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33 O ,tLuAII. SUNDAY. AUGU1WT to IteT
From Our Own Correspondent.
OUR LRu3K LETTER.
Dua.tN, July 17, 1873.
Last faturday war the 121h of July-the
great Orange feativnl of thle year-the day on
whiehb Ulster annually has been torn by fratrl
cidal strife, 1 am bai,'Y to say that this year
it haa not been narkdtl by the customary tuci
dente-r-qt and bloodabled. This was not
owing to the abseuce of Orange insult ,nd
provocatotit to ng. On tile ofutrary. never
before, perhaps, did seuch pf "the brethen'r
as tourned out at all, do so with greater or more
blustering bravado. There were dentonstra
tions in ten or fifteen places altogether,and at
each Orange and pot ple sashes, arches and
banners were displayed in great loful'ion;
Orange tunes were played the li.elong day,
and the speeches bristled withl dennocatio
of "the idolatries and superstitions of Itume."
But the authorities. aided by the police, kelpt
the prooessions out of the towns; the police
nipped In the bud any disturbance, and, iltove
all, the Catholcs kept perfectly quiet, taking
the advice of their priests and of the lom,,
Rule Assooatlion, and apparently regarding
the whole affair as a piece of tomfoolery. The
result was that there was nodisturbance worth
talking of, and that the mugistrates of Belfast
were able to congratulate themselves and the
town on Monday on the fact that thero sad
never been more perfect quiet than on Liatur
the wlse step of preventing Orange proces
Snloen In the towns of Ulster, and especially in
Belfast, was, however, it appears in despite of
the mayor of that town, and in despite eve,,
of the two resident magistrates who were
appointed to be a check upon the local Dog.
berry. The Ulster bramser, of this day, ieys
that these three persons opposed this ate p
being taken at a meeting of all the magistrates
of the bosough, and that When they were out
voted they resorted to an illegal expedient in,
order to get it altered in the interest of the
Orsagemen. If this charge be well founded,
It is earnestly tobe hoped that the matter will
be immediately brought before Parliament;
and 1 am inclined to think it is, for the follow
ing reason : The present mayor of Belfast is a
Mr. Henderson, the proprietor of the Belfast
Newasfeter--the chief Orange organ in Ireland,
and as such would not dare to be a party will
ingly to any eurtailment of Orange privileges;
and the two resident magistrates have Ire-.
quently shown a distinct anti-Catholic bias.
If the Government really wished to put an
end to party and religious disturbances in Ul
ster, the very last thing it would do would be
to appoint suceh men to the commission of the
pesoa. But it is not desirous to do any such
thing, and consequently it will continue, as
blog as it can, to keep on such men, no matter
what the consequences be to the peace of Ire
land.
Father O'Keeffe has gained a oonmple.e tri
mlph over the National Board and his own
ecclesiastical superiors. He confidently ap
pealed to the antt-Cathollc prejudices and the
dense bigotry of the House of Commons, and
he has not been disappointed. The rumor I
mentioned in my last letter was soon confirmed
by the appearance of ofiiolal documents. At
the augestion of the Government, Loril O'Ha.
ga moered, and such members of the National
Board who wern preset on theooeaeion unani
mnasly approved the adaption of a new rule,
providing for investigation before dismisal.
Hitherto the eaatiicate of his ecolesiastical
superior, that a clergyman was suspended, has
been considered sufficient evidence of his un
Itnssm for the post of manager of a national
school; henceforth snch certificate will be
evidence only of the necessity of inquiring
whether the clergyman is it or not to have
the cause of the education of Catholie chil
dren, and in despite of it, the commissioners
may, after investigation, come to the conclu
loan that the clergyman is fit. In fact, the
great power which the Bishops have possessed
over the management of thematiounal shools
in Ireland, and the possession of which has
been the chief means of reeonolling them to
the national system, has practically been
swept utterly away. The mere statement of
the fact that a suspended priest may hence
forth be manager of a Catholic parochial
school, shows that I do not misinterpret the
adoption of the new rule. But this is not all.
