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SUBSCRIPTION RATES. On* copy one year. $1 SO One copy six months. <5 Odo copy three month* 40 kt will club The Herald axd Ad- teetheb with eltbei of the following ■tltntion, Macon Weekly Telegraph, Louisville Weekly Courier-Journal, Sou thern Cu tivator. . . _ _ xr Remittanoea can be made by P. O. jfonsy Order, Po3tat Note, Registered Letter orExpieaa. THE HERALD AND ADVERTISER. VOL. XXII. NEWNAN, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1887. NO. 30. JOHN KEELY, “THE LEADER OF LOW PRICES.” JUST BACK FROM NEW YORK! THE NEW GOODS ALL IN NOW. JOHN KEELY OFFERS YOU THIS WEEK STARTLING ATTRACTIONS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. DRESS GOODS! 600 pieces brocade Drees Goods, 4c. yard. All colors In Cheese Cloths, fine quality, 6c. yard, worth 10c. Beautiful gray mixtures 8c., worth 12tfc. anywhere. Very fine grade Nun’s Veilings, wool Ailing, Uc. yard, worth 16c. MO pieces spring shades Cashmeres 12!?c. yard. 150 pieces “Cable Twills” spring colors, 12’4c. yard. Beautiful lot Spring Worsteds, 12% and 15c. yard. Black and colored Albatros wool drees goods 16c. yard. Doublo width Cashmeres and grey mixtures, 15c. yard. Choice evening Nun’s Veilings, etc., at 20c. yard. Lovely double width Cashmere and Nun’s Veilings, 25c. yard. Beautiful Cashmeres, Ionian cloths, etc., 6-4, 25c. yard. Flannol suitings, Albatros Cloths, etc. All colors, 50c. yard. Camelettes, Serges, Diagonals, Camels Ilair, JUbatros, Gray mixtures, corded latlstes, Checks, Gray and Brown mixtures,'etc., in fine French goods at .50c., 75c. and $1 a yar . Lovely goods! All the evening Hhades in all grade* and prices. Bcautilul spring stock of Worsted Dress Goodembracing all the French novelties of the sea»on. JOHN KEELY'S LACE MITS Boat the world for their beauty and cheapness. Much offering* have never been made in this desirable claw of goods. The variety Is simply immense! 60 Solid Cases ot FINE WHITE MUSLIN DRESS GOODS! From the Largest Auction Sale of the Season. PURCHASED at about one-half their value! THEY WILL BE SOLD AT ABOUT THAT RATIO. You have never seen anything like them.. 15 solid cases of the FINER grades white India Muslins in short lengths,'but In perfect condition, at-8.10,1'iS and 15c. a yard. Every •ne worth double Its price. "White cheeked Musliusat 5,6. S, 10,1~Sand 15c. a yard. Goods not to be matched for the price. An innumerable variety of STRIPES, CHECKS And Fancy Weave White India Linens at 8,10, 12S1 aud loc.. Good* never Intended to sell .for less than donbla their price! This auction sate was a ruin ous measure! The low prices obtained *at this sale caused quite a commotion in Dry Goods circles. It bids fairly to disrupt the trade of this season in that particular branch. It will do it too. All the benefits arising from “this slaugh ter” of a most desirable class'of goods are laid before you at JOHN KEELY’S! 180 pieces “Batiste Claire” Linens—20, 25, and 35c., lovely goods! Excellent Bargains in Plain Nainsooks! Superb Values in Victoria Lawns, 6 to 50c. yard! Fine Stock BISHOP’S LAWNS, all prices! White Linen Lawns, at every known price! Extra fine grades, checked India Linens! Persian Lawns irt every color! White and Cream Mulls in every quality! Stupendous Bargains in Dotted and Figured Swiss! Linon Di Daca Lawns 12^c. to 50c. yard! The largest stock of Persian Lawns in Geor gia! But the effort to enumerate fully the variety of White Goods here offered were vain! THIS NEWSPAPER Positively docs not afford SUFFICIENT SPACE to enable me to dilate fully upon the details of the wonderful offerings now being made in this department. JohnKeely’s MILLINERY Department is being made still more attractive by the daily additions which are being made to the stock. Every Novelty of the season will be found here in the greatest profusion. A truly Superb Stock of Goods! Close upon the Heels of WHITE GOODS COME EMBROIDERIES The Stock of EBROIDERIES is MAMMOTH! This is my “PET” DEPARTMENT. No wonder that it “BLOOMS” as it does in tfco way of sales, for enough CAPITAL, LABOR and THOUGHT has been expended upon it toruua pretty good sized DRY GOODS STORE. $30,000 WORTH OF EMBROIDERIES In this Stock to-day. The Sales of Embroideries in this Houso just now are ruuhing up to Jrom $S00 to $1,000 a Day! THIS MEANS SOMETHING! Hamburg Edgings and-Insertions to match, do. to $1 3 ard! Lovely Nainsook Embroideries, from the “Daintiest” little beauties, to the widest, grandest Flouncings with inser tions to match. Mull and Swiss Embroideries insets of four and live widths to match. Sweetest little “Baby Sets” in Mull and Nainsook. Superb line of Skirtings trom tho low est to the highest grades made. ItXMifferent styles of Colored Embroid eries in all