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amIrnig Star and Catholc Messenger. "PUVIAaia YD vIa sroDAI r ooxOG. REV. A. J. RYAN, EDITOR-INH-C1EP. rEW ORLEANS. SW AT, SBPTEMZIRB T7. 1I74. OUR OCLUB RATE MS PAPERS rSENT BY NAIL TO ONE ADDRESS One Copy (one year) ...............$ 3 00 v C " .o................... 1250 I%& s. .................. oQ 50 wsatyeo ls " ................. 40 00 e rders will receive attention unlessso mpled by the cash. Agents for the Star. LOISIANA. I LatAc x, Franklin. LT . DUGOAN, Baton Rouge. J. OALLAGIIER, 232 Poetoffice at., Galveston. J. LAYIX(RCKER, Laredo O. C. BEVIn, Houston. SMSLIUPPI. USr z BenR, Natchez. '. P. Owaxs, Vicksburg. CALE DAg OF TUE WE . ay...... Sept. 27--1th Sunday after Pentecost ~ay...... 2A-St: Wenceslaus. Duke. Mtartyr. Twdy.....Sept. '9-Si t Micbael. Archangel. Weiseaday. Sept. u--St. Jerome.Confeeorand Doctor of the Church. m ay... 'ct. I-St. Remlgios, Bishop and Confr. Ila .......Oct. "-The Holy Guardian Angels. .... OO.t. 3-S3. Cosmcs and Damian. Martyrs. O'R TaVEI.IsN A(.ENT.-Mr. Thos. B. O'Con nor, our agent, is at present in Savannah, Ga. We bespeak for him the kind assistance of the friends of Catholic literature in that flourish ing city. RquIt'EM MAS.-Next Wednesday morning, at 7; o'clock, .there will be a solemn Mass of Requiem in St. Theresa's Church for the late Mary R. Cunningham, wife of Mr. Thos. A. Twomey. JESUITs' COI.LEGE.-The scholastic year of this well-known Institution begins on Thurs day, October 1st. Parents are requested to send their children at the very opening of the session, as it would otherwise entail serious disadvantages to their progress in the various branches of studies. FEAST (,O ST. MICHAxEL AT ST. MICIIAEI'S CHt'licn.-The Feast of St. Michael, which oc curs next Tuesday, will be celebrated at St. Michael's Church, Annunciation Square, Rev. T. Heslin, pastor, with great solemnity. The Forty lours' Adoration will commence at the solemn high Mass tb i,, Sunday, morning at 9.310 o'clock' At 7 o'clock Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings there will boe an instruction and devotional I xercises, and Monday and Tuesday mornings, at a o'clock, High Mass. The panegylic of St Michael will be preached Tuesday evening by the Rev. J. Moynihan, Jr. The following prize numbers of a lottery in aid of the New Orleans Female Orphan Asy lum, drawn and advertised nearly a year ago, have not yet been presented at the Asylum. Holders are requested to do so immediately, as any article not called for on or before Novem ber 1st will be disposed of for the benefit of the orphans: Articles Nos. LotsIse Painting of Plus IX .................. Ist Pekla China Tea.Set ............................. 499 C-rtar . . ........................ 319.1 mold W atch .............. ................. ..... Tq) 8Ouler Tea-Set................................. 4792 SI8TErn oF CIIKRITY, Female Orphan Asylum, Camp at. Since our last issue two of our noble citizens who were wounded in the fight at the head of Canal street on Monday, September 14th, have died, increasirg the number of deaths on the side of the people to fifteen. The names of these two heroic gentlemen are Major Wm. A. Wells and Mr. John Considine. Major Wells was a native of Port (tibson, Miss., and was in the fortieth year of his age. We understand that the grace of conversion to the one true faith was vouch1faled to him during the last sad days of his liei,. ,Mr. Considine was only twenty-eight years of age, and was a native of Killrush, County Ciare, Ireland. lie had born a resident of this city for the past ten Sease. ------- - ----------- -~ ~- ErATIr or W.. McOAGtar.--The sad news of the death of this most estimable gentleo an oc casioned great sorrow to his numerous friends In this comnunuity. le had been ill for several years with consumption, but though his death was ezpcted at almost any time, it fell with no less fdco upon his sorrowing friends. Mr. McGarry was a native of the parish of Dunsford, County Down, Ireland, and was in the thirty-sixth year of his age. lie died at 5 o'clock A. M. Thursday, Sept. 24th, after a resi denoe of twenty eight years in our midst. At the time of his death lhe was a member of Branch No. 3 of the ltbertlian Association: and Secretary of the Central Iloardnlh.I, lcaves t ao little girls, ahole orllphans now, t heir hiother having died some years ago. Mr. McGarry was a gentleman of the stl ielest probity of character, and though bol and plain spoken when occasion required, was universully resplected and loved. ELERRA.TION O1 I'ATHllER MATIIEI V' 1).T.