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viage and horse. On Monday, April 24, a depu
tation of gentlemen, headed, by Congreve Rogers,
Esq,, high-sheriff (a Protestant), proceeded to
Father Cantwell's residence, when Edward Wall,
Esq., handed the Rev. gentleman the first instal
ment, £2OO. The good pastor was completely
overpowered by his feelings—he had heard noth
ing of the movement, and he could hardly accept
it. His impromtu reply to the address was most
touching, impressive and beautiful, while tears of
gratitude welled forth at every word. It was a
most affecting scene.”
On Tuesday morning, May 9th, some practical
jolfer pinned up to the board at the Chamber of
Commerce, Waterford, on which the Electric Tele
graph Company announce their shipping and
weather reports, a “ telegram,” to the effect that
an attetopt was made on the life of President
Johnson, that New York was burned down, etc.
As soon as the manager of the office, Mr, Moffatt,
became aware of the joke, he removed the forged
“ telegram,” and the excitement it caused soon
subsided.— Waterford Citizen.
ULSTER.
Antrim. —We (Ulster Observer, May,l3,) have
heard that very important additions are to be made
immediately to the buildings of the Queen’s Col
lege. The medical rooms are to' be increased, at
an outlay of £2,300, and for this the contract has
been already accepted. The President of the Col
lege, during his recent visit to Loudon, has ob
tained from the treasury £4,800 to build anew li
br.iry at the north wing, in order to allow’ the great
hall to revert to its original purposes.
Under the Landed Estate Court/ the estate of
Henry Jones McCance was recently sold in trust
for Finlay McCance for £47,000 —the yearly rent
being £2,368. The property was described as
“ the demenee and lands of Suffolk, the demense
and lands of Glenville, and a fee farm, rent and
reservations out of the lands of Ballycullo,” all in
the county Antrim.
Armagh.—'The late fair of Armagh was well
supplied with horses, demand in every class being
active. First-class horses sold at £4O to £SO, and*
in one case, £9O were paid; farm horses sold at
£l4 and upwards. The show of black cattle was
about an average, and business was lively. Beeves
wjerein request, the value of prime being quoted
at 60s. per cwt. Milch COWS were scarce, and
prices varied from £8 to £11: springers went at
from £lO to £l4. There was a small supply of
store cattle. Two-year-old heifers and bullocks
went at £3 to £lO ; yearlings may be quoted at
Fermanagh. —Concerning the parliamentary re
presentation of the’borough of Enniskillen, the'fol
owing has appeared in some of the Dublin papers:
1 It is now pretty generally understood that there
will be'a contest for this borough at the general
election. The sitting member, the Hon. John
Cole, brother to Lord Enniskillen, will be opposed
by Mr. John Collum, of Bellview, who has consid
erable property in town, and is personally popular.
Ur. Collum opposed Mr. Whiteside on two occa
sions, and on the last was only defeated by seven
*
votes.”
Derry. —John Butt, Esq., who lias acted as
Cashier of the Northern Bank, Coleraine, for the
last four years, has been promoted to the man.
agership of the branch of Gilford, county Down.
An extraordinary case was tried at the Belfast
Police Court., lately. From a dealer in the town
a gentleman purchased a quantity of straw, which
weighed 101 stone. He paid for the whole quan
tity, except the stone, and for this he positively
refused to pay. The vender was as inexorable as
the purchaser, and summoned the gentleman for
the recovery of the price of the stone, flffiich was
three pence. Yv hen the case came before the
magistrates they decided against the defendant,
who gave to an attorney to defend the case a fee
of ten shillings, and who, having lost it, was com
pelled to pay the price of the summons, the costs
of the court, and, in addition to all, the disputed
three pence. The whole expense he incurred for
not having paid the insignificant sum of three
pence amounted to twelve shillings and six pence.
Mr. John Coates was solicitor in the case. A
similar case was tried lately in a rural district in
Munster, and it resulted in the same way.
CONNAUGHT.
Galway. —The Western Star says: The old
adon-e, “That the king and the beggar, the prince
and the peasant, are liable to the misfortunes.of
life,” has been almost verified by the following
singular story: There is at this moment, in a
western town not twenty miles from the “Citie of
the Tribes." an individual whose occupation is
that of a messenger or porter, and who besides
frequently executes commissions of a much lower
calling; but strange, yet true, this now humble
individual was at one period of bis life a Privy
Counpillor, and, during the latter part of the Bus
the PACIFICATOR —A. CAT! 1 O 1710 JO HUN AL.
sian war, was one of those distinguished person ;
ages whose humanity, amounting almost to eccen
tricity, led him to volunteer his services out there
as M.D., and, during the memorable Crimean cam
paign, took much pride in affixing the euphonious
appendage of M.D., L. R. C. S. to his cognomen.
