The Nevada journal., 1859-03-18

County celebrated the anniversary
of the birth of Ireland's patron SAINT
in a supper at the New York House,
and ball at the Court House. The
early hour of our going to press prevents
an account of the events of the night
such as we would be pleased to give
Doubtless the affair was grand one, as
the efforts put forth to make it so have
been varied and extensive. The
following moroccan of history by
Thomas Mooney, author of the History
OF ireland may not be uninteresting in
this connections:
Histo,ia differ about the birthplace
of Patrick OHalaran contending his
parents were Welsh on the fathers side,
and Gaulish on the mothers side whilst
Moore contends for the Roman extrac-
tion-and although there have been
written upwards of sixty separate biog-
phies of this remarkable missionary,
yet we are not truly certain whether to
assign him Welsh, a Gaulisl. or Ro-
man parentage. But, after all, the pa
rentage of such one matters not much.
for he was born for mankind and for
religion. All historians agree as 20 the
mode of his capture, his conversion, &c
We have seen, in the previous pages,
that the Irish legions harrassed the Ro-
man power in Britain. ana that Nal the
Grand, battled with them in that coun-
try and through Gaul, where he took
two hundred captives. These he caryi
ed to Ireland and sold, for the period of
seven years, according to the custom
practised in those ages, in reference to
captives taken in war. Amongst these
captives were Patrick, then sixteen
years of age, an his two sisters, Lupida
and Deverca.
When brought to Ireland, the youth
was sold TO one Mllcho, living in that
part of the Island known as Antrim,
where he was appointed shepherd.
The mountain now known as Sliobh
Miss, or the Mountain of the Moon,'
was the place Of his meditation and
prayer. After his term Of seven years
of servitude ended, Patrick returned to
the continent and obtained an entrance
to the college of Tours, in which his
uncle Martin was teacher. In this
place he studied for four years This
was in 397. After ST. Martins death in
four or five years, he set out for Rome;
here he was admitted among the pre-
bendaries of St John of Lateran, Anno
403 He was then thirty years of age.
For some time he studied here. He
afterwards visited several holy retreats
in the Islands of the Mediferanean, and
attached himsclfto the barefooted order
of St Augustine. From these he went,
in AIS, to study with St. German, at Aux
crre. Here he prepared himself more
especially for performing the important
services to Christianity which subse
querty crowned his ife. Leaving st
Gcrmain, he entered the monastery of
the Isle Of l.eiius, where he continued
fol nine wears in close study. After his
leaving Lcrius, he returned to Auxerrc.
to mis- beloved friend St GcImain. When
the news of Palladius' death had reach
ed them from Ireland, (Palladius had
previously preached Christianity in Ire
land with some trifling success,) St Ger
main sent him to Rome with instructions
upon the mission to Ireland He was
then. ammo 43O, thirty-eight years old.
1t appears from his own confessions,
a book, the original of which, according
to Co!gan, is still ex.ant in the library
- 4 q,
in servitrde, among the hills of Ireland,
he was fervent in his pra-ers to Heaven.
Every day | fed the focks, and pray
ed frequently during the da-; my love
of God increased more and more, and
my faith and fear in him augmented, so
that in one day prayed almost hund-
rcd times, ard as often in the night
Whilst tarried on the mountain and in
the woods, | was aroused to pray both
in the snow, frost and rain: neither did ]
feel any pain from it. nor lassitude, as |
think, because my soul was then ardent
- Usher, c. II, p $40.
From the above dates given we are
induced to doubt the existence of such
a being as St. Patrick. or perhaps, the
discrepancy i'll the fgurss is to be attrib-
uted TO a national penchant of the Irish
for rerpet atilg bulls.
GLAD TIDINGS.-The San Francisco
National is indignant at the announce
ment that John Nugent intends running
for Governor at the mex; election, and
says: