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.
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