- I The Catholic Total Abstinenco Societies of thisi olty intend having their first annual celebra- I tion on Sunday, the 11$h of October. The eelebration will consist of a general commu alon, at the Cathedral, if His Grace, the Most Rev. Archbishop is in the city, or, if he is not here, at the Church of the Immaculate Con eption, and of a parade in the evening. The sammlon will be preceded by a retreat at I the Jesuit'a Churobh, at 7:30 o'olock Wednesday, 1 Thuraday and Friday evenings, October 7th, th and bth. As an evidence of the interest which His Graoe, the Most Rev. Archbishop, takes in the Total Abstinence movement, we may state that when oclled on by the committee, he said I that daring the early part of October he would Ibe in the country, but that if he happened to I be near the line of the New Orleans and Texas speetal purpose of The Press. We publish this week an article from the London Register, on the subject of f' the Press and the Society of St. Paul." Our readers will remember that this Society is founded for the purpose of publishing Ca tholic Journals. The great natural potency of the Church consists in the economy with which her works are carried on, Her mis sions, her schools, her Universities, her charities are all conducted by Religions who have no families to support, who need but enough to sustain life, and who for the most part get nothing more. She can do more than ten times the amount of work forlhe same money that can be accomplish ed by any sect or merely human organiza tion. Celibacy is the great secret of her multiplied w6rks. When this irresistible agency is brought to bear on the Catholic Press, it also, most soon go forth in a strength and develop ment to extiqguish all opposition. Secular or Infidel Universities can never, on equal terms, stand in competition with Catholic Institutions of the same kind, in conse quence of the mere consideration of econo my. The professors of the latter are as good as those of their rivals-generally better, while their terms are incomparably less ex pensive. The snobs who do not care to learn any thing, and succeed accordingly, go to the high-priced establishments; young men of limited means, but of ambition and en ergy, frequent the arenas where even pov erty can be trained-by masters as profi cient as those of more aristocratic precincts. Results soon declare in favor of those es tablishments which attract the genuine students, and all rivals pass into insignifl cance. So it would be with primary and inter mediate schools if left to a fair competition. Our Catholic schools would soon, on ac count of their cheapness, attract all the pupils of all creeds. But the State de clares against them in the contest and makes their rivals cheaper still by paying all their expenses. The beauty of this arrangement is that the Catholic population is forced to sustain those opposition schools, expensive to the tax-payer and ill-con ducted as they are. This is precisely like the political it-tt ation of the people of this State, who are obliged by superior force to pay for the very army that ensalaves them. Now, though the schools are not on an tlqual footing in this country, newspapers are. liunt, let there be a number of papers equal in ability and merit with the same number of other papers, yet twice as cheap, and the second class will inevitably perish. Get up an order of Religious for publica tions and soon bad newspapers and bad books will be twice as dear as good ones. Then they will become insignificant in their influence. They will still exist, for malice and wickedncss will be pandered to at any expense, but the great, incautious, half-innocent public which does not buy such things on account of their being evil, but rather because they are cheap, will drop them. The Devil, who has hereto fore made literature his chief missionary and built his fortress on the Press, will then be obliged to find some other ally and some newer agency. Let us then invoke for this important warfare that great potency of the Church its celibacy. That celibacy gives it an economy of means which is absolutely ir resistible by human agencies because hu man agencies will never include celibacy. Before that economy, Protestantism itself is perishing. Protestantism is entirely based on human espect,-it is nothing if not respectable. It lives and thrives on the impression that the world smiles upon it. It cannot exist in the shadow. In this country it is far wealthier than Catholicity, but the superior economy of the Catholic ystem enables it to perform wonders with small means. Its Cathedrals are multiply ing in number and magnificence; its col leges and hospitals are filling the' land with splendid triumphs of architecture. Reside it Protestantism is beginning to look meagre and shabby. That is enough. It is pining to death in the shade. Soon every body will shun It as a rather dilapi dated and disreputable concern. Such is the f~lce of econolmy. Let us have a dubly rcheap Catholic literature. The Republican on MeMaster. An a ticle recently appeared