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Merning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. BUNAY, JANUARY 11, 1874.
DOWN INTO THE DUST.
JOAQUIN MILLER.
Is it worth while that we jostle a brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life I
Is it worth while that we jeer at each other
In blackness of heart i-that we war to the knife ?
God pity as all in our pitiful strife.
God pity us all as we jostle each other ;
God pardon us all for the triumphs we feel
When a fellow pea down'neath his load on the heather,
Pierced to the heart: words are keener than steel,
And mightier far for wee or for weal.
Were it not well, in this brief little journey
On over the isthmus, down into the tide,
We give him a sh instead of a serpent,
Ere folding the hands to be and abide
Forever and aye In dust at his side I
Look at the roses saluting each other;
Look at the herds, all at peace on the plain
'Ian, and man only, makes war on his brother,
And laughs in his heart at his peril and pain ;
Shamed by the beasts that go down on the plain.
Is it worth while that we battle to humble
Some poor fellow soldier down into the dust?
G;od pity us alll Time eft soon will tumble
All of us together like leaves in a gust,
IIumbled indeed down into the dust.
Christmas and New Year at Spring Hill College.
Editor Morning Star:
As many of the readers of the STAR would
:ike to know the occasions for spending a
happy Christmas at Spring Hill College, per
mit a space in your next issue to assure them
that on Christmas and New Year days, just
past, the students of this college enjoyed
themselves to their fullest satisfaction.
Thirty Masses were said on Christmas day.
All the Catholic students received holy com
mrunion from the hands of the Father Presi
dent, at the 8 o'clock Mass. The last Mass was
a High Mass snng in the happy voice of Father
Bandequin, Vice President. At this Mass the
choir, lead by Professor Fred. Stutzer, filled
the church with melody most harmonious and
and charming. Noticeable in the choir was
the sweet, thrilling, soft voice of Master A.
Dejan, a student. Master Dejan is a native of
New Orleans, and although only about eleven
years of age, is a gifted songster and adds
much to the variety of the music.
At this Mass an eloquent sermon was deliv
ered by Father De Carrie, S. J. The college
Fathers spared no labor to make the past
Christmas and New Year memorable in the
recollections of the students, and to make
them perfectly happy in the enjoyment of rec
reation the most delightful. It is not safe to
say, however, that in the enjoyment of so
much pleasure, the least of those intelligent
students of Spring Hill College missed the
smiles and home joys of paternal affection.
. Long life to the good and learned Fathers of
Spring Hill College, and may God spare them
for the nobleworkof turning out good and
worthy men for "the battle of life." R.
Splring Hill, January 5, 1874.
Mass Meeting of Catholics in Savannah.
THE CATHEDRAL PROJECT.
A mass meeting of the Catholic people was
held at the Cathedral last evening to hear an
address from the Right Rev. Bishop Gross.
The building was densely crowded, and even
the aisles were filled. The object of the ad
dress was to enforce upon the people the
necessity and importance of paying up the
subscriptions to the Cathedral fund. The
bishop made a very pleasant address, embrac
ing several interesting anecdotes concerning
grumblers, and cynics, and impressed most
forcibly upon his hearers the importance of
being prompt in their payments. That it was
their duty and should be their pleasure to con
tribute as liberally as possible to the erection
of this magnlficeo, Cathedral. That he was
anxious the work should progress rapidly, but
this could only be accomplished by money. He
proposed several schemes which had been
found practicable elsewhere, and urged
Sthat one, the payment of 20 per cent of their
subeeriptions promptly when called upon, and
to set aside every month a certain sum for
this purpose. In conclusion, the Bishop an
nounoed that e had divided the city into dis
tricts, and appointed ellectors for uch
district, and he hoped that every one would
make it a point to have their contributions
ready when the collector called.--:'ea, Jan. 5
NG TlhCALLAINT.-" Mr. Jones," said Miss Blue
:5ell the other day," I've been appointed one
d the directors of our new schools. Can yeo
all me is there any feminine form of the word
erector in Eoglish ' "TYes, miss, I should
tiuk mis-director." The lady was thoughtful
= From Our Own Correspondent.]
OUR IRISH LRTR8.
DuBIN, December I8, 1873.
