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had better give it back to the Fair. “ In
dade, and I sbant,” said Terence ; “sure
I'm going to raise it 1”
Tue immediate roar of laughter, and
Terence’s quizzical gravity, whilst ten
derly enveloping and fondling the little
creature in his watch-pocket, provoked a
renewed circulation of dimes and lemon
punches throughout the room, and gave
rise to many other funny speeches, which
I would like to record, but the weather
forbids.
Query: Are we not all trying to
<< ra i S o doll babies,” when we attempt to
construct a homogeneous nation out of such
antagonistic materials as Sou hrons and
Puritans ? lam no prophet, and hence
cannot foresee what is to be the form of
the future Government in this country ;
but, as to an unity of sentiment ever ex
iting between the enlightened sons of
the Yankee “Hub” and the despised
slave-ocrats of Southland, I believe it
will come, in the words of Benjamin,
never, never, never !
I had the good will to pretermit politics
altogether in this letter, but, you see,
they are so broadcast, they will “ crop
out,” even from under a ponderous
anecdote.
It’s far from a joke, to read in the pa
pers that the cause of Jefferson Davis’
European voyage is poverty, and an ear
nest effort to earn, in his old age, a live
lihood for himself and family. This
should not be, and I am sure would not
be, if each sympathising heart in Ameri
ca knew some feasible way of sending to
him the relief it is able, and willing, and
anxious to give. Now, I would suggest
that the Banner of the South, being
the acknowledged and accepted organ of the
true patriots of America, should inaugu
rate the founding of an invested fund,
whose proceeds should enure forever to
Jefferson Davis and his descendants.
Let the fund consist of one dollar contri
butions from each individual, North and
South, who feels in his heart that his own
principles and rights are the very ones for
which Mr. Davis risked his life, and sac
rifieed hi s health and fortune ; and, my
word for it, the ligures shall startle even
Wall street.
Let the investment be made —not in
gangrenous National, so-called, Currency,
bonds, nor anything- else of that color or
order—but in English Consols, or some
thing equally solid and. reliable. Give
this ball a start, Mr. Editor, and thus put
posterity in a way to partially repay its
infinite obligations to a man who has
given such an impetus to principles and
sentiments, that will be felt for rnaDy fu
ture ages. Mr. Davis always trusted iu
“h;s people;” let us be equally generous,
and trust in his judgment for a proper
use of any amount of filthy lucre that
may reach him in this manner.
Editor Dennett, of the Planters' Ban
ner—one of the best papers in the coun
try—uses original similes sometimes.—
In refuting the Destructives’ slanders
about the daily and nightly murders
of the good, nice, quiet, “ trooly loil” citi
zens, he says it is all lies, and that “ a
scalywag is just as safe in Franklin, La.,
as a town dog on which the dollar tax has
been paid 1”
The question of arms in the South, is
looming up portentously. The various
soi-disant Legislature* and Governors,
are sending to Washington for weapons
wherewith to slaughter the mystical
Ku-Kluxes, (when they can catch ’em,)
\he Rebels, Democrats, and all other “sich”
vermin. Now, as these poor, denounced
wretches have no claim upon either the
Government, or the General-in-Chief, they
will he obliged to purchase their own arms
for their own defence. When both sides
shall be armed—what then ?
Southern Radical.
CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE,
Death of the Very Rev. J. B. Spald
ing from Accidental Burning. —Our
whole community was surprised and
deeply grieved to learn that the Very
Rev. Henj. J. Spalding, Administrator of
this Catholic Diocese, died at six o’clock
hist evening. The matter of his death
was most heart rending. He retired at
accustomed hour to his sleeping apart
ment in the Bishop’s house, at the Cathe
urah on Monday night. About twelve
iivioek, Father Bouchet, whose room is
jmt underneath Dr. Spalding’s, heard him
out on the gallery, and groaning as if in
great bodily pain. Father B. hastened
JL> stairs, when he found, to his infinite
. r i | ' or a ml astonishment, that Dr. Spald
!! >g s bed was on fire, and that the Doctor
"mi already been dreadfully burned, and
a . (i Ponged himself into a bath tub in the
unjoining room, where he was suffering
ta . e nitensest agony. When Father Bom
chet sufficiently collected himself, he threw
the ‘ Timing bed-clothes out of the room
mm helped Dr. Spalding to another apart’
meiit, placed a sheet around him, and
hiaue lum as comfortable as possible.
