The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume], January 12, 1879, Morning, Page 4, Image 4

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Thseueday...J an. 16-. Blareillls 1., Pop sad Martyr.
>IM d..u.Jan. Il-8t. Anthony Abbot.
mslrIy»..Jan, I -C-hair uof St. tPetr at Rome.
Christmas Colleetion.
C(IT cnu5CMs- .
St. Theresa.... ................ ......... ..... ) 00
Cathedral ......................--........ 10 00
Immaculate Conreltioa ............... ... : 73
t MHary's (Archbihop') ... . ... 14- 50
ist. Patrick ......... .. ... .......... I'll :.
. Apho ................................ . 9
St. Joseph .......................... .. 101 IU
86. Joba the Baptist ..................... .0.. .. . 97 75
8t. Auguotte ...... ........................... .. 90 00
St. Peter .............. ........... 7 9
it.. M chael. ....................... 67 e5
Lt. Mary (German) ............. ......... 0 45
at Vlseent de Paul ........... 45 s0
St BRoe ofi ................................ 1 4 )
Holy Trinity n...... ... ...................... 3 t41
Holy me of Mar (A er) .................. 5 70
ESt. Nrab o de riaee in o............... id.. . 3
St. .Anne ....................................... 3 65
t. Marsy (Carroltoa) ........................... 30
t Heanry ............... . . 00 i
Our Lady of even l)olors (mrollton).......... i 30
S. lontlaces ............ ........................ ".t 60
Am unela t i o . . ................................. 3
St. Mauri. ...................................... I
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart .................. J. S5
Notre eMoe de Bon koo s.... ...... .......... 65
Urs 'loon Conveo .nt0......... .. ...... ......... 16 It
( uvent of B imca'ced Carmeiltee ....... ..... 15 oUo
Convent cf Dshiter of Joseph ............... o 30
i.o. Anthoy of P ta. ........................... 00
COL'NiTr COLOCM.
-S tn R o g .......... .......................... 5 00
iSt. erMarn.t i .o... n.......... 1i"e "Pi 0
ireaunz Br;dge................................... 2 u '0
organ City .................................... 3
PIluelne. lbervilo Per'b... ....... 0
.c port ...................................... 11
W1astngtocl i.0.J..... 0 ,
St Gabriel. Iberville 6.. ........... ......... 50
C eto . . . ....... . . . . . . ........ .. .._ .. 6 00 r
taenrtr.. ti. Jan- Parish ............. . 15 0
St. Michoasl, t. James Parlsh ................ I :
Sit. J nopb. Pastereoonllle....................... 1 i2 t
npolnte.s- .ate. bt he........... . . ............. It :'., 0
Abbevils................................. . II:
Y ale. Itlver ... ................................. 0 4-:,
PradOk n .. ............................ ......... I' it
OBantu de L oarg ............ .. ............ . . h
Verm lllonv rtle...................... . . . o 2h
-_S t. Phipitp.- JameerP'rtsl _.: ....... ... ....... 4 03
Arn advulll. .... ................................ . j
lae anus Jenites .............................. 2 3
Total for oity and country .....................5··u 68 b
The Right Rev. F. X. Leray, B!eshop ofI
atohitochee, arrived In our city last Friday.
The Seoretary of the Memphis Howard Aseo
elation has completed his report, which shows t
the receipts during the epidemic to have been
$417,536 66 and the disbursements $415,790 53.
We regret to learn of the dueat of M. J. t
Kelly, seniot member of the well-known Catho.
lie book and prnblihiug house of Kelly, Piel 1&
Co., Baltimore. - e died last Thursday morn
lug. d
Hon. E. D. White, of Now Orleans, hae been ti
appointed Aseociata Jueioce of the Supremes t
Court, of this 8tate, vice Judge Egoan, de- t
oeased. This appointment will give nniverass!! i
tatisfaction. o
His Grace, the Most Rev. N. J. Perohe, hrob
bishop of Now Orleans, last Friday, 10th a
lost, celebrated the 75th anniversary b
of his birthday. Os the 19th of Septem- a
ber nest be will celebrate the 50th anniversary z
of his ordination. d
]lis Grace, the Most Rev. James Gibbons,
Archbishop of Baltimore, arrived in our city a
Satuorday morning, 4th i st., on a briof visit to a
his relatives. Thonugh looking rather care- it
worn, His Grace is in good health. He will
prTeah to-day at High Mass in St. JJseph's t
Church and will leave for his episcopal city b
Monday evening.
