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TALMAGE AT ATHENS. The Brooklyn Divine on His Pil grimage to the Holy Land. He Preaches a Sermon to the .ithenian. Based on Two P:.ssage; c: o aul's Epistle to the Corinthiam The Profouud M[ystcr ics of Providence. Rev. T. DeWitt Talage. D. D., preached recently at Athens. Greeee, basing his disco'rse on the follewing two passages from the Pauline epistles: I. Corinthians. ii. 9: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard." and I. Corinthians. xiii, 2: "For now we see through a glass, darkly." The sermon was as follows: Both these sentences were written by the most illustrious merely human be ing the world ever saw, one who walked these streets, and preached from yonder 'pile of rocks. Mars Hill. Though moro classic associations are connected with this city than with any other city under the sun. because here Socrates, and Plato, and Aristotle. and Demosthenes, and Pericles, and Herodotus, and Pyt:ha goras, and Xenophon, and Praxitclo wrote, or chiseled, or taught, or thun dered, or sung. yet in my mind all those men and their teachings were eclipsed by P.aul and the gospel he preached in s city and in your near by city of lrinth. Yesterday, standing on the old fortress at Corinth, the Acro-Corinthus, out from the ruins at its base arose in my imagination the old city, just as Paul saw it. I have been told that for splen dor the world beholds no such wonder to-day as that ancient Corinth standing on the isthmus washed by both seas, the one sea bringing the commerce of Eu rope, the other sea bringing the com merce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole king doms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all tho world. IIuge-handed mahcinery, such as modern invention can not equal, EUtted. ships from the sea on one sids- :and transported them across the isthmus. and set them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue offi cers of the city Went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to col lect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theaters, walked her porticos, and threw itself on the altar of her stu pendous dissipations. Column and statue and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marble fountains into which, from apertures at the side, there rushed waters e, crywhere known for health giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties sculpture and architecture. while st:. Ung, as if to guard the costly display. was a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead-vases so costly that Julius Ciesar-was not satisfied until he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the corinthari, paced up and .down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief $touched. From the edge of the city the hill held its meenificent burdens of col umns"-and towers and temples (1,000 slaves waiting at one shrine), and a cit adel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and magnificence Corinth stood and defied the world. 0, it was not to rustics who had never seen anything grand that Paul uttered one of uy texts. They had heard the best music thatbad come from the best instruments in all the world; they had heard songs floating from Znorning porticos and m.elting in ev.en dag groves; they had passed their whole lives among pictures and sculpture and .architecture and Corinthian brass. which had been molded and shap~ed until .there wa no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was ai bold thng for Paul to st:.xd there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds which come from the tem 7pe of Neptune are not music compared with the harmonies of which I speak. 's ig in the basin of no; p . of pacchus and Mercury are not ex quisite. Your citadel of Acro-Corinthus -is not strong compared with that .which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at that braaen gate.. You Corinthians think this is a nddcity: you think you have beard setsouinds and seen all beautiful sights; but I tell you eye hath not seen, O o ear heard, neither have entered into CEthe heart of -man the things which God bath prepared for them that love Him." :-.Indeed, both my texts, the one spoken by Paul and the one written by Paul, how us that we have very imperfect e yesight, and that our day of vison is yet to come.' For new we see through a glass -kalely, but then face to face. So Paul -takes the respgnsibility of saying that .the Bible -is an indistinct mirror, and that its mission shall be finally sus peded. I think there may be one'Bible -Heaven fastene'd-to the throne. Just as now, in a museum, we have a lamp adumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, az~we look at it with great interest, pasay: "How poor a light it must have yecompared with our modern $mp. So I 'think that this Bible, wchwas .a lamp to our feet in this --world, may lie near the throne of God, ex~citing our interests to all eter nity by the contrast between its ceom aratively feeble light and the illumi mnation -of Heaven. The Bible, now, -is the scaffolding to the rising temple, utwhen the buildinct is done there will no use for the sea olding. The idea shall develop to-day is, that in this arrld our knowledge is comparatively ~iandunsatis~actory, but nevertheless complete vision. This is eminently true .in regard to our view of God. We hear *so much about God that we conclude we .understand Him, Hie is represented as having tDe tenderness of a father, the -frmness of ajudge, the pomp of a king, ~ie-love of a mother. We hear about takabout Him, write about Him. We lisp His name in infancy, and it trembles on the tongue of the dying oc togenarian. We think that we know very much about Him. Take the attrib ute of mercy. Do we understand it? The Bible blossoms all ever with that word-Iercy. It speaks again and again -of the tender mercies of God; of the sure mercies; of the great mereies, of the mercy that endureth forever, of ttemul itde of His mercies.