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New Organ.— We are pleased to
learn that the new Organ lor St. Patrick’s
Church, in this city, has been completed,
and was to he shipped from New York
this week. We hope in our next to ho
able to announce its arrival.
Chas. D. Elder, Esq.—This gentle
man’s place of business is at No. 21,
Commercial Place, New Orleans, La.
He is the Louisiana Agent for the Ban
ner of the South, and is authorized to
transact any business for us in that State.
His advertisement will he lound in ano
ther column.
Democratic Enthusiasm. —From all
quarters of the Union comes the intelli
gence of the popular enthusiasm for the
Democratic nominees. Everything is
hopeful ; but action, action, action, is ne
cessary to success, and should, he the
watchword and rallying cry of the De
mocracy everywhere.
Base Ball Match Game. —The Ex
celsior Base Ball Club, of this city, and
the Oglethorpe Base Ball Club, ot
Savannah, will play a match game on the
Parade Ground, here, to-day, Saturday.
The public, generally, and the ladies,
particularly, are invited to attend, and
seats will he provided for the accommo
dation of spectators.
Situation as Teacher Wanted. —Wc
invite special attention to the card of
Miss V. W., of Virginia, in this week’s
Banner. We earnestly urge her claims
as a competent Southern Lady, and hope
that some good Southern Seminary, or
Southern family, requiring the services
of a Teacher, will avail themselves of Miss
W.’s offer.
The Spottsylvan-ja Memorial Asso
ciation. — We publish with pleasure the
Circular of the Ladies of the Spotsylva
nia Memorial Association. The subject
is one which appeals to every true South
ern heart, and lor this Circular we can
didly and earnestly ask a perusal on the
part of our readers.
BiSHor Persico. —This distinguished
Divine was in our city on last Sunday,
and preached a very eloquent sermon at
the High Mass. In the morning, pre
vious to the High Mass, he visited the
Sunday School, and deliviff’ed a short but
eloquent address to the scholars, urging
upon them the necessity of perseverance
in their studies; also telling then* that
the study of the Catechism would be of
little avail unless they put its teachings
into practice, and unto the
end. The Bishop then gave his blessing
to all present. _
Misrepresentation. The Radical
presses arc attempting to weaken the in
fluence of the Southern leaders and in
jure the cause of Democracy, by declaring
that the late Confederate leaders are advo
cating revolution and war. The charge
is false. These leaders—Hampton, For
est, Cobb, Toombs, Butler, and others,
are urging, with all the energy and elo
quence which they possess, the cause of
the Democratic party, as the cause of
Pence and Constitutional Liberty. They
counsel no war—no revolution; but urge
the people to work energetically and un
ceasingly in behalf'of the great cause
which they represent. And as the people
of the South followed them cheerfully
and promptly* in war, so will they follow
them willingly and proudly in peace.
MIIll ©I Til UP 1 !,
Dr. Couturier.— Our accomplished
townsman, Dr. Couturier, will give an
Entertainment, at Masonic Hall, on
Tuesday evening next, August 25th,
consisting of Readings from Shakspeare’s
Romeo and Juliet , and King Henry
VIII; with Musical Selections, by the
Augusta Amateur Baud, Augusta Quar
tette Club, and other Amateurs. The
programme will, doubtless, be a very at
tractive one, and will, we hope, secure for
the Doctor a crowded house.
Quinn. — Our enterprising friend Quinn,
across the way, on Broad street, has re
ceived Peterson’s, Godey’s, and Demor
est’s Magazines for September ; Harper’s
Bazar, Leslie’s Chimney Corner, and
Bonner’s New York Ledger for the cur
rent week. He has all the latest periodi”
cals and illustrated papers.
The Literary Pastime. —We have re
ceived the first and second numbers of the
Literary Pastime, anew journal, recent
ly commenced in the city of Richmond,
Va., by Mr. A. F. Crutchfield, at $3.00
per annum. It is a well filled and inter
esting sheet, and we welcome it to the
field of Southern Literature, with our best
wishes for its success and prosperity.
The Southern Argus and Crisis.—
We are in receipt of the early numbers
of this new journal, lately established at
Crystal Springs, Miss., by Meal’s. E. E.
and Jno. W. Overall. It is devoted to
the interests of the Southern Cause and
to the Democratic Party ; is published
semi-weekly at $4.00 per annum; and
contains a great deal of inferesting read
ing matter.
The Charleston Gazette — One of
the ablest and most interesting of our
Catholic exchanges is the Charleston Ga
zette. It is an earnest and zealous co
worker in the Lord’s vineyard ; and withal
an attractive family journal. It is pub
lished by J. I). Budds, Esq., at $2.50 per
annum, in advance. Immense success
always attend you, friend Gazette.
NEW ORLEANS (LaVcORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Causes for Wonder—A Depleted City
Treasury—Want of Worldly Judg
ment —A Little Radical Drama —
Radical Falsehood and Slander —Call
for Authorship una?iswered —Another
Public Call xinanswered —Yankee
Periodicals—The Round Table—The
Grand Meteor of the 9th inst—Puri
tan Formula in the Louisiana Legis
lature—Another Radical Trick —
Democratic Enthusiasm- “ Cui BonoF
“ Why such Ado ?”
