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FEACE IN AMERICA. The following document is being exten aively circulated throughout Great Britain and Ireland : The I‘eople of the. United Kingdom of Great Ilritain and Ireland, to the People of the United Staten, greeting: We arc of the same race, and many of you arc our brothers. Can we not, there fore, come to you as peace-makers, and ad dress von as friends? We would ask you, has there not been of strife and bloodshed, and misery and Buffering enough ? and is it cot time to cease the cruel war in which you are engaged ? We believe there is not a Christian man or woman amongst us whose heart does not respond affirmatively to this ■question. With this conviction we wish to speak to you as plain men, using plain lan guage. We have admired your free insti tutions, and have gladly witnessed your rise as a people to eminence in wealth and political power. You are of the Saxon blood, and we hoped that you would make the New World renowned for true greatness. You promised to become one mighty people and a groat nation, famed for the liberties of its citizens, the triumphs of peace, and the conquests of its commerce. We felt that von were doing honor to the “mother country ” When, therefore, this unfor tunate war began, our hearts were more inclined towards you £ban towards your sister States, because we believed witlx you that the action of the South was but the work of a faction. The events of the strug gle, hoxvcver, have convinced us that a more united people than those of the Southern States never i-ose up in defence of their rights. When you asserted that secession was the work ot disappointed ambition, and prom ised to quell it within sixty days, we ae cepted your assurances, in good faith, and looked for the speody restoration of peace. We did not wish to sec the American Union broken up. But so far from this promise being fulfilled, (and your efforts to accom plish it have been great,) peace and the res toration of the Union are apparently more remote than over. Surely there must be many now among you who share with us the conviction that it is utterly impossible to subdue the South, or to restore the Amer ican Union, as it was in the past days of the Republic. You have tided sufficiently, and found the gulf betxveeu you and the seceded States to w iden with the effort made to subdue thorn. Is it not time, then, to pause, and, after calmly reviewing all that you have accomplished, the distance,.which you have travelled from your well-known landmarks, and the difficulties and dangers that are yet before you—is it not time, we ask, that you should take counsel together to the best means of restoring peace? We cannot forget that the question of peace or war was never submitted to you lor your serious consideration before hostilities had actually commenced : that they came upon you little by little; and that both Govern ment find people found themselves plunged into this fearful contest almost unawares; nor have you as yet had an opportunity of consulting together in general Convention for the purpose of making known your opinions and wishes about the war, or any of the vast issues growing out of it. The war has changed (for the present at least) the character of your Government. What has become of the freedom of speech, vour free press, and the inestimable right of habeas corpus 1 What, permit xls to ask, are tile Southern people doing beyond following the precept and example taught and prac tised by your fathers and theirs, when they withdrew their allegiance from the mother country, and asserted their right to establish a Government of their own? The Declara tion of Independence, which you hallow and celebrate every fourth day of July, as serts, as. self-evident, the right of the South ern people to set up a Government of their #wn. But, we would ask, suppose you should, at the end of another three years and a half, succeed iii subduing the South and restor ing tiie Union by force of arms, might you not then find out, when it was too late, that those pillars upon whirl', rests your form of government had been violently torn down, and that your own liberties had been buried in the ruins ? If you will run the parallel between tho South now and the colonies in 1770. and compare the course pursued by the North now and the mother country then, we think you will discover some striking resemblance; and among them, that with you now, as with the crown then, rests the privilege of giving peace to tho American continent. Why noi then, without further delay, recognize the duty which