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The grass grows green On the graves where they lay, The flowers bloom nlike O'er the blue and the Gray ; .And loved ones' tears Ate mingling with dew. While with it God blesses The Gray and the blue. In heaven above us Cod opens His gate? No strife or contention. No divcord, no hate; The portals are open, And there, side by side. Stand the heroes of battles? The heroes who died. God welcomes them all-; Though in battle's array, One bore the bright blue And the oilier the Gray, Though one fought for Union, The other for State, One angel of mercy Guides all to God's gate. And there, at the right hand Of Hiin who is just. Away from the mortal And up from the dust? There by God's throne. Far away from earths' grave, In raiment unspotted ttin irue and the brave. Sliall we, the frail worldlings Who yet. live and wait? Shall we sit in judgment, Or cry out in linte, While a Father above us? A Father all-wise? Calls back his loveJ children From earth to the skies ? Forgive us. forgive its. Dear Father above 1 Bring hnck to our conscience The heart-heat of love; And while we nre weeping For our loved ones to-day. Let us tenderly cherish The Blue and the Gray. ,iKANT'S TALK ABOUT THE WAR. The Story of Appomattox ao Told by the Victor. The Silent General'* View of Friends and Foes?His Frankly Fiprtssed Opinions About the Men 11 'ho Led the Annies For and Against the Union?Interesting Chartteiorisnlivus ami lis&tetunf? TJtr Confederate Soldiers. Hamburg, Germany, July G.?-I ,.?ve some memoranda of odds and ends >f conversations in idle moments while ivanderfnc ahout these old towns, and it teems to me tlint 1 can do no newer tervioe to the historian than to throw these memoranda into route shape. There are few men more willing to converse on any subject which he knows than the General, and although his fame is that of a eilient man, those who know him at all know that in reality wo have Tew better talkers in America. The ;harm about the General's talk is that it is never about anything lie does not Icoow, and wbat be dn< s know be knows well. lie is never vindictive and never ?ossips. and when referring to men and things in the great events in his career-, be is a? passionless and just ns a historian. lie never refers to the war unless you put the subject to him directly. I aut afraid I have been curious on this point, not that I ever wanted to trouble Gen. Grant, but because the judgments md opinions of such a man belong to history. I hope, therefore, that what I gather up and send >ou from various table-talk memoranda will have u value to the historian I do not hope to give you the General's exact words, although as far as uty memory serves I Jo. THE SURRENDER OF LEE. We were tyttversingone evening about Lee's surrender The General told the story of the memorable event. ''The night before Lee surrendered." said he, "I had a wretched headache?headaches to which I ha\e b<en subject?nervous prostration, intense personal puff? rin??. But, suffer or not, I had to keep ijjov* ing. I saw clearly, especially nf'tei ShnrLlnn had CUf off the escape to Dun viHe. that J>e must surrender or break and run into rlie mountain*?br-^ok in all directions and leave us a dozen pu> criila bands to fipht. My campaign was not Richmond, not the defeat of Leo it: actual fipht, but tn remove him and hif army out of the contest, and, if possi ble, to have him use Ins influence it inducing the surrender of Johnston and the other isolated armies. Vou see th< war was an enormous strain upon th? country. Rich as we were, I do no1 now see ho we culd have endured i another year, even from a financial poin of view. So, with these views, I wroti Lee, and opened the correspondent with which the world is familiar. Le< does not appear well in lliat correspond ence?not nearly so well as he did ii ? i.: our sub?e<juent interviews. where in whole bearing was (hut of n pat riot i and oallant soldier, concerned alone* f'o the welfare of l-iK army and his State I received word that Lee would me uie nt u certain point within our line near Sheridan's headquarters. I liad f ride quite a distance through a tniidd country. I remember now that I wa concerned ahmt my p rsonal appeal anee. I had on an old suit, without m sword, and without any distinc'iishin mark of rink except the shoiild'T-sfraj of a lb ? u'u.t oiMM'ral o a wool'' blouse. I w ? sr>las; (I with mud I mv lon?j ri ie i 1 .? *' <?d l.o- mi"! think I uoant f slio . If btiidied db courtesy by so coming, at lea>>t I lliotjel i trj l#ul 1 had uo other