ned to-day that every tree on Gov. Wise's farm of any size has
been felled by the enemy. What harm have the poor trees done the enemy?
I love trees, anywhere.

The President attends to many little matters, such as solicitations for
passports to leave the country, details or exemptions of husbands and
sons; and generally the ladies who address him, knowing his religious
bias, frame their phraseology accordingly, and often with effect.

The following is his last proclamation:

_Proclamation appointing a Day for Public Worship._

"It is meet that the people of the Confederate States should, from
time to time, assemble to acknowledge their dependence on Almighty
God, to render devout thanks for his manifold blessings, to worship
his holy name, to bend in prayer at his footstool, and to accept,
with reverent submission, the chastening of his all-wise and
all-merciful Providence.

"Let us, then, in temples and in fields, unite our voices in
recognizing, with adoring gratitude, the manifestations of his
protecting care in the many signal victories with which our arms
have been crowned; in the fruitfulness with which our land has been
blessed, and in the unimpaired energy and fortitude with which he
has inspired our hearts and strengthened our arms in resistance to
the iniquitous designs of our enemies.

"And let us not forget that, while graciously vouchsafing to us his
protection, our sins have merited and received grievous
chastisement; that many of our best and bravest have fallen in
battle; that many others are still held in foreign prisons; 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 t