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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-27
Lent.

: "Now, therefore, saith tho Lord: Be con-
and in weeping, and in mourning"
Wednesday next, March Cd, will be the
first day Of Lent, the seikon Of fasting,
penitence and prayer, which the Church
has eDjoined upon her children, in imita-
ton Of Him who tasted for them at the
commencement Of His sacred mission. 1t
is called Ash Wednesday, because from the
earliest ages Of the Church her children,
approaching her affairs at the commence
ment of this holy season, had ashes put
upon their heads as type of their humili-
ty and nothingness- before God, and had
fasting imposed upon them as a restraint
upon their appetites, in the nature Of a
penance for their sins, and as testimony
of the sincerity of their repentance. The
time of the year in which Lent always
comes was selected as the most fitting, be-
cause it afforded an appropriate prepare
ton for the approaching celebration of the
death Of our Lord.
OF the necessity as we'll as efficacy of
fasting both the Old and New Testament
are full of testimony. In the old we learn
that the people of Ninive were saved under
the preaching of Jonas by forty days fast
ing and prayer, and that David was par
doned for the death of Urias because he re-
pented with fasting and prayer. In the New
Testament the example of our Lord, and
the practice of the early Christians would
leave no doubt of it's efficacy, even if the
Church did not enjoin it upon us as duty.
1t must appear evident to our readers
that Lent, which is a season of fasting, and
penitence and prayer, cannot be time for
festivities, or shows, or for attending places
of public amusements. The two are en-
tirely incompatible. No Catholic can en-
ter upon penitential prepare ton for a
and at the same time indulge in the idle
pleasures of the world, which are not only
unbecoming the character of the season,
but expressly prohibited by the Church.
For three centuries there has not been
Lent in which the children of the Church
have had such strong motives for a strict
adherence to her precepts, for fervent ex-
hibition of their faith. The solemn season
of the Jubilee still remains open for the
penitent, the Fathers of the Church are
gathered together in solemn Council from
every quarter of the earth, and the Holy
Spirit, the promised Comforter" the "Spir-
it of Truth" presides over it's deliberations
and directs its decisions, and we are all
anxiously waiting for the time when it shall
be announced to us what has seemed good
to the Holy Ghost and to the fathers.
This is not tho time for true Catholics to
forget the precepts of the Church, the obi
cations of the faith, or to turn their backs
upon the mercies of God. w.
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Father Kenny'S Schools.

