San Francisco Mail News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 267, 14 June 1878, Page 17

San Francisco Mail News.

(From onr JExolianges.)

The Beatification of Pio Kono is a work which will attract tlie interest of all Catholics everywhere. That the illustrious Poiltifr will eventually he inscribed in the catalogue oi the saints, we have oio iMiuan doubt, and recalling a collection of testinidnics td the holiness anA" glory of his life, which we made sdnie time since from the episcpi&l letters announcing td tlie faithful in various parts of the world tue sad newrf of his death, we are satisfied that if the general assent ot tlie faitliftu and the bishops of the Church were sufficient for canoniaatioii Pio Nono might now be named among the saints. ' Bat ttta Church in this grave matter proceeds according to strict rules and BUe needs to have the judgment of her clnldren strengthened by manilestations of the will of heaven. Miracles are already attributed by Human report to the intercession of Pius IX., and doubtless many others will come to light in time. That the Church may be able to proceed as speedily, if not more speedily, in this cause than in that of bt. Alphonsus, will, we are sure be the wish of all Catholics. The singularly studious and abstemious habits of the new Pope arc-, already known to the world: His pastoral, which we published last week, is an evidence of the fruit of his labours, and it leads us to expect, m the forthcoming Encyclical, a masterpiece. He is a hard worker, and many a young matt might imitate his energy and activity with profit* He rises at daybreak and says Mass as soon as ready, he then works with intense diligence until noon, shortly after winch he tstkes the only meal of the day. Spartan simplicity must yield in future proverbs to Papal simplicity ; for if Pius LX. were Bimple m his habits and food. Leo XIII. is not less so. The Pope retires at 10 o'clock p.m. In his youth he was devoted to poetry, find wo have seen some Latin verses attributed to him. He is said to have known Dante's poems by heart. The last visitor admitted to an audience with Pius IX. was Eev. Father Ratisbonne, who is now travelling through Europe to collect alms to carry on the good works he has established in the Holy Land Pius IX. always manifested the deepest interest in the enterprises of Ibis aealous priest. r The fifteen Swiss Guards, dismissed by the Pope for mutiny, have returned to their native cancon of Vaud, while five young men from trie Tumtoa of Schwytz have left for Rome to become Halberdiers at the Vatican. Leo XIII has given orders to have the large quantities of tapestry which now lie hid in drawers and cupboards in the Vatican rummaged out, and hung in chronological order along the galleries, where they enn be seen. There will be many interesting pieces among them, including a quantity of Gobelins, as the French Court fox a long time made a presenfctof a piece every year to the reigning Pontiff ; pieces oi the Flemish schools of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; and several of those designed by Raphael, which were saved in the sack ot Homo. It would be a good thing if the Italian Government or UonrL were to follow the Pope's example ; for hidden away in cellars and back rooms of the Pitti Palace, at Florence, there are known to be piles of old damasks and brocades falling Jo pieces for want of looking after and bringing to the light ; they cannot be sold— thoueh many artists and others would gladly buy them— without superior orders, and it is said that the only purpose they servo is to be torn up vhcn^lustcrs are required and nothing else is handy. The number of persons who ask and obtain the favour of visiting the new Tope is as great as ever. Both Italian and foreign gentlemen and ladies flock to the Vatican every day. All speak very highly or the Pope's charity, kindness, and refined manners. He has a kind word for every person in the crowd. ■ Cardinal Beradi, whose death is announced from Rome, commenced his career as a barrister. He was not of high birth, and when in. middle life he entered the church. Gifted with rem arkable talents ior business, he occupied various important posts, and as Cardinal and Minister of Public Works rendered many and valuable services to the Pontifical Government. It was under his administration that tuc nrst itoman railway was constructed. "A painful and harmful rivalry prevails between the evangelical sects in Italy.' So writes the Rev. Gideon Draper to Zion's He mid. _W*at is i the mission of the evangelical sects in Catholic Italy, we saould like to know ? They are intruders where they arc not wanted, with no other ostensible object than the transformation of good Catholics into bad Protestants, and no other real ooject than the spending of tho Wney derived from their dupes at home— the good people who belieVe that Papists are idolaters and tliat the Pope is anti-Christ. Naturally, they quarrel among themselves—" for 'tis their nature to. \

