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6 £7 T~ BLOM K & CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, Ga, SEPTEMBER 5,1868 AH Communications, inteudtxl for puMication must 1)0 directed to the Editor, Rev. A. J. Ryan ; a*id all Busiuess Communications to tiie Publishers, I* T Blome & Cos., Augusta, Ga. &SF A few Advertisements will he and in serted ou liberal terms. —a ■ » TERMS : One cop}', oue year, invariably iu advance*.... $3 00 “ “ six mouths “ " *s® Siugle Copies lOcts To Clubs.— To any person sending us a Club of 15, one copy, oue year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more The Banner will be furnished at the rate of $2 50 per annum, Iu all cases the names must be furnished at the same time, and the cash must accompany each order. Dealers will be supplied on liberal terms. ♦ —— News Dealers. The Banner of the South can bo obtained of the following News Dealers : P. QUIN, Augusta, Ga. C. C. NORTHPOP, Ja. &CO., Columbus, Ga, E. M. CONNOR, Savannah, Ga. W. C. ESTELL, Savannah, Ga. PHILLIPS & CREW, Atlanta, Ga. M. 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The paper can also be obtained from news and periodical dealers everywhere. Si>ectmeii copies will bo sect to any address, on application. TO SIX MONTHS SUBSCRIBERS. With No. 26 most of our six months subscriptions expire. We hope that they will all be renewed, and therefore, invite attention to the fact that those who desire to continue their subscription s must send in their renewals at once. OUR NEW STORY- The “Earls of Sutherland” is full of in terest and pleasantly written. Persons wishing to read it should send in their subscriptions at once, as we have but Jew of the back numbers left. perodTcals- The New Eclectic.—The September number of this ably edited magazine is before us. The following interesting miscellany comprises the “Table of Con tents” of the present number: I. German Idyllic Romance —The Hume. Monthly. IL A Dead Letter— MacvnUlian’s Magazine. HI. Phiueas Finn, the Irish Member— Anthony Trollope. TV. The Woman’s Kingdom— Author of John Halifax. V. Free Religion —The Saturday Review. YL Our Girls— Scott’s Monthly Magazine. VII. Luther & Germany —The Spectator. VIII. Heart Strings aud Fiddle strings —The London Renew. IX. La Femme Pas see— the Saturday Review. X. Our Inner Selves—AW the Tear Round. XI. Kaulhach —The Albion, XII. Science, Discoveries, aud Inventions— Our Ex changes, XIII. Art Notes—Our Exchanges. XIV. Reviews— SelecteA. XV. fcew Books —lhiblishers’ List. XVI. Miscellany —Our Exchanges. XVII. Editorial Note. The New Eclectic is published month ly at Baltimore, Md., by Lawrence Turn bull and Fridge Murdoch, Editors aud Proprietors, at $4,00 per annum, in ad vance. Notice.—Mr. Albert Winter, and Mr. Joel T. Scott, are requested to report to this office without delay. Notice.—Mr. A. Winter is no longer authorized to act as Agent for the Banner of the South ; and he is requested to re port to this Office without delay. Louisiana Agency.—Mr.Ohas. D. Elder, of New Orleans, is our Agent for the State of Louisiana. Tuf. New Organ.—Onr New York Let ter, of this week, gives an interesting de scription of the new Organ for the Catholic Church of this city. It will, doubtless, be a very grand Instrument. «. « To Agents. —On and after the 15th instant, all Agencies for the Banner of toe South will be revoked, except such as receive printed authority from the Pub lishers of this Journal, and whose names will appear in the next issue of the paper. MOBILE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. Annual Commencement of Spring Hill College—Dedication of a New Catholic Church —The Pew System—lts Evils A Good Suggestion—No Excuse — The Heal . Mobile, Ala., Aug. 15, 1868. The Annual Commencement at Spring Hill College took place yesterday. The attendance of the friends of the students, as well as of those desirous of witnessing aud enjoying the entertainment generally afforded on these occasions, was very large. The speeches, debates, and reci tations, were really very good, the the atrical performances not bad, and the music exquisite. The Right Rev. Dr. Quinlan, Bishop of this Diocese, together with the Rev. L. (Turioz, the President of the College, distributed the prcrqimns, as the names were read out, by the Rev. F. Lcspes, the Vice-President. The whole passed off well; the weather was fine; the students who took part in the exercises appQared to great advantage; the boys were all in fine spirits; aud the audience appeared particularly well pleased. The students, who, for the past scho lastic year, studied and played together, are now en route for their several homes in the Southern States and Mexico. The number of students from the latter coun try lias been reduced by its present