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s OUTHERN HERALD. ppBU=UtD EVERY THURSDAY MORNING cr p. jr. Martin cb 00., office itstaiiw Banks’s building. k.\*>t -ide him. st. Hales of Subscription. On* copy ooe y«» r •’ 0 On# copy six months 2 00 Oat copy three months, 1 ©0 Orders for JOB W< >RK si.d AUVEUTTS jy(S respectfully solicited, and pioiiqtly attended to. JtflfiMin Davis on die Future of the Southern Blacks, and I'eu iani*ni. From the recent vrork of Surgeon ('raven entitled the “ Prison I.ife Jefferson Davis,” we extract his views on the subject of negro emancipation and its result, and the lase abortive invasion of Canada in behalf of Ire land : Sir. Davis referred to an account he had been reading of an attack on a negro named Davenport, in Connecticut, for marrying or living with a white woman. Also to tin >’ew York riots, in w’-ich limbs rose sudden ly upon the blacks, hanging them, to lamp posts and roasting them at slow fires The papers bore evidence, from all sections, of increasing hostility between the two races, and this was hut part . f the penalty the poor ■negro had to pay for freedom. The more political equality was given or approached, the greater must become, the social antago nism of the races. In the South, under slavery, there was no such feeling, because there could be no rival ry. Children of the white master were often suckled by negroes, and sported during in fancy with black playmates Old enough to engage in manlier exercises, it was under black huntsmen the young whites took heir first lessons in field sports. They fished, shot, and hunted together, eating the same bread, drinking from tlie same cup, sleeping under the same tree with their negro guide. In public conveyances, there was no social exclusion of the blacks, nor any dislike en gendered by competition between white and negro labor. In the bed-chamber of the planter's daughter, it was common for a ne gro girl to sleep as hall attendant, half com panion ; and while there might he, as in all countries, and among all races, individual in stances ol cruel treatment, he was well sat isfied that between no master and laboring classes on earth had so kindly and regardful a feeling subsisted. To suppose otherwise required a violation of the known laws of bu man nature. Marly associations of service, affection and support were powerful. To these self inti re-t j lined. Toe hors- hired for a day may be led or not fed, gnome i or ■not groomed, when returned to the livery stable. Iho lr. rso owned by us, and lor which we have paid a thousand or fifteen hun dred dollars, is an object both of solicitude, and pride, iI is groom in-, stab loin-, and feed ing are eared lor. It sick, he is doctoreu and cured if possible. When at work it is the owner's interest that he shall not he over taxed. The attainment of political equality by the negro will revolutioniz - all this. It will he irs if our horses were given the right of intrud ing into our parlors, r brought directly in to competition with human labor, no'longer aiding ir, but as livals Cut large gangs of white laborers, belonging to diff-rent nation alities, at work beside each other, and feuds will probably break out. Endeavor to sup plant a thousand Irishmen working on a ievco or canal by a thousand Germans ready to accept lower wage s, or tore i; rsa, and mili tary powi rs will be required to keep the peace. Kmancipation does this upon agi gantie scale, and in the tno.-t agravated fbrin. It throws the whole black race into direct and aggressive cuinpcti; inn with the laboring classes of the whites, and the ignorance of the blacks. |.re-timing on their freedom, will eiribitp r ibi- difference. The principle of cuiip-nsiti.'ii prevails everywhere through nature, and tie- negroes will have to pav, in harsher social re-irictions and treatment, for the attempt to invest them with political cquati'y. To endow them with the ballot hy art of C oigriss was impossible, until the trunk of the Constitution already stripped ■of many branches once full of shade and plea-ant singing birds, was torn up bv tlie roots. Each .State Lad the privilege of dr -tiding tlie qualifications of its own citizens ; audVt some t lie States most, clamorous for uni ver.