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8 r ad CieUme.Messengm r jRTS NIT ts' m I " Just log of r.fAU , SexDAT, JULT e. W7. ates • -.a a3s Wl x i. not o yelp k_1 a , Rr v asOsf wie besm esal dr a ... .. - a. ra e ", l , r, rles t6 =ot. HePn, . Ab er.. Ther .. J. B.Bm-Ne · alam, P eer I aim "' 1It1rrtN Qsa. t rell!D BU.. debt wa re ed $219,119 during mae ferer $ee t th Rlheistrar General estimated hold - s palatiou of lreland ws .338,9. more mdse. July 2d, .seventysi pe-rson W ýAlrmed in St. Henry's Chnrch, Si~th me S ev N . J. B. Bonaertu, pastor. aIma plk Csrrt Dotaes "a new (feature of KIbT5 eport vtaei-" arriaI-aw from Galveston of sixtysix boxes clear elaw was parish of St. Mary bhas now also adopted o eItady law, 0losing oll stores. In West calle Rouge and St. John-the Baptist the law call beeS la force for ome time. dwel ges. Joe. Hooker is not one of the jealous isa Ssasys an eehanoe, " but be thinks it writ that Grant lost 100.000 men to capture Sher g7,000, and still won fame." Jour ~ raveliaL Agent, Mr. John M. Toubhe, sion detained at Canton, MIsc. a few days by risit Daring the coming week he will TI Sably canvase Jackson, Tenn. and Memphis. com bespeak for him the kind assistance of our witC and Catbolics generally. to a Swo wish to understand thoroughly oute s esa which lead to the late obhange of sent and dissolution of the Assembly io the by Presldent McMahon, would do well at t1 tead the splendid article which we copy the Cathollo World on one of the inside of to-dy's Monurmba STa. ea lhe New Orleans Catholio Total Abstlnence cha Aieletioa meets this evening at 6:30 o'clock kill - lte Meelg Star Hall. S b Thieres's Society will meet at 7:30 o'clook she t There's Hal otb Veabd's of them soeietles are specially re to be punctual in attendance. T ~ Ibervlle South, of the town of Plaque- vei sayJ: "As a sign of prosperity we no- th Iy a member of strange faoes in our do seeking employment. They day or two and soon nd occpation. ig em_ ldlers area rare thing in our oom so sow. The colored people stink cle o Sihe work and all beve plenty to do." ao hattpe a PIelaers' Benser esy that 10 more laborers can ind work and bomes t ht seetion of the State; Vermillion Parish a 10,000 mmigreot., Iberia can use 10000 1 15.000, Lafayette 10,000, and BS Martin and -f tMary 20,000. These laborers could, of course - n Led work all at once, but folly that many neded to eien only partially develop the o esourees of these parishes. Sr.VmacKr na PUL'tS PABIs.-The oannual SlbIbition of the girls' shoboul of the pariah of t Vtimeent de Paul, Third District, Rev. Father ,Pastor, will take place next ounday, 15th, to the school-ball. Rev. II, Begly, J, will1 deliver the address. We understand that the ladies of the parish e aledy commenced preparations for a bassar, to be held next January, and tly ask donations from the charitable of Leh mttioles as may be used for prises, etc. Gov. Carroll, of Maryland, was married a meth ago to Miss Thompson, two of whose Swere already married t two brothers of tOovecnor, and now his only slongle brother : engaged to bhie wif's only single sister. Shis way the Carroll boys have of gobbling Sp all the Thompson girls, or the Thompson trla ehave of gobbling up all she Carroll boys, Sboth bhave of gobbling up one another, es a p eles of matrimonial monopoly that the rest re the young folks of the State ougoht to frown " AmeIrlean produce is literally pouring into Liverpool,"'ape the London Unierse of June gth. "We have bhad a great deal of American :ea lately, but e*w all kinds of provisions ta~rose the Atlantio to appease the appe Si Js obhn Bell end well the potkets of Jo a~ hea. All the Tranastlantic steamers Swhiatk hwre been lying idle for months through west ofreight have suddenly been chartered; Sl et, the White Star Line haeebad to charter a steamer to convey these goods over the At. I" lCo. Alredy we bear that one steamer has Saboard 10,000 fIrkios of better. What eis to be the eond of all thbls merioan enterprise I" as; rd or 88. Prrla AND PAUL'.- grand *; , r iposinP g ceremony took place last onday at St Peeters Churob, Third Distriot. The an LY wee beautifolly decorated by the yoang 3841. of the Society of the Children of MaY~ry. At the 7 o'look Mase the children of the parlsh, who bad beeo under careful prepare lce for some montbhs, received tbheir First 5mntaon from their Pestor, Very Rev. Fe. gg Motnibran. - -t A 10o dolok, solemn Pontifol BHigh Mas wa elebrited by the Right Rev. D. Pellioer, ipef) d St a Antonio, who w assiLeted b ath lleeasgeas, as Demon, and Father Kelly .1, kS-bDeseeo , Father Leyden, C.Y., ct ge e M oser ftCeremonies. Rev. J. O:Footte gi , Joheb, pe aehed the panegyrlo. i )jea OGd re ea se in D was admireblj te abl'direotlon of Prof. Stutser whioeh eaitarl of the followinl geUntlemean Mleae YU. Aueooino, B J. Irey, M. OGersudae, and Messrs 5. Dieudort asod 8. Jourdan. realng, at A o'oloek, Blbshop Pellioe yve persons. Beform edmi -- be deliver e· a l~ope