Naples and Florence are said to be bankrupt. The Emperor o£ Austria has placed Miramir at the disposal of Pope Leo XIII. during the summer heats. It is a castellated villa about three miles from Trieste, and is built on the extreme verge of a cliff, rising sheer to a considerable height above the sea. The London Jiti/io describes it as having the decided advantage in picturesque beauty over the old papal rptreat at Castel-Gandoli'o. From the top of the square turret the eye takes in the whole panorama of the Gulf of lneste In the background rise the curious peaks of the Dolomite Cham, and on the right the imposing masses of the Friuli Alps, while at their base dotting the- coast line as it travels away to the misty Lagoons of Venice in the far horizon, arc numerous towns and hamlets that have played their parts in bygone days. The most celebrated is Aquileia, the seat of numerous ecclesiastical councils; the scene of Cceur de Leon s shipwreck on his return from Palestine ; and whose fugitive citizens, after Attila's desolating visitation, founded Venice. Bright and peaceful as the villa looks under its Italian sky and in its flower-perfumed atmosphere, sad memories haunt its hearths and gables, ahe rooms are fall of associations and mementoes of the once happy couple that tenanted them before they forsook their Eden with the vain hope of reviving the empire of the Montezumas. As the mind of the visitor wanders away to the past, the scent of the

