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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1869)
®)e tUccliln (tonstitutionnfist. BY STOCKTON & CO. OCR TERMS. The following are the rates of Subscription: K Daily, one year $lO 00 E Weekly, one year $3 00 [From the Southern Monthly Magazine. Once in a Thousand Years. L BY RICHARD HENRY WILDE. Now published for the first time. A great cycle of indefinite length, at the end of which every thing resumes its original form, is a philosophic dream as old at least as Pytha goras. Lyell’s researches on the Mississippi Valley having given him for the actual changes of the earth’s surface, as recorded in her auto biography, what he himself calls “ a most mag nificent period ,” I was meditating how vast the mysterious epoch must be extended, when a little Spanish poem in the “ Romancero Gen eral ” fell under my eye. Its burthen was “ AI cabo de anos mil Vnelvan las aqua 6 por do solian ir.” “ At the end of a thousand years The streams to their haunts return.” Hence the origin of the following lines. As they refer to Time only, and not to Fact I shelter myself from any unfounded imputa tion of mischief, under the authority of St. Au gustin : “ Quot saecula praeterieunt antiquim genus instituereter hnmanum me fateor iuno rare. De Civit Dei, Lib. XIII, c. 36. I After a thousand years. Streams go back to their urns ; Sea-spray becomes lovers tears, Night’s dew into Heaven returns— After a thousand years! But never a thousand years A thousand times retold. Recall youth’s hopes and fears To hearts once warm, now cold, Never a thousand years! A thousand times in a year, And ten times a thousand more, The breezes of fortune veer And waft ns from shore to shore— A thousand times in a year! A thousand times in a year Our loves and our hopes are high ; A thousand times in a year, In coldness and fear they die— A thousand times In a year! Once in a thousand years Rivers escape from the sea, And grief-drops to icy spears Return—like Love to thee ! Once in a thousand years ! But not in a thousand years, A thousand times told o’er, Is the Love that despair once sears,. The same that it was before— Not in a thousand years ! A thousand times in a year, Thousands are born and die, . And each is to someone dear. Beneath this all-changing sky, - A thousand times in a year ! But not In a thousand years To longiDg and aching eyes, In shame of the skeptic’s sneers, Do the lov’d and the lost arise ; Not in a thousand years! After a thousand years Hot fountains descend in snow. After a thousand years Icebergs in vapor glow, After a thousand years ! But never a thousand years, For the love, that no love should be ; From the region of woe and tears, Francesca! will set thee free,* Never in a thousand years. Once in a thousand years, New Islands, the seas surprise; A God upon earth appears ; A star hursts forth on the skies — Once in a thousand years ! After some thousand years, Ev’n planets forget to burn, But endless ages their peers Lost spirits—their pride must mourn Endless ages of years 1 A thousand, thonsand years, Or a thousand, thousand told, Is a cycle that brings back the spheres tis.To the places, which now they bold, %. A thonsand, thousand years. But millions of millions of years Roll over earth’s senseless dust, in spite of the saints and seers, And prophets in whom we trust. Millions of millions of years ! ♦Francesca da Remini, whose story as told by Dante, is the most pathetic passage In modern history. [From Chambers’Journal. A Seaside Sketch. The sun sinks down a round red'disc ; And seen against it, tapering thin (Relieved of all the cares of risk,) The fishing-smacks come riding in. Blow sinks the orb behind the bay, Or so, at leaßt, it seems to sink— A thirsty charger, shall I say ? Blow stooping in the sea to drink. And beating shoreward, sea-gray gulls Come sailing up the sound in flocks, Then clean their wings and seek their holes, Aloft amid theriited rocks. The soft winds play round poop and prow, Too weak to climb the rocky cliff, Within whose depending shadow now Lie bnlky barge and tiny skiff. And over all the scene anon A denser darkness draws around, The village lights show one by one, And night comes hushing every sound. The Deed Invalid. White in a whiter shroud "he lies, Awaiting to be borne away. Where loving triends, with sobs and sighs, Will leave her lying, clay in clay. Her’s was a life all pain opprest From Its dim dawn to Us surcease: Yet tbnngb It could not give her rest, It still vouchsafed her eudless peace. If dull Despair o’erspread her mind, Cmtlnd in (he darkness ot the tomb, Fair, fnli-orhert H >pe rose np behind, Ami i lived away the gathered gloom. And *o it Is—the darkest shade Tim all H uniing sunlight track* i And am.ms in murkiest mM arrayed JJ. ar the saute «l«ry on tbulr bucks, Strain/' gll|tip*es of the bratHlllll A'""tud me’ he da'kest night ; And lives It u da.kcsl warped Slid dull Ale all .hut through with thruedi of light [ Decisions of the Supreme Court ol Georgia. Delivered at Atlanta, Tuesday, August 21. reported expressly for the constitu tion, BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME COURT REPORTER. Whi. B. Berry, vs. Montgomery aud West j Hoint Railroad Company. Action on the case from Troupe. McCay, J. 1. A suit may be brought by petition and process, in the usual way by a citizen o. Georgia, against the Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company, even though the cause of action originated in Alabama. 