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Newspaper Page TextICEXTI iou the iir.KAL . fl. 11. lii'.HA«i)», Atlanta, Ga. Jj*is S. Pope, Zebulon, Ga. M t. Eppinge*, Pike County, Ga. yjjL Walker, Barns* ille, Ga, ■f. J. Steer, Liberty Hill, Ga. Fetee T. Lewis, Upson Couuty, Ga. (; to VT. Pep.hi'e, Haralson, Coweta Cos., Ga. j J. Readt, Thomaston, Upson Cos., Ga. W. P. Maxwell, Warnerville, Meriwether, Cos. Important Order. Executive Department, ) Milleilgeville, Ga., April 23, 18GG. ( Information has reached this Department that the Managers of the Ladies Southern Re (iefSocietr, of Hultiiucre.in the exercise of an a hounding Rnd elevated charity, had caused to tie shipped to Savannah, subject to my order five hundred barrels, con'aining flour, rncsl' and bacon “ for uiati ibution among our truly poor suffering white people,” and that they "detire that the appropriation should lie so distributed as to afford the greatest relief to the greatest number cf the real I v deserving poor and suffering women and children;” to effect whigto distribution rhev have also appropriated the sum of two thousand dollars: And the consignees, as well as the Presidents of the Central and Atlantic and Gulf Railroads, having gener ously offered to aid the enterprise by per sonal service, and by transportation, free of charge, (as other persons and Presidents of railroads doubtless will do); for the pur ,H,se, therefore, of distributing in Congress ional Districts, as the most eligible primary divisions of the State, they being organized with a view to the nearest attain il.le equal* itv : n population, I make anJ publish the so lc ing order and requests : 1 In the name and behalf of the whole people of Georgia, and especially of the des titnte and suffering, I tender most hearty thanks to the dispensers of this mnniflic.ent boon, whom I would designate, by a bor rowed appellation, which blends in touching association the ideas «fa tender womanly relation and of a Divine attribute, “Sisters of Mercy.” Such, indeed, are these noble women of llaitimore. Heaven’s blessings wait upon them. o Messrs Crane it G ray Dill, ofSavan nsli the consignees, are requested to divide the consignment into seven parts, as nearly equal as possible, reference being had to the kinds anti quantities of the articles com posing it. And deliveting one portion in Sa vannah as hereinafter provided, will ship one of the six remaining to each cf the fol lowing points, viz : To Oglethorpe, con signed to the lion. Philip Conk; to New nan, consigned to tiie Hon. Hugh Buchan an; to Macon, consigned to the Hon. fhos. Hardeman, Jr.; to Augusta, consigned to Porter Fleming, lvq ; to Athens, consigned to the lion. J. 11. Christv ;to Atlanta, con signed to A. K. Sungo, Ksq. 3. The following gentlemen (the first named in each case actn.g as cliaiimati) are requested to take charge of the several consignments for their fegspeetive Congress ional Districts, and actNffc committees of distribution therein, viz : For the Ist I tricl Messrs. Solomon. Cohen, John Sere veil and .las. L. Seward : tor the 2 t, Messrs. Philip Cook, A. S. Cults and Pat id A Va son; for the 3d, Messrs Hugh Bucl anan, R A. T. Rnllev and J. F. Johnson ; tor the 4th, Nb-ssrs. K. G. Cabiniss, Tims. Harde man, Jr, and Jeremiah Beall ; tor the slh, Messrs. J. D. Mathews, Samuel Barnett and Potter Fleming; for the Oth, Messrs. J. 11. Christy, J. S. Gholston aiol Tlmmas Morris; tor the 7th, Messrs. Win. T. Wofford, J. A. W. Johnson and A. K. Seago. The con signee in each District will notify the other members of his committee, s:o soon as he mav receive the consignment, and appoint a day for their olac.e ot meeting at the place of delivery. Eacii committee is authorized to appoint necessary assistants, and sub agents, and will act with special relerence to the declared w ishes of the donors. Bills of expenses unavoidably incurred w;l! be presented at this office fur payment. 4. Editors, throughout the State, willing to connect themselves with this laudable charily, are teqiiested to give this older a few insertions. 5. Let a copy of this order he forwarded <o Wm. Clniclitiin, Esq., Baltimore, who is requested to present it to tliP Managers of the Ladies Southern Relief Fair, as a truth ful, though imperfect, expression of Geor gia’s gratitude. L-t copies he forwarded also to Messrs. Crane*"and Graybill, Savan itiah, to each member of the several com mittees apoointed, and to each President of Jirhlioad in Georgia. 5t A ~ CIIAIU.ES J. J EXKINS, Governor. Tlio Woifl “Loyal.’’ The August* Const!tutionalint, referring ilo the testimony of A. 11, Stephens before 4he Reconsltuction Committee at Washing ion, thus pertinently discourses about the dObnosiou-s word “ Loyal :” “ Now, we object here to the word “ loyal .” St is true that Mr. Stephens, in a prior use •of the term, load expressed himself as by no anegns giving in hi. adhesion to the idea it ki» now employed to convey; but, for all Aliat, we are sorry to see it fall from his lips, .-•tul here, as everywhere else, lake up our, •testimony against it. “ Loyal" indeed. ’Tis an ill phrase. To ■what or to whom is it that you, or that I or Hhat any of us are under any political obli gation whatsoever to be ''loyal?'' Is it to the President ? The true Republican owns no personal superior. Is it to this drunker, lawless conclave, misnamed Congress ? The •creatures who make it up are the servants,, »nd not the masters, of the People. Is it ito iCbief Justice Grovel and his learned as sociates ? Why thnt Keoeli is but the mere translator of . the people’s will. And yet here is the whole triad of Government and not a starting hole for this poor “ loyal'' in any one of the three. “Hebei" is bad enough, but " loyal" snrelv worse, for the one, at ffeasf, means fight, and the other has only sneak for it synonyms. It’s such a mis erable, puling, weak-legged, crawling thing, too, this "loyal" —very well in “ the effete despotisms of [Europe," doubtless, but strangely out of place in this, the “best,” —aqj freest—“ government the world ever -saw.” Put enough o {"loyal." Tis a dead fiy in the oiutmeut and hath a moat ansavo *7 perfume, We bid i-ta* sneaking paltri • ness, for the present, ndlestf SOUTHERN HERALD. 11l It, \. Hlltffi & CO. Disastrous Fire. Just before daylight on Tuesday morning, Mav Ist., the "Blue House," adjoining Ma sonic Hall on the west, whs discovered to tie on fire. The house being wooden, and very dry, it was soon enveloped in flames, which communicated with another wooden build ing w.-st of it. owned and occupied by Gar rett <fc Bro. In a short time both houses were burned to the ground. There were two small —brick tenements west of these on the site of the Trout House, belonging to Gen. Austell, the roofing of one of which, (which was unoccupied.) was burnt off, but the other, occupied bv G. W. Parrott, who removed his stock to a place of safety, escaped comparat vely uninjured. In the meantime, as the wind blew from a westerly direction, the flames were pressed against the walls of the Masonic Hall, east of the burning buildings, which, entering the unprotected windows soon gained a lodgment, from which all efforts to force them proved unavailing. About sunrise the devouring element hurst furiously forth through the roof ami w indows, wrapping tiie building in one almost unbroken sheet of flame ; and this splendid structure, which had passed unscathed through the long con tinued severe shelling of the siege of the city, and escaped destruction when almost every other prominent building was laid in ruins by the departing Federal troops in j 1804, has fa len a sacrifice to the noil en forcement of a city ordinance, forbidding the erection of wooden buildings within boundaries covering this locality. The basement and first floor of the M Isolde lLilt w'eie owned by K. E. Raws m. Esq., w hose loss in probably *IO,OOO, and who, we are very sorry to learn, tout! ary to bis usual foresight, had no insurance. The second ; n ! third floors were the pro perty of the Masonic Fraternity, whose loss was also about $ 10,000, fully covered by insurance. The basement was used by Mr. George Sharpe, Jr., as a warehouse for bonded mer chandise, all of which was removed to a i place of safety. One tenement o f the first floor whs occu pied by Lowe & Thrasher, Commission Merchants. Goods removed, loss inconsid eralde, and all covered bv insurance. The other tenement was occupied by Geo. Sliatpe, Jr., as a billanl saloon and bar room.’ Everything nearly a total lc.-s.— Flock and tables worth $7,000 ; insurance $5,00G. The second floor was occupied as offices ‘"or various purposes and a dancing school. Loss not heavy. I he third floor was occupied as a Lodge room by the brotherhood ot the Mystic lie. Idle Jewels and fumitory were all saved. I die “ 11 lie 11 ou-e” on the west was divi ded into two tenements, (he one next the Hail being occupied bv Mr. Geo. Johnson, us a bar l oom, w hose loss is about $l,OOO. No insiit ance. I lie other w-s occupied by Bergen it IVaso, as an eating saloon, and was known as the “Hue House -Restaurant.” Loss about SI,OOO- Insured for a small amount. I lie house was worth about $2,000; be longed to Mr. Johnson, and w„s not insured. Messrs, Garrett <t /?ro., occupied the house adjoining tins on tiie west. Stock and house worth $25,000. Insutanee $12,- 000 ; excent some $3,000, the loss falls on consignors. Ihe aggregate loss is about $56,000 ; amount insured about $27,500. The fire is supposed to have originated hy a negro making a fire in a stove in the Restaurant, and going to sleep, some of the ; lire falling on the floor, igniting it.