The New York Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1865, Page 5

Savannah, and the first thing which attracted my atton- (iow in Augusta was a fine specimen of the tree growing ina private garden—inuch finer than any I saw to tho State it embi-matizes. FINS? ASPEOT OF AUGUSTA. The scone in Augusia was lively, yot paiaful. Tho stroots were crowded with soldiers of all branchos of the rebel gervice rushing for pargles. The market, which £ passed on ontering Broad sirvoi—the principal business street—wasa inoat filthy and forlorn looking place. Busi near had no representatives, that is, the ordinary bust- ness of the town; it waa suspended. Not astore, except here and there a cigar or apothocary store, did I observe open, All was dosolation; yet no hostile artillery had thundered near Augusta, Tt waa the shock of remote reverborations which were powerful enough to 6lyot the mischiof, As yet the Confederate flag floated from tho headquarters of the Confederate General who super. intended the tranfer of authority. Thore was no United tates fiag anywhore visibld, even though Geuoral tipion had osfablished ia headquarters at the Plautors’ Hotel ~ STRAGGLERS. ‘The streeis twemed with Confederate oMicersa—genaratt, colonéts, majors alia go C—And strazglod privates. Out of curiosity, I carefully counted the nninber of unicofmed Confederate strugglers whom ¥ znet in the course of tweety | ininutes, and they mustered up one thousand nino hun dred and Ove, All of nearly all of them wore stragylors ; for 1 only counted such ag plainly bore the brand of stragglers. ‘They, as well as all others in Augusta, were expocting a large force of federals into town that evening. THE SOUTE. Warrative of an Officer ou veif. Davis’ Staff Continued. + WRAVELLING UNDER OIFFICULTIES JOUNNEY THROUGH GXORGIA. DESOLATION OF AUGUSTA. Wer Demoralization of the , Rebel Army. MTHE VICAR OF BRAY REDIVIVUS. "MALLORY TAKES THE BACK TRACK. DISOONTENT. At the doors of all the bofels you oould hear “tho sitent thunder” of discontent with ita ‘mute mutter. ings,” especially from the. lips of the young mon, | I said all—no; for at the Piantors’ Hotel, the “powors that be’ had fixed a home, and there it was thought “the thing” w curry favor and exhibit a now born loyalty. | I saw a man there whom I know to be the loudost [He Goes on a Spree and Evades Danger. DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST. ‘Wasmngton, Georgia, the Death Place of the Rebellion, WAS IT SO ORDAINED BY PROVIDENCE? mouthed secessionist In Northern Georgia, who once ap- Plied for office at Richmond, on the strength of his rabid , Secessionism. I saw him there at tho door of the Planters’ Hotel, and if you could credit him now, thero | never had been so true a Unionist. He intended to ob- tain General Upton’s assent to some contract, on his Union merits, just as he did to obtain an office at Rich- tnond on his disunion mertts, The number of men I met whose principles were exactly as ccrtain and sound as his—met all over the South—would astonish you; at sll a events it did ma per ben, heey hee Beg ETT OM a a, ‘Weres.. el eased, 1 1B VEDERALS ARE CAUAH AND Kerns. : + The frst jostalment of federal troops reached Augusta LITTLE ARRANGEMENTS THAT WERE SPOILED. be the evening of my arrivat, Théy were marines, from Savannah. Such senaation! Amid a gazing, wondor- ing crowd they marched up Broad street, themselves gaping, wondering and laughing af the strangeness of the curious interest they extorted. It was somewhat ainusing to see some Sowed old citizens slink out of the way and peer furtively at them from door posts. Sight of those men brought subjugation clearly before them. Other citizens, reluctant to crodit fate, would mutter “now ’tis truly over” others, yet, would openly orygout, “behold your masters.’’ Tho negroes crowded on tho marines, shouting and caperitig with mixed wonderment and delig bt. ‘Gar party proposed to cross the Savannah at three dif- Peront points, in three distinct squads, one directly for ‘Wastiington; Ga., another midway between that and Augusta, and @gvird at Augusta, all to rendezvous in two vor three days at\Wasbington, Each party had’e sign ficant duty, as well as policy, to {pursue in this temporary separation—one forced by out- ide pressure. It was known that Union authority was soon “to have and to hold” every place of the least importance on that line. There were many things in @ome of these places which demanled attention or ‘@eatruction before the advent of the dreaded Cuionists. THAT GAME BLOCKKD. The point allotted to me led through Augusta; but on ‘my party rising up in the morning to continue the jour- @oy from Mrs, Rambo’s into Hamburg, it was announced, ‘on very sulliciont authority, that General Upton, with ‘two officers, had formally possessed themselves of Augusta, There was an obstacle to every “nice little arrangement’ made for us. What was to be done? Nothing of what was laid down for us could, in honor, do now attempted. “Goin and take the parole,” suggested one who had 0 idea of taking it, as he has since proved by escaping ‘to the British islands. EFFRCT OF REAL. AUTHORITY. All were solemn looking. The news of these three federal officers was a cloud too dense to sve through. ‘The majesty of sterling authority never before so forcibly Ampressed mo with its intrinsicality, It was not that three foderals, or three hundred, would at another time, or ’ ‘ander other circumstances, have frightened or gloomed ‘any one of that awestruck group, holding a roadside eounct! there near Mrs. Rambo’s, It was the authority with which these three federals were vested—the indis- putable, potential authority they represented—which did ‘tho work. HOW THE RRAL REBS TOOK IT, The robel soldiers looked gritnly at the spectacle, and more than one straggler was upbraided without resenting the reproach—“to you we owe this.” I was standing at the door of the Southern States Hotel. A little behind me were three young fellows, frosh from Lee’s surren- dored army. They said nota word but ‘God!’ came ont savagely from botwoen clenched teeth. One of thom ‘was soovercome that he had to go and conceal his emo- tion. They were all natives of Augusta. THE AUGUSTA HOTELS aT The Fars. Being ata hotel door, I thought I would call for some refreshment. Rofreshmont indeed! “Why, sir, ‘tie as much as we can do to feed a few regular boarders with the commonest fare.’ A silver dollar, however, obtained me a thimble full of the vilest brandy I ever tasted. In fact, the hotels were only sleeping hospices. Some of them professed to give meals to a limited num- ber—and such meals!—for the moderate sum of one dollar in specie per meal. One house, I believe, was as moderate as seventy-five cents for a dime’s worth of food at New York. 5 DIFFICULTY OF LIVING IN AUGUSTA. Unless you bad some well-to-do friends or the prospect of rations in Augusta about that time, there was no got- ting anything to eat “for love or money.” How half the citizens and wayfarers subsiated is a puzzle to rte. Another problem I cannot easily solve is, the healthy state of the population just after all the cellars of this half-fed city had been submerged. They were, as yet, many of them, full of water. The flood probably cleared off much garbage from the streets, but it must have de- posited the putrid matter in the crevices of Janes and down the cellars, which were not yet half pumped out. TAKING THR ROAD AND LEAVING THK HORSE. Taking care to discreetly transact my business that evening—to do #o without involving my honor or endan- gering my safety, in consequence of the peculiar transi. tion state of authority—I determined to start next morn- ing for the rendezvous of our party. The better wo accomplish my purpose, I had to leave my horse with a friend and avail myself of the Georgia Railroad. Thither T wont for the six o’clock train next morning. As I Lad yet no parole or pass it became a serious question with me how I was to effect an exit. There wasmo trouble. I had what was » potent pags at that time for a Southern conductor, and I was allowed tothe platform and pro- vided with a comfortable scat in the rail var. “OCONFEDS’’ SURVIVED THE CONFEDERACY. To my surprise, the railroad company was yet recetv- ing “confeds’ for fare and freight. and continued to do a0 for weeks. G@ORS IT ALONE. After a futile visiting of pent up wrath, it was decided that wo should abandon the programme and take the @hortest cut we could to our fellow fugitives up the river. As thore was some one whom it was important for me to geo in Augusta, I ventured to run tho gauntlet alone, confidently declaring as wo paried that I would reach our rendezvous sooner and safer than they; and I did. ‘WAYSIDE ROMANOR. 80 I wont, a solitary horseman, brooding sadly on my @olitude, but boding no danger. It was necessary for me tohalt at “the forks of the road,” to know which led nighest to Hamburg. A monster oak tree, estitute of all but parasite foliage, stood on a knoll to the loft of the road I was on, anda young, thinly clad ‘woman ran to the other side of it out of sight. I was aot to be baulked of information; #0 rode almost noise- Jessly on the soft mould to uccogt her, and seeing ber——I dared not. she nothit ks ‘But moss and rarest mistetov; She kneels beneath the huge oak tree, , ‘And in silence prayeth she. A SOUTH CAROLINA (JIRISTABEL. So vividly did hor place and attitude call to mind the ‘taagic story of the “lovely lady Christabel,” that, for the ¢ ‘Qrst time in years, the charms of that charming poem evized my senses, This Christabel was not by any means ‘aslovely as her prototype is represented. She was a weird, stovenly looking creatare, with no attraction ex- cept the romance of her movements. Loath to disturb her, yet’ anxious to know if there was any mystory here, ‘1 was relieved from an uncertainty as to what course to take by observing some negroes picking strawnerries in ‘an oxtensive patch not far of. Thither I went, and this {a what I loarned. MISTORY OF A DOUTLE MURDER. She was the cousin and lover of # youth who was Killed at that spot only a few months previous to my visit. The circumstances are essentially of the senss- tional order, but absolutely true. The youth’s name was Butler. His father was at the time a slave driver, whose ‘rouse is not more than a quarter of a mile from the spot. Ho is now an extensive hog producer. At the date of the occurrence, he was standing near the tree with his son, when Colonel Rambo, of whose murder 1 made men- ¢ion in a former article, drove by on his way to Hamburg. Butler stepped out and, in retaliation for some alleged insult, doliberately fred at Colonel! Rambo. The ball passed over his head. The Colonel caught at his arms ‘a8 quickly as possible, and befure his assailant hed ischarged the second shot, was ready. Seeing this, But- fer got behind his son, and took a hurried aim. As he red #0 ‘did young Rambo, the result being unintention- ally tho instant death of young Butler at his father’s foet. At that instant the horses of Rambo got beyond his con- BRYOND avaueta. My immediate destination was Washington, Georgia, about eighty miles from Augusta. All the land, or nearly all, to Barnett station—where I had to enters train for Washington—was waste. Here and there evi- dences of culture met you; but, thoy were so infrequent, and, in their nature, so uncertain, that they did not amount to much; certainly they did not promise much. Corn, oats and some wheat were the enly crops. Before the war cotton was often cultivated and profitably. Every house you met had ita little patoh of sorghum, which has become a great feature in the garden produce of Georgia within the last four years. SATORE TRIOWPOANT. The only relief to the natural waste or the human neg- lect was the rich and varied luxuriance of nature in the trees, shrubs and flowers, which decked the road at either side for the whole way. There was nothing bold or beautiful in the scenery, nothing to delight landscapist or agriculturist; but much to charm the botanist and hor- ticulturist, Flowers and fruit were in plenty, and, of their kind, flourishing. ANOTHER AREANOBMENT SPOILED. At Barnett we waited for the down train from Atlanta. Those of us who had to go to Washington got off and took places om another train, in an open truck, under a “oiling sun.’’ Some of those thus doomed to bear the brunt of the beat fore two hours’ ride, bethought them of acavopy of bowers. Accordingly we jumped off and * into the adjoining wood. It was but the work of afew trol; and, while he made an effort to steady them, But- | minutes—a sylvan arbor was constructed which sbielded lor drow near and shot him dead. The facte of this | us from the torrid heat. tragedy 1 had trom good authority after I got to Augusta, | Wo were just made comfortable in our discomfort when and they differed in nothing from what I learned near the | the atlanta train arrived. It brought down « detachment foone of its occurrence. The result te—desolation | o¢rederal troops for Washington. Here waae contre-tempe. in two homes, perpetual horror in one, Young | put there was worse in what these troops immediately Rambo was reputed to be a gallant and good | iq for our annoyance, or rather for thelr own order. Gan, T saw his litle orphan children at their | Except myself, not «man in our open truck and under Grandmother's, With Butler's reputation rumor | up gyivan awning had seen a ‘Yankee soldier” in four fs only as free as with most men in bis inhuman- | yoary, oF, if he had soon him, had been in close foutect > inng trade, The law did not protend to meddle in (he | with him. case, Sad commentary! Is it not? IN SIGHT OF AvaUSTA The reflections beqot by this incident and history were ‘Hot calculated to improve the mood of ‘‘ solitary horse- man" ambling adown the hilly side which South Caro- lina here presents to Georgis—ambling adown there in «the lonely humor I at best could Bost, even if this ro- mance and woo did not interpose ite shadows. Presently ‘f could see the hills and pine woods of Georgia; presently again the winding, muddy Savannah, horo and thors, far off, through its enskirting foliage— and then, at last, the plata around Augusta, including the city itself and its overtopping waich and bell tower, standing like an attenuated castie on a chessboard, A fow minutos more and I was in tawdry Hamburg, with ts swamps, and springs, and breweries, It was just Cloansing itself from the effects of a recent inundation— @ calamity it often knows, though rarely to the extent of tho one it was recovering from when I entered ite pre. cincta, OPEN ORDER, The officer in command of the detachment required that his men should be all together. To offect this we had to quit our truck and improvised awning and go to the rear—open, very epen order, again, * nusn oF! “No growling,” said, or rather whispered, a superla- tively discreet personage, who accompanied me from Augusta, He addressed a young friend who waa disposed to dispute thie mild military edict. “No growling, We must submit, Tis all that we've got todo now."’ “A darned sample of what we're going to get.’ “No growling, I say. Remember, there are those here whom your temper might compromise, Hush up!" And he “hushed up." ARRIVED AT SPOILED RENDERVOUR. ‘The soldiers demeaned themecives admirably all the way to Washington, I left them there, found « friend who could tell me whore to get up with my party; got up with them that night. Those who left me to make ‘ns short cut’ were cut off, and never got up with them at all, QUITS PALMETTO Lan. Crossing the lofty bridge which links Goorgia to South Carolina, I was quickly in Augusta and had bidden adiew fo the Palmetto State. By the way, I did not notice a G6t00 valinntioes on our cute from the Catawba to the PARRNTHETICAL. You must remember that I am, in these articles, tathor deucribing the condition Of the country than the details at every opportunity. jecte—“'The Demand of the Hour EW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 30, 1865. of Jofferson David? flight, except in go far as some toci- FE L rs) R Zr D A dont in the details may Ye taken to illustrate that coa- dition. The flight itsolf Sas been alroady disposed of in Sconnocted narrative. Allow me this cemark, paronthe- eee trcally, and by way of oxommag my cetuem from our party, t0 say a word about Wastangton. THE SLOW PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTION. WABILNGTON, OHONGIA It is the quictost and snuggest miniand towa you oan eeemeaed think of. Allis in pri promising Gondition around 2 it. Vineyards, caverns ranged pote oro out, | Sottom Spesniations in Florida ata Darley and wheat, and large delda of sweet potatoes on Stand Still. circled it for milos. The town itself 1 thorouxhly sylvan, ee of the Southern village order, with a tow qory fine ‘ASadea. Tho rebels had numerous stores thorw aud a good deal of ammunition—ail destroyed. Tt was near this {ultlo town, and whore £ met our party, that \19 The Travelling, Postal and Tele- . Sraphic Wactlidies, cavalry of Duko and Whoeler insisted on appropriating me ra Pa fas much as they could of the Mexican dollues which . furmod the bulk of the Davis teas ary WHAT MAPPRNED THRKM, Our SachssuviNe Correspondence, faownonvintn, Suuly 13, 1865, Madde Aooms to be about the Last ono of the seceded h tho States ty bo back in thy Union with for State machinery in dperahon, This somes « Hitle more singular from tho fact that Mie bas suifered tas than any olleer State from Unlike othor sections where com. ‘iuntties had bean broken up, the tababitants seattered about the countey, ded from Uair homes, the surrender of Johnson (ound this Stace wiih the people generally at thoir homos, the negroes at work on-the plautations, and all tho civil oars performing thetr duties much the Saino as before the war, Tt wows seem therefore that thoro was but Lite effet needed to complete the repr. sanization of civil goverament in the State. BPCULATONS AND COTTON, The prospects of reaping a goldea harvest by spenn- dating in cotton ant turpentine that has been supposed to be aporoted in ous parts of the State induced numer- ous speculators to andargo the inconveniences of travel- ing about the country. Ia some soctions they 6 vyerrunaing araic Tt was hore that My, Mellory, going mgit thi federal soldiers, lett Prasiient, hovees and