The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-03-11
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o.s aence Of the clarion.l
NEW ORLEANS, March 4, 1866.

most glorious TO iircmen, a class Of men
whom You have among yon as well AZ wa
! here, and a glorious set Of men, too, who on
DE lth Of March are wont 10 have grand
professions in which, dockcd In their fanci-
ful red or white shirts and black trowsers'
which 1T tightly over their robust FORMS
with their engines and hose carriages and
trucks decorated as highly as art and taste
can do it, they proceed in procession =
all over the principal streets, to the intense
delight of all the girls and the hopeful ex-
pectations of the adoleseent youths who
trust some day TO "run wild der masheen ="
also.
i am sorry TO record that it took place to-
day; for, though am no Puritan and be-
lieye that the Sabbath was made for man,
and not man for the Sabbath, / believe that
IL should be kept as a day of rest, as well
from boisterous aud exciting amusements
as from mere labor. The needs both of mind
and body, as well as the requirements of the
sacred law, make the keeping Of the Rest
Day most salutary duty, incumbent on
all; and it is greatly to be hoped that pub
lie opinion viii yet enact that these public,
eye-paining and ear-deafening celebrations
shall be had on a more suitable day than
Sunday
As for our New Orleans frcmen, we are
especially proud Of themas class they are
/ men Of all ranks in life among us, from tho
| wealthicst and most refined, to the hardest
sons of toll, and they are emphatically the
most fearless and efficient among all lighters
Of fire. One thing, which especially endears
them to MS, is that during the three years Of
hostile occupation, while many of them, pos
sibly the greater number, were out in con
fict, the residu were unwilling to indulge
in this their accustomed annual holiday, and
that last year, when it was observed in
somewhat sombre, halfand-half style, it was
done by the request, amounting to an order,
from the commanding General.
/ shall not try to give you an account "a
erteaso of to-day's celebration, as you will
find it in the morning papers of tomorrow,
much more fully than could furnish 1t to
you, within tie compass of this brief epistle'
To-day has also been observed, much more
appropriately for the day, in the admins
ltration Of the rite of confirmation in Christ
Church and st. Pauls, our two Oldest Epis-
eopal churches in the city, and in Mount
Olivet Church, in Algiers, by tho Right Rev.
Richard H. Wilmer, ID. D., the Bishop oil
The rector Of Christ Church isthe Rev.
DIR. Leacock, and the rector of St. Paul's is
the Rev. DIR. Goodrich, who were banished
by Butler, and who were not permitted to
return until after the surrender. These ven
erable men, Christians in the purest and
most exalted sense, are the objects of uniform
reverence and respecti even their late enc
mics yield il to them. The Rev. Mr.. Bake
well event out" as orderly sergeant of the
5th Company of the Washington Artillery
Capt. Slocomb, and fought at Shiloh and
elsewhere, and became clergyman and the
chaplain of Mississippi regiment subse-
ouently. in which character he is probably
| well known to all who served in Johnston's
Inu,l Hoods army. He Is a. mar or-s''----.
syInpathies, unhagging zeal, deep earnest
ness and Iine abilities as q preacher.
Ofthe distinguished celebrant you need
no description from me. The Bishop Of
| Alrbama has made his mark in the history
of the times, and my only regret is that he
did not insist on retaining for his, and,so far
as his influence could go, for the other
Southern lioceses, that primitive diocesan
Iindependence. which ifnot Irrational" or 're-
publican" is, at the least, scriptural and
apostolic.
When the Bishop was here, some weeks
ago, lust after the revocation by Thomas,
after fashion, of his intcrdict by military
1 authority, or rather power without author
/ ity, but before the publication of the reyo-
cation, he administered the rite Of confirlna-
ton in Trinity church in the morning and
was TO have administered it at night in
Christ Church, but hearing that Gen. Sher.
man, not the sherman but Sherman, had
issued an order to prevent him, and not
having been expressly invited by the stand
ing committee of the diocese to Ofiiciate al
Christ church, he staid away. The next
day be received an apology from Gen. s.
who had then learned of the revocation
ii who told him that be could proceed, but il
: was too late. 1t is said that the intrudinl
' vestry Of Christ. church. Yankee interlopers
whO crept in under Butler, the Beast 81
Z Banks, the prOfiigate, wese -ths ~Instigator'
!. !. Of this treatment of the Bishop of Alabama
4 Friday night last and to-day their Recto
Succeeded in causing them to hear TIN
. truth at the lips Of this distinguished pre-
late. and Tuesday night he breaches TO III
!. Young men in That great church
r Monday next, 18th inst. on dit, we are T.
have our first city election since the adven
II Of Butler. boon which has for the year mas
b. heea denied us.--not by the Federal author
b. ties, but bythe corrupt and false men VII
n derive their power under the fraudulen
State Constitution Of 1864. OF course, ,ther
is great preparation for the event. weea
: hardly be said to have parties here, for Il
le Wells and Kennedy party can hardly elect
m single member Of the Council from an
Is ward in the city, and assuredlv NOT, a
Il Mayor; and thsa Iaiaa Flu1,Q
l. party is therefore,
q Ihsve my own
ne 4, f1,i. or,,a flor,