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Harper Brothers.

We have made no scruple of accusing
these persons of being willfully lying, abu
sive and slanderous in their unceasing war
upon the Catholic Church. We are glad to
find that our neighbor, the Picaywme, joins
though in more measured language, and as
regards their course towards the South in
stead of the Catholic Church.
Harper Bros. arc as INSCRIPTIONS in
their servile support of Grant as they are
in their diabolical hatred of the Church OF
Christ. We accuse them of want of hon
esty, of total disregard of truth, of willful
fabrication in statement in their opposition
to Catholicity. Now it becomes much
easier to confirm that position before jury
or judge that has already convicted them
of similar crimes in another cause. They
are already known to be capable of just
such perfdy and have no claims to that
presumption of innocence which attaches
primd Jdcie to all men.
Messrs Harpers Bros. are INSCRIPTIONS
knavcs. If they choose to war against US
as Catholics, they are perfectly at liberty
to do 80 in o legitimate way, but when they
resort to poisoned bullets aud secret assasi
nation, they are beyond the pale of war.
They are spiritual murderers. These men,
in their publications, hesitate at nothing.
Their only question is, will it prove eff
fective. Will it arouse hatred to Catholics,
expose them to ridicule, iDjure them in any
or every ways
We hope that our unparalleled fellow
citiEenO will be the moro ready to credit
this charge from the knowledge of simiiar
atrocities tOWsrds the South on she part Of
the persOns against whom it is made. Men
who do not scruPle to depict Texas ~ in .
state q decay and 7apathys the fruit Of
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Yeast Of Our Lady Of Mercy.

Compassion for the poor Christians who were
| captured and forced into a life of slavery I'M
der the Moors; and considering the spiritual
dangers to which they were exposed, created a
desire in St. Peter Nolasco to establish an
Order for the redemption of these people,
During the contemplation of this charitable
and heroic work, st. Peter was favored with q
vision of Our Lady of Mercy, who made known
her wishes that an Order such as he coutem.
plated should be established, and assured him
of her protection and patronage.
Assured of this Heavenly assistance, it was
then, in the thirteenth century, during the
dark days of the middle ages, that there was
founded by this saint of God, "The Royal
Military Religious Order of Our Lady of Mercy
for the Redemption of the Captives."
On this festival, which will occur on Wednos-
day next, the cath inst, our Holy Mother, the
Church, causes to be recited, during the HOLY
Sacrifice Of the Mass, the following prayer
:" o God, who BY the most ElOriOus Mother Of
shy Son. vast PlAaaed 60 aPpolnt . new oras-
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Shreveport.

1t is with great joy that we hear, at last,
of a remission of the pestilence in Shreve-
port. Truly it was q fearful visitation
which befell that prosperous little city and
it's brevity must be- looked on as a signal
mercy of Providence. The two noble
priests who gave their lives in devotion to
their flock were holocaust which may in
deed have served as q sacrifice of propitia-
ton for the people.
But though the scourge may have abated
or even disappeared, immense pecuniary
distress must result from it. Many
widows and orphans must be left suddenly
destitute and many who are convalescing
from the disease, may find themselves
without means to procure the comforts
necessary to restoration. 1t is to be hoped
then that our citizens will not cease to send
all available pecuniary assistance, until
assured from proper sources thss further
aid is unneces sary.
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The Event at Armagh.