citron seems to change to a sulphurous whiff of that tragic valley at Queretaro, and the cry of the sea birds to the wailings of that poor, lonely, mad, and widowed princess in her seclusion at Lacken. Miramar, -with its sad traditions, will scarcely form a cheerful summer retreat for a contemplative Pope, but Leo XIII. is said to have taken the Emperors offer into consideration. "\V lien Mrsi Grant was presented to the Pope, slie asked him to bless for her a silver cross which he? husband had given her when they celebrated their silver wadding at Long Branch, in August, 1873, She said on account of it being her husband's gift on the W cnty-nfth anniversary of their marriage, she felt it to be particularly stored, and desired the Pope to bless it. for her, -which he did. So it hits) come to this at last ! The mental agony that " Chaplain " Newman arid " Bishop " Simpson must have experienced on. ieceiving this shocking information must have been intense. Here are two most unpleasant revelations. It was bad enough that President Grant — the man whom the Methodists had looked upon as their own, and whom they had wished to parade before the country as a champion of pure Protestant principles— it was bad enough to find that he had given to his wife as a wedding souvenir a cross j the very emblem of Popery 1 But to learn also that she has carried this idolatrous and superstitious article to Rome, had taken it to the " Man of Sin," and had besought him "to bless it " for her — this, indeed is terrible ! The Scotch novelist, W. S. Black, in a recent novel, intimates that Chicago, and every other American city, for that matter, "is crowded with persons who, by a vicious and false public school system, get some smattering of music, drawing, and other fanciful and fashionable but practically useless arts, and who are utterly incapable of earning an honest living, because they are as ignorant as South. African Hottentots of practical arts and sciences," And this the great American Common School System ! The Warehata (Mass.) News says : — " Only one marriage in Carver, which has a population over 1000 thus far this year." And we would venture to add that this one marriage will result in. a genteel family of just one child — which is the orthodox New England fashion. So the " native" population flourisheth. — Pilot, Now that a, woman has received a bullet in the brain by it, perhaps the William Tell business on the stage will be stopped. In Pawtucket, R. 1., during a public exhibition, one young woman undertook to shoot an appLe off another young woman's head, as she had done at several previous performances, and shot her through the head instead. _In New York a man has just died from injtiries sustained ill wrestling with a bear. People who encourage such reckless exhibitions by attending them aye not free from blame for any fatal consequences that may follow. But the law should see to it that no more lives are imperilled in this sensational and fool-hardy manner. The Fall River millionaires were so exact in their knowledge of accounts and prices, when the wages of their hands were to be cut clown, that we are surprised they didn't discover that one of their own immber had stolen half a million of dollars from the treasuries of several of their establishments. And now comes another and greater defalcation, in which the Treasurer of another Fall River mill is suddenly discovered to be a swindler to the extent of 1,100,000 dols. in one mill, and an indefinite amount in another. Close accounts the directors have kept, evidently — when the wages were to be cut down. The boys of New York axe furnished every week with as vile and degrading a supply of " flash" and corrupting literature as unscrupulous men can buy and publish, or greedy newsvendors spread "broadcast throughout the city. There are published in the Cicy of New York every week not less than ten newspapers whose titles denote that they are intended exclusively for boys and young men, and as many monthly magazines, all filled with such matter as no boy, nor no young mau, can read without filling his mind with preposterous bosh ; trash fatal to the storing up of anything useful or true ; stories in which the outcast, the desperado, find the criminal always figure in glowing colours, and the decent person is overthrown and thoroughly vanquished. Until a short time ago, these newspapers confined themselves to the telling of improbable stories of successful burglaries, millionaire highwaymen, and tales well calculated to turn the respectable working boy into a midnight prowler and Bowery rough. Put recently they have gone a step further, and lecherous and impure stories, in which fallen women figure prominently, ornament their columns. It is a safe proposition that not one of these newspapers is fit to go into the hands of any boy or young man in this city. And it is not to bo supposed that they would make the enormous sales by which they now grow fat were the parents of these budding boys aware of the character of the reading that employs their sons' leisure hours. These papers circulate largely among schoolboys and boys employed in workshops and factories. Where three boys are seen riding in a street-car, two of them are poring over this abominable trash. At the times of day when the working-people are going to or returning from their work the sidewalks are full of them. All through the down-town streets, in Park Row, Broadwa}', Chatham-street, Third Avenue, tlie streets oi the East Side, Sixth and Eighth Avenues, and even in some of the principal hotels, the news-stands are plastered over with this pernicious literature — a sure sign that it sells quickly and profitably. . . Any philanthropic person who is interested in knowing the result of such reading, may find it, unwashed and ragged, in the boys' prison in the Tombs. — N". Y. Times. Brooklyn to the front again ! A Congregational preacher there, with the picturesque name of Wild, has just made the amazing discovery that St. Patrick and the Prophet Jeremiah were one and the same person. Mr. Wild has figured it all out, and is quite certain as to conclusions, Equally certain is this gifted man that the north of Ireland was originally colonized by a tribe of wandering Hebrews — to come down to bottom facts, the tribe of Dan. "To these people," says the Brooklyn authority, " the Prophet Jeremiah came when he fled with an Israelitish maiden of the tribe of David, Her he gave in marriage to the king of the people in the northern part of Ireland, and from the descendants of these two, through the Scottish line, had come the monarchs of Great Britain." Quite interesting, certainly. But the Rev. Mr. Wild makes known another remarkable fact. He tells how the prophet came to get the name of St. Patrick. When he reached Ireland he was called the Sainted Patriarch. Any one can see at hah: a glance how easy it' was to knock the "ed " off " Sainted,"

