The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-13
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giving an account or an interview between Mr.N,
GroRaE DRAKE, Of the Union Springs (Aln.)
Times, and Mr.. TnAppEus STEVENS. We at
tsohcd no Importance 10 the document. and did 3
not publish it in tho NEWS. We knew Mr.. 7
Ds,HI very we'll during tho war. lie was n !
member Of the Third Alabama Regiment, and /
fought braYely during tho first two years OF |
the war, when his health gave way and COM
PEELED him to take "details for light duty" At |
the closo Of the war he was clerk in General
BRAoo's Office in Richmond. Though North
ern nnn by birth, his sympathios ore alto
gcther Southern; and, as win be seen by the
following extract from tho New York Herald.
detailing an interview between one Of it's re-
porters and Mr.. STEVENS, the latter did
not relish Mr.. DRAKE'a cntechizing: 81 ara
frequently annoyed by persons whom do not
desire to see, and who havo no right to trouble
me with their presence. Not many days ago, q
Southern editor, as he called himself in n man.
nor forced his way into my DOM in company
with citizen whose society never voluntarily
seek, by following the servant who brought his
card up 10 me, before had time to decide
whether would see him or not. In IN impe-
rious manner he put question after question 10
me, although told him my health would not
permit me TO receive visitors at that time; and
because kindly answered few he continued
in his lawyer-like ross-exnmination until
arose l., informed him that found il ncccs-
sary to retire TO bed. Even then he followed
me up with other questions, and sec by
Philadelphia paper that he hos published
long rigmarolo about his interview, containing
few words of truth and q great deal Of imagi-
nation"
For ABOUT SEVEN wecks-lill the isl Of Sep
tcmber-says the Boston Post-most of the
fashionable churches will be closed. Yesterday
closed the season at quite q number Of them.
Tho wealthy members arc in Europe or at tho
watering places, and tho pastors, poor, under
paid and ovcrworkcd souls that they are, must
have q holiday too. No one complains Of that.
| The pastors need fresh air as much as anybody,
| and n few weeks spent whero ono may find
| 'sermons in stones, books in tho running
brooks, and good in everything" may take
| some Of the ccbwebs out Of their brains md
put some christianity in. But what commen-
| tary on our high civilization il is. that our
| places of worship are closed just because the
| fashionable commandments are out of Town.
There is not ono of them that could not be filed
three times every Sunday, even in tho warmest
weather, if the middle classes-not tho poor
who must stay in town all summer because
| thoy cannot afford to lenvc it, were cordially
invited to their pcws. But they are not invi-
ted; on the contrary, They urc repclcd, driven
into religious indifferentism, by the fashion
nblo standard in vogue in three -fourlhs Of the
churches. Laboring people cannot pay as
much for pew rent aB many of them pay for
house rent; they cannot 60 to church in
coaches, and diamonds, and ruslling ailks, and
fine broadcloih they do not like to be the sub
jects Of supercillious notice, even in church !;
they have feelings, and it hurts them to bc
treated like beggars rather than brethren.
| These are some of the reasons why over two
thirds Of the population of New York never
/ attend church. The churches are for wealthy
aud fashionable people; the streets, the parks
and the broad air of heavon for the poor. It
no wonder that eight millions of people in the
United States are, virtually, in6dels.
THE Boletin Official, of Matamoros, of the
Goth, publishes the following letter, which El
Merieano says is understood TO have been writ
ten by JUARE1 himself to BkRlozAnEL: "The
trial Of MAMMALIAN, MInAMoN and MEJIA ter
minated; and; az was to be expected, tho ooun-
Gil Of war has condemned them to death. No
tiee of the sentence was given iii5Tn yesterday
at l, and EscoBEpo ordered the execution to
tako place at in the evening. The Baron
\ kC
near MAxIMILIAN, and Senores RIvA pALAoIo
I ---.-s .HcuI as 10
the hour of execution, made application to the
dorernment for q suspension, 30 that the con-
demned persons might hayc time 10 mako their
testamentary dispositions, for which the time
wes too short. The Government which has
been anxious all along to temper justice with
oemency, suspended the execution until Mon
dny next, 30 as to give Baron MAGsus TINA "a
arrive before the execution. The sentence has
been pronounced and is irreyocable. All
means have been tried to procure the fayor of
the Government for the condemned, but in vain.
10 oil such the Government has replied with
simple negative. All efforts nre useless TO
avoid the law, which will bo applied without
remission. By the leisurely course Of he r.o-
SNse'h6ob nhu tue various concessions made TO
MAMMALIAN and his associates, the Govern
ment has tried to show the world tha, IL has
not been urged by passion. but by it's con
science TO solemn duty, howerer weishty.
Inc death, therefore, Of MAMMALIAN. Nina
NON snd MKJIA is decided upon. aud they mus,
expIate their crimes. The whole world IL
abontto be shaken, and Mexico will be raised
to lofty height in the consideration and ~.
spect of the world"
THAD. STEVENS Is rather severe on his col.
Leagues In the interview he rooen,Iv Ind
with the New York Herald. reporter, speaking
ofthe reason Of the incompleteness Of the Rs.
construction Acts, passed in February and
Maroh, ne says: "The fact is, Congress budes
as usual, become thoroughly demorali.ed
some members had their wives at Washington
and their women at home, and others their wo-
men ut Washington and their wives at home
and 1t was impossible to keep them tooetber
The bill was not all that we wanted. but :, ,y.,
the oest we could get, and so VIC passed Il. A.
hrst 1t was proposed that Congress should H.
sell name the generals who were TO command |
IN the different military nistricls into which
the conquered territory was divided. hi, tho !
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