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MOBILE'S TRIBUTE TO POPE PIUS IX. lif
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A OGRAND I'ROCEiSiO OF ALL CREEDS ANltD we
i',AR1E did
The Greatest Display Mobile Has Ever a
Witnessed. on
Ctondenserl in the MobLile Rei,.ter. son
On Snnday trot, February 2itl, as tihe ge
hour appoipinll for the tentdt.viouI oif all a c
the societies anl orgntizLationsl which wore b
to partlicipate in t1.' nietntrlll l'ra1e|i iio t 111
of the great PontliI i'i iIX. , apt`l/arhied, Iv,
the whole town was lv., wtitl eixcitemllelnt In
and suspense ; ete*r oinl as upon titi tip- pa.
top of expct'atolllun, to " 'tltes tie grand olle
pageant. 'I'e people clas fronm all direc- an
tions, from w'histllrr, and Irioml all the ur- pih
rounding settiletinta l i i sii in the ui i- lut
versal demonletraRthlo. People. Wetreen eair
to be movilli ill strleais Iiii all directions, tos:
to the comrloun cot n'i I anttractlon--th t Lo
Cathedral, fromn wa ;ell ithe procl s-on b
moved in the following order: rPlu
Col. iRobertM lHsudt. tIlid Marslh.l ilno
Mounted Aids. ith
Plateon of Police, under command of Snearg' t Iter- of
FIRtbI' IV)IISION. ki
Col. liehos. 1i. Ifelndrn. Mar,il. M
First Regimenit of A. M. T. C'ol T. . she
Irwin, (Ci.'laiiaL.IlI .
ui' L 15 . Ith
IDrawn lyeight while horeo. t' wtlin, uanepied in thil
blahk velveL t.trimud wiihail', r re s tal s ls, m.
and draped wlthotop. and lotiOy Miia' plumes, Wt
was nurmounted by the Iiipie.rItative e as fea
.nest na scarlet, upon which rli ed the be
Pap·al tiara and oros khte,, nld waae be
undolltlurliy the atiractive feot.
are of the funeral cort,'ge aPI
Guard of Honor-the Alabama State Artillery with sor
sabres. alo
Itallian enevolent Asoclatlion. dif
Catholio Total Abstinel ie Society. of
Acolytes--Rev. Clergy. gyl
Right Rev. tlihopt. mri
lHi Orasethe Most Rev. Archbishop of New Or'eans. a p
Orator if the Day,. asI
Committee of Arrangements in Carriages. tor,
SECONID DIVISION. 1
Col. L- H. Keulorly. Marshal. eot
Mobile Fite Deps tmuent. Chief Englteer, M. the
F. Tuoker, Commanding. be
French Benevolent Association. of
Hpaishe Benevolent Association. tni
R. E. Lee Aesoiiatsoia the
t tarUloes tontaining Lty. I'ounty. State and United In I
Stois Ofticlals, Jdgls, Poreig on Cioululs,
Bank and Insurance c(icers Menmbere det
of the Board of Trade ant Cotton leol
Exchange, Mobile Medl- reg
cal Society. tidi
THIRD DIVIty ON. I.
Peter Burke. Marshal. nov
St. Patriekal Benevolent Association. son
St. Patrick's I. it. adl L. Association, Moi
Delegation from St. Patrick's Benevolent Asacelation was
of Whistler. col
DIelegation of Citilson from Whistler. the
St. Vincent'a L. and Iienevolont Assooliaton. hat
German Penevolent Association. vio
Mobile Tnrnverelo. lit
FOURTHI DIVISION. not
Major D. T. Webster. Marshal. T
Baymen's Benevolent Asociation. . de
Brothers of the iscred Heart. the
Orphans. the
St Joseph's Fodality. thil
t iirldren of St. Joseph's bLhool.
Itudente of Spring hill College. forl
Citisens Genes ally. i
In this splendid and mournful pageant thi
were gathered together representations of rat,
every nationality, creed and race, of every dot
organization, religious, mercantile, medi- no
cat and bonevolent. All the true children ins
of the Catholic Church werie gathered to- 'C
gether to render the holagen ' their hearts
htitl- I , eve
upon whom they linokeld as the head of the Sa
Christian world, andl to wihoin they bore to
the tenderest atiection which the heart can lar
ever render t, ,ino who was a stranger in a at
foreign land. The men of the world were ret
there with tile ilmembers of all the Christian hir
creeds, to atti at by their presence their ro t
apect and hounge to the IneinoTry t.f one ha
whom they recognized :a the possesser of to
the noblest tualities ef the soul, briglit
end by thl lIntre of blmlitod atid cultured wi
Intelligence ins
But nothiiig in the iproctession was more he
solemn or imipoittig thal the presence. of to
the venerable Archbishop of New Orleanes, o
who, as lie passed along, gave his blesaetg be
to all who lined his way. A grander or he
more benevolent countenance than his is
seldom bestowed upon one of the children eo
of man. be
After marching thronugh itre principal streets at
which were densely oruwled with people, the ti
procession returned to the Cathedral, in whioh b
every a·ailable inch of ground was soon o.- ti,
copied. After the singing of the " Itlan.m of
maton" aid other appropriate pieces, Mr. Thos, he
Henry, President, introduced Dr. Thomas Lay. It
ton, of New Orleans, as the Orator of the day,
who spoke as folloer: at
tiR. TllUMAn L.AYTON'a AI,IaRT.Rae.
