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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
mat.
i VOLUME II.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1855.
NUMBER 22
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Groceries, JDryOoods,
HARE IVARE, SHOES AXD BOOTS,
April 6 Athens, Ga.
MOORE k CARLTON,
DEALERS IN
SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS,
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ITHOI.ES.1LE A.YD RETAIL DEALERS IX
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, <tc. Ac.
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WILLIAM G. DELONY,
ATTORNEY AT LAAV,
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Staple Goods, Hardware, Crockery,
A.YD ALL KLYDS OF GROCERIES,
Corner of Wall and Broad streets, Athens.
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WHOLESALE AN1> RETAIL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
AndXtttjpaper nnd Mngozine Agent.
DEALER IN
MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
I.AMI'S, FINK CUTLERY, FANCY GOODS. AC.
No. 3, College Avenue, Newton House. Athens, Ga
sign of •• White’s University Book Store.”
Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates.
T. BISHOP k SON,
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April 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens.
JAMES M. ROYAL,
HARNESS MAKER,
H AS removed hi* shop to Mitchell's old
Tavern, one door east of Grady A Nich
olson’s—where he keeps always on baud a
geueral assortment of articles inhjslinc, and
is always ready to fillordersinthe best style.
Jan 26 * tf
LOOK HERE!
T HE undersigned have on hand a general
assortment of
STAPLE DRV GOODS,
GROCERIES AND HARDWARE.
which they will sell low for cash or barter
Call nnd examine.
April 13 P. A. SUMMEY & 11RO.
Coach.Making and Repairing.
.JAMES B. BURPEEj
A T the old stand recently occupied by R. S.
Schevenell, offers for sale a lot of superi
or articles of his own manufacture, at redu
ced prices—consisting of
Carriages, Buggies, &c.
Orders for any thing in hisline thankfully
received and promptly executed.
e-frRepairing done at shortuotieeand on
reasonable terms.
NOTICE.
T HE subscribers are prepared to fill orders
for ull kinds of
Spokes for Carriages and Wagons,
Also, at the same establishment we mauufac
ture all kinds of
BOBBINS,
commonly used in our cotton factories. All
done as good and cheap as can be had from
the North. Address,
I’. A. SUMMEY & BRO. Athens, Ga.
who will attend to all orders, and the ship
ping of the tame. March, 1864.
SLOAN & OATMAnT
DEALERS IN
Italian, Egyptian dr American
mwm,
AND BAST TENNESSEE MARBLE.
Monuments, Tombs, Urns and Vases; Murbl
Mmitels and Furnishing Marble
ST AH orders promptly filled.
ATLANTA. GA.
Uff Refer to Mr. Ross Crane. juncld
Of'I Sacks Flour for sale by
vU April 26th Grady <&Xicnoi.soN
WANTED,
in nnn LBS - °°od country
lv,UU'J BACON, for which the high
est price will 1:e paid, cash or barter, at
July a , I. M. K ENN KY*8.
2
.GOOD IRON AXLE WAGONS, for
_ sale hy F. A. SUMMEY A PRO.
July 19 3m
A QUAKER JUMPING A DITCH.
Hezekiah Broadbrim was a fat Quaker
in the State of New Jersey, who sold
molasses, codfish, china, earthenware,
clothes, and all sorts-of liquors. We
like the Quakers, indeed as well as in
name, and Hezekiah was a Hickory
Quaker, lie was somewhat of an old
bachelor, and had a sister that was some
what of an old maid. But she was the
best creature alive, straight as a candle,
blooming as a rose and smiling as chanty.
Her name was Dorcas.
IJezekiah and Dorcas walked out one
Sunday afternoon, in the blooming month
of May, to breathe the fresh air, and
view the meadows. The walking was
smooth and delightful, with no manner
of obstructions, except here and there a
ditch full of water, * spanned by a few
hedges, and too wide for a man of ordi
nary jumping capacity to cross at a sin
gle bound. But Hezekiah valued him
self, as fat people commonly do, on bis
agility, and instead of walking a few
rods for the sake of a bridge, he must
needs leap every ditch he came to.
“ Thee’d better not try that, Hezekiah,”
said his kind and considerate sister.
“ Never thee mind, Dorcas,” replied
Hezekiah, “ there’s no danger; I’ve
jumped a bigger ditch when I wasn’t
half ray present size.”
