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Memories of Erin.
by wm, c. kinaly.
To-nigbt I am musing far over the sea,
From the scenes of my boyhood and infantile glee,
On friends who are viewless, departed, unseen,
Or exiled, or in dungeons, for loving the green.
All! cruel Memory! thy torturings cease
On my lonely spirit, for what can release
The mind from reflection, from sorrow and pain,
When a thought is indulged on those bright days again.
Ye Zephyrs of evening glide peacefully on,
O'erladen with fragrance, and music, and song,
Bear you on your bosom a missive for me,
From the land of my fathers, sweet Erin machree!
Thy murmur is voiceless, to what I inquire
Os sisters, of brother, of mother, or sire,
For neither valley nor wildwood no more shall I see,
13y the home of my childhood, dear Erin, in thee.
The hallowed affections of friends I revere,
No more shall me gladden, encourage, or cheer;
Though in fanciful visions their form I trace,
V<ild seas rush between us, afar is the space.
How oft in the evening 1 hied for to see
Ih" peasants to dance 'neath the old village tree;
And awaited the gloaming, the refrain to hear
Os the wild birds in concert, melodious and clear.
Washington, 1). C.
LATE IRISH NEWS.
The valley of the Suck is still covered
with water for at least seventy miles in
length and about two miles in breadth.
The Shannon is worse than ever.— TVest
ern Star.
Mr. John Carmody, butter factor, who
has for some time back been incarcerated
in Mountjoy Prison charged with being
implicated in the Fenian conspiracy, has
arrived in Limerick.
Mr, William 11, O’Sullivan, hotel
keeper, Kilmallock, who has been in cus
tody under a Lord Lieutenant’s warrant,
for nearly twelve months, has just been
discharged from Mountjoy Prison.
The death of Mr. Richard Sunner, of
malignant typhus fever, deprives Cork of
a useful citizen, and the Harbor Board
of one of the most valuable officers that
have ever been engaged in its service.
Fenian Arrestl.—James Gahan, an
office clerk ; John Joseph McGrath, gas
titter ; and Robert Stowell, pawnbroker’s
assistant, were arrested, some days since,
under the suspension of the Habeas Cor
pus Act, and lodged in Richmond Bride
well, where they still remain. It is
stated that documents of an important
character have been found in the posses
sion of one of the prisoners.
The Limerick Declaration.—One of
the Declaratiouists writes to say : “We
understand that over one thousand names
are at the foot of the Declaration, and that
arrangements are being commenced for a
grand convention of the signers—the
place of meeting to be determined by a
vote of the whole body—and the meeting
to be held in the course of the summer.
A long considered programme will be
laid before the clergy on the occasion,
and the laity will be called upon to help
in working it.” The writer adds, that
“meantime all of them will work to get as
much as they can, if only to clear the way
for a ‘good time coming.’ ” —Dublin
Evening Post.
Emigration of a Fenian Suspect.—
Among the passengers who embarked at
Queenstown on Saturday, on board the
national steamer, Helvetia, was a young
man named John Byrne, who had been
liberated from Mountjoy Prison. The
suspect belonged to Ennis, county Clare,
and on the 7th of March, 1807, he was
arrested in Queenstown as he was about
to proceed to America, on a charge of
complicity in the Fenian outbreak, which
had then begun. There being no evi
dence t > connect Mr. Byrne with the se
rious offence for which he was appre
hended, a warrant came down for his de
tention under the Habeas Corpus Act.
He spent twelve months in confinement
in Mountjoy, and was ultimately liberated
on the usual conditions, the principal of
which he fulfilled on Saturday by leaving
the country. —Cork Herald.
Lord Mayo’s Irish Reform Bill was
read a second time, last night, in the
House of C ommons. The county fran
chise is to remain at £l2, and the
borough at £4, valuation. A ledger
franchise, similar to that in the English
bill; Downpasrick to be merged in the
county Down ; Dungannon in that of Ty
rone County; Bandon and Kinsalc to go
inhe the West Riding of Cork County :
( ashel will be added to anew division of
the county Tipperary; and last, though
not. least, the. important borough of Port
arlmgton, will be merged in the city of
Dublin. The members whose seats"are
proposed to be taken away, of course, pro
tested. Down, Tyrone., and Tipperary
are to have each a third member : the
West Riding of Cork is to form a separ
ate constituency, with two members, and
the city of Dublin a third member. Six
members in all. j
Police Outrage. —On the first day of !
Mackey’s trial there were among the spec-!
tutors in the gallery three young girls, 1
one of whom was his sister-in-law, Miss
0 Connell, the other two friends of hers,
interested naturally enough in the trial.
