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ag Star and 'Catholic Messen or.
EW O r3J 69S 3 MY. MAT 0 55 15.
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.ase April 29, 87t -The Boly Father
audience on the 25tb of April to the
of the Chapter of St. John Late
who came to return him thanks for his
it in undertaking the cost of the
restorations in that Basilica.
oharitable foundations in Italy are
to speedy extinction. Neces
bas no law. The spoliation of Chureh
y availed little to stay the de
esof the eoxhequer. There now
but 20,507 lots of the ecolesiastical
unsold, and it is easy to see, as the
Ian Liberal newspapers confess with
a , that "this resource of the sale of
-:-leeIastical properties, of which the past
. isatries madese large a use, as it were,
Inow exbausted." The past Ministries were
~ef the Bight. The present Ministry of the
is determined to exert itself after the
. l fashion of poliation, and suppress the
'14 0o rations as their predecessors sup
the cleriaesl corporations. For it is
to assert that the charitable fonnds
s in Italy are vested in clerical manage
mett. That assertion is made merely to
blind the eyes of the ignorant, and to ex
dta prejudice against the clergy. The
t.' is that nine-tenths of the charitable
-lastitutes in Italy are vested in confrater
lities of laymen, or managed by local
,malcipal boards. If there has been mis
.management or peculation, in the matter of
these obarities, the blame attaches to the
lay admioistratorS of these funds, and not
.bt the clergy who have nothing to say to
eabm. If reform be needed in some respects
It would be easy to give the local boards
power to make improvements or alters
ioens. But the Government will not be
satiadled with half measures. The confis
'aisll of all this property held in trust for
.the pooris demanded in order to benefit the
impty exchequer of the State, and the real
property of the lay corpbrations must be
aood' by auotioa and converted into the
paper, whlch in the kingdom of Italy does
duty for gold and silver coin. The Gov
ernment on the 26th of April issued a de
e n ne nominating a commission of Deputies
and Advocatea to propose a plan for re
aaforming the Charitable Foundations. The
preamble to that decree speals of directing
these charities to a scope more conformable
with the new civilisation and the changed
condition of the times," in order to obtain
truly and efficaciously the intellectual,
.moral, and material improvement of the
peorer classes. It talks of"recalling these
astitutes to their principles, so far
le they do not contrast with the movement
-f modern civilisation and the necessities
of the population,'by modifying or rear
rnging them according to an impartial,
n:" lig-htened, and provident spirit of char
y It.n The decree itself is- very short. It
_ ominates a commission to study and pro
Spose those reforms and improvements in
the management of public beneficence
which are required by exigencies of civil
isation, and which are able to secure the
patrimony of the poor, and to further a
good and circumspect administration of the
.aid patrimony. The commission consists
of one Senator, ten members of the Cham
,er of Deputies, who are mostly advocates,
and two other gentlemen, one of whom is
Salso an advocate, the other being a princi
pal clerk in the Home Offce. The Sena
or Marquis Charles Altierl di Sostegno,
has already declined to accept the post.
The president of the Commission is Signor
Casar Correnti, a Councillor of State. The
total sum to be realised by the sale of
these charitable foundations is said to be
at least twelve hundred millions of france,
or nearly fifty millions of pounds English.
The institutes, whose lands and rentaare
to be sold, include hospitals, almshouses,
asylums, and all the chapter and Church
funds which have not been already confis
dated, besides other charitable donations
and bequests of various kinds.
Over three hundred French pilgrims ar
rived in Turin this week on their way to
visit the principal sanctuaries in Italy,
and to pay their homage to Pins IX., at the
Vatican.
General Garibaldi has received from
Victor Emmanuel a beautiful table, made
in mosaics, worth 300,000 francs. He has
had an angry altercation by letter with
some noted Republican, named Campa
nell., who assures the Oeneral that Repub
licanism will maintain itself in Italy with,
without, or against Gariba'di.
A branch or tection of :,a S-ciety for
" Catholic Interests has occupied itNolf with
promoting the cbservance in Rome of
holy das and Sundays. Count Adolphus
Pianciani, the president, has organized a
system which bids fair to succeed in ob
tarining the co operation of Catholic shop
keepers and tradesmen towards checking
the profanation of Sundays. The names
of all Catholic shopkeepers who close their
establishments on Sundays are printed in a
volume which is supplied to all members
of the Society for Promoting Catholic In
terests. This society includes by far the
larger number of Catholioc gentlemen in
Bpme, and it is understood that no Catho
11i will knowingly give his custom to any
of the shops, whose proprietors do not
earoll their names in the list of Sunday
Tan Cazsemar INsURANCE COMPANY..-The
twoaty-svrenth annual etatement of this tImebonored
lstitutie•, which we publish in another oolumn, gives
7the stroesa t posble testimony to the emolenry and
plpularity of its management. During the twelve
-meaths endnlg the 30th alt. the company reoelved.
" fe preminms, 535330 49., and though the losses were
.-mary, footing up 147,390 85, the net profits, after
L " tau stocbholders 10 per cent interest on their
Ssey, amount to the bsndeome sum of 65.958 75.