attaches to your high privilege ? he appeal to you in the name of religion, humanity, justice and _ civilization, and believe that we shall not appeal in vain. Peace be unto you ! Tub Ediugburg and Quarterly Re views ore discussing, with antipodal views, the new theology of England. Among the clergy of the Church of England tliors are, and l ave been for some time, three parties, knnv. n as the High Church, tho Low Church, and tiie Broad Church, or, according to another mode of distiiicliou.more witty than reverent, as the Attituuiuariuus, the Platitudinarians, and the Latitudiuarians. A Hard Hit. —The Newborn Pro gress •says: Wo would suggest iu nil seri ousness that all Christian communities as semble for one hour each day, and pray for the salvation of landlords, or the owners of houses and tenements; lor without some cottoning influence we 3ee nothing for most i f f them but endless torment with wailing and gnashing of teeth. Our Advertising Columns. —-*We iuvite the attention of our renders to our advertising columns. 'They will bo apt to jiml there something of interest to them. THE PACIFICATOR —A CATHOLIC JOURNAL. THE CELESTIAL ARMY. I stood by the open casement, And looked upon the night, Ami saw tho westward going stars Pass slowly out of sight. Slowly as the bright procession Went down the gleaming arch, And my soul discerned the music Os the long triumphal march, Till the great celestial army, Stretching far beyond the poles, Became the eternal symbol Os the mighty march of souls. Onward, forever onward, Red Mars led down his clan ; And the moon like a mailed maiden, Was riding in the van. And sonic were bright in beauty, And some were faint and small, But these might be in their great heights The noblest of them all. Downward, forever downward, Behind earth’s dusky shore, They pass into the unknown night— They pass—and were no more. No more ! Oh ! say not so ! And downward is not jurt; For the sight is weak and the sense is dim That looks through heated dust. The stars and the mailed moon, Though they seem to fall and die, Still sweep with their embattled lines, An endless reach of sky. And though the hills of earth May hide the bright array, The marshalled brotherhood of souls Still keeps its ownward way. Upward, forever upward, I see their inarch sublime, And hear the glorious music Os the conquerors of time. And long let me remember That the palest, faintest ouo, May to diviner vision be A bright and blazing sun. COMMERCIAL. AUGTSTA MARKETS. Financial. —Gold, $25n27 for one; Silver, $23 for one ; Sterling Exchange, $24 for one; Bank Notes, 2a4 for one. Cotton. —Fair demand ; $1 lOal 30 per lb. Domestics. — s Shirting, $2 25; & Sheelyig, $3 75 ; 4-4 Sheeting, S3 25; Osnaburgs, $3 25; Yarns, $33a35 per bunch. Groceries and Provisions. —Wheat, s2oa 25 per bushel; Corn, sl2 50a13; Peas, sl2 al4: Flour, $200a250 per bbh: Bacon, $4 50 ao per lb.; ltice, 4 OaOOc,; Sugar, SOaS ? Salt, 50a'J0c.; Lard, $3 75a4; Sorghum, sSal2 per gal.; Nails, $3 ; Corn Meal, $14a15 per bushel-; Fodder, sloa!2 per cwt.; Shucks, $SalO per cwt.; Ilay, sl2 per cwt.; Terre bene Oil, $lO per gal.; Coffee, sl2 per lb.; Tea. S3O per lb.; Beef, $1 50 per lit. net.; Pork, $1 50, gross ; Sheep, $45a60 per head ; Chickens, ssaß each ; Eggs, $3 50a4 per doz.; Butter, sl7 per lb.: Irish Potatoes, $15a20 per bushel; Sweet Potatoes, SJSa2O per bushel. TIIE BELFAST RIOT. The London Petes of the World thus al ludes to the late riot which occurred in Belfast: Some silly people in Belfast took it into their heads to burn O’Connell in effigy on the very day that the honors, so long due to his memory, were tardily paid in Dublin. Why such a proceeding was allowed by the magistrates and tho police does not appear; but the successful execution of such an ex ploit was tolerably sure to lead to further disturbances. It does not surprise anyone to learn that retaliatory measures, on both sidys, succeeded each other, and that Pres byterian Churches, Wesleyan Chapels, Nun neries, and the residences of Catholic Bishops were “ wrecked,” in order to satisfy the mistaken and useless zeal of the devotees of a spurious religion. The people who so far gave way to their passions were neither good Catholics nor sound Protestants, and the utmost they can expect is to be treated as mere rioters, whose proceedings have not the shadow of a pretext for justification, Meanwhile, the military powers have been called in, and lives, we fear not in every case the lives of rioters, have been sacrificed to the Moloch of moboeracy. We arc not writing of Irish riwts in New Ynrk, which were