- And yet I know that the views we have of this great by ing are most indefinite, one-sided, and .incomplete. When at death the gates shallfly open and we shall look directly eeupon canvass a picture of the morn ing. We study the cloud in the sky, the :dew- upon the grass, and the husband maion the way to the field. Beautiful r o f the morning. But we rise at rokand go upon a hill to see for ourselves that which was represented to us, While we look the mountains are trafigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let pass a host- of fiery splendors. The clouds. are all abloom, and hang pendant from ;arbors of alabaster and amethyst. The waters make pathway of inlaid pearl for the light to walk upon; and there is morning on the sea. The crags urncover their scarred visage; and there is morn ing among the mountains. Now you go home, and how tame your picture of the morning seems in contrast! Greater than that shall be the contrast between this Scriptural view of God and that which ,we shall have when standing face to face. This is a picture of the morning; that will be the morning itself. Again: My texts are true of the Sa 1viour's excelleney. By image and rhythm of expression and startling anti thss Christ is set forth-His love. Is compassion, His work, His life, 11s death, His resurrection. We arceual lenged to measure it, to comptrute it, to . weigh it. In the hour of our broken en raiJment, we mount up into hirh ex perience o ,is love, and shout until the countenan e glows, and the blood ~bounds, and the whole sti iure is exhila ,rated, "I have found Him:" And yet it iis through a glass. darkly. We see not ~aif of the compassionate face. We see mnot half the warmth of that loving heart. We wait for death to let us rush be fac" to taco. N a snaaow7 tarn. but s? bne. ot hop 'her, . !t the ftli'.n of all prefitr' a:me- t. 'hat will be a r'agniiicet uin foding. The ru.shir out in view of all hi dden (xcellency: thecomning again of a long absent Jeus to meet 1: -not in rags d in penu-'ry and in death. but amik- a lightand nom 1and outburstig oys(uch anone hI a 'riorif--d intelli 'cnen ""old exper r.e. 0. to gate fill unon te brow that was lacerated, upon l1ie side that was pierce-, upon the feet that wero nailed: to stand close up in the nrec ?ne of Him who prayed for us o 'o e ounain. and thought of us by th(e seP.n''a7onie(d for us in the gar dea. : - id for us in horrible crucinx ion; to f-1 of Hni, to eabrace JIim. to take ii, hand. to kiss llis feet, to run our finaers along the scars of ancient s.'ferin' to "This is zmv Jesus i' gave lieHi-' for ine. I shall never lea" Ili., rm-..(' I shall for"ver be ho''l 1-. -lor"y. I sh all eternally hear Tiis Voe. Lord .su . now I see Thee! I behold where t- i 'ool started. whore the to v s coursed, where the face was distorted. I have .ated for this hor I shal never turn my back on Thee. N:o mnore look.i throu gh imperfct glae's No mere studying Thee in the darkness. Bt as long as this throne stands. and his eve lasting river flows. and thos-e garlands bloom., and those arch.s of vie tory remain to greet hoieme lltav'n's congrerors. so long I shall se e The., I Jesus of my choice. Jesus of my song, Jesus of my triumph-forever and for ever-face to face." The idea of my texts is just as truo when nadlied to God's providence '.h has not come to some paths in life thor ougly inexplicable? You S1y. "W h't does this mean? What is Gt-d goir. to do with me now? i-I tclks . tIh all things work togethe: for good. This does not look like it." You continue Lo study the dispensation, and after aw ile guess about what God means. "lie means to teach me this. I thin' He means to teach me that. P ehw' it i, to iimiible tiv pride. l'eiians it is to make me feel more dependen-. Per haps to teach me the uncertainty of life." lat. after ill., it is only a ;ut-ss -a looking through the glass. darkly. The Bible assures us there shall be a satisfactory unfolding. "What I do thou knowest not now. but thou shalt know hereafter." You wilt know why God took to Himself that only child. Next door there was a house hold of seven children. Why not take one from that group instead of your only one? Why single out the dwelling in which there was only one heart beat ing responsive to your.? Why did God give you a child at all if IHe meant to take it away:' Why fill the cup of your gladness brimming if 1[o meant to dash it down? WVhy allow all the tendrils of your heart to wind around that object, and then, when every fiber of your own life seemed to be interlocked with the child's life, with strong hand to tear you apart, until you fail bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, your hopes blasted. your heart broken? ])o you sunpose that God will explain that? Yes. le will make it piiner than any mathematical problem- as plain as that two and two na.ke four. In the light of the throne You will see that it vas right -all right. ".Just and true are all thy wars, ,hou king of saints:- li re is a man who can note on in the world. He always seems t; buy at the wrong time and sells at (' wor!t disadvan tage. He tries this enterpris.i and fail:: that