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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger. NW OERLSANS, SUNDAY, JANIUARY 18, 1874. Contemperary Itatemen-Earl Russell. [From the London Register I A lady, illustrious and beloved, had given birth to her first-born'son, and with the delight of a young mother was mingled the pride of a princess who has given an heir to a great throne. But the amari aliquid, which lessens all earthly joys, arose the form of an anxious fear for the life of the babe so precious, who had arrived before he was expected, and did not possess all the strength that would have accompanied complete maturity. To relieve these maternal apprehensions, it was suggested, by one who was herself the daughter of a great Whig house, that Lord John Russell had ,been aseven months' child. It is said that the ell'ect of this information upon the Royal mind was less reassuring than had been anticipated. Had the Princess been familiar with the illustrations of our comic press, it might have given her a fatal shock to represent to herself her darling grown-up into the semblance of the queer little uman to whom Her Majesty (in Punch) is expressing her fear that he is "not strong enough for the place;" or of that still more elaborate effort of Pelle grini's pencil, which realises perfectly the traditional idea of the capricious and spiteful creature known in Irish fairy my thology as the Leprachaton. The child for whom those fears were entertained has grown up, thank God, into a fair and shapely boy, quite the antithesis of Lord Russell in personal appearance, and, let us hope, in moral characteristics also. Some apology is due to our public for presenting Lord Russell to them as a "contemporary statesman." His time might fairly be considered as past. If we could not say to him, "Rest and be thank ful," we should say at least, " Rest and be 'sotrowful," if we thought that such a cal vinized conscience could be moved to con trition. "Time was that, when the brain was out, the man would die. The malig nant genius who presided at Lord Russell's untimely birth may be supposed to rejoice in his prolonged existence. But if we are compelled, while he is not only alive but kicking, to treat him as a contemporary, there is no obligation, we must admit, to consider him as a statesman. He would be a good subject for one of those propositiens which are used in logic as examples of rea soning. "John is small." That is evident. "John is a statesman." That would be denied, simplicitcr, though granted, per haps, secundumn quid. " John is a small statesman," would be universally conceded, if not as a good conclusion, at least as an indisputable fact, whether smallness were predicated of the stature or the statesman ship. One is greatly puzzled to conjecture what John Russell would have been fit for, ifaccident had not made him the child of one of those great families to whom the govern ment of this empire used to fall as a part pf their inheritance. Having produced, in the vigor and freshness of his intellect, an unread tragedy and an unreadable novel, he might have aspired without presumption to the post of Warren'i poet. His physical conformation indicates an adaptability to the calling of a tailor. If he had actually followed that occupation, it would natur ally be expected that he should know how to make a coat. Applying such a practical test to the question of his statesmanship, we have never heard of anything except the old Reform Act which could be cited as a proof of his capacity. In that, however, such as it was, he had numerous and able assistants. Mr. Gladstone is prone, in that fervor which is not unusual with him, to exaggerate the merits of those whom he makes the subject of his eulogy; as when, the other day, he spoke of the late Bishop of Winchester in terms that would have suited St. Augustine. In the same way, he once said of Lord Russell, that if he had received a decoration for every one of his public services, his breast would be covered with stars. We think there is one too many there already. Whether Mr. Glad stone would add to the public services of Lord Russell the efforts he has been assidu ously making to give all the annoyance in his power to the present Government, we do not undertake to say; but those efforts are much on a par, both in motive and re Ault with all the other "services" he has rendered the public. Tom MMore once wrote enthusiastically of this " fruit of the old Russell tree." The innumerable persons whose teeth it has set on edge know too well that it is a verysour crab. With the one