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IL A Dead Letter— MacvnUlian’s Magazine.
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MOBILE CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
Annual Commencement of Spring Hill
College—Dedication of a New Catholic
Church —The Pew System—lts Evils
A Good Suggestion—No Excuse —
The Heal .
Mobile, Ala., Aug. 15, 1868.
The Annual Commencement at Spring
Hill College took place yesterday. The
attendance of the friends of the students,
as well as of those desirous of witnessing
aud enjoying the entertainment generally
afforded on these occasions, was very
large. The speeches, debates, and reci
tations, were really very good, the the
atrical performances not bad, and the
music exquisite.
The Right Rev. Dr. Quinlan, Bishop of
this Diocese, together with the Rev. L.
(Turioz, the President of the College,
distributed the prcrqimns, as the names
were read out, by the Rev. F. Lcspes, the
Vice-President. The whole passed off
well; the weather was fine; the students
who took part in the exercises appQared
to great advantage; the boys were all in
fine spirits; aud the audience appeared
particularly well pleased.
The students, who, for the past scho
lastic year, studied and played together,
are now en route for their several homes
in the Southern States and Mexico. The
number of students from the latter coun
try lias been reduced by its present dis
turbed condition, to twelve, nine of whom
are from Yucatan. I notice two students
from your State, John Lynch from At
lanta,"and Henry Aderhold, from Macon,
while Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Texas, claim the remain
der, with the exception of one from South
Carolina, and one from Kentucky. The
unhappy condition of the South, since the
war, has had an injurious effect on the
Mils® m sis sossa.
interests of the College, as well as all
other interests, as the losses which our
people have suffered have rendered many
of them unable to secure the advantages
of a collegiate education to their children.
The present appearance of things, how
ever, seems to hold forth a promise of
better times, and, if wc can only secure
the blessings of permanent peace, with a
fair and just system of taxation, I have
no doubt that our Southern people will
realize a more general and enlarged pros
perity, agricultural, industrial, and com
mercial, than they have ever yet enjoyed.
On Sunday last, anew Catholic Church
was dedicated to the glory of God, in the
name of St. Francis Xavier, in the outer
suburbs of our city, beyond Three Mile
Creek. This makes the eighth Catholic
Church, in and around Mobile. Yet, two
more churches, at least, are needed
within the limits of the city. There ap
pears to he a growing impression among
our people that the pew system is oper
ating injuriously against the Catholic
Church in this country, so far at least as
it tends, in our cities, intirely to exclude
no small portion of our pooror classes
from the Church. Along our wharves,
every Sunday, may be found numbers of
Irish stevedores and boat hands, and
Italian, Spanish, and Portugese oyster
men, who never enter a Church on Sunday,
nor, of course, any other day. Why ?
Because if they did, they would have to
stand away down at the door, in a crowd,
where there is not even room enough to
kneel, aud where they can see little and
hear nothing. Under such a state of
things, how easy and certain, for the ig
norant aud indifferent, is the lapse into
the utter abandonment of all Religion.
I know well that the great difficulty lies
in the impossibility of dispensing with
the pew system in a country where the
Church can hope for no endowments,
and has little or no property of her own
But could not something be done to les
sen the evil ? Could not an arrangement
be made in all the cities, where the
Church accommodations are known to be
inadequate at the usual Masses, as now
said, that a Mass should be said in the
largest Church in tho place, and in others
also, if necessary, at a fixed hour, at
which the pews should be free to all who
chose to come ? Many would be induced
to attend, while those who did not would
be deprived of the excuse which they are
now so ready to offer for their utter ne
glect of their Sunday duty. When the
disciples of John the Baptist came to
our Saviour, and said : “Art thou he that
art to come ; or look we for another ?”
his answer was: “The blind see, the
lame walk, the lepers are made clean, the
deaf hear, the dead arise, to the poor the
Gospel is preached.” The first were the
evidences of His power; the last was his
mission.
While thermometers at the North have
been running wild, our city has been ex
empt from that intemperate heat that
their papers have complained of so much.
For about one week our thermometer
reached 92 and 93, but we had no cases
af sunstroke, nor hydroyhobia. Even
when our weather is warmest, our prox
imity to the Gulf keeps the air always in
motion. ClOvse, sultry nights are almost
unknown in Mobile. In this we have
the advantage of all the interior towns.
J. T. W.
NEW ORLEANS (LA.) CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH.
The Heat and its Consequences—lts
Effects on the Youth — Gov. War
moth's Slanders on Louisiana—Demo
crats Murdered by Hagai Leaguers !
The Destructives—Hopes of Jiet/i
--butive Justice — Schools—Where is
“ Moina—A Beautiful Poem from
the Late Capt. Edw. F. Morehead.
New Orleans, Aug. 29, 1808.
Bum ter of the South:
The steaming temperature, atmos
pheric and political, is producing its
natural results —street broils, assaults,
bloodshed, and death, f
On arising, unrefreshed, after a rest
less attempt to sleep, during one of our
sweltering nights, the late observant,
philosophic, and prophetic, R. Dalton
Williams, used often to remark : “This
has been a night for unusual hot blood
and murders;” and it rarely failed that
the police reports of the morning verified
his predictions. His deduction followed
a very natural train of reasoning, as
thus : The universal heat produces on
the crowd of street idlers an extraordinary
thirst; this induces a free guzzling of
bad whiskey; then follows a looseness of
tongue, excited discussions, hot blood,
blows, lights, murders !
The rule, sad to say, is almost invaria
ble ; and, this season, an aggravating cir
cumstance exists in the intensified feeling
of patriotism that animates the whole
people, especially our more excitable
youth. For the sake of this very youth—
the future hope of the land—it is devoutly
to be wished, that, after the grand pro
cession and illumination of to-night, all
further demonstrations will £e postponed
till the advent of settled cool weather.
Then the air will be healthful, bracing,
exhilerating, and tending to cheerfulness,
instead of, as now, baneful, debilitating,
depressing, and demanding unhealthy
stimulants.
Our ever vigilant country papers are
actively defending their respective town
ships and parishes against the vile calum
nies of the quasi Governor Warmoth,
who charged their “rebel” citizens with
the murder of 150 “troolyloil” Unionists.
From one parish comes a certified list ot
eight real assassinations recently com
mitted ; but it happens, instead of being
Unionists, murdered by the Ku Kluxes,
as charged by his Excellency (!), that the
entire eight were Democrats , murdered
by Loyal Leaguers! thus making a
balance of sixteen against his Highness’
count! His Serenity must apply once
more to his respected Father of all
L—oyalists for further instructions.
Similar records to the above could, doubt
less, be furnished by every Parish in the
State.
In this City, the Destructives have be
gun, in their own expressive slang, to
“wipeout the d—d, white-livered,Demo
cratic Niggers,” having assassinated seve
ral of them within the past ten days.
After this, can there be any doubt as to
which is the Party of Destruction ? And
yet our long-suffering people “possess
their souls in patience,” hoping, almost
against hope, that the day of deliverance
from all this diabolism must be near at
hand. Almost the whole population are
impressed with an idea that Retributive
Justice will yet reach these villains by
their own hands, i.e., by a bloody revolu
tion and fratricidal slaughter in Yankec
dom itself; and that the already sorely
afflicted South will be spared any partici
pation in the coming dread drama, further
than as spectators of that “vengeance”
which is said to be of the Lord.
As the Scholastic New Year approaches,
all our Private Schools arc furbishing
up, and getting in line for a, busy season.
There is no doubt that thousands of Pub
lic School pupils will be sent to Private
Schools hereafter, feeling their unfitness
to associate with the color and de scent
that is destined to pervade the Public
Schools under black and tan rule. Our
Catholic Schools are particularly active;
aud, as their reputation for imparting a
sound moral education, in addition to the
mental, already surpasses that of all other
systems, they will continue to be, as here
tofore, the most largely patronized. One
serious temporary impediment to imme
diate success consists in the wide-spread
poverty of the people, which will, doubt
less, oblige many families to keep their
children at home. Under Providence,
however, this phase will pass away. It
cannot be in God’s design that so many
of our youths should grow up in igno
rance of His Sciences ; and I have an
abiding confidence that, in His own good
time, and by His mysterious ways, in
comprehensible to us, the most ample
means will yet be revealed for securing
to our young people a thorough Catholic
education.
Now for a deep complaint from the
scores of readers of the Banner, who
have been sadly disappointed the past few
weeks at the non-appearance of those
stirring lyrics which were promised from
the inspired pen of Moina. Os course,
they are written; but your readers
want to know what’s the reason your
compositor docs not “set ’em up.” Any
thing from that pen is acceptable; but
if I can judge of the public taste, I should
say that the patriotic, is the popular vein
of to-day; something, for instance, ring
ing like the following lines, which were
written a few months before his death, by
the late youthful soldier poet of this city,
Edward F. Morehead, many of whose
posthumous poems have lately appeared in
the Sunday Times . With such a poetic
treat before them, your readers will gladly
give conge to your
Southern Radical.
Repentance i
BY THB LATE E. F. MORE HEAD, CAPTAIN C. 6. A.
Repent! who talks of repenting
His share in the glorious fray,
Where the horde all the world was augmenting,
By numbers, alone, won the day ?
Are we cravens, because at last humbled,
Or dead to the impulse of pride ?