On the 5th of December, a sister of the
gentle and gifted Gerald Gritlin, she who was I
the subject of his world-famed poem, "The
SIster of Charity," died at the Convent of the
Sisters of Charity, Clarenbridge, County Gal- t
way, of which she had been Saperiorees for c
the past thirty-three year. She had attained 1
the age of seventy-three, and was able, up to r
a few months ago, to discharge her duties as
reotorees of the convent and sohoole.
If there is any one cause which should make
French Republicans doubtful of the effect
which their succeese will have upon the
future of their country, it is the great joy witht
which the intelligence of their e;ectoral vic- -
tprle is invariably received in Germany. By 1
telegraph we ear that the German prosen shows t
great satisfaction with the renmlt of the recent c
Soentorial elections in France, whereby the i
Republicans secure a mzsjrity in the Upper C
Chamber and become masters of the country.
The North Grmaat Ga:rre intimates'thet the
Republic an always reckon on the sympathy
of Germany so long as its policies rfleet the
suoderale and recso,eabls views of Gambette.
Iu 17, there were 19 establishmenta of re- l
ligions men and women in Prussia. The reli
gious men were chietly Francisucas, Capnohins, I
Dominicans and some Christian Brothers.
There wes one Benedictione hoose, which had
actually been founded in the last century by a c
pious member of the Hober zollern family. The
religions establiebments of women were almost i
exclusively BlSters of Charity, or other nursing o
oongrRainn ar,-'t-bliahmente for educa- p
ties. By the law of IS75, all were to be abolish- u
ed by the end of 1879. An exueption was ,ade t
in favor of the Sisters of Charity or similar e
communltiee, in so far as they were connected b
with hospitals, and not otherwise. Even they I
were forbidden to receive any novice. without e
permission from the Minister. Ont of the 679, t
only t) now remain in existence. The Govern- g
ment were asked to sospend the law in favor u
of those 52, and they refased cn the ground t
that they have almost completed arrangements o
for dispetalng with the services of the religi- b
one, either as teachers or as nurse.. Already
it wa seen that the 8inter8 of Charity were u
doomed to extinction by the practioal impoesi- t
bility of receiving permlselon to have novice.. ,
What base ingratitude for the splendid eer- 1
-icee of the poor nuns in the campaigns of 1866 t
•nd167i' P
Sometime ago the Catholies and Protest.
ante of the town of New Haven, Connec
ticut, united their votes on an issue of
restoring religious exercises to the common
schools. By the means of this coalition
they managed to defeat the opposition,
and now they have time to ruminate over
the results. Of course, the impression
prevailing among Catholic voters was
that the religions exercises or instructions
should be in accordance with the religion
of the pupil. Imagine then their conster
nation when they found their allies to have
been acting in bad faith. No sooner did
religions instruction become a fixed ele
ment of the public school than Protestant
bigotry took free and exclusive possession
of it. In other words Catholic children
were to be taught anti-Catholic religion.
It would be impossible at this distance
from the scene to calculate how many jokes
were gotten off on the Catholics for being
so cheaply caught by the old fox of Pro
testantism. Their quondam opponents of
the late popular contest must have enjoyed
their predicament greatly and made it the
occasion of abundant raillery. It was
truly an instance of the lamb putting his
head trustingly into the month of the lion.
How in the world reasonable men who
had lived for years face to face with bigotry
could have been so strangely Ignorant of
its character is a puzzle. Bigots may be
very good men-they often are-but bigo
try itself is a devil. It keeps no terms,
regards no pledges, respects no etiquette,
knows no obligation. It has no conscience
and ignores all gratitude. It has-but one
maxim: Everything is fair in war. In
other matters a bigot may be a man of high
honor and scrupulous good faith ; in re
ligion he convinces himself that the end
justifies the means. He feels that they
who differ with him in religion are lost,
and that the glory of God requires them to
be saved by any kind of ungentlemanly
trickery if necessary.