dis turbed condition, to twelve, nine of whom are from Yucatan. I notice two students from your State, John Lynch from At lanta,"and Henry Aderhold, from Macon, while Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, claim the remain der, with the exception of one from South Carolina, and one from Kentucky. The unhappy condition of the South, since the war, has had an injurious effect on the Mils® m sis sossa. interests of the College, as well as all other interests, as the losses which our people have suffered have rendered many of them unable to secure the advantages of a collegiate education to their children. The present appearance of things, how ever, seems to hold forth a promise of better times, and, if wc can only secure the blessings of permanent peace, with a fair and just system of taxation, I have no doubt that our Southern people will realize a more general and enlarged pros perity, agricultural, industrial, and com mercial, than they have ever yet enjoyed. On Sunday last, anew Catholic Church was dedicated to the glory of God, in the name of St. Francis Xavier, in the outer suburbs of our city, beyond Three Mile Creek. This makes the eighth Catholic Church, in and around Mobile. Yet, two more churches, at least, are needed within the limits of the city. There ap pears to he a growing impression among our people that the pew system is oper ating injuriously against the Catholic Church in this country, so far at least as it tends, in our cities, intirely to exclude no small portion of our pooror classes from the Church. Along our wharves, every Sunday, may be found numbers of Irish stevedores and boat hands, and Italian, Spanish, and Portugese oyster men, who never enter a Church on Sunday, nor, of course, any other day. Why ? Because if they did, they would have to stand away down at the door, in a crowd, where there is not even room enough to kneel, aud where they can see little and hear nothing. Under such a state of things, how easy and certain, for the ig norant aud indifferent, is the lapse into the utter abandonment of all Religion. I know well that the great difficulty lies in the impossibility of dispensing with the pew system in a country where the Church can hope for no endowments, and has little or no property of her own But could not something be done to les sen the evil ? Could not an arrangement be made in all the cities, where the Church accommodations are known to be inadequate at the usual Masses, as now said, that a Mass should be said in the largest Church in tho place, and in others also, if necessary, at a fixed hour, at which the pews should be free to all who chose to come ? Many would be induced to attend, while those who did not would be deprived of the excuse which they are now so ready to offer for their utter ne glect of their Sunday duty. When the disciples of John the Baptist came to our Saviour, and said : “Art thou he that art to come ; or look we for another ?” his answer was: “The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead arise, to the poor the Gospel is preached.” The first were the evidences of His power; the last was his mission. While thermometers at the North have been running wild, our city has been ex empt from that intemperate heat that their papers have complained of so much. For about one week our thermometer reached 92 and 93, but we had no cases af sunstroke, nor hydroyhobia. Even when our weather is warmest, our prox imity to the Gulf keeps the air always in motion. ClOvse, sultry nights are almost unknown in Mobile. In this we have the advantage of all the interior towns. J. T. W. NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. The Heat and its Consequences—lts Effects on the Youth — Gov. War moth's Slanders on Louisiana—Demo crats Murdered by Hagai Leaguers ! The Destructives—Hopes of Jiet/i --butive Justice — Schools—Where is “ Moina—A Beautiful Poem from the Late Capt. Edw. F. Morehead. New Orleans, Aug. 29, 1808. Bum ter of the South: The steaming temperature, atmos pheric and political, is producing its natural results —street broils, assaults, bloodshed, and death, f On arising, unrefreshed, after a rest less attempt to sleep, during one of our sweltering nights, the late observant, philosophic, and prophetic, R. Dalton Williams, used often to remark : “This has been a night for unusual hot blood and murders;” and it rarely failed that the police reports of the morning verified his predictions. His deduction followed a very natural train of reasoning, as thus : The universal heat produces on the crowd of street idlers an extraordinary thirst; this induces a free guzzling of bad whiskey; then follows a looseness of tongue, excited discussions, hot blood, blows, lights, murders ! The rule, sad to say, is almost invaria ble ; and, this