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The DyiriLg Confederate Soldier
to his Wife.
1., nearer to me, darling ; iny languid heart would
loet,
lii ti.i-* trying moment, ui>on your faithful breast.
Aj.-T i ilaeo your hand in mine, love, as oft you did of
yore,
While anguish wrings my brow, love, oh! peace forma
implore.
T v march, so long arid weary, is closed, and we must
part,
1 ts< . ’thiug’tis to die love, thus pillowed on thy heart,
T!.’ noblest of our land, aye, the bravest of the brave,
I ;.r. far from home and kindred, have found a nameless
grave,
\v i,and of friend or brother, no wife or dear ones nigli,
«] ~ i h vr their dying moments, or hear their latest *igh.
lit ore's dark and starless—no hope torus remains;
( e.: rand old chief an outcast, our country held in
chains.
Xl.* m. why should I yet linger, tho’ hard to part from
thee ?
Xl' h -t campaign is ended—my broken spirit’s free.
] i ! invoke God’s blessing, at of life’s eclipse,
: isLer in the future with prayers upon my lips,
i * her, who loved so truly—for her, my friend and
guide—
XL. igh all life’s pains and pleasures, e’er clinging to
my side
In' dimes blest or adverse, through good report and
ill.
Thy love unselfish proving a faith unswerving still.
Th" light is slowly fading, your voice I faintly hear,
oil, ss my hand more closely, I feel on it a tear!
Wo-1-not for me, niv darling, we’ll soon be joined
once more
TANARUS: ‘ rn;!iter lands than this, love, where freedom will
•- udure.
S.
LETTER FROM MACON-
Macon Ga., May *29, 1808.
Publishers of the Banner : On
Wednesday last, the Catholic Congrega
tiv a of this place, accompanied by their
esteemed Pastor, Bev. Father Bazin, Fa
ther Ryan, and Father Cullman, of Col
umbus, with numerous ladies and gentle
man of other denominations, left Macon
at eight o’clock, in a full train of eleven
passenger cars, on a Pic Nic excursion to
Pace's Station, on the Macon & Bruns
wick Bail Road.
Tie cars and engine were kindly ten
dered by the officers of the Macon &
Brunswick, the Macon & Western, and
the Southwestern Railroads.
Arriving on the ground, about twenty
miles from Macon, they found that a fine
dancing platform, covered overhead with
green boughs, and surrounded by scats,
had been erected; as well as two long
dining tables, also protected from the sun
by arbors; and everything that could
conduce to pleasure amply provided.
The party were a very short time on
the ground before the dancing commenced,
the floor being full at every quadrille,
(“r and dances” being prohibited,) and
it was interrupted oidy by the dinner,
and the speakers after dinner, Col. John
!>• Weems, and Col. Thomas Hardeman.
Ihe patriotism and philanthropy of
Col. Weems, and the poetry and gallantry
or Col. Hardeman, were followed by a few
remarks from Father Ryan, (under whose
auspices the Pic-nic was gotten up,) which
were principally an eulogy of “the wo
men of the South.”
i here were present, also, some fifty or
sixty ladies and gentlemen from the sur
rounding country, who came in private
conveyances.
The amount realized from the Pic-Nic,
which was for the benefit of the Church,
win be about four hundred dollars. This
is only preparatory, however, for the
Fair which will be held here in Novem
ber next, and lor which the officers were
chosen yesterday, at a meeting of the
ladiec. called by Father Ryan. For that
we predict, confidently, a great success ;
as there is ample time for preparation—a
great advantage—and it is under the di
rect; aof Father Ryan—a greater ad
vantage.
O
i i.c debt of the church, which has
k-en a source of much trouble to the
congregation, is now fairly under liqui
datior, and we expect that in the coming
SpivLg it will be entirely dissolved,
‘And like the baseless fabric of a vision
* * * * *
Leave not a wreck behind.”
Then may the Catholics of Macon feel a |
.j ust pride in their Church edifice, which !
is really beautiful, it being the second!
van soinest one in the diocese. It is not \
gram , and costly as yours, but remarkably !
neat and chaste.