— Another cause has been intimated tetris, J which should be caculated to put. everhody . on tlieir guard. Our brave, ever-read)' firemen, did all it. was possible fur them to do, hut found it ; impossible to save the property. —Atlanta ] Bn lletin. Fred. Douglas. —Tne escape of Fred. ; Douglas from slavery occurred thirty-five years ago in Raleigh, M. C At tiiat perim; s*v 1832—the present illustrious Fred was the property of Gov, Dudley, of North . Carolina, and was kept tn attendance upon the business office of'.hat gentleman. II" was a sprightly servant hoy of eighteen tears, a bright mulatto, and hy his intelli gence had rendered himself useful to the ; Governor in going on errands, sweeping out the offices', Ac. But Fred.’" ambition soared, and he resolved to extend the sphere of his usefulness. To this end he wrote himself « pass, so worded as to authorize him to reach a free State, signed the Gov ernor’s name to it, aud then attached the great seal of that it might the more effectually wear upon its face the te semhlance of genuineness. Armed with the document, lie found no difficulty in reach ing Massachusetts, where he had stretched forth the sympathizing hand ot tlieudship. Strange Srottv about Stonewall Jack son.—ln a Not folk (Va) letter to the New York tribune, the writer sa_)s a statement was made to him a few days ago, by an ex» rebel officer of Stonewall Jackson’s com mand, which, on subsequent inquiry, he dis covered to be true. lif speaking of Jack son, Lis old associate, he said if he had been in command of the rebel army at Antietaro. the war would have been brought to a close ; for that “Jackson proposed to Lee and oth er officers that McClellan should he delicate ly approached with a proposition to p a c him (McClellan) in command of both the Union and rebel armies, sr.d then dictate to the Administration satisfactory terms for peace, which at that, time «’<%' I have been line deposing of Mr. Lincoln hut /ctf. Da vis got wina of the plan and it fed through. “ We thought,” the secesh officer said, “ that the United States Government had become aware of such a plan, and that was the wax we accounted for tire (act of McOleilan tming relieved from the command of the srmy. Mr. and Mrs. Clement C. Clay were, at a recent date, in Petersburg, Virginia, the guests of Dr. Withers, of that c:ty. Mr. C. had improved very much since his rejease frv.m cot ffnement. (llill’M, GEOSGII, TiIIIISIIW lIiIKMM,, till 111, ISGti. Tin*'l c-t of Lojalty. Mr. Rogers, of No* Jersev, in bis very ali e ininuiiiy repert from the Judiciary ’Committee, on the proposition to modify the test oath, was unkind enough to repro* j duce, from the files of the Tribune, some opinions which i:s editor would find it diffi* ! cult to reconcile with Lis present attitude. ; Here '.hey aie. ! “Whene'er it shall be clear that the f-great-faoi 1 y of-the Southern people have Is—- ; come conclusively alienated from the l nion and anxious to escape it, we will do our best to forward their views.” —Tribune Tib. 22, 1 18GI. “ We have repeatedly said, and we onre 1 more insist that the great principle embod ied by Jefferson in the Declaration of lode- ; i pendence, that governments deprive their • just powers from the consent of the gov erned, is sound and just ; and that if the -lave .State*. the cotton Spates or tho Gulf ! Stales only choose to hu m an independent nation, they have a moral l ight to do so,” [ Tribune of March 2, 18G1. “ I was w illing, in the, winter of 1800 01, to let the cotton States go if they really de sirril it. I was not only then willing t!ml tiie Union should in good faith make them the offer, but 1 note deeply regrit that it was not made and acted on.” [Tribune of Tib. 21, 1803, As the Tribune, in these paragraphs not only conceded the tight of secession, but sympathized with and encouraged the move rnent, its editor must, at that time, have I een, according to the Radical theory, a disloyal man, a rebel and a traitor. We should like to knowhow begot reconstruct ed and readmitted into full communion with the faithful. What was made the te-t oath !of locality in the Tribune’s case.' 1 If Mr. I Greeley wonpl give bis experience, some , useful hints might he furnished for striking j out anew idan of reconstruction. ’ j (,V. V. Keen. State Trials.