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Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29
THE SCHOOLS.
Eds. Independent:

Eds. Iadepeade3lt:
The treatment which our home
teachers have recently received at
the hands Of our Board of Educa-
ton. has excited, of course, great
deal of comment. All of the suf-
ferers by the recent retrench-
ment act" are our own home
teachers-ladies who have won the
confidence and tstttn, our PEG :
pie by their weliknown fidelity !,
and have had two or three years
and some of them even longer
experience-in teaching. Yet their
salaries are reduced, aud a strang-
era lady from Pennsylvania-is
paid a better salary than some of
our own people are able to secure.
Another inconsistency which we
noticed in apportioning salaries,
was in the case of two newly APP
pointed teachers, neither of whom
have ever taught in public schools,
the salary of one is fixed 1T $40 |;
that of the other at $50, though /
am told that the one whose salary
is $35, holds a No. l certificate.
Now, had the salaries of all been
made $37, and that of the higher
branches been left at $40, we would
have thought that fair enough and
have had nothing to say, but the
only instances in which the inter-
est of our owD people has been
consulted, have been with those
who had powerful friends at court
and behind the throne. These had
their interests most carefully
guarded.
We believe we speak as one hav-
ing authority when we assert that
two or three of those most heavily
taxed had papers which the exam
ing committee spoke of as particu-
larry good ones, and every one of
them hold certificates of equal
grade with those who have suffer-
ed no reduction of salary. The
fact does seem evident, that some
have been taxed to meet the ex-
travagant demands of others. Isit
right to humiliate one in order to
elevate another? Whoever is re-
sponsible for the act, might with
equal propriety have put his hand
into the pockets of the ladies and
taken from some $50 and from
others $25, and distributed it
among his favorites.
The examination of teachers has
turned out "a ridiculous farce, as
those holding high certificates re-
ceive lower salaries than those do
who have very inferior grades of
certificates. There is great deal
said in these days about the "art
of teaching" l do not know ex-
actly what it all means, but it does
seem to me, ana | think that it
would seem evident to most men,
that facility in imparting knoWl-
edge, and the habit of invariably
speaking pure and correct English
in the presence of your pupils, are
among the best requisites of good
| teacher.
A TAXPAYER.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

The election of Andrew johnson
to the United States Senate, in Ten
nessee, in place of Parson Brown
low, is regarded as certain. The
quarrels between " Andy" and his
opponents were adjusted at the
late State Convention of the De-
mocracy.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

When the people lay claim to
free thought and free speech, and
think and speak as words are put
into their mouths, and ideas die
tated by individuals or sects, they
arrogate an importance to which
they are not entitled.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

We believe in the Sovereignty
of the People of to day; not in the
aristocratic rule that incites Ceas-
arism. nor in the tyranny of ira
dition that would ilIumine the
world with the farthing candle of
antique observances and ideas. -
We, living in the busy advanced
to-day of mems experience, place
our reliance on the energy and
perceptions Of the contempora-
neous generation. and hold to the
opinion that the PEOPLE can and
should direct their own affairs.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

The voters of Massachusetts,
Maine and other eastern States are
di cussing the question as TO
whether Prohibition prohibits. A
decision in the n .gative will ike
~ be the result.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

Hon. VIM. Alien, the present
Governor Of Ohio, is talked of as
the next Democratic candidate for
President.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

The Wheeling Hteligencer is of
opinion that Hon. w. t. Wiley,
Of Morgantown, is the most avail
able man to put against Mr.. Faux
ner for Congress.
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Published Daily and Weekly by the
INDEPENDENT PR lkTIkG CO.
| Bondeps Building Corner Queen & NM inst:

The new Constitution Of Ohio
which the people rejected by a
large majority, cost $4,000.
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Democratic State Conventions
were held in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Illinois on Wednesday, and
Republican conventions in Michi-
gan and Kansas on the same day
The Ohio Convention slapped Sem
ator Thurman square in the face
by adopting an initiation and repu-
diation platform. The illinois
Democrats rejected an honest and
straightforward declaration in ia
vor of:hard moneys and substituted
for it an evasion that means moth
ing, except that they were not as
courageous as their Ohio brethren.
The Kansas and Michigan Repub-
leans were also a little chary on
the subject ofspecie payments, but
Michigan was outspoken in oppGsi-
tion to reputation. The Democrats
of Ohio seemed MOTTO have had the
fear of the New York World before
their eyes, and may now prepare
themselves to receive its severest
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

