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6 publisher’s Ueparmmt. L. T. BLO MR &C O I PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, GA., OCT. 15,1870. TERMS: One copy, one year, invariably in advance,....s3 00 u »* aix months “ “ ..... 160 Single Copiea-..~~ To Clubs. —To any person sending us a Club of 15 one copy, one year, vrill be given. To Clubs of 20, or more Th* Banrax will be furnished at the rate oi $2 50 per annum, *sgr In all cases the names must be furnished at the game time, and the cash must accompany each order. Dealers will be supplied on liberal terms. In making remittances to the Basneb of thf South nse Chocks on New York, or Post Office Money Orders on Augnsta. If these cannot be had, send by Kaprsss, or In Registered Letters. RATES OF ADVERTISING. ~~ “ ' one Three Six Twelve No. Squares, j oyxH i months Momth-- onthb 1 Square t $ 5 001 “fIToO $1 U) $ 30 00; 2 Squares ! 8 00] 17 00 *>4 CO 50 00j 3 50uare5........ 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Parties in arrears to this paper for sub scriptions or advertisements are earnestly requested to settle up without delay, as we must close up the business of the firm as early as possible Lexington, Va., Oct, 12, / IO A. M. f Gen. Robert E. Lee, the CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN, AWI) TEF. Hero of an Hundred Battles, BREATHED HIS LAST At 30 minutes past 9 o’clock this morning Aged 63 years, 8 months and 23 days. DEATH OF GEN- ROBERT E- LEE- | With wbat sad Jelling effect comes the intelligence of the death of the great and! good General Lee—the Christian gentle man, the Soldier, and the Patrioit. The following: from the Constitution o I alist of Thursday me ruing last is so ap propriate to the sorrowful subject that we transfer it to our Columns: Death of Gen. Robert E. Lee.— The telegraph conveys the mourn-] ful intelligence that General Lee is dead. How few the words, yet Low melancholy their significance ! It stems but yester day we saw him, if not full of lusty life at least with the premise of many useful] years, to bless, to guide, to sustain and] glorify his countrymen of the South! And now the good gray head is low, the] noble heart is hushed, the beaming eye is dim, and the royal spirit, which kept its whiteness amid the storm of battle,| the cruelties of misfortune and the de voted pangs of the foeman’s treacher-i ous peace, has flown to higher realms than this. He has crossed the river | which Jackson crossed 'before; be rests: under the shade of the trees of Paradise; 1 he has carried to the Spirit Land the Southern Cross, and henceforth there is! one saint the more to make us feel that if we have lost a cause on earth we have gained another advocate fer that cause in heaven. Wbat need of many words. When the fateful syllables, ‘Lee is dead” , J i shall, eu (lie wings 'of the lightning,! traver.-e the globe, wbat woitby man i woman or child who has heard of his ■great deeds in the battle for liberty and this sublime resignation in defeat —what [kindly human being the world over will [not acknowledge, with a thrill of [genuine emotion, that there has passed lout of mere mundane existence one ci [the grandest characters that ever lived in [the tide of times? It is the part of the [South to mourn for her departed chief. [lt is proper that strangers should pro (nonnee elaborate eulogies. Suffice it [for us that the good and pure e very- Iwhere honor cur dead Lee and Ins ITramplcd Right with an honor which no [living representative of Victorious Evil, ■strangely misnamed Right, shall ever ■obtain. Suffice it for us that now our. j future shall grow immortal, siuce ■“He is gathered to the Kings of Thought j Who waged contention with their time’s decay; ■And of the past are all that cannot pass avvay!’ ; DEATH OF GE3. KOifKKT E. LEE. Richmond, October 12 —The Dispatch ■has just received the following telegram ■from Staunton: “A messenger arrived [here last night from Lexington, bringing [the information that General Lee is much [worse, and his physicians report his dis [ease as having assumed a more serious, [torm and his friends are alarm, and at his Iconditior.” * j | Lexington, October 1 2, 7r. at. viaj ■ Millboro’, 12. Symptoms ofan unia;ora*| Idle character have manifested themselves in j [the disease o' General Lee within the past; [two days, and his condition is not very en-j Icouroging. Indeed, it L beginning to exc-itcj [the grave apprehension of his friends andj [physician. The members of his family fat a distance have been summoned to his [bed. 8 Lexington, 10 a. m., October 12, via [Millboro,’ 12. —General Robert E. Lee, [r.he ckristain gentleman and hero of aj [hundred battles, breathed his iast at j [thirty minutes past nine o’clock this [morning of congestion of the brain, aged Juxty-three years, tight months andj Jtweu y-three days. OUR BOOK TABLE | “Wilson’s Progressive Speller— [Containing Upwards of Twelve Thous jand words, with Reading and Dictating [Exercises annexed to each Lesson. Ar [ranged so as to be best adapted to aid Ithe Memory and to obviate the Difficul ties in this Branch of Elementary Edu gcation. By William J. Wilson, oi [North Carolina.” I From the long established and widely ■esteemed house John Murphy & Cos., *lB2 Baltimore St-., Baltimore. S We have no time to examine the above [book before going to press, but feel confi-j [dent, from the character of the pub’ash lers, that it is free from any of the objections [that may be made to almost all Northern [school books. [[Written for the Banner of the South] DRUNKENNESS- If we pause a moment, and, reflect on [the dignity of man, on his celestial] [origin, on his glorious destiny; if we] [consider his body, the masterpiece of] [creation, his soul created to the image of] [the Creator—if we ask ourselves who! [and what is that God who has stamped] stbe soul of man with his own likeness?! [and placed him on this ponderous globe [ master over it by his intelligence; iff ;vre thus come to appreciate the tiue[ : value cf man, and then cast a glance od| one of them, bereft voluntarily of alls these attributes by the excessive use of! | liquor; does it Dot seem that his folly is! | incomprehensible, that he deserves not tol be. The demons themselves must look] ! ’with scorn on the sensible being, who] lof his own free will consents to lower] himself beneath the level of the brute] [for man in that state loses even the in-! [stinct of the animal, becoming m\ able to] [know right from wrong, friends from] j foe \ And if we bring to our mind the dis-j [tressing picture of the consequences cf] [drunkenness, we have reason to shudder.! [for man without reason is only fit lor hell! [and it seems that the demons revel with-] Uu his soul. See the drunkard staggering] [to his desolate home, with the counteu-I [anee of an infuriated tiger, instead of] [the smile of jov, which should meet his] [family—the first words that escape his! tlips are horrible oaths and blapshemiesj Avhich children IRten to in dismay; his] [unfortunate wife perhaps is rudely push-] ;cd or beaten. A.las! for the day or? I which that very man brought that vervf woman to the altar and pledged himselfi before God aad man to protect and] cherish her, ever as Christ loveth his l Church. That man, now, is her most j S ■ lAIBIB- ©Util SQUfflB. cruel enemy, crushing day by day her! sorrowful heart from which all love for! him lias fled—ruining by his terrbile, example the young souls of her children, 1 ruining bis own constitution and bis own soul, and giving away health, hap piness, peace and heaveu for a poisonous glass of liquor. j We will look over a few of the princi pal motives which serve; as excuses for ntemperance: Some men have a natural propensity for drinking and while boasting of ad vocating liberty, they acknowledge by their very actions, that they are really slaves, ot their own evil inclinations, so far that they content to brutify them selves rather than use their will to rule their appetite. They pretend to have done great things, but one thing they cannot or rather will not accomplish, this is to preserve their dignity as men, by keeping clear that reason given by God to them. Some men come to drinking through company and coversation, by which they seek to fill a kind of vacancy which they feel; these men have not true vir tue, they are generally deficient in many ipoints, and instead of finding at home {pleasure arnoDg their family, they pre- Itend to have grown tired of wife and Ichildrcn and seek among men, excite- R 1 Of] Iment and pleasure, leaving desolate at [home the unfortunate wife, and perhaps j [[robbing the children of the necessaries! |of life, in spending among their associa-j Itcß the earnings which should make their; |home comfortable and happy. Such men [may at first commit but few excesses but! gif it becomes a habit to leave home andj [seek relaxation among men—their doom: lis certain, they will become drunkards. iTkese men feel a vacancy after hours [of business, why? becau.