— The Washington corres- ; pendent New York Times writes under date I 23d April. I TIIE TRIAL OF I) VVIS. i Attorney General Speed Ims under con j federation the matter of the trial of .Idler [son Davis in the United ’States Circuit j ■ Court of Virginia, which meets on the first Monday in May at Norfolk, unless Congress : shall in the meantime pass a hill changing I the place of holding the Court to Richmond, i A pioposition of this kind is now being . urged m the Molise. It is not settled, how - ; I ev.-r, wbee Davis will be trod, hut w hetimi j or not he shall he pied in the Slate of Vir • gii.ii will le iletei iiiired upon the an A a! ot (Chief-Justice Cloee, who is expected here 1 this week. If Judge Cli *-e interposes no 01. jjm-tion, a cliaigo against Dies fin treason will he submitted to the Fil led Sint«s • Grand Jury to be co’nv. Tied in Norfolk and Richmond us hefiue suggested. TRIALS OF LI E. WISE AND OTHERS. .8 The Attorney General has also been in consultation wiili Judge Underwood with reference to tl.e trials of Wise, L"e and some sixty’ others who were indicted for treason in the United States District Court at. Norfolk last slimmer. It is not likely that the rinst Gen. Lee will he prosecute.! at tiie Mav term, if, indeed, the trial shall ever take place. It is pro posed to try first of the persons indicted at Norfolk, Henry A. Wise, and in all prohahi ity that will he the Only case dis posed of this season in Virginia, unless it he determined to t.rv Davis, and in that event no effort will he made to try Wise during the May term. Emlofttae First Ft liiatif'anipaign The Fenian army at Fast port, and parts a.tja eent Lurried tip on fast Thursday and Friday Gen. Mead's limes took away the trims of the Greens; Gen. li. Doran had left, si.iuo Jays- before and vns drinking el.uinf.agi ein 1 !?--t.*.i ; the f.ro visions were running short, tind' the oyster season was just ahout L’.'n... while lobsters were suit low in flesh ; and. finally, orders came from headquar ters f..r every one to g" home. w hi. h tliey’diiL A special tu the Herald makes mention otdt as to! lows: “Tho announcement of the fact create.l intense excitement among the Fenians. They held pH vale meetings among themselves, and vowed they would lever return without a fight; hut when it vas shown to them by tlieii lev.lets lieie that there was not the fainted, hope of making even a sneeessftd laid upon any pni t wit 1 1 the few arms they lia I procure.l fr- in tlieir schooner during her detention, the majority became some what resigned, a'lliougti they hiit.ilv complain of what tiiey openly called the nerti.Jity and i.<i-- nianagoTiient o' s.ene gentlemen here, r eardii g whom there is a wide difference of opinion. •• The aif.iir lias turned out a ii.isentfile fnrm- - ridiculous, did it nothing with it so many sad con sequences. Hundreds of flue young fellows left their homes, threw up their situations, gave tip everything to join heart and soul iu this move rnent, and it, was truly n i.ndaneholly sight to see them leave hy the boat to tlav. "The majority are ntUily ruined, not. know-tig where ' o go after th?y arrived at. their (lestinn lion, the funds not being, sufficient to pay th -ir passage hack again. They erieil bitterly like children on leaving No more." Well, we are glad it i a no worse. Better lose their situations than their lix’l-s. We trust they went home determined to spend their own nioue) in-lead of putding it into the pockets of tho lend .(‘litres, and tire Sweeneys, and the B. Doran Kil- Ijans. — Journo.! and Messenger- fPTT A colored physician from Engl am] located in Columbus, Miss., last week, ami caused snttti sensation, both among white and black. — Virksburg Herald. We are informed that the colored person allndvd to was in our citv a few weeks ago, not for tli e purpose of locating, but to poo cute subscribers to a paper which he pro posed to publish in some Missis<di>pi town, for'the benefit of freedmen am! designed so convince those of tfte colored persuasion that their Steads were to be tound south of Mason anfiDixpir’ - line, and not north of it. [ Coin nib sis {Miss.) Sentinel. The London Athrnrum savs- that not withstanding Baron Von der Db kins’ mel ancholy Tate. and live tragical efid of yltna.t all the Afnear. irare'ers of late vests, another traveler is ready to fill the gap, am! again to expose his life in the service of science. Tiie ue« explorer ii Her Gerhard J l lip's. Tine Sei mm*. Mikcn isrs Mektisc. iiieih Lia iu. it IK- —— At a lieeting of the New Y<-ik Cham ber ofGomfiler, •«•. o i the l’.uti of Apr. I, Mr.