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The World at the Death-Bed or
Pope Pius.
Tn view of the serious illness of Pope
Pius, the following artiolo from the
New York Herald will be read with
great interest..
Is Pius IX tho last uf the Human
Pontiff*? The carious prophecy attribu
ted to St. Malachy, Archbishop of Ar
magh, in Ireland, and who diod in the
arms of the "laat of the church," as the
French proudly call Bernard of Clair
vmux, distinctly asserts as will bo seen
from the extraordinary document itself
reproduced in the Herald to day?that
he is. In that alleged inspired dream,
the Irish patriarch gave the number of
Popes that remained yet to como, giving
to each one of them an epigrammatic
mark by which he could bo concisely
distinguished and tho Bign he attached
to the Pontiff who closes his hazardous
enumeration corresponds, in a remarka
ble degree, with the venciablo Holy
Father who perhaps at this instant, has
the death-rattle at the door of his
chamber. That sign is three Latin
words' " Crux de Cr/?r," which is inter
preted by some Catholic authorities to
signify the persecution of the cross from
a cross?that is, that the Popo suffers
crucial afflictions from a royal poorer
which has the crossfor tho chief emblem
on its escatcheiO of authority. And
thia, as had Hbeen paid, points the finger
at Victor Emmanuel. In his kingly
emblems, tho cross surmounts everything.
It we mistake not, Father Saresufcc, a
learned Jesuit priest, in a lectaro which
he lately delivered not far from New
York, g*\'c this interpret.if inn as expli
citly M tho fine Inwgttigo could make it
to the *^'iK.r dr Crurc," of the ancient
metropolitan of Armagh. The lirrald
does uot pi'ctond to settle the authority
oi" St. I?iuinciiy:s prophecies. Hut it is
us clear as tk? ,<nn in the meridian that
the words ** CVm;t de CW?-?'* oro ianiagu
lar ngrceiuent between Pius IX nnd the
tirst monarch of United Italy. And
that being the c?sc, it is an interesting
and serious question, is- Pius IX the last
of the Kornau Pontiff*?
it is a startling question. Its proper
form is, is tho great Roman Catholic ,
Church scutenced to death? For, no
Pope, no Catludic church. Catholicity
cannot survive the Papacy for one se
cond. And Catholicity is a thing of no
small radras, diameter and circumfcrcnc *
St. Malachy therefore or whoever wrote
in bis name, gave ground for patting a
qucBtion of tremendous magnitude. A
short time, however, will quite solve the
curious interrogation, for it cannot be
long before the H?]y See "Will havts nu
occupant or cease to be the great cen
tral religious altar of more than three
fourths of the Vast population of Chris
tendom. In the mean time, Pius IX is,
in all human probability, on his death
bed; attd the noble old man?with face
one of the finest Home has witnessed for
many a day-?has the world watching at
his couch. Let us see who these watch
ers are. Tho King of Italy has his aiind
on the spot with particular anxiety of
manner.
Princo Bismarck, who by recent sta
tutes has made the.Emperor the High
Priest of the German people, and who
ardently withes that there may never be
another pupreroo head of tho Catholics,
is attending to the Roman telegrams,
to the exclusion oi every other du
ty.
M. Thier*. President ?f the French
republic and, though a Protestant, affirm
upholder of the Papacy, ia on the
qui vice with all the activity of an aged
statesman of genius, for the first intelli
gence of an event which he knojrs will
move Catholic France to floods of tears
and sighs of true devotion.
Francis Joseph, of Austria, is in con
stant communication with his Embassa
dor at th ? Vatican on tho fluctuations
in the health of the illustrious pa
tient.
The Conut do Chaiubard, who once
had inipnssioncd hopes that Pius IX
Would place the erowu of St. Lout* on
his temples and the rwor.l of Henry the
Great in his hand, is in unfeigned grief
over the appwhentkad dinvolution of one
for whose rights the royal blood iu his
veins was always ready to flow.
