Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-30

mere nothln, noomerlcaily,
DeekiD Pogram and | are admin
istrators Nv his estate. Ez Bascom
hez mortgage on the farm for all
il is worth, our dooties will be light.
There amt been a crop raised on the
place since the emancipation NV the
niggers, and Bascom hez furnisht
him and bis sons his likker ever since
on tick. Most Nv the property in
this visinity is in the same fix. Mine
wood be, but fortunately | haven't
any. PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
(Which wuz Postmaster.
The Pope's Letter.
Pope Plus Ninth is 10th to yield
to the stern logic of events. His re-
cent letter June 16), addressed to
Cardinal Antonelli, his Secretary of
State, concerning the curtailment Of
pontifical authority by the Italian
government, is full of piteous plea
dings. Such a document promulg at-
ed to the faithful in the middle ages
would have excited an enthusiasm
akin TO that which inspired the cru
saders in their zeal to recover the
holy sepulchre, and that it now
scarcely creates a ripple on the sur
face of human affairs is the most con-
elusive evidence Of the oecadence
of the great power that was wont, a
few centuries ago, TO enthrone
and depose Kings and Emperors at
will.
For the future, Catholicism must
rely solely upon its spiritual power,
the purity of its faith and its cbari-
table deeds for the favor of man
kind. No nation in Christendom
can now be counted on to champion
the claims of the pontif for the res
toration OF the temporal power of
which he has been shorn by the gov
-ernment of Victor Emanuel. The
hard and materialistic tendencies of
this money getting age are the very
antipodes of the conditions essential
to that sentimental religious fervor
which induced the nations of
Christendom to lavish millions of
treasure and rivers Of blood in
fruitless struggle for the rescue of
the holy sepulchre from tho Saracen.
When Pope Urban H., in 1895, de-
hvered his stirring address to the
vast multitudes who had been arous
ed to the highest pitch of enthus-
asm by the burning zeal of Peter The
Hermit, the excitement in Europe
knew no bounds. 1.-The most dis.
tant islands and savage countries"
says William Of Malmsbury, "were
inspired with this ardent passion.
The Welshman left his hunting, the
Scotchman his fellowship with ver-
min, the Dane his drinking party,
the Norwegian his raw fish" Ur-
bans successor, Plus TX, pleads tc.
day, not for conquest, but for the
restoration and preservation of his
pontifical dignities; but his piteous
accents fall unheeded upon the ears
of his followers. France has no
armies TO send to his relief Spain
is sufficiently occupied with her own
intestinal strifes. Austria is glad to
be relieved from Popish tyranny, and
no nation of appreciate influence
in the worlds affairs will so much as
lift its finger to second the preten-
sions of the warming power of Rome
Plus begs Cardinal Antonelli to
present the exigencies of his case to
the representatives of foreign powers,
and asserts what strikes US as clear
non Sequitur, and somewhat startling
rule OF international law, "that if
every Catholic has right to demand
OF his own government an assurance
Of personal liberty 10 the matter Of
religion, he has as good right to
demand it for him who is t guide
and interpreter of bis faith and re-
ligion."
Without regard to his religious or
sectarian predictions every lover Of
humanity must regard the decline
and destruction of the temporal pow
er of the Pope with compacency, if
not with satisfaction. But Catholi-
cism has done much for the human
race in spite Of all its defects, In
the field of active Christian charity,
in It's care for the fallen, its ministra.
tons to the afflicted, the noble self.
sacrifice OF its orders of mercy, it has
given conspicuous practical nantes
tations of the sublime truths of
Christianity, and in those same la
bors we believe it is destined to
achieve still greater works. Its su-
perb organization for active benevo-
lence ramify ing through all nations,
Christian and Pagan, places it in
direct contact with the people of all
lands, and when these farAreacbing
are energized by the enthU.
siasm of humanity, the last and subs
FINEST manifestation of Christianity,
and cease to be perverted to the
hopeless task of restoring the falling
fortunes of the pontiff, it will confer
blessings upon mankind, in compari-
son with which all tlat it has achiev-
ed in the past will seem trifling.-
Missouri democrat.
Eg Helen Josephine Mansfield,
who figured in the Fisk-Stokes TRACE
dy, went to Saratoga yesterday morn
ing to testify in the court of impeach-
ment concerning Fisk's relations with
Judge Barnard. Josephine went to
the Grand Union Hotel and arranged
her toilet, but when she made herself
known and applied for a room the
landlord refused to accommodate her,
as did also the landlord OF another
first-class hotel, and when it became
known that she had taken seat IN |
the court room the Saratoga bellies
who were there went out. She takes |
the stand as q witness.
u.s. The campaign in North Caro-