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The meeting Of the Fourth Ward
Greeley and Brown club, held at the
Courthouse last Monday evening,
was well attended, the stirring music
discoursed by the Ascension Brass
Band contributing in no small degree
to swell the attendance and arouse
the enthusiasm of the people present.
In the absence Of the president Of the
club, vice-president R. P. Landry oc-
cupied the chair, Upon motions, the
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Two Blind Mem, an anusing opera
bouffe from offenbach, which wns
performed IN . splendid manner by
J. ]. md DR.. B. Claverie, land brought
down the house several times in OUT
bursts Of Applause. The Messrs. Claw
erie are first-rate actors, whom few
professionals can eclipse, and their
histrionic and musical talent makes
them invaluable members Of the dra-
matte society.
The complete success which has
attended the first performance Of the
D. s. C. B. Theatrical Association ex-
ceeded the expectations of almost
every one, and is sufficient to war
rant the company in continuing their.
entertainments, which they have de-
cided to do. The new society and
the new theatre are q credit to Dom
aldsonyille and will contribute a
large share to its advancement and
welfare. Long may they wave!
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Tie town Of nOnaldsonyille Il sitnateds
on the Mississippi river,7S miles from New
Orleans by water, 81 nilea ~ xsil, and di-s
rectly at the source Of Bayou Isfourche.
M;sssa;n :, = = 49, ~. 80 81 sne
year for steamboats,, the rsmaininr thre.,
months for hatsboats, and which passes
through one OF the richest and most fertile
sugar producing regions Of the Bouth. DON
aldsonville is the commercial centre Of nm
extensive radius Of fertile country, enjoying
u'''.s eo,nulaacs1lon VITA the southern ll's'-5
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We hear it reported that e colored
Greeley and Brown club of Assump-
ton parish will visit Donaldsonville
in force this evening to attend the rat
ification meeting at the Court House
We hope the rumor il true.
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We return thanks to Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Buquoi for an invitation to at
tend a soiree given at their residence
in st. James last Saturday evening,
and regret that business prevented us
from being present at the entertain
ment.
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Gen. Allen Thomas is expected to
be present and address the mass
meeting at the Court House this eve
.ninn go
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ADVERTISEMENTS.

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~ Special attention given to TEAS and
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Our catalogue sent free to any address.
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During this week the Supervisor Of
Registration had his Office at Titles
store, first ward. Monday he win re-
move to the eighth ward, New River
district, where he will open an office
at Felix Babin's store, which will be
kept open until Saturday, September
2Sth.
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A sparsely attended meeting Of the
fourth ward Greeley and Brown club
was held at the Court House last eve
ming. The committee on mass meet
ing reported every thing in readiness
for the rally of this evening.
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Let every Greeley and Brown man
register and get oil his friends who
have not already done so to do like
wise.
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LOCAL JoTTINGs.

The Republicans Of the fourth ward
hold a meeting at the N. Z. Church,
in this town, this evening.
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SIS $50 PER KaR RAF5 '4 81 s1sss'

es Of working people, of either sex, young o.
DID, make more money at work for us in
their spare moments, or all the time, than at
any thing else Particulars fee. Address
G. Stinson 4 Co., Portland, Maine. nj "
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.colored men. The total regiistration
footed up 3e4 SEQ whites, 2ae3 col
ored.
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9osaloslall,iue Gl,ief.
Payish 81 Ascension.


