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:..Oo. aund Martyr. Apostles. ....O . a and Confes'r. FAST DY.-As it Is contrary t the pra ties of the Church to observe vigils -and prescribe fiats on Sundays, when a feast, preceded by a vigil, aours on Mondry, the vigil, instead of being observed on Sunday, is kept on Saturday. This will be the ase on next Al Saitnt' Day. The feast occur ring on Monday, the vigil must be observed on the Saturday preceding. Thus, Satur day, October 30, will be a day of abstinence for all Catholios,mand offasting foe all those not dispensed for sufficient cause. NEWS FROM THE ARCalBIsOP.-Anrother letter has been received from the Most Rev. Archbishop Odin, dated September 20th, __whichs ithe moat assuring in its tenqr of any yet received. The Most Rev. Prelate sa ys: I believe I may announce to you that I am ily convalescing. The irritation produced by te waters of Vichy has wholly disappeared, respiration has become free, and I feel that I am improving sensibly from diy to day. The attending physician assures me that towards the end of October I shall be able to undertake the journey to Rome. Tarsxs.-We return thanks to the ladies sn perittending the Fair for the benefit of SL. Vincent de Plars Church, for tickets. The Fair will commence on the evening of Tueedsa', ovember 4d, at Mr. Kelly's itlr,(old Seamen's Bethel Chmurch) Esplanade street. lather Foltler bas been untirting in blehis efforts to procure for the residents in his part of the Third District a suit able house of worship, and we trust the noble exertions of th.sadiles who havre this Fair in chrge will meet with a genmrous response. From particulars communicated toas, we have reason to know that the oeession will bb one possessing.attractions that cannot fail to draw eswrdes, et only from the Third, but -lthe othe2 Dis trleots. We return our thanks to the Hon. Wm. P. Kellegg, United Stated Senator, for interesting public deouments. Tne COUNCIL AND TH; CLERGY OF F AlCE. While so many attempts are being made to revive a sympathy with exploded errors, we recognize in the admirable address of the Arch bishop of Cambral to his olergy, the genuine accents of the hierarchy and clergy of France. Mgr. Regnier is careful not to anticipate the decisions of the approaching Council; Who ther it will pronounce on the propositions con tained in the Syllabus either collectively or in detail, he cannot tell. "But one thing," he says, "Is certain. Those doctrines will nht be impugned, and will remain intact. They may be explained, made clearer, developed, so as to put an end if possible, to the false interpreta tions which have been fftixed to them by pre cipitation, ignorance, prejudice, or bad faith; but ba d or called in question, never." jatilýode to those opinions'rWhih miay be tol .-rated without danger to the Church. -The Council of Treat furnishes an example of the circumspection with which the Church pro ceeds in such matters. But no nation can pre tend to retain a separate theology and particu lar dotrines within the bosom of the Catholic Church. The Council will appreciate, observes Mgrs Regnie r, as the Holy See has hitherto ap preciated, the special circumstances which render the rigorous application of the canon law impossible in France, while at the same time it introduces into the regulations actual ly in force such ameliorations as it may'judge to be desirable. "Bat we cannot pretend," -eetinues the Archbishop, "to any exemptions whiekr do nut naturally flow from the contract existing between the Holy See and France. No one-amongst un can ever think of invoking those liberties which weighed so heavily on oear Fathers, and of which we have ourselves felt in some degree the burden during the ear ly years of our priesthiood, nor those customs which belonged to a state of things which-has 'owri been dead for a century." This is the light in which the vaunted Gallican liberties, invented by a despot, are regarded by the work ing elergy of France. The successor of Fene Ion bears a well-deserved testimony to the tra ditions of the dioeese which "he rules. "We eun attest," he says, " that the faith of this dio ease of Cambria, professed by 1200 priests and 1,4004000 of the faithful, i in all things that of the Catholic Church. And that the constant raditions of this diocese have been always in conformity with those of the Mother Church, Ihe wordof whose Pontiffs has alwaysbeen re eeived with religious docility by our fathers anti by Ouraelesn." A I. Lti tlt', huoecU, of .L famous Gnlican declaration, the AirLiisliop of Cambria resisted in the iinme of his diocese, and the University of pDno:i protestld vehe mently against "the niniitvtdl-ejh doctrines" which it contaliled-- Tablet. 'A.ALKINiG AND l):I:KiNIt.