respectable in comparison, because they arose out of a fear of the conscription, but of rioters in the thriving city of Bel fast. whose industry flourishes, and the peo ple are supposed to be loyal subjects of her Majesty, it is certainly frightful to con template what may happen after an appeal to the mob-like passions of muscular Chris tians of the Belfast sort. We had hoped that the days for Arms and Processions Acts were gone, never to return in Ireland, but these late proceedings in Belfast, the least likely corner of all Ireland, will tend to awaken us from such a delusion. If it cannot bo permitted to the citizens of Dub lin to assemble, in order to honor the name of a great ornament of the Irish bar and of the English senate, without having the com plement of a riot elsewhere, we can only j ask the Legislature to prohibit processions in order to a void the necessary sequence of riots. But iu the meanwhile wo can have the ringleaders on both sides brought to justice, and compel them to pay in person for the incon Touicnce and loss they have 1 caused to others in purse. A largely attended meeting of the respect able inhabitants was held in the Town-hall this morning at 11 o’clock. Alderman Mul ler presided. Several gentlemen of both the Catholic and Protestant parties reported that they had visited the different districts last night to try and influence tho rioters on both sides to discontinue the riots. They had received promise from all parties that they would do nothing unless attacked. Other deputations were appointed to visit the disturbed districts. OBITUARY. Who Ims not seen, nor strove in vajn The tears of memory oft to hid©, And striving have not wept again, Whilst yet more deep the bosom sighed? i And though we strive we would not tear ! From memory every bosom scene. ■ llow often are wo called upon in these sad and troubled times to mourn the loss of some dear and loved ones ! Sad and try ing, indeed, is the ordeal; but it is seldom that we find one more worthy of our respect and esteem than our friend and fellow-citi i y.en, Charlhs McKknna, who died in Co lumbia, S. C., on tho 18th of duly, 1804. He was born on the 27th of March, IS2B, in Drummard Glebe, County Tyrone, Ire land. The writer of this humble tribute does not desire to pass any eulogy on the dead, but I will simply speak of him as I knew him. I had the pleasure of his friendship in Camden, S. C., where he had lived for many years, llis principles were such as won for him many warm and true friends. In his business intercourse he was punctual and strictly honest. He was a sincere friend, a kind and obliging neighbor, a good citizen, an obedient and dutiiul son, an af fectionate brother, a fond and indulgent husband, lie was a true friend to the dis tressed, and to the widow and orphan his purse and sympathies were equally free. He was of a mild and genial temper, re served and modest in his habits; open and upright in his disposition, deceit funned no part of his nature. His conversation and manners were Open and candid. Being physically disabled for some years past, he was unable to take any active part in the struggle for Southern independence; but his heart and hand were with the cause of the South, the Inline of his choice. Oh, how pitiful it is to see one stricken down by disease ! Such was the condition and trial of our friend. Although he was confined to his room for many long and weary months, suffering a great deal of pain, no one can say they ever heard him complain, not even tho slightest murmur escaped his lips. He was glad to see his many friends, and even tried to bo cheerful when they called ti* see him. Death, which is said to come like a thief in the night, did not find him unprepared; his greatest wish seemed to be at peace with God and man. Being asked if he was afraid to diet ho said “No,” and if he knew that he was dying, ho replied that he did. He received all the rites and consolations of his religion. J 1 is only regret seemed to be the leaving of his wife, and her grief for him. lie said that God called him, and that he must go. Those of his friends who had tho privilege of standing by his dying couch can never forget the lesson of patience • and resignation. He leaves a sorrowing wife, an aged mother, many brothers and sisters, and nu merous friends, to mourn their irreparable loss, which, it is hoped, is his eternal gain. He now sleeps the sleep that knows no. waking, beside his only child, iu tke Catho lic church-yard. May lie rest in peace. A Friend. Hanging in numberless coils across a hook in the printing department of this journal is a long, narrow slip of paper, which has been made up by pasting together from time to time the various lists of the dead and wounded that have been published in the columns of the South Car olinian. It is kept as a sort of register, by reference to which the foreman vs able to avoid the tecrological tautology of an nouncing a death more than once. Curious to ascertain the length in feet and inches which it had attained, we ojvused it, not long ago, to be measured, when it was found that in this dark, strange record, wc had rolled up not less than thirty-five feet of closely printed names. Since then it has received several addition .