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"AUGUSTA, GA., JUNE 13, 1868.
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The Banner of the South.
On Monday evening Father Ryan left
for Savannah, to deliver an oration at the
Catholic Pic-Nic, which was to take place
on Tuesday. He returned on Thursday
morning, and will, we understand, remain
thenceforward with us, permanently.
New York Correspondence.—ln this
number wc give the first instalment from
our New York correspondent, “Tyrone
Powers.” This ?iom de plume will be
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and favorably known to the press and
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orous and accomplished literary and po
litical writer. It gives us pleasure to
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tribute frequently to the Banner of
the South.
We understand that a Pic-Nic is in
contemplation, as a compliment to the
Catholic Sunday School Teachers, under
the auspices of Father Ryan. It will
take place, we believe, on the 24th of
June, at Berzelia. Only a limited num
ber of tickets is to be sold, and it bids
fair to be one ol the most pleasant Pic-
Nics of the season. So far it has been
kept very quiet, and we hope we do no
wrong by alluding to it thus publicly.
We expect, by all means, to be there.
On account of his precarious health,
and his many pressing duties, Father
Ryan requests us to announce that he
is obliged to decline all invitations to
lecture. This announcement will be an
answer to several communications lately
received by him to deliver lectures and
addresses.
A Deserved Tribute.—The Atlanta
(Ga.) Intelligencer publishes the following
account of a cane presentation to the
worthy Superintendent of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad. It was a deserved
tribute to a deserving officer and excellent
gentleman:
A BEAUTIFUL WALKING CANE.
The employees of the Western & At
lantic Railroad presented to the Superin
tendent of the Road, Major C. Wallace, in
testimony of their high respect and esteem,
a beautiful walking cane, which we did not
have the pleasure of seeing until yester
day, when it was exhibited to us oy our
fellow-citizen, Mr. Er Lawshe, who pos
sesses, as our readers well know, a highly
cultivated taste for the beautiful. The
cane itself is of East India Malaca ,. ele
gant aud durable. The head is of solid 18
caret gold, in the form of an L, finely
carved, bearing on one side the following
inscription:
“Presented to Major C. Wallace
by the Employees of the
W. & A. R. R.,
May 9, 1868,’'
and on the other, a train of railroad cars.
The ferrule is of solid silver, steel pointed.
We learn that this beautiful cane was
gotten up by the house of “A. Cox’s
Sons,” of New York, one of the oldest and
most celebrated of the walking stick manu
facturing establishments in the United
States. 1 Its cost was slls- This beauti
ful cane may be seen at the jewelry estab
lishment of Mr. Lawshe for a fevf days.
The ladies and gentlemen of our city
would do well to call at Mr. Lawshe’s and
see it. It is said of the employees of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad that they
never “do anything by halves.” In the
case of this presentation to their accom
plished and courteous Chief, they have
fully sustained their well-merited reputa
tion.
A Memory.
BY MOINA.
One bright memory shines like a star
In the sky of my spirit forever;
And over my pathway it flashes afar
A radiance that perishes never.
One bright memory—only ono;
And I walk by the light of its gleaming;
It brightens my days—and when days are done
It shines in the Night o’er my dreamiug.
Ono bright memory—whose golden rays
Illumine the gloom of my sorrows,
And I know that its lustro will gladden my gaze
In the shadows of all my to-morrows.
One bright memory—when I am sad
I lift np eyes to its shining,
And the clouds pass away; and my spirit grows glad;
And my heart hushes all its repining.
One bright memory —all have passed
Back into the shadows forever;
But it, far and fair, bright and true to tho last,
Sheds alight that will pass away never,
Shine on—shine always—Thou star of my days,
And when Death’s starless Night gathers o’er me,
Beam brighter than ever adown on my gaze,
And light the dark valley before me.
Augusta , June 6 th.
DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
As our readers are already aware, the
eminent statesman of Pennsylvania, Hon.
James Buchanan, died at his residence in
Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pa., on
Tuesday, June Ist, 1868, in the 77th year
of his age. The Altoona (Fa.) I Indica
tor thus alludes to the death of this dis
tinguished citizen :
DEATH OF IION. JAMES BUCHANAN.
Ex-President James Buchanan died at
his residence in Wheatland, near Lan
caster, at half-past eight o’clock yester
day' morning, in the 77th year of his age,
and after an illness of several weeks.
