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No. 20.-VoL. II.
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SUBIACO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1876. a
GLADSToNE AND NOPOPERY.
CONDITION OF THE SHAKERS.
MB " A TIEBIL/NLN ACCUSATION." A Southampton correspondent of the MR. Gladstone is clearly under the influence Register Weekly the from We reprint Telegraph, who made a special journey which Daily No-Popery virus by a letter from its New York correspondent, of that maddening their of mark, though to the Shaker colony to investigate men other FROM HOME & FOREIGN JOURNALS. now before often venerable the of in which, on the authority condition, gives the followstarving been alleged have distinction, eminent such of a half seldom Thurlow Weed, it is said that about I entered a no more ing account of his visit A TERRIBLE ACCUSATION AGAINST THE century ago a weeeta.,00 was about to half demented. There is obviously " by a gateway, near which he says than camp," him with to reason attempting FREEMASONS. reveal the secrets of the sect was done use in sides and to reason with stands one long shanty with broad The fact being somewhat there would be in attempting side are A severe blow has been given to the Free- away with. The ex -Premier's canvas roof, whilst on the other a -muck. running Indian work an a in that publication curious, we may mention masons in the United States by the on some smaller ones in a line, the whole formDecrees," Vatican " The on Rev. Essay the by of two letters from the Venerable Thurlow entitled " Ship and Shore," miniature street. Passing three freshNavy, " Vaticanism," and on the " Speeches of the ing a Weed, telling, for the first time, the whole Walter Colton, of the United States' girls in Bloomer costume sauntering looking together collected carefully he has story of the murder committed by five allusion is made to the alleged murder Pope," arm, I addressed a staid -looking in arm Air. of hands and published through the She members of this sect, by the order of the of Morgan in the following terms Murray in the form of a tempting octavo. To woman, and inquired for Mrs. Girling. order in ago, Grand Master, forty-nine years " But it is not a fact, as stated, that no one this volume he has prefixed a Preface, the took me at once to the long building, and daythe of directly in most purport of which might be the of these spectres has appeared to prevent the publication of the secrets down the rather dusky apartment Morgan was put to death on expressed by saying that in it he deliberately, glancing a number of persons I perceived the society by a man named William Morgan. time. When for his treachery, and nails his colours to the mast as a rabid No - containing Niagara of strand the us. Mother In the year 1826 this man who had passed his body sunk in that stream, there appeared Popery controversialist. As when in writing a remarkable figure approaching is tall, wonderfully thin and active, Girling conceived courtly uncorporeal an say Masonry, to of not place degrees the decorous, through the through all the hovering around and possesses bright searching look, that no one pages of the Quarterly, he did not deem it wears ringlets, make a good model for an the idea of publishing a book disclosing all being, so like him in every or doubted the tragic unbecoming-either himself, as a dignified eyes. She would Whether she attains to identity the questioned may Deborah.' artist's the secrets of the sect. What his motive with as remarks, everybody of his filled subject the statesmatt, or deed. The discovery real mesmeric power or not, she certainly has have been is only to be conjectured-it may consternation ; and the whole land shook certainly the most venerable personage in more personal influence over her community under a galvanic Christendom-to employ such miserable have been a sordid or a lofty one. Mr. like the bones of a skeleton Brigham Young ever had over his. Thousands not only abjured phrases as " Infallibility romps," so now in than battery. way in which members of the colony Weed was living at that time in the town of renounced their political faith. clubbing together his three latest contribu- The but masonry, of the tent Mrs. Girling selected Rochester, New York, and Morgan asked I made myself a palpitating pilgrimage to tions to the periodicals, and issuing them cleared out Oriental. I told that anew from the press as a substantial volume, for our tide-a-tete was quite him to become the publisher of the projected Niagara. Ay --and I never shall forget to find by the appearance of glad I was her which title a to it affixing from I" he shrinksnot went vision her people, and especially of the children, book. Mr. Weed declined, and Morgan is at once a gibe and an insult to by far the that the starvation reports must have been There walks o'er deep Niagara's wave to the adjoining town of Batavia, where portion of Christendom. " Rome and largest a grave, found bath exaggerated. She replied that they were for A ghost, whose form the Newest Fashions in Religion" is the title months gone through with much severe he arranged with another person for the Deep in those whelming tides ; In the onslaught. his to affixed thus of he has a portion written had publication. He suffering, though she hoped it was over now, Its feathered footsteps scarcely seem course of his Preface the Right Hon. gentle- and had once been without food for fortyTo bend the surface of the stream, the book, and was engaged in comof a conspiracyenough loudly talks man eight hours together. She believed those who O'er which this phantom glides. arrested was pleting it when he meaning a conspiracy on the part of those had brought the trouble on them would, Around it there is cast a shroud, who are spoken of now -a-days as Ultra- sooner or later, see the wrong they had done. upon a false charge of larceny and That seems more like a folding cloud, montanes. Ile deliberately accuses them