exception we have named,every step of his administrative career has been marked by disappointment or disgrace-the Irish famine, for which his bungling remedies were as " pills to care the earthquake;" the epistolary rashness of 1850, followed by the legislative abortion of 1851 ; the treachery of his colleagues in he Aberdeen Ministry; the Vienna episode, for which be was " round-robined :' out of eflice; the " meddling and muddling " of his later years. Recalling the severe but happy characterisation of Sydney Smith, it may be said that all his edifices have col lapsed in ruin, all his fleets have been sunk by the enemy, all his patients have died under the knife, and yet the vain and fond old man, with the same foolhardiness unabashed by failure which has been his moat conspicuous quality, still speaks and acts as if all his works were perfect, and as if glory, and not ridicule, had been their unfailing concomitant. The great concep tions of great statesmen, which he some times appropriated, were always mutilated in his hands. The Irish Encumbered Es tates Acte, as it left the Whig tinkers, was a very inferior measure to that shadow ed forth by Sir Robert Peel. The repeal of the Corn Laws would have been indeaf nitely delayed by Lord Russell, who had a nostrum of his own in the shape of a six or seven-shilling fixed duty. It is something to be thankfel for, even to Mr. Disraeli, that he was generous and patriotic enough to advise the Queen to call in Mr. Glad atone, when be quitted ofice himself. Heaven only knews what monstrous con eeptions would have been presented by Lord Russell, if he had got the chance (which he will never forgive Mr. Gladstone for not throwing in his way) of submitting his own stunted ideas to Parliament for the settlement of the Church and Land ques tions in Ireland. Why, after all, should we Catholics care if it pleases Lord Russell to hold a meeting to expiess his sympathy with Prince Bis marck and hlte Imperial master T It is na tural that the House of Bedford should have feelings in common with the House of Brandenburg, for both have grown great by taking what did not belong to them. But it may be said that he is stirring up a feeling of bigotry, and that it is not upon Germany that he wishes his agitation to tell so much as upon England. We can well believe that such is his benevolent design. But the people of England, gullible enough as they are, are not easily led to trust a second time in one whom they have once tested and found wanting. They will remember the wonderful wild goose chase they were led by Lord Russell three-and-twenty years ago, when, at the end of a rapid and a rabid run, the pur suers looked at one another and saw who the geese were. The pantomimes of the coming season must be dull indeed if the public will not find stronger attractions in the performances of the stage bharlequins than in those of their political competitor. If we could only see him supported on either side by those pillars of the Pro testant interest, Messrs Whalley and Lundgren, the logic (and the irony) of the situation would be perfect. But the puny weapons of his anile spite will fall harmless on the shield of truth. The Great Bengal Fanine. The first tidings of the great Indian fa mine were startling indeed; but the re suit proves there was no exaggeration. That the fair breast of nature,. renowned for its verdure and plenty as the garden of the "gorgeous East," should have become a barren and thirsty soil is almost incom prehensible. The Bengal Presidency-the wide scene of the present desolation-con tains twelve subdivisions ; and, taken as a whole, is a region of the richest alluvial soil, intersected by a network of noble rivers, invigorated by almost torrential rains and bathed in the intensest sunshine. It skirts the cool southern slopes of the Himalayan Mountain chain, where are con densed the steaming stores of vapor brought by the southwest monsoon from the Indian Ocean; and thus it is the land of fountains-the water reservoirs which keep ever fall the.proud courses of the Indus, the Brahmapootra and the Ganges The solitary exception is found in the Northwest Provinces-one of the twelve Bengal subdivisions. This distriot of the Northwest Provinces extends -along the middle and upper Gangetic valley, includ ing the country between it and its affluen( -the Jumna-and embraces also the de pendencies of Benares, Allahabad, Agra and Delhi. Through this entire region the soll is more arid than in the other sections ; and owing to the vertical depth or depression of their channels, the two rivers are of