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4 REV. A. J. RYAN, Editor AUGUSTA, GA., JUNE 20, 1868. ANOTHER HOWL ACAINST CATHOLICS, A short time ago there was a meeting in Albany, N. Y., in favor of the Presi dential nomination of the man of splen did slaughter. At the same time there was a convention of Northern Presby terians in the city. Rev. Dr. Breckcn ridge was a member of that convention, and for the purpose, we opine, of giving a sort of religious tone to the political meeting, he was invited to address it. lie made his speech, in which among many other very pious sayings, he al luded to the city of New York as con taining* 50,000 Roman Catholic voters, whom he denounced a 3 the cause of the Radical defeat last fall—and he proceeded to say “that the State must be redeemed, even if to do so New York had to be burned to the ground.” And the audience rose to their feet and gave him a hearty round of cheers. We thank thee, Dr. Breckinridge,for the Christian sentiment! A friend of yours from Tennessee, Brown low, once said the same thing of the South ; “the South,” said he, “must be given to the torch.” John Calvin, the progenitor of Dr. Breckenridgc, was satisfied with burn ing a man, but the Dr., with broader views and more burning zeal, would con sign a whole city to the flames. So the leaders and political speakers give the watchword of the hour—and the people applaud. What next ? TWO PATRIOTS ! “The State Department has no official advices regarding enlistments for the Papal army, but will forbid them should such enlistments be attempted.”—Tele gram from Washington. Seward is grateful. He does not for get his many obligations to Garibaldi. During the unjust war waged against the South, the Italian Revolutionist was one of the foreign spies appointed by Seward, At bottom, we are of opinion, the two men hold the same principles. Seward was one of the prime movers of the war against the rights of the Confederacy. Garibaldi is the prime mover of the war against the rights ot the Papacy. And it is but natural that Seward, now, in his turn, should be the foreign agent and spy of Garibaldi and his party. And this same Seward ransacked all the nations of Europe for mercenary recruits in order to prosecute the unholy war against us. Ilis paid agents scoured France, Germany, Ireland, England—and every week came ship-loads of poor deluded men, who were sent to the front, and slaughtered for the benefit of the stars and stripes. But, now, Seward has become quite scrupu lous in regard to international laws. He, of course, could disregard them—but no one else must dare to follow bis example. Besides, Garibaldi helped him, and one good turn deserves another. Hence the above telegram. Seward would wish to >oe his friend Garibaldi take possession of the Eternal City. He would wish to sec the Papacy destroyed. lie was an xious enough to send Catholics to battle against the South and for bis own ideas; but he is not disposed to let them go and fight for the interests of their Church. He used them as his tools, and now he llings the tools away. But let him threaten, and do his worst. If an American bat talion is called for, Pius the Ninth will have it; and many of the young men of our Church in the South who fought against Seward’s hordes, will be ready, when needed, to cro>; the seas and battle against Seward’s friend, Garibaldi. STAND BY YOUR COUNTRY- Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, in a recent communication, advises the yoimg men of the South to stay at home. The voice of patriotism appeals to them to stay at home. The voice of Reason urges them to stay at home. Do not abandon your native land. Do not desert your bleeding country. “Don’t give give up the ship.” Your poor, oppressed, desolated South carmot spare you. She wants the aid of all her sons. Their stout hearts and strong arms are needed here. The conservative people of the North are striving to restore the coun try to peace and prosperity again; and they want all the assistance and encour agement that we can give them. It is true it may not be great; but remember how often one vote has turned the tide of political victory or the scale of political contest. Remember the value of one vote. Stay, then, and give that vote to your Country; to the Constitution, and to Liber ty. It is a vote, not for yourself alone, but for your wives and children, for your friends, and for your posterity, for a cause that should be dear to every advocate of Constitutional freedom. Remember too, that there is a soil to cultivate, ruined fortunes to retrieve, com mercial and mechanical prosperity to build up. Remember, in short, that the South wants you in a hundred ways—she cannot spare you—she has a right to demand your presence and your services. She is your Mother—your fond, loving Mother; and though she can give you no thing but poverty and political humiliation now ; yet she will cling to you with true