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Blessed Virgin.
- ( raj'li of Heaven ! too gentle to be human.
Wiling beneath that radiant form of woman
All that is insupportable in thee
Os light, and love, and immortality!
Sweet benediction In the eternal curse!
Veiled Glory of this lampless Universe !
Thou .Moon beyond the clouds! Thou Living Form
Among the Dead! Thou Star above the storm !
Thou Wonder, and thou -beauty, and thou Tenoi >
i h i Harmony of Nature’s art! T huu Mirror
, i whom, as in the splendor of the Sun
0! shapes look glorioua which thou gazest on!
S ,. K where she stands ! a mortal shape endured
with love, and life, and light, and deity;
-I-;,,, motion which may change but cannot dje.
An linage of .to me bright >-b rnity,
A shadow of some golden dream; a splendor
Leaving the third sphere >•>**.
Shklli’.
Mother ! whose virgin bosom was uncrost
With the liast shadoof thought to sin allii and !
\V 'man! above all women glorified;
O ir tainted nature’s solitary boast;
/.(,(.-/• than foam of control ocean tost;
Brighter than eastern skies at daybreak strewn
With fancied roses, than the unblemished morn
I’cfor ■ her wane begins on heavens blue coast,
Thy image falls to earth. Yet, some, I ween,
Not unforgiven, the suppliant knee might bend,
As to a visible Lower, in which did blend
All that was mixed and reconciled in thee,
if mother’s love with maiden purity,
Ml liigh with low, celestial with terrene
W< iflnswOßTH.
[Before the Madonna di' San Sisti.J
ire is a vision in the heart of each,
' : justice, mercy, wisdom, tenderness
1 i wrong and pain and knowledge of their cure;
And these embodied in a woman’s form
! nut best transmits them pure as first received
. , ,ai God above her to mankind below !
IvOBKiiT BiiOWKINO.
CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.
; l rom the Catholic Standard, (Philadelphia) May 6.]
Sodality Celebrations. —Last Sun*
’. y evening, 31 st ult., being- the last day
ot the inorth of May, celebrations were
held by the Sodalities of several of the
churches, large congregations being pres
•m at all of them. The altars dedicated
to the Blessed Virgin were decorated
with choice flowers and brilliantly illu
minated, and a number of .appropriate
hymns were sung by the Sodalists with
gjod ell'ect.
[From The Tablet, (New York) May G.]
Rev. James Citarlton, Providence,
R. T. —On Sunday, May 1 7 th, there passed
a way from us one whose life and charac
ter well deserve more than a passing no
tice, the Rev. James Charlton. The de
ceased was universally beloved. By his
early demise our diocese has been de
prived of an intellectual clergyman of
liberal and expanded views.
Rev. Peter C. Fagan.— The Rev.
Peter C. Fagan, Pastor of St. Patrick’s
Church, Kent Avenue, departed this life
after a brief illness, on Thursday, May
21. He was at the time of his death in
the thirty-fifth year of his age, and by the
I rank urbanity ot his manner, his benevo
lent and charitable disposition, and his en
tire devoted ness to his sacred calling, had
attracted towards him the hearts of all
who knew him, and had won for himself
golden opinions from all classes.
English Confessor in Rome.— The
siev. Leopold B. M. Moczygemba, of the
Franciscan Order, recently left this port
cn route to Rome, where he will in future
reside. He has been appointed Peni
tenziere Apostolico at the Vatican Ba
silica of St. Peter’s, for the English
speaking Catholics. Father Moczygemba
was formerly Commissary General of the
Conventual Franciscans in the United
►Mates, lie lias spent ten years in the
Mateoi New York, and seven in Texas,
and established the Order of Conventual
Franciscans, and the Sisters of the same
Order in the United States, by a brief of
the Holy Father, dated 1858.
Close of the Month of Mary.—ln
teresting commemorative celebrations of
blessed A irgin Mary, to whom, in a
special manner the Church directs the
• potion ol iier children during the month
O May, were held on Sunday last, May
’ 1 0, at different churches in this city.
Oio various Sodalities attached to these
1 auiches, attired in their several uniforms
t white and blue, assembled during* the
• yv, and after joining in prayer and other
iovotions, marched around the aisles,
. ‘Ailing a hdt bannerets with appropriate
. ’ aiß, holding high festival to honor her
whom Jesus loved so well. The most
elaborate of these pageants was that held
in the evening at the Church of St. Paul
Me Apostle—Father Hecker’s—under
T 1 1? Section of the Rev. Father You no-.
