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6 U T BLOMR &CO., ITBUSHEBS AND PBOPBIETORS. AUGUSTA, GA., APRIL 18, 1868. PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. TERMS : One copy, one year, invariably in advance,....s3 00 “ “ six months “ “ 150 Single Copies 10 cts To Clubs.— To any jH'-rsou sending us a Club of 15, one copy, one year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more Thk Banner will be furnished at tiro rate of $2 50 per annum, In all cases the names must be fnrnishodat the same time, and tho cash must accompany each order. #3“ Dealers will be supplied on liberal terms. Jofg“ All Communications, intended for publication must be directed to the Editor, Rev. A. J. Rtah ; and ail Business Communications to the Publishers, L. T Blowus & Cos., Augusta, Ga. A few Advertisements will lie received, and in serted on liberal terms. Agents for The Banner of the South : General Traveling Agents.— Capt. M. J. O'CONNOiI and Lieut. W. A. WRIGHT. Charleston, 8. 0, —KDW. LEE. Savannah, Ga.—E. M. CONNER. Macon, Ga.—o. J. CAREY. Atlanta, Ga.—T. C. MURPHY and W. J. MANN. Knoxville, Tenn.—JAS. MALOY. Columbus, Ga.—Rev. P. CULLINAME is alone au thorized to receive subscriptions, for tlio Present. General Agent for Florida.—J. EVANS FROST', Jack sonville, “ Mercury” office. jgey- The paper can also be obtained from news and periodical dealers everywhere. Specimen copies will be sent to any address, on application. Back Numbers. —All the back num bers of the Banner can be furnished subscribers. «►. Take Notice —Joel T. Scott, of Columbus, Ga., is no longer authorized to act as Agent for The Banner, of the South. ►.*. Answers to Enigmas. —We have re ceived several answers to Enigma No. 4, all of which are correct Agents Wanted.— We want Agents in all parts of the country—good, relia ble, active men, who will take an in terest in extending the circulation of The Banner of the South. . - Our Editor.— Father Ryan is absent from the city. He is on a visit to Rich mond, Va., where, we are sure, he will re ceive a warm and heartfelt welcome. “Aner’s Return.”-- The chapter from this interesting work which we publish in this number, was, owing to an accident, omitted from the Banner of last week. Savannah P. O.—The attention of the Postmaster is respectfully directed to the fact that several of our subscribers complain of not having received their papers. We trust this omission will be avoided in future. The papers are regu larly mailed here. Father Ryan’s Poems.— ln response to inquiries, we will state here that Father Ryan’s poems have not yet been publish ed in book form. They will be published in the Banner of the South during the year, and at such time as may be con venient to the author, collected and pre sented to the public in a book form. NEW PUBLICATIONS Southern Review —Yol. Ill—No. G, April, 1808. Baltimore : Bledsoe & Browne. The April number of this valuable publication has been received. It con tains a number of interesting and ably written papers—reviews of several late publications, and is a standard work Its high literary character and Southern tone should secure for it a very large cir culation. It is published oil the tlrst days of January, April, July, and October, at $5,00 per year, in advance. Prospectus of St. Joseph’s Academy, Columbus, Ga., for the Academic Year 18G6-’7. Office of the Columbus Sun. 868. This Academy is situated in a most retired and healthy part of the city of Columbus, Ga„ and is under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy. No undue in. fluence is exercised over the religious opinions of any pupil; however, for the maintenance of good order, all are re quired to conform to the external discip line of the house. The course of studies embrace the various branches of a solid, useful, and ornamental education, and the terms are moderate. Letters of in quiry must be addressed to the Superior of the Academy, Godey's Lady's Book, for May.—Phil adelphia, Pa., L. A. Godey, Publisher. Price, $3.00 per annum, in advance. Wo are indebted to our accommodating friend Quinn, of the Literary Depot, for May number of this popular monthly. Its engravings arc fine and its contents gen erally interesting to the ladies. Quinn has all the late publications. cathglicTournals. We welcome to our exchange list the following valuable and valued Catholic journals. For the kindly reception which they have given the Banner, we return them our heartfelt thanks, and extend to them our best wishes for their unbounded prosperity. Freeman's Journal J Catholic Register > published every Saturday at No. 5, Tryon Row, New r York City, at $3 per annum, in advance, or $1,50 for 6 months, in advance. Jas. A. McMas ter, Editor and