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2AAAAI&o1 Ny a AANJ VIM CA1IOyC0
the Inequalities Of the Govern
ment for a season. Sent by mail,
postpaid, ON receipt of the price.
II mo-, cloth, $3.50. E. J. Hale
& Son, 16 Murray Street, N. Y.
This is one of the most remark
able books of the day, describing,
as it does, in a graphic manner,
some Of the scenes of the despot-
ism which reigned unchecked in
our unhappy country during the
period of the 'sBastiles," when, as
Mr.. Secretary Seward boosted to
Lord Lyons, he had only to touch
a little bell to order the arrest of
a citizen in any part of the coun-
try. The author, an accomplished
lady of high social position, de-
scribes what she herself saw and
suffered-the arrest of herself and
others without cause; their brutal
treatment; longimprisonment; and
final discharge without more rea-
son, apparently, than had served
for their arrest. Mrs. Surratt was
a fellow prisoner, and the descrip-
ton of her noble conduct-of her
to a sick woman who had
been endeavOring to entrap and
betray her for ''thirty pieces of
silver, will make the world shudder
more and more at the remem.
brance that such a woman was
consigned to the gallows by Mil
itary tribunal, which may have
far more to answer for at a higher
than the victim of their
blind rage.
A DEFENCE OF VIRGINIA. AND.
THROUGH HER OF THE South
by Prot. r. L. Dabney, d. D.,
author of the Life of Stonewall
jackson. 12mo., cloth, $3.50.
Sent by mail, postpaid, on re-
ceipt of the price. e. j. Hale
& Son, New York.
We are also under obligations
to the publishers for copy of
the above able and interesting
work. The book is not only the
plainest common sense, but the
most earnest eloquence; not only
a bold, manly, righteous protest
against the Radical iniquity that
rules the hour, but a clear, con-
vincing, powerful argument for the
truth which he defends and main.
tains. We feel no hesitation in
commencing it to the favorable
consideration ofour readers. The
following notice of the work in
question, from Gen. d. II. Hill, of
the Land We Love, we cordially
endorse:
May God bless this noble cham
pion OF Virginia, of the South, and
of'Blble truth. In these days of
doubt, dependency, and gloom,
when our former ideas of right and
wrong become confused, and fail
ing faith is almost ready to ask.
like PLATE, "what is truth ~ such
a volume comes like ''cold waters
to a thirsty SOUL" DIR. Dabney is,
himself, one of that precious seed
OF men," who are men of principle,
and not Of expediency; who alone
(if any can are able to reconstruct
society, after the tumuIt of faction
shall have spent its rage, upon the
foundations Oftruth and justice.
RANDOLPH HONOR. By the An.
thor of 'Ingemisco.n Richard
son q Co., New York. 70 mo-.
extra cloth, 3s2 pages. s1.75.
Memories of the great War still
bring forth theircrop ofpoems and
The lady who, in ain.
gemisco," carried us to the Bava-
rlan Alps, in the old towns of Ger
many, through the scenes ola sort
OF sentimental romance, much in
the manner of Longfellow's "Hy
perlon," now introduces us into a
more stirring life: night marches
with the Army of Northern Virgin.
ia, hair-breadth escapes, through
the marshes of Arkansas. and at