in the I;, ,ublicrn, of this city, attacking 3Mr. Mc Master, of the N. Y. Fr-cceman e ulj nl. and whicih we coisidt r worthy of being noticedl. Not that it contains one idea or argument worth replying to, but simply Ias a remarkable specimen of puerility and in consequence. Thie Ilepublican- seems greatly annoyed t Mr. MchMaster's discovery of the Spanish- a German Porto Rico intrigue. The first and rand object in life of the liRepubllican, as of il other Radical men and organs, is to malign and vilify, to injure and persecute, the Catholic Church. Consequently, there is a fellowship, a free masonry of brother ood, between them all and Bismarck in r is anti-Catholic war. They drink his t aealth; they wish him luck, and back up a -ermany in anything that will strengthen a er impious hands. They are, therefore, I anraged at Mr. MeMasser'i disclosures, even a iugh Shee. may be the meas o saertla e war or the alternative of a disgraceful sur render. e In the confusion of the .epublican's wrath it perpetrates some of the wildest i logical incongruities. Thus, it says Mc Master "is in favor of a Spanish Monarchy," and proves it by the following quotation I from that writer : I will compromise no one by reverting to my Sources of Information at present. In a short r time (it may be some months), when King Carlos VII. will be in the Escurial, and will hold Madrid and all the Spains, for their honor d I will, perhaps, tell who my informants have e been. o The conclusive character of this proof k need not be explained, Again. The Re publican_says : Mr. MacMasters seems also to be a grand al moner of the Zouaves of his holiness, who r seems to be aiding to establish the Spanish Bourbons on the throne from which they have been expelled by their own vicious and op pressed administration. And here is the quotation from Mr. Mac Master given to prove that : r All I have done has been in private in the l St. Miehael's Association, of New York, to help in sending a little aid to the Pontifical Zonaves c who are In active service in Spain, for hospital services, under her royal highness Donna Bianca. the wife of Don Alphonso, the brother of the King, and as freely used for the unhap d py conscripts of the Madrid dictatorship as for the Carlist wounded. Sending some small supplies for hospital uses to be applied to the relief of suffering o men on both sides,-that constitutes a man a "grand almoner to the Zouaves." This is about as forcible as the other suggestion that "'His Holiness seems to be aiding to establish the Spanish Bourbons" on an un willing throne. And from what does the L'epublican, draw that conclusion ? From th that the "Pontifical Zouave," are in he service of Don Carlos. What logic Tb"Pontifical Zouaves" is the iname of a c res. The Pope has nothing to do with them But let it be remarked, in justice, that e this kind of nonsense is what passes current - everywhere as "argument" against the 1 Catholic Church. That is, error and false 9 hood ate the only basis for any such argu a ment. I But the Republican goes back to Mc ,Master : This inhabitant of the American republic seems bitterly hostile to the Republican " dic tatorship of Madrid." He also densounces the " overgrown and insdlent German empire." From all of this we infer that Mr. IMaIM:!cres is 1. A friend of imonarchy. 2. A zealous frieil of the Pontiff. t. Al ilntese hater of tle rotesta:t ul: .rs it Germualny. 1st. Because e i-s hostile tothe "dictator ship of Madrid," therefore he is a friend of Monarchy. Again, what reasoning ! By the same kind of argument a tuan is the friend of Monarchy it he sympathized with the British troops in the Sepoy rebellion or I disapproved of the frightful scourging re cently administered in a Central American State to a British Consul. Mr. MlcMastcr, perhaps, merely thinks that Carlism is better for Spain than Infidel, Free Mason misrule-a nominal republic but an actual outrage against both God and man. 2nd. " A zealons friend of the Pontiff." W ell, we hople and believe that to be true, but unless we had some more direct proof of it than thaiselected by the Rlepublican we should consider Mr. McMuaste's devotion in that line very equivocal. 