the widths to match, with sol id color Lawns to match all of them. Hundreds of “Allover” Embroideries, from 75c. to $5.00 a yard. The truth is that never before has such an Immense Stock, such a Svtrpising Va- riety or suen an Array of Beautiful Em broideries ever been laid before the Ladies of any Southern City as that now offered at JOHN KEELY’S FANS. I Challenge the South on F ans! THE STYLES AND QUALITIES ARE TOO NUMEROUS TO NAME. But they brat everything ever offered in Fans in this or any other market. They range in price irom 5c. up to $3.50! YOU CAN MATCH THEM NO WHERE ELSE. They aro Laid Out so you can see thorn at a Glance! THE STOCK IS IMMENSE! The Variety is Unsurpassed. They are selling like “HOT CAKES!” Price and Quality Will Sell Any Quantity of Anything. LACEMITS! Fomething Very Attractive. I Closed Out a Lot of 1,500 Dozen Black and Colored Lace Mits. I OBTAINED THEM FOR A SONG. If your voice is anywhere near Mediocre You Can Get What You Want of Them. They Embrace the Best Goods Made! They Embrace Nothing Worth less than $0 per Dozen. They Run up as High in Value as $1 per Dozen. M isses’ Black Lace Mits, fine goods, 15c pair, worth 60c. Ladies’ Black and Colored Lace Mits, 20c. pair, worth 65c. Ladies’ Superfine Black and Colored Lace Mits, 25c. pair, worth 75c. Ladies’ Lace Mits 35c. pair, worth 85 anywhere. REMEMBER! Tills Is no Mere Exaggeration! Il is Fact! Ladies’ Black and Colored Lace Mits, 40 and 50c. pair, worth $1.00. Ladies’ Light Colors—Lace Mits, the best made, 60c. worth $1.25. WELL! TTiis settles tne Lace Mitquestion tortile Season. Nothing like iHem Has ever been shown Here before. Nothing like them will ever be shown here again. To examine them is to purchase them. John Keely’s SHOE DE PARTMENT is one of the marvels of the trade to-day! 'i he run of patronage is im mense. but the stock is the largest and the best ever placed before the Atlanta public! No Shoddy Goods. No Trash. But the best “Custom Made" Goods, every pair of which is warranted! JOHN KEELY’S Stock of Black Summer Dress Goods is immense ; 100 differ ent styles of Black Dress Goods in stock, in both Jet and Blue Black, in every grade, style and effect. No possibility of you failing to find just what you need here in Black Dress Goods! LADIES’ MUSLIN UNDER WEAR. Ladies Chemise 25,35, 50,60, 75,85c, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and up to $2.00 each. Ladies’Night Gowns 50, 60, 75 30c., $1 and finer grades. Ladies’Walking Skirts 35,40,60,75,11, $1.25 and finer grades. Ladies’ Muslin Drawers 25,50c,$1, $1.50, etc. ONE WORD! This lot of Underwear ex cels for beauty of design, qual ity and finish anything ever offered in Atlanta. The unan imous verdict of the ladies is favorable. They are picked up very rapidly. $5,000 WORTH OF NEW PARASOLS. Ladies’ Gingham Parasols and Sun Umbrellas. Ladies’ Alpaca Parasols and Sun Um brellas. Blaek Silk Parasols and Sun Umbrel las at$I, $1.25. $1.35, $1.50, $1.75 aud $2.00 each. Natural sticks. Fine Black Silk Parasols, Pearl Han dles, HALF PRICE, at $1, $1.50, $1.75, and $2.00 each; positively worth double the price. Ladies’ Fine Mourning Parasols at from $2 to $5 each, Black Satin and Black Lace Parasols, half price. Colored Fine Satin Parasols, half price. BARGAINS IN PARASOLS. Any quantity of novelties in Parasols- viz: in White and Cream Parasols, Fan cy Fine Black Laco Parasols, Fan cy Colored Silk Parasols, Colored Bro cade Parasols, Fancy oolored Satin Par asols ; in fact An Immense and Beautiful Stock PARASOLS! And at prices which fairly startle the purchaser! You will find just any kind of a Parasol' ye j need here. LACE CURTAINS. A BOOM*IN Lace Curtains and Curtain Laces. 10,00 yards beautiful Scrim, 6,’Jc. yard, worth 12^c. 500 vards Lace Scrim, 10c. yard, worth 15c. Lovely lot Scrim goods, 12U' and 15c. yard, half price. Beautiful printed Madras Curtain goods 15c., worth 25. Superb “Etamine” Lace goods, 20, 25, and 35o. yard, cheap. l.OCO pairs Lace Curtains 90c., $1, $1215, $1.50, $1.75 pair. Better grade goods away up to fine grades. Nottingham Curtain Laces at from 10 to 35c. yard. SPRING WRAPS! 1,£00 Ladies Casbmere Scarfs$1 each; beautiful tilings. 1,000 fine Embroidered-Scarfs at from $1.50 io $7 each! All colors, various styles, etc. a.fine line q| ladies’ Oaslimeie Shawls, in every graueof goods at piices rang ing from *1.50 to $10 each, in black, light blue, white, cream, cardinal, pink, etc. ; SILKS! Black Silks at from 50, 60. 