--tilr. Ct'nni:lng was onco invited to a g (lnd bzInIuIt lby the Filh mnhgerL' CompanitkaAinti'n If :e:; public excitement. WVhel hlie arrived it wT; u intlimatedl that it would be dcei al thatl:t u ii nutld give his sentiments ,i; ti, tI!,ii s:uran '. publie affairs, and tlhat a er iv ,-o-veuinut tuu : Ie to do 1 it would le in a '.,,;n.!- u t!," 1. uIth of his Majesty's miiiistrs. Mr. 'anin,,, listened to the coulli i'ni-'ati l giav\' ly anid 'l,litely. ,but made no answer whatever to it. Whel lihe |rosee to reply to the toast everyblody was on tip-toe of expectation, waiting breathlessly l for -some great ministerial revelation-"Gentle men," said Mr. Canning, "we are invited here to meet the fishmongers. Now the fishmongers have dealings with the members of a very large community, from whose habits I think they might be learning something. I nuaen the community of fishee. The fish is oie of the most uncommunicative animals in creation; it says nothing, and-it drinks a good deal. Let us then, upon the present occasion, as we are to some extent brought into their company, imitate their habits; let us not wast our time in talking, but drink a good deal " And so, as the reporters say, he resumed hi seat amidst roars of laughter. In this fast age, the utmost skill and ingenn ity'Ixersmhsd to arrive st a definite result. Space It boadenuse4 te Jot--time is almost annihilated and even thought Itself will sees be voted a "slow cocci." Most of or re ders rll remember the brief orrepodence in wbich two bmte oly were unle-the first ron. tailtd nses of arrutien, (I) Implying, -'is there any mewis T5 5swr- 5 r .eysphrl-, "Neose" This in ·eu ead to be ontdoen by et grcer, who hd plaei-eamesooosly. on his premlad two cpital Tes one patatdblack sad the other ge o tlmoite tbnt bhesold black andgreen toss New. wll beperceipved that she rttrilhef-tind we eddsi to the mind. the seeeud to the body, and we beg., s the shortest pose sibe way of providing fbi" thb e sel, iso advie ldie and tlisme to hatem so Blakely a Meas's boot ared ass masuew tna r sad mpenrise., 9 and ..i Cantal street, and 5 Ch res s ret where the addilton Iately hepostec may be inslcted, sad which, compLie the meat sigaJnt styiss of hoot, bshoe and slippers ever lm ported talo this city, sad walsh are sold as reasonble as ·staset, usem e to tLetr findscl sad the public tht they hwavsejlaud at t·aishoes looniaoia cnpeprhstoee esKld examine before puerhasing elsewhere. Their esshltsbnest. As ipr~ulol a e, the Interest mit ere ny o t le corner-stone of St. John the ' alsb ureb, on Dryades street, took laoi iii U fternoon. The church is 4# teretare in brick, and odoi.pis p 1 be site for merly used for the fasb 'euarch so long and so well k~how by all Oholies in the rear of the Pirst and ouor*4 Districts. Tls building is going up withsemarkable raidity, the walls being alresdy above the sills of the windows, the fraMes of which are set in their appropriate positions, while the main tower is about twenty feet high. The bricks are of most excellent quality and the sand of the finest aid sharpest kind, instead of the clayey dirt with which contractors so often make their mortar. We know not whether Father Moynihan is more to be congratulated or compliment ed on the magic-like promptness with which this great edifice springs from the ground. Certainly such thorough earnest ness and sueeees could-not-be infused into a complex)jw.ork of that description with ontan abundant mixture of both energy ani experience on the part of the moving spirit. Notwithstanding the frequency with which occasions of this sort have recurred in our midst lately, the present one elicited the earnest interest of a large crowd, which we had no opportunity of numbering, but which has been generally estimated at from three to four thousand people. The feeling of this assembly was more exactly appreciable by the result of a partial col lection which was taken up during the proceedings amounting to several hundred dollars. Among the nnpst prominent patrons of the new work, present and absent, we heard of Messrs. H. McCloskey, W. J. Cas tell, John L. Gubernator, E. Connery, Thos. Gilmore, Thos. Mulligan, Col. Strang, U. S. A., Thos. Maxwell, Esq., Sheriff of this parish, J. C. Pooley, John C: Stewart, D. P. Scanlan, E. Blessey, P. F. Herwig, J. L. Herwig, Col. Boyd, AIL. Isaacson, Christy Connell and. many others besides those gentlemen whose special exertions had justified the placing of their names on the scroll which was deposited beneath the corner-stone. These specially honored names were those of Patrick Irwin, L. Fol ger, Nicholas Burke, Michael Condran, M. Whfelaban, hi. Hines, Ch. Riley, Peter Markey, Thos. Markey, Lawrence Doyle, .M.McNolty, WVm. Walker, John French, Andw. Parle, Martin Casey, James case, Patrick Dwyer, Patrick Fitzsimmons and Michael Fitzsimmons. The scroll containing these names was headed by that of -the reigning Chief Pontiff, of Our venerable Archbishop, the President of the United States, Governor of the State, Mayor of the city, and of Father Jeremiah Moynihan, pastor of the