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ciety of New York, P. 0. Box, 5396, or
Vo. 126 Nassau street, at 85,00 per an
num.
The Little Gleaner. —This is the title
, f ;i very neat and attractive little
monthly, edited by Miss Olive 0. Lee,
an ! published at Fredericksburg, Va., at
$1 00 a year, in advance. The August
number is replete with interesting arti
cles, orignal and selected. As this is a
Southern publication, and a good one,
we take pleasure in commending it to our
readers.
Peter’s Musical Publications.— Mr.
Peters, the great Music Publisher ofNew
York City, has supplied the wants of the
‘ musical world” in this country by his
several publications, which are valuable
and popular. The taste for music is im
proving and increasing in America,
and anything that tends to cheapen the
price of sheet music must become popu
lar and successful. There are several ex
cellent publications devoted to this science,
and among them all we believe none
stand higher than Peter’s. These are
the “The United States Musical Re
view,” “The Gleehive,” and “the Parlor
Companion.” These are devoted to Pia
no, Flute, Violin, Guitar, and Vocal Music
and each number contains a large amount
of music, besides very interesting read
ing matter in the Review. The price
of the Review is 82,00 per annum, and
of the other two 83,00 per annum each.
Every amateur or lover of music should
take one or more of the publications.
The Southern Journal of Music.
Here we have a valuable Southern musi
cal publication from Louisville, Ky. It
is a very neatly printed and able jour
nal, and each number contains six or
seven pages of sheet music—vocal and
instrumental pieces, besides a great deal
of very interesting and instructive read
ing matter. This jonrnal should find a
place in every Southern family where
music holds sway. It is only SI,OO per
annum, in advance, with very attractive
offers and premiums to clubs. Address
Wm. McCarrell, Publisher, Golden Harp
Music Store, Louisville, Ky.
The Messenger of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus.—This is a monthly bulletin of
the Apostleship of Prayer, edited by
Rev. B. Lestini, Georgetown College, D.
0., and printed by John Murphy Cos.,
l s 2 Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Mary
land, The following are the contents of
the September number :
I. The Hopes of the Church.
11. Simon Peter and Simon Magus.
111. To the Sacred Heart, (Poetry.)
IV. St. Victor aiul his Companions.
V. The American Church.
VI. Religious Chronicle.
VII. General Intentions.
Terms—s 2 per annum, in advance, or
ST with the Ave Maria, of Notre Dame,
Indiana.
The Land We Love —This interesting
and ably edited Southern periodical comes
to us for September with a very attract
ive table of contents. It contains twelve
articles. The leadiug article, General
Brice's Report of his Missouri campaign,
111 1864, has never been published bo
lore, and is of stirring interest. The
other prose articles are the Suez Canal;
Mary Ashburton; Mr. Dickens, and his
Bebt ot Honor; Chief Justice Nash, of
Carolina; and the Empress Eu
genia.
Ihe poetry is from Mrs. L. Virginia
r reach, Miss L. M. Porter, and Dr. J.
; h Bruns, of New Orleans.
A.l the writers for this truly Southern
Magazine are of recognized ability. It
18 published at Charlotte, N. C., and is
edited by Gen. D. H. Hill.
Stanton. —Mrs. Surratt seems to have
p Cen avenged, even in this world.
1 re>t, n King drowned himself. Canover.
‘Vnd other swift witnesses, are in prison.*
Hut.er is with Pluto. Stanton’s condi
tlou thus portrayed by the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette :
Ex-Secretary Stanton is said to be
npiely reaching a state of actual imbe-
He mopes and wanders around
ln hi- own immediate neighborhood; not
“ven noticed by those who were his former
looks. lie is prematurely old and feeble.”
.. >ort out Bingham! your turn ap-
B 1 uac 'hes ! — A ugusta Constitutionalist .
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
New Orleans Black-guarded—Secret Police
—“Let us have Peace ” — Unfounded
Prejudices against Manufactured Ice —
Nothing Injurious in it—New Grain
Elevator—A Mammoth Rotating Brick
Kiln—Religious Changes Taking Place
Conversions in Alabama Father
O'Leary's Influence New Catholic
Church in Selma—New York'* “Cruelty
to Animals" I —A Cl Leap Bathing House
in Contemplation—Progress of New Or
leans—Departure of Rev. A. Verrina ,
C. J/., from Bouligny.
New Orleans, Aug. 22, 1868.
