The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-06-12
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81, JAxEs PARISH, June /, 1870.
1ditoss Aezaing S4as and Catholic Messenger:
The authorities of st. Jefferson
College having determined, a. per estab-
hshed e1stom, TO afford to the students the
reCreetiOn and amusement incident to .
Pie nie, decided also to blend the useful
with tho Agreea6le-utils cum daIci. To
compass this two-fold object, it was re-
solved TO mako an excursion to Algiers,
your vis-A-vis aud new district0y;al acQuisi-
tiOn, whore it 10 hoped the literary, drama
tic and other exercises of the students will
Add new attractions to those of tho Ladies'
Fair now held in Geddes' warehouse for the
benefit Of the new church.
Accordingly, arrangements were made
with Capt. Jos. Dalferes, the attentive and
sbiiging commander of the steamboat Henry
Tete for the transportation thither of all
the college inmates-about one hundred.
Exactly at 8 O'Clock A. NJ. the boat hove
in sight, o circumstances which seemed to
intensity the always lively enthusiasm of
college boys. The brass band struck up a
patriotic strain of welcome, which was
continued until the boat had touched the
"Col!ege Point" when all were speedily
put aboard, and made as happy as the kind
oourtesies Of the amiable captain and his
ostima6ae clerks, Messrs. Landry, NicOlle
and Leblanc, could possibly make them.
But independent of the we'll ordered ap-
Rointments Of the boat, and of the atten-
IODe VI Tvs OMceis lnuepeDoent, TOO, OF
their own vivid imaginatiOns and merry
eonceits, the, young students had, among
their travelling equipments, other sources
Of enjoyment. The enlivening melodies of
the brass band were alternated during the
trip, by music on the piano, comic song,
and dramatic ssetches-making the voy-
age down one Of rare pleasure to all who
on that day had the good fortune to have
patronized the Henry Tete.
Having landed at Algiers, the professors
and students, marching in procession and
always accompanied by the soul stirring
music OF the brass Instruments, visited ia
succession the rectory, the scene of the
Ladies' Fair (Geddes' warehouse) and the
Magnolia Park. At the Aforementioned
place, kindly given by Mr. Roublet, fun
and frolic were the order of the evening
until cable night extended her arGlor- sub
DUNG mantle over the merry assembly.
Refreshments were then and there provided
and disposed of, and the line of march
again formed for Geddes' warehouse, where
little drama was acted by the junior students
which, however, was but q prelude to the
magnificent play of Thursday evening.
Thursday evenings drama is entitled "a
Fathers Curse" and is translation by the
stndents themselves from the French-"Le
Maladiction." This was acted with the
accessories of scenery and costume. and
afforded o good insight at once into the
self-possession, the evolutionary acquire
McDLS, anu Luo CAREFUL tralHlHE OF the
young gentlemen engaged in it,
The interest of the play, hinges ON the
apostacy of Christian Spanish nobleman.
prompted. encouraged, impese1, by an evil
genius, his confidant, to fight in the Mus
sulman ranks against the cause of his Re-
deemer and, of course, against his convic-
lions; on the curse pronounced On lis
apostacy by an indignant and outraged
father; on his ultimate remorse, his resolve
At last to redeem himself by turning his
sword against the enemy Of Christianity !:
His death wound; his reconciliation will,
Ais father and the revocation OF the male
aiction; and, finally, his pesitent and
The play was remarkably we'll performed
and the interest sustained to the end and
We do not hesitate to declare that for intea-
igent mien and bearing and demonstrative
evidence Of superior Instruction, nobody
Of young students could exhibit better GRE
dentials. And, Mr.. Editor, in view Of the
present nefari0us schemes to confuse and
eOnfound all the interests of education, Won
will grant that this is something in our
Catholic youth to be proud Of
Professor Bergman and his pupils, by
various performances on the piano and
some creditable singing, added much to the
evenings entertainments, and left nothing
to be desired to the lovers of rational plea.
sure. wv