Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-04-19
The First Sunday Of Federal
Occupation In Richmond.
Correspondence n. Y, World.)

Correspondence n Y, World.)
RICHMOND, Sunday Evening, April 9.
MANY of the churches were open to-
day, and were thinly attended by the
more adventurous of the citizens, with a
sprinkling of soldiers and Northern civil
ians NJ. Woodbridge, at the Monu-
ument Church built on the site of a
famous burnt theatre, prayed for sail in
authority" and held his tongue upon dan
gerous topics, The First Baptist Negro
Church has been occupied all the week
by Massachusetts, chaplains and North
ern negro preachers, who have talked the
gospel of John Brown to gaping audien-
ces of wool, white-eyeball and ivory.
telling them that the day of deilverence
has come, and that they have only to pos
sess the land which the Lord by the bayo-
net has given them. To-day Mr. Allen,
the regular white preacher, occupied the
pulpit, and told the negroes that slavery
was divine institution. which would
continue forever, and that the duty of
every good servant was to stay at home
and mind his master. Half Of the en-
Iightcned Africans got up midway of the
discourse and left; the rest were III doubt,
and two or three black class leaders.
whom the parson had wheedIed over,
prayed Justify that the Lord would keep
Old Virginia from new IDEAS aud all
Yankee salvations so that in the end the
population were quite tangled up, as much
so as If they had read the book of Reve-
Iations. We attended St. PauFs. the
the fashionable Episcopalian church,
where Lee, Davis, Memminger and the
rest had been COMMITMENTS, and heard
Doctor Mihnegerode discourse. He was
one Of the Prussian refugees Of 1913,
and, though Il hot Jacobin there, became
a more bitter secessionist here. He is
learned, fluent, and thoughtful, but speaks
with slight Tcutonic accent. JcG
Davis pew WAS occupied by nobody, the
door thereof being shut. jeff was a
very devout man, but not SO much so as
Lee, vino made all the responses fervent-
ly, and knelt at every requirement. This
church is capable of Seating fifteen
hundred persons, has galleries running en-
treiy around it, and is sustained at the
roof within by composite pilasters of plas-
ter, and at the pulpit by columns OF men
Gel corinthian, the tut ensemble is very
excellent dark sexton gave Us peW,
and there were some handsome ladies
present. dark Richmond beauties, naughty
and thinly clothed, with only here and
there Jockey feathered hat, or velvet
mantila, TO tell Of long siege and priva
ton. We saw that those who dressed
the sIlabbiest had yet preserved some
little article of jewelry-a finger-ring,
brooch, bracelet, showing how the last
thing in woman to die is her vanity.
Poor, proud souls! Last Sunday many
of them were heircsses !: now many Of
them could not pay the expenses Of their
own funerals There were some Cuufed-
crate officers in the house. They remind
ed me of the captive jews holding worship
in their Gutied temple. Some rnilians
broke into this church after the occupa-
ton, and wrote ribaldry in the Bible and
/ hymn-book DIR. Minegerode dared not
! pray for the Confederate States, and his
! sermon was trite, based upon the text of
! the eleventh chapter of the Acts" The
! deciples were first called Christians in
/ Antioch" In the opening lesson, how
ever, he aimed poison al the North, Sc
( Icc;ing the forty-fourth and following
psalms, commencing, I'VE have heard
with our ears, 0 God our fathers have
told us what work thou didst in their
days, in The times of old" Thence il
spoke of the heather being driven out and
the chosen people planted; afflicted by
! Gods dsfavor, the toretathers yet held
the territory, aud the generation extani
would yet rout lis enemies. But now the
Old stock We're put to shame, a reproacl
to their ncighbors and those that dwelt
round about them. ''Thou hast broken
Us in the place OF dragons, and covered
us with the shadow of death" going not
forth with our armies, bowling our souls
TO the dust till our bellies cieave unto the
earth ; we are killed all the day long and
counted as sheep for the slaughter
Let all who would drink the essence OF
sorrow and anguish read this wonderful
psalm. TO learn how after this recapitula-
tion the parson said aloud the thrillin.
Invocation
& Arise! for our help and redeem IL:
for.thy mercies sake -
es- 4 new definition of a Quartermas
ter lie is man who gives the poor
soldier one quarter and keeps the Other
three for himself