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a erning Star and Catholic Messenger. PU$tLISHED EVIRY BIT8DAT MOBNIGO. REV. A. J. RYAN, Dorroa-I:x-canI. saW ORL[Axs. 8UI DAT, JUNE SS. lt4. OUN CLUUB EATI 0eOt PAPERS SENT BY AIa.L TO 03NE ADDRESS One Copy (one year)...............--- 3 00 rve Cole. " ...................* I lae Cop a " .-............... fm o Twenty Copsl " .................. 40 00 Weo orders will receive attention unless ac aompaied by the cash. Agass for the star. WLOIIIANA. 6. LateaUx, Franklin. Tam. DUGOAN, Baton Rouge. J.E. AE. t.ALouIE, 232 Peetoftce st., Galveston. .. D. LAYEDsrCER, Laredo: C. C. Bavuse, Houston. Maras Berax, Natches. E. F. Owlxs, Vickaburg. CALENDAR 01 TZE WEEK. shaly-... Juan t1d--Vifth Sunday sitr Pentslcost. Ussay....Juss 2¶-S. Peter ad Pastl. Apeslee.s. ~T3Oey .....Juns 3o-Commmoraton of St Paul. I deay..Jaly 1--Otare of St John Beptlst. rs...Junty O-Vstatlon t the Blessed Vtlrgs.j i. .......July 3-Of the Oeeve of S5. Peter an. Poul. Waterday...July 4-Of the Octave. PUntic Plc-Ncs.--lIis Grace, the Most Reverend Archbishop of New Orleans, has heard that preparations are being made for a Pic Nic, to be given at the Eair Gfrounds to-day, said to be for the benefit of the Church of St John the Baptist. His Oraers, through the Very Reverend Vicar General, instructs as to state that he com pletely disapproves of this Pic-Nic, as such Pic-Nics are condemned by the Church and are full of danger to public morality. OIIDIOATIONn.-Laat Friday, June 26th, in St. Mary's (Archbishop's) church, Orders were r conferred by His Grace, the Most Rev. Arch. - bishop, as follows : Drmcon,-J. B. Andre, a native of Besancon, France: Sub-Deacon,--Marius Welte, a native of Lyons, France; Patrick Olendon, a native of county Tipperary, Ireland; Michael Coughaln, a native of King's County, Ireland: C Minor Ordera,-Thos. Golden, a native of New Orleans : Tonsssrs,-Michael Weldon, a native of New t Orleans; John Mary Laval, a native of St. I Etienne, France ; and Charles Clarke, a native t of New Orleans. CoNIRnMATIO.Ns.-Ou the 1';th Ilis Grace t confirmed seven young men at St. Mary-Jeffer- I son College, parish St. James. On the 17th, in the chapel of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, St. James parish, he confirmed twenty-fonrpun pile. Last Sunday morning he administered the same Holy Sacrament to eighty-four persons in the church of St. John the Baptist, Dryades street, and in the evening to fifty-nine persons in the church of St. Vincent de Paul, Third I District. ST. PATtl' I CONVENT OF MIERcY AND PARt (,crIILL. Scnoo,..--'he annual exhibition by i the pupils of this fine school will take place next Tuesday ovening, at 0 o'clock, in St. Vin cent', Hall, I'oucher street. The exhibition a will be followed by a distribution of prizes to n the best and most proficient scholars. A fine brass hand a ill to in attendance. a -- -- - - ---- a LtACIRED CONSccERT AT ST. PATRICK's CLUaRCH. -This evening at 8 o'clock, a concert, for which the programme will be seen on our fifth page, will be given at St. Patrick's church. It will be one of the most brilliant of the sea son as Mr. Dubos, the director, seems to have gathered to his assistance all the most distin- s slehted amateurs of the city. The chornses e will be sung by forty voices. To Oc it Tlllht DISTRICT SL'SCRINtERS.-We regret the delay which occurred in the deli very of the ST.A last week in this District, Mr. Wm,. Duggan, :73 lreatmen (or Dauphine) street, has now taken charge of the delivery, e and all may rent assured that they will receive c their papers plunctually in future. VACtA''ION .t'tl.OI.-ST. JOICIN'S PAtitsl.-One of the lady t..ucti.rs, late of the St. John Comun rciul .1\..dicty, )ryades street, will open a va-o tI school for boys and girls in the female depotrtmnent of the same buildinig, commencing on WV.dneeday .July tit. . .-- -- - t Or'ti (IUElMAN FI"IENIBs AND T'uE Ilol.Y FA rH...i-The Catholic Gernians of the Fourth District are ever foremost in their mnsanifesta hirns of love and aftection for the HIoly See. This spirit was abundantly manifested on Monday evening, 22d inst., by a grand display of fire works and a general illumination in the vicinity of St. Mary's church. Particularly I noticeable for the taste disahleed was the Asylum of St. Joaeph, under the pious care of a the isters of Notre Dame. Every window of thau .immense building was illuminated, 4 sad appropriate inscriptions and pictures in vatuios and be.t.tt~ful lolors, met the eye. The benign countei,.tnce of our Holy Father looked down on :he thousands that filled the streets, and seemed to breathe benedictions upon them. 'he display of fire works was grand. -iorn the tower of St. Mary's I and from a tltform erected in front of the 0 boys' school on Jouslphine street, a continual a t'iy of rocket'. totnan candles and various V other pyrotechnical oontrivanoes ascended, a lighting tip the toeighborhood, and proclaiming in fiery showers huow great was the joy over the twenty-eighth anniversary of Pins IX. A a Sue band o" music, and the singing of the e school boys added greatly to the general eff-a set of the demonstration. To the real of a Moeset P. Antoni and P. Rauch, and the gen .