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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
rw ORLEANS, SUNDAT. FEBRUABY I. 1874.
LrITEU FROM ROME.
THE POPE.
ROME, Jan. 3.-His Holiness, on the
morning of New Year's Day, celebrated
Mass in his private chapel, and adminis
tered Holy Communion to thirty gentle
men, members of the Circolo di St. Pietro.
Upon St. John's Day, the name-day of the
Holy Father, the ex-officers of the Pontifical
troops, to the number of over 300, assem
bled In the hall of the Conaistory, and
presented an address to Pius IX., in which
they offered him their hearty good wishes
for a prolongation of his life and for the
triumph of the Church over her foes. They
hoped His Holiness would see tile time
when " the Church, unfettered, would ex
ercise her beneficent action; when strength
would be employed not to crush but to aid
and vindicate the right; when true liberty
would take the place of licentiousness and
revolutionary tyranny; when the arts and
sciences would flourish, justice be impar
tially administered, and when the public
money would be honestly evpendod." The
Pope, in his reply, com arpd the Christiane
" ' ...--- in the dosert,
of to-day witn u L. ..
punished for impiatience and want of faith.
" They had the cloud for their guide by
day, and at night the pillar of fire. We,"
said His Holiness, '' have the Infallible
Church as our secure and sufficient guide."
General Kanzler read the address of his
former comrades in arms, and, after the
Popes reply, members of the deputation
were invited to accompany His Holiness in
his walk through the galleries. Many ex
Zonaves from foreign countries came to
Rome expressly for this occasion.
THE IRISH AUGUSTINIANS.
A list has appeared of thirty-two sup
pressed convents which it is intended
to place at the dispolsition of the Roman
Municipality for use as schools, publio
offices, etc., etc. In this list appears the
Convent of St. Maria in Pusterula, Arco di
Parma, which is the property of the Irish
Auguatinians. The Prior, Father O'Keeffe,
has made application to Sir A. Paget, in
order to obtain an explanation of this
threatened expropriation. The convent
was entered in the list of suppressed
Houses appended to the Suppression Bill,
but it was understood that the foreign chyr
aeter of this institution was recognized by
the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. It
is really a College for the education of
Irish priests of the order of St. Augustine.
After all the assurances given by the British
and Italian offices, it is disheartening to
fAnd that in point of fact all the British
Catholic Institutes in Rome are still liable
to confisecation. Yet the promises were
plain, namely, that some of the Convents
or Colleges were unaffected by the Act,
and that some were only subject to conver
sion. How then comes it to pass that the
lands of the Irish College, which were not
even named in the schedules to the Bill,
were set up for auction, while the Irish
Augustinian House, which it was supposed
had two years given it for conversion, is
named for seizure or expropriation I It
reflects little credit upon British diplomacy
to find that no effective settlement of the
various cases has been obtained, and that
Sir A. Paget seems now as much in the
dark upon the matter as he was a year ago.
It is fully time for the Italian Ministers to
declare their intentions, and decide de
finitely what they mean to do respecting
the Foreign Institutes. Itis utterly unfair
for them to attack theso Colleges in detail
and harass them one by one, to-day with
an auction bill, to-morrow with an expro
priation list.
PUBLIC PRAYERS FORT iiEDUCIIESS D'AOSTA.
The wife of ex-King Amadeo is in a
precarions state of health. A triduo was
held in the Church of the Sacramentine in
Torin on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of D)e
cember, to offer up prayers for her re
covery. Her amiability and benevolence
have endeared her to all classes in Turio.
ARRIIEST OF TWO NUNS.
Two French Franciscan None, Sisters
Joanna Maria Sobome and Maria Madds
lena Mblichon, were lately arrested by a
police agent, aided by two carbineers,
while they were praying at the Sanctuary
of Oropa, near Biells, in Piedmont. The
ladies came into Italy to collect funds for
maintenance of an orphanage at St. Sortie
per Mornaut-Rhone, near Lyons, wherel 150
orphan girls from Alsace and Lorraine are
educated. The Nuns had passports duly
signed, and commendatory letters from the
Prefect of Lyone, the French Consul at
Turin, and the Ecclesiastical Authorities at
Aoata, Ivres, Turin, and Biella. In spite
of their papers, the two ladies were
minutely examined at the Sanctuary and
asked who were the personswho gave them
charity, the amount of what they had col
lected, and ,were was the lLoney. They
were then brought to Biella, and forced to
undergo another long examination by the
Questor, who took from them all their
papers and told them to return for them on
the morning of the next day. When they
called for them, as desired by the Questor,
they were again subjected to another cross
questioning which lasted two hours. Their
answers were taken down by a Secretary
and they were not set free notil they signed
a report drawn up in Italian of the pro
coeedings.