- vbout 300 ‘ Children of the Sodality of
t!le 1! °ly Child Jesus” joined in the
1 lgeant, which was a most elegant and
taste affair.
Pentecost Sunday at the Cathedral.
7~ ( 11 Pentecost Sunday the Most Rev.
-pellbishop officiated in the Cathedral at
w Hst Mass, assisted by the Very Rev.
V iU - Starrs, \. G., as Assistant Priest,
JU ;\ • F - McSwceney, D.D, as Deacon
Lev. J. 11. McGean as Suh-deaeon
Rev. F. McNeirny and Rev. J. F. Kear
ney were Masters of Ceremonies.
Rev. F. McNeirny preached the sermon
appropriate to the festival.
Confirmations. —The Most Rev. Arch
bishop administered the Sacrament of
Confirmation on Monday, May 25, in St.
Ann’s Church, Eighth street, to 191 per
sons, several of whom were converts to
the Church.
On Tuesday, May 26th, in Si Gabriel’s
Church, East 31th street, to 504 persons.
On Wednesday, May 27th, in the
Chapel of the Convent of the • Sacred
Heart, Manhattanville, to 21 persons.
On Thursday, May 28th, it) the Church
of Our Lady of Mercy, at Fordham, to
I TO persons.
[From the Baltimore Mirror, Mnv C>.]
Forty Hours at St. Francis Xavier’s.
—The Forty Hours’ Devotion which was
begun on last Sunday in the Church of
St. Francis Xavier, (for colored persons.)
corner of Calvert and Pleasant streets,
was brought to a close on Tuesday with
appropriate ceremonies. The church is
under the pastorship of Father Miller,
S. J. We are happy to. know that the
congregation is rapidly increasing.
Death of an American Prelate.—
Mgr. Antoine, Archbishop of Santa Fe
de Bogota, died on the 6th of February
last, fortified with all the Sacraments of
the Church. This illustrious Prelate was
horn in that city. He was appointed
Archbishop January 13, 1854. He died
at A illetta, in his diocese, whither he had
repaired in the hope of recruiting his
health, seriously impaired by the trials
and persecutions he had to undergo in
that distracted country.
Death of a Distinguished Roman Of
ficial. — Died in Rome, fortified with all
the Sacraments of the Church, on 24th
April, Mgr. Andre Pila, Auditor General
of the Apostolic Chamber. Born at Spo
leta, February 11, 1811, he entered the
Prelacy in 1837, filled several high gov
ernment offices, and was, at length, ap
pointed by his Holiness Auditor General,
one ot the most important positions in
the Roman Court.
[From Irish Papers.]
Anew IJrsuline Convent is about being
built, in Waterford. The contract for its
erection has been assigned to Mr. James
Moran, builder, Manor street. It will he
a large and beautiful structure. It will
cost between £3,000 and £4,000.
On Thursday, April 30, the Feast of
St. Catherine of Sienna, the ceremony of
reception and profession took place at the
Convent of Mercy in Ballini. Miss Ryan,
called in religion Sister Mary Beatrice,
eldest daughter of Patrick Ryan, Esq.,
Cashel, received the white veil ; and Miss
Kate O’Connell, called in religion Sister
Mary Stanislaus, second daughter of the
late Charles O’Connell, Esq.,Cappoquin,
made her religious profession.
The Wexford People says : On Sunday
morning, May 10th, in the chapel attach
ed to the Convent of Mercy, the Lord
Bishop conferred the holy order of Priest
hood upon Rev. Jeremiah O’Connor,
Adamstown, and that of Deaconship on
Rev. Thomas Roche, Levitstown, nephew
of Very Rev. Canon liochc, S.S., Michael
and John’s, Dublin. Beth gentlemen
received their preliminary education
under his lordship’s immediate care, at
St. Peter’s College, the Rev. Mr. O’Con
nor having subsequently gone to May
nootb, and Rev. Mr. lioche to Louvain.
The Dublin Freeman , of May 18, says :
We sincerely regret that we are called on
to record the death of the Rev. Dr. Dardis,
Franciscan Convent, Drogheda. For a
long term of years, Dr. Dardis was well
known not only in Drogheda, where he
has been stationed for a considerable
period, hut throughout Ireland, for his
great piety and the beautiful unostenta
tious character of his magnificent charity.
Those who were honored with the ac
quaintance of the zealous and modest
Franciscan will long deplore his death,
which took place yesterday morning in
the Franciscan Convent of Drogheda.
