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. r . I0 gpi nk without arrogance. 1 have received, at tnr hands. the highest honors within your power to . ,vv. I have evinced my gratitude, by executing tiust confided to me, l'dithfuJly and to the best ot ’ riocr a- ili'V. I feei ihat my public career u *nded, „ I am unconscious of anr selfish purposes so influence » conduct as a citizen. Some of you have differed from 7l ' y ' to the acceptance of the scheme of Congressional m nrstmetioi.; you differed from me on the ratification 7,h« 'constitution. I regret that we could not all see 01 alike This, however, was not to be expected. f.' .'. our right, as it was mine, to form your own opin , 'la till.on them. Eutnowtbe work is done and "U ( id men should see that it is a failure iu the main; H H ti a' to the extent that it proves to he a success, it is .V'e-s at the sacrifice of the welfare of our State; '■ ' • > nose under whose dictation it has been accomplish '"/* defy the Constitution and prorose measures and ' -ies that lead to despotism; and that the featiye of ’ ; phet” which induced them to vole for ratification has / ve d u , i,.. a cheat and delusion It matters not, in this ' i '.-st whether you are Democrats or Whigs—you are •Aryans. proud of the glorious old Commonwealth; nv- the friends of the Constitution and would see it , i an ' respected by every department of the Gov » r imerit; you are opposed to usurps 4 ion and cannot sanc f , on t j ie concentration of all power, Stare and Federal, in Congress so as to render that branch of the General (rovernuniit supreme mid irresponsible. Then, regard gg 0 f former po'i'ical distinctions, let us unite together, Vthe interests of Georgia’s honor and prosperity, and in •he interests of popular liberty, and strike another bold J cl manly blow for Constitutional Government. Or "n\w for the conflict; o ganizeiu every county and dis ?• r arouse the people from fatal lethargj; aronae them ~t 'by words if denunciation; not by appeals to their /'•ei.-dices and passions, but to their r» ason and patiiot l , 'i'he stake is valuanle above all earthly piice; it is coon Govkrnm** nt f >r ourselves a<id our posterity. Very respectfully, your fe; lew citizen, Herschel V. Johnson'. .jjTTT—rl^— ,rr ‘ '«!•> » WJMtUmn b. T BLOM F. & COT, PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, (U., OCTOBER 3, 1868 gg- All Communications, intended for publication must be directed to the Editor, Rev. A. J. Ryan ; and all Business Communications to the Publishers, L. 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To the Boy or Girl sending us the third largest list by that date, One Years subscription to The Banner of The South free. In any case where the money is prefered, it will be veil, ( juivalent to the value of the premium offered. L. T. Blome & Cos., Proprietors & Publishers. News Dealers. Ike Banner of the South can be obtained of the knowing News Dealers : P. Qt INN, Augusta, Ga, • C. C. NORTH POP, Jr. & CO., Columbus, Ga, T. M. CONNOR, Savannah, Ga. W. C. ESTELL, Savannah, Ga. PHILLIPS Ii CREW, Atlanta, Ga. M. LY NCH, Atlanta, Ga. HAVENS & BROWN, Macon, Ga. I L OMP.F.RG, Jr., Rome, Ga. P. QUINN, Charleston, S. C. W. Ib LACEY, Charleston, S. C. B. DCSCHER, Charleston, S. C. E. 0. UAGOOD, Selma, Ala. H- C. CJARKE, Vicksburg, Miss. •v. if. WOODRUFF, Vicksburg, Miss. KENNEDY & COCKERELL, Natchez, Miss. HF.NRY GWINNER, Canton, Miss. 0. 0. HALEY, New Orleans, La. CARTER & CO., Mobile, Ala. A. SI.uON, New Orleans. ’ • COLLIER, Nashville, Tenn. GEO. NORTON, Nashville, Tenn. A. BEITLEFF. 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Collins & Co’s Plows.—Ourjfarm ers and planters are referred to the advertisement of Collins & Cos., in another column, relative to their Cast Cast-Steel Plows. The reputation of these gentle men, as Axe manufacturers, warrants us in believing that their plows will be found as useful and as durable as could be de sired. Read the advertisement and give their plows a trial. The Catholic Church in Wilming ton, N. C.—Rev. A. J. Corcoran, D. D., Pastor of the Catholic Church in Wil mington, N. C., having been ordered to Rome, in connection with the Plenary Council, which is to assemble there next year, Rev. Mark S. Gross, of Baltimore, w.ll officiate in his place in Wilmington. ■ - •» • * r I he Camilla Riot.