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f } t Hi' the Sanctuary by the Pharisees.
Tb.Te is efficient manhood yet to tell
''custodians of other men’s morals,
i Tthov can take care of their own, and
f rciect from these self-satisfied, godly
° * J the contena otible intermeddling to
!’,’h they are so prone. So, the mighty
T utii will yet prevail, and this humbug
w |]| |, e whipped, like many of its suc-
A.
cessow.
iptTERS from our own corres-
Lt " PONOENT.
number four.
a. &. G. £ £, Nov. 4, 186S.
Pear Banner:
lam only forty miles, or so, troru ha
ve rial), but you would be astonished to
see what a wild place it is.
There is an old saying that “a Mill and
, w;f e arc always in want of something.”
'J'he saving was proven true, in both
cases, on this place, yesterday morniug.
“The Mill” found out all at once that it
wanted anew “pinion,” (I hope you know
what a “pinion” is; if you don’t, I can’t
tell vou), and, as it absolutely refused to
wor k, unless ks demand was iustantly
granted, they had to put out the fires, and
“knock off,” until one could be got from
Savannah. “The Mill” had made known
its wants, and now for the rest of the
proverb : We lrave plenty of deer out
here, and “the Wife” discovered thaf an
immediate supply of venison was re
ouisite. Now, 1 don’t suppose she would
have thought of it, if she had not seen
Abe at leisure. You don’t know Abe,
the head sawyer, the good, faithful Abe,
Mr. Banner ; but I assure you he is quite
a character in his way, and a true, faith
ful friend, in time of need. Well, as I
said, venison was required; so, Abe took
a double-barelled gun in his band, and
some hard tack in his pocket, and went
off Our Indian was very curious, (his
bump oi inquisitiveness is awfully devel
oped,) to know where Abe was going,
and actually followed him a lit le way to
find out ; but Abe was as cunning as the
Indian, and soon gave him the slip. Abe
made a bargain with “the Boss” and
“Mass Gus,” that if he saw a deer he
would fire at it, and if he killed it he
would blow his horn, upon which signal
“Boss” and “Mass Gus” were to hurry
toliis assistance, with a horse, to bring
the deer home. We had our supper, and
sat round the fire, talking ; but never, for
one instant, did they relax their atten
tion—-they were listening for the gun. It
was cold last night, and you know when
people go to bed in cold weather, they
undress in a hurry, and coil up into a lit
tle ball in the middle of their bed, in the
shortest possible space of time. Boss
and Gus had just formed themselves into
the aforesaid ball, when the low, pro
longed, blast of a horn, fell upon their
ears. “Hello, Gus!” said Boss. “Y T es,
1 hear it,” answered Gus ; and forthwith
they tumbled out of bed, in great excite*
went, (These “boys” have never killed
a deer ; albeit, one of them has stood the
lire ot many a battle ; hence, you will
readily understand that this was a grand
occasion ) Out of bed, then, and out of
the house. Again, the blast of the horn ;
but nearer, much nearer. Will you be
hove it, Banner, it was that abominable
Indian ; he did not know anything about
the signal, but, with his usual nonsense,
was blowing through his hands, and it
sounded exactly like a horn in the dis
tance. ihe “boys” grumbled, and went
Jiack to bed ; just warm again, when
'loom!" a gun was fired, and, as soon as
its echo died away, the loud prolonged
“too-tuo oot,” of a horn, called them out
There was no mistake this time,
and away they went in high glee. “Too
-o-o-oot! 7 *went the horn, seemingly in
gieat excitement, and Moro was urged feo
hb sharpest trot; and still the horn called,
anu called them, louder and louder, as
L J got nearer to it, they answering
with loud cheers, until, at last, the voice
“f Abe was heard, calling out : “Hold
on, Boss, hold on!” and then something
ebe that sounded like “the deer is under
the tree!”
"AVhy, Abe is up a tree!” exclaimed
bus.
Hurry up,” said Boss, “I guess he’s
funded a big buck and it’s showing
fight!” °
Holding their blazing torch aloft, they
lushed to the rescue. J
JJ* 0Il » 1 sa y ! ” shouted Abe, fran
iiutitwus too me! they were within
” M Het of Abe’s roost.
“L fc'U I what’s that V’ cried Boss, as a
dark, object, rushed at him.
