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constellation, as it loomed up brightly on tbe horizon of war, pursuing, to its splen did zenith, the fiery path of Mars, now be held, not unmoved, its declining splen (}. is going down in the gloom of eternal Light. And he, its illustrious chief, vrnose lofty plume was ever its rallying point in battle, and around whom its af fections warmly clustered, now commenced it for its past devotion, and bade it adieu forever. Slowly and sadly he rode from that mournful field, and the cause that he fought for was beneath the foot of Power. Pew were the eyes that grew not moist at witnessing that departure It was the a .onv of a great cause, finding expres y "in the sublime soul of its great (] fender. And, though that cause lx; j ad, yet, will its memory continue to live, and ever honored will be those names that were sacrificed at its altar3. And, on the scroll of fame, no name among the li.-t of eminent worthies will shine in a purer, serener, or more resplendent light than that of Robert Edmund Lee. His fame is monumental. His name will be placed by the side of those of the great captains of history-—of Marlborough and Saxe, of Tilly and Eugene; and as long a- the fame of the Southern struggle shall huger in tradition and song, will his mem ory be cherished by the descendants of the Southern races; while his character will stand up in the twilight of History, like some grand old Cathedral, lifting it self in imperishable beauty, above the objects of Earth, majestic in its vast pro portions, awful in its solemn stateliness, sublime in its severe simplicity.” LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRES . PONDENT. NUMBER TWO. Savannah, Ga., October 13, 1868. Liar Banner : You will, doubtless, recollect that my last letter was written under the influence of very melancholy feelings. You may, also, remember, that I then expressed a hope that my next might not be so mournful. My hope was not a vain one; Ido not think I could w T rite sadly now, if 1 were to try. What do you suppose I found waiting for me in Savannah, when I got here ? A letter! If you knew wiio wrote that letter, Mr. Banner, you would not, (at least, you ought not), wonder at my pleasant feeling’s. I had been listening to the silvery notes of a sad song, dropping from the rosy lips of a fair young girl, and my heart was still filled with the sweet melody, when this letter was handed me, and the eordial greeting sent me by a Rev. Father, whom wc all love, filled the full heart to over flowing. I found that my fair friend could sympathize with me in my joy, and that highly prized letter drew closer, and riveted, the bands of friendship. I have never been accused of being amiable, but I thing I might almost lay claim to the title just now. Do you want the news of the day ? I scarcely know what to tell you. Shall I say “business is dull,” “money scarce” ? Is that news to you ? If so, lam happy to hear it; for, I assure you, it is no news here. A splendid statue of General Benjamin “Spoon” Butler has been received in Savannah within the last week. Mr. Molina, the proprietor of the handsome tobacco store, on Bull street, has it in his window. The General has just come from New York, and is dressed in full uniform—a uniform peculiar to himself. Small spoons, arranged in the form of epaulettes, grace each shoulder. In one hand, he holds a bunch of small spoons, while the other supports, with indescriba ble dignity, a couple of very large spoons against his shoulder. The General has, also, such a coquettish cast of the eyes, that it is impossible to tell whether he is looking up Bull or Broughton street. Simultaneous with the General’s ad vent, there appeared in Savannah a most shocking malady. It may be that his arrival has had something to do with it, causing the people to be decidedly spooney. [ will describe the premonitory symptoms of this disease, that you may cuard your family from its fatal inroads. Tor several days before it breaks out, the patient is very restless ; goes often to the trout windows ; has a remarkable love for leather straps, clastic bands, whalebone, mid all such trash. This continues for about two days, and then, with the pro verbial cunning of a lunatic, the patient, at once, subdues all restlessness. You may know that the crisis is near at hand. As the fit progresses, the hands become almost useless, and hang like a wet rag; the body is thrown violently forward ; a monstrous hump makes its appearance on the back. The poor creature is now en tirely out of her senses; and, notwith standing the violent screams of her old iplnoned mother, the patient rushes into B'-o streets, suffering from a violent at ta:k of—“ Grecian Bend.” I advise you to build a wall around your city to keep the monster away. The ladies have en tered into a league to make themselves as hideous as possible; and, what with waterfalls and Grecian Bends, they are succeeding admirably. I am afraid you will find me terribly unfashionable when you see me; but we must leave fashion to the young people; it would not do for a person of my age to get the Grecian Bend ; it might prove fatal; Measles often does, if it attacks a person late in lite. Age is a very delicate subject, Mr. Banner, but you will ob serve that I have not told you how old I am ! I am waiting in Savannah for some letters ; as soon as they arrive, I will go on. I may date my next letter from your own City. Good-bye, dear Banner, and beware of the “Bend.” Yours, truly, Ruth F. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. The Triennial Convent ton of the Episcopal C hurch — lhtualism—The Yearninfj of the Human Heart for the Unchangeable — St. Albans Church—The Great Com mandment, “Pay / ’ —Some Description of the Ritualistic Ceremonies—Dispensation to be Rebuked in the Convention—The Dr. lyng Case—A JYord to the Sinners —Prospects in Pennsylvania , Ohio , and India n a Heat y Bribery Po li tica l Goods Stores — Gini- Crackeries — The Cost of the Democratic Torch Ligh t Procession —“ Sensationalism ” of the People—A Warning from Rome—Sudden Death of Howell Cobb , of Georgia—His Public Career The South Carolina Legisla ture—The Beauties of Radical Recon struction—“ The Bottom Rail on Top ” How—Soon to be Reversed. . New York, Oct. 12, 18G8. Banner of the South : The great event of the week here is the session of the Triennial Convention of the Episcopal Church. This Convention is made up of two bodies, the House of Bishops answering somewhat to a Senate, and a lower House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, which may stand for the House of Representatives. The purpose of the meeting, is to consider the state of the Episcopal Church in general; but the chief issues, it is thought, will be Ritualism and what is known as the Tyng case. Ritual ism is, to strip it of all disguise, an effort to assume the outward appearance of Catholicity without being Catholicity in truth. The move, which is also the occa sion ot much ecclesiastical agitution in England, may be attributed to a revolt in the popular heart against the baldness and bareness of Protestant worship. In these days of upsetting and negation, when old forms,-old ideas, old modes of thought, and old principles are, more or less, openly decried, and when it seems as though change and shifting were the one thing deemed desirable, there is a deep seated yearning in men’s hearts for something that does not change with the ebb and flow of merely human thought, something that is the same in storm and sunshine— something, in one word, that is fixed ; and, in an effort to satisfy this yearning, cer tain Episcopal Clergymen in England have sought to outwardly approximate their faith to Catholicity, as though outward ness would do the work. From England the u movement” has spread to this sec tion, and is finding a certain degree of favor, set. Alban’s Church, in this city, is the great Ritualistic temple, and this is what, on one occasion, the writer there heard and saw. Entering a quaint porch, you emerge into a building in the form of a cross. The ceiling is sky-blue, and the windows are full of stained glass. The seats are free, but, as you are informed, only on conditions: first, you are to re member that this is the House of God, which would seem to insinuate a doubt as to your knowing that circumstance otherwise ; second, you are to remain till service is over; and third, you are to con tribute according to your means. Where as, the two prior conditions are in small type, this latter is in the hugest of letter ing, so that one is left under the painful impression that, it typography goes for anything, Pay is the first and great com mandment. Pretty soon you hear the choir, which is composed ot little boys in long, white, shirt-like raiment. Then a proces sion emerges from the robing-room. At the head is a Cross-bearer, or rather the bearer of something which is intended to be taken for a Cross, but it is in reality a mere dim outline ot that holy form, envel oped in a wilderness of filagree. Then come small boys, in long red robes, then two ot the Elders, in long white ditto, then more boys in purple ditto, and then more ot the Elders. The procession moves, at a snail’s pace, out in front of the chancel, and then along that to the gate therein, which it enters, and proceeds straight up to the Communion table, on which are flowers, aCross, and, it I am not mistaken, some candlesticks. Then, the officiating Clergyman advances to a little desk, and informs the dearly beloved, that, insuiidrv daces, they are exhorted to confess, whereunto all are at once invited. For greater ease in this matter, it is found necessary, according to the truth as it is in St. Alban’s, to sing the piteous declara tion that we are all miserable sinners, then, the Lord’s Prayer is “intoned” like wise—intoning it being a melancholy sort One noticeable feature of the canvass is the political goods stores. By this is not meant that votes are up on sale, but that dags, streamers, torches, transparencies, oil-cloth capes and hats for the foolery known as Boys in Blue, campaign badges, etc., etc., are vended in largo or small quantities. Some idea of the profits in this business may be had when knowing that the great Democratic procession of Monday night last, cost over SIOO,OOO, and, of this, probably two-thirds went for