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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY Is. 1877.

of the Republic; and if the manufacture of
sugar be encouraged and developed to the ex-
home grown sugars, importatious will neces-
sarily cease, and the perpetual flow of Ameri-
can gold to countries with which We have
comparatively no trade will be arreeted, specie
resumption will be assured, copfidence re-
stored, and the material prosperity Of the
country will advance with renewed energy
asd power under the changed condition of
production in this single article of universal
consumption. the great West will purchase
the domestic sugars of the Gulf States, OF Cal
ifornia, and pay in -four, whisky, corr, pork,
,vania will buy and pay In coal, iron and petro-
!epm. The New England States will pay in cloth
ing. shoes, hats. jewelry, cutlery and other pro-
ducts OF their skilled mechanical labor, and the
distribution OF the two hundred Thousand tons
OF sugar over this broad land yearly will give
actual employment to an army of com mon car
riers and middle men. Some hondreds of
thousands OF acres of the bess eugar producing
lands lie on the Lower Msss sippi, Inundated
through the broken levees by every overflow
OF that great river, and no power except that
OF the General Government 10 adequate to pro-
tect this wide expanse of fertile territory and
give confidence to capital and labor :, again
occupy and cultivate IL. Individuals, corpora
lions, counties and States have exhausted
themselves in frnitless efforts to protect these
lands from overflow, and to restrain the Mis-
sissippi within its proper boundaries and navi-
gable channel. It 10 q national work, for O
national purpose, and, as it seems to me, na
Sioa.Ai nuby NJ bn1e tlIne 70 take n EaDd and
push to speedy conclusion the re, establish
ment of the broken levess and the making of
such provision for the maintenance as shall
permanently secure their valuable industries
that will Immediately reocoupy the iands now
subject to overflow, and for this reaeon alone
abandoned. 1t is claimed by the -sugsr plan
.e1s of Louisiana that the present tariff does |
not protect the interests of the American pro- |
iucer of sugar in the slightest degree, bnt that
Z disoriminates against The planter, and gives |
o the sugar refaers, who are less than fly in |
lumber in the whole country, monopoly of |
he markets.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
RESPECTABLE THIEVES.