They sat in the gallery a little way from
the dock. Miss O’Connell had with her
a little basket containing some luncheon
for Mackey, and this she gave in the
presence ot the court, to the prisoner’s
attorney, by whom it was openly handed
to him. Beyond this no communication
whatever passed between the prisoner
and the three young girls. They sat in
j court from ten in the morning u ;til the
| adjournment after six o’clock, and, wearied
j with waiting and excitement, they were
! leaving when they were arrested by
\ two detectives and brought into one of
I H ie rooms in the Judge’s entrance. Here
; a woman was got to search them, despite
their indignant protestations. The room
| has a window opening upon a yard into
i which several windows look. The young
: girls, who are educated, intelligent, and
I refined, implored to have at least the blind
I drawn down, but no notice of their re
j Quest was taken, and in this exposed room
j two of them were stripped to their
| chemise. The third, a Miss Maliony, per*
1 sistently refused to submit to the indigni
| tics practised upon her companions. Two
i hours were spent in the endeavor to wear
| out her resistance, and then, her captors
fearing, perhaps, they had gone a little
too far, consented to let her go home.
Immediately after, however, her house,
which is in Brunswick street, was searched
by a party of police, and her bedroom,
her bed and her bedclothes, ransacked
by them. Nothing, of course, turned up
to justify the domiciliary visit.— Cork
Examiner.
St. Patrick’s Day.— The manner in
which the national anniversary was cele
brated throughout Ireland, may well bo
regarded as creditable to the good sense
and patriotism of the people. Accounts
from various parts of the island agree in
stating that the conduct of the people was
orderly in the extreme, and that the
scenes of drunkenness and rioting which
formerly too often disgraced St. Patrick’s
Day were conspicuous by their absence.
In Dublin, we are glad to be able to state,
the number of cases of drunkenness re
ported by the police on Wednesday
morning was actually below the average
of an ordinary week day, a fact which
created no little surprise in the police
offices. In accordance with the sugges
tion made in our columns, rosettes of
knots ot crape were generally worn with
the shamrock, a combination as striking
and suggestive as it was unusual. At
the Castle an attempt was made to carry
on the old business in connection with the
ceremony of “ trooping the guard,” but
it broke down utterly. The people as
sembled in large numbers and the mili
tary bands played in their most inspirit
ing style, but the people displayed an un
expected share of self-respect and refused
to gratify the aristocratic spectators who
thronged the balconies and the Castle Yard
by indulging in the usual buffooneries.
Some disagreeable symptoms of disaffec
tion were afforded too in the vigorous and
general hissing which saluted “The Na
tional Anthem,” in contrast to the enthu
siastic cheering which greeted the air of
“ St. Patrick’s Day.”— Nation.
The Rescue at Manchester. — Two
More Men Sentenced to Death. —The re
sult of the trial of Thompson and Mullaly
at the Manchester assizes on Tuesday,
March 17, for participating in the attack
on the police van, when Police-Sergeant
Brett was shot, is that both men have been
sentenced to death. Thompson said, be
fore sentence was passed : “I am now in
the presence of an earthly judge, and ac
cording to your sentence, I am soon to ap
pear before ail Eternal one. I feel iu my
conscience—thank God for it—l can meet
that Eternal Judge, and from him I will re
ceive the sentence of not guilty. I have
also a wish to state two or three facts in
connection with my case. On the night of
my arrest, which was the 29th of Novem
ber, I was brought to the Albert street
police station. 1 was there lodged in a
cell with two policemen, one of whom I un
derstood from his accent to be an Irish-
On Sunday evening, about five or
six o clock there came into the cell four
detectives belonging to the Manchester
police. Mr. Kirkland was one, and Mr.
Henderson was another. There were some
eight or ten men brought in at the same
time, with whom I was told to take my
place to he identified by a number of wit
nesses that were going to see me. There
were three different batches of witnesses
came in. Os the first, i remember True
man was there, and the driver of tlie van,
and a tew others. But there were some
nine or ten, and out of them no one iden
tified me, Partridge passed me by, and
utter being asked by Henderson twice—
because Partridge is a very remarkable
man, on account ot being blind in one eye,
and I took particular notice of him—lie
was asked by Mr. Henderson twice, “Do
you know any hue present?” “No,” be
says, “not at all;” and he had to stand back
with the other witnesses who had seen me
before. I hen Thomas passed me by and
pointed me out. The next evening Super
intendent Gee told me that Partridge had
sworn against me. Now, I ask your lord-
©I fill
ship, how can any man swear against a
man he cannot identify! I wish to impress
upon you, ano ot course the audience
present, that I have no ulterior motive in
saying lam innocent, because, mv lord. I
am quite prepared for death; and if this
body was cut in inches, mv lord, I know
that every inch of that body will speak to
my Eternal Judge and say, ‘This man is in
nocent.’ So now, my lord, let it not be
thought, under the circumstances in which
I am placed, that it is a weakness of hu
man nature makes me say that I am inno
cent. His lordship then assumed the
black cap and passed sentence of death.