My Lords, Reverend Fatheis. Ladles and Gentlemen : e
The Catholic universe is jubilant. Some tl
days ago we Ict him who, for nearly thirt.- n
two years, was the guide anti the father of so b
many millions cif nten scattered over the sur- n
face of the earth. But, no, I ani mistaken; we tI
have not lost Pius IX.
After having foKught the good fight, hie has e
gone to receive his reward. After so lotie a life, c
and a life so full of merits, we must rejoice to i
koow that he bhn entered intu g;ory. And I
repeat, we have not lost our fathlr: we are
oounlncI d that t in Ileven he contoiune 1to pro- t
tect the, Chircli which hlie loved with a hvi. ni
strong and so tentler. We ht've alreadLy re
ceived a poseitlve iproof of that lovo. In i: tot
he who has obtaiund fir ise, by Lie pra)ers, the
signal favor which at this liotmeilt causea the
Catholic unlvereO to rcjuitc. Yee', we ari Jo
bilant beoause a euooctsor to PI'lus IX is already I
seated upon the throne be lett vacant.
Only a few mionthe ago the greatest obstacles
were foreseen cnocernlng the omeeting of the
Conelave: the general unnsinesee which prr
vails throughout Europe, the violent commo
tions which agitate it, all conspired to excite
femars of great complications; and still, what
do we see? Every difficulty hba been sur
moented; the interregnum has been shorter
than eusual. Is there a single Catholic heart
which does not perceive the HIand of God in
all this? I there ,t*e one Catholic who doe.
not say, at least is the d epthe of hi heart,.
with a profound feeling ofgratitude: " It is
oeer father who continues to protect ns, to love
as; it is Pine IX who, by hisl prayers, has ob
tained for us this signal favor; and he will
also obtain for Leo XIII that abundant mena
sure of graces whioh was lavished upon him.
elf.
nah ram theleelingwhich are to be found
In the hearts of Catholics. They are all con
vinced that the Lord, iu removing from their
midst the visible presence of him whom they
loved, and whom they continue to love so ten
daly ; they are oonvinced, I say, that the Al
mighty has granted them a powerful interces
ear in Heaven.
Nothing Is sweeter to the heart or man i a. -
to speak of what it loves; whene the coo|ol- bit
sion is easily drawn-nothing is sweeter for I
me than to speak of Pios IX. Beautifol str
thoughts might be indolged in touobhing his bo
life which was so remarkable in every respect.
This portraiture, however, would require a A
more skillful pen than wine; more time, too. ohi
would be uecessars, than that which has bets ree
allotted to me. Ousy tao or three days since dim
did I receive the exoeedingly courteous and wh
cordial itnvitatin extendeld lto me by the Clergy teal
and the lay Catholice of Mbobile. felt
You will readily nndertaand that if. on the ed
one hand, I felt honored, on the other, I ex- the
perienced great a-prehension; and if I had the whi
courage of endeavoring to surmount my hesi- dpi
tations, it was partly because the thonght pre- vid
sented itself that you would be kindly indul- ten
gent, and also on accountof the pleasure which I
a ohild experiences in epoeking of a dearly- all
beloved father.
Hlowiever, even under such circmeistances. I wil
i:r'nno)t fireet Ithe *ay'ig i f at.. ert:rard. lie the
loved the it eased Virgin telderl), as all kunw. 1
In oine of I1=i erlit., a thure is to be found a Pr'
piass,.age of such a naturle as to discourage every sto
one, iperhap, but a lan an especially. With thu
an extraordinaiy ,llit-lolt of love he spostr:- pli
phizou the liltesed Virgil, and he tells htr I
that hiy groettest happi ices is to speak of her: gre
Ibut he h.uiters to add Ihlt Iei treitibli, at the pro
sallle time, for hie i ovetrwhlelmtod at Itre not
Ilniugi.t if hIer grandon. lHow, then, could ti
Lohepeu:k wo;thily ,f her F
My m.eant.g isn amily underatood. I)oubtless reli
Piun IX is not yet placid ipmon our altars, and dill
no ouel has the pzutension to anticipate the the
judgment of thli Church I Sapposiig even, owe
that the hope which is tmulanted in the hearts edn
of all Cathllicn shouldl one day be realio,ld, ie wh
know well that Pins IX will never bes exalted to
as the Blessed Virgin. livine maternity gives I1
Mary a distinctive pro eminence in Heaven- fy
she is Queen of angels and of men. Therefore roll
it t. mo.r. lifh,.,nit rn o.ntr if he.r gr'e.nenr wt
than of the grandeur of any other saint. All abj
this is true. Still the language of St. Bernard Lou
may well discourage us. If that great doctor the
feared to speak of the Blessed Virgin, because the
he feared that he might speak of her in an on- 1
worthy manner, it will not Ie sitouebhing if I con
approach my subjoct with Awe. It will not be his
surprising if a man who is a mere stammerer I
alongside of St. Bernard undertake a task less of I
diflicult., doubtless, than would be a panegyric I
of the Mother ,f (God ; nevertheless, the panue doc
gyric of Pins IX otters ditllolties which are of fati
such a nature as to appal even a consenumate I
writer. Who, forsooth, can speak wirttily of pi;
a pont ticate whicb, by its duration as well as sar
as by its lustre, will till a special page in his- pea
tory 1i
It is not to be expected tlat I should even wis
enumerate the great eveuts whose fulfillment mu
