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REMINISENCES OF BISHOP ENGLAND. [From ‘The in America.”] Endowed with singular energy of character, and a mind at once vigorous and comprehensive, eniicned with infor mation both varied and accurate, John England combined the advantages of a thorough training in all the priestly duties, derived from an active missionary career, first in his native city, and after wards in the parish of Bandon. To the disci large of his functions as a Minis ter of the Gospel he brought the zeal and piety of an ardent nature, and the prompt ing of a spirit entirely unselfish, and in leed wholly self-sacrificing. Nor was he unacquainted with those political ques tions which agitated the public mind of that day. in Ireland, whatever the dis position of priest or prolate, there happen occasions when he is tempted—nay even compelled-—to quit the sacred precincts of the sanctuary for the arena of political strife; and before John England was ap pointed to the parish of Bandon, even the ecclesiastics who, by character and disposition, were most inclined to shrink from the angrv contentions of the outer world, felt themselves compelled by a sense of conscientious obligation to assert, their rights as citizens.. This was during the Jong ar;d weari-ome struggle for Eman cipation, which was mainly carried, as the world knows, by the pluck and deter mination of the. Catholics of Ireland, assisted, uo doubt, by thw generous and persistent aid of the Liberal Protestants of the United Kingdom. The grand object of the Iri h Catholics of that day was to return, as their representatives to Parliament, the friends of Emancipa tion ; and such was the power and in fluence of those who made a desperate resistance to the just claims of their fellow-countrymen, that it required the utmost effort and the most perfect union on the part of the Catholic body to frus trate the machinations of their wily and relentless opponents. The Ilev. John England was a ready, dashing writer, as bold in attack as skilful in reply ; nor as a speaker was he inferior, either in power or brilliancy, t > the most gifted orators of a period when men 'borrowed their best inspirations from the earnest convictions and strong passions of the moment. To him, in no small degree, was owing the courage, the cohesion, and the triumph of the popular party of his native city ; and when he left that city for the parish to which, at au unusually early period of life he was appointed, and afterwards when he quitted the shores of his native land for that great country with which his fame is inseparably associated, he was followed by the best wishes of every friend of frt iedom, expressed as well by sub stantial tokens as in eloquent words. Thus was Bishop England especially pre pared for the work he had to do in his new field of labor ; his acquaintance with public affairs, ami his faculty of dealing with questions other than those within the immediate province of a Minister of reli gion, frequently obtaining for him the most valuable influence with people of position and authority. We now turn to the, diary kept by Bishop England which thus opens : On Monday, the 10th of July, I re ceived in Bandon a letter from the Rev erend Henry Hughes, dated June IT, 1820, at Rome, informing me that on the preceding* Monday ( had been appointed Bishop of Charleston, in South Carolina, and requesting of me, for various reasons therein alleged, to accept of this appoint ment. September 2 Li.—f received the grace of Episcopal Consecration in the Catholic Church of S{ Fiitbar s, in the city of Cork, from the Right Rev. Dr Murphy, Bishop of the Diocese, assisted by the Bight Ilev. Dr. olaram, Bishop of Ossory and Kelly, first Bishop of Richmond, (Virginia), whose appointment was subse quent to mine, but took place at Kilkenny on the 24th of August. There were present, the Most Kcv. Dr. Ewrard, Archbishop of Myte kne, coadjutor of the Most Rev. Dr. Bray, Archbishop of (-ashel, and the Right Rev. B rs * Copping. t, of Oloyne and Ross, Kighrue of Ardfert and Aghadoc (Kerry) und Tuohy of Limerick. . . . . October llth—i having many appli