< q-lyke. o! the special cu-nuuttee, to whom »n*’referred a petition ami oilier paper*, a-king llwClitiiils'r to meiiioiinliie tire 1'.,-i l-nt of the Unit, and :*t,ten. or Congress, in favor of exacting from the St ,i.-e lately m r- L, 111, n. a- a condition precedent to their restoration to the Li ion, the in knowledge, meet of lie it -l.hgati.m to | av the priueipat and interest ol their r* -peetiie Slate ii.d, t,l, dni-ss in curred prior t > ttie rebellion, made the following repo.rt. which was aeeepted and the committee discharged: That l h-- voluntary action of those Stairs,.aince the suppression of the rebellion furnishes gratify ing end-nee that no* interposition on the part of the General Government is needed to secure the results a.-ked for hy voiir petitioners. No one of the Mutes lately in rebellion, has shown any iliqe-silion to repudiate their liabili iti<T< ineurrcd during the war. fliitti* contrary, ct-.-t of them have airily reaeknowledgeil lliat lialn ity. ai.d many of ttiVm have hern engaged in deviso g ways and mean* for paying oIF the aecu niulatetl interest, providing for the future pay ment of iiitere-t and principal. Ynfh- 4emmitte are informed tiiat the Slate of Georgia has already authorized the i--ue and sale of the new bond* euHicieiit to liquidate their en tire hack interest, to the payncutof which the pioeeed- of the new bonds are to be nppli, and. 1 lie ta>e of Florida has gone fill lie r than I hi*, in inserting ill her new const it u lion, recently adopted, a punisiott that all the tudivilualiii' del.t.. lno-s ~f tier citizens, existing prior to the re bellion, shall he held as valid, legal claims against them. Other of these States at e taking such in Cits ur, - for i,-inning tip- payment of interest oil their bonds is,ned before Ito- rebellion ua their present licited nieans and impaired credit wall permit, Fqe.allv honorable sentiments lmvu been inaai fested l,\" most of the eitiz.-ns of those States whit'll are indi l.t< .1 to the Nmili for purchase* n.ade act -e- and nt to tin* war. Few. if any ot I hem. have tailed to a- knowledge their obligations, or to pio vide for the future payment ot such portions of them ns tt-vii reduced a—etswill allow. 1 n v iew of these manife-lation- of hnii.irah’r -en ti ceiit —nl l!ie South. 'ii Ilo* part bothjd Mules and ptdividuals, if is believed your committee that to, iietion on the part , f tin- lleulsrul gov* eminent, is tall, and for. The Till it. of F.x-I’iiesiiiknt Dams.— '1 lie Washington t oriespontlent of the Bhiindelpliia /.< dyer of the I Otli lilt, say-: We i cifin to suspect that about the time the Fenians li, k John Bull mid libeia'e Ire land, Mr. Davis will he brought to tiial ami conviction before a civil court of the United Slates. In his person, the pi iliciplcs of pop ular self-gdverninotit, of State, Rights mol tin? A'oiistitiilion of the United Stales itseit, won'l he pul on trial. The wise and patri otic fathers w ho (bunded the Government of the United Stales oh the basis of these prin ciples, would he summoned Iron: the myste rious realms where the glio-ts of statesmen mid heroes dwell, to testify whether, in the light of the historical works of their hands. Jctlerson Davis was a pail iot or a traitor, Ice r voices, nnle-s the dead fal-ilv it: wolds the actions of lliu Six ng can speak hut in one wav. Tii.-v are unanimously <>n record in the iu , ceediiio* of the convention, whtuein they'shaped and Imitf-op the f-.bi to of the Cos: s 111 1: tloti, that it w is never designed nor expect**,! that the <1 ,vermin lit created bv the Si,!, - for the gt>>ii*ral good, for specifi purposes, all I with limited power- should become the absolute master o! Us creators. \\ e ate told that the swot.l has settled all this. I’mclically, x es. But when Ji (I Dav is begin that career which Radica'a denounce as treasoni, the sword had tint uttered it* de cree. lie must be tr ed on the law and the fact that governed at the limn of the overt ai I,'aiul on that, tha-martyrs and the propli ets, the sage* ami p ttrii tp of tl.e first l'< 'O lti’ionarv era will unaniinou Iv proriounee from their graves that Jeff, r*on Div’s never sinned against the Constitution of the United Slates, a:.d was no traitor to its Government. -—T e 'Chinese laborers are said to be as agile as monkeys. A gentleman, who j lias -pent some lit.io in IVkiu, mentions a j coiirthou-e in process of erection wider i snrrotinded bv a bamboo scaffolding forty feet high, on life top of which the laborers! move with wonderful rapiditv, going up ant! down the hare polfs like Squirrels, using t n’v their ha: d? an ! the soles of their feet. — - They show great expert ties* in throwing j materials from one to another at a consider* f *!.!