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THE CHINESE EMPEROR.
a Recent Interview with the Mon
arch.

a Recent Interview with the Mon
arch.
The following is the Chinese account
Of the late interview between the EN-
peror of China and the foreign envoys at
Pekin
"Since his MajestYs assumption Of
power, rain and sunshine have sue
ceeded each other in due season, and the
public mind has been TRANQUILITY at rest.
As regards the audience of the foreign
ENJOYS, what they wanted at first was to
be carried in sedan chairs within the
great gate Of the palace (Tai-ho Meu),
and to enter the reception hall wearing
their swords. They demanded that the
Emperor should descend from his
throne, and, with his own hands, re-
ceive their letters of credence; but upon
this the Grand Secretary, Wen-hsiang,
smashing his tea cup into fragments,
sternly opposed the idea, and thus it
came to be agreed that the. audience
should take place at the Tszu-kuang Ko
on the 9th day Of the 9th month. The
ceremonies were rehearsed on the pre-
ceding day at the Tsung-li Yamen. This
was done in an informal way, amid chat
ting and laughter, and no particular at
tentiOn was paid to the matter. On the
day itself the brigade Of guards was on
duty at the west park gate, in bright ar
ray and with drawn swords. The
French, American, British Russian,
Prussian and Austrian representatives
in all twelve persons from six differ
ent countries-were all permitted to
wear their swords, and were introduced
by the heads Of departments from the
Tsung-li Yamen within the gateway OF
the park. As they passed each en-
trance in succession the gate was
locked. On reaching the foot Of the
dais, the high functionaries OF the
Tsung-li Yamen led them up the steps.
His Majesty having ascended the throne,
the envOys were led to the space at its
foot, when they performed the cere-
mony Of inohning the body, They did
not kneel. By the side Of the steps
there was placed a yellow table, and the
envOys stood in rank 10 read out their
credentials, the British having the
leading place. When he had read few
sentences, he began TO tremble from
head 10 foot, and was incapable Of COM
pleting the perusal. The Emperor
asked, Is the Prince Of your country
Wellf but he could utter no reply. The
Emperor again asked, You have be-
sought permission to see me time
and time again; what is it you have to
sayY but again he was unable TO
make an answer. The next proceed
ing was to hand in the credentials.
but in doing this be fel down on the
ground time after time, aud not a sylla-
Bile could he articulata. Upon this
Prince Kuug laughed loud at him before
he entire court, exelaimink Chicken
.eatherr and gave orders TO have him
assisted down Che steps. HewRs unable
10 move Of his own accord and sat down [
'n the hoor. perspiring and painting for
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breath. The whole twelve shook their
heads and whispered togther, no one
knows what. When the time came for
the assembly at the banquet, they still
remained incapable, and dispersed in
hurried confusion. Prince Kung said
to them; You would not believe that
il is no light matter to come face to
face with his Majesty; but what have
you got to say about il to day2 This is
what we Chinese call chicken-feather,
and il will be joke for the whole EN-
pireP At the time (of presentaiion) the
throne was not more than n few PAGES
of, and yet as (the envoys) themselves
declare, they did not get sight Of the
celestial visage. Everybody says there
must have been some divine apparition
before their eyes to cause them to trem-
BILE and be afraid as it turned out"
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MEDICAL
DIR. Curtis on ManhO :"
sOOth EDITION.
Revised and Corrected By the Author. DE
T. CURTIS. N. D., ETC., etc.

A MEDICAL ESSAY on the cause aud cure
Of Premature Decline ia Man, showing how
health Is lost and how rcgained. IL fietG a
clear synopsis Of the Impedimeutg 20 Marriage,
the treatment Of Exhausted Vitality. Nerl Gus
and Physical Debility, and other disease, ap-
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The results Of twenty years successful pi ac-
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ORDER COMMITTEE.
nnnR COMMITTEES.

The members Of the above Committees will
report to their respective Chairmen, at the
Exposition Building, promptly at o'clock on
the night of tho 22l OF January,
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Mississippi G Tennessee R. Z.