The Examiner announces the death of
Sister Mary Augustine Quari, of the Con
vent of the Sisters of Charity, in Peacock
Lane. For the last eight and forty years
she might be seen daily visiting the
abodes of the destitute, hearing comfort
and relief to the victims of sickness and
poverty; whilst by her earnest, heart
touching remonstrances she brought hack
from the way of evil hundreds who had
lived in utter neglect to every moral and
religious obligation. The deceased lady
was daughter to the “Merchant of Water
ford,” to whom the celebrated Bishop
Milner addressed some of his “Letters
on Ireland,” and aunt to the late deeply
lamented Thomas F. Meagher.
On the 12th ult., liis Grace the Arch
bishop of Tuam held his annual visitation
of the clergy of the deanery of Tuam.
His charge was chiefly confined to im
pressing on the clergy a continued zeal
ioi the promotion ol elementary education
MSIIB OF MBS
amongst the poor. His Grace had pre
viously concluded holding his visitation
in the deaneries of Ballinrobe, Clare
morris, Westport, Castlebar and Dun
more.
On the 9th ult., the impressive cere
monies of religious profession took place
in the neat convent chapel of Castlebar.
The young ladies who had received the
black veil were Eliza ML, eldest daughter
of F. Davis, Esq., of Cion bony, county
Roscommon, in religion Sister M. Joseph:
and Mary Josephine Cuddihay. daughter
of E. Cuddihay, Esq., county Tipperary,
religion Sister M. Patrick. Alary Troy,
daughter of Mr. P. Troy, Carrigaholt, had
the pleasure of being received as a lay
sister.
t .
[From the Dublin Irishman, May 23.]
IRISH NEWS.
A correspondent from Cork reminds
us that Colonel Nagle was allowed to go
at liberty in Ireland after his detention
—and declares, furthermore, that he
heard from Col. Nagle’s own lips.that lie
would accept nothing but an unconditional
release, and that he got it.
Singing and Playing Seditious Songs.
—At Nenagh Petty Sessions,' on Satur
day, Constable John Moore charged
Patrick O'Connor and John Stackpoole
with the above offence. The constable
deposed that, on the night of the 6th inst.,
between ten and eleven o’clock, he met
the prisoners, followed by a crowd of
hoys, proceeding down Spout road ; one
of them was playing a concertina, and
“O’Donnell Aboo!” being asked for, he
immediately played that tune, which was
chorused by the crowd. The constable
followed them, and arrested the prisoners.
The prisoners said they were ignorant of
the song being illegal. Their worships
sentenced them to two months imprison
ment each, at the expiration of which
they were to enter iuto their own recog
nizance to keep the peace.— Nenagh
Guardian.
Information wanted of Matthew Hig
gins, who left England for America, A lay
3, 1864; when last heard of (November
8, 1861,) was in Nashville, Tennessee.
Information of him would he gratefully
received by his wife and family, Margaret
Higgins, Rakefoot, Haslingden, Lanca
shire. (American papers please copy.)
Charge of Fenianism. —At the petty
sessions held at Buttevant on Thursday,
a journeyman tailor named Sweeney who
had been some time previously in the
employment of a tailor in the town, was
put forward charged with endeavoring to
seduce a soldier of the regiment at pres
ent quartered at Buttevant from his alle
giance to become a member of the Fenian
Brotherhood. It appeared in evidence
that the prisoner had formed an acquain
tance with the soldier, in the course of
which he had spoken at various times of
matters connected with the organization,
and had given his new friend to under
stand that another rising might he ex
pected at no distant date. The prisoner,
according to the evidence of the prosecu
tor, gave a considerable account of infor
mation regarding the working of the
Brotherhood, some of his statements being,
however, of a rather curious character.
When arrested by the police on the
charge, the prisoner was completely de
fiant, and bore himself before the magis
trates with the greatest indifference. He
was returned for trial at the Cork assizes.
The Cork Herald says : Several speci
mens of new potatoes were exhibited in
the English market on Saturday, but for
the most part they were miserably small
and stringy. They all, however, bore a
healthy appearance, and promised to at
tain an extraordinary size if allowed to
ripen. White cabbage is also in great de
mand, and what, with the million daisies
in the field, the blooming hawthorn on the
hedges, and the chirping cuckoo in the
grove, we have every token of the advent
of summer.
