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6 nent, though unobtrusive virtues, will stand forth in still bolder relief, and throw ad ditional lustre around a character which w*e have all learned to love and reverence. But while thus proffering to you, Rt. Rev. Bishop, the homage of our respect, we can inot avoid expressing a pang of regret at the thought that, in beiug deprived of your valuable services, the Lazarist Congrega tion in the United States loses its brightest ornament, and the most powerful and de voted support. Rest assured that in as suming your position among the Princes of the Church, you are accompanied by the sincere affection, and undying regard of those whose pride has been for so many years to address you by the familiar and endearing title of confrere. The Faculty of this Institution in particular, towards whom you have constantly exercised the tender offices of an enliglited director and father, whom in the dark day of adversi ty, when a devastating element had re duced to a heap of smouldering ruins the fruit and labor of years, you so generously aided and consoled, feel that their debt of gratitude is far too deep to be expressed by mere words. In conclusion, we desire to convey to you, Rt. Rev. Bishop, to the Most Rev. Archbishop, and the Rt. Rev. Bishops and Rev. Clergy present, our high appreciation of the honor conferred upon us by this visit. The Seminary of Our Lady of Angels has indeed just reason to felicitate itself to-day on the proud distinc tion of welcoming beneath its roof tree so many distinguished Rt. Rev. and Rev. guests. We will only add Rt. Rev. Bishop, that it is our earnest prayer that the career upon which you are entering may be as brilliant and successful as its begin • ing is joyful and auspicious, and that the Divine Husbandman may deign to grant you many, very many, happy years to labor in this portion of his vineyard.” Bishop Ryan beautifully, touchingly responded. “He felt indeed that the eu logium uttered regarding his merits was too llattering—that there were many others in the Congregation capable of filling the position he so lately occupied. True liis affections gathered around the Congregation; he had been moulded from boyhood to matuner years under its fos tering influence; had become bound by love to ins many members, and it was with reluctance he had been seperated from so many tender associations. As regards the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, he had always watched its pro gress with interest, and now, placed as he was in even nearer and more peculiar relations with it, he would endeavor to do what distance • before prevented. Its success, henceforth, he, as Bishop of Buffalo, should and would endeavor to promote, as it was hereafter to be con sidered the Seminary of the Diocese.” The lit. Rev. Bishop concluded by pro posing the health of “Our Holy Father the Rope.” The health of the Most Rev. Archbishop was then toasted, in response to which, in his accustomed elegant man ner he replied. He thanked the Faculty of the Seminary and complimented them highly for the energy, devotedness, and zeal which have resulted in erecting over the ruins of conflagration so grand a monument of learning and religion as that which, contrary to expectation, he had witnessed. “I was indeed surprised,” he candidly remarked ; “1 had, it is true, heard that a fine building had been erected, but I bad not the remotest idea that it was so grand an institution as is this. Spacious, commodious, and beauti ful, I consider it one among-the first Catholic Seminaries of the land, and I trust that it will always meet with that success, of which it is deserving. In conclusion he proposed, “To the Presi dent and Faculty of Seminary of Qur Lady of Angels long life and success in all their undertakings.” Very Rev. R. E. V. Rice, President, in response to re peated calls, in that quiet and winning manner peculiar to him,,expressed the deep sense of gratitude lie experienced in Seminary of Our Lady of Angels being honored by the presence of so many distinguished guests, and the praise which was bestowed upon it by those who would not stoop to flatter. If the Seminary was what the Archbishop had been pleased to style it, all was owing to the goodness of God, the generosity and co-operation of the Bishops and Clergy of the country. He was followed by his Lordship, Ri. Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Toronto, in remarks full of wit and hu mor which kept all in a continual roar of laughter. After a few mirth provoking remarks from Rt. Rev. Bishop Wood of Philadelphia, was terminated an enter tainment, which, by all persons present, was pronounced princely, sumptuous, and long to be remembered. No wonder that encomiums in profusion were lavish ed upon this Seminary, the pride of the Buffalo Diocese, With the grandeur of the Niagara immediately in front, scenes of historic as well as of natural interest surrounding it upon every side, the broad expanse of Lake Ontario in the distance, a climate the salubrity of which is not surpassed in the country —it certainly enjoys advantages of Nature and of art the most desirable. Rt. Rev. Bishop Ryan lias just reason to eongratu late himself on having within his Diocese an Institution which cannot fail to be productive of great and beneficial results, not only to the people placed under his jurisdiction, but, also, to the whole Catholic people and Church of every section of these United States. May no cloud ever dim the brightness of the future of the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, and may its Faculty live long to enjoy its blooming honors. “Participator.” tSHSEI* o r the: L. T BLOMF CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. AUGUSTA, Ga., DECEMBER 19, 1868 All Communications, intended for pubUcation must be directed to the Editor, llev. A. J. Ryan ; and all Business Communications to the Publishers, L. T Blome & Cos., Augusta, Ga. 43“ A few Advertisements will be received, and in serted on liberal terms. TERMS: One copy, one year, invariably in advance,....s3 00 “ “ six months “ “ 150 Single Copies lOcts To Clubs. —To any person sending us a Club of 15 one copy, one year, will be given. To Clubs of 20, or more The Banner will be furnished at the rate of $2 50 per annum, 4®“ In all cases the names must be furnished at the same time, and the cash must accompany oach order. 