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Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16
Harris Mississippian's.

FROM tne metropolitan RECORD OF
the 4th, we clip the following para
graph out of long and interesting
article written for tho London Fort
nightly Review, and entitled "a
Thrilling Account of the Dying
Hours and Struggles Of the Confed-
eracy:'
The officer in command Of Fort
Alexander, which was fartherest
away from the incoming Federals,
deemed it more important to save
his guns than to try and help Fort
Gregg. Receiving no assistance
from its twin brother, Fort Gregg,
manned by Harris Mississippi
Brigade, numbering 25O undaunted
men, breasted intrepidly the tide of
its multitudinous assailants. Three
times Gibbons corps surged up and
around the work-three times, with
dreadful carnage, they were driven
back. / am told that it was subse-
quently admitted by Gen. Gibbon
that in carrying Fort Gregg he lost
five OF six hundred men-or, in 9th
CT words, that each Mississippian
inside the works struck down at
least two assailants. When at last
the works were carried, there re-
NAMED of its $50 defenders but 30
survivors. In those nine memora-
BILE April days there was no episode
more glorious to the Confederate
arms than the heroic self-immola-
ton of the Mississippians in Fort
Gregg to gain time for their COM
rades.
From the same article we copy
the folio wing closing paragraphs,
describing, with touching effect, the
closing scenes of the Army of
Northern Virginia:
In the meantime, Immediately
after that General Lee was seen ri
ding to the rear, dressed more gaily
than usual and begirt with his
sword. the rumor of immediate sur
render flew like wildfire among the
Confederates. 1t might be imagin-
ed that an army that had drawn its
last regular rations on the LIST of
April, and harrassed ineessantly by
night and day, had been marching
and fighting till the morning of the
9th, would have welcomed anything
like a termination of its sufferings,
let it come in what form it might.
Let those who idly imagine that the
finer feelings are the prerogative of
what are called the supper classes"
learn from this and similar scenes
to appreciate common men," AS
the great Confederate Captain rode
back from his interview with Gen
eral Grant, the news of the surren-
der acquired shape and consistency,
and could no longer be denied
The effect upon the worn and bat
tered troops-some of whom had
fought since April, 1861, and (sparse
survivors of hectacombs of fallen
comrades) had passed unscathed
through such hurricanes of shot as
within four years no other men had
experienced-passed mortal descrip-
ton.
Whole lines of battle rushed up
to their beloved old chief, and
choking with emotion, broke ranks
and struggled with each other to
wiring him once more by the hand.
Men who had fought throughout
the war, and knew what the agony
and humiliation Of that moment
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16
The Episcopal Church in the South.

The Episcopal Church in the South.
We give our readers to-day the
proceedings of the General Council
of the Episcopal Church, held lately
at Augusta. OF the Bishops in the
late Confederacy there were absent
the Bishop ofTeXas and the Bishop
of North Carolina, whose dioccses
were represented in the General
Convention at Philadelphia, though
the former was not then present, the
Bishop of Arkansas, who was pres
ent at Philadelphia, the new Bishop
of Tennessee, who was consecrated
there, and the Bishop Of South Car
DINA, DR.. Davis, though the action
was consonant with the previously
expressed views of that prelate.-
The Bishop Of Louisiana had died
and has as yet no soccessor. Six di-
oceses were represented, those OF
Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi.
Louisiana was not represented,
no convention or council having as.
sembled to elect delegates, and its
convention having only declared the
separation Of the diocese from the
General Convention without having
either united with the General Con-
vention. Nor was Florida present,
either through its Bishop, DR.. Rut-
ledge, or its delegates. We have
not been told why; probably the
difficulties of transit in these times
will be found to have been chiefly
in the way.
The result of the action at Angus
ia will be seen to be as follows:
/. The General Councils not dis
solved, some of the diocese, at least,
will continue their independent ex-
istence.
2. Those dioceses which think that
it is best to return to union with the
General Convention are at liberty
to do so without complaint.
3. The word Confederate, wher-
ever it occurs in the Prayer Book,
or elsewhere in the Standards Of the
Council, is changed to United SO
as to occasion no political difficulty.
4. They protest against the mill
tary interference with the churches
as unwarrantable. and deny that
Bishop Wilmer was bound by the
constitution and canons Of the
protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States of America"
5. They provide for a meeting in
1868, and change their corporate
name to Associated Dioceses in the
United States.
G. They reciprocate the kind and
charitable feelings exhibited by the
members of the late General Con-
vention, held at Philadelphia.-Pic-
dVune.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

