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i fang star anid Uthottc Messenger.
IS O31.8ae, SUNDAY. MAY 3, 1674.
TER IRISH DOMINICANS.
n V STY a . . 3. a N a s, O. r.
MThis leadI of ours was famous once-no land was over
more,
- 'esalatlinesm, so pure, so bright, as well as learned
lore;
sstraagers froem a sunny clime were wwa'ted to our
S shore,
absing meek, and faintest garb, as aer was seen
before -
And these were the Domlnieans six hundred years
ago.
They came with vigil and with fast, men versed in
prayer, and read -
I all the sacred bcoks, and soon throughout the land
they spread ;
The people blessed them as they passed, low bowed
each tonsured head,
So meek, 'twas like the saints, as they shall raise them
from the dead,
For holy were the Gouman's sons five hundred
years ago.
And soon their learned voice was heard in pulpit and
in chair,
Whilst through the glorious Gothic aisles resound their
midnight preter;
The orphan found beneath their roof a parent's tender
care,
Whilst boldly in their country's cause, they raised their
votee, for there
WasIrish blood in Dominic's sons, four hundred
years ago.
When heresy swept o'er the land, like a destroying
eood,
And tyrants washed their reeking bands in the martyr's
sacred blood,
St. Dominic's children then, like men, embraced the
stake, and stood
Before the burning pile, as 'twere the Saviour's Holy
Rood.
And kissed their habits whilst they bled, three
hundred years ago.
And whilst the altars fed the flame, and Chrit was
mocked again,
Their faithful voices still were heardin mountain, cave
and glen,
And thus was saved our country's faith, and thus the
Lamb was slain,
And ne'er was Ireland's title more 'The Isle of Saints,"
than when
The preacher found a martyr'e grave, two hundred
years ago.
And thus for fall three centuries they fought the holy
fight
In city and on mountain's side, from Cashel's sacred
height;
True to their country and their God, each man a barn
lng light,
They kept a nation's life-b!ood warm and swayed the
eroeler's might:
For mitrea shone on preachers' brows one hundred
years ago.
Now, men of Ireland, r'se your thoughts to that bh ight
realm above.
Where Chlistlsn faith and hope are lost in all-absorbing
love,
And blend the serpent's prudence with the sweotrese
of the dove,
And faithful to your holy creed, in their bhrght foot.
steps move,
Who fought and bled, but conquered, all those cen.
taries ago.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
OUR IRISH LETTERS.
DuarLe, March 31, 1874
The latest movement to obta.n an amnesty
for the Fenian prisoners has proved utterly
unsuccessful, and the government' of Disraeli
abows that, while it can, it means to be cruel,
unmerciful, and unyielding to Ireland. A
short and simple memorial to Disraeli declar
ing that in the opinion of the signatories,
the time had come when the amnesty would
be a wise and a safe act, was prepared and
received many signatures-all the signatures
being those of members of the House of Com
mons. Several English members signed
Well, on Friday last the document was pre
sented to Mr. Disraeli by a deputation num
bering some forty members-Irish and English.
Mr. Bryan, M. P. for Kilkenny county; Sir J.
N. McKenna, M. P. for Youghal; Sir George
Bowyer, M. P. for Wexford county, and others,
urged the various arguments, in favor of am
nesty, to the Premier. They did their work,
indeed, very well. AndDisraeli received them
very courteously. But the substance of his
reply was that if he had known the object of
their coming, he would have refused to see
them, and that the Home Secretary would an
nounce the decision of the government in the
House of Commons that evening; and in the
evening the answer was that the law would be
allowed to take its course in every case-in
other words, that not one of the prisoners
would be released.
The nomination of candidates to fill the
vacant seat in Louth took place to-day, when
Mr. Molloy and Mr. Kirk were nominated.
Both of these gentlemen aro Home Rulers and
Catholics, and in every way eligible; and
either of them would under ordinary circum
stances be accepted readily by the patriotic
men of Louth as their representative. Why
then, is there a contest To make a long
story short, the statement in Louth is that Mr.
Callan, M. P., who had been elected for both
Louth and Dundalk, and who brought Mr.
