The Springfield Daily Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

February 27, 1864

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JprttttWw I III I I III II 1 I I I VOLUME 21 NUMBER 50 I WHOLE NUMBER 6009 SPRINGIELD MASS SATURDAY EBRUARY 27 1864 REL I GIO US INTEL LIGENOE con PRICE: THREE CENTS I SEVEN DOLLARS A YEAR ROM THE TENTH REGIMENT Correspondence of the Republican Camp near Brandy Station Va ebruary 12 A SWORD PRESENTED TO GEN EU8TI8 Dear Republican I have been poisingmy pen for some time in doubt how to address you I have thought of several forms but none seemed just right one was too forma) another too fa miliar another (Dear Rep) allowed of doubt whether Republican or reprobate was intended but this my letter often the hardest part to arrange satisfactorily You will like to hear of our sword presentation which took place this afternoon So we will be gin at the beginning While the 10th regiment lay at Storehouse mountain last September our then Col Eustis was appointed a brigadier gen era) having acted in this capacity since the battle of Salem Hights in May last Wishing to testify to their regard for him the officers and men united in contributions for the purchase of a sword sash and belt suited to his position After live delay it has arrived This afternoon therefor? tlie regiment marched to his headquai ters to present it It was matter of regret to till tlwt Lieut Col Parsons with other eight ufritU i ii 1 The New York Central railroad is trying to get the legislature to let it raise its way fares from 2 to 8 cents a mile It will hardly succeed A committee of investigation of the New York Central stockholders think there should be a stock dividend by and by so much of its profits having been put into construction and real estate George Harrington assistant secretary of the treasury and 2 Pangburn formerly editor at Worcester and Boston aud lately paymaster in the army have comeback from Europe liar rington wont for health and only got part of it Pruiglwu went probably to show the old coun try wtat mauuei of man the now raises house In the House orders were adopted as to what legislation is necessary to enable the bank com missioned to tvstrain persons acting or claiming to act as private bankers from issuing or cireti luting the notes of banking corporations wuieh have surrendered their charters and gone into liquidation Reports were made inexpedient on the order relative to a state form of policies for fire insurance companies resolve appropriating not exceeding $1000 for the expenses of the at torney general in the case of a writ of error pending in the supremo court of the United States sued out by John McGuire Petitionswere presented in favor of a modification of the law relating to the aid of families of volunteers Daniel Waldo Lincoln of Worcester and Henry rench of Cambridge wore elected in concur rence trustees of the agricultural college to fill vacancies by nearly an unanimous vote A few matters in the orders of the day were disposed of a bill relating to railroad crossings being jci tixl and report leave to withdraw on petition of the Conway bank accepted The Dighton and Somerset railroad bill was debuted nt some length The committee on the repeal of the law tax ing non resident stockholders made a report They statothai themnount invested in corporation in the state is $215752127 and that the amount taxed is but S116 001749 The question of the constitutionality of the measure is examined and it'is concluded that the exercise of tne power is a proper one and generally recognized through out the New England states They further state that another committee appointed to consider a more equitable mode of taxing stock in corpora tions him the subject under consideration and may devise some method by which a larger amount of this property may be taxed Accord ingly they asked that they may bo discharged from the further consideration of this subject Mr Temple of Chicopee announced the death of Moses Chapin of Chicopee and effured the following Resolved That tl is House has heard with sorrow and regret the intelligence of the death of Noses Wi Chapin of Chicopee a member elect of iis Home Resolved That tao House sympathises with tie family of the dicenscd in tiii ii bereavement and witu Ids fellow citizens who have lost one Lcru tliey wore uncustomed tohvnor ano respect Resolved That as a mark of respect for the mem ory of the deceased a oomriiite of uve be appointed to attend the funeral services Kikolved That three resolves be entered in flue journal ol the House and a copy be sent to the fam ily of the deoeaseu Mr 'Dimple made some remarks in commenda tion of the good qualities of the deceased ween the resolutions were adopted! Messrs Temple of Chicopee Sturtevant of Springfield Dickinson of Hadley Johnson of Dorchester and Emerson cf Metuueu were ap pointed the committee to attend the funeral As a further mark of respect the House ad journed is rare metal is so said lisp ing New Yorker to me used to be so love ly Ho had such beautiful whiskers but he has got into such bad he drink to ex I asked in consternation no worse he believes in ri ihts and all that I Then besides he is a dreadful abolitionist Think of him as he used to bo in the violet kids with that irresistible lock in the middle of his forehead What a falling What a falling off? With the bound of an athlete he has sprung to the level of the time His face fronts the storm his brawny hand grapples every issue of good or ill his brave tender heart ministers to every sorrow of the hour The lotus eater the dreamer of the Nileluiesus no longer to linger in idle ease by river and sea to lie down by limpid lakes amid the restful hills or to lavish life in the false fever of luxurious crowds Earnest worker true helper and brother of woman lover of man universal patriot sacrificing place for principle yes you have changed