Des Arc citizen., 1866-04-07
Rev Charles K. aIarshaIl's Lecture.


 This gentleman so well lknown and so highly appreciated as an able minister of the Meiho- dist Church South, and as brilliant orator, delivered lecture last evening in Odd Fellows Hall to crowded assemblage. We should judge there were 1.500 persons present, large number of whom were ladies. The utmost ordor silence and decorum prevailed. Dr. Palmer, Rev. J. Walker and others were present and took part in the services. The years that have passed since last we saw Mir Marshall have rested lightly on him, and tue fatigues and labors of war--the defence of Vicksburg, the attention to the sick and dying in many field and camp, and other labors in which he has been engaged as minister. ap- pear to have left no traces on him.
 The immediate object of the lecture appear ed 10 be to show the hand of God in history, and that the prayers of so many had not been answered in reference to the late civil war in the manner they had expected, yet they should not on that account lose confidence in God. For, one, he had always believed slavery to be right; that it elevated the negro. But now that it was gone, he would not restore it if he could. Tho white people of the South would now go to work themselves; they would de- yelop the great resources of their loved land ; they would ascertain and develop it's treasures of coal and oil: would make their own shoes, agricultural implements and such other things as they needed, and not buy them from the North ; and the time might yet come when abolitionism, rage and fanaticism would be cursed at the North, as the cause of the ruin of Boston, Lowell, and other places which had thriYen in the manufacture of such things as were needed at the South and that an artist might yet stand on Bunker Hill and sketch the ruins of that city, which had been the cradle of abolitionism. His picture Of the faithfulness of many negroes to their masters how they had with him watched around the dying bed of their wounded masters-how, ai one time, the ladies of his own household were left in the midst of twenty thousand ne groes was most touching. "God bless the time, good African slave" said he he has nc better friend than the Southern people, among whom he was raised, and lie is beginning tc find it out" He showed that before the wal the people all, to nae a homely expression put all thoir eggs into one basket; all capita was invested in cotton, sugar, rice or tobacco But now it would be changed. The account he gave of the Virginia ladies was one ofthe most eloquent things we ever hsard and sev. eral anecdotes, especially one of gray haired aged man, of se7eniy-fye winters riding amidst storm of bullets. enoouragi ng his n en were very impressive; and his remarks aboti s.old father Johnson, the ablest man who had ever sat in the Presidential chair since ths days of George Washington" were received 1 by the audience with cheers. But the dead said he ''shall we forget them-the wounded the maimed, the halt, the cripple; are they tc be forgotten? want to raise $5, 600 tonight for these' He called on several of our vel known citizens who were to receive the offer ings of the assembly, for the purpose ofatten- ding to thedeInands Of those deserving objects and we sincerely hope the amount realized was iarge.-[N. Q. Picayuue.