Molloy into the county as a candidate for the
seat he had vacated there, attempted to dic
tate to the constituency who shoald be its rep
resentative. The county Louth Independent
Club, therefore, put forward Mr. Kirk and
subscribed money to pay his expenses. The
feeling that Mr. Molloy is Mr. Callan's nomi
ne is widespread, and the majority of the
people resent the idea of any kind of dictation
at the hands of Mr. Callan or anybody else
There are other circumstances that will weigh
in favor of Mr. Kirk. While Mr. Molloy is a
barrister living in England and has hitherto
done nothing known to the public at large
to advance the national cause, Mr. Kirk,
as a tenant-farmer of Louth, has been all
his life, like his father before him, in the
very van of the usnational forces iu his
native couuty and is acdessible at all timnes to
the people. For my own part, I hope and be
lieve he will win; for I hold that it is well
that a local man, crteris partbes, should be
preferred to a stranger uas a parliamentary
repraesentative. Mr. A . M. Sullivan, the senior
rmrqear h~ bs somaty baa made 0v517 effort.
been.e unsslash sa gene rous as to offer to
resign his own mat to allow both Mr. Molloy
sad Mr. Kirk to go into Parliament. But
neither the friends of Mr. Molloy nor the
friends of Mr. Kirk would for one moment
think of having Mr. Sullivan out of Parlia
ment just now.
Mention of Mr. Sullivan's name reminds me
that the leading English newspapers hostile to
Home Rule, have spoken in terms of high
praise of his maiden speech in the House of
Commons. The Times says he spoke " with an
eloquence which we are glad to recognize and
respect." Punch, in its essence of Parliament,
says his speech was "fall of fire and fun."
The Illustrated London News says be is " not
merely eloquent in the Irish sense of the word,
but is a rhetorician of skill" and "made an
unquestionable hit."
It would seem as if there were good strate
gists amongst the Home Rulers in the House
of Commons. They complained in the recent
debate that there are scores of grievances
which Ireland cannot get the London Parlia
ment to redress. The.English leaders, little
dreaming what would follow, asked why did
they not themselves introduce bills to remove
those grievancest The very next day half a
score of bills on as many different subjects
were laid on the table, to the manifest con
sternation cf both the English parties!
The witty and splendid attack of the Rev.
Dr. Haughton of Trinity College, on the polit
ical lawyers has, I regret to say, brought that
good Irishman and most distinguished clergy
man into trouble. The following correspond
ence between him and Lord Cairns, Lord
Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the
University of Dublin, will explain the matter:
5 Cromwell Houses, S. W.. March 18, 1874.
Ietr. Sir.-I find in the Times of yesterday
the report of a speech stated to have been
made by you at the recent election for Dublin
University, in which the following expressions
are attributed to you : "There were the true
blue vultures-old, brave birds whom he ad
mired; and there were the magpies of the
Four Courts, with white feathers to mark their
Conservative instincts, and black feathers to
mark their Liberal principles; and there was
the carrier pigeon, which came over from
London with a neat little billet-doux tied round
his leg, conveying the order of Lord Cairns to
the University to elect him." I feel it to be
due to the University, and to the office of
Chancellor of the University, which I have the
honor to bold, that I should ask you whether
this report correctly represents the observa
tions made by you; and further, what is the
foundation for the statement which you.have
made with regard to myself t-I have the honor
to be, reverend air, your obedient servant,
(Signed) CAIRNs.
The Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. D., T. T. C, D.
Trinity College, Dublin, March 21, 1874.
My Lord Cairns-I acknowledge the receipt
of a letter dated 18th March, not in your lord
ship's handwriting, but signed by you, and I
decline to enter into any correspondence witht
your lordship on the subject of the letter.-- I
am your lordship's obedient servant.
(Signed) SAMUEL HAUGIITON.
The Lord Calmns.
This was a delicious and thoroughly de-o.
served snubbing. But the obsequious Board
of Trinity College have called upon him to
apologize, and, he not complying, have pa-sed
a vote of censure on him which, it is said, in
volves some pecuniary loss, but assuredly will
only raise him higher in the estimation of his
fellow-countrymen and all independent-minded
and spirited men in all countries. The fact
that the Board never perceived the " insult"
to Lord Cairns till that individual brought it
under its notice, and then acted as I have
stated, shows only too plainly what a puppet
it is in the hands of Lord Cairns. J. J. C.
DUBLIN, April 7, 1874.
