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PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS.
AUGUSTA, Ga., OCTOBER 31,1868
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For President:
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
Os New York.
For Vice President:
FRANCIS P. RLAIR,
Os Missouri.
FOR ELECTORS;
JOHN B. GORDON, of Fulton.
JOHN T. CLARKE, of Randolph
J. C. NICHOLS, of Pierce.
CHARLES T. GOODE, of Sumter
R. J. MOSES, of Muscogee.
A. O. BACON, of Bibb.
J. B. CUMMING, of Richmond.
11. P. BELL, of Forsyth.
J. D. WADDELL, of Cobb.
We give above, for the benefit of our
voting friends, the Democratic Electoral
Ticket to be voted for on Tuesday next.
2he entire ticket in to be voted, as printed
above; and orders can be supplied from
this office, on reasonable terms. Every
Democratic Club in each county should see
to it that there is a good supply of these
tickets, and that they are correctly print
ed, as above, The first two are for the
State at large; the others for the Con
gressional Districts; but there must be
no separation of names. The whole are
voted for as a unit, and counted, not by
District votes, but by the vote of the
State. Bear this fact in mind, and vote
accordingly
DIXIE FARMER AND BANNER OF THE
SOUTH.
The best two weeklies in the South for
$5. The Banner of the South is ed
ited by Rev. A. J. Ryan, the author of
“ The Conquered Banner.” It is by
far, the best literary weekly in the South,
and unsurpassed by any in the North,
and the Dixie Farmer is by far the best
Agricultural weekly in the South, and
challenges comparison with the best in
the North.
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By special arrangement, we are able
to offer both papers for $5 a year. No
better opportunity was ever offered the
farmers of the South of securing their
families pleasant and profitable reading
at a trifling cost.
OUR BOOK TABLE.
PERIODICALS.
The Carolina Farmer. —We have re-,
ccived the initial number of a journal,
bearing this title. It is to be published
monthly at Wilmington, N. C., by Wm.
H. Bernard, at 82 per annum, in advance;
and is, evidently, an able co-worker in
the great field of Southern Agriculture
and Industry. Asa Southern publica
tion, and a valuable one, we bespeak for
the new candidate the popular favor and
the popular support.
Packard’s Monthly. —The November
number of this journal has reached us*
It contains a number of interesting
essays on various subjects, and is “devoted
to the interests and adapted to the tastes
of the Young Men of the Country.” S. S.
Packard, publisher, No. 937 Broadway,
New York. Price $1 a year.
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Whitlock’s Horticultural Record,
er. —This is the title of a monthly publica
tion published by the Whitlock Exposition
and Exchange Company, 245 Broadway,
New York, at $1.50 per annum, and edited
by Andrew S. Fuller, Esq. It is the cheap
est journal of the kind published, and the
only one giving the price list of trees, vines
and plants in “All Nurseries in One.” It
also contains a list of the best implements
for farm, garden, and household ; and its
pages are filled with articles from the best
horticultural and agricultural writers in the
world. Asa special inducement they offer
to send one plant of either of the following
varieties of fruit to all who send in their
names with $1.50:
Clarke Raspberry ; Davison’s Thornless
Raspberry; Ellisdale Raspberry; Missouri
Mammoth Blackberry; Choice Gladiolus;
Choice Japan Lily ; lona Grape Vine, Or,
Two Early Wilson Blackberry; Two Kit
tatinny Blackberry. Or, to any one who
will send 25 cents extra, to pay postage,
we will send one pound of early Hose Pota
toes. The plants will be carefully packed
and sent by mail, post paid, as early in the
Autumn or Spring as practicable.
The celebrated Walton Grape, or the
new Edmalon Grape with the Recorder one
year $5.
The officers of the Company are as fol
lows: P. L. Whitlock, President; J. A
Currier, Treasurer. The place and entire
plan of business, however, continue the
same as before.