business, anrd is diepouintd. Tfhe mian next door to him has a lh"rative trade. but he lac:e: - cutors. A next prospect cpers. ilis incore is increased. But that year his fam ily is siekt:: and the profits are expe: led in tryin;; to cure the ailnents. He gets a discouraged look. Becomes fan::ides as to success. Beins to expect (itasters. U:hr-rs wait for so:nethiing to turn up: he wanls for it to tura down. Others,. with only half as much education and character. get on twice as vwell, lHe somie.times gusses ais to what it all mteaus. lie say-s:"': hans riches would spoi me. Perhaps povetis5 ncsryt eep mee htumble. Perhais I might, if things wvere other wise, be temtedu into dissipation." But there is nov cmhlete.solution of the mys tery, lUe sees through' a glass darkly, and must wait for a higher unfolding. Will there be an explanation? Yes; God will take that man in the light o'e. the exp.anation! You remember the failing of that great enterprise. Tihis is the explanation." And you will answer: "It is all right' I see, every day, profound mysteries of Providence. There is no question we ask oftener than Why? There are han dreds of graves that need to be ex plained. Hospitals for the blind and lame, asylums for the idiotie and insane, almshouses for the destitute. and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than human solution. Alh! God will clear it all tup. In the light that pours from the throne no dark mystery can live. Things now; utterly inscruta ble will be i'ilumined as plainly as though the answer were written on the jasper vwall or sounded in the temple anthem. Bartimeus will thank God that he was blind: and Larzarus that he was covered with sores, and Joseph that he was east into the pit; and Daniel that he denned vwith lions; and Paul that ho vwas humpbacked; and Da vid that he was driven from Jerusalem; and the sewing wtomnan that sho could get only a few pence for making a gar ment; :dnd that invalid that for twenty years he could not lift his he ad fromn the gillow; and that vwidow that she had such ard work to earn bread for her chil dren. You know that in a song different voices carry different parts. The swieet pnd -overwhelming-part 0f the hallelujah of IHeaven will not be carried by those who rode in high places, and gave sumptuous entertainments; but pauper children will sing it, beggars will sing it, redeemed hod carriers will sing it, those who were once the ~offscouring of earth will sing it. The hallelujah will bo all the grander for earth's weeping eyes. :.nd aching heads, and exhausted hands, and scourged backs, and mar tyred agonies. ' Again: The thought of my text is true when applied to the enjoyment of the righteous in IHeaven. 1 think we have but little idea of the number of 'righteous in Heaven. Infidels say: ."Your heaven will be a very small place compared with the world of the lost; for, according to your teaching, the ma jority of men will be destroyed." I deny the charge. I sup'pose that the multi tude of the fimally lost. as compared with the multit udeo of.~the finally saved, will be a hand Enl. I supp'ose that a few sick people in the hospitalsi 0. our great thou .*5 or 'wel p 1oic would not bo0 smallr tha 'thenmier of.thos who te he"l of c. I e.. 'o we" are tor rememb r that w.....:.:-- ivingi onily the begi-nn i of the Ch-i~'an dispecnsa tin ndta this whole world is to be poulat andi redieem&d, andl that a"'es of light andi lov' are' to 10ow on. If this be so, the multies of tie saved wvill be in vast mnajo'ity. Take~ all the con gregationts that have assemblcd for wor ship throughout Christe'ndom. Put them together. and they would make but a small audience comnared w.ith the thoui sands and tens of ~thansands and ten thousand times tea thousand. an-d the hundred and fortv-four thousand that shall stand arou'd the throne. Those tashed up to IHcaven in martyr iires: those tossed for many years upon the in valid couch: those fought in the armies of libe-rty. and rose as t'icy fell; those trmbled from high satioldings, or slipped from the m'ast. or were washed oli into the sea. They. tame up from Corinth, from Laodicea. from the Rled Sca bank and from Gennesarets wave, from Egyptian brickyards and Gideon's threshingiloor. Those thousandsof years ao slept the last sieep, arnd these are this~ moment havirng their ey'es closed, and' their limbs stretched out for to son'- c-ncr. A General expecting an attaczt from the enemy stands on a hll ard looks thr.ough a field glass and sees i the g'reat diistance multitudes approching. He says: "I can not tell any thin u"'b.ou: theml. I merely know tt te''r*e are a great nmniber." And so John v.ihout a: t-:m;:tg to count. s-ys:.--""re::t muil'tude that no man can numbe-r." We arc told that Iheaven is'a place of happiness. but what do we knew ab)out happiness? Hapm'vness in tis~ w~orld is onliya half-fledged thing; a :cross it; a bronren pitcner, trom wmlCn the water has cropp:'d before 're could Irink it: a thrill of exhiliration, followed bh: disastrous reactions. To he'p us un ,irrstand the joy of Heaven, thie Bible tak-s t:s to a river. We stand on the rcau-sv bank We see the waters flow on ith 'eiaseless wavy. ]tut the filth of ti:e city is empttied into it, and the b::nks ar-. torn, and unhealthy exhala t'ons spring up from it. and we fail to get :tn idea of the River of Life in 1l aven. \\e get very inlperfect ideas of the reunions of heaven. We think of somie fes l day on earth. when father antl mot h r wire vt ii : in, and the clii l',en camie ho n.. .