The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-01

no materials into the uncle's piotnre of the dear
old place. that the doctor wisely leaves them
DOT. Besides, he knowsvery well from expert
any given amount Of intelligence fnrnished by
Fred. So he laugbs as heartily over the letter
as the writer intended, and then. tearing 1t up,
Changes in the life OF birds, for they must come and
ChsSgss in the ocean waves, for sssy must ebb aId
Chan in the forest leaves they must bud and
Changes in the hearts of monthe greatest change of
From Frightening heiss Of ether fair disclosed.
GhS O. .Ss rsgsns DEPTH
He comes attended by the sultry hours,
And ever tanning sye:Iss on his way
x!s1s: ssf bia.ssa s face sI AID Earth ss,s.
All smiling to his hot dominion leaves"
Never in the days of the poet of the Scasons
could Summer have stolen forth from his ethe-
real realms more radiant in royal beauty than
in 1870. Beneath " his hot dominion" 80 sweet
ly sung by him, the whole fsoe OF mighty
beauty. The Emerald Isle grew greener every
day, the cornfelds of England wSxed golden
beneath his smile, even Scotland decked Der
harsh, rugged old brows with garlands. On
vineyards of Spain the grapes began to gather
into family clusters beneath the protecting
leaves; while fruits Of varied form and hue
and fragrance weighed down the branches and
strewed the ground in the orchards of Ia belle
France. Even the grim old pines of Norway
put on q livelier green as they scattered their
futtered aud danced around them. Flowers,
groWing every hour more bewitching in their
loneliness, twinkied saucily every where, from
n as Of ran riot in ss
wealth.
While Nature welcomed thus royalty the
coming of her lord, the world of men rejoiced
in it aiso: the rich in the luxury of the profu-
sion he had brought them the poor in the
absence of pinohing and penury. and the pros
pect of a bouutiful harvest. They ate, drank
aud were merry and though politicians W HE
pered, and fnapciers shook their heads. what
was that to them They tell Us that trees bow
their heads before q storm, and tn at beasts dee
| to covert in the omiuous silence that precedes
it; buJ what does the great mass OF man kind
know of the signs of the timesf What did
half the men, women aud children of Europe
think that hollow booming meant thar echoed
| so suddenly from the German frontierf Alas,
| they understood il we'll enough when the tor
I rent of war, after flooding the peaceful valleys
| of the Rhine, ebbed back, like retributive
tide, over the length and breadth OF France.
| Sho at least understood it, as war and famine
| decimated her people and piled her smoking
plains with oorpses. Before the autumn winds
had scsttered the red leaves on the still reddeI
| graves of the thousands who fell in the con.
fict, mighty changes had ploughed the face OF
| the countries just before so serene In theiI
summer beauty. The events and horrors OF
the Franco-German war are too recent to need
| relating here too we'll we remember that, as
defeat fIllowsd defeat, and army after army
fell, moved bown by the pitiless mltrailleuse
and chassepot, army after army had to be re-
collected out of the peaceful homes of France
Sill the mighty whiriwind rolled on its way,
till at last it swept into its vortex even the
soanty force that the eldest daughter of the
Church had given to guard the papal throne
Tuen arose another feature in the strife, the
| most hid GUS of all. Not only from the once
fertile plains of France arose the din OF war
|, but soon an echo like low refrain, began to
/, | be heard among the italian hills. Tue storm
, muttered awhile, then gathered and burst
What could stem it : What we're few 10y 81
hearts ard few staiwart arms against the
, | hordes that poured down under theii
| robber. chief on t5e defenceless cityI
The struggle was as severe as iS was orlef
Early in September envoy arrived from the
Sandman coGrt, requiring His Holiness to sd
init certain Italian troops INFO Rome, unde
; preterce of maintaining in the city an orde
4 that Victor Emmanuel knew as we'll as tn
Romans themselves had never yet been vic
t lated. What the answer of Pho Mono was Il
such o mandate may2he well conceived b.
. those who know how unt1inchinRly he guardet
' ali the rights and privileges of the Holy Sc
r until the power to guard them was wrested b.
Q force from his sacred bands. Only three day
, after the embassy to the Papal court tn
Q Italians crossed the frontier, prepared to d
{ their worst. Ia vain q daring little BAN
! did all in it's power to bar their progress
Q numbers prevailed over heroism, and the tou
r torrent swept on. The fifth day came, and tn
v Italians crossed the Tiber. After forty-eigh
8 hours of portentous quiet, batteries wer
erected in the night by the enemy, and earl
{ next morning, eight days after they had cross
. ed the frontier, the bombardmens of Rom
s commenced.
: The resistance was worthy of the cause tba
halo wed il, aud the sturdy arms that Tough
d on even when iE was evident that all hope
o success was over. They did their best
}, 1usves, Swiss and dragoons, merchants an
It artisans, the dwellers in the city and the tilleI
10 of the 6elds-God knows they did; but Fl
ID knows. too, that for His own wise ends, an
q until His own good time. it was His holy wi
to give His heritage to the spoiler.
ID By noon q terrified whisper ran throug
10 Rome that breech bad been effected in th
10 WALLS; but the fact, far from dispiriting th
W defenders, only goaded their valor to fur!
70 Like stays at bay, they stood before the opeI
il ing, sword in hand, sternly resolved to strugg
le. to the last, dreaming of no alternative
~ victory or death. Then IL was that 10 w call
or voice was beard from the Vatican but thong
at it spoke amid the roar of cannon, the roll {
tn musketry aud the shouts OF war, 1t was heare
) waves of the angriest of human passions