Proprietor. The Guardian, St. Louis, Mo. $3 per annum, in advance. Jas Clements, Editor and Publisher. The Catholic Standard , Philadelphia, Penn, $2,50 per annum, in advance. Mark Willcox, Editor and Publisher. The Gazette , Charleston, S. C. $2,50 per annum in advance. M. Caulfield, Edi tor and Publisher. The Morning Star and Catholic Messen ger, $4 per annum in advance. Pub lished weekly by the New Orleans Catholic Publishing Company, at No. 140 Poydras street* The Boston Pilot, $3 per annum, in ad vance, is published by Patrick Donahoe, 19 Franklin street, Boston, Mass. The Catholic Chronicle, Albany, N. Y., $2 per annum in advance. Phillip Lyons, Publisher. PRESS NOTICES," We have received a very flattering 1 welcome from the Press of the South gen erally, as well as from our Catholic cotemporarics at the North. The follow ing are from two of the leading Catholic journals of the country ; and the kindly greeting and good wishes which they have extended to us, are most gratefully appreciated : From tho Baltimore Catholic Mirror. The Banner of the South. Yol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2, Augusta, Ga. Rev. A. J. Ryan, Editor. L, T. Blome & Cos., Publishers and Proprietors. The first and second numbers of the Banner of the South, Augusta, Georgia, are on our table. Rev. Abram J. Ryan is Editor of the new journal. Father Ryan’s “Conquered Banner” has placed him foremost among American poets, and wo hail his accession to the fraternity of Editors with feelings of gratification and pleasure. Catholics, indeed many Pro testants with them, will rejoice to hear that Father Ryan is about to put himself iu closer relations with the Catholic read ing community. We welcome him and his paper to our ranks, and wish him the success to which his brilliant talents and great industry entitle him. The first two numbers of the Banner of the South have fully come up to expectation in the tone, spirit, and strenth of their articles. Father Ryan has adopted the French style of placing the initials of his name at the end of his articles. But slat nominis umbra —the anonymous in journalism* so far as single editorial articles are concern ed, strikes us as the better plan. It secures freedom, larger independence, and greater directness iu the treatment and handling of subjects. The dress of the Banner is appropriate and attractive, ami the arrangement of matter judicious. Georgia could not have a better recon structionist. We publish in another part of our paper an editorial from the first number, entitled “Give God Ins Place.” The Banner of the South has our warm est wishes; if it does not succeed, it will Mini ©s mas i©if®. not be because it does not deserve success. From th* New York Freeman's Journal. “The Banner of the South,” Augusta, Ga., edited by Rev. A. J. Ryan, Au thor of the “ Conquered Banner,” “Prayer of the South,” “Sentinel Songs,” Ac. It was promised us that the “ Pros pectus” of this paper would he sent us, so soon as issued. No doubt it was, hut it never reached us. It is, therefore, owing to this delay that we have failed, thus far, to notice the intended publication pf a weekly paper, devotee to “the Country and to Religion,” by our distinguished friend, Rev. A. J. Ryan. We take pleasure in saying, now, that this paper has made its appearance, in very creditable form, as to the material, and honored with several characteristic articles from the pen of the gifted poet priest. The price is three dollars a year, and it will be well worth the money, be yond doubt. Among other things, each wecdi it will contain one of the many pieces of poetry heretofore published by the “cypress-crowned” poet of the South. Iu place of saying more ourselves, this week, we will let Father Ryan talk for himself, only promising that the address, for those who wish to subscribe for it. is : “The Banner of tiie South, Augusta Ga” The price, we have said, is three dollars a year. To clubs of twenty or more it will be sent for two and a half dollars. Hymn to the Dawn. BY A. J. RXQUIEIt. From an ominous rift in the pitiless sty, That has darkened our desolate land, Springs a luminous rill of auriferous dye, Gushing out of a mystical hand ; Upon Talleys of carnage, and mountains of fire— On the heaps of the holily slain— It descends with the rush of a resonant lyre, And the gleam of a magical rain. It unveils from the depths of its fountains of blue, Such a blaze of bewildering light, As the legions of Araby never yet drew From the stars of traditional night; Purple acres of grapes, and savannas of snow, Full of streams that enrichingly run Through the fairest of blooms which the tropics bestow, On the flowering brides of the Sun. Noblo structures of commerce, and riches