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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-01

In Justice to General Lee, it deserves
to be remembered hereafter that the en-
ployment of negro soldiers is not re-
cent suggestion of his, made at the
eleventh hour. We believe that for a
long time he has foreseen the necessity
which has now arisen, and has labored
in vain to meet it by the only means at
our command. AT period when it was
the fashion to declare that negroes could
not be made soldiers, and before that
fact had been demonstrated in the Fede-
raj armies, General Lee understood their
military capacities, and would gladly
have availed himself of this unemployed
element Of military strength. II his
counsels could have controlled the de-
liberations of Congress, the two hundred
thousand negroes now in the Federal
service might be in our own ranks, and
the result of this contest be no longer
doubtful.
The plan Of General Lee has been, and
still is, to hold out to this class of our
population stronger inducements than
can be presented by the enemy; to give
those of them who bear arms freedom
and home. The negro is no longer so
ignorant as to imagine that the freedom
offered by the enemy is anything but
freedom to starve, and that such thing
IS home is beyond their power to give.
In the war Of the Revolution. Z consider
sble pumbN Of negroes n Virginia md
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THE BURNING OF THE SURREY THEA
rRE-The burning of the Surrey Theatre,
in London, was not attended by loss of
life. The Times says:
"The last scene of the pantomime was
being performed when, it is said, part
of the ceiling Immediately over the large
chandelier by which the building was
principally lighted caught fire, and .
feeling of alarm Immediately took pos
session of the whole of the audience
that remained. At this crisis Mr.. Green,
the stage manager, presented himself in
front of the proscenium, and implored
the people, for their own sakes, to re-
main as quiet as possible, and to leave
the theatre in an orderly manner. They
could see for themselves that it was the
ceiling alone which had at that time
caught fire, and he appealed to their
reason that it must burn upwards, and
that there was ample time for them to
leave the building uninjured, if they
only did so in calm and collected man.
ner. The audience, on the whole, it is
said, followed this very sensible advice,
and were so enabled to leave the place
| unhurt.
"Mr. Green having succeeded in
abating the alarm among the audience,
applied himself with great energy in col
lecting all the persons engaged in tho
pantomime-many Of them young ballet
girls-and seeing them safe out of tho
building, he himself being amongst the
last to leave. Most of the pantomimists
made their escape in the grotesque cos
tunes in which they had been performs
ing, and took refuge in house opposite.
Little, if any, of the movable property
in the building could have been saved,
so rapid was the progress Of the fire."
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front Of fife and drum!" Who would
have imagined that the very people who
sneered at the idea of "always taking
the side Of our country" who saw 50
clearly the difference between . country
and is President, and were 80 disguised
with war and pillage. glory and gun
powder, plunder and blood, could, in
the lapse of few years, make such =
revelation as Massachusetts, has made of
herself in this contest?
We conclude that all the civilization
which railroads, steamboats,, marble
fronts commerce, common schools and
manpfactures can put upon human na>
tur( Is but the phosphorescent sparkle
Of the sea over unstable and treacherous
depths, filed with Shiny and voracious
monsters. 1t is the growth Of vines and
olives upon the outside Of an inextin-
guishable volcano. The eruptions may
cease for time, but the internal fires
within can never be put out by any hu-
man agency, and will ever and anon pour
forth blazing streams of desolation, and
shut out the stars with the smoke of the
bottomless pit.
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'no oAu uoSernment IN everything but
name; tomake it a consolidated empire,
from which the American Constitution
and the sovereignty of the States should
alike disappear to overthrow State in
stitutions and civil liberty; they adopted
the means most suitable to the end
We scarcely imagine, however, that,
even if they contemplated such results.
they calculated the cost, or, if they had
formed the faintest conception of the
magnitude and expense of the operation,
would have ventured upon that fearful
experiment: Little did they think that
Charleston, which hung out the Flag of
Independence in 1861, would not be
evacuated till the approach of tho Presi-
dental Inauguration of 1866, and that
millions of men, and thousands of mil
lions of treasure, would not even then
have made any impression upon one
vital spot of the Confederacy.