« IFght, even casting a spmte full of nmr- [ Utr to'a man on the roof of a house without [ dislodging a particle of the mortar. The ( paper hangers, also, are very expert in thtow log sheets of paper, with one side covered with pas’e, readv for being put on the wall. Their paper for room purposes is very good, the “satin pattern” being the most cotil lion! v u-e-1. Paper of tins kind is not kept in roils, as with us, but in squares of about twelve inches hy ten inches. One man stands by the table and applies the pv-te,' and then aJioilly throws it up to another one who fixes it on the wall. Com n Failure.— While the cotton p'ant i- doing well iu mat v portions of the up’and country, «e are infoi toed that on acount oft the defective character of the seed planted on the water courses, failure of a crop is imminent. On the lower Mississippi, this evil is appalling. Failure to procure a “ stand ” taken ij connection with the di mlnishej amount of labor, will spoil the cal culation of those at the North who are re iving on a large crop.— Mem/ J ■ l.edjir. Information VVantso. — Mr- M Ard or, of Bratihon, Mis*., a widow "adv. the w fe of a Mason, was in the city yesterday, sc k* Jug inf.-n.iation of iter two sous, C. W . Ar thur of till! Ist M:ss. Infantry, an 1 D ...1 Arthur, of a Virginia Regiment, t. -itt.her uti ki own. Any information uoncoii.mg men l , ;h>.ir fate in the war, or their preset t loud- I iiy, ad hes-eij to Mrs. Arthur, at Brandon, care of Mr. Hargrove, will, he gratefully r<- c-ivsd. The press are fraterii>llv invited to c xe this notice circulation. —'Montgomery . idee.Lsstr. m rv_y- Am on..’ the sjuilftfits. af the college I ~f which Robert E. Leeds l’resideat, are Benj itnht Wood, jtiit., soti of MfivAVnod, of the New York Daily News; A. W . l’of?e, nepliuw.of the Federal (Jenara! i’otie ; Hugh I -ax i- and R. Davis, pephews of Mr. Jeffe/* -(•n Dtvis; W, VV. Foote, son of ex-SenatoT Foote, late of Tennessee J. W. \A i!mer. ron i of BNhop WiltnSr, of Alabama and Uhatla* Rives, son of lion. AVianuct Rives, &f Cbarlotlsvilie, Virginia. MIL. I. Mi. ill, I‘t.x I’lrinn or JtrrsM«ox Davis nr a M vstkr Akti-T— Below t« It pen picture of t> e great “ rebel chief,” which ail who rea I it, wid say is draw uw th tim touch ol an« is ter : “ lie (Jeff.) was a close student, a chiv a’ric uppoti«nt, a st ;adia:t frieud, a geutie* man :u a 1 kind mi l genial. Although un doubtedly the lie.i l and heart of the South ern lebeilion, he went into it r Jocl.intly, a* »!l who he ir,* 1.,- i .it s; ch iii the Senate will remeintier, when with broken accent and teal fill eyes he ha le farewell at once to that !>odv anil to all line greatne-*. Jeffer son Davis was blessed witn many accom plishments. He was alike a soldier and * statesman. No public man of toy acquain tance was more devoted to scientific p trsuits, and more familiar with the abstruse teach ings of political philosophy. No branch of human knowledge seemed to bo unworthy of his investigations." The above i» certainly fine-anil who, read er, do you snpp.se wrote It? If you are a Radical, you will say it Wag some \ alhmd itighainer. Not so, Iho w riter was no oth than John W. Kornev, and was printed in Ir.s own \\ ash itiofon t hrotiicle. lie penned it a’, a lime w hen deprai ily ha I not el taken entire posesaion of him. Avalanche. ffT The Mobile papers mention that a movement has been inaugurated in that city bv Miss Atigu-ta J. Kv os, fur providino and decorating a speci-d hoii.al | lace for tlo* remains of the Confederate soldiers who fell in defence of Mobile. It is tooposed to erect in the centre of the grave yard a xun p!e shaft of Alabama toarhle or granite, hearing the inscription, “ To the Unknown Heroes who fell iu defence ~f out Homes." A committee of gentlemen has already been organized tor ca'rving out the put j,uses of the movement, and the amount necessary ($0000) will lie subscribed in Motile. General Rupert K Lee was horn a 1 Stt a’ford—the name of the family seat o' the Lees —in Westmorland County Virginia, The house in which he was horn is still standing, and also distinguished a* tiie birth pi ace of Richard Henry Lee, afterwards the mover of the Declaration of'lndependence of Arthur L.-e, Agent and Commissioner of Congress on tho continent of Europe du ring near'y the whole of the Revolutionary war —of Franc:* LigLtfonl Lee, one of the -’gners of the Declaration and of William Lee, Commiss otter of tho Ucvol.it ontiry Coltgrtss to Holland. | /,’ltoxVM.ow ami I’mentiok —These noted old Tom-cats, having whipped out ever gar rd and every cedar in their tespe. live lough horlioods, have at last met ; and the battle now waging between them, is to decide whether or not tins coiilireut is latge enough to hold*.inure than one of these fe line belligerents at the same time, or even during tiie same century. How truly the poet has said : •• When stkssuk meets tlnut comes the ntlssl.