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^XBLLSH_EDl«2(i : [Gettysburg's field. lrtffl.ADBI.PHIA lmiGADE AND fplCKKTrS DIVISION MEET. I lutorf, ll"t ** Frlend«-A Great T* ot Henewe.l Ilrotli- r? JMl -fipteche« by Feder- s!l iiii.t Confederate!. L, Jnly 2 —About flvo hun- ■ .i.or^'of the Sixtj-nintb, Seventy- Knn* Handled end Sixth regiments, Cm tile Philadelphia brigade, which fepicnona , p.rt In the third «f^»t Gettyabutg when confronted l^at'i dirieion ot tbe Conf.derate Tj.et bexe this afternoon. The taihich they extended to the snr- Iff their old snt’gonists to-night waa * *.« Pickett's men were received J railroad station by the Pbiladel- Liod escorted from the depot to the |j, r ,l ,-here a stand-op lunch was nun’after which all made for the l*a-t boose, where the first camp (ubloe and gray upon the historio 11 of Gettysburg wae held. At 9 fin, meeting »** called to order fcy Br Frazier, who said: T - cmrades, and friends: The CJot tailing tbio meeting to or- Lwo issigoed to me. This ie, as Imow the first fraternal meeting of ittd gray thathaa taken place on Uotie grounds, and standing beside fialiig piece of the honored dead, Unfe the last full measure of their atothe Uuioo, I say to yon that jgtltsl meetings of the blno and |)Somnr«to create and maintain Ifendibip among tho people of the *,ncntb»n anyiblog else that has atrrince the xtar for the preserva- fdoBiion ended, and I hope to see llbilteve they will, bo held ail hdee(run G tiysbnr at d Vioks- | Kooning well the eelings that itbe meeting, I can t.ui say tbis j meeting of the Ph adelpbia [. i: d Pickett’s diviek n,‘w indeed - rji bearts »nd » onion of bands — llMOOOs can sorer; jiothoisfa and a union of luoas, ddM 1114 of oar Union forever. •bare the pleaanre of presenting 0 ff. 8. Stockton, presiding officer lasting, with the statement that to n than any other, is due the oredit Mit about" Jaektoo, upon assuming the chair, liuked hit comrades for the honor 1 1 open him, and bo wonld take 00- ■ply to remark that he believed eiudaod done here npon this frs- Mticg of tbe bine and gmy would litr >od gratifying era iu our conn- lioty. As presiding officer, it was Hurt duty to present Golmel ■B Bints, president of tbe Pbilv k Brigade Association, who would It Hldter’a welcome to onr fote In Ilatrin, dt voted and lasting ft Unde ‘.MACON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1887.--TWKLVE PAGES. VOL. LXII. MO 13. on saxes' SFECCU. Itmsstepped forward and Slid: peCtiiens and Uemb rs of Piek- Iwnoofthe Army of Northern Vi*. I la bonorahle and pleasing duty has ntelmeby the Pbtl.dalphlzBfU lilt Second Division, Second Corps, If tit Potomao. This veteran biigade ItaitiQ army, composed of tbo S xty- Iktintj-Bist, Haventy-woond and wdnd aud Sixth regiments at Pooft* hVulantttra, Upon more than or e kfanag the dark honrsof the IW- Iwognititd your ptopl* iu aotivo luditleUtuonr lot to moot in I my and do ally conflict in what )|bacalltd tho crisis of the battle itrg, within sight of tho masts c a. Or tost memorable h.teruoon IUMI. The most won lurful Intel "pit that a benefident area b-stoied upon man ly of memory, tho power to a tho inntt reeeaaeo of the brain '• and teanea tbat for years Dtmint, and which in torn lead pan rapidly before tbe miud, Jw the mentulvlew moat vividly "ttni tceneo of this historio ■ tlmn gave from memory . •Itkgutnt description of tbe bsitlo, •!»« abate of Pickett's division In devotion, aaenfioe and c mrage 1 m the history ot onr oonntry. a a ^ mao,” said he, “oan at this history ol the war or reoall winduuto mo the hand of D1 tea deielc ping throngh trial e Ural courage and tenacity for ' patriotism which exalt and i's * people. Wo have I * a few momenta on the kt'. . **ltle, for tho reason FuTf *°d associations compel ref- iwttod,^ soldi!rs of tbe contend- m *«t as diix -ns of z united Bauee are dead, aud now iri 1 * W e who have fought as iisa**? filaeuss the past, if need nJP}®* Ule Peeaent, as travders ,J* ““a cvnniei* by way - i.fc mountain top and review t7“™ogh which they havo passed LT**? ““he roadover which they and from the 8tate of Pennsylvania gener. ally, to the Virginians. Colonel McClure sai 1: M foHows: 8 Divi6ion Aaaoclation, responded I Alexander K. McClure, of rhilailelphia, who “Friend’a T , ■ . 