clothes withi ( reach, a? Lee's letttr found me awuy from my base of supplies. I ke^t on riding noli) I met Sheridan. The General, who, was one of the hemes of the campaign, and whose pursuit of J*ce was perfect in its generalship and energy, told ine %here tn 'find Lee! [ remeniber that Sheridan was impatient when I met-hiw an lions and suspicious about tke whf^bjjajnpss?feared ; there might tie' A plaMgr"eVchpe; that be i > ' t -.1 na?i j^co at ins reervau wanifumi nuu the business by poiiW fililg fcn absolute surrender by captjMj?v Id fact, he had his troops ready fof^tch an.assault when Lee's white flair came wiljhio his lines. I went to the house whore J Lee was waiting. I found him fn a fine, new, splendid uniform, which only re* called my anxiety as to my own clothes while on my way to meet him I ex pressed my regret that I was compelled to meet him in so unceremonious a manner, and he replied that the only suit ho had available was one which bad been sent him by some admirers in Baltimore, and which he wore then for the first time. We spoke of old friends in the aiuiy. I remembered having seen Lee in Mexico. He was so much higher io rank than myself at the time that I supposed he had no recollection of me. But he said he remembered me 11 nr. ..It.J very wen. ?? v. nikcu vi-vm ii^^aiiu . exchanged inquiries about friends. Lee then broached the subject of our meet* inc. I told him my terms,' and Lee, listcnir.c attentively, asked me to write them down. I toc-k out my manifold order bonk and pencil and wrote them down. Gen. Lee put on his classes and read thrm over. The conditions gave the ffficere thrir aide arms, private horses and personal baggage. I said to Lre that I hoped and believed this would he the close of the war,that it was most important that the tnen should pn home and go to work, and the povern| mru? would not tlirow any obstacles in I the way. Lee answered that it woul J J have a most happy effect, and accepted j the term?. I handed over my pencilled ! memorandum to an aide to put iu wri? j tinp, and we resumed our conversation about old times and friends in the ar | mica. Various officers enuio in?Lonp| street, Gordon and Pickett, from the ; South; Sheridan, Ord and others from j our side. Some were old friends; Long' street and myself, for instance, and we ! had a general talk. Lee, no doubt, I expected me to ask for his sword, but I did uot want his sword. It would only." said the General smiling, "have gone to the patent office to be wor" | shipped by the Washington rebels." Thetc was another pause when ho said that most of the animals in his cavalry ai d artillery were owned by the privates, and he would like to know, under the terms, whether they would be regarded , as private property or the property of ?? i imdnr the terms (in#1 govrrriujiiu. i of surrender they belonged to the gov. jernment. Gen Lec read over the letter 1 end said that was so. I then said to the General that I believed and hoped this was the last battle of the war. ana I saw the wisdom of these men getting home and to work as soon as possible, and ihnt T would give orders to allow any soldier or officer claiming a horse or mule to take it. G< n Lpe showed some emotion at this?a feeling which I also shared?and said it would have a most happy effect. The interview ended, and I pave orders for rationing his troops. | The next day I met Lee on horseback, and we had a long talk. In that con? vernation I urged upon Lee the wisdom of ending the war by the surrender of the other armies. I asked him to use his influence with the people of the South ?an influence that was supreme?to bring the war to an end. G* n, Lee said thnt his campaign in Virginia was thej last organized resistance which the South was capable of making?that I m'ght have to mnrch a good deal and , encounter isolated commnnds here and , there, but there was no longer any army , which eonld make a stand. I told Loc that this fact only made his responsibilii ty greater and any further war would be i a crime. I asked him to go among the South'rn people and use bis influence , to have all men under arms surrender , on the same terms given to the Army , of Northern Virginia. lie replied that he could not do 80 without consultation i with. President Davis, f was sorry. I 1 n ? f.Jn.Bno rrnne he* . saw that iiic uiiimm ia.j r i yond ilu' reach of President Davis, and , tho' there was milling that could he j done except what Dee could do to benefit. . the Southern people, I was anxious to i get theni home and have our armies go | to their homes and fields. Hot