Banner of the South:
Our City is thoroughly black-guarded at
present. According to the daily papers,
about nine hundred new Policemen, active
and supernumerary, have lately been sworn
in, most of whom are dark in feature, and
all black in principle. And, as the ability
to swear hard, is one of the chief tests of
“loilty,” ’tis said these creatures are all
required, at the same time, to swear into
some L. L. Lodge of the Destructives.
Another dark feature in the transaction, is,
that the Police-making machine was run
chiefly with closed doors, keeping out all
white folks. Under these circumstances,
of course, we “have peace”; as no little boy
in the streets dare cry “Seymour,” under
penalty of being immediately gobbled up
by one of these awful black-guards.
It would seem that humanity never will
be tree from the grossest prejudices inspired
by ignorance. Within a week, I have
heard the most preposterous objections
urged against the crystal products of the
Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Company.
One party “knew, from the feel of the ice,
that it was filled with oil!" Another had
“distinctly tasted in it, Kreosote, Ammo
nia, and other drugs.” Another was afraid
of it, because “river water, no matter how
well Jittered,(!) always disagreed with
him.” I have even heard it solemnly
feared that it “would and killaW who
used it habitually, in consequence of its
deleterious ingredients /” Now, if these
good people would only say what they
know about it— i. e. nothing—there would
be no harm done; but when they go about
defaming a manufactured article, intrin
sically purer than the foul city air they
breathe , they should reflect upon the vile
ness of their crime, slander, and fancy
how they would like it, applied to them
selves, their families, and their works. Five
minute’s investigation at the works in Jef
ferson City, would convince them that the
water used is the purest in the world, being
simply condensed vapor, and that it comes
into contact with nothing whatever, except
the bright, clean, tin receptacles in which
it is frozen. What most surprises me, is
that the Stockholders, or Proprietors, of
this great Southern enterprize, do not
take more active means to enlighten the
public on its utility and perfection.
These remarks result from a recent
highly satisfactory visit to the Works in
question, whose present product of over
twenty tons oj ice per day, can be nearly
trebled without any enlargement of their
machinery.
In the same vicinity are located the new'
Grain Elevator of Messrs. Iligby & Cos.,
which, when completed, will bo able to
manipulate many hundreds of thousands of
bushels per day ; and, also, the Mammoth
Rotating Brick Kiln, whose operations are
perpetual, taking in fresh clay, and turning
out baked bricks in an uninterrupted
stream. It is l>y the construction and
judicious working of sucß enterprises, that
the South will yet checkmate their ever
active foes, the Destructionists.
As the microscope reveals to us many
wonderful and admirable details of the
workings of Providence, so an examination
of the little rivulets of life enables us the
better to understand and admire innumer
able characteristic currents that go to
make up tlie ocean of humanity. We all
see and know' that great changes are per
petually taking place in the convictions
and tendencies of Nations. Thus, for in
stance, it lias been much remarked of late
that those old European Governments,
noted, for some centuries, for their attach
ment and fidelity to the Church of Christ,
are showing signs of defection; wfliile a
compensative movement is just as distinct
in the hereditary governmental opponents
of the Faith, who are now r stepping forward
as the defenders of the Church and its
authority.
This is the general view'. . A late letter
from the interior of Alabama, discloses
some of the delicate machinery by which
these great movements are propelled. The
writer is a lady, who, during the war, was
untiring in her attentions to the suffering
soldiers of her country, and the destitute
exiles from Louisiana, who found their way
to her neighborhood. She had been raised
a pious Episcopalian Protestant; but she
was impressed by a certain religiousness in
these poor people, surpassing anything she
had ever dreamed of. She began to expe
rience a new' w'ant in her nature —a want
of Religion. The result of a few conver
sations, w'as, that she undertook a journey
to the nearest Catholic Priest, placed her
self under instruction, and, in a few months,
had the happiness of being baptized and
received, together with her three children,
into the fold of the One Good Shepherd!
She now' writes that the Rev. Father
O’Leary, of Selma (near w hich city she
now' resides), has recently admitted four or
five new converts into theChnrch, and has
several others under instruction. These
were all High-Church Episcopalians, except
one, a Confederate Officer, who first met
sfflran
with some Catholics during his imprison
ment in Kentucky. Recently, after hear
ing one of Bishop Quinlan’s eloquent ser
mons, he begged for Baptism and Confirma
tion : and now' his w'ife promises to follow'
his example in a few weeks!