Parish d Asoension.
E. w. Mason. Pazish Judge,
John b. Cansey, Clerk Of the cour1
Chaa. A. Y0aAger, ;. Rccofder,
ROdolph Brand, -. .SecretAry,
Felix HeynAud g. Treasurer,
Charloo Z. Smith, Tax Collector,
Christian KJfno, !. !. /. !. s % eKif,
Charles n. Lewis, Chief COnstable
DoxALDsoMvIILE CHIEr, One al Journal.
POLICE JURORS.
r. +. Hanson, President,
Draasin Trops, j. a Brand.
SCHOOL BOARD.
e. w. Mason, President,
RodOlph Braud, Pierre Landry,
e.. III. Hill, Charles F. Smith
james M Bryan, Charles N. Lewis
Town Of Donaldsonyille.
E. w. Mason, Mayor,
Edw. N. Pugh, Attorney,
g. "A Franklin, Physician,
w. G.. Wilkinson, -. Secretary,
Christian Kline, Treasurer,
Frederick FObb, Assessor,
Pierre Landry. .Cof!ect4r,
Linden =. Bentley, Printer,
r. j. Duke, .....-......-.W harfMastAF,
H. O. Maher, Constable.
ALDERMEN.
Frederick Duffel, Jos. Burbridge, - lat Ward.
Charles F. Smith, Robert Noel, -2hd g
Felix Leblanc, Joseph johnson, --3rd
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We return thanks to Messrs. w. S
Little and J. G.. w. Richardson fol
many kindnesses extended us during
the present week while sojourning il
the first ward in the capacity Of Su-
pervisor of Registration. Mr.. c. N
Lewis also placed us under obligations
for appreciate courtesies.
A pleasant social party or soiree
was given by Mr.. and.Mrs. G. F. Smith
at their residence in this town Tues
day evening, at which all the partici-
pants seemed to enjoy themselves
immensely. We return thanks for
having been one of the few invited to
the entertainment, which proved such
a gratifying affair to both the host and
hostess and their guests.
REGISTRATION, The report of the
Supervisor of Registration of this par
ish to the State Registrar for the
week ending Saturday, Sept. 14th,
shows that los names were added to
the rolls during last week. OF these,
81 were the names of whites, 6S Of
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the heather, heathenist; with the atheists,
an atheist; with the Jews, Jew; with the
reformers, reformade-purposely to know
your intentions, your minds, your hearts,
your inclinations, and thereby bring you at
last to be like the fool that said in his heart
There is no God" These shall be spread
over the whole world, shall be admitted into
the councils of princes, and they never the
wiser; charming of them--yea, making your
princes reveal their hearts and the secrets
therein, and yet they not perceive it; which
will happen from falling from the law of
God, by neglecting of the fulfilling of the
law of God, and by winking at their sins;
yet in the end God, to justify his law, shall
suddenly cut off this society, even by the
hands Of those who have most succored them
and made use of them; so that in the end
they shall become odious to all nations.
These remarkable, and, as the event has
proved, prophetic words, show at how early
period of their existence the Jesuits ex-
hibited all the distinctive tendencies which
have marked their subsequent career. 1t is
impossible not to recognize the indOmita0le
courage, the constancy under defeat, and
the inexhaustible ingenuity with which they
have maintained their plots against the rel-
gious liberty of the world and the peace of
mankind. There are lessons to be learned
from their history, lessons Of patience, per-
severance, hopefulness, and devotedness to
their cause, which the lovers of Protestant
truth will do well to lay to heart and to i'm
itate. The disasters of the Order have been
as remarkable as its influence. 1t was sup
pressed in England in 1904; in Venice in
1906; in Portugal in 1853; in France in
1854; in Spain in 1767; by Pope Clement
XIV. (unkindest cut of ALL in 1773; in Rus
sia in 1922. The first act of liberated
Spain, but two years since, was their expul-
sion from that country, and now Germany
is about to expel them in 1872.-LOndOn
Record.
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Poetry in Everyday Life.

"To the world at large" says one of our
best poets, "it is not undelightful to see the
poetical instincts of friends and neighborS
finding some other vent than that of verse,
1t is not everybody who knows bit of true
poetry at sight, whether acted or written.
Here as elsewhere, it is signally true that
the "eye sees only what it brings the capa-
bility of SEEING" and most of us can see
nothing unless it g1itters.
We chop up by the roots good deal of
poetry that might touch our everyday life
with some charm or romance or tradition
when we discourage so absolutely, as many
good people do from conscientious motives,
all reference to "folk lore, or revival of the
childish, yet often beautiful and touching
legends of fairy y-land--its charms, signs and
s-qlls. There is not lisS4gia-Aaeaegn331
wcrid saperstitions that serves to grace and
refine the common places of even our hum
blest daily labors. Yet the best poetry of
daily life is found in the actions that spring
from true nobility of soul, love of truth, and
the heroism that would scorn to purchase life
at the expense of honor. The fancies that
people groves and fountains are the merest
pretty rhymes by the side of great epic,
when compared with Sydney'S last act as he
lay dying on the field of zutphen. There is
similar story, not so familiar, told of Sir
Ralph Abercromby after he had received his
mortal wound at the battle of AbOukir. A
private soldiers blanket was brought and
folded under his head. He inquired the
soldiers name and directed the blanket to be
returned in time for him to have it at MIG ght.
l have always thought there was poetry in
the Duke of Wellington's dispatch to the
British ministry in the full splendOr of his
career, declaring that he dared not stir out
of his house for public creditors, demanding
what he had not means to pay. The Duke
of Wellington at the head Of the British
army was AFRAID OF his creditors. Inls Is a
kind of fear that seldom troubles conquerora
and invaders. There is something very
heroic in such simplicity and honesty under
such circumstances. Something grand in
his consideration for the rights of others.
There was whole and beautiful poem in the
action of the person who having at the risk
of his own life rescued family from drown
ing refused to take the offered reward, and
directed it to be given to the poor people
who had lost all but their lives.
There is nothing so beautiful, SO divine a;
sunlight, and there is nothing so common
Good poetry is confessedIy rare, yet it is in
our power to food our everyday life with it,
presence, unwritten indeed, but as real, az
warm, as inspiring and as benignant as light
itself.
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The Minister we Want.


