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6 “Marade” or “Miraud,” maintains that the term “to go marauding,” or, “ ma rauder,” is derked from the fact, that the late Count De Merode, a Flemish noble of an illustrious house, when serving in the army of Ferdinand 11., never encamped with the troops, but always selected his quarters in houses detached from the camp, obliging the proprietors to entertain him free of ex pense ; and, at the time I write,” added Menage, “which is the 7th of August, 1690, I understand that Marshal de Luxembourgh, on account of this etymol ogy, always enjoins his officers to go ‘en Merode,’ instead of *en Marode.’” Monsignor Xavier de Merode, sou of Count Ghislain, Marquis of TV aterloo, Prince of Rubempre and Everberg, for merly Minister without a portfolio of the King of the Belgians, in a direct descent from this celebrated Merodeur, was born in 1820. His brother Count Werner, was Deputy of the Department of Doubs in 1846, afterwards a representative of the Nord in the constituent and Legisla tive Assembly of 1848 and ’49. Subse quently, he competed with a Government candidate, to he retuned for Doubs, but failed in his attempt, as also did his brother-in-law, Count Montalembert, who was married to his sister Anne. Mon signor de Merode, in the early part of his career, was a Belgian officer, attached to the staff of Marshal Bugeaud, and deco rated by him, but abruptly quitted the uniform for the soutane, in consequence of a duel, which proved unfortunate to his adversary. The Pope had, for a long time, distinguished M. de Merode amongst his warmest and most intelligent defenders ; admired the frankness, firm ness, almost sternness of his character. Having been, like himself, a soldier and an erudite traveller, Pius IX. sympathized in spirit, with this young Minister, so ac tive and energetic, yet, withal, so little able to cope with Austrian finesse, and a few years afterwards attached him to his person as Private Chamberlain. TIIC ROMAN ADMINISTRATION. The Homan administration employs in the seven bureaux only one Priest for sixty lavmen. The latter receive annu ally 8,053,500 francs; the former, only 670,980 francs. The annual revenues of the Sovereign Pontiff only amount to three millions, from which must be de ducted the salaries of the Nuncios and Cardinals, the support of the Apostolic Palace, by which the private resources of the Holy Father are reduced to 25,000 francs a year. L. T.BLOMK & CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, Ga., NOVEMBER 14, 1868 Our Correspondence. —We feel no little pride in our Correspondence, and ask special attention to our New York and New Orleans letters, as well as to the interesting letter of “Our Own Corres pondent,” Ruth Fairfax. There is much in them to instruct, interest, and amuse. Essays. —We publish, this week, a brilliant Essay from the pen of our New York correspondent, Tyrone Powers the third of the .series. We commend it to the careful perusal of our readers, assured that they’' will admire it, as well for its style, as for the facts and argu ments which it contains; and congratulate our patrons, as well as ourselves, on having so able and instructive a eon tributor to the columns of the Banner. Chicora Paint. —We invite attention to the Advertisement of the Chicora Paint Company, of Philadelphia. \\c have seen specimens of this Paint, and they arc very attractive. It is cheap and durable, and highly commended by those who have used it. Personal.— We had the pleasure of meeting Gen. D. 11. Hill, in this city, this week. We are pleased to learn that his Magazine, “ The Land We Love;' is doing well. Perhaps, after a while, the Southern people will appreciate these home publications, and give them 1 hat generous support which they deserve. Thanksgiving Day. —President John son has appointed Thursday next, Nov ember 26th, as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer throughout the United States- Requiem Mass for Mr. and Mrs. Frederick. —On Thursday, November 6th, a Solemn Mass of Requiem was cele brated at the Catholic Church in this city, by the Rev. James O’Hara, for the souls of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Frederick. At the conclusion of the Mass, the Rev. Father paid a touching tribute to the memory of the deceased. He referred to their great zeal and piety in adorning the Temple of God—Mrs. Frederick having purchased the three beautiful Altars now erected in the Church, and Mr. M. Frederick having donated two thousand dollars, to assist in the purchase of the new The Rev. Father said that, as long as the Church would remain, those good people deserved tube remem bered by the Congregation. At the same time, he referred to the generosity of our esteemed friend, Mrs. Bridget Norton, who, through her zeal and piety, adorned the Altar of the Blessed Virgin with the beautiful statues of the Immaculate Conception and St. Joseph ; showing, as he said, with what beauty Catholic Unity was blended —France and Ireland going hand in hand in the cause of Religion. He further stated that lie hoped the day was not far distant when the Grand Altar would have its Patron s ?. As it was now, it was neglected. The Altar being consecrated to St. Patrick, he hoped to see upon it the statue of that Saint ; as, also, that of Saint Bridget, the Patron and Patroness of Ireland. We learn, with pleasure, that Mrs Norton, true to her race and her religion, has ordered these statues to be placed im mediately on the Grand Altar, at her expense. May she long remain among us, dispensing the gifts which God has enabled her to bestow. OUR BOOK TABLE. California Papers.