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erelag Star an. Catholic Messenger rwt ear.s3Al sUUAT.rA JA=ArT is ire (CmUalasd ftem es pgs.) But remember., that as long as Ireland re. mains a more province. his laet words will ttestify to Irish hmillation, they will tell the world that we are not yet worthy to trace an epitaph on the spot where that true-hearted Irisbmas found lie lat repose. (Applanse). The permanency of Emmet's fame shall remain itet wbhile memory holde its eat among the facaltles of men. There were many incidents in his extraordi nary career of a chareacter well calculated to touch be oehorde of homan sympathy and to creete interest in the breast of people having no political relationship with Ireland. With the greatest rmanes of mind, Robert Emmer possessed a bear thatb was susceptible to the tendereer -suotion. He cooeeived an ardent affection for the daughter of the illoustrious patrios, John Phl pot Carran, and hibe affection for her, intenimed by his own poetic imagina tios, wee only seeeed to his love for Ireland. Swab Carran recipreoated the feeling of the patriot Ohief and in the disastrou event of his perieshed fortenes and mourfol and non timely death, her happinese was considerably involved. It not alone destroyed her bopes of earthly bliss, but, sadder still, it had the effect of trameferming her lnto a raving maniac ! And when. In obedience to the demands of society, abe wee forced to leave her retirement and ap pear in public for a time. *be was obeerved to more sheet lake one abstracted, for her heart lay bemseth the tomb of Emumet. and all ber thoobghts turned lacessantly toward herlover's grarv Weeahagton Irving bas traced with his disamond pea the history of her trials and mis fortunes, sad be tells ma that " she sought by exile on the continent of Europe. far away from the scenes of her early life, to blot ots early memories; but the sanashine of Southern skies ould not dispel the gloom that had settled on her soul." 8he wanted away in a slow and hopeless decline, and at last saak into the gravre, the victim of a broken heart. And yon know, ladies nd gentlemsen, thbat it took the magical lyre of Moore, Ireland's national poet, to pre serve in appropriate numbers the memory of Sarabh Courran's fidelity. Shd i far from the lad where her young hero sleesa And'overa sre reond her stghing; But rely she turns frm their gaze and weeps, For ber heart in his grave is lying. Pb. singe the wIld eng of her der native plains, Every maos Chas he leved awahanlag; Bat little they think who delight is her strain,. How the heart of the minstrel is breaking. SHe had lived for hslsre. for his country he died. They were sit that Is lfet had entwined alm. oNor rao shed the tears of his ceentry he dried. If or long shall hi. love stay be'ulnd hlm." It would be impossible for me to enumerate, moch less to speak, suitably to-nightof all the men who have fixed their fame in Irish history by their devotion so Irish liberty. But there are two names, nos less worthy of being honored than those I have already spoken or, and with your kind permission to these two I would now brietly refer. (Applasoe.) In my humble optinion, no two Irishmen can he tamed who accomplished more for Irish ',at:onalety, thoogh working on different principlee. Those two were ,A5tIEL OPCONINELL ADI, THOMAS DAVIS. Srrenrndonas applause) Their lives did not terminate in prison or on the scaffold or on the held, but they sacrificed their whole existence to the canuse of Ireland, and I feel, therefore, as ready to do honor to t heir memory as if they had died sword in hand on some Irish hillside driving off the rolibers of their country. (Ap Iplanse.) I don't auk you to endorse, in every particular, the pol:cy of Daniel O'Connell, but I am not, therefore, unprepared to pay litting reverence to the memory of that man whom Ireland gratefully remembers as the hobampion of her religious emaneipation, and the fearless de. fender, for half a century, of her inde structible nationality. (Applause) I think ri was tt'ing, perhaps proviudential, that when, after a struggle of over six hundred years, Ire ::and's sword was biroken, a leader should come who would vindicate the _atioa.l rights of has cotnutry by alppeals to the principles of Justice and Truth. Beitng of that opinion. I can speak of rthe tactics etiployed by lCernuaeI dturing the struggle for emaicilpatiutit oly in the laIguage of the heartiest pr&Ase at... the highest adwliua tion. (Applause) There are those a Lo beiaeve, and I respect their opinion, that when lie nougbt to achieve national indeperndence. tid wlhen, las they allege. he had the piower. he shoulld have adopted those vigorous nmeaantree which iwa'e produced succse in otlher lauds, where rut i were found with suftcretit courage and se-ii. tienial to srind Iup for the libeirnties of tIcir conttry. But ii you would contemplali.to ,ine who com. bined, in the very highest degrerr, iany of the noble iualaties for with Ireland'b patrious havne been distingucsheld, you must ti upon, Daniel O Counela. (Appla.use.) lie redectedl the cLh..acterietis .Ii ritoiwf te grlatest men of the Ihia race. ' unsi:d,, rtihe clouetuce tof Gireatian with tLet courage it Wolf Tour, the in trepidy- of Lord Edward Fitzgerald wi th the wiadomi oi Edaloal HItaurke, ithe htnor If Swifr