[Since commuted to penal servitude for
life.]
Arrest of “Head-Centre” Murphy.—
Opening of the Dreaded Torpedo.—Liraer
ick, March 17. —The ominous-looking ma
chine, “infernal,” as it has been so often
called, that was found in the house where
David Murphy, the alleged Fenian “head
centre tor Limerick, was lately arrested,
and which has been already fully described
iu the Examiner , was this day opened on
Newcastle race-course, by Mr. Ambrose
llall, I. C , city sub-sheriff, who was the
first to. pronounce it a torpedo, and who
then said. he would undertake to open it,
which, without accident or mishap of any
kind, lam glad to say, he has done. Mr.
Kelly, S. 1., Constable O'Shea, and a small
party of policemen were present, ; s also an
officer from 11. M. S. Frederick William,
stationed at Foynes. Mr. Hall, whoso me
chanical ingenuity is of no inferior order,
provided himself with a number of tools
and appliances specially made for this
purpose. The float or upper and larger
portion of the machino was found to be
simply an air vessel, while the tubes be
neath were fully charged with some hard
explosive substance highly detonating in
its nature, but the exact character of which
is not yet known. Some small portions of
this composition (about the size of peas)
were taken bv Mr. Hall and struck with a
hammer on a small anvil, when they ex
ploded with loud reports. The machine is
thus proven to have been a torpedo, and of
the American pattern. Experiments with
its dangerous contents will he made on a
future day. I understand that Murphy
always insisted that the apparatus was
empty in every compartment. It was a
very neatly made affair, and was construct
ed ot galvanized iron.— Correspondence of
the Cork Examiner.
“Home Again.” —Among the passen
gers by the steamship Wm. Penn, which
arrived at New York on the 10th, was
Stephen J. Meany, the Fenian Head
Centre, released by" the British Govern
ment on condition of his returning to the
United States.
Capt. J. M. Buckley, of Cleveland, and
Col. O’Brien, of Chicago, late Fenian
prisoners at Dublin, arrived at New
York on the Oth, by the steamer Manhat
tan Irom Liverpool, having been dis
charged without the completion of their,
trials by the British authorities, or. condi
tion of never again returning tc the Bri
tish dominions. Capt. Buckley was one
ot the Jacinel Packet Company arrested
at Dungarvan, and has suffered nearly
twelve months imprisonment.
CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE,
Synod of Georgia ‘and Florida.—
The Synod called by the Rt. Rev. Bishop
A erot, of all the Priests of the Diocese of
Georgia, and Vicariate of Florida, meets
in Savannah next Monday evening, April
27th.
Diocese of Charleston.— The account
of the services in the Churches of Charles
ton Easter Sunday, published in our
paper of last week, was copied from the
Courier , and should have been so credited.
The following is from the News of the
21st :
Catholic Fair. —On the 4th of May
next a grand Fair will be held at the
Hibernian Hall in this city, for the benefit
ot the male and female orphan asylums of
Charleston, under the care of the Sisters
ot Mercy, and also for the Ursuline Con
vent of Columbia, the nuns of which, it
will be remembered, were burned out of
their homes by General Sherman in 1865.
Great preparations have been made to
invest the occasion with a degree of in
terest and pleasure worthy of the object,
and contributions are expected from our
sister S<iul hern cities. Among the prizes
to be offered are three handsome and life
like portraits (painted by Mr. Wight man,
a brother of Bishop Wightman, and an
old artist of the State) of three distin
guished prelates, namely : Bishops Eng
land, Reynolds, and Lynch. The pictures
are forty-one by forty-eight inches in
breadth and length, and the frames richly
ornamented. Ihe number of chances
will be one thousand—price 81 50 per
chance lor the three portraits—and they
will be sold respectively in Charleston,
Columbia, Wilmington, Augusta and Sa
vannah.
