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KEY- A. J. RYAN, Editor.
AUGUSTA, GA„ SEPT. 17, 1870.
ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS AND
BUSINESS LETTERS FOR THE ‘‘BAN
NER OF THE SOUTH 1 ’ SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLISHERS—
L. T. | >LOME & CO.
A SUMMER TRIP.
We hove but recently returned from
a brief and busty trip through Western
South Carolina and Eastern Georgia, and
p;- pose to inflict upon our readers an
equally brief and hasty resume of our
"Notes by the Wayside.”
A pleasant ride of five hours over the
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Rail
Road, one of the pleasantest routes and
best managed roads in the South, brought
us to the beautiful Capital of South Caro
lina. Here we find the evidences of
Sherman’s incendiarism still extant, liv
ing monuments to one of the most infa
mous raiders of a most infamous war.
There arc yet standing, however, some
very handsome public buildings and
private dwellings, which give the visitor
a pretty fair idea of the beauty of the
City before its mutilation by Sherman
and his barbarian hordes.
On the day of our arrival, the Union
Reformers held a meeting at the City
Park, at which Judge Carpenter, their
candidate for Governor, and several other
gentlemen, mare speeches, which we did
not hear, but which were highly eulogized
by those who were present. There were
political meetings at night also, but every
thing passed off quietly enough.
There arc some fine Hotels here, the
principal of which are the Nickerson
Hon se and the Columbia Hotel.
We had the pleasure of meeting with
Mr. Gordon, of the Charlotte, Columbia
<fe Augusta Railroad, formerly of the
Bath Paper Mills, near this City. He
chaperoned us through the Company’s
shops, which arc admirably arranged, and
execute some of the finest railroad work
in this country. In these shops are all
the latest irnprovents in machinery, and
experienced workmen are employed in
the several departments. Here may be
seen also, an arrangement fir loading
tenders with wood. It is an ingenious
contrivance, and will greatly facilitate
the taking in of wood on the lioad.
Ihe distance from Augusta to Colum
bia by this route is 83 miles.
At Columbia we took the cars of the
Greeneville & Columbia Railroad, of
which Mr. Fred’k Rush is the gentleman
ly and courteous President. After a run
of 117 miles which brought us to Belton,
we took the ears on the Anderson Branch
to Anderson, a distance of 9 miles, thence
on the Blue Ridge Railroad to Walhalla,
a distance of 33 miles.
On the Greeneville Road are seen some
of the prettiest and pleasantest villages
in South Carolina. Among them are
the city-like town of Newberry, Pros
perity or Prog Level, Ninety-six, Don
ald’s, Helena, and others. Anderson is
also a thriving town. At Ninety-six is
the dinner house where an excellent meal
can be had tor 75 cents with ample time
to cat it.
At the Walhalla Depot the omnibus
takes you one mile and a half to the
Hotel, passing through the settlement of
West l nion, which is a part of Walhalla
—this village being built almost entirely
on one street about 2 miles in length,
and containing a population of some
1,200 or 1,400 inhabitants. It is the
County-town of Oconee County, formerly
a portion of Pickens District, and is
largely Conservative. This party claims
1,100 votes to 400 Radicals. We saw
but few of the latter. Here is some of
the finest scenery in the State, and Na
ture seems to have lavished her wildest
beauties with a generous hand. About
four miles to the north, and stretching as
far as the eye ran reach, is a chain or
spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains, their
lofty peaks stretching their outlines in
solemn grandeur along the horizon. One
of these mountains bears the euphonious
name of Stumphouse, and has been tun
nelled for the passage of the Blue Piidge
Road. The route of this Road, however,
has been changed, and instead of passing
far to the north of Walhalla, as originally
surveyed, will pass through its southern
boundaries.
The village is a very pleasant one, and
considerable business is done here. It
is in the midst of an apple-growing coun
try, and these can be bought at from 30
to 40 cents per bushel. Among the
merchants’ names we observed several of
the Banner's subscribers, and John D.
Brieman tbe proprietor of the excellent
Hotel,Oestendorff & Cos., W. A. Thomp
son, keeper of the Livery Stables, who
does a thriving business in furnishing
teams to excursion parties to the moun
tains Dr. Warne, the piincipal physician
of the place, Dr. J. J. Norman, the Drug
gist, and others, were by no means un
familiar to us. The Banner will be
pleased to retain them all as its friends
and patrons, knowing that they are all
true Southerners and patriotic citizens.
