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HOURIEAL,
* pupLIstED SEMLMONTHLY BY
MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN,
711 SANsoM STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
voted to the advancement of
THE IRISH CATHOLIC BENEVOLENT UNION
. ATES.
TERMS:
50 Cents a 1 Year in advance.
CATHOLICITY
PHILADELPHIA.
[CoprRicHTED, 1833.}
By Martin IL. J. GRIeFIN.
1793.—In 1793 Viscount de Noailles,
brother-in-law of Lafayette, cz
Puiladelphia, He had served asa Gen.
eral in the French-American Army un-
der Rochambeau. He remained in Phila-| ©
delphi until 1795, Ile was very poor.
Aner his am ival, he boarded for a time
b Rev, . Marshal and wife, 118
Spruce teeete “Rev. Wm. Marshal’ was
astor of the Associated Presbyterian |
Chureh, on Walnut street above Fourth,
where the building ot the Sebuylkill
Navigation Co. now i;
in the third story the
grounds of Wm. Bingham, Esq., Fourth
street, opposite St. Mary’s. In April,
cT794, he became associated with Robert
“Mortis, John Nicholson and others in
‘the Asylum Land Company for the set-
itlement of one million xcres in Luzerne,
‘Northumberland and Northampton coun-
ties, He had, we know, 330 shares, or
s actions,” of the company 5 3 each of 200
- Reves each, An account of this company
“Will be given under date of 1794. He re-
turned to France after the accession of
Fiapoleon. Ilis estates were- restored - to
beloved by his soldiers that they enclosed
ete tag ina silver case and attached it
to their
The Pt» arroque, Viear Prefect of
hiladelphia in
His name appears on the Baptis-
wal registry at St. Josephs, Our efforts
‘obtain other information concerning
him has been fruitless. \Who can tell us
hore about him? Gen. Victor Callot, the
xiled d Governor of | Gua adaloupe, was here
ie me ubt, in company
Callot was here
Preteck
Rev. William Elling, who had partici-
ated in the First Synod of Baltimore,
ails also visited Philadelphia in this
On May 12th, the usual semi-annual
‘charity sermon”? for the support of the
hoo jon Walnut street, below Fourth,
and £49, Gd, realized. The
ermon in the ‘Pall seems to have been
rated, probably on account of the yel-
Sever. On December 2d, a donation
9f £30 wa’ received from Bar ney Kauh.,
Vidently a contraction of a then well
hown name, but now undistinguishable.
M. C. Jenkins, ip sketch of Most Rev.
0) ‘onard Neale, in the U. 8. itholic
maaazbne, 1844, page 509, after
re the eal ths of Rathers Graess and
leming, Say!
“The loss o :
rere ri agi cree at ‘i
eeving thene on itn inter
an Mites Wal Hitt r
once oat anion a Sud th
rangle biter privation, Hut: whto could be
"ine fore, » pene ba a service 1 Who would
forth and the breach sate best
i tthe Phitadelphts Bou
male exile tn Ey
th
the intusms of Dew: ia
The I val nee of the fev r he to
0h an cheerfulness that could not |
a frame xo weak a
sunt 11 bis attention
f the pestilene
mi sill renew hig al
e sick and dying,
pees the pious nish iy X
aby the dreadful eontagio!
This 8 st:
atement errs in saying that ‘tno
Priest was left to minister” to the wants
iN
We donbt als N
also whether Father Neale
fee toP Miladelphia “during the preva:
he The epidemic had
i an itscomee when Fathers Flem-
MS aie died. It was not until
ee + 1793, according t
that Father Neale wasnioninted
a, astor: ae ‘St Tle was
ero in the stilie ” neninst Death in
ny fevers of 1707 and 1708. Rev.
tale, the successor of Father Flem.
th £ St. Mary’s, was born at
Octobe obacco, Charles Co., Maryland,
&
3
General de Noailles. afterwards lived | 5)
he Mission of the Dominienns i in Guada-| titute.
i phia.
¥
0.
t-] 120 pages.’?
we people. Father Keating was on | at
T
<IMMACULATE VIRGIN, PRAY FOR
us?
_ PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 15, 1884.
NO, 164
the Society of Jesus. After ordination
v% arara, In 1783 he
returned to this county, after an absence
of thirty-sev: ALS.