3rd. Mr. McMaster is, no doubt, in tensely opposed to the persecuting pnlicy of the German rulers. But this, not be cause they are Protestants, but persecutors. T'here ate numbers of Protestant rulers whom the gentleman referred to, no doubt, respects greatly, but they ate rot special agents of the Devil, like BsIenarck and his sympathizemrs. The last grand, oveurwlhn,tming, fatal charge against MeMaster is that he is prob ably an Irishman. Thii is that irresistible avalanche of reproach and scorn with which the 1Republiclu is wont to, end a controversy and extinguish Father Ryan and other na tive born citizens of the United States. The allegation as to Mr. McMaster is just as true and forcible as all the others above given, for he is a convert from an old New England Puritan family and descended from one of the original Plymouth Rock Blue lights. Ritualism. We give place, with pleasure, ito the fil lowing extract from a letter written t, o)ie of our friends by a correslpondent in L'n dlon. It is a very vivid sketch and will probably startle a good tanuy readers who have never seen such thiings and can hardly believe that the P'nseyites or Ritualists have gone so far. Altire, lights, crucifixes, confessionals, ,r i(s for the dead, vestu'nt , s.i mnmns on tansuenbstantiatioun, veilhd isis. tle Ipeople making publicly the sign of the cross-everything but submission to the Roman Church, without which there can be nothing but a sapless branch cut off from the living tree! Are these people any nearer to the living faith than their Low Church brethren T The writer seems to think them on their way back to the Church, but when we re lect how far Dr. Pusey went on the same road and how many years he has stuck at the same point of apparent progress, we are forced to remember that Faith is purely and simply a gift of God. These people believe becausne they see; not because they 1 are taught. Their faith is not the evidence of thi!nogs oneen. They believe only what They convince themselves that the Bible teaches these things and that the Fathers of the Church taugbhtthem. And therefore they believe them, but not because the CamR.cs teaches them. If a man believes all that God has re vealed except one thing, and rejects that, he has no faith. God is either all truth, or he is not God. Unless a man believes in the " Holy Catholic Church" he has not the Faith which comes of God. The extract referred to is as follows: LONDON August 24th, 1874. I have listened with much interest to the debate in Parliament od the great Bill for Church regulation. It was found necessary to put a stop to the Ritualists. Do not be s ecandalized when I tell you that I went to one of the high churches one evening lately to witness the ceremony. If I had not known where I was, I might have supposed myself at Vespers in one of our own churches-altars, lights, flowers, crucifixes, confessionals, etc. Clergy robed as priests, a sermon full of Catholic doctrine on transubstantiation, prayers for the dead, and all but the final step back to Rome. Every one made the sign of the Cross, and I never saw a more devout and attentive congregation. There were Nuns, too, robed and veiled in black who knelt most rever ently. I could not have believed it had I not seen the whole. That the truths of Ca tholic doctrines are forcing the English away from the tenets of Protestantism is evident, and the change is alarming the Biehops so much that they have insisted on passing laws to punish the guilty ones who indulge in what Disraeli called '" A Mock Mass." The whole of this part of London seems peopled with converts, and the churches crowded with them. God Speed the good work ! Edward Sweeney. It was with great surprise as well as sorrow that our public heard on last Wednes day, of the death of Edward Sweeney, one of our most energetic and charitable citi zens. In every work of zeal for the Church or care for the orphans, he was always among the foremost. As Vice President of the St. Vincent of Paul's Home for Boys, his time and means were always at the service of the Institution. Engrossed as he was with a laborous occupation, his evenings and Sundays, iustead of being devoted to repose, were pressed into the active service of humanity and public good. Mr. Sweeney was essentially warm. hearted and full of sympathy. This dis position led him not only into works of charity but into those of public euterprise. His connection with a Liverpool line of steamers is well-known ; he was also a Director of the HIibernia Insurance Co. at the time of his death, and President of the Homestead Association. With all this he found time to be a member of three fire companies and of the IIibernian B. and M. A. Association. The daily life of our deceased friend shows how much one man can accomplish if determined to do it. It seemed impos sih'e that he should find time for all his multiplied engagements, yet he never ap peared hurried. His good will carried him through. To Mr. Sweeney's credit it must be added that, as his means increased and comforts multiplied around him, he never appeared to grow cold in his spiritual life. Wealth did not make him penurious and r. pellant as it does so many, but to the end he was as much distinguished as ever by his open-handed generosity, his affabili ty with all who approached him, and his readiness to aid every one who stood in need of assistance. (Commun tcated.J Chief Justice Taney and the N. 0. Times. STo the