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CARL SCHURz is 10 be succeeded in the
Senate by Francis NJ. Cockrell, who is
described by the telegraph az an Eek Con-
celebrate brigadicr general who owes his
nomination chiefly to the influence of his
cold companions in arms" Schurz, it
should be remembered, wOs a major gen.
eral in the Union army. But, notwith-
standing his treason to Republican princi
pies, his Democratic associates have sup
planted him with an officer Of inferior
rank, simply because that officer was a
thoroughbred Democrat all through the
war. No one doubts Schurz' ability; but
who knows Cockrell?
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Mr.. WHITELAw REDS testimony before
the Ways and Means Committee yesterday,
which we give in brief this morning, ex-
poses the criminal recklessness of the In
dependent Press in its dealings with the
characters of the public men of the country.
Like Dana, when Reid was cornered and
asked TO give his authority for the charges
he has made against members OF the House,
he has been compelled to confess that they
rest on street rumors, the idle gossip OF
street reporters, or the malicious inven-
tions of Wall-street stock gamblers. And
this is the man who has succeeded Horace
Greeley as editor OF the Tribune
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The so-caIled Baltimore indignation
meeting was composed entirely of Demo
Gratis. Yet its proceedings were telegraphed
all over the country as the expression of a
non-partisan gathering in denunciation of
the Southern policy of the Administration.
The people are too intelligent to be de-
ccivcd by such outrageous falsehoods.
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this question as one which has been dis
cussed, except in the abstract, perhaps he
will give US his reasons for so doing. Ii
he is able to give any authority for its dis
cussion in any ether way, he will greatly
surprise many people who have been
amused at the attention it has attracted
and who have persistently insisted, as we
have, that it was originally iOated into the
columns of the press as sensation and
was never seriously considered as applica-
BILE to the present incumbent of the Presi-
dency
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THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, HAS 4
LARGER CIRCULA TTON THAN ANY OTHER
FORMING PAPER IN THE DISTRICT OF CO.
LUMBIA,
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THIS is Whitelaw Reds day before the
Police Court.
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LOST AND FOUND.

HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY
E. j. MCPHERSON 4 Co,
No. ga Il street northwest
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T0R SALE Or REST c-jFITSIs0I T4REE.
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west, for sale or rent. Houses hive Just been i'm
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eight rooms, gas, hot and cold water, marble man
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ALADDIN SECURITY OIL.
Warranted $50 Degrees Fire TeSt-The
Best HOuseh old Oil in the World
Endorsed by the Fire InSur-
ance Companies.
Read the certificates OF Fire Insurance Companies:
HOWARD FIRE INSURANCE Company
OF BALTIMORE,
BALTIMORE, Dec. q, 1874.
MfsST8 c. West d Sons:
GENTLEMEN: Having Used the various Oils sold
in this city for Illuminating purpo. es, take pleas
ure in recommending your aladdin Security As
the safest and best ever used in our household.
Yours, truly, ANDREW REESE, Pres.
OFFICE MARYLAND FIRE insurance.
COMPANY OF BALTIMORE, =
BALTIMORE, Nov. 10, 1874.
Mtssrs. c. West Sons:
GENTLEMEN: have used coal oil in my family
for nearly fifteen years, and during thai period
have tested a number of different brands, being
anxious to obtain the very hest. have also given
your aladdin Security on full trial, by Its
constant since you have made IT, and can recon-
mend Il for Its Illuminating qualities as far supe-
rior to any other. As regards safety, 1t excelS
them all. Yours, truly,
Jos. X. minor. President.
TRY IT! TRY TT TRY IT!
Wholesale Depot,
q. WEST d SONS,
Nos. 1l3 and lis West Lombard st.
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g L N E H U S Z.
Owing to the ill-health Of the present. proprietor
offer for sale at bargain the furniture, paintings
fixtures and goodwill the SenateHOuse, Eleventh
stree two doors above Penns ylyAnla avenue north
west one OF the best locations In the city. Inquire
of WILLIAM b. REED, OF Reed & Sons, 12l4 T
street northwest. iantS-t
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TUESDAY MoRNING::::::::JANUA l9 1875.