75. S5J90, $1, $1.15, $1 J25,$1.S5,$L50, $1.65, $1.75 and up to finest evades of Silks made. Every Black Silk above 90c. yard is GUARANTEED! No such a variety of Black Silk in Georgia! A fine line of Summer Silks, Solid Color Gros Grain Silts, Black aud Col ored S»tins. Khadames, etc., all oolors and grades of quality. Thousands ol Novelties in Trimming Silks, Satins and Velvets. All new. All fresh. BESIDES , Tlie best Line of Solid Color and Black Plain Silk Velvets and Velveteens ever shown here. SWEET MAY. “The summer is come! the summer is come With its flowers and its branches green. Where the young birds chirp on the bjossom- inc boughs. And the sunlight struggles between; And like children over the earth and sky, The flowers and the light clouds play; But never before to my heart or eye Came there ever - o sweet a May As this— Sweet May! sweet May! “Oh! many a time have I wandered out In the youtb-of the opening year. When nature’s face was fair to my eye, And her voice was sweet to my ear! When I numbered the daisies, so few and shy That I met in my lonely way; But never before to my heart or eye Came there ever s*> sweet a May As this— Sweet May! sweet May! “If the flowers delayed, or the beams were cold, Or the blossoming tree were bare, I had but to look in the poet’s book, For the summer is always there! But the sunny page I now put by, And Joy in the darkest day! For never before, to my heart or eye, Came there ever so sweet a May As this— Sweet May! sweet May! “For ah! the beloved at length has come, Like the breath of May from »far; And my heart is lit with her gentle eyes, As the heavens by the evening star. Tis this that brightens the darkest sky, And lengthens the faintest ray, And makes me feel that to heart or eye There never was so sweet a May i As this— Sweet May! sweet May! MEMORIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED B7 HOWARD M. SMITH, ESQ., Before the Ladies’ Memorial Asso ciation, at Newnan, Wednes day, May 4th, 1887. armies. The rooted forces of • the ! have no. proud recollections look North supplied artillery and ammuni- forward to no future achievements, tion. rifles and bayonets to the South- These are the influences which estah- erners. The cannon which thundered : lish national pride and make bravery against Gettysburg, the shot which hereditary in a people. The army crushed the brave mercenaries of 1 * 1 -' K “ - ! ’ K ’**“ AT JOHN >8,60,62 AND 64 WHITEHALL AND 8 AND 10 HUNTER STREETS, ATLANTA* GA$ Ladies of the Memorial Association, and Fellow Citizens:— If I had felt that I should be expect ed upon this occasion to give expres sion to any sentiment that has not been expressed before, or pay any tribute that has Dot been paid before, or develop any principle that has not been developed before, I should have considered myself in duty bound to decline the honor that was accepted with such great misgiving. Appear ing as I do before an audience of such intelligence and culture, one whose tastes have become so refined and crit ical through enjoyment of exceptional opportunities ot this nature, I should be keenly gratified if it were within my power to present to you even some minor phase or aspect of my theme to which your attention has not been previously directed. But since the curtain dropped upon the stupendous drama of ’61 to ’65, Southern thought has deeply pondered, and Southern memory has tenderly dwelt upon all of its momentous issues, bound thereto by the inflexible bond of personal pride and personal bereavement. Re sult ing popular sentiment has crystal lized iuto observance of the day we now celebrate, and for something like a score of years each recurring spring time has brought with it innumerable scenes like this;—scenes to which elo quence and learning and statesman ship have esteemed it a proud privi lege to contribute their best endeavors. It follows naturally, therefore, that you have learned of the pure and lofty patriotism of those who bore the Con federate arms, and that you have been told with all the force of polished rhetoric and burning eloquence of the unparalleleJ gallantry with which they stood by their convictions. You have learned of those great social and political problems, which, at an early day, thrust themselves iuto our na tional existence, and, growing with ad vancing years till they finally over shadowed all other considerations, on- Iv found solution in that trial of arms which has given us a dead to com memorate. You have, perhaps, learned best of all of the dark chapter of re- ciSnstruction; of that era when society and law and order were in a state of chaotic confusion; when industries were paralyzed and States bankrupt by an incompetence aud corruption in office that have no parallels in history, and when the intolerable oppressions of vengeful malice and brutish ignor ance seemed to the minds of many good men to warrant appeal to meth ods of self-protection more summary than are known to courts of justice. You are now learning year by year that the animosities of the war are dy ing out, that sectionalism