of art, Stately temples, and towers between, Fretted domes soaring up from the dust of the mart 4 Where the wonders of science are seen; * Fluted pillars and urns, to the primitive past, And its young representative scions, And bronzes heroic, colossaHy vast As the winged Assyrian Lions! Oh, I see the long stretch of thy sorrowing years, Clime of azure ! transformed in my sight, From the comfortless drops of thine anguishing tears Into dews of eternal delight; Royal anthems resounding on odorous seas, Sceptred barges that bridally toss, With their bright waving pennons unfurl'd to th* breezo In the blush of a tremulous Cross! Green idol of childhood! engirded by strife With a glory;—the grandest of Old, Could they dream of the toils which encompass thy life, Would cry out from their cryptical mould. God anointed in War and exalted in Peace, I behold thee abroad and at home, With the beautiful lips of Republican Greece, And the brow of Imperial Rome! BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF MAJ. GEN’L PATRICK R, CLEBURNE. [by GENERAL W. J. HARDEE.] The sketch is necessarily imperfect, from the want of official records. Most of these were lost or destroyed by the casualties attending the close of the late war ; and those still in existence are difficult of ac cess. Os Cleburne’s early life little is known—the record of his service in the Southern armies belongs to the yet unwrit ten history of “the lost cause.” In better days, when the passions and prejudices engendered by civil strife shall have disap peared, aud history brings in a dispassion ate verdict, the name of Cleburne will ap pear High in the lists of patriots and war riors. Until then, his best record is in the hearts of his adopted countrymen. With brief exceptions Cleburne served under my command during his military ca reer. He succeeded first to the brigade, and then to the division which I had pre viously commanded ; and it is to me a grateful recollection, that circumstances enabled me to further his advancement to those important trusts. From personal knowledge, therefore, gained in ail inter course and observation extending through a period of nearly four years, I can give you an outline sketch of Cleburne’s char acter and services. • Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was an Irish man by birth, a Southerner by adoption and residence, a lawyer by profession; a soldier in the British army, by accident, in his youth ; and a soldier in the Southern armies, from patriotism and conviction of duty, in his manhood. Upon coining to the United States he located at Helena. Arkansas, where he studied and practised law. In that profession he had previous to the great struggle, formed a co-partnership with General T. C. Hindman. His stand ing as a lawyer was high, as indicated by this association with a gentleman distin guished as an orator and advocate. It was at this period of his life that, in the unorganised and turbulent condition of society, incident to a newly settled country, he established a reputation for courage and firmness, which w r as afterwards approved by a still more trying ordeal. In the com mencement of the war for Southern Inde pendence, lie enlisted as a private, lie was subsequently made captain of his company, and shortly after he was elected ahd com missioned colonel of his regiment. Thus, from one grade to another, he gradually rose to the high rank he held when he fell. It is but some praise to say. there was no truer patriot, no more courageous soldier, nor, of his rank, more able commander, in the Southern armies; and it is not too much to add that his fall was a greater loss to the cause he espoused than that of any other Confederate leader after Stone wall Jackson. In the camp of the army which Albert Sydney Johnston assembled at Bowling Green, Kentucky, m the autumn of 1801, Cleburne had an •ppor tunity, in the drill and organization of the raw troops, of which that army was then composed, of proving his qualifications as a disciplinarian and commander. His natural abilities in this respect had probably been fostered by his early tuition in the British army ; and upon his becoming a soldier a second time, were perfected by unremitting study and labor. These qualities secured his promotion to brigadier-general. In April, 1802, Albert Sydney Johnston con centrated his forces at Corinth, Mississippi, to attack General Grant, who had landed an army at Pittsburg, on the Tennessee River, which was now encamped near Shiloh Church, about three miles from the landing. The attack was made on the morning of the 6th of April. Cleburne’s brigade was of my corps, which formed the front line of attack. The enemy were steadily driven for three miles through their