witla ttae wit 0: Sheridant afue the et tbaiUasu' of Elmmear C ar ta a lae tenderiCess ofi Moore. (Applalusle ) A very rapdl glaince et that portion of Nh ,.la blaa.t wich hears thie footmarks of te:r Irish TI'ribunea' is aticient to indicate the large euaeua e at gratitude that Ireland owes to her departed run. Aflter 1-vJ when Emtlet's nmovement bad sank in the darkness of defeat, the cause of Catholic freedomn in Ireland hadl fallen into the biands of one of the weakest political parties that ever sprung up in that country. This patry was composed :;riucipally of members of the Catholic aristocracy ot whom Lord Fangal was the leader. This Iparty was afraid to invite the co'noeratiotn if the people in the move ment. Toils arty contenlted itself with send ing loyal addressee to the government, as if the path of servalaty were tho airest, road to emsancipation, stad thie dIegradiug state of things contiuated util I)auiel Ot2Con tI1 as ounrd the durtctiot of the national tortes Whetn he did, asia, thrn these wahining servie urstaocrtat welt lrfltlht aa'de to tatke rottit for a larn) -- [AIhplaa ai 1- when he did, to a'aunaaed it. i .saol,, Associiat ion tat the stolitLI graionua ItI dItlocracy, a lower whiCh tho lnlrister ha ihe could corrUttt .aind which no tarisroni wall, could euclre. lAll dlatHe.) Atd fri,,, that very hour the con -ciefice of thle Etaglis a l at itrntent hecatloe utl *easy on the qluestoln ift Catholic entanc;paatan. I Applaeus.) 1 honor U'Counell, aad lI adtlire Ilanctharaeter locause ho was one oit tbh tairt Irteh llllltlciane tt eaetta and act upon the great tinth tiret ~ro pountded by John P'hiljllt Curran: thai peoaple rtre the trIuO source of political power. (Ap plaeus.) 1 honor YContnnell, because itt all the vicissitudes and Igreat temptatione ot his ca reer, he wan always true to the great hentiment of Irish nationality. (Applause.) During the short time thet I have represent ed an Irish constituency Iu Londoit, I have been called upon to raise my protest against a very different statement made with regard to O'Connell by a living degenerate nephew, who now misreprecauts the Borough of Trajee. (Applause. ) This gentleman-this honorable gentleman, \ if you pleaee, had the audaoity to tell the Euglibh Commons that Daniel O'Connell wis no nationaIlst at all. Well, It was safer to tell that in the House of Commons, than on the hustings of Tralee. But I am glad to know tha It did net go unoontradleted and that we have In the apeeches of O'Connell the moet rample rethtsteons of the oaloany wbhih thie 1legenerate nephew intended to afBx to his -aame. O'Coneell' epeechee were my earliest political lesons, and I thiak I imsmber a SIn a speech which he made as a meet. g o the Repeal Assoolation. wbieh was beld in the city ofDablits on the 1Mbt of April, 1810. "We have assembled" said e, "o take rt in proceedings that will yet be aaics the history of our country. Yes. this 15th day of April bshall be a memorable event in thn gals of Ireland. it shall be referred so as - day on whicb the lag of Repeal was unfeull and I *hall fearlessly keep it saferled tiUU·Jh day of scces shall arrive, or the grave shal clseeorer me. ad on m tomb shll beo scribed--Bedled a reeale." (Applause.) With tbat declaration, O'Con l's sub qeent career was perfectly coosistent, travelled from town to town difesinag a spirit of independence into all classes of his country men. He assembled them in the market place, in the school rocm, sometimes in the oharcb where the altar erected to the God of Truth was also dedicated to the GOD OF rMEEDON. (Applause.) Sometimes he assembled them en the bleak hill side, and thee told them the story of England's crime and of Ireland's degradation, and stirred for the frat time In cold and apathetic hearts the alumbering spirit of National freedom. (Applause.) We honor O'Connell as the champion of rell gions liberty and religions toleration. (Ap plause. Speaking at another public nhetilng, in the very morning of his political career, in the year 1l10, this Irish Cathoelic leader, this representative of a race that you have been told is steeped in bigotry-.ab ! that isa calomony which most be nailed to the counte of American opinion), this representative of Ireland, pcr arcellexce, said in the morning of his political life, "If the Prime Minister of England were to offer xe Catholic emancipa tion to-morrow on condition that I eshould forego Ireland's right to a native parliament I wonld ding CATHoIC 3!iXCIPATION TO TAP wlsDs and I would clasp to my heart the glorious independenceof my country." [Applause.1 Every evidence was givren in the life of tois great loan of his earnest solicitude for the Irish people. Bit his human sympathy was not bounded by the four shabores of Ireland. No, his heart felt for the sofferings of common humanity, and the dearest wish of that heart was that victory might light on the banner of the patriot wherever it waved in the breese. [Applause. ] It is safe, therefore, to say that although every other fond recollection shonld desert the hearts of Irishmen, they will cherish the memory of him whose body lies monldering in Glasnevin, but whose name shall forever bold an honorable place in Ireland's his tory as the martyr of Liberty, the friend of hubomanity and the defender of the Christian Church. [Applause ] With