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Tas CATHEDE.&L.-To-day, the day of
ntecost, the Most Rev. Arolhbrtbop will
sciate pontifloally at the Cathedral. After
oigh omsi , the prelate iln give the P
Bnediction, to which is attaihed the pie
amty indulgence for those who shall comply
withthe ordinaey conditions.
QUARTEh TECsES OF SU Mrit.-y Thir
Quarter Tenses, which are always observed
h is trch.oost week, wil take place on
sWednesday, 3d, Friday, 5th, and Saturday,
"the of June next. On these days absti
_ce|is of obligation on all Catholics,and
r the young, who are of suientale age.
T 'ThA notcwt.--We are glad to be able
am aanounce thre complete success of the
agesat at St. Alphonsus Hall. Theh hall
was completely flled, ad hundreds ofl
Setr had been s soeld wihich weae not pre
-aired at the deor. The musical entertain- t
r hat proaled to be as delightful as wasi
aicipated from the character of the coin
.aositon and thie reputation of the a per
f(oriners. -f h o e
ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS.-COR
.jinstiosa.-On Thursday, 21st inst., Feastk
Snthe Ascension, tlr e Most Rev. Archbishop
tlufirmed two hundred and thirty-one per
as . at the Church of the Trinity, Third
District. On lost Snnday, 24th, the Most
R1ev. Archbishop confirmed, at thu Church
s.the Iuaculate Conception, twoh undred re
ipient . Theventy-nione personse of very
aifste y ie great number of adults.
ST. 'PATIIICK'S.-Jihe Month of Mary hav
ig been observed with great devotion in
this church, the terminating ceremonies
' oaght natleslly to be of corresponding in
p5essiveness; consequently, Father Flana
Shas mof thde all arrangements for closing
e month this evening iFathers amost brlliant
ad charming tribute to the Queen of An
Sher statundredill be crowned wionth all
.the nclt of lighhts, flowers, music, and the
g9mA tributes of hundreds of loving hearts.
'Th re vnriou associations which made to take
ong the remain theder, ceremthonie will assemble in tblye
dutchnlh ait half-past five in the evening,
thought service will not comuceoce until six
r'a31ock. It will devolve on the"".$it. Aloysius
Society of ounig Ladies tI crow-n the
statuey of their convertd Mother, aftrer continuallyro
ig brought r hointor. onthe duChurch withrou as
aill Ie otler appropf this a etails, Ord ter.
Uipnedbttio,, of the Blessed SacrtmnrT.
La holy zeal of this most efficient Order.
The ZetB of '"''lE3P . , :
-haiposa. . f t11 a*,, ;
-- -ad*ty ael ne awe. naly to prcUmd
study and exoesptioa inatellets. antgpded
for thq wholehU3ma5gf i04 I simple as
wellasthewise, children a el asW
it is t scence of love. The intellect is
Sneee to it only as a channel to the
hear gllence;.in the Church, its doctrines,
and practices, we ind that the beantifal
2 holds a prominent position. The beauty of
,. the physical world graces her altars with
Sflowers and precious stones and. blazing
lights; the beauty of music, half physical,
as appealingto the senses, and half spiritual,
s identifying itself so intimately with the
A soul, rolls along her aisles and ills her
a. sanctuaries with melody; -the beauty of the
spiritual word, withits love, and its high
est flights of sentiment, is recognised, pu
Srifled, and ennobled in her myriad romances
of devotio;._ God is beauty: why should
noT-Cjiitf-ilipoem t
The chief figure of this poem, aside from
the throne,-the heroine of the romance
is Mary. So far as creation is considered,
everything of grace, of beauty, of lovell
l. ness, centres upon her lpham th.-resotor
himself has selected as the Sower of our
race. Every ideal of gentleness and truth
_terminates in Mary. Every generation has
called her blessed, and not in vain, mean
ingless words only. They come to her feet
o with their tears in sorrow,-in joy, with
smiles and flowers.
The whole month of smiles and flowers,
the beautiful month of May, has been ded
icated to herby the partiality of her chil
r dren. To-day, it is closing for this-year.