baggage, apd boldly took “tho back tract’? in the next tain for Lagrango, Up to the arrival here he had never loft th aide of Me. Darts. Now tho federala wore all around-—in front, rear Mu flank—and thoro was no use of anavy; 60 ils Secretary acoompanied Louis Wigfall, and ran bis risks ‘amit the fox," rather than where the foe was sovking him and bis party. He loft Wigfalt in Atianta, whore the ‘Texas Sehator wont ona spree fora few hours, anit somehow macaged to ovade danger. It was at Wachington that the Cabinet of Mr, vavia ceased to have theyshadow of an axistogce, It was there that Benjamin stole Yimself away, and ended tho Stata Department, as Mallory {ud tho navy, Reagan, as Post master General and Treaty Secrotary, was still on hand; ‘but hero he resigneal both functions. So was Breckinridge; but now, as friem! and companion in flight, not ag Secretary of War, It waa mearthere that Mr. Davis received the information of dargey to his wife, which | ived to dupe the people into parting with their precipitated, if it did not lead to, biswapture. cotton at atu sacrifice, In other sec- DEATIC PLACE OF REBWTAOM. tions they found =the —poaplo ey 00 In short, it was at and near Washiegton the rebel gov- wail poated to be gulied by bugbeur stories. Careful ob- sorvation and inquiry whilo travelling through the State shows very clearly the amount of cotton on hand to bo much jess than many have supposed. Tho same is undoubtedly true all over the South, Much of the cot- ton on hand is on investigation found to be unginned, und a large portion of that which is ginned ix loove in the ginhousos, the owners boing unable to procure bagging. ‘The plantors are gonerally disposed to bold ga.” They ave provisions enough for some time. Tasy aro not Aotually suffering fog waus vf anything, and thoy wes that thoy Cin belter afford to wait tH) the his family and was Ogptured, littio was met which coun ) | “Ns for getting the cottoy ( MARE” jiaprove, and be taken to illustrate the state of the country. The Xe sag tersbecingel vans, AiR dooveall’ abs alanine toy then sh, Y a noglect, bad culture and wet lands visible im most parts | "HP MO. ~ ghey anem to have little fear that the prio» “ome of ua were raghor struck with the circumstance. It is not always thata coinci dence is a thing of pure accident, Providenes hag most inscrutable ways of exhibiting His purposes. Could there have been anything out of the ordinary path of common coincidence in this fact? Wo each asked our- selves the question—some attaching more importance to it than others. aig, THD COMNTAT BATON wamEmIGTON. From Mea Hoe, ernment died the death. = san Me, Day's sourht o where ay of Georgia at that time, were everywhere disagrocably i as fae as manifest. The cowed indifference of the poople equally | Wil! go down. ae revsn ot ~ tank deb “hail . #0, ‘The demoralixed attitude of paroled soldiers shame. | 8X baa drawn alittle OF The pricd Daw wag ful to witnoss, and rewdy to make an exhibition of itself | COM forshort staple a™4 AMY conta for long tape, Another argument with the p-snters is, that, if they sold theit cotton to speculators, they Uscouraga others from coming here, who will remain perman¢ntly tn the Slate and invest their capital here, which is far better for tte welfare, They reason that, if they sell to a specula it relieve What will better illustrate the condition of the pooplo and State at this juncture I will tell you enon. Religious Intelligeuce. SERVICES TO-DAY. At tho Protestant Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Fighty-fifth street, between Second and Third avenues, Yorkville, the Rev. J. W. Shackelford, rector, morning service will be held at half-past ten o'clock, and evening prayer at tive o'clock. The Rev. C. B. Smyth will preach- in the Reformed Presbyterian church, Duffield street, near Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, at half-past ten A.M. Subject, “Christianity in Spite of Christianity.” At the Canal stroet Prosbyterian church, Greene street, near Canal, the Rev. Alex. McKelvey will preach at Lalf- past-ten A, M. and at half-past three P. M. At tho Churoh of the Resurrection (Episcopal), Thirty- fifth street, a few doors east of Sixth avenue, the rector, the Rev. Edward 0. Flagg, will preach, at half-past ten in the morving. At the Broadway Tabernacle church, the Rev. Dr. Post, of St, Louls, will preach at half.past ten in the morning, and at a quarter to eight in the evening. At the Baptist: Mariners’ Temple, Oliver street, the Rey. J. L.. Hodge, D. D.. pastor, an “Expository lecture on the book of Jonah’? will be celivered at half-past ten in the morning. Sunday school at two o'clock in the afternoon, Preaching at a quarter to eight in the even- ing: Subject, “The Second Coming of Our Lord." Mixes Emma Hardinge will deliver her farewoll dis- courses before sailing for Europe, at Hope chapel, before the First Spiritualist Society, at half-past ten in the morning, and at half-past seven in the evoning. Sub- “America."’ Con- tor and receive the money, need, or all. = The they can only reliever one rather does the need at movey of no use to thom unlers procure — artich they ueed with it; cles are equally wx scarce a’ money in tho for them not is omntry, there iats to bring :nerchandise to ton and to estublish stores. exchange in part payment fo By this means they not only cacse to be brought into the country articles needed, whieh they can by this means procure at much cheaper rates than if they took the other course, and this would be competed to send hoth tow distance to procure them, but it creates @ busiaca in the country and sets money adoat. The transporta- tion ovor the railroad, the arrival and discharging of at the wharves, their transhisment, all combined accomplish this end, ' ‘These ideas are adynnced, in thelr ‘own peculiar way, by poople who, if they have not been directly opposed to slavery, have always acknowledged its baneful effeets on the South, and have ever enter- tained » feeling of hostility to the slavcholding aris- tocracy. MILATARY AYPATRS have ceased to ‘play the important part they did a few weeks ago. If that wore not the caso their present con dition would doubtless cause much confusion, It isa matter of great uncertainty which department Florida is in. Orders published unofficiuily in the York papers place it in tho Department of the Gulf. The arrival of General Newton with orders from General Cariby to assume command of the partment ing it in the Dey from General New order from the War nt of the Gulf, or Gilmore relinquishing command as part of the it of the South, made a dociled muddie. ‘The position of General Vogdes, who has been since April in command of the district, as part of the Depart- ment of the South, is certainly an embarrassing one, especially a# several mails have arrived without bringing notice to General Gillmore of any change. Consequently naturally consider his jurisdiction still ex- he would ver tending over ference at three o'clock. The Messenger, 8. 