The last meeting of the Home Government n
Association was held in this city on Tuesday a
night. There was a large attendance on this a
interesting occasion, and the chief speakers S
included Mr. Butt, Mr. A. M. Sullivan, Profes- a
sor Galbraith. A report of its work for the o
last three years and five months-the time it
was in existence-was read, and the suocess
achieved by it was alluded to in deservedly c
eulogistic terms. In the middle of the year b
1870 it started-a small body of gentlemen n
disgusted with the government of Ireland ;
before it died it had reached the proportions a
almost of a national organization, and during a
its existence it influenced and decided in t
favor of its own aims the course of every elec- a
tion to Parliament that took place in this I
country. Its influence has also been felt in
electoral contests in England and Scotland,
and it has made the words Home Role as fa
miliar in London as they are in Dublin. On I
Tuesday night it adjourned sine die, and handed 1
over its papers, books, and documents to its i
successors, the Home Rule League. I may
just mention here that The O'Conor Don, M. P.,
who spoke so unsatisfactorily on Home Rule
at the-great Conference, was thoevery first man
to join the new league.
I spoke in a recent letter, I think, of a pro
fessional appointment in Galway Queen's Col
lege-that of a Dr. Pye to the chair of Materia
Medica; and while pointing oat that it was
the first instance in which an Irishman and a
Catholic got such a situation, I suggested that
probably Dr. Pye was not quite orthodox in
his political or religious opinions. This week
I have a strong justification for putting for
ward this suggestion. A banquet was given
to Dr. Pye by the students of the college to
celebrate his appointment, and at this banquet,
of course, Dr. Pye spoke in reply to the toast
of. his health. The greater part of what
he said concerns me not-only passages in
his speech do, and they are briefly stated.
First, Dr. Pye quoted with approval the
sayings of the German poet Leasing-that if
the choice were offered him on the one hand
of the absolute possession of all knowledge ;
and, on the other, of the ever-restless desire
for knowledge though joined to the condition
of for ever and ever erring in the pursuit
still unhesitatingly he would select the latter.
Secondly, he declared as the settled conviction
of his life that the state of individualism, of
independence, of the courage to think for
oneself, is the highest function of man, the
most complete development of his intellect.
I should say that with regard to this second
matter, the teaching of the Catholic church is
the direct reverse of Dr. Pye's " settled con
viction." The conolusion is inevitable, I
think, that Dr. Pye's Catholicism has been
seriously " inroaded," if I may say so, by his
Queen's College experience-and that is pre
cisely the result which the enemies of those
infidel institutions have always predicted.
Here is a story calculated to tickle the fancy
of all Irishmen who have heard of Judge
Keogh. On Monday night last, or rather on
Tuesday morning between one A. M. and two
A. M., the Judge's son-William Keogh, Barris
ter, was arrested near Trinity College by the
police on a charge of having been drank and
disorderly, using profane language, and at
tempting to assault two policemen. It was
farther charged against him that he wanted at
that unseasonable hour an " unfortunate " who
happened at the time to be detained in the
f neighboring police-station on a charge of
9 drunkonness, to be brought to him. In the
police court to which Mr. Keogh was brought
in due course, he had no defence to make, but
t made a statement which a sense of decency
compels me to omit noticing. He was sen
1 tenced to a fine of £1 or in default of payment
r fourteen days' imprisonment. " Like Father
1 like son." By the way, a good story is told of
r this youth. There was one day a dinner-party
in his father's house, and his father-the judge
- -happened to make an observation, prefacing
it with the declaration " upon my honor.' The
Son immediately, being, like the father, " half
seas over," burst out into a loud laugh and
and said: "Isn't that rich ? The honor, indeed,
e of Billy Keogh!"
a The weather here just now is the mildest
d anybody ever remembers to have seen at this
1. time of the year.
