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♦ THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST
LOCAL PEPAKTMKN'I'.
May-Day.
Hail bounteous May ihatdoft inspire
Mirtb, youth, and warm des.re:
Woods’and groves are ot tby dressing.
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.
Thus satig the eloquent Milton, when the
beautiful associations and relevancies of this
memorable day were celebrated in a becoming:
sprit. Among the Romans the month ot May
was sacred to Apollo, and almost every day
was a festival. On the 9ib, 11th, and 13th days
was celebrated the festival of the lemuria in
memory of the dead, and consequently it was
believed that marriages contracted in this month
would soon result fatally. Traces of the same
superstition still exist. From the ancient
Floralia, or festival in honor of Flora, celebra
ted from April 28 to May 2, is perhaps derived
the mediseval and modern custom of observing
May 1 (May-day) with festive and floral rites.
The druids also were accustomed to light large
fires upon the summits of hills on the eve of
May. From the time of Chaucer, references to
May festivities are common in English poetry.
In the “ Knightes Tale," on May morning :
“ Fourth goeth all 'he court, both moete and leete,
To fetebe the floures fresh, and braunch and
biome."
Polydore Vergil says that it was usual to
adorn not only houses and gates, but also
churches, with boughs and flowers. Hall men
tions in his “ Chronicle,” that Henry VIII.
rode a-Maying with Queen Catherine and many
lords and ladies from Greenwich to the high
grounds of Shorter’s hill; and he adds that It
was customary for the citizens of London to
Join together and have their several Mayings,
with May-poles, warlike shows, arches, morris
dances, and other devices. Milton wrote a
song on May morning, and Shakspeare and
Herrick frequently refer to its observance.
Robin Hood and Maid Marian, the Queen of
the May, are associated with the traditions of
May games.
“ Once upon a time" in this section of the
country it was the custom of schools to cele
brate “ May-Day” somewhat after the good old
English fashion. But, alas I the spirit of “pro
gress ” and the eager pursuit of wealth have
swept from social life nearly ail these finer feel
ings. Society is classified into churches, and
cliques, and “ sets the simple "and healthful
recreations of our fathers have given place to
amusements, which, to say the least, are ques
tionable.
The demoralization incident to the great
war, it is true, is not so deplorably deep with
us at the South as it is with our Northern
brethren ; but how long it will te thus, while
we copy from them in matters of fashion and
amusement, is only a question of time, gov
erned by our ability (pecuniarily) to follow
their lead.
We are pleased to record the fact, however,
that there are those among us who still cling
to the memories of this season, if not of the
day itself. The days of pic-nics are at hand.
The children—the bright girls and the frolic
some boys, from whose hearts the rude world
has not yet brushed the fresh dew of innocence
, and faith —these happy creatures enjoy this
season of bursting buds and fragrant flowers ;
they join in the joyous laugh and merry dance,
or the more meditative stroll through the
grove—the “ temple built by God ” —where
“ He spread its pavement green and bright,
And curtained it with morning light.”
Here they lift to heaven the unpresumptuows
eye and say “My Father made it all.” Here
they listen to the mocking-bird—that chanting
priest of the feathered tribe—offering up the
sacrifice of each in its own peculiar song to the
Giver of all Good.
Our hearts are with you, dear children,
wherever yon assemble; enjoy, as you can, the
fleeting hours ere the evil days come when you
shall say we have no pleasure in them. Be
happy, and accomplish this by making those
happy around you. Some day you will refer to
these hours as sweet remembrances of the past.
Ths Floral Tribute.—According to ap
pointment, the ladies of our city repaired to the
Cemetery Monday afternoon,37h, to decorate the
graves of the noble dead—soldiers of the Lost
Cause. Although the hour appointed was 4
o’clock, before 2, hundreds of our noble
women were busily engaged in twining wreaths
of evergreen and immortelle around the head
boards, and otherwise beautifying with flowers,
the graves of those wao gave their lives for us.
As we silently gazed at lovely maidens and
stately matrons paying these heart tributes to
the dust and memories of stranger heroes,
while perchance their thoughts were busy with
remembrances of loved brother or son, whose
mangled form was' deposited under the green
sod of Virginia or among the hills of Ten
nessee and Georgia, we almost envied the fate
of those who were not permitted to see this
day of humiliation, and we there called to mind
the words which, in the dark days of ’62, a
Georgia soldier wrote to his wife in Augusta :
“ All is gloomy. New Orleans has fallen, and
wc must evacuate Norfolk. Oh, what if we
should lose that for which we fight! God
grant I may not live to see my native State at
the feet of the conqueror ; rather let my bones
fill a soldier’s grave, and my family be blotted
from existence, no heir oi mine succeeding to
plant a flower there, no widowed heart to
mourn her husband and his country dead.”
But that soldier’s prayer was not answered.
God’s ways are not as our ways, and yesterday,
with tearful eyes, he witnessed the touching,
silent ceremonies, and saw the graves of many
of his comrades bedecked with innumerable
flowers.
