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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. 7