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*ornlng Star and Catholic Messenger IWW ORLEANS. SUNDAY, FEIRUARY" s2. 1674. (The tero of the Waterford Victory of 1028. The Grave has closed upon a man whose name will long he identified in grateful Irish memory with the first heavy blow struck at Girange domination in Ireland, and at Catholic proscription in the United Kingdom. It was by the chivalry of Henry Villiers Stuart, supported by the Catholic Associat ion, that the baleful ascendency of a tad faction, then symbolized in the name of Ileresford, was shake n to its base. Never was a grander fight fought, never was a uctller victory won for the cause of civil and religious liberty than that of which Waterford was the scene in the summer of 8I26. That victory was the precursor of Catholio Emancipation, and of that tri amph Henry Villiers Stuart was the hero. Without his aid the popular battle against Curraghmore, then the stronghold of Orangeislm in the South of Ireland, though we are happy to say it is so no longer, could not have been fought. The defeat of Lord George leresford was the opening to the Clare election, of June, 1828, and therefore to Catholic Emancipation. And by one of those strange coincidences that happen in life, it so has happened that the very measure which Henry Villiers Stuart contributed so much to force against tremendous opposition to a successful issue forty-five years ago, now enables his near relative, and the head of his house, the Marquis of hute, to take his seat in the House of Lords. Towards the close of the Administration of Lord Melbourne, Mr. Villiers Stuart was raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Stuart do Decies, of the United Kinjgdom. lie was, paternally, the grandson of the Marquis of luote, who was First Lord of the Treasury at the ac cession of George III., and, maternally, the grandson of the last Earl of G randison, whose daughter and heiress, the Lady Ger trudo Villiers, his fattier, Lord Henry Stuart, married, and whose large estates, Srincipally situated in Waterford, he in orited. hisi only son was a beneticial clergyman of the late Irish Establishbed Church, but he resigned his living-" un frocked" himself, as Queen Elizabeth would have said-under theprovisiobs of a recent Act of Parliament; and, as a lay man, got returned to the late House of Commons, upon the resignation of his seat for Waterford county by Count do la l'oer. - Lo hndon .'clister. The Last Years of Dickens. (New York Times Lonidon Letter. The third and concluding volume of Mr. f'orster's Life of Dicken has jusot been pub lished. It presents a melancholy pictureof decaying powers, morbid unrest, and cor roding discontent. It may be doubted whether Dickens, who is supposed by many of his readers to have been one of the most genial and jovial of men, was ever a happy ,man; but it would certainly appear that in his latter years he was supremely wretched. As a younger man, his animal spirits and vanity helped to take him out of himself. lie was satisfied only when he had an ad miring company around him. lie was, in a fact, essentially an actor, and miserable 1 without an audience, and his gaiety was t forced andt histrionic. There was no repose about his character, lie could never en dare to be simple and plain and natural; t he wanted to be always fire-works. At home lie was seen at his worst, suffering t fromn the reaction of excitement is corn- t pany, and weary with his elaborate efforts 1 to amuse and startle. Mr. Forster pansses C as gently as he can over the domestic nlis adventures of his hero. It is not a pleasant plage, and one is glad to turn it. Dickens was always fond of the bustle and ti change of thaveling, and after I~6i his - restlessness seems to have become almost a 1 mania. lh had notions of burying himself I for a whole six months in somn of the re- f ceases of the P'yrtenees, or of spending at winter in some elevated and secluded con vent in the Alps. His work had evidently t begun to tell on him. HIls invention was p less fertile, his composition less spontane- it ous. It had biecoime an efIort for him to r: write, and he was haunted by the fear, a which was partly tirue. that his prime was c1 over and that lihe wouldi never again be .1i what he had been. lie had, in fact, lost 'I his elasticity of mind. All this necessanil tIl gives lather a bad tone to this concluding I F volume; but Dickens, though he confessed o himself to his friuend, was the nmore resolute as in showing a bold face to the world, and tl his letters are full of dash and humor. It' ti went abant a good deal ar:d used himself is mercilessly. The tit of paralysis which tinally killed him had apparently beeen il- " pending for some years before his dttath. The railway accident from which lie nir- sI lowly escaped with his life must also havel ri lshaken him more titan wats suspected at the f: tine. I W'e eitar that the lio.rd of I':iile"r ters tl ,a luts kt",1d thse flbcock tife elgilt. ite e . It shalý wl . t , t, e stti et.rin sin", :, t w: tr F r," lb. a.krt. It wueft hith .tI f,, -t atiia, fa'tos ,.i an t,. l. . 