Sealsdes the Interest of to per cent oen capital, the
r"stees' resolved to pay 90 per cent li osh, afer the
SSI e t tu., to the insurers in the company who are
etitled to pertlipetion in the divirdend. The ezhiblt
of sa its alse very dleterling, showing them to con
Sof seerities of a maeet eoxellent charcter, san.
with the ecah on hand, 67,3308 04.amonUtng to 6535.
45 T1. With ltt of trstoees selected from amens the
eld merehants of oNew Orleans, and two sub expert
sae oaorteons geatlemes es President Thos. A.
us Bearetary NS V. Ogden, illing the
eseenatlive of, aesatlnoaed prosperlty of
ld Oesment may be neoddl as assured.
A dasirable cottage in Biloxt is offered for
at viey low gures to responsible parties. For
a nrd on 5h page, and apply to aether
S t aias, r to Mr. Jaoob Ott, 494 Cep
, ZaewOt55 aorve
Jhe boyd wesrs Baselmiaa & Adams have
, ..... lahanamenta gha sstu
MRIZOO.
ITS WONDERFUL RESOUROES.
Importases to Leaislasa.ef ltablishlag riseadly
Ooumsrcial Zalatlos.
The bill introdnoed by Mr. Gibson, of
Louisiana, into the House, looking to a re
liproclty treaty with Mexico, may strike
the inconalderate as inopportane, in view
of the political confuslon attending the
present Presidential eanvass in Mexico.
But those who best know the oondition of
Mexico are most sure that this confusion
will ore long result in order again; and
there can be no question- that the estab
lishment of friendly commercial relations
with Mexico is of the gravest importance
not only to Louisiana but to the whole
country.
Mexico is one of the very richest coun
tries upon the globe in natural resources
in minerals, forest products, and the fer
tility and versatility of its soil. It has
been estimated that it is easily capable of
supporting a population as dense as that of
China, which, in the eastern portions,is
supposed to exceed 800 to the square mile.
Yet the actual population of Mexico is only
9 275,000 in a superficies of 725,000 square
miles, or less than 13 to the square mile,
and it would be infinitely more prosperous
were its population ten times as dense. The
State of Tamaulipas, which borders on
Southern Texas, has only about 140,000
people, or less than 6 to the mile, while in
Sonora there are under 2 persons to the
mile. In Vera Crnz there are about 25 to
the mile; in Yucatan 18, in Guanajuato
70, in Hidalgo 60, and in Tlascala 90.
Mexico is waking up to the necessity of
encouraging immigration, and a book is
just now going through the Mexican Gov
ernment press, from the pen of Don
Manuel Aspiros, in which the Mexican
laws relating to immigration are explain
ed, and the attractions and inducements to
settlers fully set forth.
In a good many other respects our sis
ter republic has been considerably shaken
up since the French occupation, and in
spite of the- chronic diseases of revolation
and poverty, can point to substantial evi
dences of progress. There are already 10,
000 kilometers (6,200 miles) of telegraph
lines in Mexico, with 194 stations and
offices, three-eightbs belonging to the state
and the remainder to private enterprises.
The railroads have 375 miles operating,
and much more under contract. In the
way of coasting trade Mexico has quite a
little navy of her own, her domestic ton
nage clearances and entrances for 1873 74
approaching halfa million tons. Railroads
will doubtless bring wealth to the country
by developing the resources of the interior
and enabling the people to buy foreign
commodities, and the Government to re
model the tariff. As that law now stands,
Mexico collects $10,000,000 import duties
on a total importation of $29,000,000, and
taxes exports very heavily besides. In
some respects, however, the Mexican tariff
is far more rational than ours, and never
knew a Senor Morrill nor a Don Dawes.
Live stock, steel-bars, ship masts and an
chors, agricultural implements, machinery,
rails, coal, shooks, vessels, fruit, guano,
maps, seeds and plants, salt, etc, are ad
mitted free of duty, and the Mexican tariff
now tries to strangle the nascent industry
by first cumbering its raw material with
vexatious daties and then extending
"protection" to its manufactured product.
The United States take a little over
one-third of the entire exports of Mexico,
but sell back less than one-fourth of what
Mexico imports. France, on the contrary,
sellsmore to Mexico than she buys, and
Germany sells five times as much as she
buys. In the year 1873 74, Mexico's ex
ports included $25.000,000 of bullion, $1,
500,000 of hides, $1,000,000 each of hemp
and fine woods. $500.000 of coffee, $400,
000 of vanilla, $200,000 of live animals, and
$130,000 of tobacco. The exports of Mex
Ico, however, are nothing in comparison
with what they should be. A large pro
potion of the tierras oalientes is peculiarly
adapted to the production of coffee and
sugar, of which the world demands more
and more every year, as the circle of
civilization widens. The mines of pre
cions metals would probably be able to
quadruple their present yield if worked to
full capacity and with imiproved methods.