parish. The procession consisted of many mem bers of the local clergy, religious societies, parochial schools, and-the general faithful, and all headed by a band of music from the. Boys' Orphan Asylum of the Third District. Very Rev. Abbe Perche officiated at the ceremonies appropriate to the cca sion, and an eloquent adddress of nearly an hour was delivered by Father Smith, of St. Joseph's.Church. Rev. Father Perche, before dismissing the assemblage, made a few most eloquent and appropriate remarks. Thus within a shdrt time our public has been summoned to witness the inauguara tion of severil great Catholic works. First, ground was broken for-1 the grand new John the Baptist, now the- corner stone of the latter is solemnly laid. A few days ago a similar ceremony took place.at the site of, the new convent so rapidly rising in the Fourth District for the benefit of the Sis ters of Mercy. We had to chronicle re cently the initiative for a new convent in the ThIrd District, and now the now church on Annunciation Square is nearly ready for dedication to divine worship. As young now as at first, the Church pushes on her work of zdal with untiring energy, fighting with the p~o eroj the world that battle -which shall never end but with time. It is cheering to see the signs of pogress, these approaches to a victory though we know it can never be completed until tire sign of the cross is planted in the heavens in view of all men. We read the following in a late London pa iar: "' Rolberrv in St. George's rracks.--.\t Mnarlbo-o. rough mtre..t whmes Foster. desocrled paslsrtr, wts S.anged before Mr. Inonlx with stealing a pair of lofher boots, of the ovalue' of fiftee shillings described s tbs pronrty of lher Majety the Queen." Ler MJesty weoar BuInhert beets! we ee leave to elatn, that this in eo~e of xpression J.ostfer by lkm tletron--l othe sahe sense that they say ner dnajesty's army nd navy. So the beoot being abstracted from the barrack,. of-coorse they belonged to her Majesty. we know not the particTlar atPltractan of "Luesher boots," hot e are sure the teimptatioto pos oess the brots as rwell as the shoes and s~lppers of tlyon & Wints, ito.. Caop street, would r touse al the resisting pnwer of Aristi des hluself, who wM styled "the Jot' Hppilythcee Is no neeeultsy to break the moral law, for the gotols at thits eslebrated eats thshment, although of thebeet mate rial and most fashionable make, are within t.e means of all, who are Influenced by the eonalderaelon that the boost are the cheapest, and so worthy of extra honest Labor to procure them. Since the return of Mr. Haley from his trip North, he has made notable eha-oes I, his estatbllshments both In Commercial Place and 'oydra streets. renderml necesary by the great augmentatlon In his buslness.- In the former plae partltons have been renmoveld and the rearrangements has resulted In a condable sc. esalon of space. permitttng the visitor toetake tn at a lanes the vried sto ofliterature, rlch and are. In Ioydra street the change hal been arg scale, an dJolutn stnre having beos iPaiPnprlaed, of thie . ens of tbe meet rensarkbls a elegant t lWe r isaee "I this evidenoe of ve11.da~#t~saerved plty, fs" ]ley Is the prinoe of BIb lspa. ele The oun itoai and the Schools. The receont q Me of .eIrish Bishogis on the question of MnUid ihooli has raised a storm of indignattio %moiig a large niam ber of the Protestant 'portion of their countrymen, yet we have scarcely a doubt that the (Ecumenieal Council 'Will fully sustain their action if the *;bject is brought before it. The anxiety ot more fanatical Protestants to keep up the mixed schools is so manifest that their motives could be easily divined even if more tangible, evidence. were wanting, but we have the distinct averment of the very founders of the system that proselytism is the principal object.contemplated by it. Though we cannot know the exapt nature of subjects that will occupy the attention of the great Council, or foretell the action to which the Holy Ghost will inspire them, we may well anticipate that the vexed questioo of State education will receive a certain amount of attention, if not a prom inent one, Perhaps the most important clasisof questions will be that arising from conflicts of authority between Church and State. The encroachments of civil govern ment of late years upon the prerogatives of the spirithal authority have been so numer one and oppressive that they wo~ld appear to have attained sufficient importance to merit the grave consideration of the gener al assembly about to convene. Among the most formidable of these eu croachments is the assumption by the State of control over education. The Church can never consent that its children shall be entrusted for their education to other than Catholic influence. It does not object merely to sectarian influence which will strive openly and ardently to indoctrinate the infant mind with error, but also to