2. An action for the value of a slave hired by the plaintiff to defendant, and charged to have been killed, by the negligence of defendant’s servants, is for a debt, the con sideration of which was a slave, and its nature is not changed by calling it an ac tion on the case for damages. Judgment affirmed. Brown, C. J. concurring. 1. Where a railroad company hired a slave, who was killed while in its employ ment, and a suit was brought by the owner for the recovery of the value of the slave the case was properly dismissed by the court under the new constitution for want of jurisdiction. 3. The word debt, as used in the section of the State constitution which denies juris diction to the court to “enforce Any debt the consideration of which was a slave or slaves, or the hire thereof,” includes- a de mand for the money value of a slave in a case of this character, as well as a de mand for his value under a contract of pur chase. Warner, J., dissenting. I dissent from the judgment of the court in this case for the reasons stated in White vs. Hart & Davis. Besides, in mv judgment, it is a strained construction of the constitu tion to embrace within its terms an action for negligently causing the death of a slave while in the employment of the defendant. B. H. Hill, B. H. Bigham, for plaintiff in error. A. W. Hammond & Son, for defendant in error. Obediah Arnold vs. Ezeklal Trice. Bill for specific performance, irom Baldwin. McCay, J. 1. To authorize a court of equity to de cree a specific performance of a parol con tract, for the sale of land, it must appear that the acts of past performance were done under and in consequence of the con tract. 2. Gross inadequacy of consideration is a good reason why a court of equity will not decree the specific performance of a parol contract for the sale of lands. 8. When the consideration of a parol contract for the sale of land, was a slave, and there is no other equity save the de livery of the consideration, the courts of this State have, under article 17th, section Ist of the constitution, no jurisdiction to enforce it by decreeing a specific per formance. Judgment reversed. Brown, C.*J., concurred as follows: 1. Where a slave was exchanged for a tract of land and possession delivered, but no written agreement entered into, and no title executed, and the slave left with Gen. Sherman’s army a few days after the trade, aud the purchaser of the land filed his bill for specific performance, to compel the other party to execute titles to the land, in consideration of such exchange for said slave, HM: That the courts under the new State constitution will neither entertain the bill nor grant the relief. Warner, J., dissenting as follows : The jury having found a verdict for the complainant in this case, I see no good legal reason why it should be set aside. Arnold made the trade with a fall know ledge of the facts as to the then present as well as the probable future status of the slave, and took the risk, and should now be content to abide the result. In tbe absence of fraud, courts do not interfere with the contracts of parties, or relieve them from the consequences of their own folly, but will require them to perform them in good faith, as I think the jury have done in this case. In mv judgment, the court below had jurisdiction of the case. McKinley, Kennon &Kennon for plaintiff in error. I. L. Harris, L. •H. Briscoe (by the Re porter) for defendant in error. Martin Dooly vs. J. P. Ishell. Claim case, from Whitfield. McCay, J. When, on the trial of a claim case, it ap peared that the levy was made on the 9th November, 1868, on an execution Issued 21st of November, 1861, and the claimant showed title from the defendant in execu tion, and possession more than four years before the date of the levy, and there was no evidence that claimant had notice at the time of the purchase of the existence of the judgment. Held: That the land was dis charged from the lien of the judgment, and the verdict of the jury, finding the land not subject, will not be disturbed. Judgment affirmed. Brown, J., coucutred. Warner, J., dissenting. I dissent from the judgment of the court in this case, first, because the defendant in the judgment (Forsyth) is not entitled to a homestead in the land as against the plain tiffs judgment, which is dated 29th Octo ber, 1861, for the reasons stated in tbe case of Hardman vs. Downer. Second : Because Ishell, who purchased the land from For syth in March, 1863, has no legal