\ good time, that: 1ut it huul this drawitaek-all were not there. That brother went. off to sea,. and ne ver was heard frtn. That sister-did v:e not lay,, her :iwa'.v in the freshness of her young life. niv.-r more in this world > look unon h<-r? AL there was a sle ton at the fe:st; and tears mingled v': ith i our otr im that Christmas d,-:. Not so wit i leaven's reunions. It -.ihin t a n u:ninater:-upttd g;rIness. Na ii a (hrisrtian parent will look a:- nd find all his children there. h!' he Says. "it it bc possible that re all here--life's perils over? the . "rdn nl.sed :eud not one wanting. \1 i s t hll 1he n ridit al ih hre. I at miOsi gave hin up. I1w long ho do spised my cnt ls: ba g:-are hath triuuimhe(d. All ere: all -ere: Tell the mvighty joy t:rough the city. ILet the bells ring. and the angeis :mention in their sount. Wave it from the top of the walls. All h.-re:' No more break iei of heartstrinjs. but .a": to face. The o:rphans that were left poor. and in a 'mereiless world, kod and eurted of ainny hardships. . i oi tie-ir paent.s over whose s' t il-: m ni nept. :t: gaze into 1!:t7 gloria'tfl countenances. face to u- . 'V" may come up from dilfer.nt its of the corly!. one from the land and another fromt the depths of the sea: trom lives atiuent and prosperous, or .-s sc'n. of r:t-.d distress: but we ! In raituro and jubilee. . 1 of u' nis have "nten-d ue liimt joy. At \e d:'s aro eo'v slat with us lstudi.ng those gospel themes; hut: + " onlv --ac dimlv-now recelation hat i come. ' Your time will also com.1. Get will not leave you floundering in tie 'dariness. Y ou stand wonder -e-k and ainazed. You feel as if all tie loveliness of life were dashed ou:. Yoa stand-t gazing into the o1en11 cha illm of the grave. Wait a little. In the pre;tence of your de parted. and of Iim who carries them in Ihis bosom. you shall soon stand face to face. Oh! th:tt our last hour may kindle up with this promised joy: May we be able to say, like the Christian not long ago. departing: "Though a pilgrim walking through the valley, the moun tain tops are gleamiing from peak to peak!? or, like may dear friend and brother. Alfred Cookman. who took his flight to the throne of God, saying in his lamomrnt that which has already gone into Christian classics: "I am sweoping through the . pearly gate, washed in the blood of the Lamb!" Local Popular Sentiment. Local popular sen timent may be right. It is so in some instances. But local popular sentiment is more likely to be wrong than to be right, especially on questions of morals and manliness. If local ponliar sentilnlt be known to be riuh t on'any giin point, it is safe to be in acord with local popular sentiment so far: butt the pooi est reason in the world for deciding for or against a de hatable question of morals or of naanli ness is the fact that loe.l popular sent' ment is in that direction. If a man finds that lie is pretty generally in accord with local popular sentiment, he may take it for granted that he is wrong at many points.-if not all.-S. S. Times. -Pail was all things to all men that he might win some of them. and yet he was one of the frankest and boldest men of whom we read in history. And this suggess-that while he was polite, he was wiseiv.so, and that in his soul there was theEdnor that made him superior to trk or dishonesty. The "all things" o some men means falsehood and decep tion.-United Presbyteria-2. HOW TO HANDLE COTTON. A Quebtion of very Great Insportauce to the Southern Fariuers. How to handle our cotton to the best advantage is the great question now to all who live in tbe cotton belt. We knew full well when we decided to use no more jute bugging that we would suffer a temporary loss, and while we have met with more opposition from merchants and factors than we bad any reason to expect, we still hold to our de termination.. The small bale advocated by Home and Farm may aid us. I see no reason why sacks, like those used for wool and for long staple or Sea Island, can not be used to advantage. Cotton, as now han d!ed, does not reach thc spinner en as good condition as we would like to have it. Carelessness commences with the picking and continues until it reaches the factory, and the farmers pays dearly for this carelessness, but, perhaps, no more than he ought. If there were a greater discriminatien between stained cotton and white, dirty and clean, the finest and best fibre and the poorest, farmers would take greater pains, and a far better sample would go to the market than does now. Sacks holding from one to two hundred pounds opened at one end, so that the content could be easily examined, tnd with the producet's name on each, would have as tendency to make farmer's more careful. Then there should be a greater differ ence in'the price between the poorest and the best grades. If low ordinary could hardly be sold at any price, and never for more than three or four cents a pound, while good middling was worth from ten to twelve cents, there would be great inducement for farmers to improve cotton in every possible way. This, how ever, wilt never be until we sell direct to the factory, and that factory is in our immdiatc vicinity. That the factories will come to the cotton fields there can be no doubt. It is only a matter of time when at least half the cotton raised will be manufac tured in the South. -Then the fibre will not be injured as now by having, as it were, the very life pressed out of it. I am of the opinion that if cotton could remain in the seed until some of the oil in the seed was drawn into the lint that the latter would be stronger and spin better than it does now. I also think that the oil in the seed should be pressed out at the gin, and if necessary the crude oil could be sent to a refinery to be re fined. Wiehave much to learn about the cot toi plant yet. Let us put our heads to gether.ana find money not only in the int and seed, but in the stalk.