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[For tlio Banner of the South,] I'm Growing Old. nr LULA. I'm growing old, I’m growing oid. My hair is tnrning grey ; And all the vigor of my youth Ih passing fast away. The keenness of my sight no more Will be as it has been, And visions, once by fancy wrought, No more, by me, are seen. I'm growing old, I’m growing old, My brow is furrowed o’er ; Hope comes not with its flattering tale. As oft it came of yore. These trembling limbs are feeble now. Which once were firm and strong ; The ill of age will surely come, When youth itself is gone ! I’m growing old, I’m growing old ; Hut why lament decay ? Those youthful visions which I had Have led me oft astray ; Much evil have these eyes bellied When they were in ther prime ; And, at the bleaching of these locks Oh! why should I repine V Oh ! baseless visions of my youth, I bid you all farewell, And turn to thoughts of riper years, Which truer tales can tell; I would not have youth’s dreams return. With their delusive light, But I would ask the voice of age, To guide my steps aright 1 RITUALISM. We find the following article in the Phil adelphia Catholic Standard. It is worthy of perusal for more reasons than one, but principally because it shows how closely the High Churchmen, or Ritualists, are imitating the ceremonies of our Church : It has on more than one occasion been remarked by men whose opinion in these matters are worthy of credence, that Eng land would yet return to the faith of her fathers, and the news brought to us from that quarter week after week would seem to confirm the statement. The ritualistic fever in England has become quite an epi demic, and of the many afflicted with it, those who are at all sincere in their search after truth, after groping about in the sliadows’of doubt, feci, perhaps for the first time, that their only hope of salvation is in the good old faith of St. Augustine. For the last few years conversions from the Anglican communion to the Catholic Church have been quite frequent, and among them may be cited some of flic greatest ecclesiastical intellects in the kiugdom. Since Ritualism has come to the surface the number of conversions has increased in a very great ratio. The shams and pretensions they have recourse to, cannot fail to eventually lead thousands back into the fold of the One Holy Catho lic and Apostolic Church. The London Register , tells us that “within the last six weeks five of their most earnest cler gymen and eleven of their religious sisters have, in spite of the great difficulties thrown in their way, been received into the Catholic Church.” It will not stop here; more will certainly follow. If the Ritualists have done no other good, they have awakened a spirit of enquiry after truth, which, while it has in many cases thrown consternation into their camp, is working largely in favor of Catholicism. We greatly rejoice at this, for, while it is not for us to boast of the work of God, we cannot but rejoice at the number of souls relieved from doubt, and filled with hope and security. The Priests of London are continually called upon by Anglicans seeking to be instructed in the Catholic religion ; and this despite the etTorts of the Ritualistic leaders to keep their people “from going over to Rome.” tn New York, St, Alban’s Church, on Mmday last, presorted a scene which, we have no doubt, will shock the Evangeli cals, In the way of ritual, the Rev gen tlemen attached to this church have cer tainly made considerable progress of late, as the following description of the halter ceremonies will show. All we ask ot them is: “How long halt ye between two opinions ? If the Lord be God, fol low Him ; but if Baal, then follow him.” lrr Kings, XVIIL2I. The World of Monday contains the following : moil mass at st. albax’s, protfstaxt episcopal cntmcn. The seivices at St. Alban’s on Easier Sunday were on a very imposing scale. L >\v Mass was celebrated at 7 o’clock in the morning, and High Mass at lOY o clock. The church was crowded with worshippers at the latter service, and the aide of the narrow but pretty sacred edi fice. was tilled to overflowing. The offi ciating Priests were the Rev. Father - >(J jes, Father Morrill, Deacon, and Fa ther Elmendorf, Sub-deacon. The Kurie Aynas, B( ncdic'us, and ms from Mo! -arJs “Twelfth Mass,” were sung, and the do and Gloria in excel sis of Morbeeke. m' ‘| ie °fi*ertory, the Gloria of Mozart’s 1 v'Ciith Mass was sung with imposing c -oet by the choristers. The sermon on the Resurrection was preached by Father \ * Noyes, and was a very eloquent effort. In the sermon the Rev. gentlemen allud ed to the A irgin