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arrived. Gen. Maxey being my senior
in rank. I reported to Mm, asking his
plan of battle airfl stating how I had
disposed my troops. He answered
that as I had planned the whole move
ment I should take charge and make
the fight. This I did, requesting him
to post his command at right angles
with my line, enfilading the enemy’s
line in my front, and to open the fight.
>ly purpose was to cause them to
“change front” toward Maxey, and
while they were excnting this move
ment to attack their dank with the
main line. Wood's Battalion was dis
mounted by my order and posted on
my extreme right; both flanks were
guarded by cavalry. Maxey's troops
attacked and drew the enemy’s atten
tion and front toward him. Cabell s
and Crawford's Brigades, under Gen.
Cabell, advanced cheering and were
driving the enemy when Green's
Brigade rushed to the charge, and the
enemy was soon broken and their re
treat ” shortly became a rout. After
driving them two miles I ordered
Wood's Battalion to mount and move
rapidly to the front in pursuit of the
enemy. Gen. Maxey, who from this
time assumed command, countermand
ed this order and put Wood to work
at the train to assist in getting off the
wagons. At this juncture I received
an order from Gen. Maxey to with
draw the whole force from the pursuit.
Federal loss in this engagement from
400 to 000 left dead on the field, about
100 wounded, and 120 prisoners.
Four pieces of artillery, 195 wagons
—six mules each—and many hundred
small arms were brought off, and thirty
wagons burned. I cannot but think
that at least 1000 prisoners would have
been added to the list had the pursuit
been continued. Cabell, inimitable
almost in personal gallantry, led his
command and first broke the enemy's
columns, and assisted by Greene, who
brought up his line under a heavy fire
as steadily as on parade, crushed the
enemy, who turned and fled in total
confusion. On the evening of the
18th we were again in camp. Cabell's
and Crawford's Brigades reported back
to Gen. Fagan, and with Greene’s
Brigade I marched on the 19th to the
Wire lioad, twelve miles from Camden.
At the same time Gen. Shelby’s Brig
ade was detached temporarily from my
command and ordered to Gen. Fagan
for duty. From the 20th to the 26th
inclusive my command was encamped,
picketing to the front, and had various
small but successful encounters with
the enemy. On the 26th I was ordered
to report direct to Gen. Smith. On
the 27th, the evacuation of Camden by
Gen. Steele having been discovered,
my command marched to Whitehall on
the Ouachita river, where Wood’s
Battalion was ordered to report to me,
swam the river, came up with the re
treating enenemy, and fought him uutil
Gen. Smith arrived with the infantry,
and the battle of Jenkiti’s Ferry was
fought, in which engagement the
brigade was commanded by Colonel
Greene.
During this long and arduous cam
paigu, fought as most of it was under
my own eye, 1 take pleasure in speak
ing of the officer-like conduct and the
many acts of splendid bravery of my
officers and men. To speak of the
quick perception and reckless boldness
of Shelby, the cool and chivalrous
bearing of Cabell, or the perseverance,
thoughtfulness, and steady courage of
Greene, is telling an oft-told tale. The
list is too long to narrate, but, I say it
with pride, of all the officers and men
in my Division, not one have I seen or
heard of who shrank from the per
formanee of any duty, however dan
gerous.
In conclusion, I desire to express my
happiness at the conduct of the whole
division, and my belief that posterity
will do them the honor they so well
deserve. At present I cannot give my
losses in killed, wounded, and missing,
as several of the commands which
were under me are temporally or per
manently absent; but lam of opinion
that my loss compared with that of the
euejny is as one to tie- nty.
John S. Marmaduke,
Major- General ( Joinin'dg.
There are 192 mills in the State of Ne
vada used in the crushing and reduction
of various ores. Their capacity equals
6,324 horses ; they carry 2,838 stamps,
and cost over 810,80 >,OOO.
BANNER OF THE SOUTH aNl> PLANTERS’JOURNAL.
Confederate Burial and Memorial Asso
'ciation.
