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4TlJvms.S OstbeUse Tfime -It to ety after we have felled the tree to the artb that we can tell whether the silMbe ~'i soaed, or rotten to the very core. The IrishtrChurch, or-rather the Church of ithie English plantation" in Ireland, lass new been Oisstablished nearly four years ; SeAnd the time has arrived when we may prudently examlne the wood, and see if it beood for anything, or mere rottenness unit for aught bat ire. At this juncture "A Laysan of the Irish '. Church" comes to our aid, and in a letter appearing in the London Time, of last -Tsesday, glve us soeme very valuable, If v rry strange, information towards guiding eEer judgment. That his statements will :' c-bdenied-indeed have been, to a certain extent-.-tbere can be no manner of doubt ; but, as the leading journal says in an arti ele on the subject, *if it be half or a quar tet true, then we submit that even in Irish history. it is a dark and disagreeable chap tmr." Very dark, and very disagreeable no doubt, hut we must, at the outset, repu diats the transactions recorded as portions of lrial history proper, and relegate them to the annals of the English in Ireland-a very different thing. Having made that correction, we can proceed to examine the "Layman's" letter, and see what he has to about a Protestant seest which should a r have been "establlabed" asa Church Sia-a untry essentiglly Catholic. We are told in o Holy Scriptures that the good shepherd ys to guard his flock, but that the hirelint ca because he is a hireling, and, actcrding'to the "Layw..n," the Iriah parsons ar. not onu hirelings but dishon est hirelings. He sa~that when disestab lishment became eerta 700 Protestants, many of them mere youths, were ordained so that they might particliate in the com lug planc , and that having in due course so participated, they pocketed their money, went off to England to ill the thinned asnks of parseodom there, and have in c - sequence left the Irish Church almost des titute of clergymen. The process, he tells as, is familiarly known in Ireland as "oom mting, compoundinog, and cuttlng"-that is to say, their incomes were guaranteed at a eertain rate, then they were allowed to' apitalise such incomes into a lump suas eo money-generally in four fiurs, as the hsme has it-end having put that lb their pockets they "out" offaeross the Channel, and took up other ouracles, ineumbeniees, sad plaeeo of proot in the Chure of Eng lgpda leaving the Establishment they had Ied with, the congregations (such as are) they had undertaken to teach d minister to, and the country they had Slundered, to take care of themselves. We do not besitate to asy that a more utterly abominable prpeseding has never before digraced the annals of any religions bode, y rde we think there is any Church In the whole world, save and except the Pro testant one, where such outrageous swind. ag~counld have taken plase. " My House abals be saled the House of Prayer : but eyen have made it a don of thiev" said dar Lord when be leared the Teme, and /ever, sine He uttered those we , have the reeelved sub a complete feuilment asa i the ease under consideration. Nor do we write so strongly solely because we gas Catholies, and these reteasnt "pastors" are Protestants. The artli nt n the 2!1mee is fall of withering sarmass on the whole disJasting bueines, and we are glad to motee that even the most strenuous sup petors of Protestantism in this country idsounee the deed in the most unnmeesu terms. The 2rtae says, that "all or Slthis company of new preachers, ther 70D or 150, so suddenll and euuenily asheend to a Dvine call, bha commuted, eomponnded, and 'caut' expeditiously as they were ordaine d liceased, and are already rseekin sh homes and pas tures new in this untry," and it does not kesrtatq to d ribe the deed as "a huge robbery," e cannot forbear-so that the I aMss ma ahand forth in its full hideous- a om quoting from our contemporary, f indeed, if the exigencies of space I old permit we would gladly reprint the eutire article :-"For centuries immense aJsrtunea have been made, families have I been founded, eastles and palaces built, a power vinnired, and titles accumulated out I of Irish piunalitles, capitular endowments, a and Spiscopal revenues. It