The demonstration yesterday was the most
largely attended of any preceding occasion,
and the profusion of flowers indicated the uni
versal interest taken by our ladies.
Not until the shades of evening fell did the
thousands leave the sacred spot, and then we
mournfully left our brethren.
"On fame’s eternal camping ground
I heir Bilent tents a r e
And g ory guards with so'c-mn round
The bivouac of the dead."
A duress on •Agriculture and Commerce
at Masonic Hall To-Night.—We are happy
to announce that arrangements have been ef
fected according to which Col. Bam. C. Reid, of
Louisiana, will address our people on the pres
ent condition of the South and the means oi
restoring our agricultural and commercial pros
perity, at Masonic Hall, this (Wednesday) eve
ning, at 7K o’clock. The all-absorbing interest
and importance of the subject, at the present
* time, and the reputation of the speaker, should
> insure a large audience.
The address being free, the community gen
erally are invited. Also the ladies, whom we
hope will turn out in large numbers to grace
the occasion.
Mr. Bayne has the Floor.—Mr. John
Bayne, formerly of Atlanta, and a member of
the Louisiana Guards, has turned his attention
from musketry to useful inventions. Failing
to get employment, in consequence of the negro i
spell, he set hie wits to work and invented a
patent tnafo rubber scrubbing brush, which is |
destined to supercede all old fashioned mops ,
and clouts. Nothing can be simpler than this
contrivance and nothing more durable and effi
cient. With a little cold water and little labor,
grease and dirt of all kinds are completely re
moved from floors, cupboards, windows and I
every other place of lodgment. Thhse surfaces |
are not only cleaned but dried at the same
time. To house-keepers this is an invaluable
adjunct and we call upon the public to inspect
for themselves either at the Globe Hotel or
Schofield and Williams’. Mr. Bayne has had
the greatest success elsewhere, and we predict
good fortune in Augusta. If any people think
this mere puffery, let them examine in person
and be governed accordingly.
I
Catholic Fair —Speaking of the Catholic
Fair which will open at Hibernian Hall, Charles
ton. on the 4th of May, the News says :
One of the great, if not the principal attrac
tions, will be the portraits of the distinguished
Bishops, who have been at the head of this Dio
cese, since North and South Carolina became a
Bishopric, viz: Bishop England, Bishop Rey
nolds, and the present honored representative,
Bishop Lynch. The portrait of the latter pre
late may now be seen at Mr. A. H. Hayden’s
jewelry establishment, corner of King and Ha
sel streets, and those of the other Rev. Bishops
will also be placed there for examination as
soon as the artist completes them. The three
portraits are to be of uniform size, 41 by 48
inches, and inserted in a rich and elaborately
ornamented gilt frame.
Mr. Wightman, a native Charleston artist, has
expended much time and labor for this object.
The three portraits are to be presented to the
fair, and they will be disposed of by raffle.
This fair will he held for the benefit of the
male and female orphans of the Ursuline Con
vent at Columbia. Major I. P. Girardey, of
this city, has a list of chances, which we com
mend to the charity oi the benevolent.
False Ideas of Social Life.—ln a late
number of the Pall Mall Gazette a writer of
fers some very sensible remarks upon the false
ideas entertained in England of the true art of
enjoying human existence. The same com
plaint is applicable to our own country. We
Americans are fast losing our old-time sim
plicity of thought and habit. We are wading
deeder and deeper into heavy luxury which
brings no enjoyment, and is inspired and sanc
tioned by no {esthetic taste. In plain truth,
and by nearly unanimous admission, the life oi
no class in the community is either dignified
or happy. The national extravagance is set
ting us a bad example, individually, and we
are too apt to follow it. As in the cities of
Europe, so in our American “metropolises.”—
Social life is not what it was in good old times,
when family ties were binding, and there was a
home influence which gave a direction to the
current of society. There are expensive meth
ods of killing time, but the public taste for
simple pleasure appears, in large cities at least,
to have passed away.
Removal.—The office of the “ Printers’
Circular” and Printers’ Furnishing Warehouse
I formerly located at 36 Hudson street, has been
i removed to 515 Minor street. Address all or
• ders for material to R. 8. Menamin, 515 Minor
, street, Philadelphia, Penn.
’ A Rich Specimen.—The Macon Telegraph
' thus ventillates a Radical member elect to tue
} Legislature :
“ A Sweet-Scented Representative.—We
I had made up our mind not to give further noto
t riety to disreputable and rascally colored Rtdi
-1 cals than we had already done, but feel that our
: silence in regard to one Henry Fiol (or Fayal)
: would injuriously affect the interests of the peo
’ pie of Macon county, white and colored. It
! seems that this fellow had the unblushing
I effrontery, although permanently residing here,
I to go to Macon county and announce himself
las a candidate for the Legislature, and has
I actually been elected 1 He had secured votes
enough, we are informed, to insure his election
before it was discovered that he had not been a
resident of that county ten consecutive days.—
When he attempted to vote himself, he was
challenged, and refused to take the oath to that
effect. To save him from the fury of his de
ceived colored constituents, a warrant twas
issued against him and be was lodged in jail for
safety !’’
