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monthly, by the Catholic Publication So 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. 7