—Most of our read ers have, doubtless, heard of the Camilla Riot by this time ; but, as a part of the history of the times, and as a faithful re presentation of the affair, we publish, in the present number of the Banner, the letter of Hon. B. H. Hill, of this State, to the New York Tribune on the subject NEW ORLEANS(LA.)CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. Popular Education—The Public School System—Some Good in it after all — The Science of Properly Treating Radicals — What Should be done with Them—The Work of the Destructives —Destruction of the Negro Race — Improvements about New Orleans — Hos man’s Patent Brick Kiln— 11 An other Bloody Riot in New Orleans ” — Only a Practical Joke of the Radicals * —Another Negro Riot — u Lo! the Poor Negro !” New Orleans, Sept. 30, 1868. Dar ner of the South : Notwithstanding my enthusiastic ad vocacy of popular education, you know very well that I am, by no means, a blind follower of the public school system, as it exists in this country. On the con trary, I decidedly condemn it, as an ob stacle to the true education of our youth, i. e., the education of the heart and soul. For, in the said schools, while his intel lectual forces are developed and strength ened to their utmost capacity, the moral and religious are either entirely neglected or else prevented, by an infusion of Puri tanism, which fits its possessor rather to be mischievous than beneficial to society. Hence, I hold that society would be better off if the people were left unedu cated, than to have its youth trained to be powerful for evil-doing; for we all know that an evil-doer is the more hurt ful in proportion to his education and in telligence. This train of thought on the evils flowing from our public schools, was in duced by my discovering, a few days ago, there was some good in the much abused system, after all. On asking a pupil of the Public High School what part of mathematics he was studying, ho replied, Algebra; and, in answer to a little fur ther questioning, he informed me that the especial branch under investigation at this time, was the “Treatment of Radi cles!" Disregarding the orthography of the term, I was struck with the appro priateness of the study to the present condition of the country ; and 1 could not help wishing that our High School were, for the nonce, a Normal Academy, whose pupils, after mastering the subject, should be sent, as missionaries, through out the land, to instruct the whole Nation in the science of properly treating the Radicals. It seems to me this is the one, great, political need of the day. 1 tlimk the hour is at hand when they must be treated summarily, if we would avoid worse treatment at their hands, ihe people ot the whole country have too long borne with their infamies. We are too apt to think that a small incendi ary faction is harmless, because of its smallness, and of the numerous eyes watching its movements. We should "re member that a single spark neglected, or leit unextinguished, is apt to destroy a whole community. Therefore, I say, let the American people, without further de la\, extinguish the hitherto despised handful of incendiary Radicals, other wise they will, in a very short time, de stroy us! My alarm is not premature, she spark has already taken the form of ame. Senator (!) Pinchbeck’s promised torch has already been applied—last Tuesday night—in this city; and I doubt not it is only a question of (a very time,) time, as concerns the full execution of his threat to destroy th is city by fire, unless he and his associate white “torch es’’ be quickly extinguished. Not alone the interest of property, but the very existence of the African race in this country, is imperilled by these De structives. Conscious of how far the Ne gro is their superior, in all the better traits of humanity—sneh as honesty, fi delity, and straight-forwardness of char acter—these wretches, being now on the same soeial level, cannot bear the stinging contrast daily presented ; and they are consequently determined that the Negro must he exterminated. And they are rapidly effecting his removal. Already, since the poor blacks were forced away from the protection of their masters, it is estimated that about two millions of them have perished from the brutality of their “Yankee friends,” and the want of that parental care, to which they were accus tomed, and, without which, they cannot survive. Ihus, it should be the duty of every Southron to induce every good Ne gro he knows, to join, as a matter of self p, enervation, in the crusade