-day,
but now I claim it.” This was not all.
One is irresistibly reminded of Falstaff
and Gen. Bourn, as Mr. Lone Horn
adds:
“These men you see (alluding to the
Indians around him) are soldiers, and
will fight.” This was tantamount to an
invitation to the pale faces to come for
ward and contest the title to this broad
domain, but at this juncture the presi
dent notified Mr. Lone Horn and his
friends that he was not ready to discuss
the question, whereupon the owner of
the country and bis friends. Red Cloud
auct Spotted Tail and their followers,
withdrew.
dent Lincoln taught him that murder
was not the approved measure, it seems
to have failed to inspire him with the
generosity and oharity which is ever
found in noble minds, or with the chiv
alry which ever adorns the character of
the true soldier and gentleman.
Among the articles of the surrender
of Gen. Johnston there was one prohib
iting military expeditions in the country
east of the Ohatlahoochie river. That
was the last consideration obtained for
the surrender of armies, arms, muni
tions and manufactories in that section,
and it was in violation of that article that
ozone, while anise and thyme develop it
in a less degree. Flowers destitute of
perfume have no such effect. He recom
mends that dwellers in marshy localities
and near places infeoted with animal
emanations, should Burrouna -their
homes with a profusion of the most
odoriferous flowers.
—“ My very d-e-a-r children,” said a
traveling Sunday-school gimlet, “I
love you so much I could talk all day to
you, but time forbids. Bat I h-o-p-o to
meet you in heaven, and then—” “I
hope he won’t,” said a restless, red
headed boy, “ ho’ll talk ts to death;
won’t he, Jim ?”
The Roman Catholic Church in the
South.—Parsuant to the plan of ex
tending its influence in the south, the
R "Jinan Catholio church has established
its educational headquarters for that
seotion in Baltimore. The church has
always been strong in Maryland, the
founders and early settlers of the state
being of that faith. In the city and
county of Baltimore there are 28
ohurches, besides three monasteries,
several oonvents, and other religious
establishments. The priests, nuns and
sisters who are being brought from
abroad to engage in the educational
work report at Baltimore, and are there
detailed to various parts of the south.
As an evidence of the energy with which
the church has entered on this work, it
is stated that in addition to the Catholic
schools already existing, new ones are
to be immediately opened for colored
youths as follows: Ten in Georgia, fif
teen in Alabama, fifteen in Mississippi
and twenty-five in Louisiana. They
will offer board and tuition free to col
ored young men and women, and to the
poor whites for one hundred dollars per
year.
— Six hundred thousand dollars have
been subscribed to start a paper in
Vienna, from the editorial departments
of which all Jews or “ persons of Israel-
itish extraction” are to be exoluded.
All the other Vienna papers are, in a
great degree, in the hands of this race.
told by an eye-witness.
It was daring festival week. Hunt’s
was full to repletion. So were the men
and women who came out of there. I
was in getting supper. A consequen
tial, important chap stalked down the
room, strode up to the side-table in
front of me, stood his oane by the side
of the table, slammed the sugar-bowl
back against the wall, subsided into a
chair, crossed his legs, and waited.
Waiters, full-armed ana empty-armeu,
were rushing in all directions, but none
paid attention to the chap ir« front
of me. He looked puzzled and out of
patience. The fellow in front of him
left, and another took his seat. In a
moment a waiter was taking his order,
but still my friend waited. This, how
ever, was too much for him to bear.
He brgan to mutter under his breath,
and pound on the table with the salt
cellar. In the din he wasn’t heard. It
was getting interesting, and I forgot to
eat, watching him. He was getting
very red in the face, and commenced to
beckon to the waiters, but could not
catch their eye. He half started once
or twice to leave, but his hunger con
quered his ire. He now took his eane
and began to hook for the waiters’ legs
as they went by. For some time ms
fishing operations were unrewarded.
He was getting desperate. He hooked
savagely for one fellow’s legs and
floored him. Oh what a waste of eat
ables was there, my countrymen I The
waiter did not know what tripped him,
but supposed it was the foot of my
hungry and impatient friend. The
waiter, accordingly, when he had wiped
the mashed potato from his nose, asked
him fiercely what he was doing with his
feet. This question took him by sur
prise, and he replied that he did not
know. Why did he ask? The waiter
looked at him as if he thought him a
fool, and marched off with a lot of
cracked china and broken victuals.
By this time the fellow in front of
him had left, and a third man had
seated himself there. A waiter was
promptly on hand and took his order.
This was too muoh. He sprang on the
next waiter who passed, and dragged
him to the table.
“Haven’t you ordered yet?” asked
the trembling captive.
“ Ordered yet! That is nice. No, I
hain’t ordered yet, you thick-skulled
aborigine. Where’s your eyes ? Hunt’s
eating-house ! Why don’t you hunt ?
I’ve been hunting an hour for some
thing to eat on this table, and I hain’t
found anything yet. You bring me a
porter-house steak quiekr’n lightnin’,
or you'll find out whether I’ve ordered
yet.”
The-waiter slunk away. My indig
nant friend turned around to the table,
readjusted his cane, settled his vt*t£
shoved the sugar-bowl out to the end
of the table, and felt inclined to grow
more pacific.
Instantly a waiter was at the table.
“Ordered yet?”*
“ Yes, I have ordered yet.”
The waiter shoved the sugar-bowl
back to the wall and vamoosed. My
friend looked daggers at the retreating
waiter, and pushed the sugar-bowl out
to the end of the table again. In an
instant another waiter was at his side.
“ Have you ordered ? ”
“Oh! you’re very attentive, ain’t
you 1 How long since you was took ?
Yes, I’ve ordered.”
The waiter slung the sugar-bowl
back to the wall and passed on.
“ Look-a-here, young man,” said my
friend, but the waiter did not hear him,
and be finished the remark in an under
tone, addressing it to his eyes. This
time he put the bowl out to the end of
the table very emphatically, and made
some remark to the effect that he
thought it would stay there.
“Ordered, sir?” It was another
waiter. My friend looked up with an
expression of deep redness, and said
meekly, while his uutleilip quivered
and tears gathered ia his eyes. “Young
man, don’t be hard on me; I give it up.
You are to a many for me. When my
supper oomes you eat it for me, wiu
you? Where will you have the sugar-
bowl ? Arrange it to suit yourself;
don’t mind me. ’ Aud he took his cane
and departed, a broken-spirited man.
The waiter looked bewildered and
walked out into the kitchen in a dazed
sort of a way. My meal had grown
coid long before, so I departed, too.
—Gratitude—A baobelor made a will
leaving his property to the girls who
had refusea him. “For to them I owe
all my earthly happiness,”