“A bear!” shouted Abe ; “get out of
wiV'r’ IteU .y ouP and blazing away
m nis remaining barrel among them
i< re were three bears—Abe scrambled
'-town the tree.
Hid they run, dear Banner ? I didn’t
•inVi Utni i’ Ut breath came short
MiiUM 111 ’ when . the y S ot hwne. “The
busn t got its pinion yet, nor “the
Wife” her venison, but Gus, the Boss,
and Abe, are all gone into the swamp this
morning, and I hope we shall see at least
one Bruin when they return.
lou see, we have no fashionable ex
citements out here; but we have fun,
nevertheless. Would you not like to take
a grand hunt for deer, bear, and wild
cats ? If so, come on ; we’ll get Abe to
go deer hunting with you.
Yours, etc.,
Ruth F.
THE TEMPORAL POWER,
THE TOPE’S APOSTOLIC LETTER TO PROTEST-
AND NON CATHOLIC BODIES.
The following is the text of the Apos
tolic letter addressed by the Pope to all
Protestants, and non-Catholic bodies:
Pins, Sovereign Pontiff, Ninth of the
Name, to alt Protestants, and other
non-Cat holies :
You must already’ all know that we,
who, despite our unworthiuess, have been
raised to the throne of Peter, and there
fore, have been advanced to the Supreme
Government of the whole Catholic
Church, and to its administration, which
has been entrusted to us in Divine fash
ion, by Christ himself, our Lord—we
have judged it fitting to summon before
us, all our venerable brethren, the Bish
ops of all the world, and to convince
them in an (Ecumenical Council, which
is to be celebrated next year, in such a
manner that, with those same venerable
brethren who iiave been summoned to
take part in this subject of our solicitude,
we may be able to adopt all the most op
portune, and necessary resolutions to
dissipate the shadows of so large a num
ber of pestilential errors which, daily, are
extending their power, and license, to the
great prejudice of souls, and daily more
and more to establish and strengthen
among the Christian people committed to
our watchful care, the reign of the true
Faith, of justice, and of the true peace of
God Relying, theD, with firm confi
dence upon the close and affectionate bond
of Union which unites those of our same
venerable brothers to our person, and to
the Apostolic See, and who have never
ceased, at any period of our Pontificate, to
give to us, and to the Apostolic See, the
most striking evidence of faith, of love,
and of respect, we truly hope that, as it
has been in times past with other Gener
al Councils, so it may be in the present,
and that this (Ecumenical Council con
voked by us, may bring forth, with the
help of the Divine grace, the most rich,
and the most fertile fruits, to the great
glory 7 of God, and the Eternal welfare of
man.
Therefore, in that hope, and instigated
and encouraged by the charity of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who laid down His
life for the salvation of the world, we
cannot forbear, on the occasion of the
meeting of the next Council, addressing
our Apostolic and paternal word, to all
those who, while recognizing that same
Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and rejoicing
in the name of Christains, yet still do
not profess the veritable faith of Christ,
or follow the communion of the Catholic
Church. Aud if we do so, it is, beiore
all, to warn, exhort, and supplicate them
with all our zeal, and all our charity, to
consider, and seriously examine, if they
in truth, follow the path prescribed by
our Lord Jesus Christ, and, which leads
to eternal happiness. In fact, no one
can deny, or doubt that Jesus Christ Him
self, in order that human generations
should enjoy the fruit of His Redemption,
built up here below, His Church in the
person of Peter—that is to say, the
Church, one, Holy, Catholic, and Aposto
lic—and that He granted to him all the
necessary power, in order that the Faith
should be preserved intact and entire,
and that the same Faith should be trans
mitted to all peoples, to all races, and to
all nations, in such a manner thatall men
should be able to be united in His mys
tical body in Baptism, and always to
preserve in themselves, until the entire
development, that new life of grace,
without which, no one can ever merit or
obtain life eternal, so that the same
Church which constitutes the mystical
body shall remain, until the end of time,
firm and indestructible, in his own con
stitution, developed in vigor, and furnish
ing to its children all that is necessary 7 to
life eternal.
