_A Burst of Patriotism._—On the Confederate Decoration Day, at Montgomery, Alabama, this year, the Memorial Address was delivered by Tennent Lomax, Esq., son of Gen. Lomax, who fell at the battle of Seven Pines, and whose monument, the principal one in the cemetery at the capital, received the special floral attentions of the day. We give an extract from the oration as printed in the local daily: “Let us again to-day, standing upon this sacred spot, extend the hand of perfect reconciliation to our fellow citizens of the North, and ask them to clasp that hand in the true spirit of fraternal love, and to live with us as a band of brothers, united in one grand enterprise, the advancement of the honor, the interest, and the glory, of our common country; and to pray with us to almighty God to hasten the advent of that day, for it must surely come, when the star-spangled banner, ‘with not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured,’ shall float, not over ‘a country dissevered, discordant, belligerent,’ but over a union of co-equal States, re-united and bound together by a golden chain of unbroken friendship.” * * * * * _At the meeting_ of the North Carolina Conference at Dudley, in May, one of the delegates, Deacon Stevens, of Beaufort, as he was preparing his pipe, heard the little children of his host remarking to themselves about the poison of tobacco, and the bad practice of using it. His thought was started. He went out to get away by himself for a smoke. He observed that the people about him were not indulging in that habit. At the end of the three days’ meeting, he searched about the audience room to see if there were any of the defilements of tobacco. He found none. That church, (Rev. D. Peebles, pastor,) and its Band of Hope eschew tobacco as well as all intoxicating drinks. The deacon went home convinced, as he said, that it was a “dirty, ugly, mean habit.” He joined in starting a Band of Hope, and told his experience as above narrated. “A little child shall lead them.” The little ones did not address him, but he thought that they intended their remarks for his benefit. * * * * *