The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-04

d0rmit0ry. Even then, some of the senior
stadeats,-coneiderately kindly and vol
unfairly yielding to the juniors,-quietly
Equartered themselves tton deck"
When the aurora of morn again illu-
mined the oriental horizon" ~, the boat
turned her prov Mississippi-ward, and
made few stoppages till she arrived, early
in the afternoon, at Paincourt. From the
wharf, the cOllegians, in their " Sunday
best, band and banner, as usual, promi
neatly displaying their lustre,-marched to
the Z" Village Green in front of the Viii
,ge Church, and there, duly differed by
tneir vigilant projects, biuoxacked to await
the opening Of the concert.
AT "dusk" tho happy young fellows were
again marshaled into line, and conducted
to the COncert-room-a capacious building;
and so over .crOcded, that We wondered how
80 many people could be brought together
In a country place apparently sparse in
population. The circumstance demonstrates
that our Creole people, 30 far from suffer
ing their social disturbances to detach
them from religion and its contributories
take pride and pleasure in openly show
ing that they recognize their personal
aud their country's interest in the public
worship Of the Sovereign Lord.
That the concert was brilliant affair, it
| is almost needless to remark. With the
best musical talent of Ascension, Assump-
ton and Lafourche, combined with the
vocal and instrumental performances of
Professor Bergman's college pupils aud
the added eclat of the brass band, Pain
court, we opine, has experienced " flow
OF soul rarely felt in these parts.
The "Fair" was held in an adjacent
building. Thither the multitude bent
their steps during the "intermission," and
literally Patropized the fair almoners.
Rolls of small bills made marvellously
quick illustration of "the balance of ex-
cbaDges'; but, as if exemplifying the
charitable impulse presiding at their issue,
the recipients and the giyers were alike
joy full and happy.
And SO, the :" utile cum dulei" marked
the day and hour; yea, 81 the wee sma'
hours" into which the second "act of
the concert carried us, and during which
the blithe excursionists wendell their way
back to the Henry Tete enlivening their
march with q strain which, now as we re-
yer, vert to it, we think may be APPLY trans
refrain of popular English ballad -
Nod s sssss ss : e s ss '
rh9i ssa aa DAYS .s sse %s wsn' picnic ing
We are led to the conclusion that music
and song, and fun and merriment generally,
are good opiates. We know that the effect
left most of the voyagers obliviOus, on the
return trip, of the course and distance be-
tween Paincourt and D0naldsonville. Their
surprise, on awakening, on finding them
selves once more on the Mississippi's
broad current, and rapidly nearing home,
vas quite agreeable; and we,-as, by viz
tue OF our reportorial Office, in duty bound,
watching the evidences Of the Young
What pleasures are to come;
hf sast n b1i.n. u passing nsa G be u.s.
Confident that We read the dominant
emotions Alright, we could not but be sur
M apd nm ivIn ham To-
changed into feelings of q more subdued
character; aud looking around to ascer-
tain the cause Of tie sudden transition, we
found preparations on hand for the celebra-
ton Of the Holy Sacrifice in the saloon of
the boat. Doubtless such a thing has
often before happened but, to us, it was
new, and, of course, pleasing astonish-
ment suggestive, too, of the happy con-
trivances a devoted ministry are capable
of, when DIR lwing their light aud their re-
sources, confessediy, from Him who is the
fountain of life and light, and the bountess
Gus; giver of all good gifts,-amoDg them,
doubtless, a right understanding.
Soon after the celebration of tue Mass, all
thoughts centered in the baggage deposito-
~, preparatory to the landiag, momentarily
fnemine contradiceate] voted themselves q
- com mittee of the whole their assumed
functiOps,-a recognition of the familiar
points of the "Coast," that told of the
lessenlng distance to the college.
Hip, hip, hurrah! The shril shrek of
the steam whistle, and the scarcely less
sonorous, but more euphonic Home, s,reet
Home" of the brass band announced the
haven of our young peoples present aspi-
rations.
Three loud, long, reiterated cheers for
the Henry Tete, a scene of universal ANNA
ton on the levee, the line of march again
formed the route to the college, traversed
in profound silence, strikingly contrasting
with the recent hustle that chieiest
etysium of youth-the college enclosure
at length reached q hasty breakfast, and
retirement, to -repose and re-establiah the
lost balance of physical energy; and 10
all within the college precincts is as still
and silent as the graves of the dead!
referring to our item book" we dis
cover thar, along the Lafourche, particular
~ in the vicinity of Lockport, the pianta-
tions are more extensive and the crops
more magnificent than on the margin of
the Mississippi. The land in that region
IN lnoo oil ,ot, Il