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^Department Reports.
Last week we published the President's
message, and to-day we give the sub?
stance of the most interesting depart
'ment reports:
. REPORT OP TUE SECRETARY OF WAR.
Mr. Stan ton reports. that the military
'operations by the'last Congross amounted
;to tho sum of $510.240,131. The military
''estimates for tho next fiscal year amount
'to $38.814,561.83. The'national military
force on the 1st of May, 1805, numbered
1,000,516 iron. It is proposed to reduce
the military - establishment to 50,000
troops, and over 800.000 -havo already
been mustered out"of sorvice. The cause
;of .this groat reduction is, of course, the
end of the rebellion, and the return of.
the States arrayed against tho Union to
'tho national authority. 1 Tdio Socrctary
: gives an extended review'of the military
operations of tho past two years' cam?
paigns, in every department. On tho 1st
of May, 1.8G4, the aggregate national
;force was 970,710 inch ; but the effective
force is put dewn at 002,345.
.The Commissioner-General of Prison
'ers reports that, between the 1st of Jan?
uary and tho 20th of October, there were
in'our custody, 98,802 prisoners of war.
Of these, 1,055 enlisted into the United
"service, 03,442 were released after tbe
cessation of hostilities, and 33,127 were
delivered in exchange. Besides those,
174,223 prisoners surrendered in the de?
ferent rebel armies, and were reward on
parole, vi*.: Army of Kofi horn Virginia,
commanded by Gen. R. E. Leo. J7305;
'army of Tennessee and others, comman?
ded by Gen. J. E. Johnston, 3.1,243 j Gen.
?Jeff. Thompson's army of Missouri, 7,978;
miscellaneous paroles, department of Vir?
ginia, 9,072; paroled at Cumberland, Ma?
ryland, and other stations, 9,377; paroled
by Gen. MeCcok*i Alabama and Flori?
da. G,42S; army of the department of
'Alabama, Lieut. Gen. 11. Taylor, 42,293;
army of the Trans-Mississippi depart?
ment, Gen. E. K. Smith, 17,080; paroled
in the department of "Washington, 3,390;
paroled in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana and. Texas, 13,?'22;
surrendered at Nashville and Ghaj||anoo
ga, Tenncssoo, 5,029; total, 174,223.
.Looking -io the causes that have accom
pT^sWd the national deliverance, says tho
Secretary in conclusion, there seems no
room henceforth to doubt the stability of
the Federal Union. These causes aro
permanent, and must always have an ac?
tive existence. The majesty of national
power has been exhibited in tho courage
and faith of its citizens, and the ignominy
. of rebellion is witnessed by tho hopeless
ond of the great rebellion.
REPORT OP THE SSORETART OF TUE TP.EA8
; . TJRT. . J
This report will 1)0 read with an inter
?istperhaps unequalled since the days of
William Daane, Nicholas Biddlo, and the
United States Bank. Seldom has an ex?
ecutive document been lookod for with
more anxiety. "Wo subjoin but a brief
synopsis, deferring, a more ample ab?
stract :
The Secretary discusses the three ques?
tions of tho currency, the public debt and
the revenue Ho goes into a full exposi?
tion of the objections to United States
notes as a permanent curroncy, tho chief
of which he states to bo the fact ihat tho
Government of tho Unitod States is one
of limited and defined powers, and that
the authority to is3uo notes as money
is neither expressly given to Congress by
tho Constitution, nor fairly to be inferred \
except as a measure of necessity in a
great national emergency. He holds it
to be the "crowning glory of tho Consti?
tution that this great war has been waged
and closed without the power of the Gov?
ernment being enlarged or fts relations to
the States being changed."
Tho Secretary, after very ably meeting
the various objections to a reduction of
tho currency, recommends:
First. That Congress declare that the
the compound intorest notes shall cease
to be a legal fender from the day of their
maturity.
Second. T-hiiVthc Secretary be author?
ized, in his discretion, to soli bonds of the
United States bearing interest at a rate
dot excoedihg six per cent, and redcoma
fjb'le and payable at such periods as may
5o conducive fa tho interest of the Gov
^tfW^lf^Wo of retiring not!
only compound interest notes, but tho
"Limited States notes.
In rcfcrcnco to tho debt, tho Secretary
believes that, if kept at home, it need
not be oppressive, but that it is still a
national burden,.and the work of remov?
ing it should not belong- postponed.