“ All that’s very likely, but reccollect
thee’s grown exceedingly pursy since
thee was a young man!”
“ Pursy ! Well, if I ‘have, that’s no
renson why I shouldn’t be as agile as be
fore; t tell thee, Dorcas, I can jump
this ditch without so much as touching a
finger.”
“ Aye, but tbee’J touch thy feet to the
bottom.”
“ Thee’s but a woman, Dorcas, and
thy fears magnify this ditch even to a
river. Now stand thee aside, that I may
have a full sweep according to my abi
lities”
“ Nay, brother Hezekian, thee’d better
not. The ditch is wide, the bottom
muddy—and tlie’ll assuredly spoil thy
Sunday clothes if no worse.”
*‘0, fudge for your fears, girl, they
shall not stay me a jot. Nay, do not hold
me, for I’m resolved to jump this ditch,
if it were merely to convince thee of my
agility.
Accordingly Hezeliiuh went back a
few yards, in order that he might bare
a fair run, ""d that the impulse thereof
might carry him over. Having retract
ed far enough, he came forward with a
momentum proportioned to his weight
and velocity—and found himself in the
ditch. Titer wate splashed around on alf
sides, and bespotted the Sunday clothes
of Dorcas, who could not, with'all her
Quaker sobriety and kind feeling, help
burMing into a loud laugh. There was
Hezekiah showing his agility*, and floun
dering in the mud like a whale! The
water was not so deep as to be dangerou
and the scene was too irresistibly comic
for even a saint to abstain from laughing,
though on the Lord’s day.
At length, when her risibility would
allow her power of speech, Dorcas kind
ly held out her hand and said, ** come
hither, Hezehiah, and I’D help the out.”
” Well, well,” returned the fiounder-
er, in a tone of vexation—“ thee does
well. Dorcas, to stand there and laugh
at me—as though it were mere sport to
sec me stick in the mud and water up to
my very middle?”
“ Nay, nay, Hezekiah, thee has shown
thy agility so marvelously, that I could
not help being pleased for the life of me
and now I take shame to myself for op
posing thee so strenuously Jor for having
double thy capacity for jumping. But
if thee’s satisfied with thy exploit, and
ready to come forth, I will lend thee a
hand to help thee out.”
Thus saying, Darcas drew near the
ditch—but Hezekiah having got himself
in by his unaided power, declared he
would get himself out in the same way
But the mud was deep and adhesive, and
as be got one foot out be got the other
in; and thus he continued to labor and
plunge, till he was satisfied his own abi
lity was better calculated to help him in
than to help him out of the ditch! He
grew wroth, and so far forgot the plain
language that he exclaimed, ‘By’—
* Don’t the swear, brother Hezekiah
interrupted Dorcas.
“ Swear!” roared Hczkeiah, “ thee’d
swear too if thee was in here 1”
Swear not at all, Hezekiah, but eren
lend me thy hand, and 111 use my abi
lity to pull the out, according to the
Scripture, which sayeth: • If thine ox or
thine aes fall into a ditch on the Sabbath
day”-
Now, sister Dorcas, thee is too bad.
Verily, thee should not make me so
heavy as the former animal, nor so stupid
as the latter.”
As to thy weight,” returned Dorcas,
“ thee must be pretty well satisfied by
this time; and as for thy stupidity, it
were indeed unsisterly to liken thee to
the long eared animal. But if thee is
satisfied on these points, and will forth
with reach me thine hand, I’ll do as
much as in me lieth to bring thee safe to
land.” ..
Hezekiah was pretty well convinced
by this time that his own ability would
never fetch him out; wherefore,humbly
reaching his hand to Dorcas, he said:
*’ Verily, sister, I will accept thy aid in
asmuch as my own ability bath deceived
ate.”
Dorcas kindly lent her assistance »
and, pulling vigorously, Hezelfiah at
length came to land. Shaking off mud
and water like a spaniel, be returned
home; but charging his sister by the
way never to mention how he came to
his catastrophe. Dorcas promised, ot
course; and as she was a girl of truth
and kind feelings, she was as good as
her word. But once or twice, when
they were in company with sundry other
Quakers, discoursing soberly about mat
ters and things, Dorcas, looking archly
at another girl, merely said : *• Did I
ever tell thee, Rachel, how brother
Hezehiah one §dnday—”
Hezekiah turned an embarrassing and
imploring look towards, her, and she
said: <
‘‘Nay, nay. Hezekiah, l’m'not going
to tell but merely to ask if I|ever had told
how thee showed thy agility one Sunday,
and jumped into the middle of a ditch ?”