1 1 mwe and Force were called in and
u_t( o’, ery exertion in human power to
Ilf IB mWM
relieve the sufferer ; but he continued in
the acutest pain until he expired at six
o’clock last evening
It was Dr. Spalding’s habit to keep
the gas burning in his room all night.
The bracket was a sliding one, moving
upward and downward, and from long use
it had become loosened It is supposed,
from the nearness of the burners to the
Doctor’s couch, that, during the night,
while he was asleep, the bracket 'de
scended and set the mosquito-bar on fire.
Evidently I)r. Spalding was awfully
burned before he reached the bath tub,
as Father Boucbet states that when he
ran up, his night clothes were entirely
burned off, and the whole of one side of
liis person was in a perfect crisp The
physicians, we understand, are of the
opinion that death resulted more from
exposure to the bath than the burning.
This most horrible and untimely death of
so estimable a man, and so distinguished
a Prelate, will shock the Catholic Church
; of the whole country.
Dr. Spalding was in his fifty-seventh
year, lie was born in Marion county, in
this State, and was the fourth son of the
late Lichard Spalding. He received his
primary education at St. Mary’s College,
and was afterwards sent to the Propaganda
at Koine, where he graduated with
marked distinction. In 183 qhe return
ed to Kentucky and was employed for
many years as a Professor in St, Joseph’s
College, at Bardstown, and as Pastor of
the Catholic congregation there. He
came to Louisville in 1843, and has re
sided here ever since, officiating as Pastor
of the Cathedral of the Assumption, under
his world-known brother, the Most Kev.
Martin J. Spaldmg, Archbishop of Balti
more. He had also filled the office of Vicar-
General of the Diocese for many years.
Since the decease of the llight Kev.
Bishop Lavialle, in Aprill, 1867, Dr.
Spalding has acted as Administrator of
the Diocese, in which position he had
more closely endeared himself to the
people of the Church. He was eminent
both for his great piety and devotion to
his faith, and for his geniality and benevo
lence. a few days we hope to be able
to give a more complete and just biogra
phy of the deceased.
■hour brothers and one sister survive
the lamented deceased, Archbishop Spald
ing and three brothers, and a sister living
in Marion county. All of them, except
the Archbishop, will be present at the
funeral. A dispatch from Baltimore
states that the Archbishop is at Sweet
So phur Springs, Virginia, and cannot
be communicated with in time for the
funeral.- —Louisville Journal, blh'mst.
Archdiocese of Cincinnati. —There
were fifty persons confirmed by Arch
bishop Purcell in the new and handsome
church of St. John Baptist, Dry Kidge,
Hamilton county, Ohio, on Sunday, July
12th, at 10 o’clock, a. in.
At 5 p. m. there were seventy persons
confirmed by the same in the church of
St. John Evangelist, in Lewisburg, West
Covington, Ky., the lit. Kev. Bishop
Carroll being still, we regret to say, very
ill . —Catholic Telegraph.
Diocese of St. Paul—Confirma
tions in the Minnesota Valley. —The
Kt, Rev. Bishop lias returned home,
having visited, during his absence, six
teen different churches.
June 24th, Confirmation was adminis
tered at Jordan to 50 persons; on the
25th, at Belle Plaine, to 60; 27th, at
Green Isle, to 33; 28th, at Henderson, to
26; July 2d, at St. Peter, to 44; 4th, at
Marysburgh, to 62; sth, at Mankato, to
82; 7th, at West Newton, to 42 ; 10th,
at Le Sueur, to 44, 11th, St. Mary’s,
Scott county, to 13 : 12th, at Shakopee,
in the morning at St. Mary’s Church, to
32, and in the evening at Saint Mark’s
Church to 43; 14th, at St. Victoria. Car
ver county, to 55; 15th, at Wakonia, to
80; 17th, at Glencoe, to 50 ; 19th, at
Burnsville, to 87. Among those con
firmed in the above places, were several
converts; the exact number, however, we
have obtained only for a few places. At
Wakonia, 12 converts were confirmed;
at Glencoe, 3 : at Burnsville, 3 ; at Sha
kopec, 3 ; at St. Peter, 3. Total number
of persons confirmed, so far, in the Min
nesota A alley, §o%.-[Northwestern Chron.
