The Pacificator. (Augusta, Ga.) 1864-1865, June 24, 1865, Page 147, Image 7

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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. 147