The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-10-13
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
DOMESTIC CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.


following letter from DR.. Brownson to the
New York Tablet. We are satisfied that
thew will join US in giving hearty welcome
to the Rer;ew:
ELIZABETH, N. j., Sept. "a, 1872.
Dear Tablet am much obliged to you
for Announcing that my guarterly Rertew,
suspended since October, 1864, will, Provi-
dence permitting, be resumed on or before
the LIST OF January next. l am induced to
resume it's publication and editorship by
the urgent and repeated request of a large
conviction, we'll or ill-founded, that there
is place for it which none of our existing
periodicals., excellent as they are, or any
new ones likely to be started, do or can ill,
in times like these, when so many questions
are daily coming up of the deepest interest
to Catholics, to be without an organ of my
own, OF to appear to be silent when every
Catholic voice, however little Influential it
might be, should make itself heard 10 be-
ously beset by his enemies. believe I
owe it to the Church that has given me SO
much Joy and peace in believing, and to
the Catholic public that has heretofore
given me such touching marks Of it's favor
and confidence, though it may have forgot
ten me now, to prove, amidst so many de-
\, fections, and 80 much Indifference, that / |
remain firm as loyal Catholic, devoted as
heartily as ever to Catholic interests, and
submissiye and obedient son Of Plus TX, |
our Holy Father, now glorionsly reighing. /
am old and> infrm, but feel that have
some strength remaining which I would
spend in the service of the Catholic cause,
and also that have yet some words In ex-
position and in defenceef Catholic phiioso.
phy, and Catholic faith, and Catholic in
feeests, which are pressing for stterauce,
and which the habits Of g lifetime unfit me
to say through any organ not under my
own control. I need not say to yous> dear
Tablet, that though the Rsvieso will, as ever,
opinion, it will be guided and controlled
in it's utterances by the Syllabus and the
DEGREES Of the Holy Synod of the Vatican,
both of which am bound as a Catholic to
accept, and do fully accept er amino. For
these and other reasons have resolved to
resume the publication of my long suspen-
ded Revie,v. place it 10 the hands of
Divine Providence, who has never failed
me, to give or withhold success as shall
seem to Him good.
Very truly yours,
o. A. BRowNsoN.
Chieaso-As orr readers will be interest
ed in learning the number of churches and
both before and after the great fire, we
quote the concise account which follows,
from the correspondent of the Western
IVatchman, who bases bis statement on the
Information supplied to him by the eminent
Jesuit Missionary, Father Damen:
"From Father Damen I learned that be-
fore the are, there were in Chicago thirty
Catholic Churches. Seven OF them were
destroyed by fire leaving twenty three I'M
touched. OF the seven destroyed, six are
temporarily replaced by frame structures.
One has been abandoned, it being entirely
surrounded by a business district, and oc.
I>x, rnxr
are at present twenty three unipjured
churches, and six temporary frame "shan.
ties" as Father Damen expressed it, max
ing total of twenty nine churches now in
actual use. On inquiring from Father Da.
men as to the relative number of Catholics
as compared with the population of the
city, learned that before the FIRE the Ca
tholics were reckoned as one half of the
whole population, but at present, owing to
the fact that large numbers of Irish left the
city at that time, and were replaced by
German immigrants most Of whom he con-
siders to be intidels, he does not think they
would a: present hold as high compare
tive rank"
The Ri. Rev. Bishop Foley, of Chicago,
has purchased the edifice formerly known
as Plymouth Congregational Church in that
city, on Walnut avenue, for $1l2 600. 1t
is intended to fit it up for Catholic uses it
will replace st. Mary's Church, which was
destroyed by the great fire. The Bishop
has also purchased a building, in a most
attractive locality, for n Diocesan Orphan
Asylum. This latter coat $40 600, and will
require an expenditure of about $i2 900 for
necessary improvements. 1t is in charge
of the Sisters of st. Joseph.
The Germans of Baltimore Respond to the
Germans of Neir Orleans.-We are right
glad to state that our large and influential
population of Catholic Germans are abou,
to call a mass meeting in Baltimore for the
purpose of formal and combined expres
sions on the prosecutions now raging il
Germany against the Church of God. Bis
marck would stab the Church through the
sides of the Religious Orders, and scenes
of intelerabe outrage against the Jesuitl
and other communities are now of daily
occurrence in the German Empire. FifteeI
millions of Catholics in the Fatherlani
make common cause with their prosecuted
priests, fifteen millions of as brave ani
dazofa6 anhiacfe "a ever rnler hnasted