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About The banner of the South. (Augusta, Ga.) 1868-1870 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1869)
8 [Publish 0 *! by request. - ! Antony sind. Clsopa-tro,. J am dyW. mi*’ dyinp."- Bhassl>bare. 1 a*n dying, dying ! Ebbe the onmson life-tide fast, And the dark Plutonian shadows Gather on the evening blast. Let thine arm, oh! Queen! support me, Hush thy sobs and bow thine ear, Listen to the great heart secrets, Thou, and thou alone, must hear. Though my scarred and veteran legions Bear their Eagles high no more. And my wrecked and scattered galleys Strew dark Actium’s fatal shore; though no glittering crowds surround me, Prompt to do their Master’s will. I must perish like a Roman — Die, the great Triumvir still! Let not Caesar’s servile minions Mock the lion thus laid low, ’Twas no foeman’s arm that felled him, ’Twas his own that struck the blow. Hear, then! pillowed on thy bosom, Ere its star shall veil its ray, Him, who drunk with thy caresses, Madly threw the world away. Should the base plebian rabble Dare assail my fame at Rome, Where the noble spouse, Octavia, Weeps within her widowed home— Sleek her, say the gods have told me, Altars, augurs, circling wings, That her blood with mine commingled, Yet shall mount the throne of Kings. And, for the star-eyed Egyptian, Glorious sorceress of the Nile, Light the path to Stygian honors With the splendor of thy Bmile t Give to Caesar crowns and arches, Let his brew the laurel twine, I can scorn the Senate’s triumphs, Triumphing in love like thine 1 I am dying, Egypt, dying; Hark! the insulting foeman’s cry; They are coming—quick, my falchion ! Let me front him, ere I die. Ah! no more amid the battle Shall my heart exulting swell; Isis and Osiris guard thee— Cleopatra ! Rome ! farewell! THE CONFEDERATE DEAD. BY WM. ARCHER COOKE, Our exchanges inform us of a move ment co-extensive with the area of the late Confederate States, to provide cemeteries suitable to the Confederate dead. The very term Confederate dead has an eloquence which reaches the heart. It does not embrace those who lived, while they lived, on pelf, and died of rot tenness in comfortable chambers, far away from the roar of artillery, and the rattle of musketry, where men laid down and died with the life blood flowing from them. No! the Confederate dead, means those brave, honest patriots who for coun try bared their breast to the storms of war; for liberty died under the flag of their native land, or with sickened body and mutilated limb perished in the hos pital. These are our Confederate dead, who sealed their love of principle with a death-bed scene that will forever stamp their names on the roll of honor. They are in character « Majestic men whose deeds hare dazzled faith.” Os each may it be said: “With his back to the field and his feet to the foe. And leaving in battle no blood on his name; Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.” Bury our Confederate dead in beauti ful cemeteries. Let the chisel of the artist, the cunning of the artisan decorate their graves; let the innocent warble of the forest songster be heard in the willow that weeps above the monumental stone. Let woman come with her plastic hand and pure Christian heart, and plant fresh flowers around the last resting place of Liberty’s martyrs. Here the sweet young wife may gather at early morn and dewy eve, aud, as *she mingles her tears of devotion with the dripping of the flowers, she can tell her orphan child ren how a noble father fell. Here the aged matron and feeble sire may totter around the heaving earth that holds the remains of the only stay and prop of their declining years. Does any one ask ? “Can storied urn or animated dust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can honor’s voice provoke the silent dust, Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death ?” Alas! no ; but the gratitude of a peo ple for a soldier band of such worth and character and honor as “our Confederate dead,” should be perpetuated in history, on the canvass, upon the breathing mar ble. Ttie “cities of the dead” should receive the embellishment of art and the cultivation of taste, and, above all, let the rising generation see aud feel that though unsuccessful against mighty armies, yet their names are to memory ever dear, and those who are now youDger brothers, or little orphan boys, may see that brothers and fathers, though sleep ing beneath the sod, are still remembered by a grateful people. Nor is it an empty honor, we do justice to our own appreciation of all that is ex cellent ; we erect a shrine where genius and worth may offer their devotions, we open a school where the ardent, young mind may cultivate an undying admira tion, not fur the glare of military tinsel, but for high-toned, chivalric honor—for unshrinking valor. Embellish these hallowed spots ; en grave upon marble