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rrniitar nd CathoM c Messenger. spVEY SUNDAY MOBNIN* on . REV. A. J. RYAN, Sta +r DTOR- ICraI Moe o ~ par 33W# 0333Z"B" BUDAZsT SEPTNIWIBE 7* 15. 18 (j Ce, Cpjr (os ,7er)..- .............. s00 . .. Cop.. . . . ................s... o orders will receive attention unless a0- fon paledby the cash. Th Agts Mr the star. s. De aA, m Baton Rouge. 1 h , sas elil J.. OGA.AGson 2~ re tooes at., Galveston. du J. L. LA~ sz z, Laredo. C. C. BvaTs, louston. an J. J. YOCooat, Savannah. t osonols lssue, Mason, . mGa F. FOwia, VioksbUrg. r CALEA3 OF T33r WSE. it .. day.....Sept. 77 Fourt-enth 8nsday after Tento- sI Mlay S.et. ._sativity of the Blessed Virgin. St - s55di, e t..... P . tic y. .Sept ]o--St 1I raosu- o Tolentino, Con Y~1, S...Bept. 11-8-. Protnu and IIyacinthus. lIar ..... t e- te Octave. .t: -Sept. 13-I- the Octave. To avoid unnecessary delay, all letters, ri communications and post-oflcoe orders ii should be addressed "Editor Morning Btar." . OlnoLzo MuaTANr Uxoox or Tun Cnoss. Copies of the Constitution of this Association, in English, ean be had at this once at the fol lowing rates: 10 to 100 copies, at 3 cents a opy; 100 to 00 copies, at 2 cents a opy; 500 to 1000 eopies, at 11 cents a copy. SPRINo HILL COLLu.son-The next session of this college will commence October 7th, not, as heretofore advertised in the STan by error, on the 27th of October. From the monthly bulletin of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Amerioa, we learn that thirteen new Societies were admitted dur. the past month, msaking 220 Societies on the roll of the General Union to date. From a private letter to Mr. John C. Murray, Secretary of the Hibernian Assooiation in this city, we learn that h convention of delegates from the several Hibernian Associations of the State of Mississippi will be held at Jackson on Wednesday, September 24th. Sr. Vt~tcrr's lBosm.-The Board of Direct. ors request the Committees on Ladies Fair and on Amusements, to meet them this (Sunday) evening, at 5 o'clock, at the Home, as business of importance will demand their attention. These bhaving sold'tiokets for the last enter talnmedlt, will please make their return. All emcers of Conferences are invited to attend. IRTURr oF TIrvn REV. PATRICK F. ALL.Nx. We are authoritatively informed that the Rev. pastor of St. Patrick's church will reach the city in time to celebrate High Mass in his church this, Sunday morning. Papal Bene diction, to which is attached a plenary indul genee for those who receive it under the proper conditions, will be given after mass. We pre sume the Rev. Father will have something to say, on this occasion, about his travels in his na tive land and on the continent, unless, as many hope, he can be prevailed on to give a series of lectures, at an early date, concerning his ob servations in the old world. haw ORLEANSw HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION. At a meeting held last Tuesday evening, a permanent organisltion of this association was effected by the adoption of a charter and the election of the following named gentlemen as directors: Messrs. Edward Sweeney, Thos C. Walsh, E. M. Birmingham, John McCaffrey John J. Finney, P. F. Carley, Martin A. Alleyn, J. B. Mahoney, Dr. E. T. Sheppard, Thos. Mo Kendriok, P. A. Finsey, A. Leo and J. T. A. O'Meallie. At a meeting of the Board held Wednesday evening, Mr. E. Sweeney was elect eoted President;. Mr. Thos. C. Walsh, vice President; Mr. E. M. Birmingham, Treasurer, and Mr. T. J. O'Sullivan, Secretary. Over one fifth of the capital stock of theassociation has been subscribed for already, and it is cona dently bspectcd that within two months the whole will be taken. The charter will be printed during the neSt ten days and the as sociktion will commence business about the 15th of this month. Tas )IoME ADVOC'ATrE.-This amusing Texas exchange has some sassy things in it about pilgrimages, etc. The lucubra tion is signed U. S. We firmly believe that this U. 8. is nobody but the quondam LTul .e1ol, whom we frightened out of his fall name by a trip through Purgatory' Uncle Sol being the only man in that part of Texas worth our attention, we scorn to notioe these things until we find out for certain whether he (or she) is responsible for U. S.'s doiogs. DEjTII or CuaxaTIAN Roozus.L-Yesterday, in a sound slumber, quietly pas away, as ys a Child, the soul of tbat man of mn amd mental endowments, Christian Ro uslUi. Complaining for some days past of iudlas tion, it was not thought the resnlt weol terminate so seriously, and it was not until the symptoms began to show evoidenso of grewater prostation athat some alarm ws felt. This sadden blow comes with a ahook for whieb few were prepared. The natural hale and hearty appearance of Mr. Roselis gave no token of ble approaching dissolution, snd to the thouaaude who were on terms of friendsb.t to the deoeased this unloolked-for demise wia have a startling enfect.