little avail for irrigation. Any seasonal deficiency of rains is there fore severely felt in the densely populated country ; so much so, that the old Mogul Emperors had canals for artificial Irriga tion constructed on a large scale. These have long since fallen into disuse and ruin, and the modern governors have never had the sagacity to repair them nor to build new and larger conduits. But while the Northwest Provinces in the dry months are nearly every year arid and grasslesa the rest of Bengal is green as the Emerald Isle, aqd the great wonder now Is that the whole district of that name is involved in the great calamity. The latest returns from this famine plagued territory show a rapid increase of distress, and following rapidly on its heels an increase of crime. It is contended that good winter rains may yet save the Ben ares district, so famous in Anglo-Indian history. It is, however, startling to reflect that a population of 28,000,000 is now en tered on the worst famine tract, and of this vast multitude the larger portion must be fed gratuitously after February. The London Times estimates that in two of the minor dependencies alone thirty thousand tons of food grains will be want ed every month to keep alive the ten per cent or 2,225,000 inhabitants now starving, and this allows only one pound of grain daily to each person, or half the average consumption. The redaction of wages, the proportionate rise in the price of hoard ed food and the terror of the great visit ation made the poor in the Rsjpootana district fly from their homes in droves, not knowing whither they went and lining the highways with their skeleton corpses. Such dreadful scenes, in the heart of a vast and opulent country tributary to the British Crown, put to shame the boasted glory of such a political dependency, and are a terrible satire on the so-called civili zation of the century. The trigonometrical survey of the entire Bengal Presidency was commenced under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington, and has made the British government familiar with every square mile of it, its soil and all the resources of its people. The k'ies may well say, therefore, "Per haps we shall startle our readers when we say that both the Indian government and British people are treading new ground with respect to Indian famines," for noth ing could be further from fact. The oc eurance of years of drought in the North west Provinces is proverbial, and the only expedient within the power of man to pre vent these-the construction of irrigating canals and reservoirs-has been overlooked through the cupidity or shortsightedness of the Indian government. It is not im probable, also, that the deforesting of the district by the natural expansion of popu lation has influenced the olimate and re duced the amount of rainfall. But, whatever may be the causes, the evil is of such magnitude and horror that it should at once be met without regard to pecuniary expense. The English people, who derive a gross revenue of nearly two million pounds sterling from the famine districts, and whosa coffers are running over with surplus wealth, owe it to them selves and humanity to prevent such an appalling catastrophe as now threatens a population nearly as great as that of the United States. Let us see what the so called Christian civilisation of the age will do.-New York Herald Jan. 1. A Costly Car-Loed. One of the most valuable consignments that ever passed "across the continent" ar rived in Chicago yesterday afternoon, through the American Express Company, ,ia the Central Pacific and Chicago, Bur lington and Quincy railroads. The public will be startled to learn that one freight car contained goods ("time goods" they were marked) whose value exceeded #2, 000,000. The enormous cost would be in itself a circamstance worthy of note, but the peculiar character of the goods gives to the affair additional interest. The con signment was nothing more nor less than a car-load of silk worms' eggs, en route for France. They were purchased in Yoko hama by the French Government, and ar rived in San Francisco December 15th. Only three days were lost in transfering them to the freight-ear, and December 18th the precious packages commenced their trans-continental journey. The train was due at Chicago at a quarter of thre# yes terday afternoon, and a reporter of The Tribune was enabled to obtain a glimpse of the cargo. In this country very few are familiar with the silk-worm and can have no idea of the appearance of the eggs. In England, where the climate is less subject to ex tremes of