He will have been more than rewarded by the knowledge that he has been the instrument, through which charity has once more visited the South, and swept oppression and want from our land.

Such scenes as those we daily witness were never seen, even in the mildest form a few short years ago.

Prior to the war there was scarcely a beggar in the South, and from one end of the country to the other could we walk without hearing the voice of the mendicant appealing to our benevolence.

How changed now! In every city of the South the streets are filled with ragged boys and girls stopping each passer by and asking aid.

It is a disgrace to humanity and to God, and that such things should be in our land, whose sons have exhibited such heroism and devotion .-- Many of these beggary are the sons and daughters of our soldiers--of our honored dead and heroic living.