has been the a bestor trades, the most proftableof specula tieas-a hundred times better than vulgar abopkeeping or laborious agriculture. It I was the harvest without the sweat of the s brow, and the incoming with scarcely the trouble of adding it up. If 'A Layman' t speaks the troth, the ruling passion has v been strong In death, and the Irish Church, at her last gasp, has been clutching at ua -wealth to be spent far away." t Now from this there is a moral to be a drawn, and if it is bitter and most severe a en Protestantism, that form of religion has . nothing but itself to blame. We are not oencerned now to dilate on the gigantic a plunder ttli Protestant Establishment has a wrung-by fire and aword and wholesale w bloodshed and torture-out of the Irish iE people ; volumes could be written on that a - branch of the subject, and yet not describe Ia thebo whlole truth; but we will ask thisl simple question: Is it not fair, from the n fool rottenness of Protestantism in Ireland re now displayed for the horror and diagast of manktind, to infer tt Protestantism in Eogland Ls equally rupt, equally de- , composed, and equally lthy Men pro- a, tes to wonder and stand amased that io- a, telligent Christians are passing wholesale into the ranksof Catholloity--shoald it not t rather be matter of surprise, than any sen sible and eonsaoientious man estays with a Si so-ealled Church whose pastor make a trade of tlheir religion, wbone deeds ere s thee of the extortioner and swintodler, and , wheae "hooses of prayer" ams, inodeed so , Sas their attendant ministers go), bat a of thieves.t" Os ear fifth page our reeder will and the a --vaesmnst d Keeers. sge.a a Ca. Neo. r5 Meg. a sis saeet, qpeesl as mwebabate, wiseb Is wasby ~ . ·y Sar.ttAnedism. As tmer sd ealy r sees md oes, s Mer esetmea st te sae ats.. as eopltsas et 1mg we eajedeess nbls see hemeaser the usry bees Xt a-·UsS tht m this maraut. Ther ate ,sasa e omtlms., sd tlIr tms may be d*ed ea so as mhrk s4 eginulso. aDagLag Is tars quataes, thery I .se ,~ar i ve -ne. ewa his se se the Is mie saa sheep as netsaseomrs. We advie ear esots.en. asi ve them i seat, eeste s tht te wUl mees wrsh ad petha but talr sat beaserate demlLege. The latest stylee 1 tellt s hbae ast bases a e - At the Convention of the Total Abti *See Usei eof America, held last Neoth in Chicago, the following address to the Holy to Father was unanimously adopted: the Most Holy Father : Remembering with * gratitude the encouragement given by of Your Heolinese to the Catholie Total Abeo. oas neace Union of America, we, the iepls/N Si; tatives of the various societies in memb ay ship with it, assembled dd deliberstison the best measures to advance ita ints ter as deem it our first duty to greet You Holi ness, assuring you of our ilial lov e/ud de ab votion to your sacred person. will no er doubt cheer your pastoral heqrt to know tat the great and good cause of tm peranece is if makngrapidprogresst4welto-tmeliora g tion of oar people. One hbadred and ifty III one soeleties have been added to the roll In aince the Convention of 1878, making a t; total of 400 societies at the present date, - representing 100,000 'teetotalers. Theose r- who heretofore simply admired our efforts, sh and looked on with doubt, considering P them merely spasmodie, now wonder much no at our great success. This success we at u- tribute to the sanction so graoiously given, no and the-blessing of that Divine Spirit Your m Holiness invoked, which was to guide our -a actions by His holy inspirations. Our at Union has had its enemies and its scoffers. be They are not dead; they only sleep for a to while. We must keep ourselves ever on Id the watbch, like faithfal guardians of the :h sacred trust given us, knowing our help is re from on High, for in Heaven we hope, and Ji in Him trusting we shall not be confounded. at We prostrate ourselves at your feet, and B. implore for oar Union, our soeleties and b ourselves individually the blessing of orr - Holy Father Pope Pius Pius IX. The address to Archbishop Manning, id adopted at the same time, reads thus: s- The Total Abstinence Union of America, oe in convention assembled, greet your Grade w. with the warmest "'O' lore, gratitude, asnd id admiration for your noble stand and power s- Ifl advocacy in the