— We are indebted to our Agent in San Francisco, Cal., for files of late California papers, The Rural Southerner.— The No vember number of this valuable publica tion has just reached us. It has, as usual, a well spread table of contents. Success to it. LaGrange Resorter.— We must congratulate the LaGrange Reporter upon its improved and handsome ap pearance. It has come out in anew dress, and looks as attractive and as prosperous as any proprietor could wish. Quinn’s Literary Depot.— Mr. Quinn has an advertisement in this week’s Banner, to which we refer our readers. „ He has all the leading Periodicals of the day, besides Books, Stationery, &c. Give him a call. The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.— This excellent journal, pub lished at New Orleans, La., comes to us with anew and beautiful symbolical head. The Morning Star is one of the ablest and most industriously edited Catholic journals of this country, and has our best wishes for its success. The Manual of Phonography.— By Benu Pitman; Phonographic Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. The Phonographic Reader. —By Been Pittman; Phonographic Institute,Ohio. The Phonographic Copy Book. We are indebted to the publisher for copies of the foregoing publications. They have been much improved, and arc valuable aids to those who wish to per fect themselves in this admirable study. Phonography, as our readers are aware, is the science of reporting speech by sound. It is a system of short hand re duced to general principles, which can be mastered and used with facility by the diligent student. It is of incalculable value to professional men, reporters, and scholars. Mr. Pittman's system is, in our judgment, ns good as the best; and we commend his publications to those who desire to acquire a knowledge of this beautiful and useful study. h Mill® 0S 111 i DEATH OF FATHER O’NEILL. More than one regret will be expressed over the death of this talented and zeal ous young Priest; and sorrow-will be felt and tears will fall over the good which blesses his Memory; and makes it live in the hearts of those who knew him best. The following tribute is from our esteemed cotemporary, the Chadeston (S. C.) Gazette: It is with feelings of unfeigned sadness that we announce the death of Rev. Jere miah F. O’Neill, Jr., nephew of the Venerable Father O’Neill, of Savannah. This amiable and accomplishe I Priest breathed his last in Baltimore, on the 6th instant, after having undergone a linger ing and painful illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude and unmurmuring resignation. Last Spring, when we grasped his manly hand, and beheld his amiable and beautiful countenance beaming with joy on meeting the friends of his youth, we little thought that the sad duty of record ing his death would devolve on us. He had left Atlanta where he was in charge of a congregation, to visit his uncle who was then in this eit} r . He complained of a sore throat, and, after a few days, had recourse to medical advisers Lapse of time seemed but to aggravate his ail ment, which was pronounced a cancer of the tongue. After consulting the most experienced medical practitioners and surgeons of Charleston and Savannah, accompanied by his venerable relation, lie was placed under the treatment of the most eminent surgeons of Baltimore. A friend, writing from there, some Jtime since, said : “With certain death staring him in the face, still he is quite patient and uncomplaining, apparently cheerful and happy; and not a murmur ever es capes from his lips.” The close of his life was in harmony with the past. For the last four or five months, he was in St. Agnes’ Hospital, Baltimore, where he was tenderly cared for by the Sisters of Charity, and watched over with more than paternal solicitude by that good uncle, whose name shall ever be blended with the name of religion by the Catholics of the Carolinas and Geor gia. Strengthened and consoled by the Holy Sacraments, and by the devout prayers of the faithful and humble ser vants of God, who surrounded his dying couch, he, on the 6th instant, gave up his pure soul to Him, whose distinguished Minister he was on earth. His body reached this city on Wednes day, and was escorted by Bishop Persico and the Catholic Clergy of the city, from the North-eastern to the South Carolina Depot. llis brother accompanied it on its way to Locust Grove, where it is to be interred near the remains of liis parents. Shortly after the birth of Father O’Neill, which occurred in Canada in 1825, liis parents settled in Locust Grove, Ga., then a Catholic settlement. Reared by a pious mother with the utmost care, and brought up with sentiments of love and reverence for God and His holy Church, he manifested, at an early age, an eager desire for the Priesthood, liis longings were not thwarted, At the age of fifteen years, lie was received by Bishop England, and placed among the number of young Levites, who, in days past, used to surround the Altar of St. ! Finbar’s in Broad Street. There, he con tinued and prosecuted his studies—Classi cal, Philosophical, and Theological—with the exception of a short time passed in Bishop Wheelan’s Seminary, near Rich mond. Ia