The NoW P.agulres. and Sb theeb n gthought Justice has been appeased by the hang-re al log of somethlite like a dosen of unfortu- down nates in Peao°aylvaoia. Justice is in fact foot o not oWly trpeased but quite elated and oot ace self copl'aeont over the affair. Justice, knew E howevSer is not in the camp of the Mollie the Hes or ahe might be still looking around Ifthe anxiously for a little more expiation. b cons There is a fable of a lion to whom a paint Sitag was shown. It represented some men killing some lions. " Very well I" said his , majesty of the forest, "a man painted it. or If lions could paint, you would see a dif- favor ferent picture." If the miners could signd hold courts there would probably be a few eorge more men hanged. I ns We are not excusing murderers. The pod th men who were bung are said to bave been age 1 almost totally devoid of education both t075.0 of secular and religions, yet they most have knownhat assassination was a crime. The are De ar law of nature prohibits murder. Sti| tliere in t was a kind of fanaticism about their mode bot a of operation. It seems to have been a rule who in the association that no one ahou!d be themae wt called on to kill a man with whom he was on, thi acquainted, and we see this circumstance close 7 dwelt on as an aggravation of the ifflnce, Stch us iua splendid review of the whole question It written by Rev. Fathers McDermott and securi Sheridan and published in the Freeman's per c Journal. With all deference, the impres 17, sion made upon us by this peculiar pro- guara by vision had been different. ill The members were supposed to form a Ti h community to themselves, a sort of nation leave or within a nation. They were organized in- cli to all the functions of government. If an 1y outsider we'e condemned to death, his awers of sentence was supposed to be just, barring nece in the slight defect ofbis nobhaving been heard .l at the trial. Thenation-that is the Mollie cheaF d Maguire nation, something like the Choc- tiot taws or the Modocs-bad to appoint an ex- dt ecutioner, but this executio r most dia nos charge his duty eonsoientiooa?. He must goes ck kill the condemned simply and purely as the I a public official. There must be no from ok shadow of personal feeling in the act, New otherwise it would become criminal. If than the executioner knew the victim he might twio be actuated by motives of hatred or re- is I qua venge; if be did not knew him, it was clear eligi no- that he was acting merely from a sense of savi oar duty to his organization. mat they It seems to us that there might be men T tion. ignorant enough and fanatical enough to be m- almost convince themselves that this kind to t of society had some sort of claim to their St. allegiance, and that they had a rigbt-at ma that least a moral right-to separate from the che omes the larger society called the Nation and cu rish set up one where they would have a better me 0 chiance for justice. lit nand Of course, if this was their idea, they res wae were wrong-bitterly wrong,-but did not by p the somebody embitter them T Had tLe great bu world treated them rightly 1 Were they cot regarded as men, or as cattle, by the influ- to mannal ential classes that wielded government in ro rih of their own interest? Was society to them dather as a mother, or were they out catse, Par- be egly, iahs, condemned along with their wives wl and children to perpetual slavery 1 In the th parish mines, more than anywhere else, capital co for a enslaves labor. It ties its serfs with all y, and the bonds of physical incapacity, mental al ble of darkness, and moral degradation. More ge sto. atrictly than by any possible legislation, at these victims of capital, these slaves of ec whose nabobism, are condemned to the rut which hers of they have learned to tread. p brother And yet these are white men. ti sister. Yes, and the Devil is not slow to remind ti bbling them of it, and to tell them that they are 'I anison grievously wronged and cheated, that their ft Ilboys, children after them will be slaves, that so- tl tr, is a ciety is a conspiracy against them, and a the rest that justice-the justice ,f law-is nothing orown but a grinning hyena when poor men are o in question. And then come along the c lg Into agents of the Devil and say: " join I of Jane our society where yon will see real jusoe irslons tice and brotherhood, where you will find ise ps. strength against tyranny, the strength of c s of Jo- union and concert. Come; here are the i teamers passwords and signs and grips. Take the through oath and pass in." rtered; What can we expect t Most of those abarter tempted in such a case, fall. At first they the At- hesitate, for nature says: Beware how you mer hs call God to witness unknown thinge; and rt l perhaps some lingernlog memory of ideas acquired in childhood, in a far off country, A grand reminds them that the Church has placed tadaldy its ban on secret societies; but the step is at. The taken. i. yong It is the first