Prior to the fever of 1797-8, he de-
signed founding a community of religi-
ous females. Mr. Jenkins states that
“two of the three ladies he had selected
died of the fever, and that Miss Jane
Lalor was the survivor who entered the | Dr: Dey.
Duclos
Visitation Order founded at. George-
wn,?? But it is known in Philadelphia
that the ladies who left with Father Neale
joined them. They founded the na. widow, |g
Convent at Geoi wn— the era f
the greatand ‘good renneeticn country.’?
When the community desired to be
aggregated to he Order in Europe they
wrote to France for some of the Sisters
and a copy of the rules, It being impos-
sible to send the Sisters, a model of them
was sent. It wasa doll dressed in the
habit of the Order. Not being invoiced,
the Custom House officers opened the
box, and found what they called ‘tone of
the gods the Papists worship.
In religion Miss Lalor yo Sister Ter-
oe Josephine. She died S 1846.
McDermott was Sister Francis,
She died October 26, 1820, Mrs, Sharp
—Sister Ignatius—died July 31, about
1806, and was’ buried in ‘frinity Chureh
graveyard attached to Georgetown Col-
Kege. The Order was not approved of
us VII until 1816. Mother Teresa,
Sister Francis and Sister Agnes (Harriet
Brent, born 1796) were received and pro-
fessed | by permission of the Holy Father
Dee, 28, 1816.
In 1799 Father Neale was appointed
Rector of Georgetown Colle; and-on
December 7th, 1800, conseerated Coadja-
tor to Bishop Carroll, whom he sueceeded
as Archbishop of Baltimore in 1815,
died in 1817. He left Philadelphia in
March, 1799.
SAN DOMINGO REFUGEES.
In August, 1791, the slaves of San Do-
mingo revolted. In September, 1793, the
English invaded the Island and conquered
the western coast. Numbers of. the in-|
habitants"fled, the greater part: in 1793.
Many came to Philadelphia, others went
o New York, Baltimore or Charleston,
with or without valuables, as they could
esa
‘ust, 1793, six hundred arrived
in seaaetptia. The refugees were des-
. The French Patriotic Society
contributed $800 to their relief. Other
contributions were made. About $11,-
000 was collected. But the fever in the
city and the distress consequent thereon
lessened greatly the contributions,
February, 1795, the Legislature appoint
ed Godfrey Hoga, Bilward Pennington,
Robert Ralston, S. P. Grifiths, Joseph
Lownes, Samuel Mecklin and 208: San-
som a commit e $2,500
among the ary Jan-
uary, 1796, and. January, 1797, appropria-
tions of $1,000 were made for the same
ebaritable purposes, Many who came to
Philadelphia were accompanied by their
slaves. but those who held them as such
were to be debarred from: receiving the
State nd. as slavery had been abolished
in Pennsylvania.
The refugees were Catholics.
colored were given the use of the little
chapel of St. Joseph’s.
tended to by Rev. I
9 doubt, ministere
refugees who worsh
ne ost marriage is recorded on Feb,
17th, 179: n Baptiste Lore to Maria
Marta « tionde Graville.
“Before this time the Holy Sacrifice
was offered up during the weel
nt Joseph’ 3 and on Sunday divine service
nd) was,
nts, | chureh remaining
ed Jordan, ae Woodstock Letters, Mey. 1st}
held at St Mary's, te smaller
closed.”—] Rev. P. A.
mber, 1796, Father Houdet
issu Rae oe Treatise on Morality : chiefly
designed for the Instruction of Youth,
By Reverend Rene Houdet. Philadel-
Printed for the author by T. Do!
418.8 Seana st. 17
The Preface is sigued by
Fr. Houdet. ‘The Treatise was ** trans:
lated by Michael Fortune.” A copy of
this work is in the loly Cross Cultege,
Worcester, Mars.
