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the public generally.
Foley’s statue ot Burke was unveiled
by the Prince of Wales during his late
visit to Dublin with imposing ceremonies.
A statue of Lord Rosse, the well known
astronomer, is to be erected at Parsons
town. Canova’s grand statue of Napo
leon has been found in a hay loft of the
garrison at Cassel, much mutilated. The
French Government asks it of the Prw
sian authorities.
ACQUITTAL QF PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
The telegraph has flashed the news
over the world, and the cannons of the
Conservative people of the North have
welcomed the glad tidings, that fanaticism
has been defeated in one of the most dis
graceful of its many unconstitutional acts.
The United States Senate, sitting as a
High Court of Impeachment, after ’weeks
of untiring effort, on the part of the Im
peachment Managers, and of energy wor
thy of a better cause, has acquitted the
President, of the 11th article of the indict
ment filed against him by the House of
Representatives. ' This article was se
lected, it seems, as a test, and it has re
sulted in the defeat of its framers—a de
feat prophetic, we sincerely trust, of tho
remaining articles, as well as of that great
unconstitutional party whose triumph
would result in the downfall of American
liberty and free government.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
It is exceedingly gratifying to receive
the approval of our friends, and, partic
ularly so, to learn that the “Lost Cause”
has so many warm friends at the North.
We give below a number of extracts
from Northern and Southern letters re
ceived at this office, which, we are sure,
will please our readers, as they have
pleased us :
Bronson, Mich.
* * * I am pleased to hear of
your newspaper enterprise, ot which
I learn by the La Crosse Democrat.
Will you please send me one or two speci
men copies, and much oblige.
Yazoo City, Miss.
* * * I have just had the
pleasure of reading your inaugural for
the Banner of the South. It is so able,
eloquent, and true, according to my sen
timents and belief, that I wish to subscribe
for your paper.
Pittston, Pa.
* * * We were very much
pleased at the reception of the first num
ber of the “Banner of the South,’ ed
ited by that able, gallant, patriotic, and
Christian gentleman, Rev. A. J. Ryan.
Long may he live to wield his vigorous
pen in defence of principles dear to
every heart that loves truth and right
amid circumstances either favorable or
adverse. We seem to know Father Ryan
from his writings; and oh! how much we
would give to have a shake of his gene
rous hand, and congratulate him from a
little coiner of the Keystone State, lor
the manly support he gives to doctrines
sacred and precious to our hearts. With
many hopes for the success of the Ban
ner of the South and its talented edi
tor, &c.
[From the N. O. Picayune anil other papers. ]
LITERARY ANO ART ITEMS.
F. S. Daniel is preparing a memoir of
his brother, John M. Daniel,' with selec
tions from his writings. Mr. Rives left
the MS. of the third volume of his Life
of Madison, coming down to the close of
Washington’s administration, and notes
for a fourth volume devoted to Madison’s
private life. W, C. Hurley has pub
lished at the office of the Gilmer (Texas)
Sentinel , a volume, entitled “ Seven Lec
tures on the Philosophy of Man as a
three-fold being—physical, intellectual,
and moral—embracing several new and
important discoveries in Phrenology.’
We learn from the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican that Albert G. Greene, au
thor of “ Old G rimes,” devoted «much
time during his later years to a humor
ous poem, into which it was his purpose
to weave every truly Yankee phrase that
he could gather. It grew year by year,
waxing to a humorous epic. It is stated
that it will soon be published.
The Boston Advertiser says McGee's
poems are to be collected and published.
The late Prof. Dean, of Albany, left a
manuscript history ot Civilization. The
Life and Letters of Frederica Bremer
has reached a second edition. A copy
of Eliot’s Indian Bible was sold in New
York recently by auction for 81,180.
The Germans arc beginning to print
their books in Roman type.
We learn from Public Opinion (Lon
don,) that there will shortly be published
anew poem, of very considerable power,
sharply criticising the peculiarities of
modern verse The author is an Oxford
graduate, and a man of mark amongst
members of the University, who look
forward to his book making some sensa
tion in the reading world.
Mr. G uizot is about to publish a work,
entitled “Melange's Politiques et Lit
lerairesP The manuscript of an entirely
new edition of his “ Democracy in Amer-
ica.” showing a marked change of views,
has been found among the papers left by
de Tocqueville.