The Secretary sees uo v,-ay of remov?
ing it but by an increase of tho national
income over tho expenditures. It 6hould
bo our ambition not to bequeath it to our
descendants.
The first step should be to fund the
maturing obligations. . The next should
be to provide for raising, in the least
odious manner^ the revenuo necessary to
pay the interest and a certain definite an?
nual amount fur the payment of tho prin?
cipal. Air. jMcCulloch hopes that Con?
gress will be decided and emphatic on
this point.
The debt on the 31st of October was
?2,S0S,5-19,437.55; deducting the moneys
in the Treasury it was 82,740,854,750. He
estimates it in July 1,1S?6. at $3,-000,C00,
000. The annual interest, if funded at
five and-a-h'nlf per c?nt., would be-9165u
000,000, but if funded at five per cent., it
would bo $150.000,000."
If 8200,000,000 per annum should be
applied to pay accruing intercut, and to
'reduce the principal funded at the higher
rato of fivo per cent, the debt would be
paid in thirty-two years, or at five and-a
half por eont., in a little over twenty
eight years.
Tho Secretary believes that no Aet of
Congress would bo moro popular than
ono which should provide for* cue!: an ex?
tinguishment of the debt.
Upon the subject of internal revenue,
the reports recommends:
First. That tho collection of tho Inter?
nal Revenue Taxe?, which accrued before
the establishment of revenue offices in
the SitatcS recently in rebellion, bo in?
definite !}r postponed.
Second. That all sales of properly in
those States, under the Direct Tax Law,"
be suspended until the States shall have
an opportunity of assuming (as was done
by tho loyal States) tho payment.of the
tax assessed upon them.
Third. That all transactions in such
States, which ma}'be invalid by tho non
use of stamps, be legalized as far as it is
in tho power of Congress to legalize
thpm.
Tho Secretary regards the national
banking system as one of tho great com?
pensations of the war. and gives somo in?
teresting statistics about its operations.
RETORT OF TUE COMl'TUOLLER OF THE CUR
. HENCY.
The report of lion. Froenian II. Clarko,
Comptroller of Cie Currency, gives a
clcarTstatcjmjytt~flf tho condition of tho'
financpsTand recommends important chan?
ges iff our financial system. Tho Comp?
troller urges a return to a specie basis,
and sWgcsts, as the most available meth?
od of "attaining it, the fundi i?- and con-.'
sequent retirement of a portion of tho in?
active circulation shown to be now held
in rc^Wvc. By a gold valuation of our
imports and exports, it is estimated that
a balance hau accrued against this coun?
try during tho four years previous to the
30th of June last of ^308,000,000. As a
remedy for this, the Comptroller recom?
mends an increase of the rate Of duties
just in proportion as tho price of gold and
foreign exchange may recedoj to be fol?
lowed by tho graduated reduction of such
increase, say ten per cent., at the expira?
tion of each six months, until brought
down to the original rato. In the mean?
time, by a steady reduction of the volnme
of rodocmablo currency and consequent
roduction of prices, wo would bo ablo onco
moro to place our manufactured and agri?
cultural productions on a footing that
would onablc them to cuter into success?
ful cornpotition with those of other na?
tions in the market of the world.
As the first step to be taken towards a
reduction of the G?Voramcirt issues used
aa a currency, the conversion of all the
interest-hearing legal tender notes into
fivo-twenty six per cent, bond?, is urged.
It is also BUggcs'tecI that the national cur?
rency Act bo sc amended as to allow an
increase of the limit to 5100.000,000. on
condition only that all the banks bo re?
quired to redeem their notes in New
York, Boston or Philadelphia, and also
that an issue of six per cent, five-twenty
bonds be authorized to tho amount that
it will require to secure the additional
cireulat:on under tlie provisions of the
Act, which bonds, the banks, when or?
ganized; shall purchase, as each may re?
quire, of the Secretary of the Treasury,
at such fair raies ?s he may from time to
time prescribe but not less than thoir par
value, and pay for the samo in tho United
States legal tender notes, and all notes so
received shall bo cancelled and destroyed.