| The New York Sun publishes list, ocou-
plying four columns, small type, solid, of the
money stolen in the United States during the
past four years, beginning at q period lst
| prior to the panic of 1873. The list includes
| only the defsloations, embezzlemsnts, etc, in
| voiving SUES OF $4,000 or over, aud foots up
the enormous total OF $50. 900 600. The Sun
| commenting editoriaily upon this woful ex
hibt, says:
Ont of this list ahout three hundred and
fifty bank cashiers and Presidents, business
men, confidential clerks, public officers, church
warasns, and even eve sls5gymsn who have sold
themselves verJ cheap. More tnau two hun.
dred were content with eums ranging from
$4,000 to $50 600; only Atty held themse YES at
from $50 600 to $l00 600 not quite forty at
from 500 coo to 100000; white less than
thirty secured the heavier prizes of crime.
There are ten or q dozen men in the list whose
combined "operstions' cover more than q third
OF the thirty millions stolen.
1t ia worth noting that the geographical
distribution of dishonesty does not coincide
with the geographical distribntion of wealth
and business. The five New England States
have total valuation nearly equal to that Of
the fourteen Southern States, and the rate of
dishonesty is about tho same. Bat the four
Middle States, credited by the last oensus with
wealth abont equal to that of all the Western
States together exceed the latter in the num-
Der of defsulters and elubezzlsrs by 81 least
one hundred per cent. 1t wonld be uDsafe 10
assume from this that the people of New York,
Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware are
twice as diEhouest as the people of the West.
Perhaps rascals are found out less promptly at
the West. Perhaps their rsscalites are not 80
generally exposed in the newspapers. or the
five heaviest frauds in the dismal calendar,
three belong to San Francisco and two to
The morsfists W no preach that transgression |
usually brings it's own ponSb ment and with |
out waiting Tor hereafter, will find little en- |
enlargement in perusal of this list. For |
every traDsgressor who has been tried, convict !
sd, and locked up in prison., there a dozep
who have safely gos away with
their loot.
Aud this leads us to remark tat all these
crimes together do not oal the crime of the
mon W no stole the Presidency.
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| ferring the rights of suffrage upon females. to
| appear before the Senate in advocacy of that
amendment. Rejeoted-yeas 10, nsys 81. The
Senate adjonrned to Monday.
In the House Woods resolution giving the
! committees special powers in regard to in yes
tigatlng the several Departments vas disouss-
| resolution providing that such powers shall
Only be conferred upon tho committees when
specific charges shall be presented to the House
| IN writing. This substitute was accepted by
Wood, but pending this question the House
The Board of Engineers. consisting of Gen.
j. G: Barnard and III. g. Wright, appointed by
the mouth of the Mississippi River, to deter
mine whether the second installment of $780,
600 was due to Capt. EaGs in consequence of
MS securing 22 feet Of water, have submitted
their report, which lie very favorable and
proves that the jettes are q success.
MISSISSIPPI. - Jackson, January 9-Both
Houses have completed their organisation to.
day. w. a: Percy; of Washington, was elected
State Off GERS will be insugurated to. morrow.
The Govarnor's message was read in both
houses to-day. Elaborate statistics show O
very healthy condition OF the States finances.
AID decrease in taxation of nine mills since
1874. The bonded debt is six hundred and
eglt thousand five hundred dollars. State
warrants are par. The States charitable instu-
tions and public schoola are in O prosperous
{ ,ndition. The Governor says. that with few
exceptions, confined to certain localities in the
souGnee6sefn part OF th9aSbete, the lReGBs have
been fully enforced. This refers to the
troubles in Amite and other counties near the
Louisiana line. In the Senate a resolut ton
was introduced instruotipg the Judiciary Com
mfttee to bring in a bill su bmittipg to the peo-
pie call for a constitutional convention.
MISCELLANEOUS.
:, Cold Ueather has set in for good at the
North. On the Sth the thermometer WIS 12 |
degrees below zero at Troy, N. Y; at Saratoga
10 In New England the record on the 9th was {:
at Nashua "a degrees below zero; Manchester, |
\. II, 81 below Milford, N. H.. % below; St. |
Johnsbury VT, 26 below while at Fort Fsir-
field it " as AZ degrees below zero.
Geo. Il. Pendleton has been nominated for
The United States Senate by the Democrats of
Ohio. This ipsures his election.
Iabitha Ann Cotton was on the 10th granted
icense to practice law in New York. She had
passed highly oreditsble examination, and is
he first woman granted a license in that State |
Gen. LaMaFmora. the celebrated Itslfan gen.
'ral and statesman, died in Florence on the
til.
Gen. Montauban, Count de Palikao, died in
Paris on the 9th.
The Russian detachment under Gen. Dande.
lille, which supported Gen. Gourko in his
1ovement over the BalkaBe, had So men frozen !
D death in one night and 800 frostbitten ,
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
GENIUS ON a TRAMP.
THE PIANIST WHO AsToNISHED THE MU-ICIANs
OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND REALITY.
New Haven Palladium.

