The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-04-04

MoRNiNG gTAR AND CAgRoIxc AEs
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NEW oRIEAEs. ssuHlaAx sAf l = .so.
TIE POETRY AND zUsIc OF TaliL p. ~
: ny, 4. 8. MAnoANs -has a. l23
nv, =, Il Inc many 3, this great city who
are aweary of the sun, apa !, pine " iof new
nieasures--how few are aware that with lti 10 Q
few Ssisf in hoSs e lana and q Fresh
theyFso sigh for in vainl Yet such y ..iie iact:
LET Sir Aigerncn or Lord Frederick take heart
of grace and try; my life ont no VIII lnaAs s cue
MClintock's Northwest passage. put ne must
go without inpedimept of any KIND le&y g beTs
hind the handle to his name, anu caia MN
Ilackthorn stick 10 necessary, for the Journey
::.ust be made ON foot. With that, and 20 few
pounds very few will do-and @ change OF
he may travel day OF night round, "A ne
CHOOSES the whole two thousann gnree nun
ilred miles of coast line which Inc New f' arr,
disc contains, with -comfort, ano ssstcsyy ANT.
eyer-increasing pleasure.
Landing at Cork-for it is TO Erin OF the
strearnsD am directing hini-iet ham at once
t sSss town ny but God made the country" Let
him stop at the small villages; he viii be luckyl
If he mesfs wet weather, and Pc compelled %
ask nights Lodging dor goas sa n bs a. mt inao
his bag, as he passes through Cerk, aozen OF
20 Of well-bound and well-printed Catholic
prayer bucks. farmer would conslder nm :
self ii,sulted by tine oiTer on money Ior u Dod !,
but the present of nice prayer book before
: I" the gentleman leaves In the morning would
not be refused by the woman OF the mouse, ana
-vouId leave pleasant memories. Should he be
Questioned as no doubt he will, as 60 where ne
Is rOine, etc, he has but to state the truth
that he is % o traveller, and has WIEN 10 see
The country That Is enough. Inc WORD
sstraveIer', is u talisman. He is made akin
with them at once to surprising extent; rs in
truth he can enter NO house Whiah has not
had some loved member OF the famMy srav sse
people love the country with passionate love,
the travellers questioner will be gratifed by
hearing the expression OF p desire to become
IN the Belgravian or Tyburnian gentleman
in search of new sensations will travel IN TINS
lnasiner, he will End what he seeks among q
.,eople Kindly, hospitable, generous, pure III
morals faithful to religious principles, lovers
of Justice for all men, and shrewd too though
easily outraged, and as sentimentai ana TO
mantle as he could meet in Spain or Provence,
If it were possible for him to transport himself
thither, and with wave OF his stick, a Ia
Pyospero evoke, in all their mailed or gay at.
tire, the OF .nS Eears io;n i E
"the reyels, tho sports, and the wsies"of the
people, and adopt o few of their ways as, for
instance, the morning saintatien, = GOD save ave
RaicdAyuk y while he will often hear the part
ing salute " God speed You,g or rsioa ne wafn
YOU -,
Irish are both spoken. This is not much to
learn Long before he has reached Galway or
Coleraine, he will have found reason to thank
me- his guide; to cease 'to look down upon the
Irish,n or indeed on any people, II he ever did
90 !; he will feel the g new sensations;D that
life lie q more serious thing than he had known,
and also, imperfect Us this world is--a most
knew how to use it rightly, He win have
found an Arcadia, free of the presence of the
Umpire god PAN, and that poetry of life, which
had Gust its balo over the early pastoral ma
lions. extant and real in these mercantile and
matter-cf- fact days of eighteen hundred and
sixty-nine. An instanccscf the existence OF
pertsd. the writer can give from his own expe-
rrience. 81
Being in Cork not long since for few days
/ was curious to see a real Fenian captain
: named Mackay, of whom the London papers
had spoken q great deal. had read of the
fearful scene which took place ut his captnre
o work of immense difficulty Though he wat
couss upon unpTsPaTsd by large tsses 81 pc
lice armed with pistols. Capt. Mackay was Sc
yereIy wounded but of bis captoTs, one ne
shot dead, and the Others were moro or less Sc
this terrible Hercules 4, barely lnid-sized young
man of not more than two or three and twenty
years Of age ; of gentle, prcpcsseesiDg mieI
and poss Bens
asked. how he was treated, his answer was
a Remarkably wall the anthoritiesa did. moth
ing to me which tsy syeret SsI tx g 60 irl
Herd was q philosopher, as well as poet ant
warrior, more practical than BACON. and ye
he was but q farmers son, one Of the country
CSod-inade knights; inheritors of every trait o
6haTaeter W hfch y dsstfti
uuished the men who followed King Dathy t
the foot of the Alps; who debatedthe Frinft.
with the illustrious Patrick who, IN compan,
with the holy Columbia on the shore of Lougi
Kee, listened eplnptared to the bard Crona1i q
he struck from his harp iIi-the morning OF SON.
those unfading sparks of heavenly light an.
imperiBhable n1snls Which so0tie and glad
den, and shall s,sotlie aud glatsdeH, the souls o
men forever. ] have asked my traveller t.
open his heart lst hin, also open his eyes an'
ears: Should hifSttsp at farmer 3 house for I
night let him note how kindly his host bid
goodbye to his wife inGthe nora,iug, tcliini
her, as he lights his pipe u the m cd fire OF
the fisartl, TO sefssl his lfeakfast i,y Danny o
EiIesns to the siaree-acre pGtatothsia to-day
maybe mile o. more of. Let him note, !
posaible. how he salAfes bis neighbers on tn
road or IN the fields, asgwe befors ~ dicated, 9
with 4 q Good morrow, boys and their reply
163ood-mOrrow Eladiy, Mick y or perhaps tn
aalrfa ia 10 A.. fine day, boya, fhGuk Cod? Z