'had b’en chosen to extend a weloome from mvself and ? ' i <lo9lr8 £ot the ciUzCTS o£ Philadelphia partionlaily, , ■c unrades to tender you onr and from Ha hi.i. „f heartfelt thanks for the kiDd, oordlai and hearty welojme extended ns on this an occasion never to be forgotten by us, bnt cherished aud remembered as a bright spot n the checkered pathway of life. If in the remarks which I desire to make, a snb- joot on which I have thought much and felt deeply, I should be led to say some- thing which might be better left unsaid, attribute them to the warmth of my feel ings on tho subject. Bear in mind that I atujspeahing in no representative|capacity, hot I am solely re ponmblo for tho sentiments I utter. I erhaps somo of you have seen an artiole in the Ntw York Herald on the subject of the union mennroent to be erected on tho spot selected by Hancock’s end Pickett’s divisions, which should be national in its character, not commemora tive of any particolar division of either army, but to the memory of tho dead of both arrniee—a monument of American valor and magnanimity; a monument which wonld stand as a pledge of perpetual union; a pledge of perpetual rec mediation; a Miz- rah stone, its shaft pointing upward, call- ng spoil heaven io witness onr reconciiu- tkn and the renewed covenant that neither of us would ever paso it to harm the other, and saying, iu the language of tho Scripture, ‘The Lard watch bctweeD thou and us.’| Soon after the ' publication of tbe article referred to a com mittee was sent on beta to make arrange ments for tho erection of a monument to Pickett's Division on tbo battle-field of Gettysburg. Failing in tbis, my comrades o! Pickett's Civilian have decided, aud I think properly, to place tbeir monument to onr dead on Gettysburg bill in our own beautiful Hollywood, where they may rest in pesoo till awakeued by tbe sound of tbe last trumpet to appear before Him who will give them righteous judgment. Feactto their ashes. They gave their lives for a cause they deemed sscred, and mortal man ciin do no more. There too, I hope to rest, when life’s datiea are ended, in tbe bosom of my dear natite State, loved and honored since I havo lived and honored anything—never more than now in her adversity; prouder of my heritage as a free born son of Virginia than to have inherited a orown i J any other land; proad of her history, filled as tt is with thi record of heroio deods; proud of her heroes, who have illustrated American valor; prond of her statesmen, who have shaped tbe des tinies of 'his mighty nation; proad of her or ators, whose eloquence has thrilled nations; prond of brr cause in the late straggle, proad of her efforts to preserve peace and avert the awful colamiliea brongbt upon us by war, on effort so persistent that those who knew her not said sncoringly tbat she ennld not be kioked out of the Union. Proud other when, failing to seoure honor able pave, fully countiug the cost, she bored her bosom to the strife deeming, if need be, all else well lost jn the bright path dot^ 'and honor of 'V' sons who ralliod iu her sine and for four years beat back tho pitiless storm of war !.urlcd npon her, exhibiting to the world ex imples of heroio fortitn lu worthy of tho mothe r that gave them birth; proudest of nil that, when worn out and exhausted by thtir victories, the Bkatterod remnant were compelled to yield to overwhelming num bers Bad resources, they grounded tbeir arms and turned themselves to tbe task of rebuilding and restoring tbeir mother Stale to the prond position sho had eV. r held in the front rank. Such ur.- my sentiments, honestly entertained, freely expressed. What shall I say for those, my comrades, endeared by privations shareei, hard-, hips endured and dangers enooun- tered. Scarcely ts there a battlefield from Bull Bun to Appomattox on which some unedeartome did not orown with their lives their devotion to their nativo State. Dear comrados, honored as men, loved as companions, oold in death will my heart bo ere 1 cense to love and honor you. Yet my bean is large euongb to embrnco my wbolo country, from tbe At lantic to tbe Pacific, from the lakes to tbo gulf, to r.j.,icu in h. r pmepi-iity, to gh.rj in her greatness, to feel a thrill of pride when her oourse is as glorious as her might is resistless, when her magnanimity equals ber power. And to you, gentlemen of Gettysburg, let me say this is an opportunity to display magnanimity worthy of this great nation. Leave to time the tcuchstone which tries nil human action, the question of right end wrong involved; let the his toriun yet unborn try tho case, and posteri ty will render a vordict which U apt to be just to them. Let no leave it. Its deeds have been done, its drama closed. Bnt for our country there remains a future. .IVo too are makiog history. If tbis occasion, being in tbo interest of peace and reconctl iation, will fill a bright page in tbat history, with what lustre woold that one shino which wonld record a similar reunion na tionsl In ita character, in which should be butied all rsneor and hatred; from which we i-iuldgo forth not merely cit'zius but friends and brother), mimatod by one aim —tbe greatness and glory of onr common country. Adopt in its true spirit tho union monument snggesltel, and with a magna nimity great enough to embrace onr