affection, and in her day of peace and pros perity will not forget you for your filial devotion and patriotic adherence to her rights and interests. Stand by your Coun try, then, young men —stand by the South; and abandon all idea of seeking fortune and political peace in foreign lands. God has given you here a glorious and a fruit ful land; He has given you manhood and strength ; “your own good hands must win the rest.” “LET US HAVE PEACE.” Such are the words with which Gen. Grant accepts the nomination of the Re publican party, as their candidate for the Presidency of the United States. “Let us have peace.” Why not? Is there aught to prevent it ? Yes ; the rod of the Ty rant is here to prevent it. The sufferings of a ruined people are here to prevent it. The injustice of wicked and designing me n ig here to prevent it. And so we say now, as one of the Fathers of the Republic said, when the “clanking of the chains was heard on Bunker Hill,” as it is now beard upon every Southern hill and in every Southern valley : “Gen tlemen may cry peace, when there is no peace.” Is that peace, which drags a citizen from his quiet home and throws him into loathsome dungeons, without giving him even the poor satisfaction of informing him of the charges against him? Is that peace, which girdles election polls with bayonets, and yet refuses pro tection to the voter who will not east his ballot for the dominant party ? Is that peace, which keeps ten States under a galling subjection, forcing upon them Conventions and Constitutions not of their choice, prostrating the energies of the people, and paralysing every limb and sinew of trade and industry ? Is this the peace that Gen. Grant would give us ? Is this the peace that the man of cruel and relentless war would have? Is such a man and such a peace to bo endorsed by the people of the United States? We hope not. We ap peal to them to pause and reflect, before they give their voices and their votes to such a man and such a peace. And this is not the appeal of the partizan—not the appeal of the politician; but the ear nest warning of patriotism and justice. The woes of the South are not alone her woes. They are the woes of the whole country, and as they are meted out to us so shall they be meted out to others. If they arc endorsed by the people of the North, the peace of Grant will be the peace of sorrow, of desolation, and of ruin, for them as well as for us! The iron hand of the military despot is broad enough to cover the whole country, and the greed of power is never satiated, hut grows with age and strengthens w r ith time, until some vaster power comes to stunt its growth, shear it of its strength, or strangle its existence. How much better then, to “crush it in the bud”—to nip it while it is young and comparatively weak, ere it grows to that proportion which will be too formidable for the pop ular will to extinguish. How much bet ter, then, to arouse now to a sense of the impending danger, and aveit it while we can. How much better, then, to consign the leaders of this growing power and their greedy co-workers to that oblivion which they so justly merit, Then, in deed, would wc have peace—not the peace that Gen. Grant would give us— not the peace that the Republican party would give us—hut the peace which blessed our country in the palmiest days of its prosperity and glory ; the peace which alone can bless it again with pros perity and glory. REBELS. Our Northern brethren love to call us Rebels. It is a pet word with them ; and they will use it whenever they have the opportunity. Well, we have no objec tion to it. On the contrary, we have learned to love the word, and to glory in its application to our people. The Fa thers of tlie Republic were called Rebels; and they never blushed at its application. They learned to glory in the title; and gave a dignity and character to the little word which had been intended as a term of insult and reproach—a dignity 7 and character which was augmented by the Irish “Rebellion of ’98,” intensified in the Southern “Rebellion” of ’6l. They were Rebels—those men of ’7G. They would not submit to the yoke of tryanny; so with a mighty effort they shook it off, and established lor themselves and their posterity, a government of freedom and political equality. They were Rebels, those men of ’9B, who fought, like their American protrotypes, to cast off the bondage of a hated Government; but, alas ! they failed, and were consigned hack to that bondage of which they so vainly essayed to rid themselves. And, shall we say it? These men of ’6l—were they Rebels? Oh, yes! they were Rebels, if you please, against tyranny and wrong. They strove to cast off the burden of op pression, and to establish again that con stitutional and free Government which their forefathers had founded in the past. But they 7 , too, vainly 7 strove against over whelming numbers, and were conquered— conquered by men who once themselves