step in a darksome road, of Mryr the last step of which, as we saw the other of the day in Pennsylvania, naturally stops at prepara- the foot of the gallows. ar FSirSt So the palo-faced, overworked miners, e F they who lifted their hands and shed the blood which God liolds sacred to Himself, h e are gone, and the men, the gentlemen, edwhose grlinding greed embittered those ig r sKell, norant human hearte,-they are laughing a.H., st and feasting. There is no danger that the :Fooose, jury will finod theam gailty of anything. Very probably no vision of silent, new dnirably made graves ever rises amid their gaiety, t.tStser, with the impertinent intrusilon of reproach. following Where is thy brother I" is a question to uoo, B. which they would reply with disdain: "Is 1 essrs.a Molly Maguire my brother ?" Still, the painters have a way of platur slain- g the firmament with an open eye look ieamnt ing down through it, and people have a waT of yelis that there ise ah an eye .-- . - .. ..... - and that It never aeepe. "hatb .y'e I WAS"" thought by many (thoghb the newspaper Tadd; are making fun of the Mde)%e have looked wIo we down pitifullyon the wretehed men at the sems a foot of the gallows. It is believed that a In play peace which their over-taxed lives never goes be knew came over them as they looked into serves the Heavens and said : " Fathelr " gl oW If the rich will be just, the poor will not bompao be conspirators. and pa The R. 0. Paolflo Railroad. whom Our readers will observe the appeal in his bet favor of this road, which we to day publish, give rn signed by such business men as Mr. an unI George Jonas and others whose names will be found thereto appended. It is pro the El impoli posed to place on this market second mort- home.' gage bonds of the road to the amount of he I $675.000, which would be about $3 a piece when to every person in the city.. The public exertI are not, of course, supposed to be skilled dispos in technical--information-fe tofeM v al a t-of but we have the assurances of gentlemen fastat who have made it a busines to inform any se themselves and whole honor can be relied duty on, that these second bonds will be a first- ofit e class 7 per cent interest paying investment. is his Such bank presidents as Mr. Jonas aver exces that they will be received by our banks as eternl d security for loans as readily as any other 7 place s per cent securities of tbisState. with Not only do these gentlemen virtually made guarantee that the regular interest will be pose paid on these bonds, butthey are extremely the d cofident that the profits of the road will able n leave a large margin for stockholders. We There are various reasons for these con- lurai closions-reasons that really appear unan- rslle Saswerable. The first is that the road will eDtOj necessarily do an immense businees ; and ing the second, that it will be an exceedingly wen, ie cheap and economical road in its construc- tatil . tion. dant It will certainly tap an immense pro- that is. duoctian of cotton and wheat which now that st goeaNorthward. Why sot Because from mor as the point where our road would diverge was from the Northern road the distance toal ct, New Orleans is about 230 miles shorter lool If than to St. Louis,-while Chicago is about era 1bt twice that distance off. Heavy produce able re- is always entirely controlled by even a the ear slight difference in freight, while the A of saving on over 200 miles of road would be plo materially important. wh non This, of course, supposes the markets to see to be equally good. As to cotton there seems lad ind to have been great disappointment in the ter heir St. Louis movement. The greater the We -at market, the better it is. Every cost is the cheapened, facilities are increased, pur- ml and chasers are more numerous, handling is be ctter more skilful. Thus, at St. Louis but ti little cotton is usneed. The bulk of what ar they reaches there most go farther on, so tlai m I not by the time it reaches Cincinnati or Pitts- at reat burg by rail, the transportation alone would a' they cost n-ore than if the cotton were shipped a tr- to New Orlion a by the proposed road and radt in re-erTlped 1by boat up the Ohio. thetu As to wheat, we are assured that it can it Par- be milled here as cheaply as in St. Louis, rives while this market is undoubtedly better T a tie than that for flour. All the wheat of Texas a ipital could be calculated on with certainty over o h all a properly directed road. It is safe to say s ental also that nearly all the wool which now More goes to St. Louis would come here and that ation, an immense trade in cattle would undoubt ree of edly spring up. t which The fact is that Texas is an immensely pridactive region now. Another fact is that it is developing with such rapidity that emiud the Texas of one year is as a child beside the y are Texas of the next year. And still another their fact is that New Orleans is a better market at so- than St. Louis for everything exported on n, and