the reign of Pins IX has witnessed. It cannot free
be asked that I should particularize the detai's am
of that grand career which has astonished the as
universe. Besides, it would be time lost; the roll
present generation are well acquainted with uwnl
the principal events of this reign, unparalleled so,
in history; and the memory of so much gran- mo
deur was so indelibly stamped upon the recol- T
leotlors of all, that a universal outburst f bro
regrets was heard at the reception c-f the am
tidings : " Tle l'ope is no more!" The
Never, as it has already been remarked, tur
never has the death of a man produced sueach a T
sensation. I do not speak of the Sacrifice on stec
Mount Calvary. lie who died upon the cross the
was God and man together. Similar features. 1
common to the death of Pins IX and to that of the
the Redeemer, whom he represented on earth, par
have been noticed before. Our Divine Sa- reel
viour was loaded with chains; the hands of feal
inus IX were not manacled, it is true, in the it r
literal sense of the word, but in reality, did to crei
not die a prisoner I
The Saviour of men was subjected to every gnt
description of outrages, especially throughout Uni
the three years of his public life. What was tur
the fate reserved for our Pontitf during nearly forl
thirty-two years f 1
We might push the parallel further, never var
forgetting, however, that on the one side it is of
a question of a God-man, whilst on the other, nat
we refer to a simple mortal; however great ma
this last may be, the infinite will always sepa- one
rate the one from the other. After having laid me
down this principle, which will be denied by phi
no one, let us continue the comparison already
instituted. list
The Divine crucified One, before dying on age
Calvary, had said : "And 1, if I be lifted up from bil
. the m ,twill d n 11 i thing to mym f thu '
event proved the truth of the words of the len
Saviour : the pagan world saw its idols crumble set
to duet in presence of a crois. Perhaps a simi- aol
lar miracle will not occur to the same extent ter
at the present time, but we may nevertheless rel
remark a certain analogy. Pins IX breathes the
his last: all of a sndden the universe is at- I
tracted unto him. What age has ever wineca ms
ndi such admiration for a man 1 What cotntrry
has over beheli such an attraoction towards a rue
tomb, as yet hardly closed? at
This, our Nineteenth Century, has been the pa
witness and the vietitt oif a great number of t
intellectual and moral aberratiions; it must, an
however, he admitted, with rnpulrous giali- Cs
toude, this century has not lost toe perception ci
of human dignity. One tian, at 'east, has vo
been found able, by his lainguae ansd by his
actions, to evoke such perception, wh:ch might wi
have been considered extinct. in
liere it is that we behold the salutary inia- th
ence which the great Pontitt has brounht to at
bear upon the age in which he lived. IHe has
arrested or, at least, lessened the progress of so
that evil which undermines modern sooieties. th
What is the cause of this malady ? It is ra- fu
tionialism, which, in its torn, is the conseqoence w
of that which is called the emancipation of thi at
hehwan tind. The principle of authority is
looked upon in the light of a chimera. p
" The middle ages may have adopted It," ai
cries out the freethinker, " but we are no
longer a people in childhood; the shadows of a
ignorance and superstition have been dispelled; ft
everything, as well in the religious order as in ri
e the civil order, as in the social order, as in the fi
- moral and intelleotnal orders, everything most n
o be submitted to the tribunal of reason; anl
nothing can be approveJ, until'the decision of d
e that supreate judge be made known." t
Such is the inevitable conclusion to which i
s modern rationalism is fatally driven ;antd this
, conclusion is logical, from the moment that the t
principal of autiiority iv abandoned.
1 Who does not see the dire consequences t
e which spring frotm these ideas, t a expressed by I
Sthe tree ithinker I
o In tLie tirat place, complete anarchy will
- reign in the religious order, or rather, there 1
i will be absolute niegation of all rligiou.
-e hre, 1 heuatou to say. my intentiotn is to give
io mltince to none : I waould be fatling n theobser
i- vauce of that tiret of all comimandments, for
ly love of God is inseparable from love of our
neighbor.
es lIesides. I must imitate the Church of Jesus
ie Christ: She is orertlorin, usth charityrfor prnots,
c- but, Shrmuet beinrftriziblrtrth regard to dictrine
o- After the foregoing preliminary remarks, lot
te uos cast a glanoe at the system of those, who, iu
at the Sixteenth Century, separated themselves
ir- from the CatbolioChuroh: they have cast aside
er the yoke of authority; therefore, if they are
irt logical, they must Anally drift into the same
in coosequenots as do modern rationaliste.
3ee "For, what is Protestantism disengaged from
rt, all that is not itselft What is the leading
Sis article of its symbol, I will say even, the only
uve article, for those who wish to reason and avoid
ub- inuonsistenc) ?
ril That article is this: I do not believe in the
ea- existence of a Church divinely commissioned
im- to instruct me in religion.