ONAND AFTER SUNDAY, NOV. 9, 1873,
" Trains will run as follows:
LEAVE. ARRIVE.
New 0rleans Mail. daily..1 100 PIN. 2:a0 p m
Express, daily~...............4:l5 pm. :5O n. m
Trains on this road make close connection at
Grenada with Mississippi Central railroad for
all points North and SOnth; Mt Memphis with
the Memphis and Louisville line for all points
North and East, and with the Memphis and
Little Rock railway for all points in Arkansas
and the West. only direct route to Canton,
Jackson, ViclIsburg, New Orleans and Mobile.
Tickets on sale at 2S7 Main street, corner of
is5-f - NJ. M.BURKE. sup't.
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Tiokets--.Ladies and Gentlemen, 81
each.
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RAILROAD TINE TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND LoUlavILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
AN. P.H. AN. pm.
Express. except Sunday 400 $40
Nal i';;;,,,;.,;,,;,,,.Ji., :, i'lo l.lO
tion, except sunday. 1910 Clio
Brownsville Accommod $50 40
Depot at head Of Mair stree.
Ticket Oaiee, PSI Main street, corner Of
Madison.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE R.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
~-|----, -
A.H.P,E; an. I.N;
s'ssrbl llalyor. sunday, sunday, '''' e.lo s.a5 $40
.jopot at foot Of Main street.
Ticket Oaicc, 2S Main street. corner Of
'' NJ. BURKE. Gem sup't.
MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
AN. Pm. An. P. ~.
Mail Train daily lexcept
. sunday ;.-;.............';.. ''4V o'n
Freight and Accoinmoda-
tion Except Sunday)..- s.5O GU
PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Mail and Freight Train leaves ,SSe $40 pm
The mail and freight train leaves Covilgton
for Memphis at am. and returns to Coying-
ton at 1905 pm. Trains leaving Memphis will
start frofn the Undcrwriters warehouse
j. W. WILBUR. Gen'l Sup't.
"
Sleeping sars on mail train. Depot Center
Landing. foot Of Washington street. Ticket
Offices, 2S7 (cor Madison and 27s Main street. |
A. ). LlVERM0RE, Gen. SUIT.
MEMPHIS AND RALEIGH RAILROAD.
Daily Trains (exoept Sunday Leave Mem |
phis at a. m. !. l.l0p.m. aad 4.l0p.m. Leave |
Raleigh nj 7. 80 d. M, 100 pm. and $50 PA ,
Fare for round trip. so cents. Tickets for !
sale at 2S7 Main (cor. Madsonl. depot office, |
and at Raleigh. JOHN DONOVAN, Pres.
JAS SPEED. Gen'l Ticket Agent.
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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE
Great Southern Railr0al.
&CIIEDUIM.

SCHEDULE.
Express Train leaves daily Sundays
excepted) ..............,......;.....:. 5:lf am
Freight and Accommodation Train
leaves daily, Sundays excepted. G;l0 IN
Mail Train leaves daiy................... 20 p m
Brownsville Accommodation leaves
daily iSundays excepted ............... i:1O pm
nS- No change of ears by this line for Lo lis-
Vile, st. Louis or Nashville. Pullman Pa lace
sleeping cars on all nieht trains.
For Tickets or information apply at
Ticket 0nlce, 2S7 Maiu, cor. Madison.
JOHN T. FLYNN. sup't Memphis Div.
JAMEs SPEED, Ticket Agent. N-t
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MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK
RAILWAY.

Connection completed to Texarkana. Jefer-
son. Marshall. Shreveport, Dallas.
Houston. GALVESTON, aud al
points in Arkansas and Texas.
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GAS FILTER.
PROFESSIONAL.
DEATH TO DISEASE.
DIR. BAKER.

The man whom we have all read about so
much. is located at
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gUHE COMPLETION OF TIE CAIRO AND
Fulton Railroad 70 Texarkana gives un-
broken rail connection 10 all points in the
West and Southwest via Memphis and Little
Rock.
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MEMPHIS AND LOUIaVILLE RAILROAD,
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Sleeping ears on nail train. Depot Center
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The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-04-12
THE POPE.
The Austrian Ecclesiastical Bills.