whole country, deep enongh t* bnry in oblivion “After the more than fraternal greeting so eloquently expressed by the representa tives of the survivors of the Philadelphia Brigade and of Pickett's Division, it is an easy task to speak for the City of Brotherly Love and for tho Keystone State of tho Federal arch, whioh ore in hearty sympathy with the peace and brotherhood which mark this notable reunion. ” Twenty.flve years ago you mutually con secrated thia ground. The shock in which your respective commands met was the bloodiest of all the many sangnnary con flicts of our civil strife, and its Issue trem bled the decisive battle Of tho war. It ranks with Thermopyloo in desperate courage, bnt tho heroism of the warriors of Leoni das, whose Spartan laws mads defeat dis honor, regardless of position or numbers, piles beforo the volunteer soldiers of Han cock and Pickett, who willingly dared and died for their conviotioDS. It wasastrange, end conflict Men of the same race, inheri tors of the same traditions and the same laws, met in deadly straggle so solve a great civil problem, which had vexed the most enlightened and patriotic statesmanship for three-eiuarters of a century. Tbe ignorant, incoustderate and dishonest say that it was causeless; that it was preoiuitated by babbling demagogues w ho ride in the tempest; but no such agents conld have called a million of the most in telligent, peace-loving and genorons people of the world to five years of fraternal war. There were agitators and demagogues who hastened the war, as there are agitators and demagogues who have hindered peaoe sinoo it ended; but there are irreconcilable theo ries left unsettled in tbe foundation of tbo government which tipened in intensity and enlarged io interMt until up in fulsolution was no longer possible. A less heroio peo ple could havo avoided our civil war, but with eaob oitizen a sovereign the bravest and noblest of all the peoples of tho earth had only the choice between dismemberment of tbe Uolou or cemertlrg it by the arbitration of the sword. Never did opposing armies accept battle with sterner purpose. Every shotted gun hoarsely thundered tho fsith of tbe warrior who employed it iu tho harvest of death. Every church cf its belief in the North end South sent up fcrvcDt prayers to the same God for tbe triumph of their re spective flags, and in liie manner called for thanksgiving and.prsiae when victory came to cither. Every pulpit appealed to tbe patriotism of the people in the name of tho Baler of nations to sustain the causo of its section as n holy elnty, and from every battlefield c nne heartfelt thanks from the victor and abiding faith in supplication from the vanquished—all from the samo altar to the same judge. Both oould not triumph, and at Appomattoy came the judg ment of tbe final arbiter that the National union shall be indissoluble, and that th* v atjoiml rnvi iK'.'tl "D.-lt 1,1- ..Ill'll" 'fill itbin trie 1 nutations of Us own funda mental law. And from Appomattox came the promise not only ot peace bnt of broth- t rhood. It eamo to North and South Dorn the great captain of con filets. Hero aud victor in war, he was uo less a hero and victor in peaco. The shattered legions of L e did not leave that historio field ene mies of Grant. He did moro than conquer an epemy— ho conquered and gathered ns the greenest laurels of hla victory the lovo of the Confederate warriors and the respect of the Sooth for tbe Union which its sons hail so valiantly battled. When presented to the nation ns tho candl- .1 f.ir tin- highest civil trust of ilm world, his battle cry tbat answered those who rev- elo.1 in the turbulence of hato was “Let ns have peace” Among bia earliest appoint ments when called to tho Presidency was that of Lee, under whose eye the memora ble charge of PiAett’s Division was made, and later in kls administration a Confeder ate soldier sad statesman sat in his cabinet. This canned pesoo and brotherhood under the inspiration ot tbe victors in our bloody civil strife, add his dying testiment comes from Saratoga bequeathing fraternal love and national muon to tbe bine aod gray. Well muy civilians welcome iu hetrty r.union the now silvered and farrowed survivors of the deadly conflict on Cemetery hill, when such lustrous teaching and example com mand it, and I greet you In the name of tbe great North ioseperably Interwoven with tho great South in sympathy, inter est and in fellowship. Free government D stronger at homo and mightier abroad to day because ot the wounds of civil war, anil onr cliildr n and onr children's chil dren will tarn to Its sacrifice and sorrows and Ita irrevocable judgments as tho Barest guarantee that the government of the peo ple by the people aud for the people shall not perish from the earth.” come as survivors of a