The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-16

that service; and millions Of public
moneys are yearly expended on their
mentainauce.i These millions are hence
forward the prizes of young men of talent,
Of creed and country. Hitherto the road
to the appointments in the public service
was hedged in by the formidable impede
mentS which the restrictions of patronage
imposed, but to day we see all those barri-
ers Of feudal origin arc swept away. Irish
talent has been triumphant in every field
in which it had full scope and fair play
and we have the frmest confidence that in
the competition for the situations now
thrown open the young men of this couuk
try will be found to hold their own against
their antagonists from every part of the
empire.
Fatal Accident to Female Antiquarian
Mr.. Hugh Martin. coroner, and q respect
ale jury, at Kells, county Meath, on the
body of Mrs. Eliza Sheridan, wife of Mr..
John Sheridan, timber merchant, Dublin,
who metaher death under the following cir
cumstsnce st appeared from the evidence
on an excursion to the county Meath.
sHaving arrived at Kells, the deceased ex-
pressed a desire to explore the famous
stone house of Columbkille, SO called from
the tradition prevailing that the missionary
named had made the place his residence.
Having entered below from the doorway,
the visitor finds himself in single-vaulted
apartment twenty-fOur feet in height, and
in the roof is an aperture of narrow dimen
sions, and which leads to the first story of
the, building. A ladder, unprotected by
handrail, communicates with this opening,
which leads to two apartments, always
visited by antiquaries who have the
temerity to ascend the ladder. The
deceased expressed desire to as
cend, and, despite the advise of her
husband and other visitors, could
not be dissuaded from her purpose. Ac-
cordingly, her husband accompanied her to
the summit, and, both having arrived on
the landing, che requested that they should
return. The husband preceded her down
wards, advising her to be cautious. He had
hardly expressed the words when, melan-
choly to relate, the deceased. missed her
floor, two young parties below having
narrow escape. She lived, according to
evidence, only three or four minutes.
Irish Lore and Irish Hatred.-The gener--
GUS and practical sympathy for the gallant
people of France which is being evinced by
the Iriah nation is giving the English press
q great deal of trouble. They do not like
Irish feeling with regard to the war they
| regarded as a little noisy effervescence
having neither utility nor significance; the
character of the Irish demonstrations has,
however, altered with tho requirements of
the case; they have become eminently
practical as the needs of France become
real and urgent, and now the Brit
| ish press, unable to sneer at the
action of the Irish people, is vent
ing it's spite by endeavoring to attribute
that action to a cause which, they suppose,
will lessen it's merit in the eyes of the
French people. They are at great pains to
convince their readers that the end we have
in view in sending to France those sub
scriptiOns for the relief of her wounded
soldiers is mainly the furtherance of our
Irish national ideas and that our action
in the matter is due much less to love OF
France than to hatred of England. The
English Government have heretofore shown
themselves very anxious to prevent Irish
men from taking military service in France
In fact one of the treaties made with thai
country on the conclusion of the Napoleon
lie wars not only stipulated: for the break
up of the Irish Legion then existing, but
included condition that no similar force
should at any future time be formed in the
French service. France has, since then.
put her foot upon those treaties, which
were imposed on her by force, and which
restrained her liberty and violated hel
honor, and possibly she would not hesitate
now to accept the aid Of some battalions
whether England would be very willing tt
see them mustered under the tricolor
ready to repeat the Fontenoy operation
whenever opportunity might otfer.-Nation
DEATH of DR.. Ed,card Cullen.-We regre
to have to announce the death of this
gentleman, at his residence, % The Ores
cent, Clontarf. The eveut took place or
Saturday morning after the endurance of {
long illness. DIR. Cullen was n man of dis
tingnished talents, which has been devoted
to the perfection of the overland route t.
connect the Atlantic with the Pacific b.
the Isthmus of Panama. The deceased
gentleman spent many years in Contra
America in pursuance of his plans, and wa
in intimate relations with the government
of the United States and Great Britain il
respect to them. His extraordinary power
as a linguist were of the greatest assistance
to him in his explorations of the Difficult
region which he selected as the scene o
his labors. DIR. Cullen was also an actlv'
promoter of Irish emigration to the Hi
Platte, and he had the happiness of fixing
: in those fruitful regions many evicte'
families of this country to live in state o
comfort denied them at home. The de
ceased gentleman has been in ill healt
since his return to his native city, which h
would have adorned had he been spared
Freeman.
Conversion at Partry.-Michael Conway
of Drimcoggy, has been received back IN
to the Catholic Church by the Rev. ThOma
McWalters, p. p. Poor Conway was on
of tue few unfortunate men who, yielding
to coercion and poverty for time, aban
doned the faith of their fathers. He wa
ono of the few who DELAYED returning to