gloried in the name of Rebel, and thought Rebellion against tyranny no crime— conquered by men who declared that the States were sovereign, that the people had a right to throw off an oppressive Government and put on another of their own choice, that “all just Governments were derived from the consent of the governed by men, too, who had sought to make Ireland and Hungary free ; by men who had been banished from Germany and elsewhere because they declared in favor of this great American principle of self-government. And so they defeated us —our hopes and our efforts; but they could not take away our principles from us —they could not crush out our love for a cause so just and so holy as we es teemed ours to be—they could not, with their bayonets and their swords, force us to confess sorrow for our rebellion against tyranny and oppression ; and thus, taking nothing away from us but our liberties and property —they gave us the appella tion of Rebels. Yes, wc were Rebels then. We are Rebels now. Wc glory in the name; and our posterity will glory too, in the glory of their fathers, who were not ashamed to proclaim, in the face of the world, that they were “Rebels” against Tyranny and Oppression. The glory and the honor did not perish with our cause—they will not perish with our generation ; but they will live in the fu ture, as they live in the present, to give additional lustre to that glory and honor which lived and shone in the Rebel of ’76 and the Rebel of ’9B. THE GROWTH OF CATHOLICITY. Our Protestant bretheren are in the habit of associating bigotry, intolerance, perse cution, and many other unchristian acts, with Catholicism. Indeed, it has been fashionable with them to ascribe to our Church anythiug but the most compli mentary epithets. In other words, the Catholic Church has been held up as the embodiment of intolerance, an enemy to education, aud the greatest opponent of civil liberty and the general advancement of ma»kind. But the old Church has stood it all; and while the anathemas of the Protestant world have been hurled against her, she has prayed for and bless ed her enemies. The mutations of this world make no change in her conduct towards her erring children—the same yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow. Every thing earthly is changing and passing away, but the Church of Christ remains the same as when first instituted for the salvation of mankind. Os all things here belo\v, it alone survives the decay of mat ter, and will survive until time changes into eternity. The world may con tinue to misrepresent and villify the old Church of Christ and the Apostles, hut the day will come when all the chil dren of men will be gathered unto her fold, confessing and believing in one Lord, one Faith, and one Baptism. The various Protestant denominations, however they may differ and abuse one another, seem to cordially unite in abuse of our Church. The rapid growth of the Catholic Church in this country, is a fre quent subject of discussion, and a source of great alarm, as will be seen from copi ous extracts from the Protestant Press, given elsewhere. But the Ohurch will overcome all efforts made to impede its onward progress, and while the work of man is crumbling from internal commo tions and dissensions, the work of God will survive to fulfil the Divine mission of its founder. With the view of giving our readers the impressions ot the Protestant Press on the growth of Catholicity, we copy from an exchange the comments before referred to, and to be found in this issue of our paper. These papers appear to he seriously alarmed, but there is no remedy in their power to prevent the progress of our Church. INFAMOUS. In order to give our readers an idea of the devilish fanaticism which has taken hold of certain so-called reverend gentle men in the North, we published some weeks since a monstrously infamous let ter from a certain so called Reverend Mr. Waldo, of the Northern wing of the Me thodist Church. It will be remembered that this poor creature held that the peo of the South, having been conquerred, had neither political, social, nor religious rights; that they they must throw aside their own religion and accept the religion of the Conquerors; that all the Churches So»th must he confiscated and turned over to the Churches North; that while the Radical Congress was reconstructing the South and confiscating the property of our people, the Radical Churches should reconstruct religion in the South by sell ing the Churches and appropriating the proceeds; in fine, this reverend sinner, if we remember aright, informed our people that they ought to he thankful for having their lives spared and he perfectly willing to hand themselves over, body and soul to the conquerors, and be unto them for the balance of their natural lives, hewers of wood and drawers of wa ter. Such is, iu brief, the opinion of this expounder of the Gospel, but where he derives his