Whatever the Catholics find to do, they
do with all their might, and weeansafelv
promise our citizens an entertainment
worthy of the past of the Church in all
that pertains to elegance, taste and nro
tuseness. 1
The portrait of Bishop Lynch is now on
exhibition at the store of Mr. A. 11. Hay
df.n, where visitors will recognize the
counterfeit presentment at a glance.
Diocese of Mobile. —On Sunday, the
loth of March, the Rt. Rev. Bishop
Caiman administered the Sacrament of
Confirmation, in St. Peter’s Church,
Montgomery, to twenty-five candidates,’
lourteen ot whom were converts. The
number of converts received in the parish
within a year is twenty-one adults and
seventeen of their children. Notwith
standing the strenuous efforts of preach
ers and bigots of various sorts to impede
the progress of the Church, her cause is
gaining ground from day to day in this
portion of the Lord’s vineyard. Several
of the converts are persons of high social
standing.— Cor. Freeman's Journal.
u i ture Canonization of Father Lib
erman.-—The Congregation of the Holy
Ghost is at this time agitating the canoni
zation of its founder, Father Liberman,
who died about twenty years ago in the
odor of sanctity. This eminent priest, an
Israelite by birth, has given us an exam
ple of the rarest virtues, and his life, al
though a retired one, was, at the same
time, one of great interest. His spiritual
children have petitioned Mgr. Ainanton,
Archbishop of Theodosia, to preside over
the commission, which will be occupied in
fuinishing Rome witli the documents con
nected with this cause.— Prop. Cafho
lique.
The Catholic University.— The Irish
Times states that the Archbishop of
f ashcl and the Bishop of Clonfert are in
London, empowered by the general body
ot the Irish Catholic bishops to make ar
rangements with Government regarding’
the charter to Hie Catholic University.
Already, according to our cotemporary,
every mooted point has been settled in
principle, “ihc details will not cause
any long discussion. There are several
precedents which must be satisfactory to
both the high contracting parties— nota-
Iny the charter to the Canadian Catholic
University. It is added that Cardinal
Cullen will be the first Chancellor, and
that Parliament will be asked for £IO,OOO
to meet the expenses of the Catholic Uni
niyersity College. The charter, it is also
said, will probably receive the Royal sig
nature within a week.”
Diocese of Hartford. —Some twelve
or fourteen years ago a few Catholics pur
chased one of tiie nicest spots at Stafford
Springs, Ct., with the hope soon to build
a church wherein to worship whenever it
was their turn to receive the visit of
their pastor. Stafford then was a part of
the extensive field of labor ot Rev. James
Smith, the pioneer of the Hartford diocese,
and energetic pastor of Windors Locks,
Ct. Year after year passed by, until in
October, 1866, Rev. 11. I)c Bruyeker, of
A\ illimantic, who has charge of the Mis
sion now, laid out at once the foundation
ot the long-expected church. On the
10th lilt, our beautiful little stone church
was solemnly dedicated by the Right Rev.
Dr. McFarland, Bishop of Hartford.
Some sixty-five children and adults were
confirmed, and some two hundred and
fitly people received Holy Communion,
praying the Divine Host to relieve and
strengthen their Holy Father, Pius IX.,
in his difficulties and persecutions. At
the High. Mass our Most Rev. Bishop
preached with his usual feeling and per
suasive eloquence.— Cor. N. Y. Free
man's Journal.
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South America. — El Correo, of La
Serena, publishes the following story
which may or may not be believed : “We
have been positively informed that at the
summit of the cordillera of Dona Ana, the
priest Don Jose Sagues, following an an
cient track, has, after many difficulties,
discovered a tomb or deposit of remarka
ble and curious objects. The rarefaction
of the air at such an altitude, which ex
ceeds 10,000 feet, has scarcely allowed
the workmen to make a small excavation,
from which have been taken a buanaco,
made of bone and ornamented with gold,
a silver figure weighing three pounds, and
another representing an Indian at the
time o! the conquest. They were all
found under a kind of shed made of wood
and covered with stones, charcoal and
huanaco wool, in a perfect state of preser
vation. Other articles in use by the In
dians, of less consequence, are only
spoken ct. It is believed, and not without
reason, that the Indians at the time of the
conquest, hid a great treasure in the
place in question, and many people assure
us that in the same cordillera of Dona
And there exists a valuable silver
mine.”
Senor Sagues lias collected all these
traditions, and there is no doubt Ins efforts
will soon be crowned by some astonishing
discovery.
St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi.—This
chuTch, generally known as the Italian
Church, in Philadelphia, was re-opened on
last Sunday, uuder the pastoral charge of
llev. Father Oitarerri, S.J.—Philadel
phia Catholic Standard.
