Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — PASSING EVENTS. [ARTICLE]

PASSING EVENTS.

The Cholera in Europe—The Scott Law In Ohio. . I The Caar and the Vatican—“ ' Misted” > Emigration. All Europe is becoming alarmed at the threatening character of the cholera and the rapidity of the spread. Notwithstanding the international quarantine, which was intended to prevent it from getting into Europe by the gateway of the fines oanal, it has reached the northern entrance and appears to have t astene<Uteelf permanently at Port Said, Damietta, Mansurah and Rosetta, in Egypt, which are all in close proximity to the entrance. Thence it has reached Alexandria to the westward and Cairo to the south, entering the latter place, as usual, while the doctors are disputing about it The march of this terrible destroyer not alone threatens the health of Europe, but it is laying an embargo upon its commerce. It has dosed Port field and the fines canal tighter than any Government or any quarantine could do it already. The great canal la now shut against commerce, and that means a cessation of the trade between Europe and Asia or its compulsory diversion from the short out of the oanal intotbe Mediterranean to the old, long, and tedious route round Africa.

The Scott raw In Ohio. So much has been said about the Scott liquor law, and the-probable action of the Supreme Court upon the question of its constitutionality. says ths Chicago Newt, that it has become a subject of Interest to the public. It is well known that the constitution of Ohio prohibits the licensing of saloons, and the clause was ratified by the temperance people in the expectation that its adoption would put an end to the liquor traino in that State. Such was not, however, the case, as under the organic law of the State there was no power to restrain the sale of liquor. afad it ran riot In April last the State passed what was known as the Scott law, which authorizes an annual assessment upon the business of liquor selling. A case was made up andcarried to the Supreme Court with the* view of testing its constitutionality. The other day the court rendered its decision, all of the Judges except one declaring the law to bo constitutional The opinion seems to be that the effect of the decision will be to strengthen the Republicans; as that party championed the law while their opponents opposed it As two of the members of the Hupreme Court are on-the Republican State ticket the Democrats charge that they were guided as much by their ppitical prospects as by a strict construction of the law in the case.

Th* Osar and the Vatican. An understanding has been arrived at between the heads of the respeotivechurehes of Greece and Rome. The two cimrchee were formerly a unit, but as early as 482 A. D. dogmatical differences sprung up between them, which gradually threw them more apd mere apart, until July 16,1054, when the schism Was completed. Various proposals have Since then been proposed ana rejected for a union of the two churches again, the last being that of Pius IX., when, in 1848, he, invited; by an encyclical letter, the entire Greek church to a corporate union with Rome, which proposition was rejected with scorn. There is, however, in the Greek church a faction that hopes and prays for such a union, which embraces some of the nobility and societies of the, Greek Church. That a modut vivendum has been agreed upon by the heads of the Eastern and Western churches is, in view of their past histories, very significant Under tide concordat the Russian Government retains the right of inspecting supervision in the appointment of teachers, and the education of Catholic children in the Russian language, history and literature, and abrogates the harsh measures declared against the Catholics tn 1864. For the first time in .many centuries, the chasm between the Eastern and Western churches seems to be closing.

Assisted Emigration. • 1 ~ Our Government has at last taken decided action to prevent Great Britain from unloading her paupers in this country. Having tried every possible mbana, except those of humanity and justice, to restore peace to Ireland under her tyranny. Great Britain began some months ago to ship the poor of that country to this, in the hope that by reducing the population there would be less demand for land, fewer paupers to support, ahd an element of political disquietude banished*!rom the island. In May last several vessel loads of panper-Irlsh landed in Boston Gov. Butler called the attention of the Secretary of State to the matter, and quietly since then has it been investigated. The result is that enough proof has been procured to sustain the charge that Great Britain is paying the passage of emigrants from Ireland to this country. The / subject was brought up for consideration at a meeting of the Cabinet on Tuesday, and under the direction of the President . Secret tary Foiger instructed the Collector of Customs in New York to prevent the.landing of all immigrants found to be paupers within the meaning of the law. Some of those who have been donated to us axe taken from the workhouse and are usually persons well along in yearn, with large families, which have been and are the subjects of public charity. On-the same 4, day that thia action was taken by the President the telegraph Informs us that there were then waiting transportation from Queenstown to the United States 100 persons from the Linnford Union, most of whom have been taken from the wqykhouse. While it is tme that we have always prided ourselves tint our land was the asylum for the oppressed of a'l nations, we have never favored compulsory immigration, although the voluntary immigrant, rich or poor, has always been welcome. Our Government has once before had to adopt similar rest t ic*ions in the case of Itoh'. which began sending us her paupers and criminals The return of asMp-ioador/two put an end to the trouble, -and such will he the case of Great Britain Let her deluge her dominion of Canada with these people if the depopulation of Ireland is necessary to the preservation of the United Kingdoms