against the treacherous and destructive Radicals. The curiosities in the domestic econo my of large cities arc, sometimes, very striking to the uninitiated. For instance: In viewing the countless cottages, and ele gant residences, perpetually going up, in all parts of the city and suburbs, especially in Jefferson City, and away up as far as Carrollton, one may easily understand the immense demand for lumber, which gives employment to thousands of rafter men, hundreds of saw-mills, and count less carpenters; but, on seeing the mil lions of bricks that arrive here in small vessels, from across the Lake, and are daily brought in from the numerous brick -3 aids on both sides ot the river, we are as much puzzled about their destina tion, as we are to know “What becomes of all the pins.” The other day, on visit ing Hoffman’s Patent Brick Kiln, just above the Ice anMufactory, I learned that that one kiln, alone, turns out from 20,- 000 to 22,000 perfect brick every day! and that the proprietors cannot nearly supply the demand for their production. Being one of the before mentioned un initiated, I cannot say what becomes of all the brick. That same kiln, however, is mi interesting establishment to any visitor. It is circular in foim, with twelve compartments, each with a capaci ty of over twenty thousand bricks, around which the never-dying fire is made to progress regularly ; so that each day one compartment discharges its complement ot baked brick, while its neighbor re ceives a like quantity of freshly moulded forms. By this arrangement, the econo my ot heat is so great that two and a half cords ot wood here, do the same amount ot baking that fifteen cords are required to do in the old fashioned kilns. Doubtless the telegraph startled the whole country, last Tuesday night, with flaming accounts of ‘‘Another Bloody Riot in New Orleans ?” whereas, the whole affair was merely a pleasant little practical joke, played by a procession of Radicals, who walked in and helped themselves to the contents of a few con fectionery and liquor stores; after which they drew their weapons and tried to kill a few citizens, and make a bonfire of some dwellings—that’s all. Unfortunately, the citizens who sprang to the rescue were unable to find among them a single one of their diabolical, white-faced mis-lead ers. One poor Negro lost his life in the melee, and a few were wounded. On the next occasion of this sort, it is generally believed that some of the blackest-heart ed white miscreants will be found, wherever they may hide. Southern Radical. P- S. —Just as I am closing this, the rumor comes in of another riot this morning. One insolent Negro has been shot dead, and some thousands of black savages are now gathering, with arms, around the capital. The school children are flying, fiightened, through the streets; yet there is no fear of any organized as sault, for the mass of the citizens arc known to bo armed for defence. The only real fear is of the midnight torch; but active steps are now being taken to guard against much damage, even from that—so that in a few days our families may again sleep peacefully. It is really hard to know what is now to become of this horde of poor starving Negroes. The city cannot help them, and their friends(!) in the Legislature will not. S. R. A Distinction with a Difference.— A Hibernian gazing at the Knitting Ma chine, delighted with the rapidity with which it made stockings, exclaimed : “Be jabbers, but that is the fusht ma chine I iver saw that made legs for child rens’ stockings.” The boy who “runs the machine,” informed him that it did not make legs for childrens’ stockings, hut stockings for childrens’ legs. MEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. Women’s Rights—Mew Movememt to be Inaugurated—A Cbuple of Specimen Meetings—Amusing Description of a tl Strong-Minded Female”—She ' is 11 Squelched” by a young Girl—Web ster’s Dictionary {the Correct Edi tion—Hon. D. H Hill in New York hen. Ilill and Chas. J. Jenkins — The Political Situation—The South has Stood and can Stand Grant—The New York Herald’s Prophecy—Pro found Respect for Southern States manship still Existing at the North. New York, Sept. 28, 1868. Banner of the South : The womens-rights women, the strong minded women, the women who eschew feminine raiment, and yearn after man’s pedal integuments, as the hart for the water brooks, have been out in great force lately. Led on by some pestilent old baggages, who