I have the right to reject every religions law
wd whihob will be eontrury o-trbeligbteo my rea
on- son and of my conscience: the obligation of
teir reading the Bible, and of seeking therein the
hey elements of my religious belief will exist for
en- me, only in as much as I will be certain tfirst,
Al- that there is aGod, the Creator and the Legis
mee- lator of the human race, and, secondly, that
that God has desired to manifeet His will to
men through the iaeruamentalty of th pea of the
biblleoal writers. ci'
8o long a these facts will not be demon- gnli
strated to me, the Bible will remain for me a g0t
book wurthy of respeot, but of doubtful autho- to
As to the confessions of faith, as to the cate- age.
obisms, as to the books of prayer and liturgy for
received by my ancestors, as to the offic!al or firm
dissident obhurobee, and as to the ministries, of a
which I find therein established, the true Pro- himi
testant sees in all of them merely thecounter- asto
felts of papistry; these counterfeits are accept- er a
ed in order to please the masses and to prepare out
them to profess, one day, pure Protestantism; of ti
which consists entirely in the complete eman- lead
cipation, in the absolute independence of indi- snce
vidual reason, with regard to religionus mat- comI
ters.
I I,,litc i s rtself only, u01l( 1 protit against cont
o ll hi lif ehcl, ichs not the eo6rk of my ruxeon. tinn
linless he wish to contradict hiwelf, a ich ence
will be the entire Credo of whons>ever rejeots Cate
the priciple of authority. him
T"e fatal conseuencees which derive from the piow
Proteatant system will be immediatly nuder- Le
stood: here again, however, I hasten to say, Pin.
that individuals are better than their prince- ao
pl. to-di
In all the Protestant Communions there are bore
great numbers of met who, in difreunt degreee, Hl
prattcally remain Christians, because they do no';
not pter+iive the logical consetquence which dren
ttiw frot their system. ere t
From their i fancy they have adopted the fall I
religion which they found in their family tra- Mr
ditto:s, in the t:aching' of their ministers, in
the Catehistsns of their Churohes, and they
owe to, that catholic and natural method of
education, the Christian lights and virtues, 1.
which they iposees, and witich they endeavor cowr
to transmit to their offspring. murfs
Even among those who theoretically glori- n.de
fy themselves, the most, on account of their Prov
religious independence, not one will be found 2.
who. in tractce, does cot, twenty times a day. d
abjure his lofty speuolations, not one will e a fai
found who will allow his snbordinates to apply Pete
the famous principle: " in rerr!thiny follow unly Chri
the lights of thy reason, and of thy conscience. fell t
Thus it is, that every protestant father be- the e
comes a Catholic in the religious teaching of 3.
his family. mom
Each minister becomes a pope in the midst gent
of his tluck. whot
Every incorrupt child believes, with the same
docility of the Catholic, in the words of his earn
father and of his minister. mire
It is owing to the practical abjuration of their 4
p-icciple, thbt Protestant nations have pre- that
earveid, along with the family spirit, some ap- watt
pearances of a Church. deat
But it is not the less true that a mind which pent
wishes to reason, and has the ability to do so, ral a
most finally come to the same conclusion as the side
free thiuker, and free thinkersare to be fountd ooge
amnong those, who are Catholics in name only, mate
as well as among those who follow another 5.
religions system : "believ' in self only, adore selj they
only," this is their practical motto. iact is the Catt
sole principle which logic can point out to the peop
modern rationalist. port
These are the considerations which have solet
brought about, in our time, a salotary reaction beat
among the members of the Anglican clergy emb
The leading spirits in their number have re- they
turned into the bosom of Catbolicism. mar(
They were straightforward men who under- this
stood that their religious system led them to folly
the abyss of fllidelity. Rell
They sooght, at first, to defend that which frel
they considered to be the positive and vital to t
part of Protestantism; they were not long in bete
recognizing that their religious system has no neve
feature of its own save negation, and that
it remains powerless against the brseath of in
credulity.
lHence that admirable return movement be
gun more than forty years ago, in that same
University of Oxford whence,. over five cen- A
turies before the signal of anti-Christiso re
form had been given res
This movement has borne onwards to the Qul
van of the Universities, and to the front rankr ove!
of the Catholic Hierarchy, the most illsetrious beel
names aumong the Anglican Clergy : it is this voit
movement which makes as hope that we will,as
one day, witness the fulfillment of the ceuti- aCk
meat expressed by a great Christian philoso- oral
pher cf modern times :
"*f ever the same F'aith could speak Erg- biet
lish and Fretch, in an instant, obstinacy 'boi
against this F'a th, would become an impoebi- fror
hility." gral
T remarks I have inet made are very jt
lengthy, but they were necessary in order to spit
sat forth clearly that rationalism is the conse- hoe
,loenceof free scrutiny with regard to mat- eve
tera pertaining to faith : It is anarohy, in the the
religious order, or rather, it is the negation of
that samte order.
1 bare also said that it is anarchy, in the mal
moral order. It t
And, in fact, is not the one who adores his saw
reoason, his ideas, drawn logically to tb' aodor- pay
ation of his pleasures, or his destiee, of his B
Ipassniii ant
Carn li Indeed, aithout contradiction, love
anything as mnruc, and miore than ht:nselt I
Can he not but hate whateter offers an obeta- ant
cte to the worship of tLat to which he has Otion
vowed himself cou
Aud, above all, can he not but hate a teligion ly
which preaohes naught but submitsion of the rea
intellect and abnegation of one's will, beneath eve
the yoke of faith, and of a morality hostile to ree
all the weakness of the heart Let
Therefore do we daily see that hatred and
f scorn of the Catholic Church are inscribed at gu8
the head of the decalogue of pretended re- it
foamers. In order to rally thousands of seats, the
e who agree upon no two points, this cry alone I
suffices : "Death to Papistry !" en
It from the religions and moral order we tio
psas to that of the intellect, we find the same ho
anarchy there also.