George Francis Train’s lecture in Man
chester was a success, lie returned to
Ireland on Saturday evening, and re
mained at Dr. Barter’s establishment,
Blarney, until Wednesday, when he
came to Dublin, and took up his quarters
at the Shelbourne Hotel. His case in
the Insolvent Court has been postponed
for three weeks. lie left Dublin on
Thursday evening, to continue his lec
turing tour in England. He purposes
lecturing in London, Bolton, and other
towns. He has written to Mr. Moran,
acting American Ambassador in London,
urging that gentleman to demand the
immediate release of Colonel Warren and
Captain Costello. We understand that
Mr. T rain expended over £6O of his own I
money in behalf of the Jacknell prisoners*
It is probable, therefore, that he will he
well received by the Irish in England.
Judged by its Fruit. — Mr. Disraeli
and his followers affect a holy dread that,
after the Irish Church is disestablished
the English will undergo the same oper-
ation. And most; assuredly its princes
and prelates can urge no valid plea for
respite of judgment. What has it done
for the country ? Let the Established
Church, he judged, like a tree, by the
Iruit it bears, it lias the largest reve
nues of any institution of the kind in the
world; and yet, notwithstanding this, the
English, as a people, are the worst educa
ted amongst all civilized nations, and
there is more crime and drunkenness
amongst us than in any other country. If
the Established Church of England,
pronounced rotten by the voice of the
people, root it up as you would a withered
tree-rand the sooner the better.—
‘‘Gracchus,” in Reynolds ’ Newspaper.
Anew Orange ITall has been opened
at Ballyculter, near Strauford, by the ir
repressible Johnstou, of Balkilbeg, who
wore a purple sash as an orangeman, and
a crimson sash as an Apprentice Boy.
The usual amonut of ‘tyjl talk” was spo
ken. Mr. Johnston said— “The day
might come, if statesmen turned traitors
to truth, as some were in these days, when
they might have to fight over again the
battle of the Boyne.” The battle of the
Boyne was “fought” against the legiti
mate sovereign of England, but ,Mr.
Johnston was not “seditious” in hinting
that it might have to be “fought over
again” against another sovereign of Eng
land ; nor was there, of course, the least
‘'sedition” in telling the “statesmen*—irf
est, the Government, that “if .they wished
to pull down the Orange flag, two hun
dred thousand, Orangemen rnust know
the reason why.” It is safer to talk in
this strain in an orange Lodge than to
play “O’Donne] Aboo!” in the streets of
Nenagh.”
It is one of the most remarkable facts
of the day that a 1 shining—or rather a
burning light of the Irish Establishment
—has solemnly declared that Fenianism
is the work of God ; and, not only that,
hut that Fenianism has been raised up by
God to scourge England for her sins, and
shake her empire to its base. We shall
give his account in his own words, and
his preface will show he has arrived at
this after continuous meditation, private
prayer, and mortification—the mortifica
tion, purely* spiritual, and arising from
having to receive a very good salary for
doing nothing. We quote from the Ash
ton News : “The Rev. Dr. Trcsham
Gregg, of Dublin, supported the resolu
tion, and said he had got a very good
living in the Church of Ireland, and,
strange to say, by the extraordinary an
omoly of the law, he had no duties in
connection with that office, to perform
Hi s case had been singled out and dis
canted upon as a marked one, but he had
given the Rev. Mr. Williams, of South
ampton, one of the lecturers, an answer
to all his argument in the two last pages
of the tract which he held in his hand.
In that tract he had regretted that he was
placed in the position he held, but that he
considered it his bounden duty to give
every hour, every minute, every second
of his time to the work of God, in private
meditation or prayer. He had brought
forward the results of these exercises he
had expounded in a letter entitled, 'The
Church of Ireland, addressed to the
Churchwardens of St. Nicholas Within,
Dublin.’ It was to the Established
Church in Ireland. He admitted that
Fenianism was a great fact. lie had
seen its vast extent in America, where a
whole nation of Irish were supplied with
money and all the means of military
power, and he believed that America
would one day use their power to shake
our empire to its base. This Fenianism
was the creation of English unfaithful
ness —English complicity with idolatry.
When Solomon worshipped the gods of
the heathens, God raised up one adver
sary and then another against him. The
same power that had raised up these ad
versaries, had raised up Fenianism, and
it was certain to smile us unless we aban
doned our abomnihle inconsistency,”
LETTER FROM JOHN MaRTIN.
