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Father Ryan in Columbia.—From a
gentleman who Mas present, we learn that
the reverend editor of the Banner of ’the
South , Father Ryan, held service, and
preached one of his most eloquent ser
mons last Sunday in Columbia, South Car
olina. A large congregation was present.
Immediately after the service, the Rev
erend Father visited the Convent of Valla
Cruets. On his return to the city, he was
apprised that the gentlemen who had heard
him were getting up a petition to have
him deliver a lecture. Hi: present ap
pointments, however, were such that he
could not comply with their request. We
understand, though, that he. promised to
return, if possible, to Columbia in No
vember, and deliver a lecture tor the bene
fit of the Church.
bather Ryan leaves tie - we.q: for Selma,
Alabama, in which place t* ■- :j be.on Sun
day.
His numerous friends in thus city, will
be phased to learn that ho continues in his
u ual huilta. Chronic c A
Sept. PJth.
Academy of the Visitation, Rich
mond, Ya.— We invite special attention
to the Advertisement of this Institution of
learning, under the charge cfi the Sisters
of the Visitation, B. V. M., and located
at Richmond, Va. It is one of the best
schools in the South, while the terms
are moderate, and the situation one of
the healthiest and pleasantest in the
Country. The following interesting ac
count of the Distribution Exercises of
this Academy we take from the Rich
mond Dispatch, as giving at least a faint
idea of the situation of the school and
its advantages:
Distribution at the Academy of the
Visitation. —Yesterday was the day of
exercises, premiums and honors, at the
Academy of the Visitation Monte Maria,
conducted by the Sisters. The situa
tion of this very admirably conducted
school is upon tne most elevated point
of Church Hill, overlooking Richmond
and the river, commanding an extensive
view east, west and south, including the
magnificent landscape of the south side
of the river. To the enchanting views
of the place ws may add a delightful
pure atmosphere, which is seldom at
and which fans the cheeks so gently and
gratefully, that one may almost fancy it
were set in motion by angel wings. Toe
formerly well-known mansion of Loftin
Ellett, of pure and estimable memory,
is the building with which the Sisters be
gan their establishment. To this they
made such improvements as were justi
fied by their means and wants. Their
school has been annually increasing, and
bids fair to become one of the most suc
cessful of the day.
The exercises yesterday consisted of I
music, vocal and instrumental, and the j
awarding of premiums to the scholars. I
The music proved the excellence of the /
tuition and the diligence of the pupils. 1
The premiums were announced by Rev. j
Father Weed, of Staunton, and were
distributed in the kindest and gentlest 1
manner by the venerable Father Mulvey,
of Petersburg, who temporarily, resides
in Richmond, as the representative of,
Bishcp Mag ill, during his absence in
Rome. The ceremony was interesting.
The bright faces of the y-oung scholars,
glowing with the bloom of youth and il
lumined with the sweet beams of beauty
and innocence, formed a picture not to be
excelled for its loveliness. The thrills
of modest excitement occasioned by the
announcements, ‘and the generous smiles
of applause of those who won the
premiums, enlivened the scene to the de
light of the audience present.
Avery large number of premiums
were awarded, a list of which we cannot
publish for want of room. The closing
scenes were the most important. They
were proceeded by the premiums for “do
mestic economy,” “housekeeping/’ “mend
ing and darning.” (That’s what is,
above all, interesting to gentlemen)
“Industry in sewing for the poor,” (The
Sisters have an apartment where gar
ments for the poor made by scholars are
accumulated and distributed as occasion
requires.) There were even premiums
awarded to “the little housekeepers”—
Miss Fannie Fant and Miss Jennie Lucas.
They were very little girls, and winning
in this line such distinction at their
age, what accomplished housekeepers
they will be when they are grown up
women! That’s the sort of education for
these davs.
The gold medal and the first honors
of the senior class were conferred upon
31 iss Mary Wiley, of Richmond, a gra
duate of the preceding year. They’ were
affectionately placed upon the young lady’
by the amiable Father, and received
with modest blushes.
For uniform excellence of conduct,
first honors, in handsome wreaths, were
awarded to Missess Thelia F. Wild
man, of Danville; Jane E. Sweeney, of
Philadelphia ; Agnes R. Hitselberger, of
Liberty Town, Md.; Carrie Baker, of
Charles City; and Annie Estes, Clara
Yarrington, and Belle Brown, of Rich
mond.
