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6 i7f 't~blomf, & co., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, Ga., OCTOBER 31,1868 l \ y&j.# 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. • 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. ( \ 1 j -^ygr 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. \ Louisville ( Mlss.j Bulletin. 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. , j ; H . ■ - * * : '• ' * 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 ! RLP. i 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