'J ho Turk at Coastsutiuoplo?the
Prince of the Cresooat, the successor oi
Mahommed?esteem*. bin uotogenariati
l'rimate of the Cross, us if Rome hud
?never inspired crusade*- tu Jight npuim-t
S.ilidin for fhe recovery of Jerufalotn;
as if thcjro never ha 1 befu a battlo at
Lepanto; as if thcro had never been a
Charles Martcl and plains of Poictiers;
and he is listening for tho first intima
tion of his death,-that ho may honor
his memory by putting -crape on the
standards of tho Ottoman Empire.
The Czar of Russia, it'is stated, hated
Pius IX with a bitter hatred, and he
is impatient to bo informed that the
Pontiff has breathed his last.
Victoria, Protestant Queen of a great
Protestant nation, whose first Icings are
saints iu the Roman calendar, hes her
tender cars open for the sad news that
the Holy Father is dead. She congrat
ulated him on tho day he was fifty years
a priest, she congratulated him on the
?lay he was twenty five years a Pope;
when she learns he has expired, she will
give to his name and to his vir
tues, and to the great office he has so
long filled, the gord, private homa'go of
her heart.
Finally, all the churches feel tho most
intense interest in this death-bed.?
Around it, it is ensy and just for im
agination to conceive clustered all the
great leaders of the Protestant forms of
faith, anxious with the conjecture and
ready to seize the hope that with Pio
Mono the "scarlet woman of the Apoca
lypse" may die and give up her soul for
ever. Rut in a particular position, ami
with a pre eminent right and though last
in the enumeration yet tho most natural
in i(. around this memorable death bed
stands the whole Hornau fold, 300,000, J
000 in number. Never was sovereign
Pontiff so loved by Catholics as Pius IX
He was and he is to them no self made
cleric, but the very' vioir of God; grand
to look at; most noble in his disposition
au angol in every virtue; a second prince
of the apojtlcs in all respects; the most
outraged of all holy men, and the idol of
their hearts wml understandings;?
Whether 'ho Catholic fsi'h is true or
uot true, this is the way the Cutliolie
people of all the earth v?-v? o.<??o.l
their fondness on Pius IX; and sore arc
they within nt (earning that Iiis hug
rei^n ever them is at last at its end; and
when ihey ahull read that he is no more. I
copious will be the tears thai will tlovr
from their eyes, broken will be the sobs
with which they will pronounce his
name, und ardent will be the prayers
that will penetrate th e clouds for the
saactifi:atiou of his spirit. It is n splen
did tribute to illustrious worth. Far be
it from ail to give it a wanton in
sult.
Thews facts give an idea of the itif/'r
cst that is concentrated on the sick cone Ii
or the death bed of Pius IX.
Rut there is one watcher of this death
bed who is entitled to special eons idera
t ion. It is the King of Italy. He has
'xsng witihcd for the death or the Tope;
for the Pope kept him long out of Koine
on which he set his heart, and now that
he has Home he is filled with uneasiness
while the Pope lives. Well may he
wish that the mediaeval prophet of Ar
magh, or whoever wrote in tho ascetic
.Metropolitan's name, issued a truo pro
phecy when he made the Pope of the
uOrux(ft Omee** Resignation the last of
the sovereign Pontiffs.
The Bukrupt Law?is it Constitu
tional r
For some time past there ha*been
going'ou h discusaiou between the Rich
mond Difpatch and the Hatcigh .Wir*
relative to the constitutionality of the
Amendatory Raokrupt Act. Wo copied
a portion of 'aae of the Newt' curlier
articles. Relow we neprlut the Dis
patch's reply to a position taken by a
contributor to the New*, The AVir*
seems nearly to agree with the Ditmitch
At leant it speaks of not having full
confidence iu the constitutionality of the
act.
The DtMpateh't argument is that the
amo idatory set is unconstitutional, in
that it docs not establish a uniform
bankrupt law. "Thit uniformity," snjs
the fh'spatch, "must either be du rived
from the fuel (hat it respects the State
laws, or the fact (hat it fixes (he amount
itself." The smount hore refers to ih
exemptions allowed the bankrupt.