-rosity of the pariseloners, are our people c II r " That Troublesome Doctrine. The Republican, in eommenting~-O the splendid effort of Mr. Semmee at the de monstration of last Sunday evening, takes issue with him on some important points, but we must say that this is done in a tone - much more tolerant and respectful than has marked some of the articles of that paper in previous numbers. It finds fault b principally with the following passage: But the Church has always maintained that if the civil power commands something wrong in itself, we are not bound to obey it; nor are we bound to obey the civil power in matters not included within its domain. The principle of the independence of the spiritual power, which the Church has always maintained, has, by its existence at all times, served to remind men that there are limits to the civil power, that there are things beyond its province, cases in which a man may say, "I will not obey." To this the Republican says: If the courts decide that an set is legal, which may not be in accord with the individual standard of morality, the crime otlmmorality must be answered by the tribunal, it does not attach to the individual who has agreed to remit his doubts of legality to an agreed tri bunal. " In such a case, and in all contestable eases, it is the duty of the American citizen to obey the law as expounded by the courts of the lest-resort. lie can interplead no scruple of conscience; still less can he file in arrest of judgment the rescript of any foreign authority. The citizen mast obey the law which he has, as a citizen of a republio, promised to obey. Thus, if the law says: "Thou shalt wor ship Baal," the law must be obeyed. If the Courts say a divorced man may marry again, he need have no scruple; the sin is upon the Courts. The proposition simply puts the State in the placeof God. It says: No matter what God has commanded, if the State commands the contrary, you must obey the State. Yet the 1Republican piques itself on its Pro testantism, and we doubt not the honesty of its claim. "But," says the Republican, " does not Mr. Semmes perceive that these paragrapbs leave unsettled the question who is to decide what matters are included within the domain of the civil power, and also what are the cases in w-hich a man may lawfully say, " I will nrot obey." And does not the Republican perceive that there must be precisely a tribunal to decide these very points? Certainly the I Almighty would hardly give men positive commands which they must obey, at every hazard, in obeying which they ,nay be brought in direct conflict with the laws of the State, and yet leave them without any means of obtaining positive certainty as to their actual duty under such momentous circumstances. He would hardly leave this "higher law " to the caprice of every dolt or fanatic. But there comes in the Republican's dread and horror of everything foreign. The laws of morals are not the same in Italy and the United States. French nature is not human nature. It says: This ecclesiastital adherence and allegiance of a spiritual corporation in this country to a supreme religious corporation in another is something unusnal, and we may state, so far as we now believe, wholly without example in the United States. It is a very troublesome doctrine. It involves the difficulty of draw ing the line where the politcal obligation of a citizen to his own government ends and where his paramount and spiritual obligation to'an other and a foreign domination begins. It is one phase of this difficulty that has for smlany months past agitated Germany. Foreign again ! Is God's Church foreign any where i or must he perforce' have a separate Chprch for every separate nation ? Would it be forbidden to him to organize a universal, or Catholic, Church because its central power would have to be located somewhere, and that 'somewhere would be " foreign " to all other places? It may be a very troublesome doctrine to those who do not want to obey God and prefer giving their allegiance to the World, but a " Pro testant by birth " ought to know that it is said "Give unto Causar that which is Cwesar's and unto God that which is God's." Now who shall decide where the line of separation is drawn ? Shall it be Caesar, or God ? C',sar's people, or God's people ? / Protestantism To-Day. l-or a century or two after cutting itself oft from the tree of Life, Protestantism still retained some of the vitality of faith. The spirit of Christianity could not be entirely eradicated from so vast a multi tude of people by an instantaneous oper ation. They divided themselves from the source and centre of truth, so that errors 4 might afterwards creep in among them without fear or exposure, and, at the very beginning, they cast