SHE CHANGED HER MIND.
There are some persons who are
never sick without thinking themselves
very much worse off than they really
are. Of this class was Mrs. Haskins,
a young married lady, and the mother
of two fine boys.
On one occasion, being visited by a
fever, the consequence of imprudent ex
posure, she gave herseli up to the mel
ancholy fancies which usually assailed
her, and persuaded herself that she was
going to die.
In consequence of this melancholy
presentiment,she assumed so woe-begooe
an appearance that even her medical at
tendant was startled in believing that she
was really much werse than from her
symptoms lie had judged her to be.
Under these circumstances he advis
ed her to make what earthly prepara
tions she had yet to make, while there
was yet time to do so.
Mrs. Haskins was an affectionate
mother, and the thought of parting from
the children to whom she was so warmly
attached, at a time when, more than any
other, they needed a mother’s care, was
peculiarly distressing.
“ Their father will be kind to them,
no doubt, and sec that they are amply
provided for, but nothing that he can do
will supply to them the loss of a moth
er.”
Gradually the idea of a ?top-mother
suggested itself to the lady’s imagination,
and such was her care for (he happiness
of her children, that she become recon
ciled to an idea so repugnant to most,
wi ves, and actually began to consider
who among her acquaintances was best
fitted to become a second Mrs. Has
kins.
At length her choice fell upon a Miss
Parker, an intimate friepd of her own.
Feeling anxious to have this matter satis
factorily settled, she dispatclied a mes
senger post haste for Miss Parker, who,
after a brief interval, made her appear
ance at her friend’s bedside.
“ My dear friend,” said Mrs. Has
kins, in a feeble voice, ‘*1 have sent for
you for what perhaps you will consider
a singular reason. But, believe me, it
is a mother’s anxiety for her children
that prompts me. I am very sick, and
shall not live long. So the doctor tells
me, and my own feelings tell me that it
must be so. The situation in which I
shall leave my poor boys, who will thus
be deprived of a mother’s watchful care,
distresses me beyond measure. There
is only one way in which my anxiety
can be relieved, and this it is which has
prompted me to send for you. Promise
me that when I am gone you will marry
Mr. Iiaskin^, and be to them a second
mother. Do not refuse me; it is my
last request.”
Desirous of comforting her friend,Miss
Paiker assented to her request, adding—
“ I will comply with your request,
and the more willingly, for I always
liked Mr. Haskins.”
“ Always liked Mr. Haskins ?” ex
claimed his dying wife, raising herself on
her elbow, her feelings of conjugal jeal
ousy for a moment overpowering matern
al affection, “you always liked my hus
band, did you? Then I vow you shall
never marry him if I have to live to
prevent it.”
And Mrs. Haskins did live. The re
vulsion of feeling resulting from Miss
Parker’s unexpected declaration accom
plished in her case, what the skill of
physicians had been unable to effect.
There is an old saying, which, like
most old sayings, has in it not a little
truth; that when a woman wills, she
will, depend on’t—and when she won’t
she won’t, and there’s an end on’t. So it
was in the case of Mrs. Haskins. She
was determined, that if Mr. Haskins ever
does have a second wife, it shall not be
Miss Parker. .
ALL FAIR IN WAR.
The Mexican revolutionists are at
present within ten or twelve miles of
Vera Cruz. They have every prospect
of success, which can be afforded by
courage, enthusiasm and skill, but the
deficiency of proper military appearances
—especially of cannon—is a serious
draw-hack to their hopes.
Even their deficiency in the most
effective arm of the service, viz, artillery,
is not a source of uneasiness to their
friends. Necessity is the mother of
invention, according to the proverb of
which, by the way, we are able to furnish
a new illustration. The revolutionists
have been aware that it was jnmspensa-
ble for their cause to secure some of the
nvai’ahle artillery of Vera Cruz. Even
a single eight pounder woulcTbe welcome
to them. Stratagem was summoned to
their aid, and a Mexican (who will turn
out to be a Yankee in due time) suggest
ed a plan which has worked like a
charm.
A grand acrobatic exhibition was
announced in Vera Cruz, and the Go-
verner accepted the invitation of the
artists to be present on the interesting
occasion. The most curious feat of all
those pronounced, was intended to be
the firing of an 8 pound guo from the
shoulder of one of the performers, and
all Vera Cruz was agog to see it done.