8, Snow, will preach the word of prophecy at three o'clock P. M., in Jones’ Assembly Rooms, 656 Broadway. A religious discussion between orthodox Christians and Spiritualiste, will be held at three and eight o'clock P. M., at Metropolitan Hall, Sixth avonu oar Eighth street. Subjecta—“Is Spirituatixm 0 “Did Christ Rise from the Dead ?"’ The Rev. Dr. Quintard, of Nashville, Tennessee, will preach in St, Thomas’ church, corner of Broadway and Houston street, this morning, at half-past ten o'clock. The Rov. J. Ryland Kendrick, formerly pastor of a Baptist church at Charleston, 3. C., will preach in the Strong place Baptist church, Brooklyn, morning and evening, at the usual hours. AtSt. Paul's church, Hoboken, the rector, Rev. V. Bruce, will hold the appoiutod services to-day. Subject of the morning sermon—‘‘rhe Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes."’ Subject of the evening discourse—“The Wages of Sin is Death; but the Gift of God is Fternal Life.” ANNIVERSARY OF THR DESTRUCTION OF CHAMBEES- BURG, PA. To-day being the anniversary of the burning of Cham- bersburg, appropriate religions ceremonies will be Leld. People from the adjacent country and adjoining towes have been invited to participate. THR TRAVELLING FACILITIES, The arrangements for coming into and travelling about the Stato are vi bad. Passengers from the North come to this point from Port Royal. The only means of reaching here 1s b; sports, which usually hay accom| . Passongers, after paying « high price for firat clans transportation, are compelled to lie on deck, in places (hat a steerage pasaen- ger would avoid in former days, and pay at the rate of a dollar per meal for subsistence inferior to that which is given to the crow. The raitroade in Florida are well conatructed, but sadly out of order, The scarcity of labor has been the cause of this, The companies com- plain that they have been unable to procure hands enough to keep the rondbeds level or replace decayed ties. The engines and rolling stock are nearly worn out) The irains are compelicd to move very slowly. It takes two days to make the journey from here to Tallahassee, less than two hundred miles, the condition of the road rendoring travel over it by night unsafe, and will not allow a rate of xpocd that can accom- plish it without travelling by night. This, of course, to & person accustomed to travelling ov the lightning ex- press trains on the Northern railroads ia very tedious. ‘The military authorities seized the railroads some weeks ago and commenced to relay some fourteen miles of track gereuene and turn the rouds, over to the companies. officers Ported thoy had ‘no means to pay Ue expenses of closing ap. 6 authorities then continued the work of relaying the track. Yesterday the first through train arrived at Jacksonville, The companies must accumu- late considerable wurpina earning # before their roads will be in good order in. ‘THR POSTAL ARRANGKMENTS i THR NEW EPISCOPALIAN BISHOP OF PENNSYLVA- | are even worse than the travelling arreugemonts. Ax MIA. soon as tho rebel forces wore fairly ded a post office” By the recent death of the Right Rev. Alonzo Potter | Sent wns sant to all points in the State to seize all the the discharge of the important and laborious duties of the diocese of Pennsylvania will devolve entirely upon the Right Rev. William Bacon Stevens, who was conse- crated Assistant Bishop on the 2d of January, 1462. SCARCITY OF BAPTIST CLERGYMEN [N SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. There tn said to bow poet of Rote Cranes pear to have been taken in Southern Iilinois. ly about one-sixth of the ‘TUR TELRGRAPR ordained ministers are ‘as pastors, and the rest | 2fe working, but are constantl; that the connections are tors are greatly needed. District Court have soc THR REUNION OF THR EPISCOPAL CHURCH NORTH wise pust Tear bene v np sOurE. tints bill, 90 muc! {From the Philadelph' the of ottii ofthe Chureh to beheld | abie ity, but hi loyalty, ae ig Fs interest and more or leew excitement. Its proceedings will | acted aa informer, for which he received one-half the not be exceedingly important. It is evident that there will be of the sales. This was, no doubt, shared with effort made to reunite the North and the South, the same | the two functionaries aforementioned. oe one as the church was before the red hand of rebellion was | were carrying on ® thriving business. ‘The termination raised against the + te Colee; betes Oe Se the war and the amnesty ation were rather calcu- places commited , thett aad murder, in ald of the | lated to decroase the profits of this patriotic business. cause; thousands of human beings Portootly rovardias of the procamationy they continue were starved to death in filthy prisons, to aid therotien | to seize and advertise property be sold, in Dates of Delty, " vr - A beh 4 hed iF Mnenssives ott the . persons Wi « There is to be & grand convocation of the leaders of the | amnexty. The coolest transactions for this warm latitude er Sainte a. can cee 68 | ocurred a me since. A little steamer, named the and the past to be buried in the Lethean waters “Bilver Spring,” arrived from up the river, where she oblivion. According to the Reverend Doctor John Cot- | had been