John Mitchel on O'Connell and his Labors. r
John.Mitchel, the distinguished Irish- t
man, delivered the first of two lectures in
aid of the O'Connell Monumentassociation,
at the Mercantile Library, St. Louis, on t
Sunday night, Dec. 21. There was a good
attendance. We take the following report r
of his remarks from the IWesters Watch- d
man :
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentleman, t
citizens of St. Louis: If a great honor has f
been conferred upon me to-night in asking s
me to address you on such a subject, I t
admit that it also imposes upon me a heavy I
responsibility. The subject that has been t
assigned to me is a grand and majestic one, I
and I trust that I may raise my thought 1
to the height of that grand argument. It
almost overpowers me to think of the
grandeur of that man in his day of life
when I knew him and knew him well. I
assure you that it is not only with a feeling t
of deep responsibility, but also with a
sentiment of deep emotion on my part that a
I now speak to such an audience as I see 1
here upon the question of our great Irish a
tribune, the highest and noblest represen
tative of the Irish people in three genera- t
tions of men. It is known wejl enough ip
the course of his agitation,' and towardse
the close of his life, some of his friends,
some of his pupils, some of those who per
haps ought to have sustained him better,
myself among the number, set up our -puny
wits against him on some details of his
policy--nothing very material. We had i
the same cause, we had the same country,
we had the same mortal enemy to deal l
with. If we had any differences on matters
of detail they were family quarrels. The
outside world had nothing to do with it.
I am happy to think, it gives me pleasure
to remember now that these differences
were carried on with mutual respect. No
r word, if I remember aright, ever passed
my lips derogatory of O'Connell, and he in
his manner towards me, when I had the
t honor to meet him, was always kind, po
lite, and even affectionate, therefore I
t would come here, I, a Protestant, indeed,
and a young Irelander, to be sure. If any
one thought that I came here to cast nettles
on the grave of that good old man he
would be signally mistaken. It was a
f good thought of certain citizens of St Louis
I -a good thought, to project the building
of a grand monumental statue to preserve
and perpetuate the memory, the features
and the grand form of that noble Irishman,
u to raise it here on the western bank of the
- Mississippi in the midst of a vast communi
r. ty of his countrymen-his countrymen
n born or his countrymen by descent-so
f that Irishmen of St. Louis unto the tenth
and twelth generation may have only to
look upon that to form some adequate idea
e of what manner of men were made among
t. the mountains of Kerry in those days. It
d is a splendid idea thac of writing history
a in monumental marble and broozees
It is a practice that has been carried out
with great success and splendor of effect in
other countries that I have visited, and
° particularly in France. I remember
a traveling over that noble country some
time before the deep disaster that has fallen
in upon her, and I was greatly impressed in
going through the towns and villages of
that country-the principle towns especi
y ally-impressed by the multitude of stat
uc nes, each town perpetuating by statue,
equestrian or pedestrian, in marble or in
bronze, some eminent Frenchman born in
that town, or at least who had made that
- town the scene of his triumph, or some
1e great work.
d We have some statues, and the English
t- have theirs, a series of Georges; we had
one of them at the Battery, near Castle
SGarden, but cast it into cannon and so it
disappeared from New York. The English
too, have another, Wellington, for they
io call Wellington theirs and they are wel
of come to him.
oe It may be said that the monumental his
et tory of Ireland has been turned upside
down or turned inside out. The statue of
our glorious Grattan- instead of adorning
y some public square in Dublin, stands in
- Westminster abbey, in London. Him also
It the English claim as an Englishman. Of
ir late years matters in this respect are some
of what mending. We have now, at least, a
statue of O'Connell, chiselled by John
Hogan, the first Irish sculptor, and it
o stands in front of the exchange in Dublin;
ig and there is also a colossal statue of Wil
e liam Smith O'Brien-close by the Liffey
,If bank, Dublin. The Irish race has been
,d scattered abroad over the whole earth and
d is going to work in a desultory way to er
ect monuments to its heroes. We are
going to erect a noble statue of O'Connell
at on the banks of the Mississippi, and there
is will be another on the banks of the Warra
Warra, Australia ; and wherever the Irish
race have been exiled, or wherever it has
exiled itself to, there the most noble, the
most revered, the grandest name will be
that of O'Connell.
HOME IRULE.
He said that the same objections which
there were to union were the precise ones
that there are to what is called the home
rule movement in Ireland, at the present
day. This movement is to obtain a kind
of local legislation, precisely like a grand
jury of a county, which would have con
trol of certain local affairs, particularly
financial laffair; but not that Ireland
should keep her own peace by means of
her police. No! That could be done by
England. Ireland would have nothing in
the shape of power or influence to govern
her own affairs, and the Home Rule
would not even be a stepping stone to
what is desirable. England will never
yield one iota of home rule, or anything
approaching it. He was sorry to see so
many people whom he respected, wasting
their time prating for that home rule.