Glow often must We say to our churches
in debt or difficulty, aal hoping to escape by
placing some gilded bal. in the pulpit to al
lure loose fish into the pews: You are sac
rifcing the very object for which churches
exist to your scheme Of financial redemp-
tiOn Let your church go into the sheriff s
hands sooner than seek to save it at the cost
of all spiritual fidelity. You mock at the
solemn truth of religion, at the sacred func'
ton of the preacher of Christ, at the value
of all truth, and at the dignity of human
reason and the significance of conscience,
when you take any means to draw people
into your churches, except the Legitimate
ones-intelligence, piety, trained faculties
and religious worth in the pulpit. If to
these you can add tact, contagious speech,
agreeable manners, SO much the better. But
when you seek these last, first and only, and
take all the rest for granted nay, when
stable character, substantial piety, sound
sense are the last things you pains-takingly
look for, you show that you are not worthy
to be called churches of Christ or religious
bodies. Let churches which can be saved
only by the tinsel and glitter they hang in
the pulpit go to ruin, and the sooner the
better! They are only a sort of Sunday
circus, where piebald horses snort and caper,
and get it called religion. We want none OF
them. Let churches in debt and difficulty,
by their own faults and mistakes, or even
misfortunes, make the necessary sacrifices to
clear themselves of their crushing burdens,
by paying off their own debts, with such aid
as real conviction of their value may in
spire other friends of their cause to afford
them, and then, calling solid, earnest and
able Christian man to build them up in
righteousness, educate their children in piety,
and visit their families in love, let them rely
upon ten years of patient fidelity for the re-
suits of his ministry. Let the church debt
be the least thing considered in calling a
minister. Seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all things else
shall be added unto you.
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blessed with re-awakenings of spiritual llte'
Third, let the churches take more interest in
what relates to the efficiency of the Hall.
Further if what may be called "the stu
dents outlook" from the Hall were made
attractive, I mean in regard to the pastor
ate, it would help to realise the suggestions
of the report which has been read.
Again, the members Of our churches, and
especially Christian parents, and we who are
their servants in the gospel, must make it
appear to all, and in particular to the young
growing up among us, tllt the Office of the
pastor is one to be desired most of all for its
own sake. If its trials are many, so are its
Joys and rewards. Who IS it that says, 81
would not exchange my work for any other
occupation upon earth?" 1t is the true.
hearted Christian pastor. .-LOndOn COngre-
gatiOnal Miscellany.
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
HEAVEN.

"Thi8, said dying saint, "is heaven
begun, l have done with darkness forever,
forever. Satan is vanquished, nothing now
remains but salvation with eternal glory
eternal glory!"
"The celestial city" said Payson on his
death bed, els full in view: its glories beam
upon me; its breezes fan me; its music strikes
upon me; and its Spirit breathes into my
heart; nothing separates me from it but the
river of death, which now appears as mar
row ril that may be crossed at single step
whenever God gives me permission" !"
Says another:-
"What have left that / should stay and groan?
The most of me to heaven is fed;
My thoughts and joys are all packed up and gone,
Aud for their old acquaintance plead"
Can one hear such expressions fall from
the lips of dying saints and not be sOlemnly
impressed with the reality of the Christian
religion to comfort, beautify and adOrn this
life, and light up dying bed with glory
beams from the eternal throne?
Prosecuted Stephen in the last throes of
the death-agony, looked up with the face of
an angel and "beheld heaven opened. -
Truly heaven is reality. No fancy pic,
ture; no mere figure of speech, but, verify,
the home of the soul; the land of rest; the
abode of the Father and the Son; the "Holy
of holes" into which our great High Priest
has passed to make intercession for us. We
sometimes catch glimpseS of its glory as the
blessed saints pass through, yet what faint
conception we have of its dazzling radiance !!
"Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, but me-
thinks the crowning beauty will be "the
Lamb in the midst of the Throne" and the
sweetest note that greets the ear, "OOme ye
blessed" from the lips of the crucifed, gone
before to "prepare place for u.s..
We must drop this robe of flesh ere we
enter those blessed portals, for "Sin hath
no entrance there. The carnal mind can
but family comprehend the idea of home
without sin, where no brittle friendship is
snapped; where no hearts break, and no
ice-tones chill the ear; where no fading bloom
whispers at every turn, "pasSing away J"
Oh! Father, when shall Thy tired, erring
children "put off the old man of sin" and
"be clothed upon" from on high? We groan
in the flesh, being burdened, and are not
satisfied.
"Ohl / shall be satisfied when | can cast
The shadows of Nature all by;
When this cOd heavy world from my vision is passed.
So let the soul open her eye:
gladly shall hail the best morn drawing near
When Times dreamy fancy shalliade,
If | in Thy likeness, Oh Lord, may appear,
And rise in Thy beauty arrayed?'
M t. A.
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Vol. 8.---NO. 3.
That Church a Hundred Years Old.

