The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-06-07
The World Mt the Death-Bed of
Pope Plus.

| rus, the following article from the
New York Heroid will be read with
great interest.
Is Plus TX the last of the Roman
PontiffsI The curious prophecy attribu-
ted to St. Malachy, Archbishop of Ar
magh, in Ireland, and who died in the
arms of the "laat of the church," as the
French proudly call Bernard of Clair
vaux, distinctly asserts as viii DC seen
from the extraordiu ary document itself
reproduced in the Herald to day-that
he is. In that alleged inspired dream,
the Irish patriarch gave the number of
Popes that remained yet to come, giving
TO each one of them an epigramma.c
mark by which he could be concisely
distinguished and the sign he attached
to the Pontiff who closes his hazardous
enumeration corresponds, in remarka-
BILE degree, with the venela able Holy
Father who perhaps at this instant, has
the death rattle Mt the door of his
chamber. That sign is three Latin
words " Cruz de Crucc, which is inter
preted by some Catholic authorities to
signify the persecution of the cross from
cross--that is, chat the Pope suffers
crucial affiictions from royal power
which has the cross for tho chief emblem
on It's escutche.n of authority. And
this, as had been said, poiuts the finger
ut Vic:or Emmanuel. In lis k;Hgly
emb!elBs, the cross ssurmcuats everything.
Ii we mistake aot, Father Gareschc,
learned jesuit priest, in lcctarc which
he lately delivered not far from New
York, gave this interpretation as cxpli-
city as the fne lauga,ge could make it
to the 'tSsn.r de Crucc," Of the aocicnt
metropolitan Of Armagh The HrrnM
does not pretend to settle the authority
OF ST. siaIachys prophecies. But 1t is
as clear as the san in the meridian that
the words "Ctur t'e Cf~co" aro ia siagu.
lar agreement between Plus IX and the
first monarch of United Italy. Aud
that being the case, it is an interesting
and serious question, is, Plus IN the last
Of the Roman Pontiffs?
II IS startling question. It's proper
form is, is the great Roman Catholic
Church sentenced TO death? For, no
Pope, no Catholic church. Catholicity
| cannot survive the Papacy for one Sc
cond. And Catholicity is a thing of no
small radius, diameter aud circumference :.
st. Malachy therefore or whoever wrote
In his maine, gave ground for putting
question of tremendous magnitude. A
short time, however, will quite solve the
curious interrogation, for It canunt be
long before the Holy See will have an
occupant or cease TO be the great cen
tral religious altar of more than three.
foarths Of the vast population Of Chris.
tendon. In the meantime, Plus IX is,
in all human probability, on his death
bed; aad the noble old maa-with face
one Of ihe finest Rome has witnessed for
many day---has the world watching at
his couch. Let us see who these watch.
ers are. The King of Italy has,his mind
GU the spot with particular anxiety OF
manner.
Prince Bismarck, who by rcceut sta
tutes has made the Emperor the High
Priest Of the German people, and who
ardently wishes that there may never b.
another aupreme head ofthc Catholics,
is attending to the Roman kilograms,
to the exclusion OF every other du-
ty.
NJ ThicFs, President sf the French
republic and, though Protestant, a firm
upholder of the Papacy, is on the
qm ptce with all the activity of an aged
statesman Of genius for the first iutelli.
geDce of an event which he kuows will
move Catholic France to foods Of tears
and sighs of true devotion.
Frascis Joseph, of Austria, is in con
slant communication with his Embassa
dor at the Vatican on the fluctuations
in the health of the illustripus pa
tient.
The Count dc Chambard, who once
had impassioned hopes that Plus TX
would place the crown of St Louis on
his temples and the sword of Henry the
Great in his hand, is in unfeigned grci
over the aPp~hended dissolution of one