these campaign goods. As ono item, the streets for three squares were lined, on either side, with parti-colored Chinese lan terns, and rare times had the ragamuffin boys, next morning, in carrying off the spoil. Bands of music are, also, reaping harvests, everything that can make a noise iri a procession, it only so much as an ante diluvian drum, bringing a high price. Calcium lights are likewise in demand, and one enterprising genius has a regular es tablishment where he hires out Ins patent illuminators by the dozen, at so much per night. All this “ yim-craclxrie ” may strike you as ludicrous, but it lias its uses here, she people are, in their own phrase, sensa tional. They must have raree-shows like children. I hey are getting to be pretty much like the degenerated Romans, whose cry was panem et circenses , and, as long as they got something to eat and a free show to look at, cared nothing for liberty. Since beginning this letter news has come ot the sudden death of the Hon. Ifowell Gobb, in this city. While talking to his daughter, this morning, at the Fifth Ave nue Hotel, he suddenly exclaimed, “I am ill, lam very ill,” and would have fallen, lie was at once taken to a lounge, and al most immediately thereafter expired.— Being of full habit, it is extremely proba ble that apoplexy was the superinducing cause of this awfully sudden demise. hat Mr. Cobb was is too well known in Georgia to need any lengthened account of the details of his public life. When only twenty-one, he was one of the Presi dential Electors in the election of 1836; was five terms in Congress, once Governor °f Georgia, and then Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan. For over thir ty years he was in public life; and in pass ing away there goes one of the old school ot Southern Statesmen, the most sagacious of whining way of saying it, which is in immense favor. And, this is about all there is of it. There is some talk that pri vate confessions are heard by the Ritualistic Divines, that they fast on Fridays, and wear certain robes on certain days* all in faint imitation of the consecrated rites of Catholicity; but there is not sufficient war rant to say that Ritualism goes further than the vapid fol-de-rol I have mention ed. Such as this thing is, however it is a source of, wonderful disquietude ’in the Triennial Convocation, and has alreadv, though the body is only in the second day of its deliberations, led to some sharp scenes, not to speak of the launching of a set sermon against it in the delivery, by one of the Bishops, of the opening homily. The indications are that Ritualism will be rebuked by the Convention. Next conies the Tyng case, which is this: It seems that there is a canon in the Episcopal Church forbidding one Clergyman of that denomi nation to preach in the bailiwick of an othei w ithout leave first from him obtained. Some time since, a young Episcopal Divine, Mr. Py ng, saw fit to disregard this ordi nance, by preaching in the Parish of a Rev. Mi. Stubbs, ot New Jersey, without leave or license, and not only that, but, horresco reftrens , preached in a Methodist Church. For this lie was duly brought into judg ment, tiied by the proper ecclesiastical Court, found guilty, and sentenced to be reprimanded by his superior ofiicer, the Bishop, on parade. This was done, but, deeming the judgment unjust, Mr. T. ap pealed to the Convention. The probabili ties are that the sentence will be upheld, the case being as plain as this, that, know ing of the canon, he went against the canon. The affair lias created much dis turbance, one side holding that Mr. T. is persecuted, and the other that lie is merely trying to get a little cheap martyrdom. Having thus touched on the Saints, let me give a word to the sinners—those im penitent thieves, the politicians. The can vass is at fever heat, and by the time this letter sees print you will, doubtless, have the returns from Ohio, Indiana, and Penn sylvania. If any two of the three go Democratic, Seymour’s election is assured. If Pennsylvania alone goes Democratic, that event, though not ensuring the tri umph of the Constitution, will give it the inside track. If none go Democratic but still the Radical majority is very small, the final event is in doubt, with the chances in favor of the Butcher of the M ildemoss. Having thus given you some clue from the most authentic quarters, let me caution you not to hope too much. Earth and hell are leagued against you here. The illustrated papers are teeming with lying cuts, the magazines are prostituted to mis representation, and the daily Radical press is lull of the vilest appeals each morning to the passions ot the hour. Monev, the money wrenched by taxation from’ the toiling poor, is poured out like water, to carry the day. One installment of $150,- 000 was sent to Pennsylvania but a few days ago, and has since been followed by a quarter of a million more. In Maine, as high as $6,000 were given in a single bribe, and, as the stake is greater in Pennsylva nia, doubtless, even more has been spent there on a desirable convert. The issue is yet trembling in the balance as I write, but lain not without hopes that, when the news does come, it will