A wonderful piano player with q romantic
history Is exciting the musicians of Bridge.
port. About two weeks ago o shabby tramp
entered well-known music store on Main
street, and asked permission to use piano for
short time. The.proprietor refused st first
manners were much better than bis clothes.
The tramp saS down and played a diff oult COM
position with great ease and brlliancy- The
pity and contempt of his listeners were at
once changed to admiration. Friends sprSnE
up Sronnd him, and they are trying to get
told by the Farmer, s as fOllows: He belongs
to titled German family. and had for his god
mother and patroness no less "a parsonage than |
the Queen of Wurtemburg. He received !
university education and became a lawyer He |
was at one time Consul to Paris from War |
t. RI burg. and moved in the highest orioles of |
the capital whom Napoleon and Eugeuis were
On the throne. The cause of his fall from all
this high estate was dissipation of the wildcat
Kind. AS result of his wild and reckless
courses be lost his official position and his
standing in society, and not only squandered
;he income from his family estate as fast as iti
'ame to him, but, in order to raise more money
old his claim to what should be due him for
wenty-seven years ahead. When he had ex-
susted his resources at homo be came to this
ountEy, and engaged in Some kind of business
It occupation in New York. Hia ignorance
ociates, or both, caused him to fail, however,
no left him utterly destitute. 1t was then
hat he started ont from New York on the
ramp, picking up an odd job now and then
n the road, but growing al the while more
Bgged and wretohed. His aimless trRmpinRl :
quincy had brought him 0s far As Bridgeport !
u the morning when he posed the muaic
ore, and wRs irresisti bly, iDpelIed by Q sight =
the Pisaos to 60 in and ask TO be siIo1ed 20
ay.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
OUR CROPS.
HOW COMMISSIONER LIE DUG PROPOSES TO SAVE
Sl00.000,OO YEAR.

The Ann nal report of the Commissioner OF
Agriculture, LIE Duo, to Congress, q ii inn ties the
tobacco -op at four hundred and forty million
pounds, an increase over last year of sixty
million pounds.
The cotton crop in October pro missed four
and half million bales, but a bad picking
season to the end of December may reduce the
crop half o million bales.
referring to the sugar crop, the report says ::
There has been O fair prospect for an increase
in the prodnot of sugar over that of last wear
bat in consequence of bad weather for harvest
ing and securing the cane, il is too early to
say if the yield will be equal TO that of last
year.
The wheat crop promises to exceed that of
last year seventy million bushels.
The following extract from the report is of
special Importance to the people of Louisiana,
and WILL no doubt, be read with great interest
Among the imported products of other ma
lions, which absorb the capital, retard the in
dostry and depress the commercial prosperity
OF the country, that which holds the first i'm
portance is the item of sugar, for which we
are paying to foreign producer. nearly a hmm.
dred million of dollars annually, while we |
have neglected our national facilities for sup |
plying our own market and contestipR the |
worlds market with this production, Nor
ought it to lessen our anxiety in view of this
anomalous fact, that having made freemen of
our elavess great portion OF the vast amount
We thus contribute to foreign industry goes to
sustain and support the slave labor of Cuba, a
country which takes from rs very iittiee If
anything, except gold for her abundant sup
plies of sugar and tobacco. It is of the great.
sst importance in the present stsguRnt eondi.
lion of the labor and business of the country
that the millions Of gold thus paid to foreign
nations for sugar aud other articles of con.
'1Dption which babitoal use has made necea.
ary for US, and which we have such abundant
natural resources for producing ct home, be
aved to our people. Every pound of sugar
needed for our homo consumption can be pro. | ,
iuced cheaply on our own territory. The saw. !
ng Of the vast amount now expended in theim. 6
,oTtation of this staple Is, however, bot one {
4 the important results which will fcllew its T.
lone productions The sugar interest OF the q
and, and 10 intimately connected with every {
ranch Of the inssE State trade and commences {
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13

TRIAL ny WHoLEsALE.-Nr. Bingham writes
to the Department of State from TOksi, Japan,
that the court convened at Esgaaaki under
special orders to try the captured rebels con-
csrnGd in the late 6atsuma revolt Icssd it's
labors on the 30th of October; that 80 1853 per-
cons were tried, and that Of these 295 were
acquitted, Sc. 91S we're pardoned, 90 we're Il ned,
liz were deprived of rank as Shisoka (SAmurai
or sword besrers), 1;793 were condemned to
with bard labor for terms vary
ing from thirty days to ten years, and 90 were
Adj ud Hed to softer decapitation. The modera-
tioD aud forbearance of the japanese Govern
ment, so contrary TO the customary Asiatio
mode Of tre&tipg vanqntshed rebels, are highly
By 5oroiGnets sSd ra.iSeS aka. !
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
THE LECTURE.

