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ir he Sunny South.) THE CIVIL SERVICE OF THE CMFEDHIin GOVERNMENT Its Secret History. The Inauguration of the Hon. Jef ferson Davis, and the Estab lishing of a Treasury Department. Reminiscences By ( OL. 11. I>. CAPERS. leged offense of his people, and in thin suffering, lot of blankets, and soon closed the purchase. I j circumstances impressed the provisional Con while at the venerable figure before him and whether manacled by foreign enemies or assailed stated to the man that the blankets were for the 1 gress to such an extent that the first loan of then asked, in a tone that evidently was unusu- by those of his own household, had endured Confederate Government, making known the 1 twelve millions of dollars was deemed sufficient ally soft for him: the torture with Roman dignity and manly for- circumstances, and that if he would bring his to meet the exigencies of the government. But titude. bill to my office the next day, it would be paid; there is other evidence, not to be manufactured In a few days after his inauguration, I became but it was no go. This “ little Jew ” did not for a book of justification, but evidence of re- identified with a department of the Confederate know the Confederate Government, and kept up cord, and now preserved in Washington City, Government, and was near enough to Mr. Davis a parley with the Major which was indeed amu- which will relieve Mr. Memminger from these The sun of the eighteenth of February, 1861, brought to the crowded city of Montgomery, Alabama, one of those bright days which in this latitude often transforms the last winter month into the first of spring. Thousands from all sections of the State had assembled to witness the formal inauguration of the Confederate Gov ernment, and from this Mecca of Southern hopes to send their God speed after the new ship of State which patriot hands had fashioned and were upon this day to launch upon the sea of destiny. At an early hour, military companies were moving to their places of rendezvous, carriages for the members of the Provisional Congress and distinguished citizens assembling, and the whole city in commotion, preparing for the great occasion. Marshals in gay decorations, representing each of the seceded States, were soon actively engaged forming u procession which was to es cort the President elect to the State capitol, where the inaugural ceremonies were to be per formed. The procession formed on Montgomery street, where Mr. Jefferson Davis took his seat in an elegant carriage drawn by six beautiful horses. By his side sat Mr. Stephens, and opposite them the Kev. Basil Manley and Mr. George Jones, of Montgomery. Then followed successively in carriages the Congressional, State and city com mittees, the citizens on foot and the military forming no inconsiderable portion of the escort of honor. The military escort consisted of the “Columbus Guards,” Lieutenant Ellis; the “In- depent Rifles,” Captain Farris; the “Eufaula Rifles,” Captain Baker, and the “ German Fu siliers,” Captain Scheussler, all under the com mand of that excellent officer, Captain Semmes, of the “ Columbus Guards.” The entire pro cession was under the conduct of Colonel Wat son, of Montgomery, by congressional appoint ment, assisted by William Knox, of Alabama; Hamilton Wright, of Florida; Daniel S. Print- up, of Georgia; Robert C. Wood, of Louisiana; the writer, representing South Carolina, and Felix H. Roberts, of Texas. As the procession moved up Market street amid the salvos of artillery, the strains of mar tial music and the cheers of the multitude, the scene was indeed inspiring. The front portico of the State'house, in which the ceremony was to take place, was handsome ly decorated, the massive columns entwined with magnolia, and every arrangement made which a cultivated taste could devise or an en thusiastic devotion suggest. The President elect occupied a central position on the portico, with the Vice-President on his right and the Hon. Howell Cobb on his left. Governor Moore, of Alabama, occupied a seat on the spacious platform below, where were also seated the members of the Convention, facing the Presi dent. At twelve o’clock, the inaugural ceremonies were introduced with prayer by Dr. Manley. It was my fortune to obtain a position near enough to hear the fervid eloquence of this venerable divine as he invoked the blessing of Heaven upon the President elect and the new-born re public. I can never forget the scene, and never, while memory lasts, will I forget the prayer of this aged minister. There was a child-like sim plicity, a trusting confidence, a real Christian spirit moving his utterance, which sent it with more than human power to many hearts in that vast assemblage. After this impressive prayer, Mr. Cobb, President of the Provisional Congress, introduced Mr. Davis. As soon as the cheers which greeted him had subsided, the President proceeded to deliver his inaugural address in his usual calm and forcible manner. This ad dress is justly regarded one of the master pro ductions