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21st, the Second Part of
THE EARLS OF SUTHERLAND,
By Ruth Fairfax,
A LADY OF GEORGIA.
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cred Song by Bishop, entitled “ Seek
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the next. The following we find in a
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hope that the people of the South will
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Clubs for the Freeman’s Journal.
—Many of our “ Campaign Clubs” will
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NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
The Late Election —A Remarkable Cir
cumstance— Gen. Grant Notes it—Evi
dence of the Fact—He Quarrels with
Washburne—Second Edition of Andy
Johnson—Complexion of Congress —
Speculations—The Election in New York
City—Glass Globe Ballot Boxes —They
Can't be “ Stuffed ” —The Electoral vote
of New York—The Popular vote.
New York, Nov. 10th, 18G8.
Banner of the South :
It is a remarkable circumstance that
many throughout the North who voted
for Grant for President, voted at the
same time the Democratic ticket for Con
gress. So unusual a procedure shows
that Grant was elected on his personal
popularity and that thousands who voted
for him sought to indicate to him, by
their Congressional votes, the course
they desired hilfc, on his inauguration, to
pursue. The signs are that Giant has
not failed to note the significance of this
circumstance, and, as one evidence, may
he mentioned his refusal to accept a par
tizan ovation, on his return to Washing
ton City 7". Another, and still more preg
nant, indication is, that, he has quarrelled
with Washburne, of Illinois. It was
this man, it will he remembered, who
secured Grant his commission as Captain
in 1861, and, afterwards, championed his
cause when his drunkenness was alledg
ed against his promotion to the command
of the Western armies, and from these
and other causes the relations between
the two have been very intimate Wash
burne, as the phrase went, was Grant’s
keeper, hut is now Lis keeper no more.
The Congressman, is a very bitter Radi
cal, the head and front, in fact, of the ultra
wing of the party, and it is surmised
that the enmity which has sprung up
between him and his former protege
arises out of a diversity of opinion as to
the proper course to be pursued in the
new Administration. It may he that the
quarrel has originated in a mere ques
tion as to the spoils; but I am strongly
inclined to think otherwise, and attribute
the split to Grant’s determination not to
be ridden by the ultras as they desire.
The information that there has been a
quarrel with Waslihurne, comes to me
from the best authority, and, on the hy
pothesis that it litis its origin in political
causes, it is easy to see that we are to
have Andy Johnson over again, but
Andy with a powerful minority to hack
jjm, and his opponents shorn of the fatal
two-thirds. In the next Congress, the
Radicals will have from fifteen to twenty
less than the two-thirds; moreover, these
same Radicals are pretty well divided
into ultras and moderates, in about the
proportion of five of the former, to one
one of the latter; and, moreover, still,
the Democratic members will number
from ninety” to nine f y-five. Now, if
Grant sets himself in opposition to the
ultra Radicals, as the quarrel with Wash
burne would seem to indicate, and as it
is the almost universal impression here
that he will, jmu see that if he can but
form a coalition between the Democrats
and the moderate Republicans, he can
have a majority in the House to sustain
him. If the ultras in the House, and
the Senate, which is hopelessly Radical,
will not then listen to reason, the coali
tion can cut off’ supplies, by refusing to
pass appropriation bills, and thus starve
them into terms.
With these, as the current speculations
upon the general political future, I may
say that, on a careful review of the whole
field, I am far from believing the pros
pect of the South altogether dark. The
great need of toe South, is State Govern
ments administered by the worth, intel
ligence, and property of the State. To
secure these, should now be the entire
object of any political action that may he
taken. The present shells that claim to
be State Governments, are mere rotten
rinds deserving of no sort of forbearance
or respect. It is strongly unadvisable
to attempt their overthrow by violence,
but it is both proper and desirable to at
once put every energy at work to sup
plant them by institutions that shall re
present the consent, and conduce to the
prosperity of those whom existing forms
now rob and mistreat. So long as there
is no actual violence, you may pretty con
fidently rely on no interference from the
North.
The election in this City passed off
quietly. The votes arc deposited in
strong glass globes, so that the old trick
of “ stuffing ” becomes impossible. It
is conceded here that New York is
henceforth a Democratic State, and as
her Electoral vote is about one-tenth of
the whole Electoral College, this consti
tutes a very respectable nucleus for future
operations. The popular vote shows
that had all the lawful voters of the
United States been allowed to vote,
Grant would have been in a minority of
from a million and a quarter to a million
and a half. Tyrone Powers.
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
The Greatest Week of the Year-All
Saints' Bay — Reflections —All Souls'
Bay—Solemn Ceremonial at St. Joseph's
Cemetery , Jefferson City—A Reminis
cence of Rio Janeiro—Election Bay—The
Long Agony Ended—An Astonishing
Revelation — No more Bowing to Baal —
A Pleasant Change Visible—Archbishop
Odin—A Bad Memory and an Illus
trio us Preceden t — Grant's Peace.
New Orleans, Nov. 10th, 1868.
Banner of the South :
As this lias been in some respects the
greatest week of the year, it were best,
perhaps, to epitomise its chief events in
Diary form, as thus :
Sunday, Nov. Ist. — All Saints. —To
visitors from abroad, this is, by far, the
most interesting day of the year in our
goodly Crescent City. The turn-out of
our citizens upon the streets is as nearly
universal as circumstances will permit.
Shoe-leather, cabs, carriages, and street
cars are punished more heavily than on any
other day of the year. Bouquets and floral
wreaths are more abundant, and (strange
anomaly,) dearer than any other day.
The public displays of vanity and flirta
tions, amongst the thoughtless and giddy
of both sexes, surpass tiiose of all other
occasions. Along the streets leading to,
and all around the walls of, the Ceme
teries, towards which the countless throng
is pressing, are ranged unprecedented
numbers of booths and stands for the
sale of all sorts of refreshments—cakes,
candies, pies, fruits, nuts, etc , etc., ad
infinitum. Inside the Cemeteries, flows
and counter-flows an endless, surging
mass of gaping, dissipated, sight seers !
It is a pity to say it, but a greater pity
that a once beautiful, and touching cus
tom should have so degenerated. Years
ago, the pious Catholic inhabitants were
accustomed to go—after the Mass of All
Saints —to ornament the tombs of their
dead, in preparation for the solemnities
of the morrow—AH Souls Day. Non-
Catholics, impressed by what they con
sidered a very pretty sentimentality, but
knowing nothing of its real animus,
apishly adopted the custom, and have
nursed it up to its present characteristic
of almost Pagan pageantry.
Monday, Nov. 2nd . —All Souls.—
How very, very few of yesterday’s cu
! riosity seekers partake on the infinitely
i superior attractions, presented this morn
ing in every Catholic Church in the
world! Os the thousands that pass Ly
old St Patrick’s venerable front, this
morning, how few knew of the tre men.
dous mysteries that were beiug celebrated
upon its shrouded altar within! How lew
of our busy citizens thought of, or cared
for, the solemn rites that were, to-day. ob
served in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Jeiler
son City ; where an asqoerges was given
and a High Mass was sung, for the repose
of the faithful buried there. The cere
mony was novel aud affecting, the in
terest of the scene being greatly height
ened by the attendance, in a body, of the
pupils, male and female, of the Parochial
Schools, and also of St. Vincent’s College
and St. Joseph’s Academy, under the
guidance of their respective Teachers
the Christian Brothers, and the Sister’s
of Charity. Lot us hope that the meri
torious visits to the Churches and the
Grave-yards, on this day, may atone, iu a
great measure for the thoughtlessness of
yesterday’s displays.
While writing of to-day’s solemn ceiv
monials, I am reminded of the very dif
ferent manner in which I saw the same
Anniversary observed, some years ago,
in Rio de Janeiro. There,it is the custom
for families to preserve the bones of their
departed in urns and vases of various de
signs ; and, for All Souls Day, the bones
are carefully cleansed and polished, and
artistically ranged round the Cemeteries
and Mortuary Chapels. To my untutor
ed eye, I must confess, the grim array of
grinning skulls and suggestive cross
boues was anything hut jolly.
Tuesday, Nov. 3 d. — Election Day. —
Here, I’m nonpluseed. I’m inclined to
cry out, with the knife-grinder, “Story !
God bless you, I have none to tell, sir.”
Most of the ordinary concomitants of
’Lection Day are absent. No crowd, no
fights, no hurraing, no drunkenness, no
excitement of any kind—only long rows,
amounting to miles of closed stores, and,
on the streets, a steady and gentle flow
of quiet gentlemen towards the polls,
whence they quickly returned to enjoy a
quiet holliday iu their homes. To say
the city wore its Sunday look, were false;
for, in twenty years of residence here, 1
never saw a Sunday so orderly as this
day.
Wednesday, Nov. Ath. —The Long
Agony Ended !—The crisis passed, we
all breathe freer. In the election of the
Radical candidate, your correspondent
is neither surprised nor much distressed,
as may he seen by reference to his former
letters. I candidly believe that a severe
application of extreme Radicalism will
tend more to bring the Country to its
senses than any temporary milk and
water palliatives. We, of the South,
having been bled to our last drop, or dol
lar, have nothing further to fear or suffer;
hut “our brethreu” of the colder clime can
never hope to be freed of their Puritanic
phrensy, except by a sharp application of
the leech and lancet. I would commend
to thorn the services of that eminent prac
titioner, who was so successful here, Dr,
B. F. Butler, as I see lie has settled in
that latitude.
One astonishing revelation has been
made by yesterday’s election here. Our
Scalawags have been sifted out and
counted, to a man ; and what do you think
is their number ? For more than three
long, dreary years, our population of
nearly 300,000 honest citizens have been
kept under the thumb, and subjected to
the vilest ignominies—by what? A
large army ?—an overpowering majority
of bad citizens ? No such thing; but by
an inquisitorial band of conspirators,
numbering, in all, two hundred and
seventy individuals ! There is no mis
take in the number, for the Negroes unani
mously abstained from voting, so that
their white “friends” might stand “alone
in their glory”—and that is their number.
On reflection, this result is not so aston
ishing after all; for, we all recollect that
a “count of noses’’ was made a few week*
ago, on the occasion of the Radical
Grand Torchlight Assemblage, when a
gathering of the “Loil” clans was made,
embracing all the “faithful” for miles
and miles above and below the city, bi
that full assemblage of all the Tribes,
there were about 15,000 Africans, and
about 250 palefaces ! Thus, the Radical
vote of yesterday is only a striking veri
fication of the previous count.
“If this Court know herself, and she
think she do,” it is not very likely that
this community will ever again “crook the
pregnant hinges” to such a bugaboo a* the
so-called Republican party'.
Already a pleasant charge is visible m
the complexion of our policemen ; not an
African left in the rauks! In accordant
with the law of Nature, which regulate-*
all levels, the bottom rail is quietly set
tling to its proper place, and there i*g ee
j reason to ’nope that, in this State, at h -
j it will not soon again be disturbed.
I am happy to state that our veaerab <
; and beloved Archbishop Odin has ! |
; much benelitted by a recent trip to -o’
bile, and wo have reason to hope ui;*