The Cecil Whig., 1875-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.

The Government paid for pensions in
1874 to disabled soldiers. widows and de-
pendent relatives $780, 593, 1859. Half of
what was the whole cost of Government
Immediately preceding the rebellion.
"A Denver despatch says that fight,
lasting twenty-seven hours, occurred on
the 18th ult., between Gardner and Cen
nett's party of Prof. Hayden's surveying
expedition and a band of Sierra Lasal Utes.
The explorers lost all their baggage and
nearly all their provisions. No lives were
lost on the part of the whites.
The peaches shipped from Philadelphia
by the steamer Ohio for Liverpool were rot
ten when taken from the ship. The gen.
tlemen who made the experiment, how
ever, are confident that if the quantity of
ice contracted for (forty-t two tons) had been
put into the peach compartment that they
would have reached Liverpool in good con-
dition. Only fifteen tons of ice were used,
which melted in four days. The peaches
did not begin to decay till September end
There is talk of suit for damages against
the steamship Company.
"A great campaign is going on in Ohio,
and the eyes of the whole country are
turned toward the Buckeye State. Every
day seems to add to the strength of the
Republican ticket, while lien and Carey,
the apostates to paper money, are losing
ground in the fight between gold and rag
money, and free education and sectarian
schools The Republicans stand on plat
form of a Gold Currency and Free Schools,
while the Democrats have adopted paper
money and a division of the school fund
among religious denominations.
The election ON the amendments to the
Constitution of New Jersey took place on
Tuesday, and on Sunday ballots were dis
tributed in the Catholic Churches of Pater-
son with several of the amendments erased,
among them those prohibiting the appro-
priation of public money or lands to private
or sectarian purposes, guaranteeing free
system of public schools, and prohibiting
special legislation. This is entering the
political arena briskly, with an attempt
which looks to connecting Church and
State, principle most foreign and repug-
nant to the American system of govern
ment.
Cardinal Manning, in preaching at
Liverpool recently, said the ancient world
was penetrated through and through with
belief in the divine existence; but the
world at this day had atheism in it, Il
monster which the ancient world hardly
knew by name. The present was Il time
in which there was an organized, delber-
ate, and persistent conspiracy to destroy
the Christian civilization of the world
which had hitherto been its dignity and its
protection, and the special aim was the
separation of the Christian faith from tho
public order of the world, from the legisla-
tion OF States from the authority of the
civil powers, from the culture of higher
class, and from schools fo- the poor.
Mime. Adelina Patti is now seeking
repose at Dieppe after the fatigues of her
London season. While in London she
sang in concerts, 81 operas, accepted 40
invitations to dinner, and assisted at 25
balls. 1t is said that her facility for study
has so greatly increased that she finds it
possible to learn in few weeks a role
which others blunder over for months
She already knows "a operas from begin
ming to end. When she is studying, her
habit is not to sing aloud the role which
she wishes to learn. She either reads or
huns it. Even her accompanist often can
not hear her voice on these occasions. 1t
is the same at rehearsals. Only at the last
grand general rehearsal does she conde
scend to sing with her full voice.
The daily life of the Pope is thus
sketched by an Italian paper: ellis Holi-
ness is stirring by $50 A. NJ, and by Z
O'Clock he enters the private chapel; where
he celebrates one mass, and hears another.
After chapel he has his early breakfast.
BY 8 o'clock the Pope is always to be found
sitting in his arm chair under his canopy,
before a large writing table, on which
stands a crucitix and an Immaculate Con-
ception, besides papers and an inkstand.
Then comes Cardinal Antonelli, who COM
municates dispatches, receives instructions,
collects the pious oblations of the preced-
ing day, and withdraws in half an hour,
with his hands full of gold and bank notes.
Then arrives the post, with letters and
papers. A prelate on service opens and
reads the letters; some journals the Pope
glances over himself with his eye glass.
The audiences follow, but last until noon
only. The Pope takes little exercise im
the long, shady galleries until dinner time.
The Pontifical dinner hour is about .
O'Clock, after which he retires for the
afternoon siesta of two hours.''