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VOL. 111.
Literary Curiosity.
Mrs. A. A. Dealing, of San Francisco,
is said to have occupied a year in hunt
ing up and fitting together the following
thirty-eight lines from thirty-eight Eng
lish poets. The names of the authors
are given below in the order in which
the lines occur:
Why ail this toil for triumphs of an
hour ?
Life’s a short summer, man a flower;
By turn we catch the vital breath and
die;
The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.
To be is better far than not to be,
Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy.
But light cares speak when mighty griefs
are dumb,
The bottom is but shallow whence they
come.
Your fate is but the common fate of all;
l nmingled joys, here to no man befall.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere,
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
Custom does not often reason overrule,
And thiows a cruel sunshiue on a fool.
Live well how long or short permit to
Heaven;
They who forgive most shall be most
forgiven.
Sin may be clasped so close we cannot
see its face—
ile intercourse where virtue has no
place.
Then keep each passion down, however
dear;
Thou pendulum, betwixt a smile and
tear.
His sensual snares let faithless pleasuro
lay,
\\ ith craft and skill, to ruin and betray.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to
rise,
e master grow cf all that we despise.
0, then renounce that impious self-esteem;
Kickes have wings and grandeur is a
dream.
Think not ambition wise because ’tis
brave;
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
hat is ambition ’tis glorious cheat,
Only destructive to the brave aad great.
W hat’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown ?
ihe way to bliss lies noton beds of down.
How long we live, not years, but actions
tell;
That man lives twice who lives the first,
life well.
Make, then, while yet we may, your God
your friend,
Whom Christians worship, yet not com
prehend.
The trust that’s given guard and to
yourself be just,
For live wo how we can, yet die we must.
YouDg, Johnson, Pope, Prior, Sewell,
Spencer, Daniel, Raleigh, Longfellow,
Southwell, Congrove, Churchill, Roches
ter, Armstrong, Milton, Bailey, Trench,
Somerville, Thompson, Byron, Smollett,
Crabbe, Massenger, Crowley, Beattie,
Cowper, Davenant, Grey, Willis, Addi
son, Cryden, Quarles, Watkins, Herrick,
Wiu. Mason, Hill, Dana, Shakspeare.
wum
Hon. Judge Slocks, cf Greene county,
has raised lemons in his garden of a large
size and fine quality.
From the Catholic World.
Early Jesuit Missions in
Maryland.
In the month of March, in the year
1G34, the Catholic cavaliers of England,
after a long and perilous voyage, landed
and took solemn possession of Maryland,
where they were to establish their home
and rear an empire. It was the Feast
of the Annunciation of the Blessed Vir
gin ; Mass was offered, after which a pro
cession was formed, led by the Governor
and chief officers of the new colony, car
rying on their shoulders an immense
cross, which they planted on the shore,
while the Litany of the Holy Cross was
devoutly sung.
The colonists were delighted with their
choseu home in the wilderness. Although
so early in the season, the woods were
vocal with the songs of many birds, the
air mild and balmy as June, and the
earth covered with every variety of
rich and brilliant wild flowers. They
were grateful to God for the beautiful
land which he had given them.
The ships which brought these Catho
lic pilgrims to Maryland were very ap
propriately name * the Dove anl the Ark
—tor they came bearing the olive branch
rather than the sword—seeking to con
ciliate the Indians by kindness, not to ex
terminate them by war. Protestant his
torians are obliged to acknowledge that
the intercourse of the Catholics of Mary
land with the natives was far more blame
less than that of the Protestants of New
England and Virginia. Maryland was
the only State which was not stained
with the blood of the Indian. These
Catholic colonists purchased the land
which they required; they did not obtain
it by fraud and murder.