blessed eause of total abstinence. We thank your Grace for the is counsel, true principles, and the e- ch ng encouragement that your words it have conveyed to the members of our it -Uoion. Working in the boly cause of tem perance for our own benefit and for the a good of soioety, our hopes have heen is strengthened and our path brightened by Ir the blessing of our Holy Mother, the 1, Church, conveyed to as in the Apostolical s, benedletion of our Holy Father, Pius IX., *- as also by that of so many illustrious pre d lates. Among these Apostolic names we is are proud to number the worthy suoeessor h of the eminent Cardinal Wiseman, and d assure your Grace that among our most * preeious memories will be the recolleetion y of the kindly words that have been wafted e from Westminster to America. r, We hall your Grae and ezknd the band 0 of fellowship and brotherhood to the mem bers of your Total Abstinence League. Re o tai*tng the truth of the motto "In union t strength," we are baned - Sgeter throughbout North America. e d would then wish that our Union cross I the Atlanthe, and be strength y the I e membership of the Societies are oar- I i ring the anner of tem es in the Old I r We trust, ill oe and beloved e Prelate, that not m years will have sped i Sdown the sre time before the Old and i New Worlds extend their hands and e embrace only as friends working In a o como cause, but as brothers laboring to S in a widespread anad permanent I S - Abstinene Union, encouraged and 1 Sreoted by the Prelates of our Holy t Church. We trust your Grace will, if you r see ft, give to this your kindly and wise p consideration. I, The representatives of 100,000 total ab- I e stinence men assembled in Chicago in their I fourth annual Convention, again greet your I - Grace, and hail as brothers the members of 4 t your Total Atminence League. We bid I e them God speed, and cheer them onward I for our sake, for their sake, for the sake of ' society, and for the sake of our holy roll gion. And, illustrioss Prelate and beloved I Father, nothing would give un more e i pleasure and encouragement than to have His Grace Archbishop Manning among our honorary members. Hoping that we may soon hall your illustrious name upon our f rolls we have the honor and the pleasure to I sign ourselves your humble and devoted i servants. AGRICULTURAL lr.mLpuura Te, ILIaDwAr , Er.--City and country dealers, and planters * and agrioulturists generally, would do well. before making prehases, to examine the immense stock to be found in the wareroms of Messrs. A. Baldwin & Co., 74 Canal and 9S, 93 and sa Common streets, and whose adrertisement will be found on the Sfth page There Is probably so family la the Both that is better known than that of the Sleoomb ; its members have :al been foremost, for half a cntury, in works of blibU atit, sad have on all occasions displayed a public spirit and enterprise worthy of general imitation. In the late war few Louisianians were more conspiueous tr ren. dered greater service than Capt. Cath. Slooomb, for I many years and till his death the head of this house, a sand whose large nterests In the busines have passed P into the hands of his widow and his mother. Mesrs. . Baldwin and Entise, two experienced and capable gsn. tismen, are the other partnere in the concern, and b manage the boalnesou, which, of course, the ladis could d not attend to. but which Is theirprinclipalsourceof d rarenue. v ]ktLItnR ANhD FANCY GOODs.--On Thurs day lest Mine. Ros Resnotr, N'o. em Magzlueg street, had her grand opening of fall and wiatear mtillnery, t hats, boenet, flowers, veils, ate., et., and throughout the day her store wan crowded with dlade Inspeooting the new and elegant styler wbloh Mmo. Renolar had sgathred. Her stock i very oomplete, and ladies wil a and her pries very moderate. 