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THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is published every
morning Sundays eXcepted) at the southwest cor
ner OTThirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue,
and Is furnished to Subscribers Oy carriers) at hy
cents per month.
Mail subscribers. postage paid, $500 per year,
S4.CO for six months, and 500 for three months
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alatIuHaI grpnblifat1

W.. MURTAGH........ Editor and Proprietor.
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A TO II N a
Jas. Q. C1ePhane,

Ofice-No. no c street, between First and SEE
ond streets, facing Indiana avenue. mh3l
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EOR SALE-A HORSE, HARNESS, BUGGY
y and Carryall at Ottcrbdch's stables, Tenth and
NJ streets southeast. iauI5-2t
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Secretary BristOw and the whisky Tax
[From the Nevada Enterprise

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. 1875. O'' IL " !"
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-08
Burning of the Convent at C0Ihmbia by shermAn's
Army.
A RELIABLE ACCOUNT.
CHARLESTON, s. c., August 1, 1877

CHARLESTON, s. c., August 1, 1875.
Editor Morning Star:
In late issue of your paper you seem to
believe that Sherman is fully exonerated from
the burning of the Convent at Columbia (if
not of the city ITSELF by q letter from Mrs.
Sherman. We would not for q minute put the
good lady's veracity to doubt, and we firmly
believe that she beliered in the truth of what
she wrote; but she has evidently been sadly
deceived by her reracious husband. beg to
enclose q short extract written by me in de-
fence of the loved and esteemed Nun who was
accused, tboughtlessly, no doubt, of having
called a curse upon Sherman's head. AS Cath
olics of course you never believed this. Be-
fore publication the article was submitted to
her with request that she would permit it to
appear. She did not refuse, although she had
not intended Noticing the imputstion or
calumny to which her attention had been pre-
viously called.
Mrs. Sherman's letter is so worded as to lead
us to believe that in response to the call for
protection, her husband bad sent two superior
officers who afforded ali the protection needed,
and even supplied the Nuns with provisions
until the evacuation of Columbia by his troops.
From this an inference is naturally drawn that
evacuation ! The truth is the Convent was
in ashes long before the troops left. The
Nuns sent to Sherman, claiming protection
for their establishments filled, as it was,
with young ladies under their charge. He
sent some men, not officers but privates of
the most degraded kind, to "guard the Con-
vent" They Immediately commenced pill
laying and taking all they could, to the great
terror of the inmates, and finally set fire to the
building, the fire having originated within.
Would a military guard have ever dared do
such an act without sanction or orders to do it
The thrilling relation of this fire, of the long
procession of terrified girls, headed and
guarded under God by those heroic Nuns, seek
ing safety they knew not where, in that night
of horrors, surrounded by yelling and drunken
demons and a burning city, is enough to make
the hair stand on end.
No wonder that Sherman shrinks from that
fearful crimei No wonder he has told his kind
hearted wife that he is not guilty and no
wonder che tries to believe him.
had daughter of sixteen in that process
sion, and were 1 to live one thousand years
could never forget that page in our history.
Many valuable articles from churches and
refugees had been cent to the Convent as 4
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raj, August3. The public buildings were closed
and business was suspended in all govern
ment Offices that day throughout the country
gune were fred and the officers were all direct
ed to wear mourning for thirty days.
ELECTIONS I'm Kentucky McCreery (Dem.)
was elected governor last Monday by about
&C, 600 majority.--In Alabama last Tuesday.
the people decided by from Is 600 to 20. 600
majority to hold a CONSTITUTIONAL Convention
electing delegates to it at the same time. This
is Democratic triumph. In North Carolina
the same day the people were called on to vote
for against Constitutional Convention.
Reports TO Friday morning are meagre but are
generally favorable to the Democrats.