#, and now prob ably exceeds forty feet. We might “rack the world of fancy ” in vain for an image which would afford a more distinct con ception of the horrors of this war than the above homely fact.— Columbia S. Carolinian. Liberal Bequests by a Liverpool Trader. —One of the many vicissitudes of life has just been illustrated in Master Lit ton’s Court in Chancery. The late Charles Shields, a native of the county of Down, was in early life unfortunate in business. He left Ireland to cast his lot among Eng lishmen, and, settling in Liverpool, amassed a large fortune there, lie honorably dis charged all bis Irish debts; and on his death, not long since, having no near rela tives, he left over £120,000 lor the erection of almshouses in different parts of Ireland. A plan was sketched by his executors, and approved, of by the master, whereby alms houses are to be erected in the county of Down, at Kilough ; in Antrim, at Carriek fergus; in Tyrone, at Dungannon; in Ar magh, at Armagh ; and in Dublin, in the vicinity of the city. There is also to be a central governing body in Dublin, to have the general management of the fund and administration of the charity, for which purpose a private act of Parliament is to be applied for. Wf. observe I>y the New Brunswick papers that a considerable gathering of Roman Catholic clergymen has recently taken place at Chatham, in that Province, for the purpose of holding what is called a spiritual retreat, where they abstain from all public exercises for a number of days, or a week, to meditate upon their duty as pas tors and Christians. The Rev. John McEl roy, of Boston, 83 years of age, is conductor of services. There are also present the Rev. Canon Butler, Chaplain to the Forces in Halifax, the Rev. E. J- Dunphy, St. Stephen, and the Rev. Mr. Farrell, from St. John, all the guests of Bishop Rogers, of Chatham.— Halifax Paper. What a glorious world this would be, if all couid say : “ I am a true laborer ; I earn what I wear; owe no man hate; envy no man’s happiness; glad of other men’s goqdj content with my lot.” CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE. FOREIGN. Fashionable circles in London arc ex cited at the announcement that Lady Gray has joined tho Catholic Church. Mu. Coventry Patmore, the poet, and author of “Tho Angel of tho House,” re cently became a convert to tho Catholic Church. The interior of the Cathedral of Cologne has just been completed. The external work is continued. The building was commenced in 1245, • Among the passengers by the steamer Europa, at Boston, was the Right Rev. Bishop John B. Fitzpatrick, an ab sence on a tour in foreign countries of about two years and four months. The safe return of the Bishop will be hailed with I pleasure by thousands of friends. The second session of the Catholic Con gress of Belgium has been opened at Mu lines, when about 4.000 persons were pre sent, including tho notabilities of the Belgian countries in Europe. The Presi dent delivered a long address on the subject of the general situation of Catholicism in Europe, and particularly in Belgium; and the first day’s sitting Was brought to a con - clusion by a vote of devotedness to the Pope, which was immediately forwarded to Cardinal Antonelli, to he presented to Ills Holiness. The Bishop of Arichat, has addressed the following letter to the clergy and laity of hiß Diocese: Whereas, by the Canon Law of the Cath olic Church—vin. Trid. Syd. Sess. 24. de Reform. Matr. cap. i.—the Sacrament ot Matrimony must be preceded by publica tions of Banns, and no authority save that emanating from the Church through its Bishops, can give License to its ministers to dispense with such publications. And, whereas, the Legislature of this Province has, by an act of iis last Session, thought fit, among other things, to impose a penalty of S2OO on every person who shall officiate in the solemnization of marriages, unless under license from the civil Government, or under Banns, etc.