and corrupt Patriarch into " Patrick." «• Sainted Patriarch "—"" — " Saint Patrick " — nothing in the world more simple, Brooklyn is certainly an extraordinary place for a queer set of preachers, and the Rev. Mr. Wild seems to bs one of the queerest in the lot. It might be cruel to Suggest a connecting 'link between his name and his theories, so we Won't. Let it suffice that he preaches in Brooklyn. Tne Boston Advertiser, in a leading article published lately, calls attention to the fact that Archbishop Fenelon, in " Telemaque," anticipated Adam Smith's application of the Golden Rule to commercial matters, and first taught France and Europe that trade should be based upon equal advantages for all who participate in it. Alluding » Mr. Wells' apparent tinconsciousness of Smith's obligations to the French prelate, the Advertiser says :— Perhaps we ought not to express any surprise that gentlemen who have the affairs of the universe of to-day upon their shoulders should be quite ignorant of the masterpieces of modern literature. In view of the Atlas duties they have assumed, such ignorance can be accounted for. But, while it lasts, they ought not to be pretending to the same universal knowledge of the past which they assume as to the springs of contemporary history. Montreal has had another disgraceful exhibition of Orange ruffianism. A band of Young Britons, parading the streets on Good Friday, furiously assaulted a young man who is said to have crossed through a gap in their procession, and pursued him. into .the Church of Notre Dame, whore the solemn service of the day was in progress. The ruffianly rush into the church caused a panic, which might have cost many lives, but the intruders were finally expelled, and severe fighting took place outside. Ifc was renewed elsewhere in the afternoon, and again in the evening, several persons being injured, and many windows broken by the law-defying mob. The Young Britons were armed,, of course (fellows of their stripe parading the streets for the purpose of starting a fight are always r 'sure to look out for that), and many shots were fired during the melee, The telegraphic account had it that they were " marching to church." The piety of Young Britons, " marching to church" on Good Friday, is deeply impressive. And how unfortunate that the streets of Montreal afforded them no way of getting to church except by passing Notre Dame, armed and eager for the fray, while several thousand Catholics were at worship there. If the authorities of Montreal cannot prevent Young Britons and such people from trying to murder Catholics in the streets, and rushing upon them in church to insult and slay, they ought to provide more thoroughfares, so that the pious assassins may be able to reach church on Good Friday without stumbling upon a Catholic congregation at prayer. A Boston, variety hall turns a recent tragedy into account by extensively advertising the " special engagement of Jennie Franklin, the famous daring shot, and principal in the recent terrible catastrophe and innocent killing of a woman on the stage at Pawtucket." She does not now employ anybody to hold objects for her to shoot at. The Boston Herald says : — " She made some very successful and accurate shots at- a target, but when she came to shoot by sighting in a mirror (the feat by which she killed Lottie Maily), her aim was not so good, and she retired without splitting the apple, at which she fired several bullets." '

A preliminary inquiry conducted at Berlin against Bishop, the Englishman charged with endeavouring to obtain plans of fortresses, &c., has been concluded. Evidence was obtained sufficient for his indictment for inciting to treason. The British Government has declared that it will not interfere in Bishop's behalf. A scandalous case of religious coercion is related by our Catholic contemporary (the Mainzcr Journal). A Protestant widow called Martin, living at Waldmichelsbach, in Hesse, married about twelve months since a Catholic called Miinch, and,' in doing so, it was arranged that her three children should be. brought up in the • Catholic faith. The Protestant clergyman of the place, having heard of this, took legal proceedings, the result of which was a decision of the court that the eldest boy, aged 13, should be sent to a Protestant school, and confirmed as a' Lutheran. The boy resisted, and, not wanting to become a Protestant, ran away, and found shelter in a Catholic family in an adjoining village ; 'and, in doing so, he was countenanced both by his stepfather and by the Catholic priest (Father Eics). The Protestant minister asked' the boy's guardian to interfere, but this man declared that he would leave his ward to decide for himself: to what Church he would belong. On his fourteenth birthday the boy called on Father Eics, and declared, in the presence of witnesses, that he would become a Catholic. Since then - ( tbc priest, the toy's stepfather, and the boy himself, have been tried ior " infringing personal freedom," and Father Bies has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment, Herr Miinch to one month, and the boy to eight days. That is how religious equality is practised in Germany under the garb of " personal freedom ! " "It is curious,' \says the London Daily Neiva, " that almost all the most violent crimes which mark Irish society are perpetrated in districts in which th&re is a strong infusion of English ami Scotch blood. Tipperary, where the soldiery of Cromwell were settled, has been the centre and head-quarters of the most brutal outrages. Kerry, which is almost purely Celtic, is as peaceful 'as Kent or Wiltshire — perhaps more so. Ulster, where the Scotch and English settlers abound, is the most violent and turbulent of the provinces. The mixture of the Saxon and Celtic blood seems to produce a violent and inflammable compound possessing dangerous qualities from which the separate elements are free." We have no doubt that if there be a " bad drop" in the Irish blood, it did come from the English union. In Agra and Oude, British India, the number of the starving is very great, officers reporting in the latter country that they find the water-courses strewed with dead bodies. Some Protestants have been attacking Mr. Sullivan, M.P., because that honourable, learned, and eloquent gentleman declared that StPatrick's Day is even with Protestants a religious holiday. All we can say is that if it be not it ought to be, for Protestants are always declaring that St. Patrick was a Protestant, and surely they ought to honour his memory even from their own mistaken point of view. Strange language this from an English paper. The London Daily JVeivs, speaking of the despatch of native troops from India toward the prospective seat of war with Russia, says j— " The Indian