-C. C. L. Dill, in IHome and Farm. Jeffersoi. Da. , .min It secems probable that the demolition of the famous old Libb.y prison is to be followed by the destruction of the Jeffer son Davis manision, such a pioposition being int-roduced in the school board of Richmond, Va. Ever since the close cf the war this historic building 'has been used for a segool-house. The object in tearing it aown is to~ erect on its site another and a better equipped building. The resolution was referred to a commit ee to obtain plans and esti.-nates. Shortly after the Southern Confederacy removed to Richmond from Montgomery, &la., the Richmond Council bought this ouse and tendered it as a free gift to Mr. Davis, who declined to ieceive it as such. It was subsequently rented by the overment and occupied by the Presi :ent of the Confederacy until the city ias evacuated b~y their troops. Or Woman's Greait ieneiactor. nvauable remedy for Female Dis. avrab..e +atiiania1= dai1y recie MR. DAVIS'S CAPTURE. THE STORY AS TOLD BY ONE WHO WAS THERE. An Authentic Account of An Occurrence Much 3irepresented by the Northern Press. St. Louis Republic. After the regular meetiug of the Ransom Post in the hall of the Odd Fel lows' building last evening. an open ses sion followed, to which the families and friends. of -the members had been in vited. The principal feature of the evening's entertainment, however, was a paper presented and read by Comrade T. H. Peabody, junior member of the law firm of Bently & Peabody, on the cap ture of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Peabody was the first man to address Mr. Davis in making the arrest, and his account of the capture,about which there have been so many false andi exaggerated accounts, can be received as authentic and being of general interest, is herewith given in full: MR. PEABODY'S STORY. Old soldiers will readily recall that during the month of March, 1865, there was begun a forward march of all the Union armies and forces on the yet bold and defiant Confederacy. The silent man, Gen. Grant, now of holy memory' was tightening the grip around doomed Richmond. Gen. Sherman, in many ele ments the most brilliant general of our armies, was pushing his way northward after the "grand march to the sea." Victorious "Pap" Thomas, now with those who nobly died, with Kentucky, Tennessee and Northern Georgia all his, subsequent to the annihilation of Hood's army at Nashville, and other combina tions made for a general pushing of things at the front. With all this, our soldiers, brave and grim, thrilled with feeling and consciousness that four long years of terrible red war was nearing an end, and that peace was near in the future. On the twenty-second day of March, 1865, the cavalry corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, commanded by Major General Wilson, numbering some 12,500 men, broke camp at and around Gravelly Springs, Ala., near the Tennesse line, and crossing the Tennes see river, struck out southward for Sel-. ma, Ala., situated on the north bank of the Alabama river. After several days of rapid marches and heavy skirmishes down through the Monticello, Birmingham and Black War rior river sections, on the second day of April, 1865, our forces reached Selna, which was being defended by Gen. Forrest and a force of experienced Confederates. Col. R. H. G. Minty, of the Fourth Mich.jgan Cavalry, of which I was a member, was in command of the Second Division, under orders of Gen. Wilson. Col. Minty dismounted his whole division, consisting of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, Seventh Pennsylva nia Cavalry and Fourth Ohio Cavalry in one brigade, and Wilder's or Miller's splendid brigade of mounted infantry, and forming them in a line charged the earthworks, and a short but terrible bat tle ensued. A hail of leaden bullets poured over the fortification from the seven-shooters, Spencer carbines and rifles, with which our division was armed, and soon Selma, with all its foundries, rolling mills, armaments, sup plies, and a very extensive arsenal, and 2,700 prisoners was ours. Among the prisoners captured here was Samuel Kennard, now one of our foremost citizens and the presldent of the great Exposition. "Sam" was then a dashing "rebel" artillery lieutenant, and foremost among Selma's defenders. Whenever we meet hcre in St. Louis we recall the scenes of those days, andI with us the Blue and the Gray frater nize, and a:e glad the war is over and its red billows calmed in peace. On the ninth of April we left Selma and pushed straight east for Montgom ery, Ala., some four days' march from Selma. Montgomery was evacuacted by the Confederate forces without a battle. Here we were in possession of the first capital of the Confederacy, in which Mr. Davis was inaugurated, and from which went out a defiance to the United States. But between that day and the day of its ctpture, oh! how Eick was ur whole country of war, car-1age and death. Very many beautiful, well dressed women lined the sidewalks in Montgomery, and cheered and sympa thized with our prisoners of war, many of whom were paroled here. Four more days' march eastward, and with another brilliant fleht Columbus, Ga., was ours. Old Gen: Cobb commanded the enemy here, at~d with his forces