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Fita g at e ,sa so aet te i-i t, i Noti to l t h anu ! ci otnd him a ple c git ii'teth n ia iu t,, dea i t't 0] no ft he~lway. ce advclltiscuent nthpag'lh]., . nil er. r ISCIAII OUS FOIIIOw JlEW. S To January 31st. TIE " NO POPERY " MEETINGS IN EN"OLAN. The "Anti-Ultramontane" meetings of oj the 27th are described by the London eul .7mes as in "ordinary No-Popery demon Strations." The absence of any real cele d, brities was conspicuous. Mr. "Newdegate, ed Siriobert Peel,and Sir T. Chambers being ry the only representatives of the late Parlia ic ment, and the only diguitary of the estab f lishment who ventured to put in a personal 11e appearance being Dr. I'ayne Smith, the or I)Dean of Canterbury, whose recent partici a pation at New York in a communion of a 'i) nondescript kind, has created no little ex It citement among the Anglicans. Those r who trote letters, like the Archbishops of ) Canterbury and York and the Dean of Westminster, carefully guarded themselves against an expression of approval of the Prussian ecclessiatical legislation, and con f lined themselves to reprobation of "Ultra . montanes" and "Ultramontanism" gener ally. TilHE DUC E IIROQGIE AND TIE "LVNIVERS." a There is still some controversy as to the cause of the suspension. The Memorial Dt ipluomatique states positively that it was a perfectly spontaneous act on the part of s the Government. We never supposed that t it was anything else, in one sense, that is, s we have never believed that the German r Government expressly and specifically de amanded the suppression of the -nit-ers. But it has made it unmistakably plain through its organs in the press, and very possibly through Count von Arnim verbal ly, that it will not endure any opposition, f 'home or foreign," to the policy it has re solved to carry out with regard to the Catholic Church ; and although the Xord dencthe Zeitung now declares-on Sator day evening last-that the French Gov ernment has yielded to no pressure from without in its recent adoption of measures against French newspapers, and that "none of those measures had been demanded by Germany," this assurance after the fact I does not deprive all that the same paper previously published of its natural signi ficance and weight. If the meaning of the articles in the Norddeutsehe Zeitang and I similar papers was not to warn France, under pain of a declaration of war, to dis sociate herself from the cause of the Cath olic Church, what was it 1 Now that the effect is produced it is all very well to say that the act of the French Government was spontaneous. It was spontaneous, as it seems to us, to this extent : A. wants B. to punish C. lie does not ask B. to do so, but he tells everybody else that if B. does not punish C., he will make things extreme ly uncomfortable for him, and may even be obliged to have recourse to personal 0 chastisement. We prefer this explanation e to the supposition that M. do Broglie and e his friends have been gratifying a personal spite against M. Venillot. Charity indeed would oblige us, in default of proof, to p adopt the former hypothesis, and we will i quote in support of it some remarks of the o ,tcctator, which are much to the point :- g Doubtless the staterent that no note pa..ed t is true. Count Arnim is of the men who can supersede notes, and throw the authority of a despatch into a whisper not heard beyond the curtain of a bay-window in the prettiest hall of reception in the world. But anybody who believes that General Ladmirault has of B his own motion suspended M. Veuillot, or that ft the Government is summoning the Bishop of 'Perigueux to be !ectured because it likes lee- 1 turing priests who thunder against Italy, or that the Duo I )ecares makes publicly in the Tribune solemn recognitions of Italy "as cir cumstancee have made her" of his own free N ill, knows nothing of the party now govern ing France, or of Marshal MacMahon's deter- w raination to be armed before he challenges anybody. " " It is not perfectly evident Ic that Prince Bismuarck wants one or two things as -eth,er a new war which would break the e: sword of the Papacy, or some proof patent to N Pope and Conclave that France will do nothing w to help them 1 We cannot believe in the first theory, thongh the evidence in support of it is abs,,olutely terrible, because we do not believe c that the Prince wants to run a terrific risk P ' . . bt Ihe has ahlready shown the w Pope that France is powerless for the hour by vi interfering without warrant in her most dorn- dl estic affairs. and may show it still further by overturning the o(ivernment which displays h( clerical tendencies or, to use the mildest word, is l erical symplathies, Thus the ,erllcrntschr ZCitanrq, in making wi the denial above quoted, adds that the % French Government