reference to THOMAs DAVIS, [Applanse. Be was one of the young and ardent followere of Daniel O'Connell, who early grew tired of peaceful constitutional agitation, and frons the establishment of the Nation newspaper, to the day of hia ntimely death, for be died at the early age of 33 yearts, when his brilliant intellect and noble faculties were ripening, and he had given promise of accomplishing great things for his natiroland, he was the recognized head and leader of the "Young Ireland Party." The leading membereof that party, Meagher, Mitchell, Martin, and even O'Connell himself, have left on record their acqnalltied admiration of Davie' character. He died in the year 1-45, justtwoyears before O'Connell did. and when the intelligeice was brought to the Irish Itberator, he shed big tears of sorrow for Ireland's loba-tears of gratitude for the services of her departed son. (Applause). And if we are to be practical here to-night. we shall ask ourselves what truths did he teach, who exercised so commanding an in tluence amongst his compatriots. Well, he taught that our nationality should be so con stituted that it should contain and r p resent all the races of Ireland; that it shouldl not he either Celtic or Saxon, ,ut ibat it . should be Irish; that Ire land's ipolitics should not be regarded as the prioperty of anoy particular class or creed; biut that all classes and creeds should be asked to rrcogtuze the sovereignty of the whole Irish Nation. (Applause). That foreign domuination I should not be allowed to erect its altars on the ei: taint containeds tlheashee of the Druids and I which was eanctilird with the blood of Christ Sisa irl Marti r:d uring a struggle of a thousand earre; and, tinoally, Davis taught what every free nation feels, that liberty is worth the sacritice of all that miau holds dear, and that they alone ldeserve to enjoy its blensings, who are willing, if necessary, to purlchase them pith their he art's most precious blocd. (Ap plause). I have plaket olf OConnell as a friend of irit ersal liberty ; no also was Thomas Davis. lIe had no narruo conception of liberty, be was its triend tinder every sun, his sympathy was on the side iof huIusnxty oi every oppressed land. Do you want a jeauntiful examnple of his ira of !tierty t Then take his dasbing poem t! cuHt A STEED. r,1, for a s ed, a rashingiteed, o rda bLshixrrgscia* tar. 1T' hult truin hIilellteous Ita tie Austrian's Ies brnsar Ti, stock their iunxa's. Ainn strew their bohears, And scatter their lags star. Oh: .i s teelo. a rushirg steed, and dear Plolaund gathere~d around, lu . iie her eirc:e of savage fues and laash thrme upunth hground: for hold my iand While, on the laid A foregnfu fee wse fruiound. 0h1 ' r a steed, a rushing ateed, and a ride that never lxilrd, Ani a tribe of terrible prairie men, by desperate valor Till "Stripes ansd Stars., And Russian Carse. ts Ilre the Red Indian qlailed. S' iii a reed,l a rushing steed, on the pains of BIn Adcta n Iiired lhosand cavnliers, to charge like a kill tine ,hhiet were red. Like a eowardty caravan. 01 Ix t ,iril, a rushing steed. vih ttie Greek, at Ox x.' e In the Svit ner Iphltani. when tie Morst msen Lxkxe i pineclad l11I1 Uy a e n raribynahend wnIr lloeie i the inti xnoc. l cL x( sedi! a rushing ntcenx, onhthe iirraiteix of A;nd I~ 01 Ilquad m ste ad t deh U netherI ar e rally tol tie. ica.~ue. A) hundllY redyrst. And Holldnd urds iiiawn up tongg.e see he WiiiL '.ruceixi~xxt Osi.nuCL kpiain Oh! fi' a scie, a rushing uteeid, xd tiye (xtrodcu of Oxrx txxoi eu onwrxne rsiely to foo. s they o r xringl to A iifixredi yarit,. And busel~d's guards Drawn out to engage ins there. Oh f oronttoed. arushing steed, apn any )ax canus st alt. Or else. ir aen wltn a acid on foot, or gofarding a la gisorod wapll. P.~r Irreedou. ~eigh. in Sashleg eght, To conquoer it then to ra:l. (rreiiiendous anil continued applause ) Thus tar 1 haer been tracing examplee of public virtue among put generations, bnt I do not admire that kind of patriotic gratitode, which expends itself entirely on the lanrela of remote struggles, and Ignores the pnblic virtue for which the living generation of Irishmen has been as proudly distinguiahed as any of Its predecessor,. (Applause,) Let me tell yon, my friends-and what I tell yon here to-night I have stated in my place in theEnglish House of Commons-that on the 23d day of Novem ber, 1867, a tragedy was enacted [A roice, 'aa marder ] la thearte etof Manchestera Mogtd o tI whie the. world was taught er of the libhes & elf- seedAe. On that day three brave Irfebmep laid down their lives for their country and their coanty's friends. And "greater loyethban this no man bath, than that he shoeld lay dow bhis life for hi. friend. Iwill not attempt to give expression to the e)tal hbetred or the ster resolve that took r to illlionse of Irish hearts on that mem oiable day when the martyred three gave their pediee to the execeutioners and Tnaar souzra To azAvax. (Applause.) Bet I shall never forget bow Ire land marked her appreclation of that act ol British viedletivmess, by which thoee three young men were sacrileed on the publio scaf fold. On the day that a proceelon, number iog one hundred thoueand parsons, walked athrough the streets f the Irish capital to do honor to the Manheseter martyr, I had an opportunity of witneseinl one of