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Berzelta. —One of the pleasantest
8 cornier retorts that we know of is Ber
zelia, w here the veteran Nebhut keeps
one of the finest hotels in the South. It
is only twenty miles from Augusta, on
the Georgia Railroad, and just the place
to «pend the Summer. Mr. Nebhut and
his accomplished lady and daughters spare
r,o pains to make their guests comforta
ble and pleased. If any of our readers
want a desirable place to spend “the
heated term,” we commend Berzelia and
Nebhut’s Hotel to them.
The Democratic Platform.— We give
in this issue the Platform of the Demo
cratic Party, as adopted at the recent
National Convention in New York. It
is such a platform as the South can accept
with honor to herself, the North with
propriety, nnd the whole country with
profit and glory,
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NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
r The Democratic Nominee—What they
Said—The Right Doctrine—Enthu
siasm in Neiv York—The Finger of
Providence Overruling Men's Might
—Punishment Always Sure—Retri
bution —How Chase came near the
Nomination —How he Failed to Get
it—Great Excitement—The Conven
tion—A Glance at the Interior of
Tammany Hall—The Southern Dele
gates —The German Scheutzenfest —
The Famous New York Seventh
Regiment—Spec ulations.
New York, July 9, 1868.
Selah ! the daw dawns ! The Demo
cratic party has nominated for President a
man who said, in 1864, that the South
didn’t need any reconstruction ; declaring
‘ The doctrine of Southern disorganiza
tion and revolution is a doctrine of na
tional bankruptcy and of national ruin ;
it is a measure for lasting military
despotism over one-third of our country,
which will be the basis for military
despotism over the whole land and, for
Vice-President, this Convention nomi
nates a man, who said, in a letter, written
on the 30th of June, in this very year :
“We must have a President xcho will
execute the will of the people, by tramp
ling into dust the usurpations of Con
gress, known as the Reconstruction
Acts."
This is the right doctrine—no paltering
with tyranny ; no bowing down in the
house of Rimmon ; no dealing with the
unclean thing, but a bitter and relentless
war upon it, till oppression quake in high
places, and Dagon be hurled from his
throne.
I cannot tell you what an enthusiasm
this unexpected determination of the
lion-hearted Democracy has awakened
here, among those who keep to the pure
and undefiled faith as handed down by
the Fathers. At one time, it was feared
some juggling might foist Chase into the
nomination, but it has pleased Heaven to
order otherwise; and, in to-day’s work,
the Star of Hope beams brightly for the
South. Even if they would draw back,
the Northern Democracy cannot now re
treat. They must fight this fight on the
platform of the South—that Reconstruc
tion is a shame and villainy, and must be
torn up, root and branch. Some weeks
since, I wrote you not to despond—that
Liberty was sot dead, but sleeping—that
there was sunshine ahead; and, fresh
from the tumultuous thunders of the
great Convention, I hasten to renew that
assurance. The great West is in a
blaze, as the telegrams report, for all day
long the wires have been flashing the
news to and fro, and it seems that, in this
determination to make a straight out
fight for a whiteman’s country, and down
with isms, the right cord has been
struck. What, indeed, could we have
and jrjQ with Chase, the man who drew up
the second Xtoootist Ap.r„ and said,
only a few days since, it was right, and
constitutional, and just?
And, now, let me relate one or two
remarkable circumstances in connection
with these nominations. In the first
place, they reveal how the finger of
Providence overrules men’s might, and
teach as how an ill deed, though it be
years afterward, is always requited.
dia.ro deseruit, Ac., says old Horace,
rarely does a crime escape punishment,
though punishment comes limping on
behind. The two meu most prominent for
nomination were Hancock and Chase.
The one was, at one time, far in advance
in the ballotting, and the other, as I shall
$ >on show, came very near being foisted
cn the party. But three years ago
Ben. Hancock obeyed the order to execute
-Ins. Surrat, and to-day Nemesis dashed
the Presidency from him just as the luxu
rious cup was mantling at his lips. So
much for retribution number one. For
the second, here was Chase, the Chief
Justice, sworn to do immutable justice,
who withheld the decision on the McArdle
case (which is strongly adverse to the
Reconstruction Acts), thinking, doubtless,
to get the Radical nomination at Chicago,
wherein he failed; and then cast about
for the Democratic nomination, but herein
failed, also. What is it that Scripture
says of him that withholdeth judgment ?