placed to be kept out clutches, Wa aan cae eee eek an effort | had she touched the wharf before the United States Mar- will be made to: luce @ new canon, 1 to allow | shal seized her without any legal proceeding, and took to the of this church more liberal relations with to use, her as bis personal yacht. the thone of other denominations. This movement will moet too slow for that purpose, #o that was with vigorous resistance as well as hearty support. The | abandoned and the boat tied to the wharf, she ro-- clergymen identified with it are well known for their | mains, The mates which the court allows for ita ad- Perseverance and independence, as well as fora tendency | vertising are 0 low that no newspaper can afford to pub- bishop will be sup- | lish them. Accordingly the marshal seized the course he has adopted by the vast body of ond Joureal, newepaper, Deplistena aller jecting (he ergy. gether the press, type, kc., and after ejecting the The retyrn of delegates from the Southern diocese will | rightful owners, placed one of their tools in editorial be another and still more feature of the com- | chair, and ‘on the publication “by authority.”” Such rien beet oe Ts to be considered | jilegal although they y to noth: Will aid to make the occasion one of special inter- | ing, make the people very distrustful, aud in tliat way ost. It in stated on what in believed to be porfectly re- | do much harm. Sete eeeneey, De | have been Fags now, — PAs “southern Pei ia ronsinon aquansh Political Intelligence. ‘all the Southern dioceses in rebellion against eeleica ales Say’ sir wkasere rhs | qrancelcavem bas psy coe The fom con’ any ity wer. onal canvass has practically ¢ following Ot Oe tina Clerical and ley, | ig a fall lst of the candidates:— ate desirgus of resuming their in the convention ‘as if secession and the war were things that Firs District—John K. Miller, J. H. Randolph, N. G. never been, Furthermore, a free interchange | Taylor, Thos. D. Arnold. of opinion among the Northern bishopa has just Distriet—L. 0. Houk, BR, K. Bird, Joseph A. beon had Ik reference to these overtures, snd ‘the Cooper, F. 8.) Hetske determination arrived at t# substantially in accordance Third District—Wm. B, Stokes, James R. Hood. with the wishes of the Southern brethren, and no time Prurth Distriot—Kamund Cooper, Fifth Ditri—3._ J, Carter, M. M. Brion, Jno, Hugh Suih, Wm. R, McDougal, Win. B, Campbell fiah Date -D. B. Thomas, Samuel M. Arnett. adopted by the House of Clerical o eventh Didrict-Em, Etheridge, 1. R. Hawkins. Foti WF Gonjeciure,, When the secrerary: of the | _ Bighth Disrie—W. Cc Vunlap, John Bullock, J. W Convention proceads ta call the rollitia not improbable | Lattwick, W. T. Bailey, John Hanter, W. P. Parmer, u jons may be made to the admission to seata of | Kaifo 8. Saunders. men who, though miniaters of or otherwiee high in Minwxsora.—The Democratio State Convention will be the church, did not scruyle to lend their influence to the hold tn the city of St. aul on the 16th day of August, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the offices of Governor, Lisutenant Governor, Secretary of State, > the that be,” which are “ordained of God." The ops having defined their positions, however, their influence over the rest of the convention, doubtless, will be powerful in the same direction; so that, as things stand at present, the chances are decidyuly ia favor of (yra.venem, TeLniok sud #yegR BELLE BOYD. Our Correspondent’s Reply to Her Charges—The Acquaintance Evtween Them—Belle as She Appeared ut Front Royul in 1862<—Her Intrigue TO THK EPITOR OF THE HeKALD Mias Bolle Boyd has written a book. She bas thor fore loft herself open to ciiticiam as an authoreas. From ouriosity and old acquaintance [ might have read ber paoduction; for, with all her fomiaine qualities avd foihiea, I thonght Miss Bolle, everything considered, intorysting when I first mot her, But f should not do justice to myvelt wore Lto allow the following pus age roxy tho fair authoress, in referc ie pasa withaut more uwotico than that of simply read ing it:— to me, was one Mr, Cyr, « roporier to the New Yor and, although an. frisiuun, by no Herr, Ho waa domicdvd at headquar lished, as £ ave before mentione dence’ and thus it waa that f aaw could not possibly gst into the street without ¢ thy courtyard and parsing throagh the hallway hia Mr, Clark ¢ sored Upon several orcasionA to inirade big society upon me; and, althongh T told hun Peinty his admandrs wea oxtremely disiastoful, be per nevePtd Bo far that L way foreod more than ones to bolt the door of the rgom fy which my corsin and myself were seatod in hia fav, oon These rebulls Le never forgave, and from aa intensive | frend be became an Jeraty epemy. fi ts toh mt sin indebt d for the first violent, uadiagived abnso with which my wame was coupled in any federal journal The two first periods of the above contain on!y one phrase in reference lo which [have anything lo say, and ow that phrase I will simply remark that Miss Belle Boyd may faye one standard by which she tecognizes geatie- men, while there are others in the world which may dior from her's. I have my own @tandont, and any alwava giided by it, So have other people Ueins It Mins Belle Boyd to decide upon the question of whois a dontleman and who is not? Let her rotain her own ideas, but it ia searooly fair im Miss Belle to tell the wort who she thinks is not up to ber standard in this respect, ul to the third perwd, I will state that while Thad a good deal of intercourse with Misa Boite and her cousin, Mike Stewart, my visits wore by invitation, and L have no recollection that a door was ever “bolted ia my face" to exclude me from any room in which she was, What the authoross meaas by my advances, Tam at a loss Lo remember, for T onty recollect paying hor tho respect I considered due to ladies of ber olass and can, pera, tS mse Lastly, in roference to the statement that £ nevar fue gavo her for the rebuffs, let me asgure the horoins of hor own romal that she ha: Me net Soe epee eee bthtod aed : LuGerrwuvu, uae a aad Qa thing to forgive. Had I known of anything for which 1 stigwld have pardoned Misa Helie, I should certainly promptly Wu have done so, for my desire has always been to be on good terms with every lady, which even the distinguished wuthoress herself will readily perceive thea th ulty of Attaining, mach jess maintalning, Miss Hallo Winds up hor gontle and graceful compliments to first violent, undisgufved abuse with which my name was coupled in any federal journal.” This Is certainly communicating news to the Howat office; for, uatil the present occasion, I have never written the nase of Miss Helle Boyd, nor requested any one else to do it. So much, then, for the kind tnemories of Miss Belle regard- ing me, Now, with your p-rmission, I will furntsh » few Tar volume which boars ber spicy name and fume throughout the world. ‘According to my ungentfemanly ideas of propriety, I believe that Miss Belle would have dene her “priceless jewel!’ much more service had she omitted the above passages from her volume altogether. Will not most ladies agroe with me that even supposing her statements tru proper regard for feminine modesty would bayo de ely induced Miss Belle to have forever thrown the veilof concealme: around the page which communi cates this intelligence to the world in reference welt? I fear not the verdict of the ladies upon thi: tion. Instinct tells me it will be unanimous, my side, ‘Well, now to my reminiscences of my decidedly in- teresting acquaintance. [am fully aware of tho uwk- wardnesa of the position in which an attack from such « source places, or rather fluds me, and therefore will expect some ‘allowance to be made if my remarks aro not so severe as they stiould be were I replying w an imputation from a firmer hand than that of a tndy. |t was @ pleasant evening in May, 1862, that I first formed the acquaintance of Miss Belle Boyd, at Front Royal, Shield’s divimon had just crossed the mountains to join General McDowell. Banks’ division Jay in the, Shenandoah valley, with his pickets in Front Royal, sup- ported by the First Maryland regimont of tolaatey, a aquadron of New York cavalry and 8 section of artillery. ‘The notorious Stonewall Jackson, with an army of twen- ty-five thousand men, was within striking distance of all these scattered forces. This latter circumstance, as the result proved, was not known to our generals; #0 the position at Front Royal was excecdingly interesting. The om had informed me that Miss Bello was getting in- telligence from our officers and conveying it to Jackson, and also that the forces of the latter intended to attack ours in @ few days. These ideas were communicated by me to the officer in command of the post, but whether he ever sent them further it is now too late to laquire. With all these ideas in my mind I was smoking a cigar, that fine May evening already montioned, on the piazza surrounding the court yard of the hotel at Front re within view of Miss Belle and an elderly lady, said by her to be her aunt or mother, I now forget which, when & message came to ine by a that the matronly per- sonage desired to speak with me. Knowing well the character and associations of Miss Belle Boyd in the val ley, I responded to the invitation at no disadvantage; for I was “a man warned,’ which is “a man armed.’’ Cantiously but promptly approached, and was addressed by the elderly lady, a8 nearly ae I ‘can remember the words, thus:— “I hope you will excuse the freedom of sending for you, sit, but Miss Belle, who is up Wo everythi you’ are the correspondent of the New York ‘and we wished to see you. This is Miss Belle,’* Now, Miss Helle was at this time quite a character in the vulley. Every one bad heard of Vor, and f had my- self heard so much about her that the present interview: I was by no means averse to. In common with many officers of the “right wing of McClellan's army,” I bad for some time desired to see and speak to Belle, merely to find ont her peculiarities, which were well canvassed in the headquarters and the various campr. Mir« Bolte was the subject of many 8 joke, which she will be just as thankful to me if I do not repeat. Being introdueed, she rose for a moment and sald, “1 have a crow to pluck with you gentlemen of the Naw Youx Hewatp."" “T am sorry,” replied 1, “that you should have any com it to make to me, but let me hear it." RRALD, manner, and I want to know who he is. I am sure you could not bave written as be did,” she added, with « most gracious smile. “ T was the Darnstosrn correspondent of the Hrra.p,'’ said 1; but I never wrote # word abont you in my life, and you may feel sure that you are safe from such intru- sion from me." Belle now arone from her seat, @ little aonplussed at this unexpected truth, and said in « hurried air and with than a smile, are you come into the Perceiving that Belle had not fully recovered from the shock occasioned to her female sensitivenesa by my inst T came to her reacee by remarking :— you speak of must bave come from the Mr. Barnard. She signified her well have understood wi Fgh oar gen bane henner ben oe prospects iu bs soe] ane, had much od Bello if she wonld sing for me, ‘agreed to do, and fulfilled her promise by singing “ Maryland” in sach a manner that I thanked her, but added that I thonght her conv far superior to her musical ability. Tn trutl can talk a great deal. 1 asked her if # something. She jied that ehe would she could, but abe di Lay whi pa hn ied ae _ wart, a modert, handsome an |, withal, accor 5 and disconrsed “Dixie,” “The Red roung lady, Whites and Bive,"’ and many other well known and popular airs, both with her voice and an accom paniment on the piano, ins Belle sometimes ed in with her and sometimes she did not, had now seen enou 2 eee eee ee tolerable idea of what she was. I considered maacu- Iine in demeanor, anredned in manners, not well xcoom- pl ‘but pretty well informed on the topics of the day and the hour, She was sharp and flippant, but I studied her face in vain for any traces of the soft and onnobling qualities which make a lady the typeof her Bex. bo Tat bo Lg ihg having stadied her so minutely as or ‘Appearance, wall ae her loft anything but a