be good. If so, in Pennsylvania and Indiana, carpet-bags farewell. ami indomitable that ever held power in the days, when, in the hands of trained law-givers, this country waxed in glorv prosperity, and power. There has lately been issued here what you might call a campaign document, in the shape of a Photographic delineation of sixty-three members of the pretended South Carolina Legislature. Among these worthies, fifty-six of whom are Negroes are to be seen a Negro parson from Boston’ a coal-black barber from this city, and a Cuftee lawyer and preacher from Pennsyl vania. Under the hideous jumble of apish looking faces, though I must do the “gem men the justice to say that they are more trustworthy and repectable in appearance than theii white associates, there is a para graph which reads thus: “These are the Photographs of sixty-three members of the reconstructed South Carolina Legislature, fifty of whom are Negroes or mulattoes, and thirteen . white. Twenty-two read and vs rite, (eight grammatically,) the remain der (b>r.ty-o.ne,) make their mark with the aid of an amanuensis. Nineteen are tax payers to an aggregate amount of $146 10; the rest (forty-four,) pay no taxes, and the body levies on the white peoble of the State for $4,000 000.” Quite a pretty pic ture isn’t it, of the way in which these scoundrels reconstruct the blessed old Luion. But the bottom rail am on top now. When we get the perse cuted whites of the South, and the reviled Catholics and foreigners of the North into a solid phaianx, we will show these proud oppressors that there is life in the old land yet, and in that day Grant can’t save ’em • neither can Shoddy prevail. Selah ! Tyrone Powers. NEW ORLEANS (LA.)CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. Anniversary of the Death of Rev. John V. Kelly—Requiem Mass for Fathers Kelly and' Dwyer Ihe Health of Archbishop Odin Ihe Afflictions of Hew Orleans —* Overflow of Lake Portchaf train—The House of the Good Shepherd—The Good “ Margaret , the O-iphards Friend"—A Hew Idea in Politics—One More Applica tion of Plaster of Radical Misrule ne cessary to Effect a Cure—The Hcgm, an Important Element—A War Predicted Anyhow The Effects of the Flood— Th e Shakspeare Club—" A Scene Hot Down in the Dills," New Orleans, Oct. 12, 1868. Banner of the South : Last week brought the anniversary of the death of the Rev. Father John V. Kelly, C. M.—the subject of some very touching lines that lately appeared in the Banner-- and, on Monday of this week, a solemn High Mass of Requiem was sung in St. Stephen’s Church, Bouligny, in memo ry both of him and the Rev. Father Wil liam Dwyer, C. M., who was equally a vic tim of last year’s epidemic. The large at tendance at the services proved the affec tionate remembrance in which these de voted martyr-missionaries are held by the bereaved congregation. R. I. P. I regret to announce that the health of our beloved and venerable Archbishop does not improve as rapidly as was hoped. Indeed, his long life of unsparing labor and self-devotion, have well nigli exhausted to the uttermost his once powerful constitu tion ; and the appointment of a coadjutor is looked for at an early day, as it is sim ply impossible for our dear old Archbishop to attend to this large Diocese in his en feebled state. What a miserably afflicted city this is, to be sure ! Every few years “Bronze J’ohn” sweeps by, mowing down his ripened, yellow harvest by the thousands of heads ; then comes gaunt Cholera, to gorge itself with countless victims; the advent, of a Butler, Banks, or Sheridan, brings desola tion to many a homestead ; again, a bank rupt City Treasury—bankrupted by the diabolical blow of the late Mayor Heath— reduces thousands of our best citizens to the verge of starvation, and thus the lita ny of our sufferings might be prolonged almost indefinitely. But, of all the unanticipated dangers that have been developed, none lias been more startling than last week’s invasion of half our city by the waves of Lake Pont chartraiu ! Two or three days of incessant and strong Northeast gales just blew the Lake up into our streets and houses, drowned out thousands of pigs, poultry, goats, cats, dogs, <fee., destroyed a large amount of provisions, cutoff many families from market, besides putting them in a di lemma even for drinking water, by sub merging their cistern-faucets, and, worst of all, produced a variety of painful dis eases that now afflict the residents of the unfortunate submerged districts. Among the most pitiable cases, is that of the House of the Good Shepherd, whose hundred and fifty inmates were nearly starved during several days, when their kitchen was under water, and they had no means to procure a fresh supply of pro visions. Our liberal bakers, headed as usual by the whole-souled, (and why not also say whole-bodied, when speaking ofa ruddy-cheeked avoirdupoise of about 250 pounds ?) the ever charitable “ Margaret, the Orphans’Friend,’ responded promptly to the call for bread, and sent wagon loads ol loaves to the poor llood-bouml families in the invaded parts of the city. The Howard Association were also promptly “on hand, and some of its members have worked heroically in relieving the most distressed sufferers. The waters have now almost entirely disappeared, saving an oc casional pond in some low and undrained spot here and there. But the inconve niences resulting from the flood must be felt for some time yet, owing to the gene nil sweeping away of floors, doo rs, fences, door-steps, gutters, gunwales, bridges’ crossings, and a thousand other necessi ties of daily and hourly use. Anew idea lias been started by some of our statesmen—not politicians—who advocate the election of Grant as the only means of bringing Sambo to his senses and Ins proper position. There seems to be something in the tlieorv; but I fear its advocates are like Jno.