estate in the land which entities him to a homestead thereon, as against the plaintiff’s judgment lien thereon, which was created and attach ed thereto whilst Forsyth was the owner thereof. In no view of this homestead question, can a Judgment debtor lie allowed to divide out bis estate, and each purchaser thereof be entitled to a homestead in each tract conveyed by him, as well as the judgment’debtor himself to have a homestead lu that portion of hi* land not c'siveyed, so us to absorb tils entire estate by the multiplicity of homestead*, and thus defeat altogether lit* clsltfl* or ItW ; judgment creditors. The pcrtlaeut inquiry |“ how many lumwUad. can a Judgiueul APaPbIA, SA,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBIR 15, 1869. f. debtor have allowed out of his estate j against which no judgment can be enforc tiffDinAerrm-alkeraml W M ° ore ’ for P lah >- I J. A. R. Hanks, for defendant in error, i Win. Butler and W. J. Howell, plaintiffs in error, vs. Sophronia Withers, defendant in error. Assumpsit, from Early. McCay, J. Proof that at the time a note was giveu defendant was worth |5,000, and at the close of the war he was not worth but five hundred dollars, does not raise such equity between plaintiff and defendant, as to re quire the jury to lessen the plaintiff's claim. Judgment affirmed. Brown, C. J., concurring. Whjle I hold that the first section of the relief act of 1868 is constitutional, and that the evidence as therein specified may go to the jury, I do not hold that proof of any single fact therein enumerated will authorize the jury to reduce the debt, un less it is such a fact as raises an equity be tween the parties to the record. 2. The simple fact that the defendant lost property during the war, without connect ing the plaintiff in some way with the loss, does not raise such an equity between the parties as the juries have a right to adjust, by reducing the amount of the debt. Warner, J., concurring. If I believe the act of 1868 (commonly called the Relief Act), to be a constitution al and valid law, and that the evidence be fore the jury as to the loss of the defend ant’s property, was legal and valid evi dence, to be saomitted to their considera tion by way of' defense to the plaintiff’s ac tion on the note, then, I should bold, that the verdict in this case was wrong, and against thtil evidence, and contrary to the intention of the Legislature, in allowing that evidence to be received, and consider ed by the jury, for the purpose of redwing the plaintifTs debt; but as Ido not believe that act to be a constitutional and valid law, which authorized the defendants in this case to give in evidence the losses which they have sustained since the making of the contract to reduce the amount of the plaintiff’s debt, I concur in the judgment of this court in affirming the judgment of the court below in this case. Felder & Powell for plaintiffs in error. T. F. Jones for defendant in error. John T. Green, Sheriff, vs. Benj. 11. Jones.* Rule, from Early. Warner, J., dissenting. A mortgage fi. fa. in favor of the plain tiff, Jones, against Rowe, the mortgagor, issued upon the foreclosure of a mortgage, dated the 9th day of March, 1861, was placed in the sheriff’s hands to lie levied upon the land specified in the mortgage, as the property of Rowe, the mortgagor, which'he tteeiinediodo upon the ground that Jw wao noti/lcrel one Kuigk* *nd his family, who was in possession of the land, claimed a homestead therein, which had been assigned to them by the ordinary. It did not appear under what title Knight and his family claimed the possession of the land, whether they were the tenants of Rowe, the mortgagor, or otherwise. The sheriff was ruled in the conrt below for the money due on the mortgage fi. fa. and upon the foregoing state of facts the court made the rule absolute against the sheriff. The judgment of the court below was right, and should be affirmed for the reasons stated in Dooly vs. Ishell. Thos. F. Jones, 11. Fielder, for plaintiff in error. A. Hood for defendant in error. John T. Green, Sheriff, vs. Benj. 11. Jones. Rule, from Early. McCay, J., delivered the opinion of the court, but failed to hand it to the Reporter. The judgment was reversed, upon the ground that the sheriff had acted in good faith and under the advice of counsel. T. D. Flipper vs. James V. Reed, C. D. Mc- Farland. Assumpsit, from Catoosa. McCay, J. In a suit on a debt contracted before the first of June, 1865, evidence showing sim ply that at the time of the making of the note, defendant was worth two thousand dollars, and at the trial—March, 1860—he was worth but five hundred dollars, is not sufficient to justify the jury in reducing the plaintiff’s claim, it not only being shown that this change in defendant’s circum stances was in any manner produced by any condnct of the plaintiff. Judgment reversed. Warner, J., concurring. If I believed the act of 1868 to be a con stitutional and valid law, and that the evi dence before