Political Parsons.— “l have some
thing also to say to the divines, though
brief, as to what were needful, not to be
disturbers of the civil affairs; being' in
hands better able, and more belonging', to
manage them ; but to study hardey, and
to attend the office of good pastors,
knowing that he whose flock is least
among them has a dreadful charge, not
performed by mounting twice into the
pulpit with a formal parchment huddled
up at the odd hours of a whole lazy week,
but by incessant pain and watching, in
season and out of season, over the souls
whom they have to feed. Which, if they
well considered, how little leisure would
they find to be the most pragmatical sides
men of every popular tumult and sedi
tion. —John Milton.
FOREIGN NEWS.
In the House of Commons on Monday
night, Mr. Vance asked the Chief Secre
tary for Ireland, relative to an alleged ir
regularity in the proceedings of a Coro
ner’s inquest lately held in the town of
Monaghan, whether any information
reached him respecting the origin of the
affray, which led to that inquiry, and who
were the aggressors? The Earl of Mayo
replied: “I have to state, in answer to
the hon. member, that a full report of the
transactions at Monaghan have not yet
reached the Government; but it certain
ly appears that some irregularitiy did take
place at the Coroner’s inquest With
regard to the second part of the hon.
gentleman’s question, as to who were the
original aggressors, it would be manifest
ly improper lor me to express any opinion,
inasmuch a» all the circumstances are to
be made the subject of judicial investi
gation.”
On Saturday evening Mr. Gladstone
received a deputation of the working
men of London on the question of the
Irish Church. He assured the deputa
tion he had not the slightest intention of
flinching from the work he had under
taken, but was prepared to carry it
through to a triumphant issue. It would
be a tough job, but he was confident of
success. He was not at all discouraged
by the vote of the House of Lords, and
had no doubt they would be alive to pub
lic opinion as it would be expressed at
the next election. He desired to see
Ireland happy, and her people not driven
by England’s injustice to a foreign
country. The disestablishment of the
Irish Church, accompanied by an im
proved land tenure, would do much to
bring about a better state of things in
that country.
There is a slight improvement in the
health of Cardinal Cullen, but we regret
to learn that he still remains in a very
precarious state of health.
One of the two alleged Fenians last
arrested in Dublin lias bioa discharged,
the evidence not being sufficient to estab
lish a prima facie case against him.
Tile other, Williamson or Cooke, although
remanded for the present, will, in all
probability, be discharged by the police
magistrates.
According to the Lnion, the Holy
lather.will take advantage of the meet
ing of the Council, and the presence of
the Bishops at Rome, to publish an
“Anno hanto,” or Grand Jubilee for the
year 1870.
In the Lower House of the Hungarian
Reichsrath, on Monday, the military com
mittee reported the Army Organization
Bill, and recommcuded its adoption as in
troduced by the Government, with a few
unimportant alterations. The Minister
ot Justice, M. Ilowafc, brought in a bill
for the abolition of the usury laws.
W e learn by a dispatch from Constan
tinople that Prince Napoleon arrived at
Syra on tho loth, but did not land. A
deputation of Cretan refugees waited
upon his Imperial Highness on board
with an address, praying that France
would not abandon or forget their cause.
The Prince made a reserved reply.
A Paris letter reports that in the po
litical world of that city it is strongly
denied that the Government has had any
thing to do with the suppression of the
late revolutionary movement in Spain;
and if the Duke and Duchess of Mont
pensir were requested to leave the coun
try, this measure was not taken in obedi
ence to any dictation or hints emanating
from the Tuilleries.
It is alleged that the celebrated con
versation reported by the Not'd, the au
thenticity of which has been so much
discussed, is, in fact, a reproduction of a
paragraph from a speech from the Throne
in 1856, in which the Emperor thus ex
pressed himself : “If I live, the empire
lives with me; and if I were killed, the
empire would be still further secured by
my death, because the indignation of the
army and the people would prove a
fresh support for the throne of my
» j *
soil.
A correspondent of the Daily News
says that the Cretan insurgents have
gained a victory of some importance
near Heracleon. He adds—“Mr. Hilary
Skinner, author of ‘Roughing it in Crete,’
landed in that island on the 11th inst.,
in the province of Sphakia, after success
fully running the Turkish blockade. He
takes with him all that is necessary for
the establishment of a field hospital,
which will, it is hoped mitigate the suf
ferings of the war to Turks as well as
Christians. The concluding words of an
address which Mr, Skinner published on
landing, show that his mission should be
regarded as an effort to relieve the misery
with which Mr. Skinner had become ac
quainted during a previous visit to the
island. It is in no way a political de
monstration.”