Now, whoever wishes well to consider,
and examine with attention, the different
religious societies divided among them
selves, aud seperated from the Catholic
Church, which since the time of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and His Apostles, has
always uninterruptedly exercised, aud
still exercises, by means of its legitimate
Pastors, the power entrusted to her by
our Lord Himself—whoever, we say, shall
thus examine, will easily convince him
self that not one ot those religious socie
ties, nor all the religious societies together,
constitutes, or in any way can be con
sidered, as the one and only Cathol o
MSlBi ffffll gmufwr
Church, which our Lord Jesus Christ
founded, constituted, and desired - should
see that they cannot in any way be re
garded as a member, or as a part of that
same Church, because they are visibly
separated from all Catholic unity. As,
in fact, those societies are deprived of
that living authority established by God,
who pointed out to mankind, before all
things, the matter of faith, and the rule
of morality, Who directed and presided
over them in all things affecting their
eternal welfare; therefore, those societies
themselves constantly varied in their
doctrine, and thus this instability is un
ceasing
Every one can easily comprehend that
this state of things is altogether opposed
to the Church established by Christ our
Lord—a Church in which the truth must
always rest unaltered, without beiug the
subject of any change, as a charge en
trusted to that same Church, in order
that she may preserve it in all its integri
ty, a charge for the care of which the
presence of the Holy Ghost, and its aid
has been granted forever to this Church.
No one can ignore the fact, that these
differences of doctrine and opinion give
rise to the social schisms, and that there
from spring those innumerable sects, and
communions, which are daily increasing,
to the detriment of Christian and civil
society.
Whoever, in fact, recognizes religion
as the foundation of human society, can
not refuse to admit and avow, the influence
exercised over civilized society, by those
di visions, and disagreements of principles
ot that nature, and of religious societies
struggling one with the other; and also,
with vyhat power the denial of authority,
established by God, to regulate the con
victions ot the human intelligence, and
to direct the actions of men, both in their
social and private life, has excited, has
developed, and has fomented those most
unfortunate troubles, those events, and
those disturbances which agitate and ef
fect almost all nations in a most deplora
ble manner.
Therefore, in order that ail those who
are not instilled with the principles of
the unity and truth of the Catholic
Church, should seize the occasion offered
to them by this Council, in which the
Cathode Church, to which, their ances
tors belonged, shows a proof of its com
plete unity, and ot its unextinguishable
vitality; that they should obey the ne
cessities of their hearts; that they should
strive to bear themselves away from that
state in which they cannot be assured of
their salvation.
I hat they should address without ceas
ing, the most fervent prayers to God, that
He should dissipate the’cloud of error,
and that he should bring them back into
the bosom of the Church, our Holy
Mother, where their ancestors received
the salutary nourishment of life, and alone
preserves in its integrity, the doctrine of
Jesus Christ, handing it down and dis
pensing the mysteries of Celestial peace.
Me, therefore, who ought most zeal
ously to fulfill all the duties of a good
Pastor, in accordance with the charge of
our Apostolic Ministry, entrusted to us
by Christ our Lord Himself, and who
ought to embrace all men in the world
in our paternal charity, we address this
letter to all Christians separated from
tis—a letter in which we exhort, and
supplicate them to hasten to return to
the told of Chris*.
It is because we heartily desire their
salvation in Jesus Christ, and fear one
day to have to render an account of their
souls to that same Jesus Christ, our
Judge, if we do not point out to them and
open to them as much as in us, the way
which they must follow, if they would
gain their salvation.
Also, in all our prayers and supplica
tions, aod while performing acts of grace,
we never cease humbly to ask for them,
both by night and day, the celestial light
and the abundance of grace from the
eternal 1 astor of Souls. And, whereas,
despite our unworthiness, we fulfill upon
earth the functions of the Vicar of Christ,
we await with open arms, the return of
those wandering sons to the Catholic
Church, in order that we may be able to
receive them with all affection into the
dwelling of the Celestial Father, and
make them participators in llis everlast
ing treasures.
It is that much-wished for return to the
truth and communion of the Catholic
Church, upon which, depends not only
the salvation of each one in particular,
but of the whole Christian society; and
the world will never enjoy true peace
until it forms one flock under one Pastor.
Given at Home, at St. Peters, Septem
ber 14, 1868, in the twenty-third year of
our Pontificate.
It is a good thing to have utility and
beauty combined, as the washer-woman
said when she used her children as
clothes-pins.
ABUSE OF THE IRISH.
It is very fashionable in certain quarters,
to abuse the Irish and the Germans, par
ticularly those of the Catholic Faith.
