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For the Banner of the South.
Bugle Breath.
Oh, glittering vrallH of rar sounding abode,
Let me go! I am weary of sighing;
Thy tremulous air, breath-shivered, grows thick
With laments tor the dead and the dying.
I have called, gallant souls, from the kies and the
prayer
Os the lips of the women who loved them,
I have whispered a wail on the pitying breeze,
As eartii laid her brown hand above them.
T have thrilled through the corpse with a fierce battle
call,
I have stirred the calm blood till it bounded;
I have strengthened the failing, and gathered the lost,
By sorrow and darkness surrounded.
I ride on the wave of a music-born cry,
Where soft ripples swell into billows;
’Till the courier, Air, bears the harmony off,
Waking soldiers from dream-softened pillows.
I gather them in with my rattling note,
Shrill-breathing, I bid them not falter,
Where soldiers should tread for the cause they espouse,
For the flag, for the hearth* for the altar!
But, ali! after batfle, comes sorrowful dirge !
I am weary and sick of the story—
A funeral march, a riderless horse,
».nd a dead soldier shot into glory.
Break, then, brazen walls, let me go, let me go,
To the hills, the blue hills over yonder,
Where Echo and I, from the swaying pine tope,
To the shores of the still lako may wander,
; . i oi, i
And startle, perchance, some lonely one there,
By whispers of melody airy,
Or gladden the ear of the oarsmen below,
With the song of the boatman’s good fairy.
Best, rest in the valley, rest, rest on the hills,
No banner, save peace, shall bellying,
When the war-weary buglo shall utter no more,
Its wail for the dead or the dying.
Ma-ovn, Ga., April (sth, 1868. Anonymous.
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[From the Southern Opinion.
C. S. A.
THE CONFEDERATE DEAD IN FLORIDA.
The Tallahassee (Florida) Sentinel
says: Wo have already alluded to the
fact that the 20th of the present month is
the day set apart, by common consent
throughout the South, for decorating the
graves of the Confederate soldiers. We
are glad to know that the noble heroes
buried in the Tallaliasssee Cemetery will
not be forgotten. A stroll through the
“silent city of the dead” on Sunday af
ternoon last, brought us to the quiet and
beautiful spot where now repose a goodly
number of our “unreturning braves.”
The place is no longer a reproach to our
city and our people. Under the direction
of one of Florida’s most honored and
gifted daughters, the graves have recently
been overlaid with a durable grass sod,
and the neatly-cleaned walks have been
tastefully bordered with the same. In
deed the whole enclosure now bears evi
dence of affectionate remembrance and
gentle care. We are not permitted to
give to the public the name of the honor
able lady who is chiefly instrumental in
securing a result which is as honorable
to herself as it is creditable to the city
which js graced by her residence in it.
The work of sodding the mounds, of
bordering the walks, and of clearing up
the enclosure so neatly, has been well
performed by Thomas Hughes—the faith
iul servant of Madame Murat. In order
that the improvements recently made in
the burial ground of the Confederate
dead, may still further testify to the fact
that those brave men occupy a “green
spot in our memory,” it is very desirable
that a largo quantity of small wild olive
trees, or other suitable evergreens, should
be immediately sent to Thomas Hughes,
at the Cemetery. The season is late for
planting : but by using extra care, with
very small trees, it is believed that many
of them could yet be made to grow. All
who can possibly spare a few of these
trees are earnestly requested to do so.
Remember, ladies—all who have not
forgotten the sacrifices made by our fallen
heroes—remember the annual return of
the day on which you decorate Confed
erate Graves. Let bright flowers in pro
lusion, borne by sad maidens and sorrow
ing matrons, send up sweet incense Irom
the green mounds of the pale sleepers ;
and, in your name, let your chosen orator,
on that day, bear eloquent tribute to the
memory of those for whom—
“ The mu filed drum A tad roll has beat
The »oldierH’ last tattoo ;
No more on life’s parade shall moot
The brave and during few ;
On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.”
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MONUMENT TO GENERAL GIST OF SOUTH
CAROTIN A.