-al negro suffrage in the South, where such a measure would send unlettered blacks to both Houses of' Congress, and pass the State Legislatures and judiciary altogether into their hands, themselves refused the bal lot to the negro, though not numerous enough in any district, to decide the majority of a poundkeeper. A €L 8.1 qsrty —Ono of the most curious yet simple instruments of late y ears is a little wooden barometer, invented f>y a Mexican guitar-maker a few years since. It con sists only of a strip of cedar, very thin, about two and a half feet in length, about, an inch wide, cut with the grain set in a block or fort. This cedar strip is backed or lined with One of white pine cut across the grain, and the two are tightly glued together. To bend these when dry is to snap them, but on the approach of bad weather, the cedar curies over until the top at times touches the ground. It is said this simple instru ment will indicate the coming of a “norther” full twenty-four hours before any other kind ■£>'. barometer known on the coast The phi losophy of the thing seems to be that the pine dries and contracts under the influence of fair weather, and curls over on its side ; •white in foul weather, swelling and expand ing its side, the cedar yielding to the pres sure because cut with the grain and is not susceptible to the influence of dryness or .humidity of atmosphere. Perfectly Delighted, —Many of our pflouthern journals appear to be delighted With the clause in the new Army Hill pro hibiting any person who served the lute Con federate States, either in a civil or military capacity, from entering the army of the Uni ted States. The Yorkville Enquirer savs : “i\ e can now listen to war rumors, and hostile Congressional debates against Great Britain, Mexico, and other offenders,without any fears being dragged out again to dig trenches, or of become targets for rifle practice. We shall now advocate war fiercely and persistently, whenever the slightest provocation for it arises. C\ e think the United States ought to lick Great Britain at once for her past offences. Cuba might, at the same time, be wrested from that crazy old power, Spain, a nd Maximilian unseated in Mexico. Our toicc ft fur war, decidedly and emphatically.” SOUTHERN HERALD. BV I), X. lAWIX & CO, £ o u t jj r r n it) trail). Giiflin, Georgia, July 1-2. lS(ifi. Shall tlie South be Iteprc-cut < and in the Philadelphia Convention I We feel that it ;s hiimilia'ing that such a question as the above should be a subject of discussion among the .Southern people.- The question would be Letter stated in another lot in. Having lost all of our rights, shall we longer undertake to maintain our self respect ? W e separated from the Northern Democracy in 1800 because thev denied us the right to carry slaves into the new teiritories; now, after they have set the ncgrc-es fteo l>y force, and plundered ns of all our earthly possessions, burned our houses, armed the negroes, and taught them that it was their duty to kill us, and denied us all our rights, even the sacred and inali enable right of self defence, we me now in vited to meet them in Convention, and eon cede all these inhuman demands, in order to join hands with the so-called conservative party of the North to enable them to put down the radicals. The South can claim a few friends at the North, but the v are as powerless as we are, and if ever allowed to sit in the Convention at Philadelphia, will have little or no influ ence there. They arc proscribed, con temned, and despised,—spoken of by the leading journals North, both republican and democratic, so-called, with the utmost, con tempt am! detestation, being called traitors and enemies to the country. The great head and front of the < oaservatives, Mr. Seward, declares that there is really t.o es sential difference between the conservatives and the radicals. And yet we are invited to join Mr. Seward who originated the irre pressible conflict-, and Mr. Ravn o-nl who has voted for most of the radical measures during the present session of Congress, to help them squelch Mr. Stevens and Mr. Sumner ' If some trifling difference of opinion should arise among the busts of the infernal world, about how thev should best proceed to make the ruin of this world more com plete than it now is, and a Convention should 1 e called bv the moderate party, for the: purpose of organizing, thereby to enable them to gain the victory over the other party, who were largely in lire majority, would it be wise-, in the people here to meet them in Convention to assist them in their purpose I \Ye wouid not wish to sented in such a Convention, and still there would be almost as much sense ill it tis to be represented in the Philadelphia Conven tion. No, no, let tlie South maintain what little of seif respect she lias left —she lias no rights to maintain. She has been . heated, and swindled, and troden under foot ever since she went into the Union ; what can she expect to gain by further acts of voluntary submission to an unholv associa tion with her enemies? The Ulan who de nies me every right which is inestimable to a freeman “and formidable to tyrants onlv” is my enemy, and self respect demands that lie should be so regarded and treated. It is not ncces-ary t" g-t the South in Convention with any Not'.h.