In the Radical Nominating Convention held
here, on Munday night, the 13th inst., this fel
low had the impudence to state that he was a
white man, born in Paris (France) of white
; parents, iu 1826, and from whence they emi
' grated to America in 1828. If our recollection
■ serves us right (“and we think she does,”) this
i fellow was born in Charleston, 3. C., and was
i the offspring of an old French refugee (Fiol)
> from St. Domingo, and a slave woman belong
' ing to him. If there was any doubt in regard
i to his status as a nffgro, w? should think the
j fact of his having been a slave—having had
three different masters in Georgia alone—would
of itself settle that fact.”
A Fire-Tried Unionist.—Mr. Manager Jno.
A. Logan, in a speech, a few weeks ago, spoke
of D. C. Humphreys, of North Alabama, as a
“fire-tried Unionist, who had languished in a
rebel prison during seventeen long months.”
This will be news to Humphreys’ old ae
; qunintances. He was never in a rebel prison ;
! but, on the contrary, was a volunteer, although
l over military age, in the rebel army of Norfh
! ern Virginia. After leaving the army of Vir
; ginia, it is well known that be tried to raise a
■ brigade tor Gen. L. Pope Walker’s command,
1 and that he got together a number of compv
i nies at Decatur. Although he failed in getting
I up bis brigade, because nobody had confidence
in his ability, hb did all he could to get men
into the rebel service.
If Humphreys is a fire-tried Unionist, there
is a bushel oi just such fire-tried Unionists who
are now seeking office from the Radical Con
gress, on the plea of having fought, bled and
died for the old flag Montgomery Mail.
\ Defeat of Col. Alexander.—The Colum
bus .S’wn thus alludes to the defeat of P. W . A.:
There can be but little doubt of the defeat of
our candidate for Congress, Col. Alexander.—
The announcement of this result, and the re
flection that he has been defeated by so utterly
a worthless and contemptible a creature as bis
opponent, is sufficiently mortifying ; but we are
compelled to endure the further humiliation of
knowing that be has been basely deserted in
this emergency by the men of his own race
If the upper and white portion of the district
i bad performed its duty, and the men of Harris
I and Talbot, who scrambled in a moment ot
i dire danger and necessity for the paltry and
| precarious crumbs of county offices, had been
I alive to the demands of the crisis, this unfor-
I lunate result might have been easily avoided.
.
I A novel way has been discovered in a North-
I ern city of getting rid of an obnoxious minis
l ter—by literally playing him out of the church.
, she trustees invited the objectionable minister
to resign, which he declined to do, and pro
ceeded to preach ; whereupon the impeaching
trustees told the organist to play and drown
the preacher’s voice. The organist played
away with all his stops out, and drove the dis
eomfitted preacher out of the church. This
opens a new field of usefulness for the church
organ as a means of promoting harmony in the
j church.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, April 25.
The intelligence from Washington is to
the effect that President Johnson is ma
'•'tig an effort to prevent his “conviction”
the charges before the Senate, by placa
ting the friends of Gen. Grant. It has been
discovered that Air. Chase had no follow-!
ing in his own party sufficient to make his
favor or disfavor a matter of the slightest
consequence, Therefore, Gen. Grant and
his friends have been approached as a last
resort. The nomination of Gen. Schofield
to be Secretary of War is the preliminary
overture; and great pains have been taken
to impress Gen. Grant and his friends with
the idea that it will be an awkward thing
to have Ben. Wade in the President’s chair
for the jew months preceding the com
mencement oi the next Presidential term;
filling ail the offices with his friends and
“good Republicans, ’ of whom few would
die and “ none resign.” The result of all
this is, Qiat there are renewed hopes that a
sufficient number of Republican Senators
will rise above the thraldom of party to
vpte against the conviction of Air. John
son.
Gen. Schofield, who, in a mere military
sense, is probably one of the most accom
plished officers that ever graced the pro
fession of arms, is a great favorite with
Gen. Grant, and his appointment to the
War Department should be acceptable, as
a means of reconciling the differences re
specting the succession that have arisen be
tween Air. Johnson and the Republicans;
but as to all inquiries as to the probability
of harmony on this, or any other basis, the
answer of the Republican leaders is like
that of Poe’s Raven, “ Nevermore.”
It is understood that, by debate or other
wise, the rendering of the verdict in Air.
Johnson’s case will be delayed in the interest
of rival candidates for the Vice-Presidency,
until after or about the time for the assem
bling of the Republican Convention at Chi
cago. But I can see no good ground to ex
pect that this will be done, nor reason to
believe that the “ trial,” (so-called) will be
prolonged beyond the coming week.