The Southern Sox.— The Southern
Son , a Son of Temperance journal, is
published at Nashville, Teun., by W. 11.
F. Lyon Cos., at $2 per annum, in ad
vance. It is, as its name imports, an
organ of the Order of Sons of Tem
perance, and is devoted to Literature and
Temperance.
Quinns/ — Quinn has just received a
lot of musical publications, “Boosy’s
Musical Cabinet,” excellent in character,
and very cheap in price. He has, also,
all the latest publications, Weeklies, Pic
torials, Juveniles, and Fashion Magazines.
The Land We Love. — Contents —
The November number of The Land We
Love , comes to us filled with its usual
variety of interesting matter.
A beautiful engraving represents a
scene in The Battle of Eutaw, with a de
scription from W. Gilmore Simms, Esq.
The principle articles are Battle of Pleas
ant Hill, The Vanity and the Glory of
Literature, The Valborgsmass Tryst,
Windsor Castle, Concerning Heroes, Mrs.
Crenshaw’s Story, Organ Grinders, Cas
ualties in Cheatham’s Division in 1864,
and a review of Jean Ingelow, by Mrs.
Preston.
The Poetry is by 11. T. Stanton, Mrs.
Rosa V. Jeffrey, and Miss Thacker.
The American Stock Journal. —Every
Farmer and Stock Breeder should send
for a copy of this Magazine, and get up a
Club. Only 81.00 a 3 r ear. The pro
prietors offer Valuable Premiums of
Blooded Cattle, Sheep, Cashmere Goats
Chester White Hogs, all varieties of
Fancy Poultry, Seeds, Agricultural Im
plements, and many other fancy and use
ful articles. Three copies sent, free. A
large Show Bill illustrated with over 30
Engravings of different varieties of Do
mestic Animals, sent to any person wish
ing to get up a Club. Address,
N. P. Boyer <fe Cos., Proprietors,
Parkesburg, Chester (Jo., Pa.
Remember. — Let every Democrat re
member that Tuesday next, November
3d, is the day fixed for the Presidential
Election, and go to the Polls. Don’t for
get it, yourself, and don’t let your neigh
bor forget it. The South wants your
votes ; the Union wants your votes ;
Peace wants your votes; Prosperity wants
your votes; Safety wants your votes;
Good Government wants your votes;
Constitutional Liberty wants your votes.
Don’t fail to vote.
The “Bannerof the South f Father
Ryan’s new paper, is before us, and con
tains its usual amount of attractive and
polished literature. We commend it, in
the highest terms, to the people of the
South. Subscription price, $3.00 a year,
in advance ; to dubs, of 15 and upwards,
at $2.50. We will forward subscription
money for all who may desire it.
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MHfIB'CT fll ISIfl.-
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
Or THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Pluck—A Plucky Little City , and a
Plucky Little Town—The Fable of
King Stork and King Ix)g—Grand
Success of the Orphan Concert —
Mayor. Heath’s Chanty—What the
Orphans are Taught to Pray—Death
of a Sister of Charity—Archbishop
Odin—lncendiarism and Robbery in
Gret n a Su mm ary Pu nish ment
Attractive Spots—Unhappy State of
Affairs —A Question and an Answer.
New Orleans, Oct. 27, 1868.
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Banner of the South :
Pluck is admirable, and alwaysMeserves
applause. Therefore, I say, all honor to
the plucky little Jefferson City—our
next-door neighbor—whose civil officers,
last week, had the courage to resist the
execution of a recent Legislative outrage,
yclept the Metropolitan Police Bill, which
was designed to usurp the functions of the
Local Police; and followed up the act of
resistance by calling a Mass Meeting of
the citizens, whose Resolutions were so
defiant and threatening toward* the so
called Legislature, then in session, that
that mongrel assemblage dispersed in
terror within two days afterwards !
