Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-27

ESPECIAL CoRREsPoNDEECE.I
New ORLEANS, Sept. II, 1884.
New Orleans is, without doubt, one Of
the most religious cities in Americs-that
is, a larger proportion of her people are
church-goes. The Latin race predominant
ing, the tendency is mainly toward the
Church of Rome; although other sects are
we'll represented.
The early priests of Louisiana distin-
gushed themselves in the field as well as
the pulpit. Theirs were some of the first
great successes in agriculture. In 1927,
whe Ursuline Nuns and Jesuit Fathers ar
rived in the colony, the latter we're assigned
a tract Of waste land, mainly morass and
swamp, lying above the city. They drained
and cleared and cultivated this land until
the Jesuits' plantation came to be known
far and wide for its thrift and opulence.
In 1868 King Clement XIII expelled the
Jesuits from the colony and confscated
their lands, which we're cut up into a
dozen plantations and sold for some
$3.50 600. This is now the richest part OF
New Orleans and is worth more than
500, 000, 900.
Only once in the whole history of Lou
isiana do we find
A HINT OF PERSECUTION
On the part of the church. When plain
old matter-of-fact Esteban Miro was Gov
ernor OF the colony, q priestly agent of the
Holy Inquisition, called to request that a
file of soldiers be placed at his disposal.
The Governor sent a squad who seized the
priest and shipped him to Havana. This
was the first Of the Inquisition in Louisi-
ana-snd the last.
Two years after the United States pur-
chased Louisiana the first Protestant
church was erected. A generous Jew,
Judah Touro, gave the ground, and the
Legislature granted the master and
wardens permission to run a lottery for the
purpose Of raising this ediice, which, since
then, has twice been rebuilt, and is now to
be torn down and rebuilt further up town.
This church is Episcopal. A few years
after the Presbyterians got a lottery per-
nit and erected a grand building, which
has echoed with the eloquence of the Rev
erends Sylvester Larned and Theodore
Clapp. Is it wonderful that with such ex-
amples the New Orleans public looks
leniently on lotteries in general Church
lovers as the New Orleans people are,
they never attempt to inquire into the
tenets of their next-door neighbors. A
mans religion, it is held, is his " bust
ness and does not concern the public.
Fortunately here, the churches have
| always had wise and liberal leaders-men
OF good will towards all good willing men.
We have in the past two years beheld an
| Episcopal Bishop as a mourner over a ne
gro boy in a Catholic funeral; a Jewish
Rabbi wedding his ~favorite niece to al I'M
| circumcised Christian; a Presbyterian doc
tor of divinity preaching the funeral SER
mon over the Rabbits dead child.
Do not such specimens of religious feel
ing in a city where
THE CHURCHES NEyER QUARREL,
speak well for the enlightenment and toll
Grafton of the Great Queen City Of the
South-the great Exposition Grounds of
| the continent. ]. is we'll hat sue facts
as these should go out to the people of all
lands. They will correct i'm
pressions OF the people and lead them to
take a more thorough interest in the great
| Exposition to which she invites all the
world.
This grand event-perhaps the grandest
in its aims and extent of any in our country,
is near at hand, and the exhibits are pour
ing in from all corners of the country and
the world. The scene at the Exposition
Grounds is now more than attractive; it Ii
compulsive. AS the eye turns from Hor-
ticultursl Hall with its myriad panes Of
| glass playing diamond cut diamond under
the dazzling sun of Louisiana, to the ma
jestic repose of the Main Building, to
whose tower-top floats proudly the flag Of
a 4 united people, q feeling of infinite salts
faction suddenly supervenes and the anti
cipant thought arises that, when the PEG.
Plies real representatives from Maine to
California, strolling beneath this roof OF
SO acres, hal behold Americas giant in
du stries displayed in more than royal RI
valry, how truly they can exclaim witt
honest pride: "To be an American citizen
is greater than a King"