If the labor of that enormous host of
men, if the gigantic expenditures which
have been employed in destruction, had
been devoted to the production of Vic
tories of Peace, what different specta-
Gle would now meet the eye from that
which Mr.. Lincoln may behold, by look
ing beyond the delirious crowds which
attend his Inauguration, and surveying
the countless graves, the bereaved house.
holds, the desolated fields, the inextin-
guishable amino sites, which this war
has produced! The treasures expended
in it might have united the Atlantic and
Pacific by Northern and Southern lines
of railroad, and connected the whole
country by railways and canals; might
have endowed schools, colleges and hu-
name associations innumerable might
have given an impetus to agriculture,
commerce and the mechanic arts that
would have made the United States first
among nations. III the Constitution was
to be violated, it might have been vio-
lated in this way with more advantage
to humanity, and more consistency with
common sense, than trampling it be>
Meath the bloody heel of war.
We do not think, if tho President of
the United States had it again in his
power to decide the issue presented to
him at his inauguration in 1861, he would
come to the same decision. If we are
right in this conviction, all the pageantry
of the approaching ceremonies cannot
console him for the consequences of the
fatal error of his first Proclamation.
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GENERAL ORDERS NO. Al. Ge-
7 r,rsi Orders Ne. }. Headquarters Armies of
Nt.,nt,Irr.t, States, having been this day promul-
- "a this army il /, hereby announced that, IN
vs,nce with l,s provisions. al enlisted men OF
t a,,nv WHO are improperly absent from Their
..~,-,,ri. tvccp. those guilty ot dcSertion 10, or
,.ei m the &c, Qt d4Sariins TO. the enemy, or
.. 80. ss.srt.. E.tyT Nay-Ing Acc- once pardoned
,'.-,, ,R,noe, or who sh,ls hereafter desert
' -, themselves without authority, VINO shall,
LIN ,w,,,t, days from thls date, voluntarily re-
.h,., .'.filI,l lnas or deliver themselves TO any
-s,,,-,,.r ,.E.gi enrolling officer, aro'ost-inar-
o,i.l ot.lgsr on duty, TO be forwarded to Their
.n!,, shah be entitled to.~snd receive TIE hone,
...+ "a. tavion promised by The General-ih- ti'ei
" d. . authority OF ;he Preslden:ot the confederate
y. .... IA Iii, order above quoted.
n General .icr No. :, Headquarters ARMIES OF
e.. confederate States, apples 20 the enlisted men
-. .~y3luy sentence or tglal, under charges or IN
r,.>. ,,r dcseytion or absence without leave with
xccvt IONS hcrolnbe:ore mentioned; ana all men
psa i.n.ier this paragraph, are entitled to pardon
: te az once released from arrest and Ees'oici 10
d4;y.
VI. II. TAYLOR,
"a 2l-eod Sw Assistant Adlutant-G'Iel,-i.
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RICHMOND. VA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH / 1s65

tlmlze the United States either by arts Ol
arms, as shall seem most expedient. Tha,
little bill for the damages committed by
English privateersmen, under the Con
fcderate flag, can never bc collected under
such circumstances, nor any other Of
tho long arrears which that Government
has run up in this war.