great battle which illustrated the greatness and glory of the American people, and dropping the curtain over the past, we hail you as onr brothers and sisters, with all tbat love and pride which must ever thrill the hearts of rll good and true oili/.ens of the continent of fro commonwealths. No morn does that spirit nnimate which once hurled our bodies agalust thono im pregnable hosts. Wo have oome forth from tho baptism of blood and fire in which onr brothers were consamed, as representa tives of a new Sonth, and we have long years ago ceased to bear in onr hearts any residuum of feeling bom of the conflict. Did any unmanly feeling Unger in onr bosoms, we would not bo here to-day to gra->p tbe bands of those who have met ui with a brother's greeting and a brother's love. Above tho &3hca left by tho war and over the tombs of secession and African slavery we havo oreated a new om- piro and have bnilt a temple to Anu ticin liberty in whteb you and I oan wrrehip t». golber, and over it we have run np th -S’ir. spangled Banner, and we clirg t j it with all that ancient love which should ever cl well in tbe hearts of men and women from the lands of Geirge Washington and William Penn. I utter it as a sjntiment that comei welling up from every bosom of Virginia and tbe South, that tbe man who woold rekindle again that fealiDg which fil'.'donr land with doath and tears, and grief and mourning, with graves and suf fering, is not only unworthy of tbo high title of Amerioan citizen, bnt even ot that of hnntan being, and should find no home or friends on , irt’i or in heaven. l.-tiM pol itician, for nelfisli and unworthy purposes, fan tbo dead embors of fratricidalstrife, bnt iei ihe great, warm and generous heart of e-rr nation, with tbs throb of tin- re-an, as if movod by Bll-tho tempests of God'swbolo universe, speak ita thundered condemnation ot any e ITort so vile, wicked and unworthy. No each lessons ara taught to tbo memory iri till lif. or d-'ids of I.inc'In or Grant, ui oome to Us as echoes from their sacred tombs.' Ob, my oountry! What a calam ity was it for tho South when tho asiaaein's lullot struck down Abraba n Lincolnl In •A W—until imj OOUnlry, deep enongll It uuryiu uni""" We welc ime you to tbis the bitterness and hate Of past strife, build ■ ««1U BleaortM with » true 0D lhe ,„ ot suggested a monument tolm- v. II, 1 ”* performance of I mo rt<iliza American valor and demonstrate diV.L d a, WUohonor,b, >«‘l alt American magnanimity. Let the J;. 10 y° u ,liat whole country jom with the national gov. t MM fit mi nt and ev< ty State in the Union and complete it, if possible, by the twenty, fifth anniversary ot the liitlle bead oat your invitations, and, my word for it. Get- ly.bura will vitDefis each a gath^riDg ft* tho whole world has seldott aeen—its hills and valleys dotted with white tents; not filled with engry combatant*, reedy to hurl each other to destruction, but with the highest type of Americtn manhood, ready to 'J°(n MM»»»„«., "--wuw HI 1UU luat KJa-JJ® PhiUdflpbU Brigade Itjrl/L’h 1 * reception bee the cor- ‘"hP 0 ** “nr eitizros of ^potsau. of life. And now tfn to ■hunt of iff v * icktU *‘ division, ri, tbi'I? j 8*d« association and Kg” d ««ite that you will *tt8cn52a' lr .* t * y *1 Gettysburg 3°o . W# welcome Ji u r*te» in,T b,4Te “Mere iu war. h tlL B .h c * nM Jo»»retrno ci i- •si, l ,u ■wmiflii IU A ■n ^heeauMjou are trno ti i- ! ll«1«J here ba M 'M |*Wllt|i n ".’ ct {n - ,,!r ’lU,7i" L . 4 KWloe u« to higher ItfieZgP**!* of tbe oonsUtu- Dhtirea- ib^'h* rnau y determl- Ocd ii, 111 '* 1 conscientiously | l hi, iu jJJl® fines tiona and is-.ni a l*H*5s..s j Bd * •“ 'hiding feith wEtetfcjkJ tf wpnbUc, fn ll touY r ', A ' fro “ » clocil aud 5f!* l «Uie»kibi* d * T n Israel, say. JjhrvLIr £r‘ ld 's , > “I Israel that Hevtoei^Jho to-day b calling l * t h la th»V° hlfiher end nobler ****»! of tif* J1 * humanity and alfcJT""' “rw. and haefa in trun UeartyYfconciliation, wticb shsJl make us again a united and bapR P«op'®- D J this and write Ibenameof A Ulrica higher ou the toll of true fame tha» yon oould have done bed yoobeen »bU$ write jew- ■fi-lvea victorioofl on trery baUfciiela ol toe W Bfi believe th ( l tbU eng- geallon will oummend lu * lt . ,<, A ood ,“*, n an rvwb we in out brawl land, %i J U property caeied out «U1 do more to restore (friendship in the lections then *ny otheione thing wlich conld be dont Be*Af conntry- mer. embrace Hr* °PP?r**T“ 7 .iji oi*e pace on Ameiictn hia.ofj wu h Mhaji shine with InaUr nn«urpeii«d by aly record ed linoe the world began. coLoxmie M’ctunn* wK/xwt rjnTr*" ,rl *ri4n* # Uad- Uj^nthe eonclo.