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to tell them from whence so much “pre
sumption” hails.
Maysville, Ky., is a little city of be
tween four and five thousand souls, situ
ated upon the Ohio river, about sixty
m iles above Cincinnati; and, probably,
presents, to those passing up or down the
r iver, a more citified frontispiece than
: ny other place between Pittsburgh and
\>w Orleans, that does not nimitfer more
than twice its number of inhabitants. In
the early editions of Mitchell’s Geogra
phy, it occupied the very important posi
tion of the “greatest hemp market in
the United States.” At that, time it was
the outlet for the many products of that
vast region of Kentucky, so favorably
,mown as the “blue grass region.” But,
owing to the fact that, as yet, we have
been unable to get a railroad connection
with the interior, Maysviile has been
performing a retrograde movement in the
way of shipping. Her old-fashioned,
anti-present, road wagons, being unable
t> compete with the more modern means
< f travel that have been afforded the citi
zens df the interior, by the enterprise of
our huge Clival incinnati. There is a
congregation of Catholics in this place,
numbering between six and seven hun
dred ; and to any one that has known of
the vast amount of prejudice that once
existed in this, otherwise really well-in
untioued, community, against the Church
Militant, and of the opposition that
greeted the project of building our
present respectable tabernacle of worship,
the success that has crowned the labors of
truth and enlightenment has been as
rapid and astonishing, as it was gratify
ing. Within the last few years there has
appeared within our midst a co-laborer in
the Vineyard of our Lord, whose success
in uprooting the prejudices of many,
whose minds, darkened by the terms of
abuse and villitication that are always
heaped upon the Catholic Beligion, by
those whose interest it is to retard its
progress, and could see aught but evil
in the Church, can only be equalled by
the prospect of its future good; I allude
to the “Academy of the Visitation,” an
institution that is conducted by the Sisters
of the Order of the Visitation. They
have established a school whieh promises
to become one of the leading places of
learning in the West. They have erect
ed one wing of a building that, when
completed, will excel, for architectural
beauty, and for being substantial and
roomy, any other building in North-east
ern Kentucky.
We have been luxuriating in the finest
piece of rainy weather that has visited
this part of the world for some years.
The prospect for a good crop of corn and
tobacco, that our farmers had to compen
sate them, about harvest time, for the
total failure of wheat has been seriously
affected by the great volume of water
that has fallen since the middle of August.
Tobacco, one of the chief staples of our
country, has been already badly injured
by the spot, caused by the rain and cloudy
weather, and is now in great danger of
being bitten by the frost, that is sure to
come as soon as it gets clear. Corn is al
ready beginning to rot, and is in a con
dition to be injured by heavy frosts.
In looking over the Banner, of last
week, I find much of interest to the gen
eral reader. The New York Corres
pondence, especially, presents features of
vital interest to the readers of the Ban
ner. The writer’s pen, it is very evi
dent, is guided by an intricate knowledge
of one of the great issues presented by
the two contending political parties that
now so fearfully agitate the whole coun
try with their contentions fior supremacy.
I think he is wrong in some of his
conclusions, as regards the position occu
pied by the Democratic party upon the
'‘Bond question.” I cannot, with my
hunted means of arriving at the intrica
ou sos the issue, see that, in any sense of
do word, payment in greenbacks means
• repudiation. And as I fully believe that
* forced construction alone that can
::j ‘ 'tantiate his deductions aud state-
UKnts, I shall, in my next, furnish my
Vi( ws of the “Bond question,” believing
bun the public will be benefited by a
'jj rect knowledge concerning an issue,
wn ch, next to the one proposing to over
hiiow the vile reconstruction measures
;,t ne “Bump,” is of the greatest import
aß<-e to the Southern people. I had al
!'/ st to say, in this communica
tlun * which has been conceived and writ
te,\on the spur of the moment, that I will
endeavor, to the best of my abilities to
en irge the Banner's opportunities "’for
good works of keeping alive, fresh
j ‘d green, in the living Southern heart
:!l ' memories of the glories of the Sou tin
01 dead ; and, the still nobler one, the
paving the way of redemption for erring
humanity. °
Y ith much respect, I am,
Yours truly,
Ignatius
from tue Cincimiati Enquirer.
OBITUARY OF THE RIGHT REV. G. A,
CARRELL, BISHOP OF COVINGTON.