Manifeetly it would be small satistaction to
Father O'Keeffe and his anti-Catholic friends
If the roles of the National Board relating to
managers of schools were changed in the way
they wished, and this rebellions priest were
not to benefit by the change. It is not every
day or every year, thank Lod, that the anti
Catholic bigots of these kingdoms get the op.
portqnity of backing up a degraded Catholic
priest against has ecolesiastical superiors, and
so trying to create or foster sobisnt in the Ca
tholic Ohurch. Accordingly, Mr. Bonverie has
asked Mr. Gladstone whether the now role
will have a retrospective effect, and ITr. Glad
stone haLsanswered in the affirmative. If
Father O'Keeffe applies to be restored to the
managership of the Callan schools, the com
misoners wall inquire whether the educational
interest of the parish would suffer by his
restoration, and ff they come to the concla
aion that they would not, they will restore him
despite the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin or
the Bishop of Oseory. And, of course, if the
oJeityI o' thaoard have the same opinions
eembauljeetas Jdges Merris and Lawson,
the ea an e so doubt at all that they will de
tQld that the educational interests of Callan
will not e LnJored, bat rather furthered, by
the retoration of Father O'KeedF d
I rbear he rsom making any relaetieons
on the trouble which the Board is destined to
brtag oa itself by ito departure from its wise
rule ot lnterfering in eccleiutastlel and
loaal disputes or on the sudden and shame
ful retreat of Leid O'Baga and his colleagues
0a the Board from the position of hostility to
Fathem O'Keef-. retreat undoubtedly due to
a bas love of office and power; or yet on the
treahery of the Government to the Catholic
Bishope-a treachery as distinctly attributable
toa fear of beleg outvoted in the House of
Cemmons; I must conine myself at present,
in aJ further rmarkls on this subject, to con
ldueioe what oarse then Blshops will pursue.
There s no donbt that eertata parties who
have hitherto erceiaed some inEaneeoe over
wsm and are a the same time in the eonl
dae of tho Governmeat and of the National
lBard, will try to penuade them thatafter all
antaig Lu boen changed. But 1 fancy their
oslpe will net be taken in by such palaver
Id y e a a matter of princlple, theory wi
s l Orsat the now rula [That rlleo mly
wrg t injury In tha ease or Father O'KeeffPas
as the ruerly of the Board ame prohbably of
oplaue ss s ey PtIat v'rhiaee with his
blalhp met ldratiher Inur a school than
otheBrwieo if omiollay connectelnwith it. lat
ioa w yera hence tsharem may be a majority
r-a dlstrot wa of thinking; and in any
sea, wheth er it worb ill or awell, is it pro
able that the B habope win tameny submit to
snwesping aboitie of their anthority over
telesslastieal mnages of Catholic sehools?
I shald say, It l not; and.if it is net, why
-t-he ultimate rsult-whethur it be arrived at
Sooaer 05 later-wIll he either the witbdrawal
ofthe rle by the he Board, or the Withdrawal of
the Dahope trom all connectioo with the na
tlioal system, the consequent closing of three
bonrtha of the enttir, number of the present
frimalry eco0oe In Ireland supported by the
Stato, sad the opning of denomioational
_b4ols Jn their stead, supported by the Irish
_-osla. Ao risia, I bhllof'e, has Come at last.
The Daulia police have Just w ona great
-lctory over the (Government. It will no doubt
-onud strasge Id hear that the two have been
at varianee. Few Oovernments have been
more faithfully served biy their police forces
thnt the lnglish Goovenment in Irehld have
e,on by the Metropolitan Pollce of this city.
N~ work was t.oo diety, no danger too hazard
ous for this force. But notwithstandling their
fantbiul service, they have been scandaloouly
paid. Q'hey havrnot been paid nearly as well
as the Londuon police. Well, for years they
have been content with remonstrating, peti
tioning, and taking such mild measures to ob
taio an increase of salary from their masters.
But the remonstrances and the petitions hav
ing been treated with contempt, they at lest
at long last-threatened to strike en masse,
without giving notice, and this has brought
the Government to their knees. So peremp
tory was the tone of the policemen's "round
robin,' that the Government granted their de
saluds without waiting till the time at
which they said they would call at the
Castle for a dual answer. The increase of sa
Iry granted will amount to in round numbers
£20,000, no trifle when it is considerel that
the Finance Minister is the stingy and hate
ful Lowe, and the recipients are Irashtrun. Of
corso, had the government been able to sup
ply the places of the authors of the threatening
letter, they would have let the men go or dis
missed them on the spot or had they felt
themselves in sympathy with the people they
would not have adlowed a petition expressed
as a demand and backed up by a palpable
threat to go unreboked. Bot they were not
able to supply recruita in sufficient numbers,
and, as for their being in sympathy with the
intelligence of the people, they knew very well
that they ruled ixeland by means of the
police.
I aum not sure now whether in my last letter
I alluded to the fact that the Summer Assizes
which are now being held in the various coun
ties of Ireland, disclose an almost total ab
sence of seribus crime in the counetry. In four
widely distant places the calendars have been
perfect blanks, while in most places the num
ber of prisoners for trial does not exceed three
or tour. Everywhere the judges are forced to
addruess the grand juries in terms of wartm con
gratulation. Yet in several counties an extra
force of police is maiutained, the cost of which
is not borno by the Imperial Exchequer as is
that of the ordinary force, but by the people
of the various localities. Thus in the North
Iiding of 'flpperary notone man or womau has
at this assizes been sentenced to even one
hours' imprisonment, yet the people are taxed
to the extent-of--.2500 for the support of an
extra force of police. Many are the ways
truly, England has of pauperising the Irish
people and crushbing their national spirit!