The tobacco crop is capable of being inde
finitely increased, and the hemp crop like
wise, the latter growing wild. As for the
peculiarly indigenous products of Mexico,
the commerce of the world would eagerly
take much more than it now can get of
euch precious commodities as logwood,
cochiseal, vanilla, sarsaparilla. jalep-root,
cocoa, caoutchouc, gutta percha, indigo,
anise- seed, pepper, tortoise shell, resin,
and the precious cabinet woods. Cam
peche mahogany, once so famous, scarcely
comes to market now, but the tree must
exist in the interior still The green turtle
canning busines of Guaymas might be
made to yield as much wealth as the oys
ter canning of the Chesapeake, and there
are millions in the pineapple crop and the
vanilla culture. The rich coffee of Urns
pam fetches a dollar a pound from con
noisseurs, yet none is in the market; the
ciuchonatree could be planted with great
profit; in Mazatlan, a native staple of cot
ton is produced and sold for 8 to 5 cents
per pound ; the frijoles crop is limited only
by the demand, and cheese and mescal can
be made in quantities. A cargo of sugar
from Tialcotalpam is on its way, as we
write, to New York. Tuxpan has coal,
and here, besidee, the sugar cane produces
5,000 pounds to the acre, corn can be plant
ed every month in the year, cotton grows
to be a tree, and the vanilla-bean, cedar,
mahogany, fustic, sarsaparilla, tobacco,
caoutchouc, jalap, anasahuite, coffee, plan
talus, pine-apples, oranges, mangoes, etc.,
are spontaneous products of the incompa
rable soil. The vine which produces the
vanilla-bean, a true parasite, grows so lux
uriantly that, when properly planted and
kept free of weedsby meansof the machete,
a plantation after the third year yields
from *400 to $1,000 per acre. No cultiva
tion is needed beyond weed choppino with
the machete; the bean I. dried in the sun
when plucked, and the curing is not so
near dificult as that of tea or tobacco, yet
a thousand beans, weighing ten pounds
and only as bulky as a dozen bnndles of
leaf tobacco, are worth from *130 to *180
on the spot. An aore of bananas, which
needs no replanting, will yield from *100
to *125; and pine-apples, planted once in
twelve years, produce 4,000 to the acre,
worth six oets apiece. The tobacco and
the loeq ef Tuaxsa are beth awitneua1
springs In the vislkny predeing petro
leum and a qtaBity of aspbal very valual
be foro am purposes. .
Givetezso peace, more population, and
of a lass appreang the necest ftor
good roads, and the development of the
republic will be aurprisingly rapid. No
thing will more effectively saccelerate that
development than a well-considered treaty
of commercial reciprocity with this
country.
HOW 'g T" WORLD " WOMRd.
From an editorial in a reoent number of
the Cincinnati Telegraph we take this ex
traet :
The world-that is, the great mass of hu
man beings who life only for this life-
works very hard. It seems to be wiser in its
generation thaa.the children of light. It
takes no repose day or night; it knows no
sabbath of holy rest; it is restless and for
getful, and foreverin motion. It counts no
day a holiday but thaton which it has add
ed to its store of wealth, created some long
desired placeof honor, or satisfied its sen
snality. It fulfils the problem that there is
no rest for the wicked. It is tossed about
like a wave of the sea, foaming and thun
dering, and finally dashing itself to pieces
against a rook.
The world goes to work early in the
morning, even before the children of God.
The bell and the whistle of the locomotive
are heard in the twilight, before the church
bells have rung their chimes for the Holy
Mass. Before the incenseof morning prayer
has ascended from Christian hearts, the
smoke from many a factory chimney has
gone curling up to heaven. before the
blessed candles have been lighted upon the
altar, for-the morning sacrifice, the red
glare from the furnaces of the manufac
tories has passed its dingy light through
the thick fog. Before the priest of the
altar has drained the chalice of Christ's
Precious Blood, many an intoxicating
draught of sin has passed the lips of the
world's votaries.
Badness cannot help stealing over the
heart of the Christian as, standing on one
of the hills which surround our city, be
looke down, early in the morning, on the
valley beneath. A heavy mist of fog and
smoke rests upon the town. A faint hum
comes up to his ear, as the huge thing casts
off the chains of its restless sleep and
arouses itself to the plodding work. Lights
move hither and thither, cars start out on
their journey over the iron road, or the
noise of vehicles (in the streets), and the
babel of human voices. Everywhere there
is movement, a moving onward. Men's
thoughts are busy, their hands are busy,
their feet are busy. It is clear enough that
the city is not the dwelling place of idlers
Every man has a work to do and he seems
bent on doing it. And what is all this
bustle and movement fort It mustsurely
be directed to a mighty end. Go down from
your position on the mountain, enter.the
street and accost the first man you meet.
"Well, friend, why do you seem so anxious,
so hurried 9'i" I must needs be about, my
business," is the short and quick reply.