of this great statesman. It is a com plete review of the causes which provoked the revolution, and should be read by our youth as to observe his general deportment and to form some estimate of his character as a man and public functionary. With Mr. Davis as a states man it is not my purpose to deal. His record is made up and before the world. I will add, however, that when every effort of his calumni ators has been spent; when all that personal spleen or vindictive sectional hatred can do to detract from his merit has been done, he will yet remain the great central figure of his epoch: one to enlarge as seen through the vista of time— to be admired by posterity when other men and other times shall write his history in other lan guage than that of disappointed ambition or partisan enmity. How common it has been since the downfall of the Confederacy to attribute the disasters of the revolution to the mal-administration of Mr. Davis ! The conduct of the armies, the manage ment of finance, the diplomatic intercourse of the State department—every ill issue of the rev olution has by one and another, by outside en emies and domestic foes, been charged upon the executive department of the Confederate Govern ment. All this, as if Mr. Davis was an absolute monarch, a supreme dictator whose cabinet were clerks and the people's Congress a mere puppet show. Time will do him full justice. He will then be seen and appreciated as the faithful ex ecutive officer who fearlessly executed laws made by the Senate and Representative Cham bers of his people. Amid all the perplexing embarrassments sing. He became assured after awhile, however, and this first shopping expedition of the war de partment were brought to a close. These sup plies were for Captain G. W. Lee’s company, from Atlanta, the first which reported to the President of the Confederate States for duty. The next morning, the case was stated to the Secretary, who gave me a letter to Mr. Knox, President of the Central Bank of Alabama, and a credit was at once established with that insti tution. When afterwards the departments were organized and the system of Mr. Hamilton unjust censures. “ ‘ How old are you, sir?’ “‘I am past eighty-five,’ answered the wit ness, in a clear, sonorous voice. “•It is a very gratifying thing,’continued the attorney, ‘to behold a gentleman of your advanced age giving evidence of such great cords. They were made in my office, and by careful and competent clerks. To assure my memory, while in Washington in the winter of 1872, I obtained access to the books of the Con federate Treasury department, and found in these the record of a letter from Mr. Memmin ger to Gasaway B. Lamar, then President of the bank of the Republic in New York, and a staunch friend of the Confederacy, the follow ing extracts from which are sufficient to indi- It was my duty to be familiar with these re- physical and mental vigor as you do. May I J 1 ask if you ever have been in the habit of drink ing liquor? ’ “ ‘I never tasted a drop in my life.’ “ ‘ Have you ever used tobacco in any form ?’ “ ‘ Never.’ “ ‘Tour life must have been a singularly reg ular one? ’ “ ‘ Yes, sir; it has. I have been in the habit of going to bed at nine o’clock in the evening, rising at five in the morning, taking my three meals every day, and keeping excitement and worry as far from my mind as possible.’ “ The attorney here turned to the spectators and said, in impressive tones: “ ‘It is perhaps a little out of the usual rou tine, but yet I cannot, on this occasion, refrain from impressing on the minds of the young men now present the blessed results of a life such as this venerable old gentleman has led. If the prisoner at the bar had followed a similar course, he would not to-day stand accused of an offense which, though not being of a heinous adopted, a warrant covering this money into the , cate the judgment of our Secretary at this crit treasury was the first record of the Treasurer’s ical period in the history of the Confederate office. government: Before I proceed further with this narrative, ' * * * “ It is evident to me that our gov- it is proper that I should say something of the ernment must make the cotton now remaining accomplished Christian gentleman who was se- in the South the basis of a credit in Europe; lected by Mr. Davis to preside over the finan- and, looking to this end, I will thank you to cial department of the government. No appoint- advise me if steamers or sailing vessels can be ment of the President was more universally chartered in New York or other Northern ports approved than the selection of Mr. Memminger to load at Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, as the Secretary of the Treasury. For a length Mobile or New Orleans, for either Liverpool or of time he had presided with distinguished abil- Havre. If Congress shall sanction this course, ^ ity as the chairman of the Finance Committee of no time must be lost, as I apprehend the South- j nature, still reflects" anything but credit upon tVin S»nn t li L'crnlino SinnoEn and tvuu !