The DitJHlh h say* :
At pre bent we have 4wit a few words
to say, ??d ihe.se are upon the following
statement in \W arlicle iu (he /Vier? :
Rut tho (Dispatch denies tlint Con
gress, in tho act of Mxrch 3, 1872, did
more than attempt, "by authorization
and ratification," to give effect to the
State exemption laws an Sin/*- lawn.
Let us *ec whether Congress enacted
any laws of it* oion in the passage ot
said act or not. It enacts that the
exemptions in each State shall be tbe
amount allowed by the Constitution and
lawa of each State as existing in
the year 1871?meaning the amount
designated or fixed by such State law;
nothing more nor nothing less. It
simply adopta the exemptions in each
State as t he measure of its own exemp
tions, without adopting the State home
stead lawn. This is obvious from the
following enactment:
"And it la hereby enacted that such
exemptions shall be valid against debts
contracted before tho adoption and pas
sago of sucbtState Constitution and laws,
as well as those contracted afteiwards,"
kc.
Now, they were not so valid under
the State laws, and Congress could not,
by "authorisation'' of them at State
lairs, make them so. In this the Di?,
patch ih undoubtedly right. But that is
not what Congress did or attempted to do
in the act" of March 3, 1873. Thnt
body, in which there are some soundaud
able constitutional lawers, especially in
tho Senat?, simply enacted that such
exemption* should be "valid" against all
classes of debts uuder the bankrupt law
?a law of Congress, which none can
doubt its p<'wer to pass."
We have this to say in reply : If the
new act of Congress does not change the
Virginia law. then the seme amount is
to be exempted under the Virginia law,
and agniutf the same debts that were
thrown out by the Virginia law, as this
law was expounded by her highest judi
cial trihuu*!.' In a word, the bankrupt
law has uot changed the Virginia law.
And if the act of Congress does not
change the Virginia law, it failed to do
what it was intended to do ; for that wai
the avowed purpose of its authors. Ou
ike other ami. if it does change the
Virginia \ar it changes it by validating
?Im?, |a? IX TV (B>? Virzin!? \nn rrli'uli tliu
Court of Appeals had pronounced un
ooiistitutional. And this is just what
the Suprcan: Court of tho United States
said, in the case from Georgia, th it Con
gress couid not do.
The writer in the Xnrt says that Con
gross did nut attempt by 'authorization'
of thi'lH Statt, laid tt) valid itc ilie
homestead laws of the several States.
Ho quotes enough of the act Of Con
gress to htit his purpose; but ho oihus
the following:
'It is hereby ?uautcd that they shall
be the atnottut allowed by the Constitu
tion and laws of each State respectively
as existing in the year 1871 ; and that
such cxeiupions .-hall be valid agaiu.it
debts contacted before the adoption
and pawag* of such State Constitution
and laws, as well as those contracted
after the ?nie, and against liens by
judgment or decree of any State Court,
any decisioa of any such court rendered
since the a.'.tpiiou and passage of such
constitutions to the contrary notwith
standing."
"Any dedidon of any such court ?"