‘ion CapUj» * Bi^iinond, waaiato aptech Colonel Bines iilrodoctd Ulonel midst of all the bloody tempest still had a soft place in great heart for us. And w that the storm has passed and passion subsided, who of the Sonth does not > and rovero his memory, and the emory of tho great captain who was kind und magnanimous in the hour of victory at pomattox, who said to Leo, “Let your ii take tbeir hordes home to make bread;" io, when ho had triumphed, said "Let ua vm peace,” And who iu his dying hours blared that tbe greatest happiucKri he felt to seo the good feeling springing np vwocn the North and South. There is t a true man South to-day but who feels if he would like to stand at the tombs of ir.ooln and Grant to plant a flower there d water it with tears in the presence of fee hog like this, too Hacr*d and deep for teranco. What matters it who shall keep l YtUe fljgri Th<y passed into vou* tihUOdTt. biAvti iuia hirtMy csiaoat, un touched by dishonor, after a baptism of blood that made tbe grey jacket a mantle of glory, and wo aro as willing your people should keep them as onrs. They are in tho hands of oar government, and to whom onr honor should bo as dear as their own. Never again will the old battle flags wavo in strife. They have gono down forever, but thoy wont down in glory and honor. They aro dead, and wo love and follow alono now the living flag which floats from Key West to the British channel, straight from Bun ker Hill to Ban Francisco. As wo look at tho banner of onr oonntry floating yonder, wo ODly remember tbat since the birth of tho nation it has been tho emblem of liberality and the refoge of the oppressed; that Sonth ern and Northern men boro it in trinmpb from Saratoga to Yorktown, from Lundy' Lino to Now Orleans, and that as united brethren wo Hosted it over tho walla ot Tripoli and tho halls of the Montezumoa. We forget that it waa ever borne against un, V - _ _. X M AM A# ill .". XT A.lt not periah OOL wm. B AYLETT, who anooeoded General Armistead &8 cem mander of the brigade npon tbe death of Armistead, having been chosen to respond on behalf of the btate ol Virginia to Venn- syKama's welcome, said: “Brothers and ei*Lers of the Keystone State, ccmrade* of the great battlefield, my countrymen all: We are here to-day as friends and kindred of a cminion country, sent to yon ty the Old Dominion as un ex preaaion of her love and confidence. When \ our invitation reached ot it touched onr hearts in a tender piaco, and the ap*.ech of welcome which ba* jnst teen delivered so eloquently U worthy of tbe orator and the great Slate and ci y which be represent*. Not only do wo receive aud aball over treas ure the'noble sentiments of Col. McOlnre, as the voice of Pennsylvania and ber chief city, bnt also c f those brave men who met ns hero tw*n ty-four years ago wita a valor that we conld not overcome, and wuo meet ns hero to night with a loving welcome so dear to m and to onr people Not only do wo cher ish the sentiments so nobly expressed, sc warm and trno from tbe hearts of onr brethren < f the North, but, remembering the evocation and profesilon of tbe gifted speaker, we hear in loud tones the voice tbe great American preea— that power mightier than armies or navies, mightier than swords end the soeptres of king*, on whose enpp. ring arm the Goddess of Liberty leans, and whose daily utterances proclaim that peace, friend fihip and love once more bind tbi Atm rici people with 9 f oldtn bands of indissoluble and perpetual union; tho dims, whose 1 tbontand toegutn none c-»u nilence; whose champions, Bll nnbrlbed at Fr**d Faithful and Arm, br w*rd«n of Uod. Yes, my country rum, the pre** and the brave and genetcus aolditr* of our land fere brought th « night aod the-** n-ne* to pdas. All honor and love to both. We and as wo seo aronnd ns men of the'North who have como down South and made onr homes their home and our people their poo- jle, wo hail to-day and henceforth all Amer- cans everywhere as brothers, and claim tnat onr homes and kindrod extend lrom sturdy Maine and tho grand old Bay States to whero the gentle breeze High* throngh tbe orango groves of Florida; from whero tbe Missis- hippi, the father of waters, heaves his mighty bosom, to tho groat lakes; from tbo jreat lakes to the P.idflo, where tbo repub- lean colossus holds in his benumbed grasp the furs of the Arctic, and there, in sight of the continont of Asia, proclaims tbe people united for all time and great in all the tri umphs of Anglo-Sixon welfare. The race boned and sunk out of sight forever, tho bitter memories of tho war and tho griefs and sorrows of North and South, HJ wo recall them at all, lot it bo in a dream of poetry and homage. England rememembers to-day tbe wars of the Roses and the rival house* of Lancaster. The glorious and imperisha ble record of valor and renown aro wntuc upon the highest realms of fame by North and South aad claimed as a common priv ilege and joint offering for all time to come by iu» Vault* auivt'ivMU p«uplw