• n n ut tv to i o rn norto man V\n nloood Vvt* tlm l’nnominrr Pnd _ I 1. Z TV i' • 11 i l ii • the South Carolina Senate, and was known to j ern ports may be closed by the incoming Fed- the business world as among the ablest of our eral administration.” commercial lawyers. The task before him was ;******»** indeed no easy one to perform. To build up a ] Again, from the same letter: credit for anew government in the midst of rev- ' “ In the event that Congress should not au- olution—to inangurate every minutiae of a sys-| thorize the immediate shipment of cotton to tern of finance to ramify through many intrica- j Europe, I am disposed to think that we may cies and reach every department of an extended j hold it here, the Confederate States purchasing him. If any of yon will take this gentleman s example to heart, I shall not have made these few remarks in vain. “The old man gave his testimony and re tired. “The next witness was called. There appeared another old gentleman with a clean-shaven face, ruddy complexion, and a which surrounded him, Mr. Davis preserved j service was a labor which would have exhausted J it from the planters, and in this way utilizing j merry twinkle in his eye. Ills Bplf./'nnfl'nl OTWl PM ll l-nnicn M f pit O ro of PI 1 IT) 1 fli o vccmnr/ioc on n Ipqo oorto P on/1 on Anrf nti A i if n c o Kooio A f* for A1 on/^ /J A VY* no! I a 1 f ” , , i , i n his self-control and equi-poise of character in \ the resources of one less capable and energetic | it as a basis of foreign and domestic credit, the most wonderful manner. At the very outset j than Mr. Memminger. Well may he have hesi- of his administration, he had to encounter the ' tated and preferred some other sphere of useful- petty jealousies of rivals, the machinations of i ness. But Mr. Memminger was, from theconsti- ambitious politicians, whose patriotism seemed j tution of his nature, his education and life-long more concerned with their selfish aspirations than with the cause they professed to serve. In this respect, however, his position forms by no means an exception in political history. Such is the unhappy constitution of human nature that it requires a spirit of godly origin to mas ter the meanness of self and to concentrate ev ery attribute of manliness in the disinterested service of the State. The troubles of Washing ton were those of Mr. Davis. It is indeed re associations, no mere creature of expediency. With him duty was the incentive to action, the 1 watchword of life. Assured of its mandate, he j feared not to obey the law of his enlightened j conscience and to meet any issue joined upon the legitimacy of established principles. It was i my pleasure to have been closely associated with him during the administration of the pro visional government, and to have been an eye witness to much that was annoying in the em- This letter is dated at Montgomery, 28th of February, 1861, within ten days of the assump tion of his duties as Secretary of the Treasury. (to be continued.) markable that with more than a half century of j barrassing circumstances of this initial period experiences intervening, and with the written j 0 f his service. I never knew him to lose his history of this first Federal administration open I self-possessed spirit or to compromise his char- before us, there should have been so marked a j acter as a Christian gentleman. He had an utter similarity. As Washington met his difficulties, ! abhorrence of the demagogue. “ Ways that are so did Mr. Davis move among the embarrass- ! dark and tricks that are vain ” were never dis- ments of his position. He sought not to over come them with the blandishments of the dema gogue—there was no compromise of his self-re spect, no deviating from a line of policy fixed in his conscientious convictions of duty; but under every circumstance a calmness of his res olute spirit approaching almost to stoicism, an unyielding adherence to principle, an uncom promising devotion to the truth. covered in any one about him without receiving the severest reproof. Mr. Memminger was not a politician, in the common meaning of the term. Expediency, with him, rested in what he knew to be right, from the convictions of his mind, honestly formed. Of medium hight and weight, with a finely-shaped head and marked ; features, he would be recognized in any assembly of think- It is very natural to form some estimate of the i jug men as a man of note. He has been accused genera] character, the address, appearance or, G f being affectedly austere. Nothing could be as the French would say, tout ensemble of distin- | m0 re untrue. He was, as before intimated, no guished persons we have never met. This is j man w fio could be “all things to all men;” no generally placed so high that a familiar ac- i mere social chameleon. The rules of his office quaintance with the person is apt to detract much I we re inflexible. He could not, nor would he, from this imaginary being. Among the many men I have met, Mr. Davis was one of the very few who never deteriorated from the first con ception formed of him. He