at one time, boldly and eloquently America than in Europe? Love advocated the abolition of capital for man, in its infernal scheme, punishment. It seemed a dread- being only another name for ful thing, to his benevolent mind, hatred of God, that hatred natufor a criminal to be punished.- rally extends to all His creatures. But when his philanthropic So by an apparent paradox, though schemes were thwarted, the ten- really a logical sequence, we find der-hearted Robespierre had no ap- the professed humanitarian, the petite for breakfast until he had bitterest enemy of his race and signed the death-warrant of at the most dangerous member of least half a dozen victims. Dur- society. The benevolent dising his reign, "the mandates of courses, in the Tabernacle and - death issued from the capital and Plymouth Church, brought forth a thousand guillotines were im- their legitimate fruit in the bummediately raised in every town mer-exploits in Carolina and Georand village in France: fifteen gia. hundred Bastiles, spread through

the departments, soon groaned In the article, Richmond Fifty with the multitude of captives; Years Ago, in July number, the unable to contain their numbers, name of Major Gibbon was inthe monasteries, the palaces, the correctly spelt, by too closely folchateaux were generally employed lowing copy. The relatives of as temporary places of confine- Major Gibbon, the family to which ment. Seven thousand prison- Major General John Gibbon, U. ers were soon accumulated in the S. A., belongs, reside in our town. different places of confinement in From Dr. G., the father of the Paris; the number throughout General, we have received this France exceeded 200,000. The characteristic anecdote of Presiabodes of festivity, the palaces of dent Jackson.

kings, the altars of religion were Some officious person reported crowded with victims: fast as the to President Jackson, that Major guillotine did its work, it could Gibbon, then Collector of Richnot reap the harvest of death mond, had spoken very disrespectwhich everywhere presented it- fully of him, the President. Gen. self; and the crowded state of the Jackson inquired of the meddleprisons soon produced contagious some individual whether there diseases, which swept off thou- were any complaints of Major sands of their unhappy inmates." Gibbon in his official capacity. (Alison's History of Europe.) "No," replied the informant Could we expect anything bet- "Well then," said the magnaniter from a religion, which tram- mous President, "if the hero of ples under foot the blood of Christ Stony Point attends faithfully to and esteems it an unholy thing? the duties of his office, he has a Which sets up self instead of God, right to abuse me or any one else as the object of worship? Can as much as he pleases. Clear we expect its spirit to be less cruel, out." sanguinary, and remorseless in

President Jackson was an arbi

trary, and it may be, an over- An admirer of Major General bearing man, but no one in the Butler, U. S. A., said of him in United States was more deeply speaking of his administration in imbued with the great American New Orleans, that he had "the idea, that the freedom of the press and the freedom of speech must not be interfered with.

best nose for scenting treason, in the United States." To which Brick Pomeroy replied and "for scenting spoons." We think,

The name of one of the bonds- however, that there are just as good noses in Dixie as that of the great warrior from Massachusetts. We will stand up for Dixie! As an instance of the excellence of

men for Mr. Davis brings to our recollection an anecdote, which we heard in early life. A Northern man married in our native the olfactories in Dixie, we will village, a Southern lady, and died mention that an old comrade in soon after the marriage. The arms at Brookville, Mississippi, widow in looking over his papers tried several times to remit the after his decease, discovered that loyal green-backs to us, but some her husband was indebted in the good loyal soul loved them "not sum of a thousand dollars to a wisely but too well." They never leading Abolitionist at the North. reached this little village. The She sent for the Administrator of experiment was then tried of sendthe estate and told him that there ing a ten dollar Confederate bill must be no stain upon the memory and it went and returned in safeof her husband, and proposed sell- ty! The envelope was not even ing her house and lot to pay the broken! The rebel odor of the condemned currency betrayed it to the sensitive nose of the loyal smeller! Dixie can beat Massachusetts at her own game.

OUR ADVERTISEMENTS.--We are glad to notice that Wash

debt. The Administrator wrote to the creditor, stating the destitute condition of the widow, and her honorable intentions. For an answer, he received a letter enclosing the note of the deceased husband as a present to the widow. The Administrator was the broth- ington College recognizes the necessity for a change in the old er of the Editor of this Magazine, fogy system of college education. and the name of the generous It has a School of Modern Lancreditor, as we remember it, was guages and English, a School of Gerritt Smith, of New York. In Mathematics, a School of Applied a private letter to ourselves, he Mathematics, a School of Natural says "it is time for men to quit Philosophy, a School of Chemishating, and to learn to love one try, and another of Applied Chemanother." A truly noble senti- istry, and a Department of Civil ment, to which every true soldier and Mining Engineering. North or South, who did his duty in the field, responds heartily "amen!"

The distinguished President and his able corps would have attracted many pupils in any event, but in the present impoverished con- condition-a condition brought dition of the South, four hundred about in a large degree by our would not have been gathered former system of education.

under their supervision, had not the people been impressed with their judicious

studies.

We have no personal acquaintcurriculum of ance with the Principal of the

Louisburg Male Academy, but he has a high reputation. Captain

The Dolbear Commercial Col- Shepherd was a splendid soldier of lege at New Orleans presents also the "lost cause." He is a ripe an opportunity for a practical scholar and one of our highly education, suited to our present valued contributors.

BOOK NOTICES.