The Maryland pilgrims were fortunate
in having such a leader as Leonard Cal
vert, a man who united in a remarkable
degree the wisdom, prudence, and dis
cretion of age with the enterprise,
courage, and daring of youth. The
friendship and confidence of the Indians,
which he soon won by his kindness,' he
retained by a strict fidelity to his
contracts, and a faithful adherence
to his promises. Wehavea remark
able instance ot the early confidence
and friendship of the Indians.. A
few days after the landing of the colo
nists, Governor Calvert gave an enter
tainment to several ot the native chiefs.
Governor Harvey, of Virginia, was also
present. At the feast, the King of the
Patuxents, as a specialjhonor, was placed
between the Governor of Maryland and
the Governor of Virginia. Before this
chieftain returned home, he made a speech
to the Indians, in which he urged
them to be faithful to their engagements
with the English; and, in conclusion,
used this extraordinary language: “I
love the English so well that, if they
should go about to kill me, if I had so
much breath as to speak, I would com
mand the people not to revenge my death;
for I know they would do no suck thing,
except it were through my own fault.”
Os ail that brave band of Cath< lie
gentlemen and Catholic yeomen who
abandoned their ancient homes in Eng
land to establish in America the glorious
principles of civil or religious liberty,
none are more worthy of our admiration
than the two Jesuit Fathers, White and
Altham, who accompanied the expedition
at the request of Lord Baltimore, “to at
tend the Catholic planters and settlers,
and convert tne Dative Indians.” The
colonists came to rear for themselves and
for their children homes in anew and
most delightful land. They came, like
the children of promise, to a land flow
ing with milk and honey. Nature sur
rounded their path with fruits and flow
ers. The Indians received them as bernecs
us a superior order, and invited them to
share their homes and their lands. The
present was bright, and the future pro
mising.
AUGUSTA, GA., OCTOBER 1, 1870.
Those good Fathers came, induced by
no such considerations. They neither
sought nor desired an earthly reward.
Burning with a divine enthusiaam, they
left their .sweet and quiet cloisters, to
labor, and suffer, and die, it might be,
for the salvation of poor ignorant and
unknown savages, liviug in another
hemisphere, thousands of miles away.
Chateaubriand, with a magnificent burst
of admiration, thu9 speaks of the Cathc
-1 c mission:
“Here is another of those grand and
original ideas which belong exclusively
to the Christian religion. The ancient
philosophers never quitted the enchant
ing walks ot Acadamies and the pleasures
of Athens to go, under the guidance of
a sublime impulse, to civilize the savage,
to instruct the ignorant, to cure the sick,
to clothe the poor, to sow the seeds of
peace and harmony among hostile na
tions; but this is what Christians have
done and are doing every day. Neither
oceans nor tempests, neither the ices of
the pole nor the heat of the tropics, can
damp their zeal. They live with the Es
quimaux in his seal-skin cabin: they sub
sist on train-oil with the Greenlander;
they traverse the solitude with the Tar
tar or the Iroquois; they mouut the
dromedary of the Arab, or accompany
the wandering Kaffre in his burning
deserts; the Chinese, the Japanese, the
Indians, have become their converts.
Not an island, not a rock in the ocean,
has escaped their zeal; and a3, of old,
the kingdoms of the earth were inade
quate to the ambition of Alexander, so
the globe itself is too contracted for their
charity.”
Father Andrew White was born in
London, about the year 1579. The odious
laws ot Elizabeth, which denied the ad
vantage ot education to Catholics, were
then in force in England, and young
White was obliged to seek on the Conti
nent the education which was denied him
at home. He entered the English College
at Douay, in Flankers ; and, being
called to the ecclaiastical state, was or
dained in 1604—5. He soon afterwards
repaired to England to assume the glo
rious but dangerous functions of a mis
sionary Priest. In 1606, his name ap
pears in a list of forty-seven Priests “who
were, in different prisons, sent iotoper
petual banishment.”