acted "in pursuance of French interests." Everybody must pi see what these interests were, and that OP they were connected with the foreign rela- . M trions of the country and not in any degree th w ith its internal affairs. TIEr iIIEN 4(1rV'l:ttNMi-NT AND THiE RisIto. Irth The same article in the German paper an states that the Government of Berlin has of reserved to itself the right to take steps as nE tar as the French laws allow against the ti French lirshrops for offences against lis Majesty tlhe Emperor, that is, to prosecute D) thent. It does not seem to have yet made up fol its mind whether it will do so, but in the i meantime tile French Government holds nm, itself signiticanitly aloof fronm tile prelates me i\o h 1:ave given otfi'nce to its " preponder- ne ant ' neighbor. It is scarcely likely to be wt tflue, its stated by one of our contempora- o its, that tihe liisilop of Nitnms was sent for 1, to 'resarllr-r ltim " l'cturred " in the pres- tfo et-,c of c 'rount vor Arinrlr, but a correspon- It ,hnit writr-s to us frrru Versailles that at rvi ti .' r"emise dtrs hir c-ttes," all thie Bishiops sp and tile larget' body e cl, rgy pIresent at thire tin ct'reloronir\ '\t.1 tivit-dh to meet tilhe new ch (tardlnals at th , ir re-t. enci- with the sole ereirtion oft .gr. l'larltier. who was one of Ce tI,- fotr r lishio l.t thicir-. its ArIMIt II.IPIAINr iN rIuANce. gr. Mgr. liirpai~ulop has mrade a brilliant th, -eclrh i n tarrol of the ariPointmeut of lit t-gular chatlatr ns to th.- Frenchrr army. obh- an s-r\ing rtha:rt IFratec, was trhe onlv cruntry re' w hiichl dil norit ilake this i)tovisirt'n for the Ju religiorls wantis of its soldiers, and tearing lra tstlrrtirmony to th irntpressiot whichrl tIhe dtevout trehatlrn r of thie erman.s, botih sti Catlholic artil I'rotestalt, madet otn him wi durinig tithe invas.ir. lire i.Reasure was G e adopted by tihe As4eUtmbIv after three dals is debate onr l'ut slday. Ch THIS t i'I'I.EM'.Tr5^RY C FI.rK I.A\ . lih The two Bills intended to supRplement nmu tile l-alck Lawvs are pIublished in the Ierlin wi O(lciar! GaCtctte. Ti1e tirst substitutes im- for prseonment for flue where the tines have col not been or cannot be paid. The second is Mt a reproduction in the most stringent form er of thie tyrannical legislation introduced Ith inito Gn.ueva, and will simply deprive the thi C'lthlolic Church throughout Prussia of the to wrtole of heru property, cathedrals, and churches. W e may shortly expect to see wi most if not all the Ilishoprics and iaasy of an the parishes declared vacant by the new Court for Ecclesiastical Causes; and in any case of such deprivation, suspension, im rs. prisonment, or banishment, the ecolesiasti of cal authorities, in whose hands the election on or nomination rests, are to be summoned to n_. appoint a person acceptable to the State, lo- and ready to take the State oath. The to, ecclesiastical authorities will, of course, ng reply that they cannot, as the Bishopric or ia- cure in question is not canonically vacant, b. whereupon, in the case of parishes, any ,al ten members of the community, being re he puted Catholics-and the "Old Catholices" ei- are, by the decision of the Supreme Court, a recognized for all such purposes as Catho x- lics-may petition the Oberprasident to ,, order an election, a request with which the of latter is obliged to comply. The " Old of Catholics" and nominal State Catholics on will, of course, be the only voters, and the le law proceeds to enact that the vote of a n- clear majority "of those who appear "shall a- be considered final, always saving the right r. of the State to put a veto on it. And to the priests thus elected, the churches, and the whole of the Church property are in every case to be handed over. It is the most ie sweeping measure of confiscation that could al be devised for transferring the Catholic s churches and cathedrals of Germany to the o >f small sect which for the moment enjoys 4 t the favor of the Government. But the S, whole perscution has been for a long time n working up to this end. TIHE BENGAL FAMINE. The accounts from Bengal have not been re-asseering. The correspondent of the -orning Post, who is usually well in formed, stated that "the out-turn-includ ing the most favored parts, Orissa, Dacea, and Backergunge-is not-a half average crop ;" and he reports that there has been 1 nothing during the preceeding week but dew, a very insnflcient substitute for rain. f The last weekly telegram from the Viceroy e states that on the 23rd there had been "no 7 rain, and no further improvement, but that P the area of anticipated distress was not e "altogether enlarged," that the " land r transport arrangements" were improving, si and that there were "ample supplies of e rice from beyond sea." The Times corres pondent telegraphs two days later that W there had been six hours of soaking rain. o1 The trades have been active in buying and P storing up rice, but exports have been t going on to