POISONING AT TIlE ALTAR.
A horrible crime was attempted on the
Sand of December at Treviglio, near
Bergamo. Four priests and two friars, a
few minutes after celebrating Mass, were
seised with spasms and violent pains In the
stomhob, vomiting, and other symptoms of
poisoning. Medical assistance was at hand,
and theirives were saved. Examinations
were set on foot, which resulted In discov
ering traces of tartar emetic in the sacred
vessels, and in the arrest of one Baronio, a
priest of Traviglio, who had been remarked
the evening before busy about the wine
bottles used for church purposes. He also
had celebrated Mass, but swallowed little
of the wine, aud he was the only priest that (
escaped illness. Search was made in the (
house, and the remainder of the tartar i
emetic was found there, which he in vain
tried to throw away. Baronlo is an unfor- I
tenate priest whose conduct has long been 1
a disgrace. lb was much in the company
of the Protestant Evangelizers and the
Revolutionists, who encouraged him- in
blasphemy and folly. lie has now been
arrested, and will be tried for his wanton I
attempt at assssination.-London Tablet.
The best Pittsburg coal, screened .g2aidj
for family use, ens be had at No. sodi St. Charle street. C
eppodle Tivoll Circle, for elghty ceota per barrel.
Those who wish to procure a *upply, will do well to
take advantage of this timely offer.
NCIL.LAxNOUU rouiew NIws.
[To January 10th.]
STHE EVANGELICAL ELECTIONS IN PRUSSIA.
The church elections of the Evangelical
Establishment in Prussia have beTn going
strongly against the "orthodox" party, and
abelief in the Divinity of Our Lord seems
in the majority of places to be an absolute
disqualification for office or deputation to
the Synod. The Rvangeliehe-Kirhlieihe
Anzeiger, the organ of the defeated party,
is particularly and justly scandalised at
the way in which the Liberal forces have
been brought into action. In one parish
the "Fortachbrittelente" have been divided
into sections alphabetically, and each pro
vided with a leader, who was to be present
throughout the church service on the day
of election, so as to spare his followers the
necessity of even one morning's attendance
at churbch, and permit them to spend the
time comfortably at breakfast in a neigh
boring "Bier-halle." When the authorities
in taking the votes were about to arrive at
the letter which belonged to him, the lead
er started for his beer shop, and brought
in his men, who were thus enabled to carry
their Liberal ofilcials and representatives
without the trouble or contamination in
volved in attendance at any kind of' wor
ahik. I"Thu thig." says the German Pro.
teatant paper, -would be '.ahable if
there were not so terribly serious a side to
it."
THE PERSECUTION IN CANTON GENEVA.
In the Canton of Geneva the authorities
Shave been taking violent and forcible poe
session of the churches and presbyteries at
Carouge an4 Laney, the church at Chene
having been already seized by the Loyson
faction in anticipation of the decree; and
the Vicar-Apostolic has iassued a pastoral
denouncing the censures of the Church
upon the intruders, while a Brief from the
Pope has been published, which expresses
his Holiness's admiration at the constancy
of Mgr. Mermillod and his clergy* The
lawfuolArchpriest of Caronge, the Abbe
Chalt, has also sent in a well-written pro
test, in which the treaty under which
Geneva acquired Caronge, with the other
Catholic paribshes, and the Constitution of
1847 are appealed to.
THE CONSISTORT.
I At the Consistory which was to be held
on Thursday, the final ceremonies con
- nected with the creation of the new Car
p dinals were to be completed; namely, the
t aperilio orins by which the right of delibera
f tion in Consistory is conferred, the delivery
. of the hat and the allocation to each new
h Cardinal of his church or "title," in the
o case of those who are present at Rome.
I The report that twelve more Cardinals are
e to be created in the same Consistory is an
e obvious mistake, but some Bishops were to
s be recognized on that occasion.
THE "COUP D'ETAT" IN SPAIN.
SOur prognostic of last week-that an
t attempt might be made in the direction of
a Monarchical Republic, with Serrano at
Sits head, has been verified, and this is the
I history of the affair. The difierences be
Stween Salmeron and Castelar, the negotia
t tions for the settlement of which failed
flast week, turned to a great extent on the
e attitude assumed by the latter towards
t the Church. Senor Salmeron is for an ab
B solute breach with the clergy and a die
tinctly anti-religious and oppressive policy.