In the following year, he entered the
Society of Jesus, and after a novitiate of
two years at Louvain, returned to Eng
land, where he labored as a missionary
tor several years. As the penalty was
doath to a Driest who returned to Eng
land after banishment, his life was in
constant danger while he remained in that
country. He was, therefore, recalled to
the Continent, and sent to Spain to assist
in educating English Catholic students
who were qualifying for the sacred min
istry m England. While in Spain, he
tilled the chairs ot Scripture, Scholastic
ikeology, and Hebrew, with distinguish
ed success. lie afterwards taught divini
ty at Louvain and Liege. In Rev. Dr.
Oliver’s Biography of English, Irish,
and Scotch Jesuits, Father White is de
scribed as “a man of transcendent
talents.”
This accomplished Priest, at the first
call of duty, left his books and the pro
fessor’s chair, turned away from those
intellectual pursuits which were so con
genial and.in which he had been so loDg
and so successfully engaged, to bury
kimseli in the wilderness among rude
savages and illiterate peasants, to meet,
perhaps, a martyr’s death. More truly
grand and heroic is such a career than that
of an Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napo
leon, who sacrificed the lives of millions
that men might call them great.
< Father White wrote to the General of
his order in Home an interesting narra
tive of the voyage and landing of the
Maryland pilgrims, with a description of
the country and its native inhabitants.
This rare historical document, together
with the various annual letters written
by the Jesuit missionaries in Maryland,
is preserved in the archives of the Socie
ty of Jesas. They were originally writ
ten in Latin, but have recently been
translated into English, and form a most
valuable contribution to the early history
of Catholic Maryland.
Father White’s Journal furnishes a
very interesting account of the Indians
of Maryland. They are described as a
simple, affectionate, frank, and confiding
race; of a tall, erect, and handsome
stature; living in rude huts, but full of
native dignity; ignoraut of the vices as
well as of the refinements of civilization;
liberal in disposition, grateful, and pos
sessed of a wonderful desire for the cul
ture and arts of the Europeans.
They were neither warlike nor nu
merous, and, with the exception of
the Pascatoes and Susqueliannocks,
neither powerful nor enterprising, only
occupying a very limited extent of ter
ritory. Father White thus speaks of
them:
“When.rulers and Kings are spoken of,
let no one form an august idea of men
such as are the different Princes of Eu
rope. For these Indian Kings, though
they have the most absolute power of life
and death over their people, and in cer
tain prerogatives of honors and wealth
excel others, nevertheless in their per
sonal appearance are scarcely in anything
removed from the multitude. The only
peculiarity by which you can distinguish
a chief from the common people is some
badge, either a collar made of a rude
jewel, or a belt, or a cloak ornamented
with circles of shells. The kingdoms of
these chiefs are generally confined to the
narrow boundaries of a single village and
the adjacent country.”
The Jesuit missionaries began their
pious labors among the Indians soon after
the landing of the colonists. At first,
their ministrations were confined to the
natives who resided in the immediate
neighborhood of the new settlement,
Governor Calvert not deeming it safe for
them to live among the Indians. But in
four or five years the colony had become
so large, and was so generally exteuded
over the province, that it was considered
safe for the missionaries to reside among
the Indians. The Patient tribe gave
bather White a plantation on the Patux
ent river, where he established a mission
ary station, built a store-house, and made
it the starting point for their various ex
peditions into the interior of the country.
Those excursions were generally made by
water, as the Potomac river and the
Chesapeake Bay afforded the most con
venient means of transportation from
place to place.
A father, a servant, and an interpreter
embarked iu a puTuace, carrying’ with
them two chess; one containing bread,
butter, cheese, and other provisions; the
other filled with a variety of articles—a
bottle of wine for the sacrifice of the
Mass; six bottles containing holy water
for baptism; a casket with the sacred
vessels; a small table, or altar ; another
casket full ot beads, bells, combs, fish
hooks, and other trifling things which
the Indians prized, They were also pro
vided with a little tent, which sheltered
them when obliged to sleep in the open
air, and that was very often.