The contents of M. Renan’s new vol
ume of “ Essais” comprise two papers on
Education in France, a Sketch of the
Lives of Burnouf, Quartremere, and Ra
mus, papers ou Learned Studies in Ger
many, on the Hebrew and Sanscrit Chairs
in die College de France, on the Religious
Future of Modern Societies, on Clerical
Liberalism, the Philosophy of Cotempo
rary History and several others.
The celebrated Dr. Newman has in
press a volume of ‘‘Miscellanies,” drawn
from his Oxford sermons and other theo
logical writings. A Dublin publisher
has brought out unabridged editions of
Moore’s Irish Melodies,” and Scott’s
“ Lady of the Lake,” with portraits ot
the authors, for the price of one penny
each.
There will shortly be published in
London, a volume of Scottish scenery,
containing views of many of the places of
interest visited by the Queen and the
Prince Consort, accompanied by an essay
on the characteristics of Scottish scenery.
The illustrations are taken by a process
discovered by Mr. Joseph Adam, who
has been engaged many years in bring
ing it to perfection. By this invention
the photographs have the appearance of
the finest line engravings, the middle
distances being as clearly defined as by
the pencil.
The spring exhibition of the New York
National Academy of Design is now
open ; also, the 45th annual exhibition of
the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.
Os the latter, a local critic says the dis
play is unusually good, and is conceded
to surpass that in New York in almost
every particular.
A monument to Dante will shortly be
erected at Naples. Dore’s portrait of
Patti represents her as Lucia, and is
called a hideous failure.
General W. B. Bate. —The following
is from the Memphis, (Tenn.) Avalanche:
General William B. Bate, of Nashville,
arrived in this city yesterday, and is
stopping at tho Overtoil. We regret that
his engagements constrain him to return
home on to-morrow, ns there is no man
who has warmer or more enthusiastic
friends than he commands in this city.
The surging waves of the late civil war
cast upon the surface many jewels, but
none brighter than the name of W. B.
Bate. He was the first to volunteer and
the last to surrender. llis wounds and
sufferings and the decimated ranks of his
troops attest the valor of his command.
In after years the name of Bate will render
our soil classic. His name and the gallant
men he commanded w ill live in song and
story. Despotism cannot strip the South
ern people of the pleasure which they de
rive from the recollection of the great
deeds of the brave men whose handsome
and manly persons w ere bruised, battered,
maimed and disfigured in defense of their
rights. For hundreds of years the maraud
ing Arabs have been pillaging the
Pyramids without the slightest detriment
to those historic piles—for ages the wolves
have been howling at the moon without
ever stopping the course of that luminary
—and the fame and glory of our living
and (lead heroes is as high above Radical
calumny as the soaring eagle is above the
pebbles cast by pigmies upon the sea shore.
The South can hear with fortitude and
dignity the insults and annoyances heaped
upon her people. But each day she learns
to despise still more cordially the cruel
authors of her wrongs and her avocs ; and
with eacli fresh insult will she cherish
more fondly and with more boundless
reverence the deeds of her loved heroes,
and prominent among these is the renown
of General William B. Bate, of Tennessee.
The traffic in Italian Organ Boys.
—Count Arrivabere shocked the Italian
Chamber of Deputies with some revela
tions about the abominable traffic in Ital
ian boys, which sends so many of them to
the streets of London and New York.
This is an organized white slave trade.
Count Arrivabere declared that there ex
ists in England a regular company, hav
ing at its head an Italian, who has made
a large fortune by this vile and cruel traf
fic. The present centre of operations in
Italy is on the Papal territory, but close
to the Italian frontier, across which
agents are dispatched into the poor and
mountainous districts of the Modenese,
Parmesan, and Balognese, Appenines,
where they are able to purchase lor a feiv
crowns children from the age of seven or
eight up to that of fifteen or sixteen years.
He gave a harrowing description of the
manner in which these young slaves are
treated in the lowest quarters of London
and New York, of their being huddled to
gether in wretched cellars, in wet and
cold and hunger, and beaten or turned in
to the street when their gains are deem
ed insufficient. General Meuabra admit
ted the existence of the evil Its source
was the disorganized state of the country,
and the remedy was to improve the con
dition of the laboring classes, by restore
ing credit and introducing foreign capi
tal.
Lana of My Heart.
Folded away are thy banners,
Gory are thy fields;
Thousands on thy battlements.
Slumber ’neath their shields.
Fallen is thy grandeur,
Wild and desolate
Lie thy broad dominions.
Oh, hapless, hopeless State.
Mountain side and river.
Devastation claims;
Naught is left nnto thee
Save a thousand names—
Names all wreathed with glory.