, Senor Castelar, on the contrary; desiring
Sat least to appear conciliatory, has nom
l oated hMgr. Barrio, the new Cardinal, for
Sthe primatial See of Toledo, and other pre
[ lates for two other Sees in decrees which
Sin their form follow as closely as possible
the ancient precedents. Moreover, on
learning that Mgr. Barrio was sent for to
Rome to be created a Cardinal, he ordered
the Embassy to be placed at his disposal,
t and it was there that His Eminence receiv
e ed the "zucchetto." lie refused to change
h his policy in this respect, and the rupture
with Senor Salmeron was complete and
- definitive. The Cortes met on Friday,
3 and Senor Castelar appealed to it to en
dorse the action of the Government
throughout the recess, on the ground that
I in the exceptional state of the country only
Sexceptional measures could be adopted,
Sand that the only possible policy was a
war policy. "Mnch," he observed, "has
Sbeen said against the maintenance of our
3 army, but the older one grows thq more
clearly one sees the absolnte necessity for
an army." The army had therefore been
) consolidated, and discipline restored.
S "Daily riots no longer occur. The muni
r cipalities no longer claim these local dicta
Storships which reminded us of the worst
t days of the middle ages. Order and auth
t ority now rest upon solid basis. We must
a close for ever the era of popular risings and
i military pronnociamentos * The
I army must learn that it has been formed
0 to uphold the laws, whatever they may be,
- and to obey the Cortes, whatever they
F may decide," The events of the next few
3 hours disposed, with a bitter irony, of
Bthese congratulations. Though the thorny
r subject of the Virginius was boldly handled
I by Senor Castelar, who took credit for the
r avoidance of war with a powerful State,
at the same time that the principles of in
ternational law had been npheld, and
rthough he demonstrated, at least to the
satisfaction of his friends, that there was
no alternative besides himself and either
the Carlists or the Intransigentes, he was
twice beaten, the second time ditectly on
the question of confidence, by 120 votes
against 100. This was at five o'clock on
Saturday morning and the Government
immediately resigned. Thereupon Gen
eral Pavia, the Captain-General of Madrid,
took the matter into his own hands, post
ed troops and artillery at the corner of
every street, pointed cannon at the doors
of the Palace of the Cortes, occupied the
corridors of the baulding, and sent in an
aide-de-camp with a letter requesting
Senor Salmeron to dissolve the Cortes,
which letter was handed to the latter as
he sat in the chair. He and his friends
theq implored Castelar to resume ofice,
but the latter stontly refused, upon which
General Parvs sent in a company of Civil
Guards to clear the Chamber. Cries of a
indignant protest arose from the deputies,
but the soldiers in the vestibule let off a r
few rifles, a device which proved most ef- B
feotual in inducing the deputies to *'ske- O
dadle." Some took refuge in the library, d
others elsewhere, but all were soon cleared
out, and the foreign diplomatists who were
present were conducted with great respect o
by a military escort to their homes.
TIHE NEW oOVERNMENT.
Some people at first supposed that the ai
coup ic tal was effected by Castelar's orders t(
-or, at least, in his interest-but the event pi
has clearly shown that this is not the case. a,
He has himself taken care not to remain bh
under the imputatioan, for he has since
published a letter to his econuntrymen, in
which he says: "I protest, with all the
energy of my soul, against the brutal act
1 of violence committed against the Consti
e tuent Cortes by the Captain-General of
I Madrid * * * My conscience will not
s permit me to associate with demagogues
a ut, on the other hand, my cooscience and
amy hbonor hold me aloof from the state of
e things just created by force of bayonets."
, Certainly nothing cooler baa ever been
t effected since the famous oprations of
sa Colonel Pride and of the 18th Brumaire,
a and though General Pavia called on men
I of all parties-Castelar included-to form
Sa Government, it is the old Monarchical
t Union which has most largely profited by
f the coup d'etat.
B THE FRENCH BISHOPS AND THE GOVERN
R NEXT.
The following is a translation of the
a circular addressed by the French Minister
t to the Bishops in reference to certain
SPastoral letters which gave great ofieace.to
tto the German Government.
s "PARIs, 26th Dec., 1873.
