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THE ATLANTA SUNFROM THE DAILY EDITION OFTuesday. March lOMi, 1872.Till: CKLEBRATION OP ST. PATRICK’S DAY.he Hibernian Benevolent So-» ciety. __________________ so insensible to the emotions of grati-fidelityoi the irishmen during that ever- tude, as to blot from the map of their memorable ser*n years* struggle. State the names of Montgomery, DeKalb,Country bore testimony to the Talor andYesterday was their annual parade— the day memorable for fifteen centuries,this year coming on Sunday—in honor of Patricias, the Apostle and Patron-Saint of the Irish.The present organization dates from 1SG5, and comprises about eighty-five members in good standing.The following officers faithfully served last year: t resident, J. H. Flynn; Vice-President, T. Bnrke; Secretary, Wm. Dowling; Assistant, C. P. McGuire; Treasurer, Wm. H. Roche. At the new election Messrs. Flynn and Roche remained in office. O. C. Carroll was elected Vice-President, T. Nuuan, Secretary, and W. G. Whidby, Assistant The various standing committees were arranged.The procession formed at their Hall, corner of Broad and Marietta streets, and proceeded to the Catholic Church on Loyd street. Here Mass was celebrated corresponding to the motto on the arch over the altar: “Gloria in excelsis Deo.”The procession followed out their published line of march, timed by a band of excellent music and lead by the Banner of the Harp of Tara.“No more to chiefs and ladies bright,The Harp of Tara swells]The chord alono that breaks at night.Its tale of ruin tells.Thus Freedom now so seldom wakes,The only throb she givesIs when aonao heart, indignant, breaks,To sbow that still sho yvcs.Its legend is, that there was a sweet Siren of old that sung under the sea. At eve she would meet on the green shorethe youth sho loved. But he left her. Heaven had compassion on her tears, and changed the fair maiden to the form of this soft Harp. Her sea-beauties formed its fine frame, and her loose tresses its bright chords. So it mingles Love’s language with Sorrow’s sadness.At the Opera House Col. Luther J. Glenn delivered a splendid oration, an impe-^ct ftketch of which we present.La-Hen and Gentlemen, and Members ofthe li«a*mian Society: In every age, and among all people, the custom has obtained of celebrating most important events. As the Declaration of Independence, which dissolved the political bands between the Thirteen ColooiesondGreat Britain; declaring them, as they had aright to be, “free and independent.” This was the Corner-stone of the “best Government the world ever saw,” while administered in the spirit andprinciples of the Fathers of the Republic. Also the 22d of February—the natal day of him who was the first in the hearts, and who will be the last in the memories of his countrymen, native and adopted.So, the 17th of March—a day dear to every Irishman’s heart, because sacred to the memory of a great and good man, a self-sacrificing and devoted Christian, the Fatron Saint of Ireland !Whether, upon his native soil or treading distaut lauds; whether beneath his own or a foreign sky—wherever “Wearing of the Green” he may be found, “the morning of St. Patrick’s Duy” makes the Irishman in heart, in soul, and in feeling, a free and independent man. No other day inspires such emotions, revives such reminiscences and associations of his early life. It carries him back on Memory’s wing to the scene of his boyhood; to the green fields where once he played; to the murmuring brooks whose music enchanted him; lie seems to hear the bells ot his native village—telling of youth and home, and that sweet time, when Jast he heard their soothing chime. Aye, more: it brightens and strengthens, though time and distance may have lengthened them, the thousand tender chords that