Whatever it is. it may be written of
Chase, who will never be so near the
White House again. Retribution, Retri
bution lid the work for these two men—
for Fan did not forget their deeds, though
meD seemed inclined to.
But i was about to say how Chase
came very near the nomination. It hap
pened in thiswise: For some time back,
it was the intention of certain shrewd
politicians here, who value one bond more
than all the suffering South, to concede
the constitutionality of Reconstruction to
the Chief Justice, if he would concede, in
turn, his ardent support to the payment
of the bonds in gold. Not daring to
nominate him at once, these New York
politicians voted for Church, and Hen
dricks, until there had been some twenty
ballots, thinking, at the last, to rush in
Chase, and secure his nomination, on the
spur of the moment, when the rest of the
Convention might begin to despair at
being able to concentrate on any one
else. But the Pendleton men were just
as keen at party trickery, and, in return
for the persistent withholding of its sup
port by New York from the Ohio States
man, finally withdrew his name, and
nominated Seymour, determined, that if
their man could not win, Chase should
not. Before the New York delegation
could rally, the crowd took to cheering;
from the galleries it spread to the floor;
from the floor to the streets; out came
the cannon, and began their joyous roar;
the bands began to play; the flags were
waved; cheer upon cheer rose, like the
sound of mighty waters; State after State
came in to Seymour; the South voted
in solid column; New York was out
manoeuvred, overpowered; Chase was
utterly ignored; and, in a whirlwind of
enthusiasm, a straight-out Democrat had
won the day; ’twas a good thing on the
part of the Buckeye State, and well and
wisely done; for, if Grant is elected,
there will never be anothor Presidential
election in this country, and it was hut
right to go into this great battle with a
straight-out Democrat n the van.
The general particulars of the Conven
tion have been so fully telegraphed, that
it is not worth while to repeat them.
Suffice it to say that the interior adorn
ments of Tammany were simply .superb.
The coats of arms of all the States were
hung around the hall, Pennsylvania and
Georgia being to the immediate right of
the Chair, and South Carolina and Massa
chusetts to the left. Above the Chairman
was a marble bust of Washington,
shrined in a canopy of crimson silk, and
in front of the alcove was “Pro Patriaf
in letters of gold. In the body of the
hall, to mark the various delegations,
were slender lances, with blue silk pennons,
embossed with the name of each State in
gold. To the right and left of the desk,
were enormous bronze figures, larger
than life, of Roman soldiers, and clustered
in front of the Secretaries were huge
bouquets of rarest flowers. In the midst
of all this maguificence, imagine six hun
dred delegates, and between six and seven
thousand spectators, and, if you fill in the
picture with a huge arbor of evergreens,
canopied with flags and pictures, outside,
you may fancy the tout ensemble of the
great Democratic Convention of 1868.
The Southern delegates were, by far,
the handsomest and most distinguished
looking men present, and have received
compliments, both repeated and deserved,
on their moderation, good sense, and
courtly demeanor. The Herald said the
Southerners were as talented as ever; the
World praised their dignity, good sense,
and propriety, in a leading article; the
Sun also eulogised them, and even the
'Th'ihune failed to .find a sneer. A mast
favuicible impression has ueen made by
their presence, and, if some of our gallant
orators would stump the North during the
canvass, it might greatly strengthen the
growing conviction, that the excellent
abilities of these hereditary Statesmen
should not be lost in times that are now
so sadly destitute of real commanding
excellence.
Besides the Convention, New York has
been greatly exercised over the German
Scheutzen-fest , or Riflemen’s Jubilee.
Marksmen from all parts of this country,
from California, South Carolina, and from
Switzerland, the German States, and the
Tyrol, met here to contend for victory,
and some fine shooting has been seen.
Each man was allowed to choose his rifle,
and everything, accordingly, from the
weapon of the Alpine hunter to the regu
lation Minis, was on hand. The German
portions of the city were resplendent
MBBfIB ©I fSj l©ifs;
with flags and evergreens by day, and
parti-colored lights and fireworks by
night, and, as may well be supposed, the
lager drunk, and songs sung, are such as
no man can compute or number. A
cheerful, kindly people are these Ger
mans, and, to their credit, it is said, there
were not a dozen disturbances, if even
that many, among at least a quarter of a
million Teutons, out on a frolic of a week.
