The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-21

The N. Y. Post says:-An extraordinary memo
rial has been addressed by 5O7 Austrian priests to
the author of the Concordat, the Cardinal Prince
Archbishop of Vienna. In this document, the
lower Catholic clergy put forth their grievances
in language the like of which has not been hea;
since the DAYS Of the Reformation. The memorial
begins with Il rough onslaught on the absolutistic
prerogatives of the episcopacy. "This Concordat,
it says, ''has conferred upon the bishops many
privileges and large increase of power; but the
priest has to bear the whole odium of the indigna-
ton and of the moral resistance which the hated
Convention has created among the people," ''There
is no doubt" the document continues in a subse-
quent paragraph, ''but that our religion has be-
come the object of universal dersion.
'The Concordat has aroused the wrath of the most
moderate men with respect to the antiquated
mediaeval ordinances of the Church; and the indg-
nation against the executors of those ordinances be-
comes louder and more universal from day to day.
This sentiment is the more dangerous rs it spreads
among the main body OF the people" The memo
rial complains of the wretched pay sometimes less
than that of cab-driver) of the lower clergy, in
consequence of which they driven to the collec
tion of fees and taxes which the source of the
most disgraccful and disgusting conflicts with the
people.
Religion is thus made to appear in the light of an
insutferabe burden and agitators increase the ill
feeling by directing attention, not to the penury Of
the lower clergy, but to the luxury and abundance
! in which the bishops revelng. In the next
place the petitioners lay bare the laziness of monk
! hood, and demand the abolition of these begging
|
! the maintenance of the really working priests
more important demand follows. 1t is for the
| abolition of cebacy, on the ground that the i'm
| possibility of entering into the married state
renders the priest the victim of suspicious, of
| sneering and contempt, and produces laxity
amongst the clergy, thus rendering them contribu-
tors to the moral dissolution which is invading even
| the popular classes In conclusion the petition
ers demand that "such reforms should be introduced
as to make the lower clergy no longer appear
in the odous light of oppressors of the poorer
classes and that the priests by the abolition of the
law of celibacy, should be- restored to the common
ties of family and humanity If this is not done, y
they assert, call our influence will entirely disap-
pear; the Catholic religion will be despised, hier-
archy be totally overthrown, and the state become
the football of ceaseless attacks and complications.
They express, too, the significant hope that they
may not be driven to expect their safety from the
| revolutionary party. I'm! H. |...
The first locomotives in the United States says
the Journal of the Franklin Institute were brought
| over from England by Horatio Allen, of New York
in the fall of 1929, the spring of 1880; and OF
them was set upon the Delaware and Hudson Rail
road, at Carbondale, Penn, but being found toe
heavy for the track, its use was abandoned The
first locomotive constructed in this country, was
built by the West Point foundery, at New York, in
| 1880, for the South Carolina Railroad, and named
the Phenix-a second engine was built the same
year, by the same establishment and for the same
| road, and named the West Point. In the spring o
1881 a third engine was built by the same establish
ment for the Mohawk and Hudson railroad, from
Albany to Schenectady, anu called tne lie lt Clln
tom this was the first locomotive run in the State o.
New York. The first Stephenson locomotive ever
imported into this country the Robert Fulton
This engine was brought out in the summer of 1881
for the NJ hawk and Hudson Railroad; it was sub
sequently rebuilt and named the John Bull.
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopa
Church. passed the following resolution by vot'
of ll3 to 9:
Resolved That the Annual and General Confer
ences be requested to concur in so altering tn,
| Rula shall fol
lows ziz
The buying or selling of men, women or chill
dren, or holding them, with an intention to u.s.
them as slaves ...
From S25. 900 to $50 900 have already been sub
scribed in Maryland to the stock of the proposed
Baltimore a. Potomac Railroad company; which i
to connect with the R. 4 Fredericksburg road a
Aqua Creek. .........
A committee of the Regents of the University o
Michigan, raised to inquire into the expediency o
admitting women to the University, have determ
ined to report against the proposition. u.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine last weel
sentenced Asa p. Ware, who pleaded guilty to tn
4 c ime of adultery, to three years Imprisonment ii
the State prison. st .. 81.
The total amount of banking capital in Cinein
natl is but 900. The population is estimated a
100000, and trade amounts to over S20O,0O0O
annually. .
Thompson Kelley, aged about or years, son o
the late Alexander D. Kelley of this CITY, was kill
ed in Fauquier county, Va, on Thursday last, b,
falling from cart load of grain. I'd ,t ..sis..F :
Bishop Delaney has had fifteen hundred dollar
voted to him by the Convention of the Diocese O
Western New York, at its recent session, to enabl
him to visit Europe
The negroes at their Convention in Troy, N. Y.
have resolved to vote the ''Republican'' ticket
They claim eleven thousand votes in the State.
The Kingston (Ca. British IVhig says Cir ALA
Macnab will probably be appointed Governor @
British Columbia.
The Union Bank Of Kinderhnok, N. Y, was bur
glariously entered on the night of the l5th an
robbed of from $4,000 to $4,000.
AtSt Louis, on Saturday, steam fire engin
threw 264 feet four inches through 100 feet of hose
and from n inch nozzle.
The military encampment at Queenstown, Pa
has been countermanded.