-e they care gouly for earth they hjld no secret coin [munion with their God—they do not [enjoy any spiritual reading or conversa tion, their family duties only seem aj [burden to them, they forget their sacred-! |ness, shut their eyes to eternity and seek Ito fill their heart’s foraying with the falluring but destroying excitement ofi [company and liquor—their animal crav |ing must be quickly responded to but! |all the noble aspirations of the soul sceml |to be stifled in them. I Others resort to drinking to drown [their misery, instead o r looking to heaven; |tkei.i soul is perhaps heavy with sin, land the world from all sides frowns upon [ti em. God is to them, only a God of [Justice —their is Dot a ray of comfort] [within or without; then they seek forget I [fulness in intoxication, thus aggravating! [a hundred fold their miserable state, foi j ■the results of drinking are worse than] |any other tribulation. Losses, sickness] lor msfortune coming from the hand of [God, need never tarnish the quiet of our ■souls, who hoping in God suffering fori [God will find amidst the most poignant [sorrow, an inward peace which is a| [calm to any grief—but the desolation [that visits the drunka'd is more terrible [for being too speedy— loss of health, loss! [of strength, ioss of reputation all comes [without delay and the miserable man [becomes his own victim he murders him-! [self, soul and body. | It is true that in order to overcome [this pernicious vice— earnestness and [perseverance are icquired—temptations ■will come, but remember that God never! fallows any one to be tempted above his [strength, and when temptation is strong lest, an humble prayer to God for help [will never be rejected. C. V. M. | j September, 20 1870. From Woodkull A Claflin’s Weekly, j 'some FACTS ABOUT THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING ASYLUM | Ini ’rotestant England there are no [legally authorized Foundling Asylums. [The only institution in the kingdom, which approaches that character, is one in London, which was founded in the| Seventeenth Century, and suppressed in] 1760 by a legal modification which con-! [verted it into an “Asylum for illegitimate children whose mothers are known ” As] such, it exists at the present day. What ps the consequence ? Simply that crime [is hidden, not prevented. The late “Baby Farming Horror,” as; [revealed in the story of Mrs. Margaret] [Waters, alias Wilkes, Burley, Walters/ [Ellis, Oliver, Blackburn, and Fort, now on, trial for rhe murder of forty infants, be-! [tore the Lambeth Police Court, is an] abundant proof of this i ssertion. That [this same “Horror” has been extensively! [practiced in New Turk, is a well-known ■fact, and that in a great measure it is [falling into desuetude since the establish-] iment of the New York Foundling Asy-' ( ium :s also well known. In all mono gamous society illegitimacy is found to exist in a greater or less dtgree accord ing to its age; and ndling Asylums have been acknowk- 1 the surest and Lumanest provision I: the illegitimate. *Yet enlightened New York, through its *Press, its Sorosis, and its Universal Suf-;j ifi age Society discussed the matter, passed % [ passed resolutions concerning it, deplored. [while acknowledging the necessity for. [such an institution, yet did nothing untiP [Mother Jerome Ely, the Superior of thejj j?Sisters of Charity, took the matter in! |band. { | The frequency with which young in-j gfants were left the doors of the institu-j ition of the Sisters, scattered all over the I City, plainly indicated that the duty wasj | expected of them. Last. October, Sister Irene, then Principal of the Academy of St. Peter’s, in Barclay Street, received the mandate from the Mother House at 1 Mount St. Vincent to commence opera gtions by opening a bouse, in somo central Sposition in the City, for