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Carlinsville, Ind.; 11. W. A., Gadsden, Ala.; J. E. D., Mobile, Ala.; MissE. A. C., Mobile, Ala., D. S. R., Montgomery, Ala.; Geo. F. C. Crestline, Crawford Cos., Ohio; F. M. K., Montgomery, Ala.—Papers all sent, as directed. Mrs. G. W. M., Atlanta, Ga.—Your con tribution was very acceptable. E. L , Charleston, S. C.—Wrote you a day or two since. Miss C. B. S., Milledgeville, and Miss M. C. C., Jefferson, Ga. Have written you fully our views. L. N., New Orleans.—-We have written to you. The Murdered Barrett.— ln this issue we publish a sketch of the life and death of Michael Barrett—who, it will be remembered, was arrested and murdered by the British Government, on the charge of being engaged in the Clerkenwell ex plosion. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, and so indefinite that the fact of his presence at the place, or participation in the act, could not be definitely established. But enough in the eyes of a perjured Judge and packed jury, that poor Barrett was an Irishman —Rebel—and a hater of British tyranny, a lover of liberty, and an advocate of his country’s freedom. This gallant Irish man died a hero, preserving to the last a dignity and demeanor which even a British press could not fail to admire or to express sympathy for the death of one so truly brave. CATHOLIC PIC NIC AT SAVANNAH, GA, The Catholic Pic-Nic, given atWades villc, near Savannah, on Wednesday, the 17th inst., for the benefit of the Catholic Schools in that city, was a very grand affair. There were thirty-two car loads of people in attendance; and everything passed off in admirable style. Major Ferrill and Father Ryan delivered ad dresses on the occasion. Wc give the former, from the Savannah Republican. It is a very neat and eloquent little address : Ladies and Gentlemen: —ln compliance with the request of the committee, and in conformity to an ancient custom, it becomes my pleasing duty to present to you the distinguished orator of the day. Not that for him an introduction is ne cessary, for though to some of you his features may he strange, yet I opine there is not one in the length and breadth of this Southern land to whom the name of “Moina” is not familiar. It is a house hold word, alike in the palace of the mer chant prince and in the rude cabin of the maimed and ragged ex-Confederate soldier, who, because of his rags, and his wounds, and his dear dead brothers, loves the Poet Laureate of the South all the more tenderly. There is not a mother in the land, I care not what be her creed, or her prejudice, or her position, who has laid her soul’s idol beneath the cold grey sod, but loves, next to him that is lost, the Poet Priest who keeps alive in the hearts of men the memory of her darling’s life and deeds, and heroic fall. He it is who wrapped the dead cause in royal robes, and placed the martyr’s crown upon its pure brow, and laid it to rest with imperial honors, to the mourn ful music of a nation’s sobs. He is not here to-day, however, as eu logian of dead heroes, nor to weep una vailing tears over the buried past; but he is here as a teacher of the living, to impress upon you the necessity for main taining and perpetuating a system of sound religious education, without which there can be no true and lasting civili-* zation. This much famed man; this golden tongue-Priest; this soldier of that grand army which has been battling lor over eighteen centuries, armed only with the sword of truth and the banner of the faith, I present to you—Father Ryan, the orator of the day. Nothing so adonis the face as cheer fulness ; when the heart is in flower, its bloom and beauty pass to the features. Mils® ©i tii somm. CATHOLIC ORPHANS !N MOBILE, ALA, We learn from the Mobile Register, of the 19th instant, that a meeting of the male members of the different Catholic congregations in that city was held in the Cathedral on the 15th instant, 600 persons being present. Bishop Quinlan was in the Chair, and Maj. Thos. M. Le Baron and C. W. Dorrance, Esq., Secretaries. The Rt. Rev. Bishop stated the object of the meeting, in a very neat and appro priate address, to be the organization of societies for the support of the orphans of the Diocese, who now numbered 230, the Fair annually given for their benefit being insufficient for that purpose. The cost of supporting these orphans is $16,000 per annum, lie said : Arriving here about nine years ago, just prior to one of the Annual Fairs, he was pleased to see that this Fair was really an institution of the place—the pride of the city. That we have great reason to be thankful to the well known and open handed generosity of our Pro testant friends; not only have they encouraged us by their visits to our Fairs, but the books of the society will show that they have materially assisted us by large contributions. The following resolutions were then offered by Chas. Leßaron, Esq., and, on motion, unanimously adopted : Resolved, 1. That we, the Catholics of Mobile, publicly avow, in this our first resolution, as we have ever acknowledged, our indispensable obligation to support those orphans whom Providence, in de priving them of their natural protectors, lias committed to our charge. 2. That the Catholic Orphanages, having been hitherto maintained chiefly by the Fairs, held in their behalf, we feel bound to tender our best thanks to the ladies who conducted them, and publicly to acknowledge our deep obligations to the many generous Protestants, both ladies and gentlemen, who so zealously aided them on these occasions. 3' That the increase in the number of orphans in our institutions on the one hand, and the decrease of returns for their support on the other, impose on us the ob ligation of devising some new and more practical plan, by which all the Catholics of Mobile may be enabled to unite in the discharge of their common obligations to wards the orphans. 