the Spring of 1850, he was raised to the dignity of Priesthood by the late Bishop Reynolds. Atlanta was then assigned him as the future field of his labors; and, for the last eighteen years of his life, faithfully and cheerfully did he labor there, in Macon, in Savannah, and in all the outmissions of Georgia. To the truth of this, many, very many, can testify to whose sad hearts and troubled con sciences he gave peace and tranquility. During the late war, he was unceasing in his attentions to the poor and suffering soldiers. The wearers of the blue jacket, as well as those of the grey, were the ob jects of his tenderness and solicitude. Many a weary night and cheerless day did he spend in traversing his vast mis sions, in camps, in hospitals, and in prisons. Would that we could give our readers but even a faint outline of the labors, privations, and the many acts of heroic charity of this amiable and faithful | servant of God. “Father Jerry,” as he was fondly and I familiarly called, was more than ordina rily gifted, and most highly accomplished. To gentleness and amiability of character, he united manliness and firmness. Next to his Religion, his heart was given to Literature and its cognate studies. When not engaged in sacred duties, he was ever I found in his study, poring over the | literary treasures of antiquity, or the ' splendid productions of modern European authors. Besides, being an excellent classical scholar, he had a good knowledge of Hebrew, and could converse in most of the modern European languages. And, to those who were present at the consecration of the Cathedral and of Bishop Lynch, his musical talents must be evident; they cannot but remember the full, musical, and sonorous tones of his voice. His theological knowledge was extensive and accurate, and his style of preaching in harmony with his refined taste and varied attainments. Truly, in liis case may we exclaim, “In the midst of life we are in death.” He has been cut down in the meridian of life, with a bright future before him Thus has the Diocese of Savannah lost one of her most useful Missionaries, End the Priests of Georgia a beloved and cherished brother, one who was an orna ment of their Order. Long will his name be mentioned and remembered by them, as well as by the Priests of the Diocese of Charleston, who were his fellow students and the companions of his youth. May he rest in peace ! Thursday'morning, November I—th # the remains of the Rev. Jeremiah O'Neill arrived in this city, in charge of his brother, when his corpse was taken to the Church, and remained there until 8 o'clock in the evening, at which time the Rev. Father O’Hara performed the Funeral services, assisted by the Choir. The corpse was then escorted by the mem bers of the St. Vincent De Paul Society to the Georgia Rail Road, where a large number of the Congregation were in wait ing to pay their last respects to the memory of the deceased. For the Banner of the South. ESSAYS. HI. SUFFRAGE, Strictly speaking, Suffrage is the pos session of the elective, franchise; note, the act of its exercise; and ballot, the medium of its manifestation. We say that a party wishes to extend suffrage ; that a man votes ; and that his ballot is put in the box. Etymologically, suf frage comes from two Latin words im plying power to declare ; vote, from the Latin voveo, I vow, denoting the exercise of that power; and ballot, from the Span ish balota, a little ball, from the fact that an old mode of conducting an election was by casting little balls in an urn. Practically, these distinctions are very much disregarded, and suffrage, in par ticular, is used as identical with the elec tive franchise itself, in which general sense it will be employed in this Essay. Suffrage is the power of deciding as to the principles upon which Government is to be administered, and the persons in whom the power of administration is to reside. As to its proper limitations, there are two theories, which may he called, respectively, the Sensible and the Fanatic. The Sensible theory holds that those alone should possess the elective franchise who are, as a rule, competent to its in telligent exercise. The Fanatic theory disregards the test of fitness, but gives us no other well defined test in lieu. The main idea is extension, irrespective of fitness, but the precise limits of the ex tension is a much mooted point. Some contend for “manhood suffrage,” or that all men should vote. Others insist on “female suffrage,” or that all women should vote too; and others, again, claim that not only all men and all women, but all boys and all girls, from eighteen to twenty-one, should have the franchise. To still farther complicate the question, there is a diversity of' opinion, as to the meaning of the word “all.” Some say that it means all absolutely; others, that it only means all who are “loyal;” and others still, all who not only are, but have been, “loyal.” In the midst of all these discrepancies, but one fact clearly appears, and that is, that, under this Fana tic theory of suffrage, fitness is no test. To justify this position, some very curious arguments are adduced. It is said that suffrage is a “God-given right;” in which case disfranchisement must be a hell devised wrong. Moreover, if suffrage be a “God-given right,” it follows that, as only an infinitessimal proportion of hu manity have voted since the Creation, the will of the Deity has, in nine