Brother of the pen noble servitor of the lowly prophet of the better time clearer than in the days of spring is the clear ripe tone of your summer voice through the night of our afiiiction calling us to holy labor and sacrifice for God and for each I other TABLEAUX OR THE WASHINGTON AIR In between leelliri'S have been Inril ino tableaux given fur the benefit of the great fair at the patent office and came iu opera cloaks and diamond's to look at beauty and fashion painted robed transferred into wonder ful images Some of the representations were very fine others failures In the a very lack ada deal die away youth sits upon a bed and bits up his head to receive a laurel crown from the hands of a conventional draw ing room muse the most absurd looking poet who ever was crowned Mrs Ames tlio wife of the artist with the form of a statue aud the faultless profile of a Greek held forth the blood dripping head of Holofernes a magnificent Judith who made my blood run cold anff left her image in mv memo TV fnrnvf'r Th An thnrA wna vnnnir I frirl who v1 PtJnWu irenu mj AUVV ini luui uits ono was so encasea in paste that had you not known the fact it would have been impossible to have believed her anything but marble The effect was perfect and inarveb lous In the courtship of Miles Standish Lizzie Hale made a very pretty Priscilla only her spin ning wheel wan turned wrong end first but precious few knew it doubtless Pm sure I till some one told me Troubling the scenes were numbers of yeliow haired long gowned angels with preposterous feather wings pinned against the walls rom what barbaric region came that morbid passion for a pinions winch has deformed the angels of art through all ages The Creator of harmony the perfect Artist who has moulded the human form in incomparible beauty surely He will never outrage the splendor of His seraphs by com pelling them to toil through eternity under a flapping protuberance of feathers artists still give us angels Let their supernal faces shine beneath the ancient aura enfold them in golden nebulae let them Hoat in the celestial nimbus but by all that is sacred save us from cotton gowns and the feathers of a fowl THE AIR ITSEL AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS The great national fair for the Christian com mission and the families of our disabled soldiers which for months has absorbed the best energies of our noblest men aud women was opened on birthday in the Patent Office This fair has been to a great degree under the snner intondence of the wives of our representatives now iu Washington Beside giving their person al labor these Ladies have corresponded largely with the people of their several districts thus the treasures of this fair are composed of contribu tions of many states Doubtless other states have responded as nobly but it has been my privilege to read many private letters from the women of Vermont ami with keen pleasure 1 bear witness to their self sacriticing patriotism Talk of the women of the revolution! They were not more eager to molt their pewter spoons nor more noble in sacrificing the husbanhs and sons of their love than are the true women of this greater revolu tion Iu those fur away hamlets among the hills what true hearts throb Spontaneous pure us their own crystal streams are these rills of bc flowing down tv the great river Not withstanding iltij unprecedented drafts upon their resources for men bounties home fairs nearly every town has responded How holy in our eyes are these sacred mites these quai ters these dollars swelling at last into thousands gathered from the widowed and bereaved scanty stores poured with seif forgetting love into the treasury The senescent hands and tearful eyes of women have counted them the angel of God has numbered them all Amid banners and music grottoes and flowers the great fair opened The immense hall was thronged with a vast concourse civilians sol diers women children Wheu a great shout went up filling every arch though vve could uot see we knew who had come upon the platform Abraham the Good who every day grows nearer and dearer to the heart There was a long speech" delivered through a gen tleman's nose to which I did not listen an elo quent poem which I could not hear many splen dors which I could not see thus the full descrip tion of the great fair I must reserve for the next letter a CHURCH AND MINTSTB Rev Walter A Barton was ordained and installed over tlie Congregational church at South Amherst on the 17th Rev John Boles of Chillicothe Ohio has been appointed chaplain to the Massa chusetts 55th The Catholics will build a church at Marlboro this The salary of Rev A Putnam Unitarian pastor at Rox bury 1ms been raised from to Rev Crane formerly of Northampton lately of Boston has bean called by the Baptist church at Greenfield Rev Charles Packard for fourteen years pastor of the Orthodox church in Lancas ter died very suddenly in Biddeford Maine last Wednesday The Universalist society at Law rence has lifted a debt of $6000 from their house of Rev Ml Batchelder has become pastor of the Baptist church at Pownal Vt A new Congregational church is to be organized and a house of worship built iu the south part of New Haven Ct to accommodate those who do not relish the conservative doctrines preached at Hal church by Rev 51 Joseph Asch wandcr for many years pastor of Trinity church Georgetown aud famed for learning in lan guages and theology has recently died at the ago of Rev Jenkins has been called to the Soutii Congregational church Salem Mr Leach who is to bo chaplain of a colored regiment waa ordained at the College chaiel Am herst on Rev Wayland Hoyt of the Baptist church Pittsfield has declined a tempt ing call to New York city Rev Hateh disowmed by the Oongregationalists for preaching at Brooklyn iu favor of theaters aud other amusem*nts has been called to the pastorate ol the Unitarian