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NEW VORK CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER FROM TYRONE POWERS
The war question, like most of the issues
arising under this dhgracefully inefficient
administration, is a failure. The Grant
papers are even now endeavoring to make
it appear that all the loud threats of a few
weeks since ware hot threats at all, hut
merely dignified remonstrance, and that
the Government is still “on that line.”
But the truth is that the factionaries now
in power at Washington Jiavt, quailed be
fore the imminent prospect of hostilities.
Grant, personally, has been so true to his
bull-dog repute as to be willing and anxious
to fight, but the moneyed men have held
him back, the difficulties of a war appear
ing, on a thorough survey of the question,
to be appalling. It was discovered that
the Canadians, especially of the French
descent, would fight most desperately
against any annexation to the United
States, and, while the British Government
would not at first assist them, it was
deemed highly probable that the resist
ance of the colonists and their appeals to
the mother country would stir up such a
popular sentiment in England as would
force the Ministry to back them with the
strength of the Empire. It is also in evi*
dence that the Emperor Napoleon is ex
ceedingly sure upon the Mexican question,
and that peremptory demand from Wash
ington that the French troops should be
withdrawn, a circumstance which in the
end led to heaping on the Emperor the ig
nominy of defeat and the popular reproach
of being the occasion of the Archduke
Maximilian’s death. Beyond this, there
are some fears for the colony of Martinque
if the W est India islands are to be left at
the mercy of aggression from Washington.
In the Cuba matter, it was discovered that
Spain would not only fight herself but in
all probability receive assistanoe from Eng
land and France. There are even some
suspicions that there may be a tripartite
alliance already of this nature, and the
idea gains color from the very favorable
reception met by the new Spanish loan on
the London ’Change,as also by the readiness
of the Paris bankers to oblige the Duke de
Montpensier, the presumptive King of
Spain. In addition to these disturbing cir
cumstances, there are indications that the
Mex'cans are not partial to the idea of an
nexation and that the church influence
would be exerted to provoke hostilities
against the TJaited State?, in case our
worthy braggarts at Washington were to
get into a war and become hard pushed by
England, France, and Spain. Counting
up these troubles you will perceive
that a foreign war involves hos
tilities from England, France, aud
Spain, a stiff resistance on the North
by the Canadians, and on the Southwest a
disposition in Mexico to strike the Grant
administration at the first favorable
moment. Beside all this array there is yet
another contingency and that is this: That,
if war were once to begin, there is no tell
ing how soon the South might “take a
hand in it,’ to rid herself of the beastly
so-called governments now, by the grace
of the bayonet, existent in her borders.
Just now, it is not thought there is much
probability of any trouble on that account,
but were the drums to beat and the guns
to roar, and blood to flow, and the sound
of battle to be heard in the land and on
the sea, who could say how long it wou'd
be ere those who have been so wronged,
outraged, cheated, maligned and oppress
ed would seek, by the cold steel, that redress
it is idle to expect from Northern magna
nimity or justice. Taking all these things
together it ; will be seen that a foreign war
would be apt to leap forthwith into the
hugest proportions, no matter how small
its beginning were it once ventured in.