A handsome marble monument has
been erected over the grave of General
S. R. Gist, of Charleston, S, 0., Killed
du ring the lute war, at the battle of
franklin, Tenn. The monument is
erected by the widow of the General. It
is ten feet high, and consists of a broken
fluted marble column, surmounted by a
laurel wreath cut in marble, the column
C. S. A,
elevated upon a marble pedestal, with a
main and second base, the whole set in
brown stone. On the front of the main
base is this inscription :
IN MEMORY
of
STATES RIGHTS GIST,
Born in Union Uistrict, S. C.,
Killed in Battle at Franklin, Tenn..
November 30th, 1864.
Over the above on the second base is
a Palmetto tree cut in bas relief.
On the reverse side of the main base
is the inscription :
He fulfilled a hero’s
And a patriot’s part.
CONFEDERATE GRAVES IN THE. SOUTH
The" Atlanta New Era suggests that in
consequence of the scarcity of flowers,
the anniversary for decorating Confeder
ate graves be changed from the 26th of
April to the 10th of May. It says in
that latitude they have no flowers at an
earlier period. As thousands of these
graves—and, indeed, the greater portion
of them—are far north of Atlanta, it
would, perhaps, be far better to adopt the
10th of May. But had we not better
suggest the name of some distinguished
Southern lady as director of the cere
monies and request her to fix the day ?
We nominate Mrs, General N. B. For
rest, for the position. —Macon Journal
(£ Messenger , April 3.
INFORMATION WANTED.
A short time before the surrender of
General Lee’s army, James G, Peterson
was furloughed from Richmond, Ya., and
started for his home in Coosa county,
Ala, hut finding his health would not
admit of his reaching home, he turned to
go to Jas. T. Peterson’s, in Edgefield Dis
trict, S. C;, and has not since been heard
from by his family or relations. Any in
formation relative to him, whether lie be
living or dead, and if dead, where buried,
will be gratefully received by the under
signed. Address me at Holly Springs,
Dallas county, Arkansas.
Thomas Peterson.
ADMIRAL SEMMES PRACTISING LAW.
Admiral Raphael Semmes has established
himself in the practice of law in Mobile,
Alabama. He bas associated with him
his gallant *son, Oliver J, Semmes.
THE TOMIfoF ALBERT SYDNEY
JOHNSTON.
“Town Talk,” of the New Orleans
Times , gives us tho following :
A lady correspondent in a recent stroll
through the St. Louis Cemetery, in this
city, visited the gravo of Albert Sydney
Johnston, and found a written epitaph
pasted upon a rough board attached to
the tomb. In her note to “Town Talk,”
our correspondent begs us to find out the
author of the epitaph, and sends us a copy :
IN ME MORI AM.
Behind this stone is laid,
For a season,
Albert Sydney Johnston,
A General in the Army of tho Con
federate States,
Who fell at Shiloh, Tennessee, on the
6th of June 1862.
A man tried in many high offices and
critical enterprises,
And found faithful in all
His life was one long sacrifice of interest
to his country ;
And even that life, on a woful Sabbath,
Did he yield as a holocaust at
his country’s need.
Not wholly was ho understood
while he lived,
But, in his death, his greatness stands
confessed
In a people’s tears.
Resolute, moderate, clear of envy,
Yet, not wanting
In that finer ambition which makes men
great and pure.
In bis honor, impregnable ;
In his simplicity sublime.
No country e’r had a truer son;
No cause a nobler champion ;
No peop e a bolder defender;
No principle a purer victim—
Than the dead soldier who sleeps here.
The cause lor which he perished is lost ;
The people for whom he fought
are crushed ;
Ihe tiag lie loved guides no more
the charging lines ;
But Lis fame—
Consigned to the keeping of that time
Which, happily, is not so much the tomb
of virtue
As its shrine—
Shall, in the years to come,
Fire modest worth to noble ends
In honor, now, our great captain rests.
A bereaved people mourn him ;
Three commonwealth’s proudly claim him ;
And history shall cherish him among those
Choicer spirits, who, holding their
consciences unmixed with
Blame, have been, in all conjectures,
True to themselves,
Their country,
And their God.
miiis ©i mimm IT
From tho N. Y. Home Journal, and oilier Sources
LITERATURE AND ART ITEMS.