"And what is the object of your busi
sess t" " Why, of course, to advance my
self in the world, to make my fortune,
to get a great name, to enjoy the good
things of life." " And what then t" " Why
then I shall be happy." "Are you cer
taint Many a man has made his fortune
and got a great name, and was just pre
paring to enjoy the good things of life,
when the fearnal summons came-" Bender
an account of thy stewardship, for thou
canst be steward no longer-thou must
die."
Fc'roae' AND TtADwES' IN6UrNUaN COM
rAar -We take especlal pleasuenre in directing publio
attention to the sanual statement of this young gmiant
among the many insurance companies of our city.
Distinguished from its veryerganlsation bytheoon
spicuona ability of its management, it has oentinued
steaely to gain In popular favor, end the exhibit of its
affkirs, which we publish in another column, proves
that though only in Its tenth year, it is one of the
stauncheet companies In the country. That this la by
no means an exagerated statement will be seen by the
fact that it rectived, daring the year ending April 30th.
66C8,654 82 for premiums. Though its losses wele com
paratlvely heavy, and its expennes, by reason of pay.
ments to the Eoard of Undoerwriters for new Babcock
engines, and to the city and State for Judgments of
court affecting all Insurance companies and banks, were
extraordinarily l..rgo, the company has declared a
semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent, and a cash dividend
of 20 per rent to stockholders on their net partialpa
ting premiums. The assets or the comf ny amount to
the enormous sem of l,305.6t5 40, consisting of oash
378.8:'4 71, bonds, hank stock, bills receivable on
pledge, and other securities of the best character. We
tender our congratulatione to the eSiclent and courts
ous ooere of the Factors', Mr. E. A. Palfrey, Presie.
dent, and Thos. F. Walker. eSl., Secretary, upon the
splendid success which has crowned their efforts, and
which gives the most ample testimony to the eminent
ability of their management of the affairs of the com.
pany.
" What a fall there is, my countrywomen, in
the prices of all kinds of dry goods," a lady was heard
to exelaim with Joy last Thursday as she came out of
Braselman & Adams' store, corner of St. Andrew and
Magazine streets.
Pic Nics.-Aesoolations, schools or pleasure
partlees, wishing to have a pleasant time, can Bad no
more desirable place than the Fair Grounds. Besidee
attractlons unsurpassed by those of any locality in the
eilty. it asurds the addltional advantage of being very
easy of access by means of thecarson the Domaine line,
owned by the Orleans Raillroad Company, The cars of
this Company are etatloned in the cunrve around Clay
Sttatne, and go to the grounds by way of Dumaelne and
Broad streets. Cars In any number will be fnraished
on epptlietion at the etioe, corner Ltharpe and Geutiily
Road, or to the President, at No I St. Louis street.
If Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, now in
or city, ever intended establishing factories i hbli
Umpire, he will oertainly give up the idea after Mrs.
Dom Pedro heas examined the splendid stock of goods
at Levy Brothers'. The loW' praces at whloh all ttleoles
are there sold, she will tell her illustrious spounsemakse
Lt far meoe economleal for him to makte his purchasbes at
the great dry goode emporium, 580 Magazsine street,
then to build feetotiee and manufacture them.
A NEw 8Uxsa RBOoRT.-Our readers will
see with pleasure, by e card on our fifth page, that the
Crecent City Railroad Company is now running it
ears to the New Orleans Park, a new and beautiful
summer resort recently opened In the Sixth Dintrlot.
The fare, for the whole distance of six miles, is only
dye cents.
General reduction in prioes of all dry goods
at Barselmean & Adams', corner St. Andrew and Mags.
sine strict.
Dry goodsa-the mqet superb designs in fab.
ris of every deeuoption ever dtpltga L to market
.-atUAW·I.sssr'n. tmpsen
AV'"352A.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Regiter, under date of April 28th, writes:
.It is very strang that public opinion is
so busy in difscussg the affairs of Austria
more than those of other countries; they
are, so o speak, a puszzle to our political
sad public contemporaries, but ll the
efforts made to solve it have proved un
fortunate. We live in a time of political
Rationalism. People only believe in visible
knowledge, in things which are to be meas
ured, weighed or counted. A celebrated
physician says, be has never been able to
discover the soul in any of his sections,
quite unconscious that with these words he
portrayed the whole spirit of the age.
politicians of other countries are always
ready in passing jaudgment over Austria, in
accusing it of want of energy, in declaring
it tattered, and almost unable to exist,
simply because it is not always boasting
and enumerating its past and future deeds.
There is no doubt that Austria is suffering
from Liberalism, and that our political
physicians do their best to inoculate in our
healthy population the modern disease, de
sire for progress, although they are not very
successful. When we compare our Liberal
victories with those of France and Ger
many, we must confesm that they are very
Inferior productions. The fundamental
error from which Austria has suffered since
1848 is that people have imagined them
selves able to By before they have learned
to walk, and that they have fancied it was
the fault of the Government that the gen
eral and social conditions are not so " pro
gressing" as those of Western and Middle
Europe. They wish to imitate Prussia, and
to bring it to that degree of civilization
from which we are fortunately still free.