in differentism, which is still more pestilen tial and fatal in its silence: Better be as fanatical as Saul the Pharisee than cold and indifferent like Agrippa. At no mo ment during its immaturity ought the youthful mind to be beyond the guidance and control of true' morality, and the Church is the depository and fountain of that morality. It would be ~cry strange if she should consent to entrust the faith and morals of impressible and .unsuspect ing youth to the keeping of men who are selected without reference to her standard of either. There is such a thing asr a " moral atmos phere." - Though the expression is figurative it conveys the idea of an actual condition of things. Protestants are pleased to ridi cule tile expression and iak if the overn.a ment must be paid to keep up this " moral atmosphere." To this we reply that it is none of the Government's business to sup ply atmosphere at all, or interfere with the freedom of its enjoyment, but if it will do so let it furnish a " moral" one. We do not ask Government to tax people for our schools, but if it insists on taxing -them for "education" we want it to furnish schools with such an atmosphere or influence, that faith and mofals will not only escape as saults, but will be promoted as the Christian Church has a right to see that they are promoted at every moment of man's exist ence. This right of the Church is of course not insisted on'in its corporate capacity, which is not recognized in this country but in the individual instances of its members, whose religious convictions are supposed to be respected and protected. If Governments and majorities cannot be persuaded to do what is right, Catholics can at least be warned against yielding to them in what is wrong, and prohibited from tasting the mess of free pottage'with 4wiechthe -meow ibe tok eltheisr-ight of control over their own children.. The Is ish Bishops have talj n this step, and it may well be that the gland Council of the General Church will indorse their policy while giving it a more extended applica tion. In that case, if tour Catho lics cannot stl tre tthroiw-i - taxt- -ti- the-( omnlltr i Scl I .mtrn- imp .se-~-thmlt , they will at least be taulht ilmperatively to bear the burden in dignitied patience, and not strive to avert the sacrifice of their pocket by sublstituting the sacrifice of their chil dren's sonls. I. Ily ain advrtirsemnent in our colurnnsy , we are -lad to noe that erirt.- to hao- for a iltolgll~lto Mlr. ('lltl. t'Ii.(l ark , ot has 1,iiur -hit ,ll t|hl ( i itnr ll niloti*nlliif tII btIik. job andu litthogralp hi, d.partmentif sf ,n ihlu. (I reso cent newritale'r ant runole hi. Iheahldqurte-rs at l.ti Gira rirestre et. \We Iha , ha. d fble t tio iiu , Il'iltt(,l. in this have pessedawav. lhlt with the retllnbranito , ttheirr irxouo works reoh illnmind, we Iunt say that the hit Arln of Clark t& IhiIlnn s*e.-.tedt to ha':|i IllUtl heir tb iall their (,xut'elln,,tct( . an I in) * im p-:rjti mular e rxceeri.d their prtrdecesrort . The fliseld of the Oldi titr n will h) gl~td to know that MIr. ('lark a~s ri tlllt'dl I|llo inl' on hii own aconunt, and they tay rely that all ,rit.icr- ien trlsteid to b1,1, wil t' proulolptiy t rit·c.le(|, ir a. ty Jr wicha ht plared hlim att the teii,. td ht"i, trt, inat fri ~oe that must recomaeadu hin to all sit isiring creditblte work FEnTnlzrans.--A new er·m has dawned upon practical and M ientiflc agricnlturr. Smallt portionis of land, werll cltiatied, have st np.rerdlrd the llrniert slovr rnly and wastefiiltvstein. which aimedr at the pieoanilon of largo tracts, which yieldetd, comparatively, but tritling returns. Stern's raw bone np rpho t, an l ground bone hao recomnended itarlf by the r otderfui renults wCh follow its application and its nuse is now becoming general. The oilienin at ho. 16 Chartree street. See adverausment. e W. Dauphin, 150 Canal street, importer of rech millnery goods, veliet ribbns, tare,, trimmiings, toherse, wreaths, etc. In addittion to rnanufaetnrinr iMo t tern goods, be continurs to furnish uci,. mode up with the niust trqiqatte novelties, snd by aktlfol hands, at strict material prices, without pretension to fancy char gee for Lhbor. The trade are Invited to examine his stock. N~EW WINTER CIwTlltNo.