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hmr testimony to the great service ren
,;re(| i,y the very efficient President, Mr.
T jseoh P- Kavanagh. He has been con
ected with the Sunday School from its
Organization, and has labored hard to
v.rfjjg the School to its present flourishing
ondition. I would recommend the Catli
'■ lies of Augusta to assist him in pro
!, r j,,<r an enlargement to the Sunday
-' bool Library, and then the St. Patrick’s
i ndav School will be everything in the
•v y of Religion that a good Catholic can
desire. * Yours >
W. M. C.
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njEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
;y ie iwrd Sccdlawag, its Derivation and
Definition —The Hi fit and Clan—
some Account of their Games, Cos
tunics, and Music — Politics—The
Vermont Election — Refections — Yan
kee Stubbornness- —New England.
New York, Sept. 5, 1868.
Banner of the South:
I see some of the unreconstructed
papers are worrying over the derivation
•J scallawag — the word, of course, and
not the thing, since everybody knows
o ia r this race of vermin is first cousin to
•be hyena and jackal. The Norfolk (Va.)
/.< mat, which spells the word scalawag ,
says that it is derived from one form of
the Spanish word esclavo, a slave, and
then proceeds to touch on the great
fitness this derivation has to the currish
vpirit of those contemptible skulks, who,
in the hour of misfortune, have joined in
Vvitb the oppressor against their wretched
brethren. Now, the Journal's definition,
as a fancy piece, is very good, since the
allawag is, indeed, the slave of his own
vil passions, and the wilful bondsman
of his country’s oppressor; but, in strict
etymological truth, this word is in no way
from the Spanish, but a compound of the
purest Saxon ancestry. You will remem
ber that there is such a term of reproach
as that so and so is a “sorehead,” mean
ing thereby a malcontent, a growler, a
finder of fault, and kill-joy generally. In
the more ancient form in our language,
this “sorehead" is “scald-head,” that
phrase being used as significant of the
general surliness of a fellow whose head
had been dowsed in hot -water. “Scald
head” being a word not very easy to
pronounce in a hurry, and people who
desired to use it being generally in the
heat of indignation, the latter part was
dropped, and a morose, growling, “frac
tious” fellow was called a “scald,” or
“scall.” This latter word “scall” is used
by Shakespeare himself, in one of his
plays, to designate a mean, grumbling,
scurvy rogue, and if you will notice how
I have spelled this word, with two l’s,
thus; scallawag, you will see that the
first half is accounted for; scall means a
miserable, low-lived wretch. The second
unit of the word is no more nor less than
the ordinary wag , a buffoon, or low jester.
In old times, this wag had a very con
temptuous meaning in it, as may be re
membered, is the sense of it in Scripture,
’t here it is said, therevilers of our Blessed
Lord “wagged” their heads at Him. In
process of time, this wag has lost some of
its derisive meaning, and acquired one
more purely comic, but when the word
■cailawag was formed, it meant a low
fellow, with no ideas of either decency or
self-respect; a despicable thing, without
worth, sense, or dignity. Putting, then,
the scall and the wag together, the a
being interpolated merely for euphony,
we have the word scallawag —meaning a
vile, worthless, discontented, characterless
scoundrel—a cross between Judas Iscariot
mid Butler the Beast. It will be long
re the memory of this word, or the exe
crations of those that now bear it, dies
out in the South. The poor Negro knows
no better; the carpet-bagger is but true
4 ° tho vulture-blood that runs in bis
ycins; but for the scallawag, who fastens
his fangs in the throat of his own brother,
who once loved and honored him, history
no redemption, and mankind no ex
cuse.
-A nne days since, I had the pleasure,
through the kindness of a member, of
attending the meeting of a Clan; not,
however, a Ivu-Klux Ivlan, but a High
mml < mu, the annual games, in fact, of
*ne Caledonian Club this city, an As
sociation of the natives of Scotland, now
resident here. The scene was one that,
t(> ;l l°ver of the Waverly Novels, was
well calculated to bring up the images of
FergusMaclvor, Rob RoyMcGregor, and
oiin I>hu. All the members of the
blab turned out in full Highland costume,
and the effect, what with the waving
plaids and nodding eagle plumes, was
ver y fine. This dress, to begin at the
beginning, consists of a short, military
jaoket, of black velvet, or dark-blue
broadcloth, curiously studded with dia
mond-shaped buttons of embossed silver.