This restlessness and desire to equal our
German neighbors has, however, only taken
footing in the larger cities; the population
of smaller towns and our country people
have remained uncontaminated with this
pernicious influence. Our peasantry have
survived many a orisis, and must still be
prepared for others; but everywhere we
find asincereattachment to the dynasty and
to the Emperor, and a simple and religious
mind. Germany could declare itself happy
if it possessed such a loyal peasantry. We
may partly say the same of our nobility,
although modern ideas and political thee
ries have influenced many families; yet,on
the whole, Austria does not only possess a
loyal peasantry, but an aristocracy in whose
heart fidelity to the Monarch and patriot
ism are still alive; while in many of the
other parts of Germany these elements have
almost died out. Most of the country no
bility lead a patriarchal family life; the
social intercourse with them is pleasant
and comfortable, and their conduct to
strangers and to their inferiors a model of
amiability and modesty. The property
and wealth of many of them are immense,
and Austria possesses in its aristocracy a
reserve fund which will be at its disposal
in time of need; for it is, no doubt, ap
proaching a crisis in which it will have to
count on the aid of its loyal subjects.
ThIke Sunday Raid in New York.
iN. Y. Sun, Monday I
It was a sweeping enforcement of the
Sunday law that was audarta'ren yester
day by the police of the city. Nearly five
hundred dealers in liquors and lager bier
were arrested at their placee of business
and taken to the courts, some of which
were open all day, and one of the: up to
a late hour last night. There were three
hundred cases brought before the Wash
ington Place Police Court alone. The
victims were taken from establishments of
all c'asses, even from the Hotel Brunswick
and other places of the same grade. Some
of the liquor dealers resorted to sundry
devices to evade the law ; but, in most in
stances, with poor success. The parties
put under arrest were nearly all let out on
ball, or discharged, through the day, or in
the course of the evening. The raid was
carried out under the orders of the Police
Commissioners.
It is evident that the application, scope,
and bearing of the Sunday laws must be
defined with more precision and intelli
gence than they have yet been. It will be
a difficult business ,., keep permanently
closed every Sandi. through the summer
the numerous large t~er saloons and gar
dens, in which teue of thousands of Ger
man-Americans find enjoyment with their
families and friends.
A cave has recently been discovered in
Marion county, Mo , which promises to rival
all others in extent and beauty. Large
chambers and long and vaulted galleries
succeed each other, tleir height varying
from 30 to 100 feet. The dropping water
has formed the most beautiful stalactites,
and the ceiling is studded with decorations
of groups of spar in a variety of figures,
some resembling stare glistening in the dark
roof above. Others resemble crystal pen
dants of a great variety of shades and sizes.
A pistol fired in one of these vast subter
ranean caverns wakes echoes that reverbe
rate for a long time, causing a deafening
noise. This cave is called the Big Saltpetre
Cave. In one place a transparent sheet of
limestone extends from ceiling to floor like
a curtain. In another apartment is a sub
terranean river that Lows through the cave.
In still another room is a bottomless pit,
whose interior has never been exploded. In
fact, the wonders of this cave seem never
to end.
THE CRATmR LsMe IN OnrEOo.-Thie
celebrated natural curiosity is a large lake
situated deep down in the bottom of an
immense chasm, with perfectly perpendi
calar smooth walls. The lake has no shore
or beach, the high volcanic walls of rock
rising vertically out of the water. The
lake is thirty miles in circumference; it
has no outlet, and its surrounding walls
are over 1,100 feet high, so that it is im
possible to reach the surface of the water.
It presents a scene of weird and wild mag
nilicence, and is a place held in great
religious reverence by the Indians.
Whence this vast body of water comes, or
where it empties itself, is a matter of mys
tery.
To his honor and, we hope, to his profit also, 1
be it said that while sacting in the capoality of clerk at
Mr. Lichole Burke', popular groery, at Dryades
Market. Mr. Adolph Flok, more familiarly known as
"Adolph," made hosts of friends by his courtees and
promptitude In all business transactlons. Having
acquired valuable experience in the trade, and taved
up a handsome little pile of money. Adolph ha started
on his own hook, and in hise behalf we beg his msay old
friends to remember that by calling at his elegant store,
oorner llilty Read and Dryades set they will get
the best of geeeries at the lowe eof prices. He has
s a steok . wles -- - ml aeU , eas will telver
SUSmSaUm *umwyqs
COMSZCBATION OF TERE BSeOP O.
FEBNS.
The Enniscorthy cortespondent of the
Cork Examiner, under date of Sanday,
May 7tbh, says :
To-day, in the Cathedral at Enniscorthy,
the Most Rev. Dr. Warren was solemnly
consecrated by the Cardinal Archbishop to
the Bishoprio of Ferns, in sucoeealon to the
late Most Rev. Dr. Furlong. His lordship
was born in the neighborhood of Ennia
eorthy, and has been about twenty-one
years on the mission. Until 1866, a period
of about eleven years, he was curate in
Enniscothy, and he then was appointed an
perior of the Mission House there, which
was founded by the late Bishop, and he
filled that position until the present time.