-rn party to in duce her to vote-right ; ail that is wanting is to let her have a vote, she will not east it against I er friends and in favor of her ene mies, and she needs no association with northern parties to prevent her fioin doing a thing so unreasonable and so suicidal.— Let the tricky trading North fight her own battles, we have been humbugged bv her ioug enough. Let the South stand aloof, and act as a unit, and not, as . heretofore, cripple herself hv entangling alliances with northern parties to he victimized and sold' by everv political trader. Lot ns escape, if possib'e, from the intolerable race of com promisers with which we were ever afflicted before we seceded ; let us maintain what little of manhood escaped the destruction of the war—o let us be men if it kills us! Does anybody suppose that Jefferson Davis, were lie how at. liberty, would go to the Philadelphia Convention? or permit himself to he represented there? Never, no never. \\ e are satisfied that republicanism in this country has proved an utter failure, ! and that the South will never hare any rights while attached to the government, ( but she is unable to help herself—she isj simply a prisoner of war, having the power to demand nothing; her true policy is to wait with patience until she has the power to demand her rights. We have confidence in a super-ruling Providence, and we think we have been wronged too much for the authors of that wrong to escape unpunished . their day will come, either l.v divisions among themselves, or by trouble with some other ration —a lime when we may hope successfully to demand our rights —but it will have to bo an occasion moro oppor tune, and a power more potent than the Philadelphia Convention. The St. Louis Democrat promises that within three works Pacific Railroad trains will run through to Leavenworth, Kan-as m Tlic IV n i« MHclilier Ihr.ti the Sword.* 4 CRimX, GMil l, Till Mill llolimil, JI L 1 I* IStifi. Far t lie Southern Herald, Our Captive C flit f. Linen *ugg-*tvd reading the *’ / r*e n Life of Jrjfr rte/n Dan*," by Dr. ('rave n. BY M!s* M. I). I». I dreamed, that in the and inreon’s dimlm *<», I stood U 5 he shack*.• 1 lay. And I thought of the hounds that kept him, Like n royal stTg at bay. And ruy hot blood, like molten lava, Surged all boiling tin -nigh my veins. And my torn l:eait with hate was madd’ning, Wildly maddiiing with its paint. And my voice I lifted to Heaven, — Vo the Just, the I’plight One— And l asked, with a heart all broken, 44 If deeds like these should be done*** No, no ! —by the graves where slumber Our slaughtered—aye, murdered sires. By our widows, and our orphans, Ily our altars, homes, and fire* ’ No, no!—by the ashes sacred Os our young and daring braves, — By the bones all scattered, —bleaching. Or mouldering in dens and caves. No, no ! —by the God of Mer< y, Yen, of Justice ami of Might. If the dungeon doors are opened not. He’ll with vengeance swift requite! Shame, shame ! to the craven dastards— Did malice e’er stoop so low ? To wreak the lusts <»f their hatred On the Chief of a fallen foe! Shame, shame! that this land of Freedom, — No, no! ’(is but Fietdom’s grave— Should see, ’thout a tear, the dungeon drear In iis tomb enclose our Brave! Shame, sham* l ! that this land of Bibles Should see with what fiendish art, They pile the lingering tortures Chi his bleeding, bursting heart! Shame, shame! that the serpent’s venom Man's heart should turn t«» steel, Or tl.e lambkin's tleecy coating, The form ol the wolf conceal! Shame, shame! that the voice of weeping Is heard through our Dixie dear, For the captive Chief sore pining In a dungeon dark and drear! And though that voice of wailing Be hushed when the foe is near, Tis only to hid*' the moaning I hey would joy,—av *,joy to hear. To the shackled prisoner I whispered, With my lmna on his thin gray hair, Oh ! Qod of jit Ht ice, free the captive ! Is thy moaning people’s prayer.” Guilin, (la. July 11 111, 18(16. * Prison Life of Jeffkson Davis.— Ur. Craven’s book which gives an account ot the prison life of .Jefferson Davis is creating quite a sensation in the whole country. We have quoted largely from it, and may here after again do so. Our present object in referring to this remarkable book, is to cor rect a misapprehension that may oxi.