temperature, the silk-worm is as common a pet as a canary bird. Boys and girls all boast a bor of thriving silk-worms, and take as much pride in winding off the golden thread from the cocoon as the youth of this country in the possession of marbles and such toys. The silk-worm's egg is about one-quarter the size of a pti's heat, and the reader may gain an idea of the num ber of eggs now on their .way to Paris when he learns that on this car thern are nine and a half tons of eggs. Mr. Whit ney, of the American Express, met tie car at Omaha and accompanied it to Chicago. He will not leave it until its arrival in New York, when its contents will be trans ferred to a steamer and landed at Liver pool, to be thence forwarded to Paris. It is consigned to Messrs Stoppel & Ferrari, who have followed the precious goods from Japan, and will not feel comfortable until the Government of France has given them a receipt in fall. Two other Frenchmen are with them, and one Jap., from not one of whom could the reporter elicit a word of infromation. The Jap. refused to speak a word of English, and the Frenchmen made only an occasional remark in a nixed and scarcely intelligent dialect. The eggs are packed in leaves, layer upon layer, and placed in air-tight tin boxes, which are in turn covered with matting. The car is kept at a temperature below the freezing point and no light is admitted. "The matting-covered boxes are piled on either side. There is nothing to be seen there but matting, and the appearance of the boxes is certainly not indicative of the value of their contents. This is the first attempt yet made to import silk worms via the United States, and if human fore sight avails anything there is every reason to look for success. The car was switched on to the Michigan Central track and start ed for New York by the quarter-past five train. The public will look forward with interest to the announcement of the safe arrival of the precious insects in France. Chicago Tribune Dee. 25th, 1873. The Western Fur Trade. Probably there is no business carried on in this country of the details of which so little is known by people generally as the fur and robe trade among the Sionux Indians of Montana and Dakota. The following facts in relation to the trade have been obtained from the old hunters and trappers who have spent the greater por tion of their lives in the country adjacent to the Upper Missouri. The season in which fure and peltries are secured extends from October to February. After that time the shedding of the coat commences, the hair fades, and the skin be comes worthless. The animals most sought after are otter, buffalo, wolf, elk, bear, fox, deer, and coon. Minx is some times taken by the white trappers ; but it is considered too small game by the In dian. The buffalo are killed mostly with the bow and arrow, as this method is not only less expensive than killing with fire arms, but the arrows can be recovered, and used again. A large herd is surrounded, sometimes scattered over an area compris in* several miles in extent, and gradually driven in together. And here is exhibited a piece of strategy thoroughly Indian. The stragglers on the outskirts of the herd are shot in the liver, and will bleed to death in going a few miles. The hunters continue driving them in, and, the carcasses at the close of the slaughter are consequently not scattered over as great an extent of ground as they would be if shot instantly dead. When the circle is well closed in the hun ters begin shooting at the heart. The ponies are all trained, and will not enter the herd, but keep the dutside, although the hunter does not draw a rein after reaching the killing ground. Wolves are secured by poison in the following manner: A quarter of buffalo is either dragged or taken in a wagon to the locality where the wolves most do congregate. At a distance of about forty rods apart stakes are stuck in the ground; on the top of each a piece of meat is impaled, having previously been poisoned with strychnine. The wolves strike the trail and follow it up, taking the pieces as they go. Next morning the hun ters go along the line and skin the dead animals. They stretch the skins over stakes, with the inside up, and let them dry. No salt or anything else is put on them. Sometimes seventy or eighty wolves are killed with a single quarter of meat. One-eighth of an ounce of strych nine is sufficient to kill five wolves. The otter and beaver are trapped, vari ous kinds of drugs being used for bait. A few silver gray foxes have been captured, but they are very scarce. The skins of these animals