Col. J. P- Thomas, Editor South
Carolinian, Columbia, S. C.
Dear Sir: —With a view of bring
ing the subject matter of the accom
panying letter from Gen. E. Kirby
Smith before the public, I herewith
hand it to you for publication.
Generals Hampton and Kershaw are
the two other Vice-Presidents for
South Carolina, and after consultation
with these gentlemen, we may have
some suggestions to make for carrying
out the praiseworthy and commendable
objects for which the Association was
organized and chartered in the State of
Tennessee.
Enclosed you will find also a copy of
the charter with a list of the officers
and trustees of the Association, and of
the Vice-Presidents in the different
States.
Very respectfully yours, &C-,
M. C Bctles.
Nashville, February 10th, 1872.
General M. C. Butler :
General:— The Board of Trustees
of tjie Confederate Burial and Me
morial Association, acting under the
aecompan’ ing charter and by-laws,
have elected you a Vice President of
the Association for your State. They
earnestly solicit your active and
energetic co-operation in procuring
efficient organizations of auxiliary as
sociations in your vicinity, and urge
you by continuous, persistent and
faithful labor in those societies anil
through their officers and agents, to
persevere, until sufficient money is
raised to consummate our sacred duty
to our fallen companions, and until the
work of decently burying their remains
and erecting monuments worthy of
their memory, has been properly per
formed. We know that there are a
number of prominent battle fields
where the dead from almost every
Southern State lie scattered in indif
ferent and neglected graves. Other
fields, more or less noted, will be
brought to the notice of this Asso
ciation. The thousands of our com
rades who unfortunately perished in
Northern prisons, must receive at our
hands the pious care which duty and
affection impose.
The neglect of prisoners graves is
becoming a subject of remark, of
animadversion and of prejudical com
mentary at the North. Public senti
ment, humanity, duty and affection
call upon us for prompt, energectie and
liberal action ; and we believe a little
activity, fidelity and devotion on the
part of leading and influential men,
Under a reliable and well organized :is
sociation, such as ours is designed to
be, will speedily bring to our people
the pleasing consciousness of a sacred
duty well and fully performed. But,
whether sooner or later completed, let
us resolve never to cease from our
labors, until it is perfectly and thor
oughly accomplished.
In due time, conventions composed
of members from each Stat e will be called
to decide upon any questions that may :
arise in regard to the cemeteries and
monuments. All officers and members
of this and auxiliary associations, are
requested to correspond freely with us
on all questions connected with their
duties, the objects and ends of the as
sociation, and iu regard to any graves of
the Confederate dead that might other
wise be neglected. It is recommended,
also, that each auxiliary association
shall register the names and places of
iutermeut of the scattered Confederate
dead in their vicinity, and transmit a
copy thereof to the Secretary of this
Association. E. Kirby Smith,
President.
J. C. Thompson, Secretary.
Well. Done. —The Boston Pilot, a
Roman Catholic newspaper, upon last
St. Patrick’s Day hung the outer walls
of the office of the Pilot in both green
and orange colors, and the last number
of the journal says :
“ Let us kill our old bad feeling, and
wrap its corpse in a green and orange
shroud, and bury it out of sight forever. ”
When Irishmen cease to fight Irish
men on the score of difference of faith,
the Irish will be almost invincible at
home, and more powerful everywhere.'—
Sew York Express.
Sunday out—Betsey : “Shall you be
a-goiu’ out this a’ternoon, mem ?” Mis
tress : “I think not, Betsey.” Betsey :
“Cos yer can if yer like ; I don’t want
to go out.”
[From the New York Commercial Advertiser.]
NEW YORK'S OPIUM EATERB.
: The Metropolitan Demand for the Drug
| iu its Various Forms--Statistics and
Incidents Among the Mormons.