On the sea, the triple French. Spanish
and English navies would sink all before
them, and on the land, the Northern
States, facing Canada as the base
of hostile operations on the one side, and a
possible alliance of Mexico and the South
on the other, would have a hard time of
it. Great as is the 1 ankee nation it could
hardly stand this kind of trituration be
tween the upper and nether mill-stone,
and accordingly it is that the war talk is
very feeble now, and bumble-pie—dis
guised and decorated, but still humble
pie —is a frequent dish in the Northern
press. f
Those of your readers who have visited I
this city may remember, an old hospital on
Broadway, which, with* its antique stone
walls and pleasant greensward and trees
about it, presented a striking contrast to
the adjacent busy haunts of trade. This
is the old Marine Hospital, instituted over
an hundred years ago by the good Queen
Anne, and ordained to be a refuge for the
maimed and sick in perpetuam, there be
mg but one condition annexed to the
possession of the grounds, and that to the
eneet that sea-faring men in need oi medi
cal assistance were always to be received
and tended free. For a century and
more the charity has been a very min
istering angel in this communi
ty? but now the accursed spirit
ot avarice, which spares naught,is encroach
ing on the hospital,and will ere long entire
ly engross its place. The old trees in front
ot the building have been feUed, and the
greensward is being carted off, in order
tiiat the foundations of warehouses may
09 odd up to the very door of the hos
b; tai * The building itself is, for the pres
ent sale, but will, no doubt, be soon
swept away to make more room for mer
chants and their wares. From the fact
that the old hospital is the only institution
of the kind in that portion of the city,
where accidents are most lively to occur,
there has been great opposition to this as
sault upon it, but the almighty dollar
wants the few feet of ground heretofore
sacred to suffering humanity, and must
have them, while suffering humanity is to
be carried a journey of six miles to the
next nearest asylum and die, for want of
speedy medical assistance on the way.
But “Progress,” Progress forever!
What’s suffering humanity, what the
broken bone v the lacerated sinew, the
bleeding wound, what charity, aid, sympa
thy, and all that good Samaritan bosh to
the making of a dollar and a half! Down
with the hospital and up with the store.
A curious controvery now agitates the
city courts as to whether ghosts can be
photographed. It is claimed by a certain
spiritualist that he can take any living
person’s picture and at the same time pre
sent upon the card the faint outline re
semblance of any deceased friend or rela 0
tive the sitter may wish to have conjured
up. Some of these spirit photographs I
have seen and they are ceitainiy curious
enough. One is of a young man sitting in
a chair and above him the shade of another
man looking upon him. Still another is
that of a widower seated by a table and
the ghost of what is said to be his deceased
wife—and a very fine, plump, personable
ghost she is—leaning carelessly over him.
The opponents of the worthy who pro
duces these pictures maintain that the
same effects can be produced by merely
chemical means, and it goes to sustain
their view that the ghost professor will
not allow anybody to inspect his mode of
photography. The suit against him is
brought on the ground that he is a deceiver
of the public, and hence under the statute
against obtaining money by trick and de
vice. The case is fiercely contested, the
ghost man having many spiritualist friends
who swear point-blank to having seen
spectres and even talked with them, and
as the other side have seen no apparitions,
the weight of affidavit is with the trader in
dead men’s shades.
That negro, who finds some white men
poor-spirited enough to call him Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana, was on the Stock
Exchange in Wall street the other day
and there duly revered by the loil Shyloeks
of that ilk. What the buck said and
what the brethren said are duly set forth
in the papers, and will be read, doubtless,
with interest by the historian when he
shall consider that singular tendency to
monerelism which characterizes the trooly
loil of this day.
Boutwell does not meet acceptance as
Secretary of the Treasury at the hands of
the Wail Street financiers, always except
ing that particular “ring” thereof which
owns the Government and runs it to its
own private gain. On the Ist of May,
some $30,000,000 in gold arc to be dis
bursed from the Treasury as interest on
the bonds, and yet on the top of this the
Secretary advertises he will receive pro
posals to buy gold out of the balance left
in the Treasury. The tendency of this is
to produce the appearance of a glut and
run gold down. Then the “ring” will
buy, strip the market, run gold up and sell
—a neat operation destined to rob some
body to no little extent.
In any political calculations looking very
far into the future it would not be amiss to
take into considertion what effect it would
have to see Dolfax in the Presidential chair.
There are rumors here that Grant is des
perately worried by office-seeking and that
the anxiety superinduced thereby has an
injurious effei ton his health. “Grief in
glass bottles is apt to kill.
Tyrone Powers.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle & Sentinel.
SAINT LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE BANNER OF THE SOU 1 11.
St. Louis, Mo., May, 1869.
Editor Banner.