It is to be feared that the government have
got hold of an informer in Cork. It is only a
week or two ago that the police of that place.
recovered, apparently, without the slightest
hesitation or difloulty, the arms taken from
the militia barracks at Bandon. On Tuesday
last they performed a somewhat similar feat.
A steanmer had come from London and was ly
ing beside the quay. A party of police went
on board, and found concealed on the fore part
of the ship four parcels, without any direc
tion, each containing five stand of arms,
broeach loading rifles of the newest pattern,
with suitable bayonets. No person, however,
has been arrested in connection with this
seizure. Now all this could never have been
accomplished by mere chance. An informer
meest have aided the police. Indeed, I may
say that the magistrates have praotioally ad
mitted the fact; for at the investigation held
into the case of the men oharged with com
plicity in the raid on Bandon barracks, they
would not let the representatives of the news
papers be present on the ground that there
were certain witnesses whose evidence if pub
lished would expose those witnesses to danger
pending the asslzes. And if there be an in
former in the matter, it is possible at least
that an extensive osnspiracy has been discov
ered. But we shall soon know, for the trial
of the aoccnsed is to take place next week at
the Cork Asaises, the proceedings of whioh
will not, of course, like those before the mag
istrate, be private.
A movement started some time since in the
South by one or two Englishmen, to procure
an improvement in the condition of the labor
ing class, is meeting with some succoees. Sev
eral very large meetings have already been
held in connection with it in Limerick,
Tipperary and Cork counties; on Sqnday last
a meeting was hold in the north of tie county
Kerry; and findually there is to be a Laborer's
Congress at Kantuck (county Cork) In August,
at which Mr. Butt, M. P., and other members
of Parliament are expected to attend. So far
indeed, the movement has not been aided by
the priests or the other leaders of the people,
the reason being, I believe, that the chief
agents are two members of the English Labor
er's Union, and that this society is suspected
to have something to do with the bloody and
detestable International. But this is alto
gether a mistake, I famey. Some members of
the English Laborer's Union may be members
of the International too-I don't say they
arc; but it is quite certain that the bodies are
essentially different and distinct both in re
spect of the obects at which they aim and of
the means by which they hope to gain their
object. The phateee of Ms Batt and others
of his class at Eaateek in August, will no
doubt serve to disNplfge the delusion, and to
cause the country to raily to the support of a
cause which is really one of the most merito
rious that has ever yet appealed to the gener
ons sympathies of mankind. The agrioultural
laborer of these kingdoms is still, notwith
standing the Increase of wages, one of the
most wretchedly housed, one of the worst fed,
one of the moat miserably clothed creatures
on the face of the earth. It is scarcely neces
sary to add that he is also one of the most
helplcss. J. J. C.
Good humor, which is good natire polished
and consolidated into habit, cousists in the
amiable virtues of the heart, and in suavity
of manners. A person of good humor is pleased
with himself; he is pleased with others; he
cherishes humanity, benevolence, candor; and
these qualities, infused into his dispositions
and eondeot. shed aropod him a chastened
gayety, and he feels complacence in general
bappiness. Mirth is the glaring solar beams
of summer; wit is the gleam between dispart
tng clouds on theautumnal plain; good humor
is-tbe balmy and genial sunshine of spring,
under wrhich we lovotoreolinae. Mild and gen
uine good humor has a pecallar simplicLiy,
frankness and softness of expression; fihon
able politeness pots on its semblance, bug as
is the case with every species ot hypocrisy it
fails by its overacted efforts t eplase. This
amiable quality is consistent; no' latent frown
bends with its smile, no feigned officiousness
contradicts the language of the lips; its ex
preassions are faithful to its sentiments, and it
is pereunial as the source from whence it flows
Good humor is estimnble as a social virtue; it
is equally estimable as a personal quality.
