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Premium, ex-equo, for 3d Spelling, sth Division F. Mo Ad am Premium, ex-equo, for 3d Spelling, sth Division J* McNally 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. 7