Must feelings, whose bright hopes are humbled,
In baseness and shame be' denied ?
Go, ask of your soldiers, who met us
With bravery like to our own,
If soldierly honor can let us
Repent of those hopes which are flown !
Yon fanatic—scarred with the branding
Dishonor in other days gave—
With venom, may well be demanding
Our manhood be put in the grave;
For the coward grows harsher and braver
When dancer has down from the sky,
And the heart which a shadow would waver,
Is bold to send captives to die!
But surely, the land is not wasted
Os all that is kindly and good,
Nor all mugnamity blasted,
In four years of tempest and blood!
Oh! men from the conquering clime,
Whose hearts, like your words, are sincere,
Will ye sleep o’er the worse than a crime,
The dishonor they’d make your land boar ?
See you not, every blow that is given
To us, will, in time, reach to you ?
Every nail in our coffin’d rights driven,
Hath a mate ahead also for you!
For us—come the sunshine or shadow—
Iu the silence of brave men, we wait !
The sting of the poisonous adder
Is harmless to waken our hate!
Neva Orleans, Dec. 24, 1865.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH
The New Organ for the Catholic Church
in Augusta A Brief Description of
it—A Singular Literary Forgery —
Webster's Dictionary “ Reconstructed ”
—Some Examples—'The White Sul
phur Sprungs Conference —Northern
Toadyism—Southern Social Supre
macy—Tribute to Southern Character
“Let Us Alone.”
New York, Aug. 28, 1868.
Banner of the South:
It was my pleasure to-day to both sec
and hear the grand organ built here Li
the use of the Cathedral in Augusta. The
Instrument is worthy, in appearauce and
tone, of the largest church edifice in
Georgia, and, though so far unacquainted
with musical technicalities as to be una
ble to give any minute account of it I
may at least venture a general descrip
tion. The Organ, then, is to be twenty
eight feet high, and elaborately adorned
in front with gilding and colors. Even
the show tubes, which are generally
plain gilt, are to be variegated with
striking hues, and, what with this novelty
and the towering height of the cornices,
which are carved out of solid wood iu
the similitude of turrets, the genera! ap
pearance will be eminently striking. The
interior portion which was kindly shown
me by the maker, appears to be adapted
to long service and great volume of tone,
of which latter attribute I had, indeed,
full evidence before leaving. Seating
himself, the maker, Mr. Jardine—the
same, by the way', who put up the Organ
in St. Paul’s—played several airs well
calculated to display the depth and variety
of tones possessed by his handiwork.
The bass notes have such a volume that,
as they poured forth, iu a thunderous tor
rent, the very air of the workshop seemed
to tremble, and then, coming to the softer
keys, oue could distinguish souuds as
soft and mellow as a flute. Capacity for
brilliant execution was, as Mr. J. ob
served, one of his main aims, aud from
the liveliness he was able to impart to the
music played by him I caunot but think
he has admirably succeeded. After being
on exhibition a few days longer, the
grand organ is to be carefully packed
and shipped to its destination. About
October it will, doubtless, be in readiness
to contribute its share in the services of
the Cathedral.
As music and literature have a well
defined connection, this is, perhaps, as
good a place as any to speak of a singular
literary forgery lately brought to light here.
In preparing his Dictionary, Noah Web
ster gave to certain words, among which
may be mentioned Loyal, Constitution,
Congress, and Compact , definitions which
suited the getters-up of later editions of
his work so little, that they have, without
the least notice, stricken out their origi
nal definitions, and put in some of their
own. Thus, in defining Cons* tv:ion,
Webster said : “In the United States
the Legislature is created and its power.-
designated by the Constitution.’ In the
later editions, this is changed to, “The
principles or fundamental laws which
govern a State, or other organized body
of men, and are embodied iu written
documents, or implied i?i the instduvons
and usages of the country and socir.jf
The idea of an implied Constitution is
absurdity itself, but theu that sort of 3
Constitution is so elastic that no wonder
it suits the disciples of the Higher Law.
In the same way, Congress, in these
later editions, is perverted from its origi
nal definition; and from Webster s defini
tion of compact tiiis sentence is entirely
left out: “ The Constitution of th United
States is a political contract between the
States.”
Loyal, also, is by these meddlers made
to mean the duty of a citizen to the
United States, which is absurd, since
the theory of our Government is that the
people are sovereign, and none but a sub
ject can be “loil.”
From these specimens, it is likely twit
there are other frauds of this nature, and
the reader is, therefore, advised, ii ho
wants Webster’s Dictionary, as Webster
wrote it, not to purchase any edition ot a
later date than 1867. The uew illustrat
ed editions are particularly' obnoxious,
and to have one oi these reconstructed