The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-30
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company them to the battle-fieldsof France,
wero exhibited In the Rotunda Gardens,
who're they were Viewed with deep interest
and infinitely inspected by many thousands
Of tho citizens Of Dublin. There is but
ono opinion ~ to the manner in which the
Ambulance Committee have acquitted
themselves Of the noble duty which they
took In hands. Their various arrangements
1xve been universally pronounced to be
exceilsnt The appliances they have pro-
Gical Instruments and other necessaries are
the very best of their kind, while the medi-
cal staff and their corps of assistants are
such as, it is confidently believed, will,
prove in every way worthy of their noble
and holy mission, and be credit to the
land which has sent them forth. ireland
looks to this deputation of her sons with
hope and confidence, believing that they
will prove themselves fully worthy of their
noble mission. They go to undertake ar
duous bot glorious duties. They will have
: to undergo hardships and face no small de-
gree of danger, but it is for France and
Ireland they labor, and their hearts are in
the cause. ireland wishes them GOd-speed
and trusts they will have o splendid record
20 which she and they may refer with pride
Nwhen this cruel war is over."-Nation.
"A. 1risA Reginknt for France.-The fol-
lowing important dispatch from the French
4iDis1 of tho Interior to the Project of
Rouel eAs been published, under date of
September 18th g Inform the Irish dele
gates that decree of the 2Sth Of Septem-
Der has ordered the formation of q foreign
regiment at Cherbourg, which, according
to the intentions of the Government is ex-
sclusively intended for Irishmen. The del
cgates will confer with the General Com
mandant of the Goth military division at
Cherbourg. If necessary, communicate
this circumstance to that general officer"
A correspondent, writing to the Irish
~ Trrvr, Snrpa an tt,A al, o,H1.,
Gays: So 1t ia fact that very useful and
formidable force is expected to be formed
of lrishmen -sympathsing with France.
Since the 2lst of September the neuclus of
such q corps has existed at Cherbourg, and
. few days ago delegates from Ireland
waited on the Project here to offer him the
services of some hundreds of your coun-
trymen, and he has given them every en-
cOuragement, and sept them to Cherbourg,
where they have Joined the 10th Military
Division. 1t is not surprising that the idea
of an Irish Brigade should have occurred
to the French Government. 1t is in accord
with their traditiOns-it is naturally sug-
gested by the history of the Crimean war,
where the valor of Irishmen had been
made public; and, perhaps they remember
the soldiers which came from the g France
of the North" do not know how to turn
their backs upon an enemy.
Death Of DR.. Barter.-Dr. Richard Bar
residence, St. Anne's Hydropathic Estab-
ishment, Barney. DR.. Barter had reached
the good old age of over seventy years.
Up to within a short period he was in the
enjoyment of his usual robust health, and
his rather sudden death will come upon
many with surprise. He was not q public
man, and yet we may say that his death is
almost a public loss. The amount of un-
Oetentatious, but none the less real and
positive good which this one man has done
i'm his generation has been enormous. His
death will be mourned by numbers whom
his unaffected simplicity and kindly good
nature converted from being grateful,
though, thanks to him, temporary, patients
into warm and permanent personal friends
and admirers. DR.. Barter will be remem-
bered hereafter as the introducer of the
Turkish bath into these Kingdoms. For
the past fifteen years he labored assiduous-
~, and in the face of great opposition, to
bring its benefits within reach of tue pub
lilo. He devoted a very large sum of money
to this purpose, and was happy before his
% The Bath" as he always called it, firmly
established, not only in his native city
Cork-but in nearly all the chief towns of
Ireland and the United Kingdom. One of
his frat acts, on taking possession of St.
Annes was to erect free baths for the poor
of the neighborhood, to whom he was also
in other ways q constant benefactor. After
o long fight he recently succeeded in hav-
ing the Turkish baths introduced into the
lunatic asylum at Cork, with the result of
completely curing and restoring to their
friends number of unfortunates who had
been before regarded as "hopelessly in
sane" But neither our space nor our
ability would enable us to do justice to the
private merits of DR.. Barter. He was in
every sense of the word truly good man.
Simple and almost childlikc in his manner,
generous and cOnfiding almost to a fault
his charity knew no distinction of persons,
and was extended alike to all who needed
it. 1t was only those who knew him init
mately who knew what fund of know
ledge and originality and breadth of intel
lect lay under this simple exterior, but the
public may surmise that the man tho could
live down the opposition which he had to
face, who could create such a place as St.
Anne's, and could introduce and firmly es-
tablish such innovations as the Turkish
baths in almost every great city of the
Empire, must have been no common man,
aud possessed of no common force of char
acter.-Freeman.
Restoration Of Roscommon Abbey.-Sir
William Wilde has received, says the Ros-
common Messenger, the following letter from
Mrs. Bookey, of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin,
which we have great pleasure in publish
ing, and hope it will be an incentive to
other patriotic ladies to " go and do like
wise :" 50 Dear sir-Having read in the
Saunders this morning your letter to the
editor of the Roscommon Messenger, l with
Dleasure enclose G5 towards the funds for