latest posterity. Bpeeches were also made by General W. F. (Baldy) Smith, General T. O. Owen, General Isaac P. Wlst&r, Colonel John II. Taggart, and olhera, for the "blue,” and by Colonel Charles T. Loehr, secretary of Pickett's Divirion Association, Colonel J. F. Crocker, Colonel Robert M. Btribling, Dr. J. A. Marshall, Colonel Timoleon Smith, Colonel Kirk OLey, and others, on bthalf of the "gray." geance and deatrnction, will illustrate the general impulse of brave men and their honest desire for peace and reconciliation. The friendly assault there to be made will be rosistless, because inspired by American chivalry, and its renult will be glo rious, because conquered hearts will be its tropica of succens. Thereafter this bat-* tU Held will be conseorated by a victory which shall presage the end of the bitter- n< ks of strife, the cxpoeure <- f the insincer ity which conceals hatred by professions of kindness, condemnation of frenzied appeals * 5 passion for unworthy purposes and the eating down of all that stands in tho way the destiny of our united oonotry. hile those who fought and who have ho much to forgive lead in the pleasant ways of peaoe, how wicked appears the traffic in sectional hato and betrayal of patriotic sen timent. It surely cannot be wrong to de siro tho Bottled quiet which fihall light for onr entire oonntry the path to prosperity and greatness, nor need tbe lessons of the war be forgotten and its results jeopardized in the wish for that gennino fraternity which injures national pride and glory. I should be very glad to accept your invi tation and bo with yon at .this interesting reunion, bnt other arrangements already made, and my official duties hero w ill pre vent my doing so. Hoping that the occa sion will be as successful and useful as its promoters can desire, I am 4 onrs very truly, Gbover Cleveland. FROM JOHN BUEUMAN. Mansfield, 0., June 18, 1S87. Your noto of tho lGtb, inviting me to be present as a guest of tho Philadelphia Brigade at Gettysburg on tho 2d, 3d, and 4th days of July next, to attend a reunion of tho sur viving members of that briibdo and of Tiuketi'a uivision of the Confederate army, is received. It wonld give mo pleaanre to witness so interesting an event, but an en- gtigi'iiient made here for the Fourth of July will not permit. Sachareanion outhebattle- ffeld cf Petersburg, of opposing forces so distinguished for courage and heroism, will bo a stroking and hop-f ul evidence of the respect that bravo soldiers always cherish for gallant enemies, lessening the animosi ties of war. Union soldiers readily and heartily acknowledge tho oonrage and horu-rtlj of purp )ne ot Confcd. rate ho’, licr*, and this feeling is, I believe as readily re ciprocated by thorn, There should be no enmitv or prejudice between them, and now that all alike feel that an indostrnctible union binds ns together thero should ho a cordial and hearty fellowship between the blue and the gray. lint this !,•. ling riiouhl accompanied by u sincere desire to preaervo for future ag«s the beneficent results of tho war. In this tbe Sonth, as well ns the North, is deoply interested. It was to pre- seivs the Union and to secure to all tho blessings of liberty that tho war was waged and won. Upon this basis there would bo no longer a danger line betweeu Union and Confederate soldiers, or Northern and Southern cltizeus, but tbo conrago and pa triotism of both would be the common pride and heritago of the American people. I ti-sr,' l.e '-••el tt f** *~ • s»• — -j»sC^ ”1 will be an important step toward ho desira ble a result. Very truly yours, John Hheiimax. TO WHOM CREDIT IS DUB. Cob A. J. Loehr secretary, of Pickett’s Division Association, was mainly instru mental in bringing his Southern friends to Gettysburg after tho refusal of tho Gettys burg Monumental Association to permit them to erect their monument whero Arm stead fell, lie has work< ' day and night for months to make th' liuthorn end ot the rennion a success. \\ tiam B. Block- ton, John W. Frazier, A. W. McDermott, Hugh McKoever. Wm. O. Maspn, John E. Reilly, John L. Bowers, Julius Allen. Wm. Prior and Col. Charles IL Hanes, were most aotivo in bringing about the reunion from the Philadelphia end of the line, the first five named having been working the matter np for moro than hix months. Tho happiest hit of all was the combination blue aud gray badges of tho California regiment, the seventy-first of the Pennsylvania line. A SENSATION AT GRIFFIN. THE TOWN SKINNED BY A PLAUSI BLE STRANGER. Tim Pevloin Device* of MaJ. H. <>. Wood’to • IUiN« Money - II«.UetH~~" \. Of It and Lenvet For Tarti* "*** luknown.] Griffin, July 2. Our city is very tntioh excited over the disappearance of H. O. Wood, who left this city nearly four weeks wo with the expressed intention of attend ing to a business matter that had connec tion with the establishment of the proposed Merchants National Hank, with whioh he liegwu pi Georgia Hotel npon it and partner. A TKUK. HLE DROUTH. LETTERS Or BIURET. John W. Frasier, secretary of the com mittee of arrungementa, stated that lettetj of regret bad been received from the Presi dent and bis Cabinet, from Senator Sher man. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, Hon. Edwin M. Fitl* r, mayor of Philadelphia, General Louis Wagner, Hon. George W. Childs, George W. Curtis, Charles A Dans, Senator D. H. Hastings, adjutant-general of Penn sylvania, Gibson Peacock, and others, two of which, one from the President end the other f.om Senator Sherman, ho wonld read: TOE president's LETTER. Executive Maxhion, Washisotoji, D. 0., Jane 24, 1887.-1 have received jour invi tation to attend as a guest of tbe Philadel phia Brigtdr*. a ream <u of ex-Confederate Holdier* of Pickett’s divinions who survived thtir terrible charge at Gettysburg and thono of the Union army null burg, by whom it wan hero.' »lly fitmiteJ. The fra ternal m-ctiog of these soldiers npon the battlefield where twenty-four Ago in deadly fray they fiercely Bought ea.'hoth*r'« I live*, where they haw their comridtn full, | and where all their thought* were of Ten- 3fany Countlea In ILIuoU un-FWlAConaiu aGreut IUmI <i f ' >»t. Chicago, July I.—A loon paper sayn: No snob drouth as now prevail- ha* existed in Illinois aud Winconsin for rnauy years. Tho roads are ankle deep with dust, pastures are brown and tho leaves on forest and shade trees shrivelled up, and each hot breath of air from tho cloudless horizon drives them away in showers. Creeks have ran dry and tho water in 'arger streams is lower than ever kuowu before. There has not been a soaking rain in this part of the conntry since March. Two showers in April and ono each in May ond Jnno, had bat temporary effects on crops. Stunted yellow spears, bending disconsolately over immense beds of dost are the only evi dence that farmers ho wed any corn tbis year. Tho leaves of the froit trees are falling eff and tho frnit, which promised to Le plenty, is wrinkled and dried to the stem. Raspberry bafihes look a* though th*y were producing » cr« p of hliot, so infinite small aud hard are the ber ries. Tbe dronth has become bo terrible that poblio prayers are being offered for rain. Fences . long tho pnblio roads and tbe dead walls of villages are plastered with hngo bills calling for special services at district school homes and churches. Fires are burning in the woods and pastures for miles aronnd are scorched. Farmers haVe lost many cattle in these fires, which seem to spring np in a dozen places at once. Reports from all parts of Henry and adjoining conn- Ufa tell of intense suffering from the drouth. Drinking water in many towns has been polluted, while the betls of creeks are cov er*- 1 with <!• < ayiug till*. 1'h* drouth iu »ho northern and central tier of counties of Illi no is is not any more serion* than it is in Wisconsin. The Badger State i* literally burning up, and frnit and crops *re nearly destroyed. Reports from uorthwentern Iowa state that the dronth has keen broken. entire particulars as learned by yonr correspondent, «re rh fol lows: Iu February, 1S8G, n grntVman representing himself Major II 0. Wood, a very wealthy lumber de.ler of Boston, and tho owner of forty per cent, of the Auii'^keag un!!*, came to this plaoe with W. H. Moor, a former citi/"n of this ph.ee, whom he met in Atlanta. From Moore ho secured $400 on the representaUon that he had bought the and pAid $1,200 wanted Moor foi Wood then dt posited $8t 0 in the (hty No tional Hunk here, and, hh An invalid who had come South for his health, he woh gen erally received in a very hospitable mAtiner, being a man of handm me ntylo aud appear ance*, und upon occasion very agreeable manners. H« secured h noto from h lady At tbe hot:He where he waa boarding given by a local firm, tor Ri.ruo, repreneniing to her that he wan about to start a bank and would give her ntock in tho same. This he hypothec itod and used the pro ceeds, buying an expensave borne end buggy and living in elegant style. In Jnly he was elected captain of the Spalding Greys, and iue name nigiii gave a bau- quet at tho armory, at which many of tho bent po plo of the city were preHent, hh was alno u lady introduced uh his sister, of Bos ton. AiiA.V thU time ho bought four acres of land at the Hutuh end of town and proceed ed to beautify it in good style and taste, and to erect a huihII wooden cottage on the Maine.. On the 30.h of August ho whh quietly married to the only daughter of ('apt. ii. I\ Hill, oue ot the richest men cf Griffin, and ' started off f.»r a European tour. When he got to Atlanta he had hi* wife mortgage her , hrid >1 present of 400 a-sres *>f the be-t land in Spilding county Cur $ ,200, on which thoy proceeded to Enrepi. Ou their re turn iu November 200 acre* of the land was Hold at $20 i.u uerf, idthongh $4*1 won ulltgf-d as tho conkideration in the till**. The proceed* were unod to pay tho mort gage on th* laud and to refund to Moor and the • lady referral to the money ii.