and upon granite your gratitude and your appreciation for moral worth; you are re-enacting the history of classic Greece and Rome ; you are adding another tune to the melody of song—additional fire to the blaze of elo quence, a fresh stream of devotion to the genius of Liberty. INSULTING A BOSTONIAN Not many days since, a gentleman named Brent, quite well known in art and literary circles, had occasion to visit a hook establishment in Boston, and saw there a painting of Raphael Semmes, also one of Stonewall Jackson. While looking at and admiring them, the mer chant said: “You are interested in those rebels ?” Mr. Brent—Yes, they seem to be very fine pictures. Have you any others ” “You mean rebels ?” “Yes, sir.” “Yes, sir; we have pictures of the prominent rebels. Keep them as a sort of curiosity.” “Ah! If you have a complete set I should like to buy them. I am making a collection of leading rebels of the country. If your set is full I shall be very glad to purchase.” “Well, it is full, we have all of them.” “Davis?” “Yes, sir. Avery good picture of Davis.” “General Johnson ?” “Yes, sir. At least we have an en graving of Johnson, said to be very good.” “General Lee ?” “Yes; I believe so.” “Have you Washington ?” “Oh yes, sir.” “John Hancock ?” “Don’t know as we have a painting of Hancock. Have an engraving, how ever.” Patrick Henry ?” “Well—no sir; I believe we have none of him.” “Thomas Jefferson ?” “No painting of Jefferson’ I think we have an engraving ; I’ll see.” “John Adams ?” “No; we have no painting or engrav ing of Adams.” General Warren ?” The Bostonion says, scratching his head, “Warren? Warren? Warren? “Yes, sir. General Warren who fell at Bunker Hill.” “No, Sir. We have no picture of him.” “I understood you to say that you had the rebels complete. Very sorry your list is so imperfect, for I have long been anxious to obtain pictures of all the prominent rebels—lovers of their coun try, who dared to fight for the rights of the people. A partial list is not what I want. I pill not take any of the pictures this morning. Good-day. The last seen of the Boston merchant he was flattening his nose against a pane of glass watching the retreating form of his anticipated customer, taking in his di mensions. Washington’s Birthday. —The Twen ty-second of February is made, now, a day of public observance. Banks are closed and public business is suspended. We nowise object to holidays. It is good to multiply them. The folly of Protestantism in abolishing these days of relief from labor, is becoming evi dent. But, why should a loyal population celebrate the birthday of George Wash ington ? Washington was a “rebel against the best government under heaven”—as it was called at the time. Washington was a traitor to the government he had sworn to support. Washington was a perjurer, also, because as a commission ed officer in the British army, lie had taken the prescribed oath of the com missioned officer of the army! This is the kind of “rebel” and “perjured traitor” whose birthday this city of New York keeps as a holiday! llow can we hope to he done with “rebellion,” having such precedents thus honored ? [N. Y. Freeman'a Journal. , MR OREGON WILSON- In the “Waverley” corner of Fourth street and Broadway Mr. Oregon Wil son has his studio., and is next-door neighbor of the distinguished artist Mr. MacDonald, whose “Somnambula” has been already noticed in those columns, Mr. Wilson is a young and rising artist, and is a fair type of the versa tile American painter. Instead of creeping oil into an out-of-the-way room, and burying himself in the gloom and cobwebs of a g'anet, he has established himself on the great thoroughfare ot the Metropolis, in one of the grandest and most elegant studios in the city, amd it is here that he gives his unique and pleasant receptions on Saturday aiter noons. Members of the various pro- msb m m vbs mm a. sessions poets, painters, physicians, lawy ers, members of the press, and last, though by no means the least, the ladies, form the greater part of his visitors’. The first picture that strikes the eye on entering his room is one he has now on his easel, called woman’s devotion. Its size is six by eight feet, and con tains two life-size figures. It is intended to illustrate an incident in the late war, which occurred near Winchester, Va. The contending armies had fought over a blody field nearly all day. The death shots fell thick and fast on every side. Foot to foot and steel tosteel thecomba tantsdisputed the ground, and many a gallant soldier fell on that fateful day. At last the Confederates retired, and the Fcderals bivouacked for the night. The fight had been contest over a large extent of territory, and the dead and wounded were scattered far and wii«. In some places the disabled of both sides lay to gether. The ladies of Winchester and surrounding country left their homes to attend to the wounded. A young lady