The tariff, it is suggested, can be so ad?
justed as to produce 3120,000,000, of which j
SIOO.GOO.OQO should bo raised on whiskey,
m
malt liquors and wines. It is estimated
that tho cotton crop of noxt year will
amount to between 2,500,000 and 3,000,
000 of bales, on which might be levied a
tax of eight cents per pound, whicb/would
rcalizo ?180,000,000, moro rthan sufficient
to pay the interest on tho public debt af?
ter tho entire amount is funded. The li?
cense and stamp duties, it is thought,
could bo dispensed with after the next
fiscal year.
report of the commissioner of tee in?
ternal revenue.
The Commissioner remarks his recent
accession to the post and consequent brief
time in which to prepare his views, and
offers some general considerations of in?
terest and importance. The amount of
revenue raised in one year, up to tho 30th
Juno last, was equal to all the revenues of
the United States from the foundation of
the Government up to 1812, and yet
1,000,000 of men wcro withdrawn from
productive labo^ and the marino was re?
latively idle. Tim following arc ?ome of
the aggregates: Receipts for 1803, $41,
003,192.03'; receipts for 1SC4, $116,850,
072.14 ? receipts for 1805, $129,529,017.
The tax on distilled spirits has been a
failure in a groat 'degree, but from causes
believed to have boon obviated.
The cost of collecting tho revenno is
estimated to have boon throo and a half
per centum of recoipts up to tho present
3-car, a sum much below the cost of Brit?
ish revenue, as shown by a citation intro?
duced into tho report. This will surprise
many. Tho per contum of the last fiscal
year is estimated at two and tlircc-lourths.
The current fiscal year, ending June 30,
I860, the cost will "be greater, owing to
the sparsely inhabited and unsettled con-,
ton of tho South.
Tho current fiscal yoar is expected to
bring $272,000,000 rovenue.
Tho Commissioner recommends that
tho power to appoint Assistant Asses?
sors, now, in the opinion of tho Attorney .
<&cncrai, in tho President only, be It'god
in the~8ccictary of tho Treasury by law.
lie recommends that the appeal sys?
tem be abolished, as useless and generally
neglected by parties interested.
TIic penalties arc so various in the ex?
isting law that it ?. is'rccommondejd that,
by proper amendment, they may be sim?
plified. The franking.privilegc is propo?
sed for Assossors and Collectors.
Section 40, Act Juno 30, 1SG4, is be?
lieved to roquiro the vo.y careful atten?
tion of Congress. This soction relates to
collection of taxes in insurrectionary dis?
tricts, and attention is call od to the mis?
chief which will arise from tho fact that,
for nearly three years, all instruments of
writing in the South, on which* hang im?
mense monetary interests, aro invalid*for
want of stamps, as enjoined in schedule
B of tho revenue Act, unless Congress,
in some appropriate manner, relieves the
matter. Section 150, of the Act of 30th
Juno, 1801, would seem to rhdicat? a pur?
pose at one timo of, in somo way, collect?
ing the duties on succession in the insur?
rectionary districts', through tho direct
tax commissioners. However that may
bo, there is now certainly no nocestsity
for tho motion, and tho Commissioner
recommends its repeal. lie also recom?
mends important modifications of the law
regulating stamps. But for inconvon
ionco in thinly peopled districts, ho would
suggest the substitution of stamped pa?
per for adhesivo stamps. He thinks tho
public have become sufficiently familiar
with the novelty to be hold more severe?
ly accountable for infraction ^f the law,
and suggests more stringent remedies
Important analysis arc given and re?
commendations offered respecting tho ope?
ration of the revenue and direct tax laws
in the Sou thorn States.
An increase in tho clerical force, and in
their compensation, is earnestly recom?
mended.
?.
The following resolution was re?
cently introduced in tho Virginia Legisla?
ture by Mi-. Hurst, of Norfolk, and was
laid upon the table :
Whereas. It is currently reported and
generally believed that tho celebrated
Hudibrastic Genoral B. P. Butler is about
to take charge of this military depart?
ment with powers extraordinary; thore
fore.
Resolved, That whatever money may
remain in tho Stato Treasury bo imme?
diately divided amoug the widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers, and couriers
bo despatched to tho various counties ro
questing the pcoplo to secrete or bury
their r late.
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A Kansas editor, sneering at the stu?
pidity^ of a eotemporary, says: "The
best thing he got off this week is a dirty
shirt."
It has been decided lately that a boy
found on a man's door-step, may not,
necessarily be his step-sail.