O'Connell died at Genoa when going to
a warmer climate for his health, and he
left his greatest work undone, and it has
never been done yet. The Fenians of
whom the speaker was the father, were
told they were to have cannon military
companies, great Armies and even steam
ers, but they had nothing of those and
they expiated theirbrave, gallant rashness.
Some of them, twenty or thirty, are still in
felons' cells, and some are in mad-houses.
In concluding, Mr. Mitchel said : But
although there has been failure all round
up to this time, yet still the Irish nation
above all other nations never gives up
hope.
You, citizens of St. Louis, cannot offer
us an army with Missouri as a base of op
erations and it is very likely even that
many who join in this movement to do
honor, pay homage to the greatest of
Irishmen, do not all agree as to the policy
which would be right to pursue at this day
for the liberation of our old country. We
may differ fairly and justly differ, but we
are agreed thatin the dismemberment of the
British Empire-in the destruction of that
empire by some shock coming from abroad
is the sole hope for Irish freedom. A
simple restoration of the Irish parliament
under the British crown would not give
Ireland freedom.
We are agreed to-night that the name
and memory of O'Connell shall be honored
and shall be ever dear to us. There may
be other dead Irishmen coming nearer to
your ideas ; but the point here is not to
settle the question of precedence amoegst
a crowd. Let the statue of O'Connell rise
on the west bunk of the Mississippi even
as Davis imagined of the statue by Hogan
when he uttered those well-known lines:
Chisel the likeness of the chief,
rot in gaiety, nor grief :
Change not by your art to stone.
Iresnd's laugh or Irelaod's mosn.
But would you. by your art unroll
His own and Ireluand' secret soul;
And give to other times to mcan
The greatest greatness of the man
Fierce defiance let him be
iHurling at our enemy,
From a base as fair anl sure
As our love i true and pre ;
Let hia statue rise as tall
And as firm as a castle wall;
A type of Ireland's history ;
Pious, generous, deep and warm.
Strong. changeful as a storm.
Let whole centuries of wrong
Upon his secollection throng.
Let whole armies seem to fly
From his threatening hand and eye;
Be the strength of all the land
Like a flahion In his hand,
And be his gesture sternly grand.
A braggart tyrant swore to smite
A peoole struggling for their right
O'Connell. dred him to the field,
Content to die but never yield.
Fancy such a soul as his
In a moment seeh 5s tbhis,
Like acataract, or foaming tide,
Or army charging is its pride.
Thus he spoke. and thus tse seood.
Proffering in ear cause Iis blood ,
Thns o is conatry loves hism best.
To image thus io your behuet.
Chisel thus. and thus alone
If to man you'd change the stone.
Mr. Maitheli concluded by giving expres
sion to an aspiration which he uttered after
f O'Connell's death : "May Irish earth lie
I lightly on O'Connell's breast, and may the
good God who created so wonderful a crea
ture have mercy on his soul."
" Editorial work," says the Tribune, " always
e has its discourageoment, but he who labors to
get out a second-advent newspaper, under the
t impressin that the world will be destroyed
before she newspaper can reach his readers,
enagesn in peculiar if not a disheartenin_
task Mr. Bishop, who is a Terry Islander and
Smillenarian, and prints a warning joarnaloall
ed 2o1 WdcAianes Cry, acknowledges that he
d sends out the current number with some mis
givkngs that 'it may never reach those for
e whom its words of comfort and encouragement
II are intended.' "
a 8t. Vincent's Home Fair is now open at
h Orunewsld Hall, Bsronne street.
A Hungry Crowd.
THREE THOUSAND ARMS REACHING FOR
ELEVEN THIOSAND LOAVES.
[Chicago Times, Jan. 1.1
Such a scene as that around the bakery
of Messrs. C. L. Woodman & Co., at the
corner of Canal and Adams streets, on
yesterday morning, was probably never
before witnessed in this city. A dstribu
tion of 11,000 loaves of bread, of which
10,000 were donated by the Northwestern
National Bank and 1,000 by the Fireman's
Fund Insurance Company, had been an
nounced, and at least 3,000 people gather
ed on all sides of the building, each for the
purpose of receiving his quantum of loaves.