a large extent, and it is to be feared that when the rice is to be brought 01 back by "the natural operation of trade," dt transport will 'be sadly deficient. Sir t George Campbell, the most experienced P man on the spot, evidently takestheseviews; a' for he has been again pressing for a prohi bition of exportation ; but the Viceroy has ni imposed on him an adlatus in the person Is of Sir Richard Temple, who is likely to enforce the maintenance of the political 0o economy policy, and the Government will, f we fear, discover too late that the unscien- fo tiic methods which he rejects were the 01 only means of averting a calamity, the n' prevention of which is, in the public opin- w ion of this country, of an importance out m of all proportion to the question of the re- ea galarity or irregularity of the measures * taken against it. as to IIRELAND. Ca it The Candidates for Parliamnent.-The al Dublin Nation, of the 31st of January, re- a ferring to the general elections for Parlia- is ment, says : p Amongst the candidates at present before the Irish electors there are many. who de. ca serve well of their country, and some hit whose absence front the House of Commons es would be little short of a calamity. We ge believe that our countrymen will be at no no loss to identify their true friends for them- Bt I selves, and the time is long gone past for of exhortation or appeal in these columns. TI We must trust to the constituencies to re- we ward the meritorious and punish the faith- of less of their own motion ; and the most we Ti can do today is to mention a few of the mi Iprominent men whom we hope to see re- As warded in some slight way for their ser- vei vices to the national cause by the conf- gel Sdence and support of the electors. w In Limerick ity there will probably ben the host of candidates for the honor of being do Isaac Butt's colleague. None but a Home po0 Ruler will be elected; and the chosen man the will be either Mr. O'Shaughnesey or Mr. chi William Spillane. Na Cork city and county will take a leading We place amongst the faithful constituences. the Of men like Mr. Shaw, Mr. Ronayne, and sol Mr. M'Carthy I)owning there is only one me thing to be said. They deserve the orI warmest and most enthusiastic support in. that the hands and hearts of grateful tab Irishmen can give them. Equally apparent Mr and equally well recognized are the claims tio of pure-minded and staunch R. P. Blen- an' norhassett, the patriotic young representa- the tive of Kerry. its The borough of Ennis is offered by Mr. I)onuat C. O'Brien a splendid opportunity S for bursting its bonds of servitude. In Wexford Borough, Mr. W.-A. lRed mond, who has nobly proved his earnest ncess in the Home Rule cause, comes for- me ward for re-election. Many candidates are spoken of as the ta. colleague of P. J. Smyth in Wesatmeath. sc. There is one whose success will be watched e for withll anxious solicitude by the lovers of MoL Ireland. Captain King Harmon is no no- a vice in HIome Rule politics, he has won his him spurs gallantly and well, and we hope to en find in him, when the contest is cloned, the d chosen of Westmeath. ted If we have delayed to speak of Galway County, it is only because all reference to thi its representation is unnecessary. All gratitude and patriotism would be dead in the hearts of Galway men if Mr. Mitchell Hlenry were not returned by ac lanmstion, ur and Captain Nolan will no- receive the reward which Judge Keogh and the (;alway and Judgment suntched once befor, from his hlands. Faithful Mayo, with priests and people aei, still linked together ill the old sacred tie, will pronouncu with a single voice for George E. lrown (the worthy successor of i his kinsman, George HIenry Moore), and ate Charles J. Blake, two staunch and trusty Htome Rulers. In King's County a gallant young Irish- ,p man-one whom that Catholic constituency will not think the worse of becausa he has cas fought and bled for the Holy Father- c comes forward on sterling principles. Mr. m Molloy is an old member of the llome Gov- hou ernment Association, and in returning him the the electors of King's County will send to te the House of Columons a valuable addition e to the operative forces of Home Rule. In Kilkenny County Mr. George Bryan TI will, of course, be unhesitatingly re-elected aba and in the Marble City Sir John Gray will *,e I1DW5KBIlf, I S IUJA, F PEMUJ Atl ow again be elected, as he deserves to be, my without opposition. m- In Dublin City the Home Rulers will sti- rally, we trust, round the Lord Mayor; ion while Leitrim has now a magnificent op Ito portunity of striking for Ireland, and res te, cuing its representation from the hands 'he of her foes, by the return of Captain F. ae, O'Beirne. or In Queen's County there will probably be nt, no change. Mr. Kenelm Digby will, of ny course, be re-elected with enthusiasm. re- In Yougbal, Sir Joseph M'Kenna takes s" the field for Home Rule, Religions Educa rt, tion, and Amnesty. When Youghal, six io- years ago, rejected Sir J. N. M'Kenna, and to returned an English carpet-bagger, igno he rant of, if not secretly scorning, our country, Id- we thonght and we said that the seed ice was a disgrace to Ireland. That disgrace he Youghal will now wipe out. a In Monaghan, Mr. John Madden, a all sterling Protestant Home Ruler, is in the ht field. he In Drogheda our respected and patriotic he fellow.