High reputation and superior attainments have
natorall a das-ling splendor, which is only ap
proachable with confidence, when subdued by
the refreshing softness of good humor. Mod
erate abilities with assumed pretensions, Dro
voke censure or excite ridicule ; but adorned
with good humor, they insinuate themselves
into esteem, even more than eminent but anus
tere attainments. The bshow of distinguished
qualitites humbles mediocrity, and generates
the dissatisfaction of jealounsy; the display of
witty and oonfdent assurance silepces mod
esty, and produces a feeling, which has per
haps a tincture of envy; a vein of satire,
whioh elicits occasional Ililarity, arms all with
the precaution of fear. The temper which I
recommend removes jealousy, eivy, fear; it
gives pleasure to over3 one, pllaces everyone at
a ; and whatever produces sueach resoults, we
ir&sposed to esteem and love. Social hanl,
pinens, in its aggregate sum, is cbirtly made I
up of kind attentions and miutce favors; an
arttention or a favor derives much of itse value a
from the manuer in which it is conferred, aud
good humor gives a charm to whatevrre it be
stows. I
l-tEs 1FROM alls.
THE MI lhTT.
RoxM, July 13.-The Ministerial crisis
has at length terminated by the formation
of a Cabinet out of the most discordant ele
ments. It is regarded as a remarkable cir
stance that the Ministry wean to Florence
to meet the king and to be Sworn In. O,
daturday they were all in Rome, and made
tieltr appearance before the Italian Parlia
ment with the Royal decree constituting
them a Cabinet. The session thereupon
closed and members will. take a vacation
until November next, which the leading
politiciass are expected to employ in the
preparation of projeta de loe on matters of
urgent legislation. Never was a Cabinet
formed with greater difficulty than this one
has been. Thie mere fact that Visconti-Ve
nosta should have consented to take clfice
under a chief who had been the mnost active
agent in overthrowing thlWate Ministry in
which the Foreign Secretary had borne so
important a part, might fairly be taken as
an evidence of the great scarcity of consu
lar men in revolutionary Rime. 'the truth
is, however, that possible office holders
were terrified at the number and gravity of
the questions that will have to be faced by
tilenew combination.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Looking abroad it cannot be forgotten
that the King's Government has never yet
rendered to the Powers of Europe any ac
count of that lawless invasion of Rome,
which Visconti Venosta himself, before it
had taken place, declared would be an act
worthy of a Savage Turk, and would be in
valid without the sanction of the great
Powers. It Is a qt.estso that still remains
to be weighed in the balance of Interna
tional law and adjudicated on by the com
petent authority.. And it has now been
still further complicated by the confisca
tion of the Religions Houses; which is an
international matter in two ways:-I. As
it touches the Spiritual Power; there is a
diplomatic circalar of the Italian Govern
meat, declaring all that relates to the Spir
itual Power to be of an lnternational char
acter. 2. As it affects the interests of tile
Catholic -subjects of Foreign Powers ;
whether those Powers be themselves Cath
olio or Protestist matters little, they are
bound td protect the possessions of their
own subjects. Here then are the elements
of serieus difficulty in the future, of ques
tions that may not be without their influ
ence on the peace of Europe.
HOME QUrSTIONS.
And if we look at domestic affairs, ques
dons of no less gravity are seen to loom in
i the future. Minghetti has been forced to
i add the Portfolio of Finance to the bur
r thens-in themselves quite enough for one
man-of the Premiership. It had been re
fused by all others so whom it had been of
- fered. The greatest possible reluctance
was manifested by those who were invited
to take charge of the military and naval
a administrations. These departments may
grow up into terribly important ones
rwhenever there is a menace of foreign
war.
PRUSSIAN INFLUENCE.
1 In Rome the Catholic view of the new
Italian Ministry is that it bas not been con
stituted without concert with Prussian in
fluence. Prussia's ambitious designs are
bringing her nearer and nearer to the
Adriatic; she is, above all things, ambi
- tiousne of maritime power. Once mistress of
the lines of the Gothard and the Brenner
i Alps, and Prussia will have free access to
Italy, and there will be danger for Venice.
INSULT TO TIIE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
The Voce della Yerita of last Sunday, as
serts, on the testimony of "many respect
able persons," that six individuals,
strangers to Rore, the other day insulted
and hissed the French ambassador to the
Holy See as he was passing through the Pi
azza Nicosia in his carriage. The Voce also
says that the denial to the above statement
I which had appeared in all the Liberal pa
pers, was inserted in them in obedience to
orders issued by the Questers.
STINE VATICAN.
By the latest accounts the health of the
Pope is excellent; and his bodily vigor and
spirits unimpaired. The audiences and
receptions given by the Holy Father at the
Vatican have been continued during the
week. On Sunday, July 6, the Pope re-,
ceived the College of the Prelatura and of
the Tribunals, when Mgr. Enea Sbarretti,
sub dean of the Tribunal of the Rota, pre
seated an address. On the same day, there
were several private audiences; one to the
Minister of the State of Ecuador; one to
Prince Borghese, who presented his second
son on his marriage to the daughter of his
brother, Duke Sslviati. On the 8th in
stant, the Holy Father received a deputa
tion from the "Opera deli' Adolescensa
Cattolica," consisting of young girls and
boys belonging to good families in Rome,
and presented by the Signoria Maria Val
enziani Giovenab, the promotress of that
good work. The address was read by a
little girl, and the Holy Father replied,
and distributed presents among the chil.
dren, and blessed them. On the 12th, His
Holiness received a large number of pro
fessors of the fine arts-all of them being
persons of distinguished reputation in their
respective branches.
