The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-24
THE IRISH REPUBLIC.

with handsome couches and very fine silver lamps panels
being prety painted with landscapes and flowers The
windows large and hung with brocade curtains The
Sutan's bedroom, which adons, smaller but similarly
frnshed it contains large square forepost bedstead
deliberately carved and nlad with gold. Beyond is the
chamberlain waiting and their several cabins The
deck quite open The Sultan often goes on board IN the
afternoon to smoke pipe and contemplate his capital The
Sultan has snug little income There different estimates
It, The minister of finance states that the civil list amounts
to over 100000 purses or more than five millions OF dollars
in gold. This is only item of his income There
other authorities who reckon the personal expenditures of
the Sultan at about in gold rather more than
threeourhs of the entire revenue of the empire This
income largely ncumbered STILL what with this revenue
the rentage of domains presents tributary princes
and high state officers the Sultan manages squeeze along
1t is not written that he pays income The ulana
Vade is said to be amable woman to exercise con-
siderable influence her She is the only woman
whom he notice in public without violating Turkish
etiquette few years ago. report widely circulated
Europe that the Sultan about to depart from the
who possessed local information believed it. The
truth that the regning Sultan differs little from his prede
cessors except that he has taste for naval and military
affairs he restricts the expenditure of the imperial harem
much possible Most of the great pashas such Fad
Aali, Kiamel, Meheme Ali and Achmet Vefyk Efendi)
well the lower ORDERS have only legal wife, Namch
Pasha almost solitary instance among the great
of the empire of the exercise of the to marry four wives
Below the legal WIFE who mistress of the household come
the odalsques when there any, whose position
atey defined by uage their number is not limited by law,
but is restrained practically by the obligation afford them
maintenance during their lifetime. Below them the
slaves servants of the establishments from whom the
odaisques are generally selected By Mussuman law all
shares and of equal rank with the exception of those of
the Sultan The Sultan marrie He confers the title
of Kadine of his odasques, and only
of Kadine succeed to the throne To render this limit
alton secure the male children of the odalisques
generally put to death they born Formerly
the rule observed with regard to the of all
members of the Suans family but how far this is the
now it is difficult to discover prince in the order of
succession contracts legal marriage. The title of
suana is therefore, generally applied by Europeans ncor
recy The only who properly assume it is the
mother OF the regng sovereign and then only during his
lifetime.
EMIGRATION TO UTAH.-Less than twenty years ago. the
Latter Day Saints poor and prosecuted sect Now,
they number 100000 and control large and fertile
territory 1t in 1848 that the main body of the sect
encamped upon the shores of Salt Lake. where they have
founded empire desposm the most absolute that exists
EARTH An unmxed patriarchal government ourshngin
modern times and within the boundaries of the great Republic
Carlyle school would say that it natural reaction from
free institutions the revuson of people wearied with self
government harrassed by the petty rannes of thousand
demagogues and seeking refuge and rest in the absolute
despotism of single ruler who combines in himself the
attributes of prophet priest and king Unfortunately for this
theory of hero worship the facts do sustain it, very
small proportion of the rank and file of Mormonm
posed of native Americans The leaders, is true and
always have been native born Americans and most of them
Yankees The whole spiritual and temporal power of the
church cenered in few elders forming close corporation
with Brigham Young "the Lion Of the Lord" (himself
New Yankee of the shrewdet ype the head Of
it. and of foreign birth has thus far been able to
thrust his head into the secret concave that silently but
effectively rules the destnes of the Saints in Utah. On the
contrary great of the population the 1.-THE payers
and poor noseed dupes foreigners expressly imported
Europe to reinforce Non make the desert to blossom
the short become hewers of wood and drawers
of water for the Yankee church magnaes Foreign
lytism is the main stay of Momonism. The very first
earnings of the brethren in their Canaan of the West
were devoted to this object AS early 1850 emigration
fund established and complete system organized for
the transportation of proselyes from the old world These
converts chiefly obtained among the working classes of
England and Walesthe hard-worked underpad aborers
of the mining and manufacturing districts of those countries
naturally falling the easiest victims the supendous deu
sion We can fancy with what wonder those
pariahs of society," whose inheritance lifelong toll would
listen the gbtongued missionaries they painted the
sensual delights of the paradise and how eager they
would be to accept free passage hither Scarcely any
effort made obtain converts from the States the foreign
element being much easier to manipulate and mould to
the strict requirements of the church. On the 9Th of the
month"; 400 of these secares arrived New
York IN their way to Salt Lake Thew described