are very valuable, bringing from $50 to $75 each. When taken they are invariably sent to Europe, where they are used only by the wealthieet people. The Indians nuse the brains of the animal to tan the skin with. After stretching it over stakes or frames, as above stated, they rub on the brains, mixed with juices obtained from certain roots and plants. The skins are then scraped with hoes, or other instruments of that nature. The brains are said to draw out the grease. After drylag, the hides are painted and ornamented. The paint used in the very finest quality of Chinese vermillion and chrome yellow and green. There is a popalar idea that some of the bouffalo robes which we find in market are tanned by white men after being brought into the States, but such is not the case. Many whites have attempted it, but failed, and the Indians seem to be the only people who are possessel of the knowledge which ena bles them to impart a softness and pleasant sufface to the buffalo robe which is not found on any other skin. As soon as the hunting season is over the Indians put the hides and furs on poles, which are dragged by ponies, sometimes 300 miles, to the nearest trading post. The whole band generally comes in with them. At the trading posts are opposition run aers, acting in behalf, respectively, of the two great companies of that country. These runners keep on the watch, and as soon as a band comes in sight they mount fleet ponies, and start off to secure the customers for the goods to be traded by their emlployers for the results of the season's hunt. Those with whom the Indians decide to trade are compelled by custom to give the band a great feast, which usually lasts a day and night. Then the business of exchange commences. The articles most in demand by the red men are coffee ano8Iagr,tof which they are passionately fond. In 14ry goods they want blankets, cloth, prints, the most gaudy and variegated. A few of them buy saddles and bridles. An ornament called an Iro quois shell, which is picked up on the sea shore somewhere in Europe, is in great demand. An Indian has been known to receive three-fourths of his trade in these shells. The Indians know the boats which are loaded with goods to be disposed of to them by the tops of the smoke-stacks being painted red. They call them "big canoes," and as soon as they get into tha Indian country the news is carried ahead by run ners, so that by the time the boat arrives at its destination the news is widespread. However much they may chance to be exasperated against the whites from any cause which may have temporarily aroused their hostility, they never molest these boats.-[Correspondence of the N. Y. Times. BosToN ScHOOLs INFERIOR TO THOSE OF AusTmI.--Boston has been proud of noth ing so much as of her schools and school system, and that justly, as compared with the schools of this country; but her honest pride has been taken down a little by the report of Mr. Philbrick, our suprintendent of schools, lately returned from a European tour of observation. He spent four months in Vienna, and visited also the schools of Dresden, Munich, Prague, Berlin, Brussels, etc. On the whole he regards the Austrian system of education as most advanced, and worthy of imitation. Her schools are graded from the lowest primary up to Mid dle, Real, Gymnasia, Polytechnic, and the University. So high is the standard, that one cannot become a teacher without at tainments seldom thought necessary for a college professor in this country. But the severe task of fitting for such a position, Mr. Philbrick says, is made an object by the Government, which pays liberally, and in case of death the family is guaranteed a pension equal to the salary, and at the end of thirty years the teacher may retire with a pension equal to his salary. Educational buildings are on the same high scale, one of high grade built five years ago, costing $500,000, and another of subordinate grade $300,000. So it has come to passthat Austria but a few years ago buried deeper under papal superstition and ignorance than any other European country, now leads them all, and perhaps America too, is educa tional enlightenment and progress. The most perfect model of a school-house Mr. Philbrick found in Sweden, though its fur niture was not equal to that of Boston manufacture.-.N. Y. Evangelist. 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Chn'tf n. rank oder, Louis ScehnoeIder, W B Schmnidt, Sease IsomSoherok, Leas Schwarte, J M warts. J Wilderman. X WssanbsOh, jeel73 Tt NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL INSURANCE oOw. PANY. OffLe, corner of Camp and Cand streets. Capital, $500,000. Assets, December 31, 1872.........