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?hr Georgia depositor. ,
ELIAS YULEE, Editor.
KATIIiDAY, OCTOBEB 80, 1875.
EDITORIAL NOTICES.
We are prepared to do handsome Job Work,
our friend* will please (five na a trial.
our correspondence from Augusta will be j
’,,’n'w”loader that the Pope claim. U- '
, Vicar on earth, that they who d<
. , t ’ his yoke are held to he in rebel,,
-that ail souls are bis by Divin,
1 by beam
[!'i!,,rh all men, that he has the key*
, . n ar.d hell, that he can bind and looe*
. ; Ino other than him iato be recognitt
. J,ie of leaching true doctrine—in
wil he and hl follower* claim for him,
. •.,•! infallibility, It hcoomea us to pn‘
~ i ~ , i,l,r what effect such aaauwptioi
a ,;l Ini', eon our political frame work. W
riaims. is it to ho auppoaed, thol had i
r, he would tolerate any other th^
\ ~,nui-t communion in these; Unit
never tolerate., it is bf>
, l ca It. 'cry di.tinotire vltalil"
u , robe supreme, or It Imcowc. like o
..,1., rets, and thin It will not endure.
i,v iis fruits, in what country uoir
. ntr-.1, ha. an enlightened eivilisal',,
...., (1 - Mexico and the South Ameri, e
.., a nominally repuhlic., hut mark , 0
'totniod ai. I misrule of |these people. C (y
, . re under its teaching, hut
H e illation, and cruel lmurder. of
old and young, matron, and maidens, e^
in the conduct of their war.. 1™
most enlightened of Catholic count*
~ in u Stale of ever chronic revolution.
Why all tills? I" it not because the t®
„f the Homisli priesthood tend to <>ma
i th,, buiiia.il mind, which to attain its g
~„<t li.-althy growth, require, tiec though „
nlnndeWUf [f
It not deigned to war against Cith
but apains! Humanism ; and only VT
, i, m hceanso it assail, our institui
I cheeked will reduce us to the •
, t.-.-t i, , I l ire that mark, the conditio
I ace, Prussia, and where ever 1 ,
p.'.p.. can introduce hi. insane idea of 1°
a, over sovereigns. Nothingst
tl:ew,i.v”d peace in Europe hut th
,, „i the .1 e-uits, Who in 1 runca,
prevent the formation of any go,
,1 not favorahloto their dominations
forking every whWwi,
,S,ttie ru. -|>i ril of rule. 8
~ u ,)| \, t) i.o Know KiiOthing
~ t ~l,all hai c nothing to do with derk
ily comprehend them by mtdiug to every
nrtiolo tho words, "It is error to say”—
11H thuH. It iH error to Hay :
“Mou may in any religion find tho way
of etornal salvation, and may obtain eter
nal salvation.” That iH, that men cannot
find salvation but In a particular religion.
And again another example as thus. It
A ,i | ini Church has not tho
is error to sav • \ „ . _
)OW4 . r of availing homelt of force, o any
!1 root or indirect temporal power ” That
is tho Church may use force ox .ny direct
or indirect temporal powors sucli, for
inHtance, as tho Inquisition, or by mar
shalling the votes of its adherents in this
country.
It is tube noted, that wo have omitted
many of tho articles which, in the whole
number, HO. Our reason for the omission
is, that they are of less general importance
ami would occupy too much space.
As wo may have occasion to refer to these
articles of the Syllabus, it might l>o wwll
for our readers to preserve them tor refer
ence.
Study them carefully, if you would know
what Koiuauisui is. and what you have to
conteud against. This wo say to Papists
themselves, as few of thorn know or bo
lie vo, to what outrageous principles tho
l’opo has committed thorn.
This Syllabus of the Pope utters no un
certain sound, as will bo seen*by careful
scrutiny. He has drawn the sword aud
thrown away the scabbard. Ho has thrown
down tho gage of buttle against our insti
tutions aud wo cannot ignore tho issue he
itmkoH. Ho cannot retract, if he would.
His ilcom'H one© made are irroforumblo by
tho councils of tho church, and even by
himself. They arc like Ihe decrees of
God immutable, and are so declared by
tho Vatican Decrees.