--imyusc, The lebor of the body relieves us from the taughes of the mind ; sad this is is " wlelrkfrms the bspplaes of the poor. r.. The Citizen a Slave of the State. are Some of the queerest and crudest ideas hat on the subject of a oltizen's relation to the peh State are now on the rampage. We solpct as illustrations of this fact, the following re paragraphs from the latest number of ie tak a1h Crtistian Advocate of this city : mil It is the baldest injustice, the very effrontery of violence, to arrogate the right to make law ase the btte done d then to evade the obli- rep gllon that follows, an It does in rrelleet n the ob ei educationai the children of the State to l I so vidual enterprise and east. Cal v Hirsoa, everl ons is the invariable motto of the 100 law. Th-scsrtfsinment of right and the de o- fense of those rights are essential to the tre in notion of a st or ratlonslly constituted l a. The State claims and exerdert es the sole right t make law. end In so doing ceain-, appro-ea prnats and assignso the rlhtis ad duties of ahc every child born into the State, and estab lishe for each child, his indefeasible right, t the r greatest po ibis outae ohis bein me es is held, e reo anid subject to grna v doi eligible to great digniteie and preuret to grave ton. duties. Tosecre this on e, to pre eor for these duties of whi the State deriv the ole andgreat benefits, the time of the child is appropriated to training-the maintensoce of of the child and cost of his oducation charged tie to his parents; so that the entire burden of making a man a citizen devolves upon indi viduals, without compensation or benefitl a And the State to which all the profit aernes, t and which exacts the service and imposes the obligation, escapes the burden. According to or its own aIsumption the State is bound, in Th simple justice to eac child, to see if hue has the means to make a good outcome, and that the Ce n. State charge itsellf with the cost ofhis educa ton tion. tt e Here we have the clear and precise avow Mar als: 1st, That "the State derives the sole C and great benefits" of the duties which will at devolve on each child. 2nd, That the pa- T ,trs, rents have now to stand the brunt of all Ir der the preparation of said children for said sar." duties, "without compensation or benefit." i _ 3rd, Thats." to the State all the profit ac tin, cres" and it " exacts the services and Is fol- imposes the obligation." ents a Now, was a more complete formula of I r; 50 slavery than this ever penned or imagined. 4 Could any phrase be used more distinctly i ion of conveying the idea, that the citizen belongs , not to the State as completely as the slave error, lately belonged to his master in this country. e' Yet this vile and pernicious error is dabelic at the basis of the whole argument in favor Srof State control over education. Of course, on the there is no dissent on the part of the Ca tholics to the policy of sutport by the State to the cause of education. It is the control [irray, of education by the State which they. ut in this terly repudiate and to hich they will egates never submit, so long as there are Cats of the combs or swamps in which to hide their innocent children from this Pagan Slavery. Direct. Romanism and Politlos. ir and The interference of Roman Catholic influ Cnday) once in political affairs seems to be on the in uiness crease. Everywhere it is active and mischiev tion. o. Mr. Disraeli stated in the British Ho~se of Commons, the reasons that induced him to enter- decline office when the crisis took place In the l. All Cabinet. Foremost among them rwas "that the differences between himself and the Irish tend. Catholics were insurmountable. In Spain it is well known ansod indeed publicly avowed, L. - that the Carlists obtain the money by which SRev. they propose to re-establish legitimacy, that ich the Is despotism, from the priests, and that the his whole power and influene of Rome is broeght i to bear to give them success. InItaly the op Bene- position to the government of ictor m el nd is unwearied and rirulent. In Germany, the straggle betwee the Government and the Ro proper mnists is for existence itself and either the e pre- Jesuit influence must be overthron or Bis ing to marck and his party most fall. In France, na- Thiers has been compelled to truckleto the hi- ecclesastical power at the risk of offending his many most reliable ally, Italy In Switzerland, the ies of conflict still rages, and whilethe Government hi o- brings n the aid of the polie to enforce its decisions upon the rebhlious prelates, these claim that to require thepn to observe the civil laws, which disarm them of political po TON.