This week (says the Connaught Patriot , of the
16th ult.,) we have had very genial showers valu
able as gold. Such of the crops as are over
ground look beautiful, and the remainder of the
Spring business progresses. All nature seems
smiling, and bids the hardy sons of toil hope for
a rich harvest.
Mayo. —-A correspondence dated Castlebar.
May 2, says: “A rumor having reached the con
stabulary at Ballaghadereen, that a woman named
Catherine Doogan, who has been missing since
the 17th of March last, was foully murdered by
her father-in-law, James Doogan, aided by her
brother-in-law, Michael Doogan, in their house at
Castleduff, on the above night, search was made in
the townland and the adjoining mountain for tire
body, luit without effect. A further search was
made on the Ist inst., when about three quarters
of a mile from Doogan’s house a newly dug grave
was discovered, in which was an apron having a
strong smell of decomposed matter, and which'
has been identified by Bridget ’Stenson,as that
belonging to Catherine Doogan, and worn by her
on the 17th of March. 'The two men have been
arrested.
The War Department has proposed to sell the
barracks established at Ballinrohe, Ballaghadei
een, Ballinamult, Roscommon, Ougherard, Dun
more, Gort, and Ballysliannon.
The May fair of Castlebar surpassed any us
the recent Western fairs, especially in horned
cattle. Three'fine lots of Bullocks were sold by
Sir G. O’Donnel, at an average of ClB per head.
Other lots Sold as follows: 11. Wilbraham, Esq.,
2.5 bullocks at £l4 55., and 26 do. at £lo 55.;
Mr. Broderick, 20 do. at £l9; A. Ormsby, Esq.,
20 do. at £1.9; Mr. G. Ilarkan, 20 do., at £l6 10s.,
30 do. at £l6 ; 11. .T. Browne, Esq., 20 at £ls;
Mr. McNally, 25 at £lO. The sales in the sheep
line were very fair, considering the present state
of the wool marke t. Mr. M. Quinn sold 80 hog
gets at 155., and Mr. W. Barret 40 do. at 4fls. Gd.;
Mr. W. Barret sold a lot of two year.old wethers
at 60s. -, Mr. W. Gilibons sold 50 hoggets'at 40s.
datfjolic InMliornrc.
A'n effort is being made to erect a now Catholic
Church in Cambridgeport, Mass. .
Rumors of the Most Rev. Dr. Cullen's promo
tion to the rank of Cardinal a*re again circulating
in Rome.
The sixty designs for the O’Connell monument,
which had been sent in for the consideration of the
Committee, have been all rejected.
* A Catholic Church has been opened at Nagras
ki, Japan. There were 60,000 Catholics in Japan
at one period in its history, but they were driven
out.
The Dublin Exhibition is a great success. On
Wednesday, at the military review at the Phcenix
Park, from 80,000 to 100,000 persons assembled
•in spite of the rain.
The Mayor of Cork has received from Sir John
Arnottacheek fora thousand pounds for six Cork
charities, to be allocated, if the Mayor approves,
in a manner which Sir John suggests.
On the 6th ult., Miss Catherine Stapleton—in
religion, sister Mary Joseph—the daughter of Pa
trick Stapleton, of Dunmore West, county Water
ford, wa3 received into the Convent of Merc-y,
Clifden.
Letters received in Tuam, during the week end
ing March G, announced that his Grace the Arch
bishop of Tuatn, the Lord Bishop of Clonfert, and
the Very Rev. Dr. Thomas Mactlale, of the Irish
College, Paris, had reached Milan en route to the
Eternal City.
. It is reported that the Southern Bishops of the
Protestant Episcopal Church anticipate no diffi
culty in the way of a fraternal reunion with their
brethren of the Northern dioceses at the next
meeting of the General (triennial) Convention in
September next.
A great religious movement is at present taking
place among the population of China. Hundreds
of villages are becoming converted, to Catholicism,
but the number of missionaries arc quite insuffi
cient to gather in the abundant harvest: the bish
ops of China arc making an earnest appeal to the
devotedness of the Catholic priests in Europe to
aid the salvation of so many millions of souls.
There are now about one hundred meeting
houses in the Sandwich Islands, erected for the
most part by the people themselves, at a cost of
not far from $150,000. Somerof them are very
durable structures. The one at Honolulu is built
of coral rock, and will undoubtedly stand unim-
paired for centuries’, unless disturbed by the shock !
of an earthquake.