Ho himsell cannot retract decrees once
made, because if bo does he pronounces
hiiusclt to hare erred, and therefore falli
ble. Nor can a now Pope alter them, for
that would also bo denying Popish infal
libility. The contest between Popery on
one side and civilization and liberty on the
other, has to go on untliuehiugly till one
or tho other shall be victor. We have
either to consign Popery to death, as one
of the relics of the dark ages, or we have
to return to the days of darkness, of per
secution, tho inquisition and indiscrimi
nate massacre of heretics, for ttiat is what
the Pope means by .Worce. ‘
Had this Syllabus been proclaimed one
hundred years ago, the fathers of Ameri
canism would never have accorded citizen
ship to Papists, as they would have re
garded them as alien enemies, and subjects
by religious obligation, to a foreigu poten
tate.
Every government regards this Syllabus
os a declaration of war against civil rule.
The Pope has forced this issue on us, and
wo shall be wanting ill common prudence
if w e do not look to the progress of this
onslaught on our liberties and un-et it by
a steady resistance. The people are waken
ing to the issue, and from the AUantio to
the Pacific men are being roused to the
importance of the questions raised by the
l'ope, and they will not rest till the contest
is decided.
This contest will be, and ought to be, a
peaceful one. by the press aid the ballot,
unless the Priests incite tie ir followers to
Tiolonce.
Hou. Carl Seliurz s;iiJ to a reporter of
the New York Sun :
As far as I can sec, the only lively
point in European politics is the struggle
between Catholicism and Protestantism,
the irnpor anee of vh ch can certainly not
be exaggerated.”
That astute statesman, Mr. Gladstone,
of England, has put forth another pam
phlet, in which ho predicts a European
war on this question, and that tho Pope
will, if he can, arouse the whole Catholic
world to fight for tho restoration of his
temporal kingdom in Italy. The Catholic
world is divided into Jesuit and anti-Je
j suit parties, and the old Catholic party,
though in a minority, will do much to
wards neutralizing the cflort. In our own
country thinking Catholics of the old
school may also be looked to as antago
nists to modern Popery.
With these introductory remarks, we
commend the Syllabus to our readers as
containing the most astounding assump
tions—at least, they are so to our Ameri
can minds. Bomanists have no right to
complain at our publishing these decrees
ol the Pope. If they raise the mask and
show us the face of Popery, ours is not
the fault.
THE MEANING OF THE TERM SYLLA
EUS.
For the information of the unlearned
reader, we will state that the meaning of
tho word “Syllabus," is-A compendium
containing the heads of a discourse -an
abstract.
Now the Pope has addressed at various
times communications of different kinds,
called Consistorial Allocutions, Encyclicals
and Apostolic letters to his adherents. The
Syllabus ho put forth in 1864 is a com
pium or an abstiactof these more lengthy
communications, and sets forth their gist
in a few words.
■—
“THE PAPAL SYLLABUS OF ERRORS, A.
D. 1861”
[Tills document, though Issued hy the sole au
thority of Pope Pius IX., Dec. 8, 1864, must he
regarded now as infallible and irreformnble,
even without the forms! sanction of the Vatican
Council, it is purely negative, but indirectly It
teaches and enjoins the very opposite of what It
condemns as error.)
The Syllabu of the principal rrrortt of our
time, which ore stigmatized in the Consisto
riul Allocutions, Encyclical*, and other
Apostolical Letters of our Most Holy Father,
PopQ Pius /A .
jj 111. —IN DIFEEIIENTIRM, I.ATITUIUN ARI ANISM.
15. Every man is free to embrace anil pro
fess the religion he shall believe true, guided
by the light of reason.
16. Men may "in any roliglon find the way
of eternal salvation, and obtain eternal sulva
tton.
17. We may entertain at least a well-found
ed hope for the eternal salvation of all those
who are I- In the mm ol h„t
Chris'-
18. Protestantism ig nothing more than
another form ot the true Christian religion,
in which it is possible to ho eqhaliy pleasing
to God as in the Catholic Church.
g IV. —SOCIALISM , COMMUNISM, HEOIIKT SOON
TIBS. BIBLICAL SOOIBTIRS, CLKIUCO-LIBEHAL
SOVIET I US.
Posts of this description arc frequently re
buked in the severest terms in the Encycli
cals.
g V.— BUKOUS CONCERNING THK CHURCH AND
II KK RIGHTS.