-citizeb, Dr. W. H. O'Leary, has un ry furled the Home Rule banner. Mr. Whit st worth, who is his opponent, is widely and Id deservedly respected, and has many per lie sonal claims on Drogheda; but the people bo of Drogheda evidently conceive that in a es crisis like the present personal respect Lie gives way before public principles. Ie Cavan will make a noble effort. Its patriotic Bishop, Dr. Conaty, and the priests and people of that; gallant county, are de termined now or never to free themselves from odious thraldom. Mr. Biggar is f already in the field, and would make an excellent representative of a Home Rule constituency. S John Mitelhel Yomninated for Corok.--The n Kation publishes the following telegram: it CORK, Thursday Jan. 2~th.-A telegram was I. forwarded to John Mitchel last night to this y effect: "If elected for Cork, will you come ". o The reply received in Cork at twenty minutes it past four o'clock this afternoon says : "If ,t elected, I shall go instantly." d Upon this subject the Cork Examiner Ssays: The city election threatens to present us with a very painful spectacle. We have no objection to a stand up fight with the op ponents of the national cause, bet we do 1 feel very strongly the mischief that 4s cer e tain to be wrought by the reckless course t of those who suppose themselves, and no i doubt intend to be, its friends. No effort r the enemy could devise is likely to be so perilous as that which the Nationalist have adopted in putting forward John Mitchel. We shall not be suspected of any desire to undervalue Mr. Mitchel's sacrifices for Ire , land. When a national testimonial in his , honor was projected we did not hesitate to I offer it a hearty concurrence and support. a Without sharing his views of what is right for Ireland we can admire the uprightness c of his character. We therefore speak in c no spirit of hostility to Mr. Mitchel when c we deprecate his being put forward at this a moment. Furthermore, we are perfectly I satisfied that if Mr. Mitchel understood the t situation here, as it is quite impossible he could do at the distance from which le has e telegraphed, he would never have given his consent to being put in nomination. As a it is, if this course be persevered in, while a , all over the country the enthusiasm of the t people is being devoted to an earnest e struggle for Home Rule, Mr. Mitchel's name is being used to convert Cork into a wea pon for the foe. If Mr. Mitchel were one of the elected candidates his return would be illegal, and i his place would be given to the next high est on the list. Therefore, if the contin- L gency were possible, it would really have no practical effect so far as he is concerned. But that view of the case is altogether out of the question and need not be discussed. There is another view of it, however which, w we commend to the serious consideration e of those who have put forward Mr. Mitchel. a' They are, most of them, we believe, ani- is mated by a friendly feeling to Mr. Ronayne. si Assuredly however, they are acting with z' very great recklessness as regards that as gentleman. They involve him in a contest as which will cost him a large sum of money; m they do more, they imperil his seat. We be do not want to enter into a detail of the tie possible combinations of an election under fo these circumstances. We do not desire to ar chalk out plans for the opponents of the ra National cause, though we very much fear to we could put them up to few divices that Ii they have not already studied. But we say a5 solemnly-having given the subject our most serious attention-that the seat of one or both of the Liberal members will be placed a in jeopardy by the course that is now being taken, and that it is quite on the cards that Mr. Ronayne may have to thank the Na tionalists of Cork for the loss of his seat, and that the country may have to thank s them for the loss of the services or one of a its ablest and purest representatives. be SuOES, BOOTs, ETC.- In the Supplement we at issue to-day will be found an advertisement from Mr. di William Hogan, the leading dealer in ladies', gentle- he men's and children's shoes in the South. 1lis eleaant pe store. on Canal street, is known quite as well to all the d transient visitors to our city as Is t he City Hall or the p St. (:harles Hotel,. being, in its way, a place of public interest, which no one prtetending to "do" New Orleans could asfford to miss visiting. Having unlimited means 0o at command, and being a thorough, practicalworkman ti himself, as well as a merchant of sound judgment, vast a enterprise and great energy. Mr. IIogan keeps ahead of (fo the times in thie style, variety and finish of his goods, Po and sells at prices which defy competition. As a mat ". ter of interet, we aIll state that the King, Queen and fat all other groat dignitaries or1 the Carnival gave him thi their ortdels. ho CISTEn.riN.