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6 L. T BLOME (fc CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, GA., MAY 28, 1868. TERMS: One copy, one year, invariably in advance,....s3 00 “ “ six months “ “ 15° Single Copies To Cnuns.—To any person sending us a Club of 15, one copy, one year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more The Banker will bo furnished at the rate of $2 50 per annum, # t y~ In all cases the names must be furnished at tho same time, and tho cash must accompany each order. Dealers will be supplied cm liberal terms. #,}- All Communications, intended for publication must It* directed to the Editor, Rev. A. J. Ryan ; and all Business Communication a to tho Publishers, L. T Blome A Cos., August*, G*. a few Advertiser* enta will bo received, and in serted on liberal terms. Agents ffcr The Banner of the South : General Traveling Agents.— Capt M. J. O’CONNOR Lieut. W. A. WRIGHT, E. F. SAMUELS and W. B. FITZGERALD. Charleston, S. C, —KDW. LEE. Savannah, Ga.—E. M. CONNER. Macon, Ga. —C. J. CAREY. Atlanta, Ga. —T. C. MURPHY and W. J. MANN. West Point, Ga.—P. GIBBONS. Greensboro’, Ala.—A. H. WILLIAMS, Beacon office. Thompson, Ga.—W. C. WORRELL. Cuthbert, Ga. —G. F. BUCHANAN. Manning, S. C.—ARTHUR HARVIN. Columbus, Ga.—JAS. RYAN. Nashville.—W. C. COLLIER, A. SETLIFF. Knoxville, Tenn. —JAS. MALOY. Pine Bluff, Ark.—JOHN P. MURPHY. General Agent for Florida. —J. EVANS FROST, Jack sonville, “ Mercury” office. < larkesville, Tenn. —J. W. FOXON. Montgomery, Ala.—W. J. RYAN. Jacksonville, Fla.—C. C. BISBKK. Huntsville, AIa.—DAN’L O’C. MURPHY. The paper can also be obtained from news and periodical dealers everywhere. jjy Specimen copies will be sent to any address, on application. Back Numbers —All the back num bers of the Banner can be furnished subscribers. 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. Special Notice. —Father Kyan ear nestly requests that all business letters in regard to the Banner of the South, be directed to the Publishers, as he has not the time to devote to their considera tion ; and that only contributions to the journal be sent to him. His other duties, so many and pressing, do not give him time to answer half the communications he daily receives. •.«>• Song Messenger of the West. —This is the title of one of the best of the musi cal weeklies of the country. It is pub lished by Root & Cady, Chicago, 111., at SI.OO per annum, in advance, and is filled with interesting reading matter, in addition to several pieces of choice music. We commend it to our music-loving friends. E. M. Connor’s Literary Depot in Savannah. —We invite attention to the advertisement of Mr. E. M. Connor, of Savannah, in this week’s issue of the Banner. Mr. Connor is a gentleman well and favorably known in Savannah, and has long been engaged in the broom making and caneseat-making business in that city, in addition to which he has opened a Literary Depot at the corner of York and Montgomery streets, where can be found all the latest publications of the day. Mr. C. is. Agent for the Banner of the South, and keeps the paper on hand for sale, also. We cheerfully commend him to the patronage of our triends and 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.