- of war.'' The Conkeukiiath Dead. Several Citi zens of Atlanta, formerly t>l Kentucky, have tiuhlidied a call to ” Kwntuekiatii" to meet, ami take the initiatory *'<*|.s to gather to gether the remains of Kentucky soldier* who ti posejn that vicinity, im lu ling all who fell in the battles around Atlanta, in order that they mav he appropriately inter red, provided with head-stones insetil.ml with their respective navies, and also to erect in the nii.l-t of the burial groan Ia fit ting monument in common to tlieir memo nsr A Wat ’ o soldier wlto xvas sup posed to have fallen in that battle, and whose narno has for ii Iv years been in* scribed on the monument of heroes at Wies baden, has returned from America, whither he emigr tied while tiie hn’-tlo was tagiug, and had Ida name erased from the iiionn me*tt. His name is William \\’n«t, and ne was in tiie Nassau force attached to the English army. Many oT the Mexican* favor Imtli armi -s, the Imperial and the Repob lear. tin.. we.-L a man receives a Medication that he has been drafted as one ot Maximilian’# *ii!.i;ers, and itvrnediatelv he seiiit* a suhs'i tute. Tiie next week a similar notification is sent to the. same man by a Republican . iii .-r, and the x ctiin has to semi anotber substitute. Many of the wealthy titer, have a representative in each aryiy. XTT The Steamer M-xlro, from Ver» t'luz, which an ived at Ne w Ot leans recently hrourrlit a tnj'tdrer of Cordova colonists, who return disgusted w:th the Mexican emigra tion scheme. They complain that they were enticed out there bv men who, unable to sUv in this countrv, are anxio’i* to gel everybody else out of it. The returned colonists are quite emphatic in the opinion that Maximi lian will not remain perm unenlly in Alex.co IT Lord SI aflshjtry recently stated tu a puhlte 'nee'.ing in f,ott.lon, tiiat, from per sonal observation, he lia* aScertaiue I that, of ad-tit male criminals of that cty, -nearly ali ha! fallen in a eour*e of cl ime between the n_j. . ~f eight nut sixteen year*; and that if a toting man lived an honest file up to twen- Tv x -jo of age, tharo were forty-nine chances in favor ar *4 »»«re aga'iist him as to an boK oraida hfi» Mo realter. — lturing the o»r*patio« of the town of I‘ort Royal, in tl.e r> *t« of V j’g’-nia. by the , EeuerU Uo'-ps, in May, ls6t. the YJ««on : o lodge roottr* *-f Lodge Si. 2 were troven open, "and the silver j-Wel* taken tbrefrom. They were presented to the lodge by a . brotlter <»f tie Craml of Scotland, ’ more than < be bandied yurts ago, aud vrrs much valued. The Albany Patriot give# a account of the cotton nro*perts in that aec tion. Tile plant t# dying oat even where it came Up well, ami iu other case* much of the *e*d failed to come up. The <•*?«* t* supposed lo be the use of old' seed ih-i had ‘ lost'a nuasure of its vitality from age. SOUTHEit.Y HERALD. r.TE*or «tnwßirnox'Axi> ufetm’Q, t >n# copy year • ........... UO f 0»r ' * - t '|q thri -:.tii» I ot ISTAStIBLT l» AtCVANC* t rr~ A 1 p»;er, ttepped it 4he end of th* tim a pan for if out p?su-om.it renewal Ad, .■fil-.-menU interted *t *ntc* of One D'.lhir and sis \ r< at» per *qti*re nf Ten Lines, for the first ifoertioo, *ud J-erenty-ftve Cent* for .•j'!, -el.---ouent ii.sei'-ua —paystue m s.ireores iat J. , 'ion* made on coutrsels for sdver t’-eiiieti** run- 1 g titter month* and longer. • 'ii i- ua, —The Healtb Borrd of the city of New York, had published a circular, got ten up under the supervision of physiiiaoa touching the treitment of Cho'era. Tbo main portion of it is here subjoined. “Cholera is alws'-s invariably preceded by a painless diarrhoea, and thi* is, in all cases, to be promptly treated. Whendiaf rhtt’x is pres til. go to b*d, and mainlaio a position —on the hack. —I'so abundance of oiuukut *. ami send fur a p.hynirinn. Htav in lied until you ere well. I>o not consider yourself well, until yoa have had a movement from the bowels. Abstain from all drinks. Apply mustard plasters to the bowels. In the absence of a ph vs’ci.m, an adult can take ten drops of laudanum and twn drops of spirits of camphor. A child of ten rears may taka fixe drops of Uudaniiin and live t>f spirits of camphor. A child of fiva year* mav take three drops of UuJanum and thro.- of u nnphor, and these doses may he iepcated ewv twenty minutes, so long as dixrrh<u i or pain or vomiting continue*. This will save time, but in all ca»cs send far a physician. IF not get opto pass tl.e era.