The Holy Father has issued an Encycli-
cal in which he condemns the new Austrian
ecclesiasticalle Legislation. He acknowledges,
that it appears moderate when compared
with the laws enacted in Germany, but be
declares that the Austrian Bills are of the
same spirit and character, and that their
object is to bring the Church into a most
ruinous subjection to the arbitrary power
of the State. His Holiness further protests
against the rupture of the Concordat, and
declares that the assertion that the consti-
tuition of the Church was changed by the
definition of the dogma OF Infallibillty is
" a pernicious pretext which in the ewes
even of candid Protestants it most upques-
tioHably is. AS far as we can make out
the operation of the new laws, their effect
will be: first, to abolish the Concordat-
which is in itself dishonest transaction
secondly, to reduce the Church to the
condition in which it is in countries over
which the French Revolution has passed,
with special additional restrictions on the
existence of Religious Orders, and with the
exception Of civil marriage, which is not
Introduced, the celebration of marriages
by each religious denomination being re.
cognized as in England. But the acknowl-
edgnent of cold Catholics" or other
schismatics as Catholics, if they choose to
scheme. and of course special danger, as
it opens the door to any amount of tyranny
and injustice of the Swiss pattern. The
Holy Father has also addressed an auto
graph letter to the Emperor Francis
Joseph, but We are informed that 10 reply
has been given to it, and it has been handed
over to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
The first Bill was read for the second time
on Saturday, and for the third time on
Monday, after which the Lower House
proceeded to the consideration of the Sec
ond Bill, which concerns the revenues of
the Church and the mode of raising them.
In the sitting of the Upper House on
Tuesday, all the Cardinals were present,
and delivered a memorial reafirming their
declaration, made in 1868, respecting the
binding legality of the Concordat, and an
nouncing that they would take part in the
debates of the House until so long as it did
not adopt the new Bills in principle and
proceed to the discussion of their separate
clauses. The Upper House has named a
Committee to report on them, consisting
of ten Catholic and eleven Liberal mem
be1s, and on the same day the Lower House
adopted the second Bill in principle, and
passed to the debate on its clauses.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-04-12

THE WEST AND SoUTH.-For the first
time since the war the West and the
South went into coalition last Monday on
the question of an increase of currency,
and laid their opponents out as cold as q
wedge. Party discipline was broken like
a shivered lance, and the allies fought IN.
der the lead of Beck, a Kentucky Demo.
their backs on Dawes, the Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, and uniting
with fifty-two Southern Democrats to put
him to flight. The question vas, in its
general aspects, sectional one. The
West and the South are in debt, while the
East and Middle hold their obligations
These obligations may have been Incurred
in currency worth anywhere between
forty and eighty cents in the dollar, but
which by steady contraction is now nearly
at par. The alternative presented was to
continue the contraction and bring the
currency and the debts to a gold basis.
Doubtless it is important to reach specie
basis, but naturally both sections felt the
occasion to be inopportune in respect to
themselves. 1t was a point which they
were obliged to consider to some extent in
it's bearing upon their own interests. If
the currency were really redundant, SO as
to endanger rapid depreciation and great
fluctuations in value, the case might have
turned upon strictly financial principles
But the country is already cramped for
currency. Whenever business is active
there is insufficient to move the crops, and,
the scheme to force it up to par with our
meagre supply of gold and silver can only
be wrought out with intense sutferngto
the debtor, while it may swell the pur-
chasing power of financial boards to double
even its present purchasing value.--Ad-
con Telegraph.
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but he didn't think that much advantage
would be gained by applying to them a
course of sensational legislation. He ask
ed the members for Ireland not 20 judge
him, although he was an Epglishman, uu-
til be had had a fair trial, and he assured
the House that he was prepared honestly
and faithfully to discharge his duties,
simply keeping in view the prosperity of
the country aud welfare of its people, at
the same time he was fully prepared to ad-
minister the laws in Ireland without fear
and with perfect irmness and impartiality.
MIR. Sullivan, in supporting the amend
ment, conteuded that the Home Rulers were
quite as loyal to the Crown as the people
of Ulster, and that they were fully en-
titled to speak for the entire country, see
ing that they were enjoying large ma
jority of the representation. He denied
gous to that of the rest of the United King
dom and gave instances to prove that
the sister kingdom neither enjoyed liberty
of the subject nor liberty of the press.
Sir 6. Bowyer supported the amend
ment. Mr.. Butt said he had no wish to
put the House to the trouble of a division,
but his offer to withdraw the amendment
was received with loud cries of ''divide."
After some remarks from Mr.. Redmond
in support of the amendment, The O'Don-
oghue said that now the honorable mem
Der for Limerick had offered to withdraw
the amendment, it was clear that the whole
debate was mere -pretence, and that its
object was simply to del1de the Irish peo-
pie. Sir j. M'Kenna warmly protested
against such an assertion.
The House then divided. For the amend
ment so; against, 3l4 majority, 264.
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roubles over and above; but new fines soon
swallowed up this small reside.
THE BISHOP OF MUNsTI