bind his heart to his own,his native Isle.Nor are these patriotic sentiments incompatible with liis'duty, bis loyalty and devotion to the country of hi* adoption. The speaker had always thought, and still believes, that the Irishman who does not love Ireland above all other countries—in whose heart the recollection of the scenes of his childhood and the graves of his sires, does not awaken emotions beyond those of any other pl»ce on earth—is no true Irishman, and can never make a good, faithful and reliable American citi-In January 1782, Washington was presented by the Friendly Sons _ of St. Patrick, in the city of Philadelphia, withthe“Zephyr* vrhich oppressed with perfumeWax faint o'er the Gardens of Gull in their bleom.”Now that the sword has been returned to its scabbard, and the bayonet with-| drawn, Georgia presents higher and more inviting inducements to the immigrant and' exile for settlement, than any spot beneath the sun. To-day she invokes all her sons—native and adopted—to engage and co-operate in the development of the vast resources with which the God of nature has blessed her.If true to her invocation—if true to ourselves—to the memories of the past, to the inspirations of the present, to the demauds of the future—and above all, if true to the great principles of civil and religious liberty inculcated by the Fathers of our Republic—then, cultivating fraternal feelings, and maintaining good government, the members of your society on each returning “St. Patrick’s Day” will witness the car of progress, enterprise, and improvement rolling onward and still onward—until Georgia, your adopted State, becomes“The State of every State tho pride,— Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside.ATLANTA MARKETS.CORRECTED DAILY.Ireland’s history is one of struggles on »r part for right and justice; on the part : others a history of wrongs audoppres-ons. With a brief respite from the un-rfcunate hour, when“Vanquished she wept Vside The Boyne's ill-fated river,And saw where Discord, lu the tiiTe,Had dropped his loaded qmvei*.*’But the speaker did not. propose to re-icw her history in exlento—to recount er virtues, portray her follies, recount le story of her wrong*, emblazon the eroism of her sons, or extol the devo-on of her women.nndertbe most trying rcumstanecs. All familiar with history now that on every battle-field when con-•nding for his rights and liberty, the •no Irishman lias never failed to illus-•ate tlio chivalry of his race. In the enate, on the bench, at the bar, in the nlpit, in philosophy, eloquence and ?ng, Ireland stands unsurpassed in the istory of the world- It is no exaggera-ion to say that in the XVIHth Century, rliile comparatively free and independ-nt, she produced a race of scholars, thilosopliers, patriots and orators, who cade a track in the field of time the mlliancy of which will disappear only n the radiance and glories of the Mel-enial dawn!Whenever from choice, or driven by ppressioD8, the Irishman has left Inswn and gone to other shores, when or vhere lias he failed to discharge the du-ies of citizenship, whether in civil life )r on the tented field? In the American Revolution they freely pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to the Conti-tinental cause. That pledge they re-.leemed on land and sea, from the gales Quebec, where Montgomery fell, to the ramparts of Yorktowu, where Cornwallis surrendered. The Father of liisLaFayette and Pulaski.With a territory stretching from the . monntains to the sea-board; with a va-a golden medal, the Ensign of the society, riety of soil and diversity of climate un-Eigures represented Hibernia on the right j surpassed; with inexhaustible mines of America on the left, in the center Liberty . irou, copper and gold, and quarries of joining their