Early in the morning the hungry began to
assemble, and before the time for the dis
tribution of the staffof life arrived, both
Adams and Canal streets were densely
packed for some distance in each direction.
The crowd was composed of every nation
ality, though the Germans and Scandina
vians predominated. But few Irishmen
were out for a loaf. They apparently had
sent their wives, and a large number of
Milesian ladies were scattered throughout
the throng. It was with some difliculty
that the immense eager crowd could be
kept out of the building. The odor arising
from hot ginger snaps and crackers seemed
to effect them as much as the blood of an
Englishman did the "fe, 0I, fo, fum" giant.
They would fain have got at the crisp pro
docts of the oven. Two policemen were
present to keep them from leaning tdo
hard upon the building. It was half-past
11 o'clock before the first loaves were giv
en out, up to which time the people had
been comparatively patient. As soon as
the door was open and a man bearing in
his hand the coveted loaf appeared, there
was such a scrambling as never was seen
before. About 3,000 arms were thrust in
the air, and as many people shoved, crowd
ed, pushed, elbowed and wriggled, each
one anxious to place himself to the front.
There psobably never was sach a disposi
tion among the workingmen to stand
shoulder to shoulder. The man who got
the first loaf was sorry that he had it.
There was no way of escaping with his
treasure ; the crowd jammed into him from
every side, and gave him no chance to
make way for others. It was ill-bred,
though everybody wanted to be well
bread. The efforts oT the two peelers did
not amount to anything in such a strug
gling mass, and word was sent to the Un
ion-street station foradditional help. Eight
policemen arrived, and by dint of hard
work they cleared a passage for the exit of
those who had been served, though the
struggle was fearful, several wooen faint
ing, and policemen and others being fairly
lifted off their feet. If this struggle for
bread is an indication, there must have
been a good many famishing people in the
crowd. Persons were given from three to
six loaves each, and 11,200 were distribu
ted. It was nearly I o'clock before the
last loaf had been given away. As they
"were one by one served, processions of
people with bread in their arms, inside
their coats, tacked into the bosoms of
their shirts, and in baskets, could be seen
radiating in every direction.
Not much was done at the workingmen's
headquarters on Folk and West Lake
streets on yesterday. In the morning the
business included the filling out of tickets
to be presented to the Relief and Aid So
ciety. At both places quite a number of
applications were received, and the neces
sary preliminary blanks flled out. In the.
afternoon the doors of No. 130 Polk street
were closed, an explanatory placard, as
follows, being displayed in English and
German :
"Closed to-day. Go to 51 and 54 La
Salle street. Ten thousand loaves of
bread given away this afternoon corner of
Adams and Canal streets, at 2 o'clock."
The doors were securely locked and a
persistent rapping elicited no indication of
ife within the building. At Nos. 68 and
r 70 Lake street the apartment was deserted
save by two or three men who were scrap
ing the floors and otherwise ridding the
the place of agood deal of dirt.
The "unemployed" are not so disheart
ened or embittered against "capital" as
not to occasionally require a little relaxa
tion other than bread mases-meetings, idiotic
a speeches, and windy resolutions. Last
d night many of them forgot for a time that
, the cupboard was bare and met at their
I places on Polk and Lake streets, and spent
the evening in social pleasures, mnlo, dan
sing, etc.
Things are looking a little brighter. On
r to morrow Chisholm s steel works, on the
it South branch, will begin running again,
and work will be given to 130 men.
it 124 all wool blankets marked down from
)12 50 to so ,e a pair, at SrarsImsans.
TLiJOEAPIO SNMAR]Y.
sWITZnRLANI).
Genera, January7.-The Catholics of Swit
serland have sent a protest to the Government
against the expulsion from the country of the
Papal nuncio.
GERMANY.
A special to the London Tines, from Berlin,
says that the imprisonment of Archbishop
Ledochowaki, of Posen, is threatened. All his
furniture has been distrained and he stlil re
faces to pay the fines imposed by the courts.
FRANHCE.
The Assembly has resumed its sittings. The
motion to postpone the bill concernlng the
nominatien of Mayors, after violent debate, was
carried against the Government by forty-two
majority.
ENGLIAND.