So the bigotry of New Haven permitted
a body of citizens otherwise very worthy
people, no doubt, to treat their allies with
the shabbiest kind of Greek faith and de
prive them of all advantage from a victory
which would have been impossible without
their co-operation. These devotees do not
hesitate to collect Catholic taxes and apply
them to the support of schools the doors of
which are virtually shut to Catholic chil
dren. They seem to think it quite fair
to plunder the Philistines for the profit of
the Lord's chosen. Certainly many of
these citisens would not think of defraud
ing a Catholic, more than any other, in an
ordinary business transaction. They
would not make him pay a cent uore than
a Protestant for a bill of goods, but to put
him under tribute to the work of the Lord
and extort his substance for the use of the
Temple, is, they hold, a good and a holy
deed. The sting of the treatment in this
New Haven case, however, was in the cool
assurance with which the Catholic public
was bamboozled at tying the rope arounp
its own neck.
"Serves 'em right," is the only comment
that can be made anywhere on this one
aided transaction. There are two kinds of
Protestant public in this country-the
Protestant public, s3-calltd, and the genu
ine Protestant public. The former com
prises thousands of people who are not
Catholics but who have no special bigotry
towards the Catholic Church, although
classed nominally as Protestants; the
latter are Simon-pure heretics, zealots in
religion, Protestants in earnest. With the
public at large, Catholics may sometimes
hope to make a reasonable arrangement for
the use of their own school money, but it
is a folly to expect any such thing at the
hands of the zealots or professing Chris
tians. There can be no bona fide alliance
with them. They would, true enough,
like to see their own doctrines taught in
the public schools, but never if it could
only be on condition of a similar recogni
tion for the Catholic religion. In that
case they would prefer to see the school
left entirely Godless.
The First Cross Planted on an Anglican Altar
lunce the Reformation.
About fifty-six years ago, in one of England's
loveliest country seats, Garendon Park, Coun
ty Leicester, a young boy-a mere child of
thirteen-might have been seen wending his
way from his own ancestral grounds to the
neighboring village of Shbepehed. He was a
college youth, home for a brief holiday; but no
thought of foun or frolio ocuopled his thoughts
that day. With a sweet gravity, singular in
one so young, he hastened on to join a rural
processton being formed in the churchyard
under the direction of the Anglioan Vioar of
that village. As the concourse of people form
ed into line, the boy took his place at its head,
bearing in his arms a large wooden cross. This
was a somewhat unusual spectacle for worship
ere in the Established Choroh of England-but
the young cross-bearer, with head erect and
glowing cheek, walked bravely on with the
unfamiliar emblem in his arms, until, within
the village bchurch, he saw it placed, with muooh
ceremony, upon an altar that had evidently
been hastily prepared to reoeive it.
That Cross was the first one ever planted
upon an Anglican altar since the days of the
Reformation-and its being there was not the
work of the Anglican Vicar of Shepehed,
but of the bo--the child-who had headed
the procession and had borne it to its destined
place.
Ambees D.e Li. was tb iedest e0 1
Charles Philips De LIse, Esq, OGaedon Park,
and at this time war ender the tutorship of
Rev. Mr. Hedon, Maiaemore Court, near Oloo
ceaster. The boy was motherless, but a father's
na love watohed over him and provided him with
0n everything neoessary for his mental and moral
o, celture. His Anglioan tutor was thorough and
cr careful in his trainlug, and the Churoh of Eng
,a land had no nobler or more promislog mem
ber than this young beir of the Garendon
Sestates. And yet, as his hand was the Brst to
raise the long forgotten oross upon the Angli
can altars of his native lands so he was to be
u nder divine Providence, one of the fBrst in that
e grand uprising of Faith and Reason whibob
d drew so many souls to the shelter of the One
True Church.
it But what is most beautiful in the life of this
n illustrious man, who left to England the leg
n say of his virtues and his prayers, last Marchb,
1878, is the singular way in whioh divine
e Meroy led him to know and to embrace the
truth.
When only twelve years old-while in Rev.
I Mr. Hodson's sohool, he met an old French
- exile, Abbe Girand, who was his tezoher in
f French. The quiet holiness of this venerable
I priest impressed him favorably, and young as
he was, he felt convinced that the good Abbe,
and those who were like him-could not be
(idil tors nor deceivers.