-.t in the minds of some of our readers in regard to our opinion of it, for the reason that we admitted into our columns on yesterday a communication from a respected friend, which embraced a severe denunciation of if. We incline to differ with our aforesaid cor respondent. \\ e did not think this neces sary at the lime we published his communi cation, for we hold to the rule, that Editors arc not rcspon-ihle for the opinions of oth ers that may appear in their journals, in the absence of their endorsement, by them Lest, however, wo repeat, misapprehension may exist, as to our opinions of this work of l)r Craven, we pen lit -e linos. The spirit of the work, in our judgment, and the same view is taken of it by journals of the high est respectability, is commendable ; and says the Charleston iX-ux, “ reflects the greatest credit on the anther’s heart. An auti-slave ry man all his life, and a Republican from tire inception of that party. Dr. Craven provs himself true to the noble instincts of hu manity in so thoroughly divesting himself of the prejudices of a life-time, and publish ing this book in the face of his fierce breth r nos the Radical press uud party. The book has been very well received almost everywhere, and it is only such ultra sheets as Forney’s (.'hronie/i Carl Schurz’s Post, and others of that ilk—that are lost to all sense of shame and decency—who carp and pre'end to sneer at this spontaneous exhibi tion of good feeling in a manner that can redound only in disgrace on their own heads, and on the heads of their entire faction.” We agree with our Charleston cotempora ry, and cannot theforc join in the denuncia tions off >r Craven’s book which appeared in our correspondent’s article. —Atlanta In telligencer. A Life-Saving Bathing Apparatus. A French engineer named Desen is exhibit ing in London a bathing apparatus whieh is also a life preserver. It is of simple con struction, resemples a child’s cradle, the upper part having a cylindrical cork-float, canvassed over, nearly surrounding the ma chine, which keeps the bather afloat with the greatest ease and safety. The body con sists of a net, with light iron tubular pipes for supports ; and the bottom or bed piece of twilled tick, at the foot of which there is a/screw copper rudder, which turns upon a swivel with a pair of cork soles the shape of the foot. Against this the bather places his feet, and is thus enabled to guide or steer himself in any direction, while by the use of a handle attached to the left side of the apparatus below the cylinder, he is enabled to propel himself or recede. This invention can be used in the open sea, as well as on a river or lake. A Great Roof. —A roof is in process of construction in Detroit, over the Michigan ; Central depot, which will cover three hun dred thousand square feet, or over seven acres. NEWS. FACTS. &C Elm u.f. Srrrit.viE ix Kxiii.ASD.—Fif teen hundr il women have petitioned, through Mr Mill, fur the extension of the franchise t.> widows and unmarried women having a property qualification. Antony the petitiomrs are Mrs. S micrvillc and Miss Martin, an. M. di It itheliilds has refused to give Aus tria a credit of five millions of francs, which was asked flu by l’rince Mctternieh on be half cl his u ivernment. The recent elections in Oregon and Wash ton Territory show considerable Democratic gains, and the same appears to be the ease in Nebraska and Illinois. According to a letter from Vienna, pub lished by the Europe of Frankfort, a thous and nightingdes have been caught. at the request of Maximilian, and will bo speedily shipped for Mexico There are 2,SOD miles of new cable cn board the ( in at Eastern, and the machinery, both for paying out and picking up, is said to he the product of the best skill that Eug land can bring into requisition. Citizens.of Vera Cruz have given Maxi milian a sceptre ol gold ornamented with diamonds. The Atlantic cable has been completed and the Great Eastern left Sherness on the loth ult , to commence the work ol connect ing the Old World and tlie New. Hon. Robert Toombs is in good health and residing in London. A railroad conductor, at Buffalo, has been fined SSOO for ejecting a man from a ear because lie refused to give his scat to a wo man. General Cass was estimated to be worth four or five millions. Geo. A. Munson, a Presbyterian, and D. 11. Murphy, a Methodist, both clergymen of Cape Girardeau, Mo., were convicted of preaching without taking the test oath, re cently, and sentenced to pay a fine of SiDil each. There arc five newspapers at the South edited by lie, roes. Tiiaii Sti:vi:np. —The Oxford (Miss.j Falcon says that a tax assessor of a neighbor ing county reports 127 negro babies born since the present Congress has been in ses sion, 78 oi' the number arc named Thad. Stevens. Tlie assessors asked the mothers the reason for naming their babies that name, and they universally replied that they had been told that there was a great man in Con gress by that name whose wife was a negro woman. A robber's cave has been discovered in Cornwall, New York, fitted up with beds, cooking utensils,-Ac. Maps of Europe should he di-posed of at once, as after the war, there is no knowing what the boundaries of Prussia, Italy, or Austria will be. It is stated that Dr. Craven's account ol Hon. Jefferson Davis in Fortress Monroe, was not written by the Dr. at all, hut by the enterprising Bohemian, Col. Halp.ne, better known as “ Private Miles O’Reilly.” The Robert E. Lee is the name of a great boat building at New Albany, Indiana, for the New Orleans and Vicksburg trade. She will he tlie finest and fastest boat ever built there, and her outfit is said to bit iu unison with her majestic proportions. Forney is a candidate for tlie I'nitcd States Scnatorship to succeed Senator Co wan. The election of members ol the Legis lature is to be held in October, ami it is be lieved that Forney’s party stands but little chance, and he none at all. Walter Sampson, in his history of the Gipsies, estimates that there are 2f>o 000 of these strange people in Great Britain, and in Europe and America not less than four millions. A man lias been arrested in ..Covington, Ky., for beating his grandmother. Fined SoO and costs. Gen. S. 15. Buckner has been elected Vice President of the Southern Telegraph Com pany. The construction of a line of tele graph from Cincinnati, through Louisville, Nashville, Memphis and Vicksburg to New Orleans and Mobile, is the first object of the Company. An Austrian officer has arrived at Mobile, empowered to off r positions in the Austrian army to ex-Confcdcrates. It is thought that quite a number will avail themselves of the oppoitunity to plunge again into the exciting sccnc3 o! war. Blind Tom, the prodigiously musical ne gro of Georgia, made some of the “loyal” people of Trey, New York, as mad as a March hare the other night by giving them “ the Battle of Manassas ” on the piano. “Amateur” writes to the Troy Times that “ when the audience were invited to listen to Blind Tom, they did not expect to be re galed with the story of their own defeat.” He adds that the thing was a “ deliberate insult” to the audience. President Johnson has been made a LLT>. by the University of North Caroliua. Mercer, the philanthropist, is being sued extensively in Washington Territory for not finding husbands for the spinsters. Prince Napoleon is “ my good cousin ” to the" Emperor once more. The reconciliation is sai l to he complete ; the Prince will re sume the Presidency of the exposition, and will make no more naughty republican spcchcs. \ north Carolina paper says the City Coun cil of ft ewbern has voted against raising a flag on the City Hall, on the ground that as their members of Congress are notadmitted, tbc United . < ntcs cannot ask them to do homage to the flag. M. de la Chatrc has taken pains to pub lish seven octavo volumes, and more are promised, under the frightful title : “ The History of the Popes; Crimes, Murders, Poisonings, Parricides, Adulteries, and In cests of the Homan Pontiffs, from the Time of >t. Peter Down to <"*ur Own Pay.” VOL 1. NO, ft The contract for carrying the United Stst.s mail between Milton, North Carolina, and Barksdale depot was recently awarded to a colored man, w ho, after having tlie test .«a:h read and explained to him, threw up the contract for tl.e rcasoti that Lis own conscience wotiUtiT lit hint take the oath ! Cor ms Ri.wvi:n. —G. \V. Palnor, who ran away with the Confederate funds from Srn Antonio, Las been appointed United St it<-s Judge at - - rt Leon, under the treaty for (be suppression of the slave trade. Si ere Leon - the head quart. .* of tl.e Liberian Colony in Africa. Judge Palmer should have a place near Judge Underwood, in Livingston'* biographies cf distinguished Jurists. The ex-Texian will doubtless pro duce a profound impression among his sable brethren by bis proficiency in tl.e oeeult science of spirit-rapping. Nvwspapk-r Oonr.rspoxnfevnt is- the At STitiAS Army.—Tlie Austrian command er, Gen. Reiiedek, has issued an order bear ing especially up n new»pa|>er correspond ents. He s:iys that lie sha 1 in |-,o way tol erate, cither at headquarters or with other commanders nr corps, paid or unpaid rows papet correspondent*, either civil or milita ry ; and he requests iho .-oiiiiu andrr* to see that no one 1.. long.tig to the army lends himself to supplying artiel-* de- gned for the journals, unless, ho has received a mis sion so to do from the government. Thtnl. Stevens is an old bachelor.—Er cha ii./e. Thorn is a “ colored lady ” at Lancruter, Pennsylvania, who will fight y. u on that question “until your eyelids cease to wi>g." Mob le Ada. The Constitution of the State of North Carol ti,a requires a property qualification of $7,500, and a residence of five years, to make a person eligible to the office of Gov ernor. A proposition was made in the convention recently to modify this provis ion. but it was lost l.y a decided majority . Win. P. Mungum, of North Carolina, bus been appointed by ti c President Consul at Nagasaki, Japan. He can take the tost oath that lie m-ver ad -d or sympathized with tlie South.— Exchan/r. Then, Naga-aki is not too fyr off to send him. Rut tiie President is very unkind to Nagasakians.