Show INDIVIDUALLY MEN are apt to suppose 11 j sup-pose that they are centres of obaerva tJ tion for all their neighbor while in truth each man has enough to do in sfl occupying himself with his own t flairs Communities in this respect J ll are lke men and can ba undeceived I only by a more extended intercourse f r oftheir people with the world To I illustrate ibis our readers may call to mind a worthy gentleman who eome 1 years ago Bttlled himself in cur I midst likon eun in a galaxy of pale planets upon which bo throw t his brilliant light as he imagined that they revolved around his centre His correspondence with an eastern 4 newspaper frequently by telegrapb t eo urgent appeared to him its importance S import-ance was full of startling news about i the everyday life of his neighbors I which be expected would be flashed t from city to city all over the land and at the seat of government would make the great Mormon problem the issue of the next presidential election Business at last compelled him to leave his field of usefuIntE and when he found himself in Boston be discovered that instead of being the sun of the universe he was more indistinct than the seventh star of he Pleiades Nobody there cared to hear about the tyranny of the Mormon I Mor-mon priesthood cr of the degradation of women consequent upon polygamy The Catholics were obedient to the Pope the Ritualists were subservient to the Fathers and the UniUriana were united on James Freeman 4 Clarke while tho degradation ol 1 women which abounds in the Eluma of the city was not considered a matter l fit for discussion among the cultured 1 f circle of the modern Athens much I less were they disposed to trouble t themselves about the female fctitus of 1 Utah It woalJ be well if the Elishat r upon whom the mantle of the dot do-t parted Elijah has fallen would look I outiide and instead of calling upon i their distant follow citizens of the republic for relief would reflect that f they are net clone in the bonds oft of-t slavery to a priesthood By the recent t election Mr William R Grace became j the mayor of New York lie is a I t bigoted Roman Catholic an Irishman II Irish-man having been a naturalized citizen It citi-zen only thirteen years He was the IJ puppet of Boss Kelly another Irish i Catholic He ia pledged to retain I fS Kelly in his office of comptroller He baa the sole appointment of schco > > officers and as it is well known that the Catholics are opposed to the c system of common tchools and that they wish to replace them by sectarian secta-rian schools maintained at public expense ex-pense thsy mil be likely to carry their point under the administration V of Mr Grace Tho mayor will apt ap-t point the president of tho department of texea and assessments and Mr Slevin who is hit favorite is like himself I him-self an Irishman and a Cattjoio r We recently had occasion to dissent from the political conclusions of the Hour which apart from its strong It republican bias as one of the ablest journals of New York but we quote a paragraph from its issue of October 23rd for the consolation of our Gent Gen-t Vile friends who are writhing under f tjo galling yoke of Mormon despotism t des-potism It is merely slating an established fact to say that there is more ignorance as well ai more devotion and blind ftnh I among Catholics than amJLg tbe followers follow-ers of any other religion If the city passes under the complete rule of Catholic Cath-olic officers at this tme whil Europe is moving steadily suiinst the influence of the Jesuits the Catholics of ths Old Wurid will be pt to regard New York as H Calhohe country to which they are called we entil be inviting reiuiom f immirfrali n under fale pretences and the deluded uevoltes who cross the Atlantic At-lantic under the imt > resion that there U to be a purely Catholic government In this city mar be disappointed to find it in I a few years all Methodist all BaptIst or all Presbyterian While ignoring relig I ious considerations at d conceding equal lights to Jew and Gentile Catholic and Protestant the people f New York may see objections b tb at hume and abroad to tOe establishment of a government = for their geat city composed wholly of persons per-sons of Irish nationality and of the Catholic faith I Misery loves company and here it has it Bat wlt t political freedom would be gaind ij 1 our persecuted federal officeholders if they should emigrate to New York Not much What would bo gained by the peoplo o the territory We cannot top to figure it all out now but at any rte we are aaro that their loss would not J be EO great that they could not stand it with resignation r |