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The Mont h of May.
<> Miry ! dear Mother, the flowers an* springing;
We’ll soon run to gather them, day after day;
To the churches we’ll hasten, onr love-tribute bringing,
And deck thy loved altars, street Mother, in May.
From the old to the yonng, t>oth the mother and
maiden,
Exulting with joy, will soon speed on their way,
With bouquets of flowers, and loving hearts laden.
To offer to Mary, the dear Queen of May.
tVjtii devotion and joy in each church we’ll assemble]
Around thy gay altars, < ur homage to pay;
For although thou'rt a Queen, none before thee aw* and
tremble;
Thou’rt Mother of Mercy, mild Queen of Mar.
Thwn deign, Royal Maid, look benignly upon us:
Lend the ear of thy pity to us as we pray:
First, thank thy dear Son for the favor he’s done us,
When He made thee our Mother, blessed Queen of
May.
0 do, then, wnl h o'er tv ! a id guard us from danger,
Permit not that Satan should make us his prey,
Remember, the cries thou first heard in the manger,
Were for thy dear children, most pure Queen of
May. *
We are helpless and frail, and our foes never slumber;
By their wiles and deceits for to lead us astray;
But though weak, we fear not their strength nor their
number,
II thou only smile on us, beuign Queen of May.
Extend our dear Faith, make it prosper and flourish,
So that all be illumined by its heavenly ray;
its thrice happy children in virtue still nourish,
And make it still bloom with the verdure of May.
jinmaeulHte Lady, our country remember,
Placed as she is, heath thy own gentle sway;
[•>.>m discord and vice, O dear Mother, defend her;
And keep her still wreathed with the flowers of May.
Violet.
CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.
Fast Day.— Saturday, (to-day) 30th
inst., the Vigil of Pentecost, will be a day
of fast and abstinence. Abstinence on this
day is obligatory on till the faithful, but
the fast is only enjoined on those who have
attained their majority, and who are not
dispensed.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Persico.— This emi
nent Prelate preached at High Mass in the
Catholic Church in this city on Thursday
—Ascension Day—to a very large and
nixed congregation. His discourse was
upon the unity of the Church; and his
subject was handled in such a masterly
manner as to evince his great scholarship,
and to carry conviction to the minds of Ids
hearers. We are gratified to learn that the
Bishop is much pleased with our beautiful
and hospitable city ; and echo the wish of
the Catholic congregation, in expressing
the hope that he may find it convenient
and agreeable to visit Augusta often.
Father Paquet.— Tins excellent young
Priest celebrated High Mass at the Catho
lic Church on Sunday last, and preached a
brief but very eloquent and practical ser
mon. Tie is from Canada, and has been
t
sojourning here for the winter on acccount
of his health ; and in the time that lie has
been among us has won hosts of warm and
true friends. He will shortly return to Can
ada. whither he will carry with him the
blessingsofhundreds who have learned to
appreciate and to love him, and we are sure
we hut speak the Catholic sentiment of our
city, when we express the hope that he
may again return to Augusta, and make it
his permanent residence.
Catholic Church—Father Ryan.—
This eloquent poet preacher delivered two
splendid sermons on Sunday in the Catho
lic Church to crowded congregations. We
were present only at night. The discourse
then was upon the theme that without
Christ man can do nothing. The speaker
was suffering greatly from illness, but
discoursed in his wonted graceful and im
pressive manner. We understand he re
turns to Macon to-day. The music was
very beautiful—exquisitely rich and clear,
h rmonizing the soul to every sweet chord
of humanity and heaven.
During the past week a beautiful statue
ofthe “ Virgin Mary” was placed in the
northeast corner of the church upon a
raised altar. The design is very hand
some. She is represented holding the
infant in her left arm while in the
right is <een a golden spear. She is
crowned as a queen, and a circlet of stars
shine above her head. In one hand the
child has a miniature globe,surmounted by
a cross. Other particulars there are proba
bly which, from the distance at which we
sat, could not he discerned. The general
etlect and the contrast of colors are most
pleasing, and the appearance of the au
dience room is greatly improved. The
statue is about four feet high. It was an
object of admiration to all—both Catholics
and Protestants. —Columbus Sun, May 26.