look as if they were cut out ot wood, and talk as if they were filled with rusty saws, some young girls and foolish married women have been holding meetings here and hereabouts, for the purpose of proving that a woman is as good as a man, and a man is not half as good as a woman, and the world is all made wrong, and must be made over again; and that we, emancipating ourselves from the tyranny of ages, are the ones to do it. In plain terms, there has been an effort made here to inaugurate a movement whereby women are to vote and sit on juries, and hang about the polls on elec tion day, like any other free and inde pendent “feller.” Two of these meetings let me describe. One was held in a little village out of this city, some short distance, where the plea was, that, as the women, who owned property, were in the majority, and the village had no charter, it was eminently fit and proper these aforesaid Seraphs should virtually assume municipal control. When the meeting, to decide this momentous question, came on, however, it was discovered that there were a hundred men who owned property, to forty women, whose fathers or husbands had given or left them the fruit of their toil. Next to this, it appeared that, though the village had no charter forbidding women to vote, the laws of the State said only those should regulate munici palities who were voters by the Constitu tion ; and, on referring to that instrument, the awful word “male” appeared, in all its native hideousness, to utterly destroy the fond hopes of the strong-minders. It was decided that the women must stay at home; and, as the boys of the village, and some hard-hearted he-fellows raised a cruel shout of exultation at this ludicrous discomfiture—for the strong-minders fled —the “movement” (this is the Yankee name for some new tomfoolery), fell into such bad odor, that, at least one of the women present has issued a written disclaimer of any endorsal of, or partici pation iu, the business. r i lie next “move ment ’ was, ostensibly, in order to pro cure the working women of New York, a man’s wages for a woman’s work. At the head of this “movement ’ was a bony female, whose name I spare, but as a first-class strong-minder, cannot, injustice, refrain from some description of her per son. 111 appearance, then, she is tall, yea, even as the lordly carneleopard, or the useful pole upon which climbs the vine. Straight, also, is this fair one, same size all the way up, and with no protuber ances on the way down. In black dresses this bright one, this young gazelle, in a dim, shabby, “poky-looking” robe ot sable hue, and, on the head thereof, doth the wearer boast a huge, spiky-look ing diadem, which, in the fervor of elo quence, trembles, and nods, and wavers, like the wheat-field in a Summer breeze, beet has this grieved one, like unto the feet of the plcsio sauros, that noble ante diluvian beast, whose foot-tracks had the shape, size, and symmetry of a barrel head. A sharp iio.se, and a ditto voice, has our “movement” woman, and now that 3*oll have her before 3*oll, let me pic ture the meeting. Some two score 3*oung women were present, all deeply convinced that they did not get enough wages— as, indeed, they do not, poor things, this accursed despotism taxing everything five times over, from the bread thc3' eat to the wretched little ribbons wherewith they seek to set off their fast-fading bloom— convinced they diu not get enough wages, desiring to hit on some plan to make them more; and profoundly ignorant how to do it. To them, thus in doubt, arises this big-footed, spike-crowned, piny-looking mother of the “movement”—she is the mother of nothing else that I know of— whom I have described. Instead of telling them how to accomplish their purpose, or of giving them some good advice as to their morals, manners, or conduct, in the wilderness of a great city, this sour old crab set off, full tilt, in an argument to make it appear that the ballot was all the} 7 wanted to make them rich, pros perous, and happy. One Miss spoke up, saying they had not come there for poli tics, but bread; that politics degraded high, and that she, the oratrix, desired nothing to do with them. This set the ouy one on fire, and they had a very ive y time, until, at last, the girls had so much good sense as to vote the old crab ow n. And there the matter rests. Let us lope it may never be resurrected. Home is the woman’s sceptre, love her empire, and the heart