19. The Church is not a true, and perfect,
and entirely free society, nor does sho enjoy
peculiar and perpetual rights conferred upon
her by her Divine Fournier, hut it appertains
to tho civil power to detiue what are the rights
and limits with which the Church may exer
cise authority.
20. The ecclesiastical power must not exer
cise its authority without the permission and
assent of the civil government.
21. The Church has not tho power of de
fining dogmatically that tho religion of the
Catholic Church is the only true religion.
23. The Roman Pontiffs and Oecumenical
Councils have exceeded the limits of their
power, have usurped the rights of princes,
and have even committed errors in defining
matters of faith and morals.
24. The Church haa not the power of avail
ing herself of force, or any direct or indirect
temporal power.
25. In addition to the authority inherent
in the Episcopate, a further and temporal
power is granted to it by the civil authority,
either expressly or tacitly, which power is on
that account also revocable by the civil au
thority whenever it pleases.
27. The ministers of the Church, and the
Kouian Pontiff, ought to he absolutely ex
eluded from all charge and dominion over
temporal affairs.
30. The immunity of the Church and of
ecclesiastical persons derives its origin from
civil law.
31. Ecclesiastical courts for temporal causes
of the clergy, whether civil or criminal, ought
by all means to he abolished, either without
the concurrence and against the protest of the
Holy See.
$ Vl. KKKOKS ABOUT CIVIL SOCIETY, CONSID
ERED BOTH IN ITSELF AND IN ITS RELATION
TV THK CRt RCH.
39. The common wealth is the origin ami
soure'e ol all rights, and possesses rights which
are not circumscribed by any limits.
iO. The teaching of the Catholic Church is
opposed to the well-being and .interests of
society.
•42. In the ease of conflicting laws between
the two powers, the civil law ought to pre
vail.
43. The elit e • direction of public schools,
in which the youth of Christian states are
educated, r\c,-pi ito a certain extent) in the
ease of episcopal seminaries, may and must
appertain to the civil power, and belong to it
so far that no ether authority whatever shall
be recognised as having any right to interfere
in the discipline of the schools, the arrange
ment of the studies, the taking of degrees, or
the choice and approval of teachers.
47. The be-sl theory of civil society requires
that popular schools open to the children of
all classes, and. generally, all public institutes
intended for instruction in letters and philo
phy, anil for conducting the education of the
young, ehould be freed from all ecclesiastical
authority, government, and interference, and
should be fully subject to the civil and politi
cal power, in conformily with the will of
rulers and the prevalent opinions of the age.
48. This system of instructing youth, which
consists in separating it from the Catholic
faith and from the power of the Church, and
in teaching exclusively, or at least primarily,
the knowledge of natural things and the
earthly ends of social life alone, may be ap
proved by Catholics.
54. Kings and princes arc not only exempt
from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are
superior to the Church, in litigated questions
of jurisdiction.
55. The Church ought to be separated from
the State, and the State from the Church.
57. Knowledge of philosophical things and
morals, and also civil laws, may and must
depart from divine and ecclesiastical author
ity.
62. The principle of non-intervention, as it
is called, ought to be proclaimed and adhered
to.
VIII. THE ERRORS CONCERNING CHRISTIAN
MARRIAGE.
65. It can not be by any means tolerated,
to maintain that Christ has raised marriage
to the dignity of a sacrament.
66. The sacrament of marriage is only-an
adjunct of the contract, and separable from it,
and the sacrament itself consists in the nup
tial benediction alone.
67. By the law of nature, the marriage tie
is not indissoluble, and in many cases divorce,
properly so called, may be pronounced by the
civil authority.
71. The form of solemnising marriage pre
scribed by the said Couneil, under penalty of
nullity, does not hind in cases where the civil
law has appointed another form, and where it
decrees that this new form sha.ll effectuate a
valid marriage.
73. A merely civil contract may, among
Christians, constitute a true marriage; and it
is false, either that the marriage contract be
tween Christians is always a sacrament, or
that tho contract is null if the sacrament be
excluded.
74. Matrimonial causes and espousals be
long by their very nature to civil jurisdiction,
N. B.—Two other errors may tend in this
direction, those upon the abolition of the
celibacy of priests, and the preference due to
the state of marriage over that of virginity.
These have been proscribed ; the first in tho
Encyclical Qni pluribun, Nov. 9, 1846: the
second in the Apostolic Letter Multiplicee in
ter, June 10th, 1851.