A careful inquiry among druggists re
veals the fact that there are in New York
city about S,(XX) confirmed users of
opium in its vurions forms of sulphate
of morphia, laudannm and the crude
root. The ranks of these inebriates
embraces all classes of society, from the
lady of Fifth Avenue to John China
man, of Baxter street. The drug is sold
by many respectable druggists over the
counter without a physician’s prescrip
tion; bnt as a general thing only to
known and regulur customers who have
become thoroughly used to it. Some
times a stranger can get it, but it is
only because his appearance unmis
takably indicates that he is an old opium j
eater. “You can always tell ’em” said j
a worthy up-town druggist. “There’s!
something about their expression, about j
their complexion and eyes, and about :
their nerveless manner, that tells on j
’em at once. They are all sure ‘ beats. ' j
They’ll pay at first, probably, and then 1
they’ll let a little sum stand over till
they come again, and then they’ll make |
the little ‘ stand over’ greater, or they’ll ]
get full credit, and then they won’t come
any more. They’ll go to some other
druggist and work it on him. ”
Sometimes the unfortunate, brought I
to a low ebb by the cravings of the hor
rible appetite, will steal all the lauda
num he can find in the store. A re
spectably dressed lady was recently
detected by a clerk in a drug store oil j
Third Avenue hiding a bottle of lamia- j
nnm in her dress. The devilish appe
tite destroys all moral sense as surely as
- ruins all the physical faculties.
It is estimated that each drug store
■in the city has an average of three daily
customers, who buy morphia or opium,
and probably as many more who buy
landunum for the purpose of intoxica
tion. The opium in its crude state is j
sometimes bought and greedily eaten on !
the spot. “They chew it,” says one
druggist “as you would chew wax.”
The crude opium, however, is not the
favorito form of the drug among the
confirmed eaters. It is used more gen
erally both for eating and smoking by
the Chinese pagans in the dork cellars
of the Sixth ward than by any other
clasß of customers. It takes longer than
morphine to affect the system, and tile
principal desire of the inebriate is to
betake himself to that gorgeous land of j
fancies, that delicious garden of perfect I
rest to which morphine at once trans
ports him. Sulphate of morphia is the
favorite form of the drug, and it is in |
that state that our New York devotees j
mainly use it. Some of the doses taken
by the “ sots " are enough to kill half a
dozen men innocent of the habitual use
of it. One lady some time ago bought
ten grains of it and drank it off at once
without leaving the store. An old gen
tleman, well-known in this city for his
extreme age, is said to be in the habit
of taking twenty-five grains of it daily.
A quarter of an ounce of it was drank
at once sitting, in a drug store up town
recently, by a man who liad an incurable
disease, and who admitted that he did
not care whether it killed him or only
ceased the pain. Numbers of wealthy
people doubtless buy the article at
wholesale, and thus avoid the necessity
of a physician’s prescription, and also
avoid the exposure consequent on fre
quent application for it at the druggists.
In this way, also, they prevent the possi
bility of any very close calculation as to
the number of hasheesh worshippers in
the metropolis ; but our estimate, from
the rough calculation of druggists, is
probably very near the correct figure.
-
An Englishman s Opinion of General i
Lee. — Blackwood's Magazine for March
contains a sketch of General Lee, which
will be read with avidity by the people
of the South. It appears to have been
suggested by Major John Esten Cook’s
Life of the great Southern soldier. The
estimate placed by the author upon
General Lee, both as a man and a sol
dier, is very high—much higher than
will lie agreeable to the Northern peo
ple. The writer of the sketch, influenced
no doubt by his English sympathies,
places two English generals, but not a
single American general, before him.
He says that he “ will, in spite of his
defeat, be pronounced the greatest sol
dier, with two exceptions (Marlborough
and Wellington), that any English
speaking nation has produced. ” Speak
ing of Gen. Lee as a man, the author
pronounces him “the noblest son to
whom the North American Continent has
hitherto given birth. ”
Enameling the Face and the Be-'
, sult. —A lady in Louisville paid seventy
! five dollars, we are told, for having her
I face enameled for the ball given at the
Galt House to the Grand Duke Alexis.