The gun was borrowed from the garrison,
the officers of which are exceedingly
obliging to gentlemen of the circus, the
tight rope or the ring. Every citizen
was on tiptoe of expectation, as the
substitution of cannon for muskets in
“the manual of arms” was an idea
worthy of this progressive age.
Unfortunately, however, the artist
who was to achieve the feat, fell ill and
died. The perlormances were necessa
rily postponed, and the poor fellow was
buried with much pomp and ceremony.
Two or three ‘‘holy fathers,” besides a
miscellaneous cavalcade, accompanied
the coffin to the cemetery, some distance
from the city, and after the requisete
numbci of prayers, turned their faces
homeward, and discussed on road the
melancholy fate of the acrobat.
Some days elapsed before the truth came
out; that the coffin contained, not the
corpse of the actor, but the Gove rnor’s
big gun, which is now in the hands of
the Revolutionists!
Wonder ifthe individual who planned
the trick hails from Massachusetts or
Maine ?—New Orleans Delta.
Type Settinq Machine.—The ed
itor of the Montreal Gazette is in Paris,
looking at the sights in the great ex
hibition there. He writes as follows:
The exhibition is most complete here,
and is amitted to be superior to the
Loudon exhibition of 1851. A Wes
tern editor and myself have returned
from examining a type setting and dis
tributing machine. It does its work
correctly and quickly, and will I have
no doubt, supersede hand setting.—
Though it looks complicated, it is really
a very simple construction, and in eight
or ten minutes I learned to set hy it.
1 could set this up. in about an eighth of
the time I take to write it. 1 fear, how
ever, I shall be unable to give you a
a description that will be intelligible to
your readers. The type, instead of be
ing thrown into the boxes iu a case,
about three quarters of an inch in depth
separated from each other by brass rules
like common rules.
They require to be set up in these by
hand before commencing to compose.
Then if you want a letter you touch a
key like that of a piano, which tosses it
into another inclined groove in which it
slides down a certain distance, when it
is lifted npwrightly by a jerk from a
crank—so the types are carried on until
your line is up, when you touch a spring
and they are dropped into a galley below
which moves along sufficiently at the
same time.to receive the next line.
So it goes on till the galley is full,
when it is removed to be proved and
placed in the form. In distributing,
the reverse action is produced. There
can be longer a doubt that, with some
slight modifications, the machine will
succeed. Steps will immediately] be
taken to secure a patent in Canada nnd
the United States.
Political
ROMAN"cATHOLIcTaND THE
UNITED STATES.
The following article lately appeared
as an editorial in the Freeman's Journ
al, the acknowledged organ of Arch
bishop Hughes of New York. We
have bad the articlo on hand some days
waiting a convenient opportunity to give
it a place in the Advocate; ar.d now
that we insert it, we ask the attentive
persual of each and every person into
whose hands this paper may full. It
is a remarkable confession, showing not
only what has been done by the Catho*
for hand setting, are placed in grooves of Iics b ? of increa9in 2 the5r numbers
SEVEN BORN FOOLS.
The augry man—who sets his own
house on fire that he may burn his
neighbor’s. •
The envious man—who cannot enjoy
life because others do.
The robber— who for the considera-
tio of a few dollars, gives the world lber-
ty to hang him.
The hypochondriac—whoso highest
happiness consist in rendering himself
miserable.
The jealous man—who poisons his
own banquet and then eats of it.
The Miser—who starves himself to
death in order that his heir may-feast.
The slanderer—who tell tales for the
sake of giving his enemies an opportu
nity of proving him a liar.
Wives and Daughter*.—A cotem
porary, who is somewhat posted up in
satin and statistics, talks as follows :
‘‘While the business men of America
proverbially live poor, dress shabbier,
work harder, nnd many more hours,
than in any other country in the world,
their witfes and daughters are ten limes
more idle, more extravagant and more
useless.