This being Easter week, there is a lull in the
political world, and social life claims atten
tion. The people of Dublin, at any rate, are
plentifully provided this year at this time with
amusements. Yesterday. Easter Monday, was
a bank and government holiday, and every
person who could go at all went out of the city
for a few hours, and excursion trains breught
thousands of countryfolk from all quarters of
the island. There were horse races at Fairy
House-the IIsh Grand National, as the meet
ing is called-and a vast number of people at
tended. For four or five hours a continual
stream of carriages, cars, brooghams, and
many other kinds of vehicles, poured past on
their outward journey, and it was long after
midnight when the last vehicle returned to
town. To-morrow and the day after we are to
have the Panchestown Races-the Irish Derby
-and vast numbers are expected, as usual, to
be present thereat. But if the weather is not
better than it is to-day, eight-seers will not
have much comfort. The religious services of
last week and of Sunday were carried out on
the usual scale of magnificence in the Cathe
dral, in the Jesuits' Church, and in other
churches; and in the Dominican Church,
where Father Tom Burke preached for several
nights, the crush was awful. Of the great
preachers' sermons I need not say anything; I
could not, indeed, say anything that has not
been frequently said before.
Of political items to be recorded, two or
three only are worthy of beina mentioned
here, and that bliefly. The contest in Louth
will be decided to-nmorrow, and no doubt in
favor of Mr. Kirk. The reason why Mr. Mal
ley will be rejected on this occasion is that it
is attempted to force him on the constituency,
which prefers Mr. Kirk, a Lonth tionant-farmer.
To conclude, there is a letter in the papers to
day from Professor Gold win Smith, of Oxford,
and lately of Cornell University, New York,
on the Home Rule question. Mr. Smith op
poses the Home Rule demand, but he de
noulnces warmly the contrmptto,, and scorn
ful manner in which England alwrays treats
all Irish demands, and proposes important
concessions on the Irish national question.
J J. C.
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TE MI OF oI UM
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HER ACIENT MOSNUMENTS.
I from the Catholic Woid !
Nature has been lavish of her gifts to this
lovely island, once so famous as the nursing
school of the godly and learned. Though
fallen from her high estate, though no longer
the unrivaled land-ef scienoe, she is still the
Land of wild beauty and romantle shapes,
Of sheltered valleys and of stormy aopes
Of the bright garden and she tangled brakLe.
Of the dak mountain and the sunlit takel'"
Rugged, precipitous cliffs protect her coasts,
while her shores are indented by the most
magnificent bays and harbors. Her bosom is
stored with precious metals, and the most fer
tile soil in the world crowns her granite base.
Her very geographical position is an advanta
geous one, for she is placed, as it were, an ad
vanced guard on the outskirts of Europe-she
opens the route to the great Western world,
and she offers the first eastern port to the
American mariner.
"'Moist, bright and green, her landscape
smiles around :" pellucid lakes reflect as in a
mirror the hills, rocks and prtcipices on their
margins; here are undulating plains of un
equalled verdore; there, garden-like tracts,
where the myrtle, the rose and the laurel need
no culture; where the evergreen arbutus, in
wonderful luxuriance of growth, appears to be
indigenous; where every spot is enameled
with flowers and fragrant herbs.
Beautiful Ireland ! most picturesque land on
the face of the globe! Alas! why not also the
richest and happiest t
Religion and learning early found a welcome
home in this "emerald gem of the ocean."
Even in the dark days of paganism, the priest
and-poet Druid of Erin appears to have been
superior in intelligence and culture to his breth
ren of England and of the Continent; smtde
when Christianity was first preached in the
land, no other people ever welcomed it with
such ardent enthusiasm as did the Irish; no
other people ever clung to their faith with
such inviolable fidelity as Irish Catholics have
since-done.
During the five centuries that followed the
apostolic labors of St. Patrick, so great was
the multitude of holy personages who trod in
the way which he traced out; so eminent the
sanctity of their lives; so illustrious their
learning, that Ireland received the proud title
of "Island of Saints and Scholars." The
number of her churches was infinite, and her
monasteries and convents were at once the
abodes of piety and the sheltering homes of
the poor and the stranger. IIer theological
schools and colleges were the most renowned
of Europe. Their halls were open to the stu
dents of every clime, "who," says Moreri,
" were there received with greater hospitality
than in any other country in the Christian
world." Hither, as to the "emporium of lit
erature," the youth of France, Germany and
Switzerland and repaired in zealous search
of knowledge. But to the English nobility
and gentry especially, the Venerable Beds
tells us, Ireland showed the most cordial hos
pitality and generosity, for, great though their
numbers, they were all most willingly received,
maintained, supplied with books, and instruct
ed without fee or reward."
And the tide of sanctity and learning over
flowed the shores of the holy i-le; many were
the pious missionaries who, in those days of
religious fervor, went forth to labor for the
salvation of souls among the nations of Europe.