I You Who hare beie negligent of her shrines
- so far, at least decorate them with the flow
ers of your hearts at the elose. You who
have only tears to'give, go to her in confi
dence. She can only smile to-day.
Mr. Duruy's Wise Women.
Some of our readers may not know, or
- remember, thata certain Mr. Duruy is min
i ister of public instruction In France, and,
as such, has recently startled the Trench
people with an extraordinary scheme for
the better edcatiagof their dughters. Mr.
Durny, in his official, capacity, has been
greatly exercised in spirit over the inferior
intelligence of the French females. Basing
his whole fabric, in fact, upon the proposi
tion that solid education is unknown among
the womeh of France, he has announced a
scheme for the education of young ladies,
which has been received with an indignant
protest throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Indeed, Mr. Pnrny appears to
have but one staunch friend in the matter,
and that is the emperomrhimself, who may,
therefore, not unreasonably be suspected of
being the august author of the scheme. So
extravagant are the follies and crudities of
the plan, that, on no other hypothesis than
that of imperial paternity, could it obtain
the serious consideration and excite the
alarm that has followed its announcement.
' UnfortunAtely for Mr. Duruy's scheme,
the Right Rev. Bishop Dupanloup, of Or
leans, in his published 'comments on it, de
nies totally the truth of the premise on
- which all is built. He says that forty years
of close attention on his part to the subject
of education, have convinced him that solid
education to an eminent degree is to be
found liberally bestowed upon the women
of France; and that officials whose business
it is to celebrate marriages or grant licenses
for them have remarked a general superi
ority of women over men in point of edu
cation.
The details of the plan are as faulty as its
excuse is'Tidse. Mr. Duruy proposes that
young ladies from fourteen to eighteen
years of age, shall no longer be instructed
by accomplished and holy nuns, acquiring
along with science, the accomplishments,
the refinement and the modesty of their
own.sex, nor yet by learned and discreet
men, chosen and approved by watchful
parents, but by the gay and firee-thinking
Sstudents of the higher institutions. Like
true children of the commune, daughters of
Sthe civil regiment, the Hotel-de-Ville is to
Sbe their rendez-vous for instruction ; they
a will attend classes at the mayor's office or
Sother apartments in the city hall. Thus,
Sbesides mere scholastic learning, they will
ihe able to pick up considerable knowledge
- of thie world as seen at police parades and
x aout recorders" courts. It is true, some
I old ladies might I14 prudish enough to
Slheiitatte tlbout thie lpropriety of all this, but
t-then Mr. Duruy kindly accords them
)f permission to go along with their daugh
i ters or send a duenna,-if they are rich
e enough. To make it all in keeping, the ex
ir hibitions are to be as public as possible, and
. in country places, the graduating exercises
, are to be held in conjuuction withl cattle fatirs.
L Then, these young ladies, afttr having
h flirted-with their philosophlic young profes
sors, studied hunma nature in the purlieus
miring+, . h. rartsi jooe, U . uo.
t qpl , l u w; leua as w,'weR They
will then be aabi`tq #k their abhaes. for
Sepaulettes sofgeneral or the srbs of a
senator. This ma bob ab)olj stroke etmin
I Jteri policyto ina~uese the citie i1ry
forcea of the empy rec awhile; a east, beat
the general impressiba azmeaq ihe male sex
will be that it will 'make the women too
much like men.
So many are the absurdities of detail
which Bishop Dupanloup has ben obliged
to expose in this system, that he has forgot
ten to note the only redeeming trait about
it-its wonderful interest in the welfare of
womankind. Mr. Duruy separates from the
i Church; he therefore represents the world.
The spirit of the world, in times pest, was
not so -eonsiderate- of woman's interests.
a Her condition, when taken under the pro
f tection of Christianity, did riot speak-well
for the magnanimity of Mr. Durny's prede
cessors. Christianity found her in degrada
tion and raised her to honor-in slaveryand
gave her equality. It found her intelligence
despised and condemned to darkness; it
oured the light of education upon her mind,
and gave her every intellectual opportunity
thamt man enjoys. But the spirit of the
world, represented by Mr. Durny, is not
satisfied. Remorse for former shortcomings
has seized-it,-and now--aneouince itself a
champion where it had been a tyrant;,.
champion, too, against the negleet of a de
voted and partial mother. Woman's edu
cation is neglected by the Church; Mr. Du
ray is the humane regenerator that shall
put Christisnity tothe blush;
Now, if Satan, the arch-enemy of Eve
and her daughters, should be determined,
as he is, to continue on his warfare against
them, it would certainly be to his interest
to deprive them of the protection of the
Church-to take them oat of the hands of
their real friend.