To the Editor of the Irishman . —
Dear Sir : 1 have hitherto refrained from
saying my mind before the public upon
a question which is one of considerable
importance in our patriotic affairs—l
mean that of legal defence for Irishmen
accused of political offences. Just at
present there are no more trials about to
take place, of irishmen accused of Fe
nianism, or sedition, or of patriotic ille
gality of any kind; and I think I may
without any impropriety break through
the reserve, which I have long observed,
lest I might possibly prejudice, or might
he supposed to prejudice, the case of
somebody whose life or liberty depended
upon a trial in the Courts of Law. The
public opinion is evidently quite differ
ent from mine upon that question, and
this is another reason why I, who lor
some time past have been endeavoring
to serve the public cause by receiving
contributions for patriotic purposes, and
superintending the application of them,
should have a clear understanding with
the public upon the question Moreover,
I quite recently found myself in a situa
tion where, utterly ,against my own judg
ment and inclination, I felt compelled to
j£2s of patriotic trust money as a
.contribution to a legal defence fund.
I am convinced that Irishmen accused
of patriotic offences ought, as a rule, to
refraim from the employment of any pro
fessional detune3 at law. I consider the
money expended in such legal defences
,as iTi a.ll cases thrown away, and in most
cases worse than thrown away. An hon
orable patriot cannot desire to deny the
facts of his case. There need be no
question between the Court and him as
to the facts, ft is the business of the
Government to produce evidence of the
facts, and the duty of the Court to ascer
tain whether they be proved. There is
no occasion for any help on the defend
ant's side to establish the facts, and the
honorable defendant cannot condescend
to use any legal quibbling for the pur
pose of misrepresenting’, or misinterpret
ing the facts. Generally, in Irish politi
cal trials, it is loss the acts done, or the
words spoken by the defendant, than the
opinion held of those acts or words by
the Court, that decides the case. If, then,
professional advocates and attorneys
sympathized with the defendant in politi
cal sentiment, and regarded his words
and acts as innocent, I admit that it
might, in very many cases, he useful
(and in all blameless) to take advantage
of the trained eloquence and technical
skill of the bar. But it hardly ever
occurs that advocates employed for Irish
political defendants espouse the cause of
their clients as their own. Often they
use the occasion for denouncing, or mis
representing, or travestying, or gravely
remonstrating against, the best,
apologizing for the real sentiments of
their client—the sentiments and aspira
tions for sake of which he is content to
hear exile, or imprisonment or death.
I did not intend to do more on this occa
sion than simply to declare my conviction
that legal defence of Irish political offen
ders is frequently dishonoring, and is al
ways useless, and sometimes even inju
rious to the safety of the accused. lam
sorry that the families of Irish political
offenders have thrown a Way so much
money in so mischievous or idle an em
ployment. And lam especially sorry to
see patriotic and charitable persons giv
ing their Contributions for such a purpose,
while there is distress unrelieved among
the families left destitute by the exile or
imprisonment of their supporters.
1 hope within a very few weeks to have
expended all the proceeds of the National
Fenny Collection. It was only the extra
ordinary occasion produced by the Man
chester rescue, and the English Fenian
panics that succeeded, that impelled me
to offer my services to the public in such
a capacity. I trust that extraordinary
occasion for the service of a man who is
no Fenian,, and who is not afraid of the
Government’s anger or of public opinion,
will very soon be completely passed
away, and no such occasion is likely soon
to return. I am, dear sir, truly yours,
John Martin.
Kilbroney, Rostrtvor, ‘Mth May.
Who Wouldn’t be an Editor ?—Ed
iting a paper, says the Church Union , is
a pleasant business.
If it contains too pinch reading matter,
people won’t take it.
If the type is too large, it don’t con
tain enough reading matter.
It the type is too small, people won’t
read it.
If we publish telegraphic reports, peo
ple say they are all lies
If we omit them, people say we have
no enterprise, or suppress them for politi
cal effect.
If wo have a few jokes, the people say
we are a rattle-head.
If we omit them, they say we are old
fossils.
If we publish original matter, they con
demn us for not giving selections.
If we publish selections, they say we
are lazy for not writing more, and giving
them what they have read in some other
paper.
If w*e give a man a complimentary no
tice, then they censure us tor being par
tial.
If we remain in the office and attend to
business, folks say we are too proud too
mingle with our fellows.
If we do not, they say we never attend
to business.
If we publish poetry, we affect senti
mentalism.
If we do not, we have no literary polish
or taste.
Two children belonging to Keokuk,
lowa, on the first of April got lost in the
woods. Their lives were saved by a
Newfoundland dog, which conducted them
to the road after they had slept two
nights on the ground.
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