not captured by us he retreated towards Macon, Ga., four days' march distant eastward. On the twentieth day of April we reached Macon, and after a short parley the Confederate army under Gen. Cobb eurrendered to the "Yanks." All of this four weeks we had no news from our other armies, and knew nothing of the momentous events happening else where. Remember, this was on the twentieth of April. and on this day we irst learned that Richmond was, on the night of the second, evacuated; that Gen. Lee and his army had on the ninth surrendered to Grant and Sheridan, and the Grand Army of the Potomac, which helped to make them great, and ohlI so sad and sorrowful to hear, that Abra ham Lincoln, our noble President, had been foully assassinated on the four teenth of April, and just when the sun light of peace had begun td lift the clouds from over our sorely distracted country. Our cavalry corps went into camp in and around Macon, and in the early part of May it was learned that Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was fleeing for Texas to join Gen. Kirby Smith, there to try and re-estab lisa the Confederacy. Orders were at once iqsued by Gen. Wilson for his cap ture. The First Wisconsin Cavalry was drdered out on the north or east bank of the Ocmulgee river, and Col. Minty or dered out his old regiment, the Fjurth Michigan Cavalry, down the south or west side of the same river, with instruc tions to intercept and capture Mr. Davis and the party with him. At Abbeville, seventy miles south of Macon, it was learned that Davis's fleeing party had here crossed the ferry over the Ocmul gee, and were moving southward toward Irwinsville, Ga., thirty miles below and one hundred miles south of Macon. Lieutenant General Pritchard, in com mand of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, marched the regiment rapidly down the river road. and after a thirty-mile ride, reached Irwinsville late in the night, and learned that he had got~ten in advance of the Davis party. Early on the morning f the tenth of May he charged into the camp of the "fleeing Confederacy," and Mr. Davis never joined Kirby Smith in Texas. Many false and nonsensical sto ries have been related about this cap ure, and different regiments given its redit. Now as to the facts: Jefferson Davis was captured by the Fourth Michigan Cavalry in the early :orning of May the 10th, 1865, at Irwin ille, in Southern Georgia. With him vere Mr. Reagan, of Texas, his postmas :e-r-general; C apt. Moody, of Mississippi, m old neighbor of the Davis family; ov. Lobbock, of Texas; Cola. Harrison and Johnson, of his staff; Mrs. Davis mnd her four children-Maggie, some 10 rears old; Jeff. about 8; Willie, about 5, and a girl baby; a brother and sister of Mrs. Davis; a white and one colored servant woman; a small force of cavalry, a few others, and a small train of horsc-, mules, wagons and ambtanccs. Among the horses were a span of carriage horses presented to Mrs. Davis by the citizens of Richmond during the heyday of the Confederacy; also a splendid saddle horse, the pride of the ex-President him self. On the eleventh of May, the next day n after the capture, and wbile on our way back to Macon, as officer of the guard 1 over the distinguished prisoner, I rode . by the side of Mr. Reagan, nuw Senator from Texas. I found him a very .fine t gentleman. During that day's march a 1 courier from Macon notified us in print- t ed slips of the $100,000 reward olered for Mr. Davis' capture, which notice con-i nected Davis with the assassination of President Lincoln. When Mr. Reagan C read the notice, he earnestly protested I that Mr. Davis had no connection what- C ever with the sorrowful affair. History has shiown he had none. Besides the suit of man's clothing worn by Mr. Davis, he had on, vhen f captured, Mrs. Davis' large waterproof dress or robe, thrown on over his own fine gray suit, and a blanket shawl thrown over his head and shoulders. This i shawl and robe were finally deposited in the archives of the War Department at Washington by order of Secretary Stan- 1 ton. The story o the "hoop skirt, sun- I bonnet and calico wrapper" had no real 1 existence, and was started in the fertile brain of reporters and in the illustrated papers of that day. - There were many interesting incidents connected with his captore, but I have not the time to relate them. Of the children of this noted couple, Maggie grew up, married, and is now living in Colorado. One of the boys died early; one grew to manhood, married, and died with yellow fever near Memphis, since the war, and that "girl baby" grew up to womanhood, and is now a talented and beautiful young lady, and knowh as the "Daughter of the Confederacy." A DISASTROUS FIRE. Nearly all of Lynn. MHassachusettM. DeM troved 35 Shoe Factories Burned Pre.rrens ouly Stopped by the Water's Edge. LmNN, Mass., November 28.