Named Entity Results, John C. Davis

President Davis and Chaplains. --The following letter from President Davis answers a memorial of a committee appointed by the "General Association of the Chaplains and Missionaries of the Army of Tennessee, " asking that ministers of the Gospel now in the ranks be appointed to the position of chaplains, when properly recommended and qualified for the sacred office: Confederate States of America, Executive Department, Richmond, Va., April 19th, 1864. Rev. Chas. H. Atkin, Rev. President Davis answers a memorial of a committee appointed by the "General Association of the Chaplains and Missionaries of the Army of Tennessee, " asking that ministers of the Gospel now in the ranks be appointed to the position of chaplains, when properly recommended and qualified for the sacred office: Confederate States of America, Executive Department, Richmond, Va., April 19th, 1864. Rev. Chas. H. Atkin, Rev. J. S. Chapman, and Rev. W. Mooney, committee, Dalton. Ga: Gentlemen: The President has received your letter of March 9th, and directs me to express to you his deep sense of the importance of regular and earnest religious instruction and consolation to our brave soldiers. He does not presume to doubt the necessity of chaplains in full number, and knows of no bar to the promotion of such from the ranks. On the other hand, he considers the spirit which prompts ministers to volunteer as pri

Unfounded charge. --A man named John C. Davis was yesterday arrested on the charge of stealing a pig from Patrick Burke. Some two weeks since Burke had a pig to stray off from his promises and heard nothing from it till a few days since, when his wife, happening to be out on the street, discovered the lost animal in the possession of a negro man, who, upon being asked where he got it from, told her that he bought it from Davis. Burke, on learning these facts, called upon the accused andssession of a negro man, who, upon being asked where he got it from, told her that he bought it from Davis. Burke, on learning these facts, called upon the accused and heard from his own mouth that he had sold the pig to the negro, but claimed it as one which he had raised himself. Yesterday morning the matter was before the Mayor; but after hearing the evidence Davis was promptly discharged, there being no grounds to prove that the pig which had been sold to the negro was not his property.

Busts of President Davis in England. --We find the following advertisement in the London Index: The only bust extant of the President of the Confederate States, modeled by Volk, at Richmond, and the most faithful likeness of this eminent statesman, has been kindly lent by the owner for reproduction for the benefit of the Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund of Liverpool. In conformity with the intentions of the donor, the bust has been registered under the Designs Act, and a numbers of casts (quarter size,) limited to 500, are offered to the public at the following rates: Plaster, do. 7s 6d (composition of wax and plaster,) 10s 6d. Carriage free to all parts of the United Kingdom. The bust may be seen at the studio of James Redfern, Esq., 29 Clipstons street, Fusroy Square, W, who will also receive orders to execute it in marble, and at the Index office, Bouveste street, B. C. The proceeds of the sale of the 300 castle being for the benefit of the Southern Prisoners'