§ IX. ERRORS REGARDING THE CIVIL POWER
OF THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF.
75. The children of the Christian and Cath
alie Church arc not agreed upon the compati
bility of the temporal with the spiritual
power.
76. The abolition of the temporal power, of
which the Apostolic See is possessed, would
contribute in the greatest degree of the liber
ty and prosperity of the Church
g x.—ERRORS HAVING REFERENCE TO MODERN
LIBERALISM.
i,i. in me }ic6uui uay, u is no iuu 6or i.*-
pedient that the Catholic religion shall be held
as the only religion of the State, to tho exclu
sion of nil other modes of worship.
78. Whence it has been wisely provi' ?d by
nw, in some countries called Catholic, that
persons coining to reside therein shall enjoy
ih- piiM.ie xercise of their own worship.
80. The Roman Pontiff can and ought to
reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress,
liberalism, and civilization as lately intro
duced,
A Crucial Test, Applied to Transubsan
tiation -A Eomanist Stumped and Si
lenced.
A legal friend of ours, of acute logbal
uiiml, was in the habit of frequtnt
travel on the C. It. K. He thus becaiie
on quite friendly terms with one of (he
conductors, to whom be felt a likiig.
On one of his trips he observed him
reading a paper. “Lend me your ja
per,” said he, '‘when you are through
with it." ‘ Oh, you wont like it,” sad
tlie conductor, “It is a Catholic papei.”
“Ves I will,” said our friend, "I reid
anything that comes handy— but whit
are you doing with that paper—you
are not a Catholic, are you ?” “Yes I
am,” said the conductor. ‘You are,'
replied our friend. ‘I should never
suspected so sensible a man as you of
believing in Popery.’ The conductor
reddened and tridled up a little at
this remark. Our friend followed up
his last remark by asking, ‘You don't
believe in trausubstantiatlon.’ "Yes 1
do.' said the conductor. ‘You do, hey.
well, let us see, what is this I have
in my hand ?’ ‘Why, a knife, to be
sure, said the conductor ‘How do yon
know it is a knife,’ said our friend. ‘I
tell you it is a piece of bread.’ ‘I know
it is a knito and not bread,’ replied the
conductor, “because I see it 1 feel it,
and my experience teaches me that it
is what is known as a knife.’ ‘Well,
thru,’ said our friend, ‘the priest gives
you a piece of bread to eat, and tells
you it is llesli. You see the piece of
bread; you touch and feel it. Yon feel
It in you mouth, and your taste informs
you that it is bread, and not flesh; and
yet you are taught by the priespthat the
bread is flesh—how can you believe it?
•Well, replied the conductor, ‘the priest
is infallible, and tells me the bread is
flesh,and I am bound to believe him.
Perhaps it turns to flesh in my stomach.’
•Good,' said our friend, ‘now let us test
that supposition : 1 will buy a bottleof
good Madeira wine, and your priests
may consecrate it to sacramental pur
poses, after which, I want you to drink
that bottle of wine at once. If it does
not make you drunk. I will agree to
believe in transnbstantiation, and that
the wine has been changed to blood in
your stomach.’ The conductor scratched
his head, and turned oft' rather stumped
by tills sort of logic, and our legal
friend enjoyed a hearty laugh at the
and iscomtiture of his Romanist friend.
DIE HE SUCCEED?
Somewhat less than forty years ago
there moved among the students of
Yale College a young man, poorly
dressed, but princely in bearing and in
mind. He was bred in the country,
among humble surroundings, but he
was a gentleman from the crown of his
head to the soles of his feet, and in
every fibre of bis body and mind. Slen
der, tall, handsome, with an intellectual
brow, a line voice and a Christian spir
it, he had every possession of nature
and culture necessary to win admira
tion, respect and affection. This man
was poor; so, before his educational
course was complete, he was obliged
to leave college, and to resort to teach
ing for a livelihood ; but, wherever he
moved, tie won the strongest personal
friends. Men named their boys after
him. Woman regarded him as a model
mun, and the name of Stillman A. Clem
ens stood in high honor in all the little
communities in whicli it was known.
