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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. m 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. 3