The second honors of the same circle
were conferred on Misses Mary Camp,
Belle Beverly, Rosa Hargrove, Kate
McDonough, and Ida Carter, of Rich
mond.
The ceremonies concluded with “solo
and chorus, the coronation ode,” and a
very appropriate address by Father Mul
vey—one of the happiest we have ever
heard on such an occasion. The girls, full
of smiles and tears, separated for their
holiday joys with the benedictions of the
kind Sisters, to whom they were evident
ly’ deeply attached.
NEW ORLEANS (LA) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
New Orleans, Sept., lOst, 1870.
Editors Banner of the South:
At length the weather has become
autumnal; and, with the cool nights and
breezy days, life is more supportable
than it was a month ago. In the fields
cotton picking goes on briskly; and
whole ramparts of the snowy product
are rising along cur river front, while the
streets resound with the rattle of drays
hauling the bales to and from the cotton
presses.
The cane has ripened so rapidly dur
ing the late hot term that many planters
expect to begin grinding within a
mbnth; and m this city, the Sugar-
Shed C ompany are rapidly completing
their s ructureson the levee; so as to be
ready to protect every crystal of these
Louisiana diamonds that may arrive
here. These Sugar-sheds by’ the way,
are ornamental as well as useful; for no
one can question the picturesqueness of
their long, uniform ranges ot cool and
shady collonades, as compared with the
cjuondom unprotected surface of the
Levee which was always, in drv
weather a desert of dust, and in wet a
quagmire of mud.
These improvements have been erect
ed .-0 quietly and with so -little flourish
cl trumpets, tiiat they are unknown to
many* thousands of our citizens, who will
experience a delighted surprise on their
first chance visit to the 'ower Steamboat
(aiming. With the encroachment made
upon uur levee by the various Railroads,
the Pontehartrain, the Chattanooga and
the Jackson and Great Northern, it would
seem that additional facilities must ere
long be provided for our already over
crowded Steam-boat trade. Whether
this may be best effected by the con
struction of docks, or by extending the
lauding up along the river bank, must
be a subject of consideration for the
board ot trade and the city administra
tors.
The sy’stem of large-transportation is
coming more and more into vogue on
our river, the quantities of produce ar
riving daily by such conveyence being
truly marvellous. In effect it is simply
the almost indefinite multiplication of
a steamboat’s carry mg power. For in
stance, instead of a boat being limited as
formerly, to a cargo cf 5.000 barrels,
she can now transport 10,000, 20,000, of 1
■ 3BABBM gffli mmm„
50,000, according to the number of bar
ges she may tow.
Another great revolution in the
economy of time and labor lias been in
troduced by the invention of grain eleva
tors, by which many thousand bushels of
corn are handled in the same time it
formerly took to handle as many hun
dred. This is chiefly noticeable in the
loading and discharging of bulk grain
by the ship and steamboat load.
Last week the new Hibernia Bank bad
a grand house-warming on the occasion
of first opening doors for business; and
its bounteous flow of chainpaigne and
other good things, was well repaid by a
list of deposits, on that.day, running
over three hundred thousand dollars !
an amount entirely’ unprecedented in
the history 7 of banking, in this latitude at
least. One door removed from this
banking house, the new Safe Deposit
Bank is rapidly approaching completion,
and bids fair to be one of the chief
architectural ornaments of Camp street.
Its massive vault alone is said to have
cost over $50,000, and contains nearly
fifteen hundred private compartments,
each under seperate lock and key’, for
the use of customers. This is a much
needed, economical convenience for the
safe keepiog of private papers, jewels
and other valuables.
Besides these Elegant banking houses,
many other handsome improvements are
going on for business purposes in our
most public thoroughfares; and pedes
trians have to keep a sharp lookout to
avoid splashing of mortar and sprink
ling of paint, and nothwithstanding every
drecaution odo may occasionally come a
cross an unfortunate who has caught a
“brick in his hat.”
These continual improvements show
that our people are confident of a reward
of trade as soon as the great European
war shall be ended. And, in any event,
whether there be a general revival or not,
the prosperity of this city is pretty well
assured by the large agricultural district
of which this is the mart, both for the
export of products and the import of
supplies.