43- Dealers will be supplied on liberal terms. - • - Personal.— lt is with pleasure that we notice a gradual, but very decided improve ment in the health of our friend and be loved Assistant Pastor, Rev. J/F. Kirby, who, prior to his recent trip North, suf fered serious and prolonged illness. The numerous friends of Father Kirby, both in Augusta and Savannah, and through out the entire Diocese, will, we feel as sured, receive the information of his par tial restoration to health with unfeigned pleasure. Father Kirby has labored long and faithfully among the people ot Augusta, who entertain for him the great est respect and affection. Rev. L. If. Pacquet, of Montreal, who resided in this city for several months on account of his health and who left for his home last summer, has again return ed to this city. Father Pacquet is an estimable gentleman, and is universally beloved by the members of the Catholic congregation. We are pleased to learn that his health has improved, and that it is probable he will remain in this city for a lengthened period We hope that he will remain permanently in our midst. St. Patrick’s Church Sunday School Society. —The Annual meeting of this , Society, which is composed of the Sun day School Teachers, was held on Sun day, 6th inst., at which time an election for Officers of the Sunday School and Li brary for the ensuing year was held. The names of the Officers elect are as follows : J. D. Kavanagh, Pres, and Supt. E. F. Samuels, Asst. Supt. Miss M. Murray, Supt. Female Dept. P. M. Mulhcrin, Secretary. C. E. Boulineaux, Asst. Secretary. Wm. Mulherin, Treasurer. A. F. Tischer, Librarian. Wm. A. McCarty, Asst. Librarian. During the year a Library lias been formed for the use of the Children of the School. It numbers, at. present, several hundred volumes, but it is still insuffi cient to supply the wants of the School. A meeting of several gentlemen of the Congregation was held on Sunday, the 6th inst., to devise means to increase the Library. At that meeting 200 volumes and a very liberal sum of money was con tributed, and a Committee of three, viz. Rev. A. J. Ryan, Mr. xY. Mullarky, and Mr. J. D Kavanagh, appointed to solicit contributions from those members of’ the Congregation who wore not present. We sincerely hope the members of the Congregation will show their accus tomed liberality, by their liberal contribu tions to this worthy object, and, by this means, a good Catholic Library will be formed, where the Catholic youth of the Congregation may find both moral and interesting reading, and, be kept aloof from the corrupt and dangerous litera ture which is spread broadcast over the land, and which causes the loss of so many souls, who, had they been sup plied in their early years with pure food for the mind, would have become an ornament both to their religion and so ciety, instead of becoming, as alas, so many have, a disgrace to both. NEW ORLEANS (LaTcORRESPONDENCE OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. AN AMUSING AND INTERESTING LETTER. New Orleans, Dec. 12th, 1868. Banner of the South : In these latter days a Lady or Gentle man is nothing if not fashionable. Every lady is a woman, but not every woman is a lad}-. Our soi-disant ladies think the difference lies in working and not working. All women wear aprons. But, as working women always wear their aprons in front, the ladies—so-called —have adopted the fashion of wearing theirs behind, to show that “ they work not, neither do they spin yet, I dare say, Solomon, in all his wisdom, never dreamed of anything human arraying it self in the style of progressive ladies, who swarm upon Canal street every day the sun shines. Another distinction is that plain, honest, working women wear their aprons at home, and always take them off before, they go out; whilst the fash ionable lady wears none at home, but never goes out (or a walk without her “ ulterior attachment.' 5 ’Tis different with your gentleman, who, often, has well founded fears that he is not wholly a man but may be a mere puppy; so, in order to look as much as possible like a man, he strips himself, and with the aid of his Shanghai leggies and jacket, assumes much the ap pearance of an “unfeathered bird, 7 thus claiming for himself one of the most an cient and classical definitions of a man. In head-dresses, also, there is a great change from old times. Formerly the lady 7 s bonnet was worn on the top of her head, that it—the dearest article of her toilette—might be seen, admired, and en vied by all the world, except herself; now, however, she has adopted the more sensible fashion of wearing it where she can forever enjoy the “ thing of beauty” with her own eyes. Latterly, you know, the bonnet, from being an unsight ly mass of whalebone, wire, straw, or horse-hair, has bloomed into an exquisite, tiny bouquet of brilliant blossoms; but, in order to enjoy its contemplation, the fair owner keeps it no longer hidden in ner hair, but by means of a ribbon thrown over her head, allows the beautiful object to hang suspended upon her breast with in perpetual range of her own eyes, as well as those of her admiring friends