Mother Mary Enphualsia Pelletier. Supe
rb r General and fo:.ndress of the Sisters
of the Good Shepherd, Angiers, France,
died at 6 o’clock, on Friday morning, 24th
of April* She wa3 one of the most re
markable women of the age, having found
ed upwards of one hundred institutions of
her invaluable society in the four quarters
oftheglo e. She had reached an extreme
old age in the perfect enjoyment of all her
faculties.
His Grace Monseigneur the Archbishop
of Quebec, has received a letter from the
Sovereign Pontiff, in which His Holiness
acknowledges the zeal displayed by the
Prelates, Clergy, and Laity, of these Colo
nies in behalf of the rights and dignities of
the Holy See, and gives Eiis Apostolic
Benediction to the Bishops, and all the
flocks committed to their care.— Montreal
True Witness.
Catholicity in the Fai; West.—The
Monitor says :
The Catholics of the State of Nevada are
! determined to make the orphanage at Vir
ginia City a success. They have just been
; making collections in the four churches of
| the State, and with excellent results. The
; following are the amounts collected in the
different parishes, viz: Gold Hill—Rev. I).
Meagher, Pastor. S4O; Carson—Rev. W.
Clarke, Pastor, $100; Austin—Rev. Father
Monteverde. Pastor. $102.50; and Virginia
City—Rev. Father Manogue, $420.
Tne good people of Navarro and its im
mediate neighborhood, says the Democrat ,
are constructing a building to be used as a
Catholic Church. Thus the work of ad
vancement goes nobly on, and, where a
few years since, nothing but a wilderness
existed, churches, school houses, and
handsome residences meet the eye. By
such signs we judge of a country’s pros
perity.
We understand that Rev. Father Bu
ehard, S. J., is about to give a series of
missions in Oregon and Northern California.
Diocese of New Orleans.—Confirma
tion. —On Thursday, 7th instant, the Most
Ilev. Archbishop confirmed seventy-six
persons in the Church of St. Rose of Lima.
Last Sunday, the 10th, the Most Rev.
Archbishop confirmed two hundred and
thirty persons in the Church ofthe Annun
ciation, Third District.— Morning Star,
May 7th.
Subscription for the Pontifical Army
—We have forwarded, this week, a third
remittance of one thousand francs in gold
for the Pontifical army. The three thou
sand francs which have been previously
remitted are equivalent to eight hundred
and fifteen dollars in currency. We hope
next week to be able to send a fourth draft.
[lbid.
The New Catholic Bishop. —Rt. Rev.
Wm. McClosky, lately appointed Bishop of
this Diocese, is still in Rome, and will not
probably arrive in Louisville before the
Ist of June.
[Dowling Green {Kg.) Democrat..
Ordination. —Rev. Henry J. Brammer,
was, on the 11th inst., elevated to the Holy
Order of the Priesthood, by the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Luers, in the Cathedral; having
been ordained Deacon and Sub-Deacon on
the two previous days.
The Rev. gentleman finished his studies
at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, Cincinnati.
[Catholic Telegraph.
More Conversions at Fort Smith, Ark.
—On Sunday, 10th inst., two more con
verts to our holy religion were solemnly
baptized by Father Smyth, in this city,
making in all, since January, 1868, thirty
six. This is no sudden movement, hut
simply a slow and continuous progress;
and is due, under God, to the zeal of our
worthy pastor, Rev. Lawrence Smyth, and,
I may add, that lie has more applications
for religious instructions. This speaks
well for the Far West.— Pilot.
Pins IX. has recently granted a hundred
days’indulgence for each ofthe following
invocations : Onr Lady of the Sacred
Heart, pray for us; Sacred Heart of Jesus,
have compassion onus; Immaculate Heart
of Mary, pray for us.
Bishop Hopkins and the Pope. —Avery
extraordinary statement is made by Rev.
