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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY mat. i VOLUME II. ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1855. NUMBER 22 FUBUSHBD WEEKLY, BY JOHN H. CHRISTY, nnn iM HtonuxToa. Term* or Subscription. TWO DOLLARS per annum, if paid *trictlj-in ad luce: otherwise,THREE DOLLARS will be charged KT I# order that the price of the pa pet may noibeie the way nfa large circulaUon, Clubs wiU be supplied tl the following low rates. Ocas lew rates, tie Cask asat accaM/aay Ou arris*. lUttes or Advertising. { Transient adrettUements will be inserted at One Mlar per sqnarefor the II rst.and Fifty Cents persquare or each subsequent insertion. Legal and yearly advertisement* at the usual rates Candidates will be charged R3 for announcements, «nd obituary noticesexeeeoingsiz lines in length will be charged as advertisements. When the number of Insertions isnotmsrkedon and advertisement, it will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. $05iiU5S coll -pruftssional (Curbs. JcT^NH. CHlTTsTY\ PLAIX A.YD FAXCT Book and Job Printer, . “ Franklin Job Office,” Athens. Ga. **« Alt work entrusted to his care iaithlully, correctly and punctually executed, at prices correspond- JsnlB Inf with the hardness of the times. tf C. B. LOMBARD, DENTIST, ATHEXS, GEORGIA. Rooms over the Store yf Wilson tc Veal. Jan3 PITNER & ENGLAND. Wholesale t Retail Ut alers in Groceries, JDryOoods, HARE IVARE, SHOES AXD BOOTS, April 6 Athens, Ga. MOORE k CARLTON, DEALERS IN SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS, HA HD WARE AND CROCKER Y. April No. 3, Granite Row, Athens,Ga. LUCAS k BILLUPS, ITHOI.ES.1LE A.YD RETAIL DEALERS IX DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, <tc. Ac. No. 2, BrnaJ Street. Athens. WILLIAM G. DELONY, ATTORNEY AT LAAV, Office over the store dI Win M. Morton Sl Son Will attend promptly-to all beonesneutrust- o.i to bis care. Athens, April 6 P. A. SUMMEY k BROTHER, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Staple Goods, Hardware, Crockery, A.YD ALL KLYDS OF GROCERIES, Corner of Wall and Broad streets, Athens. WILLIAM N. WHITE, 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, Wholesale and Ftfsil C cc*i, 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?.