I/e > would not move without Davis, and, as > a matter id fact at that lime, or soon r after, Davis was a fugitive in the I wooJa." ' J EPPERSON DAVIS AND TDK 801TIJ. ? ? An allusion was mado to the feeling ? in the S<>uth that Davis was an injury ? to the Confederacy and did not do his i best. ''I never thought so," said the s General. "Davis did his best?did all e that any man could do?to save the Conr fe leracy. This argument is like some i | of the arguments current in history? t i that the war was a war against winds j mills, and that, if one man or another o ' had licet) in authority 'he result would v ! have been different; that some more ?11 s J placable man than Davis couni nuvt - j made a better fieht This is not true y | The war was a tremendous war. ami tir >: ' one knows better than those who wer* ?s in it. Davis di<] all he eouM und all n any man conbl for the South. Tlx n South was beaten from the beeinnintj t Ther" was no victory possible for am i- -'iiver in tit rci'inir upon the plalforu it | nl the SoinIn ru foul'rb racy. Just a.1 u touii us the war united and aroused th< CAMDEN, S. C., AUGUS' youne men of the North ami called out the National feelinp, them was no end but the end thnf enme. Davis did all he could do for his Aide, and how much he did do no one knows better than those who were in the field." STONEWALL JACKSON*. Your correspondent asked the General how he rauked Jackson amoo? the soldiers. '*1 knew Stonewall Jackson." < said the General, "at West Point and j in Mexico. At West Point he came 1 into the school at an older age than the | average and began with w low grade. Bot he had so much courage and en.. ejlty, worked so hariV and governed his Rie by a discipline so sfern, that he steadily worked his way along and rose far above others who had more ad- > vantages. Stonewall Jackson at West Point was in a stato of constant iin- 1 provement. He was a 'religious man then, and some of us regarded him as a fanatic. ^Sometimes his religion took strango' -forms?hypochondria?fnncicd . that an evil spirit had taken possession oHiin). BnJ he never relaxed in his studies or- hid "Christian dntics. I-knew [ him in Mexico. He was always a brave and trustworthy officer?nono more so in^^lHjMiy. _ 1 never knew him or encountered bim in the rebellion. I AVte^ion'wfi&hej his campaigns in Vir- I, 0ola"j?ritify his reputation as a great commander. lie was killed too soon, i ^ and before bis rank allowed him a preat i command. It would hare been a test of generalship if Jackson had met Sheridan in the valley instead of some I of the men he did meet.. From nil T 1 know of Jackson and ail T see of his ' campaigns, I have little uoubt of the re- j suit. If Jackson had attempted on i Sheridan the tactics ho attempted so i ( successfully upon others he would not ( only have been beaten but destroyed. ( Sudden, daring raid*, under a fine pen- ! eral like Jackson, miphfdo against raw troops and inexperienced commanders, j such as we had in the beginning of the ; war, but not apainst drilled troops and , b commander like Sheridan. The tac- ( tics for which Jackson is famous, and , which achieved such remarkable rrsnlts. belonped entirely to the beginning of ( the war, and to the peculiar conditions under which (lis earlier battles were , fought. They would have insured de- ' , struction to any commander who tried i , them upon Sherman, Thomns. Sheri- , dsn, Meade, or, in fact, uny of our preat generals. Consequently Jackson's fame | as a peneral depends upomachievements ; pained before his genorikhip was test- ! 1 cd?bel^p bo had a chanjo of matching himself with a really great commander, j No doubt so able and patient a man as Jackson, who worked so bard at anything he attempted, would have adapted t in . i -! ninisen 10 new conditionsanu risen wun them. Hedged before his opportunity. | I always respited Jackson personally, j and esteemed his sincere and manly \ character. IIo impressed me always as a man of the Cromwell stamp?a Puritan?a much more of the New Englander thau the Virginian. Tf any man j believed in the rebellion, he did. ^nd i his nature was such that whatever he ! b-lioved in became a deep, religious ; duty?n duty lie would discharge at nnv ! cost. It is a mistake to suppose tbat 1 i had tmy feilings for Stonewall Jackson ^ but resptct. Personally, we were always pood friends; his character had ; "are points of merit, and nltbough he made the mistake of fighting apainst his country, if ever a man did so conscientiously, he was the man." I.KE AS A COMMANDER. This led to a remark