as the “Blessed \ irgin, and similar high church tendencies were noticeable in his discourse. The vest ments ot the Priests were as nearly like those worn by Roman Catholic Priests duriug the service of the Mass as could be expected, without being the real thing In the posturing reverences, the genu flexions before the altar by the Priests and acolytes every time they passed it one was naturally reminded of the simi lar observances in the Catholic Churches. The incantations and chants were also evidently studied from the same source— the flowers on the altar, the mighty can delabra, the highly wrought and beauti ful embroidered silken altar cloths, the handsome silken square banners, like those used by religious societies in the Catholic Church, with chalices and com munion cups worked in the centre, and crosses and lambs with aureolas of light around their heads, the engraving on the pyxes, the stained glass window, and illu minated letters, the Gospel books, and in fact everything inside the church, called to mind the paraphernalia and gorgeous decoration of the Roman Catholic Church. Wdiile consecrating the bread and wme with uplifted hands, Father Noyes sug gested something of a similar kind at the Church of the Jesuits, but with the qual ifications that the Jesuit Fathers might pronounce it as wanting in genuineness. At the Canon of the Mass, the long pauses and the silent prayers were man ipulated in such a peculiar and striking manner, that it astonished all those who had not visited St. Alban’s before. In entering the sanctuary, a number of aco lytes dressed in white and red surplices and gowns like their juvenile compeers of the Romish Church, preceded an immense gilded cross borne by a handsome lad robed as an acolyte. After which came the Priests in 1 heir gorgeous vestments. Luring the offertory there was a dead silence in the handsome little church, and every head was bowed with reverence. At the name of Jesus every one bowed lowly, and the Deacons, fn passing from the gospel to the epistle side of the altar bowed continually. In serving the wine the Deacon stood on the second step of the altar, and poured it out with his head bent. In leaving the celebrant the Deacon bowed again and again to the Priest. Clouds of incense filled the church and floated upwards to the rafters in strange ami fantastic shapes. A lady was carried out during - the service, Raving fainted, it was said, from the strong odors of the incense Nothing was wanting to complete the effect, but that the service should be read in the tone of Gregory and Thomas and Aquinas, instead of in the language of Milton or Hooker. Yes, there were two things more. There should be a sound of tinkling bells at the conse cration of the bread and wine, and the ab sence of the white-robed choristers w r ould be necessary. The music was Gregorian throughout, with the exception of a deli cious waltz time air, which was played immediately before the communion was administered. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. The Impeachment outrage still con tinues. The friends of the President have a faint hope that the conservative element will prove strong- enough to defeat the Radicals. The election farce in Georgia is ended. The contest is very close for the Governor ship between General John B. Gordon, Democratic candidate, and Col. Bullock, Radical. Official count will be neces sary to decide the result. The General Assembly is beyond all doubt Democratic by a handsome majority. This will secure for the Democrats two U. S. Senators. There is a prospect also of the Democracy having elected a majority of Congressmen. The election in North Carolina shows a close vote, but returns so far indicate the success of the Radical Constitution, and the election of their candidate. It is very likely the Democrats will control the General Assembly. Gallant, chivalrous South Carolina is completely at the mercy of the Radicals and negroes. May her afflictions be soon removed. The sad but beautiful ceremony of decorating the graves of our dead, was becomingly celebrated at the Augusta Cemetery on Monday evening, April 27th, being witnessed and participated in by hundreds of our people. All business was suspended. < T,IC Savannah Advertiser has been no tified by Gen. Meade that unless it ceases publbhing what the military commander terms its incendiary and inflammatory articles, it will be suppressed. This is freedom of the Press with a vengeance. The ladies of Nashville will observe the 10th of May, the anniversary of the death ot Stonewall Jackson, as memorial day this year. The 25th of April was observed by the citizens of