The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo

Jeff Davis Orates.

New Orleans, April 7.—Incident to the ceremony of decorating the grave of the confederate dead, in this city, yesterday, and laying the corner stone of the monument to be surmounted by an equestrian statute of Albert Sidney Johnston, an oration was delivered by Jefferson Davis, in which he eulogized the characteristics of the dead leader. In Johnston, he said, was recognized a strong pillar of the confederacy and when he fell on the field of Shiloh, the mightiest column which sustained the cause had fallen. He died in the moment of victory and had he lived half an hour longer, he would have made Grant a prisoner or a fugitive. The confederacy had three great leaders, Lee, Jackson and Johnston. Who would compare them with the leaders of antiquity or modern times? At the banquet in the evening the speaker reiterated these sentiments.