of the vicinity, who was well known for her great devotion to the then fallen fortunes of the South, encountered a young staff officer who was suffering from a dangerous wound in the breast, his life current ebbing fast away. To staunch the blood was her first care. This done she placed his head upon her lap, and in this position determined to hold him until assistance arrived. It was not long before a Federal surgeon, with his aides, approached, and examined the wound. He told the fair attendant that if the wounded officer could have perfect rest he might recover. She looked upon his deathlike and pallid face; it touched the tenderest chord of her heart. She felt that he was fighting for the independ ence of his native State; that he had offered his life in its service. These reflections and the mute, but eloquent, pleading of the pale features before her filled her heart with the tenderest emotions for the sufferer, and she de termined to save him. To her he was more than a Confederate soldier.— Through the long dreary night she never moved her patient, but held him as if the fate of her own heart and the des tinies of nations hung upon Ins waning life. She heard the cries and moans of the wounded that went up towards a cold and pitiless sky. Nature’s lamps burned dimly, and the new moon soon sank below the distant horizon. She was alone. Finally sleep and death had silenced all, but still the brave girl held her charge. Long hours passed, and at last the grey light of the comming day began to streak the eastern sky, and the rosy tints, lovely heralds of the sun, had given the first blush of morn, when the grey mists yet hung over the damp ground, or enveloped the hill sides. Just at| daybreak is the time seized upon by the artist to fix the scene, and there he has seated on the field of death one of Virginia’s beautiful daughters. The youth lays stretched at full length on the cold ground, his head resting in her arms. The scene is one which will call forth the highest effort of genius in one of the most difficult walks in the ait of painting The morning’s light reveals the wreck and carnage of the fight; and when we give reigns to our imagination, and attempt to follow the thoughts, the hopes and fears of that devoted girl, we can but faintly surmise what they must have been through the long and gloomy night. Be this as it may, Mr. Wilson has painted a beautiful girl, plainly dressed; tier golden hair falls in a disheveled state about the temples of the wounded soldier. She looks earnestly, but hope fully, into his face. The artist has only got fairly to work, but sufficient has been done to justify us in saying that it will be a brilliant success. We shall, therefore, look farward with great interest to the public ap pearance of this work, which is to be the first of a series illustrating the heroic deeds of Southern women, and just here we would request of our South ern friends to send us accounts of well authenticated events or incidents of female heroism that happened during’ the war. We have already alluded to Mr. Wil son’s three pictures of “Sunshine,” Au tumn, ’’ and “The Orphan.’’ His portraits of citizens of New York and vicinity are deservedly popular, and his long residence in Europe, where he studied his profession in Germany, France and Italy, lias given him many advantages, w’hich, with his industry and perseverance, have won for him a high place among American artist.s Metropolitan Record , rQP’The Banner of the South can be had of News Dealers in every city in the country. Specimen copies sent free to any address. President Grant’s Inaugural. Washington, March 4.— -After taxing the oath of office, General Grant said : Citizens of the United States :—Your suf frages having elevated me to the office of President of the United States I have, in conformity with the Constitution of our country, taken the oath prescribed there. I have taken this oath without mental reservation and with the determination to do, to the best of my ability, all that re quires of me. The responsibilities of the position I feel but accept them without fear. The office has come to me unsought. I commence its duties untrammelled. I bring to it a conscientious desire and de termination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. On all leading questions agitating the public mind, 1 wili always express my view’s to Congress, and urge them accord ing to my judgment, and when I think it advisable will exercise the Constitutional privilege of interposing a veto to defeat measures which I oppose. But all laws will be faithfully executed whether they meet my approval or not. I shall, on all subjects, have a policy to recommend, but none to enforce against the will of the people. Laws are to gov ern all alike—those opposed to as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of an obnoxious law so effective as their stringent execution. The country having just emerged from a great rebellion, many questions will come before it for settlement in the next four years which preceding administrations have never had lo deal with. In meeting these it is desirable that they should be ap proached calmly,w ithout prejudice,hate or sectional pride, remembering that the greatest good to the greatest number is the object to be attained. This requires se curity of person, property and for religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice. All laws to secure these ends will receive my best efforts for their en forcement. A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union. The payment of the 'principal and interest, as weil as the return to a specie basis, as soon as it can be accom plished without detriment to the debtor class or to the country at large, must be provided for. To protect the national honor every dollar of Government indebt edness should be paid in gold unlessother wise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted in public place, and it wili go far toward strengthening a credit which ought to be the best in the world and will ulti mately enable us to replace the debt with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the Treasury for every dollar collected and the greatest practicable retrenchment in expenditure in every department of the Government. When we compare the paying capacity of the country now, with ten States still in poverty from the effects of the war, but soon to emerge, I trust, into greater pros perity than ever before,with its paying ca pacity twenty-five years ago, and calculate what it probably will be twenty-five years hence, who can doubt the feasibility of paying every dollar, then, with more ease than we now pay for useless luxuries. Why it looks as though Providence had be stowed upon us a strong box of the precious metals locked up in the sterile mountains Oi the far west, which are now forging the key to unlock, to meet the very contin gency that is now upon us. Ultimately It may be necessary to increase the facilities to meet these riches, and it may be neces sary also that the General Government should give its aid to secure this access, but that should only be when a dollar of obligation to pay secures precisely the same sort of dollar to use now and not before. Whilst the question of specie payments is in abeyance, the prudent busi- ness man is careful about contracting debts payable in the distant future. The nation should follow the same rule. A prostrate commerce is to be rebuilt, and all industries encouraged. The young men of the country -those who, from their age, must befits rulers twenty-live years hence—have a peculiar interest in main taining the National honor. A moment’s reflection as to what will beour command ing iuliuence among the Nations of the earth in their day, if they are only true to themselves, should inspire them with Na tional pride- Ail divisions, geographical, political, and religious, can join in the common sentiment. How the public debt is to be paid, or specie payments resumed, is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in. A united determination to do is worth more than divided counsels upon the method of do ing. Legislation upon this subject may not be necessary now, nor even advisable, but it will be when the civil law is more fully restored in all parts of the country, and trade resumes its wonted channels. It will be my endeavor to execute all laws in good faith, to collect all revenues as sessed, and to have them properly account ed for and economically disbursed, i will, to the best of my ability, appoint to otiiee those only who will carry out this design. In regard to foreign policy, I would deal with nations as equitable law requires individuals to deal with each other, and I would protect the law-abiding citizen, whether of native or foreign birth, wherever his rights are jeopardized or the flag of our country floats. I would re spect the rights of all nations, demanding equal respect for our own. If others dtv part from this rule in their dealings with us, we may be compelled to follow their precedent. The proper treatment of the ori ginal occupants of this land, the In dian, is one deserving of careful study. I will favor any course toward them which tends toward their civilization, Christiani zation and ultimate citizenship. The question of suffrage is one which is likely to agitate the pub lic so long as a portion of the citizens of the nation are excluded from its privileges in any State. It seems to me very desir able that this question should be" settled now, and I entertain the hope and express the desire that it may be the latiiioation of the loth article of the amendment to the Constitution. In conclusion, \ ask patient forbearance one toward auother throughout the land, and a determined effort on the part every citizen to do his share toward C( 1 