( hi Ascension Thursday we heard Mass
at .v. rter past six and half-past nine,
aw. \ espers at eight o’clock ; Father
preaching at second Mass and Yes
pers. He left here for Columbus on
Saturday, and returned on the following
Tuesday, for the Pic-Xic of Wednesday.
He also, preached here on last night,
and on yesterday he received into the
Church a lady of distinguished social and
moral worth.
There have been several converts to
the Church here recently ; many others
are beginning to inquire, and some are
under instruction.
THE DESTINY OF THE IRISH RAGE.
The above was the subject of an able
and eloquent lecture, lately delivered in
St. Walburge’s church,Preston, England,
by the Rev. Father G. Porter, S. J. The
reverend gentleman, who took for his
text, the following words from the 117th
Psalm : “This is the work of God, and
it is wonderful in our eyes,” proceeded to
state that God, in His providence, had
chosen the Irish people to he the apostles
of tho Catholic religion in every part of
the known world, where the English lan
guage was spoken; and he did not think
it presumption in him to attribute to
Divine Providence that design. About
one hundred years ago, there were in
Ireland 800,000 Catholics to 300,000
non-CatholicH. and at the beginning of
the present century, the numbers were as
nearly as possible, a million and a half of
Catholics, to half a million of non-Cath
olics ; that was a remarkable increase
within a short time. In 1831, there were
six millions and a half of Catholics to
half a million of non-Catholics, in Ire
land—that was to say, that the rank,
wealth, and all kinds of prosperity—was
a little more than two-fold, while the
Irish Catholics, under every disadvantage
of oppression, tyranny, and poverty, mul
tiplied five-fold. He believed that God
gave that increase to the population that
he might have His instruments ready to
His hands, for the great work he Had pre
pared for them. Emigration from Ire
land commenced noticeably about the year
1825, at a time when the position of
Catholics in Ireland was better than it
had been for 300 years. Until the end
of the last century the penal laws were
in force, but by degrees those laws were
repealed, and when they began to weigh
less heavily on the people, then suddenly
the people began to leave their country
to seek their fortunes thousand® of miles
away. Having referred to the great fa
mine ot 1845, and the establishment of
the Encumbered Estates Court, when
£35,000,000 of property changed hand,
the reverend gentleman said that be
tween the years 1840 and 1853, not less
than 270,000 people were sent off the
laud to make way for the sheep-walks.
How were these people, speaking a lan
guage ol their own, to provide for them
selves in a strange country, where a
strange language was spoken ? As far
back as 1822 it was computed that there
were in Ireland 2,000,000 people speak
ing Irish only, and then the Government
—certainly with no friendly spirit to the
people, but with a deliberate intention of
seducing them from their attachment to
the Catholic faith—introduced a system of
national education. The result was such
that in 1851 only 319,000 people in Ire
land were found speaking only Irish, and
ten years later only 100,000, so that there
was a population instructed by their op
pressors and their enemies for the work
of God. Referring to the large sums of
money sent by Irish emigrants to their
triends at home, the reverend preacher
said that since the year 1825, no less than
£24,000,000, of English money, had been
remitted back to that country. As to the
progress of Catholicity in the United
States, he said that in 1774, when the
United States were a British colony,
there were only 19 Roman Catholic
Priests in that country, and they had not
even a Bishop of their own, and in 1790
there were 19 Priests and one Bishop.
Taking a short stride forward, to 1808,
they found 68 Priests, one Bishop, one
coadjutor Bishop, and 80 churches and
chapels in the United Spates; but step
ping forward half a century, to the year
1858. they found 2,304 Priests, 45 Bish
ops, and 2,500 churches and chapels, to
say nothing of colleges, convents, and
hospitals. Os sisters of Mercy alone,
there were 1,300 laboring in the schools
and hospitals of America; and all that
progress ot Catholicity was the work of
the Irish emigrants. Again, looking at j
Australia; in 1817 a Catholic Priest 1
went there to render what service he ;
could to those of his own religion, but he
was seized upon his araival, and sent home !
again, because he had doi been sent out :
by the English Government. In 1834, a
Bishop was appointed there, and now '
there was a regular hierarchy established :
m that country. Coming nearer home, I
and looking at Scotland, there were in |
that country, thirty years ago, only one
Bishop, 19 Priests, and about thirty
Ml HI! ©I KBS smns.
