The Jackson Standard

OUT-SPOKEN POPERY.

The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser translates the following article from its German contemporary, the Buffalo Telegraph. Father Oesterreicher writes in his "Catholic Kirchenzeitung," or Advocate, a long article, from which we make the following extract: "I never undervalues the spiritual power of the church in the United States, wanders in a fearful labyrinth. We have not only seven arch-bishops, thirty-three bishops and seventeen hundred and four priests, all in the service of the Pope and the church, but we have also thirty-one colleges, thirty-seven seminaries, and a hundred and seventeen female academies, founded by the Jesuits. Bringing death to unbelief, and mischief to American Know-Nothingism and un-American Radicalism. And the hierarchical hand which like a golden thread, surrounds lofty one dioceses and two apostolic vicariates, and stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the still waters of the Pacific, and maintains an invisible, secret magnetic connection with Rome-- this hierarchy is to us a sure guarantee that the church, perhaps after severe struggles and sufferings, will one day come off victorious over all the sects (in America). It is computed that there are, at present, more than two millions of Catholic inhabitants in the United States who are baptized and confirmed Catholics of the Lord, and who, at the last summons will assemble in rank and file: then will men not undervalue the power of the Catholic church in the United States. I will scatter sand in no one's eyes, and therefore I stand forth openly, and directly declare that the power and the influence of the Catholic church are stronger than many believe. Whosoever doubts this must be either a fool or" We learn further, from an incidental remark in the same article that the Catholic Church last year, had already eight hundred and twenty-four churches, and at present the number is still larger; that besides Cincinnati, St Louis, New Orleans, Charlestown, Georgetown, and New York, which an article in the Allegemeine Augsburg Zeitung on the same subject, designates as the bulwarks of the Catholic Church in North America, Baltimore, the metropolitan seat, the headquarters of the Fathers of Redemption, where they have their Provincial, is a Catholic Division: that Philadelphia, with its Jesuits, redemptionists, Augustines, and with its distinguished clerical seminary, possesses nine churches and to regard of the ruling clergy; and that Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Milwaukee are each the residence of a bishop, who without noise indeed, but with astonishing results, labors in his widely extended diocese, but who is surrounded by a clergy as distinguished for wisdom as for zeal and self-sacrifice.