off some of the grand est and most holy dogmas of Christianity, yet there still remained a deep-seated re Ispect for much of the truth, both in dogma and morals. But that could not last. A limb lopped off, no matter how large or how vigorous, must dry up gradually and finally become simply dead wood. This process has been going steadily onward with Protestantism from the very beginning, until now-a-days it is in great part a mere parody on Chris tianity. Take the following out-pouring 1 of Rev. Beeeher, the great light and orna ment of the Protestant pulpit in the North. We find it clipped from the New York S,n of June 3d inst. : In his sermon yesterday morning Mr. Beecher spoke of " the parable of the Garden of Eden" as having. been the central idea of the most enduring of religions. Farther along he de nounoed the doctrine of the fall of man in the sinning of Adam. "That general view," he said, "that we are Sondemned on account of what was done for us thousands of years ago, and are held to eternalpenalty for It, is so in contradiction to every sense of justice that so man bshould regard it ithout repugnance. It si ascribes to God attributes which would cover any human ruler or parent with Infamy:." he Touching the acceptance of the Bible by le many as a complete encyclopedia of all know ledge, Mr. Beecher called attention to the fact ea that its teachbigs of astronomy, of creation and of the history of the race have been total ly refuted by Incontrovertible scientifo facts. i no "Here and there is a man," he added, "who an still believes that the world was really made in six ordinary days. Such men are twin at brothers of the oldest mummies in Egypt, and alt the mummies are the best men of the two sorts." So the Bible is totally wrong in its Lis g tory of Creation and of the human race ! re And yet the Bible is their rule of faith, 'r Protestantism commenced by casting off Se the Church and relying altogether on the Bible, and now it fritters away the_Bible. to A man ctn't take the wrong road and stick to it, without coming to the end of it at last. There will be a day when he must give up all pretense of traveling to the I I, point for which he claimed to start. And l thus the day will come sooner or later, and a it does not appear to be far off now, when o Protestantism most abandon all further pretense of belief in the Bible and Chris t tianity. It will have so far departed from any semblance of such belief that further ,f shamming will become preposterous. f This was an end the date of which could i almost have been calculated with pre cision a century ago, because it depended t - on natural means. The problem for cal if culation was simply this : There was a d y certain amount of vital faith in Protest is antism when it commenced ; it has lost ° just one third, or one foarth, or any other n fixed proportion of it, within one century ; It how long will it take to lose all the rest e by the natural drying up process ? That date being calculated, you would know the end of Protestantism, because it would f surpass the bounds of impudence for a sect to ,all itself Christian, while openly spurning the Bible and branding Christ a ,t as an impostor. e °_ t. American Errors. e The l:epublican newspaper, has a way n o of patronizing America, that is truly im. h e pressive. It has a great respect for the p e progenitors of its "We," whoever they t may be, and looks upon everybody and t e everything else as supremely foreign. It t considers every element of population in .1 this country intrinsically alien except I that of its editor or. editors. German, c French, Celtic or Spanish extraction taints I y Creole population is tauntingly treated as M French, our Irish citizens are constantly I d reminded that they ought to have nothing a e to say. This exolusiveness is applied to religion. is The Iiepublienot claims to be Protestant. It says in its issue of last Sunday "Wo are e Protestant by birth, education and convic a tion." The birth of the Republican took s place some six or seven years ago under I n circumstances which fairly entitle it to the L claim of being Protestant by birth; tlhat is, l a it was conceived and brought forth for par- t - poses of plunder and in open scorn of every s is thing just and sacred. As for its convic. y tion, we have never before heard of that n event, though we have otten heard the c suggestion that it would take place, if an t honest jury could be obtained. e Now, in pursuance of its settled policy b of making everything American identical ti d with its own notions, the Republi-an speaks o of Catholicity as something foreign. It ' e says : We claim, then, to speak from an impartial o staudpeint when we accord to foreign opinion d g a right of speech and advocacy, which would C not, perhaps, be allowed to American opinion p in other countries. e We think theright to etpress these csclesi- o estioal opinions is overstrained when accom panied by a claim that an American State is a " Papal