He was particularly fond of mechan
ics and mathematics—a born inventor,
with more than the ordinary culture of
the American inventor. He had an ex
quisite literary faculty, rare wit, a fine
appreciation of humor, and good con
versational powers. Indeed, he seemed
to be furnished witli all desirable pow
ers to accomplishments except those
which were necessary to enable him to
“get on in the world.” He was horn
poor, and the other day, after a life of
dreams and disappointments, lie died
poor. The brown head and beard had
grown gray, the spare figure was bow
ed, and the end of his life was accom
panied by circumstances of torture
which need not be detailed here. The
life whicli for thirty years, had been an
unbroken struggle with adversity, went
out, and the weary worker was at rest.
The inventor’s dreams weie always
large. They all had “millions in them. - ’
First, in an arrangement of centrifuge 1
force for the development of motive
power; then a machine or process for
detaching the manila fibre; then in a
cotton-press of unique construction, for
compressing cotton so completely at
the gin that it would need no further
treatment for shipping; then in a flax
dressing machine; and last, in a roll
way in which was to displace forever
the present railway system, and solve
the problem of cheap transportation.
In the cotton-pressing machine he made
an incidental invention, to which lie at
tached no special importance, out of
which others have since made the <or
tune which, during all his life, was de-
Jj W lain, II o oftrerro J liio WAJ (til
along with ideas of immense value to
all around him. It is not a year since
lie read ids paper before an association
of engineers at Chicago, exposing in
detail his roll way invention; and it is
said that on tlie morning of ids deatli
lie was called upon by a capitalist, with
reference to sujecting this invention to
a praclical test. It was a rnagniticant
project, and we hope that it may yet he
tried, though he in whose fertile brain
it originated is beyond the satisfaction
of success and tlie shame of failure.
Well, did our friend succeed, or did
lie fail 1 There were mean men around
him who became rich. There were
sordid men in the large community in
which his later years were spent whose
money flowed in upon them by millions,
There were brokers and merchants and
hotel proprietors and manufacturers
who won more wealth than they knew
how to use, while he was toiling for the
beggarly pittance Hint gave him bread,
or floundering in the new disappoint
ments with wiiich each year was freight
ed. They “succeeded,” as the world
would say, but let us see what this man
did. He used every faculty lie possess
ed for forwarding the world’s great in
terests. He put all his vitality, ail his
ingenuity, all his knowledge, into his
country’s service. The outcome is not
yet, but the outcome is just as sure as
the sprouting of a sound seed in good
soil. The wealth he did not win will
go into the coAars of others. He never
sacrificed his manhood. lie kept him
self spotless. He did not repine or
whine. The man who saw him in his
last years found him still the courteous
Christian gentleman, bearing his trials
with patience, trusting in tlie infinite
goodness, accepting his discipline with
more than equanimity, and still hopeful
and persistent. He maintained his
courage and self respect. He won and
kept his personal friends. He went to
his grave with clean hands, and his soul
ready for the welcome exchange of
worlds. He left behind him the memo
ry of a character which money cannot
build nor cannot buy. It was an hour
to be affectionately associated with him.
It is a high honor to be called upon to
record the lesson ol his life, and a high
duty to commend it.
Did he succeed? Yes, he did; and
the community in which rests his pre
cious remains could do itself no. higher
honor than to erect over them a stone
bearing the inscription: “Here lies
Stillman A. Clemens, who died poor in
this world’s goods and poor in spirit,
but rich in faith rich in mind and beatt,
rich in character and in all the graces
of a Christian gentleman, and rich in
the afl’ection of all who knew him and
were worthy of his acquaintance."
That he wanted wealtli to bestow up
on those wnotn he loved we do not
doubt. That he wanted it to prove that
his dreams were not baseless, is true,
we presume. That lie dreamed ol it
among his other dream- wi n'.d b" very
natural. Thediea.n Im- come trite.
“That dream lie carried in a hopeful spirit,
Until in death his patient eyes glee dim.
Arid the redeemer called him to inherit
The heaven of wealth long garnered up for
him.”
Governor Tilden Against Bribery.
Governor Tilden, of New York, has issued
a circular to the District Attorneys of that
State, in which he says :
"The improper and illegal use of money te
elections is in some portions of the State a
serious and growing evil, sometimes thwart
ing the unbiased will of tho people, and al
ways debauching the public virtue of| both
officer sand electors. You are familiar with
the stringent statutes and the constitutiona 1
provisions adopted last year relating to the
subject, and are aware that if they are vigor
ously enforced this evil will soon be eradi
cated. I expect that you will be vigilant in
detecting, and diligent in prosecuting persons
guilty of the crime referred to within your
county, and shall regard any dereliction of
duty in this icspect as a sufficient cause for
removal from office."