cations from priests and candidates for fan'i's on the American mission, I ap- P'i»tud my brother, the Rev. Thomas R. ■-England, and the Rev. Thomas O'Keefe, m y V iears-General. for the purpose prin cipally of selecting such of those as I may afterwards want, and if necessary them ordained. This was the annivew tnry—twelve years—of my ordination to tuc pri *sthood. On this day I parted Com my family to go whither I thought Cod had called me, but whither I had no otlwr desire to go. Should this be read by ei stranger, let him pardon that weak m-ssof our common nature wihich then effected me, and does now after the lapse of three months. December 26th.—Found soundings i n 35 fathoms water, and oi> the next day saw the Hunting Islands on the coast of South Carolina, after a very tedious and unpleasant passage. On the evening of the 27th came to anchor off Charleston ’ Bar, and on the 28th crossed it, and worked up the channel, and came to anchor in the evening. December 30th.—Came on shore in Charleston ; saw the Rev. Benedict Fen wick, S. O. 1., who was Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Baltimore, who ex hibited to me his papers. T gave him my Bulls and Certificates, received the resig nation of his authority, and renewed his faculties ot \ icar-General for my diocese, as Bishop of Charleston which, he accept ed. December 31st.—Being Sunday. I had the happiness of celebrating Mass, took possession of the church, had my bulls published, and preached. Dr. England soon made himself ac quainted wiih the condition of his diocese, which in all respects was far from en couraging. Upon inquiry he found that there was a congregation in the City of Savannah, (Georgia), but that it had been deserted, and he took into consideration the necessity of having a Priest for that mission. He determined to visit Savan nah and Augusta and Warreuton in Georgia, and Columbia in Smith Carolina, without delay. Appointing the Rev. Mr. Fenwick his Vicar-General, with full powers until his return to Charleston, and requesting him to purchase ground for a second temporary church in that city, and if possible procure a good site for a large cathedral, he went on board the sloop “Delight”, and sailed for Savannah on the 15th of January, 1821. He found there had been no Priest in that city since the previous October ; and to re pair the evil caused by the want of a cler gyman for so long a time, he commenced a vigorous course of instruction, followed by the administration of the sacraments. Tbefollowing entry affords an idea of his energy, and of the attention which he already excited amongst non-Catholies. ‘January 21st.— Heard confessions, cel ebrated the Holy Mass, and administered the Holy Communion to 27 persons. Gave Confirmation to 15 persons. At half-past ten o’clock I. spoke on the erec tion of the Sec, on my own authority, and publicly committed the flock of Savannah to the care of the Ilev. Robert Browne un til 1 should think proper to remove him ; and after Mass I preached to a large con gregation. amongst whom were the prinei-* pal lawyers of Savannah, and many other strangers. In the evening 1 had vespers, and gave an exhortation and benediction -—Church crowded and surrounded. 5 The next entry records the same round of duty, with this paragraph added: “Was asked by the Mayor and others to preach in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which 1 declined for the present/' Appointing “John Dillon/’ to read pray ers for Mass on Sunday,’ until the return of the Rev. Mr Browne, whom he took with him on his visitation, the Bishop pro ceeded to Augusta, which place he reached after two days of hard traveling. After a brief but energetic work in this city, where he administered Confirmation “to Jno. McCormick, Esq., and 48 others,” he set out for Locust Grove, whose Catholic congregation had not had the benefit of a pastor for several years. Arrived there at nightfall, arid was most kindly received by old and young Mrs Thompson, to the former of whom great merit is due bet ore God, for pre serving the faith in this country! This was the first Catholic congregation in Georgia ; it was formed