‘ rum the waist to the bend of the knee,
no pends a “kilt,” as it is technically
called, which is, in plain terms, a petti
coat, at half mast ; no pantaloons being
worn in this peculiar attire. The knees
are bare, as is also the lower leg, down
to half way the calf, where a check stock
ing is fastened, and the feet are burnished
forth with low shoes with huge silver
buckles. On the head is worn a low, flat,
wide-spreading cap, with no vizor to it]
and an eagle feather fastened to one side
by a silver thistle. Around the body,
and up to the left shoulder, where it is
fastened by a massive silver brooch, is
the “plaid,” which is nothing more nor
less than what we call a maud. For
arms, the Highlander has a long sword
on his left side which is called a claymore ,
and derives its peculiarity from the hilt,
which is in the fashion of a steel basket.
On the right side hangs a fierce-looking
dirk, and on the outer side of the scabbard
of this weapon are little sheaths for a
knife and fork. To complete the equip
ment, a murderous-looking knife, called a
sfcene-dhu, is worn on the right side of
the right leg, between the stocking- and
the skin. On all these weapons and
equipments, much ornamentation is lav
ished, the hilts of the dirks being, in some
cases, of solid silver, or gold, and set with
jewels, a favorite one being the cairn
gorm, a yolhxv crystal found alone in
the Highlands of Scotland. The many
brooches worn about the person are also
of the precious metals, and set with cairn
gorm and amethyst. To complete the
picture, I must mention the sporran, a
most curious equipment, in the shape of
an untanned goat skin, or fox-skin bag,
which hangs in front of the person like a
little apron, is furnished with a heavy
silver clasp at the top, and is used as a
pocket, “more by token,” as the Irish say,
that two cigars came out of the Chief’s
sporran, wherewith he and the writer
smoked peace and prosperity to all clans,
Ku-Klux or Highland. From all this
attempted description, you may form
some idea of this singular, but most beau
tiful costume. Most of the clan being
large men, the show was quite imposing.
\ arious athletic games were indulged in,
and a huge amount of wine
bib biing, flirtation, dancing, and so on,
perpetrated. For the waltzes, quadrilles,
etc., there was a fine brass band, but
U dear the way for the Highland
i ling /” This was danced by a young
Highlander to the music of the Scottish
bagpipes, a fearful and wonderful instru
ment of music that is hardly to be de
scribed, otherwise than as looking like a
three-legged pig*, and sounding—well,
sounding as a bagpipe alone can sound.
Still, there is something wild and thrilling
in it, and, as the dancer danced faster
and faster, and the pipers blew harder and
harder, I was startled to hear a yell
raised that sounded almost exactly like
the war-cry wherewith certain men in
ragged grey were wont to scare the trooly
loil, not so very long ago. As the dancer
leaped and sprang, he jerked out this short,
quick, defiant cry, and then the crowd
would sway to and fro, and take it up,
till it really had quite a refreshing
smack of old times.
lo turn to politics, the dogged obstinacy
of A ermont, as shown in her late election,
has suggested a couple of thoughts for
the benefit of whom it may concern. In
the first place, it is too much to expect
Yankeedoodleism to vote the Democratic
ticket. To do so, would be to confess,
that, in voting the Radical ticket hereto
fore, they were wrong ; that the war was
a failure ; and that the South, after all,
was right, This is too much for the
brethren, and though the enormous and
shameful blunder they committed is
staring them in the face, they are shut
ting their eyes, and wilfully refusing to
see it. The other States of the North,
being less bigoted, do see, and will act
upon it.
The socond reflection is, that something
must be done with New England. It is
forever making war upon the rights of
States, and yet but for States rights, it
would itself lose much of its present
power. As things now stand, it has
hardly one-tenth ot the whole population
of this aountry, and yet, in Congress, it
has one-eighth of the members, which
makes the voter in New England equal to
one and two-thirds of a voter in any other
State. And yet these furious fanatics
have the impertinence to brawl “equal
rights.” As I well remember to have
heard Wigfall say once, in the old
Senate, “they are never happy, except
when tormenting somebody else,”
Tyrone Powers.
Mr. Colfax’s Denial. —The denial
made by Mr. Colfax that he ever belonged
to the Know Nothing organization, we
see it stated, was made in a speecli by
him at South Bend, Indiana. We proved
by the files of the Ohio State Journal,
that he was a member of the great Phila
delphia National Convention of Know
Nothings, from Indiana, and that he was
a member of the Committee on Resolu
tions. It he did make the denial, lie
I stated that which was untrue.
iCol. ( O.j Statesman, Sept. 3.
Mlsgf ©g t ii Ismitmc
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Quiet —Grand Display—lmmense Dem
ocratic Procession—The Times' De
scription—Torches, not Torches—Dis
tress of City Employees—Generous
Conduct of the. People—The War not
Over —The Carpet-Baggers the Au
thors of all our Woes.