'the most natural wsyto do thatwould be
to assume for himsef add ,his allies a still
higher tone of friendship towards them. He
would become an angel of light-intellectual
light. He would inspire his human co-op
erators with a burning zeal in woman's be
half,a wonderful solicitude for her improve
ment, a saddening anxiety about her ne
glectedtcondition. Even supposing that he
may not have adopted that ruse in this case,
and that Mr. Durny, and other 'ultra pro
gressionists, may not be unquestionably his
instruments, still, we think that woman
might well be excused for shrisiking in dis
trust from these new apostles of woman's
rights with the exclamation, "Save me
from my friends;" "Timseo Daeaos et dose
ferestes."
This scheme is undoubtedly, however, a
development of the modern phase of per
secution-indirect coercion. Open force
has long since failed-utterly failed to ar
rest the progress of the Church. First came
violence, even to death, but the blood of
the martyrs was found to be the most prd
lific seed of the Church. Then the tactics
of irreligion, profltingby discomfiture, grew
less and less truculent,. but more and more
crafty. Death having no terror, impover
iabPient and ruin weretried.. Expatriation,
confiscation, fines, every mode of appealing
to avarice in order to enforce the attendance
of adults at the conventicles of the perse
cutors, and of children at their schools,
were essayed in a constantly increasing
scale of skill and refnement in cruelty.
In vain. Even nature -assisted faith
against this bungling adversary. Man nat
urally revolts against force, and is more and
more alienated by oppression. Persecution
has thus, at length, found that to be suc
cessful it must be hidden. It must attack
faith singly, without making nature its ally.
Hence, all these high-flown generalities of
modern days about public education, this
desperate determination in the cause of pub
lic schools among all nationalities, imperial
or republican, whether under the inspira
tion of religion or of heresy. Necessity
must force parents to abandon the fgith and
morality of their children to chance, while
the persecutor dodges the odium by bland
ly telling them to send the children where
they please.
But as faith is no coward, so it is no fool.
The Church can neither be frightened nor
deceived. This hidden persecution has
been understoo4 from the first, by those
who were on the watch, and before long its
cunning device will be universally recog
nized iand despised. The novelty of Mr. l)u
rny is but an application of the same strata
gem. new only in its higher flight of auda
city. Hlie and his set may not know, posi
tively, that they are the tools of an evil
spirit, but this they ought to know, that
neither he nor they can ever prevail against
the Church. The Evil One knows that well
enough, but in the commotions which he
stirs up bymeans of bad men, he is sure of
catching some prey, if it should only be his
own friends.
St. Jmsp' f ourth of July Ps'rtvl.
We'agala eal attton to the proposed
r up under the auspiges at S. Joseph' parish.
I As will be seem from an advertiaqeent in
our columns to-day, the chief ageney in
promoting the movement is the Ple-aie
SAssociation of that parish. The publio
spirit and businse-like action of that body
are worthy of all oommendation. TheFourth
of July, intended fok a national festival,
generally pioves to be a national curse.
1 Drunkenness, dissipation, and rowdyismn
are the usual order of the day, producing
t their unfailing crop of accidents and disas
f ters
These gentlemen think the day worthy
of honorable commemoration by the whole
s population,. and they have made their ar
rangements in such a manner as to seeure
these two.asentisls: first, that it shall be
I really a festival; and secondly, that it shall
be an orderly and "well-conducted one.
Families will' be present with a perfect
I sense of security and propriety. Ladies
and children will be as much at home as
though at a private pic-nie. It is announced
aM a Catholic demonstration and re-union,
though this means simply in regard to its
control, for no one is. excluded from the
invitation to be present because he is a
non-Catholic. It is also identified with St.