•nations, bill ii—i? the bed pan or oilier conveniences. N- \ei chill the surface of the body by gal ling out of bed. Remove immediately a'J tho evaluations from vour rooms, scald all the utenaiia used, or disinfect them with chloride of time; scald, also, your toiled clothing. ■ The Eot R New Methodist Bishop*.— Rev Wnt M. Weightman, Ij [)., L L •• n South C arolinian, and fi>i rnerly edited the charleston Uuii-tisn Advocate, lie it also well known as the biographer of Bishop Capers, lie is a mat! of extensive and pro found loarning, and is now President, of the University of Alabsma, at Greensboro, in that Mtate. R-v D. S. I Liggett, D. i)., was clitor for many year* of the Metlio fist tj tarterly lie view, and now presides over Hie Episcopal Methodist, at ii chnitTtid, V a., of which State lie is a son, and is highly esteemed for his scholarship, aud ability as a writer and pul pit orator. Rev JI. V. Mc.Tiyere, ]}. I)., is well known here, whon as editor of the Christian Advo cate, and as the eloquent occupant of several of oitr pulp'ls, he so long alt/acted crowded audiences to the sanctuary. Rev E M Marvin is less known among tt* % lie comes from Missouri, from which State ho went w ith Gen Price as his chaplain into tho army, art I served on that peaceful and hear ei.ly duly throughout the late unhapyy con flint. The fact that Ids ministerial brethren chose him bishop on the first ballot, shows their high estimate of his character and abil ities. Bishop Socle.— I’lto Nashville Distjsatcb Ins the following in relation to this eminent and venerable man of God t “ We are sorry to announce that this patriarch of the Wes leyan Methodism iu America, i* supposed, hy Ins physicians, to lie repifflf de lining. B shop Joshua .Soule is about etgfftysflye v ears of age, and every one who It a* read or heard anything of religious denominations during the lust half century thinks of Bielis op Soule, whenever lire people o/I)i» per»uK* sioti are mentioned. Few wen have devo ted all U-e energies of so g real a mind to the ministrations ot religion exclusively, a* ha lias done, for an equal number of years.— Perhaps none have preached the gospel more p«w ifully, by practice as well as by precept. L/»riM ina Sugar Taxed to De*.th. —Sy. gar raia-d in Louisiana now pays an ejx i»J •lutr of from JS to 23 par cent. ou i'* gross market value. So other farm products, save cotton, pay any duty. Agaiuat this l*x t!.e outcry, from all classes in Louisiana, i* loud and universal. They say it ia iu<n* oiis, and they state facta enough to ahow (lie truth u.'what they aftiint. We believe their assertion, that lliia tax will extinguish the sugar i-uliure, now trying again to fear its head in !. oiisi iiia, under all thediaoovr* agmnents growing out of a transition slabs in the labor market. CST Se vend English Churchmen— prominent among them ihe Ke». Chnrle* Kingsley—have |. ibo»hed tber duledief in the eternal punish ment of the w icked. They all contend that the natural iiuniuriajily of the roul cannot be rntab li.lmd either b ■ reason or scripture, that eternal life is conferred by <fod Uin ugh Christ upon the rrdeeuied, »ud that Uis a lsk«d arc IxUfaHy <0 jttlitL. fjj~ The steamer, \V. (}. Q.l/hona, wga burned ou the Savannah river, ou tbe 23th ultimo aliout a hundred (piles fro* Augus ta. Most of her cargo—five hundred bales of cotton was deatroyed ; passeogefa sad crew all saved. ■r-Gcn. Jordan, Adjutabt General ou Reaiiregaro’s st iff during the war, and wrj> ter of the abu«ive article* against Mr. Davis for IJjrper’a Magazine, hat he^oipappnnect ed as editor with one of tba iScttpLi* j>»« pert. ty It v» (teurral James f. JhtPWnlew—»eml net the (*« vernoe—Jbat got into a difficulty wjtp Hr. Wend-ntf. veportar pf tbe Uaeheille U abut Tire ■beUrtt'irent gentfemea bwvs b<?rtl tried, an I fnse tflo each, for llietr •* bloodies* bade epieode at tba eapiud” a short true* sga Weadell Phillips in a late lec u.re, aii i, “<lne thou sac J o.*° conceived and augiti' s<ued the rebellion' And i£ five years ago, GoJ had been p’evsed to *aka them to livin' felf—or drop tkm the other way—theta would have been no rebellioa." Report* from Arkansas, it appear i that there ia great suffering among the i white people in that Stale. -U i» added ~ihat at least 1,000 ara living as scanty fare, | a»d wou'«i perish if they did apV reoeiva , great a*d. _ —A gent'emao in Washington recently sent a telegram to Suit Lake City at 10:30 a. x, sod received a reply at 5:?0 r. 3i. I The distance of which tbe telegram was sect 1 was more than 5 00Q miles. ‘