A few timid questions asked of the priest
and kindly answered, were the first steps in
that wonderful conversion which made Am
brose Do Lisle, in 1e53, at the age of fifteen,
leave the church of his fathers for that of his
early anoestors.
We are amazed when we read of the youth
fal heroism which made him take a step
fraught with enoh grave responsibilities, and
the youthfol perseverance which made him
cling to the religion whioh his heart elected
and his reason approved.
The little work-a memorial tribute to Mr.
De Lisle's worth and virtues-from which we
gather ou information, was sent from Eng
land by his widow to a schoolmate of hers in
St. Louis, by whom we have been kindly loan
ed the volume.
From its pages we learn that in 1830, the
Hon. and Rev. George Spencer (since known
as the saintly Father Iguatins of St. Paul),
then an Anglican clergyman, came to stay at
Garendon in the hopes of bringing back to the
Chbroh of England the youthful heir of that
anoient seat; but after a week's disoussion,
Ambrose alone on one side, and several clergy
men and one bishop of the Established Church
on the other, Mr. Spenoer was soovinced of the
truth of Catholicity and entered into the Fold
of which he has since proved himself so zeal
ous a shepherd of souls. "
It was also while Montalembert was visiting
Mr. De Lisle at Gracedien that the plan of
"Fhe Monks of the West" was conceived, for in
company with his host, he rambled over all
the rains of the Cistercian Abbeys founded in
England daring thb time of St. Bernard, and
thus the beautiful tribute to the noble monks
took form and color in his mind. "
The first of the heroic band of clergyman
who made such noble sacrifloes for conscience,
sake, Rev. Waldo Sibthorpe and the Rev. A.,
Wackerboth, were both received into the
Ohurch at Gracedice and owe their conversion
to the Faith to the generous exertions of Mr.
De Lisle in establis'ing a mission church in
his immediate neighborhood. " -
In 18l1, Mr. De Lisle travelled on the conti
nent with a portion of his family, and the fol
lowing extract from his Journal dated B:aoeels,
July 10th, will prove interesting to every
Catholic who reads these lines: "We went
with Abbe Donet, one of the Canons of the
Cathedral, to visit the Pope's Nuncio, Monagg
nor Pecci. Archbishop of Damietta. I never
saw a holier looking man. His countenance
was most beautiful. He talked with the deep.
eat interest of the Oxford divines. "
The thoughtful and deeply analytioal mind
of Mr. DeLisle, whioh had led him, as a boy
of twelve, to question his French tesoher con
cerning the doctrines of the Churob, and at
thirteen to persuade his Anglican friend, the
Vioar of Shepshed, to place a croas within his
church; and at fifteen to embrace a creed held
in discredit throughout the whole of England;
also inspired him to use his pen in defence of
the cause be loved and prized so dearly. Among
his works, we may mention a remarkable book
entitled " Mahometanism in its Relation to
Prophecy." He also translated into English,
Montalembert's "Life of Saint Elizabeth of
Hungary" and Manzrni's "Vindication of Ca
tholic Morality," besides publishing a little
book of devotion to the Blessed Virgin, called
a "Manual of Devotion," and also bookson the
Gregorian chant; while the last work from his
pen was a series of articles in the Weastminst:r
Gae: He on the "Reunion of Christendom."
All of thts shbow the pious bent of bhis mind
anod his eager desire to do some amkll part in
the noble tiak of enlightening the minds of
those who 'sit in darkness," unconscious that
over them bhangs "the shadow of death." And
we have Cardinal Msnning's own high author
ity for the assurance that " he has been a
means used by Divine Providence towards the
conversion of a large number of souls."
In England-that England which Mr. De
Lisle confidently predicted "would one day
return to Cathol;o Unity and the See of St.
Peter"-his name is held in loving, graterul
remembranceby the poor whom he befriended,
and by the rich to whom his life has been a
beautiful example of every Christian virtue.