-The most disasterous fire Lynn has had fr years, started at 11:55 a. m. yesterday over the boiler room in Mower & Bros., four story wooden building on Almont Street. In 10 minutes. the entire roof of the building was in flames. The six story brick block known as Mower's block, which faces on Willow Street, next caught; fifteen minutes after the fire had started, it was beyond control. At 3 p. m., the fire was 'spreading fast. Over half mile has been burned over. All the buildings within a quar ter of a mile, the Market street depot including the W. U. T. officers, all the Lynn newspapers, and 35 shoe factories, have burned, At 4:45 p. in., the firemen were blow ing up buildings in hopes of checking the progress of the fire. A boiler blew up in a building on Market Street and four men were killed. At 4 p. m. the fire was still raging, and was burning in the direction of the water front, sweeping everything before it. There are several reports of men be ing burned, but no bodies have been recovered. The military companies of Lynn, Sa lem, and other plices in the vicinity guarded the streets which were fill with people who have been burned out of house and home, and have lost every thIng. The burned district is bounded by the following streets: Silsbe. Mulberry, Oxford, Willow, Monroe, Washington, Spring and Mount Vernon. This in cludes every building on the streets named as far as they extend, and on the following streets beyond them: Central Avenue, Almont, Uion, Exchange and Merchant. The loss to the Boston and Maine R. R., will be about $00,000, as nothing was saved from the depot excapt t he tickets. At 5 p. mn., the fire reached the wa ter's edge, and burnt itself out for lack of fresh material. The losses are now clearly estimated to be not less than ten million dollars. GOSSIP ABOUT~WOMEN. Some Notable Female Personagem and Th'eir Whereabonis. Harriet Beecher Stowe recently said: "I wish writers of my life would wait until I am dead before they pub ]ish their biographies." Thomas A. Edison's sixteen-year? old daughter speaks four languages. She is now learning Italian, that she may converse with her father. Mrs. Emma Beckwith was not elect- I ed mayor of Brooklyn, but she made a good run. She is in the field for a presidential nomination in 1892. Mrs: Mary A. Livermore, the woman suffragist, claims Boston as her home, but spends nine months in the year lecturing in various parts of the country-. Mrs. O'Sullivan Dimpfel, the Balti more society woman who recently at tempted to elevate the stage, is again before the public. She is suing for di vorce from her husband, and is again< facing the footlights in a tank drama. It is announced that her new tank is I one hundred feet long. By thus com bining a tank dirama with a domestic tragedy, Mrs. Dimpfel makes her see- 1 ond entry upon the stage under Ia-t vorable auspices. Miss Amelia Rives had a host of admirers when she lived in maiden meditation at the home of her ances, tors, Castle Hill, Va. She was a pet ted and spoiled beauty, and treated 1 her lovers with indifference. and some times with absolute rudeness. Once, when a dozen gentlemen called upon her in the morning, she entered the parlor in a bewitching riding habit, excused herself, mounted her horse, rode an hour or two, and, finding the gentlemen waiting for her on return ing, she went to her studio back of the parlor, and amused herself by drawinga caricatures of her admirers, represent,' ing them sitting in various attitudess of idiotic vacancy. The Sizo of ileaven. Of course the following is guessing, but it is harmless, and will interest some young readers. The clippiog as credited to trie Atlanta Constitution. "The twen ty-first chapter of Revelations gives thec measurement. The most interesting cal culation on the subject is that of Capt.T J. B. Sharkley, a measures of vessels in the Boston Custom House. He takes the statement in Revelations 21, and fig- s urea it out thus: And he measured thea city with the reed 12,000 furlongs. Theu legth and breadth and height are equal. Twelve thousand furlongs-7,920,000 I feet cubed-497,793,08,000,000,000,- C 000 feet. Reserving one-half of this s space for the throne and court of Heaven, b and one-half of the remainder for streets, ~ we have .114,198,273,000,000,000,000 c feet. We will suppose the world did, and always will, contain 000,000,000 in- a hapitants, and that a generation lasts 31 1, 18 years, making in nll 2,070,000,000 e, every centuiry, and that the world will y stand 1,000, 000 years, or 10,000 ceo utries, 29,700 000,000 inhabitants. Now tuppose there are 100 worlds like this, d equal in the number of inhabitants and duration of years a total of 2,070,000 00000,000~persons, theru would be more than 100 rooms, 16 feet square, for a for eaandvelwryeson." * e BOYCOTTING THE DRUMMERS. he Allinuce lIeu think they are a fnr denl to the Country. avainnah News. The Aliance men in sonic of the cout es west of Savannah are boycotting the drummers," said a traveling man last ight. "They claim that the drummers re a burden to the merchants, who iake up their loss out of the farmer. Ij urged now that the farmers' only 2eans of avoiding this encumbrance is to atronize their own stores." 'he travelling man in talking over he matter was not illiberal at all. He elieved that if anybody should be pro ccted it is the framer, but he questioned he wiskoni of a boycott. At a conven ion of notable business men held in once of r be Southern cities a short time go, the duties of drummers were clear y defined, and it is not plain bow the ommercc of the country would con inue if they were depos.ed. They are levelopers, they act as collectors; they .re clerks during the dull seasons; they ire enoyclopedias of the standing of mis; they are icteligensers and a thous nd other things that serve to make hem necessary. They are a source of great conveeience to the country mer ihants. The drummer did not believe that the oycot will amount to much. He told, owever, of a case of boycott upon a bar er in one of the small towns up the ventral which proved effectual in making he barber "turn up his heels." The armers endeavored to make the barber educe his price to them, He refused, elling them that thir custom did not arrant it; that he depended upon local atronage; that their work would not mupport him. Incensed at this presump tion, as they termed it, they smported a )arber, and after fitting ham up they told the merchants that if they patrou zed the other barber they would with iraw their trade. The consequence was the Alliance barber did all the business snd the other man closed up and left to wn. THE NATION'S POPULATION. Widely Var inn Estimates of Next Year's Count---It will Probably be 66,000.000 C:eveland Leader. WASHINGTON, November 28.