The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-15
LETTER FROM PELICAN.
PLAouEMINE, June 9, 1873.

PLAQuEMrNE, June 9, 1873.
Eo the Editor Of the Star
The "beautiful month of May" has com
h ana gone leaving but little to preserve to i
3 fhst name till we see it again. April faile'
a 6 live us its showers and when the montl
oSfaowers" came, it set in to rain, not thu
1riower from day to day so often the worst o
lame Nature at this season in our section, bu
GO0ds like those we have in the months of An
nat and December have been the order of tn
X list four or five weeks. So much, indeed, ha
n rained that crops of all kinds are suffering
5sriously. The planter cannot work. Corr
will fall short one-half, while gardens ant
s6sher small crops upon which SO much wa
&sckoned in these ugly times are falling as fal
Sehind. Twenty-six inches of rain fell during
: he last month, and still it rains.
Times are ugly. Every misfortune seems tt
10 be turned loose upon our lovely State
livery good in the temporal order seems to be
Sreaking to pieces the world over, in fact, tc
- adrift upon the tide of confusion, now &c
Ugh and threatening every land-work. Truly
\ ID our out, look we may stand appalled, and ask
\ uShither are we drifting-drifting, yea, for the
riot is no logger at the wheel. He may and
1ies speak from his prison-house, warning OF
fh3 dangers he 30 clearly sees, yet who hears
Z Eke busy world has little time, the idle world
Los will, while the wicked world, in the deli
zsnfn of its own mad joy, drives all before it,.
IN the midst OF the fearful storm gathering
gEth such fury, it is eonsoling sign to see
F,ssple turn from the wicked ways and allur-
sing temptations of the hour to the beacon
siKhts the Most High has scattered over the
Awerld through the medium of our holy church,
1sr that peace and strength and hope which
the world cannot give.
An incident of this kind in the mission spoke
"a in my last has been the event with us this
aast month. About the Goth of May, Rev. Fa-
sther Reville, of the Dominican Order, arrived
Aore, and on the 22nd began a mission in our
shurch, preaching twice day,-in the morn
Jag in French and in the evening, at o'clock
IN Englsh-hearing confessions in the mean
lime. This work the Rev. Father continue
er three or four days alone when he was join
"a by Father Roussel, of your city.
as This mission was continued until the LIST
Eshst., concluding with the Forty hours devo-
ion, and has been productive of an immense
mount of good. Notwithstanding, the ugly,
nclement weather, the attendance at the in
tructions was large, but the attendance at
he Confessional proved the criterion by which
- Judge the success of the COED Fathers Ia
lors in the great work of saving souls, and
his was most gratifying to them, as well as
b our pastor, Rev. c. v. D'Hemecourt A
urge number of men approached the holy ga
&raments of Penance and Eucharist, some with
number of children, for the first time, and
Sthers who had been neglectful and indifer-
int for years and all under circumstances
nanifesting those convictions of duty 30 GER
ain to be productive of lasting good.
Father Reville remained with us until last
%hursday, when he went to the parish of st.
Charles to be the guest of Father Suriray while
breachiug q mission there. That good will
sesult to the people of st. Charles from the
inbors of the Jealous Father there can BIO no
aoubt. May God continue his blessings to
Jim for his holy task!
We have not been able to establish our
toy's school, as was proposed last winter, to
sur regret. Such an institution we much
ICED, but we must drive hard times from our
DOR first. Public schools we are to have
bonn tomorrow. (This, by the way, is semi |
hcial, at least, as your correspondent is q
chooI directory What these schools are to |
cannot say, but fear little good will re-
hit. Within two years $22, 900 have been re-
oived and expended in this parish, leaving
be school boards several thousands in debt
debt sufficient, Of itself, to cover the good
lone, as far as we can yet see, by the expendi-
|ure of the large sum mentioned above. We
Aavo no reason to believe that in this respect
bur parish is an exception. Parson Con-
vay has been more liberal with the public
honey than with public education, and his
Filling assistants have ably helped him.
In old times-don't tax your early recOllec-
ions, Mr.. Editor, I mean just before the war
ne Superintendent and tax of one mill
ave us as many and as good schools as We
ave had for sometime past with our half
Ozen Superintendents and tax Of three and
ne-hSlf mills per dollar. TEnly progress has
TOudsrful ways in our day. :, PErIOAB. ]