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6 fjufcltsljrr’s department L. T. BLO ME & CO PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, GA., SEPT. 24, 1870. TERMS : One copy, one year, Invariably in advance,....s3 00 “ “ six months “ “ 150 Single Copies..— lOcts To Clubs. —To any person sending ns a Club of 15 one copy, one year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more The Baituku will be furnished at the rate of $2 50 per annum, fl®- In all cases the names must be furnished at the game time, and the caeh must accompany each order. #s* Dealers will be supplied on liberal terms. In making remittances to the Banner of the South use Checks on New York, or Post Oflice Money Orders on Augusta. If these cannot be had, send by Express, or in Registered Letters. RATES OF ADVERTISING. ~No SOUARER l] THREE SIX TWELVE * ' ' ’ < Month Months Month,- . onths 1 Square ; $ 5 00 ; £ll 00; u U) $ 30 00 2 Squares 800 17 00 34 to| 50 00 3 Squares 11 00l 23 0' : 42 001 70 (0 4 Squares 12 00j 27 00! 47 00; 77 00 > 4 ' Column x 5 00 | 31 00i 55 00 90 00 >.c Column i 24 OOi 50 00 87 00; 130 00 % Column ] 32 Ouj 02 OOj 110 00; 175 00 1 Column I 40 00 1 70 00 j 125 OOj 200 00 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.