The memory of their works is still preserved
I in the countries which reaped the fruits of
their zeal. The Italian town, San Columbano.
still bears the name of the great Columbanus,
I a native of Leinster; and St. Gall, in Switzer
land, still reminds us of his friend and dis
ciple Gallus. The hermitage of St. Fiacre,
another Irish saint, is still one of France's
I consecrated spots; and the memory of the
Cannaught man, St. Fridolin, " the Traveler,"
is still blessed on the banks of the Rhine. The
famous universities of Paris and of Pavia owe
their origin to the learning and industry of
t Clement and John, both Irishmen. From Ire
land the Anglo-Saxons derived their first en
lightenment, and till the thirteenth century
the literature of Scotland was the special pro
vince of the Irish clergy.
" When we look into the ecclesiastical life
of this people," says the learned Gorres, " we
are almost tempted to believe that some potent
spirit had transported over the sea the cells of
the Valley of the Nile, with all their hermits,
its monasteries with all their inmates, and
had settled them down in the Western isle
an isle which, in the lapse of three centuries,
gave eight hundred and fifty saints to the
t Churoh; won over to Christianity the north
f of Britain and, soon after, a large portion of
the yet pagan Germany; and, while it devoted
r the utmost attention to the eciences, cultivated
with especial care the mystical contemplation
in her religious communities, as well as in the
saints whom they produced."
Numerous vestiges are still to be found in
1 Ireland of those days of enthusiastic faith.
Ivy-grown abbeys and churches, and the hab
itations of saints; and the emblem of our holy
creed, now rudely cut on pillar-stones, now
exquisitely carved in fine proportions, are to
be met with scattered over the whole length
and breadth of the land-" memorials," we are
told by a celebrated archbologist, " not only
of the piety and magnificence of a people
whom ignorance and prejudice have too often
sneered at as barbarous, but also as the finest
works of sculptured art, of their period, now
existing."
In the wild and lonely valley of Glendalough,
County Wicklow, are yet to be seen the re
mains of the noble monastery, "once the la
minary of the Western world," fonaded in the
beginning of the sixth century by St. Kevin,
aI round which a city rose, flourished and de
cayed. Gloomy mountains encompass the
silent and now almost uninhabited glen, in
[ whose bosom lie the ruins of shrines which
nearly thirteen centuries ago were raised in
honor of their God by men joyous and thank
fol in the feeling of certain immortality-men
whore fathers to their youth reverenced the
Druid as a more than human counellor.
" Ys peopled wore once these silent shades
With saintly forms of days deartedl.
When lholy men and votive mais
Lived humble here and heavenly-b.,arted '"
Here are assembled dismantled churches,
crurmbling oratories, broken crosses, shattered
monumental arstones, and tombs, no longer to
be distilguiiherd, of bishops, abbots and rc
eluese. And neo-r the wasted remains of the
holy piles, onle of those mysterious eldifices, a
tall and naetder ltimnd Tower, stands, still
strong anld straight, like a sentinel guarding
the wrecks of the past. It is impossible to
imagine a scene of sterner, n.ore desolate
grandenur. O the shore of one of the two
lakes that lie embosomed in the glen, rises
a beetling rock, in a cavity of which St. Kevin
is said to have lived while pursuing that
course of study and contemplation for which
his name is even now revered. In this same
cavern, tio, ostill known by the name of " St.
Kevin's lt,.d." thle illstrions saint and patriot
eI.ae,,ce O T.,,o!e 's beli, vdl to have ,fraire,
nnt,-ed snui p,-ei wet, be wai ab, tt ,,f
el10antll  pi , IIhe pl, U, faunu r UI as np llt?
lounjdtel iem-s ilgl, sote roofoed ol,lOltlul i.,n
of singular architecture, seeming to colhne e
the purpose of an oratory with that of a bthb
itatlon.
On the ook of_ Casbel stands <-poep of
'l"C ' f impos
fare, with the exception of the RBead Tower,
is Comao's chapel built by Cormae MaoCartls
the pious king of " deep-Valleyed Desmond,"
in the beginiong of the twelfth eentury. It
also is a stone-roofed edilee, with Norman
arches and an almost endless variety of Nor
man decorations. Near it rise the magnificent
cathedral found d by Donough O'Brien, King
of Thomond, about 1152; and on the plain
beside the rook, Hear Abbey, the anolient castle
of the archbishops, a perfect Round Tower,
and numerous crosses.
And one of the grandest of these ancient
holy piles, Newton Abbey, now lies a crumbling
heap on the banks of the Boyne. What it once
was may, however, still be conceived of from
the exquisite beauty of some of the remaining
3apitals, vaulting atud shafte, and from the
many fragments of its noble windows which
are strewn about the neighboring cemetery.