Mr. Buchanan’s career is well known to
our readers, as for neaVly half a century
he has been prominently before the pub
lic. Born in Franklin county, in this State,
in 1791; graduating at an early age at
Dickenson College, Carlisle, and studying
law under James Hopkins, of Lancaster,
he was admitted to the bar in 1812.
When twenty-three years old, he was
elected to the Legislature ; at thirty, he
took his seat in Congress, as a member
from the Lancaster District, and held that
position ten years. In 1833 he was ap
pointed Minister to Russia and vacated
that position two years afterwards to take
bis seat as United States Senator, and
was re-elected in 1837, arid again in
1813. In 1845 he was Secretary of
State under Mr. Polk ; in 1853, Minister
to the Court of St. James, and in the year
1856 was elected President of the United
States making the fifteenth who had
been chosen to that position.
Friend and foe alike will give Mr.
mm ©j
Buchanan credit for having been an
able man, as in all the different public
positions he occupied previous to the
Presidency, he exhibited the most extra
ordinary capacity. His latter position he
occupied at a time when the worst pas
sions of sectional agitators were at work,
and the men whom he had gathered
around him in positions of trust, were for
the most part of the South, and if he
erred it was an error of judgment, into
which he was imperceptibly led. The
agitators of both parties were determined
upon an irruption, and Buchanan could
riot, if he would, stay the inevitable
result.
Since the last position which in public
life he occupied, he has been living seclud
ed in his beautiful home at Wheatland, and
his rapidly failing health, for the past few
years, had prepared his friends for the
closing of the scene, and the fiual exit of
a man who has identified himself with the
history of our country for nearly half a
century. Peace to his ashes.
A dispatch from Lancaster gives the
following interesting account of his last
moments, and also of his obsequies :
FUNERAL OF EX-PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
Lancaster, Pa., June 4. — Mr. Bu
chanan’s funeral was the most imposing
ceremony ever witnessed in this country.
It extended all the way from his home,
at Wheatland, to the city of Lancaster, a
distance of a mile and a half. Delega
tions from the cities of New York, Balti
more, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, York,
Reading, Pottsville and from tho National
Congress, as well as from Associations,
benevolent, political, and otherwise, walk
ed over the route. In all, about 3,000
persons were in the line of procession.
The family carriage of Mr. Buchanan
conveyed his immediate mourners, in
cluding Mrs Johnson, formerly Harriet
Lane, and the Rev. Edward Buchanan,
only brother of the deceased, was present,
with his entire family.
The mansion at Wheatland was thrown
open to the public, and the body exposed
in the hall. The ex-President was
dressed in a satin shroud, white necktie
and high collar. His face looked very
natural. The coffin and hearse were of a
solid, plain character, as directed by Mr.
Buchanan himself. A band of music
played a funeral march on the way to
the grave. The Masons assisted through
out the ceremonies, and their burial ser
vice accompanied the religious rites.
Clergymen of all denominations assisted
at the grave, but the immediate ceremony
was read by Rev, Dr. John W. Neven.
Wreaths of laurel, ivy, and immortelles
were deposited upon the coffin.
The funeral was not merely a political
ceremony. It was remarked that the
Republicans of the county did equal honor
to the ex-President with his old party as
sociates.
The bells of all the churches were
tolled, business universally suspended, and
people crowded the streets through which
the procession passed. Woodward Hill
Cemetery, standing on the edge of the
city in an opposite direction from Wheat
land, was crowded by a respectful assem
blage of people long before the procession
arrived.
Mr. Buchanan gave explicit directions
in regard to his funeral to his executor
on the Saturday preceding his decease.
He requested that there should bo no
large or expensive monument placed
over his remains, but that there should be
a simple, but substantial, oblong tomb
erected, the capstone to be the finest and
most durable marble, on which he special
ly requested should be cut, in Roman
letters, the following inscription, and
nothing more:
“Here rest the remains of James
Buchanan, fifteenth President of the
United States. Born in Franklin county,
Pa., April 23d, 1791 ; died at his resi
dence at Wheatland, Lancaster county.
Pa., on ,” adding, “with the day
of my death, now so near,” which was
June Ist, 1868.
In the same interview with his execu
tor, who was one of his intimate friends,
he said : “The principles of the Christian
religion were instilled into my mind in
my youth, and from all I have observed
and experienced in the long life Provi
dence has vouchsafed to me, I have only
become more strengthened in my convic
tion of tho Divine character of trie Sa
viour, and the power ot atonement through
liis redeeming grace and mercy.”