The new. Constitution OF Ohio
has been rejected by a majority
variously estimated from $4,000 to
$4,000.
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GENEROSITY. 1t IS stated ia "a
Paris telegram to a London liews-
paper, in reference 10 BaZaine's es-
cape, that his nephew, knowing
that his uncle possessed nothing
but a house in Paris. which was
lately sold, has generously placed
his own fortune of milliols francs
at his disposal
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1t is creditabIe to the intel

1t is credifabiet othe intel ,o.,
chicago Tribune thai IL ut
1eflv Scouts the idea Of the venera-
nie Susan +. Anthony sitting IN
the lap Of Triton, but that paper
lalis into The usual misQuotation
a.oout--
terlingerinG '6 The lap otspgir
The line realty reads;
But winter, lingering, chifIs the lap
Of spring
as Susan would aoubfPss have
chilled The lap ofTheodorc Oad -he
really sat in it,
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

The new play entitled " Pas
sion's Perils," with which the pro-
prietors ofthe Howard Athen@um
in Boston, hoped to create SEN
sation and Make money, had but
short existence. Ii was withdrawn
after its represen tation, at the re-
quest of the Committee on Licenses
of the Board of Aldermen. The
play was based largely on real
and supposed Incidents of the Til
ton-Beecher scandal, and one of
the actors made a weak attempt to
makeup" Mr.. Beecher. The
denOuenaent of this astonishing
piece of theatrical impertineHce
was borrowed from EAST Lynne"
There were pienty or objections to
the monstrosity on the score of its
wretched taste; but the Boston
Aldermen had it Withdrawn be-
cause it was offensive to the
public sentiment ofthe community
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29

No wedding tTousseau is complete
without a d" dozen Of everything
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-08-29


N0BLE CONDUCT. Bishop Elder,
the Roman Catholic incumbent of
the diocese Of Natchez, Miss, was
one Of the passengers on the Hen
~ Ames when she sunk on the
Mississippi recently and in the
midst OF the terrible scenes with
which lie was surrounded behaved
with the great GOODNESS, and in a
manner becominga Christian min
lister. When the boat was sinking,
aad ail thought she would go III
dps, Ag Euuil upon the hurricane
l0,faNG o,faling IN prayer for
,,4 oH bouEd. le, according TO the
rides his church, pTOnOuncedab-
solution upon all among hem who
b.Aieved iii i)s doctrines, BE was
the lass man TO take the Sawl.
AS hnal argument ia his favor
81 Snutbsrn candidate annouoes
ttNt re la t5lad III evlrythipg
sir tue }ai, Whica he takes to
he0I3nvluGing pla0fof his fitness
for CG8Tross.
The as GER is vending his ,riuul-
Paal entry hithcr
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
MethodIsm and Education.

1t is subject of great congratulation
that correct ideas as to the education of
youth are gaining ground among Protes-
tant sects. They begin to find out that
it is a matter of life and death with them.
Catholics have told them all along that
common school education, excluding all
UNCONVENTIONAL infuences, will inevitably
train up an irreligious and infidel gener-
alton. They could not see that. They
were willing to admit, that is the honest
ones among them, that children of one
denomination ought not to be taught re-
ligious doctrines contrary to their own
creed or that Of their parents. That was
clear enough. But when you went 40 far
as TO tell them that Irreligion was u sect
like any other, and that to teach no doc.
trines at all was exactly the plan desired
by that sect to propagate its unbelief, anu
that, consequently, it was sectarian
course, they could not Gee it and would
not believe it. 49,.
But experience often forces people to
believe truths of which reason was unable
to convince them. PrOtestants are finding
out that their young people growup infidels
wherever they are educated in such public
schools as may be truly called Goddess.
They grow up Indifferent to the religion
fathers, and, often, scofers at it.
This evil is experienced by the Catholic
Church, too, wherever it's youth are sub.
lected TO the same influences, and therefore
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
Civil Rights.