The Spectator justly criticises the tone
adopted by the London journals in com
v c
men ting upon the letter of the Irish
Bishops in answer to Lord Mayo, anent
the University Charter. It says: “The
English press, even the most Liberal
English press, can never be even com
monly just to the Irish Ultramontanes.
Archbishop Leahy and Bishop Derry
have sent, what seems to us. a most effec
tive reply to Lord Mayo’s statement that
they had themselves broken off the
negotiations for a Catholic University—
and show conclusively that if Lord Mayo
had any right to assume this they would
have had at an early stage of the nego
tiation, precisely the same right, ground
ed on the use of the same terms, and on
the interposition of the same delays, to
suppose that Lord Mayo had broken it
off on the part of the Government. For
our parts, Ultramontane Prelates though
they be, we think they have made out
very clearly that Lord Mayo would not
have assumed the negotiations to be
broken oft, had it not been very conveni
ent for the Government at that moment
to do so.”
A SFLIT IN THE CABINET.
London, Wednesday Evening.—There
is a rumor to-day that Sir J. Pakington,
the Minister of War, and Mr. Disraeli
have had a misunderstanding, which, fifty
years, ago might have led to a hostile
meeting in Hyde Park or Chalk Farm.
It appears that last night Sir John was
ready to move in Committee of Supply
the vote for the retired allowance to offi
cers of the army, and that Captain Vi
vian and others objected. Sir John then
asked them to agree to the vote, and take
the discussion in Committee of Supply,
when Mr. Disraeli jumped up, and, waiv
ing his hand to the Secretary of War to
resume his seat, at once agreed to post
pone the vote. It was rumored that Sir
John felt so much annoyed at tho abrupt
manner of the Premier that he proceed
ed at once to take counsel with one or
two friends as to what course he should
pursue to satisfy his ruffled dignity, but
that they advised him not to take notice
of it, as the Premier was justified, as
leader of the House, in arranging the
business in any way lie might please.
Neither Sir John Pakington nor his
chief was in the House of Commons to
day.—Freeman.
FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Limerick. —lntelligence has just reach
ed the Railway officials here, announcing
that an accident of a dreadful character,
and attended with the loss, it is said, of
four lives, occurred to the 11.30, A. M.,
mail train from this city, by the bursting
of the boiler of the engine, within two
miles of Groom. Egan, the driver, Fa
gan, the permanent overlooker of the
line, and Byam, the fireman, are report
ed as killed, and that M. Moroney, the
guard, bad his two legs cut off. Mr.
Dennas, with two medical men, have left
by pilot engine for the scene of the
accident.
A Slander Refuted. —The whole anti
clerical press of Paris circulated, last
week, a report that the brave Colonel of
the Pontifical Zouaves, the Baron de
Charrette, had requested Gen. Kauzlerto
give an account of the Peter’s Pence he
had received from France ; that, on the
General’s refusal te do so, M. de Char
rette had applied to the Holy Father
himself, and that, lor this act of insubor
dination, Gen. Kanzler had placed him
under arrest, and that at the expiration of
his time, M. de Charrette left Rome at
once for Paris, having given up his com
mission, and accompanied by several other
officers who had equally resigned their
posts in disgust.
The whole story turns out to have been
the invention of some newspaper corres
pondent. The following letter from M.
de Charrette, lias appeared in several
papers :
“ Sir : On arriving from the country
yesterday, I learned that, lbr some time
past, different journals have been insert
ing articles announcing that I have re
signed the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the
Pontifical Zouaves. 1 deny, in the most
formal manner, all these reports, for
which there are no grounds—all these
imaginary conflicts with my superiors
which correspondents take a pleasure in
inventing. 1 have been on a regular fur
lough since the sth of May, and shall be
in Rome on the 17th of July, to resume
my services under the Government of the
Holy Father, to serve whom is for me a
very great honor.
“ Baron de Charette,
Lieut. Colonel Pontifical Zouaves.”
Fifty Canadian volunteers arrived at
Paris last Thursday, and left the next
day for Marsejjles, on their way to Rome.
They had with them a negro lately con
verted to the Catholic faith, and for that
reason disinherited by his family. He
goes to Rome to study theology and pre
pare for the Priesthood. The volunteers
subscribed his traveling expenses.
[ Weekly Register.