province, or is in any manner bound in ,f temporal or spiritual allegiance to a foreign a power. t And again it repeats : a Louisiana is not a Roman provinice. a This phrase "Papal ProvinceU "is found a ed on what, will it be supposed ? Simply a if on the fact that oltr Most Rev. Archbishop, b n in a recent act of Consecration, spoke of ,. the "lProvince of New Orleans." Now we e observe Ist, that this is not a " Papal " or i- "Roman" but a Catholic "Province," just as the States of the Church are not Catholic but r e are Papal ; and 2dly, that Louisiana is not s even a C~atholic Province. The Province n of New Orleans comprises not only fouii-ej y ana, but Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, a I- Alabama and a part of Florida. r, But then we cannot expect true-blue v - Americans to be correct about these trifles a Which brings us back to the question who c are Americans and who foreigners. We t d have some faint recollection that the re- a I, pubtlicans, Iras somewhere excepted the so P a called Anglo Saxon race from the class of n "foreigners" but it may be that it secretly h n means the Indians, when refterring to ti 5 "Amet icans." - Who knows, after all, but that our neigh a g bor has an admiration for the people with N - olive complexion and long, black hair T ti SThe splendhi concert and exhibition, given I by the pupils of St. Thereea's School last Sun tc r day evening, is to be repeated Saturday evening, June 27th, at 7* o'clock, for the bene- bI Sfit of the poor visited by the Society of St. u0 Vincent do Paul. Tickets, 25 cents. TI -- -------------- oer We understand that Father Foote has re- cl ceived a telegram from Father Allen, dated so N ew York, June 2'theatating that he would is sail that day for Europe on the steamer Italia. th 'r I The " Hives" of Louisiana. by Such is the title of a political organiz ation existing in this clty. We have had on occasion, heretofore, to advert to it, but without the advantage, since given us, of he having read its constitution. According de to. the copy furnished us, the membeis od bind themselv-s on honor not to support ro for office any man who does not publicly maintain the following principles and ex pedients as condensed .in our own lan guage: lat. Repudiation of the whole public debt of Louisiana, State and Municipal. e 2d The immediate passage of a law pro hibiting the assessment of taxes for paying the same or any interest thereon. it 3d An amendment of the Federal Con stitution prohibiting States from emitting bills of credit. (We suppose this means d from contracting any debt.) n 4th. No license taxes. r 5th. Taxation on real estate only. 6th and 7th. Limitation of tax to about s n $700,000 per annum for the State and r $200,000 for the city. We find much to approve in some of these items. We are satisfied that true policy requires the total abolition of all license laws. They bear on personal exer tion, and, besides, can never be equal or fair. As to the amount of taxation, we do not think our people capable of paying more than about one third of that now levied. It is also quite probable that the whole tax might as well be levied on real estate, since people could afford to pay more rent where they are exempt from taxation. d We believe, also, that our Legislators should not have the power of paddling the State with debt; to which te " Hives" might have added the incapacity to give away property of the State, or create mon opolies, or regulate local affairs by special laws. But when it oome to Iepudiation, we y must halt. If the "Hives " mean that there . has been no legitimate power from the peo e pie in the recent governmenteof this State, y that the whole thing was a usurpation, and d that there is no moral obligation to respect [t their contract as such, we agree with them. n But, certainly, to the extent that the it public has profited by those contracts it 3, ought to ratify them and carry them out. A Besides which, it must be remembered that , some of our outstanding public obligations 1 date from a period before the war, and are ,s perfectly legitimate. These cannot, with any honor, be repudiated. We think our friends ought to draw some . distinction on this point, and make it un t" equivocal. Exhibition by the Pupils of St. Theresa's School. k Last Sunday evening St. Theresa's Hall, ir Erato street, was crowded almost to suffocation ,e by the numerous friendl and relatives of the pupils of the parochial school, who assembled to witness the annual exhibition by the scholars. The pragramme, which we published that day, was faithfully carried out to the great satisfaction of all present. We have not the space to give a detailed report, but must e content ourselves with a general compliment n to the boys for the excellence of their per formiance. A clergyman present stated that y he had attended at least twenty-five exhibi I tions, in different parts of the country, not one a of which was as entertaining as this, or proved in a higher degree