- "fonseignour-Some of your venerable
- colleagues, reviewing the present situation
" of u,~ ^n" and pronouncing upon recent
f events f 'thelr on on the Catholic
SCbrih and their action in mono.--a society,
have recently published pastoral letters ,.
which expressilons of opinion occur which
could not fail, in certain points, to attract
the attention of tbe Goeement. Some
t tines, indeed, they seem of a nature to
excite abroad asuceptibilities which it is
Salways mischievous to awake. The emi
nent prelates who have addressed to the
faithful of their dioceses the letters of
Swhich I speak, would be, it is true, the
SBrat to regret consequences absolutely
Scontrary to the intentions which animate
them. In saying this I have as a guarantee
Sthe well-tried patriotism of which the
SFrench Episcopate has always offered such
s triking and glorious testimony. Never
Stheless, the Government has been effected
r by the expressions alluded to and it
, strongly desires that this should not be
renewed. Your Lordship is net ignorant
of the sympathy with which the Govern
ment surrounds the Church and the Holy
I See in the midst of their trials. Moreover,
- it fully understands the trials of Catholic
- consciences, and the griefs which the
ae Catholic Bishops are at this moment the
-exponents, but their sentiments, my
V Lord, can be expressed with all fitting
v liberty and strength without its being
e necessary to have recoirse for their
. expression to attacks which must alarm
e the Governments of foreign countries.
a There are 4ong States certain mutnal
o obligations, which cannot be forgotten.
We ought everywhere profess the respect
for established Powers which we wish in
our own turn to claim for the Government
Sinstituted in our country by the sovereign
will of the National Asseembly. It is need
t ful to add, my Lord, that in the most of
the great struggles which to-day agitate
the world, it is, above all, by their moder
ation that the Bishops angment the legiti
mate influence of their words, and contri
bute most efficaciously to that work of
tranquility and general pacification which
ought to be the object of our common
efforts. I would be sorry to insist further
in considerations which recommend them
I selves to the attention to your Lordship. I
have, then, the certainty that you will not
misunderstand the sentiment of this letter,
the ideas of which I recommend to your
cenideration."
(Signed) DE FOURTON.
TIHE GALWAY VINDICATION FUND.
The Freeman of Wednesday recalls to
publio attention one of the noblest and
most successfal demonstrations of Irish
feeling which our times have witnessed
the Galway Vindication Fund,-which was
mainly raised by the exertions of our con
temporary, and in some degree by those of
ourselves and of other of the popular
journals. Until now, we believe, the pub
lie had never been made aware of the
course adopted in reference to the fund,
which realized the splendid sum of nearly
£16,000; of which nearly £15,000 were
contributed through the Freeman office,
Sand, as notified from week to week with
r particulars in these pages, about £900
through the Nalion office. In view of
r certain eventualities arising out of the
notorious "Galway judgment," Captain
Nolan was generously anxious that some
provision should be made for the suenstain
ment of others besides himself, then
threatened with a certain kind ot venge
ance; and it was eventually arranged that
he should receive out of the Fund £13,000,
he paying all expenses in connection with
the same; leaving the balance (about
£2,900) for such defensive purposes as may
be fonud necessary. This was carried out
'by a payment, on the27th Decembher. 1872,
Sto Captain Nolan, of a sum of £12,500 out
of thle amount received through the Free
man office, and a payment on the same date
of £500 by as ount of the sum received
through the Nation. The balance of the
b'rceman collection was furthermore lodged
to meet the expenses of the State Prose
etions of last spring; which at one time
were believed to be only the first of
aseveral, but which now may happily be
considered the end of thlt species of per
secutloo.-Dublin Nation.
DENMARK.
For a considerable time the relations
between the Danish Lower Hause and the
Government have been the reverse of cor
dial. There can be no question as to the
Liberal character of the Cabinet; indeed,
we have heard from members of the Par
liament that the fault of the Government
is its too great leaning to Liberalism; but
the Lower House is filled with persons of
low social position, whose vulgar instincts
are anti-Monarchical, and whose feelings
are revolutionary, and to keep these
within the limits of constitutional Monar
chy is a very difiolt matter. Twice,
within a siaoat period, has an appeal to the
country been tried, with a view to a safe
solution of the diffculty, by the return of
a better description of members, but the
result has been apparently a change from (
bad to worse. Immediately after the a
meeting of the present Parliament, an ad
dress was moved and carried in the Lower
House, recommending a change of Ministry,
which would be tantamount to handing o
over the kingdom to the " Irreconciliables" b
-who are to be found at Copenhagen as *
well as at Cartagena. The King's answer ,
is a polite refusal to jeopardise his throne a
and the peace of the country by acceding .
to the wishes of the enemies of both. At a
present Danish legislation is at a dead-lock, t,
and we shall be curious to see how it is to a
be got over.
e !eeord of the German PeWreation.
e PERSECUTION OF GERMAN BIsHoPs.
t Every day there are new sentences, and
new meansures against Bishops and their
ecclesiastical seminaries. The Bishop of
It Munster has been lately sentenced to a fine
of 200 thalers, or forty days imprisonment.