is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, that a community of interests is binding to gether States lately in conflict, and that upon the re-establishment of a union in fact as well as in name, ma terial developnuen and prosperity bave, all over our Southern laDd, made such strides as to awaken the wonder and admiration of the world. Yes, it is all as familiar to yon as a thrice-told tale which an orator’s elo quence might embellish but could not in any w'sy alter. In these piping times of peace public sejtiment is, for the most part, opposed and justly op posed, to auy public utterance that would te->d to rekindle the smoulder ing fires of sectional animosity, and no word of mine shall be spoken to-day with such intent. The day is not far distant, however, when the exploits of yourdead heroes out yonder shall come to be held as a national inheritance, lo which North and South will alike claim interest. Permit me, tbeB, to present briefly an estimate of those exploits made public during the closing scenes of the war, and formed not from a Northern or Southern, hut from an impartial Eng lish standpoint; and later I shall tell you why. Listen. “The South is doomed. With the surrender of Gen eral Lee ends, not indeed the possibil ity of military defense; still less that of desperate popular resistance, but the hope of final success. After four years of war, sustained with a gallant ry and resolution that have few if any precedents in history, after such sac rifices as perhaps no nation ever made in rain, after losses that have drained the life-blood oi the country, after a series of brilliant victories gained un der unequaled disadvantages, courage and skill aDd devotion have succumbed to brute force; and by sheer power of numbers a race inferiot in every qual ity of soldiership and manhood has prevailed over the bravest and most united people that ever drew the sword in defense of civil rights and national independence. To nutnhers and to numbers alone the North owes its hateful triumph. Its advantages in wealth aDd resources, in the possession of the sea and the com mand of the rivers, were neutralized j hy Southern gallantry, Tn despite of “ the most numerous navy ju the world, half a dozen Southern cruisers drove its commerce from the seas. In de spite of if* overwhelming'*uperiority in strength of ships aDd guns, impro vised Southern ironclads beat, and drove off its blockading squadrons and Southern cavalry, embarking upon little river steamers, captured Us armed gun-boats. When the war broke out the North had every kind of military stores iu abundance and could draw unlimited supplies from Europe; the South had scarcelyacan- noo, had but few nflt-s, still fewer swords or bayonets, and not a single foundry or powder factory. All these deficiencies were supplied by lh» fire light of the Confederate government aim fcr <* *» CosMttata Burnside od the slopes above Fred- ricksbttrg came, for the most part, from Northern arsenals. Almost ev ery battle has been woo by the South, but every Southern victory has been rendered fruitless by the overwhelm ing numerical superiority of the that marches to battle armed with the prestige of a glo.ious aDcestry, goes out in the confidence of sure success, and to it the victory is already half won. To properly foster these influ ences, so salutary in the development of a robust national sentiment, they should be perpetuated through me- vanquisbed. It may console the he- diums that touch the masses more di- roic soldiers of the South to remember that their whole force was uever equal in number to the foreign mercenaries of the Union army alone. Richmond has fallen before "an army of foreign mercenaries. Lee has surrendered to an army of foreigners. With a horde of foreigners Sherman occupied At lanta, took Savannah, ravaged Geor gia and traversed the Carolinas.” Here is a tirief and imperfect out line from sn English point of view of the achievements of Southern arms, and of the overwhelming odds with which she bad to contend; aod the re.cord is. one which no people can afford to for get. There is a power in recollections of this character of which, perhaps, you might never guess.. An eminent Euglish author has said: “The history of mankind, from from Its earliest period to the present moment, is fraught with proofs of one general truth, that it is in small States rectly than do the records of history; and just here to my mind is to be found one of the grandest features of the work that is being done by the Ladies’ Memorial Association. All over our Southern land every memo rial shaft pointing heavenward is an undying declaration.' not merely of love and gratitude to those who sur rendered their lives in the bloody struggle for Southern