- wr is to make them martyrs. Russia has a crushed the rebellioos prelates by the strong haig, and andis held p as a persecutor. It is in ,ciation timated that even in free America this active ter and triguing Church is not without its political tleien influenuce, and that its interference is perceiv ed in some of our great cities-in New York and y, ho San Francisco. "My kingdom" sanid Christ, C "frey 'is not of this world." Itles certain that "a Alleyn, political Church" is not as such, a Christian Church. The wiaest and best of the Roman o. M- Catholics themsilve utterly repudiate these T. A. ultra montane heresies. rd held The above is taken from an Episcopalian Svc paper called the Southern Churchman. We uuemust say here that the journal referred to vorer claims to be published in the interests of Jio has Christianity. Yet, observe the strange an s onfi- tagonism, between such a pretension and the the the doctrines sustained in the above editc will be rial article. the as- Its proposition plainly stated would be out the this. When the Church is plundered and persecnted by thie civil government, when musing its property is couliscited, when it religious legs in orders aie broken up, its bishops acud icubr- priests prohibited, untder severe penalties, believe from performiing the vital functions of tondam their offices except with the peimissiouof of his the civil authorities--fuuctions without gatory· which the Church would cease to cxlst- wt part when, in foct/its extermination is actively corn to striven for by that government, resistance out for by political means cannot be aplproved of onsible or permitted. The Church can never re sist or complain. If it does, its prelate are rebelk'ous, its interference Is actire and sterday, miechierous, It ncdudies IX PLTICS. m of Now, this is a plain and correct state ln Re- meunt of the proposition virtually sustained ,Pbnel by the (?c.rchmna,. Thus, In Spain, we was not think it quite probable that many of the idenoes clergy side with the Carlists. Of course, a abacIt is absurd to suppose that the priests in nataral the northern strip of that country can lo, command money enough to keep forty nm of thoesand men in the field on a victorious footing. But that little piece of wholesale coinage aside, we will presume their Carliut sympathie. And whyS Not beaue the men holding the. rein ai gverameat, at iv. Madrl are Rephliesas, bet because they are robbers,.-be6nS" they ae infidels, t'i haters of God, ptinderers of Church pro- the t perty, aubverters of every principle on Bme which stable government can be founded. yo Yet the Catholics are prostituting their ith 1 religion to politiealM) rposes, because they ful take sides against their open, avowed, thel, ailiga ant-peseeute. At w Again. The Jew, or ex-Jew, D'Israeli is host i reported to be mightily out of sorts, as tabb i well as out of office, because of the Irish good Catholics. And what is the matter 1 Why and those Irish Catholics have dared to voTrs tos s in favor of their religious rights. This yonl * again is bringing religion into politics. o- In Italy the (curchman finds it most of shocking and worldly-mlndedin the Church , to oppose with all its might the govern ment of that mild, good King, who has done nothing but usurp its States, take or forcible possession of its properties and desecrate its sacred places with all kinds of of Infamy. This also is meddling in poli ed ties, and being rebellious..--.. di. In Germany and Switzerland, Bismarck at. and his imitators are merely trying again g the old game at which the Roman Emper to ors played in vain for three centuries. the They are endeavoring to wipe out the the Church. There is only this difference in ca- the modus. Having learned by experience that the blood of Martyrs is the seed of the ole Church, they are trying the more cunning sill stratagem of fines and impoverishment. pa- They have only to look at the history of all Ireland to see if the most refined ingenuity, aid the most diabolical pertinacity of bad men it." in power, can ever weary out the living ac- Faith. and But all this, according to the Churclh, an, , is nEBELLION on the part of the Church; a of nothing more oer leeq. The right way to ý ned. deal with such a case, according to it, is ctly that of Russia. It admires the fearfuli nags sanguinary ferocity of that remorseless de- l lave spotism. Exactly in the same way, if the this Churchman had been published in the days t of Nero or Julian, it would have sided with )r is the Government and admired the style of 'avor " crushing rebellious prelates by the strong hand." Ca- Now the question is, of what kind of a State Church, is this Churchlman theorgan. Cer atrol tainly not the Christian Church. Sut will Madrid. :ata- Change of Ministry again ! In the morn their long telegram we read, " forty thousand very. Carlists in the field," in the afternoon's tele gram, " the Ministry have resigned." We wonder if there is any connection between influ- these two items. We wonder if the Minis hlev try about to come in will hold on as long, louae even, as the one just gone out. We won hthe der if the gentlemen in Madrid who take a that turns at thehelm so frequently, get their sa in iht lares promptly. If they pay up there, we wed, can sendover from this country a lot of of haht fice-holders warranted to hold on as long the as the pap flows. aght About two weeks ago it was said the e op unel Carlists had ten thousand men in the field; the now the number is placed at forty thousand. rr the This can only be accounted for on the tht Bis- ory that all those items which have been 1 e published about desertions from the Re aghis publican army, and a good many more o wthe which have not been published, are true. e its It begins to look as though all