In all these cases the work of the tribunals
of is made easy, for n aBishop appears at the
bar, and they all allow themselves to be
Ssentenced, "in contumaciam." The Bishop
ºf of Paderborn will act in this manner to
's ward the Imperial tribunal, to which be
n has been summoned by a refractory priest
n of his diocese, whom he has suspended on
Sacconnt of scandalous disobedience. The
y Bishop will not appear either in person or
through a lawyer; partly because the es
- tablishment of the tribunal is looked upon
by the German Episcopate as unlawful,
e and partly because the suenspension in ques
tion dates from the year 1870, long before
r this new fangled tribunal was thought of.
BISHOPRIC OF TREVES.
S From the provinces of Nassau and Mun
ster we hear that henceforward the semi
naries of the dioceses of Limbnrg and
e Munster are to be deprived of the yearly
n Government grants. The contribution for
it the diocese of Limburg consisted, indeed,
c only of eighty-five pounds. The Bishop
, of Treves has been more severely visited
in this respect. He received, through
SI the Pro- incial Government, an order from
t Falck. the Minister of Pablio Worship,
that the Seminary was to be closed until
o the Bishop and the rector of the Seminary
s " should unreservedly submit to the May
- Laws, and the regulations introduced by
e these laws." For some time past the Bishop
f of Treves and his diocese seem to have
e been selected for the especial exercise of
y lawful or rather unlawful violence. In
e many places they had already expelled
ae from their presbyteries the parish priests
a appointed by the Bishop because they had
h been appointed in violation of the law.
- But this is no longer sufficient. At Kreuz
I nach, on the Rhine, the cure had been for
t a long time vacant. Even accordingto the
a new law, the Bishop had time to appoint
t up to June, 1874. But the local authorities
- were resolved to make themselves safe be
F fore that time. Instead of sequestrating
, the dwelling after the expulsion of the
c "unlawful" priest, they have already put
a olfficial seals on the empty presbytery; a
a new attack on the private rights of the Ca
r tholic community.
9 PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ORGANISTS AND SA
SCRISTANS.
r In order to display greater energy in the
Sprohibition of ecclesiastical functions (say
ing Mass, dispensing the Sacraments, etc.)
to priests officially interdicted, the Gov
ernment ofoficials in Posen have thought it
Sto proceed penaly, not against priests only
°but also against organists and sacristans.
t These have been forbidden to render any
assistance in the Church functions of the
above mentioned priests, under pain of dis
Smissal. The offices of organist and school
master are frequently held by the same
individual. In the Rhine district the peo
ple appear to trouble themselves very little
about esuch assistance in "unlawful" Masses,
f etc. We receive accounts from thence of
amusing scenes. It happened in one place
that at the moment when the priest was
rpreparing to say Mass, the policeman came
into the sacristy, to hand in from the mayor
the prohibition to say Mass. The parish
priest answered quietly: "I will make a
note of it." The policeman had then ful
filled his olffice. The priest then prepared
to go to the altar, beginning with the ac
customed words: "Adjutoriam nostram
in nomine Domini." The policeman answer
Sed devoutly- "Qui fecit ccalum et terram,"
I and, walking before the priest with the
I missal, he began to serve Mass.
- THE OLD-CATHOLICS.
There is a fall in the thermometer of de
Svotion and piety amongst the "Old-Catho
r lics," so petted by Prussia. On the morn
- ing of Christmas Day a Mass was appointed
to be said in the " Old-Catholi " bishopric
of Bonn. Accordingly Professor Renach
celebrated the sacrilegious rite at half-past
seven o'clock, a time which according to
German customs was very convenient; but
the assembled congregation amoanted to
seven persons! This is a very sorry proof
of the deep and sincere piety, of which
Reinkens asserted in his wretehed answer
Sto the Encyclical of Pius IX., that it had
now disappeared from the Papal Church,
Sand had taken shelter among the small flock
of his faithful. The Prussian Liberal pa
p ers made a great noise at first, and ex
t pressed themselves in terms of unmeasured
applause regarding the sympathy meeting
which Lord Rassell thinks of calling to
gether here in England during the conrse
of this month. But gradually the liberal
Sjournals, among them the )olnishe Zeitunig
and the Norddeuitschc Allgemeine Zeitung,
are beginning to express themselves much
more coolly on the subject. From the tone
of the Eoglish papers, they can plainly see
that here in England there is but little
chance of awakening any enthusiasm for
principles and measures esuch as are now
put in practice by Prince Biemarck, and
which really are a mockery of all the first
notions of an honestly conceived freedom.