Lut in the South, where there is so much
of intelligence, and refinement, and mag
nanimity, there is but little of this repre
hensible conduct. The people here read
and judge lor themselves; and when
they differ, it is with courtesy and re
spect for the opinions of others. Thus,
we arc not surprised to find that able and
staunch old Southern journal, the New
Orleans Picayune , defending the Irish
and the Catholics, and entering its sol
emn protest against the low flung, scur
rilous abuse of the Chicago Post, contain
ed in an article which we copied from
that Radical journal a few weeks ago.
The Picayune's defence is thus neatly
and kindly given, for which our respected
cotemporary deserves the thanks of the
Irish and Catholics, not only of the
South, but of the whole country:
Catholicism and the Irish—Radical
Appreciation.
As John Randolph was walking down
Pennsylvania Avenue, one morning, on
bis way to the Capitol, he was confronted
by a mean-souled political opponent, who,
barring his path, exclaimed : “I never
give way to a blackguard.” “I do,”
said the Master of Roanoke, and, leisure
ly stepping aside, went on his way, leav
ing the real blackguard stupefied with
rage. In a similar way ought, we think,
be treated the anti-Irish and anti-Cathol
ic Radical billingsgate of the Chicago
Post. Our fellow-citizens of Irish birth,
or lineage, as well as the very large body
professing the Catholic Religion, being
justly entitled to our highest respect and
esteem in every relation, we could not
willingly consent to give our columns to
the propagation of the Chicago sheet’s
foul tirade. It appears now in part only
by request.
It is thought that this exhibit of Radi
cal animus towards the Catholic religion
and the Irish race ought to be brought to
the attention of that handful of Irishmen
and native Catholics here that has given
itself to the degrading embraces of Radi
calism. And this is the Picayune's
apology for its reproduction.
If, alter this vile lampoon, this scur
rilous tirade of passionate imbecility,
these voidings of raving fanaticism and
bigotry, any Irishman, or Catholic, is
still to be found in the Radical ranks, it
must be because, like Mawworm, he loves
to be despised. Sucli a man >vould hold
the family honor an open question—its
prostitution a matter for pecuniary con
pensation. As we print the Chicago li
beller’s foul diatribe only by request, we
need hardly add that we shall attempt
no reply. That, we feel sure, would be
but an affront to the pride and intelligence
of our Irish and Catholic fellow-citizens.
The Irish race need no eulogist, and
the religion of two hundred millions of
earth’s inhabitants stands in no need of
apologists. The Irish figure in many of
the most brilliant pages of European his
tory, thanks to their native genius and
valor, that could rise above the adverse
fortune of an enslaving and soul-degrad
ing oppression. In our own country, if
asked for the evidence of their achieve
ments in arms, in literature, at the bar,
or in the Senate, in the development of
the Christian religion, and the erection of
its temples throughout the land, we have
only to consult our annals, and look around’
us.
If we were to venture his vindication
against the diatribe of the Chicago Radi
cal Thersites, the fiery Celt might justly
protest:
“Hold! do not honor so much
To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart;
What valor were it, when a cur doth grin,
For oue to thrust his hand between his teeth,
"When he might spurn him with his foot away?”
A Teetotal Change.— “F., sir,” said
he “is a shaver like me I’ve known him
for many a year; old acquaintances we’ve
been, and pot companions. He certainly
was an awful character, and his wife too.
1 think they were the greatest drunkards
I ever knew. N(*ver do I recollect to
have gone to his house, without seeing
either a bottle of rum, or gin on the table.
For years and years, 1 knew them, and
they went on just the same, beggared,
and poverty-stricken, not an article scarce
in their place for use. At last, they got
regularly done up. Well, sir, I lost
sight of them for some years, but since I
had to give up my shop, (sinking his
head upon his chest—it was through his
habitual drunkenness), and was wander
ing about starving, trying to find employ
ment, I went into one very handsome
hairdresser’s shop over the water, amongst
others, to ask if they wanted a man.