churches, while in 1863 there were four
Bishops, 171 Priests, and more than 180
churches and chapels. In England, about
the year 1790, there were 180 Priests
and about the same number of churches,
while in 1863 the late Cardinal Wiseman,
addressing the Congress of Malines, was
enabled to state that there were in Eng
land, one Archbishop, twelve suffragan
Bishops, 1,334 Priests, and 1,304 church
es ; and where there had been 16 houses
of women and 11 houses of men of reli
gious orders, there were then 161 con
ventual establishments for women, and
65 religious establishments for men. The
youngest person almost—any one that
could look back to the last ten years—
could point to the change that had taken
place in the position ol Catholics in Eng
land.
There were young men who remem
bered the time when Catholics dared
hardly lift their heads, but now they de
manded equality in everything, and
equality they should have. Even as to
what had been done in Ireland by her
Catholic people, it had been computed
that during the first half century there
had been spent in Ireland, in building
churches, hospitals, convents, and monas
teries, £3,600,000. That had been in
fifty years, in a country which had sent to
other lands 2,000,000 of her sons and
daughters—a country which was still held
down by unjust and oppressive rule,
which was still impoverished by an un
just legislation—a country where political
economists said there was barely suffi
cient support for the people. More than
that, the annual cost, to the Irish people,
of their religious establishments, sup
ported entirely by voluntary contribu
tions, exceeded three quarters of a million.
Looking at all these facts, he thought his
hearers would have no difficulty in accept
ing the statement that the spread of the
Catholic religion, by means of the Irish
emigration, was the most wonderful fact
in the history of the world.
SIR HENRY DE HOUGHTON.
[Extract from the Pali Mall Gazette of Monday,
April 20, 1808.]
“v\ ho is Sir Henry de Houghton ?
For the last two or three years he has
been exhibited at intervals to the Ameri
can people as their greatest enemy now
living, A statement recently appeared
in one of the papers, and found ready
credence, to the effect that Sir Henry dc
Houghton contributed in all over £2OO
- to the Confederate cause, and that at
the end of the war he held not far from
one-tenth of the whole Confederate Cotton
Loan. The real holders of that loan
would probably be very glad if the latter
statement were true; but is there no
American editor who has a Burke or a
Pod in his office ? ‘Sir Henry de Hough
ton, is the last relict of that singular list
of Confederate Loan subscribers which
Mr. Seward caused to be published in
1865, and which included the names of
half the well known public men in this
country. It was an impudent forgery,
palmed off upon Mr. Bigelow, at Paris,
and by him transmitted, without suspi
cion, to his chief at Washington. It will
be remembered that the gentleman whose
names were given, sooon denied having
had any interest in the loan, with the ex
ception of Sir Henry de Houghton. lie
was silent, and the American papers have
consequently been busy with him ever
since. It is not without a due regard to
the fitness of things that they have singled
out from a fictitious list a person who has
no existence, and so rendered the impo
sition practised upon them even more
ridiculous than it was before. There was
and still is, a great demand for secret pa
pers relating to the Confederacy, and
Americans are always ingenious in ac
commodating the supply to the demand.
Some enterprising man, therefore, took a
batch of documents to the American Em
bassy at Paris, and received a large price
for them. The spurious list referred to
was about the most valuable paper in the
collection, Mr. Seward has not often
made such a bad bargain as this, and it is
understood that he has refrained from
buying Confederate ‘paper’ Ur a conside
rable time past.”
Sir—Some evenings ago a paragraph
appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, in
quiring ‘Who is Henry de Houghton ? ’
cavilling at the American newspapers for
believing in his existence, and still more
at this fictitious personage having so far
imvolved himself in the Confederate Cot
ton Loan. What the purport or inten
tion of this paragraph was, remains for
the Pall Mall Gazelle to explain ; but I
appeal to your spirit of honesty and fair
play to permit me to take advantage of
your columns to state if I was alone in
my silence with regard to the list of con
tributors to that loan, I have the merit of
truth on my side, and if I did lose by
that loan, even the sum attributed to me
by the Pall Mall Gazette , I, at least,
was not ashamed of the cause in which I
lost it, nor sought to fall away from my
friends when that cause bee ime desperate.