as to the proat and universal fame of Lee, especially in Europe?u reputation which seemed to ! prow every d?y. "I never rinked Lee nR high as pomo others of the army," said the General, "that is to Faj, I never had as much anxiety when ho was in my front as when Joe Johnston was in front. Lee was a eood man, a fair commander, who had everything his favor. lie was a man who needed sunshine. He was I supported by the unanimous voice of ] the Houtb; be was supported by a larpe ; party in the North; he had 'he support j and sympathy of the outside world. All 1 j this is of an immense advantage to a ! general. Lee had this in a remarkable i I degree. Everything he did was right.' I He wis treated like a demi-god. Our genera's had a hostile press, lukewarm | friends, and a public opinion outside. ! The cry was in tlte air that the North only won by brute I'orcc; that the gen- 1 cralship and valor were with the South, This has pone into history, with so many illusions that arc historical. I^e was of a slow, conservative, cautious nature,' without imagination or humor, always the same, with grave dignity. I could I never see in his achievonu-nis what justifies his reputation. The illusion that! nothing but heavy odds beat him will not stand the ultimate light of history, j I know it is not true. Hie South and North worn more nearly matched than yoa would suppose. The whole population were ?n the war. The four million of negroes were the same as soldiers, because they did the work in the ' fields which white men would have to i do. I believe the South had as many men under arms as the North. What defeated the Southern arms was North1 phi courage and skill, and this, too, with detraction all around. You cannot imagine how disheartening it was at 1 the time, not only to officers but men." I ALHKHT SIDNEY JOHNSTON AND JOSEPH , E. JOHNSTON. An allusion was made by your corr I respondent to Albert Sidney Johnston, i and the lieneral said : "I knew Albert ? Sidney .JoliiiMoii In-fore the war. When j be was bent to Utah 1 had a high opiu r 13,1878. ion of his talent*. When the war broke f out he was regarded as the coming; man out of the Oonfcderaey. I shared j thnt opinion, because I know and es- j feomed him. and because I felt as we all did in the old army, where there was a public opinion anion*; the officers as to who would come out ahead. Tn many J cases, our public opinion was in error. ! Bragg had n f rt at reputation in the South. Bragg was the uiost contentious of men, and there was a story in Mexico that lie put. himself in arrest. Albert Sidney Johnston might have risen in fume, and wo all had confidence in liij rlninn un Kllf V-.O fltpfl fnf? RilOn. HS ! Stonewall .Jackson died, to soon for us to say what lie wonM Imve done under the latr-r and altered conditions of the war. TIio Southern army had many j g"od generals. J.ee, of courso, was a trood soldier, and so was Jjnng?trcef. hut E do not know that there was any better than .Toe Johnston. I have had nearly all of the Southern Generals in high command in front of uic, and Johnston gave me more anxiety than any of the others. T was never half so anxious about Lee. By the way. I saw iu Joe Johnston's book that, when I was asking IVmberton to surrender! Vicksburg, ho was on his way to raise j the scige. I was very sorry. Tf I had j ? T~1 *? ? '? T tPAtllfl ' Known ?J miii-iinj w.m buum^, M. fvio I have told Pembertnn to wait in Vicks- \ bur^' until T wanted him, awaited John- | ston'g advance, and piven him battle. He could never have beaten that Vicks* burp army, and thus I would have de* ntr<>y?'d two armiej, perhaps. Pember ton's was already pone, and T was quite : Bure of Johnston's. I was 60rry I did J not. know Johnston s I was sorry I I did not know Johnston was coming un- ' lil it was too late. Take it all in all,j the South, in my opinion, had no better soldier than Joe Johnston?none, it least, that pave tr.c more trouble. NO COUNCILS OK WAR. Somp remark was trade about coun-1 ;ils of war, and how far their delibcra*' lions nffected an army's movements. "I j never held a council of war in my life. ! f n^vcr heard of Sherman or Sheridan dninp *o. Of course I heard all that, j jvcry one had to say. and in headquarters there is an interesting and constant i stream of talk. But I always made up ( my mind to act, and the first that, ov.