S"ohoWcu Lutb buaI EcSAuuc
THE BISHOP OF MUNSTER.
In Munster, as it is we'll known, a few
months ago a domiciliary search was made
dress which the ladies of Munster had nra-
sented to him. In this address they had
expressed their sincere devotion to tber
Bishop. A lawsuit which was commencaa
against those ladies who had signed Their
names, on the charge of disaffection to tbs
State, was allowed to drop, to the great
grief of the ladies. But they soon discov.
cred other grounds upon which to found
accusation. Several of the ladies, who had
subscribed to the address, have been cited
before the tribunal, because some indi.
viduals complained that their honor had
been insulted by some expressions contained,
in the address.
ANTI CATHOLIC ACTION OF THE BAyARIAy
GOVERNMENT.
In Bavaria the Liberals are very much
provoked because the Government does
political recognition of the Old Catholic
Bishop Reinkens. The Liberal papers do
not hesitate to affirm that the stability of
the Bavarian Throne depends on satisfac.
tion being given to the wishes of the Old.
Catholics. But if the Government has held
back to some extent in satisfying their
wishes, we must not conclude from this
lie principles. This has been shown by a
scandalous affair which has happened in
the case of a notoriously un Catholic Pro
fessor at the Royal Bavarian Lyceum at
Dillipgen. This Professor had taken 30
little pains to conceal his opinions in bis
lectures and public addresses, that the
theological candidates lodged complaint
with the Bishop. A Bishops commissary
enquired into the matter, and issued pro-
hibition to the Bishop's students to attend
the lectures of the Professor, since he had
incurred the suspicion of advanced heresy.
The Government considered it an invasion
of its rights that the attendance on the
lectures of Royal Professor should be
forbidden by Bishop without reference to
the Government. 1t has, therefore, ordered
the Bishops students, under severe penal e"
ties, to attend these very lectures. Such is
the idea of the freedom aud the rights of
the Church which prevails in Catholic
country.
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The Supplementary Bill in Germany.

The Bundesrath at Berlin has passe d the
new Bill by which eccles astics condemned
under the Falck Laws are deprived of their
nationality. They may be "interned, :"
deprived of their domicie and rights as
German citizens, or be banished from the
territory of the Empire at the discretion of
the Central authorities of the particular
State to which they belong. This law will
have, of course, to pass the Reichstag as
we'll as the Federal Council, but if this
version of the shape in which it comes
down from the higher Assent bly, is correct
it is even more stringent than it was re-
ported to be. According to the first ac-
count, priest condemned in-say Tor in
stance-Prussia might settle in Bavaria,
if the Bavarian Government allowed him
to do so but according TO this latter YER
sion, the decision of the Prussan Govern
meut would be sufficient to exclude him
from the whole of Germauy.-L0ndon
Tablet, March Il.
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RETURN OF BISHOP QUINLAN TO NOBLE.
after an absence of many months, pro
tracted on account of painful accident
Bishop Quinlan has returned to his See
He has had the heartfelt sympathy of the
community, all of whom, irrespective a oI
esteem him as an eminent Christian and
excellent citizen. For the first time since
his accident Bishop Quinlan oficiated Of
his altar on Maunday Thursday. He looked
somewhat pale, but was able to go through
the fatiguing ceremonies of the day until
the end of the Mass. At that period OF the
services he was compelled to retire, and tae
procession of the Blessed Sacrament 70
the RepoSoir took place without him.-n0'
bile RegtSter,
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-04-12

a Revolution is imminent-not political but
domestic and economical. This revolution Will be
brought about by the Crescent City Steam Laundry
Company, No. 2o3 st. Charles street between Julia
and ST. Joseph. who prepared to do washing for
steamships, steamboats,, hotels restaurants families
and single persons in the acceptable manner and
at low prices. When we say steeD'. mean steam,
everything is done by steam the clothes asher are
run by steam the wringng is done by steam and the
drying is done by hot air Dispatch, dispatch, is the
order OF the day, and the approve m schlnery
has been introduced a lady, who has herself been q
housekeePer and has had years OF experience will
have charge of all ladies' apparel, and she will call
whom desired at ladies' resdences and take charge
the washing. The delay and annoyance incident TO
wAsherwomen and bad weather will be entirely done
away with, and reasonable by the month will
be made could possibly be secured elsewhere Sew
enteen separate washers have been put up so that
each famys washing can be done separately thus re-
moving of the strongest objections heretofore made
against Aundres. Our readers yited to cali and
SEQ these improvements for themselves.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-04-12

One of the best supplied stores in our city IS
that Of Mr. j. L. Richards, No, $50 Magazine street,
opposite the market, who has full line Of family gro
cerlee embracing every article required for the table
MT Richards prices are as reasonable any dealers,
ana all who call on him may be cure of polite anu
prompt attention.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-04-12

In another column will be foond the adVer
tisement of DR.. TUFTS remedies, which, during lons
trial before the public have brought much RELIEF TO o
afflicted and established wide popularity. Dr. Iu"
Hair Dye is highly recommended by many of the mus
experienced hair.dressers entirely harmless anu
efectng natural and pleasing color. All Of Dr. 1u'
preparations sold by reliable druggists Throughout
the country.