Government was wise to gag the vernacular jxress before calling the natives of India to the aid of a nation which holds their country byright of conquest. That is a subject on which the native press would certainly have had much to say." So, to prevent talk, the gag was applied. But that an influential English paper should speak of it so sharply is really surprising. Abbe Debaise, commissioned by the French Government to cross Africa from Zanzibar to the Atlantic Ocean, embarked at Marseilles April 23rd. He expects to bo gone three years. Nine missionaries from Algiers accompany him to establish Catholic missions at Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika.

The death is announced of General Hart, who some twenty years ago was in command of a detachment of troops which was called on to suppress a very extraordinary mutiny in the South of Ireland. The North Tipperary Militia, rebelled against their entire deprivation of the uniform annually supplied to them, disarmed their officers, and held possession of the barrracks at Nenagh. Lieutenant-Colonel Hart marched from Templemore at the head of five or six hundred men of the battalion stationed at the depot, and after a brief hand-to-hand struggle iv the streets of the capital of the North Biding quelled the insurrection. Many lives were lost, and the determination with which the militiamen fought was such that when their supply of bullets was exhausted they cut off the buttons from their tunics and fired them on the regulars. Penal servitude was the fate of some of the North Tips, who maintained their dogged resistance to the last, but none of them were subjected to the last penalty of the law. The touching address of the late General Hart when the soldiers and mutineers were buried in the same graveyard may be remembered by many living id'^Nenagh. '"'<> '„• Says the Constantinople correspondent of the PitXlaAelphla Press, ", i The typhus epidemic is raging here to a fearful extent among the troops and the fugitives. A sanitary commission, under the presidency of the Sultan himself, has been formed to .check its ravages. The Imperial summer residence at Alemdagh, in the elevated region beyond Scutari, in Asia, has baen given up for a hospital. Barracks for the sick have been erected at Fanar-Bagtche, and other places. The gardens on the Seraglio Point, once reserved for the "promenades of the ladies of the Imperial harem, are now covered with sheds for the accommodation of typhus patients. There is hardly any part of the old Seraglio region that is not now invaded with hospitals. Sad are the scenes witnessed in them. The bier is stationary before the door to carry away the dead, for hardly an hour passes that some poor creature does not breathe his last sigh. The small-pox has attacked chiefly the women and children fugitives, while the men suffer from typhus. The devotion of the Sisters of Charity to the care of the sick is beyond all praise. Nothing deters them from the performance of their pious duties — neither contagion, epidemic, virulence, the pestilential atmosphere of the hospitals, or the fact that several of their number have succumbed to the malarious influences to- which they are subjected. When one' falls another takes her place, as soldier succeeds to soldier in the gaps made in the ranks by deadly missiles. Among the most zealous of these Christian women was Sister Eulalie. She and other of her co-workers have fallen victims to the scourge, but none of the remaining Sisters think of abandoning their posts, and others are hastening to their relief from Prance."