THE HOLY FATHER ON THIE PLAGUES OF
ITALY.
In hie reply to the address of the College
of the Prelatura and the Tribunals, the
Holy Father said :
"I think you must have observed how, in
our day, God is displaying His Justice in the
plagues with which he is smiting Italy. Eirst,
there is the Revolution, which destroys but
does not build up, and aggravates but does not
alleviate; which enters the mansion to im
poverish, and the cottage to oppress. With
cflrontery it enters the sanctoary, prying eve
rywhere that it may get everything into its
own possesslon. The Tiber began with its in
undations, and then the volcanio fires caused
heavy losses in the South of Italy. And now a
pestilence, fatal to the young, though it has
lasted but a few dab, has already cut off its
numerous victims, chietly as if God wished as
preserve a large number of chil4 en from tlr
moral corrupton of the age: se isalitia mtalrct
atellectsem cerrm. There have been destrue
tive hailatorms in many places, and the Asi
atic cholera has come as a warning to bring
men to penance: utfugiast a face ars. And,
as if these were not IlotoLves enough to turn to
God, behold the Lord lHimself is looking upon
theearth with an angry countenance and- I
facit earn trm,,tre. There 4 no doubt but that I
these chasticemouts are coming down by re -
son of the enormous sius of injustice that are
being committed in the laud by those who
abuse their power. I will not say that the
cholera and the earthquake represeuts the two
aecet ions of Right and Lef, but I will say that
thbse planues descend on the land, and epec- 0
ility on Rome, by reason of the sins of those I
men. They smite indlsarimtissely. and they
'perhaps harden the hearts of some, but they
onght to open the eyes of the oppressed and
turn them towards God."
MORE EA HQUAKSS.
A dispatch from btri, dated the 12th,
states that a strong shoeck of earthquake
was felt on that day about 7 A. M. At Bel
luno, the distress from the effects of the
earthbquake on the 29;h ult., was still, most
severe. King Victor Emmanuel had sent
£100 towards the relief of the sufferers.
The Government had contributed £400.
Nine-tenths of the population were house
less. On the the 4th inst., the subterran
ean noise was still heard ; and at Longs
rone, Tambre, Popte della Aipi, and Fa
dalta, shocks were felt on the 5th of July
at intervals daring the day; producing
great alarm and excitement in those locali
ties. Amongst those who lost their lives
by the earthquake at Belluno was the aged
parish priest of 8c. Pietro dl Feletto, Don
Giacomb de Pizzol, thirty-nine of whose
parishioners were also killed, and twenty
seriously injured.
ANCHE LE CHIESE !
' Under this heading it is stated in an
Italian paper, that the Government of the
20th of September is about to commence
the demolition of a number of thile churches
in Rome, commencing with that of Ste.
Pudenzians. The name of that church wi 1
recall the association of events connected
with the reestablishment of the English
HIIerarchy under the late cardinal Wise
man, whose titular church it was. An an
cient tradition says that it was the church
in which the Apostle St. Peter commenced
his public ministry at Rome. It was origi
nally the house of the Senator Pudens,
- who, with his family, was among the first
Somans who embraced Christianity in
t Rome itself.-Londos Tablet.
SHaorsW BEGINS AT lloMa.-We often
s hear people speak of a heroic action with
a certain surprise at its performance not
altogether complimentary to the perform
er. --lie forgot himself," they say ; "he
surpassed himself ;" he was carried away
, by a noble impulse." This is not true. A
, man does not forget himself in emergency ;
he asserts himself, rather ; that which is
a deepest and strongest in him breaks and
r denly through the exterior of calm con
c ventionalities, and for a moment you
know his real value; you get a measure
ot his capacity. But this capacity. is not
created, as some say, by the emergency.
No man can be carried farther by the de
mands of the moment than his common
aspirations and sober purpose have pre
n pared him to go. A brave man does not
A rise to the occasion, the occasion rises to him.
