Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-13
from Camp TrophdaIe.

CAMP TROUsDALE, July Is. 1861.
A it pleased the Advise Ruler of the Univers
to remove from our midst our well beloved an,
! b. ghly este med friend and fellow soldier, B. Fl
e. LII, his much bereaved parents connections an,
! friend Centrally have the heartfelt sympathles o
the Chapel Hill Guards, company F, 18th Tennes
see Regiment. lie was taken sick at Camp Trous
| dale with measles and was removed to the resi-
dence of his father, near Chapel Hill, Marshall cOun
| ty, Tenn After his arrival at home he was takeI
with fux, and after suffering severely for severa
days, on the 9TH of July he died.
Though BALKAN has gone, weep not kind parents
brothers. sisters, and numerous friends think o.
the last words that were spoke By his lips "WeeI
not for me for Will soon be done suffering, and
have bright hope of heaven 1t is hard to give
up one that we loved so DEAR but LET us try and
live and die as he did, and have no doubt but our
end shall be like bis. VIC B.
SFCEss OF SOUTHERN EPG -CoPALI Ns.-That most
important Convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the Confederate States, which has been
sitting in this city since the Sd inst adjourned on
the 9th We have omitted to notice its proceedings
in detail says the Montgomery Advertiser, prefer
ring to await It's adjournment, when the result
would be announced. We can truly say that the
Convention, if not large, certainly highly re-
spectacle, able and influential body of Christian
g,ntemen. There were in attendance four Bishops,
and Clerical and Lay deputies elected by the Do
cesar Convention of seven States. The Convention
unanimously, and without debate, passed the first
of the following resolutions severing the connection
Of the Southern from the Northern Church and the
wifi Ia I'M.
nifty of feeling:
Psrolys3 Is. That the secession oT the States Of
Virginia North Carolina South Carolina, Georgia
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana. Texas
Arkansas and Tennessee, from the United States
and the formation by them of a new Government,
called the Confederate ate of America, renders It
necessary and exprdient that the Diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal Church within those States
should form among themselves an independent or
ganiz4tiOu.
hssnlgsd. End. That as preliminary TO the Orgsni-
cation declared necessary in the foregoing resOlu
ton, committee of three Bishops three Presbyters
and three Laymen, be appointed by this Convention
to propose and report to an adjourned meeting Of
the Convention, TO be held at Columbia. s. G, the
third Wednesday Of October next, Constitution
and C6uons, under which such an organization may
be effected; and that the Ecclesiastical Authorities
OF all the Dioceses within the Confederate States
not now represented in this Convention, be invited
by the Right v. President 20 take the requisite
steps for the representation of said DIOCeses at the
adjourned Convention.
4 Dispatch from Washington, to the New York
Commercial Advertiser, dated the 10th, says "a CON-
mittee appointed for the purpose have ascertained
that here are still many traitors employed in the
Departments bot heads of Departments say it is
impossible 10 dispense with their services from
their knowledge Of the business of Departments"
THE PooR Est LoVIs.-There is evidently much
suffering in St. Louis. The ST. Louis Democrat of
the 18th states that at the time the Council in
session on Tuesday evening" the chamber was be-
sIeged by hundreds Of unemployed laborers who
were anxious that some appropriations be msde for
their relief The council has recently appropriated
$50 600 for the relief Of The poor, all of which has
been exhausted.