The Cathedral in which the consecration
took place is a lofty, spacious building, of
great external architectural beauty, but
inside rather destitute of ornamentation.
At ten o'clock this morning, when the
ceremonies commenced, the nave, aisles,
and side chapels were thronged with the
large congregation, and the seats were al
most inconveniently crowded. ThB clergy
of the diocese, in their white surplices,
filled the stalls, and among them, breaking
up the monotony of the color, were here
and there the brown habit of the Francis
can friar or the black of the Augustinian,
with two members of the Redemptorist
community, distinguished by their high
white collars. Oa the throne at the Gospel
aide sat the venerable Cardinal who rules
the Irish Church. At first he was clothed
in a Cardinal's scarlet robes, but after some
private devotions he was invested by his
attendant chaplains with white episcopal
vestments-the white gloves, a jewelled
mitre, and the ancient archiepsecopal pal
lium. The Cardinal being robed took his
seat on a faldetool with his back to the
altar. The bishop elect in episcopal vest
ments, baut wearing as yet so mitre, was
then brought into the sanctuary by the as
sistant bishop, the Most Rev. Dr. Lynch,
Cdadjutor Bishop of Kildare, and the Most
Rev. Dr. Moran, Bishop of Ossory, who
wore the plain white mitre;, Hsavig taken
their seats on stools facing the Cardinal,
the solemn, highly symbolical ceremony
commenced. The Most Bev. Dr. Lynch
having made the petition prescribed by the
Ritual, that the consecrating prelate should
raise the bishop-elect to the episcopal
charge, the Very Rev. Dean Kirwan read
the episcopal commission, and the bishop
elect took the oath of obedience to the
Holy See-an oath whose origin dates back
many centuries, and- which is rather car
ious in its nature. The examination, of
course, in Latin, by the consecrating pre
late of the bishop elect, touching artinles
of faith and discipline followed. When
that had-been conceuded, the bishop-elect
proceeded to his own altar in a side chapel
and read the office of the Mass to the last
verse of the Tract, the Cardinal doing the
same at the High Altar. The bishop elect
was again brought into the sanctuary, and
the consecrating .and anointing with the
holy oils was pertormed and the consecra
ting prelate gave the pastoral staff, the
ring and the Book of the Gospels to the
now consecrated bishop. The Mass was
read as far as the Olftrtory, and then the
new bishop, coming in from his chapel with
the assistant bishop, knelt before his con
secrator and made him an offering of two
lighted torches, two loaves, and two small
gilt barrels of wine. The offering having
been accepted, the conesecrting prelate
went up to the altar and proceeded with
the reading of the Mass, while the new
bishop, standing at the epistle corner of the
same altar with his missal before him, said
andr did the same. As the Consecration
Meaa was then finished, the bishop having
assumed the mi're, and accompanied by
the assistant bishops, proceeded down the
church, bleasing for the first time the con
gregations over which he is to have episco
pal charge. After the return to the altar the
ceremonies, which had lasted about three
hours, conclnded with the singing of some
versicles prescribed by the Ritual.
Gas. Moser's Wrza.-The following obitu
ary appeared in the last number of the Louis
ville Catholic Adroeate :
The many friends and acquaintances of LMrs.
Pauline Mosby will be shocked by the an
nouncement of her death which occurred at
her residence in Staunton, VA., on the 10th
inst. She died of pulmonary caunsmption.
Mrs. Mosby was the eldest daughter of the
lamented Beverly L Clarke. of Kentucky.
She was educated at old St. Mary's Academy,
in Nashville, Tenn., where she won t'e lasting
love and admiration of the good Sisters and
the entire sohool, and through life has ever
been noted for her piety and intelligence. In
1856 she was married to John S. Mosby of
Virginia, who afterwards distinguished him
self as a Confederate offioer in the rear of the
Federal army. The marriage coremony was
performed in Nashville, Tenn, by Rev. Ivo
obhaobt, of happy memory. As an instanee of
Mrs. Moeby's perseverence, when the war
ended in Virginia she was unwilling for her
husband to surrender until she could first see
President Johnson, and obtain from him a
guarantee of his safety. The President, al
though a warm personal friend of her father,
gave her poor comfort; but a woman of such
spirit was not to be baled, and by her tact
obtained for him a pass to Gen. Grant's head
quarters. The General treated her with the
otmost kindness and gave all the protection
necessary for the safety of her husband. Hence
the amicable relations between President
Grant and Col. Mosby. She leaves a family of
six children, all well instructed in the Catholio
religion, besides she has been the instrument
in the hands of GOd for oonverting a great
many-incloding the sisters of Col. Moaby,
two of whom have attached themselves to
religious orders.
The Terrnal d'Anvers publishes a curious
fact which proves that Berlin, the city
which boasts of being a centre of civiliza
tion, is, in an educational sense, in an in
ferior position to Antwerp, which the
Prussian papers love to call " a centre of
clerical ignorance and reaction. Thepopu
lation of Antwerp is 147,000, and it has 13,
500 children frequenting public or private
schools. Berlin, with 900,000 inhabitants,
has only 64,870 scholars of both sexes in its
schools or one-sixth less in comparison than
Antwerp
ADVERTISING RATES OF THE "STAR."'.