of Pointing to a fine field of wheat over the conveyed to gaol. his house was searched, Than aught that mortals wear ; a design " to disturb civil society, and to next hedge nearly ready for reaping, she said and seized were cheek. faded its manuscripts eye, and his Its downcast proceed, when it may be requisite and it was their own planting, all taken from bespeak lips in trembling and confined been pale Its had he practicable, to the issue of blood for the them for others to enjoy. I recommended destroyed. After A spirit of despair. accomplishment of its aims." Mr Gladstone her to consider the advisability of emigrating The gaol for a few days-the Sheriff and was evidently believes in this conspiracy and in to New Zealand, but she replied, Sir I officers of the prison being Masons-he It moans a hoarse and hollow wail, and conveyed night one gale, out gusty this design of a most sanguinary character. thank you sincerely but God has placed me secretly taken That mingles with the There is nothing that a No -Popery Fanatic here, and nothing shall induce me to leave in a closely covered carriage to Fort Niagara. And with the rumbling flood ; point shrinks from believing. Clearly to us " that this place. My destiny is here and if an Ills captors had conveyed him to this It points toward the crimsoned shore, Masons brother their that more once way madness lies." . in the expectation And shrieks, as if it felt angel from heaven told me to go, I would not.' of Canada would aid them in disposing of The knife that drank its blood. In the road outside, two young women were contemHis murder was not then him. IN POOR wide, THE OF and wild CONDITION is echoed reading a testament. 1 mentioned to them WRETCHED Its wail Canadian the that hoped was it but plated ; the object of my visit, and learnt from them From rock, and steep, and bounding tide, LONDON. Masons would take charge of him and send ; of their previous hardships ; but they Around that haunted coast death was recorded by the some terrible him to end his days among one of the Indian A tell trembling, mothers, fearful laughed at these, and when I suggested to And on Placing Jury Canada. a Coroner's of of verdict north-west tribes in the unmistakable them that they should take care of Mother Their little ones how Morgan fell, their prisoner in Fort Niagara, his captors Saturday last --one of those deaths a hick Girling,' Oh I no harm or sickness will ever And of this wandering ghost, now and then throw dishonour on our come to her,' was the sower. Indeed, I am crossed the river into Canada to attend the every Along that fatal shore is heard meeting of a lodge there ; but the Canadian boasted civilization. A wretched creature told the Shakers believe she will never die," No more the song of merry bird, .Masons, after much deliberation, refused to dies like a dog in the streets, not from disease, Our correspondent adds : " The community horn hunter's of soend the Or Ameribecome parties to the business. The not from accident, but, as the verdict tells us includes a number of young persona undeveafraid seems -dog watch faithful a and The Niagara, Fort to returned can Masons (after all due deliberation and inquiry) from loped, physically or mentally. Another the shade, stirs Of every sound that few days afterwards a large number of men starvation and exposure. " Only a woman's winter of privations would probably injure morn. of peep till bays to And high in the Order assembled near there hair" was found inscribed on a tiny packet many of these for life. Cannot something be open an " Encampment of Knigh ts-Templars." No more can sun, nor lunar beam, among the papers of Jonathan Swift. It done ?" At night they dined together ; and, after Erect a rainbow o'er that stream, was "Only a woman," this poor victim of dinner "the chaplain gave a sentiment so From which the fish have fled ; starvation and exposure in this vast and turned were appears, thoughts cloud all that little significant But there a wealthy city, in the very midst of this dense RECEPTIONS AT THE VATICAN. towards Fort Niagara." The "sentiment' And sheds its unregarded tears, population of four millions of her fellow was, in fact, " death to all traitors ;" and Like one who weeps the dead. The weather at Rome is at present of a creatures. Another unfortunate hurried to immediately afterwards one of the company, -Advocate. her account " unhousell'd, disappointed, tropical heat. It is better imagined than Colonel King, arose from the table and called unaneal'd." The lamentable history, as old described, and it is certainly more pleasant Those four of the others to accompany him. These as London streets, is told in a sentence. to imagine than to experience it. a ; Chubbuck, stonemason were Whitney, a Twenty-four years ago, as the daughter of a who obey the adage, and " do at Rome as RITUALISM. ruin, she was Rome does," leave the city. All of Rome her to lured farmer ; Garside, a butcher ; and Howard, farmer, wealthy One of the amusing episodes in the current up (as is told of her at the that can quit the sultry precincts for the bookbinder. They were all says Mr. Weed, that little piece of first swallowed in this seething cauldron salubrious sea breezes have done so. The " men of correct habits and good character, Mackonochie affair is Archbishop of Coroner's Inquest) Westminister. The end state receptions at the Vatican have necesand all, I doubt not, were moved by an advice given by the Anglican and London called deputation men's working to the Canterbury of the social the health enthusiastic but most misguided sense of he is comes to her at the last rang against the sarily diminished in number, but that clergyman your tell end Go an had that "he them streets-leaning duty." King told of the Sovereign Pontiff, thanks be to God, Very probably ladder-in the Gardens-crawling the of round routine ordinary the order from the Grand Master the execution guilty of a grave offence." and well, Short's continues wall