the jury as to the loss of (he de fendants property, was legal and valid evi dence to be submitted to them for their consideration, then 1 should hold that the verdict in the case was right, and in accord ance with that evidence, and in accordance with the intention of the Legislature in al lowing those facts to be given in evidence for the consideration of the jary; but as I do not believe that act to be a constitu tional and valid law, which authorizes the defendant to give in evidence, as a defense to the note, the losses which lie has sustained since the making of the contract, to reduce the amount of the plaintiff's debt, I concur in the judgment of the court in reversing the judgment Os the court below. E. D. Graham, D. A. Walker, for plaintiff in error. Dodson & Payne, for defendant in error. J. C. Thornton & Cos., vs. M. E. Solomon, Wm. Frank. Assumpsit, from Twiggs. McCay, J. The single fact that the defendant lost a large amount of property, by the late war without any proof, that the plaintiff was in fanlt, or that it was caused in anv man ner by his (the plaintiffs) act raises no equity for the reduction of a debt contracted before said war. Judgment reversed. Warner, J., concurring. If (he act of 1868 allowing defendants to give In evidence the destruction, or Joss of the property upon the faith of which the credit was given, aud how, and in what manner, the properly was destroyed, or lost, in a suit upon all contracts fur the payment of money made ..rlor the llrat day of June, 1805, lie a valid and constitu tional law, and the evidence authorized by it be legal, and eoinpetenl evlde ice, to be submitted to the jury as a lawful defense to the plaintiff’s demand, aud If tbe jury upon the consideration of such evidence, shall reduce the plaintiffs debt as to them shall | appear just and equitable, then the verdict i ! n ,, s case ’ r &lucing the plaintiffs debt one half, was right under the evidence authoriz ! p l ' by th e act for the consideration of the jury, and ought not to be disturbed ; but that act, in my judgment,being unconstitn ; tional and void, and the evidence authorized by it constituting no legal or valid defense to the plaintiffs demand, I concur in the judg ment of the coart in reversing th« judg ment of the court below. Lauier & Anderson, for plaintiff in error. S. Hunter, For defendant In error. J. W. Childers vs. George iVest. Bill of demurrer, from Floyd. McCay, J. Where a bill was pending against an ad ministrator for an account of a trust con sided to his intestate, and there was an amendment enjoining the widow from pro ceeding to final Judgment on certain pro ceedings instituted by her to obtain money in lieu of dower, and the matters in the bill and answer by agreement, and under an or der ot the conrt were submitted to one of the attorneys on each side and an umpire, who met and found a certain large sum due to the complainant, aud also reduced the amount coming to the widow in lieu of dower, as found by the newly appointed commissioners, and their award wasat the next term made the judgment of the court in the absence of the defendant from this State, and iu the absence from providential causes of his countel, otiicr than his arbi trator, and in the absence also of the coun sel of the widow lor providential cause/, Ist. Held: That a bill for review for set ting up these facts, and charging that tie referees had made a gross mistake In calcu lation, and had acted contrary to law In charging the intestates with certain notes as cash, which he had not in fact collected, and which had been lost without his fault, is groperty filed against the complainant in said original bill, and if demurred to, the demurrer ought to have beeu overruled. 2d. Held further: That the referees had no right under the reference to lessen the amount of the widow’s dower. Judgment reversed. L Warner, J., concurring. 1 concur in the reversal of the judgment of the court below solely on the ground that the bill alleges that the arbitrator* made mistakes In their calculations in making np their award, which mistakes are specifi cally set forth in the bill, and that they re duced the amount of the widow’s dower which had beeu allowed her, without any evidence whatever being submitted to the arbitrators on that point ■; and the general demurrer to the bill admitting these allega tions to be true, the court below erred In sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the Smith & Branham, Underwood & Rowell, for ptanr-HTln error, Alexander A Wright, for dA&iulsnt iix er ror. . Chas. H. Smith, Administrator, el. al., vs. Anna E. Smith. Dower, from Floyd. Warner, J. Where the widow of an Intestate elects, after a fair and public sale of his lands, to take an amount of money, absolutely, In lieu of her dower therein, as provided bv the 17615 t section of the Code. Held: that the amount of the sa'e of the land, at such public sale, is conclusive evidence of the value thereof, ami that the widow Is enti tled to