Jackson, Mississippi, in the sad but pleasing duty of decorating the graves of the noble dead of the “ Lost Cause.” The monument to the memory of Col. Robert Smith, of the 10th Mississippi regiment, was erected with imposing re ligious ceremonies. The Cemetery Execu tive Committee have issued their call for the assembling of the Convention on the 12th of May next. There is good authority for saying that there is a movement on foot to try to in duce President Jefferson Davis to leave the country before the Radicals seize the Executive power, believing that he would be hung should he come into their clutches. Letters have been addressed to Governor \V ise, of V irginia, and others, urging them to influence him not to appear in court. Gov. Wise replied that no man dare approach Mr. Davis with such a pro position. Ilis pride of character and high sense of honor would scorn the idea. Mr. Davis will be in court at the appointed time. Gov. Brownlow, at the request of can didates lor Congress, has consented to postpone the election in Tennessee until November. Gen. Schofield has issued an order to the effect that Congress having made no appropriation for the election on the Con stitution, in Virginia, the election will not take place on the 2d of June, unless an appropriation should be made before that date. Louisiana, it is feared has been carried largely by the Radicals. The Constitu tion will be ratified, and the negro State ticket elected. This unfortunate condi tion of affairs cannot long continue, if our people will only be true to themselves. The Democrats of Massachusetts will hold a Convention at Worcester, May 20, to choose delegates at large to the National Convention. While a Fenian meeting was being held last week in Ilealy’s Hall, theflooiing gave way, precipitating till present to the floor below. Several per sons were seriously injured, and one has since died. r I he second trial of John 11. Surratt is fixed for Tuesday, May 12. It is under stood that Judge Black, Merrick and Bradley, Jr., will appear for the defence The President withdrew the nomina tion of Thomas Ewing, Jr., as Secretary of War, by sending to the Senate the following communication: To the Senate of the United States: I have nominated John M. Schofield to be Secretary of the Department of War, in place of Edwin M. Stanton, to be re moved. The Rocky Mountain News tells of a snow storm beginning on the morning of March 24th and continuing through the greater part of the following day. Good judges, it says, estimate that not less than three feet of snow fell. The Philadelphia Bulletin severely criticises the conduct of the New York Legislature, and of “ the railroad interests which were probably responsible for the result,” in rejecting the bill providing for the more humane treatment of cattle on the railway trains, and expresses the hope that under the influence of the new Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the Pennsylvania Legislature will take action on the sub ject more worthy of a Christian common wealth. ENGLAND. Me ETINGS ON THE IRISH CIIURCII. The Daily News (“Liberal” organ) thus makes the most of the agitation upon its own side of the question— Meetings are being held throughout the country in favor of the total disen dowment of the Irish Church Establish ment. There has been a great assem blage at Sheffield, presided over by Mr. J. H. Barber, and addressed by Mr. Ma son Jones, the Rev. D. Sexton, the Rev. C. Short, M. A. and other parsons. This meeting passed, almost unanimously, a resolution in favor of the total disendow ment of the Church. There has also been a crowded meeting at Leeds, at which Mr. George Thompson, the veteran anti slavery agitator, made a short, but im pressive speech. Mr. Mason Jones then addressed the meeting, after which the Rev. Mr. Walker, a young clergyman, attempted to move an amendment to a motion for the adoption of a petition to ornament. He was received with a storm ot groans and hisses, and the peti tion was carried amidst great cheering, only twenty persons voting against. Sun derland has also held a meeting. There the Rev. W. Walters, of Newcastle, was the principal speaker; but several others addressed the meeting. At a meeting at Arbroath, Provost Corsar presided, and leading Presbyterian and other ministers in the neighborhood spoke in favor of disendowment. Then meetings have taken place within the last four or five days, having been preceded by others at Norwich, Ipswich, Nottingham, Ashton, and most of the principal towns in the North and midland counties. Five or six similar meetings have been held in larger towns of Cornwall. Ihe following extract