the judicious trainjog of the participants. While thus giving well earned l praise to all, we feel that special mention is u due to Master S. M. O'Neill, J. Fleming and C. d O'Brien for the style, almost approaching n perfection, in which they acquitted themselves 1- of their several parts. ý- We said that the programme was faithfully a carried out. This is not literally correct. A most pleasiug incident, indicative of the grati tude of the boys towards their best friend, but which was not on the programme, varied the entertainment. This was the presentation of a tine gold-headed cane to Father Kenny Master B. Monaghan presented the cane in behalf of the boys-after Master C. O'Brien had, in feeling tom s, delivered the following ad dress: t Thar and l2lored Pastor-Actuated by the ir feellngs of dutiful gratitude, we, the pupils of St. Theresa's School, beg the favor of being la permlited to express the sentiments of esteem, it respect and veneration, which we entertain for you, who have done so much for us. 't We pray the Almighty preserve you to us, : &Ur many years to come, and, at the same time, - ,we beseech Himr to grant as rich a bessing to your zealous and effective labors in the future , as has characterized them during the past. The paternal solicitude with which you have so well provided for our spiritual and temporal le welfare, has imposed upon us a debt of grati tude which we shall never be able to liquidate. We offer you this little gift, though not o costly, yet we hope yon will value it as a token of our lore and esteem for you. Permit us, Rev. Father, to conclude thisbut too short Sand imperfect address, hy assuring you we will pray the Almighty to grant you many and prosperous days, and by wishing you that the tolls of your ministry be cheered by the bright y hopes of the rewards that await the jusat upos the bshores o thle blessed.. Tn?. Boys cr Sr. THERFrS's SCIIOO)L. The exercises of the evening were closed by :a most instructive address from Rev. B. A. II Neithart, C. 8S. R., who, after complimenting the boys, spoke briefly on the subjeot of edu cation, and conclunded with a line tribute to Sthe zeal of the Rev. P.at.r, Fathe' Kenny, and to the Christian Birothlere. The large aspace occupied by our report of SMr. Semmues' splendid address alone prevents us from giving tlhe extended notice to St. Theresa's school to which we consider it fairly entitled as a true model of what a good paro chial school should be. This we will give at I some future time, merely stating here that it is under the control of the Christian Brothers than whom the world contains no better teachers. In the junior claasea they are as sisted by two highly intelligentladies. Three hundred boys attend regularly and, by their ad general good behavior, prove that the system >nt of the Brothers includes " heart culture" as of well as " mind culture." Ig As many were unable to attend, last Sunday, els the boys volunteered to repeat their exhtbition ort Saturday evening, June 29th, at 7:30 o'clock, ply for the benefit of the poor visited by the Con ference of St. Vincent de Paul. AdmissioR 25 cents. Commencement Exercises at the Dominican Con ,lic vent, Geenville (7th Distriet.) Among the instruetors of the young, none ro occupy a higher place in public esteem, than Dg the Nuns of St. Dominic. Their institution on Dryades street, adjoining St. John's new in- Church, is one of the largest and most admir og ably arranged in the South, and the branhob us establishment at Greenville, about half a mile below Carrollton, combining the advantages of the city, with the fresh air and healthy lo cation of a country resort, has long been a favorite with parents, who wished tassend their daughters to a school where they could be boarded and cared for, as if they were at home. The members of this order are all ladies of the of highest culture, refinement and educational ne attainments, and they possess, in a high degree, all the faculty of imparting to those under their tr- charge, a knowledge of those branches of learn or ing and fine arts which tend to ennoble them and ye make them useful members of society. With rg their thorough course of inaruction, the pos session of a diploma from them is a high re be commendation and honor to a young lady. al Last Tuesday evenibg a large number of the friends of the pupils visited the convent in ay Greenville to witness the annual commence im menat exercises, which were very interesting. We have not space to mention each piece, with irs a due mede of praise to every one who parti be paled, but we may here remark that all did gn remarkably well. . The composition " Example we Superior to Precept," (original) by Miss Gil more, was very interesting and waslistened to al with much pleasure. Miss J. Molony, read an original essay "Early. Impressions the most Lasting," which evinced careful thought and ce study, and was warmly applauded by the an re dience. The recitation by Miss Sallie Arm - strong "I Love My Native