never grew smaller bear unnecessary interruption. And, pray, who that was at all familiar with the number and character of these interruptions, could fail to appreciate the Secretary’s seeming irritabil- as you approached him, but the proportions of j ity, if not disgust? To avoid this, it was ar- his character expanded, and you found yourself ranged that I should stand between him and having a higher admiration tor the man as your | the outside world. The chief clerk would re acquaintance with him became more fam iliar. j ceive the host of visitors and^velieve the Secre- But I am reminded that I may digress too far | tary from the annoyance as nuch as possible, from the purpose had in view by these reminis- 1 jt occurred to me that I woijd keep a memo- cences. They are intended to reflect some of | randa of the number of calls made between ten the inner history of the Confederate Govern- | an( j two o’clock, and the character of the busi- ment—to record the recollections of one whose ne8 s which brought them. Ajt this late day, I connection with that government forms a pleas ant period of life. The inaugural ceremonies over with, the first duty of the President was to select a cabinet. This Mr. Davis did with his usual deliberation, calling to his aid the best talent of the South, irrespective of past political antecedents. On the morning of the 20th of February, I was in formed by the Hon. C. G. Memminger that he had been tendered and would accept the Secre taryship of the Treasury, and was offered by him the position of his chief clerk, which I ac cepted, and went at once to work. The daily papers of the next morning an nounced these facts, and contained the first offi cial publicatien made by an officer of the new government. This was a simple announcement that the office of the Secretary of the Treasury was located in the building at the corner of Commerce and Market streets, where he or his representative could be found between the hours of nine and two o’clock. It was indeed fortu nate that this building was in Montgomery, combining as it did many requisites for the ser vice of the several departments. Being the first of the subaltern officers appointed, the prepara- cannot be assured of the exact number, but am confident they were over fifty. Of these, the large majority were applicants for office and their friends, a few were of a social character, and the others from the different departments of the government. Imagine this kind of an noyance, when the mind was engaged with great problems of state polity and finance. The whole of Mr. Memminger’s austerity consisted in his attending closely to the duties of his office, and seeing to it that every one else in his department did the same, j Socially, I have rarely known a more agreea- ; ble person. About the fireside of his hospita ble home, or around the social board, he was as j genial as could be required entering freely into j the spirit of those about him, reflecting always 1 the character of a well-bred gentleman and the elevated tone of refined associations. Mr. Memminger’s uniform adherence to his ! own sincere convictions gave a moral force to his character, which commanded great respect for his opinions. These opinions were never hastily formed nor prematurely expressed. In deed, the composition of his mind would not admit of this. He was not a genius of eccen- [For The Sunny South.) Cosmopolitan Stories; UXDER SIX FLAGS. BY O. A. E. tion of this building in its details devolved j ^ r j c expression, but his well-balanced intellect largely upon myself. Through the efficient aid 1 subjected every proposition submitted to it to of the lamented Clanton and the energy of Mr. ; closest scrutiny, and reached conclusions John Powell and his indefatigable son, a few days j jjy a careful but sure method of induction. He “--j •-* v v,.,ij ’ .. mo8 t laborious person I have ever ^perfect justification of the action of their fath- sufficed to transform this deserted buUding into w ' as tbe mc erf At the close of his address. Mr. Davis an- j comfortable offices for the despatch of business. kn0 wn. The i,a Tonriv tn take the oath of ^ was at t ime » ar >d while I remained the reaa ired tha FIFTH EVENING. As soon as the friends had assembled, and after a short preliminary conversation, Jonathan took the word. “ According to our agreement at the last meet ing, I believe I am the first one upon whom it devolves to furnish a story this evening, and with your permission I shall proceed, asking your indulgence in advance for the meagerness of my little narrative.” XIII. ABOUT TWO OLD MEN. “ A country court-house in the United States is a place where people-from the snrrounding country assemble at stated periods for a variety of purposes. The principal one is, of course, to have their contentions decided judicially; but a great many who have no case in court, gather there to ventilate the news of the day, consult with their neighbors concerning several topics of common interest, and a few to get on a little spree.” “What is a spree, Jonathan?” asked the