The Tri-Weekly Journal, 1865-01-02

owmiey b ; possessed me uigucao intellectual qualities* of any colored mail X-ever saw; and was a South-. - ern patriot to the backbone. When the Yankees, under 'the application of the rule to "run the cturchefe" as well as the Government, undertook to unite the colored church" in Wash* ington: to the Connecticut Gonferenee, they Wanted to* ordain, ;A1bram*,r and make Kim pastor. Bui the heroic colored man told-them that it Was against the laws of his State for' a e>ioted'man to preach, mid he in intended'4 - tended'4 intended'4 to" keep the laws. They - could not bribe or intimidate him. > Be stood to his colors. They carried away his wife and family; and :Teft him solitary by hiB OWn hearth^ But

ono-nnrt ot tne yonricwoi ine treo^gu i eniieniisiff, ' who were placed in' tfre army undeF&en.' soraely. i , \Ve would calf the attention ofortr' readers to Mr. Tuppfe's Circular?an /et for the belief of Soldiers Families and others. Owing to its great lentth. wt are. unable to famish oar usual Variety "of interesting . IL ? * matter. % ? The Old Issue.?Both Houses of Congress have passed a bill extending lhe*tffne within which the o d issu'^'moy be exchanged for the ne\V ine.ler the net of I7t\i Fcbrunry 1864!, until the 1st of Ju y 18Gi Holders cnu See that there is no necessity for saorifiei rg any of the old issue they may happen to have oirhati .