The Queen’s “ Journal of Our Life in
the Highlands” is to be translated into
Welsh. Her Majesty has requested the
Rev. J. Sones, Rector oi Llandyssil, New
Quay, Cardiganshire, an eminent Welsh
scholar, to undertake the work.
Anew and complete edition of the
poems of John G. Saxe, with numerous
additions and revisions, in one elegant
volume in the style of the “ Farringford
Tennyson,’ will shortly be published by
Messrs. Ticknor A Fields,
Barton is hereafter to have three hun
dred dollars a month for writing for the
Atlantic Monthly.
Mrs. EUet, author of “ The Queens of
American Society,” etc., is engaged on a
new work, “ Society in Washington under
the Presidents.”
Dr. George Derby, of Boston, has put
forth a little pamphlet showing that an
thracite coat, as commonly used for heat
ing purposes in our houses is slowly poi
soning the whole community with carbonic
oxide gas. Ihe author advocates the use
of steam and wood furnaces for heating
dwellings.
The Court Journal denies that Capt.
May no Reid will make his permanent
home in this country.
Rossini had a small party on his birth
day, in spite of his not being quite in his
usual health. Madame x\lboni, Gustave
Bore, and M. Berryer were among the
guests.
Auder, inspired by the great success
which has attended bis “ Premier Jour
de Bonbeur,” has set to work upon anew
opera, which is in three sets. Not bad,
this, for a man in bis eighty-fourthyear.
Signor Rossini, it is said in the Gazette
aLusteals has resigned his author’s rights
in “ Guillame Tell.” He concluded to
do this on the occasion of its five-hundredth
performance.
The French Society of Dramatic Au
thors, at the instance of M. Emile Augier,
have voted the sum of three hundred
francs toward the erection of a monu
ment to Ponsard in one of tho squares in
Vienna, the poet’s birthplace.
A pension of two hundred pounds per
annum has been conferred on Lady Brew
ster, in consideration of the scientific
labors of her distinguished husband, Sir
David Brewster, whose death took place
a few weeks ago.
Mr. Dickens is advertised to start on
his return voyage to England on the 23d
of April, Shakspeare's birthday. Dickens
has favorite days. He started for this
country on the 9th of November, Lord
Mayor’s Day. Unlike most people, Fri
day is a favorite day with him. Many
men will never begin any work on -a
Friday. Dickens regards Friday as his
lucky day.
Miss Olive Logan was arrested in Co
lumbus, Ohio, recently, on a warrant
issued by Mayor Bull, for not having
procured a city license to lecture there.
A city ordinance provides that this is
necessary, but it had not been enforced
during the past winter. Miss Logan
pleaded her own case with marked ability
and grace, and, after paying the license,
left the city.
Sheldon & Cos., who have assumed the
publication of the Galaxy , announce that
that magazine will be greatly enlarged,
It will be enriched by the addition of new
departments of criticism and social discus
sion ; will be elegantly illustrated, and
will commence in the next number anew
story, “ Beechdale,” by Marion Harland.
The Catholic Publication Society issues
a volume of “ Tales from the Diary of a
Sister of Mercy.” The author is C. A.
Brame.
Jerome Thompson has recently com
pleted, and put on exhibition, a painting
of the scene immortalized in the well
known poem of “ The Old Oaken Bucket.”
The artist was a personal friend of the
poet YV oodworth, and he has depicted the
home of the latter with genial sympathy
and tidelity.
In spite of the hard times, first-class
pictures continue to bring high prices.
At the recent sale, by Messrs. Leeds &
Miner, of a collection of foreign and
American works belonging to Mr. Knoed
ler. a picture entitled “Charity,” bv
Dubafe, Drought $4,400 ; one by Meis
sonier, “ The Philosopher,” was sold for
$3,600 ; Gifford’s “ Home in the Wilder
ness” brought $2,200 ; “ Early Morn
ing,’ by Sontag, sold for S4BO, and a
flower piece, by Robie, brought $1,500.
These prices give a fair indication of
those which prevailed during the sale,
the receipts if which amounted to $27,637.
Some of the;finest works were purchased
by gentlemeh from neighboring cities.