those ex hibitions of national feeling which ocor only on rare and Important ocesiona In the history of any coun . On tbhat day I poshed my tray through the erowded streete of Dchlin to that spot in Thomas sreet which is coWascaATms Br THA aLoon of Rohert Emmet [applIase], and there await ed the arrival of the proceseelon. Well, it ap proeaebed the- hallowed place with a tread grand and steady as that of an army advancing in battle array to fight for a nation's freedom. LApplanse.] There ippeared to he some donbt on the mines of the marshals as to whether it would not be more appropriate to paes by in solemn silence, but when the front rank of the mighty colnm arrived at the sacred spot, ob! there was doubt no longer: the full tide of patriotic feeling burst ont on the evening air. A shont arose from that snblime mass TLAT SHOOK THIE OLD CITY OF DUBLIN FROMl END TO E1D and rolled, in long sounding echoes, along the raver and bar. LApplause]. And thus the principles of 18d03 and l16: were shown to be identical, and Ireland paid double reverence to the martyre for Irish liberty. [ApplauseJ. It does not become us. for we are men, to shed tears over the fate of thoee who died for Ireland. There is more practical work foe Irishmen to do. We mnst take up the struggle for Irish liberty, which the martyrs only abandoned when they abandoned their lives. We must adhere to the faith of which they were the glorious apostles. to the faith which teaches as that Ireland must first become free, then she may join the brotherhood of nations in laboring for the freedom of hubomanity. [Ap plause] Let not the servile and ounworthy, the self loving, God-forgetting crew hope to understand that noble creed. I tell you, the creed of Irish liberty is the very antipode of sl8fishnese It is held in all ats purity and follness by those alone who are convinced, as Ireland's martyrs were convinced that individual happiness is impossible so long as we are cooWfloonted with the sight of national misery. And the one great duty of Irishmen, as well as of all members of the human family, is to sacrificee self for counntry-sye, and higher still, country for humanity. And thos help to bear one another's bartheos as best we may on the road to that state beyond the grave, where, thank God, oppression and slavery shall not reign any more. [Applause]. Oh! 'nere are wuany who call themselves friends of freedom and lovers of their country. and who are careful to exhibitit on convenient opportunities, but who shrink from the ranks when hard week is to be done and disaster threatens the national canuse. It was nnt so with the men whose names I have uttereed here to-night. Theirs was the spirit that might be broken, but that never would band. They advocated their country's tight to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," as proudly in the dock as on the public platforom. They confessed their political bent with daunotless courage, in the dungeon and on the scaiffold, and I aol sore that when the histori an Suds his pathway illumined by THOSE STARS IN GLORY SKtY, he will panse in the record of their heroism and he will say : Oh! these were the men who when great times came, endeavored to -cee theni,and who, despising alike the Itireats. the tyrant and the miserable scoffing '.f Wave songht faithfully to elevate anal purity the country and re encircle her hrov with adliode of national glory. [Applause 1 " Sir," said a fierce lawyer. "d. you, e o your solemn oath, swear that this is n t. your hand-writing 1" " I reckon not," was the cool reply. 11"Does it reaemibli 3i u:a writing 1" " Yes, sir, I thiuk it ilopt.' " Do tou ewear that it don't ii-remhle our writing 7" " Well, I do, old ht-iat." " You take your solemn oath that this wri' toge does not resembile yours in a cil *Ie lettirt ' ` Y-o-ea, sir." " Now, how do you klnow "1 " 'Cause I can't write." Huisui ioiAi- -We have receivel a esumple of this soap, a hlch is now Ising lntrodne.l to the people or thin state through the agency of the well-known tirm of Bulko & Thoiipeou. d6 Tchoopitoola. street It in ofa peculiar greenish color, and is claimee to be the obet novel and behost family soap rever ofered the AmeirlEcan public. It has all the qualitieso the cele brated Irish lleaching saap. and clothes washed with it are said to look whiter and cleaner than when washed rwith other soaps. The Irish soap is put up In pound bars only. fu'l weight, sixty ters to the Lox. All grocers should get a supply of it from iemars. Burke & Thomtst n, as the demnsod is growing rapidly. For business suites call on Pierson &. Hews, 13 and is Casmp street. TRuG TO NATURE -When you want a cor rect picture of yourself or some friend, go to bthe Upper City Photograph Gallery. No. !7, Magazine street. opposite the Market. here Mr. J. H. Kamner is pres pared to do all work in that line in the finest styleof the art. Ite will furnish beautifully fnished cartes de risites at tO per dises: also tembrandts equal to any produced at the sost celobrated gallerics of the country. lie aIll asIo pay special attention to cipi-isg olii picltres CGiving the best of work and low prices tie gusran ne tatisflctIos to all who call. A thionhaud grocers have Irish Soap. Ilirke & 2iivmpeon scill Trit Itl:MAc IlIaiii.