a large scale from Texas. othing We used to sleep over the sleepy Texas en are of ante-war times. But if we will shake ig the off the nap and look around, we shall find " join Texas as much changed as Rip Van Win il jos- kle found his purroundings. Not only 1 find bchanged, but grown, developed. Instead 9th of of being now a vast cattle ranche, it is an ,re the immense wheat and cotton empire. Ihe the In fact it is hard to nee how a road tapping the St. Louis route can fall to pay those splendidly, merely as a carrier for the por et thoy tions of Texas referred to. But we must )w you not forget the fertile wastes of Louisiana ; and that it would waken into life and activity. Ideas And above all we niust not forget the mine untry, of affluence that it will be to its stock placed holders, when thire Pacific road gets into step is full operation and the tide of traffie from California, Japan, and China finally sets e road, towards our city over its rails. 0 other There are numbers of good citizens here, ops at with considerable amounts laid aside awaiting a favorable opportunity for in moers, vestment. We would recommend them to bed the give due consideration to this project. limself, men,- A fellow never appreciates the tender ose ig- beauty of a sister's love half so much as ughing when he makes her get out of the big rock that the Ing hobair, and let him have the morning ytig. paper, while she goes of and leans against the end of the bureau and feeds her starv , new- uing intellect on the household receipts at gaiety, the back of Jaynes's family almanac. A proach brother's love Is like pare, gold. It's dreadflly hard to afind, and when you fiand ation to it, it's apt to be pyrites. tn : "Is "Handsome is as handsome does," quoted p ictr- a Chicago man to his wife on a recent oces eloon. "TYes," rejoined the lady, in a win are loo g tone, and holding oat her hand; 'fhave or instace, a husband who is always a eye reay to bad some money to his wife. TADDY IoU3'da IlP W P - z--u m v- j I I Teddy beleags to that Glass of young men wIo wear the haton one 14. of the head, oarry anse and a watoh obhain, end se slang words in place of English senteoee. Wherever he goes be thinks himself the observed of all ob serves, and is sore of a smiling w*Ioome from SP girls whose mental capacities are on a per with his own. He calls the fathers of blehis young sool companions "governor" or "the old mas and petrouasingly drops the title of respeet be fore the names of all the gentlemen withl whom be is aqualoted. His handkerchief is Last Shise berald of introdeuction for its strong odors tation o give notice of his approach and leave behind tal Abe an unmistakable reminder of his presence. Neithal He is all smiles and bows and courtesies to city, do the girls whom be visits, but is rather grum, in the impolite, and disobliging to "the old folks at T. J. 1 f home." great h He is able to rise at the very peep of day mixed c when a pleasure party is in prospect, and will total o exert himself all night in danoiog polkas or tempers l disposing of suppers ; but is generally Inoaps- Father oft-beingp- iftime for a res fast and is physically incapacitated from doiogI any service that may come under the head of at the P I duty or humanity. Union The glossiness of his shirt front and the cut would of hbssboes are interests of great moment to might his soul; and the style and quality of his coat and gri exceeds in importance all matters temporal or telligel eternal. He is never in a hurry to be at his me place of business, although he is only a clerk to my with a small salary; but if there is a claim tor, or y made upon him to wait for a letter or to dis- world! pose cf a bundle, bhi time is too preelous for weal o y the delay, and the requirement is too unseason- bed. of II able to be attended to. MydI Well, Taddy determined to run up the river indirT last Wednesday with the pleasant party of ex- evil o cursiooilte who had chartered the steamer La world Belle for the occasion, with a double view of displa enjoying the pleasures of a trip and of benefit- o p d ing agood and noble object. Taddy, however, fine 1y went for the sole purpose of seeing the girls, sweril ic- eating the dinner, and "ringing in" a round onse i dance or two. Is was pretty well understood do me, .o- that round dances would be prohibited, and wear ow that the girls were to be, as much as possible, m more useful than ornamental; but the dinner To el g was a solid fact and a substantial privilege or an to which could not be infringed upon by any reg- read, tr ulations past or present. Tsaddywas a nice no ter looking fellow, tall and well built, his should- weal ner were somewhat padded, but his oalves were piec nce able to earry the extra weight, and altogether fan a the physile was a fair one. Ioan the Arrived upon the boat Taddy began to ex- bear I be plore the company to see who were Saidu and and who were not. His investigation finished, be into a to secured the partnership of the