The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-01-15
Tho Christian Broshers at Work.

Tho Christian Brothers at Work.
A correspondent Of the Iymes in Paris
describes trip with a Partisan ambulance
to the scene of the great fight ut Cham
pigDy. He says:
After dinner we started in carriages for
the Prussian posts, led by Mgr. Bauer,
Archbishop of Syracuse, one Of the most
active aud principal officers of the An.bu-
lances dc Ia Pressc., His history and char
acter arc SO remarkable that You must allow
me to say q few words about them. He
was for ten years in the order of tho "Carmes
Dechausses," who claim, conspicuous among
other duties aud privileges, those of going
about bare-headed, and living on bread and
water. Brother Bauer successfully dis
charged the first duty of going barefOoted-
though the archbishop is now usually to be
seen in top boots and spurs, as he is an In
dcfatigable h0rseman-but he quito failed
i'll the second, for instead OF living upon
bread aud water he nearly died of it. He
was so near death that extreme unction>
was administered to him, but happily with
ont the usual consequences. He rallied,
and Pope Pho Mono was good enough not
only to recognize the brothers temporal
existence, but even volunteered to absOlve
him from his VOWS. The Archbishop, though
he drinks only water ut the dinner table,
is in consequence healthy, full of physical
energy, and altogether as valuable mem
Der of society as q man Of his usual mental
capacity ought to be. / am told he Ia a
great orator, and though am still to have
the pleasure of hearing him in pphtasf eau
| easily Imagine ie from his ready WIT and
unusua! command, in private conversation,
of languageaat once eopieus, and choice.
Although, however, Ihave not heard him in
the pulpit, have seen him in action in the
field, and have no hesitation in saying no
has all the qualities of q first rate cavalry
officer, except that for general he is too
fond of going under fire, and that without
excuse, since the division moro especially
under his command, the Freres DIES Ecotes
Chretiennes christian BrOthers) are in this
respect any thing but young troops THAT re-
quire leading. One Of his estafetteS, Mr..
Elliott Bower, told me that for nearly two
hours yesterday MonseigDenr had him riding
under the Prussian. bombs, an occupation
not uninteresting, perhaps, and certainly
exciting, but scarcely what one counted
upon in volunteering to escort an Arch
bishop. One might as well be an aide de-
camp to Gen. DucrOt, and be killed Oh OF
once in leading q CHARGE Altogether,
Monseigneur would have made iirst-ciass
! medieval priest, alike great in the pulpit,
the confessional {the Archbishop was con,
fessor to the Empress), and in the field
| ready to preach in mail armor or, at O
pinch, fight in a cassock. In these degen-
crate days his best, though inadequate
sphere in time of war is, perhaps, the com
mand of our Ambulance, which he leads
admirably, and under such q general-con'
spicuous from the contrast, feliclteusly
characteristic, between his ecclesiastical
dress and his top bOots-we were all proue
to 60 to the Prussian aDdnt pOstes, thougi
we did not expect that the Archoishol
. would have any further opportunity OF IN
dulging his unarchiepiscopal propensity 10
being fired at. After crossing the Marn'
we halted to take up body of the Frere
; DIES Ecoles Chretiennes, of whom L hav
spoken in q previous letter. have beei
told that yesterday they again greatly dis
tinguished themselves by their GOODNESS Il
going under fire to bring of the wound
ed, exciting the enthusiastic admiration G
= Gen. Ducrot-no bad judge of courage
5 who took off his cap with profound bow
: and kept it in his hand as some OF then
came up to him and talked to him. Wit
their long black robes darkening the white
frosty moonlight, they helped to max
: our procession very picturesque as we a.
u alighted from the carriages at the las
3 French barricades-the extreme outposti
o A short halt to consult, and then Monseig
neur-accompanied by trompette, Nj. Gra
b mopd. Mr.. Bower, and Mr.. Elliott Bower
the esfafcttes-rode forward towards til
l. Prussians, some of whom L atterwaro
II heard were COncealeO ia tuc MUSES., "i"Ao'
ii within a few yards of US, crouchiDg forwar
>. with trigger finger all ready on the need
. gun, to guard against surprise: Ihoi
Ieft behind carried on an animated dlscu
y sion with French vivacity on ali possib
subjects, but chiefly on the chance ,he S OF
Is field. Twice or thrice the stiffness of Il
It night was broken by the sharp crack of
NJ rifle from some ill conditioned sentinel
churlish misanthrope, one would have like
, to cudgel, for passing Champigny we ia
q driven through dense rows Of recumoe
"a figures, trying, despite the cold, to snatt
70 some brief repose, that they might recOy'
u a little from the hard labors Of the day b
a fore they were called on to face those
.. the next. Here the general buzz OF col
- versation suddenly stopped, and there vi
e. a solemn hush as four priests requestt
2, passage through our group for figure co
IN ered with cloak and resting on 6rdssd'
A Young captain of Mobiles had indiscree
" exposed himself at the barricades, al
>. been shot dead few minutes before
- arrived. The sight was too common TO
p tract more than moments notice, and
"P aorvoraokion huzxed ON again, until {