-r0 give it strength anil 1-atrt. ti loprore its toxture. to prosrnt tie falilig out and to qulico ita growth - in short, to eake it as in teoded, the crowning luretoal charm if ibolh zeta. this I the cork Iaurce!tsr Cneooiiie -ill accomplichb Ii rfithtblly oscil. There is a atimulatiing property In this preparstion wlibh greatlj asitets the troeth of the fibres, at the name Slice readerrng themr smooth, silky and c seic. FoLr R.-We aisk the special attention of our readers to the card of the vell known nrm of Wmi H. Matthews & Bro., TI Peydras street, who have o ls'ge amount of flour on hand. They are also ciorinl n! oi barrels of corn meal. Saxor PoTATons.-Mteere. McGrath & Comp ton. Il0 Poydras street. have received another lot of most excellest ,eed potatoes, as will be sees by tbair advertlsmeni on the ffth page of to daysa Moraze BTAL One price, and that the loweet, at the great caothilg honsa of Pieoena & esew, 13 sod I. Camp street To-morrow Iteesra. Levy Bros., 5d0 Magazine street, wll selL sixty pieces dreem eods, is all shades, at rely t5e a yard. osna aws_ aware.· GEN.EAL XFWB ITEMS, On the 4th Bishop Gross, of Savannah, sailed for New York. Meta has lost 10 00 inhaobbitants since its annexation to Germany. The Gulf Hotel, Pas Christain, was burned to the ground on the 12th. In the British Empire there are now one bhundred and twenty five Catholic prelates. There are between three and four thou sand miles of railway in Ireland, costing about $100,000 per mile. In a few weeks the doors, altars and pews for the Rgvannah Cathedral will be received from Baltimore. The Irish hanks have a capital of about $50,000,000 in gold. The shares are worth at thia day $150,000,000. Mrs Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, has made $IO,000 by-novel writing in the past eight years, ad ehe says that " Infe lice" is her novel d'adiesu. Wm. I Randolpb, of the firm of Ran doltf, Singleton and Hardie, one of the most distinguslahed lawyers of New Orleans, died in Virginia on the 8th inst. The feeling of alarm in Europe at the near prospect of war is unbated. Little Denmark Lis fortifying herself, and little Holland is reorganizing her army. The Marquis of Ripon, for years Grand Mlaster of the Masonic Order in England, but now a dutiful son of the Chirch, has presented the Pope with £10,000 sterling. The Government has ordered the con centration of War vessels at Port Royal, S. C., in pursuance of a plan to make that port the headquarters of the Atlantic stations. The Duke of Norfolk. President of the Catholic Association of Great Britain, calls for nsubscriptions to aid the per secuted German priests. The Duke subscribes $5000 and Cardinal Manning $1500. Cardinal McCloskey has contributed fifty dollars to the Centeenial Fountain of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. Some time ago Archbishop Purcell subscribed the same same amount to the same cause. No less thane 23,400 persons paid "one shilling" each to see Holman Hunt'spicture "The Shadow of Denth," during the five weeks it was exhibited in Leeds. England. As a speculation this picture has been an enormous success. The jury in the case of Eston vs. the Baltimore and Potomac road, for a refusal to carry plaintiff on an excursion ticket a few hbours after its date, rendered a ver dict for $300. Eaton sued for $5000. The case has been appealed. Among the bills introduced in the Ohio Legislature is one aaskiong Gen. Grant to dismiss his relations from office and ap point Union soldiers. Another bill im poses a fine of $50 on any one who takes the name of God in vain. The King of Sweden has been in the habit of commuting the death-sentences of murderers to imprisoment for life; but the number of murders has increased so rapidly that lie lately ceased interfering with the conrse of the law. "My dear," said a Cincinnati packer to his daughter, "a regular Murillo painting haa been discovered in our city." 'ls it water color, pa t" "No, my dear, it's a real hog's oil painting." And the young lady screamed, "Oh, Lard !" On tihe 13tbof December His Holiness gave audience to a large number of per eaos, among whom were two cornverts fron, Protestantiesm, who were presented by Mgr. Kirby, and brought to the Pope £11)0, from the Bishop and Diocese of Cork. After an absence of two years. the celelbrated Mrs. Gaines returned to Wash ingti,, last Sunday. She has been en gy.g' d for forty years in law suite con c-rr:iog her interests in New Orleans, and has spelt three fortunes in try ing to so cure her rights. Sister Genevieve, of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, in company with six other sisters. has been transferred from the con vent in Savannah to Augusta, Ga., to take charge of the school of the " Sacred Heart," attached to the Jesuits' ChIIch of1 thatI place. We aidh her and her piouscomi panmonus the bet success. Bishop Berkely, the Irish philosopher of Cionne. said that Ireland could support ",0H110,(00 people if she were enclosed by a brazen wall. She could not probably sup port in modern comfort more than 16,000, 1)(K) ; that is the population of Prussia. There are nearly that number of her own children scattered over the globe. The annual statement of the bnsiness of IRichmond, Va.. for the year 1873, shows an increase in the products of its manun factures of $6,042,514 as compared with 1874. Its commerce has also increased, and it boaste