MrssIssIPPI.--The largest political conven-
ton ever held in Mississippi, met in Jackson
on the Sd. 80 counties were represented.
pairing their report, Col. Lamar addressed the
Convention for three hours in the most power
fnl effort of his life. His opposition ITO the
color-fine policy may be said to have killed
almost unanimously voted down. w. L. He
mingway, Master of the State Grange, was
nominated for Treasurer. The platform is
confined to State matters. 1t recognizes to
equality of all men, and asks the aid and votes
of all parties and races in establishing good
government. District committees nominated
Gen. w. 7. Martin in the Sixth, and Col o. K.
Singleton in the Fourth Congressional District.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IL, 600 operatives of the Fall River, Mass,
factories are on a strike against reduction of
wages THE United States debt was de-
creased 81 .294 600 during July,--Thec cereal
crops in Europe, which it was feared few
saved by fine weather.-The workmen on
the st. Gothard Tunnel, Switzerland, struck
recently, but the government sent down q body
of troops who fired on the mob, killing four
and wounding eight, and the workmen imne-
| diately went to work again.--The celebra.
| ted Danish authors Hans Anderson, is dead.
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A. correspondent of the Freemans Jour
nal, writing from Gainesville, Ca, July
SIst, says:
We have been converts for only seven
years, last CORPUS Christi" and for four
years of that time we have lived here
among q people, few of whom ever heard a
priest preach, most of whom believed
Catholics to be a sort of earthly devils;
nearly all of whom have grown up under
a bigotry which can be taught alone
by. semi. educated and conscience striker
Protestant preachers, who (may God for
give them) stand as a unit one point
be too harsh word) the Catholic faith al
most every day of their lives. Many Of
whom believe the Pope has horns, tail and
hoofs-s bishop horns and tail-aDd q
priest horne among people, some of
whom say Catholics are nothing but demo
Gratis in disguise, and most of the others
that they a. Q but minions'o of monarchists.
During these four years but five time has
q priest visited US, and once we were eigh-
teen months without seeing one. When
Bishop Gross came to this Diocese think
there were only eight priests in il, and
many places were very seldom visited.
The dark clouds have rolled away, and
we have had q mission which would have
filed your truly Catholic heart with joy,
could you have been here.
On July 10Th that good Redemptorist,
Father Enright, commenced mission in
Oandler's Hall (which the pToprietors, two
Protestants and a Hebrew, were kind
enough to loan mel, TO full congregation,
most Of whom (there being only two Cath
olics besides my family here), went from
curiosity. After the second sermon such ex-
pressions were common as the "CathO-
lies have been greatly belied," :" no one
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by vegetables, of which potatoes are not to
constitute more than the one sixth part {;
at p. NJ. Q ices Of bread and butter for
drink, ptisan favored with licorice. All
these drinks and soups are made fresh every
day. The creche is carefully, thoroughly
and continuously ventilated, and streams
of fresh air poured in constantly ; but the
children are never exposed to any draught
No flowers are allowed the cradles are
aired frequently and the infants taken into
the air as often as the weather permits.
The temperature of the creche is kept as
nearly as possible at 60 degrees Fahrenheit,
but lowered little in the evening. In
respect of cleanliness, the regulations of
the creche seem to leave nothing to be de-
sired. Every child is washed and combed
in the morning and before the first meal,
and it's hands and face washed after eating.
They are undressed, sponged all over when
washed, then rubbed dry with clean
towels. From May till October they have
tepid bath every day, two hours after
eating, remaining in the bath ten miputee.
Scolding is rarely resorted to, corporal
punishment absolutely forbidden the rule
of treatment is tenderness. They may be
caressed but not embraced their sleep is
not to he interrupted they are never to be
excited nor lifted up by one arm, nor let
lie too long upon the same side; coufec-
tionary is prohibited, and the babies kept
with head cool, stomach easy, feet warm.
Children thus thoughtfully and wisely
treated should preserve their health at the
creche, and, so it would seem, ought to
thrive and escape the fatal maladies of sum-
mer, if similarly treated in any American
household.
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Saving the Infants.

