The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-17
m,rning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, MARCH II. 1871
LETTER FRoK SHREVEPORT.

an empty stomach makes full Oraln.
But my experience is, that an empty stom
ack makes bad temper, and bad tempe
makes the mind more moody than active
ergo, Lent is q bad season, for one liable T.
its rigors, in which to do justice to til
duties of Correspondent"
? Had we poor fasters of Shreveport read.
access to the bountiful supply OF fresh fisl
penance performing portion of the faith
full =" Of your more favored city, we nigh
then boldly exclaim, with some irreveren
rhymist, at present nameless-
"who would not be Catholic.
TO them the Lord hath sent!
Who Woaid NOT s keep ee II" the i Isns! 100
Allow me, who have experienced it, to
assure you, Messrs. Editors, there is a vast
difference between Lent in New Orleans
and Lent up in this inland corner of the
oyster "kicking on the shell' and that same
after q weeks travel, moro or less, on a
steamboat; not to mention the nauseating
metallic or "greenback flavor it acquires
i by the time it reaches this end of the line
5quite difference, also, between the "buf-
falo" and I" blue cat'' of Red River and the
1sheephead and red fish of the lower waters;
you get for living in Shreveport Yes,
but these are mere local differences, tenn
|porary inconviences which will all disap-
apear very rapidly on the arrival of the first
|" through train" in thirty-six hours"
from New Orleans., Those, and other little
backs, Metropolitanss rifles and coffee with:
put sweetening-no lead) at sixty PAGES,
Radical Legislatures, ETC., We are deprived
(of at present, but we hope much from rail-
road connection, which, IF We do not obtain
boon, we are thinking seriously Of seeding
from the Pelican" taking unto ourselves
portion of the clone Star" aud consti-
tuting State of our own, with Shreveport
as the capital. Our new State is to derive
ITS name from what has become our CHI onic
condition, to-wit the State Of Uncertainty;
ind if the various railroads which are GER
balm to come here, but leave US very I'M
certain as to the time of their coming, do |
bne-half of their capital stock to procure |
charters from our new State.
While deprived of many of the luxuries
pr New Orleans, we are not ntirely with
lut the allorables of Lent /; par eggs ample,
Re have an abundance of the hen-apple,
fhich, though not shell-ish is a she'll
fuit, neither fish, flesh nor fowl, NOR coming
bnder the Lenten restrictions of either, yet
! yolks within itself the sustaining attri-
Pates. of them ALA very comprehensive
ldible. But, to be in harmony with the
|eason, I must give a graver tone to the
|enor Of my letter, and to that end will
|hange my base.
Though she was we'll and ably launched
end bravely and CALAMITY steered through
Pc breakers" that beset her in her untried
|ourse-and though the same true hands .
ave raised and strengthened her from the :
BEAUTIFUL, bounding barque that she was to :
ne mighty, menacing man. Of war that she :
!, yet, Messrs. Editors, we feel it source of :
pngratulationa and satisfaction, ably, bravely y =
nd we'll as sho has been man ayed. to see and =
now that the command of the MORNING +
ElAR has been given over to that we'll tried, i
|eather- beaten mariner of the Church, our u
veg Father Ryan. With such head v
po neart and hand at the helm, we know n
u good ship. will ride on as she is won't, +,
F|,ccessfully, bravely and well, to the full. Il
|!mens Of her destiny. We therefore ex- a
Ind the hand of congratulation, hoping q
~ ASKING that Father Ryan will not for n
y mat there is nothing sweeter from the n
ueep- sounding sea than emusic on the If
!Gssers," and we hope the cares of command &C
tli not rob him of his hours of song, or h,
Palsh bis muse from the masthead. T
as 70 local occurrences since my last let | tr
| to you, have the pleasure Of inform b,
you tnat our Jealous pastor has, after cl
y effort, finally succeeded in securing a,
II great blessing to every comm unity, q r.
Fsneh of tire Sisters of Charity for our to
Y here, for the purpose of establishing a ar
re.Sai. !<oeS nave Already Oeen purchased W
= paid for, and several hundred dollars sa
~ In bank toward the erection of the D,
Pldings. We have been anxously await -:
ana hoping for some results from that n,
pg,ooo appropriation, made last year by th
Legislature, for "Cbarity Hospital in i I
feveport," but there are about "four and a a.
fnty black birds" in that "pie," which IN.
2ders it entirely too dainty dish to set ~, wi
sore the public. The Catholic Church as,
yet afford Shreveport her e rst charity an an
2ur good pastor has also succeeded in t .u
fylng ont plan he has long had on his ba,
q, In advance of the missionary move
o. from England, that of securing Ca =
nc church exclusively for the colored mi
|pIe, of whom there are some forty or W W
here that are Catholic. He has already ee es
atholic colored school, taught by WE'LL L LIE
Gated Catholic colored woman, and he nf
now purchased q building of sufficient co.,
lenslons to answer for both school and o aU..
lcn, which is at present undergoing the ell
eeSssary repairs and alterations to fit it tTa
mat purpose, and will soon be ready lug SnS
service. So you see, we are not wait t ee"
l9r the English missionary to arrive, az az
isn we would have no objection to the LIS