Frenchman. j “A person is said, in our country, to be on a spree, when he throws all business cares to the wind? for a time, sets about enjoying himself, takes a drink or two with all the friends he meets, and ” “Ah!” interrupted Francois, “that is what you sometimes call a ‘ protracted meeting,’ is it not ?” “ Bless your innocent soul, no!” ejaculated the American, with a burst of laughter. “ A protracted meeting is something that has refer ence to several of our religious sects, and which it would take too long a time to explain to you now.” “Yes, I should judge so,” said the French man; “ especially when I bear in mind the an swer I received once from one of my country men who had sojourned for some time among yon. I asked him how he liked America, and he exclaimed in utter bewilderment: ‘ Mon Dieu, what a people! They have two hundred different religions, and only one kind of sauce with all the meat they eat.” “It must have shocked him,” s:id Jonathan, “as you have two hundred sauces, and only one religion. But to return to my story. I stopped at one of those country court-houses one day when the court was in session, to talk to some of my acquaintances. One of them invited me to go in and hear a case that was coming up just then, and as it was of a rather singular nature, I consented, and we went in. The case was this: A young fellow had been out walking on a Sun day morning, and as he had nothing particular to do on that day of rest, and happened to meet with some of his friends, it came to pass that he took a few more stimulants in their company than were good for him. Now people, when in that condition, display their idiosyncracies in different ways. Some “As soon as the Commonwealth s attorney ob served him, he exclaimed: “ ‘ It is a most remarkable occurrence to see two gentlemen of such an advanced age and so much vigor as witnesses in the same case. And may I ask how old you are, sir ? ’ “ ‘ I was eighty-seven my last birthday.’ “ ‘ I suppose it is superfluous to ask if you have pursued the same mode of life as the gen tleman who gave his testimony just now?’ “ ‘ Well,’ answered the witness, slowly, ‘I can hardly say that I have.’ “ ‘ Have you ever drank any liquor ?' “‘Yes; in my young days, the boys and I used to liquor up about eight o clock every eve ning, when our work was done, and have a so cial chat over our toddy. I have kept up that habit pretty regularly all my life.’ “ ‘But at least you have never used tobacco, that habit so injurious to the constitution ?’ “ ‘ Yes; I learned to chew tobacco from one of my school-mates. After I became a little older I bought myself a pipe, and some years ago, when my eyesight got weak, I was advised to take snuff, and I think it has benefitted me a great deal. ’ “ ‘ What sort of life have you led in general ?’ “ ‘I went to bed when I felt sleepy, and took something to eat when I felt hungry, without caring much about the regularity of the thing.’ “The prisoner’s lawyer, a young man with a mischievous expression in his face, now arose and said, in grave accents, turning to the by standers: “ ‘It is perhaps a little out of the usual rou tine, but yet I cannot, on this occasion, refrain from impressing on the minds of the young men present the blessed results—’ “Here the spectators and even the jury gave v, at to a burst of laughter. The Common wealth’s attorney looked furiously at the judge, and the latter turned sternly towards the young lawyer and said: “‘If you say another word, sir, I shall fine you for contempt of court.’ “ The case was soon finished, and the accused let off with a slight punishment, owing partly to the good humor which his lawyer’s short speech had imparted to the jury." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Herculean task he had undertaken nonneed that he was ready to take the oath of. , .. ,. , . ... office which was accordingly administered to sole representative ot the government at this omce, ' Y ° J i building, that an incident occurred which I will Wha J t a scene was this ! Every foot of space detail as illustrative of these initial days of de in the ample portico of the noble State house payment service. was occupied by distinguished citizens; the ! A few days after I had been installed, and spacious windows, as so many festooned frames, just as I had closed the labors of the day and were crowded with the beauty of our Southland, was about leaving the office, temporarily used while thousands of men from every walk in life ! by the Secretary, a portly gentleman with quick filled the open space in front and on either side *■ 3 4 •—'--a of the building. The writer, then comparatively a youth, had never before seen Mr. Davis. He has frequently met him since in the relations of official station and in private life—has been near him when the excitement of extraordinary occa sions had fired his manly form, but never has he seen Mr. Davis when his whole bearing was so imposing as when the last syllable of the oath had fallen from the lips of the administering of ficer, with his hand resting upon the Bible, in