Editor of the Morning Star: The Tnes last Sunday, in noticing the death of Judge Curtis, says: "It wa-.while he was of the Supreme Court that the fatuous Dred Scot case came before it on an appeal from a. Circuit Court in Missouri, and it was on this appeal that Chief Justice Taney gave utterance to the sentiment that the black man has no rights which the white men are bound to respect." This atrocious perversion of a portion of the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scot case was first circulated, know ing it to be false, by the leaders of Abolitionists and Free Soilers, with Senator Seward at their head, and was the fictitious capital on which the kepublican party started, and is still re peated, although it has been proved a thousand times that Chief Justice Taney never gave utterance to this sentiment as his own opinion. On the contrary, a reference to the opinion vf the court will sbhow that he deplored and re gretted it. Iet stated it as being the public law of Elrope for over a century befire the Constitution of the United States was formed, and any unprejudiced person who will read the opinion of tihe Supreme (Court mu.t be fully satislied that he proves what be a3"s Ieyond a doubt. S-amuel Tr Itr, L. L. I)., in his memoir of the Chief Justice, sass: " The opinion of Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scot case, had hardly been read in open court before the panders of the Free Soil party circulated, by all means of communication, over every place where a voter lived, that the Chief Justice had proclaimed, as his personal opinion and not assa matterof public law, that negroes have no rights which a white man is bound to respect." " A statement so atrocious, notwithstanding the elevated position the Chief Justice had attained, as we have seen, in public estima tion, was readily believed, and is still believed, by perhaps a majority of the people of the United States, to have been really expressed by 1 the Chief Justice. Eesp.etfrlly, e . a. a e xater (Mamr bt.Jle 2hs1o. 2M A L . S The Battle of eaonterey. As last week was the anniversary of the three-days fighting at Monterey which resulted e in the s_anrrender of that stronghold to the American forces under General Taylor; the present seems a moest appropriate time in which t, to recall to our people, and especially to the r youth of our State, the brilliant deeds per a formed during that memorable siege by the " men of Louisiana." The record of the Lou isiana Volunteers may be found upon the page of American history; but it is well to trace it now and then in fresher colors, so that our brave youth may find therein an inspiration e and a guide, if the future should ever call upon y their valor and their patriotism. o When the war with Mexico began, Louisiana o sent 6000 gallant mgtt-assist General Taylor V until the regular army could be organized. SAll classes of men, leaving their families and 2 business, promptly responded to this appeal. , It appeared, however, that this call foi six , months' troops was not legal, and hence the a whole splendid brigade of Louisiana troops, under General Pereifer Smith, was sent home. But at the same time orders were issued by 9 General Taylor for the retention of such regi 1 ments or companies as might be willing to serve for one year--or the war. Under these instructions Captain A. G. Blanchard, an ex-officer of the United States Army, raised a company which was mustered into service as the Independent Phanix Com pany of Louisiana Volunteers. It was formed of men from each of the regiments of Smith's Louisiana Brigade, and was a splendid body of men. Its name was suggesLed by the peculiar ity of its springing from the ashes of the old Brigade. The officers were Captain A. G. Blanchard, who, with first Lieutenant, Wm. Tenbrink, is still living in New Orleans. Second Lieuten ants E. Nichols, W. Nichols and Sam Scott, are dead. There were eight non-commissioned 1 officers and eighty privates, of whom only one is now known to be alive, viz: Captain John Poff. Of the two Nichols (brothers) history records " that not only Judge Nichols, but old Louisiana might well be proud of such sons." The acceptance of Capthin Blanchard's Phoanix Company caused some excitement in Louisiana, and a correspondence occurred be tween Captain Blanchard and Governor John son on the subject, which was printed in the Picayune of that day and satisfied everybody. We have before us, at this moment, a faded, but most interesting copy of this paper, dated November 3d, 14G, containing these letters; the tone of which, calm, dignified and respect ful, is in great contrast with certain documents of to-day bearing official and military signa tures. It is well to read,-occasionally, these records of the past; for they serve to remind us of the changes going on