The Beaumont sale of paintings, which
took place at the Leeds Gallerv, New
xork, on the evening of the 2d inst., was
very well attended. Among tho paint
ings sold were : ‘ New England Scene
ry. by Church, $700; “ Westphalian
Landscape,” $250, by Biersladt ; “ Fish
ln g Boats off Scheveningen,” $1,550 ;
“ The Bashful Suitor,” $025 ; “Landscape’
with Sheep,” $490; “A Shrine in the
Tyrol, $400; “Entrance to the Grand
Lanai, Venice,” SSOO, “ Evening Re
turn from Harvesting,” $350; “October
Sports,’ $450; “ A Night Market in
Amsterdam,” $1,850; “ View on Lake
Lucerne, $390 ; “An Approaching
Storm,” $240, S
. work of peculiar interest, both for
iG age and authorship, has just been re
issued by too Catholic Publication So
ciety of this city. It is entitled “An
Epistle of Jesus Christ to the Faithful
Soul,’ and was written by Joannes Lans*
pci gius, Prior of the Carthusians and
translated from the Latin by Lord Philip
Howard XIX. Earl of Arundel, during
ms captivity in the Tower of London.
Ihe present reprint is from the London
edition of 1610.
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From the Nation.
A Song.
1797.
I.
Tho shadow has darkened upon the land.
Tito shadow of douth and fearful gloom—
Our bravost dio by tho foo man’s hand,
Our truest pino in the prison tomb;
But gather togothor, true moa of all;
Let hand grasp baud with a brother’s love
Tho darker to-day is the cloudy pall,
The surer the light from the suu above.
H.
For, years ago, when the white sails shone
Os a foreign foe on our Irish coast,
We fought like true moil, but not as oue,
And the land of our love was darkly lost.
But now in union, us true men all,
Hand grasping hand with a brother's lore,
We’ll scatter the cloud and lift the pall,
And bask in the smile of the sun above.
HI.
koung hearts tender, and old heart* true,
Step not back from the forward way;
Remember bow such as ye have diad
For Irela»d’s cause on a former day.
Then gather together, true men all,
Hand grasping hand with a brother’s love;
The darker to-day is the cloudy pall,
The surer tho light from tiro suu above.
IV.
Ring out the chime of the brav# old time.
The foremost blade has the bravest stroke;
And pour along like a flood of rhyme,
To break for ever tho focman’a yoke.
Then gather together, true men all,
Sumd by the flag in faith and lov# :
The darker to-day is the cloudy pall,
The surer the light from the sun above.
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LATE IRISH NEWS.
Tiik Fentan Trials. —The Fenian
trials in Cork, says the Nation , are pro
ceeding in a manner but little in accord
ance with the wishes of the officers of the
Crown. Disagreement has followed dis
agreement ; and tho Cork men, on the
whole, have gone far toward vindicating
the character of Irish jurors from the re
proach which the course of the prosecu
tion in Dublin were calculated to cast
on them.
Projected Meeting of Irish Clergy.
—We have reason to believe that a grand
Convention of the Clergy who signed
the Declaration will take place in Dublin,
or some where else, within this year ; and
from that will issue a programme at
which the heart of Irish hope will beat
more warmly than it has for three and
twenty years.
Fenian Placards.— Waterford, March
17.—This morning Fenian devices were
discovered in green print on the posting
walls in several parts of the city. The
harp without a crown and a pike, with,
the words “remember the martyrs,” and’
“the heroes of Cork,” Ac., underneath.
They were promptly destroyed by the
constabulary. The printings were "done
during the night, but the police have
strong suspicions of who the parties are,
and are on the qui vice.
The Jacknell Prisoners. —lt is
probable that after a short interval all
the Jacknell prisoners will be liberated
by the Irish Government, aud possibly
Captain Nagle among them, on certain
conditions. Four men were released on
Saturday, named Rooney, Kelly, Lawless
and Hurley. They were conveyed by
the midday train to Cork, and shipped
for America, the United Siates authorities
paying their passage-money. These all
belonged to the crew of the Fenian cruis
er, and are Irish-Americans. They
seemed to be nothing the worse for their
confinement in Mountjoy Prison. — North
ren Whig , March 21.