The Catholic journal Germania was, there
fore, perfectly right in the following arti
cle: "The English have no desire to
sacrifce the victory secured by long,
hard, and at times sanguinary conflicts,
merely to gain the applanse of mod
ern Prussian civiligers. It contradicts,
likewise, their good sense, to appland the
hunting down of Catholies. And if an old
pedant like Lord Russell, who in past times
fought valiantly for religious equality, in
tends to act in a contrary manner at the
end of his life, the practical Englishman,
who has a keen eye for tree Conservatism,
is more ready to remember the behaviour
of Lord Jlin il days gone by, than to be
stow noqualified approval on the wonder
ful caprices of the gray-haired Earl Russell.
The many friends of Mr. R. Sproule, formerly I
of the firm oe It. Sproene & McCown, wiil hear with
pleqsare that be has etablifhed himself at the corner
of St. Charles and (traler streets, under the St.
Charlms HitsIl where he has an eatirely new stock of
sentlemnens armishing goods, and perfect ftting shirts.
fine hats and toiest articles, which be will sell at the
lowest possible prices. It is over seventeen years since
" Uncle Robert'" frst threw his banner to the breece
on St. Zbarlie street, and we doebt it there is another
business mae in our cfty who has more friends or fewer Ii
esemies. A genial, wholesouled gentleman, and a tl
prompt and energetli merchant, he deserves success I
and we know he will meet it. Those who call at the
new store will find there Captain V. It. egers, so long
conaneted with the old hoese, whose careful attestios a
to the wants of his castomers, has made him a host of .t
friends sot only In this city, bat throusbost the adija. c
cent cont.tr.
Mineoity Representation.
(ILouaville CourierJe-urnaL
d The Qhlo constitutional convention is
ir basily engaged in discussing the principle
,f and policy of minority representation.
e General Ewing made a very able speech
t. on the subject, urging its adoption in the
is election ofjudges for the Court of Appeals.
e The system has been put in operation in
' Illinois, and jnst before Mayor Medill, of
p Chicago, left for Europe, Hon. S. F. Hunt
,. addressed him a letter, inquiring into its
e practical operation. The object of the
at new system, as the reader is probably
n aware, is to give the minority a represen
te tation in the Legislature and in the judi
sr clary, and thus restrain the majority, in
s- some degree, at least, from making a
n tyrannical use of their power. In a coun
1, ty, for example, where three representa-s.
s- tives are to be elected to the Legislature,
re the minority can, if they choose to do so,
f. nominate but one candidate, and cast for
him as many votes as they would have been
entitled to cast for three candidates, the
' provision of minority representation per
Smitting them to give a tripple vote for the
done candidate. If the provision will en
Y able the minority to obtain a respectable
Srepresentation in the Legislature and in
, other bodies, which they could not have
p otherwise, it is a wholesome one ; for,
b however intelligent and patriotic a maij
ority may be in the beginning of its exist
eonce, its tendency is to lapse into partisan
S"rann and excesses of all kinds. Poll
11 tical a venturerZ, who care for the spoils
Y only, and ambitions men, who love place
y morethan principle, will soon push the
c apright and consolentious men of ideas to
P the rear and push themselves to the front.
SHence wise and salutary legislatioh de
pends very largely upon the reatiaining
viilance of a good minority, and, if any
scheme can be divised to keep a vigoroaus
opposition party in everylegislative branch
in the country, beneficial results will fol
low its adoption.
In answer to the question whether the
r system of minority representation was
Sgivinig satisfaction in Illinois, where it had
been recently adopted, Mr. Medill anhesi
atatingly answers in the safimative. He
says it proves in practice to be just what
was promised and predicted in its behalf.
The experiment is conceded to be quite
Ssuccessful, and is regarded as a great im
a provement on the old one-sided system of
representation. It is far more popular
now than it was a year ago, before the
first election under it. Then there were
doubts as to its practicability. Its oppo
e nents said the people would not be able
- to comprehend it, and that confusion
) would result at thepolls, that bad men
- would slip into the Legislature by its
t meanse, that it would enable the minority
r to rule the majority, and that the inter
s. eat of the people would be harmed or
y sacrificed.
e Not one of these prognostications of evil
- has come to pass. The voters understood
- the new system without difficulty or much
e explanation, and discovered nothing ab
- struse or incomprehensible in it.
