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iiiery, and finding tliat I could move no
farther to the right, without .sacrificing
the larger portion of my command, I at
once ordered the two right Regiments to
front, charge up to the works, and drive
the enemy from them, which they did in
the most gallant manner, capturing be
tween two and three hundred prisoners.
In the meanwhile the two left Regiments
firmed in line, in obedience to orders,
and, wheeling to the right, pressed up to
the works and joined the left of the two
right Regiments, a portion of the ex
treme left regiments overlapping Ram
seurs right. The whole command after
terwards gained sufficient front by moving
to the right and driving the enemy from
the works as they moved, but my force
was not sufficient to regain the entire
line, and a small portion was left in the
occupancy of the enemy, from which was
poured a terrible enfilade fire, and this, in
connection with the repeated assaults in
front, had it not been for some traverses
in the works, would have rendered the
position wholly untenable, one-third of
my command being already killed or
wounded. * * * *
“In this state and position this com
mand remained until 3:30 a. m., on the
i 3th, repulsing desperate and repeated
efforts of the enemy to dislodge them.
At G p. m. I received a dispatch from
Lieutenant General Ewell, informing me
“if my position e >uld be held untii sun
down ail would be well.” Thus, from
7 A. M , of the 12th, to 3 A. M., of the
13th, twenty hours; the men were ex
posed to a constant anu murderous mus
ketry fire, both from front and flank, and
during the hours of day, to a heavy ar
tillery fire, in whieh mortars were used
by the enemy. A cold, drenching rain
was failing during the greater part of she
day and night, and the trenches were
filled with water. * ~ As an instance
of the terrible nature of the fire, a tree
twenty-two inches in diameter, was hewn
(o splinters and felled by the musketry.”
Here, then, we have the corroborative
testimony of three distinguished wit
nesses, to establish our position, and
overthrow the more unsupported state
ment of •*!?. C. I).”
We may add, without disparage;,mut
to (den. Ramsetir or his troops, that Katn
seur’s ]brigade was upon the lel’t of Gen.
Harris, in the prolongation of the recap
tured works throughout the day and night:
that the repeated assault-s of the enemy,
referred to by Gen. Ewell, were made
entirely upon Harris' front and right
flank; and that only a few of liamseur’s
North Carolinians, (those on the extreme
right of that Brigade,) were in a position
to do any firing. Besides, it was not Ma
hone’s Brigade of Virginians referred to
by us as aiding tint of Gen. Harris, but
McGowan’s Brigade of South Carolini
ans.
If, when ‘ B. C. i).‘ states that “North
Carolina troops never needed any such
stimulus or persuasion as to be led into
battle by Gen. Lee,’' he desires to con
vey the intimation that Gen. Lee led, or
attempted to lead, Harris’ Mississippians
on that day, because he was doubtful of
their courage, then “11. €. I).’’ is guilty
of a thought as pusiiauimous as it is un
founded, and makes an insinuation en
tirely beneath our notice.
Gem Lee did ride at the head of If ar
id’ Brigade, at Gen. Harris’ side, until the
danger became to imminent that the
Mississippians entreated him to go back,
and refused to advance until he did so.
When the united efforts of CoL Venable,
(of Gen. Lee’s staff,) Gen. Harris, and
tbe troops, induced Gen. Lee to ride no
further into the storm of bullets and
shot which threatened everything with
destruction, then Gen. Harris and his
Mis sissippiaus moved steadily forward,
like patrii fs bursting with heroic rage;
they beat back the enemy ; they recap
tured the works; they saved the army.
For the twenty weary hours that the
battle raged with unremitting fury, those
gallant sous of Mississippi stood, amid
death and destruction, an insurmountable
barrier between the Army of Northern
Virginia and ruin. Here they made an
historic page whose lustre is beyond the
power of envy or detraction to effaco or
sully. In this memorable battle* Missis
sippiaus plucked the laurel wreath of
Victory from the very jaws of Defeat,
and placed it in tue jeweled crown of
Mississippi, there to remain, an evergreen
and glorious emblem of the heroic cour
age of her sons. Tlmro it shall remain,
unsullied by a single stain, forever ; and
long after the prejudiced productions of
a Pollard, or an “11. C. D.” shall have
been consigned to the depths of oblivion,
Harris and his brave Mississippians shall
be known to Fame as the Heroes ok
SPOTTSYI,VANIA.