Well, I was surprised! who should answer
me but F. Bless me! savs I. Well,
sir, we stood looking at one another; and
at last, said he, pointing round, You see
me very differently situated to what I
was. Well, sir, I humm’d and ha-ah’d,
for I didn’t know what to say. It was
different, indeed, said D., lifting up his
hands, and eyes impressively; it was dif
tercnt. Yes, said F., you see me very
different to what I was! Well, sir, he
asked me into the parlor, nicely furnished,
and introduced me to Mrs.FFf. s and she
v\asn t ike the same woman; they seemed
quite pleased to see me, made much of
me, and, said F., Pm sorry I don’t want
a Tl' * or mana ge all my business my
self; but I’m going to Ramsgate for a
week, for the benefit of my health, and if
it’s worth your while to come for a week,
D., do. Well, sir, it turned out that
somebody had persuaded him and his
wife to turn religious, teetotallers, and
there they were in a shop, and business
worth £6O or £7O to come into. I en
gaged to take the place for a week, and
gladly 7; and before he went. Now, D., said
he, there are one or two things I have to
say; I allow no spirits, or beer, or liquor
of any kind, on no account, into this place!
\ery well, said I, there’s an end of it.
And another thing, said he, I do no busi
ness on Sunday; all shut close. I pay
you for a week just the same, but six days
is my week’s work now! Well, sir, they 7
were both members, I found, of ;
and that week I seemed almost in Heav
en; his wife used to talk so, as would do
any body good to hear, no hypocrisy,
but so changed prayers night and morn
ing. Well, sir, when F. came home, of
eourse there was no further occasion for
me, but he gave me £l, besides my board
and lodging for the week’s work; and,
said he, D., I do wish I wanted a man for
old acquaintance sake, but you see how
it is, I don’t; but whenever you are this
way, don’t fail to look in, and do as we do.”
Vanderlcistes' Dens of London.
American Women, as Described by
a Scotchman. —David Mcßae, Esq., who
has commenced the publication in the
Glasgow (Scotland) Herald, of a series
of articles, descriptive of the habits, cus
toms, scenery, &c., of America, asthey ap
peared to him during his recent 'visit,
says:
“The American ladies agreeably dis
appointed me. They are by no means the
dry, hard, angular, disagreeably independ
ent, strong minded women they are de
scribed. Here and there, no doubt, you
find a few of this stamp. Traveling over
the country, you occasionally encounter
a lady who lectures, or preaches, or edits
a newspaper, or fills a professional chair,
or has a regular practice as a physician.
But these cases are very 7 few, and far
between— rari nantes in gurgiti vasto.
And even they are very often as a Scotch
Doctor in Massachusetts described them
‘ stickit women.’ But, American females,
as a rule, are just as gentle, and kind,
as lovely, as agreeable, and as affection
ate as our own. Their loveliness is of a
differant type—paler, and more ethereal.
A beautiful Canadian or American girl,
comes nearer*the popular idea of Angel,
than any being I have ever beheld out of
dream-land. Pale features, of exquisite
symmetry, a delicately pure complexion,
eyes radiant with intelligence—a light,
graceful, often fragile form—this is the
vision of loveliness that meets the ey T e in
almost every drawing-room. I never
saw, during all my life before, so many
fairy 7 forms, which it would have sur
prised me less to see shooting out wings,
and flying up into the empyrean.”
Homeopathy in America.— ln the year
1825, the first Homeopathic physician in
America settled in New York. In 1828,
there were but two in the United States,
and in 1835, there were 57. There are
now over 4,000. In 1833, Dr. C. Herring
relinquished the pursuits of zoology,
which he had long cultivated in South
America, under the auspices of the King
of Saxony, and commenced the practice
of Medicine in Philadelphia. Two years
later, he aud others established the Acade
my of Medicine at Allentown, Pa., the
first homeopathic school in the world. Now,
in his old age, we find this venerable
physician and distinguished scientist at
the head of the leading Homeopathic
College in the country, the Hahnemann
Medical College of Philadelphia, an in
stitution which aims to excel, in giving a
thorough medical and scientific education
to its students, and thus it happens that
the first teacher of homeopathy in Ameri
ca is now at the head of its ablest school.
Information Wanted.— Any informa
tion in regard to Francis M. Hood, a
Confederate soldier who was captured
near Atlanta, Ga., and carried to Camp
Chase, will be thankfully received by his
father, at Lafayette, Ala., post office.
The man is about five feet nine inches
high, fair complexion, blue eyes, light
hair, and about twenty-five years of age.
Exchanges will confer a favor on an
old man, by copying the above notice.
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