An Irish journal notices an increase in
the number of deaths among cattle from
pleuro-pneumoniai. and a suddenly fatal
disease called apopletic congestion, and
also an increase in the mortality amongst
sheep.
Vulgar Flunkeyism.— A very just
complaint has been made by a contempo
rary of the manner in lv hich the Prince
of Wales was mobbed at Wimbledon,
on Saturday afternoon. Wherever
he went lie was followed by a crowd of
zanies, who set every precept of common
politeness at defiance in their anxiety to
oatch a glimpse of bis Royal Highness"
factor, failing that, of his hat, his boots,
or his cigar. The police had some diffi
culty m preventing them from trampling
the unfortunate subject of their curiosity
under foot in an ugly rush ; they could
not be prevented from passing the most
idiotic comments on his eyes, his hair, his
mouth, his coat, his hat, his boots—from
aying audibly, “ He’s smiling now,” or
“He’s saying something to Lord Spencer,”
or, “ It’s a cigarette he’s smoking, but
with a cigar mouth-piece. Why does lie
smoke cigarettes ?” This is sheer vul
girity, and there can be no excuse for it.
it does not spring from loyalty, for loyal
ty would shrink from causing so much
personal inconvenience to members of
the Queen s family, as this sort of hero
worship necessarily entails. It must, in
deed, have an origin altogether different;
those people who push, and squeeze, and
trample on one another to get a-sight of
the Prince of Wales, would make precise
ly the same efforts to obtain a good view
ot a rope-dancer.— Morning Star.
Converted. Talk about ttfruing
swords into sickles; but what is that to
the Marquis of Salisbury, known once as
“Fighting Bob,” turned peacemaker?
The only parallel we can think of is Mars
as a nursery governess!— Tomahawk .
The Case of D. D. Mulcahy.— The
full details of the moneys received and
expended in the case of Dennis Dow
ling Mulcahy, we shall publish, im
mediately on receipt of the bill of costs
from Mr. Lawless. The whole amount
subscribed, about £BOO, has been ex
pended, and this without fee being set
apart for the generous and able advo
cate, Mr. Butt. Mr. Coleridge, the Eng
lish counsel, received, we believe, 100
guineas; the official or Government costs
were heavy. It was a desperate attempt
to think of rescuing these men by power
of law—but the chance was worth it.
There was the plain precedent in O’Con
nell’s case, where that was at once
granted, which now has been refused.
Times are altered. But the hearts of
the Irish people arc not altered. They
have shown they could sacrifice their
lives for a chance to rescue their friends;
much more would they sacrifice their
money. It was a grave venture—a great
trial of tho British Constitution—and, in
its failure, it has taught, perhaps, the
most important lesson of our time to the
Irish Nation.— lrishman.
Illness of his Eminence the Car
dinal Archbishop.— ln all the parochial
and regular churches, as well as in the
convents and monasteries, in the Diocese,
prayers were yesterday offered for the
recovery of the Cardinal Archbishop.
Nothing could exceed the painful anxiety
that was evidenced by all classes for the
restoratien to health of the illustrious Pre
late. The following circular was ad
dressed on Saturday evening to the
clergy :
“Very Rev. Sir :—As the condition
of the Cardinal Archbishop continues
very precarious, it is necessary that the
faithful should be still exhorted to pour
forth their most fervent prayers to God
for the recovery of his Eminence. With
this object, we request that, in addition
to soliciting the prayers of the congrega
tions at all the Masses, you will have the
goodness to expose the Most Holy Sacra
ment, in the usual form, from the conclu
sion of last Mass till three o’clock, p. m.,
to-morrow. At that hour, after reciting
with the congregation a third part of the
Kosary and the Litany of the Blessed
Virgin, at the close of which the Collect
pro Infiormo is to be said, and Benedic
tion is to be given with the Most Holy
Sacrament.
“55, Eecles-street, 18th July, 1868.
“Wm. Meagher, j
“E. M’Cabe, | Vicars-General.
“L. Forde, )
“P. S.—The Rev. Chaplains of Con
vents and religious communities will
have the goodness to celebrate these de
votions in the chapels and oratories in
which they officiate.”
The following bulletin was issued last
night by the physician in attendance on
bis Eminence :
“Sunday, half-past ten o’clock, p. m.
“The improvement in his Eminence’s
condition announced this morning, still
continues.
“Thomas Hayden,
“F. R. Cruice.”
— Freeman, of Monday.
Wednesday. —Cardinal Cullen is con
sidered out of danger.
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