fastest young lang ems lady on the boat, this peoliarity being de- leot the termined by her willingness to dance the la the Boston, promenade on the lower deck, and boli wear her hat over her nose lug, at is Thus matched, Taddy and his fair one com- of i por- menced the geographical survey of the whole prs g is boat, and ignoring mother, sisters, and rela- age but tives, spent their time in exclusive twaddle SOCI what and mutual silly compliments. Just in the stre tat midst of their languishing discourse the band holl 'itts- strock up a lively waltz whose exhilirating am, 'ould notes were intended to cheer the excursionists acd and enliven thesceno. Teddy, however, dis- law d covered in them a wonderful coincidence with not a is own le.ires, and lost no time in displaying ait his agility as a dancer and his partner's facil- ,,,a t can ityas a recumbent statue. hat onies, It was no little mortification to the two )tter Terpeichoreans to find themselves suddenly me Cexas arrested in their waving motions by the hand thi over of the presiding priest who caused them to de- are o say sist from this violation of his rule and to be now heartily ashamed of their conduct. an d that This grievance was a terrible one to Teddy, an !onbt- and the pose of indignation, surprise, and in- hi effable contempt which he assumed, would Id have been a study for Apelles himself. t ansely The shouts cf merriment which greeted be ac Tes Tddy's discomfiture, added fuel to the flame di y that of his indignation and his replies to the watch- he de the fol pastor were not oharacterised by low enun- dr tother cistion or conciliatory expressions. ti tarket But the climax of misfortune was reaohed so ted on when dinnes being served, he failed to be at among the first comers, and finally was obliged bh Texas to appease hist appetite with a piece of cold a shake ham and a glass of water !ti ll fd ow under the ciroumstances, what could be at Taddy's report of his Fourth of July excursion, m only except that it was the snidiest affair that ever 01 he had been In duringhis wholelife-of seven- g teen summers? T Poor Teddy! we saw him a he t is an few hours after his trip, unconscious of the 1 Coast scenery, unenthusiastio of the pleasant a a road day and delicious night, indifferent to the ti to pay supposed results of the exoursion; but fairly K be por- scintillating with sparks of indignation at the d a must want of consideration to himself, at the h nisiana stupidity of the crowd, the meagerness of the rtivity. dinner and the deprivation of his loved round p emine danoes. Terrible grievances for a youth of v stk eventeen I How could any one be so heartlese stoc-as to expect a person like him to spend a whole ta into day without a dinner and a dance. O blind . from nes of the committee-men to ovhrlook so dis ly sets tinguished a youth I O tyranny of the Father who prohibited so necessary an enjoyment a a here, How can excursions thrive when in spite of aeide pretty scenery, good musio, intelligent com- i for in- pany, and excellent fare, round dances are the them to only thing desired and the only thing refuosed! I at. And although Taddy enjoys on an average lre daneing evenings in a week, was it not Sshort-sighted and terribly exacting to require eh a dispensation from them on one day in the igrock- year Now if Mr. Blank and Miss So and So norning deolare that the trip to Donaldsonville was a against great suooees, a delightful excursion, and a s tarr- very pleasant remioniscence, still no one will I ipat refuse a mite of sympathy to poor Teddy . It's Tucker, or deoline to oredit his assertion; the a wo find whole affair was nothing but a said. The following conversation took place r- 1 quoted entlvina hotel: s occa- 5Yes, sir." "awin- What's thi!" a hand ; It's bean soup, sir." always "No matter what it has been, the question a iht - i-whet is it nowf" t 3~-------;~,iLta'~~;, ' ~ ;~~r~,a;·- *t~~bPa"Sft TOTAL ABSTINENI SE Su that- th A 33W UmT 103p &a KODBUN NYUL.. ea S w a o a r Splendid Address by Father lelthr t.o and 4 spouesil epalk N eithart, ReAtor of the Redemptorie this erh city, delivered an address on Total Abstinence ofma SIn the church of St. John the Baptist, Rev. glasi ST. J. Kenny, Pastor.- Notwithstanding the great heat, the church' was well filled with a he oi I mixed congregation of ladies and gentlemen, line li total abstainers, anti-total abstainers, and stage r temperance men, Catholies and non-Catholic. Adam Father Neithart said in substance: 1o1.1. g I. 0r. . to. bealt f I appear before you, dearly beloved in Christ I of at the urgent request of the Total Abstinence and Union of Louisiana, a body of men whom I and it would be disposed to oblige even when I proce o might feel tempted to disoblige my nearest cover land dearest kindred. I feel indeed flattered the and gratified at my large, attentive, and in- thisa or telligent audience; at the same time I feel been s somewhat awed and alarmed, lest I may not othae be able to do justice