— Mobile Adrertisrr. People who live in the neighborhood of Mount Vesuvius say that the volcano is again exhibiting signs of internal commo tion. ILe small cone recently threw quan tities of stones into the air, and on the large cone two new craters have been formed.— A considerable body of lava has »!?o flowed from tlie small cone. It is said that advices have been received at Washington fioin I’aris, that the Empe ror Napoleon repudiates Lining in any war been cognizant of i-lie propositions of Aus tria to send tro ; s to Maximiflian, nnd lie repeat* h a detei initiation to withdraw the French troops from Mexico. W hile Albert Pike, accompanied by his wife and a Miss lil anciiard, was riding, on the 10th instMit, along tlie bank of the I teerfield river ir. Whittingham, Vt., the horse backed into the river, -and the two ladies were drowned. The Editor cf the Nashville Gazette , who has been tura'.izing extensively in Tennes see, reports very unfavorably upon ail the crops except fruits. Ho adds : Among all those who have hired negro labor extensively , vvo have lieatd but one expression that of a determination never to repeat the experiment. Alas, for the poor negro. A wealthy Baltimorean, writing to n friend, say* that hail to the amount of two million dollars can he procured for Mr. Davis in that city on five hours notice; already iwentysfive thousand dollars have been qiuetly subscribed there towaids de fraying the expenses of hi« trial, and that a huudred thousai and more <an he raised if necessity. Under tiie new postofliee law, just ap proved by the Pte-Menl, dead letters are to he returned to the writers free of postage, and prepaid lefo-rs may he forwarded, at the request of the parties to wl in ml dressed, from one office to another, without additional charge. A proposition is pending in Congress to place sixty Ihotisoiid do’lais in the hands of <ren. B. F. Butler, to he held in trust for the purchase of a National Asylum. If !• utier is to hobi the money, asks the Balti -1 more Transcript, who is to hold him ! ibis is a question which demands 3«riou» consideration. Wo should hate to invest • five dollars in the enterprise unless some body is to hold him. The Emperor of Austiia is said to be de voured by a deep melancholy which he only shakes off in moments when most occupied by business. Abandoned by so many in this hour of trial, and surrounded by dnrrg ers of w jich he cannot fajliou the.depth, it it not strange that at his age he should feel jro lituvHy the weight of his position. Elias Howe, the inventor and patentee of the sewing machine known by bis name, has declared his purpose not to apply for an extension of h s paten', which runs out this year, on the ground that he has made a million and a half dollars on it already. In the Sena'e recently, a resolution was passed appropriating *1,500 to Mrs. Abbie Green, of Richmond, for having aided one hundred and nine officers and soldiers of the Federal army to escane from the Lithe prison. The Rome Con Per is informed by one of the justices of the Inferior Court of Floyd county, that there are now in that county between eight hundred and one thousand while persons destitute of bread—most of them widows and children—who are not included in the classes for which the Legis lature has made an appropriation. A country exihange notices the fact that a man s:opped his papers on Saturday and died on Tuesday, Moral—couldn't get along without Lies paper. SOVTHJiJS' HEMA hV. ■wnsr « wamM ns nimaua. OuNpyoMyssr. .i|fltW Out copy >il month* • .. t M On* copy Uuw montin, 100 - nvitlilir l« rft.mx IW AS tu-ppoSai. lit* p*ij fur if not i.r«vjoo*ly renewed. ———. * Ad*«rti*e,ne*U uncrWd at tbe r-W* at On* Ix.ii»r *r. ' fifty Out* |>«r-quart of Ten Ida**, ior the Lr»t ir.***"rlio»i, «nd SeTaatvfre OoW fbr r*cb suL*. quctil insertion p*vat>U in aiix Litiernl .eduction* made on n.ntraeu for alt* • i«<-men’* running three month* and longer. To the 1-rculiU sos the South. The following eloquent appeal to the Iste alites of the Njulli, iu behalf of a patriotic and noble undertaking we notice in our Richoiond exchanges : Rinnwxv. Ya , June 5, While the world yet rings with th« naraUva of a brave p.