the Repub these lican armies that are marched againbt the the p1 p0- Carlists, just melt away without any par uas ticular reason and are never heard of any trouin- more, while the Carlist forces have myste active riously acquired prodigious accessions cteiv- about the same time. k and This looks again as though the people of rtiss Spain were order-loving people at heart, stin who, though submitting for the moment :men to the present despotism of Free-Masonry and Infidelity, take the first occasion to go ,alian where their affections call them. At that We rate the blood-stained farce will soon be *ed to over. The marauding knaves who are now ts of playing such fantastic tricks of govern ,e an ment will get their deserts as traitors, but and how will they ever get their deserts for editc- their impudent desecration of the sacred name of Republicanism ild be "How to Get married." i and - whlien This title of a late Catholic Tract, was forci Sbly brought to mind by an occurrence in the igious Sixth District this week. . and On Wednesday morning, the 3rd inst., at 7i alties, o'clock, the old Bouligny Church of St. Ste ns of phen, was the scene of a peculiarly Catholic io4 of and happy ceremony. thout At that early hour the venerable edifice was ;st- approached by a line of nearly a dozen elegant tively carriages, conveying the participants and at itance tendants of the ceremonial The church was 'ed of already pretty well filled-and before the close r re- of the exercises became quite crowded-by an elate. assemblage, from very distant districts, of many of our most estimable citizens, who e and gathered there to witness, in its completeset form, the conferring by the church of the state- arest acrament "-Matrimony-upon M. alined Fitzgerald Dunn, Esq., and Mlina, the youngest I, we daughter of Gen. A. G. Blanchard, all of this f the city. The Rer. Father Andriesux, C. M., per urse, formed the marriage ceremony and said the ats in Nuptial IMass; after which the Rev. Father __n Abbott, C. M., gave an able expoeltion of the forty Church's doctrines, oonoerning the snetity and rio the inviolability of the Holy Sacrament of Ma ro trimony; in contradiction to the cold and for . mal ciil cotract of so-called marriage, and the larlist sacrilegious ncustom of divorce which is toler e the ated by the non-Catholic denominations and t, at b~y the infidel people of the world at large. they7 A noteworthy ead most admirable fstaum of is, this model, Catholio marriage was, that, when .o. the bride and groom knelt to receive the on Bread of Life, they were accompanied by their dentire party of eight honorary attendants, young ladies and gentlemen, who, together th, r with several relatives and friends of the youth. ha tey fal conple, joined in a gesneral Commaion for m ed, their welfare t all After the ceremony, the bridal party, with a ra I is host of invited friends, proceeded to the hospl- . , as table mansion of the bride's father, where a g ish good breakfast was honored by good appetites; h rby and when the wine appeared, the following ap vTE toast was offered by the first maid of Honor, a an 'his youthful niece of the Happy Bride: he loin me, dear friess, in the health I pledge h' To oar nobly weddea pair, lost Whose lives have been joined by Mother Church, ich With her bet and holNet prayer. w A Christlan maid and a Chriatian youth ti - ave linked their fates to-day- m has God's pesse within their trusting hearts, of ake God'sgraee upon their way. b and Long be those hearts unknown to care, t That pathway strewn with dowera- ads And life ia all its future years aI- itBe like these bridal hours T Where love, as pure as orange-buds, With fragrance fills their hearts, rc Were faithful troth to mutual trust, gain As Eden's bli's imparts. per- Earth seldom yields a scene so rare. As to this morming given, ri When love forgot earth's vanities, the And only thought of Heaven. , in Where fairest youth and noblest worth Came humbly to the shrine, To ask that human love might ne'or f the Eclipse God's love divine! oing 0, be His blessineo on their way neont. Where'er their footsteps go, And every dream of happiness ry of Still bright and brighter grow ! nity, Till bride and groom shall linger men Beside that shining shore Whore bridal Joys are fadeless, ivDng And love lives evermore I iman, Pablic and Private Schools in New Ozleans, and arch their Comparative Expense. iy to Editor Morning Star: it, is The following information about the schools alfult -asylums in New Orleans, collected last as de- spring at the request of Major Edw rd Got if the thiel, the U. S. Commissioner from Louisiana adays to the Exposition at Vienna, may be of some interest to your numerous readers, particularly that portion which relates to the comparative expense of the Catholic Parochial Schools and strong those under the Publio School Directors: "Report of the Klumber of Schools and Pupils, Sof a Public and Private, also the NKumber of Asylums Cer- and Orphans in the City of 'ew Orleans in 1872. " Catholic female academies and parochial schools, 29; pupils, 5271 ; boys' Catholic paro chial schools, 16; pupils, 