of both a larger number of vessels and of a greater amount of tonnage -the latter by about :j0 per cent. A Herald cable special says the Spanish Government hlas ordered from Herr Krupp's foundry, at Essin, six Il-inch breech-loading steel cannon, with 600 rounds of ammunition, for delivery in Cuba at the earliest moment. The contract lias been made at the special req ent of Gen. Jovellar. Each gun will cost $120,000. A wealthy trnt'emat of Genoa hasjust given '!0,000).Ixf) francs as a present to iais towofolks, in order that they may con tinur certain public works, among them the widening of the harbor. The 1)uke de Fcrrari is an exci-edingly wealthy and ben evoient man. lie is an ardent Catholic and a person of wide and liberal mind. What a splendid use of huge wealth is this! The pr'mgrees of the Church in Great Britain, and the peculiar section of British society in which that progress has chiefy been wade, are both illustrated by the cu rious lact tbat out of eeoen prolessors in the new Catholic University oh London, no fewer than ive are graduate of Oxford, two of Cambridge, and twt, of -rrlnity College, Dublin, all Protestant institutions of learning. The report on thre geology and resources of the region of the thirty-ninth parallel, from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky M~ountains, by Mr. Dawsoo, says:-" Prom what I could learn, I believe at the pre sent rate of extermination twelve tofour teen years will see thedestruction o what now remains of the great northern baud of befalo, and the trmrInation of the trede in robes and pecmean, in so far a. regards the constry north of the Missourl River. The Academy of the Russian Imperial Guard baa elected the Archduke Albert of Ausotria, the hero of Cuatozza, an honorary member, and the Emperor hassald"Amen." The Anustrian Archduke is reputed one of the best soldiers in Europe, and inherits the military genius of his ancester, the the Archduke Charles, who gave Napoleon more trouble than all the other comman ders of the Continent put together. If the Sultano continues to be sulky,the Archduke Albert will be heard of before long, we fancy. England is now expecting with enthusi asm the arrival of Lieutenant Cameron, who bas accomplished the unprecedented feat of traveling across the Continent of Africa from the Red Sea to the Atlantic ! Lieutenant Cameron, who was last heard of in May, 1874, at Ujiji, on Isake Tan ganyika, and who has long been given up by many persons for lost, appeared safe and sound on the 7th of December at Ben quella, near Loando, on tshe west coast of Africa; and is now on his way home, where he will be received by the Royal Geographical Society with unexampled honors. Washington society is said to be ab sorbed by the high rank and scenic dia play of the Rassain Minister's establish ment. The Minister and his wife go aboutne on visits of ceremony accompanied by a chasseer, who wearsa sword and a cap with a long drooping white feather. This bchasseur, sits on the box alongside the coachman, and dismounts when the carriage stops, and, with drawn sword uplifted, assists Her Royal Highness and His Royal Bighness to alight, and conducts them to the house, and then stands military fashico until they appear. The proceedings of the secret investiga tion of the steamship Pacific disaster, by Capt. Waterman and Jos. Hillman, United States nlospectors, are made public. They report that the accident was the fault of the officers of the ship Orpheus, and in consequence of steering wrong. The in spectors are unable to account for the failure of the Pacific to stop and back when the collision became inevitable, but that it was impossible to take steps for the preservation of life after thecolli sion on account of the panic among the passengers. It is better to be the son of a Republican President of the United States and a cadet at West Point than. the son of a prince of the House of Orleans and a lieutenant in the French Navy. Mr. Frederick Grant, a youth of less than thirty summers con siderably, has already become a lieutenant colonel io the American Army. But the Duke of Penthievre, aged thirty, a son of the Prince of Joinville, who is a lieutenant in the French Navy, and who has just ap plied for promotion. has been informed by the Council of the French Admiralty that be has not held his present grade long enough and must wait his proper time. Very pithy is the conclpsion of the St. Lonis Tintes, from the absence of Southern Congressmen from the late Centennial spread, at Philadelphia. This was not because they loved the Centennial less, but national economy more. Poor as the peo ple are, they don't banker after the free lunches of the lobby. We hope the latter end of this Congress may not be worse than its first; and we should specially regret the prerenceof a single Southern name in the list of ayes forany subsidy whatever. Singular and seductive forms mino of these will doubtlees take; but the Sourb ern Congressman is forewarned and should be forearmed. " Mr. Cox," says "Perley,"in tie lBos ton Journal, " in his capital article on i Congressional humor omits the best things l which have been said while he has been a representative, his modesty preventing his repeating his own boo mote. One of these was when the headers off when the roll was cealled were Oakes Ames. of Mas sachusette, and Archer, f' Maryland. The yeas and nays were called on a railroad grab bill, and Archer, in lh.