The enamel was warranted to last three
| days, and so it did. The lady was taken
ill upon her return from the ball, her
face became greatly swollen, the most
| acute pain succeeded, and it %as only
i by the employment of the best medical
skill that her life was saved. This state
i rnent we have from an undoubted source.
But the case of this lady is not so bad
; as that of another Louisville lady who
i liecame enamored of the odious fashion
jof enameling the face. She visited an
other city far to the eastward some five
months ago for the sole pnrpose of hav
ing her face enameled according to the
latest Parisian mode. She had heard
i that a noted Parisian was engaged in
| the enameling business at the city in
j question, and to him she went upon her
| itrrival. For the sum of SSOO he agreed
Ito enamel her face so scientifically that
I the enamel would remain undamaged
j for three years, and a year or two longer
if extra care was taken in washing the
face according to his prescribed method.
* The devotee of fashion concluded the
: bargain, and paid three hundred dollars
;of the sum named, the balance to be
! paid in yearly instalments, divided into
; three yean. The lady received the eu
! nmel, and returned to her home in this
! city. Since her retnm she has disap- i
j peared from society. There was so much
‘ poison in the enamel that its effects were
j almost immediately developed in the
almost total paralysis of the facial
nerves, and what was once a truly bean
i tiful face is to-day a distorted, disfigured
1 and ulcerous one. The lady’s beunty
has disappeared forever, and if her
physicians succeed in saving her life
they will have accomplished more than
they had a right to hope for. Her eyes
: are terribly inflamed and disfigured, and
j the sight of them fast failing.—Lottis
| ville Ledger.
The Passive Policy. —The Washing
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Ga
j zette writes :
Mr. Belmont, of New York, Chairman
! of the National Democratic Executive
Committee, arrived here a few days ago,
i upon private business, as he alleges.
Whilst here he thought he would like
to confer with Democratic members of
Congress upon the political situation,
and the action of the party in the com
ing Presidential election. A pleasant
way to meet these gentlemen would be
at the dining table, and so Mr. Belmont
arranged with Welckcr to get up a din
ner, and to this was invited some of the
Democratic Congressmen. An agree
able evening was thus spent, and a prof
' itable one, for there was a general inter
! change of opinions as to the. course that
should be pursued by the Democrats in
the matter of nominating candidates.
There was a unanimous concurrence
upon the proposition that the Demo
crats should not take part in the Cin
cinnati Convention in May, and that in
case that convention nominated Judge
Davis, it will be good policy for the
Democrats to make the same nomina
tion. This was the upshot of this dinner
assemblage in its political aspect. The
parties did not expect the occurrence to
go to the public, and they do not claim
for their action any authoritative char
acter. Mr. Belmont and his friends
have no more authority to dictate the
course that shall be pursued by the
Democratic part} than the humblest i
member thereof, and they claim no
higher authority.
We do not believe that the venerable
saw “murder will out” is absolutely
true in all cases, but we do believe that
it is extremely difficult for any person to
commit this terrible crime, which sets
all the world hunting him down, and
makes a detective of his own conscience,
and keep the dreadful secret buried. A
man has just been arrested in Madison,
: lowa, for killing a little girl, the daugh
| ter of his wife by a former husband, sis-
I teen years ago.' She was in the com
i pany of her sister at the time, and for
i these many years threats and intimida
j tions have kept the survivor's month
: sealed. Being under the protection of a
i husband now, she has told the terrible
! story and retribution long delayed has
j overtaken the man of blood.
; There is a revival association in Eng
land denominating itself the “United
; Christian Baud of the Royal Artillery
;of Heaven.” Among the members, says
j an advertisement, are “ many extraordi
! nary men, who have been rescued from
the devil, having been wrestlers, publi
cans, and pugilists, but are now servants
of God.”
A Western paper speaks of the house
cleaning season as that when woman has
her own way at the house, while the
“ old man” takes his solemn repast from
the top of the flour barrel, and iu sleep
ing enjoys the freedom of the interval
between his bed-room and the front
fence. It is a season of meditation,
whitewash, and calm, unimpassioned
profanity.