Yesterday, the famous Northern Regi
ment, the 7th New York, was out, and it
really put one in mind of old times to see
the grey uniforms once more. Save that
the cloth was finer, and there was a great
deal of gold work on it, and the flag,
though the old flag, wasn’t our old flag,
the steady march of the glittering bat
talions put me in mind of the days when
Longstreet’s dashing division came through
Richmond, cn route to help Magruder out
at York town, in 1862. Ah! how time
flies! That was six years ago. Six
years from now, what will the flag be,
and who Emperor ?
Tyrone Powers.
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Mental and Moral Improvement in
Southland—The Public and Private
Schools of New Orleans—Catholic
Schools and Colleges—An Idea of
the Extent of these Schools—Their
Prospects—More Work for the Priests
— Mr. C. D. Elder's Educational
Agency.
New Orleans, July 9, 1868.
Editor of the Banner of the South:
In addition to the great progress
our Southland is making in material
physical improvement, there is another,
more important , forward movement going
on. The field of mental and moral culture
is being worked to good effect. The
past two or three weeks have been de
voted, in a great measure, to the Annual
Examination and Exhibition of our
Schools of all classes; and the universal
verdict testifies to their efficiency and
improvement over former years. In this
city, owing to the rare tact and discretion
of Mr. Rogers, our able and experienced
Superintendent, the Public Schools have
been so managed as to give all possible
instruction to pupils of every nationality,
without the slightest clash of races, and
to the full satisfaction of all. Aided by
the sage counsels of the Nestorian Assist
ant, Professor Dimitry, no other result
could have been expected.
Owing to the impoverished condition of
most of our formerly wealthiest families,
the Private Schools have been more
sparsely attended than of yore; still, a
fair attendance has enabled the best of
them to continue their career of useful
ness. Amongst these, the various Catho
lic Colleges and Academies stand pre
eminent, as may be seen by reference to
the accounts of their Examinations, &c.,
as published in our daily newspapers, and
especially by the fuller details in the
Morning Star , during the past few weeks.
As for our Catholic Parochial Schools,
they were never more flourishing than
now, thanks to the devoted zeal of our
untiring Parish Priests throughout the
city. The amount of good they do, in
training useful future citizens, for both
Earth and Heaven, is simply miraculous .
I have no official statistics of the number
of children who attend them, but, from
personal observation, I can safely say
that, in one Parish alone, the Fourth Dis
trict, they number not less than 2,500.
Knowing the size of our city, you can
now estimate what must be the grand
total in all the Parishes thereof.
Herculean as are all the labors of our
Priests to-day, there is a note of warning
for them to prepare for still weightier
work in the near future. Under the new
Constitution of the new State of Louisiana,
which gives “equal rights to all citizens
without regard to race or color,” the
Public Schools must be thrown open to
all! As the Negroes enter, most of the
white children will, of course, retire; for
there are still a good many white folks
here who do not believe in amalaramatlrur
wnai Huj created separated N6 \f,
these excluded whites must be educated,
and, no doubt, thousands of them will be
placde under the well known discipline of
our Catholic Parish Schools, which, being
private establishments, are permitted to
select and discharge their pupils at will.
In this view, 1 repeat, our Christian
Brothers, Sisters of Charity, and other
educational Orders, must prepare for a
greatly increased field of operations next
year.
The same remarks hold good towards
the numerous Catholic Pay Schools, for
both boarders and day scholars. For, as
material prosperity is gradually dawning
upon our citizens, many hundreds of them
will prefer (having the mear.s) to send
their children to Academies of pretention,
having advantages that the ordinary
Parish Schools cannot command; and,in
this connection, I am glad to see that our
thoughtful fellow-citizen, Mr. C. D. Elder
(who, by the way, has been acting as
amateur Agent for the Banner of the
South), has established himself as a
General Agent here, to represent the
Catholic Institutions of the whole country.
This Agency supplies a long needed
desideratum, and will prove immensely
valuable, both to parents and to the In
stitutions that avail themselves thereof.