His bravery was in him before--dormant,
e but alive; nliknowo, perhaps, to himself ;
- for we are not apt to appreciate the slow,
f sure gains of convictions of duty steadily
e followed : of patient ontionenoes in well
d doing, of daily victories over self, until a
i sudden draft upon us shows what they
y have amounted to. We are like water
is springs whose pent up streams rise with
n opportunity to the level of the fountain
head, and no higher. A man selfish at
heart and in ordianry behavior, cannot be
unselfish when unselfishness would be re
warded openly. If he will not be unselfish
when he ought, he cannot be so when he
e would. Is it not a question practical for
e every home ? What sort of characters are
I we, parents and children, forming by
f daily habits of thought and action t Emer
ir gencies are but experimential tests of our
A strength or weakness; and we shall bear
, them, not according to sudden resolve, but
according to the quality of our daily living.
The oak does not encounter more than
i- two or three whirlwinds during its long
life; but it lays up solid strength through
a, years of peace and sunshine, and when its
d hour of trial comes it is ready. The chil
e dren of to-day, protected, cared for now,
1- must soon begin to fight their own battles
o with the world nay, more-must make the
t world in which we live. The future of
America lies in these little hands. They
o are
.'Brought lforth and reared in Sours
Of change. alarm, surprise."
What shall we do to make them suffi
Scient for the times upon which they have
I tallen &
e - -
e A STRANGE Fartx.-A very touching
case of mental allenation in a charming
f young lady is described by a careful ob
server. Not long ago her mother found
her in her room energetically darning
s stockings and soon she appeared in the
a kitchen and assisted that wondering dame
n in making and baking bread and pastry.
I Alarmed by these fearful signs of intellec
s tual disorder, her fond parents immediate
- ly seat for a skillfal physician, who watched
her through the keyhole while she sewed
t buttons on her father's garments and mend
I ed those of her little brother. Much affect
ed, the venerable man remarked that never
during a medical practice of twenty-five
t years had he known any young person to
a manifest such symptoms as these. The
most heartrending phase of all, however,
- was shown the other day, when her kind
s father, with a faint hope of rousing her
- from her sad state, gave her $200 and told
I her to buy a new dress. Alas I 'twas use
less. She instantly observed that shedidn't
need a new dress, and if he would let her
keep twenty-five dollars to pay a poor
widow's rent she'd much rather he would
take the rest of the money for himself.
SFor a few moments that grief stricken old
Sgentleman gazed upon his hapless child,
then hiding his face mattered between his
subs, "Her mind is gone! Her mind is
Sgone I"
HOw THE RHODE ISLAND MILLIONAIRES
WERE MADE.-A correspondent of the
Providence Press gives some interesting
information about factory life in Rhode
Island forty years ago. During Summer
the operators were worked fourteen hours
a day, beginning at 4:30 in the morning,
working until 7:35 or 7:45 In the evening,
with half an hour for breakfast and three
quarters of an hour for dihoer. In the
Winter the hour for closinop at night was
7:30 except on Suturdays, when they quit
work at dark. This was continued for
years, until a young girl employed in one
of the factories died after a brief illness.
Physicans decided that the cause of her
death was overwork. The mill owners
then held a meeting and resolved to short
en the time of labor to twelve and three
quarter hours in Summer. Overseers re
ceived about eight dollars per week. They
were cruei task masters, and beat and
abused the operatives most brat.lly. One
boy was lifted Irum the floor by the ha r
of his head by an overseer, and held until
the hair come out by the roots. In a
manufacturing village, near Providence, a
rope was tied araa d the waist of young
girl, and she wa~ asg from the window
over a stream of water abnut thirty feet
below. She died from fright. The situa
ten of the factory operative has been
ameliorated wishin the past forty years,
but there is no room for improvement.
PLAIN TALK.--One of the greatest,
rmartest and richest of Wall street opera
tors--Mr. Horace F. Clark-died in New
York last week by suieide. We do not
mean that he ended his career by rope, ra
zor or pistol, or by poison, or anythiog of
that kind. He died at his own home, prop
ped up in his own easy chair, aod after an
apparently legitimate sickness of a few
days or a week. But he committed suicide
nevertheless. He made a God of gold, and
for this lhe worked day and night, Sundays
and week days, year in and year out. It
is said that iis working hours were from
nine in the morning until two on the fol
lowing morning. Figuring, planning and
scheming, and scheming, planning and
figuring, adding tens to hundreds, hun
dreds to thousands, thousands to millions.
And so, after the poor man bad worked
like a slave to become rich, and bad gained
a property worth $10,000,000, and had
reached fifty years of age, his tired and
worn frame gives out, and be dies from his
sheer overwork, superinduced by avari
cious greed for gold and greenbacks. If he
had been content with a competence, and
retired ten or fifteen years ago, he might
have been alive and hearty to-day, with a
fair chance of erjoying the blessings of
this life for a score of years to come.-Boe
tow News.
What is the key-note of good breeding t
B. natural.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
CRESCENT MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL 8TATEMENT,
Ending Aplil 30th, 1873.