New Orleans, Aug. 14, 1808.
Banner of the South:
How we survive is a marvel, sur
rounded as we are by causes, physical
and moral, which make us incessantly
gape with suspended breath, wondering,
“ What next ?”
The swarms of idle Negroes hanging
around the police offices and the Legis
lative hive, and the throngs of unoccu
pied whites who fill the public streets all
day long, and late into the night, make
us question, “Where and how do they
get daily bread ?”
The crowd of pale and agonized-look
ing city laborers, and timid, tearful Public
School teachers, daily appealing at the
City Treasury for their two and three
months of hack pay—wherewith to satis
fy their landlords’ and their bakers’ hills
—and appealing always in vain, is
enough to melt the very coldest human
heart. Add to this the protracted heavy
heat, keeping us all in a continued swelter,
and depriving us of strength and appe
tite; our daily anxieties, caused by the
increasing outrages of the soi-disant Legis
lature, Governor, Police Board, and Edu
cation Commissioners; the open threats
of “ knife, bullet, and torch,” uttered by
the official newspapers of the Destruc
tives ; and, if the world still continues to
imagine that wc of the sugar-bowl State
are enjoying the “ sweetest spot of earth, ’
then, I must say, the world has very little
judgment.
A detail of our citizens’ present suffer
ings, were simply impossible; a sketch
of them would fill volumes ; mere allusion
to them would he too grevious for a letter
—consequently, I have not dared more
than the above slight hint at some of
their effects.
The newspapers last week presented
quite a little drama, to divert lor a few
days the public attention. The Republi
can (Destructive organ,) announced in edi
torial type, that a respectable Catholic
Priest had twice declared his knowledge
of a Democratic conspiracy to murder,
on a certain day, within two weeks, all
the “ trooly loil” in the city. Next day
the Bee (honest old Conservative,) in
dignantly denied the possibility of any
Catholic Priest’s having made any such
silly and infamous declaration; and said
that it could only have come from some
one who had formerly been a Priest,
but who had subsequently been de
graded from the Ministry and excom
municated from his Church', in conse
quence of gross crimes and immoralities.
The next morning, up jumps (in the
columns of all the papers,) an individual
claiming as his personal, exclusive pro
perty, the character so distinctly drawn
by the Bee! He signs himself “ Rev.
Maistre, Catholic Priest,” and denies
that he ever uttered the remark. This
is, by long odds, the most complacent
piece of cap-fitting that ever came under
my observation.
The Destructive organ lias not yet
named the “ respectable Priest,” although
publicly summoned to do so by the Very
Rev. Vicar General in the name of the
Clergy of the Diocese.
Another public call also remains un
answered, viz : that of the people of the
State upon Governor (so called) War
mouth, to particularize the 150 “ troo
loilists” whose murder, within a few
weeks, lie officially annouuced to Presi
dent Johnson lately.
For several years, your correspondent
has severely abstained from wasting any
of his valuable time over the periodi
‘cals of Yandeedom, such a liolv horror
had he of its pretentious egotism and
self-sufficient Puritanism. Judge, then,
of his delighted surprise on finding, in
a late accidental copy of The Round
Table, an editorial on “ Reconstruction,”
and another on “ Harvard University,”
whose sound, sensible, and reasonable
views would have done credit to any
Rebel, Copperhead, white man, or Catho
lic, in the South. And, while on the
stand, 1 may as well tell the whole
truth, and confess that the editorial style
and treatment of subjects in The Round
Table, struck me as far superior to those
of any other weekly I have seen ; and
if the stray copy I saw be a fair speci
men of the paper, I would gladly see
such a healthy caterer liberally patronized.
The grand meteor of last Sunday
night, (9th inst.,) surpassed anything of
the sort seen here in many years. It
appeared about a quarter past nine
o’clock, proceeding from the head of the
Swan, in a northeast direction, about
three or four degrees, and left a blazing
line of white light, brightest in the mid
dle, which lasted many seconds, perhaps
a whole minute, before it totally vanished
from sight. As I gazed in admiration, I
wondered, was it typical of the glories
of the “ best Government the world ever
saw ?”
As I prophesied lately, our Destruc
tive legislators are applying to our State
the good old Puritan formula : “ All good
tilings belong to the Lord and His people.
Tie are his people. Therefore, every
belongs to us’” One of ’em has
introduced a law that all Ferries, Roads,
and Bridges, shall be free for all who at
tend Public Schools ! The object is evi
dent when you consider that none but
Negroes will hereafter attend the Schools,
which are to be thrown open to all, with
out regard to color, scent, or descent.
The good opinion and votes of the poor
blacks are thus cheaply purchased by the
party who pass such laws ; and, at the
same time, a great facility is opened for
attending the various “ Loyal League
Lodges.”
The Democratic enthusiasm and wide
awakativeness, surpass all precedent,
with their nightly speeches processions,
illuminations, banner-presentations, Ac.
If they attempt to keep it up at this rate
to the end of the campaign, there will he
many a broken constitution and bereaved
family to attest the folly of such inces
sant exposure to night air.