THE MEMOIRS

OF

blood of youth and win the admiration of all, there seems to

GEN. TURNER ASHBY have been nothing in the charac

AND

HIS COMPEERS.

BY

REV. JAMES B. AVIRETT, (CHAPLAIN OF ASHBY CAVALRY,) AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VA., C. S. A. BALTIMORE: SELBY & DULANY. 1867.

ter of General Ashby, which the wise and prudent might not hold up for the imitation and example of all young men in the land.No vicious blot seemsever to have marred in the slightest degree the almost perfect character of this chivalrous soldier and Christian gentleman, whose untimely fate caused such mourning and regret throughout the whole South.The biography of such men is really valuable, and should not be permitted to perish-as thousands of similar characters will perish-with the generation that Therefore, overlooking its defects-and it has some-for the sake of the lovely

We have received and read this work with pleasure. It is written in the best style of discursive biography, and puts into lasting and pleasing shape the story of one of the most popular knew them. and romantic characters on the Southern side of the great civil war. Mr. Avirett has been pe- character it portrays, as well as

culiarly fortunate in the fact, that whilst the chief subject of his memoir possessed in abundance all the chivalric elements of the hero, so well calculated to fire the

for the thorough manner in which its story is told, we commend the book most heartily to our people.

Z. B. V.

MISS VIRGINIA PENNY'S Book- from which man, in too many in"THE EMPLOYMENTS OF Wo- stances, has pushed her aside to MEN." make room for himself. It is a timely offering, and comes to

A most excellent work, bearing woman's assistance when want the above title, has been written confuses the mind, and demoraliby Miss Virginia Penny, of Louis-zation would make her its victim. ville, Kentucky, to which I wish It is a work of morality and practo call the attention of the read- tical Christianity. It, in effect, ers of The Land we Love, es- says seek and sorrow not; work pecially the females. This book and weep not; hope and happiness contains a greater amount of may be yours. It suggests that knowledge, essentially useful to thousands would not be what they females, dependent upon their are, had they known what they own unaided efforts for an honor- might be. This volume is a lamp able livelihood, than any I have to the young female venturing In my judgment, a copy of alone along the misty present withit ought to be in the hands of out a star of hope in the dark every lady in the South. future. It is an honor to the

seen.

The author has, with a truly head and heart of its fair author. philanthropic regard for her sex, She has sent South, for gratuitous pointed out the many and various distribution, many copies of the pursuits in which woman may be work. Two dollars, its price, usefully, honorably, and profitably cannot be better expended. I say employed. This is done, in 532 to every lady, buy the work for articles, by facts and figures. No your own use or that of others. lady can read this volume with

out profit to herself or others.How Miss Penny has collected so much useful knowledge, so valuable to her sex, is a wonder. This work must have cost her much toil and money. Varied knowledge, industry, great care, uncommon patience, and peculiar talent have surely never been found combined in the production of any similar work. Similar! There is nothing extant like it.

Such a volume has never before been accessible to our wives and daughters. It is an index pointing to what they ought to know. It is, in some sense, a vindication of woman's natural right to occupy places and positions suitable to her talent, tact, and taste;

BURWELL N. CARTER.

WILLIAMSTOWN, KY.

The Richmond Eclectic, which stands in the front-rank of American Magazines, has the following "Table of Contents," for July:

Ritualism; Gibbon's Memoirs; Thomas Hood; An old Story ReTold; A Modern Magician; Anita's Prayer; Hebrew Poetry; The Hour of Prayer; A Night in the Jura; Science and Art-Pictures of the Year; The Channel Railway Connecting England and France; The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula; Miscellanies from Foreign Magazines.

NO. V.

THE LAND WE LOVE.

SEPTEMBER, 1867.

VOL. III

STOVALL'S BRIGADE AT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, JULY 12TH, 1863.

EDITOR OF "THE LAND WE LOVE:"

In the issue of your interesting periodical, for June, we have read with much pleasure, an article

loss of two hundred men, and
three stands of colors.”

The attack referred to was made by five regiments of the enemy, entitled, "Sketch of General B. not upon Helm's, but upon the H. Helm." In correcting one line of Brigadier General M. A. misapprehension of the author, Stovall, commanding a brigade composed of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Florida, 60th North Carolina and

we beg that our motives may not be misconstrued.

I would not wittingly abate one 47th Georgia regiments, and its jot from the well-earned trophies object was the capture of Cobb's which illustrate the career of battery, which was then reporting General Helm. But his brow is to General Stovall, and which his too rich with laurels for it to brigade was then supporting.assume a modest garland, which General Helm's brigade was in rightfully belongs to one of his line to the left of Stovall, and his

brothers-in-arms.

gallant Kentuckians, were unable

Speaking of General Johnston's to do more than look on and operations around Jackson, Miss- cheer-which they did vociferousissippi, in July 1863, the article ly-at the repulse of the enemy, on page 166 proceeds: with a loss of some two hundred

"On Sunday the 12th of July, killed, two hundred and fifty an attack was made upon Helm's captured, and fivestands of colors. line, the heat was intense, the Four of these stands of colors, Confederates were exhausted by taken by the 1st, 3rd and 4th their long march, and seemingly Florida, and 47th Georgia regiunfit for the unequal contest, but the dauntless spirits of brave Ken- ments, together with Cobb and tuckians never quailed, and now Slocumb's artillery, were in the led by their valiant commander, name of these commands, prethey repulsed the enemy with a sented by General Stovall through

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