church at Concord Rev Dr Kirk has been laboring spiritually in the Holyoke seminary and there is quite a revival among the wuiij ijuvo niuij uum unity proiessnr version REVIVAL SECOND ADVENTISM Rev Joshua Himes for many years a Second Advent preacher and editor in Boston has emi grated to the West and commenced the publica tion of the Voice of the "West aud Second Advent Pioneer at Buchanan Mich The latest discoveiy of the Adventists is that the present dispensation will end sometime between 1872 and 1875 which they think will be 6090 years after the creation They consider the present Napoleon one of the chief characters foretold in prophecy They say he is the person described throughout Rev xiii and xvii who is to gain power over all nations and especially over the ten horn kingdoms of England Spain Portugal Italy Austria Egypt Greece Syria Turkey aud North Africa The making of an alliance between Napoleon and the southern states an I a consequent war witli the Noi th in order to extend Ins power on this con tinent is regarded according to these views as inevitably certain and his predicted universal power is indicated to bem quiied by the Romish church everywhere furthering his schemes in or der that tliey may unitedly obtain world wide dominion for the Latin civil and oecie iastical om pira The invasion and conquest of England by Napoleon as part of the old Roman empire is re garded as unavoidable as well as his reparation of Ireland fl oiu England He is also foicshown to make a seven covenant with the Jews and to restore them to Palestine seven years before the millennium (Daniel ix 27) His name con tains 6G6 the uumberXRevolations xiii 18) in Latin Greek and Hebrew which has per haps never been the case with any other man After desolating the world he is expected to perish at Christ's descent at the battle of Arma geddon in Palestine about or soon after 1872 in troductorily to the millennium MISCELLANEOUS Gen Butler issued an order on the 11th placing all the houses of public worship in Norfolk and Portsmouth Va under the control of tlie provost marshals and ordering them to the pulpits properly filled by displacing when necessary tlio present incumbents and substituting men of mown loyalty and the same sectarian denomina tion either military or civil subject to the ap proval of tlio commanding general They shall see that the churches are open freely to all officers and soldiers at the usual hour of worship and at other tunes if desired and tliey shall see that no insult or indignity be offered to them cither by won! look or gesture on the part of the congre gation The ueeessaiy expenses will be levied as far as possible in accordance with the previous usages or regulations of each congregation re spectively No property shall be removed either public or private without permission from these headquarters" The annual report of the religious condition of our colleges prepared by the society of inquiry at Andover theological seminary gives returns from twenty six colleges in New England New York aud Pennsylvania They contain 8570 stu dents Kf these 1083 are professors of religion 102 were converted in 1803 and G53 are prepariuir for the ministiy The religion of Thackeray like that of most literary men was liberal aud catholic It was perfectly natural ami had nothing in it of affecta tion or raoroseuess In the year 1842 bo made a tour in Ireland and had much attention paid to him there He accompanied one of his hosts in the county Meath to an Episcopal church one Sabbath and be afterwards observed of the ser vice in lus pleasant the benefit of a WINTER VIEWS IN WASHINGTON 51 Icttcrs from the Capital rom Our Special Washington Tuesday ebruary 23 A SASY CHAIR AND ROUND TABLE There is a terrible gale without I have been in it Awnings barber pests ash barrels through the swaying wails of the grey sEncon Nobody was quite certain whether tlfey stood on head or feet er which wa? frozen hardest nose or finger ends ou this coldest day which Washing ton has seen for seven years as the weatlicr wise declare Shut in from it now watching it swoop vp some despairing pedestrian or shriek defiance aud heap dirt outside of the window panes how delightful to turn away to and The Round Table is as charm ing os the Easy Chair only in another way Out from tlio cushions of the Easy Chair steals an atmosphere soporose and soothing The sun shines music thrills eloquence inspires iu the most delirious of receptive moods you take in all and are happy Beside banners flaunt bugles beat armies mass generals shout you see the emoke and splendor of battle but you see all as a panorama When the pageant has passed by hew easy and serene Easy Chair to sink back into the arms of Somnus I would like to see anybody fail asleep after dinner at the Round Table All its viands are stimulants and tonics Its wines leave the tang of the precious juices pressed i rom tne grapes oi an ancient vintage There are no false condiments no corrosive acidity no poisonous compounds no sweetness to cloy but plenty of uungcncy of keen flavor to give zest to relish been there but thrice Breakfast dinner and tea at the Round Table an I left it neither stuffed nor stultified but with nerves tingling nnd brain alert with good cheer Three times at the Round Al ready I wait and watch and almost long for the next time as I do toward the rare table of a home wkich through beautiful years lias saved a scat for me with the gifted the cultured nnd the good The relucetit faces the harmonious thought set to golden words float around me from that table as I read the promise of this Round Table? without prejudice partiality er partizanship will seek to elevate the standard of American criticism and taste aud inspire a more ardent love for the highest and best inter ejts of the Without regard to any cliques or local prejudices without regard to party machinery or political