Total Fire, Marine and River Premiums.... .406.411 -
Net Earued Premiums, lees tore insnranoe and
Return Premiums ................. ....... ri,19 5_
Leso Fire. Marine, River Losses..l .18is.it 4
Taxes Discount in iien of partli
paion, expensee, etc., lees die.
count, interest, eto............ 55.158 40-981,9616 U
Not Profts..............t................ $90.885 04
Total Asset.................................86~0 as n
The Board of Trustees resolved, that after paying the
fourth quarterly tnterest of two and one.hlr per cene.,
making ten per Cent on the capital stock of the Com
pany, that a diudend of TEIRTY-THERIC AND ONE.
THIBR. PER CENT, to be paid in oash on and after
the inth day of JuOe nxt to those partle insuring
wlt the Cmpasy, entitled to recelve the same
The asuredare not obelied to become etookholers
to participate in tho dividend.
The. A. Adams, Saml. B. Newman, Saml. H. Kennedy,
C. T. Buddocke, John Phelpe, A. 0. Oher,
Adam Thomson, P. N. Strong, Henrv Abraham,
Victor Meyer, Jo. Bewling, Simon Hernsheim,
Jo.. B Wolfe, R T. Torlan, John . King
JohnM.5andidge, Edward J. Gay, C. E. blagbaeL
F. Camerdon, J. L: arts, Edward l'Ilabury,
Rimos Foroheimer. B. Poest. David Wallace,
Thoee Henderson, e. B. Sanmmers. j.1 sm
OFFICE OF HIB3BNIA INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW ORLEANS. 37 Camp street.--At en election
held on Monday, the 5th inrst., the following nsamed
gentlemen were chosen Directors of this Company to
serve for the ensuing year:
Pat·rik Irwin. John Henderson,
J,,hn T. Gibbonas,. William Hart
Thee. Markey, BR. . O'Brien,
E.Blrsga, J. A. Gardner,
Edw'd Sweeney. A. H. Iaa son,
Thomas King.
And at a meeting of the Board. held this day. JOHN
HENDE O NtN. Eq.. was unacimonsly elected resi
dent, end P. IR WIN. REeq, Vice President.
The Beard also declared out of the net proflte of the
peat twelve months 10 per cent interesta nlse 10 per
cent dividend on the paid in capital, and 40 per cent
dividend in pr-minma-the said interest and dividends.
nuder the amended charter, to he placed to the credit
of the stock notes.
THO. F. BRAGG, Secretary.
N'ew Orleans. May I 10 I73. nyil '13 if
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
JOe. 9 WOIE.' JOEL WOI.FE.
JOS. B.-WOLFE & CO.,
COTTON FAOTORS,
AsD
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 59 Carondelet Street,
NEW ORLEArA.
Agent, for DANIEL PRATT'S IMPROVED COTTON
GIN and the ZUREKA COTTON GIN.
J90 am
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EDUCATIO\MA PUBILISHERS,
138 and 14t Grand street. New York.
Or TIMO FIIY MORONEY,
OCREIAL AO081 ,
y6 73 ly No. 92 Camp atreet,
Wjri73e i ew Orleans.
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free b ShtoGe t .i Doobte  a e hot
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INSURANCE COMPANIES.
AtLERICAN MOTUAAL INSURANCE
ASBOCIATION OF NEW ORLEANS,
46 Commercil Place,
Between Camp anal S bieaosl
Capita...... .........t............/l,...*
(EXOLUAIVELY BIRE.)
8. E. LOMB, President.
B. MEYER. 8Seetsary.
O. 8. ASCr, Superintendent of Agencies.
8. E. Loeb, M. Pokeray, H. MarquaeS
P. RBobert. F. Beling, . HWaE der,
. Boaeriok, L. Bohereamn, P. e,
P. 8. Anderson, A. . Cutler, . Bafeher,
Wm. Swan. J. Alt. Hugo Redwits,
W. Leonard, C. Toebelmann, Wm. Ebert,
H. Weber, P. Pippo, Wm. Hipper,
M. Aseouan jyp130m
TEUTONIA INSURANCE COMPANY
01
NEW ORLEANS.
Insure Fire, Marine nod River Rinks at Lowest
Ratee.
TEMPORARY OFFICE, NO III GRAVIER STREZIT
NEAR TEE CORNER OP CAMP.
Catal.............................. 1,00.0 000
S cribemd........................... eo,DNO
A. ElMER BADER. Prewident,
Cil ENGSTFELD. Viee Ptemdelut,
GEORGE STaWSZER, Secretary.
sOARD Or 7O5T0 5
N W OLgAn Ns a, u. 8ý1wg a s rC COe .
SPrHank. Z Waseasbaeh, PreahBlodes.
