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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,”