menting a happy Union, and I ask thl prayers of the nation to Almighty God \ behalf of this consummation. * ,n The Household. roasting meats. The success of every branch of cookery depends upon the good management of the kitchen fire ; roasting, especially, require-; a brisk, clear and steady fire. Meat should never be sprinkled with salt when first placed to roast, as the salt draws out the gravy. Old meat requires more cook ing than young, but the longer the meat has been killed, the less time it requires to roast it. Fat meat requires more time than lean. The general rule is to allow ten minutes to every pound of beef or mut ton, if one likes it to cut rare; twelve min utes, if desired well done, and allow ten minutes “for the oven,” as the sayinw is. This rule, if the fire is brisk, cooks mutton “to a turn. ” Turkeys and chick ens require fifteen minutes per pound, and fifteen for the over If old and tough twenty minutes per pound is none too long. Veal, pork and lamb require longer cooking. A leg of lamb, weighing eight pounds, will cook well in two hours. Veal and; pork require twenty-five minutes per pound. Perfection in roasting is very difficult, and success is so dependent upon circumstances, which are continually changing, that no certain rule can be given for it; the ace and size of the pieces, the quantity of the coals, the weather, the current of air in the kitchen, the more or less attention of the cook, and the time of serving, are all to be considered. Hence epicures say of a well-roasted joint, “it is done to a turn.” Roast meats should be sent to the table the moment they are ready, if they are to be eaten inperlection. We all know the difference between a well-roasted, juicy piece of meat and its reverse; but few gentlemen can understand the many obstacles to its success, and wives are often blamed when the fault lies far from their door. Most of them are compelled by circumstances to bake meat, and it is the least advantageous mode of cooking ; for by it meat loses about one tbird of its weight. If meat must be baked, it should never lie in water and parboil on one side, while it browns on the other. Four skewers can be laid across the drip ping pen, and the joint of meat placed upon them; in this way the juices of the meat are retained, and not boiled out into the gravy. BROILING. It is not every one that can broil a beef steak “to a turn.” There are certain con ditions needful else ♦he nicest “porter house steak” will be a tough morsel. The gridiron must be the hottest possible, so as to seer the surface of the meat rapidly, and forces it to retain its juices. It must be covered with a fiat tin while cooking, and turned from side to side continually. In eight or ten minutes, if the coals are very clear, and brisk, it will proves morse! for Charles the Second. No salt and pep per should be added until it is laid on a very hot platter, then add a little butter also. RECIPES. Graham Bread. —Twice as much m ea ‘ as water. To be mixed slowly by stirring* sifting in the meal with the hand. Th e batter is put in patty pans of tin or cast iron and baked in a hot oven—hot enough to brown over the top in twenty minutes. Second Kind. —Tepid water; flour stir red in stiff; better for dyspeptics, as it requires more chewing. Third Kind. —Hot water; stir very care fully, but not too much. So much lor w’heat bread, of which we preferred ti.c first. Corn Bread— Have one quart oi van sweet milk, four weil beaten eggs, a spoonful of sugar, three tea spoomuls 1 baking powder, mix all the ingrcuie--: into the milk, and then stir in silted uqd until it forms a thick batter: pour mixture into a bread pan and bake it. A Nice Way to Prepare App a dozen tart apples, take out the * • place sugar with a small lump cl bu - the centre of each apple, put t o.em • pan with half a pint of water. Bok -* tender, basting occasionally.witu hie m while baking; when done serve tnem cream. Wheat and Corn Bread—^ n Jworn corn; three quarters wheat ; pcaia - ffa . meal; stir it until smooth; add a- - it may be hot it you are in a little crystallized cofiec sugar, j D purest; stir in the wheat meal. , small tins; and as number one, c j J j- meal usually requires a hotter ',^F aa ways sift your meal ot all kinds t • or oat sieve to free it from bits o stones, which sometimes get in R the loaves should be pricked. To Make Calicoes Wash 'f'U yfo; three, gills of salt in four quaru ;hi water, put the calicoes in wn co lon leave tbem till cold; in this • j' n0 t fade are rendered permanent, am a j a jy by subsequent washing. b v‘ D eri® ent ' who has frequently ina *e u* L aU ickly Nothing can be cheaper and muu done. water For Burns Take str J uQt jl tF and mix with liuseea on, wbitF oil is cut, and the whole -° rl m. : g a pptied mass of creamy consistency. Vootbin?- freely to the bur t surface, .j - DO t and may save life where meuitaia. to be obtained speedily.