What does jthix tnoa n ? It mcaus that
Congress attempted to override the State
courts. It fcems that our Court of Ap
peal.? having decided what the law of
Virginia wa|, and against what debts
the homestead exemption should be
allowed, Coagrcaa tried to override both
the law aud tie court. Admitting, then,
that the w filer tor the Ae?-* is right
thus far, hi bus only gotoutofonc
difficulty *to it II into a greater. Con
gress has pnprr to pass a uniform bank- I
nipt law. 'Iii* uniformity must either
be derived frta) tho fact that it respects
the State litra, or the fact that it fixes
the amount ntself. It im, therefore, uot
uniform, ana not being uniform, it not
constitutional! for if it doos not change
the Virgioia law, it has no effect, here,
whilst if it doa change the Virginia law
it is not ujiform, since the only uni
formity it c o possibly claim is due to
its allowing what the Stato allows as
exemptions."- -Exchange,
ft ddtng Cnko
Tbey huvcsiotahlo ways of dealing
with wedding! cake in Kngland. In I
Yorkshire, wl n an Ka i Hiding bride
is on the point >f crossing her father's
threshold uftoi Pturaing from church,
a plate contain tg a few square p ioces of
cake is thrown rom an open window of
tho house, for I ie purpose of learning
whether tdie w be a happy or wrotcited
wife.. It the lttc, on reaching the
grouud Wreaks, he will n >t escape in- I
jury. It is nor ess to say that lite near
kinsman of the bride, who Heads the
platter from the window, takes good
care that - the omen is satisfactory. In
some parts of Lancashire and Cumber
laud it ia customary to put a ring
amongst the ingredients of the cake, and
to invite the guests in tarn to out a slice.
The person who holds the knife when
it comes upon the hidden ring is deemed
to be sure of happiness for a t least
twelve months.
How A Boatoa Reporter Lost Hin
Situation.
It is said that in a moment of tempor
ary insanity a Boston city editor assign
ed a horse racing, bass-ball and aquatic
reporter to report, in half a column, the
Sunday services at the church ?f a
sensational preacher. This ia the re
port he published, and for which he
was discharged.
"The house inet at 10,30 a. m. Prayer
Lj the chaplain. The first race was
between the chaplain and the singers, it
being a pretty even match the two first
heats ; but the singers got the best of
the last three heats, and came ;a on the
amen two full lengths ahead, winning
the last threo heats and the race. Time
0.64 Petitions were then presented for
forgiveness and other matters, and
notico was given of special assignment
during the coming week for various ob
jects. The singers then sailed up to the
judges stand, and after getting into
position sailed away on the course with
all canvass set and a spanking breeze
from the organ, which drove them aloug
in fine style. The top rigged yacht
flying the blue peuuant was well ahesd
at the stake, and came home ahead of
all the fleet. The speaker then took the
floor, announced his intention to ask
that the resolution of censure that had
been heaped upon Annanias should be
rcciiuled, and proceeded to read tho
records of the case, from which it ap
pears that Annanias had sold IIis house
and had not given all the price to the
church. The speaker then went on to
say that uo reason appeared on tint re
cords tor Annanias to give any, and
much less all, of his property to tho
church, and that he questioned it'an;- of
tho>c before him would do any more
than Annanias had iu the same place,
lie then went on to show that Annanias
had obeyed his wife iu the ma ter, and
expressed the belief (hat few of those
before him could say as much for them
selves. After further arguments of a
similar character he moved (hat the
character of Anuanina be and the same
is hereby declared 1 A by the members of
the house."
tiirK.
(?trls are marvels of beauty and
wonderfully made. Though fashioned
by the bauds of the Creator they are
shaped by the dressmakers and
milliners. It takes exactly two hundred
and eleven pounds of flesh and blood,
thirty two yards of dress material,
ninety seven yards of yellow tibbon,
twelve pounds of cotton, twenty-four
copies u" the Coach, sixteen feet of
horse hair, thirty-three ouuecs of flour,
two boxes of red paint, and a bottle of
night blooming soriousness to prepare
the average Rocky mountain girl for
church. They know less in an hour,
and can tell more in a minute than say
othcr person on earth*. Their strong
suit is to make trouble and bustlss, and
the proficiency they have acquired is the
conundrum of the ago. In game of talk
they invariably hold the right bower or
take tue ace with the king. They are
totally ignorant of the rules of civilised
warfare, and never let up wbou they
get a fellow down. A girl flan look
prelty and Ugly, happy und sorrowful,
hot and cold, sweet and sour, sentiment
al and disgustod in ten seconds, aud the
only place in the world where tho boys
have the be.-/ of them is iu sitting up of
nights. Vit with all their faults we
love them still, and a few more of our
photographs may be bad by addressing
the Driver and iuolosjng fifty cents.