propose to speak to you this evening,
ladies and gentlemen, on the nbject of What
Catholics do not Believe" That is, as no donbt
you already anticipate, to correct some errO-
neons Impressions with regard to important
points of Catholic doctrine. After long in ter
course With non-Cathoiics of various religions
denominations, and many of no denomination
at All, ! am profoundly impressed with the
conviction, that most OF the opposition to the
Catholic Church, and the HrAVest obstacle 20
that mutual good feeling thst ought to exist
amongst members of all religious orRaniza.
lions, and, indeed, amongst all men, arise
chiefly from u understanding of what are
really Catholic doctrines on importRnE points,
Explanations Of these doctrines seem almost
ae nect ssary in these days, as in the days of
{ hO Apologies of the Early Fathers, some Of
them written seventeen bundred years ego. Nv
intercourse with non. Catholics has taught me
also, strange % you may think it, great rec |
poet for what are called biRoted people. They !
are generally people deeply in earnest, people |
who hate Injustice and deceit, nsd because
hey imagiBe-falsely, of conrss-that the
Catholic Church IL . marvellous organization
II the pOWeEs of both, they dstast iE. They
orm very often the most fervent and the most
nyerts to the Church. We can
carcsly be- angry With them, because they
re angry with an institntiOn Of impossible
xistence. Their idea Of the Catholic ChREch
you'd be combination Of coBtfadiotions.
hey src not opposed 70 the Chnreh, bat they
So cpp5sed - sotEeshilz Nhis5 they think !
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13

TEN MORNING Stan has hssn sasxSds
with the approval Of the scelassAaazasf
authority of the Diocese, 10 srypzx a.
admitted want In Now Orleans, az u
mainly devoted to the interests q a.
Catholic Church. II viii NOT lntsxssrs a.
politics except wherein they insss1slI6
with Catholic rights, but win szpaee
niqnity In high places. without rsGanR ~
persons or parties. Next 10 the spaza1sak
rights OF all men, IL will especially saaxnss
pion the temporal rights Of the poeR.
The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1878-01-13
WHAT CATHOLICS 90 NOT BELIEVE,
A LECTURE
LELlvRRED III MERCANTILE HALL, ST, LOUIS,
On Sunday Evening, December i6. 1877
BY Right Rev. P. j. Ryan

Bishop Of Tri0omia, and Cosdjutor 70 tho Avohbisho
of 81. Louis.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-30
POLITICS. AND TIE SILVER BILL.