o True science, the free thinker tells us, should
if admit aus realities, only the phenomena which
1; fall under the senses; all the rest must be it
n ranked among those fictions whose destiny, ne
e from all time, has been to cajole the ignorant at
it multitudes. to
t If at times these pretended philosophers on- th
,f dertake to reason concerning the origin of j
things, they are compelled to repeat the inan- ON
bh ities of their predecessors with regard to the
i occult forces of nature, to spontaneous geuera
1 tion.
lint, be cart t'l how you ask them what they s
s think of the origiu of the human race: per- W
.y haps they might be bold enough to tell you of
that ur wthole civilization is the pirogressive co
ii evolution of aper a:nd their mates, whoso social it
re friction has perftctod the organism and caused fe
tho hairs to shed. l
oe The foregoing is a summary of the disrders
r- which reign iu the reltgious, moral, anid intel- w
ar lectual orders of our day. Did time allow, we i
or might discovcr the same anarchy in the polit- w
ical and social orders as well. I1
us What is the cause of this universal dsorderl e'
s, It ts modern rationalism. Man will not e
admit any othe tret-hs than those whibh his b
let natural powers enable him to comprehend, A
in and, as his powers are very limited, it is not
res surprising that he should fall a victim to the a
de most fatal illusione. lie will never be able, t'
are unaided, to enter into possession of that truth n
me which is the most important for him: What is E
his destiny t what is his end and if he have a
cm an end, what are the meats of attaining it o
lg which lie at him disposal i Here are the great a
nly problems which the human mind, left to
aid itself, will never be able to solve.
The great and holy Pontiff whom we have
the jost lost, struggled for nearly thirty-two years
ned a eainst the intellectual and moral aberrations I
which I have imperfectly pointed ont. lle has i
aw been the pirovidential man of the inmeteenth I
tea Contnry. God, who uncessingly wathts over1
u of human destoiem, always proportions the rem
the edy to the evil. In the present age the world
for in genera'. Europe in particular, has been the
rmt, theatre at the greatest commotions, civil and
is- social. In the midst of this tempest the bark
at f Peter has been constantly exposed to the
to fury of wind and wave; she has resisted
the violence of the storm. " "lseme sue mer
guer." God had oboeen a pilot espable of ad
guiding her in the midst of the greatest dan- tb
Pion I. has been truly the man accooording al
to God's heart. He has been the man of this lei
age. To an inoomparable sweetness that won
for him all hearts, he has added immoveable sP
Armnees. In the midst of all the weaknesse rll
of modern governments he has always shown or
himself the true monaroL, who despises their Be
astuteness and their threats. Universal teaob- ye
or of the great human family, he has pointed mi
out all contemporary errors; guide and pastor
of the world be has shown, t - all the path that
leads to Heaven, whither he himself has finally y
ascended, after a prolonged and desperate Al
combat. We
It is there that, to-day. we in sp~rit love to to
contemplate him; from heaven he will con- Pt
tinue to protest us. We have already experi
euced the effects of his intercession. All ed
Catholic hearts, I repeat, are convitoed that o,
his prayers have obtained a successor so re
promptly.
Leo XIII. already occupies the throne of t
PinusX.; true, this throne is in a prioon. The as
crown which has been placed upon his brow, pr
to-day, is the crown of thorns which Iius IX of
bore for nearly thirty-two dears. fri
Iow long will the trial lastt We knorw t
no'; but we do know that his numerous ebil- t'
dren throughout the world well offer up pray
ers to the Lard, in order tlat the fetters may
fall from the hands of the successor of Peter. At
Major Henry St. Paul then read a most elo- th
quent preamble and the following de
RESOLUTION8.
1. The Catholics of the Diocese of Mobile, in
communinn with their brothers over the broad
surface if the earth, bow in silent submission bi
under the dire affliction which an all-wise oh
Providence has visited upon His Church. an
2. They reassert, proclaim and profess their or
undyinr allegiace to faith of their father.
a faith sealed by the blood of martyrs, from an
Peter, the fisherman, in the dawn of the to
Christian era, to the eonsecrated victims who
fell under the shot of the Commune, in these, to
the closing years of the Nineteenth Century. gr
3. They ever will cherish in Pinus IX the m
memory of one strong in faith, great in virtue, de
gentle in prosperity, firm in adversity, and
whose truly Catholio heart embraced within the
same burning love, all those who sincerely and
earnestly lift up their souls toward the God of en
mercy and forgiveness.
4 They never will, they never shall forget o
that while the Potentates of the world were fa
watching with cold, solfish eyes the life and m
death struggle of the South for national inde- ci
pendence, the Holy Father was the only tempo- of
ral sovereign whose voice was heard on the th
side of peace, and the only one who openly re- re
cognized her flag at that of one of the legiti
mate powers of the earth.