the reception of I foundlings. By the Ist of November'the linjunetion had been obeyed to the letter, |and before that day several little wailing [babies were in the arms of the Sisters. [Thirty children had been received before Ithe expiration of one month, and the rc geeption has been regularly ou the increase | until now, at the end of eight months, {there are over eight hundred in the] [establishment, or rather under the direc tion of the institution. Os course, the I house in Twelfth street, a four story [dwelling, could not accommodate all the At first all over a certain |number retained in the house were put |out to nurse under the supervision, and [subject to the constant visits, of the Sis |ters and a committee of ladies, wives of [our first-citizens, who seemed to take the [deepest interest in the affairs of the insti itution. ■ From the day of its opening the iu-| I tensest interest, curiosity and sympathy] lon the subject, seemed to pervade all] I classes of society. Turn associations— | lone composed of ladies, another of gentle-J amen—came promptly to its aid. Mrs.[ JR B. Connolly, a Protestant lady ofj [great wealth and influence, gave the first! [hundred dollar donation to the cause.! [Since then she has collected sixteen thou-f [sand dollars for it, setting a noble exam-1 [pie to women of society as to one man-1 Jner in which they can use their social a [influence. The press has been unani-S Imous in its laudations of the institution,! [one paper actually giving weekly reports! [from the “Home of the Babies,” which! [were eagerly circulated by the country J [papers for the entertainment of theirs [readers. Government took the matter] [in hand, and a grant of a City square,] |bounded by Lexington and Fourth ave-[ : ? -nues, Sixty eighth and Sixty-ninth streets! | was conferred for the building of a suita-J able “ Maison des Enfans Trouves” and] [as soon as one hundred thousand dollars] [are raised by the trustees of the institu-j Itution, for the erection of a suitable build-] ling, the State Legislature is pledged to] [give one hundred thousand mori. | Latterly, the children who have hereto-] I I ore been placed out to nurse have been! |sent to a large and commodious wooden] [building in Westchester County, under] ithe charge of competent nurses, and di-j Irected by a large corps of the Sisters. It J [is needless to add that this establishment] Sis simply a branch of the Twelfth street] I house, and both are under medical direc-j Ition aud municipal inspection. The] [houses are open to the public at all times,] [but certain days have, by social etiquette,] [been established as “visiting days.”—] jgi he visitors who come on those days] [are of every rank in life, and not a few] [of the unhappy mothers may be detected] |in the throng, betraying their relationship] [by their ill-disguised emotion and furtive] [search for their own forsaken babies. I The mothers of the children are far! [from being all of the humbler classes. j [Scarcely a night passes that a “carriage ibaby” does not come in. The Sister who [is on the watch detects some well-known [liveries at times before the door at mid jnight. Strange to say, these “carriage [babies” are very rarely accompanied with [any donation to the institution. Unhal |lowed passion hardens the heart and does snot dispose the hand to alms-giving. These] [are the babies who, perhaps, have gone] [to the “Baby Farmer,” or a quicker,] [surer hiding-place for s!iauie. Not uu-j [frequently a sharp wail breaks from the] ebasket in the vestibule, and when the] [feeble waif of humanity is brought into? gthe reception room, marks of violence on gits little body, a broken arm or rib, a] _frightful bruise on the head, tells the* | tale that murder had been arrested , how, | i n no but the actors in the terribLf drama' 5, 0f passion may tell. Facts speak louder] ahau opinions or comments. We have! j stated tacts. Let each reader ponder them] |weu. lie or she is one ot the units ini ;tuc great numeration table of our popu f ;lation that must east a shadow or throw a, * beam of light upon the dial of the future. Post-offices in the United States.— The number of postiffioes in the United States is being ascertained at the Pos.