$755,841 24 Insures Fire. Marine and river Risks. dividing the profits on each department separately to the insured. Por the accommodation of its onstomere, the Com pony will make uMaine Loeees pawable an London. J. W. BINCKS, Secretary. U fll 73 ly NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL INSURANCE ASO0CIATION, Office, No. 102 Canal Street, REPORT OF COMMITTEE. We, the nadersigned members of the committee appointed by the Board to examine the assets e the New Orleans Mutual Insurance Assoolation, and to valne the same for the purpose of reducing its capital, do hereby solemnly a~ rm that we have caretlly and consolentiously examined said assets, each item separ. ately, as detailed in the statement now opened Sox examination of stockholders, in the Association's emee, and that we have valued them, to the best of our know. ledge and judgment, at their respective actual value, and thabwe have arrived at the following result, to wit: Value on Booeks. Reduction. Cash on hand and In bank.... =134,927 30 Cash in hands of agent....... 8.99 85 ...... Notes and bills receivable..... 87,3601 i08 $0,518 19 Stocks and bonds ........... 123,117 I6 31,67-5 O Real estate................. 192,801 34 13,801 34 Balacce de by Insurance cor. pantie On loss ship John Parker... 19,30 00 ...... Premiums in oarse of collec tion.............. 936,188 95 99,876 00 Premiums collectable in fol lowing quarters......... 183,994 68 ...... Total assets..... 0 6t....... l,920 30 Total reduction.......... 131,870 53 Due in Europe .............. 8553,84 35 Notes and hills payable....... 1,490 40 Unpaid interest dividend .... 8,e50 00 Unpaid profits on unoollected premiums nof previous quaar. altion ................ 7,82816 Ship John Parker, received on account of mrvage.......... 2797 55 1 r. W. Jecoy................. 1,30 65 E. . Perry........ .......... 1 U1 Unadjusted losee............. 4.,000 00 Unexpired risks ..... 79 911 10- 91,10 85 Total of assets o Toks..... 1,7l6,540 36 Lees reduction above......... 131,070 53--1,69O,69 83 Deduct liabilities ............. 951,210 85 Net surplus of assets..... 8708,458 98 The actual net value of assets being, as abovre stated, $T08,458 98, we earnestly recommend that the Board take the proper steps to have the capital of the company reduced in accordance at $78 per share, to wit: Actual capltal, 90352 hares, at 0O00........... 905,900 00 Prposed reductlon, 22 per share............ 199,144 00 Reduced capital. 9052 shares at 878.......$706,06 00 -reserving the original asseta, thus reduced, as the exclusive property of stockholders. We furthermore certify that the foregoing listsor assets and ibahilities agree with the books of the Asso elation. New Orleans. October 18. 1873. LEON HAAS, Ji., JOHN ROCCHI, LEON QUEYEOUZE. A true copy : 1ai6 73 ly G. LANAUX. Secretary. OFFICE OF HIBERNIA INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ORLEANS,. 37 Camp street.-At an election held on Monday, the 5th inst., the following named gentlemen were chosen Directors of this Company to serve for the ensuing year , Patriok Irwin. John Henderson, John T. Gibbons, William Hart. Thos. Markey, R.L 1. O'Brien, E..B. Brlgga, J.A. Gardner, Slrnech, J.O. Ryan, Edw'd Sweeney. A. H. Issaeon. Thomas King. And ct mesting of the Board, h~eld this day JTOH HENDERSON. EJs wa, unanlmouly electeci Preai dent, and P. IRW b, ERf., Vics President. The Board al.o deolared out of the net profits of the pasttwrelve months 10 par cont interest; raio 10 per cent dividend on the paie m anJ, 4ad per 055.5 dividend in poemima-the sid intereet and dividends, udet the amended charter, to be placed to the aedit of &e stecL notes. THOS. F. BRAGGO Secretary. New Orleans May 10. t873. mw1873 1, U DERTAKERS-BUILDERS.-PAINTERS. C. DILLON, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, 911 Carondelet street, Boxz 16 Mechanics' Eehaoge New Orleams. Jobbing promptly attended to. oell 73 ly J LINCOLN REMOVES ALL KINDS OF BUILDINGS, Officae, IlI Robin street. All oomnmunlottons shouald be addresed to Box 10g, Mechanlo.' and Traders' Exebsage, eora.r St. Charle and Oravier streets. Now Orleans. Country orders promptly asnded t6 fea0373 ly F RNCIS JOHNSON UNDERTAKER, 205 and 07 Magaslue street, New Orleans. Metallic Case. and Caskete of all inds. Besewood, Mahogany and Plain Coins. - Bodies embalmed, die. interred and carefslly shipped. Orders by telegraph or letter promptt attended to. Prises always reasonable. Pinted directio sent with each cuas. W t19 73-dy