The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-18

AS to the pretended massacre OF Voiuntooke
at Bergs, we have seen des Bar ca ,aG%
In which the former gays. have restored
some of the prisoners to liberty, and re-
serve the rest to be exchanged hereafter"
THE TROUBLES OF THE NEW GERMAN EN-
PRE-. ... 4
The London Register of the Goth AprIl,
takes the following bird's.eye view OF the
present state of the new empire:
The war against the Church goes bravely
IN. hut the Church is neither to be buliied
nor caioed to Bismarck's brutal menaces,
the German bishops, priests, ana lay "a
tholics pay no heed. In the midst OF per
secution and insult they are calm and i'm
movable. Tie bishops go on discharging
their duties just as if no laws were passed
or proposed for the enslavement of the
Church by the bereticai temporal power.
IJudeterred by the new penal law, the
Archbishop Of Posen has illuminated the
Major decentralization against any per
sons who shall undertake the Office OF the
school teachers in tire place of the clerical
teachers whom the Government nave dis.
placed for no other crime than noehGS "
the Church and to it's visible head. ihey
would not apostacise-they would not any
themselves in any way with the wretched
Dollin gerites; and therefore they were dis,
missed from their chairs and deprived OF
their income. OF course the excommuni
cation has no terror for the renegades who
call themselves " old Catholics and IL
would be easy enough to find among them
as many schoolmasters as Bismarck can
want to corrupt and 1ervert the minds of
: Catholic youths-for these wretches are
ravening for 2elf; but they are so de-
| spised throughout Germany that their APP
poin tment to the vacant chairs would Gre
ate general dissatisfaction among the mem
! beers of the Evangelical Church." as the
/ D,,,s;,p protaStant Ghurch called, wnO
| cannot apprehend how man can call MN
| self Catholic and set the Holy See at de-
| fiauce. Moreover, those Do!lIngerites VINO
received Holy Orders, are, generally speak
ing, men Of immoral life, who, by their in :
! famous conduct, prove that they have no
religious principle at all. They are really
freethinkers and revolutionists, and are
units in that huge mass of IDfdeuty and
reoublicanism which Bismarck's frantic
policy is making vital power in Germany
Nor is this the only mortal wound the
"Great Chancellor " is inficting upon the
German Empire. The emigration which
his stern rule is promoting in Germany
will. in q few years make that power the
weakest IN Europe. The Empire requires
an enormous standing army, and IN a little
time the country will not have men enough
of the proper age to supply one-half the
requirements of the War Office. The young
and able bodied are flying from the enor-
mous taxation and CONSUMPTION of the new
Empire. The Bavarians, the Saxons, the
Hanoverians, the Hessians, the Mecklen'
burgers of Strelitz and SclweriD, and the
population of the other annexed or degra
ded States, large and small, never did love
Prussian bureaucracy; and though in the
delirium of desire for clarifying Vaterland
three years ago, they rushed to battle
against France, they are now less prusslar
than ever. Prussian ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
has been ruin to them. Prussia aione
h,,t l,a of
the French money has, as they bitterly
complain flowed into Berlin, while theil
own homes have been made desoiate anc
their fiscal burdens have become intol
able. Since the battle of Sadowa thu
taxation of the states annexed to Prus
STA for the crime of unfolding thu
Treaty of Vienna and its offspring, th'
German Bund, has increased at least three
hundred per cent. And besides this, the
stif-and- starchy Prussian military system
has displaced the quiet drill and the triti
ing military service to which the peoph
were accustomed under the old Bupd ant
the Austrian supremacy. Hence the exc
dus which is tapping the German Empir
: and drawing away it's fighting men in ever
. quarter. And of this exodus it may wit
truth be said that rires acquirtt eundc
The ample employment and the high wage
class of clerks obtain readily in the Unite
3 States are powerful incentive to those q
? home to follow their fortunate precursors
I and the effect is already felt at Berlin.
! TIE CELEBRATED TICHBoRNE TRIAL.
8 The curtain rose on April 23rd on wha
D is expected by some, at least, to be the las
: act in the Tichborne drama. The fat ma
o was put on trial before three judges of tn
i, Court of Queens Bench, charged with til
d crime of perjury in swearing falsely an
e corruptly that he was and is Sir. Rogs
It Charles Doughty Tichborne, Bart, beiul
;, as it is alleged quite another person
r while there is still hanging over him ar
y other indictment which may be tried befol
is the same tribunal-for forgery, in putin
D the name of the aforesaid baronet to Il
&c famous Tichborne bonds, which purport
TO charge the Tichborne estates with the pay
l. meut of several large sums of money. jun
B. having been empanelled, Mr.. Hawkins, O.
to leading counsel for the crown, stated ii
* facts to be given in evidence. Nobod
at can tell how long the trial will last. 1t
he to be remarked that the claimant has NO
Of one advantage which he had not In his 70
tn mer trial. Whereas, before the onus
il proof lay on him, it now lies on the crow
e. EPENHu EvNANCEa