Dauntless valor won—
Names to live in story,
For deeds of glory done;
Wasted are thy treasures,
Gory is thy breast,
Land of dark misfortune.
Still, still Hove thee best;
None can boast the brightness,
Like to thine, my home.
None can give me gladness,.
As longingly I roam.
[From the Natchez (Miss.) Democrat, May 12.]
REMINISCENCE OF THE BATTLE OF
SPOTTSYLVANIA.
MAY 12th, 186 4 .
BY PAUL A. BOTTO.
The morning of the 12th of May, 1864,
dawned like that of the day of Waterloo;
the dark, wet clouds hanging like a pall
over the Wilderness and the field of
Spottsylvania—so soon to be made memo
rable—seemed struggling to prevent the
advent, of that day of struggle and fierce
carnage. For seven days the strife ot
battle bad raged furiously and incessantly;
from the Rapidan to the Courthouse of
Spottsylvania the dead of both armies lay
in heaps upon the stubbornly contested
fields.
A rain-storm, during the night of the
11th, had somewhat allayed the tumult of
battle. During tins storm, when naught
could be heard but the rushing winds and
descending rains, General Hancock, of the
Federal army, moved Ids corps silently to
within a few' rods of the Confederate en
trenchments, halting in front of a salient
in the Confederate l ine, a short distance to
the left of the Courthouse. Here the
corps rested upon their arms, waiting for
the first faint ray of morning light to give
the signal for a desperate assault.
No sooner does the first gleam of day
light, in the East, the murky sky, than the
Federalsrise to their feet and advance upon
the Confederate works. It is hut a short
distance, and they are soon reached. The
struggle is short; the Confederates, with
out previous intimation of the dangerous
proximity of the foe, are taken partially
by surprise, and, contending against over
whelming numbers, are soon overpowered.
Gen. Johnson’s division, and several Bat
teries of artillery, are captured ; hundreds
i fall bravely fighting, and the works are
lost. Now the Confederate line is severed
at its centre, and the enemy is advancing
steadily through the breach.
In the meantime, the battle lias become
general from right to left, and the very
earth trembles with the shock of artillery
and small arms. Grant concentrates at
this salient all his available force in the
attempt to wid#n the breach, and make
complete the temporary but important
advantage. The annals of war furnish,
perhaps, no instance w'here the peril of
an army w r as more imminent than is now
that of the struggling army of Northern
Virginia; the fate of a nation depends
upon it and trembles in the balance of
probabilities. Reduced in numbers; ex
hausted with tlie constant strife of days,
and sleepless toil and vigilance of nights,
this army seems to be battling with flie
courage of desperation, even against Des
tiny.
The great chieftain of this army, mount
ed upon his iron-grey battle steed, rapidly
surveys the critical position of affairs.
Riding impassively through a storm of shot
and shell, while couriers and aids fall
around him on every side, Lis practiced
eye penetrates the smoke of battle, while
his warrior mind plans the master-stroke
of Avar which is to pluck the laurel wreath
of victory from the thorny thistle of de
feat. Dispatching orders in various direc
tions, lie rides to the front of Harris’ bri
gade of Mississippians, (Avhich is aAvaiting
orders, having just arrived, at double-quick,
trom a remote part of the line,) and himself
directs it to “ fall in.” Mahone’s Virgin
ians are put in motion, and Gem Lee leads
Harris’ Mississippians tOAvards the deadly
breach —the place of havoc. The dangers
are thickening fast around the Warrior
Chief, and his devoted troops murmur fer
vent prayers for his safety. Now a twelve
pound solid shof comes shrieking through
the air, and strikes the ground between the
fore-feet of the General's steed, causing
him to rear and plunge; the General still
rides unmoved, but his followers, no longer
willing that he should advance to be stricken
down, now loudly remonstrate, saying, “Go
back, General, we will do our duty !" Brig.
Gen. Harris rides up, and implores, then
commands him to go back. Coi. Y'enable,
of his stall, riding in front, seizing him,
holds him in check, exclaiming, “General
Lee, you must go back; your presence here
demoralizes the men." “ Then,” says Gen.