The Right Reverend George Aloysius
Carrell, was born in the mansion of the
Proprietary of Pennsylvania, William
Penn, at the corner of Market street and
Letitia Court, in the city of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on the 13th of June, 1803.
His grandfather, Timothy Carrell, a na
tive of Ireland, was a citizen of Pennsyl
vania, and established, some years pre
vious to the Revolutionary War, as a
grocer, on the principal mart of Water
street, Philadelphia. His father, John
Carrell, was born in that city. His
mother, Mary Julia Moore, was from
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. George was
next to the youngest of eight children—
four boys and four girls. He was sent
fora classic education to the College of
Georgetown, in 1816, from which place
ho entered the Novitiate of the Society of
Jesus at White Marsh, Maryland, in
there, for about two years, he
devoted his whole care to the study and
practice of that elevated spirituality which
was forever atter to nerve and enlighten
him in the sacred avocation he there re
solved to embrace as a Priest of God,
taken from men, and established in the
things that belong to God.” (St. Paul to
Hob.)
After leaving the Noviceship at White
Marsh, and spending a short time with his
family, he entered the Theological Semi
nary of St. Mary’s, Baltimore, where he
was a classmate of the Most Rev. Arch
bishop Eccleston and Dr. Charles J.
White. He finally returned to his origi
nal Alma Mater, Mount St. Mary’s, Em
mettsburg, where he finished his theologi
cal course under the guidance of the
sainted Bishop Brute. In 1829, he was
ordained Priest in the Church of St. Au
gustine, Philadelphia, by the Bight Rev.
Bishop Con well. He remSined for some
time at St. Augustine’s Church, as assis
tant Pastor and attendant on the Fur
nace Mission of New Jersey. He was then
appointed Pastor of Holy Trinity Church
of Philadelphia. He then became Pas
tor of Wilmington, Delaware, attending
also W estchester, Pennsylvania, and
Newcastle, Delaware. In Wilmington,
be founded two admirable Schools—one a
Day and Boarding School for young
ladies, in charge of the Sisters of Chari
ty which is now a larg’e and flourishing
institution ; other, a Boys’ Academy,
under secular teachers, now a prosperous
and popular College, through the labors
of his faithful and honored successor, the
Bev. P. Beilly. In 1835, Father Carrell,
attracted by his love for the holy exer
cises and orderly life of a religious com
munity, was drawn from his cherished
ond successful labors at Wilmington,
which he left with the blessing and regret
of his revered Bishop, F. P. Kenrick, and
followed by the benedictions of the entire
population, most of whom were of the
Society of Friends.
Remaining for some weeks at St. Au
gustine’s, Philadelphia, and at St. Paul’s,
Pittsburg, to aid the overburdened Pas
tors of those large Churches, he pro
ceeded to Florissant, Mo., and there, in
the Novitiate of Jesus, renewed the sanc
tifying exercises of that holy spot, and
entered the Society of St. Ignatius about
two years afterward. He then became a
Professor in the University of St. Louis,
and, successively, Pastor of the College
Church of St. Xavier, 1837 ; Bector of
the University, 1845-’4S; President of
Purcell Mansion College for Young Boys,
near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849 ; Pastor of
St. Xavier Church, Cincinnati, 1849—’50;
Pastor of Chilicothe, Ohio, 1851; Pastor
and Bector of St. Xavier Church and
College; 1851—’53, and was consecrated
Bishop of Covington, Ky., November 1,
1853.
This worthy and amiable Prelate, was
in his early childhood, equally remarka
ble for grace and beauty of person, as
for refinement and innocence of manners,
and those natural gifts, far from being de
faced or lost in his early manhood, were
rendered still more interesting and strik
ing by that spirituality of countenance
and purity of manner, which attracted
observation and admiration from all who
met him, even as a stranger, throughout
his entire life.
Asa gentleman, he was easy, dignified,
refined, and graceful; as a Priest and
Bishop, he was ever grave and religious
in his bearing, yet cheerful and attractive.
Laborious and untiring in the work of
his Ministry, constant in his attention to
the sick and poor, he had an especial zeal
for the instruction of the children and
youth of his various charges, who inva
riably became bright evidences of the
tender care and pious cultivation of their
Pastor. lhe words of the Saviour,
“ Suffer little children to come unto me/’
seemed to be in the spirit and motto of
the labors of his life.