organization whatever is refined and popular literature po litical military aud financial criticism art and the drama are to bo discussed wonderful Roan 1 Table never forget to feed your hail fel lows with ambrosia Reraembcrj no potted meats no pelils novpers can ever give nervous headaches torpid livers and turbid stomachs to men who arc to keep such promises son freres of the Round Table! no prejudice can strike root iu your brains no pique give oblique sight to your vision no clique drag you down into its paltry arc from the high realm of art the rare region of pure criticism marvelous Round Table can you hold fast to your first promise? Always be just and love mercy? Can you refrain from eriticisiug books that you never read people that you never knew pictures which you never saw after the manner of modern erudite critics Then indeed aie you the wonder of this generation beaded bubbles winking at the brim but in crystal cup in cry tai water from tliesprirg I a ioug strong life to you men of the llouud Table! SWEET BRIAR PRICKS By what law of ratiocination I rush from the Bound Table to your Republican mind Enough that I have been sniffing the sweet briar enjoying its delicious fragrance mid jut as I was exclaiming how it pricked me with a little ungenerous thorn just liken sweet briar! It appears that Sweet Briar and A have each anopinion of tlie poetry of the which when sifted to their kernel? are as alike as pccis Sweet Briar says mat tiiero is cnougn tnat is commonplace mea ger unintelligible and uu elodious but setting that aside is not till the rest a perfect golden Cling to your opinion Sweet Briar 1 wouldn't convert you if I could You tell the names in the treasury'' of exceptions tmd among the last tay not Mrs Aker's melodious verses impearled incur Aud what ehall we say of Mrs battle Tins is what A said in the challenged letter of those two rare singers The Atlantic claims among its contributors two women whose poetry embolies the elements of Julia VYaffi Howe and Elizabeth Akers Mrs of the are far below her standard but I would rather have produced her Hymn of the than any poem written since the war There were never two lyrics writ ten fuller of impassioned tenderness and seraphic sweetness than Elizabeth me to sleep Mother" aud shall be my Angel Iu these two women the passional pow er of one and the fathomless tenderness of the other sots itself to wonderful music Iu the first resonant as au or 'an anthem in tlie other melli uuous as an Arcadian lute vibrating with such human love and immortal sorrow that I should flunk even the angels might come down to listen I don't cure who denounces my poor taste be euuso I hold in no reverential esteem tlie aggre gate poetry of the Atlantic though I have set its jewels in my heart of hearts But no or otherwise can be ollowed ever so unwittingly even to make it poem that I have Lifted to recognize and and love two poor as true as live in the world and dearer to me than any others in the land Spread vour petals a little wider up the as often as you choose bnt the next tune take up the whole glove please not part 8T0RR8 AND CURTIS We have had the inspiration and delight of listening within a fortnight to two such rare meu as Dr Storrs and George Curtis Dr Storrs was so eloquent that Ins words could not be re ported for they carried the reporter away from jxm and paper nnd iu all respects was never ex celled if equaled by any lecture ever delivered in Wnsluugtoa while the golden reutencos cud high patriotic sentiments of Curtis called forth an enthusiastic love which formed no element in tho sentimental admiration won by the Adonis ot our literature tan years ago He entered upon tne game of life with a languid step He loitered hstenmg to the songs of sirens he fed on lotus he dreamed by tbc way There were other youiur men who entered the race with him not moreswift of not more deft of limb nor inspiredot brain yet they fixed their eyes upon the prize and pursued it But one day a celestial iinpetw descended to our dreamer Suddenly ho slook off every Weight he girded up his strength he fixed bis eyes upon the sun started alter his comrades Lol to day he has outstripped them u'J and we crown him victor In that coterie of masculine writers who have just entered upon the summer time of their career can we find another who gives such proof of positive individ ual growth spiritual aud intellects) as George nham Curtis? Compare the limner of Vv 0 with the biographer of Theodore vvnithrop the poet who chants die noble lyric of the American log" the edi or of Hm let hejiust escaped being a parlor dawdler a utorary Lord Dundreary cultivating side whiskers sneezes mu! drawing room nothings When he r'1 and embodied Kura aBected die affectations which he ridi mPd aud loved the follies which ho sb munid wntly condemned Was it any wonder? AU Ja rn ovo witil All Ameri hmi nBood who studied and dreamed who hoi not consecrated their tender sentimentality BiLyarJ Ta lor wb0 afterwards ahi i widi sarcasm and sour krout) wor a3 thcil idcaI th0 Howadji In those Iut frays 1 t0 the weakness of ador Saxn tuf' I doted on his Grecian nose his baxej eyes his transcendent hair! If hand Catl fr0TB Bich a tniciLfosvjuetkyjg morQ than aa idi RELIE OR EAST TENNESSEE Letter of Spealier Bullock Upon the vote of tJioHouse against the appro priation for die relief of the unionists of East Tennessee Speaker Bullock sent a contribution of to Edward Everett with the following hiind ome letter COMMONWrAI TH ASSACIIUr'BTTS UOUBK llLTBEeitNTATIVEP Boston 25th eb 1881 My Dear Yon have aberdy been apprised cf the action cf the House of Representalivos uiton die icsolves relating to East Tnaes ee I desire Unit you and all om fellow citizens (diouM justly appreci ate the motives nl ich have controlled ti vote of memlx re in refusing the appropriation of fWO'CO It is lot to bortipposed that they are insensible