have her dower estimated out of the proceeds of such sale* from the death of her husband, and the value of her litc estate estimated from that time during her life. Judgment reversed. Thos. W. Alexander, B. H. Hiil. Printup tc Fouche, for plaintiff iu error. Wright & Broyles, Branham, for defend ant in error. Julia A. Jones vs. Charles Morgan. Juris diction as to slave note, from Sumter. Warner, J. When it appeared from the record that an action of trover and conversion was pending tn the Supreme Court of Sumter county, for the tortious conversion of cer tain negro slaves in the year 1850, and that the plaintiff and defendant had fraudulently settled said suit with notice of the claim of the plaintiff’s attorney’s lien for his fees, due In said cause, and on motion of defend ant’s counsel, the court dismissed said suit for want of jurisdiction against the plaintiff’s counsel. Held : That the coun sel of the plaintiff had the right to prose cute suit against the defendant, for the amount due him for his fees in that case, provided the plaintiff in the action is en titled to recover anything from the defend ant and that the conrt below erred in dis missing the case. Jndgment reversed. Hawkins & Burke for plaintiff in error. J. J. Scarborough, by John J. Clark, for defendant in error. William Graham, vs. John McGolrc, John B. Crira. Motion to set aside judgment, from Terrell. The endorsement of a note, given for a slave, if the endorsement is for a valuable consideration, other than a slave, or the hire thereof, is not within that part of the constitution of this State, denying jurisdic tion to the courts thereof to enforce a debt, the consideration of which is a slave or the hire thereof. Judgment reversed. Brown, C. J., concurred as follows: 1. The payee of a promissory note given for a slave, who for a valuable considera tion, which was no way connected with the slave ; endorsed and delivered the note to the plaintiff, Is liable. The endorsement, is anew contract and the conrt has Juris diction to enforce the judgment against him on that contract. C. B. Wooten, D. A. Vason, A. Hood/for plaintiff in error. F. M. Harper, W. A. Hawkins, for de fendant in error. Samuel T. Payne, pia'ntiff in error, vs. Mary H. Payne, defendant in error. Ha beas Corpus, from Fioyd. Buown, C. J. In a contest about the possession of two minor children, between the mother and tbe testamentary guardian, who is tbe grundfathcr—when It Is-shown that one of them Is only three yearn old. and the other one year old, and still ah the mother's breast—this court will not, upon the case made by this record, coutrol the discretion of the court below, whose judgment Is In favor of the mother’s right to their cus- tody, till the period arrives when it Is proper that the testamentary guardian take possesmon of the minors for the pur pose of their education. Judgment affirmed. Underwood & Rowell for plaintiff in error. /' 1 Alexander & Wright for defendant in error. The Barefoot Friars. A CURIOUS REVELATION ABOUT THEIR MON ASTERY AT WEST HOBOKEN, N. Y—THEIR Alleged miracles. The New York Express publishes a strange letter from a literary lady, who Is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, giving the following account .- THE MONASTERY occupies a commanding position on the heights of West Hoboken—with a long stretcli of Hudson river view—presenting New York city as a background. When we arrived at the rude wooden pathway that leads from the railroad to tbe Monas tery grounds, we found anumberof patients going and coming, who purposed to try, or who had tried, the effleaev of the mira culous relic in the hands of the Passionlst Fathers. The. building, as we approached, I discovered, was of dark stone, of consid erable architectural beauty, massive and commodious. TOE CHAPEL we entered first. It Is small and simple. At the upper end is a singular altar. It Is Intended to represent the sepulchre of Christ. Within It, through a massive glass plate, is seen the figure of the Saviour—the body mutilated by the tortures of the cruci fixion and dressed In the cerements of the grave This to mo was a ghastly sight, but as Impressive as painful. Above the altar were three well painted but singular pictures. The one on the right represented the fight of St. Michael with the dragon, Hie one on the left a vision St. Paul of the Cross, and the oue In the middle and imme diately above the altar the miracle of the embrace of St. Paul by the Saviour from the Cross. From this the order of the PASBTONIBT FATHERS had its origin and took Us name. From the chapel we went up and rang the bell at the main entrance. We were received by one of the lay brethren, clad In a coarse woolen cassock, confined at the wast by a heavy leathern girdle. We delivered our letter, which was addressed to the Superior, and, after waiting a few moments, In which we took occasion to examine some handi work of the friars, and make a Tew pur chases, we were shown into an unoccupied parlor, in which we very soon were warmly welcomed by FATHER VICTOR, - •x4lujwriqr of the Institution, who was doing the honors in the absence or tire nu perior, for the morning, in the city. He | was genial and kindly In the extreme.