The opinion is daily' growing more de
cided among those who are well-iuforme 1
that the gases which are constantly es
caping from the enumerable wells through
out the oil region of Pennsylvania and
djacent States represent a value but lit
tle, if at all all inferior to the oil itself.
The next step to after the realization of
this fact it its utilization, and, from occa
sional paragraphs that from time to time
appear, there is reason to believe that the
industrial employment of this material,
of which inestimable volumes have for
years been permitted to pass uselessly
into the air, will soon become very gen
eral. In a few instances the wells have
been tubed, and their product utilized
with most satisfactory results. We add
herewith the following from the National
Oil Journal, which indicates that some
progress is being made in this impor
tant field. The Journal remarks that the
yield of the few gas wells that have been
tubed indicates that the quality of the
product is enormous beyond all compu
tation. A gas well near Sarnersville,
in the Butler oil region, flows with a
pressure of 300 pounds to the square
inch, and is roughly estimated to yield a
million cubic feet of gas every twenty-four
hours ; and this is only one of the many
large gas wells and almost numberless
small ones, for it must be remembered
that every well which produces oil yields
gas also- A survey has just been com
pleted for a lino of pipe from Sanersville
to Pittsburg, a distance of about seven
teen miles. It is proposed to lay a Six
inch pipe between iho points naiueO, wml
to supply tha gas to the manufacturing
establishments in Pittsburg as a substi
tute for coal.
Irwinton Southerner : Several weeks since
a number of la\Y-aby f Ung, orderly and well
behaved colored men published in this paper
a card, denouncing in pretty strong terms the
late conspiracy, and advising the colored men
to refrain in the future from such mad and
devilish attempts, and pledging themselves, if
future emergencies should require it, to stand
with the whites in the preservation of law
and order. We learn that indignation has
been expressed against the signers of this
card by several evil disposed negroes and one
of the signers has had his fears sufficiently
aroused as to cause him to call upon his white
friends for advice and protection, and has
been furnished with arms, and promised other
protection in case he is attacked. We take
this opportunity to inform theso turbulent
negroes that the signers of that card said
nothing to which exceptions could be taken
by any one, and so far from arraying them
selves against their race, as has been charged
against them, they simply gave their colored
friends good advice, which, if wisely followed,
will cause many a negro to live to the end of
a natural life, who will otherwise die a victim
to outraged law, and we want it distinctly and
plainly understood that any violence or
threats against these colored men will be
viewed by the law abiding people as eviden
ces of the existence still of an insurrectionary
spirit, which will be lawfully prosecuted to a
rigid punishment. The judicial clemency ex
ercised in fayor of these oonspirators, we
fear, is having rather an opposite effect from
what was intended, and has emboldened
rather than restrained some of them in their
lawless course. Our advice to them is to be
ware.
One man in Chicago is really mad.
He was summoned for jury duty, kept
dancing round the court for three days,
fined twenty-five dollars lor being ab
sent, lost his handkerchief, got excused
for being a non-citizen, and, on making
an affidavit to that effect, had to pay a
twenty-five cent fee Besides, he didn't
get any remuneration for his services.
Work at the Wheeler A Wilson sewing
machine factory at Bridgeport Conn.,
continues to be driving, and it will prob
ably be some time before the men are re
duced to eight hours again. The amount
of pay roll for the last month will amount
to $90,009.
The United States District Court in
New York has decreed the forfeiture of
the Empress Eugenie's smuggled silks;
but a claim has been interposed to stop
the custom officers from selling
them.
In New York o Thursday a negro by
the name of Thomas Sorrell was sen
tenced to one year in the penitentiary foi
killing one white man and disabling
another for life in a fight in a drinking
saloon.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
City ol Mexico. October 20 —The
Clmmbei of Deputies was prorogued on
tne 15th. The extrnordiivarr powers of
the executive were voted by one hun
dred and thirty nine against fourteen.
Advices from Guadalajara state that
five participators in the murder of the
American missionary. John L. Stephens,
which occurred at accapulco, in March,
1870, have been executed.