a voice so firm and clear that every word reached the outskirts of the vast crowd, he said, in re sponse to the administering officer, “ So help me God !” As if inspired by the scene, there was a moment of stillness, and then the very heavens step entered the room and immediately asked for Mr. Memminger. This I ascertained was Major Deas, who had resigned his commission in the United States army, and that day had re ported to Mr. Davis for duty. He handed me a letter from the President, and at once proceeded to say that a body of troops had just arrived, and were bivouaced at the railroad depot with out quartermaster or commissary supplies; that the officer commanding them had officially re ported himself to the President, who had or dered him to provide for them, with instructions to call upon the Secretary of the Treasury for the means. At once the office was closed, and the Major and myself went in search of the Sec retary, whose quarters were then at the Exchange Begging in Disguise. The class who are poor in pocket, yet rich in pride, present in these hard times some peculiar phases. A lady inclined to the elegancies of life lately lost her income, by the failure of a concern in which her property was investod. Though accom plished, she had not been able to obtain employ ment, and though her wardrobe is elegant, it is limited—there is little she could spare to pawn. She keeps one servant, and a family dependent, who is infirm and comparatively useless. In the guise of this servant, and in the clothes thereof, under an assumed name, this educated lady has been recently found begging provisions from the j ladies of St. John’s Guild. There is another simi lar case of what might be called CONCEALED BEGGARY. A minister’s widow resides in scantily-furnished rooms on upper Sixth avenue, with her little daughter. All the money she can rake and scrape together in this world scarcely pays the rent of her rooms. So she depends almost entirely for food upon charity, which she obtains under an assumed name and in disguise, partly from the kind-hearted butchers and provision-dealers of Washington Market, and partly from several char itable societies. She also obtains coal occasionally very amerent ways. Some become morose, some quarrelsome, others jolly, others again re required that he should be so. A paraphrase- ligious, and to that class belonged our Iriend in of Hood’s “Songs of the Shirt” might well j question; so he concluded to attend divine ser- ■ , assume( . name from a relief societv have expressed the morning, noon and night j vice, and for that purpose directed his steps to- | u < < < ^' labors of the Secretery, It is said that after the j wards a neighboring country church. He en-! # ~ * peace of Tilsit, when the great Napoleon was tered, took a seat near the stove, and composed j Disappointed ClTCUS GrOePS. busy with the internal regulations of France, | himself to listen to the sermon. The preacher j - that his superhuman labors would exhaust the j was a Scotchman, and his discourse most ex- j Severtl cars containing a portion of Howe’s physical powers of the best secretaries he could I cellent and powerful, although unfortunately : Circus were thrown from the track below Live obtain. I know at least one clerk who, in the j marred by a broad Scotch dialect, of which he j Oak, on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. Five early days of the Confederacy, has had the ex- j had never succeeded in ridding himself, not- j elephants were turned upside down and pretty perience of the French secretaries, and has re- withstanding all his earnest endeavors. All \ roughly tumbled. One very valuable horse be- garded with wonder the powers of endurance i went well with our friend for a while, and he j longing to the “Queen-of the Arena” was killed exhibited by his chief. { seemed mightily edified, until at last the heat | outright, and other damages sustained. A letter The system used in the Treasury Department from the stove affected him, and he commenced ; from Lake City says: “ There were about two was the same as inaugurated by Alexander j showing unmistakable signs of sicknesss. The j thousand people, of all colors, shades and sizes at Hamilton when he organized this branch of i minister, who observed this, looked hard at j Lake City waiting the appearance of the show, service in the government of the United States, him two or three times, interrupted the course , g 0 me of them looked like they had not had any- The best, possibly, that could be devised, al- , of his sermon at last, and pointing to the young : ^jj£ n g ea t f or a week—lean, lank and forlorn, though causing much delay by its intricate sys- j fellow, said: . , I but they had come to the circus, tern of checks. j “‘Take that man out; he is sick. They were doomed to disappointment. The Much has been said since the war about the “ Two of the church-members now approached accide ; t was more serious than at fir8t appre . “ unfortunate financial policy of the Confeder- [ him and told him he must leave the church. • - ate