s, that large districts of one country have been devastated with savage ferocity — the powerful home destroyed and helpless women and children driven away in destitution; and that with fiendish malignity the passions of a servile race have been excited by our foes into the commission of atrocities from which death is a welcome escape.
Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do issue this air proclamation, setting apart Wednesday, the sixteenth day of November next, as a day to be specially devoted to the worship of Almighty God, and I do invite and invoke all the people of these Confederate States to assemble on the day aforesaid, in their respective places of public worship, there to unite in prayer to our Heavenly Father, that He bestow His favor upon us; that He extend over us the protection of His almighty arms that He sanctify His chastisement to our improvement, so that we may turn away from evil paths and walk righteously in His
s; that large districts of our country have been devastated with savage ferocity — the peaceful homes destroyed and helpless women and children driven away in destitution; and that with fiendish malignity the passions of a servile race have been excited by our foes into the commission of atrocities from which death is a welcome escape.
Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do issue this my proclamation, setting apart Wednesday, the sixteenth day of November next, as a day to be specially devoted to the worship of Almighty God; and I do invite and invoke all the people of these Confederate States to assemble on the day aforesaid, in their respective places of public worship, there to unite in prayer to our Heavenly Father, that He bestow His favor upon us; that He extend over us the protection of His almighty arm; that He sanctify His chastisement to our improvement, so that we may turn away from evil paths and walk righteously in His
hen again becomes gloomy.
Large quantities of "hard tack" and bacon are being brought to Tuscumbia; the transportation, already quite limited, being again reduced — the usual precursor to a move.
Sherman was on yesterday reported, with his forces, lying between Decatur and Huntsville.
Today I was told that he was moving in the direction of Pulaski.
Well, let him move.
We can move him back through Middle Tennessee as we did out of Georgia.
The West Point Bulletin of November 16th contains the annexed:
A gentleman direct from the scene tells us that the Yankees have burnt Rome and are moving some way. He says the town has been literally reduced to ashes, and evidently some programme of future movements was about to be inaugurated.
The Montgomery Appeal publishes the following about Hood's army:
Civilians are not permitted to travel on the Mobile and Ohio railroad north of Meridian, which is the railroad route to the vicinity of the army, when
judice.
It calls for the amendment of the foreign enlistment act.
The Times says the acquittal does not negative the fact that there was gross violation of the law, even if Rumble was the tool of others.
The Times says the Fort Fisher affair certainly developed a new step in the art of war, and demonstrated the possibility of making turret ships sea-going.
The dispatches of Lord Lyons relative to the St. Albans raid have been published.
Earl Russell's dispatch to Lord Lyons, dated November 16, notices the handsome terms in which Mr. Seward acknowledges the co-operation of the Canadian Government, and adds: "Her Majesty's Government trusts that such faithful co-operation in the performance of friendly offices may long continue on both sides."
Spain.
Porto Rico advices, via Madrid, say that a party, hostile to Spain, were again agitating that country, and that some political agents from the United States had been arrested and expelled by the authorities.
ursday while skating on a pond.
A "Society of the Oldest Inhabitants" has been organized in the city of Washington.
To be eligible to membership a person must be fifty years of age and must have been for forty years a resident.
In the gallery of the theatre in Crow street, Dublin, one night, a coal porter made himself disagreeable.
There was a yell of "Throw him over," followed by the exquisitely droll idea, "Don't waste him; kill a fiddler with him."
The Paris Sickle of November 16th, in an editorial article, speaks of the President of the late Confederacy as "Monsieur John Davis." Such is fame!
Colt's armory, in Hartford, is to be re-built immediately.
Its length will be twelve hundred feet.
Daniel L. Gibbons, of Boston, Treasury agent at Mobile, committed suicide by cutting his throat on the 2d instant.
The workingmen of New Albany, Indiana, have organized an "Eight-Hour League."
Boston papers note a rapid increase of the steam tonnage of that p