They have our best wishes for their suc
cess.
The Keowee Courier , owned and edited
by Messrs. Keith, Thompson & Hoyt, is
published here, and is an excellent jour
nal. It receives, as it certainly deserves,
a liberal patronage from the surrounding
country. It is doing good service to the
Reform movement. Wo met here Col.
Logan, of the Kingstree Star , a most
pleasant gentleman, and accomplished
Editor. He was on a pleasure jaunt, and
seemed to he enjoying himself to the
fullest extent.
While in this village we witnessed
one of those grand phenomenas of Na
ture, the Aurora Borealis or North
ern Lights, rendered doubly grand, as
witnessed in this elevated region with
the Mountains so majestically outlined
in front of it. It was a very clear even
ing, and for fifteen minutes the display
was magnificent—such as we more South
ern situated people seldom see.
The water in this section is pure, clear,
and cold. The climate is mild and salu
brious, hut the soil is not as good as in
the lower counties of the State. It is,
however, a good grain and apple country,
while some cotton and tobacco are also
raised for sale and export.
Within a radius of forty miles of Wal
halla are the villages of Anderson, Pen
dleton, and Pickens, S. C., Clayton,
Clarksville, and Caruesville, Ga., the
beautiful Falls of Tallulah and Tuccoah,
and an abundance of the grandest Natu
ral scenery that the eye of man could
wish to dwell upon. It is well worth a
visit to this beautiful region, and when
the various railroads now poiuting this
way are completed, it will be, we predict*
one of the most popular and familiar
Summer resorts of the people of the
South.
We found the Conservatives very san
guine of the success of the Union Reform
ticket, and meetings are being held in
every portion of the State to advocate the
election of their candidates. South Caro
lina’s fate is a sad one, and if she lias
offended, grievously hath she answered
for it. The hope of every patriot heart
is that she may overcome her enemies
ere long, and enjoy the blessings of good
government.
From Walhalia, we went to Athens,
61 miles, by hack, stopping a few hours
at tho Franklin House, at the pleasant
little village of Carnesville, Ga., kept
by Mr. Fuller, a very polite and at
tentive landlord, who gives you excellent
fare and doesn’t charge too much for it.
At Athens we met several of our
Augusta friends, among them S. A. At
kinson, of the Southern Banner , a capi
tal newspaper and doing a capital
business. To Mr. A. we are indebted
siim. ©i iiijsim
for courtesies, as also to Mr. Will. Jones,
formerly of this city, in company with
whom we visited the Athens Cotton and
Woollen Factory, a small but complete
establishment, where colored goods,
stripes, and checks of excellent quality
are manufactured, and which is to be en
larged shortly by the addition of several
looms in the old Armory on the opposite
side of the Oconee River. The Oemeterv
J
is a romantic spot, running along a slope
on the banks of the River, and containing
several handsome monuments—one to
the memory of 3lrs. Taylor, costing $lO,-
000.
The University buildings are located
here, and in the College Chapel is a large
and handsome painting of the interior of
St. Peters’at Rome. Cobbham, an envi
ron of Athens, and the Lucy Cobb Insti
tute, are among tbe attractions of this
beautiful and pleasant little city of Geor
gia.
Thence over the Athens branch and
the Georgia Railroad to Atlanta, brought
us to the headquarters of Radicalism and
the so-called government of the State.—
Atlanta is a very lively and thriving City
—containing many handsome buildings
and much enterprise. The "Kimball
House" is an immense Hotel of brick, oc
cupying nearly a block, will be 5 stories
high, and the ascent will be made by
dumb waiters, instead of stair-cases. The
Opera House, wherein “the Legislature”
now sits, is a capital building, having re
cently been purchased for a Capitol, and
is handsomely fitted up for the purpose
to which it is now applied. The Mineral
Spring is within the corporate limits, and
the Fair Grounds are about a mile and a
half from the Capital, and are popular
resorts for the denizens of the Gate City.
Ihe new Union Railroad Depot has been
commenced and will cost, we learn, about
6160,000 when completed.