This, alas! like many another of the magnil
cent rains of Ireland. has been used as a
quarry ; not by the unlettered peasant, who
Is rarely found wanting in a devotional feeling
that leads him to regard antiquities, and es
pecially those of an ecclesiastical origin, with
a sentiment of profound veneration; but by
contractors for the erection of new buildings,
and sometimes even by men of station and
education, who seem to have forgotten that
age and neglect cannot deprive structures
once consecrated to God and applied to the
service of religion, of any portion of their
sacred character.
ieotive Abbey, not far from Newton, is an
other wonderful wreck, which seems to com
bine ecclesiastical with military and domestic
architecture in the most singular manner. It
presents indeed a striking evidence of the
halt monk, half soldier character of its found
era. Batttlemented towers, cloister arches,
and rooms with great fire places; the fluoes
carried up through the thickness of the walls,
and continued through tapsring chimney
shafts, seem to have made the Abbey of Bee
tive a kind of monastic castle, and previous to
the use of artillery it must have been a place
of great strength.
Perhaps one of the most beautiful edifices
ever erected in Ireland was the church of
Killeshin, near Carlow, once decorated with
richly sculptured capitals representing human
heads, the hair intertwined with serpents.
This magnificent building was more hardly
treated by the destructiveness of an individ
ual who, about forty years since, resided in the
neighborhood, than by the storms and frosts
and thunderbolts of ages. The detestable
vandal wantoely defaced the exquisite capitals
and almost entirely obliterated an Irish in
scription which extended round the abacus I
On the romantic shores of the beautiful
Lake of Killarney stands the venerable ruins
of Muckrosa Abbey. No vestige of its former
grandeur remains; " its antic pillars, massy
roof" are all ground into dust, and a magni
ficent yew-tree that has grown in the very
centre of the wreck spreads its mighty, sombre
branches like a funeral pall over the fallen
temple. And in the lake on the "holy island"
of lnnisfallen, on a gentle verdant slope, sur
rounded by thick groves, are still to be seen
the few crumbling stones that mark where
stood the abbey once so renowned throughout
Christendom for its learning and piety.
But it would be a vain task to attempt to
enumerate all the beautiful memorials of Ire
land's splendor whose ivy-grown ruins still
adorn the land they once made s.i fanioi-,.
" Her temples grew as gros the grar '
and popular tradition tolls us that nunubers
have been hidden front mortal eye, ever since
the pious monks who pra3ed within ithem were
barbarously driveu forth or slain.
" In yonder dim and path!ess wood
Strange sounds are heard at twilight hour.
And peals of solemn mus.c swell
As from some minster's lofty tower.
From age to age there seunds ar heard.
Borne on thebs brease at twilight hur
Fro: age to age no foot bath found
A pathway to the minster's tower !"
Mingled among the mossy marbles of fallen
altaro; among the mouldering stones and the
rusted iron of crumbled cloisters; beneath the
" churchyard's bowers;" by thebleak hillsides;
on the margins of the sunlit lakes, or uuder
the shadow of the mysterious Iound Towers,
iie, almost countless, the defaced, mutilated
emblems of Ireland's heart deep faith-broken
crosses-innumerable broken crosses-eloquent
of the piety of those by-gone days, eloquent
of the ruthlessness of the devastator. They
are found scattered over the whole island, and
are as various in their styles as in the perfec
tion of their workmanshap-some, differing in
nothing from the pillar stones of the pagans,
save that they are rudely sculptured with a
cross, to mark the graves of the early Irish
saints-others have the upper part of the
shaft hewn into the form of a circle, from
which the arms and the top extend. Crosses,
highly sculptured, appear to date from the
ninth and two fth centuries. In these the
circle, instead of being simply cut into the
face of stone, is represented by a ring, binding
as it were the shaft, arms, and upper portion
of the cross together. There are scores of
these beautiful remains in Ireland, but the
finest, perhaps, are those at Monasterboice,
near Drogheda; they are so singularly sym
metrical and artistic as to have excited the
enthusiasm of every learned areab'elogist who
has seen them.
There were originally three crosses at Moo
asterboice; two still exist, well preserved;
the third was broken, tradition says, by Crom
well. The larger of the two nearly perfect
crosses measures twenty-seven feet In height
and is composed (cf three stones. The shaft,
at its Junction with the base, is two feet in
breadth and one foot three Inches in thickness.
It is divided upon the western side by fillets
into seven compartments, each of which con
tains two or more boldly cut figures, now much
worn by the rain and wind of nine centuries.