OS at. , eorner e Smp adr, CWn streets.
Tee l apital, eP.l Oeodi. I nk,
AssLN.ete, Ch Eab.t e, Ll ........ ,841
. w. Bie , BBc . eere . RJ Wilid a.
je9'rt3 Iv
NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL INSURANCR COMN
Office, orner 10 Camp andal etreets.
Caprw ital, r 500,000. w
Asets, December 31, 1872..........$756,841 94
MInaure aMaree Mare and River ubls dividing the
rostatementach depof their atep for the rst r of 1873,ed.
ner thre o a eor f It. ea. tere . , th e.Cr
P r wi ll make M rinmee J .bl ln ondon.
rt. W. eINC . Secretary. ell .......
NEW ORLEANS MUTUAL INSURANCE
ASSOCIATION,
Tot ffice, No. 102 Canal Stre....................et,
FTIRT QUARTERLY STATEMNI.
FIRST QUARTER OP 1873.
In eoenfraity with their chartr, tho Saw Orlean
bMntal Insuranoe Aesoeiation publlsh $te folewing
ire Presm.................5.... .e !5
Vrine Premium ................ 911,11 I4O
Rtiveir emime..-............. 14,19 45..%s,31 49
Le unearned Premiume..... ....05. 01
Lee raed Premium.... m 1,088 471-9e37548
Net earned remim.................... s 5
A-dd itreet snd rent..... .................. 96,9 ei
Tote .................................... 41,48 85
Flreloer.......................417,(8 T
Marine leesee..... ............. 0.855 IT
River loes.. ................... 14.,4? 0
ReBerved tor unadjusted loess.e.. mEl O 00
53t Is 08 .
ealnstrance...................... ois ie
Exense, l cenosee and taoee..., nwe.l e5
Reate nf....... ........................ . 9
Profit and ttlo................... .9.8 0 -43. 108 b4
. Net profits............................ $3,317 0
Balance due on stnck notee.................! eeE18 31
SOsh on hand and in Europe............164.109 36
Notes and bills receivable.................... 33,00  e
Stooks and bondthe ......... l ........... 114.337 6
Re AA , te...........rer............ 1,
earned premiums of first quarter of 1873
called In full................................ 375,085 33
Premiums ouan ect to eseeeement in ftllowing
quartere according to the charter......... 6 e
Total aets ...........................1,547,410 46
The above statement e correct trenscipt frotem the
books of the New Orleans Mutual Insrsune Aser1a.
t .en.
C. CAVAROO, President.
, LAAU. Secretary
STrAs O LOunIAXA. t
Parish of Orleans, City of New Orleans.
Sworn to and eubesclbed hefore me, this 7th day of
A 1 . LE GARDEUR, IL, Notary Public.
At. epecial meeting of the Bard of arrotera , he
this day, it was geesived, in eonfeeptt with artist.
seventh of the charter, to cool lImmedately the full
amount of earned premiums of the flrsiquarter ef 1973.
and to pay to stokholder, after ettle t f said p
minm, a quarterly inthreet divided f tw and a blt
per cent en the amount ef opit.l slek paid i.
R CAVAROO, Pseeld et.
0. LANAUX, Secretary.
Dmucroas,
Cbhs. Cavaroc, Arthur Potnoy,
Chas. de Ruyter, J. gle.
Leon Has, Jr:, P. S .wijm,
Z. B. piotes, LeaosQw yronse
W. Aar, ~Leee seeshl,
S. Combos, J. B. Lerert.
tale39 1.
CISTERN ILAKERS.
HsO. M.. S ITH  -T'
VARIETY WOOD WORKS,
CISTILI MAIMUACTORY,
104...St. Joseph Stree...104
raW OtLUatI.
Lumber Deing. BSroll Sawing,
Wood Works.t etceto..
Stair and Gs ii 7 Dean. s.Newel.
Constntl on bant d at prices
to sunit the time..
N. B.-Doele Sesh, Blinds and
Openingla made tU order.
ICR'PD BBODE)ICK,
132...............JliC Street..............139
Between Camp J and a J lne Sew Oren
aeeondbad Cisterns lway n beLd. All rkb
g-aranteed. Loekboz 30, Mechabnis' sad Dealere' z.
bango. mb1i'73 I
P. A. MURRAY
CISTERN MAKER,
191 Magazine Street,
(Between Jnl a and St. Joseph et.,)
All work warranted to give entire
A kind of Cisterns made to order
sad repaired.
Order promptly attended to..
.A lot oftUistern from 100o toS2000
gallono eapatty, made of the best
arterial and workmanship, kept oon" .
esail1 on and., and fer sale at rtes
t. sett ha Lime.. jala R l