Carson Daily Appeal

Our "Crescent" friends are implored not to take a narrow, Know Nothing view of the fact that a Roman Catholic priest served as the chaplain of the St. Louis Convention. In our zeal for the common schools we must neither be intolerant nor exclusive. Especially should our views become broad and catholic in the presence of such a fact as is shadowed forth in the subjoined:

The world is moving at a very rapid rate, and some of the old-fashioned notions of orthodox propriety are being disposed of in such a summary way that we should not be surprised to see the ghosts of our theological forefathers shaking their bony fingers at the innovators. Just think of good old Connecticut putting its broad palm in benediction on a billiard table. Is it possible that the venerable President of Yale College wants half a dozen of Phelan's best for Calliope Hall? Greek roots and a French carom game, the bride and bridegroom of this renowned college! Cicero's orations until sundown and then the music of the rolling ivory. The conjunction of such a duty with such a pleasure is very suggestive. The fact is at last recognized that if boys can't have billiards at home they will have them elsewhere, and it is a wise policy which indulges them in anything that is innocent.

Says one of the ungodly of Manhattan:

The greatest event in the history of theology is to occur in September next—viz:
The attempt to blow up Hell Gate. After that we can all afford to become Universalists. Logic and reasoning have thus far failed to do what may possibly be accomplished by gunpowder or nitro-glycerine. The majority have a personal interest in the success of the scheme and ardently hope that it may not be a failure.