Joseph's parish only as having originated
there,while it is confidently hoped thatthou
sands will be present from other parishes.
A perusal of the list of inducements set
forth in the advertisement will satisfy any
one that there will be no disappointment in
th-matter of amusements. Independent
of all else, the game of football will be
worth the whole price of admission. It
must be remembered that this is the real
Irish game,-none of the modernized imita
tions that bear the same relation to it as
blank cartridge does to genuine buck and
ball. Those young gentlemen of this vicin
ity, who rather think they know a little
about the game, ought to be present just to
see the difference between a sham battle
and a real one.
This style of celebrating national holidays
deserves imitation. It is, indeed, an inno
vation on Puritanical tradition of long pub
lie speeches and strong private potations,
but it is a decided improvement on it.
There is something genuinely Southern
about it. It contains an element, and a de
cided one, of enjoyment. The doctrines of
sociability and amusement replace those of
" total depravity " and the sinfulness of all
lightheartedness. You are not expected to
sit up all day in an attitude of painful rigid-
ity and sweltering with heat by way ofhon
oring the occasion, but you are permitted to
honor it by enjoying yourself. We insist
that the latter plai is better adapted to
this latitude and will rapidly become prev
alent.
We may look upon it, too, as a step to
ward public games like those of ancient
Greece, which, under proper control, go so
far to maintain intellectual and physical
excellence among a population.
Our readers will remember that the whole
of the Fourth of July and a portion of the
fifth will be devoted to this festival. As the
fifth falls on Sunday, the grounds will not
be thrown open until one o'clock. At the
same hour a steamboat will leave the head
of the New Basin with visitors for the festi
val.
HEW UVIUUCATION5.
THEx MONTH. May, 1868. Baltimore: Kelly
& Piet.
We have received from the publishers,
Messrs. Kelly & Piet, booksellers and eta
tioners, No. 174 Baltimore street, Baltimore,
the May number of this splendid magazine.
It is ably edited by the Jesuit Fathers, Lon
don, and issued on the first of e ery month,
containing articles on literature, art, science,
philosophy, history, and theology, reviews
of books, original fiction, and poetry. The
high literary excellence of this periodical
should secure it an extensive circulation,
and no library table is properly flurnished
without it. Price five dollars per year.
Contents: Higher Education on the Con
tinent-Anne Severin-The Holy See and
the Russian Government-The Greek Phys
iognomists-A Visit to the Isle of Man
Eudoxiar-The Conversion of the Visiting
Justices---A Narrative of the days of Per
secution-LDorothy's Roses-Our Library
Table.
TiE MESSENGER OF THE SACRED HEART OF
JESUs; a Monthly Bulletin of the Apostle
ship of Prayer. June, 1868. Baltimore:
Johni Murphy & Co.
This monthly is exclusively devotedl to
religiouns matters, and the pious can find
in its pages that solacing material which
reconciles us to the present, and bids us
look forward to the future with renewed
hope.
Contents: The Love of Jesus Studied in
thie Sacred Heart-The llopes of the Church
--Simon Peter and Sihnon Magus-St
Agacious-The Sacred IHeart ( Poetry )
The Friends of the Heart of Jesus-The
Zouaves of Prayer-Religious Chronicle- I
General Intention.
d CrYr Coulc.-The Ftlno.a Committee
r ithiBoard~Uif li  its i rMi ani hve -
*. made a report respemtlng a discrepancy ex
SIsting betwpen the. accot.attafthe _Ta
n arer eand mnptroller. The adtion taken
Swas the appointment of experts to-lnsttiute
io a rigid examination of the books of both
ly t ese fmeaonaries. .
' The Finance Committee "of the Commhon
i Council asked for further time to- exahine
. into the scheme of Mr. Aveno, to retire
Sthe city currency.. So that b atter lies over
fi another week.