in ; but it is a of which required their assistance," and they the clergyman was eotumacious a reproof to corner of that byway into Drury-lane. As official business is still carried on as usual, administering of method new five The it. crossing obey Cardinals of Jo, the. replied they would and the customary receptions of laity. Perhaps, Charles Dickens said your Majesty. Dead, my and Prelates, of Secretaries of Congregations, murderers then were driven in a carriage to convey it by the lies of thethat as the clery- sweeper, "Dead, Dead, Right and Generals of Orders and of private the fort were Morgan was confined. It was indeed, Dr. Tait thought Gentlemen. and Lords him with this deputation just midnight. They told the doomed man man had worried more Wrong Reverends of every individuals, are uninterrupted. The amount than poetical justice heverends and men and woman born with of work which is daily transacted by Pius that his friends had completed their arrange- it would be nocompliment. order. Dead, Unfortunately, the ments for his removal to Canada, where hls to return Heavenly compassion in your hearts. Aad IX. is really incredible, and would be wholly to the hostile altogether is deputation the go with to consented He every day." Starva- impossible were it not for that idomitable life would be safe. likely to convey dying thus around usprivations of the direst personal energy (which time seems unable to them, and they walked to the wharf, where Archbishop, and is not at all tion and exposure, " pestilential The message. fatherly" " his as in the other, a boas was waiting for them. This they of the character, were proved in this instance, this affect,) on the one hand, and on detail is gentlest the of one as prints" little darkness. the in away have brought entered, and rowed the admirable manner in which the style the Ritualist so many others, to and death's in thkt to out mapped certainly When the boat reached the point where the elder Tractarians used to their hour every surely and planned spiteful little unhappy being Among prolific existence. The recent persecutions Niagara River empties into Lake Ontario, newspapers, are shooting with door and-across the threshold ! Coroner's superiors own their against arrows and, pretence, all a off in manner, the murderers threw suffered by the Chinch have, is the the evidence adduced at the she expired tended to strengthen and to manifest her with some horrible mummeries, they ordered great vigour. " Episcopal Imbecility" degradation to Inquest was this that just before Morgan to prepare for death. They wound heading of one article. "Tile has reduced the deceased was begging, in God's name, for unity. The Vicar of Christ the centre of episcopate Witness, this unity, is compelled to exercise, in a rope around him, attaching to each end which the English of Dr. Tait" is the loan of some halfpence. gave her lid., addition to the functions of Universal Doctor, of it a heavy weight, and they then threw itself under the presidency by another. And another very poor woman, expressed sentiment the of those, also, of Particular Counsellor and Diaprivations him overboard. lie sank like a stone, and The possessed. she all being prayer for the of from the murderers returned to tell their comrades the Church Herald breathes aThirlwall, whom the dead woman included want of food,Her pensator of Exceptional Powers. Far Bishop shelter. that the traitor met a traitor's doom. One repose of the soul ofdescribes of and regretting these unceasing occupations, Pius of clothing, sleep, a "failure," as it bishop, a shown IX. has only one thought-the welfare of of the murderers, Whitney, told all these as were at night -places resting habitual as " a Radical particulars to Mr. Weed, a few months having also stigmatised him weeks past, the (;hurch and the greater glory of God. The paper that to have been, for weeks and afterwards-but it is only now, when all the and a Latitudinarian." hole or corner its reader' down passages, in any filthy metropolis. presents also amenities contains A criminals are dead, that he makes the facts the of slums back the ,tea of public. The body of Morgan was found a with some letters from correspondents thousands of THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. This curious juror thereupon remarked that sleeping year afterwards, identified by his wife and " The CnItus of Our Lady." summer is not both sexes are homeless-in Lord Mayor of Dublin has received The friends, and buried ; and although the mixture of light and Ifdarkness while wandering in between and parks, Anglicans could in the Masons tried to dispute the identification, altogether unhopeful. As the from the Pope, through Mgr. Rinaldine the pilfering. and begging about their -and Cross of the Order of St. Gregory. their efforts were *futile. None of the only get rid of their bitterness no doubt, Coroner remarked, surely some remedy for Grand announced meant to mark murderers, however, were ever brought to very uncomfortable "position" ia, this frightfnl and most disgraceful state of His Holiness, it ismanner his admiration of would of it-they great deal a of cause the remained case the justice. The facts of in a conspicuous ; one way to discovered he to ought things the seems it manner in which the Lord Mayor repre-, enveloped in much mystery, and Mr. Weed soon follow the lead, which them, and which would be the gradual demolition of the tells them now only because they can do no grace of God has already given and devout the London rookeries, and the erection in sented, during the O'Connell Centenary teachable become to learn -would sect of the ancient Catholie infernal to the harm to any one, except their place of healthy dwellings for the very celebrations; the faith Irish nation. itself.-Weekly Register's New York Ow- under the shadow of that Mighty Mother, impoverished.- Weekly Register. God. of the true Church sespoesdoet.
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