-"pie - struggle for independence, usd while the story of hardship so nobly endured for Liberty’s sake is yet a theme but half exhausted, tho countless grave* of the myr iads of heroes who sptifed their noble blood in defense of tlut glorious cause, lie Mg lectcJ, not alone* unmarked by tablet or sculptured urn, but literally vanishing before the relentless finger of Time. Within the past four weeks, there bav« been formed hy the ladies of Richmond two aaeociathma, via ; I he “ Holy wood ” and the “ Oak wood,” hav ing for their object the care and renovation ot tho soldiers' graves iu thuae oemeteries. C’otemporaneously with the abova, wo, the Hebrew ladies, formed a similar association, with a view of caring for the graves ofJew ish soldiers ; which, of coutae, would not be embraced in the work of either of the first named societies. In our own cemetery repoae, alas! the sacred remains of many a loved brother, son, and husband, to whose relatives in the far sunny South, it would be a solace to know that the pious duty of preserving from decay the last resting place of their lost ones, al though denied to them to perform, is yet sa credly fulfilled by the members of the “ He brew Ladies, Memorial Association.” It is our intention to mound and turf each grave, aud to place at the head of each a simple stone, im-cribcd with the name, Btale, time and place of death ; subsequently, to rear a monum nt commemorative of their brave deeds. In order, however, to successfully accotn plish our object, wo need some pecuniary assistance. (lur scant and somewhat needy community, already so heavily taxed, has done well ; hut we find this “ work is fob great for us,” therefore, with a fall con fidence in the sympathy and co-operation of our people elsewhere, we make thin appeal for aid, well knowing that as I-realitcs and true patriots, they will not refuse to assist in rearing a monument which shall serve not only to couimenioruto the memory of our dead, but the gratitude and admiration of tbe living for those who nobly perished in wbat we deemed a just and righteous cause; and whilo, os Israelites, wo mourn the untimely loss of our beloved ones, it will boa grate ful reflection that they suffered not the»x call in vain. In time to come, when our grief shall have become, in a measure, silenced, and when the malicious tongue of slander, ever so ready to assail Israel, shall be raised against us, then, with a feeling of mournful pride, will we point to this monument and say, “ There is our reply.” Mrs Abraham Levy, Corresponding Secretary of the Hebrew im dies' Memorial Society. A Patent Vaccinator. —We learn from the .V itntific American that Ileary Minton, M. D ~ contrary to the practice of regular physicians, whose practice it is to give to the world the benefit of their inven tions and discoveries, last week procured a patent for u vaccinator. The instramrat con-i-n in th ; arrangement of a puncturing tube in a barrel which contains a spring, in com! inatiou with a plunger passing through the puncturing tube, and provided with a momentum spring, so that when the punc turing tube is filled with the vaccin Rating matter and drawn back in the barrel again’st tbc action of the spring contained therein, and then released, after the barred has been placed on the spot where the vaccinating matter is to be introduced, the tube punc tures the skin and the plunger flies out, over coming the power of the momentum spring, and causes the matter contained in the pune turing tube to discharge into the wound opened by said tube. Citric Acid in Cancer— The coding effects of lemon juice are well known.- Ci tric acid is to all intents and purposes crys talized lemon juice, and is often used aa a substitute for lemons in making lemonade, etc. An Italian physician, Dr. Brandina, finding that a patient, with a cancer on the tongue, received great relief in eating lem ons, was induced to try the effect of citric acid on other cancer patients, which he did much to their relief. Iu a ease es hopeless ly incurable cancer, it has been used with the happiest results, and afforded greater re lief from pain than any other application that has been tried, and w e give it for the benefit of our medical readers. Tb*6#jjatal ized acid is used one part by weight, to 90 parts of soft water. The weight of a common nickel cent to a pint of water eomes sufficient ly near. The solution is applied by moisten ing a piece of lint, and renewed when the pain returns. Missing Confederate Soldiers.— -Th# following we extract from the Macon Trie graph : “ An anxious widowed mother, who has been left alone and destitute, desires inform ation concerning her two sons, who hare not been heard from since the close of the war, viz : David S. Arthur of a Mississippi Regi ment, Johnson’s command, who was wounded at the battle of Atlanta. Columbus W. Arthur, Company G, Ist Regiment MneJssippi Cavalry, Forrest's com mand ; was captured and sent to Camp Doipg.- lass, from which he made bis escape, and not since been heard from. Whether living or dead, any information concerning these parties, addressed to their mother, Mrs. Mary Arthur, cars of Mr. Watts, Exchange Hotel, Montgomery, Ala., will be gratefully received. v Our brethren of tho Southern and Weatr ern press mil please extend this notice. The work of widening the track on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad is progressing ss rapidly as cirrssj-tsftcs* sfSI adm 1