They always endeavored to reach an
Indian village or an English house bv
night, hailing in this, they landed; and
while the father moored the boat to the
shore, collected fuel, and made a fire, the
the others went hunting. The evening
repast over and the evening prayers said,
they laid down by the fire and took their
rest.
tSo early as the year 1639, these de
voted soldiers of the cro-s had extended
their missionary work all through the
country then embraced in the colony of
Maryland. Fuur Priests and one lay
assistant were the only lab rjrs in this
immense vineyard. But their zeal was
equal tO the tusk, and they had the hap
piness of seeing their zealous labors
crowned with success. The piety of the
missionaries, their pure lives, their per
fect self-devotion, filled the minds of the
Indians with respect and wonder. They
pointed out the way of salvation, and
walked the “steep and thorny way” them
selves. They practised the virtues which
they taught, and fully exemplified by
their own lives the truth, the beauty, and
the sanctity of the Gospel which they
preached.
Many tribes were visited, and many
converts made. Four permanent sta
tions were established: one at St. Mary’s,
the seat of the colony; one atMattapany,
one at Kent Island, and one at Kittama
quindi, the capital of the Indian King
Tayac. From these several stations, they
penetrated into the interior ia every di
rection, preaching the truths of Chris
tianity to the savages, and contributing,
by their gentle influence to the peace and
security of the settlement. By making
the Indians Christians, they made them
friends; and thus Maryland was spared
the bloody wars which stained the early
history of all the other American colo.
nies.
This year (1639), Father White took
up his residence with the Pascatoes, or
Patapscoes. Tayac, the King of this
powerful tribe, treated the missionary
with great cordiality, and insisted upon
him residing in his palace. The Queen
showed her attachment to the holy guest,
by preparing meat and bread for him
with her own hands.
The Patapscoes occupied about one
hundred and thirty miles of territory,
lying on both sides of the Patapsco
River. Their chief town, or capital, was
probably on the very spot where Balti
more now stands; if so, the inhabitants
ot that beautiful city are daily walking
over the seat of ancient Indian power and
glory.
Shortly after the arrival of Father
\\ bite, Tayae was seized with a danger
ous sickness. Forty- medicine-men tried
their remedies upon him in vain. At
length, at the request of the sick chief,
Father \\ hite, who added a knowledge of
medicine to his other accomplishments,
prescribed the necessary remedies, and
caused the patient to be bled. He begau
to recover immediately, and in a short
time was perfectly restored to health.
Father White availed himself of this
newly acquired influence to instruct the
King and his family iu the Christian re
ligion. The example and instructions of
the pious missionary produced the most
happy result. Tayae, at a grand council
ot’ his tribe, announced his determina
tion, and that of his family, to adjure
their superstitions, and to worship the
only true God—the God of the Christians.
£oon after, he accompanied Father
Vv bite to St. Mary’s, where his conduct
was most edifying. He desired to be bap
tized immediately; but the good father
deemed it hotter to postpone the cere
mony until the King returned among his
own people, when his family and such
others as were prepared, might be ad
mitted to the sacrameutat the same time.
The sth of July, 1640 was appointed
for this solemn and interesting ceremony
It was made the occasion of a very im
posing display, in order to impress the
minds of the savages with the beauty
and grandeur ot the Christian religion.
In the presence ot Governor Calvert, his
Secretary, many of the principal inhabi
tants ot the province, and a crowd <>f
wondering natives, Tayae, his Queen,
their cuiid, and several of the chief men
ot his council, were solemnly admitted
into the Catholic Church by the regener
ating waters of Baptism. The King re
ceived the name of Charles, in honor of
Charles I. of England; his Queen, that
of Mary. In the afternoon, the King
and Queen were married according to
the rites of the Church. Soon after,
Tayae sent his daughter to St. Mary’s t >
receive a liberal and Christian education.
Great ro«nlts were expected to follow
from iL of Tayae, but he
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