—which act, so far as it relates t,o such license being obtained by Catholics, we consider an infringement of our episcopal rights, and would, if allowed to be carried out, tend to ignore the author ity of the Church, which it is our bounden duty to maintain in all matters spiritual. We, therefore, to avoid this invasion of our rights, ordain that you, beloved breth ren of the clergy, shall, in no case, hence forward, administer the Sacrament of Mat rimony. or marry persons under any pretext whatever, without first publishing the Banns as required by the law of the Church ; and that you, beloved children of the laity, shall not, under any circum stances, apply to civil authority for license to receive tho seventh Sacrament of the Church to which you belong, under pain of its censure. We find the following reference to the installation of the Most Rev. Archbishop McCloskey, of New York, in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, of Sept. 10th. The same number contains two large engravings of incidents in the installation : But a few years ago the Catholic body in this country was so insignificant in num bers that it scarcely entered into the ordi nary view of American life- This has changed yearly. The country is filled with its establishments, its churches, cathedrals, convents, monasteries of every description. Under our free government the rites of the Church are periormed without interruption, and with all the pomp and splendor that the wealth of the body now enables them to give. There are few more picturesque events of the day than these ceremonies, which seeu but a few steps from a busy s;reet of a city in this century, seem to carry the be holder back to the Middle Ages. One of the grandest Catholic cerem nials ever witnessed in the country was the instal lation of the Most Rev. John McCloskey, as Archbishop of New York, on the 21st of August. He thus fills the seat vacated by the death of that remarkable man, Arch bishop Hughes. Dr. McCloskey is a native of Brooklyn, and tho first American who has sat as Bishop or Archbishop in New York. The other Bishops in the Province are, with one exception, also all Americans by birth, showing how rapidly the nation alization of the Churvh has been effected. The procession was to have passed through the adjacent streets to the front of bt. Patrick’s Cathedral, but the weather pre-* vented this. At eleven o’clock it issued from the sae | rist-y. Acolytes with burning tapers, a cross-bearer and a long lino of clergy in copes or in surplices followed. Then came the Bishops of the Province and the Arch-, bishop of Baltimore, following whom eatno the new Archbishop of New York, beneath a splendid canopy elaborately wrought in satin and gold, supported by four of the trustees of the Cathedral. As this proces sion moved around the Cathedral the sight was peculiarly impressive. After this the Archbishop kr.eit before the altar for a time in prayer, ami was then escorted to the Espiscopal throne. When lie was seated here, the Bishops approached to receive the kiss of peace on the left cheek, or in the case of the .Archbishop of Baltimore on both. The clergy then hi turn approached the new Archbishp in like man ner, and the second Archbishop of New York was duly installed. A Pontifical High Mass followed this ceremony, and af /ter the Gospel, Archbishop McCloskey ad dressed his fiock. He was no stranger. Born and brought up almost under the shadow of the Cathedral, ho had received the first sacraments of the Church, having been confirmed by Bishop Connelly, the first Bishop who occupied the See, been ordained by Bishop Dubois the next, and consecrated Bishop by Archbishop Hughes, whose coad jutor lie was for some years, till his diocese was divided and Albany assigned to him. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, DOMESTIC. General (Prince) Polignac, with Ms division of rebel troops, made a raid into Natchez, recently, took some prisoners and property, and then left for other parts. FOREIGN. Tiif. Pedcrals claim to have ‘JO,OOO of our men prisoners, allowing us 50,000 of theirs. A mufti no has been held at Havana to petition the Crown for representation in til* Cories. Two hundred thousand Poles have been added to the population of Siberia by the Russian Government. Qchkn Victoria has appointed a commis sion, with instructions to consider tho ex pediency of abolishing capital punishment. Tub London correspondent of the To ronto Globe says that the scheme of a Cana dian Federation meets with general favor in England. Tub Great