Gov. LUBBOCK RELEAsED.-A pri-
vate telegram, dated New Orleans,
Nov, "a, received here yesterday
states that Ex-Governor Lubbock,
who was captured with Mr.. Davis,
being at the time member Of his
staff, has been released on parole
This is probably owing, in part, al
least, to the mission Of Judge Bur.
nett to Washington; although Gov.
Lubbock's release has long been
strenuously urged upon the Presi-
dent by other influential parties
Whatever the cause, Texas will re-
ioice in this exhibition of Presidcn-
tial clemency, or justice, to one OF
her prominent and useful Citizens
Gal. NeuS.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

WASHINGTON GossIP.-We ex-
tract the following paragraphs from
the Washington letter Of the Gin
cinnati Gazette:
1t is understood that the policy
likely to be pursued with reference
to the Southern applicants will pro-
baby be this Their credentials
will. on presentation in either House,
be referred to Joint Committee,
TO be composed of the Standing
Committee of Elections from the
House and of the Judiciary from
the Senate. No action will then be
had in the case of such applicants,
save on the report Of this Joint
Committee. OF course this will in
no way PREJUDICE the case; but it
will be a pretty effectual precau-
ton against any sudden flooding Of
Congress with returned rebels, to
vote on each others cases. No
doubt is entertained that this course
will command the Presidents co.
operation.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

"There's a difference in time, you
know, between this country and
Europe" said a gentleman in New
York to a newly arrived Irishman
"For instance your friends at Cork
are in bed and fast asleep by this
time, while we here are enjoying
ourselves in the carly evening
"That's always the way" cxclaim.
cd Pat, ireland niver got justice
yeti"
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

The recent election in this State
is the only political contest we even
knew in which so many candidates
were voted for, and all those elected
of one party. The opposition to
the Democracy, as far as heard from
have not carried single candidate
for any of the various Offices voted
for. We have heard Of inconven-
iently large majorities before, but
this is the first instance We ever
heard of a unanimous State Begis-
lature, and of all the officers of a
State Government being Of Que and
the same msjority.-Picaynre.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

Mctlon all round; and that since IL
appears pretty certain that he viii
10 tried before n civil tribunal,
nearly all ox.conltdcratos are happy
OF an opportunity to give, in so
reputable n form, the transcript of
the views aud motives upon which
they undertook to establish sepa-
rate nationality. While | believe
that this showing will crafty them,
! cannot believe that the trial will
have any good effect in comenting
the Union or convincing the sub
dued people of the Southern States
Of their error, Nothing so much
as silence and quiet rs to the past
can heal the wounds and sores that
exist ia the Southern body polite.
The ro-discussion of the princi-
pies ofsocession, and especially over
the body of the late revcred Presi-
don't of the "rebelIion," arraigned
for life, On this issue, will do more
to revive dissatisfaction and keep
alive bitterness than any other pos
sible act. Pardon, after the trial,
will have no genial effect The dis
charge Of the prisoner at any time
prior to this moment, or n the pres
ent time, would come with melting
effect upon the whole people Of the
South, for it would look like a de-
termination to bury the past and
make friends. But to bring the
whole power of the government to
bear, in demonstrating that the late
Confcderatcs were all malefactors,
and to cast ignominy upon the
name and fame of their chief, will
deprive ultimate clemency Of all its
power over the masses Of our spir-
tied, even though suhjugutod peo-
pie.
SENSATION 4-MIsSISslPPI' TWO GOV
ERNoRs.
The dispatch of Mr.. Seward of
this morning, directing Governor
Sharkcy to resume his status as
Provisional Governor, after the cleo
ton and Inauguration of Gov. Hum
phreys, takes everybody by sur
prise. ] can find no one who I'M
derstands it, though l have asked
men in high places. 1t gives the
greatest uneasincss to our Southern
public men, who have assumed that
the reorganization OF States as
Mississippi has been renewed, was
restoration of the State to her
normal condition. This seems to
have been the understanding Of the
Presidents policy and theory
What Mississippi will do with two
Governors remains to be seen. No
easy solution Of the case presents
itself to an ERRANT REBEL.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