season, an aggravating cir cumstance exists in the intensified feeling of patriotism that animates the whole people, especially our more excitable youth. For the sake of this very youth— the future hope of the land—it is devoutly to be wished, that, after the grand pro cession and illumination of to-night, all further demonstrations will £e postponed till the advent of settled cool weather. Then the air will be healthful, bracing, exhilerating, and tending to cheerfulness, instead of, as now, baneful, debilitating, depressing, and demanding unhealthy stimulants. Our ever vigilant country papers are actively defending their respective town ships and parishes against the vile calum nies of the quasi Governor Warmoth, who charged their “rebel” citizens with the murder of 150 “troolyloil” Unionists. From one parish comes a certified list ot eight real assassinations recently com mitted ; but it happens, instead of being Unionists, murdered by the Ku Kluxes, as charged by his Excellency (!), that the entire eight were Democrats , murdered by Loyal Leaguers! thus making a balance of sixteen against his Highness’ count! His Serenity must apply once more to his respected Father of all L—oyalists for further instructions. Similar records to the above could, doubt less, be furnished by every Parish in the State. In this City, the Destructives have be gun, in their own expressive slang, to “wipeout the d—d, white-livered,Demo cratic Niggers,” having assassinated seve ral of them within the past ten days. After this, can there be any doubt as to which is the Party of Destruction ? And yet our long-suffering people “possess their souls in patience,” hoping, almost against hope, that the day of deliverance from all this diabolism must be near at hand. Almost the whole population are impressed with an idea that Retributive Justice will yet reach these villains by their own hands, i.e., by a bloody revolu tion and fratricidal slaughter in Yankec dom itself; and that the already sorely afflicted South will be spared any partici pation in the coming dread drama, further than as spectators of that “vengeance” which is said to be of the Lord. As the Scholastic New Year approaches, all our Private Schools arc furbishing up, and getting in line for a, busy season. There is no doubt that thousands of Pub lic School pupils will be sent to Private Schools hereafter, feeling their unfitness to associate with the color and de scent that is destined to pervade the Public Schools under black and tan rule. Our Catholic Schools are particularly active; aud, as their reputation for imparting a sound moral education, in addition to the mental, already surpasses that of all other systems, they will continue to be, as here tofore, the most largely patronized. One serious temporary impediment to imme diate success consists in the wide-spread poverty of the people, which will, doubt less, oblige many families to keep their children at home. Under Providence, however, this phase will pass away. It cannot be in God’s design that so many of our youths should grow up in igno rance of His Sciences ; and I have an abiding confidence that, in His own good time, and by His mysterious ways, in comprehensible to us, the most ample means will yet be revealed for securing to our young people a thorough Catholic education. Now for a deep complaint from the scores of readers of the Banner, who have been sadly disappointed the past few weeks at the non-appearance of those stirring lyrics which were promised from the inspired pen of Moina. Os course, they are written; but your readers want to know what’s the reason your compositor docs not “set ’em up.” Any thing from that pen is acceptable; but if I can judge of the public taste, I should say that the patriotic, is the popular vein of to-day; something, for instance, ring ing like the following lines, which were written a few months before his death, by the late youthful soldier poet of this city, Edward F. Morehead, many of whose posthumous poems have lately appeared in the Sunday Times . With such a poetic treat before them, your readers will gladly give conge to your Southern Radical. Repentance i BY THB LATE E. F. MORE HEAD, CAPTAIN C. 6. A. Repent! who talks of repenting His share in the glorious fray, Where the horde all the world was augmenting, By numbers, alone, won the day ? Are we cravens, because at last humbled, Or dead to the impulse of pride ? Must feelings, whose bright hopes are humbled, In baseness and shame be' denied ? Go, ask of your soldiers, who met us With bravery like to our own, If soldierly honor can let us Repent of those hopes which are flown ! Yon fanatic—scarred with the branding Dishonor in other days gave— With venom, may well be demanding Our manhood be put in the grave; For the