eitber to my audience or later rk to my subject. I regret that I am not an ora- into m tor, or a poet, or a saint; I cannot treat you to but I is- worldly wisdom or floweryeloqueuce, but I am came now here, and you must take me as I am, for Refo weal or woe, for success or failure, for good, were n- bad, or Indifferent success. - ata My subject is one which concerns, directly or from 'er indirectly, every man, woman, and child, for Henm MINTEPRACE is the prevailing and crying ence Sevil of ourn age and country, yea of the whole nece Ls world. However, as this peculiar field fo the inge of display of zseal and eloquence has been entered of n unon and trodden down by an infinite number factr fo- o preaohers, leoturers, and writers, I will con- dare r, fine myself this evening to proposing and an- the rls, sweriog a few opular questions and objections pair concerning Temperance and Temperance Soci- gre id ies. As ourdivine Saviouronce asked: "WAt a d 30d do men say of me t?" so I will also ask : oth nd weT DO mtE OGEIURALLY THIlK AiND SAY WHJ ble, ABOUT INT3MPZRacn i nr To listen to some Christian and civilized peo- A pie talking about drunkenness, a simplechild d or an untutored savage. who had never heard, po reg- read, or known of this abominable crime of J Mon i against God and nature, would most assuredly bef d- fncy it was but a trifling fault, a pardonable fa weakness. or rather. an innoenot pastime, ha c rete piece of droller , an exhibition of harmless hat thorfun and frolic. Io this false light drunaeonneses Thi is presented in scores of humorous journals, stal and in hundreds of conversations which yen oare e- bear every day on street corners, in club rooms and and even in family ircles. ist he Most people cannot relate or hear of uases of intoxication without actually shaking with Ch ng laughter: 'tis a rel comedy to them. Even ant do- lecturers and preachers so farforgetthemselves the the as to make whole congregations roar with cat and ughter at their droll descriptions of the die- vie and olial pranks of a wretoh reeling and stagger- co ing, crawling and bawling under the influence, ith om- of liquor. The sad result is that this supposed ole pastime and frolic has grown to be a favorite p practice among thousands and millions of all n rela- ages, sexes, conditions, and stages of modern Dc addle society. To-day you find drunkards in every the city, town, and hamlet, in every society and of street, and almost in every houe nd house- it and hold. You meet them in all classes of society: a ating among farmers and feldhands, laborers and es s mechnie, merchants and artisans, professors on and scholars, officers and soldiers, judges and die- lawyero , senators and governors, lords and cI with nobles,ptresidents and cabinet ministers, kings R yingad emperors, men. woden, and children, the w wide world over. In fact, one-fourth of ho- di facil- ,,anity appear to be drunkards already, either c bhbimnal or occasional. I the evil spreds on- i e two checked in the next generation as It does In w the present, I fear that every second man you ae denl meet will be a confirmed, irredeemable sot, . hand that the human race will be a breed of drunk- t toed- sard and demons in human shape, and the p whole earth a veritable pandemonium of helL s, to But what is drunkenness in the light of faith and reason t What do God and man, Heaven Caddy, and earth, the Catholic Church and sound e t sense, the moral and the revealed law, the g ed in- history of ages, and the experience of every n would day, teach and testify on the subject? To state and sum it briefly: Drunkenness is not c reted a light, venial, ordinary sin ; it is a grievous, e heinous, horrible, abominable, unloutterable, flame diabolical crime. It is not one sin only, but a watch- hundred and a tousand sins; for the confirmed nru drunkard violates and otrages every law of onn God, every precept of the Church, every obli tion of nature, of conscience, of family, and of 1 eahed society. He sins against God, against man, t to be and against himself. He is a shame and scandal to the Church and society ; a thief, a bliged brute, and a murderer to his family and friends; of cold a fiend and satan to his body ond soal, his health and wealth, his character and repuot tion. No other sin gives more scandal, ooca oid be stone more misery, ruins more families, causes arsion, more crimes, damns more immortal souls. Sever Hence I believe and assert that the invention of intoxicating liquors was a master stroke of seven- Satan, and the greatest triumph and glory of him a ell. For further particulars concerning the of the sin and evil effects of lutemperenoe I refer you to the cursing, reeking, rotting victims them lasant selves. You will find them everywhere: in to the the coffee house, in street gutters, on picnic grounds, in hoepitals, in jails, in pelntentia t ries, in felons' cells, in nntimely graves, in the St the dungeons oef hell, and on the gallows with the at the halter dangling