to the suOerings ot the people of Tennessee nor that they Lave forgotten flic pathetic appeal of Colour! Taylor so fully sustained by the simple and unadorned statement of General Buniside But peaking as an impartial witness of the discussion I may properly say that the members of the House have undoubtedly acted under ti influence of grave doubts as to the conrtitnHoual pro riety cf making the appropriation frcnitliostfttetreftsuiy'' I take it for granted that this retion of the House will render instantly imperative the private contri butions uf cur people I accordingly enclose to vou my own At the meeting of the of the aneuil Hall assemblage held at your house last week Idle we were considering this subject observing a portrait of Mr Burke suspended over one of vour coses of books 1 was reminded of a passage containcdin his remark able speech upon the suOerings of the people of Ju din which seemed appropriate to the con iueration of the present condition of a quarter of a million of our fellow people of East Tennessee You will par don mo if I recall was going to awake your justice toward this unhappy part of our fellow citi zens (said Mr Bui ke) by bringing before you seine of the oirctimstancos of this plague of hunger Of all the calamities which bo et mid waylay the life of man this comes the nearest to our hearts and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels hirnsi If to be nothing more than he is But llindmvself tumble to manage it with decorum these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and dl gusting they are so degrading to the suff rers and to the bearers they are so humiliating to human liature itcelf that on better thought? I tind it more advisable to throw a pal! over this hideous object and to leave it to your general To his picture of the people of the Carnatic when transferred to a gallant and uffiicted portion of our own countrymen other outlines might be added though tlio fame great master is wanting to fill them out In the appeal which contes to us to ti pathos of suffering humanity is added the sublime martyr dom of patriot! iu the call upon us is not only to relieve a people who are without food and clothing but to relieve a people who are suffering under these calamities because of their allegiance to the flag which floats so ea ily over us in New England I could wish that you my dear sir might portray to our community the relations which their liberal cont' ibutions in tills instance may have to tiie future that i before Wo all believe that the present conflict will nt length terminate in a restored Union of hearts well as of stabs It is impossible for anycfus to predict exactly when this ideal ra ult shall be attained but fit will come at last Then it stuill no longar bo said that the Ea anot regard ful of the We Over all the uplands of Tenursrec and wherever her sons end daughters shail spread their brave rawit shall be known that Massachu setts while contributing a hand ed thousand of her sons to tlie defense of the common he itage of lib erty was among the foremott to coin a tribute of sympathy for her brothers and sisters in a distant state beyond the mountains It sbnll be the augury of an indissoluble union between tlie East and the between the old North and a new South And it shall be perpetual aithfully your obedient erryimt Alexfi Bullock Mr Everett IbiESiDENTil We have received from Claysville West Virginia a scries of reso lutious pa sori by National Chaco club of that place They repeat the argument of the Pomeroy circular of which they aud the dftb are oue of the first fruits declaring (President record nt every point aud utterly lx yond successful and indicating a ilo cidcd preference for Mr Chase over all other can didates though wiliiug to accept rombut Butler Banks or 'Grout A Cincinnati dispatch to tlio Philadelphia In quirer says that tlie action of the Indiana con vention in instructing their delegates to the national convention to cast their votes for Mr Lincoln is eontudered decisive os to tlie West Hal the resolution so instructing gone to the commit tee room without debate and not been put to a vote of the convention in roais it would not bare been hoard of ive out of eleven congressional districts in caucus had voted against instructing The resolution may therefore bo considered a triumph of the people over the politicians Senator Pomeroy returned to Washington on Thursday having been absent for several days He avows the authorship of the circular' and says he will stand or fall by it The correspondent mentions a caucus of less im republican congressmen and says neither Mr Lincoln nor Mr prospects were improved by the vast amount of talking The Times correspondent says Mr friends iu the Senate will make a tight on the confirmation of the new postmaster nt Cincinnati and that not one was tern senator is for Mr Lincoln though they uro by no mcmw for Chase The World's correspondent also states that a delegation of New Yorkers is at Washington ask ing the president to remove Collector Barney end put Postmaster Wakeman in his place otbwwisa the New York delegates will not go tor his re nomiimtion also that Mr Lincoln wants Mr Chase to remove dir Barney that Mr Chase will not do ittrad jnoieovcr if the prosi dent removes But iu opposition to Chase tha latter will resign all of which maybe onlyraie chicvoiw gossip no Dr Lewis A dolffis who has for two yeass past moved iu the in Cmeiiraact on the strength of Ictaus of introduction from leading men tn England whence be camo has reconUr disappeared having swindled LU out of 18000 or Ho is believ ed to Lave gone to Europe ROM ST LOUIS Correspondence of The Republican St Louis Tuesday ebruary 23 DEATH GOV GAMBLE The name of our late governor had become fa miliar throughout the Union As Hie loyal gov ernor of a state at first well nigh recreant and nearly always afflicted with internal rebellion