coward grows harsher and braver When dancer has down from the sky, And the heart which a shadow would waver, Is bold to send captives to die! But surely, the land is not wasted Os all that is kindly and good, Nor all mugnamity blasted, In four years of tempest and blood! Oh! men from the conquering clime, Whose hearts, like your words, are sincere, Will ye sleep o’er the worse than a crime, The dishonor they’d make your land boar ? See you not, every blow that is given To us, will, in time, reach to you ? Every nail in our coffin’d rights driven, Hath a mate ahead also for you! For us—come the sunshine or shadow— Iu the silence of brave men, we wait ! The sting of the poisonous adder Is harmless to waken our hate! Neva Orleans, Dec. 24, 1865. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH The New Organ for the Catholic Church in Augusta A Brief Description of it—A Singular Literary Forgery — Webster's Dictionary “ Reconstructed ” —Some Examples—'The White Sul phur Sprungs Conference —Northern Toadyism—Southern Social Supre macy—Tribute to Southern Character “Let Us Alone.” New York, Aug. 28, 1868. Banner of the South: It was my pleasure to-day to both sec and hear the grand organ built here Li the use of the Cathedral in Augusta. The Instrument is worthy, in appearauce and tone, of the largest church edifice in Georgia, and, though so far unacquainted with musical technicalities as to be una ble to give any minute account of it I may at least venture a general descrip tion. The Organ, then, is to be twenty eight feet high, and elaborately adorned in front with gilding and colors. Even the show tubes, which are generally plain gilt, are to be variegated with striking hues, and, what with this novelty and the towering height of the cornices, which are carved out of solid wood iu the similitude of turrets, the genera! ap pearance will be eminently striking. The interior portion which was kindly shown me by the maker, appears to be adapted to long service and great volume of tone, of which latter attribute I had, indeed, full evidence before leaving. Seating himself, the maker, Mr. Jardine—the same, by the way', who put up the Organ in St. Paul’s—played several airs well calculated to display the depth and variety of tones possessed by his handiwork. The bass notes have such a volume that, as they poured forth, iu a thunderous tor rent, the very air of the workshop seemed to tremble, and then, coming to the softer keys, oue could distinguish souuds as soft and mellow as a flute. Capacity for brilliant execution was, as Mr. J. ob served, one of his main aims, aud from the liveliness he was able to impart to the music played by him I caunot but think he has admirably succeeded. After being on exhibition a few days longer, the grand organ is to be carefully packed and shipped to its destination. About October it will, doubtless, be in readiness to contribute its share in the services of the Cathedral. As music and literature have a well defined connection, this is, perhaps, as good a place as any to speak of a singular literary forgery lately brought to light here. In preparing his Dictionary, Noah Web ster gave to certain words, among which may be mentioned Loyal, Constitution, Congress, and Compact , definitions which suited the getters-up of later editions of his work so little, that they have, without the least notice, stricken out their origi nal definitions, and put in some of their own. Thus, in defining Cons* tv:ion, Webster said : “In the United States the Legislature is created and its power.- designated by the Constitution.’ In the later editions, this is changed to, “The principles or fundamental laws which govern a State, or other organized body of men, and are embodied iu written documents, or implied i?i the instduvons and usages of the country and socir.jf The idea of an implied Constitution is absurdity itself, but theu that sort of 3 Constitution is so elastic that no wonder it suits the disciples of the Higher Law. In the same way, Congress, in these later editions, is perverted from its origi nal definition; and from Webster s defini tion of compact tiiis sentence is entirely left out: “ The Constitution of th United States is a political contract between the States.” Loyal, also, is by these meddlers made to mean the duty of a citizen to the United States, which is absurd, since the theory of our Government is that the people are sovereign, and none but a sub ject can be “loil.” From these specimens, it is likely twit there are other frauds of this nature, and the reader is, therefore, advised, ii ho wants Webster’s Dictionary, as Webster wrote it, not to purchase any edition ot a later date than 1867. The uew illustrat ed editions are particularly' obnoxious, and to have one oi these reconstructed