A Solemn-Office and High Mass was celebrated !
at the Abbey Chapel, Loughrea,.on the 22d April, 1
-for th,e repose of the soul of the late venerable j
Father Gannon, 0.1).C. The Most Reverend Dr. j
Whelan officiated as celebrant; assistant priest—
Very Rev. M. Mahon, Prior, 0.D.C.; deacon— j
Kev. M. Murphy, 0.1).C.; sub-deacon —Rev. Jas. •
Madden : the Rev. John Sallars, Administrator, !
acting as Master of the ceremonies.
The general meeting of the committee of dc- j
sign to promote the erection of a monument to the '
late lamented pastor of the Kingstown parish, j
Rev. Canon Cavanagh, took place on Sunday af- j
ternoon in St. Michael’s Church, Ixingstown. The j
Rev. J. O’Rorke, C.C., occupied the chair. The j
Rev. Chairman said that the amount of £l6B 17s. j
Gd. had already been lodged in the bank to assist j
the object in contemplation) and that £3lO 17s.
Od. had been collected up to the present.
Space did not allow us (Connaught Patriot) last
week to call the attention of the public to the pow
erful r< futation of the Very Rev. P. MacManus,
P.P., V.F., Clifden, respecting the exaggerated
and false statement of young Parson Plunket,
nephew of Lord Plunket of Tuam, as to the num
ber of Protestant Churches, Missions and Protest
ants in Tar, or West Connaught. Would each
priest in that extent of country kindly supply us j
with data as to the Church or Churches, Mission
or Missions, Convcutile or Conventicles, Meeting
house or Meeting houses, and Protestants of all
denominations in his parish or curacy? Though
the Very Rev. Father MacManus has done much
to refute wicked lies, our suggested plan would bo
a terrible exposure o( the gigantic swindle of
which Mr. Plunket is the chief Rupell.
During the rioting which took place in Madrid
a few weeks ago, the military were about to fire
on a number of persons assembled at the Calle
del Arsenal, when a priest suddenly threw himself
before the people, and, extending his arms, en
treated the officer in command to order his men
to fire upon him rather than spread death among
so many inoffensive persons, many of whom were
women and children casually passing by. The
officer, moved by the earnest appeal of the worthy
priest, and the sacred character of the intercessor,
desisted from his purpose and the crowd quietly
dispersed.
On the morning of Wednesday, May 10th, the
solemn and imposing ceremonies of the profession
and reception of two young ladies, took place in
the beautiful little chapel attached to the Convent
of Mercy, Limerick. The tjvo young ladies who
on this occasion renounced the pomp and vanity
of-the world for the calm and holy repose of the
cloister, were Miss Kenny, daughter of Mrs. Ken
ny, Corballv, and Miss Casey, daughter of Joseph
i Casey, Esq., Bathkeale. The ceremonies were
'conducted by the Most Rev. Dr. Butler, assisted
by a large number ol the clergy of Limerick and
its vicinity.
The festival which was held at Annecy, on the
occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Canon
ization of the sainted Prince-Bishop of Geneva,
attracted an extraordinary number of visitors, and
passed off with great eclat. From the 19th to the
26th of April, the approaches to the Chufch.of the
Visitation, in which the Saint's body reposes, gave
ojio the idea of the flow and. ebb of the ocean.
Besides the masses of people in the street, there
was a standing crowd which covered the adjacent
rc|ids, consisting of the inhabitants of all the coun
try round, who came iu procession to venerate the
relics of the holy Bishop. One of these proces
sions had come a distance of fifteen miles. The
Prelates who had arrived from France and Switz
erland addressed these numerous pilgrims in turn,
dad by day. According to the newspapers of An
necy, the festival was attended by the Cardinals
of Hesancon, Bordeau, ItoueiAiuf Chamber/; and
by the Bishops of Belley, Sion, Saint Claude, He
bron, Bethlehem, Lausanne, Saint Jean-de Man
rienqe, Mans, Annecy, and by Mgr. de Spgur.
This festival terminated on the 26th of April, with
a solemnity which, in grandeur and magnificence,
surpassed the ceremonial pomp of the preceding
days. The number of pilgrims who attended is
computed at 50,000.