hands, beneath the word plate and marble; with water-power suf-“ Unite” On the reverse, was St. Fat-1 ficient to drive the machinery of the rick, tramping on a snake, a cross in his, world; with skie3 as lovely as ever rav-band, draped in Pontificals, with the ished Italia’s eyes ; with an atmosphere motto “Hiar.” at certain seasons soft and balmy, andOn receiving this medal General f»Dned by breezes more delicious than Waslrington addressed their President,George Campbell, as follows:“Sir :—I accept with singular pleasure the Eusign of so worthy a fraternity as that of the Sons of St. Patrick in this city. A society distinguished for the firm adherence of its members to theglorious ennse in which we are embarked;”This was the parent of the Hibernian Society. General Washington was a member of it by adoption.In the war of 1812 the patriotism and gallantry of Irishmeu were conspicuously displayed. In the late war between the States it is abundantly shown that they did their whole duty. Your own Jackson Guards were among the foremost to enter the field in belmlf of the lost cause, and after doing yeoman service, as their decimated ranks show, they were among the last to leave it; and not until General Lee himself had furled and laid aside,perhaps foraver, the banner of the Starsand Bars. It should be proclaimed from the house-tops, that for the heroic gallantry displayed by a Son of Erin on every battle-field from Chattanooga to Atlanta, in his efforts to avert the torch of a desolating army from your homes and your firesides, the people of this city owe it to themselves to erect a monument to the name and memory uf PatrickCleburne.The brightest spot in Ireland’s history was the period between the years 1780 and 1800. Then she had a Parliament of her own, elected from the people, who legislated for the welfare of their country. She had an independent Judiciary to expound those laws, and an honest native constabulary to execute tljeir writs and precepts. High authority states that then no nation on the globe advanced with the rapidity of Ireland. Her mindwas elevated aid ennobled. Her youth prepared themselves for distinguished manhood in the Senate, at the bar and in the quiet walks of science.What would have been her career had she been allowed for the last seventy years to progress in the same ratio that she did in those twenty years? How powerful would have been her influence around diplomatic boards ? How potential her voice in the formation and enforcement of international affairs ? How happy, conteuted and prosperous would have been the condition of her people ?Bat, alas, on the 5th of February, 1800,Ireland’s nationality was mnrdered, like Ccesar, in its own Senate by the hands of pretended friends—by native traitors and foreign emissaries.On that, ill-fated day her sovereignty was degraded to a Province of England.Since then her progress, improvement, enterprise, prosperity and happiness have been almost blotted out. Her commercehas been destroyed; agriculture neglectedand ruined; manufactures suspended, and her substance has been eaten up by taxation levied and collected from the sweat, and toil, and labor of her downtrodden people, for the lordly support of Irish scalawags and British carpetbaggers. Her sons have been imprisoned, exiled, executed, for asserting their rights. Her intellect has been dwarfed; the wings of her genius have been clipped, and now she is only heard of through unavailing efforts of her patriot sons to throw off the yoke of bondage. She lies to-day a wreck on the highway of nations, as an awful warning of the dangers and fatal consequences of fraternal discord and internal dissensions. Let other peoples profit by her sad example.