We took a peep here at the Georgia
Legislature, and saw nothing to please
our Georgia pride. It is a motly-looking
assemblage, and in the House, a second
Pandemonium is witnessed, where con
fusion reigns supreme and the wonder is
how anybody can tell what is done, or
what not done. We sincerely hope that
our people in the approaching elections
will see to it that the best men are put
forward and elected for Senators and
Representatives and so secure a General
Assembly of which they will have no
cause to be ashamed, one which will ad
vance the best interests of the State, and
elevate it to its former noble and envia
ble position.
Having seen all the seeable sights
about Atlanta, including our venerable
friend, Col. W. G. Whidby, of the Atlan
ta Constitution , we returned via the
Georgia Railroad to Augusta. This
Road is one of the institutions of which
we can all feel proud. Under the able
management of Col. S. K. Johnson and
his efficient subordinates it is known to
be one of the very best paying roads in
the country. Passing through a pretty
and pleasant section of country, running*
on a sate schedule, and with gentlemanly
conductors, it is no wonder that it is a
favorite route with the traveling public.
And now having returned to our post
of duty we beg to tender our heartfelt
acknowledgments to all tho kind friends,
both on our journey and at homo who
took such kindly interest in our comfort
and pleasure, and made our trip so
agreeable and beneficial to ourselves and
party.
THE DOWNFALL OF AN EMPIRE.
Torn, defeated, humiliated, prostrate,
and bleeding, France lies at the feet of
victorious Prussia ! Heroes, her soldiers
fought with all the valor and ardor of
their traditional past. Traitors, her own
people struck the fatal blow and laid her
at the very feet of her foes ! To Louis
Napoleon France owed much of her pro>
perity, her greatness, and lire glory. In
him she had a monarch who knew his
people’s interests and strove to accom
plish his people’s good ; sustained by a
majority of the Nation, he felt that he
was safe in his determination to secure
the honor of France, the integrity of his
Empire, and the peace of Europe. Alas!
he was mistaken. The restless spirits,
the Rocheforts, the Ledru Rollins, the
Jules Favre’s—the Butlers, Sumners,
and Banks of that unhappy country, were
watchful of the moment to strike a blow
for fanaticism and self-aggrandisement.
It came ; the armies of the Empire were
at the front; the Emperor and even his
little son, were there to do or die for
their country ; while at Paris, remained
these renegades, “stirring the very
stones of Romo to mutiny,” as it were;
keeping hundreds of thousands of sol
diers from the field; supplying regiments
with blank cartridges or sand cartridges,
and furnishing ammunition of worthless
character. It may net be safe to
that the men we have named have done
these things; but it is their fanatical
teachings that have accomplished the
fatal result; fer impartial history will
declare the fact that if the Emperor had
been sustained, instead of two or three
hundred thousand men on the borders
of France, there could and would have
been a million; and the overwhelming
numbers of Prussians would never have
sat down in front of the walls of Paris.
So it is not Prussia, after all, that has
accomplished the victory; but Prussia
sustained by French Treason ! ana the
so-called Republicans of Paris may glory
in the shame of their country to-day as
the authors of her woes.
Day after day came the telegrams,
“Paris is safe!” “Three hundred thou
sand men under the walls of Paris!”
What mattered it whether Paris was
safe or not, or that 300,000 men were
there to keep it quiet, when thousands
of brave and gallant men were struggling
against overwhelming odds upon the
banks of the Rhine, the Saar, and the
Moselle? These were the places for the
300,000 to be, while Paris should have
been united as one man. Then she
would have been safe. France would
have been safe. Europe would have
been safe. But the evil work has
been accomplished. The Empire is end
ed; and upon its ruins rises a mongrel
Government, to he modeled no doubt, after
this very “model Republic” of ours, and
to be miscalled, as this is miscalled—
“ The Republic.”
Already has “public sentiment”—
which means Radical sympathy to catch
votes—suddenly changed. The sympa
thy for Prussian victory has been changed
to sympathy for Republican France. And
already has Grant sent his recognition
across the waters ; already has Minister
Washburne communicated it. to the noble
Jules Favre; and already has Jules cm
braced the patriotic and sympathetic
Washburne, and wept tears of joy and
gratitude at this great honor conferred
by Black Republican America upon Red
Republican France.
