Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-03-17

to the reorganization on the pOllce
of this city ~ What further can be
done by the mere passage OF laws 7
Have you not already the widest
code of ordinance, under which every
office, jndicial or administrative,
is filed by the unerring voice Of
the dear people, according to the
latter day tenets Of Democracy p
Baton Rouge Gazette and Comet.
Aye, sir, we have some wild or
dinances' as well as some rather
tame ones. But do you intend any
I thing sinister by that allusion to
'the latter day tenets Of Democra-
cyr IL you do, you'll be voted out
of the latter day church of the un-
migitated, and voted no better than
"federalist'-which would be, you
know, an extinguisher. Therefore
we pray you have a care. -Builetil
Democrat, as we claim to be,
without the authority of the king or
his caucus, we are willing to be
called Tory if il be necessary TO Of
fer q bold front to the leveling spirit
of Fourierism and Red Republican.
ism, that now sways the mis-caIled
Democracy. Traitors are so CON-
mon; a dissolution of the Federal
Union 80 largely talked of, and
selfstyled democracy, has run so
far out of the harness of the laws
and the constitutions; that as they
claim to be the patriots and are &C.
khowledged TO be so to some ex-
tent--we are willing to be called
Traitors if they like. Names are
nothing, give us actions to judge
the man by. Let us not make up
an opinion from single deed or q
consistent course of month be-
cause we know leading Democrats
who are not ashamed to do right
when forced to- Give us the man
for Democrat who is so,ifrom prin-
ciple, in q consistent life time.--
Strange that the press Of the me-
tropolis, so independent and fearless
on other points, is afraid to strike at
the root of the damning influence
which are dragging the fair name
of the Crescent down to the level
of New York aud Baltimore. They
know as well as we do, that the
evil lies in the unlimited range of
the elective franchies, under which
the whole country is going to seed
with its rapid--its transcendental
progression.
GHOsTLY APPARITIoN NEAR LA
TRoBE, PA.-The Pittsburg pa }
Dispatch, of the Sd inst, has the fol.
lowing communication:
Editors Dispatch--A friend of
mine handed me copy of the Dis
patch Of the 10th inst, drawing my
attention to "Queer Story" telling
that recently, while "mass" was be-
ing celebrated in Latrobe, the spirit
of some priest or saint appeared, and
communicated to the assembly that it
was all misapprehension about pur-
gatory, no such place of intermediate
state of probation existing; and worse
than oil, that but two priests had yet
found their way to Heaven.
The truth is, that at st. Vincent's
Abbey, near Latrobe, novice saw,
from the 18th September until the
10th November, 1859, every day
from IL to IL o'clock, A. NJ, or from
IL to 2 o'clock in the night, the ap-
partition of a Benedictine monk in
full festive dress. After all, he asked
him in the presence of another mem.
Der of the order, what he wanted
The spirit then answered that he had
been suffering for seventy. seven years
already, because he had not said sew.
en- masses of obligation; that he had
appeared to seven other Benedictines
at different times, and had not been
heard, and that he would have to ap-
pear after eleven years again il be
would not help him. He wanted
those seven "masses' said for him;
besides this, the novice should, for
seven days, observe the strictest 81.