The vacation of our public poor
schools has been prolonged for a few
weeks; and there is such a growing fear
that white children will be hereafter ex
cluded from them, that the Catholic
parish free schools are becoming burtheu
ed with new applicants for admission.
Other fugitives from the public schools
t*ro also crowding into select private In
stitutions, such, as Colleges, Convents
and other Academies.
Thus you see, this pestiferous “ill
wind” that comes to usal! the way 7 from
Africa, does not blow unmitigated evil.
Persevere.
General Beauregard on the War."
A correspondent of the Lynchburg Ae*
publican , writing from Allegany Springs,
Virginia, relates a conversation with Gen.
Beauregard about the war in Europe.
Some of the General’s views are of inter
est :
The question was asked: What i3 the
ma* ter with Franee ? Consider her firmer
military fame, that of the first warring
nation in Europe—consider her patriotism,
the devotion and readiness with which she
went to the field, her noble, unsurpassed
postponement of every political question,
of every faction in her legiJative body to
win the safety of her country--even the
‘TinpracticVoles,” like Favre and Theirs,
shouting “resisr.rauce to the dear’ !”
Look at her ready and even excessive loans
to the Government; her public spirit risen
to a height tha; disdains all compromises
and hurries to offer all possible sacrifices.
Then why her defeat, and her defeat con
tinued and aggravated on every field?
Why this succession of disa ters? Is it
no: possible that there may have been
treachery in the French camp, as when the
Emperor is reported to have made the ex
clamation that “he was betrayed”—and,
indeed, you noticed the lost, accounts,
“the French soldiers ia Belgium turned
upon their officers and ma stered them.”
General Beauregard replied at length,
and with a clearness and detail of conver
sation that I do not pretend to report, but
in the third and distant person. The
hypothesis that had been named, the sus
picions of treachery, or of gross • incora
petency thrown on particular French offi
cers, were possible ; but they were not
necessary to answer the problem of the
French defeat. After all, it might be found
in slight causes. War, modern war, had
got to be such au elaborate competition,
one so close and exacting, that the least
shade of superiority in any one respect
might incline the balance. The French
system of attack was a traditional one :
they relied on momentum, dash. He re
ferred to an article *n the Poll Mall Ga
zettef which compared the military sys
tems and practice on the field of France
and Prussia. The latter bad the advan
tage in the cl > e and scrupulous calcula
tion of everything calculated to give ad
vantage to the single soldier acting as a
combatant, and inspired with the idea that
on his individual effort depended the for
tune of the field. Here was a Government
that had studied the military efficiency of
the man almost exclusively, to the highest
point. A Government more exacting than
the Oriental despotisms ; but more intel
ligent than these. The whole society of
Prussia was a vast, elaborate organization,
.a camp ; the supreme idea everywhere
visible that the man belonged to the Gov
eminent. Form, severity was the feature
of their civilization; popular education
was enforced ; even its social industries
were organized ; in Prussia no man could
pursue a trade unless he had served an
apprenticeship, or performed certain pub
lic conditions. The|id<: aof the great Fred
erick had been constantly cultivated since
his time, to make a nation of soidiers ;
organization and discipline in every de
partment of life ; and to-day we see its
results in the most perfectly trained armies
—soldiers the most obedient, yet enthu
siastic, having that peculiar combination
of steadiness, with spirit, that makes the
best soldiers in the world —and that is the
end, the culmination of all military educa
tion.
“Who”—and General Beauregard
spoke with a suffused face—“could have
doubted the courage of the French soldier?
The bravest people in the world may fall
under the complications of science—the
force a single fact overlooked in the grand
and elaborate competition of war.” He
hid noticed, as far as anything could be
discovered from the confused dispatches ot
the newspapers, that the French had ad
hered to their favorite, traditional prac
tice in the fioid, that of attacking in close
column. On the other hand, the Prus
sians deployed their lines, seemed to have
constant idea cf developing the largest
front of fire, and all the newspapers had
invariably remarked the slowness and
deliberation of their fire. It was a cir
cumstance noticed with curious unanimity
by all the war correspondents. An article
in the “ Virginian ,” under the head, read:
“The Prussians never attack in squares.”