* IndignantIi haste to vote no, tfirst reponded to the name of Ameoe and then to his own. This duplicate ' No!' was greeted with a b'.out of laughter, and as it subsided. Cox eorang to his feet, struck a stage attitude, and exclaimed in a mnournoful tiie, n' lnsatiate Archer, would not one suffice T'" It is a good year for girls. The ldanigh ter of M. Benoist, a Vendeean schotil oas ter, has passed a brilliar.t examinationn for the degree of bachelor of letters at the nDiversity of Poitiers, in France, and, the other day, the Berkbeck Institution, of London, a large and old college, distributed the first prizes in modern languages and 'i advanced mathematics" to three woman. "What is to become of tihe men if thie goes on '' asked Lord Chief Juslice Cock burn, who handed around tile medels. The old gentleman noticed the lack of a prize in English composition, and founded one of $100 for that purpose on the spot. Princess Lonise, in distributing prires at a girls' high school recently, offered ad ditional prizes for English composition andi ` for keeping accounts, as she considered that every woman should be able to keep her household accounts correctly and write a good businese letter." What fru gal and inetiiitd cal wires thoose girls of the Queen's do make, to be sure!-Spriinqyietld Ri'epubblican. There is one great and special source of ,atisfaction no iii.king iulctnse. at Peirctn a Hetwn preet ilothbia ir hue. C:I sad I5 Camp street, opetinoes the ladles, entrati eto tlh City Hotel. 'Isbt in. that they always tel patroL, the txait .iasirt) ndl n izzfe it tte toods offored. an.d Loeer try tt pI~sas or -my si rt.. clte as being of surio'-,r iptal ty. CllEAP DRY GOnDn.-At the CGreuetit Store, Nfo. 1. Iloorbon itiset, our reaz!e.. ean Mod so elegant ,tock of dry goods. imrefully eletetid soil autsrble ho tile osteon, st iricto which camnot aial to pleaos. They do bosinscs promptly sod cotrteounly, soid sli who call will bte satinactorily attended to. Very flue black alpaca at ict. at Levy Bros., 580 Msgssine street. Go to Burke & Thompson's for Irish Soap. ADVERTISING RATES OF THE " STAR.' &QpARM. On. { wo Tree 8i; On. lR c. ih Y'th Hwr. One................... $ $ 9 I9 1 0 1 30 Two.... . . 16 90 39 hreer.... 1s a1 98 e4 t remr................... 30 42 as W 1 1 nrr..... . . 30 I5 o 100 900 oust. ........24....... oM o o OIL A r SArW ! o maw es asek to M ~uar esaterr staY S Tbhough the wholesale asret I animation, and the retall batlema s .met. we ntce a mere epeftal taern commulty, based en the eieto v J-* state and Congreseieaml leogllazdea. beasie le In request at the beake sa at comesmoel! paper i la demand, d ta A.1 oar uaside quotations, sad mereoat restment eutaide of the mee erak " for some times eonsqaely the hbe beg activity Ia nearly all the leading eeurits. Ileularly In City Bonds and naew a both show as advance of folly three bhtee, week's quotation. ader the seo ae York, foreign exoebsge has imoeew eat Ilberal eales of rotton, the tseemet ha tat extent ls both foreign sald dhrn. otten hbs been Ia fair sap yly a d bas i demand for Zagland and the Coetlnk ment hase been of qafte Ilberaltstant with etronger for the better quaSlles madtrs easier for the lower grades. The nltewst Agricultural Bureaw estemtes the a lint in all the Statee at d per eat s wrWIum of the fibre emewhat below last ea thetkptsp of crop gathered to December let at gI the crop at not leen than 4,054,09agg than 4.15,o00O bates. The coumpuesna Mlls in the North in 1075 waI.sl .es. bye 1,191,397 Inl974, and tn the SsunmhI4Ute IDI M 128,5-'_ In 1874. The number of hl Iag eatrl (t nto the Norta and let In the gSeaih had the targest nnmber (908) in t he strydi (47) In the South. Tcbcco is qle and here. bat stroager and tending uwa deaar markets. The world's upply oe In es a 414,000 uhds, and the probablea s.ms Sugar Ia In moderate request at amebsagk mediom and lower grades of llass. meanwaa neglected, while the bettor qnaltiesaneeiasj,0 frm. Flour has been in moderate eheal y easier prices. Corn is unchanged. The Pak market is reported steadier, while ollamds n4de and Germaunae are lower; St. Pteterbega 10 changed ad Ausntralisa' higher. Pcevmaleasee. out say marked feature to notice. FnniL-Qnetatlous-lxcecz7mn Ape " per cent per a m ;At do.. tol o It St 1s; first claw mortgage doISper tops est Italian,a,ý nd grdI o. -te-; Gold lltdtol aeio. a Mdi f toc:8r N mas sea halfedol oar 30to i6. Mexican do. Pi;kCaoh e. Commercial Sterlig sot1' St9L, o Prbank e -144 l bank checking rate on per Teek Deass j Exraj and comumercial eight 7.1. t b COMMUEIAJ.. Carron- Act- ife; markeat o lower th o laeats morning for Ordinary i goer tw Mlrddbel g se el Fiddling. Week'. receiptsaU. batl e.. sper i'l end saeIsIS.55I Stock 130544. nary 8 ; Ordi any 93"; i ood L4awelo I I dung III ;Middling lid; Good Kidd 1o - The Lucasoge tsiegraM make e roeoynts Orleanse snce eptemer let.a h nged beas t pr last year-lacreae 145.107 balee. C le Siat a 2.Dr3.46 balen. aganst 2.01.497 yt ore _4m 3401.0.A Stock s tall t1pora.l.c6 be wepi o lot year-nocr e.e 433 . xense frne f. pall itSn,17 helen. aganet instI.i51,0tS-qncrssel8,574. Lear Tnacco-la bettr demand wing to le price. Stoken Bale 2000 hhde. Qo o toblee..xmjs oand rFactory Log ns onal; Low Lys3a M 1? m to to 8; Low eLeraf9 to o- edl m La tore Let 15 to if; Tsne Lea!i 1 to eeeotr as -suer-, [aoturacrvnzD Tonaooo.