It strikes us there is some truth in
that extract. Mr. Brocha, of the house
of Brocha, Buckram & Co, toils from
twelve to sixteen hours per day. Brocha
last year made 822,000.—What became
ot it ? Ten thousand dollars of the
same were spent by Mr. Brocha, for
new furniture, “to spite the Maxwells'
while a large portion of the balance was
expended on -‘Blanche and Sarah,” so
that they go to Newport and “Shaw the
Fatadlings” that there were other dia
monds in New York besides those which
were inherited from a grandfather, who
found in India a princely fortune and a
diseased liver. Brocha had been
business since 1840. He does a large
and lucrative business. People who
have never been in his parlor and kitch
en, imagine that Brocha is worth a
quarter of a million of dollars, while
those who have been in, wonder how he
dodges the sheriff. Brocha is still toil
ing, and is still making money, and yet
if he should die to morrow, it is question
able whether his assets would equal his
liabilities. Brocha will probably end
his days by testing the virtue of n shil
ling’s worth of strychnine. Should we
be one of the jurors who sit upon the
body, we should bring in the following
verdict—“died from the visitation of an
extravagant wife and two senseless
daughters.”
A Valuable Ointment.—Wishing
to benefit mankind, and having it in my
power to dc so, I would say that I have
a recipe for making an ointment that has
been thoroughly tried and found good for
sprains, bruises, swellings, burns, cuts,
&C. &c. j and wishing to have it gener
ally known I hand you for publication
the following recipe.
Take stramonium, (Jirason leaves,)
pound them well, put them into an iron
kettle, adding lard enough tocover them;
let them simmer over a slow fire till the
leaves will crisp; then strain it through
a cloth and let it cool.
I used (his ointment on a colt that had
been lame for six months with,a sprain
ed knee, after trying various medicines
without receiving any benefit, and this
cured her within a week, she net having
been lame since although it is now more
than eighteen months since (he applica
tion was made.—Maine Farmer.
PAGANISM AND ROMANISM.
The analogy between ancient Pagan
ism and modern Romanism, is striking,
and worthy of notice. In the ancient
mythology of the Pagans, as every class
ical reader knows, it was taught that
there were Gods who presided over par
ticular countries and cities, and Gods
who were the patrons of particular
trades and professions; and so it now i*
in the calendar of the Pdpish Saints.
There is St. George, of England, St.
Andrew, of Scotluml, St. Patrick, of
Ireland, Sl. Sebastian, of Portugal, St.
James, of Spain, St. Denis, of France,
St. Mark, of Venice. One of these is
the patron of painters, another of shoe
makers, another of learning, another of
lawyers, and another of swine, and so on
of geese and sheep!
We suppose St. Patrick of Ireland, is
the patron of our Catholics here. We
judge so from the fact that he was a
drunkard, and like “praste,” like people!
The St. Louis Republican of the 11th
inst., has intelligence from a gentleman
who has just arrived at that city from
Fort Laramie, to the effect that Fort
Riley has been completely swept by the
cholera, the few that escaped the pes
tilence having fled to the hills for refuge,
leaving the sick to die and the dead un
buried. Major Ogden, U. S. A., and a
most efficient officer, was among the vie
tims of the scourge. As many as forty
died in one day. Fort Riley is a new
millitary post recently established by
the Government, and it was determined
to make this a prominent post on the
Western border, and for this purpose a
large number of mechanics were em
ployed to proceed thither and constrnct
additional barracks and other homes.
Narrow Escape from Fire.—
Washington, Aug 17.—The attic room
of the War Department was discovered
to be on fire this afternoon, caused by
some loose paper igniting from an un
known cause. No materia! damage was
done, Great excitement prevailed among
West End officials.
Ordered to Leave.—The St. Lou
is Christian Advocate publishes an ac
count of Rev. Wm. H. Wiley, preacher
of the Ilarrisonville circuit), in Missouri,
who was arrested on the road by a band
of men, who accused him of circulating
abolition documents, and ordered him to
leave the State in ten days. Mr. Wil
ley left that neighborhood and fled to St.
Loui-.
A Beautiful Thought.—When I
gaze in to the-stars, they look down up
on me with pity from their serene and
silent spaces, like eyes glistening with
tears over the little lot of man. Thous
ands of generations, all as noisy as our
own, have been swallowed by time, and
there remains no record of them any
more; yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius
and Pleiades are still shining in their
courses, clear and young as when the
shephard first noted them from the
plains of Shinar! What shadows we
are, and what shadows wc pursue
Carlyle.
“ It is said” that a mixture of half an
ounce of pulverized saltpetre and half
pint of sweet oil is a certain cure for the
inflammatory rheumatism The mix
ture must be applied externally to the
part affected, and a gentleman, who has
witnessed its application in a number of
instances, says that it will infallibly effect
a cure, and that right speedily.