In this country with immigration declin-
ing go rapidly, it is doubly important for
.ns to check in every way possible the
frightful infant mortality which every sum-
mer, in our large cities, decimates the pop
ulatiou. Much can BIZ done without any
public nterposition, by little general at
tention on the part of mothers and nurses
to some of the simpler and more obvious
principles of hygiene. In this connection
we wish to call attention to the excellent
practical rules adopted for the regulation
of the Belgian creches, or infant nurseries,
noble and tender charities which have been
inflated in this country and elsewhere. the
words "creche," meaning msnger, and
adopted in remembrance of a certain stall
in Bethlehem where the Light of the world
and the Fountain of all charity consented
to be boTn-was applied In Belgium TO
certain infant nurseries founded by Queen
Marie Henriette in 1866, at the time of the
great cholera epidemic 10 Antwerp. Many
infants of the poorer and laborIng classes
lost father or mother, and while the parent
was compelled to be absent the whole day
at work, "these poor little infants were left
in the charge of careless neighbOrs, who
wanted high pay for their services, but who,
in most cases, let the infants suffer from
cold and hunger" The crecbe was estab
lished as a remedy for this bad state of
things, and it is from the reports of the
mana&ement of the Marie Henrietta Creche
of Antwerp that We take the rules of con-
duct which repeated and careful experience
has shown TO be most conducive to the
health and comfort of infants. 1t is to be
remarked that the charge for the keep Of
baby all day at the creche 10 only hVe
centimes Zone cent? q day, or twenty five
confines cents per week, in advance. Yet
so we'll is the Antwerp creche maintained
that in 1872 it's receipts were IL, 500 francs
over lite expenditures.
For the food of very young infants there
is provided bread-sOup, or biscult-pana-
ds, made of white bread and arroWroot
boiled in milk and water. This is given at
10 A. N. and between 2 and P. NJ, and, for
q drink between times, thin barley water.
For unweaned children seven months old
and more, the panada is given once day
in the morning at 2 o'clock P. N. pap of
Cruel and three times a week bOuilloR of
beef or veal, from which the fat Is carefully
skinned. This soup is to be prepared
with semOlihO Ia sort of brau). For child
rem who have been Weaned, at 10 A. N. the
panada. bat thicker at 1890 P. II. beef or
zeal sonp, with rice and semolinot followed
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can object to his teachings" "his moral
teachings are incontrovertible," etc., etc.
Father Earight had good congregations
both morning and night till Wednesday
night, when Bishop Gross arrived. That
night the hall was densely filled, and many
went away not being able to get in. He
preached ON the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
never did priest or bishop have a more at
tentive congregation than did Bishop
Gross that night. He preached Thursday
and Friday nights to fine congregations,
and closed the mission Saturday morning
by administering tho Sacrament of Con-
firmatiop. There was only one confirmed !;
my little daughter. The Bishop and Fa
Their Enright were highly gratifed. Their
mission was great success under the cir
and the mass of the people totally ignor-
ant of our Holy Faith, and having been
taught from their infancy by their preachers
that we were idolators. Since the mission
many have >told me frankly that they en-
dorse our faith so far as they understand it,
and quite a mum Der have asked me for books
that they may learn more; 1 have given out
what l had and sent for some catechisms
and some ais it Honest" Without excep-
ton, all who heard Bishop Gross say he
is the finest logican they ever heard. Some
say his sermons were master pieces oflogic,
but with the rather amusing addition,
s'however, do not endorse his teaching"
In addition to the influences against us,
which have mentioned many of the LIS
Invincibie Ignorants) drummed against
us even on the street corners. The Meth
odists held protracted meeting, during
the Mission, but failed to develop any shin
bone enthusiasm the Episcopalians had q
convocation, headed by Bishop ~ Beck
with, commencing on Bithop Cross first
night but throughout we had the larger
congregations.
Several have told me as soon as suffic-
iently instructed they will become Catho-
lies. Some of our Protestant friends
have subscribed, and Others will, to build
US church, and, God willing, before
year we will have a nice, cheap little
church.