In 1835 Dr. DeLisle gave landsin Charn
wood Forest to foond the Cistercian Abbey of
Mount St. Bernard, thus restoring to England
those noble monks who for three hundred
yeats had been proeoribed and banished from
her soil. This geeereus work alone entitles
him to the reverence of every Catholic and to
the endless gratitude of Englishmen, for the
monks of St. Bernard have ever proved them
selves the truest friends to civilization and the
noblest :benefactors of their fellow-men. In
the Abbey Church which Mr. DeLisle's gener
ous hand built for the restored Order of St.
Bernard, his body was laid to rest last March
--In front of an altar dedicated to St. Stephen
f Weelalg aa egaaslaman, fonder of the Cl-.
Sterelan Order-and it seems slnlgularly appro
Sprate that the restorer of the same Order, also
an oEnglishman, should sleep within the walls
i whence daily rise the shant of God's praises,
i brought back to England by his seal, piety
and generosity.
We deem it a high privilege to baysve been
permitted to learn something of the life, the
labor and the virtues of this illustrious lay
men - whose wealth, infloence and talent
were all used for the glory of God sand His
Church and the servioe of his fellow mec. We
are all familiar with the history of Manniog,
Faber, Spencer and other illustrious olergy
men who gave up all for truth ; but it is sel
dom we hear of a layman whose life is so
noble an example to the youth of every coun
try, in its loyalty to the Faith, in its grand
charities to the poor, in its gentle conaliders.
tion for his separated brethren, in its pore and
holy influenes and in its simplo, childlPke
trust in God.
We wish we had space to describe the final
sceone-the heroic close of this noble life; but
the ploture ie too beautiful to be marred by
hasty tonouti on our part.
We cannot, however, resaist the desire of
giving to our readers the last glimpse of this
heroic Catholio whom we first saw as a mere
boy oarrying to an Anglioan alter the very
first cross whiobh, for three hundred years, had
ever been planted there. Two hours before
his death, he asked the attendant priest to pro
nounce loudly and distinctly the prayers for
the dying, in order that he might follow them
in his mind; and when the sad commendation
was over, he exolaimed in earnest rapture:
"How beautiful I" No wonder Father Tondini
records thi assurance "that a man must be
very near to God who in his very agony bursts
out in snob a cry I"
And as we lay aside our pen, which has not
touched upon one-half of his many good
works, which scaroe commenced to enumerate
his many writings, nor even named the
ohurches, sohools, asylums, reformatories
founded by'his obarity, we also must exolaim:
How beautiful is this life of a simple layman
in the Church, but who within his proper
sphere won so many souls to God, and with a
noble'aim before him, followed it with knight
ly courage and heroio pride to the last moment
of his life i
His influence upon the Oxford movement
and his earnest aspirations after the unity of
Christendom will,of course, preserve his name
upon the annals of Catholicity; but as an ex
ample of boyish zeal and manly oourage in the
cause of conscience, of talents used for God
and wealth devoted to His service, of unselfish
aims and unbounded charity, of all the virtues
which mark the true patriot and Christian,
Ambrose DeLisle will also live in humble
hearts, while thoughtful minds will ever see
in him the wondrous link between the ages of
Faith belonging to the past and those which I
wait upon England's glorious future, 1
Ten LxorsLaTURa .-Last Monday the Leg
islature met in the State House and completed
iti organization without trouble or excite- I
ment. John C. Mononre was elected Speaker
of the House; C. M. Pegues, of Red River,
chief olerk, and Thomas MoIntyre, cf this city,
sergeant-at-arms. The Senate elected John I
Clegg chief clerk, and Thors. H. Farris, ser
geant at arms.
On the 6:b. the Governor's message, a very
able document, was read in both houses. His
Ercelienoy touches on all soujects connected
with the welfare of the State, denoonc,, vie I
latione of law which have taket pisoe in cer
tain sections, diecanssee the present deplorable
fioancial condition (f the State, and pro
nounces in favor of calling a Constitutional 1
Convention.
His recommendation with reference to the
calling of a Convention will, beyond all doubt,
be adopted by the Legislature, bills for that
purpose having already been introducoed in
both Houses. They are identical and provide
for the election by each parish and ward of as
many delegates to the Convention as It has
representatives in the House, leaving thirty-six I
to be elected by the State at large. This would
make the Convention consist of one hundred
and thirty-four members. $40,000 is appropri
ated to meet the expanses, the delegates to re
ceive $4 a day; and the State House in this
city is designated as the plasoe for the Conven
tion to meet on the 21st of April. From the
votes taken on propositions to suspend the
rules it is evident that the bill will pass by an
overwhelming majority.