3855; total Catholic schools, 45; pupils, 9126. Orphan asylums morn- for girls, 8; with 991 orphans; for boys, 4; insaud with 510 orphans; total orphan asylums, 12; 'a t total number of orphans supported and edu ' we cated in Catholic asylums, 1501. Episcopal We parochial schools, 6; pupils, 350. Presbyterian tweon parochial schools, 8; pupils, 500. Other de Minis- nominational schools and asyloms, 30; chil along, dren, 1700. German American schools, 8; pu ) won- pils, 500. Secular pr.vate schools, not enumer a take ated above, 153; pupils, 5807. Commercial ieir e- colleges, 3; pupils, 450. Boys' and girls' houses ire, we of refuge, 148 children. Total children taught of of- in New Orleans outside of the public schools, about 19,000. "There were in the city of New Orleans, in d 1872, 20,166 children between the ages of six d the and twenty-one years-the ages at which they field;are permitted by law to attend in the public asand. schools-of these 90,000, we have seen above ie thi* that about 19,000 of them are educated by been private persons and in the Catholic parochial to Re- schools, which educate over 9000 of them, at more an expense of not over eleven dollars a year B true. for each pupil. . lepub- "The common schools of New Orleans, ac 1st the cording to the Superintendent's last report, consisted of 73 schools and 381 teachers; the y par- estimated value of the school-houses being of any $653,000 dollars. The average attendance is myste- act down in one table at 13,335, but in another esions table the daily average attendance of boys is given at 5528, and girls at 5591, being a total ople of daily average attendance of 11,119. The an heart, nual expense is set down at $389,376 94, and moment the average annual expense for each pupil in attenudancv--couutig ;3,3S-is set duiown at asy to 9 03. If the average attendance is only Sto go 11,119, the average expense of each pupil will be ;.35." oon be Thus we see from these tables that only one ire now third of the children of New Orleans are at lovern- tending any school, and that only one-eighth re, but of the number are educated in the public arts for schools, and those at over three times the ex sacred pense to the taxpayer that it costs to educate our children in the Catholic parochial schools. Thus it costs $389,396 94 to educate 11,000 pu pils in the public schools, and only about Sforci- $100,000 to educate 9000 pupa in our Catholic Soi schools. Further commenct is unnecessary. Your obedient servant, n. r. s. t.,at ? e: Orleans, Sptermber 1, 1873. St. Ste TIuE CIIURCIc NsER sTllOliGER Tn.LN NO~W. 'atholic A short time since deputations of ladies in England presented Archbishop Manning with ce wa some beautiful decorations for his private cha. elegant pel. In the course of his reply to the address and at- made by the ladies, His Grace made the follow ro w nlug allusion to the present condition of the he close Church throughout the world: -by an And now, my children, I want you to listen icts, of to me. I wish to say a word to you about the is, who state of the Church at this moment. You will hle ear people in the world say that she is in her P decaduce; that she never was so debased, so of the weak or so powerless as she is now. Now, you ka M. know Spencer's story of the shepherd on top of a hill, who saw more, therefore, than any oungst one else. Now I am like that shepherd, and i of this tell you that the Church was never stronger hi., per- than she is now; that she has never put fourth aid the more blossoms of Faith, Hope and Charity, aye, and of contrition, too, for the sius of ?ather those who blaspheme and despise her. There of the fore, instead of being disheartened and fearful ityand at the present state of things, let us rejoice and take courage, for believe me when I say ofM]- again that there never was a moment when nd for- the power of the Church of God was greater and the than it is now, and yon yourselves, by your a toler- lives, are contributing to this. se and Brameh No. 1 of the Hibernian Association O he bld its usanul eleetoa latMesday aight. The result t ar of wil b* boad ia our special notic eelea. in Fresm Our Owa9e spers.5 . hn i OUR RIB3 L UITWUR ho ir Duna, Auguset 21, 1873. of s, The day after I wrote last witnessed some of al er the greatest Home Bale demonstrations whbich U. have yet been held in Ireland. I refer to the li Ulster monster meetings. As well as I can make out, these numbered thirteen or fourteen altogether, and the number present at each ranged from fifteen thousand to fifty thousand e able-bodied men. In fact, there was a general n turn-out of the Catholic male population of a a great part of the northern province which It a es; has been hitherto the fashion to deem the one spot in Ireland in whtch the eforts of Enland t to root out mational sentiments were entirelh , a successful.The gnt of the neighborh being Orangemen or Catholics ashaned of or having no sympathy with the national eats, were conspicuous by their absence. The a- l tholie clergy wore aso absent, but for a dtlsr 'ot reason. They did not wlsh to take partin what might be considered party demonstra- d tions: and it was a fear that disturbances P might ensue that impelled the patriotic Bishop a of Down and Conuor, Dr. Dorrian, to counsel his flock not to hold any demonstration at all tit this year on Lady-day in Belfast or neighbor hood. BuRot notwithstanding the absence of their natural leaders, the Catholic people made " a thorough success of their demonstrations. The numbers in which they attended I have f already mentioned. Those numbers were aim- h ply unparalleled. Add to this the enthusiasm, Vt the patriotic speeches, the thunderous cheer- s ing, the countless green flags with mottoes that T "told of Ireland's past of grief and glory," thebands that discoursed the national air, and you have a picture upon which the true ti sons of Ireland. whether here or abroad, will ti look with surprisoaund delight. I cannot avoid 0 making special reference to the address deliv- b ered at Mcnaghan by the Rev. Isaac Nelson, a Presbyterian minister, Belfast. This gentle- a man attended the Monaghan meeting in com. a Pany with another Presbyterian gentleman, a r. J. 0. Biggar, the same who fought the gal lant battle in Derry, and is very likely to be t elected as a Home Ruler for Monaghan county c at the next election. They were probably the only Presbyterians in that great assemblage of fifty thousand stalwart men. The Rev. Dr. i Nelson concluded his address by observing I that himself ansi Mr. Biggar had just returned a from a visit to the gast Archbishop hMaeale, and and that they had learned to lo that" lion c of the fold;" after which he invoked ablese. I ing not only on the people but on their priests, who had, he said, written the noblest chapter hools in European history. Would that there were e a few more Presbyterians like Mr. Nelson I As e lasthe people were enthusneastic, so they were Got- orderly, and quiet, and Inoffensive. How did i siana the Orangemen conduct themselves I Well, I am rejoiced to say that, generally speaking, they conducted themselves very creditably in- e larly deed. In most places they offered no obstruc- e ative tion whatever to the Catholic processionists. In two places, however, " the brethren went so far as to assail the processlonists with stones and to.cause the police to prevent them even 1 pils, attending mass and in Magherafelt, County yluma Derry, a Catholic and nationalist demonstra 1372, tion was forbidden altogether by four Orange ohtal magistrates, including the Orange Lord Lieu- 4 tenant of the county, on the flimsy pretext Pao_ that danger to the public peace was appre. tholic hended" But on the whole Lady-day-which tms- now in Ulster is kept like St. Patrick's Day, viz: as a great Catholic and national festival, ye, 4; passed over this year in a manner that gives s, 12; ground for the strongest hope that the next eda- election will produce a thorough and radical improvement in the Parliamentary represents. ceopal tion of the northern province; and it is need lerian less to say that if Ulster furnished a respect r de- able contingent of Home Rule members, Home Rule could be won with a rush. chil- I observe that we are likely to have another ; pu- agitation for the release of those Fenians amer- soldiers and others-who are still in the con vict prisons of England. All the leaders of the Fenian movement were pardoned: the Louses rank and file are still kept in penal servitude aught in those horrible dens. The pretext for de taining them is that they are not political hools, criminals at all. But this is false. Whatever position they may have filled, they were tried no, in for political crimes and sentenced as political offenders; and, therefore, detention of them is absolutely illogical and utterly indefensible. I they Nevertheless, the way to get them out is not mublic by holding public meetings, at which threats are burled at the head of the Government. The Government that would yield to such agency td by would be justly despised, and would certainly schial not live one day in England. Besides, there is something excessively moan, or childish, or assinine, in men going deliberately to war year with a Government and, when defeated, in de manding back their stakes. The proper and dignified course would be to let the Govern ment severely alone. But now Mr. Butt, urged eport, on by some few members of the Amnesty Asso i; the elation, has given us warning that another series of amnesty meetings is at hand. This is to be regretted also, for the sake of the Ite s IHome Rule movement, which the amnesty mother meetings will certainly injure in more ways oys is than one. Mr. Butt also announces that, as a first step, he will prepare a document setting total forth the circumstances preceding and attend he an- ing the trial of each of the prisoners, and that I, and he is confident he will be able to show in it that the unconditional release of all is not a question that can be debated on the ground of Sat justice or expediency. If Le wonid confine a only himself to doing this, be would do well. il will On Fiiday and Saturday last the laborers' question engaged the attention of a confer ence and public meeting at Kantark, County ly one- Cork. Thb