p We are pleased to learn that Father Ken
the energetic pastor of st. Theresa's
CHURCH, has met-witli a hearty response
from his own CON gregation in the proposed
erection of a school house, to which we re-
ferred in our last number. The members
of his congregation seem to understand
thoroughly the great Importance of the pro-
posed work, and to appreciate its value
when completed. And they are right.
Next to the House of God comes the school
house, where our children, under the care
of sound and reliable teachers, and the
training of good Christian education,
may grow up to be useful, honest men, and
faithful Christians. The members of the
congregation of st. Theresa's Church I'M
derstand all this, and with an energy of
will, and liberality highly creditable to
them, are prepared to stand by their good
pastor in the work which he has under
taken.
We are pleased to learn also that the lib
erality of that congregation so frequently
extended beyond their own limits during
the last twenty years, and the aid, comfort
and assistance which they have given SO
freely and SO cheerfully to the other con-
gregatiops in their days of need, have not
only not been forgotten, but are fully and
kindly remembered, and will be met with
grateful return. The means are already
increasing handsomely in the hands of the
good pastor, SO that we may look upon st.
Theresa's school as no longer question. of
doubt, but as an assured success in the
Providence of God.
We are pleased with all that we have
heard in relation to this good work, to find
that the grace of God still abounds in the
hearts of our people, that they are unwea-
ried in doing good, and that they are SO
cheerfully ready to respond to the call of
their pastors. We are pleased to see that
the good deeds of the past is not forgotten
in the present, and that our good people in
their action towards each other are about
to realize the efficacy of the precept "Do
unto others as you would that they should
do unto you" And, finally, we are pleased
with the conviction that the proposed work
may now be looked upon as a success, for
we feel satisfied that the faithful congre-
CATION of st. Theresa's Church could pay
no higher compliment to their worthy pas
tor, could confer no reward more satisfac-
tory to him for the many years of labor,
care and anxious thought devoted to their
service, than the cheerful aid which they
are giving him for the completion of work
on W Aich he has set his heart. w.
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DECISION IN THE CINCINNATI SCHOOL
QUEsrIoN.-The Chicago Tribune has a
T we'll considered article on the late decision
Of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, deny
ing the power of the Board of Education
to repeal resolution requiring the Bible to
be read in the public schools. After dis
posing of the legal points, which are shown
to be violated by the decision, the Tribune
proceeds as follows to consider
The political wisdom of this sort of
religious coercion in public education. 1t
does not help the Court to declare that
Christianity is the established religion of
the State of Ohio, recognized by it's con-
stitution, although its Supreme Court has
twice declared thati does not. Nor not only
do two very large bodies of charlottesville
Roman Catholics on .sAe hand, and the
'liberals," composed Untarians, Uni
versalists, a class sSsErrends, Christians and
others, amounting (wita. the Jews) to half
the population Of Cit,cin Sati-oppose the
reading of the Bible inrhespublic schools,
bnt such Representatives. of orthodox
Christianity as theNew York Independent,
Chicago Idrancc, HcIFy Ward Beecher,
aud IL dozen prominent~ orthodox doctors
whom we might name, oppose it in the in
stand those interests. a
The Cincinnati Court does not seem to
| understand that their decision not only
justifies the power exercised by the Roman
Church over education in Catholic coun-
| tries, but that such decisions may prepare
Procrustean bed for Protestants in sec
tions of this country. If religious in
| struction of the Protestant kind may be
enforced in the public schools, even to the
extent of reading the king James version
of the Bible, or any other, the moment Ca
thOlics get the majority of voters at the
polls they could, by the same logic, make
Protestant Taxpayers pay the expense OF
schools which should be taught by priests,
open with High Mass, and close with con,
| fession. Nor is this all. The compelling
the payment of taxes by all, in support Of
public schools, is only one form of compul-
| sorry education. 1t is but q larger appiica-
ton of the same principle of compulsory
education to compel the attendance of all
children, whether Catholic or Protestant.
Now, the same right exists in the Ca
tholics of Baltimore and New Orleans.
where they are in q majority, to compel
the attendance of all children at such
schools, with such religious instruction as
they might devise, as exists in Cincinnati
to compel Catholic, Liberal and Jewish
parents to support an Evangelical school
system, or one in which religious customs
are introduced which commend themselves
only to the majority of the Evangelical
faith. The Cincinnati Protestants, with
barely half the people of their faith, are
Initiating the educational assumptions
which the Roman Church makes in those
countries where she has full sway over the
whole people. Their course is exactly that
which the constitution ef-0hfo- aimed To
prevent in prohibiting 9" the application of
the school fund to sectarian uses.n
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We requested to give notice that the Rev DIR.
derdon graduate of Oxford and Catholicity
win deliver lecture this evening Sunday 27th)
O'Clock In St. Patricks Church. The subject will be-
" The Spiritual Glories of the Irish People," This is
suect to which this learned and eloquent preacher
have no doubt, win do full justice.
We arc requested also to that the Rev.
tor will preach every Thursday evening during Lent in
the same church, at tho hour.
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL's CHURCH.-Suu-
day next, March 9th, the first Sunday in
Lent, q general communion of the members
of the vazious conferences in the city will
take place at the above named church, in
the Third District. We understand that
the conferences have invited the Rev. DR..
Anderdon, the nephew of the Most Rev.
DR.. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster,
to preach to them on that occasion. Those
who attend will have an opportunity of
hearing an eloquent pulpit orator. Divine
service will commence Mt o'clock A. NJ.
The conferences of st. Vincent de Paul,
whose patron, while on earth, was one of
the kindest, most charitable, and most self
denying of Gods children, are, we believe,
ten or twelve in nun Der, and are composed
of some of our best and most meritorious
citizens, men exemplary in their lives, and
feyvcntly disposed to follow in the footsteps
of their sanity founder in relieving the
necessities of their fellow as far rs the
means they-are enabled to collect among
themselves permit them to do. The exam
pie of general communion coming from
such men mast necessarily be edifying to
those who witness it.
The congregation of St. Vincent de Paul
are indebted to the energy, untiripg per-
severance and zeal Of their amiable and
piods pastor, the Rev. E. j. Foltier, for the
church in which they worship, which has
cost him years ef-aaxieHs- care aud-con-
slant labor to erect for them, though we
believe it is not as fully completed as his
heart would desire to have the Temple of
the Living God, if he had the means. Such
pastor is entitled to the respect and love
of his congregation, and, with his example
always before them, they ought to become
the faithful children of good father. w.
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There are two cries in man, the cry of the
angel and the cry of the beast. The cry of the
angel is prayer; the cry of the beast is sim
Those who do not pray, stoop towards the
earth, like a mole to hide itself. They are all
earthly, all british, and think of nothing but
temporal things.-Cme Of Ars.
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The Rev. DIR. Anderdon will preach Ash Wcdnes
day evening in the Church of St John the Baptist
Dryades street at half past o'clock NJ, and
every Friday evening during Lent at the same hour
in the above church.
This gifted preacher and eloquent divine cannot fail
to attract largo crowd of hearers learn the mystic
rios of holy religion beautifully explained by the
Row Father.
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IxRcIsEs FOR LENT.