-n I my staff knew of any movement was j when I wrote it nut in rough aud gave it to be copied off." ORANT THINKS POORLY OK PILLOW, FLOYD, JIG., People think that J).?nelson was captured by pourinp men into it ten to one or some such odds. The truth is our armv?a new army?invested a fortified place and compelled a surrender of a r?? ".""t 1-.i-r.nr flmn OOP f)Wn. A 1 lUlfC ipwi large number of tbo rebels escaped under Floyd and Pillow, but as it was I took more prisoners than I bad under my command for the first two days of j mj investment. After tho investnu-ut i we were reinforced, so that at the 1 surrender there wore 2G.000 Union ; troops, about 4.000 of which were [ sent back to guard the road to whore the steamers lay with our supplies. There were *22,000 effective men in Donelson at the beginning of the siege. Of course there was a risk in attacking Donelson as I did, but," said the General, smiling. "I knew some of them in Mexico. Knowledge of that kind goes far toward determining a movement like this." THE ATTACK ON FORT DO.NEI.SO.V. ' Suppose Lougstrcet or Jackson had been in command said your correspondent. ' If Long^trect or Jackson," said the General, "or even if Bnckncr bad been in command, 1 would have made a different campaign. In the beginning we all did things more rashly than later, just as Jackson did in his earlier campaigns. The Mexican war made the officers nf the old regular armies more or lees acquainted, aud when wo knew enough about hiui to make our plans accordingly. What determined my attack on J)on?lson," said the Gutiorn], "was as much the knowledge I had gained of its commanders in Mexico as anything else. Hut as the war progressed aud each side kept improving its army J the-c experiments were not possible. : Then it L' cume hard, earnest war, and I neither side could depend upon any chance with the other. Neither side dared to uiakn a mi-take. It was steady hard pounding, and the result could only Je ruin to tlw defeated party. That was a peculiarity in our war that we were not fighting for a peace, but to do-} stroy our adversary That made it so; hard for both sides, and especially for , the South.?John )'oina/'* liejtorl ( i tin X' W Yo.tk llrruhl q/'various Conversation*. Tho Durkoy's Consolation. Not long since a San Antonio darkey j did some whitcwaxhing for a man living in tho filth ward. On paying for the job ; the employer paid off Mo^e, h?r that wax the darkey'j minie, in Mexican .jiiartfrs at par. It was soveral days before Mosc found out that they were worth only I'O cents. Mosc was very much hurt about it. "Jess to think of , Colonel eheatin' dis hard-working I niggah outen JO ecnts. 1'oali ds Lord, i I I wud ncber hab believed it on him. I hadn't ortur Ink do job in do fust place ' I ! And then he added more cheerfully ;' I "Hilt of I hadn't whitewashed do fence I nebrr would have found out wliar all dem eliickons roosted what I sold next morning for a dollar. He bauks habn't n.teh up wid djx niegah yet, heali! hcah 'r?Galvatuii News. I *v I I NUMBER 5. Joph Billings to the Girls. Dear giris are you in search of a husband ? That is a bumper, nnd von arc not requested to say "yes" out loud, but arc expected tew throw yure eyes down onto the earth as tho you wus lookin fnr a pin, and reply to the interrogatory with a kind of a draulin sigh. Now tew press so tender a theme until it bektime a thorn in the flesh, we 1 presutn" (yo avoid argument) that you are on the lookout for something in the uiul" line. Let me give you some small chunks of advise how to spot your fu- . furc husband : ' 1. The man who is jellus ov every ' littleattenshun which you git from some ' other feller, you will find after you are ( married in him be luvs himself more ' than he does you and what }*ou mistook for solicitude, you will discover has changed to indifference. 2. A uiustash iz not indispensable; < it izonly a little more hair, and izmuch > like nms and other excressences?often ] does best on eile that won't raise nothin' I else. Don't forget that those things I which you admire in a follor before marriage you will probably condom in a hus band after, and a must ash will git to be a weak diet after a long time. 3. If husbands could be took on trial , as Irish cooks are, two thirds of them , would probably be returned ; but there ( don't seeui to be enny law for this. ( Therefore, crirlf, you wiil see that after | you get a man yu have got to keep him even if you luzc on him. Consequently if lmrn Annt? Irnlxl 111 thp house, try him on them one.' in a while during coating season. and if he swallers them well arid says hi will take sum ' more, he is a man who when blu Munday com**, will wash well. ' 4. Don't marrv a feller who is always telliu' how h;z mother duz things. It I iz hard to ween