“ C. Calhoun, in advance ot the age,” and I doubt of leir ability to convince the majority of voters to think with then. Their argu ment runs somewhat thus: When a body is diseased with a dangerous ulcer, and has allowed itself to be tortured for a long time by a powerful drawing plaster, it is more sensible for the patient to submit to a second application of the plaster, with a reasonable hope of radical cure, than to re fuse a continuance of the treatment, and thus risk the almost certain fatal result of the disease. Our body politic occupies the critical position here illustrated. The plaster of Radical misrule lias drawn the matter nearly to a head, but not quite. It is thought that one more application of the plaster will effect the desired cure. The Negro being an important element, for the moment, in politics, it is essential to have him on the right side. Ilis present wretched condition cannot be much im proved tor some years under any circum stances; and it will be only natural for him to attribute his continued suffering, during the next four years, to the party that shall then be in power, and to be ready to unite, heart and son], with the op position party at the first succeeding elec tion. Now, the question is, whether it will not be wiser tor the Democratic party to. let the present election go by default, with a certainty of permanent rule there after, than to go into power now, with an almost equal certainty of being ousted at the end of the term ? Perhaps, after all, it won’t make much dif ference which party wins, as many long headed tolks prophecy an inevitable war immediately after the election anyhow. I don’t believe much in predictions of coming political events, but any one with half an eye can see that something of tremendous import must follow close on the heels of the present agitated condition of the coun try. Each man of us should put and keep his house in order. Just as I am closing, the mail comes in with the last Banner, which contains no items from this quarter. Doubtless the mails hence were last week detained by the flood which overflowed the Railroad and prevented all travel and transportation for a few days. Now, however, the waters have retired, and the roads are all again in working order, except a few of the City R. R. routes, where the entire road beds, rails and all, were carried away. The Shakspeare Club, who played Ham let the other night for the benefit of St. Vincent’s Church—and played it well too—sent their audience home in a good humor, by introducing a slight ‘‘variation” in the closing scene. Hamlet’s thrust at the King was so vigorous as to upset the King, throne, and all! The dead Laertes, dying Queen, and thanatoid King, all rolled off in a roar of laughter, and so the curtain dropped. Southern Radical. Influence of Newspapers. A school teacher who has enjoyed the benefit ofa long practice in his profession, and watched elosely the influence of news papers upon a family of children, states, as the result of his observation, that, with out exception, those scholars of both sexes who have access to newspapers at home, when compared to those who have not, are : 1. Better readers, excellent in pro nunciation, and, consequently, read more understanding!}'. !L They arc better spellers, and de fine words with ease and accuracy. 3. They obtain a partial knowledge of Geography in almost half the time it requires others, as the newspaper has made them familiar with the location of most important places, and National Governments, etc. 4. they are better grammarians, for the newspaper has made them familiar with every variety of style, from the com monplace advertisement, to the finished and classical oratory of the statesman; they more rcadiy apprehend the text, and consequently analyze its construction with more alacrity. 5. They write better compositions, using better language, containing more thought, and more clearly expressed. From these important facts, three im portant things can be deducted : 1. The responsibility of the press in providing literature which is both 1 health ful in tone, and ex pressed. 2. The absolute necessity of personal supervision of the child’s reading by the parents. 3. Having once got a good, able paper, no matter what the price is, don’t begrudge it a hearty support. Horrible ! —A Western editor thus “cusses’ an opponent : “May his cow give sour milk, and his hens ‘bad eggs;’ in short, may his daughter marry a one-eyed editor, and his business go to ruin, and lie go to-—Congress.” 3