The world moves. As we must all
move with it, let us hope that, in the
race ol telegraphs, railroads, steam-tugs,
elevators, steam-plows, cultivators, &c.,
&c., Education in the South may keep
the lead ! Southern Radical.
CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.
Ordination. —The Most Rev. Dr.
Spalding, Archbishop of Baltimore, late
ly celebrated several Ordinations in the
Chapel ol the Seminary, conferring
Orders on the postulants of several
Dioceses.
On the 28th ultimo, Messrs. John E.
Mallin, William E. Starr, James M.
O’Brien, William E. Bartlett, Georges
W. Devine, Joseph Mullen, Caspar
Sclimidtt, of the Diocese of Baltimore ;
Joseph L. P. Ilugon, of the Diocese of
Savannah; Richard Boyse, John A. Hef
fernan, Patrick McNamara of the Dio
cese of Brooklyn ; Francis F. Lestra, of
Santa Fe; James McGurfc, of the Diocese
of Richmond; Henry Bouillard, Patrick
Georges Tobin, Michel Bardi, of the Dio
cese of New Orleans ; John B. Fitz-
Patrick Boland, William J. McDonald,
of the Diocese of Boston; John Fagan,
Lawrence Fuchs, Peter Schwarz, of the
Diocese of Brooklyn ; Henry Meissner, of
the Diocese of Fort Wayne ; Florimond
R. J. J. B. Blanc, of the Diocese of
Natchez; William F. O’Brien, of the
Diocese of Hartford. James F. Makin,
Valentine FI. Schraidtt, of the Diocese of
Baltimore ; Daniel McFaul, of the Dio
cese of Portland ; Antoine Fourchegu,
of the Diocese of Santa Fe; Louis Vally,
of the diocese of Natchez, received re
spectively the First Tonsure, Minor Or
ders and Sub-deaeonship.
On the 29th, Messrs. Stanislaus Ryan,
Jas. P. Carey, Francis P. Duggan, Jas.
F. Makin, Jeremiah O’Sullivan, Valen
tine FI. Sclimidtt, of the Diocese of Balti
more ; Michael Fitz-Gerald, of Hartford;
Jeremiah J. Healey, of Boston ; Francis
Lennon, James McElroy, Ignatius Her
man Zeller, John Fagan, of Brooklyn;
Bernard TANARUS: Borg, Henry Meissner, of Fort
Wayne ; James McGurk, Pierre Cheva
lier, and Henri A. Molette de Morangies,
of Natchez, were promoted to Deacon
ship.
On the 30th, the Rev. Patrick F. A.
Murphy, of Hartford ; James P. Carey;
Francis P. Duggan ; Mark Stanislaus
Gross, of Baltimore ; Jeremiah J. Healey;
Fr. Lennon; James McElroy; J. Fr.
Makin; Jer. O’Sullivan ; Ign. H. Zeller;
John Fagan; Ber. T. Borg; Michael
Dolan, of Boston ; Val. FI. Sclimidtt;
Henry Meissner; James McGurk, were
raised to the holy Priesthood.
On the Ist instant, the exercises of the
present session of the Seminary and Uni
versity were closed, as usual, by a solemn
Mass of Thanksgiving, followed by the
Te Deum and Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
[Catholic Mirroi , July 11.
SYNOrSIS OF THE FA PAL BULL.
The European telegraphic despatches
of last week contain the following impor
tant news :
Rome, June 29.—His Holiness Pope
Pius the Ninth, following up his Allocu
tions to the Sacred Consistory on the
general condition of affairs, spiritual and
temporal, and the Austrian legislation
with respect to the Concordat, has to-dav
issued a Papal bull calling a general
council of the Catholic Church.
The Pontifical decree and summons,
which is addressed to the Cardinals, Pa
triarchs, Primates, Archbishops and
Bishops —urbi et orbis —directs that they
shall assemble in the Vatican, in this city,
on the Bth day of December, in the year
°* 2L 1 . 1 , duh nas produced
a decided sensation in diplomatic circles,
as it is acknowledged on all sides that
this ecclesiastical Convention will consti
tute the most brilliant—in point of num
bers and talent and momentous as re
gards the subjects to be discussed—hie
rarchical assemblies which has been
brought together from the earliest days
of Christianity.
