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4 WILLIAM RANKIN, Publisher. 180 Bay Street. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, OOT’B 23,1875. AVGNTN FOR THK SOUTHERN CROHN. Rr. C. C. Pbendkboabt, Augusta, G. W. Mahoky, Atlanta, Ga. B. Fitzgerald, Macon, Ga. E. O’Connell, Macon, Ga, R. R. Dorb, Rome, Ga. Ja.b A. Benson, Washington, Ga. R. O'Neill, Dalton, Ga. J. Stod Bykrh, Gainesville, Ga. P. Grogan, Americus, Ga. Thomas Deionan, Columbus, Ga. C. B. Munday, Milledgeville, Ga. M. 0. Sullivan, Albany, Ga. Michael O'Brien, Hawkinsville, Ga. Edward Cboake, Hheron, Ga. Mr. Sullivan, P. M., Sandersville, Ga. F. McCarthy, Brunswick, Ga. P. Tbesnon, Athens, Ga, Dr. L. B. Pacetti, St. Augustine, Fla. Geo. Magee, Jacksonville, Fla, P. Kelly, Fernandina, Fla. Jno. 0. Masters, Lake City, Fla. R. R. Reid, Palatka, Florida. Paul Weedman, Toccoi, Fla. Rev. Mark 8. Gross, Wilmington, N. C. W. 0. McDonough, Haslam’s Station, A. & G. R. R. L, W. Dunn, Millett's Station, Port Royal R. R. Any of our subscribers, in the city or country, failing to get their papers, will please report the same to this office. The Southern Cross can be procured every week from the following news deal ers at ten cents per copy: Doyle & Bro., E. M. Connor, Win. Estill, Jr., and Frank Molina. Advertisements for the Southern Cross should be handed in by eleven o’clock Thursday morning. •UR TRAVELING AW KMT AMU (IHIIIHN PONDENT. Mr. George W. Norman is now in Columbia, S. C. We commend him to the kindness of our friends in Carolina. TUB CALENDAR. Sunday, October 24.—Twenty-third after Pentecost. Monday, October 25.—St. Chrysauthus and Dario, Mm. Tuesday, October 26.—St. Evaristus. Wednesday, October 27.—Virgil of SS. Simon and Jude, Apostles. Thursday, October 28. SS. Simon and Jude, Apoftlea. Friday, October 26.—0f the same, sinfl, Saturday, October 30.—Virgil of all Saints. THE EIiETTIOM IN OHIO. “*"Wt'the last election inUhio, the people of that State have spoken in a manner which cannot be mistali en. Gov. Allen, and with him the whole Democratic ticket, have been defeated by large majorities. During the whole campaign in that State, the Democrats reckoned to carry the State victoriously, at least to reseat Gov. Allen in the gubernatorial chair and to increase the number of their partisans in the House of Assembly. The Democratic organs of that State sounded the note of victory before hand, and even the Republican and Radical press in Ohio saw no chance to elect their candidates. Hence the sur prise of both parties at the result of the elections. There are, however, some causes at the bottom of the whole, which it is well worth while to consider, as they show perfectly well in what direction the wind blows at present. We hear indeed, that ballot-box stuffing, illegal voting, repeating importing of voters from other States, and what all the election tricks are, have been resorted to by the Radical party, and we doubt not a moment that all this machinery has been put in motion; the question of Inflation and Contraction of the currency is assigned as another reason of the Democratic defeat. Let those, who are satisfied with every dodge, console them selves with reasons as those given; for us, we avow, they are “too thin,” Ballot box stuffing, repeating, etc., are tricks so often used,that they are now nearly used up; and, besides, Democrats were well aware that their opponents would resort to them, and consequently they could guard against them. It is ridiculous to represent Democrats as so wholly innocent and green in the mani pulation of the political engine, as to be always caught in such traps whenever they loose an election. As for Infla tion and Contraction, there are inflation ists and contractionists in both parties; the bankers and money kings in Wall street, New York, as well as those of the West, are contractionists, because, it is to their advantage, that the heaps of paper-money are brought up to a par value, whilst, tradesmen and the laboring class of people, of whom thou sands are thrown out of employment, and cannot And the mere necessaries of life, go in for an increase of currency, i. e. Inflation. Hence we must look for deeper causes for the surprising result of the Ohio election! The Ohio cam paign was conducted and the Radical victory won on “Know-Nothing” princi ples aided by secondary causes. Radi calism, tottering to its very foundations, , and having disgusted the great majority of American voters by its political blun ders, its oppression and corruption, of which it is reeking from the Indian Territory to the Atlantic ocean, and from the Gulf to the Lakes, had commenced to be discarded by the people, who be gan to look up again to the old time honored principles of Democrocy, as to their safeguards in their political trou bles and evils. Radicalism has in the beginning been fathered by political parsons and fanatical preachers, hence it looked to its parentage for an alley in time of its death-struggle, and it found him too. In the original “Know-Noth ing” movement, the rallying cry has been “America for Americans,” now it is “America for Protestants.” Therefore right at the beginning of the Ohio cam paign a league was formed, whose members were not simple Protestants, but outspoken enemies of the Catholic Church. The leaguers were furnished with