The sides of the cross are ornamented with
figures and scroll-work alternately.
"The smaller cross, fifteen feet high, is er
quisirely beautiful," says Mr.Wakeman, in the
Archwoligia Hibernica, "and has suffered little
from the effects of time. It stands almost as
perfect as when first erected nine hundred
years ago. The figures retain almost all their
original sharpness and beauty of execution.
Within the cieuClar head of the cross, on its
eastern face, our Saviour is represented sit
ting in judgment. A choir of angels occupy
the arm to the right of the figure. Several
hold musical iustrulnen's, among which is
sten the ancient small and triangular Irish
harp. The space to the left of our Saviour is
crowded with figures, several of which are in
an attitude of despair; an armed fiend is driv
ing them from before the throe. The com
partment inmmediately beneath bears a figure
weighing in a pair of huge scales a smaller fig
ure, the balance see.mingi to prcepouderate in his
favor. OllQn who illpears to lhave been weigh
ed and fouund wanting is ling beueIath scalen
in an attituldn of terror. Tue next comlpart-?
nmoeut beneath reltreseuta apparently tihe adt
oration of the wtse men. Ih'be star above
the head of the infant Chr:ut is ii.
tinctly marked The third comnpartmnenr
contains several figures, the action of whibch
we do not understand, The signtiuuation oi
the sculpture of the next f ,Ihwtng c l"'., .
ment is ala, very ,uibuie. A ligire seaie, up,
on a throne r chair o bhilswing a hor,,i3 1ad
.sldidrs Otht cinlcal helmets. tunad-bladed
;sworlds, aid wibh saturll circular shabilhls p
p-ar crwdiuug It. T'en ifth and lowet dliv
,i ,, illJtr.ies the Ternutatiou aid the E?
I',lp , ,ui At im ci iption n Ihish, upon the
.se·r IArt of the shaft, dresre "a prau)r irr
.•llil ,d ict, by whomi was nmode the crosM."
e us, inuigiiie iow, whiu this tmasterhicee
-. Ilsr -l''iUited tilished by the gilled artists,
i v,.- uel' uh.d abbota, the hards and wartiors,
t.e moakeand priests, and maybe many a
rival sculptor, crowded around it, foll of
woeder and admiration for what they most
have considered a tlh y rgles e a ay, u
eqasliewodwk. And Mairsaieb rmsstseatailw
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EISCELLAKEUS.
NEW ORLEANS
HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION,
Ofloe, 116 Poydraa Street, Corner of Camp.
Capital Stock........................... 00,000
DIVIDED ItTO
1 '0 SHARES OF st(0 EACH.
Is3W THE STOCK IS PAID.
By a first payment of 50 cents on each share, and
every eucceeding week thereafter a paiyment of 95
cents on each share. Thus it will be seen that the
poorret laborer in the community rcan subscribe for at
Feast five shares; Inasmeuch as be ha to pay only a small
installment every week-amounting to one dollar and
twenty five centt.
WHAT IT IS REALLY.
A GODSEND TO THE POOP. The man whohas
been for the greater part of his life paying sent out of
his hard earned wages. may now reulice at discovering
a way-in which he may buy a house for what he would
pay out as rent to a landlord. It makts
A POOR MAN HIS OWN LANDLORD.
HOW THIS IS DONE.
A mass, no.matter how limited his means. subscribes
for a celt an Lumber of shares, for which he pays in
weekly sums of a small amount. lie may hare made
only one payment, when he can bor:ow money to the
full amount his shares entitle him.
JUST THINK OF IT.
He may have paid only two and onre-half dollars
(63 Sr). when he can borrow a thousanud; and the Asso.
elation tks htim NO OTHER SECURITY but a mort.
gage on the house he buys with its money. Moreover
THE ASSOCIATION jDOES NOT ASK FOIR TILE
RE-PAYMENT OF THE LOAN,
otherwise titan the paying in of the installments, to
which the Assoeiation adds a part of the profits derived
fromn Interests and premiums-placing all to the credit
of the poison taking the loan.
ITS SUPERIORITY OVER RAVING AND DE
POSIT BANKS.
It is not liab'e to suspension, for it does not speculate
in QUEStIONABLE PAPER It has no ntermne.
diates In the shape of other stockholders who receive
all the profits i the peculiar feature of this Association
is each member being a stockholder and receiving his
portion of ALL profits.
A FACT DEMANDING CONSIDERATION.
There is no poor man in the community who, having
no properly or unexceptional COLLATERALS can
borbow sv " small auiount of money-NOT EVIEN
AT ANY PERCENTAGE. Nor can hoe. should hebe
fortunate enough to do so, pay it back in small sums.
