The national Republican., 1861-10-31
All HallOw Eyo.

held in homer of all those saints who had not
particular days appointed for them, but 1t does
not appear that All Hallow Day, or its eve, we're
ever marked by very particular observance
in the Catholic church; nevertheless, there
ts scarcely any time more distinguished by the
common people of many portions " the BRUSH
Islands.
Ringing of bells was one of tho modes OF
celebrating Haowmas In England In times past
1t was Roman Catholic prac,tce, oeing de
signed In some way 10 favor the sous OF ue.
parted Christians. For this reason, queen
Elizabeth prohibited 1t. 1t was also custom,
a few centuries ago, to hsve q cake baken on
this eve for every member OF the family, as
soul mass cake or soul cake. II was composed
OF oatmeal, and seeded; and pasties and fur
mety were incidental to the same evening. In
families of good condition, a quantity we're
bakon and set up on n board, like the shew
bread IN old pictures In the Bible, to be given
70 visiters, or distributed among the poor:
There was rhyme for the occasionEn ~ css,s soul
tiau souls for soul.cake" People went from
parish to parish dsouling. as they called II,
that is, begging in n kind Of chant for soul.
cakes, or anything to make them merry on tnis
eve.
Essentially connected with all these custom.
are those better known ones which Burns has
80 we'll and so faithfully described in his poem
of Hdlo,oeen.
Jan slips In twa WI tentie ee,
Wha twas she wadna tell,
But this Il j. ok and this Is me,
She says into herself;
He beezed owre her, and she owre him,
A. they wad ne'er mar part
Till fulf he started up the lum,
And Jean had ecu 50 heart
To sect that night
Nuts, besides being thus used for divination,
are cracked and eaten, and hence, in the north
Of England, All Hallow Eve is often called Nut
crack Niqht. Apples are also extensively eaten,
this consumpt Of fruit having probably some
reference to the heather character or the day
hat nf ha bag nrOduC4
season The fortune telling customs described
by Burns, hesides the above are-for the girls to
pull stalks from corn-stalk, and ascertain from
the presence or absence OF the top ploKie, an
interesting point in their moral history-for
solitary female to go to kiln, and throwing
blue clue into the pot to wind 1t, expecting that
ere finished It will be held back, when, by In;
quiring who holds, response Will DO obtained
disclosing the name Of the future husband-to
eat an apple at u loOking-glass, expecting to see
a vision OF the future husband peeping over the
shoulder-to SOW hemp seed In the yard, say.
ing, " Hemp seed, saw thee, hemp seed, lsaw
thee, and her that is to be my true love come
after me and draw thee" expecting that, on
hooking over the shoulder, = vision will be OBJ.
tained OF the future spouse In the act OF pulling
grown hemp-to win three weohts o. naething
In tho barn, expecting 10 see ike vision-to
fathom barley stack thrice, expecting at last
to embrace your mistress-to dip shirt sleeve
in a rivulet at the meeting point Of the lands Of
three proprietors, and then hang 1t by the hre
dry, trusting To S0o sucu poi
come in am turn the other side-to pull stalks
Of dece .sed cabbages, blindfolded, without
choice, and augur, from their straightness ol
crookedness, the figure Of the future spouse
from the earth which clings to the root, tht
fortune she will bring, and from the taste
the heart, her temper-hnally, to set three
dishes on the floor, one empty, one with clean
and one with foul water, and cause the company
to approach them blindfolded and dip In hand
when he whp dips in the empty one is expected
to remain unmarried, he who dips In the fou
one to marry to widow, and he who dips II
: the clean one to marry female not hitherto
married. The whole of these rites are a
familiar 10 the welch, Irish, and Northumbrian
as to the Ayrshire peasantry. Many or then
are also practsed in England on st. Johns Eve
the Esd Of June.
Young America, however, has invented wa
of it's own for the observance OF All Hallow Eve
a prominent feature OF which Is TO go roun
from house to house, and pelt with cabbagei
turnips, &C., the luckless servant who ma
chance to come to the door.
In tho Catholic churches of this city, to moi
row, there win be services as on Sunday; an
in st. Aloysius church, corner of and Mort
Capitol streets, there will be solemn requiei
sung by the choir at "a P. NJ. Madam Cecili
Young ia again the prima donna In this oho
Saturday, tho I'd of November, Is All Soul
Day, when the Catholic churches offer prayer
for all the faithful departed; and at l0t o'oloci
on that day, a solemn requiem mass, with In
posing ceremonies, is to be offered In Moui
Olvst Cemetery, for the repose OF the souls
all therein inferred.