The death is announced of Mr George
ibgotr, father of Mr. Richard Pigott, of
the Dublin Irishman The deceased
was connected with the Nation, old, and
m w series, fir a period of over twenty
years.
JESIMEIJS,
ffgggp
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ing Agent, leaves this week for Florida,
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We commend him cordially to the mem
bers of the Press and the public generally.
Our Editor.— Rev. Father Ryan left
for Jacksonville last Thursday, to deliver
a Lecture, lie also intends to deliver a
Lecture in Charleston this month. Roth,
of course, for charitable and praiseworthy
objects.
‘The Requiem Mass for Bishop Harry.
-—We unintentionally omitted, in our
report of Bishop Barry’s Requiem Mass,
last week, that Misi Mary Robert and
the Miss Fred, ricks bad displayed great
taste in tlie decora'An of the Altars.
They worked with a groat deal of energy,
and have the pleasure of knowing that
their work was an honor to the ir taste
and .judgment, and was much admired.
THE- SOUTiPIMMifiRATION.
Atlanta, December Nth, 1368.
Banner of the South :
I see by your paper of to-day, that a
meeting will take place in Macon, estab
lishing a Society of Immigration. Many
attempts, for the same purpose, have al
ready been made lately, and people mav
believe that this one, like others, will
amount to nothing, or very little. I have
a different opinion, and think that, even
if it would fail in accomplishing all its
designs, suck an enterprise ought to re
ceive encouragement. But, if what I
hear about the coining meeting, is true,
it is likely they will succeed; at least,
they have in their projects elements of
succ°s J .
One of the causes of failure of some
Immigration Societies IPs in the diet that
their managers misunderstood the class of
emigrants tb it they could, possibly, call
to the South; and, perhaps, toe, because
they put the interest of owner sos laud
before the public’s interest.
Os course, men engaged, by trade, in
selling land, are very excusable, in trying
to increase their business; but such men
arc naturally inclined to call for capital
ists, (no matter how small their capital is);
not for workmen. Fut'ortorudely, capi
talist emigrants are rare birds nowadays.
Permit me to <juote here a lew lines trom
an article that I published on the same
subject in the “ 1 nielli grn< er, of the 4th
of June:
“Emigrants coming* iron: Europe with
a capital sufficient to put up large manu
factories, are not to b • found. A rich
man thero would nave hardly enough
money to start business here, and he
knows that if he spends one or two hun
dred thousand dollars to build up a busi
ness that proves to be profitable, a com
pany would immediately be formed
North, with millions of dollars, to crush
down his comparatively small enterprise,
and reap what he had sown for himself.
“Therefore, you must not depend on
Europe for that class of emigrants; but
the North will send them to you as soon
as a better cultivation of your land 'will
prompt them to do so.
* * * '* “Two things are re
quired to carry on business : Industry
and Capita!.
“Emigration from the Noian willbiing
capital; emigration from Europe will
bring industry. As industry and capital
are always hunting up each ether, they
will meet at some day, and the owner of
the land in the South, at this present
time, will bo deprived of all the advan
tages of his position, it lie does not take
the initiative.
* * # “The surest way to increase
your cash capital is to invest it in tue
cultivation of your land ; not to send it
North for the provisions you need. In
stead of buying your bread and meat, and
ven the bay for your stock, make it at
home, and make it in such quautity that
you shall have a large amount to spare
for ihe nun ket abroad. Better to buy
sacks to put your ecru in, than to buy
corn t<> put in your sacks.'’