from their necks. If thesight e fails to disgust and terrify the drunkard God's almighty power alone will suffoe to ire Irond pree and convert him. outh of WHIT DO MIN BAY ABOUT SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS? ertles Their views re varios, a o nd often errone hole ousat. It was but a frew days ago that I heard Sblind- the following remark from the laps of a devout Christian, a werll readed man, and something of a so die phbilosopher, but sadly deficient in experience, Father commor sense, ad in the crookled ways and ont views of the witked world: "oWines and other liquaorse---id this woould-be philopher spite of -are genuineproducts of nature, and there ft om- fore truly gifts of God. They are good I re the in themelves, and were intended by the Creator for man's use and comfort. efsed? Henoe 'ls unnatural, ungrateful, and in average jurtone to nature's Gad for man to nondemn Sit not d roh bit the use of God'sa own gifts." This ulleio view of the origin ne object of require fiqunor is certainly origimal and ingenious; y in te only it falls to accord with truth, facts, and and g common sense. I might say with equal right: Arsenic, hemlock, henbane, ratsbaue, and Ic wa a other poisonous metals, shrubs, and juioes, are and also produtes of nature and gifts of God; one ill therefore eat them, drink them, uee them as much as you list: it were oruef to forbid or Taddy prevent you. What me vipers, mocoasins, Ion;the rttleosnkes, and other venomous serpents hut creatures of God? Therefore catch them, hug them, play with them to your heart's content; they too were intended for your oomfort and mlace r- benefit. Gunpowder, fire-arms, moskets, re volvers, dirks, daggers, and bowie-kuniv, be long likewise to the natural order of thlng - therefore take them, shoot stab, wound and I5urdsr with them: you sre only usin a right which God gave yen. Tbsre iesas much truth uetcand ioergie Ithe ea rose - I the other. Yet ~Ui~br ~ii~~I9 Id em to S tsio the o th r ot t h tI ta he o n di r et a 'ea. Thor wheat e pe e o ti f.rt.a be noet, ond a bte the .LheL tAraed byha r an hisstlled ana t ensly wa ·* and aessofe, dwe oar whisaky, n d i u spo nd ito or t ah obthrceage 5 If he oare pl md eitted tud y 1tas a e an t: o oie br impos sIbrl wyter, w s thT * 'it ao diinU6ohh at t to dowr w e for the simple res th hat f py. not tho eIest. Giod did indeed so mt: - o- oawS a t4 fesks of anote anrd she sedw : plants of the earth; y tese lewd tN e produoes Yines, . rpes7 y Oe , ic aned Mth Spintsar d fruite. int i orn that od or . bl earth, or that eany plenk prigns oehr iver, h Searowhere or at any time witane teb atemrq of mankind, furnished any man with a aigle gi asof ale, wine, beer, whisky,. brandy, eog e r hsad The oanr difret owealor o the only immediate producto erth , line is nge, naturol water, the heal d rage that ever existed e nd the Dul ewns s"bAdam evert drank in or out of In point of fiaot, the human a i e were. a . otl jbere drlong nearly 2000 yea s; and ye . healthy, and grew to bl e ine hupadre yoese - of age, wbr.hiles onr iwhlskydirtkllgeo tor! St covered by Noe only after the Deluge, when , the world bad existed over 100 years; nd n- this some Noe enjoys the privilege of alvi al been thesret drnlard on reeord.e Beer b-o nf other malt liquors were invented at a ruth or later.period, long after the world had lapsed 'a- into complete idolatry and adored no mate to hot Sat n. Whisky and other distiled liqurs m came into existence only after t wed ,or Reformation of the sixteenth , and d, were evidently the work and gi of is hi atenic Mea jestory, of we may edge the eases or from the effeots and the tree by the pastr s. For Hence these damn oble drinws owe their exist. ng once, not to the will of the Creator nor to the Snecessities of Is creatures, bat to the onel e ingenuity of Satan nd the deprved appetit O4 of man. They are clearly the worka mann a factre of men, and thebs li, deceiver and mn. 0n- derer from the beginning. Satan it, th erefore n- the real inventor of whisky and the beloved oun patron of whisky drinkers. No doubt you will 0i- agree that the father eand bis clad, the patron i and his custor ers are well worthy of each other. o le WHAT DO Mur SAYp of TOTALt AnUSTSe NM sociaTInsi eo- A fewT approve them, and a great many con rld dem them. omeof the latter base their op d, position on the following objet ion : "The idea Cme of Teetotalism isa newr-fagled one, unknown Sbefore this cesntury, and not much renished at bb favored outride of Engleand, Ireland, A stralia, o Canada and the UnIted States. Who ever less heard of it before lather Mathnw's tims a es This charge ois false Mankind we re Total Ab. - eIa, staoiners duoing up urdsof 2000 years after the yea creation. Total abstinence wee prioll by o Samson, Samd uoel, Jeremis, St. John th ap Stiets, St. James the Lesser, and by oanlswi osaints, hermits and penitents in all ages ofte writh Cnhurch and of the world. Moreovert, temper von anne is and has