The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-30

printer had changed 1.-TWO or three" into "two-
thirds, and that the mistake escaped the notice
of the proof-reader, and we fully expected to
find q correction In the next issue of the paper.
But we have sought for IL in vain. Such
correction would not, IL is true, begin to repair
the injury done by the original statement aud
IL waslthe very least that could have been de-
manded of the proprietors of the Independent. But
il seems that the paper In question does not care
to take trouble to correct even misstatement as
serious as this. We cannot help wondering how
much the independents boasted devotion TO
truth and justice as the highest type of religion
really amounts to. 1t stands up, a valiant cham
pion of human rights and yet tramples them
under foot. 1t glorihes and idolizes truth in tbc
abstract, and at the same time shelters and
fosters concrete falsehoods with perfect self
compacency. 1t has a supreme contempt for
facts, but the deepest veneration for theories 49,
Hartford ChuTchndn.
CATHOLIC.
We take these items of news from letter
The constructions at st. Peters are of a most
solid appearance, and look as if they were in
tended to last as long as the Council of Trent
Great hopes are entertained. however that one
session may conclude the abors of the Council,
as the prolonged absence of the bishops would
be attended with great Inconvenience in the
present state of nearly every part of the Chris
tian world.
The OSSerUatore Romano has not reproduced
Perc Hyacinthe's letter, but it has appeared in
the Ndzione and all the revolutionary sprnts
and has been welcomed by the whole sectarian
press as the rallying cry of q schism In France
the feeling iS one of sorrow for the fall of so
eloquent preacher, but of perfect Indifference
as to the chances OF any injury to the Church.
Men of this stamp can only iniure her as long as
they profess to admit her authority, and when
once they renounce that they fall into the cate
cory of individuals, not leaders of schools or of
men, and become perfectly innOcuous even to
themselves.
The letter of Pere Hyacinthe has astonished
Fhn oft dad -.
Louis two years since, in which, although very
moderate, compared to his subsequent preach
ing, the direction of his ideas was sufficiently
apparent The Pope said of him on his last
visit to Rome, "Ecco un altroche per superbia
andr finire col pazzf-(there goes
another whom pride will send into a
madhouse). The whole chorus of revolu-
| tionary journalism in Italy is intoning Il
| hymn of jubilation and it only requires letter
| from Garibaldi, which. no doubt, will follow
shortly, to put the seal on the deplorable seces-
! sion of one who might have rendered great ser
/ vice to the Church. | do not find, however
that any importance is attached to it here. save
| as respects Perc Hyacinthe himself No indi-
vidual has influence enough in France to iniure
| the Church, and the Pere Hyacinthe, once re-
stored to secular life and action, will be no more
| than Mr.. Ffoulkes, or the Padre Passagla. or
| any other person who rejects the authority of
| the Church of God speaking through Rome.
The Trappist monks of Ire FUntane have
| been obliged to appeal to the faithful for aims
| to acquire a residence for the fever season. as
they have lost three Fathers, and had the whole
community i'll with fever in their first year of
| installation. They hope by degrees to reclaim
the land and render it healthy, but some healthy
residence to change air for, at least most of the
autumn, is absolutely necessary.
Several of our readers may be unaware that,
| by order of Plus IX, important excavations are
in process of execution in various districts of the
| Roman territory, and especially at Ostia. The
laborers employed in the work are galley-slaves
| (gGleOH), under the supervision of Commaudant
Nisconti and the Surveillance of the galley
guards Now it will not be uninteresting to
enumerate some of the eompensations allowed
by the directors of the Pontiical Museums to
those criminals condemned to compulsory labor.
They have, in the first place, a daily compensa-
tion of five 6diOcchj (aOout five cents). Besides
that, whoever finds bronze coin receives re-
ward of one cent; five cents are given for each
silver coin, and fifteen cents for each gold coin.
The gdleOHO who is so extremely lucky as to
dig II cameo or an engraVen cornelian, receives
five pdoE (half dollar) He who comes upon
a statue, if he succeeds in eXhuming it without
iniuring it, is rewarded with ScudO dOro Gone
dollar). Lastly, for every month of labor at the
excavation, u remission of ten days is made to
each galley-sayc on the time he has yet to re-
| main in 'duTance vile" monsi 5nOr affirmed,
| some years ago in Rome, that there has never
! been an instance of gdle0tO appropriating any
of the relics which are the objects of their re-
| searches More than that, not Il few, at the eX-
| piration of their term of punishment have
| craVed permission to remain on the works on
| the same footing as the rest. Gaey-slaves from
| choice! Who would ever have believed it ?
AppletOre'S Journal.
UNIVERSALIST
! The General Convention OF Univcrsalists, al
! its last meeting, at Buffalo, n. Y, unanimously
adopted the following resolutions
! ResoIoed, That this convention reailirms the
testimony ii has heretofore borne with regard tc
the vital Importance of giving to the world the
influence of this body in support of the all-im
| Of i1,
| Justly claiming the attention of the wise and
| good of all classes of the American people.
ReSOlUed That we would urge upon the Uni
versalists of the United States the duty anC
necessity of working with unhagging zeal tC
carry forward a reformsO vitality connected will
the religious and moral welfare of mankind.
| 4" PIANOS.