Oh, the wicked folly of this world!
the ridiculous presumption of self-conceit
ed popinjays and political martinets!
the criminal self-abasement of human
nature! If the people of the United
States had been the virtuous, honest,
sensible people that they ought to he,
we should witness to-day, our Republic
one of the grandest spectacles that the
world ever witnessed; but they have
allowed themselves to be duped, fooled,
led about like beasts, by wicked knaves
and designing demagogues until they
have become a by-word and a reproach to
Republicanism and good Government.
And human nature is the same every
where.
If the people of France had been tru e
to themselves, true to good Government,
they would have been dictating the
terms of Peace to King William upon
the soil of Germany to-day, instead of
humbly suing for it, or for foreign me
diation at the gates of their Capital.
We are sorry for it. We feel for the
people who suffer this great humiliation.
We are sure that their conquerors even
pity them. But it was their own fault,
and justice requires that they must ex
piate that fault by defeat and humilia
tion. We are sorry for them. We
trust tnat it will be n lesson to them A
the future, and.that, when the excite
ment of the hour shall have passed
away a calm survey of their r -ast
course will induce a return to reason mid
a recall of the only man and the only
Government that can secure peace aid
prosperity to France.
THE NEW CONVENT-
The new House for the Sisters of
Mercy is now completed and ready f. r
the reception and accommodation of
boarders and pupils. It is a large, hand
some, and very commodious buildino
and located in a quiet and healthy ra-t
of the City.
Os the Sisters, it is scarcely necessarv
for us to deliver any extended eulogium.
Their gooU deeds speak for them in every
age and every clime. In the school-room,
in the Hospital, in the sick chamber, at
theb edside of the dying, wherever Charity
is most desired and Mercy most welcome,
their worth is known and their praises
chanted. In the epidemics of 1830
and 1854, in this City, and in the war
for Southern Independence, they were
untiring in their devotion to the sick and
dying, and their acts in those event
ful periods will never bo forgotten.
Besides this, their matronly character
eminently fits them for the care of or
phan children, and their cultivated minds
for the education of the young. Thus,
their good deeds, their virtues, and their
qualifications entitle them to a very
liberal share of the public patronage in
the educational institution which they
have opened.
The lamented Father Barry was chief
ly instrumental in bringing the Sisters
to Augusta, and was greatly aided by
them iu the Yellow Fever of 1839 and
1854. Thoy have done much for the or
phans and for the education of children
in this City, and our people will surely
avail themselves of the advantages which
they now offer. What is the reason for
sending children away from home fur
education, when you have good schools
here at your very doors? None at all.
It is only a habit, and a very bad habit
at that. Hence, we want to see our peo
ple rid themselves of it, and patronize
their own institutions of learning. At
the Sisters’ Academy every facility will
be oilered tor the education of the young,
and full justice done to those who may
be plaeed in their care.
The new building is quite an ornament
to the City—the old frame house having
been removed, and a neat and substantial
fence will soon be placed around the lot.
To the many generous contributors to
the erection of this building, Father Dug
gan, our Pastor, and the good Sisters, re
turn their most grateful acknowledgments
while to the Building Committee is due
great praise for the accomplishment of so
grand a work, at so trifling a cost, !!r:d
in so brief a time. 1 hose of our citizens
who feel an interest in this subject will bo
well repaid by a visit to the building
which their generousity has erected, and
through which they will be cheerfully
shown.
Tim J,'cw French Government,
The following is a correct list of the
French Provisional Government taking
the name of the National Defence Govern
ment: Emanuel Arago, Creinieux, .Titles
Favre, Jules Ferry, Gambetta, Garnier-
Pages, Glais-Bizoin, Pelletan, Ernest Pi -
aril, Rocheforte, Jules Simon. The Minis
try is as follows:
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Jules Favre.
Minister of Justice—lsaac Creinieux.
Minister of the Interior—Leon Gam
betta.
Minister of Finance—Ernest Picard.
Superintendent of Public AVorks
Pierre Dorian.
Minister of Commerce—Tosepii Magniri.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Jules Simon.
Minister of Marine- Martin Fouricbon.
Minister of War--Louis Jules Troch e
also, President of the Committee.
Sketches of .Members.
GABRIEL CLAUDE JULES FAVRE, M'NISTER OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
This prominent French publicist was
born in Lyons, March 21, 1809. At the
age of twenty-one he took a prominent
part in the public affairs as the opponent
of royalty, and he had just attained tha*
age at the crisis when Charles X. was