circulars, (we ourselves have seen such an one, but did not think at the time worth while to preserve it,consider ing it simply an ebulition of insane fa naticism) addressed to Protestants of all denominations without regard of the country they came from, offering them membership of the league, if they only promised under oath to oppose the Catholic Church, to exclude Catholics from positions of public trust and emolu ment and to uphold the Public School system as it is. We need not say here, how utterly op posed such a league is to the spirit and principles of true Americanism, how our forefathers would have spurned such un-American sentiments. Since when, thei}_, is America a Protestant country ? Neither the federal constitution, nor the constitutions of individual States know anything of an American Protestant country, or religion. It is therefore this new Know-Nothingism under the zeal fer Rreiastaiirism, frhich, uniting fanatical Protestants as well as Infidels, and the cast-out Revolutionists of Europe, under the one banner of hatred of the Catholic Church, has de feated the Democracy of Ohio. But in order not to deceive our readers we are reluctantly forced to acknowledge that the Catholics are partly to blame for this reverse. There are amongst the Catholics, unfortunately, too many poli ticians and office seekers, who have at tached themselves mostly to the Demo cratic party. If those men, in seeking and occupying offices had observed the rules of Catholic doctrines and morals, they might have given an healthy tone and character to the party they belonged to, and they might have made their Church and Religion respected by their fellow-citizens of other persuasions. But, unfortunately, they set their religious conscience aside replacing it by that of the politicians to the disgust of their co-relig ionists and fellow-citizens. Another cause we must admit to be the imprudence of some of our Catholic journalists, their extravagance and un charitable and unjust polemics. There is, for instance, the School question. We are indeed no friend of the present sys tem of Public instruction, we admit it to be faulty in many ways, we deeply deplore the want of religious training which it offers to the youth; we maintain also that Catholics are fairly and justly entitled to a quota of the school fund, if the State at all levies, taxes for educa tional purposes. .But, at the same time, it is impossible for us to see in our Public Schools, a curse, nor can we see that our just rights can be obtained, if they are maintained by abuse of public authorities and extravagant claims. The American mind goes in for fair play and fair dealing; we have a perfect right to propose our claims and to maintain our rights before the forum of an equitable people, but we can never brow-beat them to yield by extravagant and bitter words. Hence, journalists of that kind do more harm than good to the Catholic oause, they furnish the weapons to our oppo nents. These appear to us to be the causes of the result in Ohio, and we are very much afraid that this is the begin ning of serious political and religious troubles. THE S()UT BE W CROSS. FIAT MIX T In his St. "A’fyustine ac cuses himself of tfe following: “When I eamero discover the truth about the Catholic faith, I mingled joy and blushes—l was ashamed that I had, for so many clamoring and raffing, not at true and saving faith, but only at the . Actions of my carnal conceits. For soVash and impious was I, that, those things which I ought first to have learned from the Church by in quiry, I charged upon her by accusation; readier to accept sad impose falsehood than to be infornn/l of truth. Thus I so blindly accused'ljhrist’s Church, now sufficiently clear td me, that she taught none of the opinions I so vehemently re proached her witbA-’ This he did, deliided and urged on by the Manichees; ancjthis do, in this nine teenth century, millions of good and sin cere fellow Christians deceived, and per chance, urged on also by other enemies of the Catholic Church, who are as much interested now, as the Manichees of old, to have her misrepresented. Of the thousands of coWerts^'the majority of whom belong to the highest and most edu cated elasses cf society,w hom the Catholic Church had the consolation to receive in to her bosom, of late years, we dare the world to name one who will not make the avowal of St. Augustine; one who will not confess, with grief in his heart and blushes on his brow, that he had been most completely deceived as to the claims, history, doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. Indeed, calum ny is the chief weapon which the ene mies of the Cathode Church wield against her. So far, we have nqher listened to a ser mon by a non-Catholic expounder of the gospel, or read a sectarian newspa per article on Catholic topics, which did us justice by expressing our tenets as they are. It cannot be our purpose, in the brief: space we allot to ourselves in these col umns, to enumerate, one by one, all the false statements relating to Catholic questions, which those would-be theolo gians, lay and clerical, have indulged in, for the last three hundred years, but our racers are feJlrilAr With Afrs- following: “Catholics pay to the Virgin Mary the worship of 'adoration, which is due to God alone,” says one. Yet the