A Neglected Soldiers' Cemetery

Last montb, gays The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle} the writer happened to pass by the Manasfias battlefieKl. The confedérate dead wcre burled in a spot near the village. Some of the fraves wen; markeil aml a few imlosed by an Iron ralling. A wall of brown etone once surrounded tfie irbole cometery. Now many of tbe bcadboards aro prone upon the grouud. Gra?s aud weed gro'.v -rank uikhi the neglccted mounds herc vaTor aleeps. Largc bcguobi of the wa'l havo cruij)i)ïed dowj) and cattle aud hojrs prowl uuvexed and :i wUl in u spot tliat ; oiiirht to bi sacrod snil. Tlie luxiïrioua nortiiern tourists passing in BfgtK of the gravejurd marvel at the ncpleot, tho sliumeful ucplcctof southerntTs, wlm, wbüe burruhing over Uve ex-confeilorates, especial ly duriuff a poiitfoal eaaspalgn, appáreuUy caro notblog for the xnemorv af ilaln broes, wbo, beloDffl; to ' the silont majority, luive no vote or influence. Wfi talk prettily and Wiutiioeiitally of lThe Cause," We exect monumeuta to the confedérate defid. Wc fo wild oyèr Jefiftrsoo Davii and (Jon. Gordo d. Hut the mea whodiêd for tbeircause, and but for wjiom tbe Uve peñeráis would have no brestige th? men, the martyrs, are sleping inntanv place.s whereuuclean animáis are pcrtiiiltc-d to oproot thcir relies in a way tbat is uuspeakably aljominable.