authority from for his doc trine is unknown to us. Perhaps he gets it from his right to “private interpreta tion ” If so, then it is the strongest ar gument in the world that the devil put his “private interpretation” into the mind of his pupil —and a most convincing ar gument that private interpretation of the Bible leads to error and fanaticism, else how could this* Rev. Mr. Waldo have been lead to the conclusion at which he arrived. That lie is in earnest about h[< diabolical proposition and considered sane by his Northern co-laborers, is evident from his presence at the late Methodist Conference which assembled at Chicago, and his having introduced the following infamous resolution : “That all government is based upon the religious ieeas of those who carry it on, and that the Northern Methodists have acquired by conquest the right to control the religion of the South. I hat it is just as wrong to allow the Southern Methodists to meet and worship in their wav, as it would be to allow Lee and Johnson to call together and drill their armies again. They will soon be prohib ited from so doing. The religion of the North is bound to rule this continent, and it proposes to make a proper application of our Bible to all the Southern States and people. A subjugated people have no more right to apply their own peculiar moral ideas than to to use their physical implements of war.” Monstrous! hut monstrous and fiendish as is this proposition and the sentiments ex* pressed therein, it is the level to which Rev. Mr. Waldo would bring the people of the South. It is not stated what dis position was made of this resolution, hut the fact of its introduction in such a body, shows the fearful depravity of a people who sustain such men, and entertain such ideas of religion as those expressed by this Rev. Mr. A\ aldo. It is best characterized as infamous. Pearl Rivers and her Home.— There has been much inquiry as to who is the woods nymph, or rather Nayade, who sings so sweetly under this pseu donym. Perhaps we might as well tell her anxious readers, not only in the Pica yune, hut in all respectable journals into which her verse so gracefully runs, shat our poetGss takes her name from that beautiful stream, Pearl River, near the mouth of which she was born. She is a maiden of hardly adult years, Eliza Poite vent, the daughter of Capt. W. J. Poite vent, well known to most of our business men as a builder, and owner of steam boats, and a manufacturer of lumber at Gainesville, on that river, about twenty five miles across the plain from the Bay of St. Louis, which is now, as Gainesville formerly was, the seat of justice of Han cock county, Mississippi. On the father’s side Eliza, is ofFreneh descent; on the mother’s she is connected with the extensive and well known Russ family, of the Florida parishes of Lou isiana and Southeast Mississippi .Dur ing the most of her life she has lived with her mother’s sister, and her uncle by marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kim ball, with whose leaf-embowered and rose embellished cottage, intelligent views, contented seclusion, comfortable life, home.obtained luxuries, and welcome to all who exhibited culture, those who jour neyed in that region have been long fa miliar. Being without children of their own, they asked and obtained the privilege of rearing their niece oti the hanks of the Habolochitto, a clear, deep, and swift run ning affluent of the Pearl, under whose magnolias and hollys she spent, doubtless, many an hour of soft repose, watching the fish darting through its placid waters, and listening to the birds as they sang their delights over the wild flower treasures around them. Among such scenes as these, Eliza Poitevent grew up. No wonder she loves to sing of warbling birds, of the rippling waters, the home of the insect, and the sweet incense of flowers. Such is the home and such is the history of “Pearl Rivers.’’ A. O. Picayune . Trinity College had better look to its monopoly in time, and engage the services of these clerical mountebanks, the Rev. Messrs. Ferrar and Flanagan, for the purpose of “stumping" the country in its behalf. Mr. Fawcett, the member for Brighton, lias given notice that, on the 29th inst., he will move “that, in the opinion of this House, Catholics, Pres byterians, and other inhabitants of Ire land, will not be placed in a position of equality, in reference to university edu cation, with members of the Established Church, until all religious disabilities are removed from the fellowships, scholar ships. and other honors and emoluments of Trinity College, Dublin. That this House, in order to give more complete effect to the foregoing resolution, is of opinion that an executive commission should be appointed, whose duty it should he so to re-arrange the existing revenues of Trinity College, Dublin, that it may be enabled satisfactorily to fulfil the functions of a national institution.’ Dublin Irishman.