first teaching of our Catechism is that “God alone is to be worshipped with the wor ship of adoration; —and Mary, and any other Saint are simply to be venerated and honored, as creatures venerated and honored by God himself; —and we dare non-Catholios to name any practice of our Church to the contrary. Another will preach or write this: Catholics adore bread and wine in the Saorament.” The truth is, we adore therein Jesus Christ, the second person of the Blessed Trinity. A third learned, from Luther, and re peats after him: “The Pope grants in dulgences, that is licenses to commit sins.” Whereas no indulgence bears on future sins; it is a mere remis sion of the temporal penalty due to sins and is granted to those only who repent and are determined to sin no more. A fourth boldly asserts: “Catho lics are forbidden by their Church to read the Bible.”—And the Bible is in my hands, and in the hands of all good Catholics! And our Church urges us often to read it, yet not the spuri ous version and incorrect translation by order of royal James of England. The Catholic Church has caused editions of the Bible to be published, at the lowest rates, that the poorest of her children may not be deprived of the instructions and consolations which the Holy Ghost has provided for them, in this Holy Book. These and a few more erroneous state ments, concerning oar Church, circulate every day, from one end of the land to the other. What may be the motives of their authors or publishers, we have nei ther the time or wish to asoertam. We would only warn them, en paasanl, that among God’s commandments their is one that reads thus: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh bor.” The great mass of the American people are fair minded, and will not re sort to such performances. They are the work of a few' Jmprinciplod politi cians, and selfish li well as bigoted preachers who, wheM they attack Roman Catholicism, persu fee themselves that they are doing it “pro aris el foeis;” and that, for such a useful purpose all means may be used, fair and foul! Others, and they are not few, do it out of sheer ignorance. From personal experience we know that five, out of six self-made ex pounders of the Gospel, are ignorant, even to childishness,of Catholic questions. Saint Peter has a severe word for such: “Blasphemers of things which ye know not.” The consequence is that, as of old, truth is bound “captive in injustice;” that the idolatry, monstrosities, etc., of Romanism, with which Protestants are made acquainted in their .Sunday-school rooms, in their meeting housM or in the columns of their favorite journal, have no foundation whatever; the objections which sincere inquirers after Religious truth make against the Catholic Church, are altogether groundless. They prove indeed much against the kind of Catho licism taught unto them, but that is a fictitious one, one that has no existence except in the brain of the enemies of true Catholicism. The latter is as far dif ferent from the imaginary or misrepre sented one, of which we have spoken, as white is from black, or day from night. Let our separated brethren, let all sincere Christians seek Catholicism where it is, in Catholic Churches, and in Catholic publications, and they will not gainsay us. Should one wish to know the true principles of a certain political party, he would not be satisfied with what the opposite party will state of them; even so in religious questions; aye, more prudence is demanded in these, for they are to political ones what Heaven is to Earth. We conclude: the enemies of the Catholic Church cannot be relied upon, for an exact exposition of her doctrines or practices. Let her be hoard in her own cause. Let her state what she demands from in tellects and wills, and then we may de cide more safely, whether she is entitled to our belief and submission, or not. WliafT we ask for her is naught but light. Fiat lux —light, and light more abundant, as the Saviour says. Let all see her as she is in reality. Says iialnies: * i Wf “Catholicity displays a bright array of illustrious men, crowned with the glo ries they have won amidst the unani mous plaudits of all civilized nations That, which is born of light, cannot pro duce darkness; that, which is the work of truth itself, need not fly from the sun’s rays to conceal itself in the bowels of the earth. The Daughter of Heaven may walk in the brightness of day; may dare discussion; may gather around her all the brightest intellects, well assured that the more closely and attentively they see and contemplate her, the more pure, the more beauteous and enrapturing will she appear.” This was the conclusion of St. Augus tine also, and of many a prodigal son, who has returned to the one true fold of the one true shepherd—the Holy Cath olic and Apostolic Church. UNITY AND UNION. There are no two words in our lan guage more confused in their meaning popularly, and consequently more inter changeably misapplied at the present time, than the two at the head of this ar ticle. The oneness, the homogeneity of unity, is constantly confounded with the mere junction by union. Unity means the state of being one, having the same nature, the same constitution or native state, whether in material substance or in idea. Union, on the other hand, im plies simply the joining or holding to gether