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Thirty .......... - - iso leoe soeo 480
-rauslet Advertiaseraata. .1 50 per squar sas is.
si te at speeal rates.
oa"~·r~Lltr
The pek has plald with ata
oenarring in saametail er eimmeelt
movement I the geanal market hba
moderate degree o anlmatle, with thea
mosey, beth in beak sad ae as siseet, ha
Gold has afotuated salUatli, In sympathy
market at New Terk, ead elses toe.d* a .
than on last riday. A fair basisesa has
Silver I new quoted entirely nomienal.
change followed the ecuree of Gold at New T
was quoted at the elose today at aboat Ias
quotations. Owing to the moderate movemat
ton the movement has been rather mited a Tg
ngs of New Yorkilght bhave hem h lbes, sa -
met by a pretty fair demand the markt has
slightly for commereIal. Seoarittie bhve ashow
degree of animation. Nore anttvity has eea
In stoceeks. State consols have bem lea soursa
little lower, while City Premium issues have
irregular rates, but close today steadya ,l
Nothing bas been reported In old six per eat 
solidated, but they are held at about 45. wbhi
improvement lessuee continue entirely onomin,
Under depressing intelligence from LI
New York, Cotton has exhibited but a modera
of animation, the week's sales summing up
only 13,950 bales at irregular and lower prim
Saturday the market advanced to for low
and to for Ordinary, closlng stsdy bat oa
to of the improverlent not enly on Low
Ordinary, but on all other grade also, olatag
irregnlar; Tuesday It continued dull and
closed oe lower on all grades i Wednesday it
unchanged price., loesing steadiers Thumrday
lower for Good Ordinary, Low Middling sad
and &o for Good Middling, plosing easy. The
visible supply, as made by the New York
Commercial Chronicle of lat rihlday, was
bales against 9,815,339 last year-deerease 3s,0
Watts & Co's Liverpool Cotton Oireular, of
says the demand for cotton has contnued very
and not sumclent to absorb the quantity
sale, and hence priceso have ruled in favor df
The further decline telegraphed from. Literpoo
the week has, no doubt, been due to farther
of saleson the market. The steck of eotsea
English spinners on the 5th was aestmatedIs
bales, against 933.000 last year and 938,o t a
before. In consequence of eunvorable crop
and a good demand and advanlongprloea led
Tobaccohas been stronger here, and the sales t
been cosummnted bhare mostly been at fa!l
in some inetances at a slight advance, but the
however, ii not been sufficient to require any
in our quotations. Sugar and Molusses have en
quiet and nuonhanged, and little movement is
until June. Flour has continued firm at uns
prices and is only In moderate request for
the local trade, and has been without any new
to notice except the arrival of a hbatt.sek of Floe
to the Merchants' Exchange from Todd'es illr
County, Texas, made from wheat ralsed this year
State. Last week's advanoe.in Coranmel has as
maintained and the market now rules folly
bushel lower. Grain and Feed have been mi
active but without any marked feature to notto,
si.ne large sales of lBlk Corn io lower than hlai
The market is now bare, and arrivals are held
Owing to discoureging Western advnoes,
have been quiet and weak, with a few sales att
decline from last week's quotations
FiNclal. -Quotatlions-Bzeptlonsl paper 8 to
cent per annum; Al do. 9 to 10; second grade
first class mortgage do. to 10 per cent per a
nd grao do. - to -; Gold 11 to 113; meri
Ioo to 10l currency; Mexican do. dollUar tel tou }"
renoy ; Commercial Sterling 5471 to 548, hank 11
551 ; te bank checking rate on New Y pok per
premium, and commerctal eight ast to 31 p Ger col
unlum.
CosN- Moderately active, so lowerthan 
morning for trdinary. tloforeood Ordnar.
dMing and Middling, and to for Good Middling.
receipts 7T.5 bal.s. Exports 18,e46 d sad
Stock In Presses 9 d 4& Quotations--Low
Ordinary 71; Good Ordes y t 9; Low Mid
Middling lii Good do ng il. The
telegrams mase the receipts at sw Oris-a
tember let, 1..s6.,et bales, aaont 70,100 last
creaee4 4I4,9i bales. Beeoapts atallports, 4,061
against 3,371,000 las ye8ar-t reaeu ce
at ai port, 434.390 bales, against 6,44 lie
incoreaes 1.98 Exports from all ports 3,416,1
aganet',9J1.,677-inoreess 45,930 .
La Tonoco--In good demand and firm.
sale ,eeo hhds. Quotations-]hroedand Fsetu
nominal; Low Lugi S to Goodd o oto 7
-t toO9; Medium Le I0 to I Good Ls l
bine Lea 13 to t; Seloections tij os o 1 1 id.
