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St. Patrick’s Male School, )
July 29th, 1868. \
At a meeting of the Boys of the School,
Did this day, William McCarthy was
c died to the Chair, and John Funk
was requested to act as Secretary. The
following Resolution was offered by Emile
Boulineau :
Resolved, That our sincere thanks are
hereby tendered to the Revd. Fathers
Duggan, O’Hara, and Ryan, James A.
(day, John W. Bessman, M. O’Dowd,
A. Dorr, Ed. O’Donnell, James Purcell,
an d J. D. Kavanagh, for their kindness
j n procuring premiums for the use of our
School at the late examination.
Wm. McCarthy, Ch’n.
John Funk, Secretary.
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Andrew Johnson's Recent Proclamation
about State Reconstructions The
only True Position—Diversity of
Opinion —What urUl the Conserva
tives do with the Financial Question ?
— St. Vincent's Home for Destitute
Catholic Boys—An Interesting Ac
count—-Its History.
New Orleans, Aug. 1,18 GS.
Runner of the South:
Artemus Ward, in his best days, never
wrote anything more exquisitely “sarkas
tickle” than Andrew Johnson’s recent
proclamations announcing the reception
“at the Department of State” of certain
“papers,” purporting to be the official
acts of the so-called Legislatures of cer
tain Southern States, accepting the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States ; signed by individuals
“entitling themselves” Secretaries of State,
and bearing seals “purporting to be” the
official seals of said States; and his pro
claiming that if tlie action of these and
other States in the premises be legal , then
the said Amendment lias been adopted,
Ac, Ac. A more complete negative
affirmation can hardly be imagined; but
it is easy to fancy how the sagacious
President, while thus performing his duty
of promulgation under the law, must have
enjoyed the discomfiture of his fiendish
Congressional foes at his quiet way of
denying the validity of his own official
act, by ignoring the legality of every step
leading thereto. In the matter of the
State Seal, particularly, his ignorance is
excruciatingly delicious, since the Presi
dent is obliged always to recognize a
State Seal whenever presented to him,
and his non-recognitioD, in the pre
sent instances, amounts to a denial of
their identity ! When Congress re-assem
bles, we shall see if this contumely be not
punished by additional impeachment, &c.
The recent thermometrical reports from
the latitude of Washington City account
in some degree for these exceedingly cool
proceedings of Mr. Johnson, who, doubt
less, felt obliged to do something of the
sort to preserve himself from the scorching
influences of old Sol, and that other
Agent from a hotter place—old Thad.
The only true position for any Southron
who designs taking any part in the coming
election, is that assumed by the Banner’s
late editorial, favoring Seymour and Blair
as a choice of evils. “Principles, not
men, ’ is bound to be the watchword of
the South in the coming contest, since
we are unable to put forward any man of
our own choice. There is, however,
much diversity of opinion as to which is
ihe better of the presented evils—Sey
mour, and another protracted term of
compromises (such as damned the South
during so many long y 7 ears in the past),
or Grant, and a crisis which may bring
the long agony to a close.
Should the Conservatives come into
power, with the next election, what are
they going to do with the hideous, but
inevitable Financial Skeleton that has
been dragged home and hung up in our
Aational closet by the murderous De
structives ? Have our leading men mini
mis'd this subject, and selected the right
man for the Treasury Bureau ? If the
coming party” can satisfactorily settle
his one question, of the finances, I’ll
quietly “cave in” and “go it blind” as to
me rest of their administration. My own
private opinion is, that its only solution
an be found in the Imperial manner of
untying the Gordian knot.
Quitting politics, let us look at a ques
tion more purely domestic, the “Report
Tj f be Board of Directors of St. Vincent’s
Dome for Destitute Catholic Boys, estab
lished in New Orleans by the St. Vincent
de Paul’s Society in July, 1866.” This
Report, dated Feast of St. Vincent (July
•tii), gives a. most interesting account of
! ic “rat two year’s operations, and begins
abating that the Home was established
a design to “rescue and protect un
fortunate boys of the Roman Catholic
faith from suffering, want, idleness, crimi
nal habits, and other detrimental in
fluences, and to educate, train, and fit
them to become useful and virtuous mem
bers of society.” In August, 1866, hav
ing $2,800 in the Treasury 7, they bought
the present Home, on Bienville street, for
$13,000, and by dint of borrowing, they
were enabled to make the first cash pay
ment, of one-third, on the property. On
the Bth December, (auspicious date !)
was admitted the' first boy, the halt
orphan son of a once wealthy city mer
chant, and in March, 1867, there were 47
well-behaved boys in the Home. Then
every bed was occupied, and applicants
were daily turned away for want of room;
in the eloquent words of the Report, of
that date, “Mothers, when they learn we
cannot take their truant sont, turn away,
crying, declaring they will be lost.”