Great tnen never affect anything.
It is your three cent folks that put on
airs, swell and act the pomp. The dif
ference between the two is as great as
between a barrel of vinegar and an
angel's dispositon.
If the Bible were a weekly journal,
how many communications would it
receive signed A constant reader?”
in this country, but also what they intend
to do—and this we specially commend
to the attention of those who profess to
regard “ all this talk about Catholic de
signs in this country as stuff.” Let such
hear what Catholics themselves say:—
St. Louis Chr. Ad.
The United States. —The Future
Home of Catholics.—We are of those
who desire to regulate our conduct on
the belief that there is an all-wise Provi
dence that rules over the affairs of men.
An all wise Providence, reaching in its
plans from end to end; proposing all
things mightily, disposing them gently
and in their natural order. A Provi
dence, patient because it is Eternal, but
which, when it finds rightly disposed in
struments, does in a short time the work
of centuries, and when the right moment
arrives, breaks up all delays, and asto
nishes thejiniverse by its force, as it had
done by its patience. .
We are not those that can blind their
eyes to the fact that Providence opened
up the New World to the march of truth
and of civilisation at the very moment
when He foresaw that a great revolt
was ready to burst forth in Europe, car
rying away whole nations from the faith,
and preparing multiplied revolutions, in
the political as well as in the religions
world, by the conflicts of anarchy and
of despotism.
In this new world which God rather
than man has opened up for the refuge
of the oppressed in these latter jlays, one
country, one political organization, stands
supreme, with the crown of Empire on
its brow.* It is in no partizan spirit that
we say it. We need not take our stand
poiut in New York any rather than in
Quebec, or in Mexico, or in Lima, or in
Buenos-Ay res, or in London, or Paris.
We sit down where you will, in the
halls of the Vatican, or oh Mount Leba
non, or in the shades of the Ganges,
wherever you judge more suitable for
calm study and for concentrated thought.
Wc open up with you the books of history
and the maps of the world , nnd when
these have been spread all around, we
proceed to the examination of the Unit
ed States of North America. Politically
and socially it is an infant whose mother
has never i»ound its limbs in swathilit.g
clothes. England! its cruel step mother,
has flung into its cradle the serpents of
discord,—-party agitators concerning do
mestic institutions,and religion, an I race.
The giant-infant, it has already the
strength to inspire with terror or respect
the strongest of the fullgrown nations.
Alongside the Empire-Republic, what
does British America, or Spanish Ame
rica, import, with their jarring nationa
lities, their incompatible aims, their
drooping industry, their abortive efforts
at a feeble political world ? How could
they imitate our countiy ? They do
not understand it.
And of the advancement of religion
iu the country, what can we not say ?
We still shake hands with the patriar
chal men who tell us of the days of their
early manhood, when in tire whole
Empire State of New York there was
butone small building devoted to Catho
lic worship, and to the offering of the
sublime Sacrifice. But one small
church, and some three hundred wor
shipers, in the whole State of New
York, where now there are four Epis
copal Sees with their Bishop*, one Me
tropolitan, three hundred Priests, and
colleges, and convents, and t overin w
academies, and ramified organizations
of charity among a Catholic population
of more than half a million of souls.
In the whole United States, where
little more than a half century ago the
Jesuit Fathers of Maryland wrote to
Rome that there was neither occasion
or support for a Catholic Bishop, there
are now more than forty Bishops, with
a proportionate development of priests
and churches. . But this is not all.
Within the past few years wide tracts
of territory, by the fortunes of honor
able war, by treaty, and by the natural
march of empire, have been under the
protection of the American flag. They
belonged before to nominally Catholic
Mexico, but ignorance, rapine and bar.
barism had them, for the most part, in
possession these many years past. Al
ready, under American rule, four Bi
shops, one of them a Metropolitan, have
been sent to carry the Gospel, with hopes
of a better civilization, to these long de
solations. The Catholics of the United
States desire to see the flag of their
country, in any just and lawful manner,
planted on the top of M<»ro Castle, as
sured that beneath its folds a Catholic
Bishop, with a clergy faithful and virtu
ous, will soon raise the cross over Cuba,
and propagate there, effectively, the
Catholic religion—unpatroniieddnd un~
feltird by Voltariao rulers.