and envious rivals. The latest style of male head-gear, also, lias its advantages in being adapted equally well for sleeping or waking uses. Indeed, it seems more suited to the for mer than the latter, as its walking wearer always impresses one with the idea of a somnambulist who lias forgotten to take oft' his crushed night-cap. Our municipal pap-suckers have come to grief by the emphatic refusal of the people, at last week’s election, to counte nance the contemplated Three Million Loan swindle, which had been elaborately and cunningly concocted by the Alder manic boards. Their scheme was to raise money for their own immediate benefit, at the cost of ultimate hopeless bankruptcy to the city itself. By a wise provision of the State laws, all such schemes require the direct approval of the people by ballot. The election was accordingly held, and resulted in an al most unanimous thunder of no from the indignant people, who are now determined to submit no longer to any such “ nice little financial operations,” us have the lust four years brought only ruin and starvation to the masses, while the few speculators —political and financial—roll ed in luxury. The discomfitted Alder men are furious at their failure, and threaten to resign—“a consummation de voutly to be wished;’ for then the Pro perty* Holders’ Association will take the matter in hand, and see to putting the right men in the right piaces. 'Our gardens are, this morning, de spoiled of all their beauty by that vener able rogue, Jack Frost, whose hardened fingers have filched from its stall' the Last Rose of Summer, and planted its brilliant colors on the fair area of Beauty’s cheek. Say not a word about my figures of speech; for, on such a stinging day for hot mixed punches, you can surely make allowance for a slight mixture of metaphor. The steamship Crescent was last night totally destroyed by lire, and what is sad dest of all, the explosion of a quantity of gunpowder in the hold, killed and wound- ed a score or more of our noble firemen, who were gallantly battling with the ele ments in an unselfish effort to save the property of strangers. A true fireman is, after all, the greatest of heroes. All honor to the self-sacrificing fraternity. Southern Radical. new yorkYoTreTpondence OF THE BANNER OF THE SOUTH. The President's Message—The Public Debt—Fearful Blow at the "LoiT ' — The Radical Howl—The President and a New Party—Department Re ports—lhe Temper of Congress — Gen. Grant—The Supreme Court — Handsome Compliment to the South ern Confederacy. New York, December 12, 1868. Banner of the South: A. J’s message is a fearful blow at the loil. He has struck their beloved debt, whereby they live and move and have their being, and their cries at the “out rage” are proportionately piteous and keen. In plain English, Mr. Johnson recommends that, instead of paying six per cent, interest in gold on the enormous debt, now resting like an incubus upon the country, six per cent, of the princi pal be paid each year and do interest at all, whereby, in sixteen years and eight months, the entire load will be removed. This is howled against as repudiation, but the Message very astutely meets this declaration by saying that to change the form and manner of paying the debt has already been not only proposod but acted on by Congress itself in the Funding Bill of last session. This was.to extend the time of ultimate redemption to forty years and lower the interest to four per cent., and as the original obligation was to pay six per cent, interest and to reim burse the principal in twenty years, it can be seen that the Funding Bill itself was repudiation.. Merely' to suggest that the people are tired of having their sub stances eaten out by the loil cormorants who lead the Radical party, is taken as high treason, and as this is what Mr. Johnson has done, the cry of traitor is hurled at him as fast and hard as it was ever leveled at the people of the South. Besides the express languarge of the Mes sage, there is also, aloes, gall, and worm wood to the fcrooly loil in its implied menace. This is perfectly well under stood to be the intention of Mr. Johnson, immediately on the cessation of his Pres idential term, to go back to Tennessee and there set about the formation of a new party antagonistic to the Radicals, on the score of their gross robberies of the people by means of the public debt. Being to the last degree obstinate and unyielding, and with all his natural hardi hood intlamed to the pitch of fury by the ceaseless badgering to which he has been subjected for thiee years past, it can be seen that Mr. Johnson is even more for- midable to the Radicals out of the White House than he is in, and already, in an ticipation of his future assaults, they are beginning to both feel and testify uneasi ness. By reason of his sticking to the Union, lie is not debarred from politics by any test oath now administerable, and thus, with a full course open before him, and the keen remembrance of past in juries to spur him on, we may well look to see him worry the saints to such pur pose that they will be even more dis gusted with him than they are now. As 1 had occasion to meutien in a letter some mouths since, the great unimpeach ed is far from showing the effects of time, and has, to all appearance, years and years of rough political warfare in him yet. Wait but tor a few months, and if he does not open with shot and shell on the weak point of the Radicals— the debt—it will only be becau.se all signs now apparent fail. Towaru the close of the Message is a very handsome piece of satire to the effect that, while Hayti and San Domin go seem to be trying to establish Repub lican Governments, “It is, indeed, a question of grave consideration whether our recent and