ever been a eardinal virtue in les the Church, as yon may red in any Cavetholic writh ocatechism or prayer-book ; and the samdesgodi diar vinte is taught in every Catholic pulpi d get- confessional, fino the rising to the selttng of once. the sun,noconlre y ioeeseercthurohoZe oSted. eed If individnsl pat and s onfessors fal toI or teate practice and nculcate this virte, they iply f all neglect their sbo deondaty and give dreat dern scaddal. - very It is indeed true that organized esaoarldites and ofi Total Abstaners are of modern date; bet no80 it muost be remembered thast the t.trodueds iety: and intemperate use of spirituous liqois are and essentially modern evils, entirely nkanown oma sors our temperate and abstemios ancestors. They Sand are one of the sad triumphs of modern mis- -I and called progress, reformation and olvilisartio. ringe Read the works of the early and medimWal , Itthe writers, historians, missionariMes, i saints a Sho- dooctors of the Church.o We still poeses their ither commentaries, homilies and sermons, begla 1eon- ning with St. Paul the Apostle and endng )es In with St. Alphonsoe. They inveigh repentedly you and vigorously against all the prevailing via set, of the times; but drannkensou is rarely ever rook- touched, a proof positive that it did not thea d the prevail. During those much absed dark ages, hell. soscalled, we may find plenty of ignornee, faith rudeness, barbarity, cruelty and nogleo t of eaven practical religion, but we soarelry find a trues sound of drunkenness, unless as an exception to the r, ahn general rule. For one drunkard tes I can every show you ten thousand snow. STo Agaein, you may read the Bible from aover to is not cover; you will ind therein incessant attack evon upon every species of. crime, but only an led ble, dental warning against wine, and none at a against beer or whisky. Among God's ob sen arned oeople you will find scores of liars thieve, aw of athers, adulterers tpd murdererh but not obl- single habitual drunkard. Even as late as the last century intemperance seems to have been mao, but little known, at least In Catholic and end southern conties. I have a strkingroof of ief, a this noteworthy feet in the sermons of St. Al eds; honeus. This fervent missionary end ardent , his lover of souls preacMhed sermons on all his mis shlta blone upon the four prinipal roads or gates 000- that lead to hell; namely, upon Sasil, De causes phmny. ajotios and lAmp'tt3. souls. 10 ut would appear that IstdmperaeMew asonot entie then, as it is now, a principal Itethat Ised roe of millions of immortal souls to hell. There is lory of not the shadow of a doubt that, had theseint lig the lived in our besotted age, be would have eon rer you sidered drunkenness the first, the broedst, the them- safest and the most crowded avenue to eterna re: in perdition ; and, whereas he never prsohed picnic sermon against Intemperance to an andis-s tentia. of the 18th century, he would sarcely har Sin the preferred any other subject in the eongr-$l ith the tions and on the missions of the 12th setury esight All these facts prove beyond a doubt that, as unkard drunkenness is a comparatively new and reent to i evil in the world, new and ex-raerdinua - medice, like Total Abstionence ocietie have aons? become an absolute neoessity. errone- WHAT DO MEN SAY OP TBIC ~uPgPJCIfl Sheard wMEMBERS gof a Some of their views are both ridiuloeus nd arienne, slanderous, I myself heve heard it remarkd eyeand time and again by well-wishers and elunors e and friends of temperance that the reetraint, of Mopher membership are useful and noec? for0 S I there- claimed tipplers and for wMckwillefs M who rs good unable to moderate themselves in the prom50 by the d useof slrong drinks but that for Usi •omfort. men, strong-willed heroes and sElf.dO" 1.:_ and in- sainte, lie thsealwre, such reetrains ar nss ondemn sessary, inconvonient and huomtltatlug.5 e1"; .' This my brethren, this is a mtieleun idea, a ge5d Ject of lesprejudioe, an Infamous slUr andalss oanionsu upon the noblest broefherhord of oar ega- ata, ant/ it Implie nothing lees than that all themeS: Iright: bhre are but a oraven band of oousttLutn0is e, nod dastards end reformed drunkards. If tho es, are pharisai reviler of these noble heroeso _ f God; truly as temperate and m6rtied as they P$e them as tend to be--which I doubt-then I would er ,rbld or ouss them with our dying Slviosr on the C_" cOailus, "Father, forgive them, for they bkne nt mntab ut what they say.' In spite of their uprghtg - em, hug tetions, they are among the worst bt ountont; temperance. Uuousciotisly they meoms the lort and tons aid form of the devil, ennd eisolsualth e eots, re- do the devil's work. To enlighten them an- vre, be- all, I will state that Total Abtinoeaeo ASoG thingls" lions me manifold In their obt, Oe S mnd andnd oompcsition. Acotlng on the- t.ed. a_ right eiele that "In unton there bi str_._u~_' oh truth Total AbstaiM nvo haveu ltsemd. .-_ er. Yet eilveatiegr ssIethefeIkew:ZtD