Yes, in this country as evdf/whore
else that the church is free, ViH Catho
lic religion and the national spirit are
more and more daily interpenetrating
each other. Each finds in eaah a mutual
succor in the hour of trial; and each
can here help each other, because that
each is independent and sovereign in its
sphere.
What topics for reflection and for
action these thoughts suggest! But,
for the moment, we interrupt their cur
rent and ask, as we conclude this arti
cle, of these journalist who give advice
unasked, and who describe Catholics in
the United States in so unfortune g
condition, to tell us of another land
where our holy religion has made such
progress in the last half century ? We
ask them to explaiu why its influence in
all other parts of America has been so
stationary, or in many cases so dead,
since the institutions of this country ap
pear to them so deleterious ? We ask
them finally, in what country of Europe
Catholics have the same ctnfidcnce in
their future that we have in ours? If
it be in England, swaying to and fro be
tween the bigoted despotism of its anti-
Catholic past, and the savage godless
ness of incorrigible and brutalized fu
ture. which is waiting from moment to
moment to be unchained ? Perhaps
the breath that our Catholic transatlantic
censors expect to live on, is that which
Louin Napoleon holds in his nostrils.
In reference to the foregoing article,
the St Louis Presbyterian of last week
contained an editorial, from which we
make the following extract:
“ There are several points worthy of
particular consideration:
1. The sad prospeets of Romanism m
Europe. “ A great revolt ready to burst
forth in Europe, carrying away whole
nations from the faith,” &c. Query—
How has it happened 1 —that the Church
of Rome has so lost her sway over the;
maids of men in Europe ? How hap
pens it, that just where her reign has
been for centuries most absolute, terrific
revolutions now threaten to overwhelm
Church and State ?
2. Observe how contcmpuously the
editor speaks of” British America, of
Spanish America.” But does he fergef,
that in British America, Popery has long,
been the dominant religion ?—and that
in Spanish America, it has reigned su
preme ? How happens it that they ai e-
so contemptible, compared with the
United State* ? And how is if, that
Mexico, after being from its birth, ex
clusively under Popish control, is now
o ily “ nominally Catholic?” Cuba, too.
Catholic Cuba, is in a dreadful condi
tion; and the Catholics of the United
Slates have turned fillidustkrs, and
desire to see it in possession of the
Un'ted States, that they inay “ propa
gate there effectively the Catholic
Religion.” What a comment upon
Popery!
3. It' Popery has enjoyed so unpiece-
deuted prosperity in this free country
how is it—that the Romish clergy ii»
this country have so earnestly opposed
freedom in France, in Hungary and in
Italy?
4 How happens it, that the United
States are so great, and so free? Con
fessedly Protestantism has been and ie»
the control.ng moral nnd religious in
fluence; and this fact accounts for thp
freedom and ihe prosperity of the coun
try. And now Papists, likely to lie dri
ven from every other part of ihe world,
are told, that the United Slates arc to l*e
their future home! Popery hiving
ruined every country over which it his
prevailed, now prop i-.es t > come and
bask under the shade of th: tree of Li
berty planted and watered by Protestant
hands!
THE PENITENTIARY FOLKS.
Now that the elec i-»it« arc over in th T s>
State, and the excitement consequent
thereon, all parlies will bo able to con
template facts and figures, calmly, dis
passionately, and impartially^ We ask
all such, then, to miter with ws hi consid
ering who are the penitentiary folks of
this country ? The answer is, that in
the geiirul th-y are foreigners. A tab!*
publised in the €ampc»dhmv of ihe
late Centos-, giving the number of con
victs in the prisons and penitenthirics,
shows that tiie average in all tin- States-
in si.Y to-owq of Foreigners over nuiv.s
In Maine, there arc five Foreigner#
to one Native.
In Kentirckey, six to one.
In Mississippi, leu to one.
In New York, three to one.
In- Tennessee,- fifteen to- two.-
In Vermont, eight to <»ne.
In South Carolina, twenty-eight lo»
oue.
In Alabama, fifty to one.
In Georgia, six to one.
In Indiana, four to one.
Out of the capital offenues, ip* th®
same States, where hanging was the .
penalty, three to one were foreigners.
These facts speak for themselves, and
need no comment from us- They are
well calculated tc oper: the eye? ©f our
citizens to the importance of arresting,
this tide ofForeign emigration] so rap
idly flooding ouF country, and crowding
our jails, with the worst population ots
earth:—Brownlaio's Whi?.