On one occasion, at a rehearsal,
Weber said to one Of the perform
ers, Il am very sorry you take so
much trouble" "No, not at all, y
was the reply. AYES" he added,
"but 1 say yes-dat is for why you
take the trouble to sing so many
notes dat are not in the book"
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

A man passing through gate
way in the dark, hit his nose against
the post. 81 wish that post was in
hell" Better wish it somewhere
else" said a bystander. you might
run against it again"
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16
LATER FROM CAPT. HALL.-An.

LATER FROM CAPT. HALL.-An-
other letter from Capt. c. F. Hall,
the Arctic explorer, has been re-
ceived by Mr.. Henry Grinnell, at
New York. He wrote August goth,
from Repulse Bay, lat. sc 81 north,
long. SO 3 west. He had been there
since June, his interpreter, Too koo-
li-too, who was once in New York,
being sick with pneumonia. She
is of great Importance to the expe-
dition from her knowledge of both
languages, English and native.
The natives look up to her with
great respect and Kindness. Mr..
Hall intends to prosecute the search
for all that pertains to Sir John
Franklin's expcdition.-N 0. PIC.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

A little girl being sent 70 a st0i
to purchase some dye stun, and To-
getting the name Of the article. said
to the clerk-"John, what do folk
dive with p "Die with 2 Why,
cholera, sometimes" "Well, / be
lieve that's the name. / want 70
have three cents worth"
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-12-16

The census report for 1860 viii
be ready for distribution BY ths
tirrs 7ngress meets.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08

beaten, SCARED old sailor-do you think
the same?"
She quickly said, II always shall,
Come, on then2" said /. And not
another word was spoken until we came
To the Rev. Eben lockers. There 1
rang the bell.
Says she, "Why. have you brought me
here, Jack?''
Says I, ITO make the Chaplain marry
us, my love" :.
Says she, "It's too sudden. What viii
people say?" 4 fl#aLIH(f :. :
'No matter what people viii say" ]
And in we walked. And for all she
told me that no woman was ever mar
ried before in delaine dress and straw
bonnet, the Chaplain didn't find it any
obstacle, but soon spliced us. And so.
after nineteen years. got my Jenny fo'
my own.
L don't think she's sorry for it, and i
know 1 am not; and as for poor Tom {
children, she's mother to 'em. And
whether there's any romance in my story
or not, it's happy one for me in the
ending, as sure as my name is Jack Bal
last. -.s--f.r rA-wr "a %
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08
heridan's Modes,y.-It appears thi

heridan's MOdesiy.-It appears that
Phil Sheridan, who is a lion in battle,
is the most timid of men among the
ladies. A writer in Hours at Home gives
some "reminiscences of Sheridan as quar-
termaster of the army of the southwest,
operating under General Curtis in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, at the beginning of
the war, and among other things, tells
the following:
''Sheridan's modesty amounted to
bashfulness. especially in the presence
OF the gentler sex. His life having been
passed on the frontier, among Indians,
or at some solitary post, it was not atall
surprising that our quartermaster sho uld
hesitate when urged to go where ladies
might be expected. IL by chance he
found himself In such gathering, he
was sure to shrink into an obscure cor
ner and keep silent. Werememher an
amusing incident of his bashfulness.-
He became attached to young lady at
Sprin gheld, where he was engaged in
send ng supplies to the army. DESTROYS
of showing her some attention, he was
altogether too modest to venture on such
q step. Finally he hit upon an expe-
dient. He had gay young clerk, Eddy,
in his Office, whom he induced TO take
the young lady out riding, while he
(Sheridan) furnished the horses. The
modest little captain could often be seen
looking with pleasure on this arrange
ment. Counting by proxy seemed to
please him as much as if it had been
done by himself. What the result was
we never learned. We thiuk it most pro-
bable Eddy carried off the prize"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08
What a Young One.