Again, I say, bully for Jefferson City,
La., that has had the pluck to deliver
the death-blow to Scalawaggcry and Car
pet-Baggery in this State. The Town of
Carrollton, in the same Parish of Jeffer
son, also deserve praise for promptty fol
lowing the plucky example of Jefferson
City, and driving forth the pretended
Legislative Policemen.
Our own unfortunate City occupies a
less creditable position. We have re
versed the old fable of King Stork and
King Log. Our late King Stork (Mayor
Heath), was, at least, a live King, and
showed his vitality by strangling to death
our city credit and currency; whereas,
our present King Log (Mayor Conway),
allows himself and us to be trampled over
by bloody Thugs and filthy Scalawags.
A murmur, however, is arising, which
threatens a storm that will force him
either to turn over and throw off his pre
sent apathy, or else quietly sink out of
view, and let a live man take his place.
You will recollect how, a few weeks ago,
I prophesied the success of the Concert
and Entertainment which was then pro
jected for the benefit of our world-renown
ed Camp Street Orphan Asylum. On
Thursday night last, my prediction was
more than verified by the overwhelming
audience that crowded every seat and
stand-point in our capacious Opera House,
and the hundreds of late comers, who
could not obtain an entrance. The
Music and Tableaux gave such universal
satisfaction, that a call is already being
made for a repetition. This corroborates
what I said before, that our citizens never
fail to respond when an appeal is made
by the self sacrificing Sisters of Charity;
except in an occasional isolated case, like
that of our late Destructive Mayor
Heath, who, with one single puff of his
destructive breath, converted the City
Notes which the Sisters held into worth
less rags, thus filching the very bread
from the poor orphans’ mouths! He may
have one consolation of knowing that the
Sisters teach these poor children every
day to pray for their enemies.
It is a popular mistake to imagine
that the hard-working Sisters of Charity
slave away their lives, regardless of any
compensation. On the contrary, they
work for the very highest wages, and
seldom fail in their effort. Only last week,
Sister Josephine, of St Vincent’s Infant
Asylum, after several years of drudgery
in the work of Charity, was called to her
reward—an Eternity of Recompense !
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Our venerable and beloved Archbishop
Odin still continues very feeble, though
hopes arc eutertaiued that the approach
ing cold weather may contribute to his
restoration.
The little town of Gretna, our Trans-
Mississippi vis-a-vis, is suffering horribly
from the incendiarism and robberies that
are nightly perpetrated by organized
gangs of armed Negroes. East night,
over a dozen dwellings there were burned
and plundered, and many poor families
turned out homeless and penniless.
During the “loot,” the white citizens
rallied, and shot a number of Negroes in
the very act of pilfering, killing three on
the spot. The rest fled to the swamps
in the.rear, and it is hoped they will
profit by the lesson ; especially, as they
have been abandoned by their beloved
Legislature, who hitherto have backed
them up and protected them in their
atrocities.
Among the most attractive spots in
our city at this period, is the Stationery
and Fancy Depots of Madame Porter
and Messrs. Miehon & Cos., just in the
rear of the old Cathedral. They are
filled, piled up, overflowing, and breaking
out all over with a countless multitude
and endless variety of mementoes, in the
shape of crowns, garlands, streamers,
vases, urns, statuettes, crosses, &c.,
wherewith to decorate our Cities of the
Dead, next week, on our usual Civic
Anniversary of Sorrow—All Souls’ Day.
At this time last year, our whole City
was enveloped in a shroud of grief for the
daily going-out forever of the dear ones
around us. This year, though no plague
of epidemic visits us, we live amid the
vague and nameless horrors of a disor
ganized society; disorganized, too. by the
very power that should be its preserver,
the so-called “ Government/' and its
party.
To the question, “How is this anarchy
to be restored to law and order V* the
respected Editor of the Banner has given
the only true reply, when he argued
that a return of individual virtue and
honesty among the citizens was the only
means of securing an honest Govern
ment. The “wickedest man” has been
found ; where is the “coming man” who
shall convert him and the rest of us to a
state of virtue, that we may have some
hope of the Republic ?