Land" (original) s, was an admirably prepared article. The per id formances on the piano by the pupils, gave ct evidence of the admirable training received in this institution, while the singing was be perfectly charming, many of the young ladies giving hopeful promise of future eminence in this art. The legend of "The Grotto of Akte t. ley" (original) by Miss Jane Waldo, was a at story of the past, woven with fine poetic fancy us and clothed in well chosen words. The com re position of Miss Riley, " Woman's Influence," th (original) was an admirable essay on this al. ways interesting theme. Miss Eliza O'Meagher ue read an original essay on " Self Conquest of n-. all Conquests the Greatest," a carefully pre pared article, giving pleasing evidence of this young lady's splendid talents. Miss J. Molony ol. read an original essay on that ever popular theme "Our Erin," and the young lady's well 11, chosen words and elegantly rounded sentences on of praise to the Gem of the Sea were received be with roouds of applause. ed The distribution of premiums, a very inter he eating ceremony to both parents and scholars, ed was made by the Rev. J. Moynihan, the Rev be Father Finn calling out the names of the at recipients. The diplomas were then granted at to the graduates, each young lady as she came it forward, besides her parchment, receiving r- from Father Mo nihan a crown of laurel. The at following are the names of the young lady i- graduates: Misses Jane Waldo, Mary Eliza se O'Meagher, Ellie E. Kernaghan, Adrianna Z. :d Drown, Mary F. Gilmore, Sallie V. Armstrong, oe Jane A. Molony and Genevieve A. Riley. d The valedictory, composed by the graduates, is was one of the best articles of the kind that C we have ever heard. In beautiful and touch ig ing language a farewell was said to their es schoolmates, a tribute of love and gratitude paid to their teachers and parents, and a high ly aim marked out for the future. It was recited A in a most admirable manner by Miss Jane a Waldo. it The addrebs to the graduates, composed by ie the first class, was gracefully and appropri of ately spoken by Miss Riley. Y This closed the exercises of the eveling, in after which the Rev. Father Finn delivered an il eloqlent address, which was warmly ap d- planded by all present. We cannot close this article without refer t,o ring in a few words -to beautiful samples of ng eedle work, worsted work, painting and I, drawing, wax flowers and fancy work, all ex ecuted by tho pnupils of the convent, and giving the highest evidence of their proficiency in e, these fine arte. to I ToTr. AnsBrtNENCE ITh?'iS.-The annutlal re elections of clicers for St. Joseph's and the l Young Men's Total Abstinence Societies were held last Sunday. We publish the results in t our advertising columns. S St. Joseph's Society, Algiers, will' meet rt to-day at 2 o'clock. The Society was 11 admitted to the State Union at its last d regular meeting. It is to be hoped that those gentlemen who have all along " wished Sit well " hut did not desire to join till it was rhoronghly organised, will now come forward and e,rol their names, as we can assure them Sthat it possesses ull the elements of a first rate society. g For notices of meetings, etc, see special v otice columnu. d ST. PETER'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY. Bly a notice elsewhere it will be seen that this f Society meets in the school-house of the parish a to-day at 12 o'clock. In future the Society I. will meet every alternate Sunday to give those y who may wish to join an opportunity of doing - so. The Society is new in good working or t der, and only needs the enrollment of one . tenth of the large number of men in the Old a Third to make it one of the best and most ef r fective in the city. -LETiEr IOMt " OVA " PrealXN. r P e, June 3d. 1874. To the ltditor of the Mornlng Star: 1 In my last letter I told you about our recep. tian by His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris on Friday, the 29th. On the next day, Saturday, the 30th, we heard mase at 10 o'clock in the celebrated church of Notre Dame des Victoires, in the chapel which is specially erected in honor of the Archoonfraternity of 6 Our Lady of Victories. The mass was cele brated by our Right Rev. Bishop Director. It was a low mass, during which a chorus of about forty boys sang hymns to the Blessed Virgin. The effect produced was truly grand ° and impressive. The pilgrims were all accom modated with seats immediately fronting the n altar at which mass was being said for them. v The church was crowded to its utmost capacity. There are masses at all hours up to one o'clock t and priests who wish to sasmass at any par. ° ticular altar must register their names long in I 'advance. To describe the church to you w01va be impossible for me, as I had no time to visit it in all its parts, and could, therefore, not do justice to the subject. After mass, our good Bishop made a very feeling address to the pil grims. He said that from