Both these facilities
THEC N. O. HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION
gives to every man who becomes a member.
That it is founded on a substantial bastls and man
aged by upright and competent gentlemen, read the
names of
The Board of Directors:
E SWEENEY, THOS C. WA.SIH,
E. M. RERMINGHAM JOHN McCAFFIREY.
i'. A. FINNEY, JOHN T. GIBBONS,
PATRICK BRADLEY. hM. A. ALLEYN.
GEO. McCLOSKEY, J. T. PURVIS,
JAS. P. O'BRIEN, J. J. FINNEY,
A. LEO.
Officers:
E. SWEENEY, President.
THOS. C. WALSH, Vice President,
E. M. BERMINOHAM, Treasurer,
T. J. O'SULLIVAN Secretary.
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COGAN'S CLOTHING HOUSE,
NOS. 19 AND 29 CANAL STIREET,
And No. 9 Croseman Street, Between Customhouse and
the River.
THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK OF
CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHING
FOR MEN, YOUTHS AND BOYS,.
In the City of New Orlean Within the Reach of
AT PRICES NEVER BEFORE HEARD OF.
Come and see our $8 50 BUSINESS SUITS.
Come andi se our 19 00 Black Cloth SUITS.
Come and see our f S0 Bline Diagonal SUITS.
Come and see our 7 51) Light Spring OVEIR:OATS.
Come and see our I00 Black Beaver OVERCOATS.
Come and see our 10 ot English Melton OVERCOATS.
Come and see our 3 50 Cassimere PANTS.
Come and see our 4 50 Blue Cloth PANTS.
Come and see onr 6 03 Black Doeskin PANTS.
Come and see our i lt Cloth and Velvet VESTS.
Come and coo our 1.50D4 B. Cussumere VESTS.
Come and see our :1 iti I). B. Silk VESTS.
Fine ihigh Crown 'lIiAT., of all colors, from Si 15 to
82 (a).
BOYb' HATS, from LNo. to BE.
LINEN SIIRTS AND GENTS' UNDERWEAR.
TIUNKS, VALISES aid lATCH ELS,
At Prices Filfy Per Cent Less than Usually Paidl.
not73 ly . . .
C ASSIDY & MILLER.
S AI L M A K E ,
COTTON DUCK Agent. Manufacturers of Every De
cription of TENTS, TARPAULINS, AWNINGS,
etc., eta. Dealers in all est oand Quallttes o
MANILLA and TARRED ROPE. PUR.
CHASE BLOCKS, all sles.
Wholeaale and Retail Dealers in Bunting for Flags,
all colors and qualities.
Flags ofll aU Ntio made to order ad on hand at ali
time.
We pay pesial a.ttentlon to getting up to n ay
desirsd-tle or finish une SILK FLAGS or I ANNERS.
Our facilities aud long experience In basim Jstifles
s in offering our services to l reqiring anything in
our line, nsod our work shall he First mate and our
priees quite moderate.
CASSIDY & MILLER,
107 ................. Po)dras street..................I07
atO 731 Ittw a mp and Mlansi..
rplE PREMIUbl IIU'I'CIIER STALLS.
MARTIN LANNES, BUTCHER,
STA~~LLS7, 3dh s-d 7,
MAGAZINE MARIKET,
rEe, OutLstAO, LOUI|ANA,
respctfully Informsi hii friends and tie public in gin
srtl that he is prepared to furneih Families. hotels
Boarding-houses teamoboate., Ships ,ul Stusnibi
with the beat BEEF.. ISU LION. PORK, S AUSAR i.
Tripe. Pigs. Fuwle, iame. Vegotables. ntc. tic., sod
everything the market afords at the rosy lowert rstes.
Thankisg my customeis for tist favors. I solicit eon.
tiouantireof the sse RecoIls ct the tltiis. Nos. 37 30
and 7, Magazine Market. where sli orders nut will bs
thanklully receiver and promptly iilled.
g'7 All meladsdlivercfc*s ore,,, re.. nO lm
MIMI;RATlI)N AGENCY,
0-1...............Culnup Stiotee........ .......·1
ourV Oni.As. Itl
It;.it pr-pred lo urilh Fores Iaoi.sr., I)Olt'isisIC
debti of Oir,.s iellslu (iis I ciiy esurir.r rriitulli
iI t,*t- ' I(ultry silsi :..iiiioaai.siss . aytla.l~ on arrlirl
s0. .. .,o Itrnosrsd 1*i m.sks II II iIA I. A I)V A Ni gK
,s In,(t i'1)i csrI.i.uiln.i s.. J. Jllsllslo. liMctimb, Emi.