As an item of interest, the same w'riter
says, that, “according to the plan, the
newly projected Catholic Church of Selma
will eclipse everything of the sort in that
city. The ground, and the brick for its
construction, have been donated by a
couple of Catholic gentleman, w'hile the
lime has been promised by a Protestant
Episcopalian (God bless him !) and a very
handsome collection of cash has been made.
On the 12th ultimo, the Bishop administer
ed the Sacrament of Confirmation to about
fifteen persons, including citizens, Federal
soldiers and Negroes, all kneeling together,
as though entirely forgetful of the distinc
tions of race or color.” I insist that these
occurrences in a section w'here, only a few
years back, a Catholic w r as a groater
curiosity than a wild bear, are quite as
wonderful as auy telescopic or microscopic
discovery in the material world.
Speaking ot optics, I cannot guess what
sort of glasses are used by the good philan
thropic law makers and executors in New'
Tork City, where they daily arrest and
punish men, carrying chickens to or from
market, head downwards, for violating the
law against “cruelty to animals;” while, at
the same time, they utterly ignore the in
human cruelties daily perpetrated upon
thousands of human animals, in the public
almshouses, and the private mad-houses,
factories, and workshops.
At last, our w'orking people can look
forward to the good time a coming! Our
City Soions are about completing a contract
w ith a party to establish, for ten years, a
cheap Bathing House, on the river front,
lie strange that this, the largest city, on
the biggest river in the world, should so
long have remained without bathing facili
ties.
If all other Southern cities, however, will
keep pace with us in regard to streetcars,
>liell loads, Nicholson pavements, steam
lire engines, lamp street signs, clean
markets, large Parish Schools, &<>., &c.
they may teel assured of finally clearing out
the v hole race of parasitic Scaley-wags
and Destructives.
Southern Radical.
I. S. Another Catholic congregation
heie has to mourn the departure of its
long-loved Pastor. The Rev. A. Yerrina,
C. M., for many years Director of the
Diocesan Seminary, and Pastor of St.
Stephen s Church, in Bouliguv, is under
orders to start, within a week, to take
chaige ot a community in Missouri. God
giant him a successful mission in his new
field of labor. g
NEW VORKCORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
7he Death oJ'T'. Stevens-Its Influence on the
Forth brick Pomeroy's New Paper , the
Democrat “ Our Mr. Walsh ” in New
r ork—the Watering Places—New Fath
ioriß—Mr. Seymour, and his Prospects—
Capital Seeking Investment in the South
Confidence of Victo-ry—Money Troubles
Ahead—Fears of Repudiation and a
Cram ,
New York, Aug. 24, 1868,
Banner of the South:
The circumstances attendanton the death
ot Thaddeus Stevens, have, to a certain ex
tent, counteracted the evil influences of his
“l e - When laid in state at the Capitol, in
Washington, it will be remembered that a
cgi o militia company kept guard over the
iemains, and remembered, also, that in
same fracas, growing out of this perform
ance, these sable w'arriors fired into a
crowd upon Pennsylvania Avenue, with
the l Cfcult ot killing one poor d&rkey. This
atiair has produced a powerful effect
throughout the North, and the impression
lias been deepened by incontcstible evi
dence offered that the late agitator did, as
was at times charged against him, consort,
on unlawful terms, with a Negress. This
wench, rejoicing in the name of Mrs. Smith,
is, by the will, to have the mansion house
and SSOO per year. That the leader of the
party of moral ideas should have left such
an ill-savored mess behind him, is not
much to the credit of this “ trooly loil”
civilization whereof we hear so often.
As will he seen, Brick Pomeroy, has
started a new' evening paper here called
the Democrat. It does not display that
fire that might have been expected—the
editorial matter, geneially, bearing the air
ot having been written under constraint,
as though by some Radical not yet weaned
trom the flesh-pots, though here and there
is a keen paragraph, which doubtless owes
its origin to the pen of Brick himself.
Something like 40,000 copies were sold the
first day ; how it holds out, does not ap
pear.
Speaking of newspapers, mention must
he made of one of that profession w'hich
“runs ’em,” to wit: Mr. P. Walsh, of your
city, who, with his estimable wife, is now
here. Journalistic merit meeting a ready
recognition, it will not be surprising to say
that he has had a very cordial reception.