Os all the isms of the age “woman suf
frage” is the most detestable; and of ail
the people on whom this abomination is
inflicted, we of St. Louis are the most to
be pitied. Our parlors are full of it,
our rostrums are full of it, our Churches
are full of it. The “strong-minded uns”
meet periodically and take vengeance.
Women, they say, must have their
“rights,” although such can he secured
only by the sword. All men are wolves
in sheeps clothing—monsters —tyrants!
Women can’t be divorei and without sub
mitting to the procedure «•{' a court; wo
men are compelled by marriage to merge
their names into their husbands; children
take the name of their father instead of
their mother! Horrible grievances!
0 tempora ! 0 mores]
“Loir legislators at Washington revel
in drunkeness and debauchery while the
poor working-man starves unnoticed.
“The best government the world eversaw”
has been our lot for eight years, and jet
our mechanical and laboring population
are unemployed and unfed. How many
noble souls lias poverty driven from the
path of rectitude and precipitated into
everlasting iufamy! If St. Louis and
other large cities kept a diary, how
many scenes of the most heart sickening
destitution would be published to the
would!
The hopes which many hopeful people
entertained regarding the late “coming
MISS® ©I HUB Sffilim.
man” are blasted by his “coining.”
People might have know that were
he a Ximenes or a Halifax, he could
effect nothing for the country’s good
while in the hands of such unprincipcd
demagogues as have debauched the
United States Government during the
past eight years. And who within the
limits of St. Louis should be ignorant of
the character of Gen. Grant? Near this
city he resided for several years and
displayed those qualities which go to
make a “slave to the powerful and a
tyrant to the poor.” And when Dame
Rumor never even hinted that he
posessed his one good quality —that of
providing for his family.
From a conviction that the Editor ol
the “ Banner of the South the chief of
Catholic Editors—is overrun wihtii cor
respondence, and from fear of being
wafted into the waste basket I will occu
py no more of your valuable space this
week. Yours Truly,
HIPrOCRATES.
FATHER RYAN AND HIS LECTURE
[From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.]
Last night, with hundreds of the fairest
and best of this city, we took our seat in
“Davis Hall,” to hear and see that re
markable man, Father Ryan—the holy,
devoted man of God, and one of the
brightest and dearest sons of the South.
And, as is often the case, our prefigured
ideal of the man was sadly at fault.
Upon the Reverend Father’s introduc
tion in a few most appropriate words
from our gallant and popular friend,
Gen. W. S. Walker, we had before us a
man who, in all his presence and physi
cal characteristics, made a most profound
impression upon every being present.
The speaker with a grave, not to say,
solemn, aspect, slowly, and evidently in
great physical prostration, rather shuffled
than walked to the footlights. In the
pause of a full minute, at least, before he
uttered a word, we had time to survey
the strange and almost weird look and
aspect of the orator. Father Ryan
is about five feet nine or ten
inches in height, and with fleecy hair in
a pile of cork-screw ringlets, banked up
above a high and somewhat retreating
forehead, and falling in a wavy mass
down his shoulders; and pale and
delicate of feature, we never beheld but
one man upon a platform whose whole
physique so wo.i upon the attention and
the sympathy of an audience. That man
ouv readers all know, is no other than
Alexander II Stephens. Father Rj’an’s
voice is clear and so peculiarly incisive,
that when he uttered a word that he
meant to do so, cut to the very bone like
a lancet, Had he only the happy organ
that some men have, and could modulate
his voice, his pathetic passages would
overburthen and almost break the heart.
We thought so at least, when like the
psalmist of the sepulchre he told in
broken accents the sufferings of his
people. Father Ryan was not logical—
or at least there was no attempt at any
thing like statement to be followed by
inference and the conclusion, that are
the boast and pride of the hard and
merely aggressive chopper of logic.
But he was something far more and
far nobler than all this ever could be.