hundred and ninety-nine eases out of every thou sand, been most heinously frustrated. Another argument is, that suffrage gives protection. This is the fundamental idea of savage sosiety, that each man must take care of himself. Civilized society proceeds on a different hypothesis—to wit: that the body politic is to protect all its members, or that all are to protect each. Moreover, as a matter of fact, we ! do not find that where there is no ballot there is no protection. We, of the United States, are swarming with voters, even the land of Egypt swarmed with lice ■ and yet life, liberty, and property, ai( l more insecure here than in either R Us . sia or Turkey. Still a third argument is that the ballot educates. How learning cornea by “putting the thing in the box’’ does not appear; nor is it true, as a nat ter of fact, that the ballot, put in hands, educates its possessors to a fit i lse of it. The French people had the ballot in the First Napoleon’sjime, and used it to elect him Emperor, and away went their votes with the Empire Precisely the same thing was done by the Third Napo leon. The French Republic voted him into his uncle’s seat. The Negroes in Jamaica were giveu suffrage by the British Parliament. It was found that so far from learning how to use it, they' were, to borrow an expression from the ology, in a state of invincible ignorance and, a year or so since, it was taken away. Turning from such crack brained ar guments, it will be of interest to consider the actual operation of those principles on which these two theories of suffrage respectively proceed. A fundamental difference between them is, that the Sen sible theory proceeds according to general rules, and the Fanatic theory on individ ual exceptions. The Sensible theory limits suffrage to white men. It does not say all white men are equally competent to an intelligent exercise of the elective franchise, but that, as a rule, white men are. Here and there it admits that you’ may find one incompetent to vote ; but in the long run and upon the whole— the only safe, sensible, and business-like way of dealing with questions of state—it de- dares, and experience so proves it, that an immense, an overwhelming majority, a majority that is almost a totality, of white-men, are competent to decide in telligently as to the principles upon which they are to be governed, and the persons in whose hands the administra tion of these principles is to reside. Holding these views, the Sensible theory of suffrage applies them in turn to the various forms of extension that are pro posed. It takes up “female suffrage.” It perceives that here and there are in dividual women, either naturally gifted with masculine minds, or, by defect of family ties, distaste for feminine employ ments, or the influence of male direction, given over to politics, who are, perhaps, as fully competent to vote as the average white man. .But, perceiving this, it per ceives also, that there are but few Eliza beths; that these mannish women arc but the correlatives, in the inscrutable economy of the universe, of so many womanish men, and that, back of them, rari nantes in gurgite vasto, is the great army of womankind, as unfit for the forum as it is fit for the home. Proceeding, as it does, on the statesmanlike principle of judging things in gross, the Sensible theory rejects “female suffrage ” It can- not make a microscopic law, which shall say Tabitha is competent—let her vote; Seraphina is not competent—let her not vote. It has to make a telescopic law; a law of general operation. It has to say women shall vote, or not vote, and, as unfitness is the overwhelming rule, and fitness the beggarly exception, it says. No. Then it takes up “manhood suffrage,” or that all men should vote—meaning all Negro men, since, concurrent with this move, we do not hear of any contemplated removal of white disfranchisement To this “manhood” proposition, the Sensible theory of suffrage applies the same tests as in the prior case. It asks, Arc Negro men, as a rule, competent to an intelli gent exercise of the elective franchise • A negative answer is so necessarily resul-. tant, that it is not known that the harde.-t Negrophilist has ever ventured ail asser tion to the contrary. Suffrage is self government, and self-government, coup! and with the Negro, is so absurd a collocation as involuntarily raises a smile. The same inscrutable design which makes the In dian incapable of civilization, puts the Negro beyond autonomy. The Indian i the wild-man, and you shall,sooner kill him than make him tame. The Negro i> the child-man, and this world shall pass array ere he stand alone. Now, let us sec how the Fanatic theory looks at these things. It finds some ram avis of a woman who wants to vot ■, and is, perhaps, competent to vote, h inveighs at once against the hardship of this ease. It uses every art used at the Old Bailey, when an attorney won! paint the rigor of the law toward his client as a reason why his’client should pro vail against the law. This woman, the theory will say, is wise, virtuous, useinh has property —it carefully forgets to s;e that some man earned this property f_ r her—why shouldn’t she vote ? 11 rem an ignorant, worthless, debauched, povei ty-stricken, he-creature, coming up to hm polls, and is not this woman not only oi equal but his superior? In this way. “ makes out a case for the wise, virtuou and uses ul woman, who wants to vote