in the times and men about us. Courtesy-that badge of a true knight tas become a thing of the past; for a little power, even if only upheld by bayonets, assumes in our day a tone of arrogance and contempt. The Company of Louisianians, under Cap tain Blanchard, was sent to Camargo from Matamoras, and attached to the 7th Infantry, with which command it served until after Monterey was taken. To day's chapter will, therefore, refer only to this period of their history. There is a bit of unwritten history connected with the Camargeo-t-peditiou which cannot fail to interest our readers. The boat convey ing the troops up the Rio Graude made but slow headway, owing to ptuor steam, and a strong current against her. The distance to Camargo by river was thirty miles; by laud only eight miles. Captain Blanchard consulted with the captain of the vessel to know if the with drawal of his company would facilitate the course of the boat ; and learning that it would be a very material relief, he, with his gallant Louisianians, determined to march overland to Canargo. Springing from the boat into the river,. they waded to the shore, leaving bag gage, provisions and the sick in charge of a small guard on board-and then, with bright faces and unselfish hearts, started off on their eight mile march through an enemy's country. Capturing a Mexican along their way, Captain Blanchard ordered him to lead his men to General Taylor's camp; explaining at the same time that instant death would follow any treachery on his part, while silver money would reward his fidelity to orders. Station ing an armed soldier on each side of their Mexican guide, tLe company marched on their way, and came upon General Taylor's camp from quite an unexpected quarter, thereby causing a slight commotion among the forces, until they were recognized as friends, and hailed with pleasure by the whole command. Copying extracts fiom the journal of the captain commnanding these men, we read, in reference to this movement: " August 5,th. Left Matarnoras for Canmargo on steamboat 'Exchange.' Thank God, we are going forward .nd not back: May we all prose w.orthy of our proud position." Their promtpt artival at Camargoh, sliwa ttat they were well worthy, then and always, of going forward. Another extract from the journal says: " Augusbt 12, arrived in campn at 11 A. .s Gen eral Worth visited the camp and complimnented us. Colonels Peyton and Kendal made speeches atid complimented the' men on being noble representatives of Louisiana. Men chbered much." "August 17. Incorporated into 2d Brigade, I commanded by Colonel P. F. Smith-General Worth's division. Everybody complimenting us on our peculiar position as the only Louisi- I ana troops here." Then came orders to march on Monterey; and a few evenings before starting, the sol- I dier's pen found time to write in his journal: " Moonlight-music-rain on the mountains can see the Sierra Madre in the distance." They were soon to hear a different sort of museic and listen to another, sadder rain, for on the 20th Sept. the journal reports: C "Two batteriesopened upon us yith shot ~qj ·jjjas0~1~jwjjjj1·tl j On the amraing of the SZ th -? were ordered aimss the ban Ja sth Infanter, to a.tek the 'a: mb _ frowned upon them fro the beights w.h overlooked Hlinitetr. They feeim d on the left of the 5th, looking up hill. hi position brobght them to the-font, and they adysgos with loud cheers, -receiving the' heav are poured upon them, without fSnehing-.tom charged and took the battery. Thobpe, in his history of Our Army in Mexico, nys, speakinag of the 5t5 Infantry and the Loteisan acom. pany: "They seemed to tread down the un even surface, to ly across the y-wning chasms, and crash the matted thorn beneatbthelrth t. The heavy muskets of Blanchard's men were among the first to open a way for the Ameri. oans into the heart of the Soledad." On the 22nd they were again ordered to cross the river, to assist in the attack-upon the Bishop's Palace. This they succeeded in doing, although exposed to -a most galling fire, and climbing the mountain side, they approached, in spite of the- storm of shot and shell, to within one hundred yards of the Castle, from which point they could plainly see the men in the Fort. The iron rain, at this time, was so terrible that it seems strange, while reading the re port, that a single soldier should have escaped its fury. One gallant Louisianian, kneeling in front of his commander, exclaimed: "It is getting hot here, Captain!" when at the same moment, a smothered groan was-heard, and the kneeling man fell forward. As Capt. Blanchard caught him around the breast, a gush of hot blood bathed his hands, and he knew that the man was dead. The Louisianians were then ordered to retire to the line of skirmishers, which they did, slowly, drawing out the enemy in pursuit. This was the decisive moment. As soon as the Mexicans were fairly advanced, the whole line of Americans on both sides of the hill, rose, closed to tie centre, and charged. It was a glorious charge ! Louisianians in front! 