49, - Insuoewasss Conception, Baroanc street
- II - ndcrdon, D. D., will preach ON Sundays.
"a ~ ssasj 1Eass and ON Tuesdays, Mt r. NJ. There
- .Eher sorron Sundays ut p. NJ. by one Of
n.T.z Eathess, md Fridays the Stations Of the
~.v The Cross. On wednesdays and Thursdays. at
-. a French eermon.
- iscent de Pasrs ChuvcA-English instructions will
ylven two evenings in each week at o'clock during
holy season On Wednesday those instructions will
given by q Rev. Jesuit Father, and Fridays by
he Rev. FISHER Heslin The services Wednesdays
Vim open with the Rosary and Fridays with the Way
q the Cross On both days the services viii close with
1Ae Bshediction Of the Hoay Sacrament
S. Tsrsss's Chusch-Sernons Sunday, at 10 O'Clock
HaAs; Sundays and Wednesday, at o'clock r. NJ
stations Of tho Cross, Fridays, at7r.M.
We regret that We had ntmation to tho inter.
estng ceremony which place at of church
An tho Fourth District Thursday last except ndi'
rocty, and at tirc when 1t too late to give
par notice cf It. wo will endeavor to learn the partic.
1ars Tor next issue
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-27

Society, like shaded silk, must be viewed
/ IN all situations, or its color5will deceive
-you.
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n1oroine Star and CAhoiic Messenger.
',s1caIMDARJ1 THE WEEK.

81 ,wss 81 crnquagesima Sunday.
y.-.-. e ~ y ~ Romanus, Bbbot
=. 4 ~ ~ Albnus Bishop and Confessor
Zse.sssceS. s13ss SSt Cunegundes, Virgin.
..'S1sr ST Casmir, COnfesaor.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-31
NEW YORK.
The Nathans Murder

New YORK, July 3O.-Patrick Devy, in
charge of Prof. Morse's property, opposite
Nathans' house, watched a carriage in
front of Nathan's stable from halfpast u
until half past 1 o'clock Friday morning,
when a man jumped in the box and drove
away. 1t is believed that the carriage con-
tanned Nathans' murderers. The reward
now offered for their apprehension, amounts
to $500
There are very few developments in the
Nathans murder case, but rumor points
to the probable arrest Of an inmate of the
house on suspicion of knowledge of the
terrible event.
The Tax on Railroad Bonds.
The following dispatch was received
from Washington: There is no tax to be
withheld from the coupons of railroad
bonds falling due the first of August.
The steamer Anglia, for Glasgow, took
200 Germans to enter the Prussian army.
Death for the week, 957.
The German Patriotic Aid Society elected
six surgeons to serve in the Prussian army,
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TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHI N GTO II.
Ben Butler i'm Trouble again.
The Latest from BrOWnl0W.
Situation i'm North Carolina.
The Sentence Of Gen. ONeill.
French Orders at st. Louis.
French Orders at 81. Louis.
WASHINGTON.