MATTERS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The difficulty of maintaining harmony,
and promoting efficient action in the Dem
ocratic party, during the coming Presi
dential campaign, are felt and acknowledg
ed with some apprehension by the intelli
gent leaders of the party. The precipita
tion of the financial question into the dis
cussion, before the settlement of the plan of
reorganization, while the destructive, re
volutionary, negro-elevating schemes of the
Radicals were to lie overturned, before any
financial plan could have much practical
importance, is likely to prove very unfor
tunate. It is likely to divert attention from
what should be the great issue. It has
already led to the promulgation of widely
different views on the subject by leading
Democrats, and will probably throw it, as
an apple of discord, into the Democratic
National Convention. A number of leading
Democrats take the most extreme “ loyal”
view of the question, and contend that the
Federal debt shall be paid to the uttermost
farthing, principal and interest, in gold;
another contends that the people should
not be compelled to pay more than they
agreed to pay, and not more than they re
ceived, and that to pay the interest in gold,
with the principal in currency at 30 per
cent, discount, is all the face of the bonds
or exact justice demands. These are by far
the most numerous, but at the east, not in
fluential portion of the party. Considerable
numbers, however, favor immediate repudia
tion. Nothing, they contend, is more de
moralizing more subversive of the spirit
of liberty—than a horde of tax gatherers,
and that the maintenance ot the pub
lic credit, (even if the late war
had been constitutionally levied, and the
debt justly incurred, the harmonizing of
these widely divergent views, and the se
lection of a candidate that mav not be. re
pugnant to either party, is likely to prove
a task of no little difficulty. I fear that
those who are in favor of paying the bonds
in gold do not anticipate nor cordially
desire complete success in the coming
canvass. They will strive more heartily
for the propagation of their views and the
nomination of a candidate to represent
them than they will for the success of a
party whose action they probably will not
be able to control. In fact, it lias been
more than hinted to me that it were best
the Republicans be left to settle up matters,
the Democrats co.fl*enting themselves in
Congress and in the local administrations.
Tammany Hall fancies it foresees the re
sumption by it of the political control of
this State, and will throw irs whole influ
ence in favor of a policy that will not im
peril its prospects. I have not drawn a
pleasant picture, but I feel sure it is a true
one.
THE DICKENS DINNER
passed off’ without the attendance of a
single member of the Southern press, nor,
so far as I can learn, of a representative of
any press that has any genuine sympathy
with the South. When Dickens, in his
“ American Notes,” lampooned the North,
even his victims knew that he was truthful
and just, if not courteous ; and I have no
doubt that the striking manner in which
he exposed the social deficiencies of the
North did them a good deal of benefit
finally; but when he alluded to the South,
it was with all the old malice of England
and New England Abolitionism combined.
His vilifications he iias never recanted or
apoligized for; he has consequently not
thought it prudent to visit the South on
his recent tour, and no Southern editor so
far forgot his dignity and honor as to
attend a dinner to this specimen of the
British Hon.
THE CHURCH MILITANT.
The war to promote harmony among the
Protestant sects, in opposition to the rapid
progress of Romanism in this country,
grows in intensity. One result is already
admitted by many prominent Episcopalians.
It is that the Church of England and its
offshoot, the Protestant Episcopal Church,
will soon be again divided—the Low Church
party seeking a substantial if not avowed
union with the Alethodists, leaving the
High Church party, with its pagan ceremo
nials and mystic teachings, to drift back to
Rome. I recently heard a sermon from a
celebrated High Church divine, which was
neither more nor less than an effort to blind
the mysticism of the ancient pre-worship
pers with the simple truths of Christianity.
Few realize what efforts Christianity is
making to detach itself from the paganism
which Rome fastened upon it, and the Ju
daism which Calvin revived in the effort to
shake off' the paganism of Rome. Trinity
Church, with all its immense wealth, is on
the side of Rome. On a recent occasion,
services were performed with thirteen can
dles burning upon the “altar,” and inaugu
rated with a long procession of priests and
choristers. Grace Church, in Broadway,
near Tenth street, attempts to stand still
and cry ; eace, while Dr. Tyng, of St.
George’s Church, drifts rapidly away from
Trinity, and from what moderate Episco
palians think, very proper.
BUSINESS MATTERS.
Cotton continues to receive a great deal
of speculative attention, and the price is up
to33c. for middling uplands. Much inter
est is felt in the state of trade at Alanches
ter and the prospector supplies from Bom-1
bay, and these questions are discussed at
much length in recent letters from Europe,
overshadowing in importance, as they do
for the moment, the probable rate of re
ceipts at the Northern ports. Through
the failure of the Persian Gulf Cables, tele
graphic communication between Bombay
and Liverpool had been suspended for some
weeks ; a circumstance that was likely to
retard materially the shipments from Bom
bay to Liverpool. In the meantime, the de
mand for goods ami yarns at Manchester
showed no important decrease as prices
advanced ; on the contrary, any considera
ble decline in breadstuff’s would probably
lead to an increased trade and consumption
in the raw material. But caution, both on
the part of planters and dealers, will still
assert itself as the wise course. The light
cost of all agricultural products, with dull
ness and “hard times” in large towns and
manufacturing districts, must contribute
actively to an adjustment of populations
that will restore the old order and relation
of things. We are in danger from war and
from famine, and it becomes the Southern
planter to spare no effort to raise sufficient
food for his own use at least. Everything
which the Southern planter must buy has
also advanced, so that he gains little by the
increase of prices. Willoughby.