Southern Radical.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Democracy is the Great Unterrified —Down
with Fishy Leaders—Negro Suffrage
caiitbe Qualified —Must be Universal, if
at all—“ Let ’em. Roll on Their Cart ” —
The Episcopal Convention — 7yng escapes
Martrytlom—Stubbs says a Good Thing—
Ritualism—Sinful Singing—The Con
vention pities the South—Earthquakes
going North—Alaska in Danger—One
wanted South to Upset the Scallawags —
Noses , Nosing , Rats and Roosters—A
Walking oar.
New York, Get. 27, 1868.
Banner of the South :
The late flurry has done the Democrat
ic party good. The nice litte game where
by divers fishy leaders thought to mould
the masses to their will has come to
naught. Democracy has once more ap
proved itself the People’s party, and not
a mere multitudinous appanage of sly
politicians. It is a remarkable circum
stance in the political history of the
United States that no party has ever had
a nickname but the Democratic, and at
tin's hour it seems of glorious omen that
this soubriquet should be The Great Un
terrified. Overcome with defeat in In
diana, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, assailed
by loud yells of Radical triumph, and
distracted by mutinous counsels in its
own ranks, the Democratic party has yet
gallantly vindicated its right to its time
honored title by opposing to one and all
these discouragements a mighty shout of
“Fight it Out.” From the West, and from
the South, and even from Boston in the
East, there has come up such a roar of
defiance that “our friends, the enemy”
are by no means so confident as they
were. Seymours speeches are having a
most powerful effect; the Democratic
press, including even the World , which
has in a great measure, gotten over its
twitter, is double-shotting its guns, and
all indications are that, so far from
Grant’s election being a foregone conclu
sion, the weight of a hair between now
and November may turn the scale.
With this brief resume of the general
political situation, it is necessary to speak
of certain scandalous performances of
late in the South. Reference is had, pri
marily, to tho utterly unwarranted action
of the Democratic Executive Committee
of Georgia. Asa Democratic Commit
tee it was solemnly bound by the platform
of the party as adopted in the July Con
vention. That platform says : “We regard
the Reconstruction Acts, (so-called,) of
Congress, as usurpations and unconsti
tutional, revolutionary, and void and
yet, on the 2Gth of last month, this Com
mittee takes it upon itself to say, in a
formal address, that, “In our own State
we recognize the Government which has
been organized by authority of these
acts, and will recognize it now and hence
forth, if it should not be superceded by
authority of law.” Not content with thus
contravening the Democratic platform in
a most vital point by declaring the Re
construction acts prima facie constitu
tional, and this when , by the very scoun
drels who mode them, and at the time
they were made , it was declared they
were outside of the Constitution , this
Committee put forth another Address on
the 16th of this month, in which they
say : “We reiterate the positions taken
by this Committee in their late Address,”
and “we acquiesce in the present status
of the colored race among us, and will
protect them to tho extent of our power
in the right of suffrage secured to them
by the Constitution of the United States
and amendments thereto, and the Consti
tution and laws of this State.”
If this is not a surrender, horse, foot,
and artillery, it would be hard to say
what is. If it is not an admission that tiie
jail-bird Atlanta Convention was a "•enu
ine Georgia Convention; that the thimr
ft
called Constitution hatched out by it j
a real Constitution ; that Bullock is law
fully a Governor ; and Jo Brown right
fully sits in the seat of that upright
Chief Justice, Lumpkin, who has gone to
his rest; if. in one word, this dees not
admit that Reconstruction is right, an/
we, who have been combatting it, are no*
true men but felons, the English lan
guage has no meaning. lam far from
charging on this Committee a worse
motive than fright ; but, whatever the
motive, it has repudiated the Democratic
platform—our ark of safety in a sea c:
troubles—and the • Democracy of Geor
gia should repudiate it. Since it is so son 1
of reconstruction let it be reconstructed
at once. Let the cry be: True men to the
front, and grannies to the rear. The times
do not admit of the batons of leadership
being held in Georgia by withered old
anatomies, who run up the white flag th
moment they get in front of the foe.
