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About The banner of the South. (Augusta, Ga.) 1868-1870 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1868)
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. 7