—Q. I —I
[From the New York Sun (Radical.)
Equal Suffrage for Negroes-
The extension to black men of the right
to vote on the same terms as white men
does not find favor in the Northern States,
and even those where it might be expected
to be strongest reject it decisively. The
question was tested in Connecticut in
October, 1865. Then 33,589 votes were cast
against enfranchising negroes to 27,219 in
favor of the measure, making the majority
against it 6,372. At the election for Gov
ernor in the Spring of the same year, 73,717
votes were cast, and the Republicans had a
majority of 11,035, while at the Presidential
election of 1864 their majority was 2,406 in
an aggregate vote of 86,976. This shows
that there were at least 9,000 Republican
voters in the State who were opposed to
conferring upon black men the same politi
cal rights as are enjoyed by whites.
In 1865 the people of Alinnesota also cast
their suffrages upon the same question, at
the same time that they chose State officers.
For Governor 31,109 votes were cast, and
the Republican majority was 3,476. The
aggregate vote on the extension of the
suffrage was 26,789, and the majority against
it was 2,013. No further evidence can be
required that the Republicans of Alinnesota
are heavily against equal political rights
for negroes.
The matter was also brought to the deci
sion of the ballot in Wisconsin at the regu
lar State election in November, in 1865.
The Republicans elected their candidate for
Governor by 10,000 majority in an aggregate
vote of 106,000, but equal suffrage was lost.
The total number of voters on that issue
was 102,179, the majority against the
negroes was 9,003. A decision of the
Supreme Court of the State, however, sub
sequently annulled this determination of
the people, and conferred the suffrage upon
the blacks by virtue of an election held in
1848, when, though a majority of votes had
been cast in favor of universal suffrage, the
aggregate vote was so small that it had
been regarded as of no account.
The next State to act upon this subject
was Tennessee, whose constitution, adopted
in 1866, empowered the Legislature to en
franchise the blacks. The act establishing
equal suffrage was approved by the Gover
nor February 18, 1867, and was at once
carried before the Supreme Court, which
affirmed, by a unanimous decision, that the
change was in accordance with the consti
tution. But Tennessee was not a Northern
State, and had but just been snatched from
the jaws of the rebellion. The Republicans
there had not been in* favor of universal
suffrage, but when they found it was the
only means of retaining power, and pre
venting the State from falling under the
control of the rebels, they faced the music
and gave political equality to the former
slaves.
The people of Kansas voted upon negro
suffrage in November, 1867. The aggre
gate number of ballots was 30,129, more by
nearly 3,000 than had ever been cast at any
previous election in the State. The ma
jority against the blacks was 9,071, although
the Republican preponderance in the State
cannot be less than two to one.
In 1867, too, the electors of Ohio were
brought to act upon this question by the
submission to them of an amendment to the
constitution, striking out the word “white”
from among the qualifications of voters.
There were 472,327 citizens who voted on
the suffrage amendment, and the majority
against the proposition was 38,353. At the
same, time the Republicans elected their
candidate for Governor by a majority of
2,983, in an aggregate vote of 484,227. This
shows that there are over 40,000 Republi
cans in Ohio who will not tolerate the en
franchisement of negroes.
lhe result in Michigan is even more re
markable. At the last election for Gover
nor, in 1866, in a total poll of 164,457, the
Republicans had a majority of 29,041 ; and
now, only a fortnight ago, on the question
ot adopting a new constitution with equal
suffrage as one of its features, in a total
poll of 166,657, the majority against the
.negroes 39,447. It is clear that Michigan,
Radical as she unquestionably is will
not admit him to equality of political
rights.
As the States now stand, universal suf
frage for blacks and whites alike has been ■
established in Alaine, New Hampshire, I
Vermont, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and
Tennessee, by their own people. In Vir
ginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Alississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Texas, it has been established by the exist
ing reconstruction laws. In some of the
others the blacks are absolutely disqualified
from voting. In Ohio, by a law just enact
ecl, every man who has any visible admix
ture of black blood, no matter in how small
a degree is excluded from the ballot box.
In New York any black man who owns a
freehold property worth $250 may be regis
tered and vote. The question whether This
qualification shall be retained is to be sub
mitted to the people, as a separate matter,
at the same time that they pass upon the
new constitution prepared by the recent
convention. But if the States around us
afford any clear indication of popular sen
timent here, equal suffrage will be conclu
s'?’Uy V sr ted , dOwn ’ whe »ever the electors
of New i ork are called to act upon it.