The Depositaries on Holy Thurs-.
D f-y- —Every church in Philadelphia was
visited by an immense multitude of wor
shippers on Holy Thursday, and the altars
of each and all of them presented that
[truly religious and magnificent appear
ance, so in keeping with the spirit of
love and veneration which the faithful
Catholic heart offers our dear Lord who,
on this great festival of the church, is
throughout the world divinely honored
and adored. The scrupulous care and
nicety which the ladies of the several
churches displayed in arranging thealtars
for Holy Thursday, is deserving of all
praise, and they this year added new lau
rels to their well earned and enviable
reputations. The Cathedral, St. Alary’s,
St. John’s, St. Joseph’s, St. Augustine’s’
St. Michael’s, the Assumption, St. Pa
trick’s, Holy Trinity, St. Francis, St. Ma
lachy’s, St. Phillip’s, and St. Theresa’s,
had their several altars arranged with
exquisite taste, and it would be a diffi
cult matter, even for an expert, to give
judgment between several of them, as to
which was arranged with the greatest
neatness. The popular cry, however, ap
peared to be in favor of St. Mary’s, in
the respect named, and from the care
which, as in the case of the others, was
taken in its arrangement, it was well
worthy of the encomiums we heard passed
upon its chaste and elegant ornamenta
tion . Catholic Standard.
Tim Collections for Bishop Elder
—Right Rev. Bishop Elder made an ap
peal on Sunday, 22d utl., to the congre
gation of St. Michael’s, and met with a
response which was as acceptable to the
Rt. Rev. Prelate, as it was commendable
and praiseworthy to the generosity of the
contributors. The amount obtained is a
large and highly creditable one, and has
elicited the heartfelt thankfulness of the
recipients, as also in the cases of the large
contributions from St. Patrick’s, St.
John’s, St. Malachy’s, and other churches.
He made au appeal on Sunday morning,
29th ult., at St. Francis’ church, Fair
mount, and was also very kindly re
sponded to by the people of that parish.
There is no doubt, but that the other
churches he will call on, will prove equally
liberal, with those already referred to.
f Phil. Catholic Standard.
Ordinations. —On Wednesday, the
25th inst., the festival of the Annuncia
tion, His Grace the Archbishop of New
Orleans, officiating pontifically, gave the
tonsure and four minor orders to Ilya
cinthe Claude Align ot; and conferred the
holy order of .subdeacon on the Rev.
Toussaint Francois Bege, and promoted
to the holy orders of the priesthood the
Rev. John Pierre Ponchon, all of this
diocese.— lb.
Diocese of Cincinnati. —On Sunday,
March, 22, the Most Rev. Archbishop
gave the Papal Benediction in the Church
of St. Bonifacius, Cumminsville ; the sol
emn High Mass having been celebrated
by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Topmillcr, assisted
by Rev. Ch. Doherty, Deacon, AI. Bieck
man, sub-Deacon, and Air. Feldhous, Mas
ter of Ceremonies. Rev. Mr. Kemper,
of St- Augustine’s preached. After Mass
the ivrclibishop blessed a large crucifix
sculptured in wood. In the afternoon the
Archbishop presided at vespers in St.
Francis’ Church, assisted by Rev. Father
Otto, and several other of the Priests and
novices of the convent’s pastoral resi
dence. After the magnificat ho delivered
an address commencing with the unc
tion : “Who commanded the making of
the first statue ever read of in history
and ordered it to be placed where the
people were to kneel in prayer ?” The
answer to that question, he said, is given
m the Bible. After the address the
Archbishop blessed a statue of St. Francis
of Assissium. Telegraph.
Terrible Panic in a Church.— Several
Persons Allied and Wounded. —During
the Good Friday services at St. Mary's
Church, on the corner of Wabash avenue
and Madison street, the fire bell rang the
alarm of fire lor that corner and the ere
of “fire” was raised. The church was
packed full. Au immediate rush f. r
egress was made from all parts of the
church. The people in the galleries in
their haste tumbled over one another on
the narrow stairways in a terrible heap of
suffering humanity. Three women were
killed outright. Three more are fatally
injured, and cannot long' survive, and
several others are terriby hruiff and, but no
oon.es biokcn. it was impossible, <wm •
to the confusion, to obtain the name of
but one of the women killed instantly
Bhe is Alary McNulty, sewing-girl, twenty
three years old. The three fatally injured,
and who are dying’, are Mautrie Burke.
Bridget Lotcus, and Alrs.Alarv Boyce.—
Chicago paper.
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