; [From the iteming Star and Catholic Messen
ger.]
A LAUHH-AND A MOAN.
BY FATHER RYAN.
The brook, that down the Valiev
So musically drips.
Flowed never half so brightly
As the light laugh from her lipa.
.
Her face was like the Lily.
Her heart was like the Rose,
Her eyee were like a Heaven
Where the ennlight always glows.
She trod the earth eo Ughtly '
Her feet touched not a thorn;
Her words were all the brightness
Os a young life's happy Morn.
Along her laughter rippled
The melody of Joy—
She drank from every chalice
And tasted no alloy.
Her life was all a Laughter,
Her days were all a smile,
Her heart was pure and happy.
She knew not gloom or guile.
She rested on the bosom
Os her mother, like a flower
That blooms far in a Valley
Where no storm-clouds ever lower.
And—“ Merry! merry! merry!”
Kang the bells of every hour.
And—" Happy! happy! happy !”
In her valley laughed the Flower.
There was not a sign of shallow,
There was not a tear nor thorn—
And the sweet voice of her laughter,
with melody the Morn.
Years passed—twas long—long after
And X saw a Face at l’rayer;
There was not a sign of laughter.
There was every sign of care.
For the sunshine all had faded
From the Valley and the Flower.
And the once fair face was shaded
In life's lonely Evening hour.
And the lips that smiled with laughter
In the Valley of the Mom—
In the Valley of the Evening
They were pale and sorrow-worn.
And I read the old—old lessou
In her face and in her tears,
While she sighed amid the shadows
Os the Sunset of her years—
All the rippling streams of laughter
Fiom our hearts and lips that flow
Shall he frozen, cold years after,
Into icicles of woe.
FORK ION.
London, April 4, noon.—D’lsraeli ad
dressed an immense conservative meet
ing. He said : “We have assembled
here to proclaim our resolution to up
hold the Constitution of the Kingdom.
We have come together to talk of a pro
gramme for future action, which will
not despoil churches nor plunder land
lords, but further the interests of the
great body of the people.”
The case of Minor, the American who
murdered a laboring man at Lambeth,
was before the Court to-day. The Court
room was crowded, and there was much
excitemejit. The counsel for the prose
cution thought the prisoner was insane,
and that the jury should so find. After
hearing the evidence, the jury, on a
brief consideration, returned a verdict of
“ not guilty," because of insanity.
The Hague, April 4. —The celebration
of independence was attended with dis
orders and breaches of the peace at
various points. The most considerable
disturbance occurred at Osterhout, in
North Brabant, where a mob collected
and broke the windows of houses, and
committed other outrages. The demon
strations became so threatening that the
town authorities found it necessary to
call upon Uie military to suppress the
riot. Upon the appearance of the
troops, the mob dispersed, but several
persons were seriously injured before
quiet was restored. The cause of the
outbreak is supposed to be dissatisfac
tion with the Ministry.
London, April 4, evening.—D’lsraeli,
in his speech at Manchester last night,
made several references to America ; her
form of government, as compared with
Great Britain, and the difficulties grow
ing out of the Alabama claims question.
He condemned the course of the Glad
stone ministry ; admitted it was impos
sible for America to recede from her
position in regard to the questions to be
presented to the Geneva board ; thought
that the Ministerial incompetency would
be sealed by the ultimate acknowledg
ment of the principle of indirect claims,
the results of which must be fraught
with the utmost danger to England.
Earl Derby and other prominent gen
tlemen followed in speeches similar iu
political import.
The Right Honorable James Stansfeld
(Radical), member of Parliamentfor the
borough of Halifax, addressed his con
stituents last night in a speech which
was mainly confined to local questions,
but in which the Alabama treaty was
touched upon significantly. The speak
er said the treaty with America seemed
to be in jeopardy ; if it failed, the fault
would rest with the American Govern
ment—England had done her best to
settle these differences and set a good
example to the world.