Deserted His Race.— Among other in
cidents of the election yesterday, says the
Atlanta Intelligencer, was that of ex-Gov
Jos E. Brown carrying a squad of negroes
to the polls and voting them. For one who
in past years so largely enjoyed the confi
dence oi the white people of Georgia this
conduct, to say the least of it, i.s'of’ques- !
tionable taste.
Yes; the negroes ought to be ashamed of
themselves.
Drowned.—Miss Laura Dudley was drown
ed near Fort Gaines, on the 19th inst. She in
company with Miss Laura Weaver and two
young men, was taking a ride on the creek in
a small boat and the boat was upset and Miss
Dudley drowned, the others escaping.
Her body had not been recovered up to the
25th inst. — Albany News.
Borne.
PASSION WEEK INTERESTING RELIGIOUS
SERVICES IN THE CLERICAL CITY —AD-
DRESS TO THE LEGION D’ANTIBES.
[Rome (April 5) Correspondence of London Hera’d.
The ceremonies of Holy’ Week opened
this morning by the High Mass and Bless
ing of the Palms in St. Peter’s, the Pope
being present at the first and performing
the latter ceremony. The Basilica was
crowded to excess, but the arrangements
for strangers were so excellent as to pre
clude the inconvenience complained of on
former occasions. The number of tickets
issued did not exceed the seats provided,
and much greater order was the result.—
The Pope entered, vested in crimson and
gold cope and mitre, about 10 o’clock, pre
ceded by the cardinals, the Senate, the
bishops assistant at the throne, and the
household, and proceeding up the nave,
paused for a few moments in adoration be
fore the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.
He then passed the Confessions and entered
the Sanctuary, where he ascended the
throne, and having blessed the palms, dis
tributed them to the cardinals, the bishops,
generals of order, and the generals and
staff of the Pontifical army, and the corps
diplomatique. The Princess Pia of Naples,
and her brother the Count of Caserta, with
the King of Naples and the Count of Trani,
were present in the Royal gallery. The
palms having been distributed, the proces
sion was made round the church, the Pope
being borne on the Sedia Gestatoria, and
carrying a palm in his hand. High Mass,
which was celebrated by Cardinal Bilio,
followed, and his Holiness, who seemed
rather fatigued, retired during the chanting
of the Passion, and returned at the “ Cre
do.”
The coriege left the Basilica processional
ly, as it entered, after the Apostolic Bene
diction had been given by the Pope at the
end of mass.
The influx of strangers has been immense
within the last few days, the majority being
sight-seeing Americans, or Catholic French
and Belgians, whom devotion to the tem
poral power, or connection with the present
affairs, brings to Rome. There are many
families arriving whose sons fell at Alen
tana, and the desire to visit the spot and
speak with the witnesses of their last mo
ments, to erect their monuments, and re
ceive the special blessings of the Pope, is
.the principle motive with them. One lady,
the mother of a Zouave, at whose last mo
ments I was present at Alentana, the eldest
son of a princely Belgian house dating from
the Crusades, said to me this morning: “ I
have but one more son, and I have brought
him to engage, and, if God wills it, die in
the same cause as his brothers and his fath
ers at Ascalon and Acre. Life is too short
to weigh in such a cause as that of the
Eternal Church.”
This is but one of a hundred touching in
stances of the same wonderful spirit of de
votedness that has taken root all over Eu
rope, and is creating an army of crusaders
in Rome. The two Counts Stolberg, the
Count D’Alt, Count Kissenbreck, are among
the latest German, and Air. Arthur Stour
ton among the latest English recruits. Two
young Dutchmen engaged the other day un
der similar circumstances. Being of good
family, they did not like to accept their
traveling expenses from the committee, and
had not themselves the means of paying
them, being far from in easy circumstances.
They resolved to apply to their King, and
asked for an audience, ■which was readily
granted them, and tb.cn explained their de
sire to his Majesty. The King listened most
graciously to their request, but said: “ Sup
pose I need your swords for the defense of
Holland, may I count on them ?” “In all
cases,” replied the young men, “ our re
ligion teaches us loyalty to our sovereign
and our country is a duty, and whenever
your Majesty needs us you will find no more
faithful soldiers than those whom you have
aided to defend the cause of Pius IX.” The
King immediately took out his purse, and
gave the young men money enough to reach
I Rome, and his watch to the elder of the
I young volunteers.
i A review of the Legion d’Antibes on the j
formation of its second battalion took place •
on the Ist, (Wednesday,) in the Vila Bor- '
■ ghese. The regiment made a magnificent i
appearance, ami was the admiration of
every one assisting at the ceremony. The
following order of the day was read':
Opleers, Sub-Officers, Corporals and Soldiers:
The Legion is now formed into two splen
did battalions, and I have called you to-1
gether that you may see each other, and
may be better able to rely on your strength
an 1 organization, and more persevering in
your mission. It is just two vears since I
had the honor of being placed 'in command
of you, and to review the officers and sol
diers of a very small body, which, after
having traversed many difficulties, has aug
mented, has given its proofs of courage,
and filled the world with renown.