The numbers of schools he founded or
perfected will long afford living testimo
nials of his zeal, and the large numbers
of pious and intelligent men and women
MHIIB m BUB Mgr
in various parts of our land, who re
ceived their early lesson from him, will
long remain eloquent witnesses of the
rare virtues of him who was the spirit
ual father of and angel guardian of
their youth. How often have we not
seen gentlemen from Mexico and Cana
da—from the East and the West
travel hundreds of miles out of their
way to enjoy an hour of the amiable so
ciety of this devoted and impressive
teacher of their childhood. Yes, within
a few years we have seen the grave
Senator, the Lditor, Doctor, Lawyer,
Merchant, as well as learned Priests,'
and cultivated ladies, kneel in tears of
grateful tenderness at the feet of their
early teacher, to thank him for his pa
ternal goodness, and to ask, once more,
his advice and blessing. More precious
testimonials are such scenes of the worth
of a good man’s labor than the most
elaborate piles of adamant or marble.
Bishop Carrell’s “ virtues were from
within,” as those of the King’s daughter
in the Canticle. The outward observer
found in him a model gentleman, a Priest
and Bishop. Asa distinguished' Pro
testant civilian of Kentucky once said,
“ I regard Bishop Carrell as my beau
ideal of a Christian Bishop.” But his
pupils and parishioners, who knew his
interior spirit, found in him, indeed, the
true Pastor. The poor, the sick, the
afflicted, found in him a father and a
comforter. Such was the simplicity of
his habits, restraint of useless expense,
and true self-denial, and love of poverty
in practice, and such his consideration
for the limited resources of his Cathedral,
and the general want of the young con
gregation of his Diocese, that we can at
test, that, during the fifteen years of his
Episcopate in Covington, he received no
salary from his Cathedral, and no regular
income or cathedraticum from any part
of his Diocese, but contented himself
with the few voluntary offerings made to
him fiom time to time, during his journey
ings among his people, and these were
often returned to them, limiting such in
come in various years, to sums of $l5O
to $450 at most. Yet, even from this
pittance, his habits of moderation saved
a portion for the poor. St. Paul said of
the Apostles, Nihil habentes sed multi
locupletantes —“ having nothing, yet en
riching manyand this Apostolic trait
was ever a prominent one in the life of
Bev. Bishop Carrell.
The character of the Bight Beverend
Bishop, based on his fine moral sense,
and the firm convictions of his Faith
was fixed and sincere, ever evincing a
refined sense of honor, a love of truth°an
exact fidelity to his word, and tlie punc
tual fulfilment of all obligations of duty.
He was exceedingly sensitive, yet
guarded and restrained in the expression
of his repugnances; ardent and steady in
his friendship, he yet indulged but rare
ly in the manifestations of personal re
gard, wishing rather to make himself,
all to all, that he might gain all to Christ.
The diffidence and modesty of his dispo
sition, kept him aloof from public places,
and restrained to very narrow limits his
mixing in society, even with his own
people, and this proneness to ascetic re
tirement caused some to misapprehend
his character, and regard him as rather
aristocratic than what he really was —
diffident, retiring, and humble.
As an instructor of the people, he was
ever clear and emphatic in voice and
manner, and instructive, interesting, and
impressive in the manner of 4 his dis
courses.
In the more solemn functions of the
Episcopate office, his manner was at
once graceful, grand, and truly religious.
He was a devoted patriot, in the truest
sense, but not a politician, and, although
always a Democrat in principle, it is
doubtful if he ever voted. While he was
too careful to preserve unsullied his sa
cred calling, ever to use it to force upon
his people his convictions regarding the
mere civil questsons bearing on the inte
rest of this earth only. During the daily
recitals of the sad carnage of our late fra
tricidal strife, he habitually interrupted
bis friends in the reading or recital of
those fearful and lamentable events, re
questing them to spare his heart the
affliction which they gave.
At length, his sensitive nature broke
under the burden of his Episcopal cares,
and, for the last year, he has been often in
danger of death, by a complication of
diseases, brought on by the trials inci
dent to his sacred office. His sufferings
were intense, but were borne without a
murmur, and even with patience and
cheerfulness.
