Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-02-02


"SONTAG."
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN CON
IVENTION.-An adjourned meeting Of the
citizens Of Memphis, said TO have been The
largest preliminary meeting ever hold in that
city,-convoned on the 10Th instant, for the
purpose ofraking the first ttep towards the
accommodation Of the Southern and Western
Commercial Convention, which adjourned in
Baltimore to re-ossemble in Memphis IN June
next
The meeting expressed "deep and abiding
interest in the objects Of that Convention" cx
pressed its especial qualification that the text
meeting was 10 be held in Memphis, cordial
| ~ rendered tho Inequalities Of tho city 10 all
persons who might on that occasion attend its
sitings from any pari Of the Union, and APP
! pointed a committee TO make all necessary and
proper arrangements for the holding Of The
| Convention
We hope Tie assembly at Memphis will be
what its nameimports-"a Soufbc,n and West.
cJn Convention" and not Ike the gathering
in Baltimore. a town meeting got up 10 pro
mote The commercial interest Of the city in
which it Is held. Memphis is for many
reasons a more suitable place Of meeting for
such an assebly than Baltimore, aud we hope
the convention there may be largely attended,
by men who understand the true nteresla oil
the great producing region of the country end
have at heortlts highest prosperity
The Paris 'Uuivers. says "A general sub
ject of conversaron at Rome Is The recent con.
vcrlion to the Catholic faith Of Dr. Ives, the
Anglican Bishop Of Carolina in tie United
States. DIR. Ives had, for long time, embrace
ed Puseyire opinions, and felt strong sympa-
thes for the Catholic religion, which had sub
jccled him to much remonstrancc. Since he
has been at Rome, he has put himself in rcla-
ton with Monslgnor Gill, the Catholic Bishop
Of Virginia L. s., and addressed himself to
Monsgnor Talbot lhep vato eameriore of the
Pope, in Order to make his solemn abjuration,
and publicly profess Catholicism THIS ccro-
mony took place on the 26th Of December, the
Pope in person administering the sacrament
to the convert Dir. Ives, in abandoning the
| Episcopal Church of the United Statos, has
! given up a very advantageous position. Ills
wife at first warmly opposed his intention,
but II is sand that she now begins to defend him
against the attacks ofsomc Protestant ministers,
who accompanied the Bishop to Rome
The Baltimore Sun SAYS Of Bishop Ives, he
was the twenty fifth Bishop, IN the order Of
appointment, Of the Episcopal church of the
United States. lie Is n native Of Vermont,
and was originally settled, rs Il minister, over
Il Congregationalist Society, in the county OF
St. Lawrence, N. The effect Of forming
acqnaiutanceships and intimaeies, at that time,
it is said, Was to direct his attention to the E.
Episcopal church, which, abandoning his Con-
gregauoual COCK, he entered, and came to n.
York city, " here he married II daughter of
the venerable Bishop Hobart, and was settled
. rs Rector Of St Luke's Church. IN Hudson
street On Thursday, September %, 1881, he
was consccratcd Bishop of North Carolina. in
% Trinity Church, Philadelphia. AT the time of
his detection from the Protestant faith, he had
been Bishop twenty one years, and was the
third living, IN the order of conservation. His
wife who accompanied hin. on his visit 10
Rome, is said to have strongly opposed his
Looming the Catholic church, but now begins
to defend him from the attacks of several Pro
tostant ministers, who also accompanied him
to Rome.
We published IN our last paper an account
from the Now York Express, Of an encounter
which took place at the Medical College, in
that city, the afternoon of last Tuesday,