encampments, past the rich spoils with which a luxurious soldiery had sur rounded themselves, and over the heaps of their dead and dying, until the broken and demoralised masses sought the shelter of th« river’s banks, and the cover of their gunboats. Albert Sydney Johnston had fallen in action about 2 o’clock p. in. Ilis successor in command, General Beaure gard, deemed it best, late in the evening, to recall the pursuit. At the moment of recall, Cleburne was passing on, within 400 yards of Pittsburg Landing, behind the cliffs of which cowered the masses of hopeless and helpless fugitives. That night the enemy were reinforced by the arrival of a fresh army under Buell; and, on the evening of the 7th, the Southern forces, after maintaining, through tho day, the now unequal struggle, withdrew, unpur sued, to Corinth. In this battle Cleburne’s brigade sustained a heavier loss in killed and wounded than any other in tlie army. At the initiation of Gen. Bragg’s Ken tucky campaign, in the summer of 1862, Cleburne’s brigade with olieother, was de tached and united with Kirby Smith’s col umn, which, starting from Knoxville, Tennessee, was to penetrate Kentucky through Cumberland Gap, and form a junction with the main army under Gen eral Bragg, which moved from Chatta nooga into Kentucky by a different route. Kirby Smith’s forces encountered opposi tion at Richmond, Kentucky, in Septem ber. There Cleburne directed the first days fighting, and in his first handling of an independent command was mainly in strumental in winning a victory, which, in the number of prisoners and amount of stores captured, and in the utter dispersion and destruction of the opposing force, was one of the most complete of the war. For “gallant and meritorious service” her©, he received an official vote of thanks from the Congress of the Confederate States. In this action he received a singular wound. The missile, a minnie rifle ball, entered the aperture of the mouth while his mouth was open, in the act of giving a command to the troops in action, without touching his lips, and passed out of the left cheek, carrying away in its course five lower teeth, without touching or injuring the bone. This wound did not prevent his taking part in the battle of Perry ville on tha Bth of October following, where he re joined my command, and was again wounded while leading his brigade-in a gallant charge. An incident occurred in the march out of Kentucky, which will serve to illustrate Cleburne’s indomitable will and energy. On the road selected for the passage of ordnance and supply trains of the army, was a very difficult hill, at which the trains unable to pass over it, or to go round it, came to a dead halt. The enemy were pressing the rear, the trains were im moveable, and nothing seemed left but to destroy them, to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy ; orders had ac tually been given tor their destruction, when Cleburne, who was disabled and off duty on account of his wound, came up. He asked and was given unlimited author ity in the premises. He at once stationed guards in the road, arrested every strag gler and passing officer and soldier, col lected a large force, organised fatigue parties, and literally lifted the trains over the hills. The trains thus preserved con tained munitions and subsistence of the utmost value and necessity to the Confed erates. It is by no means certain even that the army could have made its subse quent long march through a sterile and wasted country without them. In December 1863, General Bragg con centrated his army at Murfreesboro, Ten nessee, to oppose the Federal forces assem bled at Nashville under Rosecrans. At this time, Major-General Buckner, then commanding the division of which Cle ourne’s brigade formed a part, was trans ferred to other service, aud the President of the Confederate States, who was on a visit to the army at that time, promoted Cleburne to the vacant division. Rose crans’ advance upon Bragg brought on the battle of Murfreesboro, Dec. 31, 1862. In the action of this day Cleburne s was one of the two divisions under my command, which attacked the right wing ot the Fed eral army under McCook. .This wing was beaten and driven three miles, until its ex treme right was doubled hack upon the centre of the Federal army. During the day, Cleburne’s division in single line ot battle, without reinforcement, rest, or re freshment, encountered and drove bemio it five successive lines of battle, which the Federal commander-in-chief withdrew from his intact centre and left to reinforce his broken right. Tho general results oi tne day were not decisive in favor ot tHo Southern arms; but this heightens the achievement of that portion ot the army