5. And lastily, with hearts full of gratitude,
they tt a-k, in the name of the twelve thousand er
Catholics of Mobile, her whole-sooled, generous pt
people for the broad, liberal, and willing sup- "j
port they have extended to them on this oj
solemn day; they thank her noble women whose in
beauty, purity and charity have made them the hb
emblems of the highest type of female virtue ;
they thank her gallant sons, whose brilliant, t
martial array has added so much splendor to T
this sad and solemn occasion; andno less grate- CC
fully do they thank those noble ministers of el
Religion whose eloquent lips, forgetful of-dif w
forenots of creeds, have from the pulpit paid er
to the illostionus deceased, Pio None, that tri- fir
bute which virtue, fortitude and meeknesse
never fail to exaet from pure, generous heartse
HENRY ST. PAUL, Chairman,
JNo. H. GLzxoNoN, a
E. IH. FouCRNIe , Committee.
Tuos. MANBER,
E. P. Baunu,l I to
After the reading and adoption of the 'e
resolutions, the Right Reverend Bishop
Quinlan rose, his majestic form towering
over the platform whence the oration had W'
been delivered, and in that sweet, sonorous
voice which never fails to charm as well
as to convince, be said it would be a poor we
acknowledgement of the kindness and lib
erality of the people of Mobile if he-the
bishop-in his own church, should allow
them to be dismissed without expressing 'd
from the bottom of his heart, his undying a'
gratitude for their kindness and liberality. i
L was a bright llnatrtin of that rad
spirit of true Christianity which, while
honestly striving in search of truth and de
even ready to die for it, knew, however,
that tie foundation of all religion is that "
Divine Charity on which the common
master of all of us has built His Church.
It was with feelings of tender pride that he
saw amongst the multitude which were is
paying homage to a great and good man, in,
so uansy distinguished members of differ- as
ent faithl-tl:ose with whom it had often sti
been hia hnor to cross a willing lance, til
and who had with e qually courteous weap- m
ons, challenged tIur to the friendly lists of is
controversy. In the just tribute paid them m
ty MJjoir St. Paul, ,n the resolutions just pa
read, he folly concurred, and he would
ever cherish among the most precious it
reminiscenoces of this day the eloquent and
heartfelt tribute which so many distin
guished divines of the Protestant Church ,
. have paid to the pure and Christian life of b
the deceased Pontiff. o
a In the present days of infidelity, in pres- a,
ente of the bold advancing hosts of ra-|
tionalism, it was a sweet consolation to see
how many of our brethren were making |
common head against the common enemy. ~
His heart was too fall to express his feel- -
ings, and he could only repeat that he t
never would forget their generous co-oper
ation. In those feelinge,he was authorized
to say, his venerable superior, His Grace,
I- the Archbishop of New Orleans, fully
t joined him, and here stood the old man,
' over whose head have swept the storms of
Sthree-quarters of a century, and who had
come to witness and to honor this great ,
y solemnity. And here the worthy prelate,
r- with that peculiar smile, which, on the lips
u of every esn of Erin, is the unfailing pro
e curtor ot some quaint device, said that, 1
I however inappruopriate in appearance, he
I felt tenmpted to relate a little anecdote of
the late Ilo;y Fathter, It was in those days
when Rome was still the seat of the Catho
r lic empire-when no ''Shirri" and jailors
t. watched the gates of the Vattcan. The
itoly Father was receiving visitors fromi
rY every quarter of the globe, and as he passe
c ed them, they knelt to secure his apostolic
*' blessing, till he came to a proud, beautiful
d, American girl-they are all justly proud
and supremely beautiful-and the daugh
e. ter or the American Republic stood up
th modestly-but unbendingly-before the
is Holy Father; he stopped; he smiled and
ve said : "My daughter-you are not a Cath
it olic-I think-and you do not believe in
tat my delegated powers." "No--IIoly Fa
to ther," answered the beautiful girl, "in my
conotry we never bow to any earthly
ruler." "Well, my daughter, mildly
ins retorted the Holy Father, "I shall not
tee force on you the blessings of the Pope of
eth Rome; but if you have an aged father at
re_ onmwhlmoo loveanderryete. will yon
Im not receive the blessing of an old man 7"
rid and the beautiful American girl, suffused
the with tears, fell on her knees, and the chief
k prelate of two hundred million Catholics,
the poured on her, in most touching words, the
ted blessings of his heart.
And now, my friends, here stands the
aged spiritual father of all the Cathohes of
the South, one who has spent amongst you
forty-five years of humble, patient, mis
sionary labors-the Most Reverend Napo- 01
leon Joseph Perche-whese heart has re
eponded to every appeal of the South for n'
right or mercy-whose hands have blessed w
every flag that went from Louisiana to the Ci
fields of battle. He is now seventy-five t
years of age and-I ask it of you, Southern w
men, Southern women, soldiers or citizenos t
-who do not, in the honest convictions of "
your conscience, believe in the vittae of a
Apostolic blessing-I ask-noble men and Ci
women of Mobile-will you not kneel down te
to receive, not the blessing of the Catholic i
Prelate, but the blessing of an old man.
As the Right Reverend Bishop pronounc
ed these words, a tremor ran through the m
crowded Church and, as if moved by the t:
respect and veneration which age, coupled
with virtue, never fails to arouse, the whole It
assemblage humbly knelt down-from the
proud soldier, whom the graceful Colonel m
of our regiment so worthily personifies, a
from the most haughty of the civil func- as
tionarits, to the humblest and the poorest of tl
t'e large assemblage. And then, slowly d
mlov;ng up to the front, the old, venerable tt
Archbishop pronounced, in the consecrated ai
Latin formula, the blessing which the God of ti
the universe has, since the days of their re- ai
demption, vouchsafed to the eons of man. h
THE CLOSE.