Last Monday morning George Smith
boy only seven years old, residing at
Pleasantville, thirty miles from the city,
told his parents, if they insisted on
sending him to school, that he would
throw himself on the Harlem railroad
track, which was near his fathers land ,
and receive such injuries as would COM
pei them to keep him at home. They
thought nothing of the threat, and hav-
ing ordered him to school forthwith,
supposed he had gone, until they learned
he had executed his menace. When the
ten o'clock up mail train passed the vii
lage, George laid his left arm upon the
track, and the cars passed over it, sew
ering nearly the whole of his hand from
the limb. The engineer, perceiving him
then for the first time, stopped the train,
when the child ran off, and was found
with his shattered and bleeding arm be-
hind his back, sitting on fence whis-
thing yankee Doodle" and pretending
nothing had happened. Before he
could be taken home, George tainted
from pain and loss OF blood; but when
restored, and a surgeon was summoned,
he refused most obstinately to take any
anasthetic agent, but told the medical
gentleman to cut away. The scalpel
was used on the limb, but the little fell
low never whimpered or complained.
Not nerve trembled during the ope-
ration, which must have been very
painful; indeed, the boy did not speak
until it was over, when he remarked
with great satisfaction and an air of
triumph: swell, Tn glad did it, /
can't be sent to school for awhile. any
how" The child acted with wonder
full GOODNESS, saying he first put his
right arm on the track, but rejecting
that when he grew.pp he would not be
able to write web with the loss of that
limb, he substituted his left. His pa
rents are much distressed at the occur
renee, and apprehend, if he is sent to
school again, that he will destroy him
self The boys conduct is almost i'm
explicable, and his fortitude and deter
mination extraordinary for one of his
tender years. We have known great
many little people who dishked the
routine and confinement of school, but
we never before heard of one who pre-
ferred to part with his arm rather than
submit to their dissgreeableness how
ever great.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08

earthly existence. The same week in
which we hear of Admiral Fitzroy's
suicide, brings us news of Gen. Kmety
expiring, prematurely old. at fifty
Swift dying in moody mania; Sir Isaac
Newton with intellect temporarily shat
tered; johnson oppressed by thick-com-
ing fancies; Cowper overcome by them
Sir Walter Scott excited to such a pitch
of mental activity that he s'could not
leave off thinking" and moved about
among familiar scenes with a sense of
ghostly unreality Southey struck down
from his height of literary fame into
mere beeility-Buckland smitten in
his ACKNOWLEDGMENT Blanchard, Hay
don, and Hugh Miller, perishing by
their own hands-these are only few
instances of that fate which so often
overtakes men of unusual powers. And
to these must be added several cases &C.
curing of late years. in which, without
the mind being at all affected, onr prom
inent statesmen, such as Lord Herbert
and Sir George Cornwall Lewis, have
died prematurely from exhaustion. The
fact is that much is expected from those
to whom much has been given. They
become committed to work which can
not be divided, and they fall as much in
the service of their country as though
they had persisted on the field of battle
or the sinking deck.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08

= General Grant, in conversation
with his friends, say S that it is too soon
TO declare that Che lcyal blacks In the
South shall not be allowed to vote.
Aside from the abstract right and. the
legal problem of what authority. can
confer or withhold the franchise
whether it be Congress or the States
the question may assume the shape of q
political necessity. The government
and people may have to choose between
keeping standing army Of loo, 600
men, at an expense of $100. 900, 600 a
year to the taxpayers, to support the
white minority in the South against the
white rebel majority, or of enfranchis-
ing the blacks and thereby enabling
them to support the white loyalists.
Gen. Grant foresees that the suffrage
question may take this form.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08
Foreign Notes.