hostile incursions and civil discord he had been made conspicuous in the annals of the war in the West ilis troubled political career is now ended Death Ims claimed him a shining mark and he las been followed to the grave with all tha solemn pageantry due the illustrious dcid In the death of Gov Gamble our state has lost no ordinary man In person he was of command ing his features almost a model of manly beaut? full of that divinity of expression made up of lienevoleuce piety and honor that wins the heart nt once whenever seen As a jurist he was profoundly learned and had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer Ab pre siding judge of the supreme court he command ed the entire confidence of the legal profession and of the people In all the relations of private life he was singularly free from reproach ew men live a purer life or a long time until his death he was an elder in the Presbyterian church and an earnest active Christian In prayer ho was a devout believer even to an almost childish simplicity Wheu overwhelmed with the duties of his profession and in their very midst he would retire to pray with the colporteur who hod called upon him for counsel in his pioneer work When as judge he was in doubt over a momen tous ciu be would seek the clearer light of heaven and this habit followed him th rough life Very few distinguished men in secular life are so governed by the principles of religion In charities lie was liberal in his life having largo means He left a fortune variously estimated froma quarter to half ainiilion over oneliundted thousand dollars of which was cash in bank In politics he was an old time whig but of late years until the rebellion he had lived retired from the arena of politics As a Virginian coarse in the outset of tlie rebdlion was watched with anxiety His influence would be great lor or against the government But he soon quieted all tears Virginia docs go med I will he publicly declared 1 buch a hapjty pro emiuenco Gov Gambia en joyed at the opening of the rebellion Very nat urally in that dark and gloomy period when our 1 TIIE LEGISLA TURE i rom Our Own Reporter I Boston riday night ebruary 20 i SENATE The Senate had another debate on the bill to increase the capital stock of the Merchant? woolen company the question being on the poli cy of engrafting special acts on incot porations under the general laws The debate was quite generally participated in and although the bill was rejected by a decided vote on account of the ob jections from piineiple a reconsideration was carried by nearly an unanimous vote The debate was still continued on the policy and amendments proposed wheu the bill was ordered to be en grossed The bill to seenro tho rights of counsel iu tha trial of causes was also the came of debate I The bill appears to have had its origin in tlie bar rules adopted by the superior court which re quire counsel to stand while questioning wit nesses A member from Bristol who introduced the subject said that lawyers who objected to the rule and believed it to Ire hard and unjust had in some cases introduced a portable desk which in some measure remedied the diffi culty complained oi but the rigid interpre tation of the rule had forced the lawyers to give that up The judges were defended by a Suffolk lawyer who said the court must be presumed to know what course is best adapted to secure the facilitation of business and the judges had said that if the members of the bar could show that they suffered any material inconvenience by the rule it would lie modified or annulled Until such a general representation and complaint were made it would be manifestly improper to come to the legislature foi interference in such matters It was contended further tiiat public justice had been promoted trials had been shorteuod the number of counsel had been lessened instead of increased as assumed nnd tho dignity and re spectability of the bar had been promoted The subject ws not exhausted the members of the bar not being agreed in relation to it and further consideration was assigned to Tuesday next was reported to incorporate the General ihoologicol library in Boston with a capital of $150000 exclusive of books aud furniture and a bill further to suspend the operation of a section of an act of 1860 relating to procuring new plates by boules The busness of tire ISouato was very light provisional government was formed all eyes in stinctively turned tc him as the man for the hour With one accord he was called to take the helm He entered upon his duties with an earnest loy al and patriotic will to stand by tho government and Union and he did so to his dying day He derived his inspiration from the government at Washington and always co operated with the military authorities placed over him His task was necessarily a difficult one No other of our governors has hod so many discordant elements to contend with and hence no such liability to commit mistakes The bast human wisdom with the liest motives could hardly steer clear of all rocks and quicksands upon such boiling and waters or satisfy the notions of all as to our internal policy Hut his errors if for we know what the historian will seem those of administration of matters concern in our own internal peace and not affecting our relations to tho government and concerning which there was great diversity of opinion among loyal mon many supporting and many condemn ing I confess myself one of the many who be lieve that the censures heaped upon him by a party in our midst were in tho main unjust and even no better founded than the merest slander The following obituary I find iu the New York Independent Gamble of Missoui i died at St I xmls on Sun day last Hi? influence was adverse to the emanci pation his loyalty betag of the constitution id ripe" 1 his gives in a nutshell the spirit of the cen sures that pursued him towards the close