Be proud of belonging to so noble a
corpse. Believe in its future. A new era
comes before you full of hope. The Catho
lic world esteems and has its eyes on you.
France, our noble country, loves us, and
surrounds us with her strongest sympa
thies. The Sovereign Pontiff blesses you
day by day. W ’.at lot can be more glo
rious?
Be ever firm in discipline as you are val
iant in battle. Be united among yourselves,
and with your noble and gallant comrades
oi the Pontificial army; and let this day
every year be for you a fete, a household
memory, a confirmation of your onward
path.
[Signed] D’Argy,
Colonel of the Legion.
It would be difficult to imagine stronger
or clearer language than this, and the order
of the day has been the object of great
heart-burning among the revolutionary cir
cles.
The New York World, on Sunday, gave an
interesting account of the dissection, at Belle
vue Hospital, of a body which had been pre
served seventy-two days, by a new process of
embalming. The dissection showed that the
new process was entirely satisfactory, and it
may be an era in scientific discovery. But this
was by no means the remarkable feature of the
gathering at Bellevue. The corpse to be dis
sected was that of a woman, and with Doctors
Sayre, Purple, Peters, and a large number of
equally well-known members of the medical
profession, were two female physicians, one of
whom was too young to have been long in the
profession, or at least in the practice of surge
ry and medicine. The women were interested
spectatorsol the dissection, and the physicians
of the masculine persuasion, the younger oi
them particularly, who used to jibe and jeer at
the very idea of feminine practitioners, ac
knowledged the equality of these women and
their rights to be present at this interesting
dissection. Obviously, that natural “ delicacy”
which might be more or less shocked by such
a scene, gave way to the superior claims of
science, and neither the medical men nor wo
men seemed to think there was anything im
proper in the presence of the female physi
cians.
Difficulty at Albany.—A private dispatch
and passengers on the Southwestern train re
port that a fight occurred Sunday night be
tween some negroes, when Aleck Menard, a
well known citizen of Macon, interfered for the
purpose of stopping it. Thereupon one of the
negroes struck him on the head with a pistol,
and, the report says, fractured the skull. The
wound inflicted is represented to have been
very serious.— Macon Journal <S- Messenger.
[From the New Orleans Bulletin.
Bepeal of the Irish Ohurch Establishments-
The recent debate in the British Parliament,
conducted between the two most eminent men
and ministers iu England, has a certain analo
gy to our own affairs which is not without in
terest. The proposition under discussion is the
following resolution, moved by Mr. Gladstone:
“ That it is necessary that the Established
Church of Ireland should cease to exist as an
establishment, due regard being had to all per
sonal interests and to all individual rights of
property.”
This would involve a momentous, yet a salu
tary reform in the Irish Government, inasmuch’
ns the doctrines inculcated at the expense of
the Irish people are not those taught by their
priests. In the language oi Mr. Gladstone :
“ You have in Ireland the ministers of the Es
tablished Church, with little work and much
pay ; the ministers of the Presbyterian Church,
with much work and little pay, and the minis
ters of the Roman Catholic Church, with much
work and no pay.”
Os this the Irish tax-payers and Catholic com
municants as naturally complain as did the
American colonists in 1776, some of whom re
monstrated that they were obliged to fight the
battles and pay the expense of a religion in
which they did not believe. Mr. Disraeli con
troverts the assertion that the Irish people are
really unhappy. He considers them merely
turbulent. He cites the material prosperity of .
Ireland in proof of his view, and censures the
Fenians as disloyal.
Mr. Gladstone ou the other hand says :
“ The situation of Ireland is this : You have
hod the guarantees of personal liberties sus
pended for three years, and the country is in
possession of an enemy and a police force or
ganized as an army. This is a state of things
in which the power of this country keeps down
the elements of disaffection, sedition, and dis
loyalty in Ireland. Is that a condition in which
it is safe for this country to continue ? It is
true the material condition of the people is im
proved, and it is the fact that, while that is the
case, disaffection has increased that Imposes on
Parliament the duty of looking this matter in
the face.”
We may note that the material prosperity of
a people does not prove that they are either
contented or happy. We have known persons
to grow very fat in prison when confined for
an alleged political offense, of which they were
innocent. But the error of England is the
same with the United States. No attempt
should have been made by either to keep a part
of their population in bondage. Mr. Disraeli
having said that Irish discontent is merely a
sentiment, the New York Tribune says :
“ Disraeli declares that the Irish are moved
only by a sentiment. Mr. Hill, the most saga
cious of all the English politicians, replies that
it is because Ireland is moved by an idea, that
England will find her movement irresistable.”