After the blessing of His Grace, tle Arch
bishop of New Orleans, had been given, the
choir intoned the Gloria in Excelcis Deo,
and the spell-bound multitude, hanging tc
on to the bewitching harmony till the last
antly left the sacred building, and seattered
to their several homes, each of them taking io
to his heart the sweet conviction that the
great and noble city of Mobile had once
more done her duty-her whole duty-to ,
departed worth. it
hi
It seems that in London the steam fire ii
engine, though so recently perfected, is ,
seeing its last days. A select committee 6
of the House of Commons has reported in ,
favor of doing away with this remarkable ri
machine, and substituting hydrants. The a
city of London has adopted the suggestion k
of the committee, thus sealing the fate of n
the fire engine, which a few years ago was b
regarded as a very satisfactory machine. it
The plan is to supply London with a it
large number of hydrants, fed from a res
ervoir suenciently elevated to give a high 0
pressure of water. The men stationed at
"fire escapes" and the policemen placed at
"fixed points" will thus be enabled to give o
instant aid in case of fire; the adjacent ,
hydrants can at once be turned on, and d
streams of water poured upon the flames. n
The value of a few minutes saved at the ,
commencement of a conflagration, as t
everybody knows, cannot be overrated. If 1
water can at-once be thrown an the incpi- t
ent flames, the chances of putting out the a
fire are vastly increased; while even a
very brief delay may allow the flames to tI
get such a headway that they cannot be b
successfully resisted. d
PAYIER HANGING AND WALL PAPER.-Visitors i
to the city would do well to call on our merchantsand c
personally attend to making the purchases and trans. c
acting lIa business that they know will be indispen. f
sable in the text few months. Among those whom it
would pay them in an espeoial manner to visit, is our
well known friend Theos. J. Brown, Esq., paper hanger, s
263 Camp street. He has a large and varied stock of
wall paper, cornices, s indow shades, etc., which he is
selling at from 20 to 25 per cent lower than the big O
down-town merchants. This is partially owing to the
fact that , being just outside busainess limits, his rent is t
very low and his expenses bmalL Still he is not far e
away, as the Magazine and Prytania cars will take a
person from Canal street to hisatore, about 01(0 yards, r
in live minutes. Mr. Brown will send samples to the
country fiee on application, and will also perasnaUy n
till orders outside the city fcr paper hanging when
desired. Having known elm long and seen his work,
we strongly recommend him to our readers as oae of a
small clas,-a thorooghly-reliable dealer.
PLEASURE AND BUSINESS COMBINED.-ThisB
is the heading of an important advertisement, occuipy. t
ing a moll column of to-day's STAR, in which the wide. i
awake house of E. H. Adams & Bro. publish some it.
structlve facts and toll of a few of the many bean. c
tiful, excellent and seasonable articles that go to
make up thesplendid stock of dry goods that fil!s their I
large store, 594 Magazine street. Lead the advertise. C
ment, refl.ct h it many of the most knowing shoppers t
purchase their goods regularly at this house, and that it i
is a prime favorite with all classes of our people, and I
then call and make your purchases.
The great dry goods house of Levy Brothers',
O85 and 587 Magazine street, corner St. Andrew, white
beuilding, have made enormous reductions in the prices
of all their winter stock, being anxious to close it out
at once. They have also, in view of Ote hard times,
marked the prices of all their new stock of fresh
seasonable goods down to the lowest figures. Anything,
from a paper of pins up to the finest of silk dresses,
can be secured at their store, and every one is always
assured of polite treatment and a full and free chance
to inspect all goods.
Tux STRISBURO CLOCK.-A large number of
our citizens have visited this wonderful piece of me.
ehanilm, which has been on exhibition at Odd Fellows'
Hallsince Wednesday, the 27th of February. It is a
perlcct model, conmloing every feature ef the world
rezowned orieiual. Adno'sslon, i5 oents for adults and
10 cents icr chlldreu. Olien from 10 A. M. to  i. .
We are pleased to hear that several visitors
to the city have seti:d the goi~ro opporturnity now
presented them of vt. ting thae carriage antid wagon
Sfactory of Mters. J. "lhompson &Bros.. to and 70
itampartetreet, and of iupecting their stock and order
B Ingutih vehicles as they reoloire. No factory North or
South can do work choaper or more satisfactorily.
SPorz Pius IX.--The Atlantic Art Union of
New York, distinguished for its excellent productiors,
offer to the public a beautiful, life-size, fine steel en
graving of the deceased I'ontiT, at the extremely low
price of 35 cents. This isa superior work of art. and
should adorn the hoome of every Catholic household.
P Our zealous friend, Philip Antoni, Esq., has
Sjust receivedl a large Mesortmentof prayer books, beads,
scapulars, etc. lligious articles, especially such as
- are desirable particularly during missions and Lent, he
will tell very low.
y D. H. Holmes, Eeq., has just opened a ful
ly and complete line of spring and summer dlks., with a
y great variety of new tissuse, at his immense establIsh
Ot ment, 1l Canal and 15 Bourbon streets.
of -- -
at Mr. John S. Twomey, 572 and 574 Magazine
r1srtoe, lup oslte the market, has ·aplendid etkIof _the
' freshest and bloet fancy and staple groceries. Prices
ad very low.
of
:s, HIeale's celebrated Hibernian rminstrels
be open at the St. Charles Theatre to nIght. Mat;nees
Wednesday and Saturday, See advertisement.
rEs 5IGNIFIO4JTfCZ O F Bitl 0 N.=l
Henry Besstwer In the Ledes Times.