“The fatal chain was round her cast,And she was free no more.But ever thus it cannot be. “Coming events cast their shadows before.” Recent legislative acts in her behalf aro but rain-drops of the coming flood. The Israelite who has wandered for ages, yet ever preserving his identity, believes no more firmly in the restoration of his race to the possession of Jerusalem and its ancient giories, than the speaker in the resurrection of Irish liberty and the re-establishment of Irish independence—if not from a returning sense of right and justice on the part of England, then through the blood of Irish patriots. How glorious and joyous that day, when again from the dome of the old Parliament House, at Dublin, the sunlight of the skies shall illumine the words:. “ Ireland free and independent.” Then again “ the Banner of the Green and the San-burst,” floating from its ftag-sfaff shall kiss the breezes of Heaven in triumph and grandeur. Then again shall her people .go up to tbeir own halls of legislation, and into their temples of justice, and drink in the matchless eloquence of other Grattans, Currans, Floods and O’Connells.Then again shall the music of Tara’s Harp - float through Tara’sHalls. Once more will all her people walk their native soil, clothed in the habiliments of freemen, “without a link of the British chain clanking at their heels.” Then indeed will have come the time for the writing of the epitaph of that Christian hero and patriot martyr, Robert Emmet; who,at the age oftwenty-four, in the presence of a corrupt and blood-thirsty judiciary, in the ^ce of eager and waiting executioners, and in full viSw of the gallows on which he was to be jibbeted for devotion to his country, declared: “I have been sacrificed on the altar of truth and liberty.* * * No man who knows my motives dares to vindicate them. When • my country takes her rank amongst the natives of the earth, then only can my epitaph be written, and then only can my character be vindicated.” Such recordsnerve the arms and inspire the hearts of I _____Irishmen for the final redemption of i rRUIT3*_^Apples—iGreen bbi 7 50@8 50; Driedtfimv ,nn«»rr I 5 #@8- Peaches-peeled 8; unpealed 4. Oranges6 50; Lemons 6 50; Cranberries ^ bbl $14 75@16;ATLANTA. Monday, Much 18,1873.COTTON—Closed steady at 20#; offerings and sales small.Bioocfi)—17®19—no demand.Ikon Ties—5#@6.FIN A NCIAL.—Gold—Buying 1.09; selling 1.11. Silver—Buying 1.03; selling 1.06.Exchange—Buying par; selling # ape. premium. Bonds and Stocks—Georgia Ca. 70@72; 7s, 82® 85. Atlanta City Bonds—7a, 74@76; Sa, 84@8«. Augusta, 85®90. Georgia Bailroad Stock, 98® 1.01; Georgia Bailroad Bonds, 97@100. Atlanta and West Point Railroad Stock, 93® 95; Atlanta and West Point Bailroad Bonds, 98®100. Macon and Western Bailroad Stock, 9S®100. Atlanta National Bank 1.10.Groceries.—Coffee—Rio, f24@Q6; Java, 30@34; Mocha, —; Laguyra, 30.Syrups—New York, 50@90; Silver Drips S0@85; New Orleans—prime, 70; Florida 4o®50; Sugar Houso, 34; by Hogshead 31. Molasses—Sugar—Coffee A, 13#; Extra C, 13#; Crushed, Granulated, Powdered, 14#; N. O. Choice, 12#; Common 10#; Fair, 11; Prime 11#; Snow White, 14; Demarara 13.Teas—Black 1.00® 1.25; Green 1.00® 1.50. Miscellaneous — Soda — Boxes, 8@8#; Cream Tartar, 50@55; Yeast Powders per doz, 1.65; Beeswax 33; Bags—white 5; mixed 4@4#. Colored 3#. Tallow, 9. Brooms $2.50@6 per doz.Seeds—Blue Grass per bushel—$3.75; Clover, $9; Hungarian, $3; Millet, $4; Orchard Grass, $3.50© 3.75; Bed Top $ 3; Timothy $5.Garden Seeds—per package—Candles—Adamantine, 21@21#; Sperm,Soap—Bar, 6®10.Salt—Live erpool, pr sack, $1.90; Virginia, per lb,PROVISIONS AND FAMILY SUPPLIES—Butter —Country, 15@18; BestGoshen, 40@45; Western Be-aervo, 27@30; Tennessee, lo@20.Cuxksb—Choice Factory, 19@20.Flour—Fine, $7; Superfine, $7.50; Extra $8.50; Family, $9®9.50; Extra Family, $9.50@$10; Fancy, $10.50® 10.75.Sundries—Eggs per