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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. 7