Our two Numbers under one Cover will be again pardoned, we are sure, when our readers see that it was necessary to have it so in order to get in one of our articles. And as our readers get the same amount of matter, it is as convenient to them, and probably even more acceptable during the heated term.
The Paper of Colonel Roy on the conduct of General Hardee during the Atlanta campaign will attract wide attention. As Secretary of the Southern Historical Society, we, of course, express no opinion on the merits of the unfortunate controversy which involves two of our most distinguished soldiers. But we may without impropriety call attention to Colonel Roy's paper as a fine specimen of the style which should characterize papers on points of controversy between Confederates. Able, earnest and pointed in vindicating the name and fame of his loved and honored chief and trusted friend, Colonel Roy is at the same time corteous in his expressions and parliamentary in his whole article—setting an example which those who write on controverted points might well imitate.
Major H. B. McClellan, so widely known and esteemed as the gallant and able Adjutant-General of the cavalry corps, Army of Northern Virginia, of Lexington, Kentucky, has accepted an invitation to address the Virginia Division, Army of Northern Virginia Association, at its next reunion in November. He has fitly chosen as his theme, "The Services and Character of General J. E. B. Stuart."
This theme, in the hands of the gallant soldier who rode at Stuart's side—the accomplished writer who has since been an earnest student of the events of the war, and an able contributor to its history—will be handled to the delight of the Association, and will be a valuable addition to the true story of our grand old army.
Renewals or New Subscribers were never more "in order" than during this "heated term" when our receipts are unusually light, but our expenses go on as usual.
Please ask your neighbor to remit us his subscription, and see if you cannot send us at least one new subscriber now. And those of our friends who intend to become life members, or to order full sets of back numbers, could never do so at a more acceptable time to us than just now.
Dr. W. R. Vaughan, President of the Gordonsville Female Institute (whose advertisement appears this month), is able, by the munificence of a kind friend who modestly conceals his name, to offer next session free tuition to ten young ladies from the South. In making the appointments preference will be given to the following classes and in the order named: 1. The orphan