1Mrs. Ohard, fomerlys with Mrs. Meatague, so with pma. Reyner, and ll g attand to droe making tn all its breanaee in the most asseptablie tyle. She will ales do etisag nd beatag ia tae aiters heohisa orders fe aity or eutatry will met with prempt attsnUatlem. Coughs, colds, sthma, -and all diseases of this nature, No ftlt ia their oetn sad o proevaleast t this tme of the year, m amooeet tmsad oud by a few spethits t l oe's Indian Tai Rp Pseal cc aima. whieb ea be beught of say sead rggl. Our p well-knows fellneow atsen, aB. LIplas, as., , sad gs -eirm tld eet, iS tho dissevef sa whelesale to dealer is thu inas laaie rmedy. m hepard'e Patent Btareh Gloss saves time sad labor, Is obse, sad makes y eolethes appe new. rs sale by Paetr alisa, aosner orl arsya m aadevrllle sem. b sw Goouse ar assm.ua& ADas '-A-- lte, th eleasiesnwevsq*sd will smat hasp am a w 4 Oid ba san~d mas*emena~i mge amn Namhd lb inc asers str. irih oly / -- - with WA.,/' u.. by! ----... The eclipse of the moon, which ocearred between 12 and 3 o'clock in the night be on tween Saturday and Sunday last, Oct. 24th t, and 25th, wu an event which excited the de greatest interest among all classes of peo Do ple. The N. Y. Herald, always eaterpris mow ing, published several diagrams and photo grap showing the dfferent phases of the fty eclipse, besides many columns of instruo roll tire reading matter on the subject of Sa eclipses in general, the nature of the moon, on etc. From its issue of last Sunday we rte, Sepy the following: ring At ferty-eightminutes pusteven o'clock aob last ight a faint hadow passed over the at- surface of the moon, and a little while after *on, her fair face became totally immersed ino our shade. She had not donned so thick a veil our before in eighteen years, and while she Dar wore it she became all the more interesting era. because of her dusky and sombre costume. •r a We can well Imagine the anguish and on terror of those, ignorant of science and the the laws which govern the movements of the is eelestials, upon beholding one of them t and gradually disappearing, whirling from bril led. liant radiance into total obseurity, chang- t end lug the aspect at ones of both earth and a and sky and then rushing back to light and u our brilliancy again from behind the gloomy t barriers. We can well understand how the l ng, barbarians Are wont pon such occasions to a couch in terror-stricken groups, and, while d tearing their hair and mutilating their a le, bodies, cry aloud upon their imaginary, ade impotent gods to deliver them; even to us, t mad among whom the printing press has ren- I 8r- dered scieues popular and universal, a b 4! sifbht so extraordinary and phenomenal as 1 the that whichb occurred a few hopre ago is one a the calculated to i11 the spectator with wonder r rds and awe, even though he be a savant and k aur understands that all be sees proceeds from n 'm- natural causes and after certain fixed, an- t the changeable laws. we The different aspects and phases of the by moon at different periods were a source o the great perplexity to the ancient astronom e cl but the magnificent instruments of era f, , science have removed all these d en- ri re- abled aus to map out the moo nd gain a h we clear conception of everythi that appears tl Supon its surface. el nt WATr I MOON t lon "Possessing, e all do, a great deal of fa Scuriosilty," sa he able and eloquent Pro- mr feesor O. itehel, "no subject has ex- ot ad cited so esp an interest as the actual t p. aond a of the face of the moon.. Every ie. o desires to know whether the other of In orlds are like our own. Have they oceans t and seas. Itakes, rivers Islands and conti Ve nents Does their oll resemble our own? ss Does vegetable life there manifest itself in Sin every variety of gram and fwers, and tt shrub and tme Are there extended forests lid and spicy groves, illed with multitudinous h, ad animals in this far off world ? Abd, above hk ed all, are the bright orbs we see over our , ad heads inhabited by rational beings like w ad manV " 0 Concerning this latter question science e theorizes and presumes, but it does not to at actually know. "The moon, destitute of s ad both water and atmosphere," says the ai fly modern scientist, "Is destitute also of any do on form of life Imbued with the faculties which IV le distinguish men." If a- person could be wafted to the chilly surface of the moon b- (supposing him to be enabled to survive th sir the loss of our terrestrial atmosphere and t or to withstand the dreadful temperature of of of 460 degrees below zero which prevails ,id through the space beyond the regions of rd our atmosphere) he would ind not man, of of woman nor child; no animal life of any a' I. description; no rushing of rivers, no