What the General designated as the
“arm of precision” had changed the whole
character of modern war, and he feared
that the French had not sufficiently ac
commodated themselves to the important
and radical innovation made in small arras.
Their favorite idea of attacking in close
column and carrying the field with a rush
was good in former circumstances; bril
liant ; supplied the two conditions of
physical momentum and moral inspiration.
But the arm of precision had changed all
that.
“I had an interview,” said Gen. Beaure
gard, “with the Emperor Napoleon in
1866.” The fact, as known co this writer,
not from Gen. Beauregard, but from a
member of the press of Paris, L that Gen.
Beauregard visited the French capital in
1866; was received there, at the Grand
Hotel, with an ovation that surprised his
modesty, and was invited to a special in
terview with the E eperor, who, whh
characteristic and, indeed, noble desire to
•> cquire information, asked our great
Southern General pointedly what most re
markable and significant fact he had ob
served in the war out of which he had just
| come with world-wide and immortal repu
tation. Gen. Beauregard replied with a
dissertation on the use of the small arm.
He gayo the Emperor a mauual illustra
tion of the subject, repeating his remark
able conviction of the change which the
arm of precision had made in the art of
war. That arm had made calculation the
virtue of the modern soldier. Formerly,
; with the old smoothbore musket, the sol-
I dier fired ia the air; his enemy was only a
j mass in front of him; now with the chasse
pqt and needle gun, where a man could
kill at 2,200 yards, he fired upon an indi
vidual enemy; he could select him. It
had become an exact mechanical task for
the soldier to kill his enemy. He (Gen.
B.) had one advice which ne constantly
gave to his Soldiers on every occasion; it
was his dogma, his constant remark when
ever he bad the opportunity to speak to
the private soldier: “Fire low and fire
slow.”
The common fault.of the sold er ia the
use of musketry was throwing the eye on
the sight at the extremity of his weapon ;
thus instinctively, unconsciously—it being
below the level of the eye—to raise it too
high ; and ihe deflection of a hair’s breadth
in any of the modern arms of long range
made all difference in the world. The ob
vious remedy was the double sight near
the breech to correct this instinctive eleva
tion of the puce. But, above all, delib
erate firing had been his point of instruc
tion. Modern war was becoming an affair
of death-dealing machinery; it abolished
much of the romance and chivalry of
arms ; but after all the speaker came back
to the leading idea that the close competi
tions of modern war were to be decided by
mechanical differences, these sometimes of
the slightest description, and that a single
defect in the French military system might
supply all the explanation that public eu
liosity has needed tor their series of de
feats.
In the conclusion of the conversation,
General Beauregard remarked that he
thought Prussia would prove a generous
enemy, and would not exact humiliations.
He spoke with great feeling of the un
worthy frenzy of the French people to
wards the unhappy Emperor—even c iuib
ing five-story houses to tear down the arms
and insignia of his empire! Napoleon
had given France not only prestige, hut a
development and prosperity t N e most un
doubted. He could testily, viking France
in that there was not a happier peo
ple iu Europe; “even happier than the
romantic peasantry of England.”
“General, what do ycu think ofTrochu,
Governor ot Paris? The after.tion of the
whole w<..rld has been suddenly drawn upon
a man of whom I never heard before.”
General Beauregard—Well, sir, he may
be “the coming man.” I know his record
well ; he is one of the most thorough
soldiers in Fracce-a man who adopted
that deliberate characteristic choice oi the
thorough soldier, to serve up through ad
the subordinate grades ot the French
army. Remarkable of him, he made him
self unpopular in the French army for his
freedom and independence in pointirg out
what he thought the defects of its system
The French, nhc and exacting in every
other affair of life, pride themselves oq
not givrag attention to military deta ; d
General Troehu has had the boldness to
criticise repeated? that affected magna
nimity that neglects details, and that has
o ten lost the creat opportunities of his
tory. lie is the reputed author of the re
markable military views I just showed you
m the Pall Mall Gazette. Curiously
enough, France lias not been fortunate*'i n
her recent military traditions. They nre
those of Algeria, China, Mexico; in every
instance (excepting Solferino) that of an
inferior and despised enemy easily r D .
quered by that system of attack in which
the quality of the soldier is dan , dash, a
sudden enthusiasm rather than the quiet,
sedulous confidence of the man behind the
machine who is taught the value ot posi
tion and the virtue of a perfect self pos
session.