~ The commutee appointed by the upper
Board to investigate the charge made by
I Dr. Kellogg of brokerage being paid for
Spaying city taxe, reports that the charge
r- was well founded, as facts were developed
cc bringing the matter home to the Oomptrol
Sler's department.
l A eommittee ofboth Boardswaspite
* to wait on Gen.- Bl aili arequest
et that he would issue orders for4he eoflection
as of taxes due in 1861, 186, 1863, 1864 and
e 1865-suspendedby act of the Legislature.
John A. Roberts, Secretary 6f theFanoe
n Committee, has officially notifed Sheriff
e Avery to receive city money in-payment of
taxes.
a
it. ScuooL BoARD.-At a special meeting of
ad this Board, held on Wednesday night, the,
a- committee appointed to investigate the
s. charge against Mrs. Bigot, of admitting col
et ored children into the Bayou Road School,
iy reported, the concluding portion of which
in only is material, and we therefore give it,
at in substance, as follows, viz: That Mrs.
be Bigot has not violated the rules of the
It Board, and no evidence has been adduced
al to show that any children of color were ad
a- mitted into the Bayou Road School.
SCITY NOTEs.-Over half a million of city
notes were burned by .the city authorities
on Wednesday last. It would be no great.
Scalamity if incendiarism took this-form more : .
frequently.
Mr. John Breen has been appointed by
Gen. Buchanan a member of the Board of
o- Assistant Aldermen for the Eleventh Ward.
b- FIasT DIsTRIcT CoRT.-The ease of the
i1, abductors of Jacob Barker was before this
it. court on Friday. The names of the accused
m are John B. Fitzpatrick, Thomas Digby,
e- James Cunningham, and - O'Neill. Dif
of ferent charges were made against the sev
of eral prisoners-assault with intent to rob,
ill kidnapping, and assault and battery. The
to amount of Mr. Barker's complaint is, that
d- he was seized by the parties above named,
n- as he was returning from a barber's, forced
to into a cab, driven to the woods in the rear
ist of the parish of Jefferson, where he was
to threatened with hanging unless he gave an
v- order for moneys deposited in his bank. Mr.
Barker says his remonstrances had theeffect
a- of changing the purposes of his assailants,
at who were all laboring men, each having
so deposited several hundred dollars-Fitz
l patrick $1,470. The result was, that all
designs against Mr. Barker were relin
de quished, and he was permitted to retiurn
he home. The accused proved themselves to
he be men of good character, and all having
tI families. The prosecutor's was the only testi
he mony against them. Mr. Barker, in the
ad course of the trial, acknowledged that he
bi- pledged himself to secrecy; but as subse
quent attempts might be (or were) made,
he thought proper to institute the present
proceedings. All were acquitted of the
ly charge of attempt to rob, and of assault
and battery, but found guilty of. kidnap
- ping-except Digby.
TIHE LATE BISIHOP HOPKINS.-In one of
tEIe issues of the Star we alluded'to a re
, traction of an error by the late venerable Dr.
' Hopkins, Bishop of the EpiscopaL Church
in Vermont. In one of his earlier works,
ie published many years ago, Bishop Hopkins
sl had expressed his belief that the Pope was
the anti-Christ in thevulgar opinion of the
more ignorant and prejudiced Protestants;
buti hi is mature years, after study and
investigation, he r'etracted this error, and
d like many learned and distinguished divines
- at the present day, both among the Episco
palians and the dissenting sects, while he
Sdid not admit.t.i :authority or supremacy
y of the Pope, yet he recognized the Bishop
of Rome as a Christian bishop, supporting,
F however, in his opinion, errors of doctrine.
MR. MIP.L.5r',4 PrTOREI, FOURTH DISTyCf.
We are gratified to hlarn thatt the new dry
dgoods store of J. Miller, Jr., No. d Jackso,.
street, corner Tcholulpitoulau, has ,ecoCme N,
decided a success that he contemplates getting
new grist for his mill--in other words, the de
muand for his goods niecesitates the increase of
his stock. This establishment in a great con
vcnience to tihe uplr part of the city, and the
ladies show their taste, .j ulgmcnt, and gratitlude
iii bestowing on ii a liberail patronage. The
goods are ulsnsidurarel in quality, unequaled in
- Irice, anld Mr. Miller and his assistants are
most gentlemanly in their dealings.