- effiei Department. Tnis tank seems sim ple enough, bat there are throughout the country mar y offices which rcccivo very small mails, or qo mails at all, for each of which offices a postmaster is employed, whose salary is merely a nominal one— from two twelve dollars a year. The post master is required to give a bond, which proceeding costs a dollar or more, aul |some trouble and inconvenience. In nnnv leases persons appointed as postmasters jnegiect to give securities, and there are lothers who, even if they bond, do not per [form the duties of their offices. Frequent j y the keys of the office or mail-pouches are procured by irresponsible parties, and ithe mads assorted or distributed or delivered without the assistance or su perintendence of the postmaster. There were about twenty-eight thousand of fices in operation during the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1870, of which one theu hand and ninety-three were those known as Presidential offices. Os the latter 174 [were in the New England States, as fob [.owe: Maine, 24 ; New Hampshire, 16; Vormont, 17 ; Massachusetts, 76 ; Rhode j Island, 9 ; Connecticut, 32. In the Mid dle States there were 272, as follows: New York, 134 ; Pennsylvania, 101 ; New [Jersey, 33 ; Delaware, 4, In the South ern States there were 134, as follows: [Maryland, 9 ; Virginia, 19 ; West Vir ginia. 6; North Carolina, II; South Caro lina, 7 ; Georgia, 13; Alabama, 10 ; Flori da, 5 ; Mississippi, 15; Louisiana, C ; Texas, 18 ; Tennessee, 12 ; Arkansas, 4; and in the District of Columbia, 2. In the Western States and Territories there were 544, as follows : Ohio, 86 ; Indiana, 99 ; Kentucky, 22 ; Illinois, 99 ; Wisconsin, 39 ;'Michigan, 54 , lowa, 46; Missouri, 33 ; Oregon, 3 ; Kansas, 18 ; Minnesota, 18; Nevada, 6 ; Nebraska, 6; California. 20 ; Colorado, 4 ; Dakota, 1 ; Idaho, 2 ; .Montana, 2; New Mexico, 2 ; Utah, 1 ; Washington, 1 ; Wyoming, 3. Written for the Banner of the South. “Sursum Corda.” lln lone shadowy evenings, with dim shadowy feelings, Enwrapt in gloomy gloaming, I walked my chamber floor; Bereft of all communion, grievingly I mused on Those who loved and blessed me in happy days of yore. Aye ! for long, long dreary days ; aye for long, long weary years, Sorrow’s tide of waters, swept o’er my suffering bouI; Coming surges, more ana more—wild surges rudely bore Me ’long life’s lonely shore—l thought there was no goal. Surely ’twas an evil hour then, when - came such darksome power That laid me, living in a tomb—noxi ous vapored tomb. | Ghoul-despair came watching there to work my only prayer ; When ivill the morning come to break this dismal gloom ? [There came a sunny dawning; there came a sabbath morning; Angels singing, moved the stone that closed my prison door, [The rock of your duration briDgeth con solation Immutable, eternal, friend for ever more. [No more in shadowy evenings, with dim shadowy feelings, Enwrapt in gloomy gloamings I walk my chamber floor jSo blessed with sweet communion, loving ly I muse on One who will not fail me, the One that’s gene before. All ye poor and stricken ones, lift yom hearts and cease your moans; J Night’s dark pall may on you fall; your mourning, too, will come jLift your grieved hearts to God if will not leave you lone; Christ’s alt sufficingness will guide you safely home. iO’er life’s broad heaving ocean—refluent waves’ commotion “ Mater Unigeniti ” we lift our sculs to thee [Pray to Him our bark to guide safe o'er Death's ocean tide, ! lie listens when we sigh to thee, R‘ gina Cadi ! | October 2, 1870 —The Feast of the llok I Rosary of the B. V. Mary. ER( m PENS S Vl. VAX 2A . | Philadelphia, October 11.—Tee ckc- Jiiou is pr grossing with spirit The rc |?t*oes are voting tor the firsc time —urn o jjlcsted in some wards, while in others t* r Sis some disposition to riot. Ihe mari- Sare at headquarters, aud will act prom; :v sio case of disturbance. | Philadelphia. October 11 There L; v>. jbeen no serious disturbances. ibe ’.ward, for sheriff, shows a Republican p lof 803; sixth ward, Republican gain 1- twelfth ward. Republican gam '.>J. la-.- Republicans claim Philadelphia l*y .. thousand. The negroes voted gene: } the straight Republican ticket. -• First district, Randall elected; sea district, both claim ; third district, elected; fourth district, Kelly eicc*- i,