Alaska SOld-f0r How muchf
WASHINGTON, July 3O.-The Secretary
of the Treasury to-day awarded to the
Alaska Commercial Company lease of
privilege for taking fur seals on the islands
of st Paul and st George during period
Of twenty yeaIs.
Georgia Affairs.
Attorney General Akern.an has been
written TO by several Georgisns, asking him
to place his opinion in writing on the status
of Georgia under the bill passed on the
last night of the session admitting the
State, but he declines to do so until it is
brought before him in legal form. The
Bullock party are uniting against all efforts
for a State election the coming fall.
The Cost of Collecting Taxes.
In answer to the statements that the
cost of collecting the income tax will
nearly equal the whole amount collected,
the Treasury Department furnishes infor-
nation that the whole cost of collecting the
entire internal revenue tax, including the
income tax, will fall short of seven millions
of dollars, and that the collection of the
income tax for the year 1870 will add but
little to the cost of collecting internal reve-
nue. taxes assessed upon other objects Of
taxation. 1t will add something to the fees
of collectors, and few days labor and
pay to those deputy assessors who reside in
wealthy districts from which this revenue
is derived, and that is all. The additional
cost to that which would have been paid to
assessors and collectors had there been nc
such tax assessed will not exceed two pei
cent, or two hundred thousand dollars IN
all.
The Germans
The board of officers elected at the mass
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he understood that he was contracting for
the services of Butler He further charges
that no. having learned that Dyer had
made any Recommendation to his three ad-
ditional guns steel cases; he has not made
any such, and further, as Butler has failed
to perform the agreement on his part, he is
entitled to have refunded the earnest
money, $3.50.
Whitney comes into court and prays that
certain money due Ames from the Treasu-
~ may be withheld for the payment of the
five thousand dollars fee, on the ground
that the agreement with Ames was fulfilled,
the latter getting his money, and the charge
of conspiracy against Gen. Dyer being
Withdrawn. The developments of these
two bills show up some of the operations
of the Washingsonlobby of the past session
in an inter esting light. While Butler did
not get all his fee, it appears that Ames
got private claim of seventy thousand
dollars passed through Congress.
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FROM SARATOGA.
The nuEord-Babcock Difficulty.

A private letter from Saratoga, speak
ing of the race week there, gives an &C
count of the difficulty at that place be-
tween Gen. Abe Buford, of Kentucky,
and MIR. Babcock, of Rhode Island. As
there have been reports already published
of this affair, we give the following state
ment of an eye witness:
!'Gen. BufOrd was seated at small
round table in a retired corner of the
rotunda of the Union Hotel, taking
glass of wine with DR.. Pollard, J.
0'Fallen, Col. Michigan and Col. Bob.
Johnson, when Mr.. BabcOCk drew up a
chair aud seated himself between Gen. Blu
ford and O'Fallen, to whom Gen. B. was
telling of a circumstance that occurred in
his presence in the race between Chinicothe
and Babcock's horse POmpey Payne.
Babcock fatty contTadicted a statement
of Gen. BufOrd. The General turned to
him and told him to be careful what he
was saying and remember to whom he
was talking. Babcock replied in sneering
manner, & know who lam talking to- The
General said to him; "Then; Be care
ful'' and proceeded to finish telling of the
circumstance to O'Fallen. When he was
through BabcOck said the statement was
lie. Thercupon Gen. BufOrd knocked
him down, pulled his coat over bis head
and stamped him until Col. Michigan and
O'Fallen gathered the General and pulled
him off. The difficulty created the
usual amount of excitement for awhile.
No one regretted the occurrence more
than Gen. Buford, but the conduct and
language Of Babcock left him no altena-
tive"
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THE DEMOCRACY.

