The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1865., [Electronic resource]

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Additional from the North.

We take from our latest Northern files a few items of interest:

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The Yankees in a Religious point of View.
[from the Albany Alias.]

"Prophet, Priest and King!!"--These are the titles the Boston Transcript accords to its Chief, Lincoln, and his recent inaugural inspired, it will awe as a revelation from above! "No wonder," it exclaims, "the President was lifted above the level on which political rulers usually stand, and felt himself in the very presence of the awful mystery of Providence. Well may the President call the people, as it were, into the Court of the King of Kings, and show them their accountability and their duty towards Him. With these views, it is, of course, the duty of the hierarchy to guide the people politically; and we see that Beecher proposes to organize future campaigns upon this basis. He proposes to get rid of the old theologic trammels; and in a recent sermon, in which he announced his determination to devote himself more to polities, he alluded to "the sacredness of days and ordinances, such as Sunday, fast days, peculiar modes of baptism, and so on, as of use simply to educate and assist Christians in their several lines of spiritual development, while there is, and should be, no intelligent recognition of sacredness or holiness in them."

He sneered at "your men in pulpits, who can preach of Moses and the Prophets, who can show you the length and breadth of their creed, who can explain the meaning of this term and that text, who can talk of original sin and the wickedness of men who lived two thousand years ago."

Having thus disposed of the clergy who talk of original sin and quote Bible texts, and having knocked Sunday. "into the middle of next week," the Reverend politician "pitches into" the politics of New York city! He had nothing to say about Brooklyn politics, nothing about the corruptions of the navy-yard, nothing about the bounty brokers and the conniving officials, who have been driving a profitable business in kidnapping, drugging and enlisting men, and in organizing desertions from the army by thousands, nothing against the New York custom-house, nothing against the contraband traders, and the smugglers, and revenue defrauders; for, aiming at these, he would be sure to hit a fellow-politician of the Black Republican school. He did not even score the New York Board of Supervisors — for that is a half-and-half institution politically — though it is chargeable with most of the vast expenditure of the city. He let the Boards and Commissions, organized at Albany, alone — and hurled his anathemas solely against the New York Common Council--because that is Democratic!

Why should he not "deal damnation through the land against all he deems his foes, " as well as the "Prophet, Priest and King," whose name he upholds?

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The State of Affairs in Missouri.

Military matters in this State are quiet. The organization of new companies throughout the interior is progressing finely. General Ewing has telegraphed the Governor that President Lincoln and General Grant have consented to postpone the enforcement of the drafts in this State, and given authority for raising thirteen regiments of cavalry for one year's service in this State. The necessary preparations are now being made for a vigorous system of recruiting to carry out this arrangement. Governor Fletcher will appoint none but first-class soldiers and unconditionally loyal as officers of these regiments, and the men will enjoy satisfaction in serving under such leaders, different from their former experience under officers appointed by Governors Gamble and Hall.

The presence of the rebels in various portions of the State is indicated by an occasional guerrilla officer in the interior. Thus a guerrilla camp was surprised near Columbia, in Boone county, last week, and ten rebels killed. Again, a scout returned from the southern portion of Jackson county recently and reported that while absent the men had killed thirteen guerrillas. Again, three bushwhackers attempted to rob a house in Montgomery county, and were pursued and killed. The troops occupying Pilot Knob, Salem, Houston, Springfield and other points, are constantly reporting the death of one, two, three or more rebels every day in their vicinity, and thus the work of extermination is going on all the time.

General Pope is absent on a visit to Milwaukee, and General Dodge has returned from Leavenworth. It is understood that Major-General Pleasanton will be assigned to command in the State of Kansas as soon as he returns from Philadelphia, where he has been lying on a sick bed for several days. The judiciousness of this appointment may be questioned. General Pleasanton was championed by the anti Lane party in Kansas during the last election, and this fact compelled the Lane party to pitch into him — consequently an ill-feeling has broken out, which would naturally find vent in the accession of General Pleasanton to command. The principal military operations in Kansas just now consist of vigorous measures against the Indians on the Overland Mail route.

General Thayer has been removed from command at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and General Syrus Bussay, formerly a Breckinridge Democrat of lowa, appointed his successor. General Bussay is now a decided Abolitionist, and hates rebels worse than rattlesnakes. The change in commanders at Forth Smith may tend to discourage the plans of the cotton-speculating, horse-trading store- runners who have virtually managed that district ever since its acquisition.

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Funeral of Major-General Whiting

The funeral of Major-General Whiting, Confederate States army, took place at Trinity Church, New York, and was quite largely attended. Brigadier-General Beall, Confederate States army, was present. The Herald says:

‘ Every one present seemed alive to the solemnity of the occasion, and many appeared sincerely affected. The afflicted mother and sisters of General Whiting occupied seats near the altar, and excited unusual sympathy. The last words of the service having been uttered, the procession reformed in the same order, with the addition of the female relatives and several ladies — friends of the deceased — all in deep mourning, and passed out of the church, whence they proceeded to Greenwood cemetery, where, pending the removal of his remains to the South, they were deposited. The coffin was of highly-polished rosewood, silver-mounted, the following inscription being on the breastplate: "Major-General W. H. C. Whiting, C. S. A., born in the State of Mississippi, died on Governor's island, New York harbor, March 10, 1865, aged forty years, eleven months and eighteen days."

’ On the coffin were placed two handsome crosses, composed of pure white camellias; and, while it was passing up the aisle, a young lady placed a number of flowers, with a white ribbon, on the lid.