We, outside barbarians, have no rea4
son to be especially solicitous for the
welfare Of France. If England has been
the priest who passed by the wounded
man on the other side, France has been
the Levite, who came and looked on
him-and also passed by. We owe
neither of these nations the slightest
debt of gratitude. If England has
withheld her recognition, so has France :;
so has even its petty potentate, Maximi-
liam. Our ships have been detained in
the harbors of both; our institutions
have been in both the subject of mis-
representation and odium. But, looking
at the two from a United States point
of observation, there can be no hesita-
ton in selecting that Power which Ame-
rican instincts Of vengeance and interest
combine to select as the first victim.-
England is the traditional enemy, as
France is the traditional friend, of the
United States. Without her aid, it is
doubtful whether American independ-
ence could have been finally achieved
France was openly and sincerely opposed
to the dissolution of the American Union,
and England brought about that disso-
luton by the cold -blooded and persistent
intrigues of thirty years. France is
neither the commercial, naval nor politi-
cal rival of the United States. England
is all and more. 1t is essential to her
stability that Carthage must be de-
stroye3; and the United States must
choose between her own ultimate ruin
and the ruin of England. The two
Powers cannot live in the same world
together.
We therefore advise the United States,
if it shall feel disposed at the close of
this war, which may possibly occur be-
fore the end of this century, to "gobble
up" any European nation, to bcstow
its regards upon England. The 1ndepend-
ent Confederacy will promise to stand
off and see fair play. We propose t.
observe a rigid neutrality between the
belligerents, and never so much as to
offer our intervention or give our moral
weight to either of the combatants.
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the public prints and otherwise. announce myself
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SOUTHERN ExPREss CourA&Y,l
EicuMoNp, VIRGINIA, February -, 1868. !
Agents and messengers will receive and forward
promptly any packages marked a. above stated and
~ HE charges be collected i'll Richmond
Shippers viii be requested to put their packages
III gooi shipping condition, and our agents will al
Ways regard theae goods as preferred freight.
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Southern Express Company.
'haTlottesville and Lynchburg papers will copy
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q AR1.EMAsTER's DEPARTMENT, c. S. A.
OFplCI SUPERINTENDENT RAILROAD.
TRANSFORMATIONS. J

IE'O VIRGINIA SOLDlERS.-Ihe sol
4 5iers in the field from Virginia can have pro-
vision sent them free of expense by the SOUTH
EkS EXpkESS COMPANY.
Packages should be marked plainly with the name
u he soldier, company, regiment and brigade,
are oi l. H. Mayo, Captain and Assistant Quar-
srIn ,s'er, Richmond, Virginia, who Will that
? ucy are sent to the proper commands.
+. w. SIMS, Lieutenant-Colonel
and Chief Of Railroad Transportation.
Approved: 4. Il. LAwToN, Quar.ermasler General.
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iyA SALE, one splendid Sloat's Elliptic
t..endid Nos cOOKING-sTOVE.R Richmond make
c5, d. .y residence on Twenty-titth street, one
------t 1.-st III. J. SUTHERLAND.
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E'oh SALE, DWELLING HOUSE,
4 centrally located. with six rooms; kitchen,
~, "iio water II is now rented at $500 per month
ae7iiet, Confederate taxable bonds viii be
Se'' u 'of IL large portion Of the purchase money
.. q. UkUBBS * WILLIAMS,
~ Auctioneers.
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+ DAWSON, DENTIST.
rs.s,s =. naee 20 ssa sssaeae No. 90; Main street,
~ s~as ae spaEa at all tg,sA. b ss~lns
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OFFICIAL.
rENTRAL ORDERS, NO. II. Ge-

-, ,srrgs ARMY o* NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
l'tA'' February 10, 1865.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-08
sTARVATION in THE SOUTH.
From tho Washington Chronicle,


From Gen. L. G.. Baker, Special Pro-
vost Marshal of the War Department.,
who has just returned from a brief trip
through some of the Southern States,
where he went on official business, we
have full confirmation of the reports that
have recently came from those localities,
of the utter destitution of the South, and
of the desire of the people at large to sub
nit cheerfully to the Government of the
United States. Gen. Baker, as may be
supposed, kept his eyes and ears wide
open throughout this journey. and lost no
opportunity of gaining information as to
the sentiments of the people.