His end was the natural sequence of
such a life. Having lived for God and
his neighbor, a life of privation, of labor,
and trial, and so did he die—honoring
his Maker by bis shining virtues, and
profiting his people by the perfect exhi
bition to his last breath, of the practice,
in word and work, of those Christian
principles he had ever so impressively in
culcated. May he rest in peace. Amen.
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““"the' thdt ht * keepß a Bpeoial Establishment for
Repair ol Fine Watches & Jewelry.
All work eu trusted to his care will be executed
promptly, neatly, and WARRANTED FOR ONE
i ih AJti.
At his Store will be found one of the largest stocks of
Gold and Silver Watches,
.. the best European and American manufacture in
the Southern States, with a select assortment of Rich
anjl New Styles of
Etruscan Gold Jewelry.
feet with Diamonds, Pearls, Bubies,
Oriental Garnets, Coral, Ac.
—ALSO—
SOLID SILVER WARE,
CONSISTING OF
FULL TEA SETTS, WAITERS, ICE AND
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SPOONS,
And everything in the Silver Ware line.
a “ d Double-Barrelled GUNS ; Coifs,
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135 Brood Street, Augusta, Ga.
Old Pictnree and Looking-Glass Framee Regilt. Oil
Paintings Restored, Lined and Varnished,
my 30—ly
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THE OLD AND RELIABLE HOUSE OF
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AUGUSTA, Cr-A..,
Is always prepared to offer to the public, at wholesale
and retail, a thoroughly complete assortment of
STAPLE GOODS,
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British French and Swiss Dress Goods,
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, CLOAKS, SHAWLS,
EMBROIDERIES, LACES,
HOSIERY, HOOP SKIRTS, NOTIONS, &c„
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SPECIAL NOTICE.
STEEL AMALGAM BELLS.
Every School and Plantation should have one. Will
scdl those now on hand cheap. Those desiring to
purchase will do well to call soon.
Price, complete, from $7 to 510.
P. MALONE,
Augusta Foundry and Machine Works.
May.l9th, lS6s. my3o—tf
O'Dowd 6l Knlherin,
GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GA,,
HA \ E 0)i HaN ~D a full stock of
•SUGAR,
COFFEE,
TEAS,
• SOAP,
STARCH,
CANDLES,
. tobacco,
liquors,
BACON, SKGARS '
LARD,
FLOUR,
AND EVERY THING
Usually kept in a Wholesale and Retail Grocery.
n , ho P ICE S AS AS THE LOWEST.
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Kenny <&. Gray,
333 Broad Street,
deallrs is
RFA D Y-MA DE CLOI HI NO,
CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS,
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS OF ALL MINDS,
And everything usually kept In a
First-Class Clothing and Tailoring Establishment.
fcjF" An examination of their splendid stock is cor
dially invited.
Augusta, March 21,1866. ts
Augusta Foundry
and
machine works.
WEIGHT & ALLUM'S
IMPROVED COTTON SCREWS,
GIN GEAR, SUGAR BOILERS, SUGAR MILLS,
ALARM BELLS,
AND ALL KINDS OF CASTINGS,
DONE AT SHORT NOTICE .
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR OLD MACHINERY
IRON, BRAS3 AND COPPER.
PHILIP MALONE.
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NEW SPRING- DRY GOODS.
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Beg to inform the public that they are now receiving
THE LARGEST SPRING STOCK OF
SY'KPJLje FANCY JOKY GOODS
Which have bee n received at this Establishment
for the past twenty years.
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United States, from the Manufacturers’ Agents direct,
and in large quantities from the recent celebrated
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Having full access to the very beet Houses in the
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Merchants visiting the city, will please make a note
of this fact, examine our assortment, and judge for
themselves. We would respectfully invite the closest
examination of both style* and price.
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a P n 228 Broad Street.
Wanted—Agents.
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Et eryw here, male and female, to introduce throughout
the Southern States, the Genuine and Improved Com
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Mill sutch, hrtn, full, tuck, quilt, bind, braid, and em
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fully warranted, for five years. We will pay SI,OOO,
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tiful, and more elastic seam than ours. It makes the
Elastic Lock-stitch. Every second stitch can be cut,
and still the cloth cannot be pulled apart without
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and expenses, or a commission from which twice that
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