Signs of Reaction. -
The latest Northern papers we have re?
ceived, (tho.;8f,h,inst.,) brings us some
signs of a hqaltfty reaction in Congress.
On Wednesday, Gth, both Houses adjourn?
ed until Monday last, but on that da^, as
wo learn from Washington correspondents
of the Now York Herald and, other pa?
pers, there wore several indications that
the manly, frank and ablo message of the
Prosident, had a wholesome influence on
the movements of tho radicals in both
bodies of Congress.
For iostanca, on, Wednesday, the mes?
sage having been delivered the day be?
fore, Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, a radi?
cal of the North-western school, submit?
ted to the House, a rosolution declaring
it as the senset?f that body, that good
faith demands that all colored soldiers
who have beon in tho service of the
Union, shall enjoy all tho rights of citi?
zenship. Of course, "all tho rights of
citizenship" include the right of suffrage.
But it appears that the House, on the
spur of tho occasion, was not prepared to
adopt this resolution, which, though lim?
ited to colored soldiers, involved a direct^
issue with President Johnson on the ques?
tion whether this thing of the right of
suffrage is a matter which Iftlongs to Con?
gress or to the several States. Upon this
question, as tho Constitution and the
usages of tho past and tho present time
aro all on tho sido of the President, a
break with him, it was evidently thought,
was an affair entitled to a little cool con?
sideration. And so, a debate arising on
tho resolution, Mr. Farnsworth was judi?
ciously .persuaded to let it go over to
some other day, without attempting^
two-thirds test for tho suspension of the
rules. It appears "that even the terrible
Thaddous Stephens himself had become
considerably softened sineo Monday, and
was altogether in a more amiablo frame
of mind on Wednesday.
In the Senate, on the same day, we
have another indication of a considerable
modification in tho tempor of tho radi?
cals. On that day, Mr. Sumncr, as the
Herald informs us, introduced a resolu?
tion referring to tho oath of loyalty re?
quired of one class of men entering upon
the dutics^of any public office, and re?
marking, that "whereas it is reported
that, notwithstanding tho acts of Con?
gress, cortain persons have been allowed
to outer upon the duties of office, (Treas?
ury Department,) and to receive tho sala?
ry and emoluments thereof, without ta?
king tho prescribed oath, and cortain per?
sons havo been appointed to offices not
authorized by any previously existing
law, therefore, resolved, that the Sec
retaiy of the Treasury bo requested, .-so
far as tho records of his department al?
low," &c, to furnish tho needful informa?
tion on tho subject. This resolution,
over tho shouldors of the Socrctary
of tho Treasury, was evidently aimod a*t
tho President, and at his proceedings in
reference to certain provisional officials
of his in the Southorn States. Under
the rule, it lies over a day, and, when
called up again, wo may, perhaps, have
an interesting dobato upon it.
But the littlo passage at arms which
followed betwoen Mr. Sumner and Mr. j
Doolitflo touched tho kernel of the main
question. Mr. Doolittle moved to refer
that portion of tho message which treats
of tho existing relations of tho lato rebel
States to the Judiciary Committee. Mr.
Sumncr remarked that thero was now
on the Secretary's table a resolution (that
of Mr. Stevens lrom the House) provi?
ding for tho appointment of a joint com?
mittee, to whom this subject should be
referred. It would bo better, he thought,
to await tho passage of this resolution,
and then let tho subject (President's mes?
sage in l'olation to tho South) go to that
special committee. Mr. Doolittle thought
that the joint resolution itself ought to
go to tho Judiciary Committee, and just
horo tho House proposition for an ad?
journment ovor to Monday camo in and
cut off any further proceedings. Here
wro see against Sumner, a leading Repub?
lican Senator from tho West, boldly ta?
king his position on the sido of tho Pres?
ident. Tho rosult will probably bo such
a modification of the Stovons resolution
as to leave each house, as tho Constitu?
tion ordains, the judgo of the qualifica?
tions of its members, instead of tying up
and handing over both houses and the
President to the caro of a joint commit
too.
We have reason to bcliere that these in?
dications aro corroborated by advices from
Washington, and,that as soon as tho lato
seceding States have accepted tho provis?
ions^ and conditions embraced in tho plan
of the President for restoring them to
their position in tho Union, he will submit
their rights to a restoration" to Congress;
if rejected, the issue between him and the
j radicals vill there be squarely made , up
and presented to the country, in tho elec?
tions that may come on during the year.