Lee, turning to the moving column, u 1
will stay if you will drive the enemy from
the works." “We will,” was the deafen
ing response. “Goon, brave men, God
bless you,” says the General, and the troops
moved forward with all-conquering enthu
siasm and sullen determination Avhich
knows no deteat, i hey move to victory,
though their path the while is strewn
thickly with the bravest sons of Mississippi*
and South Carolina. Ihe aa orks are taken
and occupied as far as the small force can
stretch its front. There is still a breach,!
but it is narrow, and so well defended on
both sides, that to attempt its passage is to
die. Division after division of the enemy
is pushed forward to widen the breach and
retrieve the lost advantage, and is hurled
back, decimated and scattered, from the
harvest of death. Companies and bat
talions are swept away, ami trampled to
the earth to rise no more. The Confede
rates are immovable in the midst of death.
The battle continues with but a slight in
termission until the Confederates, having
fulfilled the promise to their chieftain, and
held the disputed point for nineteen hours,
retire at daylight of the morning of the
13th, leaving the foe in possession of a vast
Golgotha.
Thus began and closed the most destruc
tive battle of the Confederate M ar for In
dependence.
*lu tliiß charge were slain, the gallant Col. 8. I .
Baker, and Lieut. Col. Feltus, of the 16th Mississippi
Regiment, and a large number of other Mississippians.
tAt the left extremity of the breach, where the baitl.
raged with continued violence, was situated the famous
Spottsylvania tree, twenty-two inches in diameter,
which was cut down by Minnie bullets alone, during
this battle. There aro a number of returned soldiers
at Natchez, who enjoy the proud distinction of having
for long hours, defended this point, where the dead, at
the close of the engagement, were piled high above
the surface of the ditch.
[From the Secrets of Beauty.]
TO JUDGE CHARACTER BY THE HAIR.
Coarse black hair and dark skin signify
great power of character, with a tendency
to sensuality Fine hair and dark skin
indicates strength of character, along
with purity and goodness. Stiff, straight
black hair and beard indicate a coarse,
strong, rigid, straightforward character.
Fine, dark brown hair signifies the com
bination of exquisite sensibilities, with
great strength of chararter. Flat, cling
ing, straight hair, a melancholy, but ex
tremely constant character. Ilarsh, up
right hair is the sign of a reticent and
sour spirit; a stubborn and harsh char
acter. Coarse red hair and whiskers in
dicate powerful animal passions, together
with a corresponding strength of charac
ter. Auburn hair, with florid counte
nance, denotes the highest order of sen
timent and intensity of feeling, purity ol
character, with the highest, capacity for
en joyment or suffering. Straight, even,
smooth, and glossy hair, denotes strength,
harmony, and evenness of character,
hearty affections, a clear beau., and supe
rior talents.
Fine, silky*, supple hair is the mark of
a delicate and sensitive temperament, and
speaks in favor of the mind and charac
ter of the owner. Crisp, curly hair indi
cates a hasty, somewhat impetuous and
rash character. White hair denotes a
lymphatic and indolent constitution ; and
we may add that besides these qualities
there are chemical properties residing in
the coloring matter of the hair tube which
undoubtedly ha\*e some effect upon the
disposition. Thus red-haired people are
notoriously passionate. Now, red hair
is proved by analysis to contain a large
amount of sulphur, while very black is
colored with almost pure carbon. The
presence of these matters in the blood
points to peculiarities of temperament
and feeling which are almost univarsaliy
associated with them. The very way in
which the hair flows is strongly indica
tive of tho ruling passions and inclina
tions, and perhaps a clever person con’d
give a shrewd guess at the manner of a
man or woman's disposition by only x -
ing the backs of their heads.
Eminent Lunatics.— lnsanity i.> a re
lative thing, and someone has said that
every man is insane on some point, and
that the question as to what constitutes
madness depends on the majority. II >w
ever this may be, it is certain that many
eminent men have been insane. Blaise
Pascal, the famous French astronomer
and mathematician, was so melancholy
that one time he deemed it as a sin to
look upon a beautiful landscape. Burton
was a victim of dejected spirits and dis
ordered fancies for years, and wrote the
Anatomy of Melancholy to relieve the te
dium of life. Collins, the poet, was
wretched, and in tiic decline of life used
to frequent the Chichester Cathedral,
and accompany the organ with sobs and
groans. The horrible state of Dr. John
son and CoAvper is known to nil. Bmart
was at one time confined in a madhouse,
and died in prison. Cruden, the* author
of the Concordance, revised and comple
ted during insanity. The wife < f Smthey
herself an authoress, became insane, and
the old poet, overtaxed ivitii study ami
weighed down with sorrow, then received
a shock from which he never recovered.
The tube which mads to life, is a strait
c”' .
gate, Therefore avc should fear ; it is an
open gate, therefore Ave should hope.