independence, but au expression, as well, of admira tion and pride, in their heroic achieve ments and of unswerving loyalty to the principles and convictions f r which they fought. He who regards these matters as of little practical moment is but a superficial student, either of human nature or of history. The influence of Westminster Ab bey upon the English Da ion can nev er be estimated. Standing in the aisles of that majestic pile, surround ed by the tributes of gratitude and and in consequence of the emulation ! homage which England has lavished and ardent spirit which they develop, j upon her honored sons, surrounded by that the human mind arrives at its I the intellect and valor that for centu- greatest perfection, and that the freest ! ries have adorned the pages of Eng- scope is afforded both to the grandeur i lish history, there is begotten within of moral and the brilliancy of inlel- i the soul an ambition to live and die lectual character.” Whether or not the i worthy of so much greatness. And proposition as laid down he true, j to-day were the ashes of our heroes, there can be no doubt but that the I statesmen aud authors, few though principle involved is of vital import- i they be, gathered together under oue ance to every government. Nations, 1 root worthy to be their resting place, like individuals, know the force of im- : that spot would become the centre of pulse and incentive to action. There j such stimulating influences us S»uth- is national ambition as well as indi- I eru ambition has not hitherto known; vidual ambition, national honor as j aod among the multitudes who would well as individual honor, national ! visit its sacred precincts, how many pride as well as individual pride, and ! would the hallowed associations of by these the character of a people may 1 the place arouse to a sense of their be largely determined. i own unemployed talent, and animate Let us consider briefly the develop-; with the pride of their country’s re- meDt aud operation of these ageucies. ! uowo; and, impressed with the gran- The British empire comprises witbiu ; deurof the scene, would kindle with- lts immediate domain three distinct ! iu their breasts the noble feeling of peoples, originally under as many ; Correggio in contemplating the R<>- governments; while witbiu our own ; man masters, “I, too, am a painter.” - -■ j t j s this spirit of perpetuation that gives stability to national pride and ADVERTISING' KATES. One square 1 month, - - - • - $20# One square 3 months, 380 One sqqare 6 utenths, - - - - - 6 00 One Square 12 months, ----- 10 00 Quarter column 1 month, - - - 5 0# Quarter column 3‘months, - - - 12 0# Quarter column 12 months, - - - 30 00 Half column 1 month, ----- 7 50 naif column 3 months,:'.- - - - 26 00 Half columu 12 months, - - - - 60 00 One column 1 month, ------ 10 00 One column 3 months, - - - - 25 00 One column 12 months, - - - - 100 00 vast territory are many theoretically independent states, and further Hues of demarcation as sharply drawn as though defining distinct nationalities. In each of these we find an illustration of the principle referred lo. Who can estimate the good which England has derived from the stimulation of a na tional pride by snch Scottish minds as David Hume, Robert Burns, Dugald Stewart and Walter Scott ? And even Ireland,outraged andoppressed victim of a political tyranny that is amazing for its malignity and shortsightedness, fit subject as she is for the pity aud commiseration of all lauds where the principles of civil liberty have ob tained a footing, even Ireland has bad her Wellington, her Goldsmith and Burke. History records these names only as belonging to that mighty host that has given an added lustre to Brit ish warfare, poetry and oratory, but in reflecting upon their achievements aDd contemplating their greatness the heart of every patriotic Irishman swells within him as he exclaims, “these are my countrymen.” Though bound together by the tie of a common government, the individuality of Eng land, Scotland and Ireland has ever been preserved; and when the mighty intellectsnfWebster,Clay and Calhoun met in the halls of our National Leg islature they were at all limes sensible of the fact that they were, in a meas ure, representatives of distinct peo ples, whose several interests laid tribute upon their utmostability. Pride of na tion is no small influence in the devel opment of a national character; and In our own land what is now termed sectioual animosity will, in time, tone down lo a wholesome emulation. Owing to our peculiar form of govern ment and many of the circumstances of onr former civilization, mere is a danger just here front which we of the g mill have not entirely escaped. As another has it, “There are few exam ples in the