Father Houdet remained in Philadel
phia certainly as late as November 15th,
1798, as nppents by the marriage register
St. Joseph’s. I know not what be-
came of him,
een Fr rance, by treaty with ITayti
in 1824, gave inde: manity to the refugees
for losses suffered, 6, Shaw was the
disbursing agent’ in Piel to the
refugees or their dese endants, pave
sought. to obtain a list of the refugees
resident in this cily, but have not sue-
eeded, Mr, Shaw’s list is not known
to be in existence, but we are informed
y.| that a lady recently deceased had another
list, ‘This we hope to obtain a cous o
From ‘Description _Topoyrephique et
Politique de la Partie. Espagnol de IN ste
Saint Domingue par Marcau de St. Blery.
ber 1th, 1746, In 1766 he entered
Those | vanced.
-}of Catholic children are not, sent
Philadelphia,1796,” (No, 22800 Ridgway
Library] the following names of sub-
scribers have been taken as possibly all
being refugees from fan Domingo: :
FRE
RS
2
s
m8 S
5
Ss
é
g
$
| Floaignol Gramount.
Augustin Bourquet. 4 Gulllemard,
Theophile Cazenove. yinet,
Lewis Cordell, : Kens ‘La Colombe.
* Demeunier. pelt Orange.
Hy. Destozierés. Berta Rosue
20. | Ba Rocaue.
sea Garbenttor, Lay:
| Thu Niger.
JeGervin, i
7
J. E.G. La Grange was, in 1800,
wershifatage of L’Amenite Lodge,
No. 73, of the Masonie Order, chartered
May Soth,, 17075 and on New Year’s
Day, 1800. in the presence of the Grand
Lodge delivered the first eulogy in the
Freneh language upon, Washington, This
Lodge was composed tof refugees from
France and San Domingo. ‘They seem
fo have made efforts to extend the Order
n San Domingo, 8 L find record of si
Lodges i in ingo chartered by the
Pennsylvani: Grand Lodge prior to 1807.
3 4799-5
THE SUHOOL—1793-5.
June 30, 1 Edw. Barrington,
school master, resigned, and presente:
to the School I und end turnpike share,”
which, on March, 15, 1796, was sold for
Mr. Bawington's succes-
McLaughlin, In a year
wife became
. . Gd.
sor wus a Mr
after his appointment. his
the successor of Mrs, Short.
The charity sermon ‘of May 12, 1794,
secured £34, 4s. 4d; that of October 19th
brought in £52, 133. 4d; Bishop Carroll
contributed £1, 7s, 6d. at this latter col-
lection, He no doubt administered Con-
firmation on that dayy On the 23d of
October he blessed the marriage of Mau-
rice Neagle and Susan Taylor ; witnesses
were Wm, McCormack, Patrick Whelan,
Mary O'Donnell. On December 8th the
receipt of £7,-16s. 4$ds for the school
rom estate of Rev. Lawrence Graess]
was acknowledged. ~ =. ,
juring this year, i7dh, ‘the schoof was} ©
©
ae
ar
~ and Mrs, Metaughtin remained
ume “May, 1795, when .T. Reagan was
appointed. I think he did not act, as in
the same month a ‘* Master’? rady was
directed to discharge his assistant and
‘provide another in his stead.” A Mr.
Graham then became assistant master.
Brady’s salary was $400 a year. Out of
this he had to pay “a female assistant to
the care ot the girls.’”
had at one time, seco to the
intr mation given me Mrs. Maria
male assistant to the girls—a
Mr. “Chapman. Mary Lloyd, daughter
of Thomas Lloyd, the stenographer,
complained to Mr, Brady that Mr, Chap-
man kept her too long Sh ering in
liquid measure, and as she did not intend
to marry a liquor dealer, she wished a
change in her arithmetic lesson, She
never married. Perhaps the lesson was
not changed.
“ Master? Brady’s charge for tuition
was : to those learning to read 17s, 6d. a
quarter, and 2 o those further ad-
A fhamber were educated free,
Hence, the charity sermon twice a year,
The scholars whose education was paid
by these sermons were, we believe, class-
ed as the *‘Poor School,” as on June
1795, Jas. Reagan was appointed ** Mas-
ter?’ of the Poor School, In Dece
following he complained that his salary
was insufficient. It was increased
£130.
In 1795 the sermons for the schools
produced £40, 1s. on May 11th, and £53,
43. 5d, on October 10th; or £03, 15s.
od for t!
pechnes out noe these charity sermons
grew the now prevailing ‘belief that our
parochial acloo ols area charity, in the
alms. In this we believe
the cause why thousands
ne
rng be found
Catholie schools. They are, regarded
and frequently spoken fas “phon chile
drei A parent wishing not to have his
thildr en 80 regarded or desinos of being:
ranked in “the nds his
children to an * geadem my? if he can or
will pay. If not, they ave sent to the
public school where, in! our judgment,
class distinctions are not so marked.