-Pierson & lewee, 13 and i Cnmn street, are just in receipt of a fresh stool of goods, mde up in the latest style. whch comprtIse elegant Cheviot walking rost suit.. Scotch ecseemere suits, brown beaver sulte, black and faicy eam suita. sil of the latent ruts suit warranted to fit. The fnrnishing guods itclund linen and hLoes beein shirts, saanul shirts and drawer, gloves handkerehiefs. ecarfa. etc. All sold at low prices. An inspection_ isnvited. -See d vertiUaent. ., All r testans t bee tat lie for some moutbt with the hope that the revo lution in Spain would redound to the in jury of the Churh lt:st itesown gpin. The first of these anticipat-on blhasinen ainiply realised. Conventsr.and monasteries have been emptied; .hurches !have been dese -tated, and the goods of the Church have been diverted from purposes of piety and charity to the empty coffers of military ad renturers. The whole Spanish Church has been made desolate with outrage and in sult, with the defection of its children and the triumph of implet -. But what has Protestantism -gained? Bibles and tracts have been spread broad cast over the land, but the people already believed every word in the Biblb far niore: implicitly than the ardent missiondries thelnselveq. A few nomigal converts were perhaps drummed up here and there to afford some visible evidence of progress, but doubtless they are about as expensive to keep converted as t'he specimensaof the same sort among the London Jews, who are said to cost several thoufsand dollars apiece' per annum. It don't pay. Even the London Times has given over the Span ish mission in despair. Many Bishops were triumphantly an nounced as adhering to certain audacious impieties of the Cortes. That darling illu sion is rapidly vanishing as they come out publicly one after another in hearty denun ciation of the very acts which it was boast cd'they had approved. It is true that cer titin deputies or members of their national parliament expressed views of very arro gant hostility to the Church, but those views, so far from being in the interest of Protestantism, were inspired by deism or atheism. A few complimentary phrases were framed to propitiate English preju dice, but there it stopped, and no Spaniard who valued his own or his neighbors' re spect could be found to affiliate with the despised German heresy, no matter how undutiful or unfaithful to the true faith himself. This was of course to be expected by, ver'y observer of human nature. l'rotes talItism is a great heresy it is true.; still is only a heresy and ca;t never be Catholic in any particular. It can never coullnend its peculiarities to more than a fraction of the race. Certain nations, if they choose to sin, may litefer to go astray after its fash inn, 1. at others will always have an invinci ble repcug'nance to it, no matter how far frm,n, truth they may be vwiilling to wander. Thte phlegmatic German and SaxoI races see nothing particulally odious in its cold ness andl its rejection of emotion. The Church without an altar, the priest with out a sacrament, the hymn without music, the bare cold walls without emblems, tlhe proscription of all beauty, grace and har mlony, the contempt of nature and the hos tility to art, have for them no special ele ment of discontent or horror. But the warm-hearted Celt,_ the impulsive Gaul, the Italian with lofty imagination, and the impassioned Span liard, shudder at such cold ness, and turn in disgust from this lifeless rigidity. Each of them may revolt against Ithe Church, but not against nature; he may be very wicked but not as a Puritan; lie may be a heretic but not a Protestant one.' So far then as good Protestants are fight ing for the overthrow of Christianity with out knowing it, they are in accord with the Spanish revolution in its religious aspect; but so far as they hope a gain for the cause which they think they have espoused, there is not the slightest cause of self-gratula Ton I:-Itan o! l conm e i hec the Eit Spirit can blind people by specious false hood that lie takes the form of heresy; where that does not suit the iceld of opera tions, lie comes more directly to the point in open infidelity. T'HE NCifnvAnT4'5N .-.Ti5'a.- i'v 11F5-'r-T*.wTi.im iA linE .-'lhis stotne is uintl 'r the ('ironlaitiini Schair in the Abbtiey. Its history is Iiiysteriius, itnd, so far s the history Io ( a sto, it. (". i I 'e calh.' I. it ie rolantirt : nd it ht Itnot only a:t! tlract.i l th nl otice, but has iti/zlied :xil 4 hall!=. 7ntt ic1sll'iais for soil,e a es pi ast. It. is r :1idi tio 1,l tlw tine that .JoCo usi''I sr a ,il lw. anisl it it|" 1e hn r who can dhny it ? .m bt i eltl ionf;i ,ll it is known mu hisi 'e beu bdr,,ughit.ti iitel' nt Tmi erily I rird ittater the dIi ug,. a nd that it ri n'imued ili that eiiiiluntry it"i iianv i !s, s il Sla'l. to Si itllanl f'r t i,' e'oroli tiesit of kingl· of Irish des'iInt-, aiiut after sviii, hundrids of years it was finally r'moved to its irisent lo cality, where it is likely toi remain intil thel artist fronmo New Zealand coniis to skelth i he ruins oIIf St. l'aul's. LIondoni , as flirt'tit liy Macatulat. Tit, lier .liar quality mattributed ItoI this storie is, that i' at-y hutlit th true printe sat on it to be crow neld it woiiill brecoliii, au iiatedl, nud crenio suclh a roiw as wo uldu at once expose the ionpisition. It is stlid to have done so severa times in Ireland and hcotlaund but that it has been very quit t in England. The namie of this stone in the Irisht language is pronounced "Lhia Fhail(" which the learned tranlate the " Stonioe of Destiny ."-N'orthern Iiress. J. A. BRASEIMAy" & CO.