history of mankind of an independent kingdom being incorpo rated with another of greater magni tude, without losing, in process of time, the national eminence, whether in arts or in arms, to which it had ar rived." It is from this tendency, I say, that we of the South have already suffered to some exteDt. The long roll of bonored names contributed by the South to the nation in the early days of the Republic was such as to estab lish the intellectual predominance of this section in all departments of pub lic life, while in these latter days La mar, Stephens and Hill have well su-t- tained the reputation of Southern statesmanship. In wartare we suffer by comparison with no people on earth; but in music, literature and art we have practically no national record. And why? The same stock that furnished to history most of the illustrious names, whether in civil or military life, which she is called upon to chronicle during well- nigh the first century of the Repub lic, could not fail in these other de partments of effort, if properly stimu lated thereto; and this can hardly be more successfully accomplished than ulates individual energy; and iD my belief in this principle lies my apology for presenting to you these familiar thoughts at such .length. Let that spirit live, for it is the promise of better things. Let every name and every tradition interwoven with that darkest aud brightest chapter ofour his tory be handed down till they have be come as familiar as household words; for out of them may proceed a power to fire Lbe blood ot generation* yet un born. He who stands in the aisles of some temple whose windows are adorned with variously timed glasses finds himself illumed by lights of as many hues that give to all about him a strange and glorious beauty; so the generations ot man, surrouuded by memeutoes of greatness made death less hy its works, stand flooded in 'he blended hues of glory trausmitied through diverse mediums, that will beautify and soften the poet’s dream, elevate aud strengthen the patriot’s pride, animate and sustain the war rior’s zeal down the shadowy aisles of the far-coming ages long after you and I have faded like streaks of morning cloud in the hazy azure of the bound less past. It Das been said, and withsomesbow of reason, that weoflbe Southareana- tion of seutimeutalis's; that as a peo ple we are characterized by a strong romantic bent; interesting aDd attrac tive enough in its way, but not condu cive to the development of a great mercantile or manufacturing nation. Just at this time, when our people are, toau unprecedented extent, engrossed with the prosecution of mighty enter prises, when our vast coal, iron and railway interests are inviting for their development speculative mill ions. both at home and from abroad, when the national heart seems throb bing and every nerve seems thrilliug with the infusion of new life and ener gy-just at this time there would seem to be no room in the public thought for seutiment of any kind. And if the war cloud that broke upon us just iweuty-six years ago, is to be the last of its kind to darken our land; if the future has in store for us only smiling years of peace aud plenty; years that may be entirely given over to ;be creating aud hoarding of worldly possessions, then, indeed, theredoeBseem hut little room forsenti- ment. The Confederate dead did but their duty, and, therefore may invite, but cauuot demaud our gratitude. There are times, however, when senti ment is a power. It was sentiment that made the Old Guard destructible, but inviueitile; sentiment has elotbed the "Marseillaise" of FraDceand the shamrock of Ireland with terror for all tyrauDy and oppression; sentiment, for the most part, lime aud again drove Southern bayonets up tho well- nigh impregnable heights of Gettys burg aud through many another hard- fought field, aud sentiment has pre served intact our social laws and cus toms in despite of the civil and mili tary power of the government, and iu Ice and knavery sway the sceptre of power.” The sequel I need not tell you. Gibraltar’s massive front could scarcely he less shaken by the gentlest zephyr that fans its’ rugged heights than ha* been Southern determination to preserve intact all that was best of the instincts, customs and traditions of the old civilization; and the world at large has come to under* stand that a settlement of all those irritating issues, coming in with the new order of things, can only be had hy adjustment to that can only be had by adjustment to that fact. And this we call sentiment. Can you longer doubt, then, that sen timent is often a wonderful power with in itself? The preserving of this influ ence, at once so potent aud so whole some, has been for the most part left with you, ladies of the