Politically, the Bland bill should be en-
titled Gan Act to Destroy the Republican
party" Its fOrerunner thc Matthews rcs0-
luton, has received majority of Republican
votes cast in the Senate and in the House.
If the bill should become a law-and without
heavy Republican support it cannOt-the
Republican party will have signed away its
claim as defender Of the public faith and OF
financial integrity, to the confidence and sup
port of those who have kept it alive,
because on that ground it seemed to
deserve support. Yet it will win moth
ing from regulators, soft-money lunatics,
or bankrupts. Men Of that stamp will
sec that sxtbs of the Democratic Repre-
sentatives are with them. If they want a
party to prevail on that account, they will
want the Democratic party to prevail Every
dishonest debtor and every repudlatOr in the
country will feel that the Democratic party
is his home. But men who seek honest
payment Of debts and return of trade and
industry to solid basis, will feel that votes
and help for Republican tickets are thrown
away. Is the fact uglyf But it is the naked
fact and Senators may as well look ut it, If
they have any care Cor the future of that
party.
There are strong and brave men in the Dem
ocratic party, who stand nobly for the public
faith. They will live as they deserve, because
| voters who want reputation can afford to vote
for them, knowing that they are a powerless
| minority in Democratic councils. Democratic
victory will insure AL that such voters want,
and they can please themselves rs to persons.
But the Republican who wants cheap money
| In nj
STAYS only to kill it, Nothing has kept 1t alive
but its defence OF the public faith. When ii
Republican Administration and Republican
| Congress actually permit, and Republican con-
vention may be expected to sustain debasemcnt
of the currency, defeat of the pledge to resume,
| and payment Of bonds in 90-cent dollars, the
Republican party will get neither votes nor
voices nor means where it has been strongest.
! Year after year, 1t has called upon the solid
| men Of the East to save it. The next call
votes of majority of Republicans i'll Con-
will be in vain if tho Bland bill becomes law
through the consent or cOnnlvance OF Republic
cans who could prevent it. 3lcn whose strong
speeches, whose skill in council, or whose free
gifts have made victories for that party pos
sible will sit down and let it die. Grant
that they ought not. But human nature is
human nature, and they will.
1t is easy to see why Democrats want the
Bland bill to pass. The men who have
need TO think are those who have
been lifted to high place in strong Re-
publican States or districts. When they write
off 10 per cent of the public debt, and 10
per cent of the property Of those who have
saved money, they turn out more than 10 per
cent of their supporters in number, and far
more than that proportion in weight. In every
State and district they kill Republican votes
by the thousand. SO the Wing party cut its
own throat when men voted for the Compro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-30

mise and the Fugitive Slave Bill. Thousands
of voters, who could not be Democrats, and
scorned thereafter to vote Wing ticket did
not vote at all, and the party died.
Yielding to reputation will end like trad
ing with slavery. There will yet be party
in which no man can stay or get vote who
is not true to the public faith. We shall see
that party soon, if the Republican party be-
trays its trust as defender of the Nations
honor. Distress and bankruptcy will teach
what bad faith costs. Voters by the thousand
will spurn the men who misled them, or
were slavish tools of moments passion. We
shall not have long to wait, in that case, for
a political change which will bury in lasting
shame every man in this land who calls him
self Republican and yet votes to brand the
Nation with dishOnOr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-30
PERSONAL.

Mr.. George Riddle is temporary instructor
q, e,ocution at Harvard Professor Baxter being ILL.,
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emersons cold has again
conquered him. and his lecture has been postponed
second time.
II is reported that the friends of General
Lew Wallace arc cnergetcay presenting him as can
didatc for q foreign mission.
Colonel +. ID. Grant, it is said, intends TO
live in San Francisco where he has purchased an inter
est in gran-coanng machine, which is already IN al
operation.
Professor Pierce, of Harvard, the eminent
mathematician, curiously enough, made plea for
tho Ideal at the last Radical Club meeting The man OF
numbers and precision declared that the great DANGER III
the scientific researches OF the day lay In the fact that
they seemed to strike at the Ideal But 1t was only III
seeming he added the Ideal Is inies'ructDle."
DIR. John NJ. Lawrence and lis wife Raehel,
the daughter Of President Jaeksons adopted son. Andrew
Jackson have celebrated their silver wedding ihey
wore the In which they married and the
took place at the Hermitage, where the yeneraDe MS
Andrew Jackson nc lives with her only surviving SUI"
Mis-. Phelps, tho wife of the Governor Oh
Missouri has Just died. She was benevolent woman,
who during the ciil war; noted for her beneneen'
work for the wounded and disabled soldiers OF the unon
Gov Phelps Is broherinaw 10 Me-. Amos Eno the wen,
known owner of tho Fifth Avenue Hotel building anu
much other valuable NewYork real estate. lie Is 'H'
only BROTHER OF Mrs. Emo.
Mr.. Walt Whitman is preparing new oooN
containing prose aud poetry. which, 1t Is rumoreo' ~
intends to call Far and Near at So" He Is now in US
fy-nlnth year. It Is stated also, that he Is eoihk
California as lecturer, and be Is supposed 10 hsVcl
pared several dscourses under the heads o. Abraham
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