New Orleans, Sept, o, 1868.
Thank God for one week of compara
tive calm and rest, after last Saturday’s
culminating burst of patriotic excitement.
Transcendental, magnificent, unparal
leled, gorgeous, superb, grand, very good!
—to use the Chinaman’s climax, and any
other hyperbolic adjectives you choose,
will only iaintly re-echo the expressions
that fell from the lips of the hundred
thousand spectators of that brilliant dis
play. And, in truth, it was a scene
surpassing all antecedents in this city.
A procession of fifteen to eighteen thou
sand torch-bearers, forming a line of
nearly six miles in length, (since it re
quired two hours to pass any given point,
and moved at the rate of about three
miles per hour), traversing the main
avenues and thoroughfares of a large city,
all elegantly draped and illuminated, ac
companied by all the finest bands of
trained musicians that could be gathered
in the A alley of the Mississippi, attended
through its whole route by incessant corus
cations of the most dazzling sky-rockets,
Chinese bombs, Roman candles, Catherine
wheels, and other fire-works, and hailed
at all points by the cheering smiles, the
bright eyes, and the waving kerchiefs of
thousands after thousands of “ Heaven’s
last, best gift to man,” presented, indeed,
an exceptional case, fully justifying a
slight indulgence in exstatics on the part
ot its witnesses. The next morning’s
Sunday limes contained an account of
the affair, occupying nine solid columns,
Irom which you may judge of the mass of
interesting items presented for a profes
sional reporter. Is it necessary to explain
to your unsophisticated readers, that
when 1 speak of torches, 1 don’t mean
torches as they “ used to was”—the abo
riginal pine knots, or turpentine bails ?
but the most elegant, improved illumina
tors, such as -can be safely borne in
kidded hands; for example, kerosine
burners, made of tin, and throwing a glare
equal to that of pine knots; graceful
glass lamps with vari-colored glass shades;
Chinese lanters, of every known color,
shape, and size ; and transparencies of all
grades, from the school boy’s simple, little
pen and ink or charcoal caricature, to the
artistic and imposing, illuminated figures
of the nation’s heroes, requiring teams of
horses for their conveyance, in the pro
cession. Understand, too, that these
things were not carried pell-mell, as I have
written, but “ all was done in order.”
Here, for instance, marched a thousand
men in distinctive uniform, each one with
a ‘ regulation, wide-awake” torch—there
a body of five hundred in full evening
dress, with white gloves, each one bearing
aloft a pure white magnolia blossom, as
large as a band-box and having a brilliant
light within—again, here came the
Broom Rangers, with one mammoth, illu
minated, palmetto broom in the van,
while every man carried, attached to his
lamp, a stout hickory broom, with which to
sweep out and clear away the carpet
baggers, scaleywags, and other “ sieh”
destructive vermin.
Ihe distress of our city employees con
tinues unabated, or rather increasing, all
eilorts of the City Treasurer to raise
money having hitherto failed. Many
months of well meant financial flounder
ing having demonstrated that our Aider
men are unequal to the emergency. It
is inconceivable why they do not adopt
the wise suggestion of the city journalists,
to call in the aid and counsel of a few
of our most sagacious and successful busi
ness men. The race of financiers is not
run out; and there must be in our midst
men of mind enough to solve the present
troubles. Our trades people, as a class,
are, fortunately, very considerate toAvards
their distressed fellow-citizens; and I
know of numerous instances of butchers,
bakers, dairymen, and grocers, continuing
to supply their reduced customers with
the necessities of life, long, very long
beyond the ordinary term of credits for
such supplies. Besides the immediate
reward of an approving conscience, I cau
not but believe that a merciful Providence
has in store a still higher recompense for
these acts of charity.
They talk of the war being over, but
I tell you that the worst days of the
Beast's war against the women and chil
dren of this city, are surpassed by the
war this day contiuued against the prop
erty and rights of all, young and old,
white and black, by his apt disciples, the
Carpet-Baggers, now assembled under the
style of Legislators. These wretches are
the authors of all our present woes, and
while they continue to rule and rob,
“ getlemen may cry ‘ Peace, Peace !’ but
there will be no peace !”
Southern Radical.
SPRING 1808.
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Extra Charges. —Latin, French, Italian, each sl2;
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
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STOLEN, from the subscriber, on the night of the
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I offer a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS tor the thief
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THIRTY DOLLARS for the Pony alone.
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Lott’s Poet Office, Edgefield Dist., S. C.
J n.bj 16,1868. augl*
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