rust- C, ad ling of forests, no moaning of winds. No oil re songs of birds, no sound of any description th we would fall upon his ear. Everything would lit or be bleak and still as death. He could not on ey hear the sound of a gun, though it were er r fired off at his ear, for there Is no atmos- cif to phere along whose " palpitating bosom " it of sd is possible to convey sounds to the brain. Ti All the oxygen gas which once enveloped tal its fair surface has long since been devoured qu s, by the elements existing thereon, and there vo vs is no longer any of the vital fluid remain- wt ," ing. The change from day to night is in- tal b stantaneous, there being no twilight. If pr ever water rushed through her dark, deep of valleys, it is now transformed into coiossal me glaciers, which can never melt, and which, fac ~ even if they could be dissolved, would fail glc __ to rush downward with the terrific fury so so common to the Alpine masses of ice and on *1 snow, because standing on the moon ob- ma t, jects have only one-sixth of the weight t. they would have when placed on our own or globe. A man of 120 pounds, avoirdupois, ne », would find that he only weighed twenty sui , pounds on the moon. In addition to this advantage of diminished gravity he would , find that it took the sun fourteen and a Sbalf days to rise and set, thus furniofshing a d Sday of this length and a night of the same t Sduration. During this long iiight he could the view the earth, which never rises or sets, tril but is constantly visible to that portion of the moon which is turnod towards us. The o earth would appear as a veit moon, u thirteen times as large as our moon seems the Sto us, abd would furnish light during the the commencement and end of the night. At the beginaninog of night our earth would be le a half moon on the wane, gradually dimin Ishing, until at midnight it would be a dark Sglobe encircled by a faint ring of light, Ig which by degrees would develop lato a crescent and advance to the balf moon stage, when the san would again rise. T SHence the eartb would present ihe same T phases to an observer at the moon that o t would be presented to us by the moon, if tm the diurnar rotation of the earth were so re Starded and adjusted as to leave the moon conatamtLy visible to one of oar hemis pberes. Bat as the same hemisphere of the moon is always turned toward the earth, an T follows that a person remaionog on the re Let mot heemisphere enuld never obtmio a neE view of the earth and could not witness the anp Seoncealmeat of the saunalght which took at i Iple this morning. If he could bring a sone Slocomotive lato requsition he would be en- are abled to lea-e has position on Thuramday vio iLght, and, t the rae lr ale per minute at :travei rouadto the middle of thbe fillemnad ble a e ia time sn ohars the eulpsa the aon I* WWS*rSbmtehlde . meetli, .lethe moes b at a diasee of ..lAD _ l re_ u_map s.._ The famos.telm-. oseepof Lord Reose in Parsonstowa, Ire lan-tbhe met powerful in the world-re duces this Ismense distance to such a de gree that the lusar orb seems only forty miles off; and there are telescopes in this country through whieh we can view it as red well as though we were within 120 miles or it. The actual diameter of the moon is t about 2,000 miles. Ith aULTS OF TELESCOPIC OBSKRVATION. the Through our telescopes we can see that eo- her surface is diversified with hill and dale, is- lofty mountainas and mighty cavities, with to- broad plains and towering iselated peaks, very similar to the features presented upon the sroface of our own earth. Nay, so far o- has ahuman science been developed that of Luna's elevations and depressions have been exactly modelled, her mountain eleva ' tions measured and the depth of the we mighty cavities upon her face carefully de termlned. Lying upon our backs and ek viewing the moon through the tkasecope, he we find that her mountains, like ours, have er their summits first lighted by the rays of no the rising sun, while the plains beneath, ail and their rude, rugged sides, are in the he dreqriest and deepest darkness. g Its hemisphere, subjected to the scrutiny I. of the Rosse and Heraehelian telescopes, ad ,bas been mapped with the greatest care. TLe Ie The he RAGGED SUMMITS OF THE HILLS, m under the rays of the sun, glow and sparkle Li- with wondrous beauty. As she changes - her course, the black shadows of the mas ad sive rocks creep down into the valleys, ud until the sun has reached the szenith. Then a the shadows steal up the towering crags, he hiding the plains below, until at length the tosun sets, leaving the hemisphere In tota is darkness. By measuring with a mi - ir meter the apparent sizes of those sh ws, Y, we are enabled to determine the ghts of S, the mountains which cast t , in the - same way as we would termine the a height of a church steepl y measuring the as length of its shadow, observing at what es angle the sunbes fell upon it. One sr range extends a ve a level country, and. Ad known as " e Apennines," is aboat 200 m miles in ent. These are visible when - the n passes its first quarter, and pr t a scene of unsurpassed beauty, he theirsilvery ridgesaand pitchy ravines. I he thousand haes which deok the sky and clouds on our planet are utterly absent a from the moon. Some of the mountains I- rise to a height of 8,000 to 10,000 feet-a a height far greater in propertion to its size a rs than are the Himalayas to the size of the i earth. In many places solitary peaks a tower abruptly to a height of 6,000 or 7,000 z feet. The cavities excite still more admi ,. ration and awe than the craggy hills. Some . of them sink to a depth of one, two and a three miles. Owing to the y BOWL-SHAPED APPEARANaCS nr of these the theory has been advanced that l they are the craters of extinct volcanoes, which view, as it finds an analogy in the 1 t physical nature of the other planetary I Sbodies, confirms the belief that at one time I d there existed on the moon a violence of I a chemical action, fractures and gigantic up heavals of matter such as have never been e known on our own globe within the mem- $ ory of man. The darker spots of the moon were once supposed to be lakes and seas; t but this supposition is untenable.- One of a s these spots so ciroalar In outline and has a t t lofty range of hills on the weastern and a southwestern sides. The range gradually sinks in the east, and a sloping beach leads down to a surface smoother thsa any lake. Into this there seems to flow a river of great magnitude, extending back into a t country dotted with a hundred islands, and C then dividing-into two branebhes which no a i telescope can trace back beyond a distance e of fifty miles. THE VOLCANIC THEORY o of some of the ceqtral eraters is tolerably a well established. One of these, named Copernicus, near the eastearo limb, is situated near the Equator, and presents all the appearances of an extinct volcano. A P little to the vast of this is anorher similar v one called Kepler. Near the monou's south- t ern limb is another, named Tcho. Such so circular ranges have sometimes a diameter ti of fifty miles and a height of three miles B The greatest height of any lunar moono tain thus far observed is about four anld a quarter miles. From some of the apparent , volcanoes, there issue streaky radiations a which extend in all directions to great dis- w tances across the deepest valleys and de- gi pressions. They are probably high ridges oc of great reflective power. These pheno- m mena are repeated across the visible snur- of face of the moon, forming the massive and m glorious orb which has been the theme of so much poetry. In size the moon only is one-fiftieth of that of the earth, but her mass is only one-eightieth. it INFLULENCE ON THE TIDES. of Relatively small though this mass be, it " nevertheless exerts an attractive power H suffeientto lift the immense mass of waters , on our globe from their normal position, vi causing the oceans to oscillate p and down we and generating the familiar occurrence of ol tides. It is true that the son is millions of wi timrs more powerful in his attraction than ' the moon, yet his irfluence on the tides is CO trifling compared to the mroon's. The rea. 5e0 son of this in that thern is less ratio be- i tween the sunn's distacts fro~m the midday and midnight portions of the earth than there is between the moon's distance from the near and remote sides of the earth. The result is that the moon's attraction is 'i least at the remote side of the earth and ea greater at the near side. Hence the ocean bulges out at those opposite regions, caus. nlog high tides at the same instant on, op posite sides of the-earth. At points h-alf ye way between those plaoes there is low tide. s The time which elapses from one high tide to another is twelve hours and twenty fivre minutes. It would be exactly twelve boaurs but for the continued motIeon of the moon eastward, scasing a delay of tweaty five minutes every twelve hours; OrStER INFLUENCas EXERTED B LUIna. Te,. term lannatio in derived from the Laun ,,aiue Luna, which signifies the moon, ocause persons afileted with madeeas were supposed to be influ8enced and aggravated at the recurrence of'the new moon. Per asons ubjeet to epileptic and estaleptio Ste are lskewie knowe to be attacked more m vioelently at the same period Wood eat at esetata phases of the moon is more l1a ble to rot then when howse at other p1erd sad changes of the weather are more hkelt eaae whmthe mea ee her e! of eiee trid a se hesz. , =- W- r tits e t ·ae i c Ire- count iobrthee mysterious intatenees whiMb -re- re proppagated througl the invisible ether de- and eommneatoiesd to men in a manner that rty forcibly prelims the government 61, one this Infinite Astronomerbefore whose wontIoous Sas dispositons of material and spiritual force s o sill hlman powers, phy~ieal and intellec t is tual alike, must pale. THE MOOV IN PASr AgII. r. It is asserted with good authority that hat as far back as the second century before the ale, Christian era the Chinese not only madeca rith talogues of the fixed stars with their pos.i aki, tions in relations to the equinoctial and pon soltititial. points and the obhqulty of the far ecliptic, but also advanced a theory of hat eclipses subatantialy the same as that of are our own times. There yet remain works vs- in the Chinese tongue "whioh were written the 200 years before Christ showing that the de.- periodio times and revolutions of the lunar tad orb were known to them at periods far pe, anterior to that ancient date. The most tre skilful astronomer that ever China pro of dueed, who bore the euphonious cognomen th, of Toheon-bong, lived more than 1,000 the years before theChristian era, and he spent whole nights in contemplating the "mo lia tions of the everlasting suns" and the phe es, nomena of occultations and eclaees. The New York correspon t -of the London Register writes very in log letters to that ale paper. From his le r dated September 21st, we copy as foll : Is AT Durrr or Iw OBLABs.. en Many re age, being sick and a stranger in New cans, your correspondent one day asked hi egro nurse to go to the nearest Catholic arch and beg one of the priests to come and see him. The good woman, who was herself a Catholic, went quickly on this errand, and ere *, long returned with a Redemptorist PFather, of whose pale but sweeast face I have never sines he forgotten. This was Father Duffy, of whose t be death I have just read with feelings of sorrow I he and joy. For twenty-three years he had dons at the work of God in that most lovely but moseet a pestilential city of the fair SBoth. All the d city loved him for his tender charity and his untiring seal. He died the otheday perfetly 00 worn out by literally uneasing lahbor. "How On often," said the priest who preached his fo ad neral sermon, " have you not seen him ascead y, this pulpit when he was scarcely able to crawl- o s, how often have younot trembled lest he shoul d faint at the altar; bow often have you not Ot seen him drag himself to visit sink peseso who were not half so sick as he was himasel His life was one of toil and prayer; and God a alone can tell what his sufferings were in his r* eleepless nights and days of alonhaing pain for e the last six years. Now hes at rest ith God. ks and remembers no more those days of anguish." )0 As I copy these lines, my thoughts run back I over my own life, and I recall the memory of a many priests like Father Daffy whom I have known. We who live ino eas, and who take 0 our comfort in this world as we go through it, are not worthy to as much as kissi the feet of such men. I have seen them on battle melds, -a in fever hospitals, in prisons, on scaffolds with at condemned criminals, in the poisonous aluns r of great ities, in the desert wildernes of the to Far West, in the malarlons swamps of