-Thia eminent dry goeyes ilrexaire neric wea'y in wel-doicng. Talk f i'ioats -ithe f' o iatirost, erlicann oat--mndrt wllwhat it sill: gas.pror ity; ani Mrrly trem'h a point wh en t, ehihl whit, onnspread .n STR 7.-and lare e lghl to over a thilt. . Kni f-sire D sie io hll rontinei thie ,ractie of dentiatry in all Its branches at 15 taronne sbtret.near Canal street. He preferithe appreciative few to the un appreciative many for his patients, as might be inferred by hia lard In another colunin. Thomte who air so ilnor Stuotd as to rsqnira th asr lees of a dentist will rc member that Dr. J. i. Knapp stands as high in the den' tal profession as any operator in the city. see advertise ment.J wi uior Ama~l(F 01 iT. 4*A3AiPi O . CnASuvs P. O., Oct. 18, 180.. eistroln eastir sab d aCatholc Mwtgseert - - Thinking that a word about the eropsllong the coast-would be of iuteresti tsyan readers, I address you from this point-St. Clarles Post Olfice, thirty-niles above your city, on the right bank of the Mtsamiippi, in which neigh borhood I have been for sbsne days past. On this side-of the river I hate, within the last month, seen nearly every crop of either cane, corn, rice or, cotton, and have thus an opportunity of judging the comparative prod pect. The cane, -pon the whole,is barely middling at beat, and the almost certain prospect of a poor yield adds -materially to the certainty of ashortcrop. This year hasbeeou a bad one for the sugar planter. Last spring there was too much rain, and the cane couldn't be worked in time, and consequently waits " laid by" late in the season. Inmmnldiately following this the .season became dry, and has so cpntinued, in consequence of which the cane did not grow, and is now small and green, as a general thing. .Tiie corn crop has turned out well, though I regret to say many of our plauters neglect this crop, pretending that they can tdo better mak ing sugar and buying forage, though conluon sense and experience are opposed to such an idea. A great deal of rice is grown along opr coast, and fronl alppearanlcls I consider it-lias done well this season. This crop I regard as a very profitable _onc,squiriug but little labor and always conmmanding a good price. The little cotton along l the coast is good. This has been a nue fall ftr cotton, and we hear of passably fair crops for the area in cul tivation in our State. A short dlistance ,iove t!:is piln' is tihlt Par ish Church of St. Charles, a fraimn buiilling of about 45 by 10o feet, now in charge of IJev. Father Sureri, recentlls stationed at Itatoni Rouge as assistant intedI iathter IDelnero,ix. The church is scarcely hallf tinished, being only covered and weather-hlourded, and is, I amill in clined to thinkl rather poorly attended for the number of Catlolics living within reach. Yesterday, after an -ery good sermon in French by the Rev. pastor in charge, a colledc tion was taken up tir the purpose of aidllg inl the purchase of an organ, realizing sOlUe ti2, which, with the money already in hautl, will cnabile Father Sureri io-ild this mucth desired article to his yet poorly furnisheld ehurhel, antd, I hope, encourage li., conregationl to hasten the completioni andti iurnishing of lii.s churchL within the couiing year. l'-:iIcAN. (For the Moniting Star iiand Catholic Mr.si.IeIgsr. The Thought of Death. The tllought of. death is the best means to conliquer the fear of it, for, by becoming, as it were, fianiliar withi this irrevoilatle event which awaits us all, we are tntitrally urged to pirelare oulrselves to mIleet it properly; ani the llore we conlsider it, the less terlror does it in spire. liirth's fieeble cry andl the panll gs of dealll are slendller tributes Naitre pays lor miighty gain. Eachl gains a life, buttt il! how f .r does tle list tranliscul o- t i lrat-thl, true oitie lives t\beyoilil the gra:lte. "Death buit entlmbl L tlhe lbody, this Ipreseit life enltouis the soul, andl mitkes it dlependent oil the tdust whilst thiith, kind iallth, gives it wings to iiiol t aibove the spheres." iliglion teaches Ius to look itupon the day of our death as that of our ,,teat pay-day, on iihiih we layv our tuiirdets downii, ianid are permtlitied at lote to stihake off the shllills of ournl Calptivity. Shouilihl iwe not ather ti-cjice, tliln, to see the prisoni doIor open that l-ets in etlernal day-tIo 'gaze ini rapture for the first lime ion tIhe whole ext ipause ofni the sky, of w hicih weX onily e a Atglitpsl e llnlw tlrtough the liarst of our dull and heavy understanding. 'Io, see (:ild hace to tfact '!