B Mr. Medill further states that the "whole
Smass of the people are now represented in
f the popular branch, instead of a mere maj
B ority as formerly. Every voter, whether
e a Democrat or Republican, has now the
B man of his choice In the Assembly to re
r present him. Neither party is now anre
h presented in any district. The minority
a is no longer practically disfranchised, as
- was previously the case. The vote of the
I majority is not impaired or disturbed.
- The stronger party at the polls have con
1 trol of the House, but the weaker one is
- represented in proportion to its strength.
" The unjust monopoly of representation is
e broken. Every Democratic district elect
ed two Democrats and one Republican,
and every Republican district two Repub
licans and one Democrat, to the House.
The exception to this rule only occurred
when a candidate of the stronger party was
Sunpopular, or that of a weaker party the
fitter man to such a degree as to constrain
Senough of his opponents to vote for him to
Select him. No party advantage was gained
t from these exceptional cases, because they
t were as numerous on one aide as the other
S-gainer or loser balancing each other."
f
i After all there is mouch good in human na
r ture. People are not so bad as misanthropes paint
I them. It is not often that we meet a man who, know
Sing a way in which his friends might be benefited
E without detriment to his own interests, is so mean as
not to tell them of it. If such there be, hovever, we
Sbeg to state that we are not of the number, as the col
I umns of this paper from its first iune to the present
will testify. Have we not brought content to many
families and saved thousands of dollars to them by in
3 forming them that at the corner of Roussean and Jack
I son streete the popular grocers, A. W. Skardon & Co.,
J were reltailing the best of groceries at very moderate
prices ? The writer has dealt regularly with these gen
I tlemen for a long time and can state that in an experi.
ence of years he has never had more perfect satisfaction
SIn every particular. We strongly advise those of our
Sreaders in the city or country who need greceries to
send their orders to these enterprising merchants whose
advertisement will be found on the fifth page of this
Spaper.
Patronize home manufacturee, for upon the
indoustry of our section the prosperity of the people.
depends. There is certainly no reason in going North,
to buy grocery wagons, family phrtons, victorias, open
and top buggies, and all vehicles, when they can be
made to order here, of the best materials and most
skillful workmanship, by oailing on Messrs. J. Thom
son & Bros., Nos. 08 sad 70 Rampart, betweun Common I
and Grater streete. As an evidence of the variety snd i
high quality of their work, we may mention that at our
Lolsitans State Falrs they have recelved the followLI g
awards: Pifth fair, for boat family pbeton; sixth fate,
for best beer wagon and spring wagon, and three silver 1
medals for top buggy, open buggy, and grocerywagon ;
and seventh fair, beat victoria, best open buggy, msa
bert express wagon. COli and seethen.
Tasteful decorations for the route of the c
King of the Carsirol will be executed at eyor low
priose. by Hermitage, rrtist Extrardinary to the ,oyal r
Cort, whose place of business is at No. 138 GIrod
street. near Camp. Hermitage, being a loyal subject,
has reduced his prices, so that his customers may honor
the Ring without feeling the expense. Designs, sis
and ornamental painting will be promptly attended to
by him.
Honsekeepere should remember that Book's 0
Brilliant Cooking Stores are furnished with obilled 9
iron fire platee. which are guaranteed to lst fie or six V
times as long as the ordinary grate. Mr. Benry Hailer, E
No.49 Camp street, is agent for Boaok' Brilliant. p
T
"Oat of sight, out of mind,"Is perhap. an
unktnd saying; yet there is no reoeam why fihends *
should ever be out of sight,wbee snob lifeWlikspietsrss
san be had at souby s plutegraph gaPlery. Me. SI.
Adsrew street, at sesa low pries.
Habts of Raglish Orators.
[LonIon Cor., to the New York Times.l
a Mr. Bright has just written a letter to a
e young theological student in which he
i. gives his oinlon on the art of public
ha speaking. e is for extempore a peaking
* when a man knows his subject and has a
. good hold of It; but for a preacher who
n- has to deliver a sermon a week on the same
f topic to the same people, a written sermon
t is, he says, almost Indispenslble "only men
a of great mind, great knowledge and great
a power can do this with success." and he
y wonders that any man can do it at all.