John Henry Hopkins, son ofthe late Bishop
(Protestant) Hopkins, of Vermont, leading
to the inference that that eminent prelate,
if he did not die in communion with the
Church of Rome, held views concerning
the Pope anything hut in accordance with
those usually held by professing Protest
ants.
This statement is embodied in a valedic
tory from Mr. Hopkins, who announces his
retirement from the editorship of the
Church Journal , a post which he lias
held for a period of fifteen years. lie does
this, he says, partially in order to prepare
tor the press several treatises which his
father had in hand when his health failed
him. He says:
“My father left two treatises in manu
script, which would have been put to
press this winter had he lived. Indeed,
at the time when the telegram announcing
his last and brief illness reached me, I was
daily in expectation of receiving the manu
script, to be placed in the hands of the
puhJisheis. One of these works will prove
to be of peculiar interest, for he wrote it
as a * retraction’ of an opinion which he
had expressed in one of his previous works,
that there is good ground for regarding the
Pope to be Antichrist. In reviewing his
books for final correction, with a view to
anew and uniform edition, he lelt that a
mere alteration of the text in a matter of
so much importance was not a sufficient
tribute to the truth ; and he, therefore,
wrote this little treatise, acknowledging
his error. ‘Lowing that he was misled by
high authorities without sufficient examina
tion on his own part, and going on to de
monstrate that that common Protestant
notion cannot be correct. No nobler proof
could be given of his fearless and conscien
tious honesty of character, than such a
close to such a career as Ids.”—V. V. Cor.
Phil a. ledger.
■Mans ©i ess souse.
—
IRISH NEWS.
Mayo. —The farmers throughout the
county are reported to have been very
busy during the late fine weather at their
Spring work, which, however, is late,
owing first to the harshness of the past
season, and second, to the great scarcity of
laborers—for, alas, few of them are now
to be found, as of old, in the rural districts
of the west of Ireland. Evictions and dis
tress have banished them for refuge to the
towns and cities.
Roscommon. —Me. Michael Boyd, of Ros
common, has obtained the gold medal in
surgery, medicine, and midwifery, of the
Catholic University, for 1867-8.
The scarcity of laborers has been greatly
felt in the county Roscommon, while the
farmers were at their Spring work. The
general wages were 2s. a day for each
man.
Tipperary.—The Vindicator says: Con
stable Thornton, of Anscarty, county Tip
perary, and a party of constabulary, recent
ly captured Alice Hynes, who was con
cerned in the homicide of Denis Heffernan.
She was brought before the magistrates at
Dundrum petty sessions and remanded.
A pig was lately exhibited for sale at the
Nenagh market, which weighed 44 stone.
As Mr. Wm. Mears, Ardcroney, the owner,
could not get a price which he considered
sufficient, he drove home the animal un
sold.
The friends of Mr. IT. C. Bin ns, in
Thurles, are about, presenting him with a
testimonial consisting of a richly chased
silver coffeepot, teapot, sugar howl and
cream ewer, on the occasion of his pro
motion to the management of the Wexford
branch of the National Bank.
Rev. Philip Fitzgerald, P.P., Ballingarry,
dbxl on the 25th ult., in the 74th year
of his age, and the 81st of his pastoral
charge.
Waterford. —Two young ladies were
received, on the 80th ult., into the TJrsuline
Convent at Waterford. Their names were:
Miss Nanno Kennefick, second and young
est daughter of Edward Kennefick, Esq.,
T.C., merchant, Dungarvan, who took in
religion the name of Sister Mary St. Domi
nick : and Miss Ellen Patrick Kenny, eldest
daughter of the late Alderman John Kenny,
merchant, Waterford, wh® took in religion
the name of Sister Mary Evangelist.
Miss Mary Freeman, daughter of L.
Freeman, Esq., T.C., of Waterford, was re
cently professed at the Loretto Convent
Kftthfarnam, Dublin.
The dietary used in the Waterford jail is
—Breakfast, 4 oz. of oatmeal and 4 oz. of
Indian meal, made into stirabout, with one
pint ot new milk ; dinner, 14 oz. of bread,
and one pint of new milk; supper 6 oz. of
bread and half a pint of new milk. The cost
of the supper for each inmate is hut one
penny and one-titth of a penny. During
the summer months the supper will not
exceed one penny. The inmates get pota
toes three times each week, namely, on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday; each
female, 2F lbs.
Antrim.— The amount of duty paid at
the Belfast Custom-house, for the week
ending April 25, was £292,906 against
£110,425 the previous week, making a
a total of £1,440,126 since Ist January,
against £1,088,167 same time lust year.
Armagh. —The names of Janies Horner,
of 60 Scotch street, Armagh, in the county
of Armagh, grocer, and spirit dealer,
and John Tate, of Portadovvn, leather mer
chant and linen manufac lurer, have appear
ed in the bankruptcy gazette.
The Spring fair of Newtownhamilton
was held on the 25th ult. The stock of
store cattle was very large. Prices generally
were high, save in the horse market.
[From Examiner of May 4th and 6th.l
Cork. —A Cork special correspondent of
a KV'W York journal estimates that 50,000
Irish emigrants will have left Queenstown
during the first three months ofthe season
for the United States, and that if the
emigration of this year does not exceed
that of 1866, it will greatly exceed it in
the matters of “bone and sinew.”
A man named William Trewen, a lighter
man, was drowned in the river at Patrick’s
Quay, on Saturday night. Deceased was
a native of Carrigtwohill.
The long expected lighting of the town
of Skibbereen with gas has come at last.
The different shops and principal buildings
having tiis fittings up, were lighted last
night for the first time (save the brewery,
which was beautifully lighted on Friday
night last), by gas manufactured on the
premises by Mr. Daniel M’Cartie, Jr.
With regret, I have to announce the
deatli of Mr. Hugh Keller, who expired on
Saturday night, after a long and painlul
illness. Mr. Keller was extensively en
gaged in business in this town, and was an
active and useful member of our local
board. Mr. Keller’s death is attributed to
internal injuries be received at the MYlow
races in 1867, from the effect of which be
never quite recovered. — Correspondent.
Kerry. —At the usual weekly butter
market there were 174 firkins supplied;
the prices ranged from 70s. to 85s. per
firkin. There were no buyers in attend
ance beyond the local butter merchants.
On Monday last petitions from the
parishes of Killarney, Aghadoe, Listowell,
Cahirciveen, Bally bog, Killiney, Killnaugh
ton, Kilsheuane, and Dromend, praying for
the disendowment of the Established
Church, were sent to Viscount Ca.-tlerosse
for presentation to the House of Commons.
Limerick.— The following letter from our
senior city member ot Parliament, has been
received by the respected Administrator of
Sr. John’s parish:
“House of Commons, 80th April, 1868.—r
My Dear Sir—l had great pleasure in re-
ceiving, and greater pleasure in presenting
a most numerously signed petition from
yourself and parishioners for,the disendmv
ment of the existing establishment by law.
The accomplishment of your prayer is now
hut a question of time, and this act of
justice will not be long delayed. I am,
dear Sir, yours very truly.
£k F. W. Rt'SSELI..
“Very Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald, St. John’s,
Limerick.”
The tide of emigration flows steadily on
from the districts around Limerick, and
seems to he increasing in volume as the
season advances. As many as 197 emi
grants left the Limerick terminus of the
Cork direct railway hist week for America
via Queenstown, and 97 have taken their
departure during the present week so far.
these numbers embrace a large quota from
1h i county of Clare, and some from the
adjacent districts of Tipperary. All ages
are represented in the exodus. A consid
erable proportion ofthe emigrants so pro
ceeding are going westward on prepaid
passage warrants.
4 lie usual monthly Fair was held here.
1 he supply of stock was necessarily small,
coming so soon after the Munster Fair.