conference was presided over by are at- the Rev. Archdeacon O'Regan, P. P. of that ighth place, and was attended by the Very Rev. Canon Mlurphy, P. P. of Youghal by Messrs. public Arch, Ward and O'Leary, the delegates from the ex- the English Laborers' Union, and by the repre ducate sentatives of the various agricultural societies of Monster. The public meeting was attended, chools. in addition to those gentlemen, by Mr. Butt, )00 pu- M. P., Mr. P. J. Smyth, M. P., and four thou about sand persons; of whom the great majority were of the laboring class. The result of till was atholic the formation of an Irish Union on the plan of ry. the English, and having the same objects. . s Mr. Butt is the head of the now organization, and is thus the nominal, if not the actual lIndlcr of three great Irish political associa tions. Some remarkable speeches were made Now. on both days. Mr. Arch and Mr. Ward-both lies in Englishmen, the former having been himself an agricultural laborer from the tender age of g with nine till that of fort3-six-declared that, al to cha though the English laborers were in a terrible ddress state, the Irish were far worse off-that the latter were, in fact, worse housed than cattle. follow- They added that the English laborers would of the do their best to help the Irish, and this decla ration infused a hopeful spirit into the Assem listen bly, whici was afterwards strengthened by an uteunanimousna pronooneement for Home Bole. And ntte here I may just mention that the English DU will papers have gone mad over Mr. Arch's" going sin her in for the Irish national demand. They know ed, he possesses vast influence amongst his own Syou class in England, and that this very class will ontop e soon invested with the franbchise. Mr. P. J. i an Snmyth, M. P., dwelt on the fact that theycould and not give their meeting and conference the t character of a convention, because of the Con it vention Act, which forbids the assembling in ins Ireland-and in Ireland alone-of any body Ther claiming a representative character; The no-fu conclusion of Mr. Butt's speech was an elo reoce quent vindiction of the laborers' moral I s nobleaess of character, which I think I whe should Trasoribe. " There was one re mark made to-day," said he, "and only one, ester I was sorry to hear, when some one of our yor friends spoke of the degrading condition of the Irish agricultural laborer. No, nothing can degrade the man in whose heart beats lore atinof coun ty, and in whose soul lies respeot for ilsu hsreltigon. Ay, and if the Irish laborer. dwells in the meanest hovei-that sriles a Christian man, yet round the wals of that hovel flash lights and glories whiMo many a proud aristocrat knows nothing oA in the love of the father and the child. No,the Irish laborer is not dd and when th mother h kneels down at n ghtand mates the children e lisp the simple prayers to God, and the father reverently uncovers his .head, the bula.ing,. God showers down upon thos there is ele h vation and a glory around that Jev j...t od ften does not belong to the hall a l nobles." Eloquent words, that bear m truthful testimony to the simple purity sad it sweet grace of life that dignify and brighten the humblest home of clay in the count7 dis triets of Ireland. We have had two exeentione sines I wro last, and another on--t of ssaspste sra neighbor ofE h . sI se Sven e arisin out of a boe t ho cut>p of a strip baws ia tor day mornin ani at e..get o VMo. the Spreeinct of Cavan jail .e met his derem in . a spirit of repentane saiýume, and m severed days before, ne rebie. , the mhLtn 1 tions of several Catheile rLists. When the r- exeontioner whilst tying his hands behind his of k, ask him was -he hurt, he an r . de "No, any way you like; give me oar ,. SArrived at the foot of the saf-fol he was 1n., Ie formed of the fact by the Catholic clergymen' m he paused a moment, then asying in Il ea m voice, "In the nase of Gelad b.M a@-. - r rapidly. A stupid mistake of the ba At added to the akstori horror of the zesis te. >r The rope was too long, so that thee eate Sfeet jst touched the greand, and the e ere De tioner had to draw up the wretched man in ill the moment of his Anial agony. The other e id eonution was that of Edward Walsh at Castle iv. bar on Tuesday for the murder of his wifet in ona fit of drunkenness or seml-drunkhaenee. Ohi leall the crimes that are to be laid to tby ad ,m cunt accursed demon drink I 'oWt hbtoo died an, a penitent and even edifying death, 'hing al- been constantly attended since his oondemna e tion by three Catholie priest and the Sisters y of Mercy. His execution was not e lmsq. the The day before he died his two 4p han hl of dren-a boy of six years and a rlt of-ee Dr. were brought in to se hbinot his reuest. The ng interview was one that might melt a heart of d stone. At night, in the presence of the Cath. le, olic chaplain, he dictated a short onfession ion of his crime. He declared that be never in se tended to take away his wife's life, that they ate, were on friendly terms together before the ater deed, and that a sudden dispute about the key ore of the shop (he was a baker and a