— With the Impress of the austerity of his manner of life, his countenance beams with the most genuine benevolence, whlio his mariners are chlld-ilke In their simplici ty. His dress was as coarse and simple as I that of the lay brethren who answered the bell-call—but was distinguished by the badge of the order worn on the left breast —a white heart, surmounted by a cross and emblazoned with the motto: Jesu X PI PABSIO. THE MIRACLE OF HEALING, to make a test of which was one purpose of my visit, was soon the subject of.our con versation. I dirt not dare to express the slightest doubt, but my questions to the good Father were not timidly addressed, lie answered candidly, but I discovered that he was occasionally slightly amused. Our conversation drifted to doctrinal top. Ics. I frankly confessed the extent of my faith In the peculiar tenets of his church, but we came to a wide difference of opin ion when alluding to the supremacy of the Pope. I told him for many of his temporal act«, and for many of the acts of his priest ly office, I sincerely admired His Holiness, but could not exactly consider him the vice regent of our Saviour. He smiled— per haps he pitied me—but showed not the least displeasure. Before I left, with his blessing he applied to my eyes the relic, and presented me with a medal blessed by tbe Pope, and Dr. Hay’s Sincere Christian. Am I cured f Do not ask me—that is my secret ; but I will say I brought away with me a most kindly impression of the Barefoot'Friars, and an invitation to come again whenever I wished. Ido not think there was any attempt to proselyte me, nor was mv Protestant faith al all shaken by Father Victor’s kindness, courtesy and generosity. The success of Bt. Michael’s has proven that MONASTIC ASCETICISM has, without any doubt, taken root on American soil. This now flourishing mo nastery was founded by a small brother hood in 1862. The Monks came from Italy, and brought nothing with them but their poverty. ‘ They have now twelve young American students preparing for the priest hood. The brotherhood Dnmbers but eighteen in nil, twelve priests and six lav brothers; but In five years those eighteen persevering men have built a monastery costing SIOO,OOO, from the voluntary con tributions of the Roman Catholics of this country, and there is now in process of construction a magnificent church In con nection with the house. THE AUSTERITY OF THEIR MANNER OF LIFE is plainly evinced In the appearance of the Friars. Their faces look hard and weath bArtten. Their hands bear the marks of toil. Their bare feet are protected alone by sandals, strapped over the Instep—and worn at all limes, In-doors and out-of-doors, except In the most severe weather of win ter. Their countenances are mild and peaceful, and beam with religious fervor. Their work seems to lie purely of charity, and commands blessing. THEIR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT is democratic. The superiors tire elected by the members of the order for the term ol six years. Tltelr authority fa limit-<1 by a code of laws by which all agree to abide. ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS, who was the founder of the Order of the Passlonlsta, Is one of the modern saltiis ... the Roman Church. 11s died In 1775. ms I whs canonized two year* ago, at the re- ' iii canonization ot the martyrs by Pope P.u. VOL. 28. NO. 37 IX , but his followers seem to lack none of the fernent asceticism which characterizes those of Ignatius Loyola, Bt. Dominic, or St. Francis of Assisi, and the order is rapid ly increasing on this continent as well as in Europe. They have already three monas teries In the United States—one In Balti more, one in Pittsburg, and St. Michael’s, iu Hoboken. - THEIR OCCUPATIONS. Besides their devotions and labors as priests—in preaching, teaching and writing, attending the sick, and administering the sacraments of the church—these friars are employed as the most Industrious house keepers. They do their own cooking, wash ing, ironing and housework—and this housework Is no Insigutflcnut item; for they give retreats to numbers of pious Catholic laymen and secular priests, and also entertain, when they desire It, Pro testant gentlemen. The first floor of the monastery Is for entertainment; the second for priests of the order; the third for the la borers and students. We were not taken through the building, for the door beyond the main hall is the “ thus far and no farther ” for women. The Carmelite Nun at Cracow. TnE OTHER SIDE. The Vnivers of the sth Instant gives some information received by it from a corre spondent who, when an Inhabitant of Cra cow, had been acquainted with the unfor tunate nun, whose case has been turned to such bad account by the enemies of Chris tianity. It appears that