4. That, among the many ways sug gested to us to carry out the above resolu tions, she following plan seems the most feasible, viz.: to organize, in the different parishes of the city, auxiliary societies, to promote this necessary and meritorious good work. 5. That on a day, to be appointed by the Bishop, the Pastors summon the gen tlemen of their respective congregations, to form auxiliary societies (for the furth erance of the object in view), which shall be governed by rules and by-laws to be approved by the Bishop. On motion, it was resolved to organize the meeting into a permanent society, by electing five Vice-Presidents, one to repre sent each of the parishes; the Right Rev. Bishop, or his representative, in his ab sence, being ex-officio the President of the whole body; and a Secretary and Treasurer. The following named gentlemen were elected Vice Presidents, to represent the five parishes at the general meetings, and to organize auxiliary societies in their respective parishes; For the Cathedral parish, D. 0. Grady ; St. Josephs, C. Leßaron; St. Patricks, James Kilduff; St. Vincents, John Ryan; St, Marys, R. C. Macy. Mr. C. W. Dorrance was elected Secretary and Treasurer, New York Correspondence OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. The Northern People—Their Character istics, ImcJc of Individuality, and General Peculiarities —Their Igno rance—Misrepresentation of the South and Credulity of the North —The True Policy ffithe South Inaction—Florida an Example — Yachting—Foliage- Amusements —Dress and Fashion — Fourth of July—Die Approaching Democratic Convention. Neav Y< ir.lv, June 23, 1868. One of the most striking characteristics of the Northern people, as one sees them here, is their singular lack of imlividuali tv. They have certain general peculiari ties, or, as they love to call them, “ na tional” traits* very strongly marked, but when you come to variations from the general rules, they are few indeed. The men dress in the same short coats, and tight pants, and little round hats, and walk at the same gait, and talk the same talk on the same topics, and the women, for their part, wear the same pointed dresses, and fearsome chigno?is, and have the same tags, and strips, and chains, and streamers to their attire, so that when you have analyzed one of either sex, out wardly and inwardly, you can form a very exact estimate of the next half dozen that come along. With this dead level of uniformity in matters of appearance, there is the same sheep-like trait to be observed in their mental constitutions. The great and ruling ideas are that “We” —the people of the North —are, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the wisest, best, most pious, progressive, and altogether perfectionated people on the face of the earth. That the South was wrong, and that African suffrage—monkey hood suf frage, as some wag calls it—is right, that Lincoln fell by a plot in which every man, woman, and child South was concerned; and that Northern men are even now habitually roasted, merely for the fun of the thing, by “unreconstructed rebels,” are also cardinal tenets with many whose intelligence on other points might lead one to suppose that they possessed a re spectable share of common sense upon these. The truth is that the gross ignorance of the masses of the North is something that is really surprising; and to illustrate how unprogressive they are, even in their errors, despite the astounding clamor kept up about this same “ progress,” let me say that some of the main weapons used now against the South by unscrupulous po liticians, are as follows : “Andersonville,” “ the intention of the South to re-estab lish slavery,” “intention to force the payment of the Confederate debt,” “ Northern men utterly unsafe,” “ poor, down-trodden freedmen,” Ac. These things you will, of course, laugh at as the merest chimeras, and yet they are firmly believed in, so much that I could name an editor who asked me if the South did not mean “to re-establish slavery some day ?” and a lawyer who said he would like to travel South as soon as he could feel his “ head was safe upon his shoulders. ” Both of these are men of education and sense, one in good practise, and the other a leading member of the stall’ of a daily paper, and yet their remarks were as serious as could well be, leaving to the imagination what must be the comprehension of the popu lace if such is the limited knowledge of the leaders themselves. Still, there is some gleam of comfort in both these characteristics I have mentioned, the lack of individuality and the ignorance North. In the first place it is not unreasonable to look for a constantly increasing number of those who, in proportion as they be come eulighteried as to the real issue fought for by the South, and our record since the war, will be disposed to lend their iulluence and cast their votes against those who they will then have discovered have traded upon their ignorance to over turn justice and deify wrong. In the next place, there is comfort in the very sheepishness of the Northern people, their lack of individuality, and disposition to do just as the few tliiuiking men among their teachers tell them. Heretofore, it has been the interest of these leaders to work against the South; but, as they are up for sale, like cattle in the market, it may not be impossible hereafter to buy enough of them to produce the most serious divisions of popular opinion by, for as they s rike tlie key-note, the whole pack at their heels will respond. But these are speculations, and yet, did time now permit, it could be shown that they are not only well founded upon existing facts, but of a nature that will, ere long, rise into the gravest political importance. The weight of eight or nine millions of white people, who own