two "or more things or ideas, whether similar or dissimilar, by an ex traneous or foreign bond. Unity is identity. Union merely adhesiveness. An unbroken stick of timber is a unit. The same stick broken and scarfed to gether, is no longer a unit, but a union of broken pieces. Its identity is de stroyed. The original elements consti tuting oneness have been ruined, and the pieces are held to each other only by the strength of the extraneous bond or scarf joint. So with an idea. It must be identically the same, and voluntarily so, in the minds of all who entertain it towards the object of the idea, to consti tute unity of thought, of desire, or of purpose. Any variation from the one idea, or compulsion, destroys its iden tity, and the minds thus varying, may be held by extraneous pressure,fcjin union, but no longer in unity. Hence, it is that in religion, in politics, and in the com mon affairs of life, unity is a positive, enduring strength, while union is merely a concord only for such time as the out side pressure that produced it shall con tinue. For instance, the Congress convened in Philadelphia, in July, 1776, was a unit in resistance to the oppression of the British Government and in its purpose to free the respective colonies represent ed there, from British tyranny. The same oneness in idea influenced the Convention of 1787, to frame for the col onies freed, a “more perfect union.” The idea entertained by the delegates was identical. It was voluntarily entertained. The means for carrying out the idea va ried with different judgments in conven tion, and in no manner affected the idea itself. The same idea, of a “more per fect union,” influenced the voluntary adoption by the States, of the Constitu tion prepared. So far, the idea of the several States, was a unit, identical, vol untary. The Constitution became the oommon property of all the States, as the representation of the one national senti ment that produced it. It was, so to speak figuratively, the one stick of tim ber in its entirety. But, in the course of time, unwise and unscrupulous politi cians bored so manv holes- into it, that its * *1 integrity became ujitfl rup ture ensued. The pith of the timber, the one idea of “a more perfect union,” was destroyed, and as a consequence, separation followed. War was instigated to scarf the pieces together, and suc ceeded, and now they are jointed by the extraneous influence of force. Unity no longer exists, though union remains. A scarf joint, however, is not necessa rily a weak one. With judgment, the stick may be made very nearly as strong as before, and the strength of the pres ent union of the States will depend upon •the judiciousness and nicety with winch the joint was made. It can be so closely drawn that only a powerful microscope can detect it. Unfortunately, unskilled and unfaithful workmen have been em ployed, so far, on the job. Unskilled in ' tIR- science of goverXmenJ, and ful to the laws of God and to the obliga tions of honor. The approaching Cen tennial may, perhaps, bring out better men and better measures. The South ern States may be relieved of carpet baggers in the Federal offices and in the State governments, and the Southern people enjoy their own again in the Union. If not, the scarf joint won’t hold longer than the extraneous power lasts.—And here we cannot help asking, Did any one ever hear of a carpet-bag ger or a scalawag who was a Catholio ? THK REPUBLIC IN FRANCE. The most popular pastime in Europe, now-a-dayß, seems to be the changing of Govermental systems. Within the last twenty years we had any number of changes. We had new empires made out of old States—patched together with so little regard for homogeneity that it is not a cause for great surprise if the dis cordant parts of the inharmonious whole would display, as occasion presents, signs of the incompatibility of temperament ruling within. We had also new king doms and dictatorships, established either for the gratification of some nomi nally popular caprice of the moment, or for the wiser and more commendable purpose of restoring order, tranquility, and national prosperity to the several States in whose interest, real or fancied, those changes were inaugurated. France, Catholic France, furnishes the latest instance of this desire for change. The memory of the Empire, of the Bona parte dynasty, and the reminiscence of the monarchies of the Bourbon Kings, have separately faffed to cancel the de sires or to suppress the aspirations which yearned for the reputed superiori ty of the Republic. For France, then, the Republic is the dream of the immediate future—the dream of the period elapsing previous to the time when the returning aspirations for Imperial or royal rule shall possibly and probably dissipate all the affection for the Democratic system now adopted. But with the various political establish ments now obtaining in the different quarters of the civilized world we, as Catholics, have little to do. The Church is left alone, if unobstruoted in her of fice, can flourish under anj and all of them. To Catholics, as such, it is of lit tle consequence under what form of gov ernment they live, so long as the civil power confines itself to its appropriate jurisdiction. In the United States, wherein it was confidently predicted that the Churoh would wither away and