a young one. ' 5. If a man kan beat you pluyin on a < planner, and kanthrar a fish horn playin I on the street without turnin a snnimer- I set, on nccount of the musick that iz in < him, I pay to you leave hitn ; he might i answer to tend baby's, and cf you set ' him to ho in out in the garden, yon will < find you have got to du it yourself. A f man whose who'e heft lizc in musick ' (and not to heft that) ain't no better < than a seedlitz powder ; but ef he luvs i to listen, while you sing sum gentle bal- 1 lad, ynu will find him mellcr, and not i soft. Hut don't marry ennybotfy for one i virtcw cany quicker than you would flop a man for iist one fault. . G.Tf is one ov the most tuffest things for a f'email to be an ole maid succeisccssfully A grate menuy has tried it and made a had job ov it, and had a bad time. Everyboddy seems to look upon ole maids jist as they do upon dried herbs in the garret?handy forsickticss : --.1 if oin'f nn mis 'IUU UiUIClUI V, ^uto, iv KIM v MV ..... fake, an J you should bo willing to swop lives oph with sum tru harted foller, for n husband. The swop is a good one ; but dont swop for enny one who is respectable jist because his farther iz. Yn had better ho an ole maid 4.000 years, and thcujinc the Shakers than tew buy repentance at this price. No wumtnun ever made this trade who didn't git either a phool, a meau- cuss or a clown for a husband. The Massacre of Cawnpore. Cawnpore is a town and military station, with upwards of a hundred thousand inhabitants, and accommodation for seven thousand troops. It stands on the right hank of the Ganges, about 50 miles W. S. W. from Lucknow, with the road to which it is connected by a brtdge of boats. About ten miles higher up the river is Bithoor, then the residence of a miscreant named Nana Sahib. The claims of this man as the adopted son of Peishwa of the Mahratta8, Bajcc Ilao, had not bccD recognized by the British government, against whom he had consequently conceived an intense hatred, which, however. lie looked up in his own breast until the time came to show it On the 5th of June, 1S57. the mutiny broke out. and the Europeans, including many women and children, sought refuge in a weak entrenchment. There they defended themselves till the 20th of the month, when Sir Hugh Wheeler, in making a sally with his troops, was mortally wounded, so that he died next day. The small garrison held out for another week, till thny found themselves without water as well as food, and then they entered into a treaty with Nana Sahib, who pretended to pity their condition. and undertook to supply them with boats to take them down the river to Allahabad. About forty boats were provided, and on the 27th of June they all embarked. Hut they had scarcely reached the middle of the river when runs were unmasked, and they were firod upon with grape-shot, and nearly all were slain or made prisoners. One boat escaped, and got about ten miles down the river; but it was overtaken, and all within it were cither killed or made prisoners, except four men, who made their escape by swimming, and got clear off. The whole of the males were murdered, but a number of the women and children were reserved. only to he huteheted afierwards with unexampled crucdfy. .Nana had by this time openly put himself at the head of the rebels, and lie was the chief instigator and director of the horrors that followed. On the Kith of July the enraged Nana caused all the European women and children who remained in his custody to he murdered, and their mangled bodies to he flung into a wide and deep well near the scene of the slaugh| ter. A&VEBTUSINO BATES. ! Time. 1 in. J col. j col. 1 col. | 1 week,$100 $5 00 $9 00 fl5 00 2 " I 75 750 1225 20 00 3 ? 2 50 0 00 15 25 2100 4 '? SOO 10 50 18 00 27 50 5 " 3 50 11|5 20 50 SI 00 0 ' 4 00 1250 22 75 34 00 7 " 4 50 13 25 24 75 37 00 8 5 00 14 00 20 00 40 00 3 mos 0 50 17 00 32 00 50 00 4 " 7 50 19 00 39 50 59 00 C " "8 50 24 00 48 00 84 00 9 " 9 50 30 00 59 00 105 00 12 " 10 25 35 00 G8 00 120 00 t~&~ Transient advertisements must lie aecotopauicd with tt.c cash to insure insertion. An Incident. Yesterday morning a Confederate battle flap was found floating from the top of the large derrick at the monument >Souie one had climbed up the ropes in the darkness of the night and fixed it nt its perilous height, and there, flashing in the morning sun, was the starry cross that fifteen years ago was the emblem of a nation's hopes. Many a heart leaped at the sight, and many an eye grew dim as memory rushed back through the intervening years to the comrades whose ringing laugh and joyous shout had brightened the camp, and whose forms were foremost in the field, who now sleep beneath the shadjws of the pines from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, from the mountains to the spa. ' For the living arc brave and noble, The dead were bravest of all." It had nothing of political 6ignifii? 