Ireland and the whole Irish race may well
be proud of the proceedings of which the pr-
NATAL city of Armagh was the scene on last
Sunday. They were full of interest and Of
meaning, of beauty aud of grandeur. They
carried the mind far back into the past, and
brightly indicated the future. All hearts seem
| to have been touched by the occasion which on
that day presented itself the invitation to as
sist at the dedication of the new Catholic Co
thedral sounded in the ears of IrishHen fOE
| and near, like q joyful summons which could
not be disobeyed and the consequence was
| that not only from all parts of ireland, but
from various parts of England and Scotland
also ay, even from America aud Australia tho
faithful sons of Ireland poured into the an
cent city to assist at the solemn, glorious, and
memorable ceremony which was there to be
performed. Their presence in tens OF thouS'
ands around the magnificent edifice then about
to be consecrated to the purposes OF Cathole
worship illustrated at once the triumph OF
their faith, the power of their race, and tne
indestructible nature of their nationality In
the ages of conflict through which they have
passed the Irish people were first robbed OF
their lands and goods, then it was attempted 70
suppress and obliterate their nationality, ne1t
to destroy their religion, and lastly to cruSn
them out of existence. On all points their enc
mics have been or are being defeated. Ino
Irish race still exists, and is power in Irelan"
and elsewhere; they have preserved their fsitn
and their Church organization so completely
that in neither is to be seen the faintest trac"
of English action or influence; and they arc
engaged successfully in winning back the taii
measure of those political rights which VIII
mark them exteriorly and befose the world o.
that which they have never ceased to be-a
distinct nation. The struggle has been q long
one, and victory has not declared itself simui-
taneously on all parts Of the OaTtie-neldj ouS
eac h position won by the conStancy and tho
valor of the Irish race has aided in the capture
Of Others and so the cause continues to 60 on,
and will go on until the triumph 10 complete
The demonstration at Armagh only marked
stage in the progress Of people who, In de-
spite Of all sorts Of opposition, neither deferred
by open foes, nor restrained By false friends
nor dishertoned by tlmid OORnsols, aEo puSh-
ing their way EDWARDS and upwards, ard who
via know NO rest while aeythinG remains TO
he Soay she ahps, nt &C rgissph wppla En-
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Gifts 10 Shrines.

! We see in q published account of the
preparations for the Epglish pilgrimage to
Franco, that some generous persona lady,
we believe-has presented the party with
q splendid lamp, to be hung in the Sanctu-
sry at Paray-le- Monial. As the cost of the
gift was five hundred dollars, We may we'll
suppose that there is q good deal of pre-
cious metal, as we'll as elaborate workman
ship, about it. Along with the medieval
spirit of pilgrimages, the medieval spirit
of pious generosity among the rich, seems
| to revive.
Time was when q nobleman OF wealthy
citizen would, by himself, found monas-
terry, build church, or devote a competent
revenue to the establishment Of an asylum.
That day had seemed to disappear long
since, and the work Of sustaining the
Church in such matters to fall prip cipally
upon the poor. 1t will be well, indeed, for
rich Catholics if the spirit of faith becomes
common once more in their ranks-a faith
capable of good works in spite of the spirit
of tho world which now, unfortunately, 80
powerfully influences them.
This is a reflection in the interest of the
rich themselves, not of the Church. His
tory will not cease to repeat itself, and the
Church will always be robbed. Whether
her gifts, her possessions, her colleges,
monasteries, churches, asylums, fields or
provinces, come from prince or citizen,
noble or plebeian, they will always be
stolen or robbed from her as soon as her
enemies have the power to take them.
No doubt as to all the Garibaldians, the
Republican lawmakers of Madrid, the
Monarchical lawmakers of Rome, all the
modern Calvins and Cromwells of hungry
religion, that their pious eyes will glisten
at the news of these costly gifts going to
the Catholic shrines. They have not q
chance to steal them just now, but no tell
ing when the Saints may get another open
ing.
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BOltinq.