-- Ve call the special attention of sa our ri-aders to the card of Mr. I'. A. Murray, 19I Mags ine street. Mr Murray is one of the lmoo reliable and concientious of Imerchants, sand parties dealiag r with him may be assured that in all cases thiy wille in, eminently satisied with cisterns purchbasd of him. ha, lie. moreover, earrants all Ils work. Mr. Murray has the a large lot of ciistrrns, of from 1010 to 2(0,t') gallone ins capacity. w hich, being also of the best material and on wotkunanship, he will sell at prices to asuit the times ran We oneed scarcely add that Mr. Murray gives immtediate ef trtenteon to .all orders entrusted to him. Sw --- - --- - All who have valuable papers, books, jewelry, plate, etc . wish to keep thilrm safe. and the best way to do this is to pI"nttre from Mr. John W. Norris, ho. 27 lIst Canal street, one of Diebold & Kienzle's fire and bur- old 'lar proof safes. 'Ve have before us a long list of oacr 5 most prominent banks, 'oilorations and business stre houses, who a:e now using these safes and recommend rin them In the most emphatic terms. Mr. Nerrits has lh lhose safes of all sizes, and guarantees satisfaction to Ho alt purchasers. lye The famous " two-bit" counter is already cs tablished at Brselman a, being a month earlier thias usual. be, Government Among the Arab. ill The principles of government among the )r ; wandering children of the desert are based up- upon ancient custom from time immemo es- rial, and their civil institutions are well ids adapted to their habits and mode of life. F. Every Arab tribe has its chief sheik, or principal man, but he has no actual an be thority over the individuals of his tribe. of The real government of the Bedonin con sists in the separate strength of their dif tes ferent families, who, by their own individ ua- nal weight and Influence, maintain an even fix balance in the entire body social of each nd tribe.-, f a dispute arises between two o- individuals, the sheik endeavors to settle *y, the matter, but, if the relations of the par ed ties fail, aided by the sheik's influence, in ce making peace, then commences war be tween the whole kindred and families of a either disputant. The prerogative of the he sheik consists in leading his tribe against the enemy, in conducting negotiations .p ic peace or war, after consulting with the a- chief men of the tribe, in fixing the spot t- for encampments, and in entertaining dis id tinguished strangers. He derives no yearly r- income from his tribe or camp; on the le contrary, he is obliged to support his title a by considerable disbursements; he must ct maintain the poor, and divide his presents among his friends. He derives a certain ta income from the tribute he exacts from the ts Syrian villages, and his emoluments from e- the Mecca pilgrim-caravan. When a sheik ee dies, he is succeeded in his dignity by one is of his sons, or his brother, or some relation in distinguished for valor and liberality, but le not invariably. Sometimes a stranger to the family may be chosen, and occasionally e during the lifetime of the sheik, he may be deposed from his dignity. There exists in some tribes an offlcial am called the kady, or judge, who is selected is from men respected for their age, intelli gence, and love of justice. They wear no a special dress, and have no written code of laws to refer to, but they receive consider able fees and emoluments. A still higher r judge is mnebeehose, of whom there is one in 'every principal tribe, for deciding in 5 cases of great difculty. The punishments o inflicted are invariably pecuniary fines, . according to the nature of the offense, and, o as the amount of these is well known and dreaded, this has a wholesome effect upon s the unruly spirits of a tribe. The laws of o inheritance among the Arabs are those pre t scribed by the Koran, and, on a man's o death, his property is divided among the e male children in equal shares. His effects are known to the whole tribe, and, -if he o leaves children under age, the next relation takes them under his care. The law of blood-revenge is one terrible peculiarity which characterizes these strange children of Nature. In theory, it is that, whoever sheds the blood of a man, owes blood on that account to the family of the deceased. But not only is blood claimed from the actual homicide, but from all his relations, and this right is never lost; it descends on both sides to the latest generations. Sometimes the feud is healed by a certain fixed price of blood being stipulated to be paid to the nearest rela tions of the slain person. In consequence of a single murder, it is sometimes neces sary to remove many hundred tents, and the fugitives move from one tribe to anoth t er for more than fifty years, until at length a compromise is made. For those slain in wars between two tribes, the price of blood is required from the persons who were known to have actually killed them. Ap peals are sometimes made to the mebesshae to settle by whom a man may have been killed in battle if the accused denies the charge.