-the thoughit alone shni fill ius with trianisport. W\hen mien have arI ivied at thinking of their very dissolution with plen ure, how li-u things are thele that can be terrible to thieim! To suiith asn these the gratiti cation of inuocei-lt pleasure, s arie doulled even with relt , ltio s ll ton their iiulprfection. i lithe disappiio itiintills which inaturally attend the great 1pirrises wtve slake ourselves in exllected eiij,,oySents strike no damp uptl6ii such souls. lbut ounly quiclken their hopels if stoon knoitwiing jios which aire trill lpure to admit of alloy or sat iety. One who is truly devotled to heaveni is led safely by this thought through tlit intri cacies and vicissitudes of life iutider hics ieli in are ordinarily ii nt iigled. As to this i world, he idoes tint pretend toi skill in the Iniazs of it, but lixes his thoughts upon one ertlainty, that he Sshall soon hie out of it. Anil we iay aisk, whati can be a more sure consoilaution than to have a hope in death I Thiis thouuglit gives us tihe trtue taste of life and due lappreciation of time ; it will alike help iius to bear well prosperlity or adversity; if the fortmer, it teacheis its the t vanity and itnisnlicieicy of earthly liis, andi dispelli g the fuul s of plassion and the niire frothi anti tiubhles of foolish mirthi, it lu-aves the solI only seren-e andl peacetfuil if the latter, - it entitles ito repose or ti n liiwho governs fate. What if teinpests frown and tatire Sshakes, mlay i, llt lian tnil Int iiin whoill the iangels leani, and, reiady for the last call, we illlly say with the royal palist, " Thouigh I should walk in the iidnlst of thlie shliaditow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with e!" C. mV. M. W·r,."lllll"..' i e l - IN tx uN E.-- lneofthe gh tieiii-st tiragelies that eiver ihorrilied tihe -plublic minid has been brought to light iin the ,outskirts of Paris. The corpses of five c hillrt-n with that otf Iheir intther wasi discovered in a ( piecet of wastl giiuituld ionl lilay week. Supicion fell on the hiihliand :pull s.hl.d sun of the wo-rnan, a nitiue of ione of i-st,- iortlhern proviiIic ~, llinwho had only ic liie to Itl tcapital i the itny pirvvIitt. On We'-eitsni--,,nia at wr-trh( i ws :iiistlliled inl II:vrl e l n his 5i1ay to A e-ilitlit, on whot proofis of lis lon liValce in the ui liers w-ere t,-a u Iril. 1 , nit liteupted to dirown h imself atl to pull duwin a brave setiii:n ll, i-whoi I elt to hii .s ieine, to the hlott , l l. lt illh hll:U1. SThe iiin was savd.l th.i hi i l e gnuillotinu-. thi . lilniu-l i:, iir |1nin* nt 'l is- ha,, lnt- i a I ili4l-ll. il l hI allCxirit , utl \\11:i' till l ,d hi t1. e heP ]iil uil Illl allt , thl,t s, f t|" hli : --ait l ei'test-t a i Ca l,-iri,,iir iilll atWr sn! It illl-ll w as iV lii t i, liy ihi, I -ltll t niot itll e, in whiut- l w , blin, t ii ,- wri s' ilani i set the ri shtcns ht-ks of ri.i'i i u, iitit,, th - rpnaeu. tf Itt tsahit \ a tei1 li m tl . nlii t yail r-ari',. tes h- o t lue froit t hih his u liitti r in ni d t he othir vic tm wr l'. dlieinterrle . The. roiilioi wile IAoeinmllitt d this whilbr;ile ninl wlnler- is I flliunr olfthisiuilv hae al br a et, ulltsati il> h lot thsIiuialf loitiiii ler aIre tl rLd a trnle-i tilt lie rgion tu ]oliif Ile ''a servant. Tihtre ha r - onst i aedli a rltlhre lof 1 pt t he u diuil, lt uit-isr. wvas isai t iiiih hi. tI, etiuie l ie' ti hive f eetis.i anr ]ieroswd hiim,' " sellf hitivn tes I,, ls ie "i Vinihiriintg t fath r of ti his atinily hu-ii - list ef n doiullii-i a death, i-ow iaiy iuiitrdersl titi o he ait ritut to the rtnning ilf trie " Nt wgatfle i nleir ni-ier " end echs like litesrature of the gutter i .--Loaldoli atlls arith AtNiCrE nAuseitr, whLiNrD AND DooTi STEAt FAuTut .-T-hn o ,roprietmr of thi. fatory, Br. i Goru Purnvebo well known t[ieir conerinlnniv nit oly of tul artoh.sn which h5 i tu'iu-el npirturi' . I sing u holn but I t p f ei t e n s ili ihna t iarc , andrw t lciult-flr In .t t, geri'i iter n' with Mr. -ip '-t1ess, pinrt es, tol. are beyond e oriia . tiik b in the ha-boe line to ho falrlt tan3-wheeut, anu jtr sons needing such articles should by all means visit their preaises. GAvntixo."Out city 1as ags objective po iuhbr lhb l Northern Puaritans. It. wl tioularly, ham bee pwi w - publio reproebtion. Wtt > ')r offer for thi vice. Still tsere a to he nad In the 8oatih, bling are a marked and separate elt ing no unequivocal petltloe tlethotl : to extra-or perhaps so mnorallty the recent gambling 'developmepj aned necessarily to the latest i transactions, the actors were men what is called the "first circles,n mod att of churches. One, a prominent Metheod other, Congregatlinallt, and highly as a Sunday-School Superintendezlt, anothr a leader in that prominent er tion, the Young Men's Christla dian The recklessness of this gambling, s s w shamelessness with which it is avowed _ jnudged from the fact that a gentleman la, street proclaimed aloud, that "A week~ was worth $100,000 clear of the world. - every dollar I can get together will anmeap-t just $65." Another, in the angriish f j losses, said: " I have been on the street thih years, and I never know there were each *lI in existence until to-day." A nclimoust, I' PuncaI.t..