his very earliest years he had hoped to pay his respects to our I Blessed Lady at, this shrine, where so many wonderful miracles of grace had been per. formed. He recalled an instance-that of his own brother-who had lived twenty years I without approaching the sacraments, and that after recommending him to the prayers of, the Arohconfraternity for the conversion of sin ners, he had had the happiness of administer ing Holy Communion to him himself. The Bishop was moved to tears while relating this incident, and urged the pilgrims to implore their Blessed Mother for whatever graces they stood in need of, and that she would moet assuedly hear their prayers. After this beau tiful and eloquent address, the Bishop blessed a number of red crosses-pilgrims' crosses, specially made for them and approvedby the Holy See, with indulgpncea attached. Each pilgrim then approached the holy table and received his cross, which is to be worn on all occasions where the pilgrims perform their religions exercises in common. But as we had received, in New York, a badge with the image of the Sacred Heart thereon, and as the pil grims are very much attached to their badge, they have concluded to wear both. On Sunday, the 31st, the pilgrims attended mass at a o'clock, at the Church of the Jesuit Fathers. The mass was celebrated by our good Bishop-Director, at the altar of the Ja panese martyrs. Below this altar rest the bodies of the four Jesuit Fathers who were pot to death by the Communists during the civil war in 1870. After mass, I had the happiness of taking breakfast with the President-General of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Monsieur Adolpbe Baudon. Mr. Baudon appeared to he very much pleased with my visit, and saidbe would wish to converse with me more atlength on the affairs of the Society in the Province of New Orleans; but this we had to postpone till after the pilgrimage is disbanded, as I expect to return to Paris, where I shall remain a little longer than I have done this time. But lo ! what surprise! Something unex pected has reached our ears. We are invited to meet the Cercle Ca'ltoliqee du Luxembourg at their hall at t; o'clock sharp. The gentlemen of this club belong to the first families of Paris. They are going to give us a modest repast to show us their sympathies and to give proof of their Catholic sentiments. French and American Catholics meeting together as brothers! What a beautiful spectacle! The hour- has comd. The pilgrims are arriving from their respective hotels, with their badges. The members of the Cercle Catholipse also have their red crosses. They have all performed pilgrimages more than once in their lives, but they say they can find no words to express their admiration of American Catholics crossing the Atlantic to pay their homage to ; our Lady of Lourdee, to the shrines of the Apostles, and to our IHoly Father, Pope Pits IX. Before sitting to table, the pilgrims are in rited to visit the Hall. On the rez-de"chassee, or first floor, is the lecture-room, capable of seating several hundred persons. There is a stage adapted for giving concerts. In front of the stage are several rows of fatesilt or cush. ioned arm-chairs. Adjacent to this, a large hall with five billiard-tables. Several of oct pilgrims, fond of the game, are playing with the members of the club. Those who do nc0 belong to the Total Abstinence can take a glass of absinthc suisse, or any other beverage, by applying to the barette. On the second floor - a meeting-room for the club and a library co. taining all the Catholic publications of tie day. But the bell is ringing and the president calls aloud every invited guest and gives hit his seat. Grace is said by Monseignernt do Segar, and a regular French dinner, with itU multiplied dishes and different qualities of wines, is served to us. Towards the end French and English~ toasts are exchanbged. The first toast is to our loly Father, Pope Pins 1 It is given by Mgr. de Segur. It is receire with "Vive Pie IX!" Second toast, to tIe American Clergy-" Vive l'Americlque!" Thid toast, " d nosee pelerins rd'A rigue !"-TO o'e American Pilgrims! The French repeat tei " Vive l'Amerique !" and the Americans repl by" Vive la Francel" After dinner a rogua concert, by amateurs of the club, after which we retire, at 9) o'clock, to make preparstiot for our departure next day for Lourdes. Remaining only four days in Paris, your CO' respondent has had very little time to visit the different monuments and churches of the city but he has seen enough to convince him of ons fact. It is this, that whatever may be said against the French-their infidelity, theiriO difference and other imperfeootions--these re proaches should not make us lose sight of tbe many good works that are performed here sat the great number of good and fervent Cath> lies still to be found in Paris. - Our party were delighted with the receP7t i The pilgrims will ever hold in faithot mer-brance the hospitality of the Parisinss Yours, g.D