It would be curious to know how man
of your readers have brought fully
to their inner consciousness the real
nificance of that little word "billion,"n w
we have seen of late so glibly used in eeti
columns. There are, indeed, few ilntelleets
that can fairly grasp it and digest it as.
whole; and there are, doubtless, many
thousands who cannot appreciate its true
work, even when reduced to fragments for
more easy assimilation. Its arithmetical
symbol is simple and without much pre.
tention; there are no large fgare--Just a "
modest 1 followed by a dosen ciphers, and
that is all.
(The French system makes a thousand
millions equal to a billion; according to .
the English a million of millions is a billion.
In this article the latter system is followed.]
Let us briefly take a glance at it as a
measure of time, distance and weight. As
a measure of time I would take one second
as the unit, and carry myself in thought
through the lapse of ages back to the first
day of the year 1 of our era, remembering
that in all of those years we have 365 days,
and in every day just 86,400 seconds of
time. Hence, in returning in thought back
again to this year of grace, 1878, one might
have supposed that a billion of seconds
had long since elapsed; but this is not so.
We have not even passed one-sixteenth
of that number in all these long eventful
years, for it takes just 31,687 years, 17
days, 22 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds
to constitute a billion of seconds of time.
It is no easy matter to bring under the
cognizance or the human eye a biion
objects of any kind. Let us try in imag
ination to arrange this number for in
spection, and for this purpose I would se
lect a sovereign as a familiar object. Let
us put one on the ground and pile upon
it as many as will reach twenty feet in
height; then let as place numbers of sim
ilar columns in close contact, forming a
straight line, and making a sort of wall
twenty feet high, showing only the thin
edges of the coin. Imagine two such walls
running parallel to each other and forming
as it were a long street. We must then
keep on extending these walls for mile-
nay, hundreds of miles-and still we shall
be far short of the required number. And
it is not until we have extended our imag
inary street to a distance of 23861 miles
that we shall have presented for inspection
our one billion of coins.
Or, in lieu of this arrangement we may
place them flat upon the ground, forming
one continuous line like a golden chain,
with every link in close contact. But to
do this we must pass over land and sea,
mountain and valley, desert and plain
crossing the equator, and returning around
the southern hemisphere through the trask
less ocean, retrace our way again sacross
the equator, then still on and on, until we
again arrive at our starting point; and when
we have thus passed a golden chain aronnd
the huge bulk of the earth, we shall be
but at the beginning of our task. We must
drag this imaginary chain no less than
763 times around the globe. If we can
further imagine all these rows of links laid
closely side by side, and every one in
contact with its neighbor, we shall have
formed a golden band around the globe
just fifty-two feet 6 inches wide; and this
will represent our one billion of coins.
Such, a chain, if laid. in a straight line
would reach a fraction over 18,328,44
miles,-the weight of whicb, if estimated at
one quarter ounce each sovereign, would
be 6,975,446 tons, and would require for
their transport no lose than 2,325 ships,
each with a full cargo of 3,000 tons. Even
then there would be a residue of 447 tons
representing 64 081,920 sovereigns.
Pr a manure of height let as take a
much smaller unit as our measuring rod.
The thin sheets of paper on which these
lines are printed, if laid out flat and firmly
pressed together as in a well-bound book,
would represent a measure of about 1.333d.
of an inch in thickness. Let us see how
high a dense pile formed by a billion of
these thin papers would reach. We maust,
in imagination, pile them virtically up
ward, by degrees reaching to the height of
our tallest spires; and, passing these, the
pile must still grow higher, topping the
Alps and the Andes and the highest peaks
of the Himalayas, and shooting up from
thence through the fleecy clouds, pass
beyond the confines of our attenuated at
mosphere, and leap up into the blue ether
with which the universe is filled, standing
proudly up far beyond the reach of terres
trial things; still pile on your thousands
and millions of thin leaves, for we are eonly
beginning to rear the mighty mass. Add
millions on millions of sheets, and thou
sands of miles on these, and still the num
ber will lack its due amount. Let us pause
to look at the neat ploughed edges of the
book before nus. See how closely lie those
thin flakes of paper, how many there are
in the mere width of a span, and then turn
our eyes in imgination upward to our
mighty column of accumulated sheets. It
now contains its appointed number, and
our one billion sheets of the Times saper
imposed upon each other, and pressed into
a compact mass, has reached an altitude of
47 348 miles !
Look not mournfully into the past, it
returns no more; wisely improve the
present, and go forth into the shadowy
future without fear and with a manly heart.
THiE LOTTErRY OF LIFE.-Ag will be seen by
tie advertisement in another column, this beautiful
r play of Brongham's will be presented at the St. Charles
Theatre next aunday evening, O10th inst..by a number
of our leading smateurs. The proceeds of theentert
tainlment are to be devoted to the relief of the widows
. and orphans of the crew of the MeAlllater, twenty 4v*
or thirty in number, who were lost in the Gulf two
Smonths ago. This appeal cannot fall to recei ve a ret
dI generouas response from all our cltlzers, orresrectlveof
creed or rationslity.
SBranch 3, H. B. & M. A: Assocation, will
. meet next Wednesay night instead of on its rlglasr
h meeting night.
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