of a letter Tjhich appeared in last week’s Catholic Opinion, will surprise many persons : “ Lari Granville was President of the Council in the last Russell Ministry: Lady Georgiana Fullerton (whom to name is enough) is his lordship’s sister. The R ot Argyll was Lord Privy Seal: his Grace’s mother is a Catholic. Mr. Glad stone was Chancellor of the Exchequer: he has a Catholic sister: Sir George Grev, the Home Secretary of that Ministry, has a Catholic sister-in-law, who is even a nun, and other Catholic relatives. .Mr. Monsell, then Vice President of the Board of Trade, is a convert himself. Sir Roundoff Palmer has (or had) a Catholic brother. Sir Robert Collier has a Cath olic aunt. I deviate a little from the line in adding that Mr - Coleridge, law officer in petto of the next Liberal Gov ernment, has a brother a priest and a Jesuit. So much for the Russell Min istry. Others better acquainted with family connections, would probably ex tend my list. AVo come now to the present Ministry The Duke of Marl borough's sister-in-law, Lady Portarling ton, is a Catholic. Lord Stanley’s sister, Lady Emma Talbot, has a brother-in-law a priest, and several other Catholic re latives. Sir Stafford Northcote is, I be lieve, not distantly related to the Very Rev. President of Oscott. The Earl of Longford had a brother who died a Pas sionist (and, I may add, a saint,) being also a brother-in-law of the present Mar quis of Exeter. The Earl of Mayo’s brother-in-law, the Hon. W. Wyndham, is a recent convert. The Attorney General, not to be outdone by his old an tagonist, Mr. Coleridge has two brothers priests. I know I shall frighten Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Whalley by calling attention to these startling facts. Bor rowing a few more words from Jucun dus, I would say to the member for Pe terborough, ‘Yes, Whalley, my poor man, you may wake up and find yourself a Catholic, without knowing it, against your FRANCE. The Be vue Rationale publishes an arti cle containing a frightful number of statis tics taken from official documents. One gives the return of the number of men killed in action in the wars, of which, dur ing the last fourteen years, tlie respective countries engaged have been so proud: Crimea, 784,991; Italy, 45,000; Schles wig-Holstein, 3,500; Northern America, 281,000; South America, 519,000; War of 1866, 45.000; Distant expeditions, 65,000. Total, 1,743,491. ’Tis true that cholera, typhus, and other maladies had their share in causing this frightful mortality, still a large proportion must be attributed to shot and shell. And this estimate only represents the number the civilized nations of the world have found leisure to kill, for there is no means of getting the barbarian score. The conscription in France to fill up the ranks of the Mobile National Guard has developed an unusual amount of disease in that country. In vain do the Government journals cite instances more or less apocry phal of the sick, the deformed, and the ex ceptionally little, using all sorts of artifices, out of the bursting enthusiasm of their patriotism, to get themselves enrolled, de spite the rules of the service. The bulk of evidence is all the other way. The Jour nal du Havre states that the young men in every canton near Havre called upon to serve are most ingenious in preferring ex cuses. Phthisis, short sight, amaurosis, and doafiies , are present with an earnest ness which gives great trouble to the re cruiting board. A revolution is announced in the style of ladies’ head-dresses. At the last ball at the Hotel de Yille in Paris, no chignons were worn, but the hair flowed over the shoulders with a ringlet or two drawn in front. Tliis is after the manner introduced by the Princess of Wales in 1863. A Paris letter states that the attache* and clerks of the French War Office have re ceived orders from Marshal Niol to study the map of Poland. The French have al ways shown a laudable enthusiasm in de veloping geographical science. M. Couvreanx, a surgeon of St. Hilaire (Meuse), lias been successful in extracting a musket ball from the leg of M. Goubeaux, a retired Grenadier of the (did Guard of Napoleon I. M. Goubeaux had received his wound at the battle ot Waterloo. A oung Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, grandson of Madame Patterson, of Balti more, has been appointed orderly to the Emperor Napoleon. An extraordinary performance was Re cently announced at the Paris Cirque. A family of wolves were to appear in the arena, in company with a little child of three years old, whom the public were in to rmed the amiable beast 9 take pleasure in licking, the second act was to consist in the appearance of the child’s father wear ing a necklace ot raw meat, to be torn from iis neck by tlie animals. This pleasin'l - was summarily “squelched” bv an order from the Prefect of Police. __ LATEST NEWS BY CABLE. London, April 24.