On Eisenstein ideals and the cuspidal group of $J_0(N)$

Let ${\mathcal{C}}_N$ be the cuspidal subgroup of the Jacobian $J_0(N)$ for a square-free integer $N>6$. For any Eisenstein maximal ideal $\mathfrak{m}$ of the Hecke ring of level $N$, we show that ${\mathcal{C}}_N[\mathfrak{m}]\mathrm{\ne }0$. To prove this, we calculate the index of an Eisenstein ideal $\mathcal{I}$ contained in $\mathfrak{m}$ by computing the order of a cuspidal divisor annihilated by $\mathcal{I}$.