present example is hot calculated to check the growth and ex pansion of free principles, and make those communities distrust, if not dread, a Government which at will consigns to military domination States that are in tegral parts of our Federal Union, and, while ready to resist any attempts by other nations to extend to this hemis phere the monarchical institutions of Europe, assumes to establish over a large portion of its people a rule more absol ute, harsh, and tyrannical than any known to civilized powers.” Considering* that Hayti and Sau Do mingo are mere mobs of warring negroes who do everything toward one another, save actual cannibalism, that is ferocious, the idea of saying they are disgusted with “the best Government the world ever saw,” is a pretty severe thrust at the pride and vain-glory of “God’s people.” The departmental reports accompany ing this remarkable .Message sing but one song, and that is more money an.’ more troops, with bankruptcy at the e n d of it. As of special interest South \* may be mentioned that in these report Meade says he wants more power to ij] terfere in civil affairs in the Department of the South, or the five “successfully re constructed” States of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama while in Mississippi, which is not roeom structed at all, Gen. Gillem reports that there is no use for troops, that the civil courts are administering justice, and that there is a fine crop, worth about s3o OOChOOO. Virginia, too, another mire, constructed State, is represented as need ing no more soldiery, while from every where else the satraps, and pashas, and tetrarchs of the army are sending llp a yell for more bayonets. In financial matters the total amount of the debt, to date appears in round num bers as $2,550,000,000, and the Secre tary of the Treasury virtually “gives it ’ up ;” the Director of the Miut recom mends that the branch mints at Char lotte, N. C., New Orleans, and Dahlone ga, Ga., be discontinued; and the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue sets down the expense of collecting the revenue as increasing and the amount of revenue steadily decreasing. All 0 f which goes to show that military Govern ment breaks itself down, and that justice in a Government, like honesty 'among individuals,*is always the best policy. The temper of Congress is worse, if possible, than before, and the most sig nificant circumstance about this increased malignity is that it is a fair index to the disposition of the new Congress which meets in March, most of the present Radical members being re-elected to that. As to Grant, nothing is to be looked for from him. Public sentiment here seems pretty well settled down that he will either go with the ultras of his own free will, or, that failing, be tricked or whipped back into the traces. A learned argument was lately had in the Supreme Court on the constitution ality of the legal tender act, or to say whether it is lawful for Congress to com pel a creditor to take a depreciated greenback dollar in full payment for a dollar due him in silver or in gold. The unconstituticnality of the thing is evi dent, but it is stated that on grounds of “policy” the Court will not so decide. In the course of the argument by counsel, the other day, quite a handsome compli ment was paid the ability and honesty of the Confederate Government in its re fusal to make its Treasury notes a legal tender. Speaking of the wrong done by any Government which forced a paper money into use as legal tender, one of the learned counsel said: “Upon this point no illustration could be more instructive than the history of the paper of the Confederate Government. Treasury notes were authorized by that Congress?, (Acts No. 58, March 9, 1861; No. 311, December 19, 1861,) were made receivable for taxes and public dues, (except import duties,) and were the general circulation of those States from their first issue till the final subju gation of the authority by which they were issued ; always declining in value, but always reeivable at a value fully pro portionate to their chances of ultimate redemption. And this though never made a legal tender. Nay, although by law the right to insist upon payments in gold and silver remained, it was very rare for any one to assert the right. Yew contracts were made in these notes ; their gradual depreciation alleviated the looses to creditors by distributing that deprecia tion through a series of creditors. Yow and then a creditor refused to take them and discharge the security for some specific debt, and was left to hold his se curity. But these cases were few: sher iffs received these notes upon execution, damages were assessed in them upon trials, and, except in rare and unusual instances, they performed every service they could have performed had they beeu made a legal tender. They fluctua ted in a ratio with the success of the Confederate arms, as did our notes. And they are a standing illustration , for r time , of how a people can put Herr tad man into the field, and sacrifice tncu' last dollar, without issuing inclul'gene's to one man to appropriate the prop I’l 1 ’ 1 ' 1 : of another without consideration .’ When the bar of the Supreme Court holds up to that tribunal in correctie met the errors perpetrated by the fanatics who warred upon the South, the wise an", statesmanlike course of that very Soum, iu a matter of cognate bearing, one r led to feel anew that, sooner or later, the good of the Lost Cause will emerge Loir the dust of defeat, and shine radiant in the light of victory. Truth never di< > . it is as little moved by hard words a> ’ * everlasting* hills, and, like the fm though barren in the winter, biotic beautiful in the spring time, since In good seed is there. Tyrone Povk '•