The following joint resolution has been
adopted unanimously :
Whereas, daring many months of the past
year an epidemic pestilence of the most viro
lent character prevailed at the capital and
throughout s large portion of the State of
Louilsna, carrying sorrow, distres and death
into thousands of homes, anad
Wheress, in the days of our mourning and
sore trouble, mtensnimous strangers in sall
seootions of the United States and In many
foreign lands, voluntarily aesme to the relief of
our afilicted people, with contributions aggre
gating $1,100 000; therefore be it
ReBsolrsed by the Senate and House of epresenlta
tires of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly
corented, That the earnest, heartfelt thanks of
the people of this oommonweslth be and are
hereby tendered to all those large hearted
philanthropists who contributed so spontane
ously and munifoently to the relief of the
Louisiana sufferers by the yellow fever epi
demio of lt78.
Be itfurterrersaelred, etc., That we, the repre
sentatives of the People of Louisiana, deem
it right and proper thus to acknowledge
and oommend this unsurpssed philanthropy,
and to place upon our statute books this teeot
monial of gratitude, so that, in all time
to some, those who follow us, while re
membering the calamity that fell upon their
anoestors, may be reminded of the noble gen
eroesity of the men. women and ohildren of
other Statee of the Union, and of distant lands
who came to their relief in the days ef their
sNllotion.
(Communicated)
BBS 3IEPTION.
The cause to whioh the successof resumption
are most commonly attributed, sppear to me
inadequste. There is, however, an explanation
which is generslly overlooked, but which, to
my mind, ssems entirely sromlent. It is that
which !s derived from the fact that the " Bal
sees of Trader has been ageoo 1870 in favorm
the United States. The amount of this 1Bal
anoe, notwithstandiog a momentary obheck in
1873, has been continually inoreasing. It il
now very large. Doring the same period the
price of gold has gradually decreased from fifty
per centmi premium to par, in paper currenoy;
and this airoametaope bhs followed the pro.
geese of the other, with the regularity of effect
from cause.
Everybody knows that the diffdrence be
tween the exports and imports must be paid in
colo; and that gold must therefore flow into
the oountry of which the exports exceeds the
imports of oonsumable values. There is no
other way of settling the balance; and enob
balanoe is being so settled year by year-nay,
I should say, daily. In this state of things, ii
a merchant, wishing to import anything or pay
a foreign debt, should send gold instead of
merobandisz, he would, so far athe volume of
gold coin in thissonutry is ooncerned, bedoing
a vain ast; for that same gold, or the same
amount of gold, would flow back to settle
balanoes on the goods he did not choose to
send himself and left other parties to export.
There could not be, nor is there now, In this
country, any demand for gold for exportation.
No one'would need it for that purpose; and it
would have to stay here-become abundant
here. Nor would this have the effect of driv
ing paper money out of ciroulation; for paper
currency has certain advantages over gold;
and so long as the paper is not in excess of
what the oonvenience of business requires, it
will always be at least on par with gold.
If there Is danger of at over issue of paper,
there is, on the other hand, also, danger
of a soperabundance of gold. Should
the favorable Balance continue to occur
-or perhaps it might become greater and
greater-then there would of course be extra
ordinary amounts of imported and native gold,
within the national limits, and in the hands of
persons anxious to find some way of using it
profitably. There would be great competition,
not to accumulate gold but to dispose of it in
loans or safe enterprises. But safe and
paying enterprises are not common-not
easy to discover, devise, and carry into sure
execution. They will be comparatively soarce,
while the holders of gold would be competing
for them. One thing appears pretty clear,
manufacturers and importers will, in suob a
state of things, prefer to pay taxes and duties
in gold, and which must therefore accumulate
in the treasury. The government will be put
to great inoonvenience by its not getting back
enough of its own paper issue for its own uses
-its payments, its transfers, etc. It will have
to force its creditors to take gold, though they
ask for greenbsoks. It seems impossible to
foresee how far this tendenoy may progress.