of his career Tho first governor of a slave state to recommend and urge emancipation leaving the method entirely to the people and who expressed a desire in the convention for a more speedy ordinance than the one passed is thus falsified though dead Moro than that his loyalty is ar raigned which to nnestinn ia little hnftov flren I slander It were certainly a pity that a relig ious journal could not find one word of eulogium for a man who so pre eminently ad vance! the Christian faith it nrctnnJc lv Pdltfl Out nnrhi lrrl ti I ruupusu LHUl Ul VH uuv vi iigAuu Has fiuuoruinaw to uiatoi instant abolitionism The is simply mean But whatever may be now said of his administration I do not hesitate to adopt tho words contained in his funeral the passions of men shall have subsided and reason and charity resume their sway over a once more neighborly and prosperous community tlie memory of kuuulvu uamuiB win ou cnensnen in the heart of this commonwealth with a warmer affec tion and the purity of Lis spotless character Will shine with a brighter luster than that of any other public man who has ever lived within our GEN RO8ECRAN8 I Die course of Gen Rosecrans thus far Is grnti wis io we support ot all union men alike aud obviously retuses to identify him self with any party or faction He comes as a military man to restore peace and law to the state Au attempt was made on his arrival by one party to patronize him as their man but to ad appearance it was not relished and in fact met with a delicate rebuff It is to be hoped he will steer clear of the errors of his two predeces sors and that all Union men may feel that he is approachable by them bo they radical orclny bank in name RESIDENT MAKING In Missouri tlio elements bid fair to be discord ant on the presidential question The German radicals announce iu their papers that they cannot consistently support Mr Lincoln in any event he is not anti slavery enough for them and on the Missouri question cow mitted tho unpardon able sin Many radicals aver that his inhospi tality to the famous delegation to Washimrton will break his political neck so infatuated arc they with tiie idea that this little conservative and radical quarrel affected the whole world The MissuuriDeinocrat without owning it franklydiscovers now and then a latent hostility to him winch party discipline only would bear down It seems to bo haunted with tho of Seen tary Chase A Lincoln club has been formed here but I recognize no amon" tho momliers thus far The Demociat great1? deplores this move Thus fur in Missouri and Kansas the current of expression is decidedly in favor of re election NEW EMANCIPATION CONVENTION Our legis1aturehas passed a law submitting the question of convention or no coin ention to the people to lie voted on in December This is ac counted a radical victory But the nil) may yet to cotno However by tho tinn the conven tion could assemble I expect and hope to see slav ery dead in fact in Missouri as it is now virtually All the convention may have to do will bo to make tho letter of the laws conform to tlio existi in state of facta I agree with the Republican is to perish and there is no longer a question as to the means' Bombs and bayonets have begun and will finish tire work and the po litical doctors will never make anybody believe that they did it by regular And now the telegraph tells us that it is understood that the president will soon declare emancipation in all tire states This would seriously interfere with our radical take tiie wind out of their sails In this matter time helps mightily and now the jxilitieal work of half a century is done up iu a year by as old Abe says Our radical friends here have been greatly exercised and shed croeoJiio tears because slavery as they aliege has been fastened upon us by 'the orffi nanee for forty years The idea is decidedly some verdancy around! TUB MISSISSIPPI VrALLEY AIR We are to take our turn now at a grand sani tary fair that will ramify the whole Mississippi valley to commence May 17th It is Loped it will eclipse aft others in the proceeds! But we will necessarily roly upon other states in older to doit The Union people of St Louis and Mis souri have been bled to death almost While they have not prospered in business like tho jxre plo of the East the home demands upon th ir generosity have been immense and no people have given so liberally in proportion to their means and been moro devoted to their work Tho western sanitary commission must now re sort to some extraordinary resource in order to keep up its present magnificent scale of disburse ments Massachusetts has done nobly for it al ready Bv the report of the commission it ap peals that one tonitii of all tlie donations re ceived havo come trim tho old Bay state All this with what your pejplo have done at hom*o and in other directions 1 The recot is a splendid tribute to tho Liix rality of the old Bay state To ask for continued favors might seem like running a free horse because free but if your benevo lence has not already ruined your we shall hope to soe more largo contributions this time for tiie fair Donations should bo addressed to James Yeatman St Louis officers and 130 enlisted men in all were not with us Major Parker nt present commanding the regiment presented the sword assurin' the general in doing so that like tho gold of tlio scabbard his old regiment had passed through the fire and come forth purified that hire the polished blade within so they would be true to him and to the country You must spare me any description ot the sword I can only say of it that it was manufactured by the Ames company of Chicopee and is the most magnificent piece of workmanship of the kind I have ever seen THE NEW RRIGADE BAND If we were disappointed in the absence of many whom we would have wished to soe we were for tunate in tho services of our new brigade band just arrived Most of tho members