The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-01-21
How Timothy virSilius 0sDohcrsy tho irish
school Master si.caccd his anita sonisa.
BY W. +.

On the banks OF one of the Irish Southern
rivers, in the centre of a rich agricultural dis
trics, stands the village of Carrigabrick 1t
stands there. but how changed it is? True,
the proud old river flows as majestically along,
and the bending branches stoop to kiss il as
il passes, and the flowers bloom there as
brightly as they were went to bloom in deys
gore by. Attwart the eastern sky rise the
mountains of Melleray, beautiful in the
brigh, light of morning. gorgeous amid the
evenings purple haze. To tie West, the as
cending columns of smoke Indicate where lies
the gay and lively town of Fermoy, gayer and
more lively even than ii used to be. Close
by is the fine old Castle of the Condons,
venerable in its ruin, and still telling us, as
erstwhile it did, of the glorious pas, when
powerful chieftains dwelt within its walls,
and brave warriors kept watch upon its tur-
rets.
Yet Carrisabrick is not ''the sweet smiling
village" of our youthful days. Sad times
have since fallen upon poor Ireland, and the
Destroying Angel that passed over its soil,
left not Carriga5rick unscathed. Unjust leg
islation pressed heavily on the country, and
her rulers amid the distress with which Pro-
whence afflicted her, stretched forth the
hand to smite, not to save. What the sword
of famine did not accomplish, the severity of
the statute books succeeded in achieving
until tie emigrant ship bore away from the
Irish shores the bone and sinew of the popu-
laton.
These. far departing, seek kinder shore,
Where rural mrth and manners more. :"
Carrgabrck has en- depopulated, and is
in ruin. Its roofess homesteads now speak
the story of desolatioa more terrible than the
hand of the most ruthless vandal ever wrought
on the ancient homes of the West. The vii
lage school has shared in the general deyas-
tattoo. 1t is now but the wreck of what
it once was, when the present chroni-
cler of Mr.. O'Doherty's fame imbibed the les
sons of wisdom that were being taught with
in the walls. The illustrious individual who
bore that honored name, was the instructor of
the rising population of Carrigabrick. Grand
in the pride of his unboundeG knowledge, he
welded, amongst the inhabitants of that
romantic district, power second only to that
which the Catholicity of tie faithful attribut-
ed to the beloved pastor. OF that influence
he was exceedingly conservative; and, when,
in an evil hour, rival sought to supplant
him in the esteem and affections of the peo-
Pile, he convoked meeting of the parents
and friends of his pupils, and delivered a
subjects were expected to commit to memory.
representative of those juveniles is ena-
bled to supply the readers of the UNION DEM
ocRAT with true copy. 1t is as follows:
"The intelligence having appropinquated
TO my auricuar organs, that certain excre-
menititous schedules have been quotidinalIy
promulgated through the romantic habita-
tons of Carrigabrick ard its proximate vicin-
ty, tending to suly the hitherto untarnish-
ed escutcheon of the philomatha, and caculat-
ed to bring unmerited odiam on those lennine
patrons of universal literature; have deter
mined to present myself to your ocular perci-
piency in prOpria persona, that | may locate
before the portals of your capacious imagina-
tons, the transparent nihility and polurhlos
botica romposity of which thew are a conca-
tenation, that | may cordm publico unfold the
thunders of my genius, and ingurgitate, in
the MaeIstrom of sempiternal confusion, the
ululating scrivener of these vermiparous eb-:
ullitons. And were it not shat the evaneel-
zeal mandate of Christian charity. supple
mented by the internal promptings of nv
monitoral conscience, restraints me from en-
tering into pugiistic encounter with so un-
worthy an antagonist. the termination of this
matter may be. that | would, at a paulopost
future period. be impaed on some iatelir
0r6or for making this terraqueous orb of ours
miRus that gramnivorous cacodemcn of nervi-
cacity and terg, versaton. But, whilst can
enter the literary arena. and potentlv WELD
goose quill, my method of castigating such
tnrgescent nonentities shall be 70 aheruntate
their heterodoxical etfusions with the knife of
learning, and to open the cataracts of gigan-
tic intellect on their surercilious parchments
And. in this, my fricads, you will ac-
knowledge that | am acting without the
slightest symptom of irratinnahilitv, or IN any
wise contrary to the fundamental constitu-
ton of metaphysical ingenuity For land |
have an instructive loathing of n.onating the
Harmonious trumpet of my own praisesl |
have rrohated myself TO be profoundly erudite
in all the intricacies Of NEUROLOGICAL lore
You have watched through the kew hole of
astonishment at nv multitudinous lsbers in
the glorious cause of literature and civiliza-
ton; YOU have beheld how efInrescently
| conducted the sprigs Of iuvenility under my
tutelary protection. FROM the serpentine Dor
Gems of ignorance and somnolencv. unto The
ria sacrd of knowledge and literature. ada
cent to which the Plerian Spring rolls in the
impetuosty Of it's onward career. and in
whose very dykes the odorifercus heritage Of
classicality springs up in the luxuriance of
veriant vegetation.
You have seen how /. girded with the cru
descent pannplv of mighty genius, have soar
ed aloft. with aqnline oinnions. to the almost
inaccessible regions of classicality-how I
dived. with victorious plunge. into tie pro-
fnundpst depths of scientific amalgamation--
how peregrinated. led on bv the transcer-
dent illumination of nv own capacity through
the cutaneous labrynths Of mathematics. not
withstanding the more than nocturnal ter
hrositv of its cavernous recesses yorr seRsus
audieadi must have hern philharmonicallv
accosted by my dulcitied expatiations the
astronomical pulchritude of the stelliferous