“I stood loyally by the Southern peo
ple from first to last, and I believe there
is not an American (be he North or
South) who would condemn me for con
tinuing to stand by a losing cause,
which I believe, and still believe, to have
been a just one.
“I have no desire to make mischief
with regard to the list which the Pall
Mail. Gazette is pleased to designate as
an ‘impudent forgerybut, perhaps, it
may some day become known that Mr.
Bigelow and Mr. Seward were not quite
so much humbugged in it as they were
supposed to be. I have the honor, to be
sir, your obedient servant,
“ Henry Df, Houghton.
16, CocKspur street, S. W.; and Hough
ton Tower, Lancashire, April 25, 1868.”
[Extract from the Pall Mall Gazette, Monday, April 27,
1868.]
“A letter from the real Sir Henrv de
Houghton to several of the morning pa
pers will enable American journalists to
spell the name correctly for the future.
Although Sir Henry may fairly complain
of a mistake which left his identity a
matter open to question, we should have
thought there could be no doubt as to the
true character of the Confederate Loan
list published some time ago. The name
ot Mr. Gladstone, among many others,
was included in it, and he lost no time in
putting forward a contradiction. Unless
vve are misinformed, Mr. Seward him
self knows now that tho list was princi
pally conjectural ; but some of the persons
who figured in it may have held stock.
Sir Henry de Houghton implies that even
the gentlemen who wrote their denials to
the papers were not quite clear of the
transaction, and there is much force in
his remark that he at least did not desert
a cause, which he believed to be a just
one, merely because it happened to be a
losing cause. It must be admitted that
some of the Confederate supporters in
this country were not slow to forswear
their friendship. Sir Henry de Hough
ton claims credit for telling the plain
truth ; and, as he appears to suggest,
some curious revelations would be made
if others had exhibited equal candor.”
POPE AND LEE-A CONTRAST,
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer contributes the two following
anecdotes :
Two little incidents in the history of
Gen. Pope, of the Federal army, and Gen.
Lee, of the Confederate, very forcibly
illustrate the difference in the character
of the two men, one of the army of the
Potomac, and the other of the army of
Northern Virginia. The story of the
former was related by an attache of
Gen. Pope, and that of the latter by a
surgeon in the Confederate army.
While Gen. Pope, attired in a gorgeous
suit of uniform, and with hat in hand, was
walking not far from his quarters, lie was
accosted by a small man dressed in a plain
suit of black :
“This is Gen. Pope, I believe,” said the
civilian.
“Pope is my name, sir,” he said, after
casting a hasty and indignant glance at
the stranger, whom he regarded as a
country farmer come to ask sonic favor.
“I wish to see Gen. Pope on business,”
continued the civilian.
“Go to my Adjutant,” said Gen. Pope,
turning on his heel, and, regarding the
stranger with a haughty stare, continued
his walk. The stranger, somewhat
abashed, but gathering new courage, he
again addressed himself to Gen. Pope :
“My business is private, and I wish to
see Gen. Pope alone.”
“See my Adjutant, sir,” exclaimed
Gen. Pope, in an authoritative tone, and
turned indignantly away.
Twice thwarted, the stranger entered
the Adjutant GcneraTs office, and ad
dressed a peremptory order to Gen.
Pope, requiring his immediate presence,
Signed , Assistant Secretary of
War.
Pone was thunderstruck,hand sent wor
by the Adjutant General that he would
see him in fifteen minutes.
On the 30th of June, 1862, during the
great battles around Richmond, and at
the very moment the bloody and sanguin
ary assault was being made on General
McClellan’s po.-ition on Malvern Hiil, a
solitary horseman, some distance from the
scene of action, had dismounted under a
cluster of trees, and was apparently
listening to the roar of artillery. This
elevation had been selected by a surgeon
of one of the corps for a field hospital, and
so terrible was the conflict at Malvern
llili, that all the shade of the little pro
montory was required for the wounded.
One of the surgeons approached the
stranger, whom he supposed to be only
a citizen attracted to the spot to witness
the battle, and requested him, in a rather
hasty manner, to move out of the way.
“Certainly, gentlemen,” replied the
stranger, “the wounded shall be kindly
cared for,” and shifted his position.
In a very few minutes a courier dashed
up, and enquired for Gen. Lee.