Dec. Bth, 1867, the accounts show that
“the running expenses for one year have
been only $4,474, of which parents and
guardians have paid $1,062, proving
thereby the grateful appreciation of this
Institute by those having truant boys ”
At this time, there are over 60 boys in
the house, being 12 more than it can
properly accommodate, as your corres
pondent has seen the extra beds spread
on the parlor floor! The Board of
Directors now, through their President,
the Hon. D. P. Scanlan, appeal to the
charitable Catholics of New Orleans for
aid in purchasing a larger and more
suitable property, removed from the city,
where the boys may be instructed in
farming, and the various trades, for
which appropriate shops will be erected.
My object in making so lengthy an allu
sion to this Institution, is to encourage
other communities to “go and do like
wise ;” for, it is by the erection and proper
conduct of such useful and charitable In
stitutions, that our cities, and society at
large, must be truly reconstructed at last.
Southern Radical.
Gen. Wade Hamfton.— Here is a pho
tograph from a Northern paper of Wade
Hampton, “ the Murat of the South” :
“ Rubens would have delighted to paint
this man’s face, a strongly marked face,
the face of a hero and leader of men.
Standing over six feet, the figure athletic
and full, the shoulders ample and worthy
to carry a head which gives promise of
firm but quiet determination ; in brief,
the head of a man who has best repre
sented the strength and intellect of South
Carolina in all the trying years of her
checkered history. The face is bronzed
with the smoke and dust of many a hard
fight; such a face as might be deemed
the incarnation of war when aroused.
The eyes black and piercing, the chin
solid, the jaws of iron mould, and sur
mounted by whiskers of the English
guardsman fashion. The man’s history
is a poem in itself. We can call to mind
one man like him in the chronicles of the
Anglo-Saxon. That man was James Gra
ham, Viscount Dundee. Both were sa
breurs. Both alike fought gallantly for
a like cause, the cause of blood and birth,
and both lost the great stakes which they
had cast headlong in the fight. South
Carolinians will tell you with pride of his
history, of his thirteen acres of rose gar
dens, of his stables of magnificent horses,
the finest stables in all the sunny 7 land of
the South; of his genius, his pride of
race, his heroism and self-sacrifice for the
Lost Cause, of the struggle which he made,
and of his manly and dignified silence
when the South was overthrown, horse,
foot, and artillery, by the might of the
North, and of his wise counsel to his
people since then. Hampton has, like
most of the Southern delegates in the
Convention, but little to say. He abides
the will of the people of the North quiet
ly, and, as he said yesterday, will be con
tent and satisfied with their choice. Mr.
Hampton wears grey pantaloons, a dark
frock coat, is retiring in his neck-tie, and
is slightly inclined to corpulence.”
The Pope Still Living. —We learn
from our Roman despatches, of June 21,
that His Holiness received, successively,
on the occasion of the anniversary of his
elevation to the throne and of his corona
tion, the members of the Diplomatic
Corps. On the 21st June, M. Sartiges
had his audience. On the same day, the
City of Rome was illuminated.
The rumor that Menotti Garabaldi was
in Rome is without foundation.
On the occasion of the anniversary of
the Coronation of the Pope, the Apostolic
Legate of Civita Vecchia invited the
French officers to a commemorative ban
quet. General Dumont proposed a toast
to Pius IX, in which he used the words,
“That Pontiff whom France and the Em
peror will never abandon.” In response
to this, the Legate drank to the health of
the Emperor Napoleon, closing with the
words, “The protector of the throne, of
religion, and society.”— Phil. Catholic
Mirror.
For the Banner of the Smith.
The Morning Mist.
Written in February.
BY DAVIE BABBOUB.
The wind from the South floats with balm on its wings
As if Summer, just ere Winter wearily dies,
Herself, on his breast, struck with sudden love, flings,
While her breath, through his frosty hair, fragantly
sighs.