5th Infantry following with noble rivalry. Capt. Blanchard's men entered the Castle ahead of the line, tore out the sand bags from the doors and windows, and turned the guns on the flying enemy. Lieut. Ayres, of the 5th, who had left his place and got among the men of Capt. Blan. chard's command, and Lient. E. Nichols, of the Louisiana Volunteers, rushed up to the roof of the Bishop's Palace. The former turned to the right, the latter to the left; and Lient. Ayres. struck the flag at the first angle of the roof thus wresting from the gallant Louisianian an honor which should have been entirely Iris own. Gen. Worth, however, gave full credit to the Louisiana Boys, for-riding along their, line, just after the fort was captured, he raised his hat and exclaimed: "Louisianians, you have done nobly, nobly, onolLy I" One more incident connected with the siege of Monterey and the brave boysof our dear old State, and we close this hasty sketch. Hear ing that the Mexicans were advancing in force along the Saltillo plains, Major Harvey Brown, of the 2nd Regiment U. S. Artillery, was or dered to San Pedro's Mills, anarrow passabout five miles up the road, with instructions to fortify the place. In giving the order, Gen. Worth said, as reported by Major Brown him self; " Major, I send you to the Thermopylae of America. I can only give you 300 men, but I give you Capt. Blanchard's Company of Louisiana Volunteers!" Is not this a chapter worth remembering in Louisiana's history 1 Is not thisa record worth holding up as a bright example before her gallant youth t And does not this page from out her glorious past stand as a fit companion for the yet unwritten page of the 14th of Sept., 18741 Character of the Revolutionists of September, '74. From an editorial in the Trice Current, the acknowledged leading organ of the commercial classes of the South, we take the following ex tract as proving the character of the men who conceived and carried to a successful issue the grand struggle of Monday, Sept. 14th, 1874. S ' But there never was a truer axiom than that there is a point at which for bearance ceases to be a virtue; and when the masses could stand their grievances no longer, and rose in vindication of legitimate authority and good republican Government, those who had been trying to restrain the movement, joined in it with the most eagerness, and grey haired men took their stand in the ranks by the side of beardless boys in the face of Long street's gatlin guns. It is not the first time that we have heard of " robbing the cradlesand the grave." The feeling was contagious. We noted an old citizen standing on the sidewalk of Canal street as a spectator. In a few minutes after wards he had succeeded in getting a gun, and was in the ranks pressing onward to death or victory. There is not a gentleman engaged on the Price Current, close observers of commercial men as well as of everything of a commercial character as they are, who cannot testify to the remarkable unanimity with which the merchauts and tlheir employee engaged in this movement. Glancing along the ranks, cotton factors, cotton brokers, clerk s, classersandother enaployes were seen staeuding shoulder to shoulder; Western prod uce merchants, grocers, wholesale dealers and retailers, were also there in person, in full force, and well repre sented by their clerks. We do not aflrm that the movement was essentially a commercial one. On the contrary the entire community engaged in it, but as a commercial organ, the files of which, for more than half a century, present the history and progress of New Orleans commerce, the point we wash to make is that whatever others did, our merchants and, their clerks were among its mest ardent supporters. If we were taking a more general view we woald give the telegram of the Mechanics' and Dealers' Exchange Association to the President of the United Statels unanimously endorsing the action of Lient. Governor Penn, and respeet- fully asking that he be susnetained. Thus, the fire-scorched smith from his forge -and the beardless stripling from the counting-room, i spired by the noblest motives, with a sharp eye to the foe and a steady fnger on the trigger, united with men of ail ages and olasseso in tuis patriotic enterprise. Whatever may be the altimate result, no fair-minded man of any party can fail to reoognise in this move ment the highest honors of civio heroism. The illustrated catalogueno of. E. Butterick ! Co. maaaufaetarsrs of the pepsla ppuer patt5mra J ow ready, and will be mailed fhee to ma·n dees, on app~otose O tsh L. ageis . w. PqeuiW-. ~~~ .. -m0