The Equipment of the Prussian Army.
In everything the equipment of the
Teutonic army now in the field, especially
of the Prussian portion, is superior to that
of the French. The moment I saw prison
ers from Saarbruck, I wa3 struck with the
poverty-stricken look of the French
“iiners,” as compared with the German
regulars. The comp moots of the Prus
sian soldier’s uniform are very simple,
but full of taste and convenience. He can
make a drmking cup out of his helmet,
and can carye meat with its spike. He
wears a bluish tuuic, with red collar, cuffs
and lappels, a stout pair of dark colored
trowers; carries a thick, excellent blanket,
a canteen, a cooking can and a well plan
ned knapsack in undressed calfskin. His
fatigue cap is flat, bordered with red. He
has an undress uniform of coarse flax
cloth, and a pair of white pants. The
pockets and foils of his clothing are so
managed that he can carry numberless
little things for camp use. When he
bivouacs, he plants his gan against his
bayone;, puts his side arms hanging on
them, and caps them with his helmet. I
have si en ten thousand of these helmets
poised thus in a long plain,making one shiny
mess, with which the bright glass and
the waving grain beyond mixed the ir col
ors, recklessly as does Millais. Field dis
cipline is perfect too ; a brigade lying iu an
open lot under the sun, is as gentlemanly
as its indivdual members would be in the
town. It is,remarkably quiet, too; there
is no swagger or bluster among the most
brawny ot the troops. A squadron of
hussars, with its beautiful horses richly
trapped, is a magnificent sight. Each Lean
sits erect as a statue, wi :h one baud on the
carbine laid upon his saddle-pommel, and
one might fancy a review of Centaurs
taking place. The officers, from force of
habit, contracted ia the ancient army when
it was composed entirely of mercenaries,
still bawl their orders to their men, instead
of giving them in decent and dignified lan
guage. There is a greater variety of fancy
uniforms in the Prussian than in any other
army in Europe. The cavalry have the
greatest wealth of dress, and a cavalry rf
ficcr is a sight for gods and men. The
“cuirassiers,” rather a useless body, I
fancy, are clad in a queer middle-age
dress, quite full of splendor. The soldi, is
wear a metal helmet and breast-plate, and
gray tunic and trowers, tastefully em
broidered. AH the cavalry is -veil mount
ed, and the artillery has abundance of
good, active and plenty of spare horse?.
The provision and baggage trains are so
organized that they are always close to tie
marching column- The suttlers or “mar
ket tenders,” as they call themselves, a.e
all numbered by companies, and come up
in a compact procession near the rear.
There is always a number of women wul
3ach regiment as vivandieres, nurses, V*.
Some of the young Prussian girls of nt.i-'e
family have not hesitated to put on the
coarse dress of the hospital nurse.—A '
xoard King .
j£wrsii INew Yeah.— Monday, tie
26th ini-lant, is the first day of the Jowi-h
year 5630. According to Usher and hai
rnet, the time elapsed since the creation ot
the world is 5,870 years, making a differ
ence between Jewish chronology cf 22)
years. Hales puts the creation at 5 411
years before Christ, which would pi; ce tne
world at the venerable age ’of 6,28 1 years
651 years eider than by Jewish reckon
ing. b
General Ripley Among the De
fenders of Paris. —The following para
graph, which comes among our latest I
telegrams from beleagured Paris, wifi be
read with special interest by £ utb
erners: “General Ripley, of the Con
federate a«*my, and twoarti lery officer.- o:
the United States army during the w_i ,
have a command umJer Trochu. M.'.oy
Americans have volunteered.”
A party of respectable Chicago lad:e
have formed a society for reclaiming you eg
men, and they go about the street.- of
nights and p*ck up young in *n who si .
signs cf dissipation, iuvite them to .hem
houses and treat them to ice crean, chicu
en salad, etc., and then iet them go home
sober- Half the ycung men in town 1:3
around the streets of nights, to be tat
in. Une whole engine company went :
one of the ladies’ houses and asied to o:
reclaimed.