The Illustrious Order of St. Pat
rick. — The announcement that the ap
proaching visit of the Prince of Wales to
Ireland will be made the occasion ot a
Grand Installation of Knights of the 11-
lustrious Order of St. Patrick, and
amongst others, of his Royal Highness, is
exciting great interest among The Irish
people. So far as practicable, tho coming
ceremonial will be the same as in 182 L
the Lord Lieutenant, of course, officiating
as Grand Master, in the absence of the
Sovereigns of the Order. His Royal
Highness will bo created an extra Knight
of the Order—a position held bv the
late Prince Consort.
Thk Ounce OF Wales —The IM
man thus announces the gratifying and
triumphant event:
Prince and Oalcraft.— We have two
events to chronicle this week—the Prince
of Wales it to come to Ireland; and two
more Irishmen arc sentenced to be hmined
at Manchester !
Allen, Larkin, O’Brien. These, it
seems, were not sufficient to appease the
manes of Brett: Thompson and Mulldv
are to follow them on the scaffold for the
same cause.
And tho Prince of Wales is to visit
Ireland.
A Singular Case.— ln the Record
Court at Cork, last week, a singular case
was tried, which lasted for two days. In
November last a shoemaker named
Howe, who resides in Mallow, went to
Queenstown with his wife to see off. his
brother, mother, and three sisters, who
were emigrating to New l r ork, in the
city of Antwerp, one of the Inman steam
ers. Ho lingered so long on board,
taking farewell of his relatives, that the
tender went off without him. lie ap
pealed to the captain to put him ashore,
but was obliged to complete the voyage.
After some difficulty at New York lie
got back, and found his business conside
rably injured, and then brought an action
for false imprisonment and detention.
For the defence evidence was given that
repeated signals were given to warn the
persons on board that the steamer was
about to start. Baron Deasy, in charging
the jury said he thought no blame was
attributable to the officers of the compa
ny.
The jury found for the defen dent on
all the issues — lb.
The Liverpool Post, in regard to the
Fenian trials at Manchester, says : “The
verdict of the jury in the case of William
Pherson Thompson, charged with partici
pation in the Manchester Ilyde-road out
rage, is certainly an astonishing instance
of human perversity. Mr. Justice Lush
summed up in the clearest possible man
ner for an acquittal. He pointed out
that the witnesses who swore to the man
had to swear to one whom they saw for
the first time among forty or fifty others;
that of the eleven persons in charge of
the van, not one had identified Thomp
son; that the evidence of some of the
witnesses had been invalidated in mate
rial particulars and that, finally, ‘the most
consistent and compact alibi lie bad ever
known,’ had been established in Thomp
son’s case; yet the jury returned a verdict
of guilty, without any manner of hesita
tion. The sentence was passed as a mat
ter of course upon the verdict, but the
verdict is one that must be reviewed by
the Home Secretary.”
Transmission of Shamrocks to Eng
land. —Limerick, March 18. —It may
appear incredible, but it is, nevertheless,
true aud authentic, that on Saturday and
yesterday evening at least 3,000 packages
containing shamrocks, and addressed to
all parts of England and Scotland for
Irish relatives and friends to display as
emblems of nationality and the patron
saint of Ireland, on St. Patrick’s Day
(Tuesday), passed through our post-office,
a circumstance unprecedented in the an
nals of the limes we live in. For Man
chester some large and tastefully made
up packages were transmitted to be de
livered to respectable parties. During
the early part of this month similar let
ters were sent in large quantities to
America, containing the native shamrock
embedded in its own soil. This, doubt
less, shows more than tongue, will tell of
the feelings of Ireland and the Irish ai
the present time. In the first week of
March two cases, fully laden with sham
rocks, and marked “cereals,” were sent
hence by railway to Queenstown, on
route to Massachusetts and New York, ad
dressed to a seed merchant there.—Cor
respondence of the Freeman.
The Jesuits. — According to the latest
published statistics, the order of Jesuits
comprises 8,168 members, of whom 1.581)
speak the Italian language, 2,422 French,
2,111 the various tongues of Northern
Europe, 1,148 Spanish, 898 English.
The entire order is distributed into twenty
one provinces. From authentic records
it appears that there is an increase of
nearly 100 members yearly. Those on
missions all over the world are 1,335.
Vela’s great painting, “Napoleon < n
his deathbed,” has been bought by the
French Government at 25,000 francs, and
is to be placed in the vestibule of the b:.
Cloud palace.
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