Memorial As sociation; and l would voice no idle flatteries when I say you have nobly discharged a glorious duty. If at any time your energies should flag in this labor of love, it should stimulate you to remember that you have in large measure, noth our past and future, in your keeping. You cannot perpetuate an ennobling thought without insur ing its fitting act; jou cannot foster a love of the heroic without in time pro ducing the hero; you eannot hold up to the generations of to-day, and ail generations that are yet to be, a past whose darkest shadow seems luminous with the flash of martial deeds and the halo of deathless names without pav ing the way for a future that shall in all things he its fitting complement. By the eternal laws • >f cause and ef fect it must be so. And the immor telles you now weave into garlands for the dead shall in d. e season be transformed iuto wreaths of victory for the living; while for all time to come the brightest pages of our re corded history shall chiefly abound with the fruits of your labors. Yes, treasure up and perpetuate all of these influences, and with a jealous hand. No matter about those grand charac ters that stand out as central figures in the late war between the States. They have their places in the world’s history, and cannot be forgotten so long as Napoleon or Wellington or our own Wa-btngton are teuiembered. Turn from these to the myriads of humbler graves that dot so many hillsides of our fair Southern land, aud from them gather up the animat ing impulses aud quickening memories that shall preserve in us as a people those superb soldierly qualities that the world has never matched. The field is not an uninviting one and it will be much if you only relieve In a measure that grim satire upon a peo ple's gratitude, though inseparable perhaps from war, that goes out to the world in the pathetic “unknown” which marks the last resting place of so many of the Confederate dead. But I cannot better fix the place of the private in gray than in the fa miliar language ot ooe of Georgia’s sons whom most of you have had the pleasure of listening to in person: “The daring deeds of Stonewall Jack- sod, his rapid movements which invested him, iu the belief of the superstitious, with ubiquity, and bis sudden descents on the foe, as he swept like a falcon to its prey, were only possible because his high born pride inspired his devoted band with a heroism that wearied out the stars in their inarch «by night, and caught new strength from the risiDg sun as they rushed upon tho flame of battle. So is it with Lee. His follow ers were nurtured in the same civili zation as himself. Under the gray in the Confederate rank aud file heat the great hearts ot many aCurtius,Coccles and Ney. If bis gloryis like the sun, theirs is like the stars. When the splendor of the sun is veiled by Dight, we behold above us a few bright stars moving in grandeur over the field of heaven, whose names and pavjllions and goings forth are known ; but in their midst is seen, iu “lose column, an un distinguished host pressing steadily onward, nameless and unknown; no one brilliant, but all together shed ding a halo around the skies. For ages ignorant man called them a con gregation of vapors. But the astrono mer, drawing nigh and scrutinizing their ranks iu clear aud passionless thought, has returned to earth with the revelation that they are an army of stars, differing from each other on ly as ‘oDe star differeth from another star in glory.’ And when the histo rian, iu after times, shall turn his ad miring gaze from the lustre of the greatest captain of hi- age, and from his brilliant subalterns whose names and deeds are known, to scrutinize that mighty host who, nameless and unknown to fame, barefoot and sore, marched under the banner of the Southern Cross, he will, from their blended glory, resolve their individu ality, and tell the children of this ig norant and malignant generation that they were, one and all, heroes as great as ever fought beDeatb the Cross to re-cue from the Crescent the Holy Se ulchre, and patriots as pure in tbeir devotion to liberty as wero the fathers of the Republic.” Not Every Woman Would Have Seen the Point. Buffalo Conrier.j A man having large business inter ests and a hat.'Uome income married a lady who, accustomed all her pre vious life to the luxuries of wealth, had never lormed any clear conception of Lhe value aud purchasing power of money. For some months every whim, no matter how extravagant, was promptly gratified by the indul gent bushaud, who always gave his check for any amount of money asked. Oue day the bride of a few months, to through the influences growing out of despite of misguided sycophants occasions of this nature. If you have i sruoug our