No language can describe the destitu-
ton of these unfortunate people. With
few exceptionally of which let us be
thankful, will come within the $40, 600
clause of President Johnson's proelama-
tion-the people are actually sfdrUing.-
They come in f1ocks from the back count
ry to the lines of railroad, where they
hope to pick up something from the pass
ing trains, whereby they can support life
from day to day. Here they live in old
tents, huts and mud houses, or sleep in
the open air in the woods. They cannot
cultivate the soil, for they have no stock
and their farming implements are all worn
out They have no money to purchase
more from the North, and very many,
particularly of the class known as '.poOr
whites, have not dollar whereWith to
purchase bread for their families !,
Gen. Baker stopped at log cabin to
get something to eat. The inmates were
just upon the verge of starvation There
was young woman of about 30 years of
age, her mother, and two children. The
mother was slowly dying of consumption.
The daughter was scarcely clad enough
to hide her nakedness. Her dress consis-
ted of gunny bags seWed together, fast
ened aronnd her neck and reaching to
her knees, and even this miserable apol-
ogy for raiment was frayed and tattered
to rags. Two little children were run
ming about as naked as they were born
There was no coffee, -four, meat, or meal
in the house, literally not a crumb to eat
The young woman said, eve were al
ways poor folks, but we could always get
enough to eat. Now we have nothing,
and do not know how we are to live from
one day to another. But we are as well
off as the rest" A good many of the
people about there had died, and the
only cause was absolute starvation. The
country has been stripped by the two
armies and completely desolated. The
unfortunate wretches who have their
only home in this world in that barren
waste, are really and truly dying for want
of healthful and sufficient food. Gen.
Baker gave this poor woman five dollars,
and she begged that he would allow her
''old man. to go on his train up to At
lanta to buy something to eat. The old
man, on being produced, was found to be
hardly able to drag one leg after another
he was weak from hunger He went
to Atlanta, was furnished with trans
portation back. and gained for himself
and family weeks respite from famine.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-08

The uninjured portion of the city con-
tains several beautiful streets shaded as
we have-described, and lined with elegant
grounds. Many blocks can be found
where the carriage ways and the pavements
are completely arched over with the trees
and the hedges of the yards. The trees
are principally elm, willow, oak, the China
tree, and the blackberry, all of which
grow large and symmetrical when planted
In open spaces, The grass plats along
each side of the street, and in the center,
helghten the general effect Flowering
trees are very common, among them cape
myrtle, which attains diameter of foot,
a species of palmetto, the mimosa, and
many others which are entire strangers
even to the hot houses of the North
The buildings, with few exceptions, would
hardly be considered passable in the sub
urbs of any prominent Northern city, and
even overlooking the want of painting
and general repair which the war has pre-
vented, this would be still true. This lack
of paint upon the best houses strikes eve
~ one travelling through the South. 1t
shows how the war caused the complete
cessation of all improvements at the South.
In many months of travel since the close
of the war, and in the last two years of
It's continuance, but single newly painted
house has passed under our observation,
and that belonged to the rebel commissa-.
ry in charge of the Salisbury prison.
man named Myers, who beyond all doubt
purchased his residence and adorned 1t
with means received from the sale of food
for our starving men.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-08
USELESS GRLEF.

Don't grieve for dead Fosas-a useless -euploymenf
That was never known 20 do any one good aF
The future Is 10 have food for endowment
But grisving would spoil it il anything would.
Look back, n you like. ana muse over the beauty
or hours that goae; but pray do not forget
That they cannot return, and it'E every one duty
To look on life g changes without q regret.
Pc rhaps there's vision somewhere in the vista
OF lifs's retrospect, a sweet love and delights
Tow what because have kRsed a
Dear grl that you loved TO think life Is all night
Unless you can once more rejoice IN the neetiuR
With 6iose lips, 10 cal them forever your OWnf
No doubt, oruld you hna them the very first greeting
Would show you that somehow their sweetness had
nOWn- 50 ftel5f 80 en- rabsE1
there's the pleasures Of ohildhoOd',-sO swee. to
So careless 90 bright, and all that sort OF thing;
But who would put out bis snug IRE in December
With flood OF salt tears Ger the beau ties Of Sprngs
When Spring Is upon you rejoice in its sunshine:
When Summer comes do the thing in its sh ade;
But never forget it's nothing but moonshne
To think that tbs Rinsse for mOurning was made.