1t is probable that Mr.. Summers pet
measure will be defeated. The voice of
the nation is against it, and, even if it
were passed, it could never become a vital,
eficacious law of the land, if in conflict
with popular sentiment. These prejudices
of race, if you choose to call them such,
are not proper subjects for legal enact
ments. On the contrary, any legislation
against them but agggravates the evil. 1t
is impossible to coerce men into such things
as Christian charity OF genuine sociability.
You may perhaps break up the social
haants and habits of a race, but you cannot
impose arbitrary ones in their place. What
good would it do to close up all the soda
fount ains, theatres, restaurants, hotels and
other public resorts of this city f-that is,
what good would it do the eolored race
None whatever. So far from it, every an
tipathy that ever existed against them
would be embittered tenfold.
In fact all real friends of the Negro
know these things we'll enough, but, in our
opinion, the Republican party is not his
real friend. 1t needs the colored vote aud
must make a bid for it. The bid ia this in
stance is clumsily enough made, and can
hardly deceive the colored population.
The dodge seems to be that the bill was
to pass the Senate just SO late that it could
not possibly get through the House. The
effect of that would be, it was hoped, to
save the party with both whites and blacks.
The black people would say " the Repub-
lican party means to do what is right by
us as it has shown by passing the Civil
Rights bill in the Senate" while the white
members of the party could console them
selves with the plea that the measure had
not passed Congress and never wonld.
This is rather too transparent, however, to
avail much.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
Mr.. Gayarre's Address.

The Hon. Charles Gayarre has announced
himself as candidate for Congress from the
first Congressional District, at the election
no doubt that Mr.. Gayarre would make q
representative of whose ability and char
acter any constituency might be proud,
yet there are questions of availability
which cannot be overlooked when dealing
with the human race in it's present ccndi-
ton of frailty.
We agree with the author of this address
that men of standing and character ought
not to hold themselves aloof from the
political arena in times like these, and
that, in certain circumstances, it is quite
proper for them to present themselves
before their fellow citizens as candidates
for Office. 1t must be admitted, however,
that candidates are not going to be elected
on mere merit. There must be organiza-
ton on the side of the worthy, in order to
cope with the organization which is sure
to support the unworthy.
We agree, also, with Mr.. Gayarre that
there ought to be banding together of the
honest against the dishonest, but unfortu-
nateIy designing persons attach themselves
to every party. There are followers of
every creed on the lookout for loaves and
fishes. These people are active just as
merchant or a lawyer is active, each in his
own business. Their business is political
brokerage. They are brokers who deal in
offices and supply the demand as methodi-
cally as gentlemen on Carondelet street fill
orders for cotton. The principle difference
between the different styles of business
is that there are not as yet any quotations
in the papers of the price of officers.
AS we understand Mr.. Gayarre, he
wants to get rid of these manipulators and
and let the people make their own choice
of officials. In fact, this is the problem of
the day, and we sincerely wish the best
success in solving it, to Mr.. Gayarre and
others who are giving it much thought.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
Closing Of st. Joseph's Fair.

Last Tuesday evening this entertainment
came to q close. From first to last the attend
ance was good and we are pleased to report that
rendering it certain that the Fair was a fine
financial success.
We give the results of some of the contests
and raftles, as follows:
Morning Star table; chapel was won by
ticket 1873, series G; velocipede by Master A.
Whalen. ......
Cotton Plant table; doll won by Miss Hut
crimson. 20 e..
St. Josephs table; watch won by Miss Bar
rett ; bracelets by Miss Lacase and cane by
Father Boglioli.
Hibernia Retreat gold watch won by Mt.
Geo. Donnelly.
In the contest for the flag, at the Restaurant,
st. Josephs Catholic Total Abstinence Society
was victorious over Fire Company No. ID.
At st. Patrick's table, the contest for the
horse came off between Captain Flanagan
and Mr.. A. Kinsella. The result was: Captain
Flanagan 1909 votes, $2104 so; Mr.. Knsella
1860 votes, $3.50; total, 6O69 votes, $3034 so.
The horse was at once ohristened in the Fair
room, being named Andy after the gentleman
who made 30 gallant an attempt to capture
him.
The contest for the silver tea set resulted as
follows: Martin Finnerty, 1892 votes; Phil
McCabe IL votes; blank 1913 votes; total 4436
votes.
If the ladies in authority send us further
returns by next Thursday we will be pleased
to publish them.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