And, after all cui bono ? Every honest
voter iu the land is already decided to
vote against Destruction, and no Destruc
tive can he induced to vote for an honest
party. Therefore, again I ask, “Why
such ado ?” Southern Radical.
Wiio Made all That?— lt is related
that, when Napoleon Bonaparte was re
turning to France from the expedition to
Egypt, a group of officers, one evening,
entered into a discussion concerning the
existence of a God. They were on the
deck of the vessel that bore them over
the Mediterranean Sea. Thoroughly im
bued with the infidel and atheistic spirit
of the times, they were unanimous in the
denial of His truth. It was at length
proposed to ask the opinion of Napoleon
on the subject, who was standing alone,
wrapped in silent thought. On hearing
the question, “Is there a God ?” he raised
his hand, and pointing to the starry firm
ament, simply responded, “ Gentlemen,
who made all that ?”
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
The Immense Importance of Few York
as a Commercial Centre—The Gold
Room —The Produce Exchange—,
Interesting Description of it—Tiu>
Elevated Street Railway—The Death i
of Thaddeus Stevens—Hopes for the 1
Resuscitation of Constitutional Liber
ty—A Hopeful Grant Man Concede*
his Defeat — Grant's Military Career
The Duty of the South, Her P
and People—Legal and Illegal Gov
ernments of the Sotth —The only safe I
and feasible plan.
New York, 15th August, 1868.
The immense importance of this city I
as a commercial centre can best be seen
by a visit to the Produce Exchange and
those parts that there adjacent lie. Pass
ing the Gold Room, whence, at high noon,
issue the commingling voices of several
hundred men, all busy roaring forth
“short,” “long,” “corner,” “quarteroff,”
“option,” “ten days,” etc., etc., cabalistic
terms whereof more in another letter, one
emerges in a region, below Wall street
and the Bay, given over to immense ware-
houses filled with all the bulkier commer
c:al products, as wool, tallow, hide?,
grain, etc , etc. Threading this region,
win re a >me fifty years since thore were
only dwelling houses and small shops—
for it is only in the last half century that
New York has sprung to its huge pro
portions—you come to a large building,
covering an entire square, the Produce
Exchange. Let us enter. At the door
is a Janitor who refuses admittance to all
save members of the Association owning
the building, gentlemen of the Press, and
such visitors as may he officially furnish
ed with a pass. Once past the Cerberus,
you are in a spacious hall, extending
over all the ground floor and with a huge
stairway extending from the centre of
the room to the upper apartments. In
the corners of the hall are telegraph
offices, and, standing at the door of these
offices, one can converse, at a moderate
charge, with any person in the Produce
Exchanges of Cincinnati, Chicago, or
Milwaukie respectively. From these points
1,0 New York is constantly flashing the
state of the markets there for every change
during the four hours devoted to
’Change, and vice versa from here there
goes out the least variation in the cur
rent rates of the main staples. Other
wheres in the hall are bulletins upon
which the rate of gold is marked as it
varies in Wall street, and from London
there comes half hourly tidings of the
price of Consols aud U. S. 5-20 bonds.
Changes in tlie same securities in Frank
fort and Paris are also put up on these
bulletins as fast as they occur, and as
the current rates of produce, also, are set
forth in the same manner, it is easy to
sec, at a glance, how the markets ot Chris
tendom stand at any given moment in the
business day.
Besides these telegraphic bulletins,
there are also reading desks where the
latest copies of all the leading journals cf
this country and Europe are exposed to
public view. Apart from these uses, the
lower floor of this Exchange is devoted t
the sale of beef, pork, lard, tallow, and
oil. These three latter articles are sold
by specimen, the lard and tallow being
exposed to view in the shape of little
rolls, in boxes, upon long tables, through
out the room, and the oils being kept in
long, thin flasks. Meats are sold on de
scription, and it is rare any deceit is
practised in these sales, an article int
proving to he as represented being an
offence for which the party misrepresent
ing is expelled from the Exchange, and
not permitted thereafter to have any
share in the benefit derivable from it.
More than this, such party is rarely dealt
with, even outside of the Association, aud
this stringency forces a high degree ut
commercial honesty,
Ascending to the upper floor, one fin A
it interspersed with long tables, on wiii ••
are set forth little blue paper boxes con
timing all the kinds of flour, wheat, oats,
rye, barley, malt, corn, beans, and pea?
in the market. In each box is inserted
a card, containing the name of the mer
chant owning the produce thus exhibited
by specimens, and some brief description
of the quality of the article. At the
flour and meal stands are little pitchers ot
water, so that the quality of the bread
stuffs may be tested by wetting, and at
these, as all the other tables, are the
owners or their agents, to answer queries
and make bargains. If you fanoy anything
shown, and agree upon the price, you
take so many hundred barrels, or bushek
or so many thousands of pounds: a brb
mutual memoraudum of terms is mace,
and the nature of the transaction is ini
mediately bulletined. In this way manv
millions of dollars worth of business arc
done in a single session of the Exchange,
and at one the crowd thins out, and the
doors arc closed.
The building itself is exceedingly