in 1794 or 1795 by the settlement of Mrs Thompson’s family nud a few others irom Maryland. Bishop Carroli, of Baltimore, sent the Rev Mr. Le Mercier to attend them. After eighteen months he went to Savan nail, and Rev. Mr. Sujet* then remained seventeen months, and returned to France. There was no clergyman there until November 181 u, when the Rev. Robert Browne came to take charge of Augusta and its vicinity, and remained until 1815. This place was occasionally visited by Rev. Mr. Egan and Rev. Mr. Cooper. Like all Catholic Priests, Bishop Eng land was particularly solicitous for the welfare of the negroes. The policy of the Church was not to oppose an institution which was altogether beyond its province or jurisdiction ; but its Ministers never theless did what they could to elevate the moral condition of the slave through re ligious influences, and also sought to im prove their temporal condition by in ducing their owners to respect the sancti ty and validity of the marriage tie. In Locust Grove, Bishop England found sev eral Catholic negroes, amongst whom were some both “intelligent and well-in structed.” There he preached his first open-air sermon. “The church being too small and several persons having collected from va rious parts of the neighborhood, I preach- iMlSfß©f fII ed from an elevation outside- to about 4 »0 persons.” At Warrentou, he says, ”1 met three Cherokee Indian?, viz, Colonel Dick, who could speak a little English, John Thompson and Sampson, to whom I gave their breakfast. I showed the Colo nel my ring and cross, of which he took particular notice, and told him l intend ed visiting his nation ; he said he would know me.” At Columbia he finds a flock consisting ■‘of about 250 persons principally Irish laborers employed in making the canal.” There was no church, and the Bishop “therefore preached in the Court-house that night to a very numerous and re spectable congregation, mostly Protest ants He makes strenuous efforts to com mence a church ; and on his committee of collection we see such genuine Irish names as Peter M’Guire and John Heffer nau. Returning to Charleston, Dr. England addressed himself with renewed energy, to his great labors. He now commenced a course of lectures which laid the found ation of a fame that ere long spread through every State in the Union, and attracted the attention of the most, thoughtful and intellectual. The first was on the existence of God ; the second on the nature and necessity of Religion ; the third on the Establishment of the Church by our Saviour ; the fourth on the Marks of the True Church, “exhibited in ike Holy Roman Catholic Church, and iu that alone.” These discourses, which were continued during Lent, were not without result ; for under date of April, 28 there are recorded in the diary the names ot several converts, including that of “a lawyer of eminence.” In the last week of Lent the Bishop published a catechism, which he says, “i had much labor in compiling from va rious others, and adding several parts which I considered necescary to be ex plicitly dwelt upou under the peculiar cir cumstances of my diocese.” The number of .communicants in the Easter fortnight (1821) was 250. “April 26th. Established the Book So ciety, and had the necessary measures taken to establish a general committee, and to have the Society extended throughout my diocese.” [to be: continued.) LITERATURE AND ART ITEMS. Dicken’s manuscript is described as being- a terror to compositors, while Tapper's is said to be quite otherwise. George Sand realized SIO,OOO on each of her seventy-five volumes of novels, and about SBO,OOO additional on her plays. Constant Meyer has now upon ids easel two subjects entitled “Religious Meditation'’ and “Riches and Poverty.s Launt Thompson is making good progress with his life-size statue of Gen. Sedgwick, which is to be cast in bronze and set up at West Point. Ward, the sculptor of the “Indian Hunter,” the “Freedman,” etc., is giving the last touches to his colossal figure, of Commodore Perry, which is intended for Central Park. Just now, Tennyson is very industri ous, reading, meditating, and writing, seven or eight