Demand, however, was somewhat active,
and considerable sales were made. Fat
cows averaged from £l6 to £2O each;
milch do. from £]2 to £18; springers, from
£l2 to £l6 and £l7; yearlings, £5 to £9
and £9 10s; two-year-olds, £9 to £10;
veal calves, £4 to £5 each : and suckling
do., 30s. to £2. Sheep—Hoggets 80s. to
405.: wedders, 40s. to 505.; lambs, 10s. to
SOs. Figs—about 300 lor sale; prices for
bacon pigs, 905.; Berwick, 575.; stores and
bonliams in great demand.
Westmeath. —We, Dublin Freeman's
Journal,' regret to have to record the
commission of a murder, accompanied
wiin circumstances ot the utmost deliber
ation, which took place on April 15, in
the generally peaceful county of West
meath. Ihe victim of the crime was
Howard Featherstonhaugh, Esq., of
Brooklyn Castle, a Deputy-Lieutenant of
the County, and a large landed proprie
tor. Mr. Featherstonhaugh was a gentle
man who took a very active share in pub
lic business Loth as a magistrate and
grand juror of the county in which his es
tates are situated, and his name and that
of the various members of his family fre
quently appeared among the guests at
Dublin Castle, at the various balls and
private parties recently given in it. The
unfortunate gentleman was in Dublin on
April 15 participating in the general wel
come accir led to the royal visitors, and
he proceeded by the mail train at 7:30
P. M. to return to his residence. At Kil
lucrm, within five miles of Mullingar,
which was the customary station at which
ho stopped on his way home, a servant
was waiting with his master’s trap, to
convey him to Bracklyn Castle, which lies
in the direction of Delvin, which is the
post-town. Bracklyn is about four miles
from Killucan, and about equal distance
between both places, there is a wild tract
of country very thinly inhabited, named
Knocksheban, and it would appear that at
this place, which afforded facilities by its
solitariness and seclusion for the commis
sion of the dreadful deed, the vehicle in
which Mr. Featherstonhaugh was driving
arrived at about half-past nine o’clock,
and was intercepted there by a party of
men, some of whom were possessed of
firearms, and he was dragged out upon
the road, and several shots were tired in
to his body, with instantaneously fatal ef
fects. The party having completed the
bloody deed, then dispersed without mo
lesting the attendant, who, after some
time, succeeded in raising the body of his
murdered master into the vehicle, and
conveying it to his residence.
On the night of April 11 a most atro
cious attempt was made to take the lives
of Acting-constable Itigloy and Sub-con
stable Kelly, of Mullingar. Both officers
been on duty awaiting the arrival of the
9:25 P. M. mail train from Dublin on
the Midland Great Western Kailway;
and, having seen the train arrive and
leave, were on their way homewards,
when, just as they readied about midway
between the pier of the gate leading to
the goods station and the lamp, in a di
rect line with the latter, this position
making their persons quile distinct, two
shots were fired in rapid succession, but
without effect. —Jjeinster Express.
A D VEHTISEMEN T S.
S7ECIAXi BJOTICB.
STEEL AMALGAM BELLS.
+ +
Every School and Plantation should have one. Will
sell those now on Land cheap. Tuoa* desiring to
purchase will do well to call soon.
Price, complete, lrom $7 to YlO.
P. MALONE,
Augusta Foundry and Machine Works.
May 19th, 18(X rnyhO—if
jT T. BROWNE,
GILDER AND PICTURE FRAME MANUFACTURER,
135 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
j old Pictures and Looking-Glass Frames Regilt. Oil
| Paintings Restored, Lined and Varnished.
' my3o—ly
To the Public.