have already been in the field ns part of the old regimental baud How wonderfully does add to the pleasure of any joyful occasion and cheer up the saddest THE VETERANS THE TNETH And now one word for our absent comrades They were unfortunate in the matter of going home An oversight at corps headquarters de tained the officers a day The consequence was that their return lacked thaj element of triumph which none have deserved more than thev It is too late of course to remedy tiro past but you can and should render their brief visit joyous in tire present and a golden recollection in the fu ture so far as yout action ean do so Let tho gladdest smile welcome them and the heartiest congratulations and above nil ask them soon are you going Make them feel that their labors and privations are iu some degree appreciated Some of them havo not been home since leaving Hampden park iu 1861 And after this brief respite they are to re turn for another long period of service I do not share in tire belief so common that tiie next will Ire a short term I shall Ire mistaken if tliey are not held for three yoais to come let them have any reason to imagine that you are in haste to have them hack If any one wishes to know wheu this will be here are the data Thirty five days from ebruary loth must find them back in camp allow two days for the journev and you have tiie time when they must leave Springfield A SAD DEATH ebruary 22 My letter has been delayed until now A little tnie but how great tho changes it may bring The leader of our band Burdick A Stewart of North Adams having been sick but a day or two was brought to our hospital at two clock on Saturday afternoon at five o'clock he was dead A wife and two little children at home as yet are ignorant even of his sickness May the God of tiie widow and tho fatherless be their helper Svxa congregation of some thirty persons I heard for the space of an hour and twenty minutes some iroicsumt iiocinne ana tne i'opisb superstitions properly belabored Dots it streimthen a man in his own to bear his belief abused? One would imagine so for though abuse converts nobody yet many of our pastors think they are not doing their duty by their own fold unless they fiing stones at the flock in the next field and have for the honor of the service a match at cudgeling with tho shepherd Our shepherd of to day was of this pugnacious 1 he effect of freedom upon the negroes has been to lessen the manifestation of religion in the mere ly emotional forms and to increase it in the form of morality and good works as Dr Howe rather quaintly remarks less nasal and more practical They pray less vehemently but he and steal less An attempt being made to get the Episcopal bni'ial w'rvice corrected because it implies the salvation of all over vhom it is read the arch deacon of Quitetbury writes to his clergy reverend and dear brethren twaddle vdiich ha? appeared in many of the public journals late ly respect of the burial service induces me to give you my adice more especially I have been more than half a century a minister of the Gospel (no doubt an unworthy one) nevertheless it has always been my motto and will ever be to let well enough alone Verlmiv Mplentlsat se 1 our faithful friend and brother James Some of the Spanish Protestants whose perse cutions for sake have gained them much sympathy are yiel ling to tire pressure upon tiiem Martin Escalante one of the best known of these Protestants writes to the Cadiz El Com ercio: am now engaged in spiritual exercises in the house congregation of St Philip Neri in this city preparing myself to make a solemn re tractation of all my Protestant errors in the face of tlie Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman church tlie only one which I acknowledge as true and di The Epoca has also tlie following para graph: Nicholas Alonso Marselau onuof vi iiniuuua uas retmnea to the bosom of the Catholic church after some resilience iu England abjuring his errors at the hands of the archbishop of The Catholic priests in Sardinia are getting to be very independent Tlie Abbe Mongini of Oggebio publishes the following letter read in almost all the newspapers that a major ex communication has been issued against me by the Roman office 1 beg of you to publish the follow ing declaration Tho undersigned convinced that he has not violated anv religious or moral dogma ot Catholicity in his ethico pohtieal writings and having frequently declared even through he press ruui it ne nan ever without intendin' it violated one or the other ho was ready to refract nnd is still ready to do so it is clear that this ex communication has been issued on account of bis political opinions This being so he declares that lie considers the tn hn nii nnt void: and that relying on the laws the mainstay of right and justice lie intends to continue in tlie exercise of his parochial ministrations as long as his ago and strength will permit him Signed PiETiio Mongini January The Spiritualists of New England have had a convention in Boston this week rederick Rol iiuon of Marblehead presided aud Henry AV right Uriah Clark Lizzie Spence and Rev Loveland were tlie prominent speakers Tho Spiritual cause was declared to be rapidly ad vancing although tho phenomenal period seemed to be nearly at an end In New York tlie great apostle of Spiritualism is organizing tiie believers into a regular sect with Sunday schools and all the Bishop Southgate of NewYoik in his direc tions tor the observance of Lent suggests a new may find Lent a good time to pay certain social debts for example if there are any whom ou have neglected any from whom you have bisgun to be wrongfully alienated any whom you arc particularly disinclined to visit when it is your duty to visit them In this war even your visiting may bo made verv useful aud sometimes a very needful 'i 3.

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