Afar o’er the landscape, all purple and gold,
That mist might a fire-dashed amethyst be,
Or it looks as though Mom, like a maid free and bold,
With her many hued feet tread a shadowy sea.
And look! as its billows are lashed by the breeze,
There’s a fairy land yonder, by dreaming eyes, seen
Bi' ing up, a* they tell, once, on far Eastern seas,
From the foam rosetho form of the Cyprian Queen.
See I hero stands a palace, ’mid mountains and glades,
And tho grave with its white blossoms over there
lies,
While just near the spioe tree the dusky air lades,
There’s a fount, throwing rainbows far up to the
skies!
But, ah ! now the sun, toiling up the blue East,
On my land—fair as e’er the Mahometan sees,
When his dying eyes turn where the faithful shall
feast—
Looking down, leaves the dark earth and bare leafless
trees!
And thus—my poor Llfo ! was the future once hung,
In a mist full of purple and gold, over thee
While from the dim soil, oh! how oft hath hope sprung 1
Sending forth its perfume like that white-blossomed
tree!
But now, from tho sky pours tho float of the day,
As mine eye, through its tears, looks no glory it
sees
For the mist, with its purple and gold, floats away,
And my hopes lift their arms, like the bare, leafless
trees!
[From the Dublin Irishman.]
PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY,
THE LONG PROMISED REPORT.
In the House of Lords, on Friday
night, the Lord Chancellor, in reply to
Lord Dufferin, stated that the Church
Commissioners had unanimously agreed
to the terms of their report; but it was
not ready for presentation. He was quite
certain that the report would lead to a
satisfactory settlement of the Church
question, by which, of course, he meant
that it might suggest some dodge by which
the decision of the House of Commons
could be wriggled out of.
OUR GLORIOUS VICTORY IN ABYSSINIA.
On the motion of Lord Malmesbury,
their lordships voted an address to her
Majesty, to the effecr that they agreed
with the House ci Commons in voting a
[Tension of £2,000 a year to Sir R. Napier,
as a recognition of the great benefits con
ferred on the working classes of the three
kingdoms by the now “famous victory”
gained by him over the unarmed subjects
of the Emperor Theodore.
CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS.
On Friday night the House of Com
mons went into Committee on the Elec
tion Petitions and Corrupt Practice at
Elections Preventive Bill, Salaries, &c.,
for the purpose of founding a Money Bill
thereon, and leave was given to bring in
a Bill. Mr. Monsell and several Irish
and Scotch members wished that the
Bill should be extended to Ireland and
Scotland, and a long discussion ensued.
Mr. Disraeli opposed the extension of the
Bill to Scotland and Ireland, but he
stated that if the House passed the Bill
for England, a clause might be subse
quently introduced, extending its provi
sions to Scotland and Ireland. Several
clauses of the Bill were passed.
GOD HELP THE PAUPERS.
Mr. Blake called attention to the defi
ciency of workhouse dietaries in Ireland,
and moved that, in the opinion of this
House, the Poor-Law Commissioners of
Ireland should establish a minimum scale
of dietary for the paupers in the union
work houses, not less than that now
in existence in the Irish county jails, and
which was recommended by the commis
sion appointed to report on the county
prison dietaries as necessary for the pre
servation of the health of the prisoners.
He entered into details to show that the
present dietary in some of the workhouses
is only another name for starvation.
Lord Mayo opposed the motion, and said
that paupers receive as much food as
prisoners undergoing short terms of im
prisonment in jails ! Comment on this
statement is not necessary. Mr. Blake
withdrew his motion.
TRINITY COLLEGE.
Mr. Fawcett moved a resolution that,
in the opinion of this House, Catholics,
Presbyterians, and other inhabitants of
Ireland, will not be placed in a position
of equality, in reference to university edu
cation in that country, with those who are
members of the Established Church, until
all religious disabilities are removed from
the fellowships, scholarships, and other
honors and emoluments of Trinity Col
lege, Dublin. Sir J. M’Kenna moved,
as an amendment, to leave out all the
words after the word “until,” in order to
insert the words “Her Majesty’s subjects
in Ireland, of various denominations,
more particularly, Catholics and Presby
terians, shall be afforded by the State
equal advantages in respect to education,
and equal protection for their religion
and faith, to those now afforded by Trinity
College, Dublin, to tho Protestant in
habitants of Ireland.” Mr. Synan could
not agree with either the member for
Brighton or the member for Youghal.