The undersigned, do long aud favorably known as
Broom Manufacturer, and Heater of C luo'J Chairs
maker and renovator of Mattrasses, Ac., would re
spectfully iuform his friends, and the public, that, in
addition to his former business, he has supplied n
want long felt at the South western portion of the city,
namely, a
general sews depot,
Where all the leading NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS,
and MAGAZINES ram be obtained at the LOWEST
RATES. I am also agent for the Banner of Tub
South, New York Freeman’s Journal, Charleston Ga
zette. fee. Metropolitan Record, I.a Crosse Democrat,
Police Gazette, N. Y. Herald, Tribune, Times, World,
Harper’s Weekly, Frank Leslie, or any of the leading
Newspapers or Periodicals, delivered in any part of
the city on the morning of their arrival. Earnestly
soliciting a share of public patronage nt my Old stand
Corner Y’ork ami Montgomery streets, Savannah, Ga.
niay2h-lm E. M. CONNOR
GREEN3RIER£|WHITEj SULPHUR
SPRINGS,
hrecnbrier County, Went Virginia.
(V
The undersigned, Lest* >es of thi«
OLD. AND WELL KHOWX WATERING I'UACB.
Announce that, encouraged by the liberal patronage
received last season, they have largely added to their
accommodations, in comfort and appearance,
and are prepared to entertain
FIFTEEN HUNDRED GUESTS.
T H K BA T KING AOCO MAr O DAT IONS
ARE IN FINE ORDER.
HOT ASD WARM SULPHUR HATHS,
So eminently efficacious in many cases, are at the
command of visitors, at all hours.
In addition to other amusements, they have provided
anew and elegant
HOW UNO ALLEY AX D HILLIARD ROOM.
CONVENIENTLY LOCATED.
PROFESSOR ROSENBERG’S CELEBRATED FULL
BRASS BAND,
Has been engaged for the season.
-A GOOD LIVERY STABLE
Will be kept on the premises.
The completion of the Virginia Central Railroad to
Covington leaves only twenty miles staging, through a
beautiful mountain country over a well graded turn
pike.
S3 p>?r (loath.
Children under ten years of age, ami colored ser
vants, half price. White servants according to accom
modations. [my-IG-lm] PEYTON k CO.
AGENTS WANTED FOR THE
LIFE OF JEFFERSOH DAVIS,
By FRANK 11. ALFRIEND, of Richmond.
This is the only full, authentic and OFFICIAL
history of the Life and Public services of the great
Southern leader. Mr. Alfriend lias had the co-opera
tion and assistance of the leading Confederate officials
in the preparation of this work, as will be apparent to
all on examination. Send for specimen pages and cir
culars, with terms. Address NATIONAL PUBLISH
ING 00., Atlanta, Ga. my 9 6
SPRING IK9B.
THE OLD AND RELIABLE HOUSE OF
CJRAY & TTTBJKETZ,
AUGUSTA, GA„
Is always prepared to offer to the public, at wholesale
and retail, a thoroughly complete assortment of
STAPLE GOODS,
—ALSO—
French and Swiss Dress (iotds,
CLOTHS, CASUSIMERES, CLOAKS, SHAWLS.
EMBROIDERIES, LACES,
HOSIERnoop SKIRTS, NOTIONS, kc., fzc.
mh2l
NEW SPRING- DRY GOODS.
James A. Gray 6l Cos.,
228 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEO ,
Beg to inform the public that they are now receiving
THE LARGEST SPRING STOCK OF
S‘xv*)px«*-: fancy t)tix gooxis
Which have been received at this Establishment
for the past twenty years.
1 lit -sc Goods have been puroha.*'ed L X.C LI .’’l , LLY
FOR CASH from the most emim ut Importers of the
United States, from the Manufacturers’ Agents direct,
and in largo quantities from the recent celebrated
Auction Sales ordered by Messrs. Benkard k Hutton,
ono of the very largest Importing Houses in New York
Having full access to the very best Houses in the
world, and purchasing side by side with the largest
Jobbers in the United States, we can confidently and
truthfully assure our friends that WE CAN SUPPLY
THEIR DEMANDS FOR DRY GOODS, EITHER AT
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL, AS CHEAP AS THEY
CAN PURCHASE THE SAME IN NEW YORK.
Merchants visiting the city, wil. pleas-' make a note
of tliis fact, examine onr assortment, and judge for
themselves. We would respectfully invite the closest
examination of both stylee and price.
JAMES A. GRAY k CO.,
apll 228 Broad Street.
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