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( For the Banner of the Sonth,] 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. 5