He could not agree with the former be
cause he wished to apply the endowments
of the University College to mixed educa
tion ; and could not agree with the latter
because he left the endowments for
Trinity College aloiie. In his opinion,
the endowments were sufficient, both for
Trinity College and for university educa
tion in Ireland generally, as they amount
ed to £64,000 a year, and the College
bad only 1,200 students. The College of
Berlin, with 2,500 students, had only
£29,000. The College was also an
ecclesiastical College, and how could the
House justify taking away £25,000 from
Maynooth, and leaving £64,000 to
Trinity College ? The Irish people would
not have mixed Universities, and, there
fore, he opposed the resolution and amend
ment. At the request of Mr. Disraeli,
the resolution and amendment were with
drawn.
REGISTRATION.
In the House of Commons, on Monday
night, the Registration (Ireland) Bill was
advanced a stage, and the remainder of
the sitting was occupied with a discus
sion on Admiralty mismanagement, and
the Bill tor Enfranchising Revenue
Officers, which was read a second time.
CLERKS of the peace.
In the House of Lords, on Tuesday
night, the Clerks of the Peace (Ireland)
Bill—the object of which is to transfer
from the Grand Juries to the Government
the power of fixing the salaries of these
officers—was read a second time.
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY.
Mr. Gregory asked the Government
whether anything was intended to be done
in order to enable the Royal Irish Acade
my to exhibit their museum to the public ?
Large sums of money had been annually
contributed by the House for the support
of that Institution, one of the most inter
esting in Ireland, which, however, at the
present moment, owing to the operations
of the Irish Board of Works, was wholly
inaccessible and useless to the public.
Mr. Disraeli said that a commission ap
pointed to inquire into all the art institu
tions of Ireland, was sitting at the present
moment, and he hoped that the result of
their labors would terminate the abuses
referred to by the honorable member for
Galway.
FAIR PLAY.
The House subsequently went into
Committee of Supply, and several sums
were voted, including one of £7,500 to
compensate the persons whose property
was injured by the Clerkenwell explosion.
To the granting of this sum no person
could reasonably object; but, as a matter
of justice, ought not the Government
give compensation to the unfortunate per
sons whose houses were wrecked and
their furniture destroyed by the Orange
riots at Ashton, and other places in Eng
land ? We should think so; but, per
haps, as these people were only mere
Irish Papists, they have no claim on the
consideration of the responsible Ministers
of our Protestant Queen.
another “commission.”
In the House of Commons, on Wednes
day night, “Hanging Hardy,” in reply to
Sir Patrick O’Brien,” said the resolution
of the Corporation of Dublin, in favor of
the purchase of the site of the Exhibition
Palace for the Royal Irish Institute, had
been received by the Government, and
had due attention paid to it; but as there
was a Commission sitting upon the sub
ject, he could not give more explicit in
formation until that Commission had re
ported. What a well commissioned coun
try Ireland is ? What a number of them
we have had, including “special” ones,
since the Devon Commission described
the Irish as “the worst housed, worst
clothed, and worst fed people in Europe;”
and the result of which was that nothing
was done to benefit their condition. We
haue three or four Commissions sitting at
present, and they will be equally produc
tive of good.
The Public Debt Increased over
$53,000,000 in One Month.— The New
York Herald says that the public debt
was increased more than fifty-three mil
lions in one month—from June to July.
In time of peace, with the Republican
party professing to be in favor of Re
trenchment and Reform, the public debt
in the month of June was increased over
fifty-three millions of dollars.
Is this not monstrous ? Just think of
it, you who are taxed beyond your ability
to bear now.
Can a change in the administration of
the Government make matters worse ?
[Columbus (O.) Statesman.
[For the Banner of the Sooth.]
The Kneeling G-irl.
[suggested by a photograph.]
Maiden! on the banks of childhood,
With the sea of life before—
Kneelest thou to ask for guidance,
Ere thou sailest from its shore ?
Are those white hands clasp’d in pleading
For a succor all divine,
Lest thy bark should lose its bearings
When the waters round thee shine?
Tempting thee with sounds of music
On towards those golden strands
Where Pleasure stills the voice of Duty
And Virtue yields to Sin’s commands?