S6 ri ,u acrt ToAooo.--Extralineo7to
6510 7(; line Medium Ian to 65; Good Medinm9
Common Sound 4I to 10; Bright quarisot
mon Medium 45 to So; Bright Na 4s andl s, 1
Black sweet 46 to SloI; o. 1, 56 1an 0 Black s
to bdc; Navy lbe S tO ISo; Navy 3da 46 51o ;
styles. Siaturs iLef Twst Package 560o86.
LOUIllANA bLAoL--Common 71o per pouond
Fully Fair o ra; Prime 80; Yellow Clarified 9oor
LOU:i1ANA MOLase .-Common 38 to 41 0
FaILr 45 to 40c; Pieme 10 to Ito; Striloy Prfi e
Choioe 55 to 570.
t-Futo SuoAns.T1rusbed, Powdered end -
late.d --to ltl per 10; Best Loa --to i1 ,
tioLDtN 5 UP.-At whleale, - to rcoe per
tlic.--Louisiana, No. 2, 2 to 31t per Ib; omo
to 4*; Ordinary 4t to 1o. cur l* to Sjo; Good 5J
Prtie fi to 61; LunolOe to.
lFeoud-superfine 63 "5 per bbl ; Double E.zr
to - ; Low Treble Extra $4 75 to --; UOid TrOes
525 03 6 5 50; Choice Treble Extra 5 75 to 6 I; and
to 7 51 for Choice Family Extra.
COa-MtAL-tuliet. Jobbing at 3 3 5 per bbl.
saling at I. 00.
Coo , IN SAcn-WimLte Mixed - t63o per"
Yellow Mixed 64 to 0.0; Choice Yellow 7 and
65.
OAT--Ordinary - to 35c; St. Lousle 40 to --;
43 to --o.
BoN--Cholce -- to 00 per 100 lbT
ia--roinary 6-- to 62!9 UO par ton; Prime ".
21 W0. and Choice o- to U4 00.
Pona--MemsJobblog ate- 1o 2 CO per bbl.
Bacon-Shoulder, Jobbing at 8Si per Ib; Cio
Sidee 11jc, and Clear ides 11.
Dgr bALTCD MnAT---houlderajobbing St; Clost
Sidee lltc; Clear Side l11 to 10.
SUOAl-CUOSD HNAs-Ctoie 13 to 13t per lb, 41
ing to ~se.
LAo-T-ierce Befined lobbing at 131 to1 Itolp
KegB -to 14Io.
nxrA/a T BAcoN-Dull at 131 to 140 per lb.
Brr--Futon Mtarket ll 50 to l per bbl; Tae
to 1t1 5, Western 69 to 10 u0.
BTrn-Cholioe New York Goahen 33 to 350
Medium 28 to 30o ; Inferior - to-o ;Choie w
24 to 6o60 Medium 29 1o t0; Inferior - to 150 1-4
Crsma--Cholie Western I to tO; New Y4 -
F-no--akaerel, extra No.1, bbl, h9,41 tbti,
bble, t--; Kt0tel+0e; No. I bbl.,. 614 40 I 9
6o400; K~its, lI ; to.3.Lr bb , 115 00; td -
do, 6375; Kits, 10J. Codfish Drums,$-;
*errings, --- per box. . .k
Ous--Lineoed Ol--Braw ,68 to 710, Retusdo
per gallon. tefnedCoal 4311--7 to 19o Inb h =
36 per gallon. Lard O -li to 1061 13 per gall-:.
toroli --to 3l per lb. Cotton Seed oil-4ltt"
Refined 73 to 750 per gdl.
lS.ALT--leaerl' rates: toeaea, Olo tolt per
St 25 toll 35. Turk's·land.7t0o1 50pe.r trw
bag. Pockets' Table Salt, tI toO) 6acoodin0 . is
SOP--Western, 'I to Scpr lb1 German 00-".
Magnolt, 5; xxx Palm, 7; Casttle, 100.
0Tan C(anDInta-DnU i &t 141 tO 144 per lbI
YglsT PowoDa-liS to 16 for quarter box1,
for medium per gros s,
BieoUla. co; Frenoh B Atecutta, 50; filo_ul
Blutterdo, Ic; Boeton do, 5; Wine do, 8o;
8So Plo Slo do, o; Water do. 4)0.
6Ou -Job loue; Ordiny ;e tol19 eur1,B
51to0--c; Good lto --o; Prime 1 1to 1 . .
'a--Job lot-Imperal 3o t t on so pe
powder 450 t1 1 30; yson 30o to 1 0;, ret86
40o to11 15; Ooloung 1 to019
BRaIsns --to 1 8; . Besna 1 ..r-E5
Citron, 250 perib; Currsnut, --1o04; .3.-e't5
not -- to-c per ib1 LouisianartaneeS
Povy-LnT--Lulslana Cickonens 641 to in;3- w
Young 6 00-t1 3 10; D]uck p3 00 to-; O5 .
to , Turey s - - tolW.
Euo--Weetenn 101to0 lo per doses; L 3 .
toe SI to 0 Su our Xrontg aS e6 to ---,
Ne theen-- to .llelm n,