At the conclusion of the interview, he
remarked, in reply to an expressed hope
that he might live to see the country fully
restored to peace and prosperity, and his
career completely vindicated : “My dear
friend, I have no fear of the future.
Posterity will do me justice. I have al
ways felt, and still feel, that I discharged
every public duty imposed upon me con
scientiously. I have no regret for any
public act of my life, and history will vindi
cate my memory from every unjust as
persion.” The will of Mr. Buchanan
will be opened to-morrow. He is under
stood to have left a legacy to the poor of
the city of Lancaster. His estate is com
puted at three hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Buehanairs last words were : “Oh,
Lord Almighty, as Thou wilt !”
THE CATHOLIC CENTRAL UNION.
This organization inaugurated its thir
teenth annual convention in New r York
on Sunday. The chief object of the
Union is to provide for the sick and dead,
or other unhappy accidents that may
happen to their brethren ; to support
them, all over the United States, and
even in Germany; to have their children
taught in Catholic schools; to give infor
mation to German emigrants which will
be useful and needful to them, while they
cannot speak the English language, as
otherwise, they are very often led astray.
It originated in Baltimore, on the 16th
of April, 1855, and has spread since then
over all the States. At the last anniver
sary held in Pittsburgh, the number of
societies recorded numbered two hundred,
representing a membership of thirty
thousand. Its ranks are mainly filled by
mechanics, who receive aid trom the
local societies whenever they make a tour
in search of work; and tho phase of its
benefits, in common with its other objects,
has given it a firm hold on the German
heart—a fact illustrated by the addition
of one thousand members, which were
enrolled yearly since 1855. At the last
meeting it was arranged that the next
meeting should take place in New York
city, and should be preceded by the usual
procession through the principal streets
to a church where the members should
join in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
In pursuance of that programme, the
societies were notified te meet at the
rendezvous of the Union, in the Germania
Assembly Rooms, in New York. The
streets and avenues in the neighborhood
were subsequently occupied by bands in
uniform, members in attractive regalia,
with banners, independent rifie and cav
alry companies, and clergymen officially
connected with the Union in all parts of
the country. High Mass was celebrated
at the Church of the Most Holy Re
deemer.
The sermon was preached by the Rev.
W. Wayrich, C.SS.R., based on the
Pcnticostal narrative in the Acts of the
Apostles. He commenced by alluding to
the descent of the Holy Ghost on the
Apostles—which was called, he said, to
remembrance by the Church on that day'
in one other high festivals ; and he then
dwelt on the spirit of God guiding His
Church in the way of all truth, and lead
ing mankind to seek salvation through
her instrumentality. The preacher next
referred te the societies, remarking that
the members had been guided by the
blessed Spirit of God to his Church, and
they should make every effort to extend
the blessings they enjoyed to others. One
of the modes by which they could accom
plish that object was by' showing as they
had, by their good example, the results of
a faithful adherence to the faith which
they professed. As Catholics too, they
should remember that they owed whatever
aid was in their disposal, to the Holy
Father, who now needs the help of his
children over the whole world, and it
was to be hoped that in their deliberations
as a convention they would give the
subject their hearty consideration.
At an early hour on Monday morniner.
the delegates again attended Mass. Re
turning to the assembly rooms, Rev.
Father Leingruber, Rector of the Re
demptorist Order, came forward and bade
the delegates welcome to the city. lie
regretted that an urgent engagement of
Archbishop McCloskey prevented his
performing this very pleasing duty. The
Archbishop on Tuesday morning, preach
ed to the delegates in the Church of the
Most Holy Redeemer, and subsequently
addressed the Convention in their hall.
The following gentlemen have been elect
ed permanent officers :
John Amend, of St. Louis, Mo., Presi
dent; Mr. George Baldus, of Buffalo,
First Vice-President; Mr. Max Phillips,
of Milwaukee, Second Vice-President ;
Secretary, Rev. P. Stoller, O. S. F., of
Syracuse.
Addresses were delivered by several
delegates, and were chiefly exhorting the
Union to further the interests of the Cath
olic Church in general by the support of
our Holy Father, the maintainance of
Catholic schools, and manifesting devotion
to the Holy Father.
For grand and methodical effect, we
do not hesitate to say that this is the most
imposing Catholic celebration ever held
in the United States.