Have those dark eyes read the future,
And knowing, dost thou dread the gale,
Which thy woman’s heart must weather, ’
Th o’ torn and rent each quivering sail?
Ah ! didst thou know the snares and dangers
That await thee on Life’s main,
Thin thy soul would shrink with terror,
And thy young heart ache with pain!
Thou wouldst kneel with tearful glances
To implore the gracious boon,
That never o’er the morn of childhood
Might rise the glare of sorrow’s noon :
Thou wouldst pray, with twin’d fingers,
On thy mother’s breast to stay,
Till the waves of Time should sparkle
’Neath the light of endless day.
But, fear not thou the sea before thee,
Nor weep when fade the shores of Youth,
For thou may’st bear upon thy voyage
Its buds of promise, gems of truth.
Then be thou brave! pure-hearted maiden,
And launch thee on Life’s stormy wave ;
Past phantom lights and darksome places,
The head of Faith can guide and save.
No storm can wreck the stainless heart,
No billow crush the strong of soul—
Be thine this strength and purity,
And thou shalt reach the sun-lit goal!
S. B. E.
New Orleans, La.—
DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED PRELATES.
The official Journal of Rome publishes
quite a long obituary list cf eminent Pre
lates who died during the months of May
and June last. Mgr. Louis Marie Car
delli, Archbishop of Acrida (in partibus)
died June 11, having received all the
usual Sacraments of the Church. Born
in Rome, August 28, 1777, this Prelate
entered the order of St. Francis, of Strict
Observance, and on the 18th of March he
was named Bishop of Smyrna. Relieved
from the charge of that Church, he was,
on the 3d September, 1832, transferred
to the Church of Acrida. He was Canon
oi St. Peter, and Counsellor of the Holy
Congregations of the Holy Office, of that
of Dispensations, and of the Propaganda.
Hie College of Bishops assisting the
throne, ot which he was a member, par
ticipated in the funeral services.
Mgr. John Topich, Minor Observant,
died on the 11th June, fortified by the
Holy Sacraments, in the seventy-seventh
year of his age. Chosen in 1832 Bishop
of Alessio (Albania), and, in 1853, trans
ferred to the See of Scrutara, he retired,
in 1859, owing to ill health, to spend the
remainder of his days among his religious
associates in the Convent of the Island of
St. Bartholomew, from which period, up
to the time of his death, he bore the title
of Bishop of Philopolis, in partibus.
Mgr. Rodolph de Thysebert, Bishop of
Tiberiade, in partibus, died on the 12th
May last. Born in Salzburg, April 28,
1758, he -was preconized in 1842, and, at
the same time, was named Coadjutor of
the Archbishop of Olmutz.
Mgr. Sebastien Pluto de Rego, Bishop
of Saint Paul, Brazil, died April 30 last.
The deceased Prelate was born at Angra
dos Reis, Diocese of Rio Janeiro, April
18,1802, and was preconized by the Holy
Father, Sept. 30, 1861.
Mgr. Gastan, of the Counts of Berra
ghia, Bishop of Lodi, died on June 13, at
the advanced age of nearly one hundred
years, after a protracted illness endured
with resignation and Christian fortitude.
He was born at Bergamus, October 2,
1837.— Phil. Cath. Mirror.
Irish “ Grace O’Malleys” in Para
guay.—Brigadier General Eliza Lynch
leads the female forces, the Amazonian
army, of gallant Paraguay, fighting for
its independence. She is the Irish wife,
we understand, of the President of Para
guay, Gen. Lopez. She has tire reputa
tion of inspiriting Paraguay in this des
perately brave and heroic war.
Lieutenant Colonel Margaret Ferreira
and Captain Annie Gill support her—
the name of the latter sounds Irish also.
They defend the Pass of Tebicuari with a
force of women and girls against the at
tempts of the Brazilians and Buenos
Ayres Republicans.
The women of Paraguay are standing
forth for their country’s independence,
like the women of Poland, like the women
of Limerick, and they have found another
Joan of Arc, another Maid of Saragossa,
another Grace O’Malley in an Irish lady
—Brigadier General Lynch ! Shall the
United States and France, and the civil
ized world, permit this unequal and mur
derous contest without a word of protest?
Shame upon such men—on such civiliza
tion !— Dublin Irishman.
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