Watering-places, and what is done there,
have this year received an unusual degree
of attention in the Press, and some stories
told of the freaks of fashion at these re
sorts, are far from creditable to the great
mass of visitors. Thus, there have lately
appeared here some accounts of the “get
up” of the Saratoga belles which are more
edifying than moral. One of these tales,
as coming to me trom a newspaper corres
pondent just from the Springs, is that full
dress is deemed incomplete there without
a panier. This is, in plain terms, a light
wire-basket, about as large as a half bushel I
measure, which is covered with silk, satin
or what not, and suspended some few inches
below the centre of the feminine back
bone. To further alarm the eye, this panier
is trimmed off with flaunting ribbons, and,
to fully exhibit its dimensions, the wearer
is expected to throw forward the chest,
throw backward the hips, and then walk
upon tip-toe. What with a huge knot of
false hair clapped to the back of the head,
and a second and ten-fold larger protuber
ance jutting out further down the person,
it can readily be seen how elegant this new
style must be. Further than this, I might
speak of the current modes , but forbear, as
not being able, in any sort of periphrasis
whatever, to relate the shameful antics per
formed by fashionable dames who appear
much more largely gifted with money than
with either modesty or sense.
It is understood that Mr. Seymour savs
he is satisfied now of his election. He has
lelt his own house and moved to a Hotel
in the same place, Utica, in this State, for
the purpose of better attending to the ne
cessary business of the campaign, promi
nent among which may be mentioned an
enormous correspondence, by mail and tele
graph, from all parts of the country. The
tone of this correspondence is such as leaves
nothing to be desired. In every quarter
the Radicals are represented as losing and
the Democracy upon the gain. So assured,
indeed, seems the prospect, that, 1 learn, a
heavy amount of capital is now intended
for investment in the South so soon as the
election of Mr. Seymour may appear an
accomplished tact. Ohio is looked on as
the point of most doubt; but, even there,
the enormous monetary corruptions of the
party in power are having steady effect.
From all indications, I cannot hut. think
that a victory sufficient for all substantial
purposes is ahead, though one super-enthu
siastic Democrat here goes far beyond this
view, and says the real question is not
whether we will get the Radicals out, hut
whether we are to hang ’em after they are
out. Beyond doubt the score is a heavy
one, and it is just possible somebody may
get hurt.
In money matters there is trouble com
ing. Germany has long been the safest
market for U. S. Bonds, but the Frankfort
markets begin now to show a certain shaki
ness that is attributed to the idea that the
people ot the United States have gotten
repudiation into their heads. As nothing
else has been held sacred, it is not sur
prising that the Germans should think a
promise to pay may come to be of as little
avail ere long. It the crash does come,
blessed is he that l*ith nothing. The reign
ot Equal Rights will come in good earnest,
since North and South alike will he im
poverished. Tyrone Powers.
HAD THERE BEEN NO REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
“If there had been no Republican Party, slavery
would to-day cast its baleful shadow over the Repub
lic.”—Schuyler Colfax.
Had there been no Republican Party,
five hundred thousand true-hearted, vigor
ous American citizens would not now be
sleeping in their eternal sleep.
Had there been no Republican Party,
one third ot our sovereign States would
not to-day be laid waste, its masters
slaves, its slaves masters, and its future
full of crushing disaster.
Had it not been for the Republican
Party, ten millions of American people
would never have been arrayed against
the Country that gave them birth, and
the Constitution under which they had
lived and prospered.
Had there been no Republican Party,
“the baleful shadow of slavery” would,
ere now, have given way to the light
of freedom, brought about by peaceful
means.
Had there been no Republican Party,
a once happy and prosperous people would
not now be burdened to the earth with
taxation and the heaviest national debt of
the world.
Had there been no Republican Party,
hundreds of thousands of American citi
zens would uot to-day be at the point of
beggary, distressed for the present, and
alarmed for the future.
Had there been no Republican Party,
ten millions of our people, bone of our
bone, and blood of our blood, having the
same ancestry, would not be estranged
from the Government, nor be the subjects
of a hale and tyrannical oppression un
known in the annals of the civilized
world.
Had there been no Republican Party,
we should not sec the Constitution over
ridden and openly set at defiance; the
co-ordinate branches of our Government
seting in deadly hostility, and men, whom
the people have honored with high posi
tions, rioting on the fruits of public plun
der, disgracing the positions they hold,
by conduct that would damn the public
men of any semi-civilized nation on the
face of the Earth.