Marijagn proposals must be prepaid ?
The (l 'of ) ('oath'.
A stranger, a young matt from the
country, after having gat d at the ban
anus at the eating house iu a railway ata
lion, wanted to know what '?them 'ar
sweet potatoes wore wuth," aud why so
much pains was taken to ' striug 'm."
He couldn't see that he wa? wrong when
ho crowd laughed.
Legal Miscellany.
The N. Y. Court of Appeals have
deoided that ao order denying a motion
to set aside a summons and complaint
becsusa the notice is not uuder the
right subdivision of See. 152 of the
Code where the complaint was served
with the summons does not affect a sub
stantial right and is as* appealable.
Tbe Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in
a late case, held that an order setting
aside service of the complaint?(on the
ground that the copy served was illegi
ble and allowing plantiff to make service
thereof within twenty days on term*- ) was
not appealable.
The Supreme Court of Illinois have
deoided tlut checks payable at a future
day are entitled to the usual days of
grace.
Georgia has repoaled all her laws re
lating to usury.
In l*i*ktt?gill vi. LaheiJ", the U. S. j
Supreme Conrt have decided that the
estate of a deceased surety was discharg
ed from the payment of tbe obligation
in controversy on the principle that, if
one ol two joint obligors die, the debt is
extinguished against bis representatives;
Opinion by Davis J;
The Supreme Court of Indiana hold
that neither the fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United States
nor the Civil Rights bill passed by
Congress has impai i a 1 or aSn gated tho L w
of that State on the subject of the mar -
riage of whites and negroes.
Snob a union between members of the
different races is a criminal offense by
the statute* of th>t State.
A Massachusetts attorney acting for
another man, recently acknowledged a
deed before himself as Justice of the
IN ace. How did he like his "'personal
appearance?"
They tell a story of a momber of a
certain high toned fraternity known oat
w.st as ?'shell bark lawyers." This
member's client was np on two small
charges^?"frivohj'is charges" as shell
bark called them?'(forging a note and
stealing a horse.)
Shell bar* didn't like the In >ks of the
jury so he prcpircd an .affidavit for
ooutiuuuacc, seltiug forth thj absence of
a material witness.
lie read it in a whispor to ffre prison
er who, shaking his head. Slid, "squire
I can't swear to that dokymout." 'Why?
?Hekasc it hain't true." Shell bark
grew red in the face and then explo
ded loud enough to be heard throughout
the room?"what! forge a n >te aud
steal a horse and cant eveir to a lie :
hang such an infernal fool;" and off he
went leaving tho conscientious on a to
his fate?M<u4horo Timtt.
Where esu We Find Them .'
Where ia the eating house waiter who
is correct in his arithmetic?
Where ia the after-dinner speech
maker who, having to propose the toast
of the evening, docs not regret that it
has not been placed in ah!?r hands ?
Where is the railway eonduetor of
sufficient self-control to shut a carriage
door without giving a good bang to it ?
Where is the tourist who ean turn his
thalers into francs and no* lose a few
centimes by it ?
Whore is the f ight aart driver who
ever dreams of slackening his paae when
going round a corner where there is a
crowded crossing ?
Where is the man who keep* n diary !
and ever live* to find the slightest use
in doing tn ?
Whrre )? the young gentleman who
can abstain for a whole month from
sticking flowers in bis button-bole?
Where in the yonng lady who, after
going to a ball, is unable to describe in
detail a)) tho dresses thai were worn
there ?
Where is the workman who, wbeo he
gets a ri*e in vagus, ever dreams of
saving money by 'U-t
Where is the amateur who can opeo
oysters quickly without leaving the -hell
sticking to them f
A Cue of $15 and two weeks imprison
tneut was tbe sentence lately passed by
a London magistrate opoa a wretch who
pricked out the eves of a chaffinch to
improve its song, lie boasted of having
treated forty birds in .the same manner
in oue day. A little of the lash would
have improved his song and probably
made him "change his tune," too.
Newborn is nothing n >w if not
musical.
