The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-05-15
The Beretta Rosa,


Tho rest that comes alter strife.
The Beretta Rosa,
Vivid Description of the Investiture of
Cardinal McCloskey.
New York Letter.
The NEST magnificent ecclesiastical
pageant that ever was presented TO the
gaze of sensatlon-loving New York. was
the ceremony OF placing the red eccle-
siastical cap of q cardinal on the head of
Archbishop McCloskey, which took
place at the plain, old-fashioned church
of st. Patrick, too day. The old church
Is situated at the corner of Mulberry
and Mott streets, in a quarter densely
populated, chiefly by Irish and Italians.
The whole district turned out of doors
at 8 O'Clock this morning, and business
was suspended in all the neighborhood
OF the church. The mills were silent.
as the workmen had taken a nolM.y.
The windows were filed With women
and children, and the rcof-tops were
crowded. In the vicinity of the
catnedral there wes q constant arrival of
gorgeous e9uipages, conveying state
ana CITY officials, dignitaries of the
cnurcn, and other distinguished people.
For several blocks away from the
onurch, lines OF police officers, directed
ny captains and inspectors, held back
THRoNuINa THopsANps.
IL was admitted by the trustees that
ponce arrangements were admirable.
Bot for the police, the ticket holde-s
could not have got near ,!,e th,,rcb
As IL was, the arrangements we're de-
fecsive in one respect, namely "a re-
CARDS the press Representatives The
wife OF Frank Leslie, artist of the mic.
eorih of that title, and other press
ticket holders, were kept under the sun
Tor twenty minutes, at the church
door, awaiting the appearance of some
oody VINO had charge of the press ar
rangements. Representatives of lead
ing NeT York papers found space set
apart Tor them filled with people who
mad no business there except frcr, Curl
osify. This is really the experience of
reporters ct Catholic churches in gen
eral, and st. Patriok's cathedral in par
tlcuiar. While the bright sun shone
on the crowded roof-tops, and the
FELLOW FLAG OF THE Pope
as temporal prince. with the cross
Keys OF st. Peter, waved peacefulIv
SIDE py side the stars and stripes of the
american republic, over the main en-
trance, the ticket-holders were kent in
line, four deep, under the blazing heat
along the sidewalk. and advanced at the
rate OF three steps in twenty minutes.
These were simply holders Of tickets of
admission. Meanwhile, to the great
disgust of these people. the i1ckv
holders OF numbered tickets for news
passed In repidly-among them gentle
men IN trll dress, as if for a concert
some Of the most distinguished and
eIlseocratlc people in New York hurried
aCng around those uninvitiug street
corners, through herce-looking men,
ana excatabie> booking young women, for
the drst time in their lives.
INSIDE THE CHURCH.
ali was peace and magnificence. Can
oPies OF crimson were to the right and
ieft OF the altar, through the interstices
OF which nuns of various orders glanced
with feminine curiosity, upon the
cnfong OF distinguished and wealthy
Peopse, The aroma of sweet incense
slesn the vestry filed the air, The
oign altar was ablaze with tall tapers,
and radiant with flowers. Cloth of
CRIMSON and gold was spread here and
mere around the sanctuary, and oil
paintngs copies of old masters, were
instince NTH life under the concentrated
hgn% The Joyous words,
STE DEUM LAUpA,Us"
blazed In gas Jets over the hnoe crno;f;,
which surmounted the HIGH altar Rnt
1t was when the triumnhant stra;ys
from the organ and a battalion al in.
sxumentalits resounded through the
cnurch, flooding it with elorio1s bar.
mony, that toe real interest of the
scene began, This was shortly before
II o clock. Acolytes in black soutanes;
acoiytes in red soutanes: acolvtes
IN graceful robes of white swinging
eisers priests, with pale, sad faces ;
portiy-looking dignitaries of the church:
NOR KS IN white habits monks in black
the white friars and the black fr;ars
zoe miFdie sges-sIowly moved
long the moving panorama, with con-
s.ant!y shifting hues, before the
eooWded con gre CATION. Then priests in
ordinary SUPPLIES,
a WHOLE ARMY OF THEM.
had bent the knee before the b;sb a,tor
sIo passed down the central passage and
seated themselves the remainder de-
iiected to the light and left, and filled
LIE chairs In the sanctuary. excent
.Sose reserred for the bishops and
leading invited ecclesiastics. The
atg.sts of the fanctuary flashed back the
gold from the Offering mitres as the
Pfelates began to issue slowly from the
vestry and advance two by two into the
sanctuary. Ecclesiastics in pu-,,e
cassocks, attendant priests, and ether
omciais moved forward FIRST. Then
PRINoEs OF THE CHURCH.
with capes OF gold from neck to beela
snd those oriental looking mjtres which
lend strange dignity to the wearers
Ahe bishops and archbishops, Sc ip
nnmoer, advanced slowly and arranged
themselves in three front rows of chairs
while shifting rows of red. white and
black moved TO the left and right. and
high above all were the glorious strains
OF tho organ and stringed instruments.
II was sight never to be forgotten bv
tnose who were there. AS much as
$i0O was freely offered for admission
tickets, outside the church. The mass
was pretty much the same as ordinary
solemn
HIGH MASS.
ceremonial, but there were trifiing
arising from the presence of
30 many prelates. Probably one of the
most imposing figures in the gorgeous
pageant was the tall and stately Connt
Marifoschi, of the Pope's Guards No.
bile, who came in behind Bishop
Laughlin, of Brooklyn, the celebrant
OF the mass, wearing his antique
shaped brass helmet, scarlet tunic,
sword, heavy boots and spurs. To the
establishment of Catholics, he wore his
helmet until the canon of the mass.
This formidable and gorgeousIy uni
formed cavalier WIS understood to be
the guardian and custodian of the small
scarlet cardinals hat,
THE BERETrA.
he comforting of which ~as the occa-
ZION of all this joyous soIem atty. After
mass had concluded, AID the real bust
less OF the day commenced, il was i'm
for the ushers 10. restrain the |
of those in the r. ont seats to |
he right and left who could not see |
trough twenty solid