own people who, from given the subject no thought you will | press and pulpit, have aspired to fig- be disposed to think I rate such influ- ure as apostles of a Dew order of ences too highly; but search the pages things. Just here is to be found its of history and you will fiud the idea 1 perfect work. Enactments beyond sustained. When the Athenian ora- : constitutional limits have been aimed tors wished to stimulate the Grecian j at it by a partisan Congress; f»r a quar- soldiery to g-eat and patriotic deeds. ; ter of a century a practically uuani-. - caprice reauested a thev recalled to their minds the he- mows Northern press has heaped upon ! c f rr y out some caprice, requesiea a rof/acU of their forefathers, pointed j it columns of vituperation and abuse, ! to the Acropolis crowned with the and inflammatory Nor hern orators wassomet*hattstaggered thtsre spoils oi 'heir daring and bade them have called down maledictions wito a I by. He saw that such itrodigality.il be worthy the national name. De- ; ferver born of blasted political hopes, persisted in, n*eau^.ruin, but, not mosthenes in one of the grandest Nor have we been without advice, dis- i wishing to grieve his wife by a downs apostrophe's Vwdint* HtSS? “ interested and abundant The same | ^trefusal ^<l«temtnedto^ve vokes the shades of those who died at inscrutable providence that, from : her an object lesson in the financial at Marathon and Platea to sanction time to time, has seen fit to dispense : line. Accordin ly, with a « the cause in which his countrymen pestilence andfamines.and[wars, has . « SnfXoJtLeXnsU ea no power wicDinlweirr io tne minions. x«»u wm irauw, iw, i rv-r* — j „ *x . * . ^_ war-worn veterans who followed it pricelessness of this boon when you ! bffls, as was expected, but in sterling blindly through a hundred fields, who reflect that within the first hundred j silver dollars, the sum total filhugsev felt it hovering over them like an an- , and odd years of its existence noprob- eral specie bags. Thej*ife was at first gel’s wing and saw it leading on like ; lem has arisen in the business of the vexed and theni amused, andL a beacon light to'victory,—to these world for which New England has j before the afternoon e , vh * hM . men it was possessed of a mystic spell j not been ready with prompt and per- j came deeply though 1. that kindled in their breasts the fires i Bistent solution. A', the close of the better half ca mehotij e toeu ppershe of patriotism and made them wild to late war we offered a field for gratui- i took hjm geutly by tbearra.and lead- diefor it. Call It superstition or fa- tous beneficence too inviting to be j ing him into the hall "be r e the pon- naticism or what you will, but certain ; overlooked. With our resources ex- derous hags of specie w ere still stand His that within its silent folds slept ! hausted by four years of consuming ; ing, said: m „ npv T asked an eloquence mightier than that of war, with our social and economic > My dear, isitbis the,money I asked aoy huuian tongue. Around Bun-i fabrics overturned and destroyed, with 1 youRm this morning. kefs Hill 1 Monument. New England’s all the old conditions of success anni- r It is, my love, was tne rep y. —ide and New England’s patriotism hilated. withont money without ered- j ^nd dtd j.-u have to take this^all ! in the streets or Paris as the land- social ana ponucai status oi tour uiu- , | ark of established government, of' lions of’elaves suddenly clothed by act • suits of Y - * ! law and of order,maddened the ragtag of Congress with all the rights and ; be answere g ^ y. tearful mob of the Parisian Commune, and ■ privileges of citizenship; eorelv tried Well, then she said with teartal i their vindictive malignity was satis-1 by dissension* frota within and perse- eyes, 8e . , — ▼ fied only when it bad been leveled with* j cations from withont. with, no rights the dust. And so I might illustrate ! the victors felt bound to respect and indefinitely the influence of these and j no representation for nrgtag those kindred objects. They are the outer ; rights—at each a time as this embodiment of an inner sentiment, j England was not slow to come and They are the tangible expression of j say, “Abandon all the old traditions, associations and recollections that are ; cut loose from yoor pride and love of dearest to the hearts of a people, and j cas*e> and let education and culture commemorate deeds that were vital to | and intelligence bumble themselves ttafttttnti*fa* eyes, —_ back to the bank in the morning. I can’t use so much money for a trivial purpose.” Editors may be passionate and ex citable, but they rarely throw a dte- moud-studded'paper weight at an Ob jectionable spring poet if there hap pens to be auy boos «tuur leg# lyuif