her throne. In a prior letter, some mention was made of an audacious forgery perpetrated by some “trooly loil” rascal on Webster’s Dictionary, by striking out the original definitions of quite a number of words, such as Constitution, Congress , and so on, and inserting, in the stead thereof, bogus definitions in consonance with “ moral ideas;” and in order that the reader might not be duped into buying a mutilated and doctored edition, the warn ing was given not to purchase an} r edition ot that Dictionary issued since 1857. By some mistake, this was printed, 1867. The safe edition is that of 1857 ; those since are to be suspected. Last night I had the pleasure of seeing that determined champion of the Consti tution, B. 11. Hill. He is looking as full of life as ever, and will yet see the day when what some now call his “ ill regu lated impetuosity” will appear as the wisest and most far-seeing statesmanship. In revolutionary times, there is no such thing as being too impetuous against ty ranny. It is a thing not to be paltered with, but stood up to, foot to foot, eye to eye, and battled out, just as old Andy Jaekson was accustomed to battle, for “ a clean victory, or a clean defeat.” Governor Jenkins was also “ impetuous,” 1 dare say, in some men’s e}*es, when he told Sweat-box Meade to his face that he should not have one cent of the people of Georgia’s money for his jail-bird Conven tion at Atlanta, bayonet or no bayonet, and yet 1 fane}' we shall all live to see bjth Chas. J. Jenkins and Ben H. Hill reeeive that full approbation that cour age in a good cause deserves. 1 he political situation is not, just at this juncture, a pleasing one. But still, in all contests the tide must ebb and flow, and there is not so much to be anxious about as, perhaps, some accounts from here might dispose you to believe. The issue is 111 the hands of a good God, who never permanently deserts the afflicted ; and, if it is written that the Butcher of the \\ ilderness is to be President, those who stood him without flinching for four years of war can stand him for four years of peace. The Herald, of this morning, says that Grant will be elected, but that, in 1872, “ the Southerners will come up again, when, in conjunction with the Democratic elements of the West and North, and, through their superior states manship, they will govern the country for fifty years.” While I cannot, by any means, agree in the statement that Grant is so sure as this assumes him to be, it would take a very dull observer not to see that there is a profound respect for Southern statesmanship still existing in the North, bitterly as it may be scoffed at, or denied. Old Bennett is very right in thinking the South must rise, for, to hold down ten millions of people who live iu a fertile clime, is like holding dowu a cork—up it pops the moment 3*ou re move the pressure, and, ten chances to one, but it even slides from under the pressure, and comes to the surface with out the consent of the pressure at all. Tyrone Powers. ■ - —■■■■■■ The Pope and iiis Villas. —Mgr. Anivitti of Rome—one of the illustrious of that city, has lately thus announced to the world, the character of the Pope’s Villas: “ It is the delight of most sovereigns to beautify their Palaces and country seats, and render them delightful b> r the ameni ty of their position and the refinements of their arrangements. Pius IX. has his Villas no loss, which it is his great pleas ure to lay out to the best of his advantage; but they are—the Villa Gabrielli, which is devoted to the advancement of agri cultural knowledge; the Villa Barberini, which serves as a place of diversion for those mentally afflicted; the Villa Pia, where the bo3*s of industrial schools are taught husbandry; the Villa Santueci, which affords pure air to the pupils of the Seminario Pio; the \ ilia Palatiua, which makes ample pleasure ground for the college boys of S. Sirigi, attached to the University of Saint Apollinare; the Orto Butanico, for the cultivation of rare and useful plants, and more especially those of the Pharmacopoeia ; and if last, by no j means least, the gardens destined for the | enjoyment of the boys of the night schools, in which, he takes so great interest— one opened by him for the school of the Borgo in 1853, and the other for that in the Trastevere, last June.” We commend the foregoing to our Protestant cotemporaries. Let them con trast it with their usual ideas of Papal infamy. 7