—The budget, which was introduced in the House last evening by the Chancellor of the Exchequer forms the chief topic ot editorials this morning with the London press. The Times and most of the liberal journals are dissatisfied with the estimates of the Chancellor, and say the budget is indefinite and unsafe. The Times predicts that supplementary es timates will be found necessary to meet deficiencies, and thinks that the new bur den ought to sass on customs and not on incomes. London, April 24—Midnight.—In the House ot Commons this evening, Lord Stanley, in reply to a question, admitted that the Emperor of Russia had made secret proposals to the British Government with regard to the Cretan difficulty, but which, without the consent of the Czar, could not properly be made public. The plain solution of the reply is that proceed ings looking to the independence of Crete, (which tho Sublime Porte will not concede without compu.sion(, is a policy which it is impossible for Great Britain to pursue. Dublin, April 24.—The Prince of Wales embarked for England to day. Before sailing he gave a dinner on the Royal yacht. There were about forty guests present. Ihe utmost good feeling and en thusiasm prevailed. London, April 24—Midnight.—Late and startling intelligence has just been received in this city from Australia. Prince Alfred, who is visiting Sydney, was shot and dan gerous!)' wounded by an unknown person. The would-be assassin, who was said to he a Fenian, was promptly arrested. The Prince, according to theTast advices, was slowly recovering. London, April 25.—Further particulars of the attempted assassination ot Prince Alfred have been received. The culprit was an Irishman, named Farrell, who is known to be connected with the Fenian organization. Farrell shot the Prince in the back on the 12th of March, at Sydney, Australia. r \ lie hall was not extricated from the wound until two days afterward. The wound is dangerous and painful, but the Prince is doing well. His recovery will necessarily be slow. According to the ad vice of his medical attendants, the Prince sailed for England. London, April 25.—The attempted as sassination of Prince Alfred by the Fenian Farrell has produced the most profound excitement from one end of the nation to the other. The press teems with denunci ation of the assassin, and among the peo ple, with whom the Prince was a great favorite, the crime forms the great topic of conversation. London, April 26.—A dispatch from Sydney, New South Wales, dated March 21st, states that Prince Alfred was recover ing from the effects of his wound. Paris, April 24.—Dispatches received from various parts of Spain to-day report that the disorders have been repressed. Madrid, April 24.—The following is the new Cabinet: Brabo Murrillo, President (vice Narvaez, deceased) and Minister of the Interior; Kancali, Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs; Maynalde, Minister of War; Orobia, Minister of Finance; Catalana, Minister of the Public Works ; and Marfori, Minister for the Colonies. London, Sunday evening, April 26. Despatches have just been received from Abyssinia which give the following highly important and gratifying intelligence: A battle was fought on Good Friday be fore Magdalo, between the British troops commanded by Gen. Napier and the Abys sinian forces under the command of tlfeir King in person. The latter were defeated and retreated into the town. Their loss in killed and wounded was very heavy. On the Monday following, all his prepa rations having been completed, Gen. Napier ordered an assault upon Magdala, and the town and citadel were carried by storm. King Theodoras was slain. A large num ber of his warriors were killed, wounded and taken prisoners, and the entire capital remained in the possession of the British forces. The loss ol the British in killed and wounded was small. All the British captives were found in the city alive and well, and were set free. Gen. Napier s instant return to the sea coast is expected. London, April 25, evening.—The trial of the Fenian prisoners, accused of having caused the recent explosion in Clerken well, was resumed at the Old Bailey to-day. Atter the speech of the Attorney-General, the Court adjourned till Monday. London, April 26.—The Count deStack elburg, the present Minister of Russia at Vienna, has been appointed to succeed tin* Baron de Budberg as Russian Ambassador at Paris. 3