Eastern, which cost $.1,000,000, has been sold for $121,000, which sum w ill not be sufficient to pay off preferment credit tors and her expenses. Tub heiress to the Brazilian throne is likely to marry the Austrian Archduke, Louis Victor. If so, the Hapsburg family will number three Emperors. Tun powers which, besides France, have recoguizcd tho Empire of Mexico, and whose Minister resides in the cxxpital of that country, are Austria, Bavaria, Prussia, Russia, Belgium and Holland. Prince Edward de Polignac, brother of the Prince in the Confederate army, is te marry a daughter of Baron Sina, the wealthiest man in Austria, and one of the wealthiest bankers of Europe. His fortune is estimated at 43,000,000. A strange story comes to us from Abys sinia. The Emperor of that so-calleil Christian country, it.is said, has offered his hand to the British Qiieen, and because an answer did not cotno as soon as he expected, ho put Mr. Cameron, thq British Consul, iu. chains. There arc no longer tho Pyrenees, says the Moniteur. On July 13th, a locomotive coining from Spain passed through tin* Pyrenees inti* France along the now series of tunnels, twenty-six kilometres in length. This was merely a trial trip, and it was per fectly :U'cessfci. At the Conference at Nismes, of the Pro testant ministers of Franco, tho Geological party proved to be in a majority, and re fused to accept even the Apostles’ C reed as the symbol of their faith—whereupon one hundred and twenty of tho pastors and . elders styled Evangelical quit the Assembly. Tiie personal effects of the over-memor able Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a signer of tho Declaration of Independence, were sold in Baltimore, on the loth ult. They eonsist in part of a splendid china dinner set, of 270 pieces, presented to tho illus trious patriot xxs a birthday present, rich and costly desert, tea and coffeo sot of heavy, gold-lined china, the desert set having boon once owned by Sir Charles Vaughn, and many other splendid speci mens of the mechanic arts. Some idea may be formed of the extent of tho effects, when it is stated that the goods invoiced filled nine hogsheads and fifteen large boxes. Whether due to. the exertions of the Catholic clergy, or to tho better knowledge of thcA'cal state of the case, or to the offer of greater inducements elsewhere, or to the exhaustion of the .centrifugal impulse which every now and then cause the Irjsh popula tion to fly off at a tangent, even to tho ends of the earth, certain it is that the Irish em igration to the Northern States has greatly fallen off, if it has pot wholly ceased for the present. That ik so far encouraging, as it outs off one supply of soldiers, if tho Germans could also be kept at homo it would be another good thing; perhaps they may be.— Wilmington (,V. C.) Journal. The Cork (Ireland) Reporter, of the 12th. of August, says the weit tide of emigration which has for so long a period flowed cease lessly from our shore, has at length almost subsided. The fine steam vessels, in which the last place was usually filled, jinw depart all but empty. Tho largo crowds who daily clamored for passage have disappeared. >S.» great has been the decrease of numbers that the emigration agents have reduced their charges considerably, in tho hope of resuscitating their trade. A plentiful har vest at home, and the absence of induce ments to the other side of the Atlantic, ap pear tii have acted powerfully and quickly in changing the destiny of many of our impulsive countrymen. Think of-' It.— There nro 40,00:) prisoners tin each side, .-ays tiie Euuxter Watchmat: Give to each prisoner a family. ! and imhuo them all with the principles of religion, and you harp at once a great State iAs it is, you have 80,C00 victims of a eric 1 : war, pining in captivity, and dying of di-- ease ; and perhaps 40,000 women and chil dren fretting at home, and mourning the absence of their captive kiudre 1. And yet . the war goes on; the wine press of humen wrath continues to redden the green carpi t. of earth with tbo crimson tide of hum; a : blood; and the cloud grows darker over tLe laud, and the red lightnings flash nine fiercely. And all this in a Christian land, and in an enlightened age, and among a people whose boast it is mat their mission is to send the Bible and the missionary aid the light and principles of a merciful dis pensation throughout the world. God help us 1 What a picture for angeis to contem plate 1 What a picture for ti e heathen to look upon ! What a picture for Lucifer and his dark train of furies to shout over i God j help us I 7