real estate, cannot long be ignored in any government where they are from a third to a fourth of the whole population, and this weight becomes proportionately greater when that people, as is the case with the South now, under the hideous tyranny which besets it, is welded into homogeneousness. Reconstruction, let it bo carefully remembered, is not eighteen months old yet, and before it can com plete its second year, there is to be an election, with every prospect of success on the anti-reconstruction side. Let pa tience have her perfect work. The Fa bian policy of inaction and delay is, and has been our only policy. The Romans jeered at Fabius, saying, “ why don’t you do something ?” not knowing, poor fools, that his very inaction was wearing Hannibal out, and finally took his com mand from him and gave it to another, who, eager to “do something,” rushed down upon the wily Carthageuian, and was overthrown with such tremendous havoc that Rome was only saved by a miracle. The lesson is one that it would be well to heed. There is nothing to gain by participation, and much to lose. The whole’thing is a snare and a trick. Its elections are farces, its conventions so many pots of human scum, its govern ors, legislatures and constitutions and State governments, all alike bogus and false, and will not stand u moment after the bayonets that now prop them are taken away. Let every man, therefore, whose soul is not yet scourged out of him, refuse any re cognition in any way, shape, or form, of this thing they call reconstruction, and let him hold on to his land. Real estate is power, and non-participation is to bt able hereafter to say, this is not my work, “ Thou canst not say I did it.” With one significant illustration of the “do something” idea—which, when you strip it to the core, always means, “ I’m cowed, let’s surrender”—let me close these po litical remarks. At the late election in Florida, fourteen Radicals and ten Demo crats were elected to the pretended Stale Senate —twenty-four in all. On the day the pretended Legislature met, there were ten of the Radical Senators, so called, and three Democrats in attendance making just a majority, thirteen being a majority, of course, in twenty-four. The Constitutional Amendment was immedi ately put upon its passage, the ten Radi cals voted to ratify, the three Democrats to reject, and then it was proclaimed that the Senate had adopted it; and so it had. though, as the Legislature is unauthorized, the ratification is, of course, illegal; but the point is this : if the Democratic Sena tors had kept out of the scallawag Senate, the Amendment could not have been ratified, since there would not have been a majority of the whole body present. They voted against it, to be sure, but by the nature of a quorum and a majority they might as well have voted for it, for all the good they did. The harm was in their being there at all, and in their voting at all. The same thing happened in the scaln wag* Florida House. A quorum was 27 and there were only 24 Radicals present, but 6 Democratic members must poke their tails in the trap, and as a quorum was procured by their presence the deadfall was sprung. Twenty-four voted for, and six against the amendment which, of course, carried it by parlia mentary law, since a quorum was present, and a majority voted aye. Thus, you see, it was not the scalawags at all, bu our own friends, the three Democrat! Senators and the six Democratic Repre sentatives in Florida, that were the real ratifiers of that Amendment. If it had not been for the “do something” idea, it they had only been wise enough to stay at home and do nothing, they would have defeated it. So the only State in which the mongrel Constitution was so badly defeated that all the pimps of Radi calism could not make it out carried, was Alabama, where they did the very best kind of a something by not doing anything at all. Steadily refuse to par ticipate in Reconstruction in any way and keep your laud at all sacrifices ; tlii.? is now the whole duty of the Southern man. To turn to other topics, New York is unusually gay. There is quite a fleet of pleasure yachts in the harbor, the Sprim races are going on just out of town, an are daily attended by thousands, tl. foliage and flowers are now just in tul vigor—two months behind the sweet, sunny South—and the theatres, op ra houses, and other places of amusement, are in full blast. French comic opera, or opera bovffe, is the ruling sensation, and one styled Orpheus aux Enfers, < r Orpheus in an unmentionable place, i» quite amusing. All the heathen goes and goddesses arc brought in to sirg songs, drink beer, and dance the canxu> a Parisian.dance, of the propriety whereof, the less said the better. In the coui> of the drama, Jupiter appears as ai. enormous fly, a huge fly’s-head mask upon his noddle, his coat bright green striped like a horse-fly, about the chest and in ti: forked tails, his arms in gossamer t represent wings, and his legs and fee: cased in deep brown tights, so that \ really looks like a huge fly, in which guise he makes love to the prima-doim:'. a pretty French girl, with large black eyes and a sweet voice. Os dress and fashion, I have already said something in tlie beginning of ti epistle. The men look as if they were melted into their clothes, and the woire:. look like churns, topped off with ac: * bage-rose. Fourth of July is celebrated with p der-crackers and fire-works here, bf Christmas in the South, and, what wmi the roar of pyrotechnics, the marching troops, and, above all, the tremenuom Democratic Convention, which wi the grandest political gathering ever in this country, the day promises to bee* of huge excitement Hendricks au- Hancock, tiie knowing ones say, will v m. but ’tis hard to tell. Will endeavor give you some account, at the prof-* time, of the day’s doings. Tyrone Power -