peblican) As excited his passion (he having taken liquor ,ere daring the day), and led him to do what he did would have given worlds to undo the mmeut ii, I it was done. There , I suppose, no reeei ag, doubt the truth of this story; and, i so-the in- conclusion is irresistible that had Ws roc- a sober man on that fatal Sunday in Aprl, he sta would never have killed his wife and would t so never have suffered an ignominious death on ones the scaffold. I read in the Castlebar oe!le van that when sober he was a well-conduted and ty inoffensive man. era- On Sunday Rathkeale church was coeseera sge ted, but Dr. Manning was not able to be ~ars len- Ont. His Grace will also be prevented tess text reching in Armagh on Sunday. The conse oratio of the National Cathedral in that city rich is to be, as I have already intimated, a ea ay affair; and I shall take ears in my next lette v, to let the readers of the STaR have a good as ivos conut of it. Father Burkerlstobetheprinct- .. iext pal preacheri and this reminds me that the ical ret Dominican orator delivered one of this at rstlectures in the Munster Hali, Cor on oed- Tuesday evening last, on the religious history ect- of the United States with special referenes to ome the spread of the Catholic religion which, he said he hoped yet to see the prevailing and her distinctive religion of Columbia. I need not is- summarise the lecture, as you will doubtless :on- reproduce it is extenuo in the columns of the Tof STAn. J. J. C. the ade Our Catholie Friends. wical Theology, religion, confessions of faith aver and church organizations are subjects sep ried arate and apart from the province of our ioal labors. This journal is purely secular. he Our field is large enough. We are folly aoe occupied, without trespassing on the do iate main of conscience in sacred things. Our The convictions on such subjects are private nay and personal. We do not obtrude them ly upon the public. This paper is no organ SIs of religions proselytism. We do not per or mit the columns of the Picayune to be a oused injuriously to the Interests of any do- Denomination, directly or indirectly, if andwe know it. We dislike intermeddling rged and strive to confine our efforts to our bs e.a- sinesa. Church affairs, we leave to those ther much better qualified than ourselves to this treat. the With these prefatory remarks, defining est our position, and the course prescribed at y the Picayune Office, touching religious t matters, we would say a word m to the misunderstanding which we learn exists that in the minds of many of oar Catholic in it friends. Oar attention has just been call iot a ed to the comments of the CaTnOLIa Mas d of SENODER. For the patriotic and brilliant sino editor of that religions paper, we have the highestrespect, and onlyregret we did nre' aot sooner know of his dissatisfaction ex Dfer- pressed. ri a Concerning extracts from European t newspapers and editorial paragraphs pre Rev. pared by reporters to dress up the news sirs, all we have to say is, we have never had from the intent to trench upon religious opin pre- ions or feelings of any Church ; and if sties through inadvertence news or comments 'led, jistly liable to such a construnction in re Bate, gard to the Catholic persuasion have been o. clipped and put forth in the Picayune, wee none regret it more than ourseltes. i of We have friends, close connections and els dear and near relations professing the ion, Catholic Faith. This flct may goarantee inal, our carnestness.-Picayune, /'ept. i. ad Wlhcn the Atlantic cable was first laid onei both danger was thought to menace it near shore tseif -the dragging anchors of ships and one in ;e of deep sea, the probable running against it of al- large fnshe. The latter was treated by. cien rie tiste as absuerd. A remarkable incident tht the happened this summer to the Indian cable, tle. three hundred miles long, between Kanlhoee ould and Owadnur, proves that after all very el- strange thing as happen itedepths of thee w- The cable broke ad ships rwere sent to repair San it. They grappled it, buIt on winding hin the od cable unusual resistah e was experieo ed, as ;lih if it were foul of rooks but after persevering ring for some time, the body of an immense whale, now entangled ia the cable; was bronght to the sun own face, when it was found to be firmly secmed wil by two and a half turns of the cable immedi P. J. ately above the tall. Sharks and other fh Duld had partly eaten the body. which was rapidly decomposing, the jaws falliag away on reach Jon- lug the surfae. The tals which measured g in fully twelve feet acro, was perfeet, and cov ody ered with barnacles at the extremitle. The elo- the boats, an attempt was made to haul the oral whale on board. but its own weight broke it k I away from the injnred cable a soon as it was re- shove thesace. Apparently the whale was, one, at the time of entangemet, usinig the cable our I tofe itself from parisite, seek as barnacles, e of whiehnnoy these animasi in that sea very Dug [ muoh, and the cable. .ihma_ in a.loop, over love abnaiaereil~ e _.. prOh L with a 11or lll ai ofhi stall, ..it .' and usar tqQ ,-~i~P