pleasant impress on memory, which, from the very nature of my busines else, ‘is more than commonly tenacious, Im appearance sbe was rather taller than the mediam size of we and not well proportioned, for her shouldors were not and sunken. Her complexion was light, ber bair inciining to sandy, her eyes gray and full motion, her features sharp and thin, and always an affected anile, which seemed the very, reverse of amiable or winning. Her limbs, go far aa f had opportunity of judg- ing, woro the finest of She war at. tired in a light mai first bow of white “i a ath = lo strip of ibhon oncirc! or waist, blagk silk sack hung from her shoulders. Hor ht Hair was shaded back off her face and knotted thin, bohind her hend, and fastened with » bow of white and red, which hang down upon het shoulders, Hor BS were adorned with many rings, and aho bad several but. tons and trinkets on her breast, which she claimed as trophies from officers of both armies, Miss Holle ‘was then about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. This 1# a tolerable picture of the of Helle Boyd as 1 saw bor at Front Royal, a little over three years ago. ‘The old Indy contemplated Bolle with great satinfno- tion; sho thought her a wonderful girl and #0 10, Tho people, whorever she went, recognised and taiked about her, and had their own opinions concerning her motivos and actions, and in the army “There cite” aod hor a4 ae pansed \arough tho cauaps of Ane valley, a ‘Among tha federats who! then occupied Front Rosai | fa | me by tho clause, “Tt is to him Iam indebted for the | of mine concerning the heroine of the somewhat singu- | 5 Oocastonally “Poor Belle” would be heard ax he pasa through the camp of the First Mary!and, but whar uf Chat, Bolle felt or looked gay, and that was the chief com. sideration then Cleft the parlor with « request to call again coon (rom Miss Belle and the other two ladies, Mis# Bolle saying, as I loft, You are the only genticman | foderal lines for a month, except leld's staf" T did moot the ta the parlor aoy evenings afterwards, and som 1 mot Miss Betio both in the parior and elsewhere alone, and always om the very best of terms. T have many pleasant Mec. lions of those fairy hours Miss Belle, have you for- zotten them ail. You do speak of friendship, Dut it a only to a cruel purpose. ‘Thus the time passed on until the sudad em attack was | | mado upon Front Royal by Stonewall Jackson, on ie {2 May, 1862, I Lad warned all (he officers, and par- | Seularly Major Lindale, of the Twenty-cighth Pennay!- | vania regiment, of the dangerous ela o Lor many frustons attenpia to get inf ne my Sof Th; but beyond this I hip, of which abe frequently assured me im ys, Was in the alightost degree diminished of ‘On the very day beforn the she asked me for thi | | ttack Miss Bolle { joan of my borae, te | oator, anf that I agreed to let hor have it wit wt readiness, Well, 1 was taken in the batele | Front Royal, whore my hore was wounded, nry olothos | be. paAlened with blood, all my bagage lost and deatroy~ | | ed, 1 was marched back to the village, I consoled | myself with the rettection that I had at least ‘one friend inthe rebel [nea who would take sultiel nt interest im me in my hour of distress todo something to alleviate | my tamporary misfortune. Need [ tell any one thas \ tois friend was Ki who had repoatedly assured me she would be my beat friend in just anch a dithoulty that she could do it and that sh would desire such ad | spportunity? What was my astontaninent and horror Ww to sea my bland and loquacious friend of the morning in my prosper ty, converted into a bitter and asilvo enemy in the evening ip iny adversity, she syoka against me publicly, a# E marched past the hotel under geard, oppressed with fativue and horror under dal hioody bayonots of a rebel grard. She came to the Com House, where the Union prisoners were confined, th next day, and effecting au entrance by hor intrigued with the Tele! provost muarabal into the prison past the gunrds, she denounced ane in precenes of the Caioa oticors aud robet soldiers as ‘the most hitter Yankeo that ovor left the North;” that Ehad told her she was oniy neouraging her friends to destroy themselves againat the bayonets and cannon of the Union army, and the Soutle had no enemy she would sooner see destroyed, Alaa, Helle, that I must recall these varied memories of Could no sympathy for the dying n that rom recall thee to thy sense of kindness and dotioacy, fair woman, until the rebel guard bad af pagth Lo stup thee? Could ro ray of pity or tendernces whose fmendabie loquently to cov «, Wuder all thy asper. >’no reflection, placd until Lieutenant Devens, my Tad to sob bimagl? ab w pinations against mee — < j lane and vindioth wo curb upon Ay tong | oid friend, prisoner as ‘S try to coun Ob y Nese ALE Soure ur MY Focolloions 6? tho ctrow staheos upon Which Miss Retle Hayd bas thought propag to found hor accusations agalust me. Perhaps she woul have been kinffer had f paid hor other attention than the madcgt and guarded eompllaugy! pesned from me fo her, Had I noticed her in my Gn... navn me | Muniz, Perhaps her complaints against’ ine would not | te so poiditeny put, Lowever this may be, the above iss fair and liberal equaintance with Miad Belin Boyd, GEORGE W. CLARKE Police Intelligence. AWINDLING CLOTHING MEROHANTS. Sergénnt Buckman and officer Vike, of the Seventh precinet, yesterday arrested Charles Hid:r, alias Thormna Simpson, alas Sanders, a young man about twenty five yeara of age, on the charge of feloniously obtaining » } quantity of unmade clothing, valved at $126, from Me. Nathaniel A. Knapp, of No, 19 Cortiandt strest, on the 25th inst. The accosed callod ou Mr, Knapp, and, presenting himself asa tailor, solicited work, at the same tin senting what purported to be a certificate of r from ® gentleman connected with a large ny Warehouse in Cherry street. On the stronzth Ttifirate, which was believed to be genuine, was xlvena quantity of goods from the cutter to make up, but, unfortunately, Hider neglected to returu the prop- erty. 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