dozen, J12#@15; Rico 9#; Hominyjper barrel, $6.50; Tearl Grits $6.75; Macaroni 25.GRAIN, MEAL, Ac—Corn—by car load, prime white 95; yeliow and mixed 93; com meal 95@$L Wheat—Nominal—Bed $1.90® 1.95; Choice White $2; Inferior $1.80.Oats—Mixed 72; Black 75@80. Stock Peas $1.60.MEATS, Ao—Bacon—Shonldes 7#; clear rib sides 8#; clear sides 9 Hams—plain 12#@13; Sugar cured 14. Bulk Meats—Shoulders 6#; clear rib sides 7#; clear sides 8.Lard—Tierces 10#® 11; Cans 12; Buckets 13; Country 10#.Butcher’s Meats—Beef—Kentucky and Tennessee 9@10; Corned in kegs, 10@15; Spiced 15. Hogs 7#@8; Mutton 15®18; Veal 10; Sausages—common 15; Head Cheese—plain 15; fancy 20.FORAGE, PRODUCE, Ac.—Stock Meal 90; Bran 1.60® 1.75 ^ 100 lbs; Oil Meal 1.60; Shorts 1.85.Hay—Timothy 1,85@2.00; Clover Hay 1.75@180; Fodder, f* 100 lbs—Shucks ® • ; Straw.HIDES AND LEATHER—Green Hides 7@7#; Green Salt 8#®8#; Dry 15@16.Leather—Calf Skins—Domestic $30@$44 ^ dozen; French $45®$C6. Harness Leather 3S@45 ^ lb. Sole Leather—Hemlock 24®31; Oak 2S@47; Split 40. Kips—Country 45®CO ^ lb; French, t* dozen, $70.DRY GOODS—Cambrics—glazed, 9® 11; paper 13# @14#. Bleached Cotton, 9®21. Cottonades 20@25. Ginghams—heavy, 13® 1C; Scotch, 15; Chambray 22#@27#. Tickings 9@S2.Calicos—Bedford and Wamsutta 8#; Amoskeag and Arnold, 10; Albion 11#.Flannels—Red, 25®45; White, 25® 87#; Opera 40@C2#.Factory Good3—Sheetings and Shirtings—Augusta and Columbus—4-4,13#; 7-8,12;3-4,10; Drillings 14; Georgia Checks, 16; Stripes, 14; Osnaburgs 12# @18; Yarns, $1.65. Cotton Eope 30.CANNED GOODS, CONFECTIONERIES, Ac.— Peaches, 2 lb cans, $2@$2.75per dozen; 31b cans,$3® $4 per dozen; Peas $2.75; Pine Apple, 21b cans, $3.50; Strawberries, 2fc, $3.75; Tomatoes, 21b, $2@ $2.23; Oysters, 1 lb, $1.S7@$1.50; 21b, $2.50@$2.75; Sardines, ^ case $23®$25.Crackers—iErated, 9@10; Butter 7@8 ; Cream 11@12; Picnic 7@9; Soda, 6®8; Sugar, 9#@1L Gaudy -Stick, 16@17; Fancy, 18@50.Nuts—Almonds 22@25; Brazils, 17@18#; Filberts, 15® 17; Pecans, 17® 18#; English Walnuts, 22@25; Peanuts, $2.25@$2.75 ^ bushel.Pickles—Pint3, ^ dozen, $2.25; Quarts, $3.25; Half Gallons $5.50, Gallons $7.50. Brandy Cherries— Quarts, dozen, $5; Peaches—Pints $3.23, Quarts $4.50.Spices—Allspico and Ginger, 16@18; Cloves, 25; Cinnamon, $1: Nutmegs, $L40©$1.50; Mace, $2; Mustard—2 oz., 50; Pepper, 25@2S.Vegetables, Ac.—White Beans per bushel $4 50;Onions—Bed $4@4 25 perbuahel; White $4 75®5 25, Irish Potatoes per barrel $4 60g)5; per bushel $1 75; I Sweet potatoes $125; Yams $150.their country.Until tliat auspicious period does arrive (and come it must,) let us tliank God that on Georgia soil the oppressed sonsBananas $2 50®3 f* bunch; Cocba Nuts $7@10; Currants e* lb 15©16; Dates 12# ^ lb; Figs, driedof Ireland may in the fntSe, as in the Zt **FISH, Ac.—Black Fish 45c. Shad 50c. White Fish—family $6; No. 1, 6 50. Oysters—^ gallon, . Mackerel—kits, No. 1,1 80; No.2,150; No. 3, 130; Half barrels—No. 1, $8; No. 2, $7; No. 3, $6. Codfish 7@S.POULTRY, Ac.—Choice hens 30; mixed lots 27® 2S. Quails 10c; Rabbits 10® 15; Squirrels 20® 25.FERTILIZERS—Cash prices—$10 added on time sales. Baugh's Rawbone, Waado and Sea Fowl, $55 ton; Chesapeako, Cotton Food, Dugdale, Magnum Bonum, Patapsco, $60; Soluble Pacific, $50; Whana's, $56; Land Plaster, $18.past^ find a refuge and a home, free frompolitifal proscription and religious perse- ________cution. ‘ Here, indeed, to men of every $o; in shell clime and nationality, from the North, the East, and the West,—to all who come in good faith, to aid in building up her waste places and to discharge the high duties of good citizenship—Georgia to-day opens wide her arms and extends a cordial welcome. Nor can it ever be otherwise; unless her people become oblivious of the memories of the past and
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