stanzas a day. Glad stone receives SSOO each for his articles hi an English magazine. Prof. Newman, of University College, London, has rendered Longfellow’s “Hiawatha’* into Latin verse. Here are two lines: “K finibus Oggibbawaiaruru. E aedibua Diieotaruin.” Rogers has cast in plaster his new work, which ho calls “ The Council of War.” This group is composed of three figures, Lincoln, Grant and Stanton, of whom faithful portraits are given. A piece of represent ing Fenelon instructing bis pupil, the young Duke of Burgundy, was recently sold in iho Hotel Drouot, in Paris, for two hundred pounds. Longfellow always sends to the printer very clear copy. His MSS. arc all writ ten in lead pencil upon large sheets of a good quality of book paper, each sheet, containing two four-line verses. The MS. of his translation of Dante, if bound, Would make several immense volumes. Mrs. Emily LeTideriiior has written a new book, in the form of an autobiography, which will soon be published. It is enti tled “ The Last of a Noble Name.” The scene alternates between New York and Charleston, The heroine is a Southern woman, who manumits her slaves and serves as a nurse in the Northern army during the war. 'Quite a fiction. The: marriage of M’lle Patti and the Marquis de Caux is arranged Divas’ fortune amounts to £40,009. Her Ma jesty has written a congratulatory letter to M’lle Patti, in which she has expressed the pleasure with which she will receive the great artist at Court as Marquise de Caux. The Art Library of the South Ken sington, England. Museum, has just been presented with a series of drawings of Greek and Roman mosaics found in Spain, France, Pompeii, Prussia. Halicarnassus, .'Switzerland, Rome, and Italy generally, Constantine, Garthage, and also in vari ous countries of England. This very valuable collection had been formed by the late Dr. Wollaston. Charles Die *kens has probably received a hall million tor his works, and his in come is about seventy thousand dollars per year. He is a man of business, owns all his books, and has them manufactured ior himself, although he sells them through Chapman & Hall, to whbm he allows a per cent age. Victor Hugo was paid 880.000 for *• Les Miserable*,” and SB,OOO for the copyright of a single poem; while the “ Notre Dame de Paris” brought him 840,000. The first folio of Shnkspeare, in 1785, was not valued at more than seven or eight guineas. It is now worth from four hun dred and fifty to five hundred. Liszt, the pianist and Priest, is described as having a face livid and apparently bare of flesh, lighted up svith strangely deep eyes, and surrounded by long grizzly hair. His dress is that of the Catholic dignity which he holds, comprising a black coat reaching nearly to his heels and buttoning to his neck. OBITUARY. ~ Departed this life, in Savannah, <*#., February ini IWSB, iu the Tld year of her age, Mrs. CLAIRE CARRE, relief of Peter Carre, of Augusta, Ge. Mrs. Caere was a native of Port-au-Prince, Island of Hayii, but much the greater part of her life was passed in the city of Augusta. Here she had, by her many acK of tenderness, her amiable and generous dispo sition, and her religious devotion, won for herself the respect and affection of all who knew her. iu ;\ll tho relations of life she performed her duties faithfully and zealously ; always kind, always pleasant, always devoted. Faithful to her social requirements, she was even more so to her religious obligations, and bo having lived a life of gentleness and goodness, she was prepared for tho quick summons which took her from here and transplanted her to regions beyond the skies ; so, having ‘-fought the good light,” she 'was ready to “receive the crown” above prepared for those who conquer here. Peace to her immortal soul! Why mourn the pious dead— Why sorrows swell our eyes ; Can sighs recall the spirit fled— . Shall Tip regrets arise? Though death has caused this altered mein, In Heaven the wisomed soul is. seen. i U. March 21, LB6B. Died, in Augusta, Ga., Sunday, February 23d, after a very brief illness, .LANK ELIZABETH HOLTON, a native of London, England, and aged 15 years. The deceased was intelligent, and