A member of the Republican Convention
recently held in Massachusetts, driven to
the wall by Buffers pertiDacity, finally
protested that "bolting is always in ORDER"
The superior dexterity of that most skilful
political trickster in holding the Conven
ton down to the strict party law of fidelity
to nominations was like hateful slavery
or fearful nightmare. The Convention
appeared to be impotent in his grasp until
the discovery announced by the member,
Mr.. Clarke, in the boiling proposition.
Mr.. Clarke may have gone little too
far. When people 60 deliberately into a
consultation for the purpose of compro-
missing on a candidate, each one expects
that every body else will support his candi-
date if nominated, and he himself must
| expect to do the same by the others. If
this is not understood, of what avail is the
| Conventionf 1t can amount to nothing as
q party engine unless it's nomination
should chance to be unanimous, and all
party organization therefore Immediately
becomes impossible.
Still there is q middle ground, and one
which politicians do not seem to have
| 1Ouuu. uo SoAtASluou VI q CduSOS "a Sob
vention ought not to be bound in honor to
the support of any outlaw who may be
forced on them by a majority of miscreants,
and yet they ought to be bound to the sup
port of any good and proper man whom
they may have opposed, if nominated.
What is that middle ground7 Where is
the boundary line beyond which honest
mon cannot be expected to go in support
ing o nominee of the convention to which
they belong, or which represents them2 1t
appears to us that before a caucus or con-
vention can properly be bound to the sup
port of the nominee there ought to be a
list of candidates for nomination accepted
by preliminary vote. If peculiarly OBJ
noxious name is proposed to be put on the
list, it can be rejected by majority vote.
In that case the friends of the man re-
jected can have no excuse for retiring as
they cannot pretend that there it no other
man in the party fit for Office. Their man
will be simply ostracized. If on the other
hand, the obnoxious man were accepted by
by q majority on the preliminary vote, the
minority could honorably retire from the
meeting, without having compromised
themselves:
This would indicate certain defeat of
the nominee, at the polls, and would force
party organizations to respect measurably
the decencies of life.
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MINSTREL CONCERT IN ST. JosEPHs PARISH.
This {saturday) evening ut O'clock, the Sec
cad concert will be given by tho Morning Star
Variety Club in st. Joseph's Hall, corner Com
0on and Derbiguy streets. The performance
Aass Saturday was moot excellent and gave
aniversival satisfaction, but 6ne as it was VIC
have reason for believing that the one of to-
might will DO far moro entertaining. Admis-
aion City cents.
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in Thy Church, for delivering the faithful out
of the hands of Infidels grant, we beseech
Thee, that we also may be delivered from the
slavery of the devil, by her merits and prayers
whom we devoutly honor in the institution OF
80 charitable work"
This festival was observed with great favor
by the foundress of heOrder of Mercy, ana 1s
celebrated in an especial manner by the men,
beers of that Order. The Sisters of Mercy "vlslt
the sick in their homes as we'll as in the hospi-
tails they instruct the criminal in the prison.
and prepare the condemned to meet their rate
in penitence and resignation I; they minister to
the necessities of the poor and the destitute ;
and, by care and instruction, they protect girls
of good character from the dangers which, in
large cities, lie in the path of youth and mex
perfenced. They provide servants with situa-
tions, and they teach the young"
The following verses are selected fronepthe
lines of Rev. DR.. Patrick Murray, entitled
THE SISTER OF MERCY.
We live in our lonely cells
We live In our cloisters gray,
And the warning chime OF the Convent bells
Tolls our silent life away.
The loud worlds busy hum,
Murmuring evermore,
Breaks on our dim old walls
AS waves break on the shore.
Like the voices we used to hear
Long ago in childhoods prime,
Are the ties Of long dead world,
The thoughts of long past time.
4
We live in lonely cells,
We live in our Cloisters gray,
And sweet the chime of tho Convent bells,
GHdes our life with God away.
In the roar of a maddened world,
In battliI z passions thrill,
Martha's work and MAry's part
Our endless portion still.
Could you but moment share
The bliss, like that above.
OF life OF silent prayer
A life OF working love;
The glory of earth would seem
Black the trodden leaf,
False the dream of dream.
AS the fash of the lightning brief.
All must pass away,
And withsr and die and rot;
Put the love of God ab des and burns
In tho heart TINT deserts Him not
Then leave No here to pray,
Then leave here TO love;
Our prayer will be that you may rise
With to God above!
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az have known" says Father Tom Burke
"nyself, in ireland, q little boy before he was
fourteen years Of age, become . confirmed and
irreclaimable drunkard." Fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, grandparents, think OF this !;
and II you do not wish yours and those under
yOur charge to run the risk of such n fate,
aerOll them under the banner Of Total Abst-
nence.
Tho Cadets will meet this evening at .
o'clock in the Star Hall.
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Yellow Fever.