Whatever the hour make the most OF your pIeasursa
Look forward, not backward, true comfort 10 view
There's land we're invited 70 store with our treas
and don't forget that, rriend, whatever you do
Past joy and past sorrow have persisted together,
And neither need shadow one hour OF to-day
Z there's storm in the future there's fair weather
Bear one, greet the other, throw nothing away.
Don't grieve o'er the past with S lovely dead hours
Il never was known TO do any good
The future has music, and beauty, and flowers, u
And ErieyIng viii spoil them II anything would
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-08
HOW TO GROW BEAUTIFUL.

Persons may outgrow disease and be-
come healthy by proper attention to the
laws of their physical constitution. By
moderate and daily exercise, men may
become active and strong in limb and
muscle But to grow beautiful, how
Age dims the lustre of the eye and pales
the rose on beauty's cheek; while crows
feet, and burrows, and wrinkles, and lost
teeth, and gray hairs, and bald head and
tottering limbs, and limping, most sadly
mar the human from divine. But dim
as the eye is, pallid and sunken as may
be the face Of beauty, and frail and fee
BILE that once strong, erect, and manly
body, the immortal soul, just hedging its
wings for its home in heaven, may look
through those faded windows as beauti-
full as the dew drop of summers morn
ing, as melting as the tears that glisten
in affections eye-by growing kindly, by
cultiVating sympathy with all human
kind, by eherishing forbearance toward
the follies and foibles of our race, and
feeding, day by day, on that love to God
and man which lifts us from the brute
and makes us akin to angels.
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The Peace Democracy have been oourt.
ing General Sherman ever since that no.
Die soldier entered into unfortunate stin-
ulatlons with the rebel s9en6raIJ u Ohnston.
N otWit outstanding the cold shoulder he
gave them IN his Columbus speech, the
late State Rights Dsmocraoy Convention
adopted the following resolution:
resolved, That while we will reso.
lutely and perslstently condemn all in
fractions OF the Constitution, by whom
soeYer committed, and while we regret
that the terms Of pacifeation agreed to
by Major General Sherman in April last,
were not at once ratified by the Federal
Executive, we will nevertheless, stand
by President johnson in all constitution
al efforts to Immediately restore to the
States the exercise of their rights and
powers within the Union"
General Sherman, in brief speech ct
a soldiers picnic at Lancaster, few
days ago, expressed in unmistakeable
language his. opinion of this squeamish
desire to restore the rebel States to "the
exercise of their rights and powers with
in the Union" which they 'ventured
their al in an attempt to destroy We
quote General SheFman's 8 words:
When the rebels ventured their all in
their efforts to DESTROY our Government,
they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their saeged honofs To their cause
the. Government accepted their. wager of
battle. Hence, when we By conquest
gained all they had, tiietEs ptoperty be-
came ours by CONQUEST. sEhus they Loss
their slaves, their mules, their cotton,
their all, and even their lVes and person
al liberty, thrown by them into the issue,
were theirs only by our forbeaEanee and
By this right. of conquest we
own this ground We stand on to-day. con-
quered from the Indians. the Shawnees,
I believe The State of Ohio is ours bVn
from the French and English
So, soldiers, when we marched through
and conquered the conhfry Of these rebels,
We became owners Of all they had, and I
don t want you. to. be tr0ubIed IN your
for taking, while on our great
march, the property Of conquered rebels.
They forfeited their lives to it, and 1, be-
ing agent for the government to which il
belonged, gave you authority TO keep all
the quartermasters couldn't take pos
session of, or didn't want"
We commend this doctrine to the ad.
Vocates Of reserved rights. - ~