The country is excited over the Tiobhborno
trial, an incident of great imiuortance having
recently occurred. A witness named Late tea
tified to facts which would infallibly have
caused the. triumph of the claimant if sns
tained. His character was, however, im
peached, charges of perjury mado against hinu,
and his trial at once commenced. Among
others a police officer swore that the prisoner
had confessed that he had been instructed how
to testify by Messrs. Onslow, Whalley, Captain
IBrownu and others. Il:s only object was to
make money. At lirst he wase avIese to appear
ing in court, but Oulow, who expected to re
ceive the bulk of the 'l ichhrnuu property, if
the cl:imant was succes.sfl, insisted on his
testifying as directed, a i ,roni sed him the
stewardship in return for his services. It Is
almost certain that Luio will be convicted of
artlo and hisý uviction is bound to tuili
iiiiagainst thbe claimant, thus probably
bringing to an curly concltion this celebratEd
trial which has occupied the courfs nearly two
years.
ePAIN.
The Republic has come to an end. Immedi
ately on the assembling of the Cortes Castel
ar's message was read and upon two test votes
he was defeated by twenty majority. After
this, It is asseeerted, (;eneral Pavia with 15,000
men took possession of the city and, at the
poinut of the bayonet, dissolved the Cortes.
acting in the interests of Castelar. That he
acnted nCastelar's interests is, however, impos
sible, as Marshal Serrano immediately took
the reigns of government and, appointing his
own ministry, has proceeded in that arbitrary
manner which denotes a consciousness of over
whelming power. Being the " Idol of the
Army" and having the support of most
of the great chiefs, he is no doubt se
cure in hie position as Dictator and free to
intrigue for any restoratio,n which he aftects,
be ing a monarchist. The whole movement
means simply that the monarchical principle
bas triumphed over the so-called Republican
isam of the country.
Inu Saragossa last Sunday there was a rising
of the " Volunteers of Liberty," which was
only put down after an engagement of eight
hours during which 2u0 persons were killed
and wounded.
The seige of Cartagena has been attended
during the week withoume importantn ocesses
to the beesigers, they capturing several forts
and causing explosions in the magazines of
others thus rendering thenm almost useless.
HAVANA.
The overthrow of the Castelar Ministry has
been received with joy in Havana. Tl'hCasino
Espanolis especially jubilant. The volunteers
areevidently in favor of a monarchy. Crowns
on the sterns of Spanish vessels in the harbor,
which were painted over when the republic
was in vraogue, are now being regilded. The
Imperial Sipanish coat of-arms has again beeni
placed on the palace of the Captain General.
UNITED STATES.
STINGING REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY Lt
MmurInis.--The report of the Grand Jury of
the Criminal Court to Judge Flihppin, made on
the 8th, has created considerablaexcitement.
They found the Poorhouse to be a hoepital and
insane asylum combined, wherein the sick,
waell, seas and insane, blacks and whites, were
all mixed together indiscriminately, and in
some instances patients with loathsome dis
eases were in the rooms with the healthy ones.
The food given Ie neither good nor selmcient
in quantity, while a total disregard as to the
eaeociation of sex exists. That inmates with
out regard to sex. were kicked, cuffed and
whipped with knotted bull whips, and beaten
like oxen by Dr. G. G. Hogan and Assistant
Henry A. OGrdby I and, in conclusion, they
state that the manner in which the Poorbouse
is governed is a disgrace to the country.
Cousl;=se.-In the liHouse, on the 5th, Mr.
8tephens made a powerful speech against the
civil rights bill. Several colored members
from the Sooth spoke In its favor. Daring the
next three or four days it was loaded with
amendments one of which provided a penalty
against any woman who refuses an offer of
marriage on account of race, color or revises
condition of servitude. Butler finay sue
ceeded in having it resommitted that he might
prove it of " aboard amendments."
The Senate ie engaged on the salary bill. As
amendment providing that all membetshbould
return to the Treasury the laereased pay al
reedy drawn, was defeated by 45 to 14.
lmmediately after disposing of the salary
bill, the Lousleian ease will be taken up. The
universal impresson is that a new election
will be ordered.
On the 8th Williams' nomisatien as Chief
Joustice was withdrawn, at his own requet, by
the President.