He came witli anew and grand Iliad to
deliver of flic deeds and sufferings of a
conquered people, and with a message of
hope and encouragement, which lie
uttered like a prophet. We have hinted
already that not in some things deemed
essential by many to a great speech, was
Father Ryan’s effort great. Not, for
instance, in the manner, or even pre
eminently in the matter of that speech.
But in the really essential part of his
mission, in the vindication of faith, in
the loftly love and self-sacrifice of the
principled man, who, # in the defense of
faith and principle, would “wrestle with
the martyr for his stake, and bless
Heaven for the fi tme.” Father Ryan
was subiime.
There was not a soul in all the throng
who listened in wrapt attention, who
was not perfectly sure that rather than
bate one breath or soften one word of all
the message of truth he came to utter,
then that pale, fragile form that stood
before them would have walked bare
foot and with a chain round his neck to
the burning stake. “Ton may, said he
kill men for maintaining principles, but
thank Heaven, the principles, arc beyond
your touch. You may trample into
dust or bury the weak, but you had as
well try to hide away in the grave the
light of Heaven as the truth of Heaven.”
There was no acrimony in a word that
fell from Father Ryan’s lips; not a look
betokening the least uncharitableness,
but when he spoke of those who break
ing down iu their faith in truth, fled to
policy and wordly devices, the orator
stood before his audience looking so un
daunted and so grandly good, that by
contrast the men he characterized were
most pitiably dwarfed and condemned
We are not unmindful, neither was the
eloquent orator, of the almost certain
censure and misrepresentation that will
be uttered of the words and spirit of the
lecture. But Father Ryan emphatical
ly discountenanced all violence and coun
selled all patience of wrongs and injustice
He said more than onee tiiat he himself
held no one in the world responsible for
his views of the “Lost Cause”—its sup
porters, or its future impressions on
history and society. We have very im
perfectly, we are aware, among the mul
tiplicity of cur duties and the pressure
on our times, reported this most impres
sive lecture. Its effects will be long
felt, not like the hostile speeches made
agamst the South by the cloth, in heart
burnings and in all uncharitableness,
but in its ennobling lessons of endurance
and sacrifice for conscience and country’s
sake—in its teachings that something be
sides material good makes the true
nobility of men and nations—in its ex
ample of sublime courage. No one for
tunate enough last night to have hung
upon Father Ryan’s uiteranee could have
gone away without renewed purposes to
be a better man and a truer patriot.
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The Freemasons. What They Are—
What They Do— What They are
Aiming At. From the Frencii of Mgr.
Segur, author of “ Plain,Talk,” etc.
Boston : Published by Patrick Dona
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This is a translation of a very inter
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It is an exposition of Freemasonry, cr
rather, a condemnation of it, founded on
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The editor of the American edition says
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This is an admirable compilation of
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11. Daybreak (continued).
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IV. Heremore Brandon; or the For
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VI. Two Months in Spain during the
Late Revolution.
VII. Pope or People.
VIII. Emily Laider (concluded).
IX. The Irish Church Act of 1869.
X. My Mother’s Only Son.
XT. Catholicity and Pantheism.
XII. Aubrey de Vere in America.
XIII. About Several Things.
XIV. A Chinese Husband’s Lament
for his Wife.
XV. A Mayflower.
XVI. New Publications.
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H. W. A , Gadsden, S. C.—The letter
was received and published.
H. P. H., Griffin, Ga., says : “ I do
not wish to trouble or annoy you with
my importunity or praise, but wish you
to know that I appreciate the Banner so
highly that I am not willing to lose even
a single number. I missed one last
year, and have felt, ever since that a hiatus
existed iu my life of that week. I have
been taught Protestantism and have
grown grey under its ministration; nev
ertheless, I reverence the grand Old
Church which, though it may have its
errors, sits in the seat of Peter, to whom
was given by his Master and its Founder
the key, or perhaps keys, of the Kingdom
of Heaven. lam not, in Pope’s language,
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Faith,” believing “his can’t be wrong
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