Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-23

r'olns forward on his grey 10 meet Grant
ho was awarrior b whom history itself mic hi
steop to gaze. The interview between fho
! opposing chieitalns was severely simple. hpt
! 10" attendants present. Ii took place be
! tween the pickets Of the two armies and
| lasted only few minutes. Grant appolo-
I glzed for not having his sword which was
! behlnd Ia the wagon. The forms yere
agreed upon, and Lee rode back TO his ar-
my. Commissioners on either side were
| appointed to arrange details. The surrender
became known and then, to us, for two
uays blank. Lists Of our names were
,haue OUT, and two days afterwards with
heaVy hearts, we filed by, brigade al n time
before line of captors, and deposited opr
banners aud arms. Gen. Lee rode homa-
"srd on the third day, aud all was over.
The desth Of Thos. II. Stockton, d. D. Of
Philadelphia, is announced. He was min.
lister OF the Methodist Protestant Church
and at the. early age Of 25 was in 1888 and
again in 1885, and still more subs eauentlv
in 1860 elected chaplain to the Amer
lean Congress. Hsi eloquence was of
the highest order and elected the wonder
and admiration of the greatest statesmen of
the Union. As pulpit orator he has been
rarely surpassed. We cannot refrain from
clipping from tho Lynchburg Virginian the
following glowing extract from one of his
Sermons. 1t is radiant with the genius Of
true oratory:
"Ihe universe may dissolve as a dream:
but what shall impair the faithf1lness or
peryert the justice Of God Il wait for the
Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His Word
do hope. My soul waiteth for the lord
more than they that watch for the morning.
Inc priest in the temple, the invalid on his
conch, and the prisoner at his window.
wStch ior the morning the sailor, the SOL
der, and the hunter, and how many more.
ana WIN how much anxiety, all watch for
lne lnornlng. The traveller, especially,
gone up the DAY before, and covering ali
llght among the summit SHOWS of the An
les, the Alps, or the Himalayas, how brave.
y he waits, aud how intently he watches
Tor the morning He hopes without prom.
sc Bu', does the sun disappoint him p
Never At certain hour, the black zenith
grows blue again, the gray east yellows in
70 amber and hushes with rose, innumera-
DE sclntlllant splendors shoot through the
'oSe aud amber, and spread abroad in the
ipper 0lue, aud, at the minute--nay at the
nt-there il flashes rim, half-roupd.
,h-round hiing the world with glory And
he stHrtlud stars veil their faces, and re-
are. The sky shows but one light. The
Mountains put on their purple and gold, and
''y princely obesance. The living torrents
'atcn the living usue, and leap with it into
thousand welcoming valleys. From coast
0 coast, the bilowy seas uplift their. Jewell
d arms, aud clap their hands for joy. And
De souI OF the traveller, the greatest thing
ali tho scene, infinitely greater than the
IN Itself, looks out through the calm ewes
his little body, lost ike a snow flake
mong the cliffs, with tremulous topeue
lodulates the thin air into the instant m
&C and rapture of Thanksgiving, and charms
rs Maker, ana blesses lis race, with the
sneWal OF the angels song, GLORY to God
the highest, and on earth peace, good
Ill toward men ~