she belongs to an honorable family, and had received au ex cellent education. Under the impression that she wus called to a religious life, she first intended to enter the Convent of the Visitation. After several trials, however, she was thought to be mistaken as to her vocation. Her piety was fervent, and, in many respects, she showed great merit; but she was so excessively scrupulous that the sisters feared she would lose her senses. At a later date, she offered herself to the Carmelites, and, by this time, her attacks of scruples had probably become less fre quent or more tinder control, for she was received into their convent. Her mental Infirmities, however, eventually returned and grew worse and worse until scrupu losity ended In absolute madness. There was no other cause whatever for her be coming deranged, and there Is not a sylla ble of truth In the filthy stories invented on this occasion by liberal journalists, who are incapable even of respecting the chaste reputation of a poor mad nun. When a daughter unhappily loses her senses, her family is tilled with a natural repugnance to send her away from home to a mad house. The good Carmelite Sisters of Cra cow obeyed the human feeling, and, under the Just and kind Idea that their Insane sister would fare better in their hands than under the care of a mad doctor, they kept the cross. Had they, on the other hand, sent her away from them, they would Inevit ably have been accused of want of sisterly charily. It is asserted that she was Ill treated, and the nuns are accused of endless atrocities towards her. But is there any foundation for these most unlikely stories t What man- of sense will believe them on the strength of newspaper paragraphs, picked up no one knows where P These writers first stated that the poor mad woman harl lived twenty-one years in a hole so small and so filthy that a strong man would not have existed twenty-one days In It. They have since been com pelled to acknowledge that the “filthy hole” is In factaclean and well aired room, and, In a word, so unobjectionable a cham ber that the authorities allowed her to re main In It during the thirty-six hours which elapsed between their first visit and her removal. The same journalists have also admitted that a close examination of the poor nun's body lias disclosed no traces of the tortures she’was at first said to have suffered for twenty-one years. But these odious calumnies were invented for the pur|K>se of exciting the people to a riot, anil, by the help of the Polish Jews, they were successful The Austrian Govern ment is Indebted to these worthies for hav ing supplied the long-expected pretext for attacking the religious bodies. It has been Immediately laid hold of; and on the 29th of July, Dr. Glskra, the Minister of the In terior, wrote to the Chief of the Adminis tration at Lemberg, to Inquire whether any motive could be suggested for delaying the withdrawal of the yearly allowance of 1,800 florins which had previously been granted to the convent, and also whether either the Bishop of Cracow (Mgr. Gaiecki) or the administrator thought it desirable that the existence of the convent Itself should be prolonged. The reason given In this letter is simply the excitement occa sioned by the Carmelite affair, together with tbe “revolting facts” of the case; and this, without any inquiry Into the truth of the story, and without any oppor tunity of defense being allowed to the sis ters. It appears to the Univers, In conclu sion, that there is not the shadow of a proof against the Carmelite Bisters of Cracow, and that they have been made the victims of an abominable combination of intriguing Jews, Protestants, and free-thinkers, with the complicity, if not under tbe direct in spiration, of the Austrian Ministry. India Cotton.— -The exports from the Central Provinces of India to Bombay were 273.141 bales, from October Ist to June 18. The Commissioner of the Central Prov inces says in his report: “In regard to the Improvement of cotton cultivation, the re sult of the experiments, conducted again this year with great care, has not been such as to convince me that the American cotton seed is likely to prove a success In Central India; and I am still inclined to believe that the view expressed In my former re port and concurred in by the Chamber of Commerce, that more good Is likely to be effected by the carefttl treatment of the Indi genous plant than by the adoption of exotic seed is correct. The season, It is true, was particularly unfavorable. Still, the hardy little Berar plant suffered but slightly, whilst tire fields sown with exotic seed pre sented tt most withered appearance, and most of the crop wss destroyed by the want .if rain. And ft fa. I fear, sufficiently ev dent that n plant that cannot stand the caprices of the Decan climate, is not likely to fin I general favor In the Berars.” The C>.lumiliu* Bun says that to mastl (uie the beef sold in that city fa equivalent to gun wing an old boot heel.
