The North-Carolina standard., 1849-04-04
FHE ORDER' OF .JEsUITS,

The ORDER OF JESO44S. :.
Before the order of Jesuits had existed an hundred
years. it had filled the whole world with memorials
of great things donesand suffered for the faith NO
religious communlty could produce list pf men 50
variously distinguished none had extended its ope-
ration over vast space; yet In none7had there
ever been been such perfect unity Of feeling and ac-
ton. There was region of ths3 globes, walk
of speculative of active life, in which Jesnlts
were not to be found. They gaidet the councils OF
Kings. They deciphered Latin inscriptions. They
observed the motions of Jupiter's satellites They
published whole libraries, casuistry hstory treatise
onoptics, Alcaic odes editions of the fathers madr
gals, catetchistns and ampoons The liberal edaca-
ton of youth passed almost entirely into their hands9
and was conducted by them with conspicuous abili-.
ty They appear to have discovered the precise point
to which intellectual culture can be carried without
risk of intellectual emancipation. Enmy itself was
compelled to own that in the art of managing and
forming the tender mind, they had no equals. Mean
while, they assiduously and successfully cultivated
the eloquence of the pulpit With still greater as
siduity and still greater success they applied them
selves to the ministry of the confessional Inrough-
out Catholic Europe the secrets of every government
and Of almost every family were m their keePing.
They glided from Protestant country 20 another,
under innumerable disguises, as gay cavaliers, as
simple rustcs, as Puritan preachers They wander
ed to countries which neither mercantile ayidrty nor
liberal curiosity had ever impeed any stranger to
explore. They were be found In the garb OF Man
darins, experimenting the observatory OF Pekin.
They to be found, spade In hund, teaching the
Yet whatever might he their residence, whatever
might be their employment their spirit was the same'
entire devotion to the common cause, lmPlclt ooed
dence to the central authority. None OF them had
chosen his dwelling-place or his avocaton TOT MN
self Whether the Jesuit should live under the ar
tic circle under the equator, whether ne snouia
pass his life in arranging gems and cofiatlng manu-
scripts at the Vatican, in pursuadlng naked 0aroa
rans in the southern hemisphere not to eat each 9TH
er, were matters which he left with profound sub
mission to the decision of others. 1t he was wanted
at Lima, he was the Atlantic in the next fleet II
he was wanted at Bagdad, he was toi!ing through
the desert with the next caravan. III ms nnihlstry
was needed in some country where his life was more
insecure than that of wolf-where 1t was crime to
harbor him, where the heads and quarters of his
brethren, fixed in public places showed him what
he had to eXpect-he went without remonstrance or
to his doom. Nor is this heroic spirit yet
extinct When in our own time new and terrible
pestilence passed around the globe; when in some
great cities fear had dissolved all the ties which hold
society together when the secular clergy had deser
ted their focks when medical succor was not to be
purchased by gold when the strongest natural aec-
tions had yielded the love of lIfe even then The
Jesuit found by the pallet which bishops and Gu
rate physician and nnrse father and mother had de-
Serted leaning infected lips to catch the fanest
accents of confession, and holding mp to the last be-
fore the expiring Penitent the image OF the expiring
Mdcduhy' q History.
The EFFECT OF CHARCOAL on Flowers The fol-
tanist and the chemist, well as to every lady who
has rose-bush in her garden, fower-pot in her
parlor. 1t is from the Paris " horticultural Review
of July last, translated by Judge Megs, OF New
ork, for the Farmers Club of the American lnst-
lutte. The experiments described were made by Rob
ert Berauds, who says: % s-.s.y
.sAbout year ago made bargain for a rosebush,
of magnificent growth and full of buds, waited
or them to blow, and expected roses worthy OF such
noble plant, and of the praises bestowed upon itby
he vender. At length, when 1t bloomed, all my
hopes were blasted. The flowers were OF faded
,olor and discovered that l had only middiing
stale coored enough. therefore resolv-
I'd to sacrifice it to some experiments which had
IN view. My attention had been captivated by the
effects of charcoal as stated in English pubii
cations. then covered the earth III the pot in which
ny rosebush was, about half an inch deep with PuA
:erizcd charcoal -.i -
Some days after was astonished to the roses,
which bloomed, of as fine lively color as could
wish determined to repeat the experiment; j.; and
therefore,, when the rosebush had done howerlng,,l
ook off all the charcoal and put fresh earth about the
oots.s You may conceive that waited for the next
spring mpatienty, to see the result OF this expert
nent When it bloomed the roses were, as at first,
'ale and dscolOred but, by applying the charcoal as
eore, the roses soon resumed their rosy REQ color
tried the powdered charcoal likewise In large guam
tiles upon my petunias and found that both the white
nd the violet flowers were equally sensible to its
ction 1t always gave great vgor to the red or violet
olors of the flowers, and the white peunlan became
ctHeu JCtn Tcd or CiOeI LtTlIS
red with irregular spots Of BLUSH or almost black
int. Many persons who admired them thought that
hey were varieties from the seed. HelLOW fo,c-
are (as have proved) nsensible to the Influence
f the CHARCOAL E,ar
Gill betde the yellow flowers :" it seems they are
qualy incapable of change, under the Influences OF
harcoal, of the man without poetry in his temper
Tnent. Wordsworth tells us = ~, -.
ga primrose by the rivers brim .a-. -,
.. A yeLEoto primrose was to him, ,, 1, 9. a.
And it nothing more. , ss.,-4.....-
PEACHES gentleman handed US yesterday the
which may be of service to some of our
eaders. friend of mine has just Informed me OF
he success he met with by the application of char
oal to peach trees. "A few years ago he had some
ne peach trees in his garden, which invariably had
yormy fruit and the trees were full of gum. hen
ne fruit was about the size OF marbles, he had the
arth removed from each about, two feet round and
lree inches deep, and filled with charcoal. The re-
ut was that the fruit grew to fine size free from
yorms, and every year since the fruit has been good
nd the trees became healthy and free from gum,
,hile two trees left without the charcoal continue to
ear wormy fruit, and are unhealthy. Mobite Irib.
CONspIRAcY TO GET MONEY FROM WILLIAM B. As
Or The papers have been filled with details of
lost bungling attempt to induce the millionaire OF
lew York to fork over fifty thousand dollars. 1t ap-
ears that Franklin A. Bragg and Isaac A. Biggs are
le great conspirators-whomt hepolice have detect
4. A letter was written to Mr.. Astor signed with
,e fictitious name of E. r. Eastwood, threatening
rat if fifty thousand dollars was not paid over by
ertain day, and in certain manner, himself and all
is family would be murdered. Other letters, Were
,ritten to Mrs. Astor containing similar threats. In
Il he