which was successful, and the merit of the officer whose skilful handling ot his divi sion contributed materially to that success. From the battle of Murfreesboro to that of Cliickamuaga, in September, 1863, mili tary operations in the army with winch Cleburne was connected were of a desul tory and undecisive character. But out post duty in close proximity to an enemy superior in numbers, afforded Cleburne occasion for the exercise of his high sol dierly qualities of vigilance and activity. In the advance from Tullahoma to IVar trace, and the subsequent retirement of the army to Chattanooga, his division habitu ally formed the vanguard in advance and the rearguard in retreat. The battle of Chickamauga—an Indian name which sig nifies “the river of death” —wrote the bloodiest page in the history ot Western battles. General Bragg, reinforced by Longstreet’s corps front Virginia, on the 19th and 20th of September, engaged and, after an obstinate contest, defeated Rose crans’ army, which, routed and demor alised, retreated within its line ot works at Chattanooga. In this battle Cleburne s division bore its usual prominent part; a charge made by it,fin the struggle tor posi tion in the adjustment of lines on the Saturday evening preceding the Sunday’s final conflict, is described as especially magnificent and effective. The Confederate forces soon after occu pied Missionary Ridge, and partially in vested Chattanooga, with the object of cutting off the supplies of the army within its lines. The attempt was but partially successful. Meantime the Federal gov ernment despatched General Grant to suc ceed Rosecrans in command, and recalled Sherman’s army from Mississippi to rein force him. On the 24th of November, Grant, reinforced by Sherman, attacked Bragg, weakened by the detachment of Longstreet’s corps, and carried the posi tion of the Confederate left on Lookout Mountain. On the 25th a general attack was made upon the Confederate line. The right wing, under my command, consisted of four divisions—Cleburne’s on the ex treme right. The attacking force in this part of the field was commanded by Gen eral Sherman. The enemy made repeated and vigorous assaults, which were repelled with heavy loss to the assailants. Cle burne’s position on tho right was most in secure, troin its liability to bo turned. He maintained it with his accustomed ability, and upon the repulse of the last assault, directed in persona countercharge, which effected the capture of a large number of prisoners and several stands of colors. The assailants gave up the contest and withdrew from our front. But while the cheers of victory raised on the right were extending down the lino, the left of the army had been carried by assault, and the day was lost. All that now remained to the victorious right was to cover the > >- treat of the army. This it did successfully. If the right, instead of the left of the army, had been carried, it would have given tho enemy possession of tho only line of re treat, ar and no organised body of tho Con federate army could have escaped. In the gloom of night fall, Cleburne’s division, the last to retire, sadly withdrew from tho ground it held co gallantly, and brought up the rear of the retiring army. The enemy next clay organised a vigor ous puj>uit; aud on the morning of tho second day, its advance, Hooker’s corps, came up with Cleburne at Ringgold Gap. The enemy moved to attack, what they supposed a demoralized force, with great confidence. Cleburne had made skilful dis positions to receive the attack, and re pulsed it with such serious loss that pur suit was abandoned, and the pursuing force returned to its lines. Here Cleburne again received the thanks of Congress for meri torious conduct. The Southern army now went into win ter quarters at Dalton, in North Georgia. Cleburne’s division occupied an outpost at Tunnel Hill. He devoted the winter months to the discipline and instruction of his troops, and revived a previously adopted system of daily recitations in tac tics and the art of war. He himself heard the recitations of his brigade commander-, a quartette of lieutenants worthy their captain—the stately Granberry, as great of heart as of frame, a noble type of the Texan soldier—Govan, true and brave, as he was courteous and gentle—Polk, young, handsome, dashing and fearless—and Lowry the parson soldier, who preached To his men in camp and fought them in the fieU with equal earnestness arid effect. These brigadiers’ heard the recitations of the regimental officers, and they in turn of the company officers. The thorough instruc tion thus secured, first applied, on the drill ground, aud then tested in tho field, gave the troops great efficiency in action. (to be continued.)