possessed a gentle and lovely nature which im»*»i*tably drew towards her all heart*. Her death was sudden, but she was well pre pared to journey through the valley of death to that bright and happy land beyond the. skies. Early, bright, transient. Chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled. And went to Heaven. March 21, 1868. A I) V p: R T IS EM ENTS. MTMII7V<£ IWUB. THU OLD AM) RELIABLE HOUSE OS* GTLiVE’ & LTD* T. 7 STA, OA., If? always prepared to otter to the public, at wholesale and ft'liu, h thoroughly complete assortment of STAPLE GOODS, —A Lft>- - British, Fivucb aftd Swi.vt Ureas hoods OLOTHH, C ASH 1 vLKRE-1, CLOAKS, SHAWLS, KATBKoniIiHIKS, TACKS, HOSIF.KY, HOOP SKIRTS, NOTIONS, Ac., Xc. midi ts Al 7O TJ rST DO]IR, MK.lh HAN'T TAU.OK, 22 0 iiro&d Street, Mersey’s Old Htautf, AUGUSTA, G.A., lies just received the latest styles of English said French Cassimerea, COATINGS ANT) VESTING N, Which will be made up to order at prices to suit the times, add in .superior style. GIVE >IE A TItLAL. —ALSO— ALEXANDRE'S KID GLOVES AND GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. Kenny <£t Gray* IN’o. J3CUM Broa<l s~i?r«et, jjEai.krs i:< 1) YMA D K CLO THING , CLOTHB, CASfjMKREfcJ AND VETHNOS, (tl.h TS FURXIXIf! .V G GOODS, OF ALL KINDS, A.HP KYBRTTHING TteCU.LV KEPT tx a Ftrst-Cittss nothing and Tailoring Establishment, Jt&r An examination of their gpb ndid Stock in cor dially invited. Augusta, March 21, 1868. ts Geo. Symms, 1108 BROAD STREET, Offers to the trade, wholesale and retail, one of tho largest assortment of Ladies’, Misses and Infante’ HATS, trimmed and untriramed, and at exceedingly low pricks, to suit the times. RIBBONS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, BONNET FRAMES, HAT AND BONNET ORNAMENTS ; a fine auaortment of Plain and Fancy RIBBONS, very cheap ; FRENCH WORK BOXES, Bohemian Glass Mounted JEWEL STANDS, Buffalo Horn BACK COMBS, GUTTY PERCH A CHAINS, PLATED JEWELRY. mh‘2l-tf O’Dowd <&. Malkorin, GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. NTo. SJfltt Broad Htroet, AUGUSTA. OA„ tiAVH os HAND A If LI. STOCK OV SUGAR, COFFEE, TEAS , SO AT, STARCH, CAM-LES, TOBACCO, LIQUORS, SEGA US, AND EVERY THING Usually kept in a Wholesale and Retail Grocery. PRICES AS LOW AH TUB LOWEST. rah2l ts me: Aie ll Aie::: So many Inferior articles of Ale being o fife red for sale on our market, I wish to inform the public in general, that I am the sous a timer yon MASSEY, HAUTON A CO.’S CELEBRATED II PHILADELPHIA CREAM ALH, hKINO IN HECF.TPT OV yjx'Esii surruES evert week. TVER STEAMER. t anu alwuya prepared to fill orders for barrels or half barrels, at my old stand, NO. 29 3 BROAI) STREET. J. C. Galvan, uENKRAL GROCER and COMMISSION MERCHANT. rnh'2l ts Angrusta Foundry AN L> MACH IN K W(>R KH. waiOHT A IMV ROY ED COTTO A SCREWS, GIN GEAR, SUGAR BOILERS, SUGAR MILLS, GUDGEONS, ALARM BELLS, AND ALL KINDS OF CASTINGS, DONE AT SHORT SOT ICE. HIGHEST PRICK PAID FOR OLD MACHINERY IRON, BRASS AND COPPER. PHILIP MALONE. wh2l ts Fremium. Kerosene, SIXTY VESTS IER HALLOS To \ht Citizens of Augusts and Vicinity: Your attention is called to th< fact (hat we are *fll ing to our numerous customers, not ??nly as good, but tlio very beet KEROSENE OIL <-ver sold iu this or any other city in the tinted States, warranted to stand all tests, such as lit mat h*-s or lightwood splin to”s bring put in it, vr, Ac. W*■ «e.]i only one quality ; have never kept any iso-called 1 ioferior Kerosene. AU who buy it once coine again, Moving that it is a supe rior article. Those who » ish to get higher prices may insinuate that it is not good ; try it, and if it does not prove, equal to the beat you shall have a pair of Lamps free of cost, for the trouble of selecting them. Also, ou hand, all the new BURNERS out, such as Light of the World, Hun Burners, Day Light, Comet, Ac., f<r: sale separate or with Lamps complete, at from aim'- st nothing to f 1.50 each. AX.SO, COMIT.KTE STOCK OP CHINA, GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, AT NO. 306, dwbllr’s old shoe stand. c. Jfi. USTIN Ac- CO. $ v ■* Should we ever advance the price, notice will be given. inh?l-tf 7