-= f Ie Moat Re, A>4 hishop ,of Cincinnati left that city on thel % inst. li,r the Conucil at IAtnie. Previous tot departure, the members of the Brotherl -V St. Michael presented hint with two honh dollars in gold. - Right Rev. Bishop Williams, of Boston, wos will depart for Rome the latter part of t month, was the recipient, on the 24 inst., se( purse of nearly seven thousand dollars ta, the clergy of the diocese, to defray his a penses to the Eternal City. - We learn from the Boston Pilot that thelR demptorist Fathers have purchased the "Bj.g steadu Estate," near the Tremont road, on wLet they propose to erect a church and eonveet. The estate is known from the fact that Mtaja Gen. Dearborn formerly resided there. fAg the destruction of the TUrsuline Convent is Charlestown, the fleeing inmates were, aut day, offered shelter within its hospitable waui, which tlhey accepted, and after being proteest by the strong arm of the State for a few they rcnainled here a year or two unmole There are aout six acres in the estate, andt was purchased for $75,000. Is it not a little singulahr that the lhonie which sheltered the good Ursulines should have fallen into Cathy Slie huands after the la1pse of so lmany years. N:.+ir' ..ti, YA..t..r"I: Gtr-r.--We learn fn s the last SHn F1ramnieco .lnitor that the Right Rev. lishup Almonyli, who has just departed for Lome to attend the Council, is the beter of : ms .!, gant present, prepared by the Viea General, Very ,Rev. Father Cruke, to le p " si ted to the 'Pope. The descliptiuli is :s lows : b It consiIts of a box senme three and a half inuhes in llngth by two and one-half in wi4th. Illn the l Itper portion of the lox is set a speek m1en of gold Iearinl luarts, which is remarks; ide fir its purity of color and the mann which the stre'aks of gold are interspersed tllhrghout. The lower portion of the box hm neatly engraved n1on it the following inserl· tion : "To the Holy Fathfer Pio Non., from tie Vicar General, San Francisco." It is Hlled with 8$20, <) and $l 50 gold pieces to the amount of $345, tastefully arranged. The large piees occupying the corner and centre, the inteyJties Ieingtilled up with smaller coins. The boxis covered with crimson silk, inscribed with the words, in gold tensil, "Piis IX., and clasped with a gold half dollar. Sr. JANt..ARs.-Every year Protestant pa. pers have something to say about the lique faction of the blood of St. Januarins at the church of St. Gennarb, Naples. The Pall M Gazette of the 25th ult. contains a long sat deitailed account, by one of its correspondeut, of the liqtnefaction as it took place this yel. The writer is evidently a Protestant. Although he acquits the priests from working the change by any chemical means, or by means of soy juggling, hlie will not believe that the liquefas. tioll is brought to pass by a miracle. It would seem that a party went to wttIess the pu cesulinga, determined to test the same tot60 " utmost, and that one o their nuiD thermometer with hkn into tile chaie l of m Gelmnno ! But heat,even the correspondent - t i'ai P _lall ;a Gazette admits, can have bad nothing to do with the liange. However, n lite sah:, " ,hind ior ut, of course I catlt " bclicvo in the miracle." The letter is 5a = lcn w.t ,mr +, entd w sert4s pr rsarv -iug .as s " _ 1t iaginst all the rublish that has been saidald written ad prt ache'id inll Elngland against the miruacle. Itut it is intensely Plrotestantin toe, and, thstr-fore, perhlaps .all the more valasble Ii 11oming fiim lhi canip of tile enlmy. I" - the lhast alatbilsg part Of the coUllllllllctiC Sis ti hd.t-terminaltilml-nlo lma:tter whnlat hesaW tr h:t hle c1ould not naccount for-of the wrriter nit to admoit that the liquefiaction of bh,liid is a nmiracle, although he adlluits that it it is inlioshtill to account for the change that tIakcs llaec. I- rllElt M1xED.---~Ve take tile following from the I'rru-cllltant C'hurcluton. Is it not rathe s:harp oil its lBapltist ,re~tlren ? \Ve had the privilege, not lonmg since of lilt ening to Ia colverS:tion ulOU1 thle snlhtjctf Christian lilorality betweenIl a (los ComaI." nion Itahltist and1 one of .tr High Ch5a. bretlhrlg It was very edifyillng. It remiaded Is so ollewllat of the following incitent ot ed "' C-c-c-anl tharrt p-p-Ip-nparrot talk f' a stuttecring fellow of its Italian owner. ,' . pose he no talk better as dat what you talk, I chlop he head off,' was the satisfactory ansa¢5' T"lE CuIrcit IN LONPON.--The Archbishop of Westominster, at the opelling of the West Drayton church, on the 29th nIult., expresed the joy hlie felt at the rising of so many churchr in the diocese, ie remarked that fourohrcl es hadI been opened during thelast fewmootsb ncd that he expected to open two more beforc he proceeded to Rome, in obedience to the commarnd of the Holy Father. It is indeed most cheering to see the progress which tile Catholic religion is making and the numbmr of churches which are risiong8, not only in Wmt minster, but throughout Great Britaifl ~d Ireland.