Some weeks ago writer in the Observer
mentioned church in New Jersey hun
dred years old, and that had not furnished
a single candidate for the ministry in all
that time. We were not made acquainted
with the history of that church, nor was
even the name, | think, given. But the
case has recurred again and again to our
mind, and has given rise to various refec-
tions.
This may net be the only church of the
kind in the United States. But still there
cannot be very many of this character, for
there are not very many churches in this
country hundred years old. Without in
tending any harsh judgment, or wishing to
give any church "bad eminence," the SUBJ
ject is one worthy of more than a single
passing allusion. A church hundred years
old that has never, in all that time, furnished
one laborer fsr eAO Lord. Suppose Tie
earth covered over with just such churches.
How long would Christianity continue to
live? One single generation would suffice
to extinguish the lightin every pulpit, silence
the voice Of every minister of Christ, and
leave the race without one herald of saliva
ton. One generation of such churches
would remove every candle.stick, and leave
us to darkness and death. A hundred thous-
and such churches would extinguish the
light throughout the Christian world in one
generation.
Such church exists not alone by the
mere grace of God, bat by the grace of
other churches. That it did not cease to
have even name-any preaching of the
gospel-it owes not to itself, but to the sup
plies furnished by churches not so lacking
in this first essential duty, to provide for its
own wants.
If such church should become extinct,
and if left to itself it must, what would be.a
fitting inscription to place over its desolate
ruins? Here died church, because IN a
hundred gears, no one Of all achO ~ere born
and reared within ats pale, was Vitling to
serve Christ IN the ministry.
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With all the Heart.

That was a striking thing said of one of
the kings belonging to the Hebrew royalty,
when the work and results of his successful
reign were being summed up: lie did it
with all his heart, and prospered. :"
This doing things with hearty enthu-
siasm is often what makes the dOer marked
person, and his deeds effective 1t is SO
everywhere. The most ordinary service is
dignifed when it is performed in that spirit.
Every employer wants those who work for
him to put heart into the toll. He soon picks
out those whose souls are in their service,
and gives them evidences Of his apprecia'
tion- They do not need constant watching.
He can trust them in his absence. The
places of honor and profit naturally fall tc
them. They are the rising members of the
toiling brotherhood. They grow. They
succeed. They are hOnored. They are il
demand. They rebuke Indifference and in
spire fidelity in others by their example
They prosper, for they work in harmony witt
the law which God has established and main
tains in the world.
In the shpere of religion this heartiness il
service is specially needful and vital. Wha
is not done heartily here is hardly done a
all, as God estimates it. He wants sinceri
ty, resolution, persistence, enthusiasm-no
merely the consenting word and the forma
act. A service that begins and ends will
the letter is never acceptable service will
Him. The Pharisee's tithes Of mint ant
anise and cummin are often an offence; tn
publican's penitent cry and the poor woman
gift Of two mites wear right royal glory il
His eye, because He sees the whole soule'
devotion that lies behind them.-M0rnan!
| Star.
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Christ and the Old Testament.

1t is remarkable that among the severe
reproofs which Christ addressed to the jew
ish scribes, in which he accused them OF
making the word of God of none effect through
their traditions, he never. accuses them OF
altering the Scriptures. On the contrary,
he appeals to those Scriptures as the autAen-
tic word of God. If epong the received
Scriptures there were singe book OF doubt
full authority, we must believe that, among
his other instructions, he would have taught
the people What1rax AXE true NC
Ms4ls eI slcus
right in the sacred canon, the great =
would, first of all, have purified the source
of religious instruction in the writings which
were read to the people as the words Of the
Most High. He who made scourge Of
small cords, and drove out the trafickerS
from the temple, would not have been less
jealous against lying Pentateuch or false
prophet. Esther, the Song of Solomon, Da-
vid's imprecations, Jonah, were not expunged
by Him who in the Sermon on the Mount,
reviewed the traditionary laws, corrected the
CLOSES, set aside the impositions of the Jew
ish teachers, and pronounced "wOe" upon
those who tithed mint, anise, and cummin,
to the neglect of weightier matters; and
surely it we're a weightier matter to reform
nations Bible than to correct the practices
relating to temple offerings. All things"
said He after his resurrection, "must be full.
filled which were written in the Law of
Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the
Psalms, concerning me-"