Bishop Gross will visit us again about
the middle of August, and hope will then
baptize some converts.
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The Burning Of Columbia.
HOW THE CONVENT WAS pLUNDERED-THBN NUNS
vIADICATED.

To the Editor of the News and Courier:
In an article of the Louisville Courier. Journal
referring to Gen. Sherman's burning of Co
lumbia, Published last week in the Ne,cs and
Courier, is o paragraph which if passed I'M
noticed would do gross injustice, though proha-
bly, unintentionally, to very much respected
lady, the Mother Superior of the Nuns at Co
lumbia. / mean the calling of the curse of
Heaven upon Gen. Sherman's head
At that time bad a daughter at tho Con-
vent. I resided in Barnwell District. As soon
l heard of the destruction of the Convent,
without learning of the safety of the inmates, 1
made. every eXertion to reach Columbia to as
certain the fate of my child and bring her
home. I had to send twenty miles to borrow
two mules for my carriage / had none left
need not tell Of the fearful ride-of the desc
la ton on the road. Not a house left standing,
pig Nothing but blackened chimneys, aud
buzzards lowering around the slain carcasses,
and here and there woman or a child picking
up corn where horses had been fed. reached
Columbia o few days after the burning, and
after some difficulty found the place of refuge
| of the nuns. / saw the Mother Superior, and
she related to me every thing connected with
the Convent Immediately before and after its
destruction.
She told me how she had sent TO Gen. Sher-
man and secured guard of protection for the
Convent, .rhich guard began the sacking Of the
Conreat before the Nuns had all left. The young
| ladies and nuns fed for refuge about midnight
| and went to the Catholic Church, leaving
| everything behind them but a very small
| Uuuul0 VI ClObuluB. 1uo SlO"luR language III
which she spoke of their fearful ight through
the midst of that terrible crowd of iuceL diaries
| was Indeed most thrilling and exciting story.
| Yet 10 it all beard not one word unbecoming
the most perfect Christian, and certainly moth
ing approaching an appeal to Heaven for a
malediction on the heads of the perpetrators OF
the deed. To do this is 80 very unlike any OF
the nuns that 1 feel it almost useless to deny
| it. Are not these nuns disciples of Him who
when He was reviled did not revile; when per-
secuted opened not his msuth, but, like a lamb
| was led to the slaughterf
In the wanton act of the burning of this
Convent, and the subsequent ten years OF
privation and suffering, They assuredly have
| proved their dis iplesbp.
Let it not be said, then, by stranger-for
none other would say it-tbat a "Catholie
Sister" Invoked the curse of Heaven upon
Gen. Sherman, who permitted his soldiery to
burn her Convent. 1t is q grievous charge
| without the shadow of truth. 1 would here
suggest that the " accidental burning" of Co
lumbia was only a continuance of the unfortu.
nate accidental burning" of all the towns and
villages and houses on the broad line of march
of Sherman's army through our State! D.
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How perfectly non sectarian the pub
lie schools North are, may be judged by the
following taken from recent number of
the Buffalo IN. " Union:
If any of our readers still doubt the
pestifeTous atmosphere which Catholic
children are compelled to breathe, in oar
blessed Public School surroundings, let
them read and ponder on the delectable
utterances of the preacher, 1.-THE invited
orator. on the occasion of awarding prizes
to Public School children. The following
we take, at random, from the published
reports OF this classifying address-deliUered
before Catholic children, observe:
While priest-ridden Italy rises to rid itself of
this odious aud ignorant despOtisD, do nlitred
fools suppose that America, the land Of the
free and the home of religious liberty, lie about
to bow it's neck to this effete and hated ty-
rannyi Under God we need not fear the Issue.
The world, thank God, is too far onward to-
wards its better day TO weakly and tamely
sell its birthrights of education and freedom
for these lentiIs of SupeSiitio1 and ignorance.
Behold, Catholic parents, q sample of
the preacher influence that controls the
Buffalo Public Schools! Salutary orators,
these Heacocks, for your children TO
listen to