The President holds tho impregnable
ground, that the excluded Southern States
arc not out of the Union, and never have
been; that they'only need arc-organiza?
tion under the Constitution and existing
laws of tho Union, to be entitled to all
the rights in tho General Government
which belongs to the other loyal Statos.
lTe has only to adhere to this ground to
secure tho establishment of his policy in
this Congress or next. Wo boliove with
tho Herald, howevor, from the cooling
down of the radicals on the day after tho
reception of tho mcssago, that a whole?
some reaction has already commenced,
which will make the President's policy the
programme of the prcsont Congress.
When such old radical campaigners as
Thaddcus Stevens begin to tack ship, it
is because they see breakers ahead.
.[Columbia Pncenix.
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Richmond and the Surrounding
Country.
A correspondent, writing frcm Rich?
mond to^'the Baltirnoro Gazette, gives the
"following interesting, description ofthat
famous locality.. The picturo will bo
recognized by thousands whoso weary
feet have trodden every foot of the coun?
try described:
Richmond itself is now fast being re?
built, and thero seems every prospect
that in a few years the new town will
equal or surpass the old. But while this
is true of the city, the surrounding coun?
try presents a far different aspect. The
section lying below tho city must figure
so largely in all future history, that a few
words about its present appearance may'
not be unacceptable. Once out of Rich?
mond and the change is apparent. It is
a change from the hum of business to the
silenco of a deserted country. The houses ,
stand out solitary and silent; no fences,
no gardens, few or no outhouses, no cat?
tle, no fowls, and many wanting even the
thin *i'-enk of smoke from tho chimney
that still proclaims them to be the habita?
tions of men. Almost as soon as you pass
tho outside limits of the city you find a
line of fortifications, and lor many miles
you will rarely bo out of sight of some
kind of "\ ork", from the strong, battery
that frowns from the crest of the hill to
the small pit of thegskirmishorin tho hollow
beneath. Thero soomsto bo some effort to
rcoccup}'' tho country, but only by the
poorer class of people, who come from the
old battlefields of war to begin a now
struggle with want and famine.
Tho lands lying along tho banks-of the
James, so celebrated for their richness,
aro now but waste fields. Thero are but
few cases where the owners of tho land
aro found on them; fow of them havo the
capital noocssary to work their farms, and*
of thoso who havo, very many have had
their houses destroyed, $n9 will not con?
sent to inhabit the small and ill-built
cabins the/ aro able to put up. Thus the
land is mostly occupiodiby men paying
shares of tho profits for the use of the
land, and they are unablo to work any
largo part of the estate, but simply try
to earn a support for themselves. Those
lands present, if possible, oven a more
melancholy appearaneo than tho back
country; there, so much of tho countryls
covered by pinos, that but a small por?
tion can be seen, but on tho river wo seo
at once vast tracts of open land over?
grown with tho tall weeds and grass,
showing the richness of tho soil, which is
left untouched by tho plowshare Of very
many of tho old houses, the chimneys
aro the only marks visible at any distance,
and th?rc are very few cattle to mark tho
presenco ot thriving farmyards, This is
r ot true of this section alone, but of al?
most all of Eastern Virginia. It is in sub
stance tho picture of a whole country,
and by no means an overdrawn one. It
is to bo hoped that it will not long con?
tinue so. Tho people aro trying, and if
aided, or if not impeded by the Govern?
ment, will soon restore the country to a
better stato. Politically, they feel their
stato to be that of a defeated party; and,
as they must live under tho existing Gov?
ernment, they would do so in good faith,
and in obedienco to its laws. 33ut if"they
aro to be again prosperous and contented,
they must havo tho countenance of .the
Government, and not bo interfered with
by Radicals and Demagogues.
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Josh. Billings says that "if a man pro?
fesses to serve tho Lord, ?c likes to see
him do it when he measures onions as
.well as when he hollers glory halleluycr.
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Josh. Billings says: " "VVhon a man's
dog deserts him on account of his pover?
ty, he can't go any lower down in this
world?not by land."
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Tenjft'son speaks of " the. angel of the
rti'nbow." That angel must be au arch?
angel, j
A Eomance of the War.