The best preparation for speaking is, he
su- ggests, to think over what is to be said
n and to form an outline in a few brief notes.
a He says he has never been in the habit of
writing out his speeches, certainly not
Sfor more than thirty years past, the labor
,, of writing being bad enough, and the
, labor of committing to memory Intolera.
r ble. This statement must, however, be
a taken with a certain qualioficatieon. Mr.
e Bright, I believe, does not write out all
- his speeches, but he writes out the most
e important and highly-worked passages
- and gets them by heart. The rest he fills
e in as he goes along, and any one who ex
a amines his speeches carefully can tell by
a the great precision and point of the lan
, gouage in er4in parts what has been
- itten and what ,naken off-hand. All
his speeches are very carefally prepared,
Sbut chiefly in his head. He goes over the
- points he wishes to bring out for weeks,
Sand, perhaps, months, and broods over the
subject till it takes form and substance in
a his mind. He has a small slip of letter
Spier-with notes on it of the points in
S ei7 order, an4 in the house of commons
Shate often noticed him for hours before he
I rose conning over his notes and rehearsing
Spassages with his eyes on the ceiling. Mr.
s Gladstone uses notes, but only for facts
s and the order of his points, and trusts ex
elusively to the moment for his words.
Lord Palmerston always spoke extem
a pore, and scarcely ever condeacended to
I refertoa paper. His great speech, five
I hours long, in the Don Pacifioo debate
Swas delivered in this manner; he had only
a a set of the dispatches before him in order
I to makeezxact quotations. Long practice
in dictations to private secretaries had
Sgiven him a mastery of precise and easy
language, but he was not a flowing speaker.
f He thought p great deal more about how a
r speech would read than how it sounded at
t the moment, and was determined not to
Suse any but the words he really wanted.
SThis made him hesitate occasionally. Mr.
SLowe acquired.similar precision from die
Itating leader articles for the times. Mr.
SDisraeli despises notes, except notes of
Sdates and other figures; he prepares his
Sspeeches with great care, planning them
oat, grouping his points artistically, and
polishing up his epigrams. But his
speeches, though partly drafted before
band, are not repeated from memory.
The late Lord Derby was an impulsive ex
I tempore speaker; but his son writes his
speeches from beginning to end, and learns
them laboriously. Lord Granville speaks
off-hand, and is very unequal in his style,
whichis, for the most part, loose and slo
venly. Lord Rapssell also trusts to the
words of the moment; and this, I imagine,
Swas the rule with all the speakers of the
lest generation. Mr. Horeman. I have
heard, writes his speeches many times
over, each time destroying the manuscript.
I and then writting another with as many
improvements as he can think of. The
Sobject is, of course, to procure a firm hold
on the subject generally, as well as on
I his premeditated language, so that he may
Sdrop the latter if he chooses, and insert
I anything that occurs to him.
We copy from an article in the last is
sne of the North American Review the fol
I lowing statistics in regard to coin In cir
a culation in this country and the leading
Snations of Europe: "Mr. Victor Bonnet,
I an eminent French authority in matters of
Scurrency and finance, in an article in the
I Revue des Des. fondes for November slet,
states the amount of silver coin in circula
tion in France and in its mint to be $300 -
000,000, while the coinage of this metal is
going on at a rate of $25,000,000 annually.
The gold coin in cirnculation he estimates
at $800,000,000, making a total metallic
currency, for that country of $1,100,000,
S000; and that, too, after the payment of
the German indemnity of 81000.000,000 !
The bids for the loan of $750,000,000,
brought out in France in the summer of
1872 equaled $8,000,000.000, a sum very
nearly four times the amount of the pub
lic debt of the United States! These fig
ures, for quality, match Niagara and the
Missisaippi, and should qualify our conceit
a little, when our conntry and its resources
are the theme. Mr. Bonnet also states
that the silver coin in circulation in Ger
many equals $480,000,000, while its recent
gold coinsge (largely drawn from the
French payment) amounts to $290,000,000.
In England theameunt of coin in circula
tion outside of the Bank of England, which
holds $100,000,000 is estimated at $500,
000,000. We shall need at least an equal
sum. The amount now held in this coun
try, in all hands, cannot exceed $150,000,
000. We must accumulate, therefore, an
additional sam of *350,000.000 before we
can safely attempt a Asal resumption.
Our mines annually produce about *60,
000,000. Could their whole product be rp
taied at home, we eould be sare of the
reqaired amount in six years. We have
for the last ten years exported @52.604,278
ober our imports. This drain will be in
stantly stopped the momens the banks and
the government comnience, in earnest,
the accumulation of adequate specie re
serves."
A BROAD STAT3MxrT.-A man who has made
a tonr among the sects report that, so far as he
can learn, Unitarians don't care what a man
believes if he only does well; the Presbyte
rians don't care what a man does if he only
believes; the Episcopalians don't care what a
man does or hblieves if he only belongs to their
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