‘h they were becoming anxious. Hjon after the othfq two hundred acres i ; 'i ui ilipfiiffi- price. At thm time he exhibited to friend* h* re a bank book showing a deposit of $20 into at the Mer- chunU' Bank cf AtlaLtu, which hank s'litea tliut he never had over $2,000 deposited there at one time. Really this spni.g Mnj. Wood hloaoLM a Hcl.< rue to hturt unntii* r bunk here. Tho new bunk wo* to bo called the Merchants' National, and wm* to liuve a capital of $200,- U'<), of which $‘»'Hmu w«h tol>e furnish* d by hituRdf and other local capitali*^, und $150,000 by Bouton men. He was to bo president, W. E. II. Searov vioo- presiyent and D. D. Peden.au «xp»ri«iioe gentleman, formerly in burines* here, was io be c.mhior. in purdi luce «»f thisscht-me tho old bank building ou Solomon atreet was at fonco started to bo repaired, and has really been mi:c:i improved iu appear- anoo. Not wishing, however, to uum oesiia- rily antagonize an already established in stitution, Mr. W vod tlun offered to buy out the Griffin B inking Company with its cap ital stock of $50,000 for $75,000, paying $2,000 cash and giving his note for $73,000. This being for some reason declined he approached Messrs. 8?arcy and Peden und secured $2,000 from each of them, in order, hh he huid, to p*y eff $1,000 borrowod on $20,0(0 of bjnds in A Little Cyclone. Chicago, Jnly 2.—A special from Foree man, Ind.. says: A little cyclone passed over this place from the southwest y* t day. The west side of Heosan l re, House man's general store was stove, in aud sev eral o her Luilding* b.uily damugi-d Jameii K-ij IhH'- h ii‘ *»r b.r.-, w** etru-k by lightning. Ilsin and bail accompanied the wind. There was great exciumer.t, bnt nobody hart I>avitt on » btuinpiof Tour. DrBLiN, July %—Micbu*l Divitt hoR started to funp S:ot!nrd on the Iiinh question- He will afterward* go on n Ntumping tonr through London and the north ot England. I Pie i .rly. Dr. Atlanta, which bond* he wished to deposit for the bank in Washington. Mr. Peden, however, was too wary to bo CAQght uopro- tected, an l holds a rec# ipt for Li* money sigood not only by Wood, us prisideut of tho new bank, but by Mr. Searcy, kh vice- president. As Mr. Searcy is financially responsible far that Amount, Mr. Peden will not be a loser in any event, however it may effect Mr. Searcy. It was with theso fund* iu bin p >*8*-*riou that Mr. Wood loft for Cincinnati on the 7th of June us above stated. More than this, it i* stated that a bank of tbi* city has received notice that a noto for $1,000, Indorsed by Mr*. Wood, will be dm* and payable hero in July, suoh a note being, it i* Mtrongly sormin^l, a q’.i.'k aud «-.i-y w»»y while in Atlanta to m- cire mor* mom-y f.>r the expense* ot the Cincinnati trip. Information from Washington is to the effect that no application bus been mode for a charter for a n itional bank. Neither the wife of the absent bxnk president or any oue eise baa had any communication with him whatever, save a telegram tr >m Cincinnati t ro days after his <1* nurture, statiLg that be wo* called to New Y <rk on burin*-*-.* roniiK'tcd *ith the vault that ho*l been ordered for bis proposed bank fiorn the Hall S if.* ein 1 I. >ck C< mpany, of Cin- cinnati, by re tmu of a strike among the employes of that company. He i* not ex pected back by anyone. There are other rumor* about him we r»frain from mentioning and that cannot be est*bli*bod. WANTS TO BE A STATE. A Convention to Adopt a Cou-tt- tutlon. Salt LakeCitt, Utah, July 1.—The Utah COUatllQUOLai coaveut. OotiipOix-a ot 75 dole gates < 1 -cU*l at county convention*, met in tbe legisUtive chamber of tho rf*y >.*>1 at noon yesterday. Jadge Warren N. I)asen- b .r>, i a. \ u, w if, . i«- .1 t.-mp *»ar> pi«a- i * -.t. nt. i or. j t\ -1.1 orcein:/ttiun ii>>n. John 8. Caine, delegate to Congrc**-, cho-en president ot the convention. Or in- i/ition w.», |"f dul .a l a full M-t of i,ili- ccrs ilccted, and the convention adj rrned till to-day, pending th- appoints.' t of standing ccmmittees. Interest in the more* ment is general and intsuHe. Everybody Lels that great importance atuchen to this n*:w » :: *rt i -r ‘-i.»t-h*oi. An earn# *t en deavor is btiog mode by conservative Mor- EUOU8 to gria t’>t* r - .per■•turn ol all oiarncu and partus in the prodding** Tha Tblztle As.filn Win*. Gliku.w, J .1) 1 in the Clyde regatta to day th»* TnutU startod and won e*«iir. A v«*rv Hght n^rUiweet wind prevaikd throughout.