for several years, in the matter of i'm.
munity from this terrible epidemic. The
disease in most unmistakable form lin
gered along among us, in certain locali-
ties, for several months, last year, and
has now again been in our city for
perhaps two months. Everybody won
ders why it does not "spread and
involve our whole population in it's
fearful presence. The poison is here, the
material is here to give it subjscts, the
conditions of gutter and atmosphere are
apparently just the same as in former sea-
sons Of melancholy mortality. Why does
not the monster unfold his wings and
darken our sky with his appalling shadow
as heretofore
God sends his scourges upon the earth
where and when He will. As long as He
intends them to do His work of terror they
battle the research Of philosophers and defy
the skill of physicians. There is no un-
deretanding them, no remedyiDg them, no
avoiding them. After while the occasion
for the scourges ceases and they either dis
appear or mems minds are illuminated
with knowledge of their remedy. The
dreadful pl agues that once devastated Eu-
rope have disappeared, perhaps to return
on their mission of retribution at some fu-
ture day. On the other hand the small
pe1 has lost it's direst terrors in the dis
covery of vaccination.
For several years our Board of Health
in this city has been very active in the use
IF "a ioHa al ,,nop ba m
pearance Of yellow fever and during it's
presence. These disinfectants, especially
the carbolic acid, appear to be far more
powerful and effective than some expert
mented with in former years, and there are
persons who entertain the opinion that tho
suppression Of the fever below the stage of
an epidemic, is entirely due to their use.
We believe that the learned, especially
Physicians, scott at this popular fancy, but,
nevertheless, we, the unlearned, sincerely
hope that the carbolic acid men will go
ahead. If We remember Alright, the pres
ent sys stem of the Board of Health is of
carpet-bag origin, or its members who in
troduced the present plan of disinfecting
were of Northern proclivities. If that is
go, We bless carpet-baggery for this one
gift growing perhaps out Of individual
fright at being unacclimated.
Let the idea have, at least, q full and
fair test. We have no sympathy with
those local reporters who speak of the dis
injecting process as being overdone and of
the remedy as being worse than the die
ease. The smell OF the acid, though often
sive to the nostrils of some people, is
pleasant to others, and can do nobody
any harm, while an epidemic would almost
complete the ruin of our unfortunate city
and send thousands of its inhabitants to
an untimely grave.
Not only do We tender to the Board of
Health our hearty cougratulatiOn on its
able and efficient administration in this
matter, but We hope It will take steps to
induce o trial Of the Same system in other
places. Good nurses, good PhysicianS and
pecuDiAry aid arc no doubt, great bless-
ing when sent to places afflicted as Shreve-
port has beon,-but prevention is better
than eure.
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Died, Wednesday, 10th inst, at the St. Jo-
seph Asylum City, Sister Mary Hereberta,
eyed thirty-three years, Of the Order of Sisters
Of Notre Dsme. The Sister was born In Hesse,
Germany. She entered the American Mother
House of tho Order, in Milwaukee, in 1860.
She was q professed Nun ten years, and che
eame to New Orleans six years ago, aud was
employed in teaching at the School of st. Mary
Of the ASSUMPTION
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CATHOLIC MILITANT UNION OF THE Cross
Tho Section Of st. Mary OF the Assumption
will have its now banner blessed on the 18th
Inst, and extends an invitation to all officers
and memhers OF other Sections to attend. See
advertisement in another column.
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CALENDAR OF TIE WEEK.