Professionalism was delighted at it. Buff
| it 10 bad for the Church il is death for
Professionalism, and this is what the Meth
odists are just fuding out, Catholicity can
cope with InfideIity and conquer it I; Pro-
testantism knows we'll that it is perfectly
impotent in such an encounter. Cetho-
licity can 60 after its grown up generation
Of Goddess youth and reclaim them, while
the vital power of Professionalism is gone /;
it has grown decrepit with age and exists
by virtue, only, of the hereditary hold it
has on certain families. When that hold
is once shaken of, it can never be reestab-
from God. 1t is always young, always
strong, always aggressive, always quicken
ed with the spirit Of conquest.
CAtholicity therefore can bear up under
the ruin wrought by the public school
system, but Professionalism is going down
under it as rapidly and completely in this
country as it has done in Prussia. Hence
the change, which on this question, has
come over Methodist sentiment in this
country, and which is 80 apparent in the
folio wing passage. 1t is taken from q
quadrennial address of the Methodist
Bishops delivered in the General Confer
ence, recently held at Louisville. 1t is as
follows:
The subje,t of education in all its branches
s entitled to your most thoughtful consider
alton.
The right training of children ,the litera-
ture OF our Sunday school system-den omin-
ational education-are all phases of the gen.
eral subject Of great and increasing Importance.
We do not hesitate to avew that We regard
the education of the young as enc of the lead
ing functions of the church. and that she can
inidelity to her trust and irreparable dam
age to society: The reasons for occupying
this ground which inhere in the very nature
of this interest, aud in the relation of children
to the Church, are all intensified by the
tagonsms of modern science, and the outcast-
ing CT the religious element from all the school
systems fostered by State Liquidation. 1t is
not ours to dispute jurisdiction with, Caesar,
bot fully persuaded that the salt of religious
truth alone can preserve education from abuse
and mischievous results, we feel that the
possibilities of the Church grow with the
progress of society and the demands of the
age.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

ject 70 Inconvenience more or less grave.
1t appears to rs that canal will always
be the only reliable and thoroughly efh-
cient modesof dealing with the difficulties
presented by the bar of the Mississippi to
the necessary facilities of commerce. But
m net it, as q matter of course, be at or
near Fort st. Philipi A canal at that
point would have to be dug, and many
persons have doubts as to the safety and
general fitness of the sound or bay from
which the canal would lead into the
river. At the same time it must be
remembered that there are number of
splendid canals already dug and leading
out on to the very gulf itself. We refer
to all Of the passes.
BY throwing lock and dam across any
one of the passes where it leaves the river
or, even, below that point, the Mississippi
water would be eaectually kept out of it
for ever afterwards, and it would then i'm
mediately become filled with salt water.
The Essayons and other dredges would
soon deepen it's channel to twenty-five or
thirty feet, or fifty If necessary, and, there
being no more deposits in it from fresh
water, that depth would be permanent.
In this way nearly the whole expense of
the canal would consist in building the
lock and dam.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
Where the Canal Might Be.