* * v * “For such a result, you
cannot depen don the hands you have
now in your fields, and you must call in
your midst a class of emigrants that are
always at hand when reasonable induce
ments are offered to them. Be liberal
with them,especially with those who are
well educated; they have influeu.ee on
the others, and their influence is worth a
good deal.”
“European emigrants arc not difficult
to please, but what they dread, above all,
is to see their families suffering and be
come destitute in a foreign country where
they have no friends. Be yourselves
their friends; do not act as if you only
want the benefit of their toil, and you will
see them coming by thousands.”
If, as I understood, the re union at
Macon intends to organize a system oi
immigration for workmen that shall get
positive employment on their arrival in
Georgia; if they are not looking for men
with money to buy their land, they will
succeed.
Secure good working emigrants, by all
means, even if you have to advance them
the expenses of their transportation; and,
in a shorter time than you suppose, you
will see another class of emigrants
coming to buy your land, which, then,
will have a greater value. It will take
money and plenty of it, to carry your en
terprise through, blit the result of it is in
calculable, and, in fact, it is the best, and,
certainly, the quickest, if not the only
way »to restore the dilapidated wealth of
your State. Remember that you must be
the first agents of your now fortune; that
the wealth of the ground is the only one
inexhaustible, and that, of all careers to
which an industrious man can devote his
capital and his intelligence, Agriculture
is the most independent.
Chas. F. Gaii.mard.
For the Banner of the South.]
TO FARMERS,
Success in Agriculture is the result
of a good administration, combined with
a sufficient knowledge of culture. The
ablest is not be who makes the best crop,
or raises the fattest stock; for, it is always
easy enough to achieve such u result, at
great expense, and by damaging the
fertility of the soil; but the ablest is lie
who, though saving and increasing the
fertility of his soil, makes always good
crops, and raises good stock, at it com
paratively small expense.
One of the greatest evils in the culti
vation of land, in the South, is a complete
absence of a plan, and of regularity in
the works. Instead of consulting the de
gree of fertility of his land, in order to
know what sort of crop would grow best
on i!, and, consequently, would give the
most real profits, the Farmer inquires
about the different prices of pioJuee.
If Cotton sells well, be sure that his next
crop will he one of Cotton. No matter
if his land has been worn out, and almost
exhausted already, by the same produc
tion for several consecutive years, he is
determined to have Cotton to sell, and
Cotton he will plant. Is Wheat in de
mand * Next Bpring, all iris fields will
be verdant, until the rust will come to
derange his calculations ; for his ground,
which, perhaps, would have brought an
abundant and paying crop of Rye,
Clover, or anything else, was not fit for
Wheat. So it is with almost all sorts of
crops, a failure being always the result
of an inconsistent and incautious cultiva
tion.
1 do not pretend to say that the market
is not to be consulted ; on the contrary, it
ought to have a great weight in the deci
sions of the Farmer ; but its influence
must be always subordinate to the preser
vation and the increasing of the fertility
of the soil, which is the first law for the
Farmer.
To that purpose, a good system of cul
tivation, based on a regular rotation, is ot
absolute necessity, and when a Farmer
has once adopted one, he must carry it
through, and let him not be disturbed
from it by mere considerations derived
from market fluctuations.
Local circumstances, the nature of the
soil, the means of the Farmer, and the
mure or less difficulty to procure laborers,
change, considerably, the way ot con
ducting a farm, but all can be divided in
the three following system.-, all profitable
in their place:
L Pastoral Agriculture. —ln this sys
tem, the main thing is the raising of cat
tle and sheep, (hogs can, also, in some
circumstances, be included, with profit, in
Pastoral Agriculture.) It is the easiest,
the leant complicated, and the least expen
sive, provided that pasture is very abun
dant.
All the cares of the Farmer are then
tinned towards the production and the
fattening of stock; he has not to raise
any grain but what can be used on the
farm.
That system is well appropriated to
valleys, where rivers and small streams
stimulate the growing of grass ; to hill
sides, where the plowing is difficult, or
almost impossible ; and o remote places,
where the hauling of produce to market
would take a large share of the profits.