-There has been a great deal of figuring and es timating-guessing, one may say-what the coming census will show the popu lation of this country to be. Singular enough, there is a difference of more than 12,000,000 in these estimates. The low est I have seen is 62,000,000, and the highest nearly 75,000,000. The last is, manifested, much 'too large. The most careful figures put it about 65,000,000 or 66,000,000, and this probably not far from the truth. Figures are generally exasperating to the reader, but let us all keep our tem per while we contemplate just a few, taken from a compendium of the last (tenth) census which lies before me. Our first census, in 1790, showed a popula taon-I will only give round numbers of nearly 4,000,000. We had then but few more people than there are now within the limits of the State of Ohio The increase during the successive de cennial periods as shown by comparing the total of each census with that of the preceding one, was: Second census, 1,400,000: third, 1,900,000; foruth 2, 400.000; fif th, 3,200,000; sixth,4,200,000; seventh, 6,200,000; eighth, 8,200,000; ninth, 7,100,000; tenth,11,600,000. The total as shown by the tenth census, was 50,155,785. There is a singular uniformity in the ratio of increase which varies but little in each ten years from 30 per cent. The only marked exception is the decade from 1860 to 1870, when the increase was nearly 1,000,000 less than from 1850 to 1860. This was due to the waste of the War, which cost directly the lives o 700,000 men, besides which it gave a iheck to the natural increase and also to foreign immigration. According to the regular progression the total population in 1870 should have been about 40,500 00, whereas it was but 38,558,371. Trhe reason given is sufficient to account for this reduced rate of increase. Between 1870 and 1880 we caught the old step igain, the increase being in excess of 30 per cent. Since 1880 the conditions ave not been materially changed, and t will be safe to assume that the census >f 1890 will show an increase of 30 per ~ent, or 15,000,000, which will give 65, 00,000 as the total within our borders 2t counting Alaska. Tale of a War-H~orse. An officer of experience, writing on the ehavior of horses in battle, says: Vhen it comes to battle a horse seems :o know everything that is going on; yut he does his duty nobly, and seems ;o be in his element. He enters into the piit of the battle like a human being. e shows no fear of death, and it' is ingular that if his mate is shot down he will turn to look at him and seem pleas d. A horse in my battery was once struck by a piece of,.shell which split is skull, so :that one side was loose. ['he driver turned him loose, but he walked up by the side of the gun and atched the firing, and when a shot vas i-ed would look away in the direc ion of the enemy, as if to see the effect f the shot. When a shell would burst tear by he would calmly turn and look t it. 'When he saw his own team going >ack for ammunation he ran back to his >wo place and galloped back to the cais on with the rest. When the lieutenant ushed him aside lo put in another orse, he looked at the other one ser owfully while he was being harnessed, mp, and when he seemed to realize that here was no futher use for him bejay lown and died. The lieutenant slrongly ssertcd that he died of a broken heart Madame Modjeska scorns the cor et, and wears a tight-fitting buckskin todice instead. Mary Anderson thinks he corset an instrument of torture, ud wears a strip of stout linen in tead. Mrs. Potter never wore cor et, nor did her mother before her. ihe wears a "union suit" of heavy vhite silk underwear, a broad bandage ound the torso knitted of heavy red rool, a flannel skirt and her dress. Irs. Langtry says that the idea or ;oing without a corset, or of substi uting something else for it, is all non ense. "There is nothing," she adds, so eaay as a perfectly--made French orset." When doctors disagree, etc. Colored Baptistu at War. For several months past there has een considerahiea dissension among he colored Baptists in Laurens, dea ens and the pastors being opposed ach to the other, and both having a retty good constituency. Some weeks go the deacons nlotified the pastor hat his services were no longer de ired, and not to go into the church gain, which he disregarded, where pon they prosecuted him for "tres ass after notice," but failed to con ict him. Everything then quieted own until a feiw days ago, when the torm of the deacons' wrath again urst forth. On Sunday one party got ossession of the church, and the ther side undertook to evict them, ,hen they got into a general row. As result, the police ousted the whole tyout, and took possession of the hurch. One colored gentleman who ras a little too obstreperous when he ot on the street, was landed in the uard house. No one was hurt in the isturbance, and to-day all is quiet. The commissiotn of Virgil P. Clayton s postmaser at Columbia was forward fi hinm on Tuesday. ESTABLISHED 1844. 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