IIc)ItNEII FIFTB AND (:IIES, iST 5Th..
l'legr-u.h. Itilrosil asn Stleialhot Ticket OfLeses is
this Ilsuse.
in w. W ALi & -.0'. ProDepra
6ROCERS-cDONISSIOR IERCHUAMr
HOYT & WILCOX,
COMMISSION MERCHANTb.
in -
NORTHERN AND WESTERN PRODOUIR M '
DEALERS IN
BUTTER AND CHEESE,
.2 ..... Tchoupitoulas Street ...... 8
Corner Lathsette Stree
NEW OR.LsAtS
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HOYT & WILCOX
BUTTER
and
CHEESE.
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BUTTER t& OHEESE.
150 flrklas selected Gosha Be.
ter.
100 flrkla thir Goehen Batter.
75 kegs choice O..hen Batter.
oa cese (10 Sa ane) lllwas
Minor's Ooehe Stter;
10 caee (5 a sea) Salfveu &
Minor' Goshem Batee.
too flrkna choice Yellow We'.
era Butter.
900 firhina tir ellow Westerm
Batter.
50 tbschocle Weetern Bntter.
15(0 bhaoes hoice Wes.te
Cheese.
100 boxes chole New Terk
Cream Cheese.
100 boxes choice English Dor
Choeu.
150 boxes choice Nutes
Cheese.
IHOYT & WILCOX
BUTT1UR
and
CHEESE. SUNDRIEP.
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t IN boxes Corn Starch.
500 boxes Bter Candloe.
10 bbl choice Cider V .iac e .
54 bble choice White Wiae
Vinegar.
i Boses Cholr Western
Breakhfst Bacon.
50o half bbl aFulton Market
Go hall and qr. bbls FPtoe
Market Pork.
5craes Fulton Market Bee
Tongues.
A lo, a large lot of Bmolted
Beef and New Yaork BrEaki
Bacon.
Choice Small New York Ea.s
50 bbla now Green oPea.
50 bbla now Dried Apples.
tio bie. Northern White Beams
25 half bbht. Ptkles.
Straw. Tea and ManlIIa raper
Begs of all risee.
o 3110 pals Lard.
50 bia. McKeon's A Van as.
IIOYTAWILCOX gao & Co.'s I. O. U. sp. -
BUTTER
and
CfrEESE
O- t --.
IN STORE AND FOR SALE BY
IIOYT & WILCOX,
no30 5m No. 82 Tchoupitouile sheet.
E. Conery. E. Conery. Jr.
E. CONER a SON,.
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Commission Merchants and Dealere in Westess
Produce,
CORNER OF CANAL AND DELTA STREWE.,
no23 73 ly NEW onLnA.Mr.
{. J. & D. D. O'BRIEN,
Commission Merchants,
A-uu
DEALERS IN CORN, OATS, BRAN AND HAT
32 Peters Street, (late New Levee,
Between Gravler and Pojdras,
ocS 73 ly maw OSLEALs.
CARRIAGE MAKERS.
J. THOMSON & BROS.,
Carriage and Spring Wagon Makers,
8 and 70...... Rampart Street......G8 and 70
Between Common and Orovler.
Received Highest Premiums at State Fairs of 1871, 187I
and 1873 for best Family 'Phbtoo. VictoriaOpea
and Top Boggles, Beer Wagon, Orocer's
Wagon, Express Wagon, eta.
14en practicand 13l oramparten, and tremploy.134 and 1
Sbet mecBetween Toulouswre and t. eter to
r repair Carriages, Baroucggies, hesring Wuggons. te
Epros Wagomunes, Pif menrn nh cElliptiet i dpring
SEWING MACHIlN WAGONS. ETC.
i:m atnd l f.. ... fRmpart str.et .....1i and tiay
etroeen Toalos aurl St. 't er
Carriages, Barouches, Bue n Ca lterial,
xprings. WAgos, Pl;tifrtn e rd m Ellipths B. gny
Carriage and Wagon Maksr and Reper
SALESW ROOM A . N.74 CAONDELET T(.
St Factory-N .r e Larrol VSltl eet lt -
Car etween WJall ad t. eeph Materile.
A rtad. wil a. kelch. Re s laisdy weeclug M . h ,
feedyig,* wod Work. Tirsimmns, s.;g
marriage sad Wmgon slaker snd Itop~ii "
sp e. U R Be CL rl