The institutions now forming are those
under which the young men of Georgia
must live out their lives, and it especial:,
behooves them, to sec to it that no un
timley concessions surrender now, what
hereafter it may be difficult, if not impos
sible, *0 regain. As to the Committee
itself, fit me repeat, there is no charge of
disreputability So far from that, it is
respectable, emniently respectable, as
respectable an old mediocrity as could b
scared up in flic South, but it is incom
petent ; its history, with slight excep
tions, has been a string of blunders, and i
is time that these blunders should cease
The National Democratic Party has just
re-affirmed its principles by an all but
unanimous voice. It is one of the-.-
principles that Reconstruction is “usur
pation and unconstitutional, revolution
ary, and void.” In the light of this de
claration, this Committee should see us
condemnation, and retire. And it it
won’t retire, it ought to be made to do >
As it is now going on, it is piling it
endless trouble in the future for the peo
ple it so profoundly misrepresents.
Mutatis mutandis', the same may b
said of the South Carolina Club. That,
to be sure, pitches a lower note than th •
Georgia fossil, and says it only acquiesce ~
in “qualified” Negro suffrage. But who
is to do the qualifying ? And does the
Club not see that if the Democracy su
ceeds there need not be any Negro suf
frage at all, qualified or unqualified:
while, if Grant wins, no limitation what
soever on that franchise will be allowed ?
If, in the good Providence of God, s:
fearful a thing as Negro suffrage is to b •
forced upou us, let it come by force alon
aud last as long as the force lasts; bug
for Heaven's sake, don’t let us lend to it
the further validity of our consent. In
the immortal phrase of Bill Arp, “let ’em
roll on their cart,” but don't lei us
grease the wheels.
The Episcopal Convention is still
grinding along, the principal object of it
attention at present being the amo. i
rnjent of the canon law. The Tyng cas
went off on a technicality, though t : e
vote, 9 ( .) to 92, showed that by a sin ad
majority, the worthy mail would ham
received the martyrdom it is thought b
some that he desires. During the and
- he was present and eyed the c
troversialists like a hawk, especial
those who sustained the justness of th:
sentence passed upon him by the Pi -
cesan Court. Stubbs, the other party t
the fray, the man who hauled him ov r
the Church coals, was also present, Irr
opened not his mouth. Otherwise, how
ever, he did not speak in the Conven
tion, and to very good purpose, very sen
sibly observing, on occasiou of a del at
as to th efiens el origo of the existing
troubles in the Church, that they all an .
from men comiug into the Episcy /
ministry who were neither full believ r
in Episcopal doctrines nor willing ' •
yield cheerful obedience to Episc •;
law. Much disappointment is felt -
this quiet termination of the great T
trial, it having been supposed that th :
would be a most entertaining ha':
royal among the clerics upon its ii -v.
disposition. Ritualism has been ran. -
dogded, the Convention being so evei.
divided on the matter that neither \
cares to try the somewhat perilous me
pen me lit of pushing the other to ; -
wall. A spirit of compromise seems t
have usurped the first warlike iiupio
and signs are we are to miss our giad.
tonal show on this point too. But
little scuffle lias been had in the nia*
and that in-this wise : Each morning,
fore proceedings open, the Convtu.
attends prayers. At first the attend
music was rendered by small boys, *i- --
up in white gowns. Smelling iu th:
scent of the Scarlet Woman, divers ten
consciences, four score and seven ten
consciences, to be mathematically con
in all, remained outside of the Chu; •
iu the porch thereof, until the uurigh
boys were done, and then came in
up their orisons. Since then the t>---
fuil youngsters have not appeared.
one musn't be too hard on the Colvc