The Tote | and Publication Com-
mittee of the C.T U. of A met at
Barnum’s [otel, battinore on Friday, ae
14th inst. and adopted measures to secure
the publication, of » Tot Abstinence
Literature and an efficient Tecture cam-
paign during the coming Wiuter,
Loy e expect the early for mation of an
L. U. Society in Tarryfown, N. Y.
ine “National Secretary wifl take steps
to secure the formation of. Societies in
New York city and neighborhood at an
early date.
‘\
0 | perous condition,
OAN IT BE TRUE?
The last words from that gifted Infsli-
man and sterling patriot, A. M. Sullifan,
were in denunciation of the drink plague.
was a common saying of this noble
worker in the rance cause that
“Ireland temperate was Ireland free.””
How far from this happy condition large
classes in the cities of Ire! are, the
followin; ‘act from a letter of Mr.
Sullivan to the “Dublin Freeman, the last
[Firat that be penned, only too pain-
‘u
“And yet churches abound, and our
clergy labor with de’ A
An merican visitor remat Ted to ie that
religion and whiskey seemed to a’
—the churches and public houses struck
merous, The scenes to
which Bather Jennings calls attention
prevails, b noted, not mi
churches abound, but right up to the
door of God’s house. The women tear
each other’s hair and bi
another's breasts, amid yells about ‘ J—
— and the devil, not where. there are
no priests—on the’ contrary, it is in the
ears of pure and holy ministers of the
alt ar these horrors abound.
wer can we give an inquiring Mahom-
medan or infidel? What answer but this,
that the public house is too strong for
the Church.”
Tow it must have wrung the heart of
this good man and a lover of his
race to write those two “la st sentences |
What answer but this, that the public house
is too strong for the Church! We are not
fanatics on the subject, but we do firmly
believe that grog-shops are daily and
pou rly dragging down innumerable souls
‘0 perdition, despite the most strenuous
and heroic efforts to save them. Is it
not high time for Christian people to
Wi extent of
evils, public and_ private, caused by this.
fearful monster? Who can recount its
ravages?, Bye e and bye, many well-mean-
ing persons, who are slow about taking
up a position on this question, will have
to declare themselves either for or against
one of the chief evils of the age.
Leannot ndmit thatthe temple of Tagehus |”
is too strong for the living temple of the
Church ot God. jo confess that
it requires the constant, persevering
efforts of the friends of temperance and
total abstinence to gain the victory.—
The Catholic.
[A frfend Jately returned from Ireland
after an absence of twenty years, and
who not. being a total abstainer, cannot
be charged with fanatical notions on the
subject of liquor drinking, has given us
a deplorable account of the scenes he
witnessed in many partsof Ireland, He
saw churches exceeding in size an
grandeur any in Philadelphia, but he
saw Rum everywhere active. }
¢
fours country qa bears the strain every
agitation caused by a
Present auetion mist be providen-
tially sustained. Couldn't we people
rule ourselves with less vot ing? \ Prac-
tically, we do not now choose our own
rulers—that is done for us. The people
do the yoting the bosses the selecting.
the bosses would only 3 less
elections it sould be less troublesome to
them after selecting our rulers, while the
people would not bave so much ratifying
todo. Tow pleasant it must be when
T | living under the despotism of other gov-
ernments to read of the people of the
0} United States choosing their own rulers.
Well, with all its evils, ours is the better
form of government.