States.” Books have been written, in which | He arose without remonstrance and went with the Secretary of the Treasury is directly and j them down the aisle. On his way, however, it indirectly charged with a failure to utilize the ! occurred to him that it was too bad to be repri- i hended, and the main part of the show could not reach the city in time, and the people saved their money, except what they left in the groceries. echoed and re-echoed the cheers, which above Hotel. As we went along, my brain was puzzled great cotton resource ot the South in establish- j manded in that way before the whole congrega- tbe camion roar greeted the advent of the Presi- no little with the problem of providing blankets ing a credit with foreign powers. This is with- ; tion, for which reason he concluded that he dent of the Confederate States of America. and supplies for the Major’s soldiers. There out foundation in fact, and displays an ignor- I would give the minister a piece of his mind be- e -v- / ... t ,1-ritiTirr there is a Dho- was not a dollar in the Confederate treasurv—in i ance of the real circumstances investing the fore he left. Having arrived at the door, there- “Why in the world don’t you go to work?” in quired a citizen of a lazy fellow who was trying to borrow some money of him. “Go to work ? ” expressions a whole history of events which no jeer of foes, no mockery of sectional bigotry can remove from the Southern mind or make less dear to the Southern heart. I look upon one as the Mr. Davis of 1861, of whom I now write commanding in person, erect in his bearing, with courtly manners, dignified wdthout being policy to me. not originate with Mr. Memminger. He was Alas! when we reached the hotel, it was to but an executive officer—empowered, it is true, find the Secretary engaged with a committee of with the right to make recommendations, but Congress. He could not be seen. with no power to execute a scheme which did “ Come,” said the Major, “ the order must be not meet the sanction of Congress. In this Con- executed. You act as Secretary of the Treasury, taciturn, refined without being effeminate, his and I will represent the war office, well-defined features reflecting a high order of . Although I was by no means self-reliant in intellect, he was indeed a type of Southern man hood. The other picture is that of an aged man with silvered locks, erect yet and firm of step, but the gloom of a deep melancholy which over casts his face tells of hopes that have died in the patriot’s heart—of one who has outlived his those days, and neither of us were largely in gress we had the ablest of our Southern states men. Now, what are the facts ? The financial policy of the government sprang from circumstances funds, yet there was an assurance in the decis- which invested its early outset, and which the ive manner of Major L. which at once determ ined me. We sallied forth and were soon among the merchants of Main street. The principal stores were closed, and we had to rely upon the country’s glory and grown prematurely old un- ; smaller dealers. At one of these stores, kept by der the* crushing weight of many sorro*ws-of a a German Jew, such as were numerous in Mont- vicarious martvr who had suffered for the al- ! gomery in those days, the Major found quite a wisdom of our legislators could not prevent, even if they had been foreseen. At the time of Mr. Davis’ inauguration, it was believed, from the general tone of the Northern press—from efforts then being made in Washington to effect a compromise of the issues of the revolution— that there would be no war. These and other that preaching like that is enough to make a dog sick!’ “ For this offence he was now to be tried. We entered the court-room. The judge, a sedate, middle-aged man, was on his bench; the accused, a handsome, jovial-looking young fellow, was What is the difference between the death e f barber and a sculptor ? One curls up and die? the other makes faces and busts. He who spends or kills time in idle though actions is but drawing upon his capital and i find himself a bankrupt when he reports at tn sitting on one of the window-sills, eating an ' gate to enter ihe city of eternal life. apple and swinging his legs about; a dog was taking a quiet nap under tne commonwealth at torney’s table; the usual number of spectators filled the room, and everything had a rather do mestic look in that dreaded temple of Themis. Just as we came in, the first witness was called. An old man, with heavy gray beard and clear blue eyes, walked forward with a steady step. The commonwealth attorney, a man with a se vere countenance and a piercing look, gazed a Congregations of the German Reformed Church are soon to be established among the Germans of Chattanooga, Knoxville, Nashville and Atlanta. Dr. J. P. Rath who is now under training at Cin cinnati, will have charge of the work. Twenty-one males and eleven female students were arrested in St. Pertersburg, Russia, for un furling a red flag bearing the words “Union and Liberty,” and shouting “Liberty” at the time instinct print