T TIl? PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC.

" GOING TEACH YE ALL NATIONS, • • • AND BEHOLD I AM WITH YOU ALL DAYS, EVEN TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE WORLD."—MAT. XXVIII. 10, 20.

VOL VI. PITTSBUllGE SATUEDAY, MAY 19, 1849. NO. 10

THE PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC throughout this solitary nnd untenanted wilder­ vaiscs terrcs,''^ acted upon as it ever is by rain, of the thick and entangled forests of the Missouri ness; the skilful hand of art has not yet learn­ snow and wind, whose combined inlluonce bottom. Hero our fute appeared sliil more sad, IS raiNTED AND Pt'HMSHKD EVEKY SATUKDAY ed here to Hate the marble column or lay the makes it an ever varying ihealro of slrango and inisforlunc seemed to gain upon us in pro­ IIY arcliilravc—all the beautiful, primeval rocks and interesting phenomena {sui generis.)— portion as wo advanced towards the limits of J. PORTER * CO., arc sliil repo.sing in tiieir virgin quarries, and When seen from a distance, without being ac­ civili/cd life. Wc had hoped to find a boat at iho higli timber has never yet felt the edge of quainted with the peculiar nature of the coun­ St. Joseph';?, bound for St. Louis, but we were Corner of Wood street and Virgin Alley. the a.\e, .^nve when some wayside pine or oak try, you would believe yourself in the vicinity di.sappoinlcd. Tho Highland Mury, the last TERMS—Two Dollars a Year, payable in AHVASCK fell beneath the lravclcr*'s stroke, to feed his of large and populous towns or hamlets; but of steamer in the port, had loft tho day before our nightly firc.= ; yet the desert is not without its an appearance so unusual, and an architecture Three copies will be forworJcil to one address for Five arrival, and thus all chance of a speedy return villages, teeming with all the busy and interest­ so capricious, that you would su|)pose them to {to St. Louis was more than probably lost for Dollars. ing life, which the most fastidious socialist belong to an entirely diflcrcnt world, or to re- i the season. I resolved on making tho best of might wi«h for in P.iris or in I.omlcin. mole and distant ages. Here it is a Gothic j the evil, and determined on following the steam- These arc the villages of the prairie dogM, lowot ronring it« shaggy hftiglit nhovo surroud cr at full spccd, till I should ovcrtako her on SGLECTlOrVS. very numerous and very densely settled—they ing turrets and huge pillars, which seem to her downward trip. This appears but n folly— arc frequently spread over a surface of several have been placed there to prop the sky; yonder but the low slngo of the water and the im-^ miles in length and breadth. U ,is curious to it is a weather beaten fort, with its indented mouse bends and crooks of tho river were in my Prom the Churchnmn. ob.scrvc the ways nnd manners of these inter­ walls, ils gray parapets, which seem to have favor. After a ride of twenty-four hours I found esting villages. They generally choose as a been hewn out by the chisel of time, to wage myself on board. ST. AUGUSTINE'S PRIORY, CANTERBURY. site an immense even plain where the grass is war with the ever hostile elements, and to Until then I had enjoyed very good health; Lont? years have pa.s8cd, but Blill it seems low and scanty—they strip it of every blade bafllc ihc successive assaults of snow and flood night nnd day, for several months, in the free 'i'lmt scarce a month has down, and pluck it up by the roots around their hiding rains, of lightning and thunder. Domes, such bracing air, with a buirulo robo for my bed, I Since 'mid Augustine's ivied walU, places. They arc not however so dead to all as you would picture ihem to yourself, when had not so much as an attack of cold. Rheuma­ At eve, I sat me down; good taste as to treat the flowers with the same thinking of the cathedrals of the good old limes tism wag out of tlic question, though I freely III lcnRtlicn*