The (New York World estimates the total ex
ceptions to the President’s amnesty proclamation
at from; 200,000 to 250,000 men, divided as fol
lows: Persons above the rank of colonel, 400;
raiders from Canada, 2,000 ; privateersmen, 3,500;
volunteer rebels worth above $20,000, 60,000 :
foreign agents of rebel Government; 200 : rebel
naval officers, 160 ; disloyal jurists,-80; seceding
Congressmen, 149; old army officers, 156; per
sons who have maltreated prisoners, 300 ; Gov
ernors o? rebel States, 19; Northern men in rebel
employ, 400; soldiers in rebel army from border
States not seceded, 50,000 ; in Northern prisons
at the current time, 28,000; those who have taken
the oath and broken it, 30,000.
General sntdli§enrc.
Dr. Blackburn, under examination in Toronto
on charge of attempting to introduce the yellow
fever into New York from Bermuda, was required
to give eight thousand dollars bail to appear be
fore the next Court of Assizes to answer in the
matter..
The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia
have found true bills of indictment against Jeffer
son Davis and John C. Breckinridge for high
treason. They are indicted separately. The
overt act was the raid last July, when citizens
in the District were killed and property was de
stroyed. Mr. Davis is constructively charged with
the crime, and General Breckinridge, directly, he
being at the time in the District.
It was not till 1863 that” the first railway line
was opened iu India, and that was only for a dis
tance of twenty-two miles, which was built at a
cost ol $3,353,200. There are now three thou
sand miles in operation, and nearly two thousand
miles more are to be made before the system’ is
completed, which will probably be in 1860. These
roads cost from $55,000 to SIOO,OOO per mile.
An immense crowd of strangers still remain in
Washington. People from ail parts of the coun
try have gone there to greet relatives and friends
in the grand armies just returned from their ticks
of victory. The hotels are densely crowded. The
demand for vehicles is so great that a premium
of five dollars an hour is necessary to hire a car
riage Os any description. The roads to the vari
ous camps are quite choked with wagons, carriages
and men and women on horseback.
The Nashville papers publish a highly impor
tant decision by Chancellor Shackelford, of the
Chancery Court of Tennessee, on a writ of habeas
corpus , sued out by Cyrus Winston, a colored man,
I with a view to get possession of his four minor
j children held in bondage by one M. P. Jones, as
| agent? for the Trustees of Thomas Williamson, de-
I ceased. The Chancellor decided that the recent
j amendment of the Constitution of Tennessee,
I abolishing slavery, was valid, and therefore! or
dered the children to be given to the father.
The Salem Gazette says that Sunday (21 st) when
the Rev. Mr. Rickman, rector of St. Peter’s Church,
entered the vestry and proceeded to prepare him
self for the religious services of the day, Opposition
was made to his doing so, and he was not allowed
to enter the church. Mr. Pickman disrobed kirn
seif and left, protesting that he had been prevented
j from the discharge of his duties by physical force.
| A portion of the congregation left with him and
I held a service at his house. It is understood that
Bishop Eastburn sustains the rector.
Hon. Wm. Aiken arrived in Charleston, on the
6th, from New York. The Courier says :
“As he made his appearance he was recognized
and enthusiastically cheered by the crowd on the
wharf. Ho was afterwards surrounded on all sides
by his friends, shaking hands and offering their
congratulations. A carriage was immediately en
gaged by the crowd, and the Governor conveyed
to his residence iu Aiken Square.
“He speaks in the wannest terms of the kind
treatment and reception he met with during his
stay at the North, particularly in New York and
Washington. His interviews with the President
were of the most pleasant and agreeable nature.”
Lord St. Leonard in the House of Lords called
attention to the subject of strikes and locks out,
and laid upon the table a bill for establishing
councils of arbitration. He said that no one in
the present state of the law could deny that men
had a right to strike, but he thought if some proper
tribunals were established before whom both par
ties could appear and have their case fairly con
sidered, great advantage would result both to
masters and workmen. The present mode of
settling disputes between the employer and em
ployed, by strikes and locks out, was a disgrace to
civilization. The bill provided that courts of con
ciliation should be established by license from the
crown, each court not to consist of more than ten
masters and ten workmen and a chairman. The.
award of the court on any question referred to it
was to be final. The bill was read a first time.
The commune of Buanenotts, in France, is
hourly menaced with utter destruction. Five
manufactories have already been overthrown, and
sixty-four more are threatened with imminent ruin. •
The inhabitants have fled in the greatest-conster
nation to the neighboring villages. The cause of
this disaster is a sudden and violent depression of
the soil, which is for the present accounted for by
one of two reasons, either the kill of an immense
mass of earth in the west of the district, or the
| vielding of an extensive subterranean cavern.
But in reality nothing certain is yet known as to
the cause of the deplorable event. Meanwhile, a
; number of civil engineers have hastened to the
i spot and prompt measures are in course of adop
-1 tion to prevent a greater disaster.
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