Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-18

Chief Marshal for the occasion, assisted by
Dr.. V. E. Turner. Coils w H. Marlboro and
T. L. Jones, and ". Ell. Young, Jr., and
". d. Royster, Esqs. 4 band of music
will be in attendance, =, the 90 Salisbury
band" we believe, than which there are
few better in the South. We will publish,
tomorrow, the programme of proceedings
for each day.
BY the way, stepping into Simpsons,
Fayetteville Street, on yesterday, we saw
some specimens OF pyralnldai and orna-
mented cake, which he is getting up iii his
best style, for Il party that is to come off on
one of the evenings OF the fair. The
young folks of both sexes will take notice.
R'Aeigk Sentinel
MnITARY.--We observed in the Washing
ton papers long list OF appointments in
the new regular regiments authorized by
the army bill passed at the late session of
Congress. 1t may be of interest to some
Of our readers to know the new status of
some Of the former military commandments,
whose headquarters We're IN this city, viz
CoIoneIs Of Mft0,bY--Drvt Mai. General
formerly T. II. Ruger and j. c. Robin
son.
M-CoI. IF L.fio'hr- Former Brig. Gen.
n. D. Hardin.
The FkOIisD OF sidney .SOhDSENH
Town Talk, " of the New Orleans Times,
gives us the following. The epitapl is in
deed rarely beautiful and appropriate
a lady correspondent, i'll q recent stroll
through the Saint Louis Cemetery, in this
city, visited the grave of Gen. Albert Sid
new Johnston, and found a written epitaph
pasted upon rough board attached to the
tomb. In her note to L. T., orr fair cor
respondent says she was affected to tears
upon reading it, and took the trouble to
copy it, rerb0tine. She begs us to find ont
the author, and she should be gratifed in
that desire If it were possible for Z. T. to
DO SO. Here is the beautiful epitaph
IN MEMORY.
Behind this stone is laid
For q season,
ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON,
4 General in the army of the Confederate
States,
Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee,
On the sixth day of April A. D.,
Eighteen hundred and sixty-two;
4 man tried in many high offices
And critical enterprises,
Aud found faithful iii ALL
His lie was one long sacrifice of interest to
conscience
And even that life. on woful Sabbath,
Did he yield as q holocaust at his country's
need.
Not wholly understood was lie while helived :;
But, in his death, his greatness stands con-
fessed IN a peoples tears
Resolute, moderate, clear Of envy, yet
not wanting
In that finer ambition which makes men
great ar7 pure.
In his hOnOr-lmpreCnable
In his implicity-sublime
No country e'er had a truer son-no cause
a nObler champion
No people {. bolder dcfender-no principle
purer victim
Than the dead Soldier
Who sleeps here.
The cause for which he perished is lost
The people for whom he fought, are
crushed
The hopes i'll which he trusted, are shat
tered
The Flag he loved guides no more the charg-
ing lines
But his fame, consigned to the keeping of
that time, which,
Happily, is not so much the tomb of Virtue
as its shrine,
Shall, in the years to come, fire modest
worth to noble ends.
In honor, now, our great captain rests
A lereaved people mourn him.
Three commonwealth proudly claim him !;
And history shall cherish him
Among those chOicer spirits, who, holding
their conscience unmix'd with blame,
Have been, in all con junctures, true to them
selves, their country, and their God