“Here he is, sir—move quickly.”
The surgeon was thunderstruck, and
hastened to offer apologies, which Gen.
Lee readily accepted, mounted his horse,
and galloped to the front.
—■+.
lFrom 1110 N ' °- Picayune and other papers.]
LITERARY AND ART ITEMS,
The Appletons offered Dickens $20,-
000 for anew novel about the size of “Our
Mutual Friend,” but Boz declined al
leging that he did not intend writing
another long novel.
Sabin, the great antiquarian bookseller
of New York, has issued five parts of
his “Dictionary of Books Relating to
America/’
It h said Motley got SIOO,OOO from
the Harpers for his histories. Mrs. Tere
sa Telvertou, now sojourning in Florida,
is going to put in print her American
impressions and experience. The author
of “Adam Rede,” “Romola,” etc., is
ul>out publishing a volume of poetry.
William Chambers, the Edinburg pub
lisher, will shortly publish his autobio
graphy. Miss Yonge has written a series
of “Cameos from English History.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe announces a
new novel in London.
“Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea,”
vols. 3 and 4, are at last to be published,
vols. 1 and 2, being now -well forgotten.
Sir Charles Lvell’s last edition of the
“Principles of Geology,” marks, by its
changes, his approach to an acceptance of
the hypothesis of Darwin.
Forney’s “Letters from Europe.” are
reviewed with infinite derision in the
English Journals
The French Academy has just conferred
the Thiers prize of three thousand francs
for the best historical work published
during the last three years, on M. Ma
rius Topin’s “Europe ct les Bourbons sous
Louis XIV.”
Mr. Wentworth Dilke, who accom
panied Mr, Hepworth Dixon, during a
part of that gentleman’s American tour,
is about to publish a book about this
country under the title of “Greater
Britain.”
An interesting and amusing book has
just been published in London, called
“Metrical Epitaphs.” It comprises a
full collection of ancient and modern
specimens.
Mr. William Tallack is about, to con
tribute his mite to Quaker literature by a
volume with the title of “George Fox,
the Friends, and the early Baptists,”
wherein he is said to have traced, for the
first time, the doctrine and the constitu
tionalism of Quakerism to the old-time
Baptists.
In the fire at Yokohama, Japan, Rev.
S. R. Brown, lost his copy of the trans
lation of the Bible into Japanese, which
had cost him four years of labor.
Kaulbach’s cartoon of the “Era of the
Reformation,” is on exhibition at the
Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, New York,
for a short season. The work is the ori
ginal cartoon of Kaulbach’s fresco in
the Royal Museum in Berlin, for which
he received a gold medal at the late Paris
Universal Exhibition.
Fagnani has completed a portrait of
Ristori’s daughter as “Hebe.”
Bayard Taylor, in a recent letter from
Florence, says : “I have been greatly de
lighted with my visits to the studios of
the American Artists. So much more
is being accomplished than ten years ago,
and the most of it is so excellent, that I
feel sure our American era of art has
already dawned.” In another letter he
says : “Powers is now employed upon a
statue to which he has not yet given a
name. It might be called the Last of
the Race*” A tall, beautiful woman, is
represented in the act of running, but
with a weariness of body and limb which
indicates that the end of her llierht is
O
near. Her head is turned to one side, as
if listening to the sound of pursuit. The
face expresses both fear and pain, not
sharp and desperate, but dulled by the
knowledge of an inevitable fate.
The three groups of statuary, present
ed by Miss Cushman to the Music Hall,
at Boston, and now on exhibition in that
city, are pronounced to be among the best
works of imagination and skill that has
ever visited America. They are three
busts placed on shelves, supported by
figures in full relief. Pelestrina, Mozart,
and Beethoven are the heads; the first
the representative of sacred music, the
second of a general genius for the art,
and the third as the testium quid, the
Shakspeare nonsuch, the all embracing
genius.
A \ irginian has carved a cane which
contains likenesses of Gen. R. E. Lee,
Gcd. Stonewall Jackson and President
Johnson; the Lord’s Prayer in full; beau
tiful maidens, angels, babies, elephants,
tigers, foxes, opossums, birds, insects,
serpents, fishes, and nearly everything
that walks or creeps, Hies or swims.
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