I am astonished that Secretary Sherman did
not foresee the natural effect of the favorable
Balance of Trade. He and Hayes, and Grant
before them, spoke several times of the "pros
perity" and economy the excess of exports
over imports ndicoated; but did not seem even
to see the effect it would have in making re
sumption a success. On the contrary Sherman
gave material aid to the gold dealers, and kept
op the gold premium, by hoarding more than
one hundred and fifty millions of gold coin
which he got not only for duties, but also by
purchase. Clearly he believed that there
would be a run on the treasury to demand gold
ror greenbacks. Clearly, also, that not having
foreseen the very contrary which took place,
te is not entitled to any credit for the result;
end makes now a sorry gare a financier.
[t is now plain that Resumption was possible
only by the mere effect of the laws of trade,
which turned the balance in favor of this coun
try; and that Sherman's manipulations in the
bond and gold market had no influence on the
final event except to delay it till the time came
when by act of Congress he could interfere no
more.
A new fact is added to the many which pre
viously proved that gold and silver are, in
spite of all legislation for coining and giving
them currency as money, really and above all,
merchandise, having an exohangeable value de
pendant on supply and demand, and on oircum
stances which no measures of finance can con
trol. T. W. C.
The Euryer Posnanzki publishes its annual
statistical report of the effects of the Cultur
kampf In the united dioceses of Gnesen and
Posen. At the beginning of the year 1874
there were 818 clergymen, of whom only 019
remained at the close of last year, being a loss
of over 24 per cent in four years. IDuring this
time E5 clergymen died, 91 were driven away
through the action of the May Laws, and un
fortunately 23 either proved themselves open
ly unfaithful, or so acted as to give good rea
son for snuspeoting their fidelity. Durinog the
present year the two dioceses have lost 10
priests, one of whom was acanonof the Cathe
dral and 10 were parish priests, so that at pre
sent there are only 600 clergymen in the two
dioceses. The number of vacant parishes is 80,
inoluding, of course, those whloh are occuplied
by sohismatioal intruders. The total number
of parishes in the united dioceses is 553, so
that one-sixth of the whole number is deprir
ed:of legitimate pastors. The number of sounis
in the vacant parishes amounts to 169,740. Of
these C5,139 bave the bleasing of still having
the services of vioars or assistant priests, who,
having been appointed previous to the May
Laws, are regarded as "legally qualified,"
while 104.601 are wholly destitute of spiritual
assliatsnoe. In the northern portion of the
provinee there is a distriot over forty miles
long, and in some places fifteen miles broad,
which is wholly destitute of priests. Similar
destitution exists on the Brandenbnrg border,
and in the southeast there are distriots over
300 miles square without a priest. In the
neighborhood of Kosten (itself in the hands of
a sohismatical intruder, Brenk) there are three
parishee vacant, three others have parish
priests too inirm for active work, the parish
priest of another is in prison, and those of two
others are under sentenoe of imprisonment. We
must remember that this is the story of only a
slngle diocese out of twelve in Prumia.
LOCAL *0Th'8.
The annual cost of running our Pok ffis
averages $60,000.
Daring Deoember, there were 1650 arswrsi
this city ; and, for the same time, 6 robbis
and 6 murders are ported.
Archbishop Gibbons will presoh
(8unday), at High Maes, in St. J
CiMorh, Common Street. Mass oommnes
10 o'olook.
The annual election o( Directors of
Homestead Association Will be held at
offiee, 116 Poydras corner Camp street, Mo
evening at 7 o'olock.
The New Orleans Catholic Total Abetin
Society meets this evening at 6:30 o'cloek
the Morning 8tar Hall, and St. heresa's ~
Siety holds a meeting at 7 o'clock in its
on Erato street.
From the Custom House we learn that dat.
uing last month 148 vessels entered this port
from foreign ports, and 33 from dommtigc
ports; 81 cleared for foreign ports and 43fr
domestic ports.
A large number of enterprising busineusasa
from the Western States passed through this
city last week on their way to Mexico, whisk
they visit with the intention of forming mae.
oantile connections.