The Holy Father, in explaining the
reasons which guided his judgment to the
conviction of the necessities of a general
council, sketches out the programme of
the work of its members with a free
hand.
His Holiness states that the subjects to
be submitted to the congregated body in
clude : The necessity of renewed Epis
copal exertion to secure, in all quarters
of the globe, a firm belief in the integrity
of the Catholic faith; a more abiding and
heartfelt respect for religion; a more
ready obedience to Catholic Church dis
cipline, and a more general observance
of its rules, regulations and laws; con
sultation as to the best means of im
proving the morals of the members of
the fold ; how to extend and establish
peace and concord among individuals
and nations; and how to more effectu
ally remove the many ills which afflict
civil .society, as well as many of the
religious orders.
Ihe bull, in conclusion, adverts to the
absolute necessity which exists, to up
hold the temporal power of the Pope in
the Eternal City and domain of the
Church, to sustain and defend the
sanctity of the sacrament of marriage
in every land, and to be careful of the
education of the yonng.
His Holiness deplores the persevering,
untiring, and insidious efforts which are
being made by the enemies of the Church
to throw down, destroy, and deface all
these, and imparts to the faithful the
apostolic benediction just before adding
his signature to the paper, and attesting
it with the seal of the Fisherman.
The bull enjoins that all persons re
quired to attend the Council must appear
either in person or by proxy.
General Lee as a Drainer and
Ruler of the Young —His Health—
Feeling Towards Him of the People
of Lexington. —Dr. Bagby, who attend
ed the late Commencement at Washing
ton College, writes of General Lee as fol
lows, in a letter to his paper, the Native
Virginian:
And here it will be in place to relate
that, on my return from Lexington, a
gentleman in the coach expressed the fear
that General Lee’s kindness of heart, and
his desire to enlarge the college, might,
perhaps, make him too lenient and, possi
bly, lower the scholastic standard. To
quiet his fears, I told him what had been
told me a few days before by a clergy
man residing in Lexington.
“General Lee’s office,” said he, “is no
sinecure. His work taxes to the utmost
his powerful constitution. He registers
in his mind not only the faces but the
names of the 410 students. Nor is that
all. He can tell you the standing of each
student in the several branches which he
studies, and any neglect of duty is prompt
ly punished.”
"Punished!” I exclaimed.
“Yes,” said he, “in General Lee’s own
way.”
“How is that!” I inquired.
“Well, not long since, a young friend
of mine, who is in the college, confessed
to me that he had been, as he expressed
it, ‘hauled up’—that is, he had received a
message to the effect that the President
desired to see him in his office.
“Did General Lee lecture you ?”
“No, indeed !”
“Did lie scold you ?”
“Scold ! I only wish that he had. He
talked to me so kindly that he nearly
broke my heart, and you don’t catch me
in there again, I tell you.”
That is “Gen. Lee’s way”—not like
Stonewall Jackson’s, but quite as effectual
in college, as was Jackson’s in the army,
[f we add to this personal supervision of
each individual student the labor of cor
respondence (a great deal of which cannot
be taken off his hands), and other duties,
we may understand how it is that the re
port, which went the round of the papers
a few months ago, of the General’s failing
health should have gained credence. He
lias improved very much of late, but does
not present that robust appearance to
which our eyes were accustomed during
the war. Replying to a gentleman, who
congratulated him at the alumni supper
upon the prospect of the long holiday
before him, he expressed his regrets at
not being able to mount his horse, and
ride day after day among the mountains.
He must desire and must need greatly
the quietude and refreshment of the soul
which comes of solitary communion with
Nature. On his health hang too many
and of this it wore wolf
diately around lii*n should never bo un
mindful.
The revered affection ana .; rat j on
with which Gen. Lee is regarded by , o
citizens of Lexington, seems rather to in
crease than to lessen —proof enough, if
proof were wanting, of the true greatness
of the man. Whenever he rides through
the village, the people watch him with
as much interest as though they had
never seen him before; and if he chance
to stop in the street on some business,
they linger at their doors and window* as
if their eyes would never tire of gazing
upon that face so heroic, yet so full of all
gentleness.
Both Pretty.—A snow-fall in a sun
shine is like a maiden shedding tears in
laughter. Both are pretty scenes and not
very wet.
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