Sunday -..-..Sept siSt Matthew. Apostle and Evan.
gelist
lEsaday. Sept s2-St. Thomas OF vianova, Bishop
and Confeesor.
Tuesday Sept. 83-St Linus, Pope and Martyr.
Wednesday. Sept 24-Our Lady Of Ransom.
Thursday Sept 25-Hoy y sIne of Mary.
Ef3day. Sept SOS prAn and AETNA, Martyrs.
DssarsaJ --..Sept s7SS Cosmas and DaIpian Martyrs
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The performance OF the " Hidden Gem ,
which was to have taken place on the LIST, for
the benefit of the paroehal library to be es-
tablished in St. Stephens parish, but which
was postponed indefinitely, will be given on
Saturday evening, September 9th. The OBJ
jeet for which this performance is to be given
iS ono which appeals TO overy Catholic parent,
AZ it is n well established fact that bad or even
indifferent books are among the most powerful
agencies by which youth are corrupted and
in order to keep these out Of their hands 9TH
ers of approved character must DO provided
These the Library Association will supply If
Successful in their present efforts.
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REQUIEM MASS FOR FATHER KANE.-Next
Tuesday morning, at . O'clock, there will be q
Aass of requiem celebrated at St. Peters
church, Third Dist1ict for the late Rev. Rich.
ard Kane. The faithful arc invited to attend.
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ST.. VINcENT's HoMR.-Ths Board of Direc.
eero will meet the Committee on the Ladies'
Fair this (sunday) evening, at the Home, at s
o'clock. All the members are particularly re-
quessed to be in attendance Officers of Con-
aorenoes are invited to attend.
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To avoid unnecessary delay, all letters,
communications and post-office orders
should be addressed "Editor Morning STAR y
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FOR meetings of the Total Abstinence Asso
Citations, SEQ special notice column on fifth
psgs.
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its Conservative government, when it is
fuller oflife and activity and growth than
any other Southern State, will not be too
good to lie in their advocacy of another
cause.
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William Davis will please call at this Office
for o letter from Fall River, Mass.
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TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN ALAHAMA.-The inl-
Portance of an organized effort to repress in
temperance is beginning TO DO appreciated in
our Southern cities, and, as at the North, our
sealous clergy are leading tho movement. We
are pleased to learn that in tho little but
thriving town Of Whistler, seven miles from
Mobile, one of these. associations was organized
on Saturday. the 18th. OF course, the leading
spirit Of the Society is the Rev. Z. T. Lorigan,
the energetic pastor who deserves the credit
Of organizing it. The officers of the Society
are: Rev. E. P. Lorigan, Chaplain; Michael
Monaghan, President; j. J. Crowly, First
Vice President; Wm. ~. Buckly, Secretary ;
VepSneO Duplissis, Treasurer Christopher
Mahon, Marshal; John Herbert, Door Keeper !;
Very appropriately, the Association 10 called
"I'ho Catholic Total Abstinence Society of the
HesFoA Heart Of jesus" In Mobile, the Asso-
citation under the Ohsplsiney of the Rev. J. J.
Browne; pastOr Of st. PatrioE's, iS progressing
ASvOrAA9y. Its President 10 Mr.. Archie Hamil,
Ten, one Of the most popular CitissnS Of the
city. enc no iS ably seconded by the officers
md mSAbsEs Of the Association, who all take
shp arsassst interest in the msysnent.
The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1873-10-31
aper euoqd tho ndusta yntests Of thu South the Orange


If proper attention is paid to pack
ing, moistening, turning, mixing and
repacking almost any material can be
fermentcd, Incorporated and rotted
pretty fine in the course of from three
to five weeks. and one ton of compost
properly prepared is more efficient
than several tons of raw manure. If
the quantity of manure is still too
small its efficacy can be greatly in
creased by mixing with every six or
or eight barrels of well rotted com
post, one barrel of soluble bone, or
Carolina phosphate, one barrel Of land
plaster, one barrel of alkaline salts
(Risley's chemical compound). For
thin lands, or whcre the .carboniferous
matter, (humus) has become exhaust
ed, this latter mixture has proved bet
ter than guano, or any fertilizer that
is devoid Of the carboniferous element,
SO indispensable for the maturity and
perfection Of all plants.
III. w. r.