—‘* We have been favored ty the Sec-
retary with a copy of the Proceedings of
the STkteenth Annual Convention of the
Irish Catholic Benevolent Union of the
United States, from which we are ghid
to learn that the Union is ina most. i ‘OS-
We are, furthermore,
Tejoiced to know that it is the aim of the
Union to prom note a general mutual
understanding am Catholic So-
cieties in the United States, regurdless of
nationality, so that members y fr
home, when overtaken by sicknesy, may
be properly provided: for. Such an ar-
rangement already exists between the
Jnion and the German Roman Catholic
entral Verein 3
techni ‘and members of either
organization are received as brethren,
and treated accordingly. I
at advantage to peneticlal soe
w o the Union,
whieh now numbars. about. ive dade’
societies in warns pars of tl
States, from 2 ‘gia, ‘and from
New York to Californias” tke Muria,
ties
—If Limerick persists and other Cities
follow ant tefuse to pay unjust taxes a
und | He w:
bite at one | unle:
travelling ecards are in- | ,
THE FIRST oars OF PHILA-
‘LPHIA
The first cathe we “know to have’
come to Philadelphia was George Nixon,
grandfather of Col, Jolin Nixon, who
red the Deslantion of Independence to”
he people at_ the State House, July 8th.
wie George Nixon pes a native of
County Wexford, and }
Sin nnott,
Vhether he continued to adbere to the
Faith or not is not known, Prosperity
often effects what’ persecution cau not.
tis son Richard was an Episcopaliitn.
was married at Christ Church, served
as a vestrymen of that corporation, and
is buried there. Richard’s son, John,
was an earnest adherent of the American
S
merely where | Cause,
We know of no other Catholic resident
as his will might indicate, because
bequest of £50 to ** Father Smith,
or late of Talbot Co., Md.”
n 1708, Lionel Britton became a con-
vert, and “the church warden and his
son” were also received into the Church,
The evidence as to these conversions has
heretofore been interpreted to mean that
Lionel Britton, the church warden, and
his son, were the two converts. ul
Lionel Britton was a Quaker. They bad
no church wardens. He had noson, but
ag we have heretofore shown he bad two
sons-in-law. The JOURNAL now inter-
prets the evidence to mean that Lionel
Britton was one convert, ‘the church
warden and his son” were two more,
who was meant by “the church
warden” is now, we fear, undiscoverable,
as the records ‘ot “christ Church show
two wardens for 1708, and these the first
appointe
Mr, Devereaux, for many years Treas-
urer of St. Mary's Church, isa descen-
dant of Lionel Britton
now
ee
ooo =" RADI
Buried in the debris of the recent po-
litical contest is the organization of the
“Trish National League of America, ”
the influence of whiclr the men in control
of its machinery endeavored to divert to
the advancement of their own political
schemes, and the election of James G,
Blaine. The League here is dead, beyond
all possibility of resuscitation, while its
government is in the han of the men
elected at the Boston Convention. :
TLe Irish National League of ‘America
is dead.—stabbed to death by the rogues
who sought to profit by the sale of their
leluded countrymen at the polls. .
who made the Land Lea:
here, a vital force in Irish ieazu
affairs, have dropped away and will not
give a minute of their time or a dollar of
their money to the present management
of the National League, because they
have no confidence in them, and becanse
the tive officers installed at the
Boston Convention have violated the car-
created, and have mnade it a mi
in the operation of the American politi-
cal mac! rish-American.
—‘*CANON MoNnaGuan, the Nun of
Kenmare and her secretary, Sister Evan-
gelista, left Nottingham fo
7%
the erection of an orpha
city. Before the stenmer ws well under
way Sister “Evangelista became deathly
sea-sick and she and the Nun of Kenmare
were compelled to give up the yorare
and retura to Nottingham, We
sea-sickness as a cmiative agency, but
wer this no one will doubt its advantage
as a preventive of certain forms of social
aitiction."— Western Uatclonane
Wonder if the Nun will co: ‘0 Phila=
delphi to find out who the Philadelphia
she ‘took their money and then spoke illy
of them,
ee
ie JOURNAL'S last issue asked for
a ouunedion of the receipts of the Irish
National League, Publication has been
Phat shows how the life Tas gone out of-
the League.
a
—The WESTERN WatTcUMAN says the
laity has no representation jw Church
Councils because the faith and discipline
of the Church are not matters of ma-
jority and the Bishops “look up and .
not down for light and guidance.”
The first Synod held by Bishop ‘England,
big ‘ xes”? agitation will result in | of Charleston, had laywen in it. See re-
still more weakening England’s power in pork in *U. S. Catholic Miscellany,”
relan
* ~ ‘ve ® gt -
? - cy
“payer Sa “ee ; = t
r
ieard a great deal said for and egainet .
a