The City has entered into a contract with
Mr. Chandler, who has undertaken for $8000to
place automatio fire alarm boxes where crank
boxes are now used and to put the entire fis
alarm telegraph in good working order.
There were only 67 deaths during the week
ending last Sunday, January 5th, of whicht
were caused by intermittent fever, 7 by con.
sumption, 8 by debility, etc. An xiellent re
cord this for a city with a population of frome
200,000 to 210.000 inhabitants.
Next Sunday morning the members of all th9
Total Abstinenoe Solieties of this city will re
ceive Holy Communion, in a body, in 81
Theresa's Church. The same day, at 7 p. i.,
Rev. D. MoKiniry, 8.J., will deliver a lecture
on Total Abstinence. Admission free.
Rev. J. Moynlhan, Jr., will deliver a Charity
Sermon this Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, in
the Churoh of St. John the Baptist, Rev. T. J.
Kenny, Pastor. A collection will be taken up
for the beneit of the Poor. The prooeeds will
be distributed by the members of the local
Conference of the St. Vincent dePaul Society.
At the annual election for cffiers of the
Boiler Maker's Association, held in the Morning
Star Hall, the following gentlemen were
chosen:
John Lethem. Prelsident.
F. A. Bnis Vice President.
A. 0. eeffe. Treasurer.
P. . Kelly. Becordieg seostar.
Wm. J. Gflithorpe, Ftneoftl Secretsry.
Patrick Maloney, Doorkeeper.
The private market war has brokhn out
again. Having once obtained the privilege,
the butchers who opened private markets re
fuose to shut up at the diotation of the oity
anthoritles and the machinery of the law does
not seem to work smoothly towards depriving
the publico of the convenience of buying their
meats within a stne'as throw of their retil
dences.
Last Weinasedy Archblshop Gibbons visit
ed the splendid institution of the Little 1Sis
ters of the Poor, oorner Johnson and Laharpe
streets, and spent a half hour very pleasantly.
in chatting with the old folks. His Grace
was much pleased with the order and oleanli.
nees that reigned throughout the immense e
tablishment, and the excellent provisiors
made for the comfort of the large number of
aged men and women who .Aud a safe refuge
within its walls. The oldest baby in theHome,
an English sailor 102 years of age, was specid
ally honored by His Grace, who seemed to,take
a great interest in listening to the old man's
recital of the history of his life.
Last Tuesday our Democratio City Council
unanimously elected W. L. Evans, assistant
recorder of the First District. The wonderful
magnanimity of this set can only be appreci'
ated by those who remember Mr.Evans' stead
fast adhesion to the Radical party of this State
for years past, a party which nominated him
for Recorder at the last election and of whichb,
nuder its new name of National, he is yet a
member for aught the public knows. The
Democrat says of this action of the Connoil:
"We doubt if a more insolent defiance was
ever thrown into the face of the Democratio
party of New Orleans or of any other city."
The Picayune and Times, asy-i othing.
The most remarkable spell of cold weather
that New Orleans has seen in years, coommeno
a Saturday noon and ended Toesday morning.
At Intervals on Saturday we had sleet and
slight showers of rain, and towards dark the
thermometer fell below freering point--3S2 de
grees. Sunday morning the trees and shrub
bery, sidewalks, roofs of buildings, in fasot
al1 things out of doors, were covered with ice,
presenting a most beautiful and unusual spen
taole. Thestreet oars were not run till late
in the day, as the mules had no caps or heels
to their shoes and slipped on the le at every
step. The lowest point reahobed by the mer
oury in the thermometer was 19 degrees above
zero, Monday morning:
The inspecotors of sidewallks have reoently
made affidavits against a number of parties for
falling to comply with the ordinance requir"
ing them to repair their sidewalks after r*
oeiving notifioation from the Department of
Improvements. It is very desirable that this
ordinance should be strictly enforced, as our
sidewalks, through long years of neglect, have
beoome almost impassilble. In oertain cases,
however, it strikes us that some lenieny
should be displayed by our offolals, as, for in
stanoe, in that of thesuBperloreiofthe Convest
of the Holy Family, on St. Bernard Avenes,
Third Distriot This institution isa refuge for
aged and deerepid olored persons. It isso veryl
poor that thealtrs in obl erge And i ast to
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