the ry South, in the chapparal of Meales, and in the eo mahogany forests of Hondum-s-doing all J of things, endring all things, careless of dager, Sinsensible to ser, incapable of fatigue, asorn e l of lpal, ready to die at any moment, oont ing their own lives as nothing. A lIong ae of these sons of God passmes in review efore me, a and I bow my head before them. I glory is the thought that I belong to tbh Chuseh of i which they were thepests; but I mourn over a the thought of how often the work of such d men is made harder by the soldneas or the wickednmes of those who abould aid them toI bear their burdens. e. A NIW CATHOLIC COLIZIe on orxUl asnrrri If The Bishop of Philadelphia has offered to a buy from the trustees of the estate of Mr. Jay d Cooke a very magnificent domain, lying about 61 o seven miles from Philadelphia. This property, e on whioh Mr. Cooke had erected a splendid mansion, as a private residence for himelf and of his own family, comprises more than 200 acrse of lad ; and upon it has been lavished money and skill in order to make of it an earthly par- in d adise. The mansion Itself is built of fine stone; in extent, solidity. and beauty it rivals the finest of your English country seats. The am grounds are very beautiful, and altogether the k place is quite fit fora prince. Mr. Cooke eati r mated its value at £300,000; and it probably is really worth that sum. But It most now be b sold for the benefit of his creditors, and the a r trustees are willing to sell it for £100,000. The wt Bishop of Philadelphia has oftered for it the anl sum of £60.000; and it is probable that it will F be sold to him for that sum. Iam notinformed of the purpose to which the Bishop wishes to sta convert this estate. There is room enough all s upon it for many of the charitable instittitions m - which he has under his pastoral care. The I, great mansion might be converted into a grand vir s college; or the whole of the estate might be 8 made the site of the great Catholic University of the United States which our Hierarchy hope some day to found. 1.. f Sometimes a disease which threatens life is a blessing in disguise-and is especially so if T it requires a trip to a new climate and a wild country for its treatment. We have all sorts Go of climate, and an infinitude of unexplored ooountry for stch experiments. Jacob Weiss a was a poor German mechanic of Louisville. ath He was aflioted with a bronchial affection which threatened consumption, and was ad- H vised to go to Colorado to prolong his life. He went, and after staying a while at Denver, joined a little exploring party and took to the wilds. Weins heas been gone eight months, and writes to a friend that the party have dis- i covered half a dozen rich silver `iines, and sends home specimens of ore. He is cured of his disease and has become a wealthy man be sides. In t CUNDURANoO B-rrrss.-This is a splendid Ira family medicine, and has galed a very extensive sale Sto throughout the Eouth. Messr. Morriseon & Woodward, corner of Canal and Magslte strte, ayre sole S0outher A agents. il of S Every housekeeper will find it to his ad- . vantagee so w. Sheparda Patent etarteh Olae. Pr - esa by soe.Vells. 7 Dauphleaseess, sreraghela. 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MORRISON & WOODWABD, ...........a.eStreet........,a T.61R er wt Spener Field& O.,and 1se, General Collector and Real Estate Agent. Order, loft at the Billiard Dpt No. is Ca ne tret, between St. Charle, and oarndelet, deemn attenled to. n 74Iy*p H. N. JENKINS, soucrron or American and Foreign Patents, _ WANTS-FOR RIENTS-ETC. "TA.TZD-A ,ARMR, WHO THOROUGHLY Sunderstands his business, fora small homs oe in the oountry. He must be a praieol (Caselte--.m Irishman or a Georman. None oter need a.y. Apply to Mr. JAS. RICKUTT3, at Dai,]'s la Store. corner of Canal sad Cahrtes sreet. roel I A GOOD CHANCE FORD edA APITALIST TH from 1800 to Ser10. Wasntd--A goI Si a well establs, LIQUOR STRE' ,, of *IM standing. boated in one of the beet busines peses. of he otty. Present owner eiing e -eod f1 healtb. Address M., Bo 1971. Pe$ee, e pIos. eon 1", A LADY DESIRESA SITUATION Al GOT nloose Iul e ene m8 a od e.omp t t ri sngllsh. Preach a" Lati. she Pans Wert. I Adres. 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