Berlin. October 25.—1 tis reportsd
again that Bismarck contemplates resig
nation in consequence of ill health.
New York, October 25.—Moody and
rfankey opened prayer meeting at Tal
mage’s Church this morning at eight
o’clock. Five thousand were present.
London, October 26.—The Morning
Standard publishes a special telegram
from Santander that Don Carlos, with
10.000 troops, holds an intrenched camp
with Pampeiuna
London, October 26. —The Catholics
are preparing for an imposing welcome
to Cardinal McClosky. who will be the
guest of Cardinal Manning. He will
visit Liverp >ol and possibly Glasgow.
Portland, Oregon, October 26.—There
is a light vote for Congress. Mr. Lane,
Democrat, is probably elected by twelve
hundred majority.
Washington, October 26. —The Star
says the opinion of the Supreme Court
on the constiti>*‘ ..ality of the enforce
ment act is no£ expected till the last of
November.
It appears from the report of the
Treasurer that there should be deduct
ed from the cash balance in the month
ly debt statement for July 1, 1875, the
sum of $765,966.
Three years will probably elapse be
fore a final settlement of Treasurer
Spinner’s account.
Alexandria, October 26. —The Prince
of Wales returned to Suez from Cairo
and sailed thence for India.
London, October 26 The Official
Gazette announces that Parliament is
further prorogued to the 15th of Decern .
her and will probably be prorogued
again to the latter part of February.
New York, October 27.—'The Daunt
less beat the Mohawk badly twenty
miles to windward and return.
Paris, October 27.—Tlie government
is prosecuting the Echo de Agacco,
Ruutier’s organ, for saying that the con
stitution is an uncertain regime estab
lished by a group of persons without
authority.
Boston. October 27Nitro-glycerine
exploded under tlie windows of Harv
ard College, and several hundred panes
of glass were shattered. There was a
narrow escape from more serious diim
age. Some students, it is said, were the
perpetrators.
Berlin, October 27.—The German Par
liament met. The Emperor was absent
on account ol indisposition, and his
speecli was read by the Minister of
State. His Majesty says that so far as
human judgment can discern peace is
more assured now than at any time dur
ing the twenty years preceding tho re
construction of the Empire.
Columbus, October 27.—'The official
vote for Governor is: Hayes, 297,813;
Allen, 292,204. Haye’s majority is 6,-
f)49. For Lieut. Governor, Y'oung, 297,-
931; Carey, 257.9G8. Young’s majority,
9,963. The highest prohibition vote was
3,630.
San Francisco, October 27.—A dis
patch from Virginia City says: It is im
possible at present to state the loss of
life occasioned by the lire. Two were
killed on C street by failing walls, and
there are rumors of other casualties.
Hundreds of families are homeless and
hungry. The school houses only and
public buildiugs are lest unharmed, and
they are open to the people, but if im
mediate relief is not extended, much
suffering will ensue. Utter demoraliza
tion reigns in the city, and men, women
and children are wandering about the
streets seeking shelter. The surround
ing hills are dotted with camp fires.
But few saloons remain, but the sup
plies of liquor have not been lacking.
The streets are alive, with a drunken
mob ot military, patrolling the streets
for the protection of property'. No
definite advices have yet been received
as to the extent of the damage to sever
al mining properties involved. The to
tal loss by fire is now placed at from
three to tour million dollars.
Washington, October 27 —The report
of the Agricultural Department for Oc
tober represents the wiieat crop of the
present year a short one. The deficien
cy is augmented by a marked deteriora
tion in quality. The Southern States,
except Virginia, have increased their
productions, some of them from 50 to
75 per cent. The total depreciation is
sixty-two millions of bushels. The
crop is estimated at two hundred and
forty-six millions of bushels. The coru
crop will be comparatively large in
quantity, but poor in quality, except
pi the Southern Pacific States. The
result cannot be stated till next month
The potato crop promises to be extra
‘ordinary, both in yield and quality.
Tobacco, on the whole, is two per cent,
above the average. New York is twOj
and Pennsylvania ten per cent, above
the average. The great central region,
including Maryland, is one hundred;
Virginia, oue hundred and six; West
Virginia, ninety-eight; North Carolina,
one hundred and five; Kentucky, one
hundred and sixteen; Tennessee, nine
ty-five. On the whole, they will raise
an unusual crop.