A correspondent of the Chicago Jtepitb
licdh at Jacksonville. Illinois, gives the
following romantic incident connected
with the war, the parties residing in that
vicinity :
A well to do farrnor of this county had
a daughter who, besides being'pcrsonally
attractive, was well educated and possess?
ed more than the usual amount of good
sense. As a consequence she had many
suitors. All but two of these she treated
with no favor j and between these two it
was impossible for her tc choose. When
the first oall was rflado for three years'
troops in 18G1.these two men, together
with the young lady's brothers, enlisted
in tho same company. This event dis?
closed to her her own heart; she accep?
ted the man she loved, and on tho morn?
ing he left for the field they were mar?
ried. Her husband was the possessor of
no little property, and before ho-left he
made a will in her favor. While in the
field a strong friendship bound these three
men together, the rejected lover cherish'
ing no ill-feeling toward tho husband of
his love or her broth or. At the battle of
Stone Eiver, on the 2d of January, 1863,
tho Company they were in was in the
fiercest of the strife.; When tho-terrible
conflict was over, the husband was found
with his head blown off, and was only .re?
cognized by a letter found in his pocket
from his wifo.
Tho brotRer was missing, and the dis?
appointed lover was so severely wounded
that his lifo was despaired of. She was ;
now maid and widow, and mourned with
an almost breaking heart for her husband
and brother. The wounded man recov
ed. but was unfit for further service; was
discharged and came home. His affee-.
tion was still true and firm, and the fact
of his association with the lovod and lost,
gave him a strong hold upon the sympa^
thics and rogard for her who had received
the love of his. life. As month after
month passed away, the wounds of her
bleeding heart were partially healed, and
at last she conscntod to become the wife
of him she had once refused for another.
She told him, however, she could never
love him as a wife should; '.:ovc a linsband,
as her heart was buried in tho gravo of
her first and only, love. It was the day
beforo the wedding, and tibio two "were to?
gether arranging their [i'ians for tho fu?
ture. Suddenly her fathor entered, and
handed her a letter, saying, :'Eead that
quick and tell me what it means I" The
letter bore the New York post mark, and
was directed in her husband's.hand.' Sho
dil hot faint, but pale as death, she toro
off the envelope and r-.ad:
?'My Dear Wife?-I am at last exchang?
ed. Am vory feeble. As soon as lean
bear tho journey ,1 shall be at home."
The scene that followed cannot bo de?
scribed. The wrcfehodncss of tho twico
disappointed may bo imagined y but he
acted as a true man should,-and sinceroly
congratulated her on the safoty of her
husband. In a few weeks tho husband ?
camo,'and ;tho mystery was explained.
On tho morning of the battle lie had giv?
en a lotterfrom his wife to her brother to
read. They soon becamo soparatcd. It
was tho brother that had been killed. Hc,^
himsolf. had beon aevcroly wounded, and ?
taken prisoner. Ho had written often,
but the letters had failed" to reach thoir
destination. After two years of suffering
worse than death, ho had been exchanged,
and now was at home. Sorrow for tho
loss of the martyred brother alone marred
the happiness of the re-united couple.
Their noble and devoted friend remained
to see.the one he loved, happy with her
husband, and then left home to bo a wan?
derer in the world. He is now in-tho far
West, and there he seeks to forget the
past' in the excitement of frontier life.
Surely truth is strangor than fiction.
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Tub dead oe Perryville.?It will bo
gratifying, wo know, to tho Southern
people, and especially to. that portion of
them who lost friends'in the action, at.
Perry ville, ivy., to learn that the ladiesof
that vicinity havo collected the remains
of tho Confederate dead - of that. bloody
field into a single burial ground, and that
they have surrounded the space--with a
neat cnolosuro. Many a Confederate
soldier remembers with gratitude the
Sindness of which ho has boen tiio re?
cipient from the noble ladies of Kentucky..
These memories will be tho.more warm?
ly cherished when it is known that the
same angelic^spirits who cheered them on
the weary march, and .clcthed arid fed
them during their imprisonment, now,
watch kindly over the graves of their
fallen comrades.
There is not a Southern heart which
will not feel gratcf.il for this noblo act
on the part of tho ladies of Perryville.
Wo return to thorn our warmest ac?
knowledgements of theso la^t honors"
paid to our fallen kindred.?lYeio Orleans
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