-Quietsaed eua ·Lhnq Supply good. k atra Flue 75 ton Si OO. Slo attn U ine Medium 61 to 65; Good Newiln or tas Common toued 4r to 50; Bright qoeanr Go. won Medium 47to .t'c; right Navy 1 nd Ss, l; Black sweet 40 to 6c; No. 1, 5 and Il Black seNi to55c; Navy Ilb 5I to 55c; Navy ads 531.5 lI;F y stylea Natural Lear Twint Package lto BSA LotilelSlA bI.0Lwh-Dull and net. Coums Ie pr Ib; Fair hte; Fully Fair 7c; Prime 7io; Yellow C. ed E0I; Whfte bo. LouIrduAa MoLasea-Ga lair demand at presl pritces. Common u to 35 per gel; fair 400n4dc, his 42 to44c; StrIctly Pnme 4 to 490" lioie 3GeM . EartetiD tL'OAm -trashed. Powdered and Mneo Tated - to 11 i per Ib; Bea Lens-to 1I4. lUoLitw aO tro -At wholele. 7P to 71 r gall.. ricn -In lair supply and modeate demand. onRl weaker. L.osioana. No. 2. 2 to 7o per lb; Cmar 4 1 to 410 . Fair e51 a ic; Good i to 0; Prise -tooL Coolces c. FLOt-Snpply fair; demand moderate PripaUttls IYwer. wnesidne lt Iio per bbl; Double xtra N40 to -; Low Treble attes 94 73 to-: Good TIeblo Eltls 15 5.1 to -; Choice Trehle xtre 1600to -teed Ps to BtI. or Choice Famity Extra. CoCnMar L-Detl and lower Jobblng at $-1o51 per Obl. Woleaallrg at 1- to! 4u. C:0. 1 I Scs - Suppty fair; demaed iodaslrs; pricne nib.arha d; mixrd SiUper bOohel; Choice Yelow, ;a:and te hATmSap. J3, Pi'l ; demand moderate; prices owr. Ornsarr 43 to -c; Prime - to 43c; Choice - teol. Busyt-Strongor: Chotoc - to 8le per I.0 the tin-Prices unachanged; sopply large; demand lets :rate; Orditary 9- to 10 per too; Prime $4s tll. and Choice 9- to 24. PooKt-Quzlet and unchanged. Mern 119110 to O1a5 bbl. Bacot'-tOsrhentee2 demaud moderate Shoams.. Ile per lb; Clear Itsb Soarc I:r},. knd Clear Sides 13. DRY baLTS. likay-l)emnad .anderaso. PrOM etrouger. hbniudercJcbb:ng at ,-; Clearlithidalld6 blear Sides 11}. iiLOAtU.It~t.i HBars-Call and lower' Onlieu?--ts -; F ar --o to-; ChiLce - to 14l Lwko-ln aermand and firm. pterce eltned lobblt at :',i 500db; Keg - to 1310. SIIAL'AYLT ItacOs-Doti at - to sle pertlb itoti- ititon Macket I- to 11 50 per bbl; TioI5 toel-. 05.",ntern 916 to 17.0. Isttrst -Chotce New York Gooben ltoel3eprtlb MISlium n to 3_c; Inferior'S' to 05c; Chowe WOO" to i ho ; Medium It in .SC; nrferior 15 to I" pa ib i:ltateFtcChiulro Western i.}: New York Crepnm t.'ilil-Mhtrkeral. extra No 1. lbt.1,49' ihl Lbl. I -: Kits. 3ito ; Ni. 1. bole. 1:0 51: } d';'(: do. 525: Kitcs. IJ; Nuo.- . Ibl·. $10 ill; } du.±rýdl 94 5.; KCite, 1 70I; So. 3 Large bb s. 1410'; do 1' ; io. 941; Kits. 1 3'1. t'idtlshDrums, $6115, bsait kiestinar. %.ot per bie Ollie-Lioaneed Oil-?- to 1ec per gallon telatdCwl Oi-17 to I3it: in lIib.. 43 to _g in cases Lairdnt .Oe toul i tI5er gallon. Curoi Oil !4 to l;c per It. COIN Se.d Oil - to -o. SLT-Is~atreolon Caree. -to 9icper sck. V" 95- to it U5. Turk's Itslad. 7,mc per two bitIStet l'ocket's loble Bal. 2 toll accordIng to eise Soat-Western, Sc perlb; New Orrleans Mit ri; German Olive ftc; Magnolia, 5; zt PalaOt' Cmastil I to. with a reduction on round lotn. tTAn CA~)lbOODull at I5} to -c per lb. fdaeT I'cwvcRS-4I5 to 115 for quarter bes, sade l medium per gross. itl)t ANDt Ceaclcna-Glnger Non., ee per lblt; Bread, 7e; Navy Ilread.4c; Lemon Snape. tI4; Ci' Itliscutrs. cc; Freoch Biscuits. Sc; Soda ' reoters, Butter dio. c; Boston do. 6c; Wine do, tac; SOPT 8c; Pic Niu do, 5c; Waterrdo, 410. Comret -Lower;Job Iota; Ordinary lpt0'Mf Fair t i In~lfc: Ood Iii to 220; Prime J*2.Llr, YaT-Jtb ltus-Imperial 33o to ci is per l' e rowdec I45 to 9I 30; H eon 3Soc to 9i li. Yeast 4.o to l9 J3; )atlong :Ilto g,'tc. ict: o AnD NuR.-Lemoss. -- 11 pers ot Itoismos t 55 to S'Ci; liansota to3 l711,.l Cilron zl~e pe it; Utcrasto, --to 7:'; Brst~il'fiw CI; Atnnroiii., 21j to~ltc; Flibeite, iii to ilceMI to~j Crr.htoiio ~tta $40· toi~~n 4 ml5 per 1(0. pece glctl Prtol.l~y-C'lit.Lokens 03011 to S C, jpo:'t Jo 1.10 lit l 3 5i1; )ttcks(- 8 o 10 4 .; Gseee(U i SIourltre SlC I) tie t" '0;. - ~sia ki,o;O--Weertet IS to toec per dloen. ottali Y H~I·Sis ASt) ti.titS VlOl¶AOLO5S-Appto I*tle S.- per lilol; ( iogirac to cii topic 1O per bito ~ iiit to let. ~ 0 r t l'.:.os A\Ih Pc~oo-Wcatern Bean' 51 t pel Nortitero :Il ?;ic iier lI; Givecn FesWJ~o-c perI Cow Pesor - to -c per bushel. _ ii;.IY-'i YiI: Isis IS. So iCC; Peaches· tlOc.0 Woo 2 li 2t; ~ l. pr doses; Ot lb $5 tO. L W\'ocn.-oitoilno~o clear. is, to 31c peri. lnet5 S~to~rt Iliirry.4t Itlit. Tem~ssstizit Green. Htl~~ieo-tr r Bolted, 0 to Ii; Country G~ Dry Fusst, iu to i1o. Taimow. - so It per lt. C~rore Siuso-S-- to(1 St pe on. s C'oor',naoc--Motaae hbia. Si an; Sngae hbde· lihdr. Poles. 551 per thoneetid iiL do.L. 645 Bciroilto;~ombstlo .Tute and HemIp, Ili t0o ySrd. Indilsllto ii. GnnnyBars-iJtoib sewed; Ulitin Twlnelo 1440110rn lb. NAvAL syongs--Ta 510 tog0 P Ptt; bs~~ itoel 5355 to 3Si Tuhrpentna 3S to 4Cc pelpj 1, Liv. Boroelt-Txan Iee von.~ lt quaelity.e 5350j1.e doitoot zom .7d,-te 935 Weiners 4.0-" __ Texan Hoge-47 o 0; Western do~.. P ceo'0,~ letd' o qulty 5 o5; Bid do. 53O l toSi ddo.~, ..sp Calvee~. 51oW 5 Yarlings SO to 610 Pricee of all winter goode reduced a 8. Benw, 13 and 15 Camp Street Yard wide calico at t0o. at Levi Bf0J't Go to Burke & Thomopeol'I fo~ 1d3L 0)