Hostile Advice.
Mr. Editor.?It ia said that it in
lawful to be taught by an enemy. At
leant sos-iys the Latin raixim. It may
be lawful to be instructed in this way ,
but I prefer any other school.teacher.
When one whose interests, to say noth
ing of his prejudices, arc antagonistic
to mine gives mo advice, I always look
out for a mouse in the meal tub, and
what is moro, I generally find him, and
the more earnest the advice and tho .
more emphatic the assurance that it is
g'v? a from no other motive than affer?
tiouate internst in me, the more
suspicion* I become, and the less in
clined I am to adopt it.
A fow day? ago'. I read in a North ?rn
paper a long and labored letter, giving a
great many figures and no cud of
statistics, the object of which was to
show us of the Cotton States that we
-li uId devote all our land aud time aud
1 .bor to the production of cotton and bay
all our provisions and everything else
we need from our Northorn frienJs, be.
cause we can raise cotton and they can
not. We arc told that we should not
divide our energies; that oursoil and
climate are the very thing for cotton,
but not at all suited to corn or provision
jrops ; that fertilizers p?y prodigiously
when applied to cotton, but are very
I unremuncrative from corn, Sec.; that an
I acre in cotton will bring $100 cosh,
I while au acre of grain, hay, potatoes,
kc, will not bring more than about
$15 worth of food ; that cotton does not
exhaust the land, while tho crops ruin
it; and then wo are told that cotton is
such an "interesting" crop, that it is so
beautiful, that it i.i so easihAurkcd,
?'by the least efficient force of implanta
tion, and then, that it is "/Tiegentleman'*
crop !M
Now all this is as clear as mud. No
one ao dull an not to see that to raise an
acre of anything but cotton would be a
waste of laud, of fertilizers, of labor and
of mousy, and that besides the outrage
on (h? mstheties by substituting hideous
com, wheat, oats or clover for beautiful
cotton and abandoning an interesting
crop which can be raised by "the (east
efficient of the plantation force," we
should be giving up "the gentleman's
crop" )utr excellence, and adopting one
obly fit for the moat abject of boors.
This advice has of course, nothing to do
with the fact that New England wants
a plenty of cheap cotton, and that tho
more raised the cheiper it will be to
the Yankee spinner. Nor are we ad'
vised to buy everything we need to cat,
wear and use at the North, because the
necessary consequence is that we ?aast
send bick to the North every cent we
get for our cotton, and have to run in
debt besides. Tho man who wrote this
letter, giving this advive, must evident,
ly be disinterested. "We know he is a
friend, from a remark he made."
I once heard of a cavalry officer who
was sent with his company to attack a
party of Indians who were supposed to be
concealed in some thick underbrush; he
dismounted his men and told them that
"some men are good for one tbUg and
some for another. I a in good for holdr
Log horses. You are good for fighting ;
go ia and kill the last one of the
Indians." He was disinterested, of
course, and ss the probabilities are he is
alive yet, and perhaps owns a cotton
factory in New England he may be the
very man who recommends us to plant
all cotton and buy from him and his
frisnds everything wo want.
But I object, I want to hold tho
none* awhile. J. R.
Baldwin Co , Oa., April 5, 1873.:?
Southern Farm and Hume.
Professor Hyatt delivered a leoturo
on mercury in Vienna, recently, when he
exhibited the leg bone o' a man whoso
daath had undoubtedly been hastened
by mercury. striking the bona
heavily upon the table, out f>il thousand*
of little glittering globules of mercury?
brig.li/. metallic mercury ? which rolled
about upon the black surface before him,
collecting here and there into drops.
This mercury had been absorbed during
lifo, undermined the man's system an i
proved fatal to him.
Some one says that the lion and tho
Jamb may lie down .together in this
world, but wbeu the jfion g<*ts up U will
be hard work to find the lamb.
A New Jersey tobacconist, with
commendable frankness, advertises; "1
shall continue, to keep ou hand imported
cigars of my own uvinufacture " <