3anco, it was rather as though one had mddenlv come fucc to face with the portrait of a long dead and dearly beloved friend, and the yearning of tho leart was? "Oh ! for the touch of a vanished hand. And Ibe sound of a voice that is still!" About ten o'clock this morning some if our citizens thought that the act of in individual might be tortured into in act of political import, and it was decided that it should be removed, and me of the workmen climbed up and brought it down.?Auguata Evening Xeics of J nig 5 l/t. An Incident of the Late War. The death in Texas of Albert Mellen Is announced. In the summer of 1864 Mr. Mellen, then a young man oftwenv-four, was a prisoner at Vicksburg. rhc Federal military authorities, then in possession of that city, ordered him out for street or fortification work unoct a colored guard, lie elaimed his exttuplion as'a prisoner, and peremptorily reused to obey the order. A squad of sjlored soldiers, under command of a -L- T :? . 1,:_ ?, nmue j jii-uiimihiii, itiii !, ? inui iu biempt coercion at the point of the baymet. In tlic presence of the flashing steel he stood unawed, and, a moment later, seeing that the squad was bent upin coercion, and that he must go or be impaled, he suddenly seized a hatchet lhat happened to be in reach, and throwing himself upon his kneer, quickly extended his left arm along the floor, and with two bold strokes of the hatchet completely severed the band1* from the arm. Then risitfg to bis fectj ho held the bleeding. mangled stump close to the face of the Lieutenant, and said : "Now, sir, will you make mo work for your rotten government under a negro euard He conquered them, and never afterwards regretted the act.?X. 0. Picayune. A New Motor. Keely's motor has a rival in New York, where Francis Winters, Jr.. lias invented a machine with two chcrabers, a few pumps and valves, into one cylinder of which water is poured and appears in another cylinder as a gas in whose ordcrlcs8 flume the hand can be held without burning it, which neither explodes nor generates triction, neat or moisture, and while costing only half as much as steam, it is claimed will do everything that steam can accomplish. I ts inventor has organized a company with a capital of $10,000,000, onc-cighth of which is already subscribed, to manu<? facture the motor in New York, and it is proposed to store it in huge central reservoirs and conduct it in pipes wherever it is wanted. If it accomplishes half that is claimed for it, it will be as much an improvement on steam as that on horse and water power, hut the pub* lie will he iucrcdulous till it sees tho proof. A Pine Pish Story. Mr J. A. NVatkins, of Quitman, Ga., tells it, and the Fret Press asserts that there is certainly no doubt of its truth, lie says: While fishing with set lines for catfish in the Coosa River n small three-pound cat was caught. This cat was put on one of the lines whole for bait. Visiting the hooks the next day it was discovered that something tremendous had been caught. It proved to be a cat which weighed forty-thrco pound". I'pon examination it was found that the fish of three po?nds had hoen swallowed by an elevcu pound eat < ' . ,u. nnu nan oecn caiium, auu in ium iuc two had been swallowed by tbo fortypouDiler. The three weighed fifty-six pounds. Th?* Famine in China, In the earliest period of distress tbo living fed upon the bodies of the dead; next tbo strong devoured the weak, and now the general destitution has arrived at such a climax that men devour those of their owa flesh and blood. History contains no record of so terrible and distressing a state of things, and if prompt measures of relief be not instituted, the whole region must become depopulated. Local sources of supply are entirely exhausted; the granaries are empty, and the treasury drained dry, while the few wealthy people have helped with contributions and loans till they themselves are impoverished.? l'ckin Gazette. "When does a man most feel the value of a wife ?" a?ks a writer. That depends upon what the writer means by "value." If be means estimated value, we should say just after be gets her; if intrinsic value, when he pays the first bill for lite Christmas presents abc made him.