*2. Cereal Agriculture. —This system
is just the opposite of the preceding.
The production <ff grain is here the most
important affair; the raising of stock is
done only for the wants of the farm.
It is generally carried mi near cities
where manure can be had at a low price,
and abundantly. I say manure , not
fertilizers; for, even the natural guano,
itself, supposing that it could be had un
adulterated, cannot be a. complete sub
stitute of good stable or street manure.
3. Mixed Agriculture. —This system
includes the production of grain and the
raising of stock, so that those two branches
of rural economy may help each other.
It is the most rational, the most produc
tive, and the one that can best admit the
cultivation of staple productions like
Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar cane, provided
tliat not too large a share of the ground
is devoted to it. In this system, as in
the Cereal Agriculture , a well appro
priated rotation of crops cannot be dis
pensed with.
The Mixed Agriculture can be ap
plied to small farms as well as to large
ones; it admits all modifications that
circumstances mav require ; it saves and
increases the fertility of the soil, when
well managed, and there are but few
localities in Georgia, except in very
remote places, where it cannot be'carried
on with great profit.
I will, in subsequent articles, give the
particulars of these three systems of Ag
riculture, and, also, the be.-t rotations to
be applied to different sorts of farms ;
but. dow and always, I will insist on the
necessity of having a plan, arid a great
regularity in the works of the farm.;
Let no Farmer work through his farm, 1
like a blind man walks through a city,'
without knowing whore he goes to. Let
every one have a good system of cultiva
tion, and carry it through. Let him re
member that one acre well cultivated is
worth more than two acres half worked;:
that many Farmers who could get rich!
on small farms, are mining themselves on
large ones; that a farm is nothing but a!
complicated manufacture, in which the'
least neglected thing may lead to the j
most disastrous consequences.
Oli the Farmers, to-day, rests the wel
fare of Georgia. The wealth above the
ground has been annihilated by the war,
but t lie ground itself is the grand reservoir j
of wealth given by God to man. Anew
and inexhaustible capital is there in
store; and. as the Farmers arc the agents
through whom tliat capital shall come,"
every man in the State has interest to
see that their efforts are made in the
right direction, and not wasted, as it i«
ilie case too often.
GIIA S . F. Gal! MARI).
—• £ ♦
[For the Banner of the Suuth.l
ST. PATRICK’S SUNDAY SCHOOL
LIBRARY.
Last Sunday being* the day for holding
the annual meeting oi the St. Patrick’s
Sunday School Library Association, sev
eral gentlemen of the congregation, in
response fc to a request of Father Ryan,
assembled, after High Mass, in the St.
Vincent DcPaul Society Room, to devise
means by which the Sunday School Li
brary might be increased.
Mr. J. I). Kavarntgb. Pr< sident, took
the chair.
It was proposed by Mr. R. If. May, and
carried, that each member present would
contribute what lie felt disposed towards
the object in view.
The Rev. Father Ryan, and Mr. Jas.
A. Gray, each gave one hundred volumes,
to be selected by the President. The
other gentlemen present contributed to
the amount of one hundred dollars.
It wss proposed by 31 r. A. Mullarky,
and seconded by Father Ryan, that a
committee ot two, with the President.be
appointed to wait on those gentlemen of
the congregation who were net present,
and whom they might consider willing to
contribute. The motion was carried,
and the proposer and seconder were ap
pointed by the President.
It was proposed by .Mr. A. J. Gouley,
and seconded by 31r. E. F. Samuels,
that the gentlemen present be elected
honorary members of the Society, \ V | r
was carried unanimously.
It was proposed that these proceeding
he published in the Banner of-)
.South, after whieh the meeting adjourned
The result of this meeting shows u - ’
mistakably the charitably disposed -pi r >
of the members of our congregate
who so cheerfully came forward to
in the good work of procuring for tj„
youth amongst us a sound literarv c j M .
cation, a work than which none more r,
b!c can engage the mind of a Christian
Bantry,
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Seallavaag—An Amusing and Fitting J
gda nation—The Destruction of *,
American Bast He—A Xec lfj; n ;. :
which is Nothina Xcwfor this Proqn A
ire Age—A Pick and Pare Gatlu
The Fanatics in Council—Strong if;
ed Women and Weal Minded M, .