Catholic Standard, June 6.
A man who marries a frivolous showy,
woman, fancies he has hung a trinket
round his neck, but soon finds it a mill
stone.
ART MATTERS.
UNDER TABLE ROCK.
■Regis Gignoux, who has before painter!
pictures of Niagara, which have attracted
no inconsiderable attention, has just coin
pleted one of Table Rock, with winter
effect, which is unquestionably the best
thing wc have yet had from him. 1 hat
is to say, he approaches it closer to nature,
closer to a thorough realization ot the
grandeur and might of the cataract, and
presents us with a work that very fully
realizes the ideal we all ol us have formed
of this stupendous work of nature. IV<■
are all standing under Table Rock.
Gazing upward, an immense shelf of
stone reaches above our heads, and we
feel almost annihilated beneath its op
pressive darkness, relieved only by the
glints of sunshine which sparkle through
the passage that reaches before us. Pen
dant from the rock are huge icicles that
reach to the ground, while off in the dis
tance we catch a glimpse of the summit
of Niagara rushing onward, sparkling and
dancing in the sunlight, while all below
is an impenetrable mist.
The first impression of the picture i
that of height. We do not remember to
have yet seen anything pretending to be
a portrait of Niagara in which the height
and volume of the fall is so truthfully
and admirably expressed. And tins, too,
by what is little more than a mere sug
gestion, for the fall itself is but a minor
portion of the picture—the Table Rock,
with its accumulations of ice and snow,
being the principal feature, and that to
wards which the eye naturally' wanders.
This rock, too, is deserving of more than
passiug notice, painted, as it is, with a
method that fully conveys a just idea of
the substance represented without de
scending to the laborious processes by
which Preraphaelitism endeavors to pre
sent nature through the tortuous paths of
mechanism.
Being almost a portrait, Mr. Gignoux
has had but little necessity to call upon
his imagination in the composition, bin.
his treatment of light and shade, the strong
effects of sunlight which relieve the som
breness of the rock, and the entire feeling
of loneliness which pervades the enthe
picture, should none the less call for ad
miration, and this, we think, those who
have seen the work will be in no way loti:
to bestow. Taken as a whole, this is
unquestionably the most successful pro
duct of Mr. Gignoux’s brush, and we
heartily congratulate him upon his admi
rable treatment of a most difficult subject ,
one that might have daunted the courag ■
of a less capable and confident painter.
Like all good American things—prim a
donnas and the like—the picture will short
ly be sent to Europe ; not, however, it i
-be hoped, before an opportunity will
be afforded the public of witnessing it in
some of our public galleries.
“ THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET'”
Coming to us with tender memories of
the past, and bringing in its train many
a pleasant recollection, is Jerome Thomp
son’s picture of the “ Old Oaken Bucket
now on exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Art
Gallery. Mr. Thompson has painted
here a picture that must, from the very
associations which hover around the sub
ject, appeal directly to the heart of th
spectator, and the result is that the com
fortable parlors in which it is exhibited
are daily crowded with visitors, and th
exhibition has proved a most emphatic
and decided success.
In his illustration of WoodworthV
popular lines, the painter has given us a
picture of one of those quiet, home-lid
landscapes in which we all of us liav
revelled in the breathing spells of the
summer time, enjoying the dolcefar nit )■'
beneath the sunny sky, and listening f
the drowsy hum of insects or the purling
of babbling brooks. To the left is l!k.
quaint, cosy, farmhouse, which we all of
us know by heart; down the centre of the
picture stretches a bit of deliciously paint
ed country road; to the right wc cate’,
glimpses here and there of
" Tlte wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood
by it.”
Off in the distance stretches a mountain
range; while here, in the immediate fort
ground stands the well with
“ The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,’
at which a couple of youngsters are re
galing themselves.
All these Mr. Thompson has treated,
not only well, but poetically ; and, it
fault there be, it is in the distance and
portions of the sky, which are at tine
unpleasantly blue and cold. For the n.
the picture is, pure and simple, apictun
of nature, viewed by the eyes of a tender
lover of it, and for that reason a pleasant
and loveable work.
Pictures such as this may not, perhaps
impress us with a feeling of awe or no -
rence ; but they touch a chord of the heart
that is good and pure iu our nature, an ;
doing this, d< much that is good for ar
—good for the humanizing of man.
[ Eew York Express.