Since the prospect has become 60 bad
for any immediate relief in the way of the
Fort st. Philip Canal, various devices have
been suggested by which the same end
may be attained to an extent some what
less complete, indeed, but, at the same
time, in manner much less expensive.
There is scarcely q probability that the
jetty system will even accomplish any
thing at the mouth of the Mississippi, on
account of the semi-liquid condition of
the whole delta formation below the head
OF the passes. This slushiuess would give
trouble in two ways LIST the jetties would
have no permanent basis aud would con-
sequently sink or be undermined or
driven out of line by waves and currents !;
2nd, if they could be made permanent
they would impede tue natural flow of the
waters, which would find relief by break
ing through or over the Shiny banks above,
rather than by cutting out . deeper chan.
mel through the more tenacious mud of the
bottom.
Dredging and the use of camels, or light
erirg buoys, haze been suggested, as we'll
as other expedients, all of which are sub
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

ST.. PATRICKs CHURCH.-The ceremonies for
the month of May will be brought to q con-
clusion at st. Patrick's church to-day with
appropriate solemnities. Immediately after
High Mass the new and elegant banner of the
Children of Mary will be blessed. At half
past Eve O'Clock II. NJ, there will DO q process
sion and crowning of the Blessed Virgin, with
. sermon appropriate to the occasion, and the
ceremonies will close with the Benediction of
the Most Holy Sacrament,
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

THE FEMALE RELIGIOUS OF AMERIcA-The
Catholic World for June, just received, contains
an exceedingly we'll written article under the
above caption. Tho first part of this article
we have transferred to our columns, believing
that it will be read by all the patrons of the
STAR with as much pleasure and interest as it
gave US. 1t will be found on the sixth page.
Next week we will publish the conclusion.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

The church of the Pilgrimage to-day is
that ofthe Annunciation, situated at the cor
ner of Morales and Vaudeville streets, Third
District. The services will be as follows /:
Low Mass at O'Clock; High Mass at o,
with sermon in French by Rev. Father
Arkey, S. j.. at 6 p. M, exercises of the
Pilgrimage, with French sermon by Father
Jourdan, 8. j.
The Canal and Claiborne street cars pass
withia one square of the church, both going
and coming; the Rampant and Dauphine
cars pass within four squares of the church
going down and two coming up town.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

CoNFIRMATIoNs.-Since our last issue His
Grace, the Most Rev. Archbishop of New Or
leans, has given confirmation rs follows:
Sunday, in st. Francis de Sales church, to 81
persons; Monday morning, in the church of
the Immaculate Conception to 23e persons in
the evening, at the chapel of the Holy Angels,
to % children; Tuesday, in the Charity Hos
pital to "a persons; and Thursday evening, in
st. Mary's (Archbishop's) to Isl persons.
During the ensuing week combinations will
take place at the following times and places
Sunday morning, after High Mass, at St,
Joseph's church; the same day, at 4 o'clock,
at the Italian church of the Resurrection, Es-
plauade street and Thursday evening, in the
church of St. Theresa.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

Among the departures Last Thursday evening
We notice that of Rev. L. j. Kennedy, Citrate
Of 6he church of st. John the Baptist. He
left by the Jackson Railroad for Now York,
whence he expects to sail for Ireland to visit
his parents whom he has not seen for sixteen
years.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

THE CATuEpRAL-The ceremonies for the
month of May will close to-day at the Cathe-
dral AT O'clock P. NJ, His Grace will preach,
after which will take place the ming of the
Blessed Virgin and the presen tation of wreaths
and flowers. His Grace will then bless the
children. The ceremonies will conclude with
the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

We Publish to-day two letters from our Irish
correspondent. The one on page three, dated
May Stb, WAS due in last Sundays paper, but
reached US Sust twenty -four hours too late for
insertion in that issue.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31
CALENDAR OF THE WEEK.

eulday. 800. May 3l-Trinity Sunday.
Aendsy June b " Mary; Help Of Christi.ns
mus Martyrs.
wednesday. June 3-st Philip Neri, Confessor.
Thursday june %-Cerpus Christi.
Friday -...June 5-Of tho Octave.
saturday ..June 6-St Norbert Bishop and Confessor
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-31

Lost the Sunday of the pilgrimage to Al
giers, Nay. 10th, at the foot of Canal street,
AIgierS ferry landing, about O'Clock, . heavy,
ehver-mounsed, white prayer-beads. The finder
is requested to leave them at this Office.