Had there been no Republican Party,
the groveling, brutish African would not
be clothed with rights and privileges he
knows not how to exercise, or be arrayed
with feelings of fiendish animosity and
hatred against those who raised him out
of a state of barbarism to a civilization
unknown to his race elsewhere on the
face of the Globe.
Had there been no Republican Party,
we should not see our whole people de
moralized, our Democratic institutions
overthrown, or sadly changed, and a once
happy country tottering to its final over
throw and ruin.
Had we never known a Republican
party, the United States would to-day be
the proudest, the happiest, the grandest,
and the most enlightened nation on the
earth, instead of the distracted, divided,
tax-burdened, oppressed, demoralized,
degenerated, and corrupted people that
we are. Radicalism has cursed America
1 ertinently Said.— The Hon. Judge
Thurman, the newly elected U. S. Sena
tor from Ohio, was among the speakers at
the recent Conservative Convention of
West Virginia, held at Grafton. He
made an able and argumentative speech,
in which he referred to all the issues now
pending, State and National, and then
referred to the iniquitous, radical, rascal
ly, and proscriptive Registration law of
West Virginia. He said:
“A few words my friends, and I have
done. I was sitting in the New York
Convention the other day, and looking
around the walls of Tammany, and see
ing on them those beautiful escutcheons
that bore the arms of the different States,
I amused myself with reading their mot
toes, and presently I came to that of
West Virginia. I found it translated,
‘Mountaineers are always free,’ and 1
asked myself, “Good Heavens 1 who was
it that put that motto at the head of that
coat of arms, with thousands upon thou
sands, all born upon the soil of this State,
loving it as they do their lives, di«;ran
chised.” And when I looked at it again,
it seemed to he the work of some demon
who w’as uttering it in irony and scorn,
and I thought ot your disfranchising con
stitutions, and your disfranchising regis
try laws, and as 1 thought of these things
it seemed to me that if I were a Radical
member of the Legislature the first thing
I would do, for honesty’s sake, would be
to expunge that motto from the arms of
the State. (Great applause ]
Rut, my friends of West Virginia, do
your duty. Do it earnestly and well this
year. Let the Democratic party go into
power—as bv the grace of God I hope
and believe it will [shouts of “Amen !
amen !”] —and when you get the power
ot this old State, then you may hold up
your coat of arms, and we may read,
“Montani semper HJbenP [Great Cheers.]
A Confession. —General Grant was
requested by the'President, in 1860, to
accompany Minister Campbell to Mexico.
He declined, and gave as his reason, the
following:
“I would not dare to counsel the Minis
ter in any matter beyond the stationing
of troops on United States soil. * * *
I sincerely hope I may be excused from
undertaking a duty so foreign to my
office and tastes as that contemplated.
* * * It is a diplomatic service for
which I am not fitted, either by edu
cation or taste. * * * I most re
spectfully, but urgently, repeat my re
quest, to be excused from the perform
ance of a duty entirely out of my sphere,
and one, too, which can so much better
be performed by others ”
Is he any better qualified for the great
office of President than for the place of
attache to a foreign mission ?— Columbus
(O.) Statesman.
Two Thousand Germans Abandon
the Republican Party. —lt is announced
that two thousand Germans, residing in
the upper portions of Philadelphia, who
have hitherto acted with the Republican
party, have formed a Seymour and Blair
Club. If this is not making a big hole in
the Republican party in one place, we
do not know what is. But when the cor
ruption, the profligacy, and the unfaith
fulness of the Republican party to every
pledge it has made to the people, is
taken into consideration, the surprise
should not be that a few are leaving that
party in every locality, but that any con
siderable number of the people should
continue to act with that party.
[ Columbus (0.) Statesman.
The Coming Elections— Four State
elections occur in September. Tennessee
votes on the 13th, Vermont on the Ist,
California on the Bth, and Maine on the
14th. Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Penn
sylvania, lowa, and West Virginia, vote
in October. On the third of November
(the day of the Presidential election), New
York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Missouri, Kansas, Nevada, and Massachu
setts, hold their elections. In the next
twelve weeks, therefore, we shall have
not less than twenty-three State elections.
The Democratic Majority in Mon
tana 2,400 !—The Democratic majority
in Montana turns out to be 2,400, in
stead of 1,700, as it was announced
several days ago. Last year it was
1,104 Democratic majorities are going
to be big, and no mistake.
[Columbus (O.) Statesman.
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