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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. __—« ♦ * 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. THE OLD AND RELIABLE k OUSE OF GRAY !<&. TU3U.BY, aug-usta, o>v., Ie always prepared to offer to the public, at wholesale and retail, a thoroughly complete assortment of STAPLE GOODS, —ALSO— British French and Swiss Dress Goods, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, CLOAKS, SHAWLS, EMBROIDERIES, LACES, HOSIERY, HOOP SKIRTS, NOTIONS, &c., &c. mh2l t j. NEW SPRING DRY GOODS. James A. 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We would respectfully invite the closest examination of both styles and price. JAMES A. GRAY <s CO., ' 228 Broad Street ST. AGNES’ ACADEMY FOR YOUNG LADIES. This Institution, conducted by the Sisters of St. Dominic, is delightfully situated in a healthy and retired part ol the city of Memphis, Tennessee. The buildings are ample and commodious, standing in the centre of extensive and highly improved grounds, shaded by forest trees, and laid out. with rave plants and shrubbery. The course of studies comprises all the branches, Useful and Ornamental, that are usually taught. The Academic Year consists of two sessions of five months each; the first commencing on the FIRST MONDAY OF SEPTEMBER; the second, on the FIRST MONDAY OF FEBRUARY. Terms per Session—payable Half Yearly, Invariably in Advance. For Board and Tuition, etc.. $75, SSO, S9O, or SIOO, according to the age or class of the pupil. For Day Scholars—Tuition, sls, S2O, $25, or S3O, according to age or class. Extra Charges. —Latin, French, Italian, each sl2; Music, on Piano, $25; Music on Guitar, S2O; Music on Harp, S2O; Use of Instruments, $5; Painting in Oil Colors, $25; Painting in Water Colors, sls; Drawing, $10; Embroidery and Ornamental Work, sls; Wax Work, sls; Washing and Mending, sls; Bed and Bedding, $10; Stationery, $3: Dancing, at Professor’s charges. Board, per month, during vacation, if spent at the Academyjwashing, mending, etc., etc., included), sl2. Medicines and Physicians’ fees will form extra charges. For further information, apply to or address the “Mother Superior,” St. Agnes Academy. I LA RENAISSANCE LOIFISIANAISE, NEW ORLEANS, FRENCH WEEKLY. Devoted to Southern Interests ! SEVEN YEARS OF EXISTENCE. 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STOLEN, from the subscriber, on the night of the 14th instant, a Black Mare PONY, medium size. She is in good order, very heavy mane (the mane lies on the left side), long, heavj’ tail, lias a lump on the hack, caused by the saddle, and a scar near the tail, caused by the bite of a mule. I offer a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS tor the thief and the Pony, delivered at Edgefield Jail, or I offer THIRTY DOLLARS for the Pony alone. MARTIN MACARTY, Lott’s Poet Office, Edgefield Dist., S. C. J n.bj 16,1868. augl* College and Convent Agency, No. 21 Commercial Place, NEW ORLEANS, PARENTS AND GUARDIANS can obtain at this Office full information, gratis, regarding the locations, terms, &c„ of the best Catholic Educational Estab lishments in this country and in Canada; also, letters of introduction thereto. CHILDREN, forced by the new Social Equality laws to leave our Public Schools, can here find Academies* just suited to their wants. 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