Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-27

Jesuitism.
The following arc extracts from private letter
of gentleman Of great Intelligence and obsssva.
ton, residing In Missouri lie has Travelled con
siderably, and 10 well acquainted With the poli,l-
cal Vaccinations Of the Jcsuits, AZ well a. their
moral practices.
We derive from his letter the very pleasing In
telligence that tho great cause Of Amencanism b
steadily advancing In Missouri.
What he says Of the burial Of heresies IN Pans-
ma, though disgusting enough, Is NOT q bal ~ l.
experienced In Cuba, aud some other Papal places.
where, If one succeeds at all In burying deceased
hereto friend, il must be by means Of an enormous
bride which few can afford, or he Win have 10 say
in the language Of Young,
with pious sacrilege grave stole"
THE EXTRACTS
Americans throughout the
breadth of the land have been awakened 10 q sense
Of their duty and the final result doubtless, win
be--and that too In very short time--thc entire
and total demolition Of all Papa influence, 40 FAR
as 1t may relate to the political condition Of this
country.
~ have travelled through several Roman Cath.
Ole countries, viz: New Granada, Mexico, and the
CALIFORNIA;, and Roman Catholic communities In
| this country; and l win now give you q part of
my experience as to the character and practices Of
the ecclesiastcs in those countries
will begin with stating that, when first came TO
| st. Louis, at the Jesuits collegc--thcn 80 called
but now known as the st. Louis University Il
was the common practice Of the holy Fathers on
the Sabbath to play ball, fish, hunt, play cards.
and engage in other amusements within the gaze
Of the people--there being then but few Protes-
| tants there-the Jesuits having the ascendsncy.
Gradually the spires of Protestant churches began
to rise in the air, and the preponderance was
doubtful, until within few years the sons Of the
Pilgrim fathers by the performance of their duty
within its high walls of brick and mortar, which
| now enclose and hide from view all their sports.
But these walls only began to spring up when
| morality began to rule in St. Louis and now, a.
you may have seen from the journals of the day,
that proud city has effectualy purged its thorough
fares of Irish and German debaucheries and Of Je-
suite Catholicism.
sin comparison with other countries on this
continent, this country, wherever Roman Catholic
ism prevails falls but little short in the vices prac
tced of those where the Roman Catholic religion
is established by law but the native American
love of law, order and liberty, has SO far overcome
the influence Of foreign dictaton from the Catholic
fount that the practices Of the Jesuits have been
compelled to keep very much within bounds.
| :" The Padres of Granada walk the streets of
Panama with game-cocks under their arms on Sun
days. The holy church of st. Francisco which
stands in front ofthe plaza of that ancient city, is the
chief church In which worship is.held there. Its
outside appearance is majestic and substantial and
| history tells us that its materials were shipped
from Spain soon after the destruction Of old Pan
anna
"The superstructure Of all of their ecclesiastical
buildings BY their massiveness and durability, 60
i IL II. go. n
| has been not merely to propagate its doctrines,
but also by giving the material Of wealth, to add
to its power in future ages.
1.-THE inside of this grand structure 1.-THE Church
of st. Francisco) presents to vew on the first en-
| trance at mass, q heterogeneous mass On the
left stands enclosed in glass ease, wax figure of
the patron saint San Francisco holding in his hands
the identical skull of that saint, now dead some
thing over two hundred years. On the opposite
side stands the figure Of st. Antonio, Enthusiastically
dressed, with silks, gold silver, aud jewels, with
culver, bow, and arrows, and, altogether, very
pretty specimen of the wax art Looking towards
the altar as you stand between the two saints, is
the lobby, girded on the north side by a suite Of
ante-rooms, in which to be seen roostsrs, tied
TO nails and other fastenings growing and banter
ing each his neighbor; while you perceive the
throng of negroes, whites mulattocs, all mixed In
one dingy mass, kneelng before the image Of the
Virgin Mary and the rosary. The officiating padre
passes hurriedly through the ceremony, pronounces
the benediction, and then, priest, people, and
game-cocks find their way to the cockpit, near
the western wall of the town, the priest always
ahead, and clsmorous for the first fight, betting
high.
Mass is, as you are aware, done up early in the
morning in that country-from daylight TO sun
rise. AT nine or ten o'clock breakfast Is announc-
ed and as soon as IL Is despatched the depotions
+ of the cockpit go ahead uninterrupted, for the
balance of the day.
"Buriai in Panama.--A description of the
mode Of buri-l OF persons without the pale Of the
church viii no doubt be revolving. The fact is
truly In an old vacated church, built Of massive
rocks brought from SPAIN consecrated by the Pope,
which stands on shallow arm Of the bay, and
over which are constantly perched and on the
| wing the carrion vulture, is the place of burial
for the stranger to the Mother Church. Into
the vaults Of this place thrown the dead bodies,
Three years ago, two of them were filed and clossd
up the third was about two-thirds full. Putre-
faction and the escape Of the gases soon give place
for the newly received bodies The city has a
stencil about II, corresponding with its morals I;
while scorpions, lxzards, centipedes tarrnntulss,
and other venomous reptiles incst the very heart Of
the city, and the churches especially.
"If indeed, the true religion for the world Is
such as the Scriptures tell us Il Is, teaching us
puri6caton in body and mind--cleanlpess exem.
plary conduct and the like, assmilating the attri-
butes Of that Great Being who created us--surely
Jesuitism imposes upon the communities Il fastens
upon curses Of the most horrid character. But
my dear, dr, the signs of the times, and the proph-
ccies of Ezekel and Isaiah, now being rapidly full
filed according TO the best understanding, give US
the pleasing assurance that ere long, God win root
out such evils from the earth.r
The Crops.
The Holldaysburg (Pa) Wing, of April "a, has
the following:
WHEAT PRosrKcr.-We have conversed with