This is properly true, but the Tribune need
not have gone across the ocean to make appli
cation of the principle. It is the sentiment of
unjust subjugation which makes Ireland and
the South disaffected to the oppressing govern
ments respectively.
It is the establishment of the Freedmen’s
Bureau and military government in the one,
and Church Establishment and armed police in
the other. In both cases the injustice does not
grow out ot the actual hostility of either the
English or American people towards their con
quered fellow-citizens. In each case lhe cruel
and the cowardly seize on the pretext of disaf
fection, and demand for themselves power and
salary to suppress a disloyalty which does not
exist. There have been carpet-baggers in Ire
land as well as in Louisiana. There are cleri
cal carpet-baggers, who claim salvage on the
salvation of those Irish who differ from them
selves. There are commercial carpet-baggers,
who demand a discrimination against all Irish
commodities that may come in conflict with
their own. There are political carpet-baggers,
who insist that every Irish Catholic is a traitor,
and require that he shall be disqualified by test
oaths which he cannot take. It is the same
case there and here. The discontent of a peo
ple disfranchised in their own land, has taken
the name of Fenianism. It manifests itself by
confident ial associations. $
Here it seems to be taking the same direc
tion. The present unwilling, but inevitable
I concessions which England is making to Ire
| land will be copied by the North to the South.
I The same detestation of selfish injustice which
j has made Ireland a separate nation in her sen
| timents and interests is at work at the South,
i Both Ireland and the South are inherited by a
i generous and sincere people. Justi eto either
'will consolidate their affection with the gov
j erning section. Oppiession will garner and
indurate a hatred that may be of do especial
j injury to either England or the U- ited Slates
i while they are prosperous or powerful, but this
I sentiment of natural indignation will be telt
I whenever the domestic troubles of either Eng
i land or the United States render the influence
|of the subjugated sections important. These
i are not threats. They offer the most sincere
admonitions to those who wish to unite Amer
ican or English empire. England has been
compelled to do justice to Ireland, and the
United States will, sooner or later, be com
pelled to follow her example with regard to
the Southern States.
The Election.—We have received sufficient
returns of the late election to enable us to.
approximate the actual result.
Our own figures, from about one hundred
counties, give Bullock somewhgre in the
neighborhood of three thousand majority, but
we learn that further returns received at
Atlanta put a very doubtful face on the matter.
It was not certain which candidate had the
majoritj’. We have received this Irorn good
authority, and if it be true, Gordon is evidently
elected by the legal vote. The ballot boxes
were all in the hands ot Radical partisans, and
whatever cheating occurred must have come
from their side. We have no doubt it caribe
made to appear before Gen. Meade’s examin
ing commission that at ten thousand
illegal votes were polled in the State, and
ninety-nine out of every hundred of them
against Gordon.
As regards the Congressmen the result is
certainly ascertained. Tift in the Second,
Young in the Seventh, and Christy in the
Sixth, (all Democrats) have been elected, the
remaining four Districts returning Radicals,
and of the poorest sort.
We have definite figures from thirty-eight
Senatorial districts, which elect twenty-one
Democrats and seventeen Radicals. The dis
tricts not heard from are the third, fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh and eighth. We claim the first
named, composed of Wayne, Pierce and Ap
pling, as the two latter gave Gordon a majori
ty larger than the entire registered vote of
Wayne. Should wc get no more, the Senate
will be a tie, though we hope to carry the Sev
enth, and have reason to believe that one, if
not two, of the Senators are independent, and
moreinclined to Democracy than to Radicalism.
In the House, the Democrats undoubtedly
have a majority. We have official returns
from eighty-seven counties, which give the
Democracy 66 and the Radicals and negroes
56, while the remaining counties will probably
return as many Democrats as Radicals.
[.Macon Telegraph, 2d.
“ Relief.”—as much as certain people affect
to ridicule to the idea of “negro dommation,”'
it seems that the negroes of the Bradley con
vention and their Yankee carpet-bag associates,
were smart enough to concoct a naked, bald,
transparent swindle, called “ Relief,” by means
of which they succeeded not only in getting a
majoritj* oi the whites in some counties to vote
tor negro suffrage, but, what is still stranger,
in view of their professed destation of Radical
ism, for the Radical candidates also !
The election is now over, and there is no in
ducement to deceive any one—we never tried
to deceive the public at any time, and we now
predict'that every’ man who suffered himself to
be cheated by tbatfmiserable so-called " relief,”
will yet have his property sold at public outcry,
unless he eompromeises with his creditors, of
looks to some other source of relief than that
provided by the nigger constitution.
We have favored honest relief, and now do,
if any such can be advised —notwithstanding
there is forty thousand dollars due us, and
much of it “ past due” a long time—but we
never have, and never can favor repudiation.
[Athens Watchman.
More Banner Counties. —The counties of
Washington and Jones are entitled to the credit
of having cast not a single white vote for Bul
lock or the constitution.