(Lendon Correspondence of Philadelphia Inquirer
mother grand affair has been the in
tefmarriage of two of the scions of the
great house of Rothschild. The new
palace that has been severalEyears build
ing, at Hyde Park corner, was inaugu-
rated on the interesting occasion. ]
suppose it was the most expensive mar
rage that ever took place in England,
and perhaps in Europe. The bridal
presents were numerous and most cost
ly, for no one would think of giving a
Rothschild heiress anything very small
The diamonds presented by the parents
of the bride would pay the interest of
your national debt for more than one
year. The parties being cousins, the
affair is purely family alliance, and
the presentation of these gifts is some
thing like s'robbing Peter to pay Paul. -
The young lady is highly esteemed, and
believe deserves the kindness that
was shown her.
THE DEAN OF CARLISLE
Dean Close), was the only representa-
tive of the Established Church to raise
his voice this year against the gambling
institution of the turf It has been the
annual custom of this clergyman TO
preach against the institution of horse
racing ON the Sunday preceding Derby
day. This year he was particularly se-
we're, and his discourse would have
done honor to the old Puritan times.
The fact is, the Dean Close is an honest
clergyman, and for this he is hated
Though not despisedD by the communi-
ty generally, honesty in their clergy
men being quality not much admired
You will appreciate the conduct of
MRS. GOLDEN,
In refusing to accept the pension offer
ED to her by this Government, in recOg-
milton, as the Treasury minute reads,
of the eminent services of her distin-
guished husband. She could not well
have done otherwise without trampling
upon the bones of her dead lord. If
he refused baropetcy, and an honora-
bile post in the Cabinet, the least. she
could do was to decline accepting an
annual sum wrung from the pockets of
the people, especially as she is in no
want, her estate being ample. Such a
testimonial from the people would have
been all well enough, but the PROPOSE
ton from this Government amounts to
scarcely less than an insult.
SIR JosEoH PAXTON,
OF Clys al Palace no oriety, is dead.
Very little has been said or heard OF
him of LITE, and he had been ailing, I
believe, fora long time.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08
POETRY,
DREANILAND.
By CHARLES kendall

BN kENDAA@
out of the swe 4 old legends rn
BeckOns fair white hand, N -
And silvery, bell-like voices,
Tell If an unknown Land,
Where magic roses blossom
In the evenings golden night
And the air is laden with fragrance
From the lilIies' silver-white
Thatrees. with their waving branches.
Murlnur a fairy song.
And the brOOklet merrily dances,
as it ripples aud gurgies along.
And tender enchanting lOve-songs,
Float on ths bAlmy breeze,
And the hearts unspeakable longing,
by their music, is set at ease.
Would that my steps could reach il,
That happy. hOwery strand
For al my earthly afilictlons 1z1--
Would cease in that fairy land
on in my dreams. see IL.
In its glamour bright and IN
But with daylight's earliest GUNNER,
Il vafisaes into air.
81 ,Iansss HJg1sisse- ia.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08

The Springfield Republican Is re-
sponsible for the story of a novel rat
trap accidentally discovered in that
city. A gentleman captured large
turtle, cut off its head and left 1t out of
doors, while he carried the rest of the
animal into the kitchen to be made in
to soup. There was presently an ami
mated squealing in the yard, and an in
vestigation into the cause of it disclos-
ed the interesting fact that a rat that
had come out to eat up the head had
been seized and actually killed, and
this decapitated head had hung on so
tightly that it was necessary to use an
axe to divide them. The RepublicG,
adds: Nobody need malign dead
heads after this"