-" The Alps of Arabia," by W. C. Maughan (Lodon .) S.arnH & McKE.-NA, GnocEs.-The extent, variety and completeness of the stock of groceries e'ered by Messrs. Smith & McKenna, of Noe.85, 87 and 89 Poydras street, is not surpassed, if it can be equalled, in the city. At least upon a par with the most exten. sivre establishments in the Southwest as to articles in general, they possess rare and unapproachable facilities as to some, such as teas. In this department they have secured the services of experts, resident at the great marts, whose special attention is devoted to culling the best samples and in taking advantage of the fluctua tions in the market. Thus the choldest qualities are forwarded to the New Orleans house; and the prices are such as cannot be afforded by others less happily favored. Retail dealers and others will fnd it greatly to their advantage to purchase of Mesers. Smith a McKe'nna, whose advertisement will he found on our Sfth page. Spring silks, at from &8j to ;8 c a yard, at I Braselman & Adams'. A good cigar is a great comfort, and with a large portion of our people one that is almost indispen sable. Those who wish to get a really fine article, either at wholesale or retail, will do well to call on Mr. Ceo. Alces, No. 185 Rampart street, below Canal. Mr. Aleso' manufactory is one of the largest in the country, he employs the beet and most experienced workmen, and uses the choicest quality of leaf tobacco, imported directly by himself from Havana. In this branch of home industry he has deservedly gained a leading position, and his energy and prompt and honorable dealings meet the confidence and patronage of nour people. - ---- - ~ - -- t We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the advertisement in our Supplement or ci the well-known and influential wholesa:e grocery firru of Schmidt & Zeigler, 49, 51, 53 and ISSouth Peters (formerly New Levee) street, between Graesr and t Poydras streets. In their spacious stores they have p every article of groceres and provisions sequired for a family use, which they wall supply to the retail trade at o the lowest market prices and on as liberal terms as any ft bouse in the country. With an experience of many m years and sample capital, they are enabled to give entire hi satisfaction to all who favor them with a call . We are sure that all of our readlers are con- l linced of thie wisdom of having a life insurance policy Ia in a good anld suvent company. We advise those who lo have not yet availed themselves of this protection to their families, and those who wish fo increase tiheir ' insurance. to call on Mr. F. 1cC. Swain, No. 10. Car COE ondelet sitreet, local agent of the American Life Insu rance Company, of Philadelphia. Tle American is one :f the most eliable companies in the country, and Mr. at Swain is a gentleman whose energy, promptness and fair dealing, has made him a host of friends. Our readers will find at the extensioe estab lishment of Mr. D. M. Hollingsaworth, succeseor to the old and popular house of R. Marsh enmann & Co, Nsae s 54 and 56 Baronne street, between Comuon andl Gravier T streets, a very large and elegant 'tock of bugglesp car. riages, phartons, children's carriages, velocipedes, etc. -lhich he will sell at prices to auil the times. 'Mrla Hollingeworth is one of our most liberal and progress. T lye merchants, and those who deal 0ith him may be certain of being well pleased with their purchases. See Supplemeut for Braselmen's usual inter 0tgis advertilsament • t @W t aldin m~se eOaet the new the In the Mle.less COatioUe of Jan. sed we and an interesting account of the no- of Rev. Father Besiseux,of the Con pell tion of the Holy Ghost and the ife. Heart of Mary, In the distriet of Ga uik, amid the burning sande of Africa. an- account Is written by the Abbe Durand be. member of the Geographical Society on- Paris, and is as follows: Father Bes lif- went to Gabon with some of his bret id- and began to clear morally and physi ren that fertile, but dleoult soil. In I18 ich was named Vicar Apostolic of the wo Guineas. To Christianize, orcivilizeAf tie its inhabitants must be made to acquire ar- habit of working. To attain that end, In assembled in an Agricultural estabi' be- ment, which wa' also for Arts and Tr of the children whose parents consenteA the entrust them to him. Now, the blacks st inconceivably indolent; they despise fr manual labor. When they saw their he dren working at the cultivation of the sot and learning various trades, they co is- ered themselves outraged. Many a ly was the patient vicar