Horace Grcchj , Cadg Stanton, etc.
Bond Holders—The Poldie Deft.
The South.
New York, December s,
Banner of the Soudit:
Glancing at a cattle market report tlio
other day, my eye fell on this paragraph
“ Mixed lots of thin Stab- cattle «. . .
selling at 10cal2c., with scalawag-
Sca9c.,” &c., These market reports
being as far removed from politics as •*
is possible to conceive, it struck me as
curious to see in such a connection :
term that has risen into political promin
ence, and I had recourse to a cattle max
to tell me. His explanation i- ouF
amusing. It is this : In the cattle marko*
here, where meet graziers and drover
from all parts of the country, from Hi
nois, from lowa, and even fron Texa
a set of technical terms arc used to de
scribe the various grades of cattle, a,
follows: 1, Extra: 2, choice; 3, prim
4, good; 5, fair; (>, medium; 7, common.
Here the regular grades end, but, be
neath the last, and comprising the v. r.
meanest description of beef cattle ;Ai
hogs, come the “scalawags.” jiJ< v ti
ter m are included all the poor, miseral! ■.
nail-star red sickly looking - runts an
offscourings of the market, and in tin
view I leave you to ponder on tin- apnii
cubility oi the term to those misbegotten,
two-legged cattle, who now in tost ;A
South.
The week lias been signalized by tin
destruction, in this barbs r, of Fort La
fayette. The cursed hole took fim on
the first and, true to its reputation, sun
horror and anguish by its presence t» 11
last. As the flames spread the neignl.wr
ing country people began to dread an <;
plosion of the ten tons of powder iu the
magazine and skurried off in all direc
tions to the adjacent hills and village - for
safety. As the lire leap-: dup high*-rand
higher, and every now and. then a AiAi
would burst, their curses i.n toe Ar
ascended, and, thus, as the vil * den
burned into destruction, its requl m w; »
sung in the maledictions of ns- mbled
thousands. As it happened, there \v;<
no explosion, but, otherwise, the flam:
did their work, and, to-day, the walls < f
the dungeon stand on the sea-war! ho:<.
cheeilees as the prison lives cne< pas.--;
within them, and black as the wr.-ug ti;a;
sent the prisoner there. God is just. in
the waters of New York bay peris <J
by suicide, the man that kept pardon fron;
Mrs. Surratt, and now (tie -ame v.r.t r
reflect the demolition of Fort Lnfnw *••
It was well written, tliat old Gonfi
motto, Deo Vindice —G id is our Aveu
gcr ! He don’t forget.
Anew religion has been started her
or, rather, a Yankee adapt at ion < f «
French atheism. One Uomte, u Paris ;*;
who started out in youth to do away v.;
all religions, and wound up in age by in
venting one of libs own, is the father <
the SjS tm, whereof it is pos-ibA
you may have heard as Positivi-m. This
Positivism has certain fundament:.
thesis, as follows: that man is proure--!\
that progression is by stages; ...ml tie.
modes of thought, fitted to, and u A
in, une stage, become inefliciou- it;
another. Based on those statements, ;s tin
declaration that there three are s* ; - A
human development ; first, the tied >gi
eal, in which men account for the pro
blems Os life by the existence ot a God:
second, the material , in which m* -A",
tion at all is attempted, but the worM
simply taken as it is: and third, tin
posilve which accounts for everything '
purely scientific reasons, and rejects ;
theology and all morality alike. NYh - ..
ever, according to this theory, is in
cord with Natural laws is right, a.
what isn’t, isn't, there beiuir no ot! :
> O ,
test of morals than science, wind: ;
certainty.
ihe error ot this positivism is pan .
it man is progressive there is n<> re re
why he should stop at the positive n .
: more than at either iff the others and, >■