They are trying to nd the country of the
vast financial burdens that repress its en-
ergies, crush its industry, and retard sub
stsntial prosperity. They are endeavoring
to get nd of tax-list, longer and more
portentous than the Levitcan laws. They
are trying to rescue the country
from the curse of an army of tax-gath-
erers, that eat out its substance and
steal what crumbs are left. They are try
ing to rescue it from the incubus Of a pO-
htical shinplaster monopoly, compared to
which the old United States Bank was in
nocence and harmlessness. They are
trying to undo the Radical yillainy
of protective tariff, enacted for the bene-
fit of a few monopolsts by compelling
the whole body of the people to pay
them tribute. They are trying to remove
recklessness, dishonesty and incOmpetency
from the administration, and to re-establish
constitutional, economical, and honest gov
eminent. They are trying to restore lib
erty, peace, and prosperity to every quar-
ter of America, and right and justice to
every inhabitant thereof.
In these endeavors the Democracy can
appeal to the sympathies of all men who
prefer freedom before despOtisn, and right
before wrong, with feeling Of confidence
that the appeal will not be made in vain.
Upon this line their march IS onward to
certain victory. II Is a march upon
which there is no time to be
wasted in the discussion Of dead wants,
md no vantage ground to be lost in the
lighting of battles that are over. Those
who cannot keep step in the ranks Of the
yrand army that marches to the call Of the
'uture, will certainly find themselves aban-
loned with the fossil relics scattered at the
Chicago Times.
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meeting OF the German citizens on the
25th adopted the name of German Patriot
Association of the District of Columbia.
Gentlemen were appointed collectors, and
authorized to receive contributions to the
fund for the support of the wounded and
sick soldiers in the German army, and the
widows and orphans of those who may fall
for the German cause.
Germans in this region are discussing
the question of sending a representative to
the Prussian camp. The Baltimore Wecker
suggested that Gen Sigel should be sent to
Germany, as representative OF the Ger
man citizens of the United States. The
Weckcr thinks it important there should be
an observer of the great struggle, who
would be in constant communication with
his countFymen in America, and whose
reputation at home and his knowledge OF
the arts of war would be a sufficient guar
antee of the truthfulness and impartislity
of his reports. The Wecker brought forth
the project in the assurance that Gen Sigel
representing 100000 of Germans in
America would be well received in the
Prussian camp, and very probably would
be assigned to the honorary position OF q
staff officer. The suggestion has been cor
daily Endorsed by almost every German
paper of standing and influence In this sec-
ton, the only difference of opinion being
as to the capacity in which he should go,
all parties being anxious to avoid the least
appearance of violation of neutrality laws.
The proposition made by the Philadelphia
Democrat has met with much favor, viz:
That Gen Sigel should be made the head
of Sanitary Commission, and sent to the
seat of war to disburse the funds contribu-
ted by Germans in this country for the re-
lief of the sick and wounded soldiers OF the
German army.
BrOwnISw Heard From.
A private letter received by Judge Noah
Davis from Senator Brownlow, dated at
Brownsville, Tenn, denies the report as to
his failing health. The Senator says he is
in excellent health and spirits, and is daily
receiving throngs of visitors. He also pre-
diets that the Republicans will carry East
Tennessee in the coming Judicial elections,
aud that Hon. Horace Maynard will un-
doubtedly be reelected. The Republican
party, he says, is gaining strength daily,
owing to the folly. weakness and imbecility
of the recent Legislature, and that revival
of RepubGcanism is observable, particular
" in East Tennessee.
Chinese Medicines.
The Collector of the port of San Fran.
cisco some time since submitted to Secre-
tary Boutwell, the question as to whether
he must prevent the importation of certain
articles intended for use as medicines
among the Chinese residing in California,
consisting of dried snakes, bugs, lizards
and all sorts of excrescences of animal, etc:
The examiner of dr1gs refused to pass
them because they we're not, in his opin.
ion, pure drugs, were loathsome and dis