abused by he Nevertheless, he was not discouraged, tie went on giving the example. For t set years, spade in hand, he worked away its the clearing of the Mission-grounds, in fine plantations, and introduced the cul he of the cocoanut-tree with several e 'm useful plants. To this he added the b uk lug of cattle. In this way, be use ne the blacks to the idea of working. S on the Bishop, the Superior of the Missi ft so honored by the civil authorities,-a to ing themselves to these labors, the b e were no longer ashamed to imitate t e In order to encourage them, the Mi'A afterwards gave them whatever plants al seeds they required. ed Meanwhile, Father Le Berre comp a Grammar, a vocabulary, and a Catec 50 in the Pongonese language, and the es of lishfient progressed. A number of r- native kings sent their children there to or brought up, and many of them rends ie Important services to the colony. in Mission school now contains three undr children belonging to the Gabonese, P gonese, and Paoninese tribes, undoub the precious elements of future centres civilization. in MR. CARLYLE ON CAPITAL AND LAnOL ee The following letter from Mr. Carlyle Sir J. Whitworth, touching some phi e thropic intentions of the latter towards workpeople, was read recently by the H te and Rev. W. H. Lyttelton at a meeting n the Stourbridge School of Art:-"I hu read of your offer on behalf of the thri workpeople of Darly, and of the thank acceptance of the same by the dis authorities of the place. I cannot resi Y the highly unwonted desire that has ari d in me to say that I highly approve and plaud the ideas you have on the snbj n and to declare in words that in my opini ur nothing wiser, more beneficent, or wo d of your distinguished place as a master workers has come before me for many g year. Would to Heaven all or many the captains of industry in England had soul in them such as yours, and could as you have done, or could still furt co-operate with you in works and plans the like effect! The look of Engls is to me at this moment abundantly omin ous, the question of capital and laborgrow ing ever more anarchical, insoluble by notions hitherto applied to it, pretty cer tain to issue in Petroleum one day unl n some ether gospel than that of the Die Science comes to illuminate it. Two thin are pretty sure to me. The first is th capital and labor never can or will a together till they both first of all decide doing their work faithfully throughou , and like men of conscience and hone a whose highest aim is to behave like fait a ful citizens of this universe, and obey Ib eternal commandments of Almighty G who made them. The second thing n that a sadder object even than that that is a coal strike, or any conceivable strike, ' the fact that, loosely speaking, we may .t all England has decided that the profs e blest way is to do its work ill, slimly, swi ly, and mendaciously. What a cont e between now, and say only one hund a years ago ! At the latter date, or still mos r conspicuously four ages before it, all Es y land awoke to its work with an invocatio a to the Eternal Maker to bless them in tk r day's labor, and help them to do it we Now, all England, shopkeepers, workm all manner of competing laborers awak t as if it were an unspoken but heartf prayer to Beelzebub, 'Oh help us, th great Lord of shoddy, adulteration, as malfeasance, to do our work with the ie imunt of slimness, swiftness, profit, a r mendacity, for the Devil's sake. Amen.' The Saturday 1:ieic thinks that the old p verb, that obeying is the best school i commanding, is merely a pleasant platitude " People act rather from impulse than priD pie, and therefore a man of strong will is a to be insubordinate in youth and imperio when he is grown up. In spite of all soon reasoning, we suspect that the best command ere have often been very unruly school-boy Whatever may be the case in matters of pr. tice, this is certainly true in matters of open ion. The young man who most readil, receives the teaching of his masters is nr rdestined to originalit in later life." Jou PrlNTrct;.--Ve ask the particular at tentlon of all merchants to the card of the Eure Pres. 33 Natchez street, which will be found in c Supplement. This printing oflice Is run by two thi oughly practical printers, Mr. A. !. Miller, ira ye foreman at the Pelican and other printing establi ments, and Mr. J. P. Hopkins, late of theFiredy, whi had lsuch a large ran of custom. They are men ofjudi ment and taste, and taking a pride in their busia always see that all jobs which leave their office arel the best style. Do not keep on as heretofore p5$ large prices for inferior work, simply because yeo ha long been dealing at a place or because you have friend somewhere, but take a business view of the c and give your patronage where it will give you an 5 cept.ble return--at the Eureka. Before leaving town, strangers should c]I at Braselman's, to see the elegant dress goods. 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