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Show Officials of the territory, the beliei being expressed that & thorough in-! vestigation will develop a filthy mass of dishonesty and corruption. This indicates an intention to reform the government service here. President Pres-ident Hayes is thoroughly in sympathy with the movement, and on more than one occasion has expressed bis purpose of giving Utah, for officials, wise, honorable and honest men, who will be more controlled con-trolled by their legitimate duties than by bigotry and fanaticism. There can be but one result of such an investigation in-vestigation as is proposed if it be conducted con-ducted fairly and with the purpose of bringing the frets to the surface and remedying the evil. Then if the president will give us good officers, who know their duties and have sense enough to understand that they are not missionarier, we want no state government. Under such circumstances circum-stances the nation may continue to pay the expenses of Utah and we will live and prosper as a territory. DEATH OF PIUB NINTH, The "charmed life" of Pope Pius IX. has come lo an end. His holiness holi-ness has early followed his arch-temporal enemy, Victor Emanuel, in solving the great problem. The telegraph has periodically toyed with the old man's life during three or four years, but at last we are certain to have let-up in rumors and denials. de-nials. It is a wonder that his life was protracted t such a length, beset as he was constantly by anxiety, trouble and annoyance, never having seen a day of genuine peace since his corona-iioa. corona-iioa. Indeed, his 85 years of life may be said to have never been free from peril and mental trouble. His first prayeri were for the restoration to liberty of the pontifl Pius VI, who was a prisoner in the hands of the French revolutionists, and so it continued, con-tinued, trouble being piled upon trouble, up to the Tcry day of his death. Physically, also, he was a great auflerer. He was yet a child when he fell into a pool and induced epilepsy, from which he never recovered. recov-ered. So severe were the spasms of the disease during several years, that he was discouraged from seeking holy orders. To indicate something of the physical and mental difficulties and performances of this remarkable man, we will note the leading eve&ts ot his , life. In 1809, when Napoleon Bona- j parte dispossessed Pius VII of the Utes of the chureh, and took him from the Quirinal to Savona, young FerieUi escaped from the tumult of the capital, an invalid, and when funimoned to become a member of the imperial puard of honor at Milan, h. atl to Drocure exemption on , the plea of incurable diaeaue. On the return of Pius VII to Rome, he returned, re-turned, considerably improved in health, but still so tetible ih.it it wae made a condition of hid ordination in 181'J that he should he Henistdl at mass by another prii-Mt, ami it .h only from the pontiff that ho obtained a release from what he crinnidoreJ an ! unnecessary irkr-omo burden. In 182 he was sent tvith an ee.'lesiasti cal commission to (Jnili A storm drove the Vermel into Mn.prca, where they were subjected to anuoyauccs on land almost a daufjwoua a those they had scarcely escaped on the 1 ocean; and the voyage, which larled from May 5lh to New Year's Jay, was so turbulent that mostot ihe iravelora were completely exhausted by its hardships. In their route over the Andes they were betot by hostile Indians and saved their lives with liiilieulty. Soon alter his precouizUiou aa archbishop of Spolcto, revolution broke out in the papal states, uud after the insurgents hud been put to route by the Austrian troops, they fied into tipolelo. Tho archbishop dissuaded the Austrian commander from attempting a forcible capture, and went himself to the camp, aud uotonly induced thousands tu lay down their arms and give up five pieces of artillery, but distributed distrib-uted money among them to help them get to their homes. After his translation to tho sea ImoU, he w&a summoned into bis cathedral to save: the life of a man whom assassins were dispatching in the vestry. A month afcer his coronation, iu ISIS, he issued a general amnesty, remit- ; ting the punishment of ail persons imprisoned er exiled for political, oflenses, asking only their declaration declar-ation in writing that they would obey the laws, This auspicious inauguration in-auguration of his pontificate was enthusiastically received and his popularity was greatly increased by a personal iequiry into the civil departments, the reform of abuses, the reduction of taxation, the building of railroadn, ai d the introduction ol gB to light the cities. He appointed laymen to most of tho municipal 1 rl lika..., r.f ikn offices, enlarged lue nueny oi mo press, established a council composed of delegates from the provinces, and displayed eo liberal and democratic a spirit that the bitterest opposition he encountered was among the conserve tivea in purple, who thought the new pope was turning the lazzaroni into revolutionists. The deuiauds of the radical party were made with Parisian ferocity, and the pope's policy was one of conciliation and compromise. He expelled the Jesuits, voluntarily gavo the people a constitutional government, gov-ernment, including a parliament, and retired obnoxious ecclesiastics. Tho ambition of the king of Sardinia to obtain possession of the states of the church, precipitated the, conflict which the pope's moderation might have avoided. The revolutionists obtained ob-tained possession Rome, a massacre massa-cre of the priests was demanded, the cardinals were arrested, and the pope was ordered not to leave bis palace, which was surrounded with soldiery. A catastrophe would inevitably have occurred had not Charles Albert been defeated. The revolution of 184S was more successful. Count Rossi, the pope's prime minister, was assassinated; a ball killed Monsignor Painea in the pope's apartments; and cannon were placed iu line to batter the tiiinna. down unless the pope should choose to Bare the edifice by surrendering. He escaped by ruses to Gaeta, leaving leav-ing Mazzini and Garibaldi masters of the Eternal city, to which he did not rPlnr" "nU. ffiO Ti.nn a man C.vnnr to accomplish by wit what Uuarles Albert had failed to accomplish by revolution, and bad bequeathed, irj abdicating, to his sou, Victor Emanuel, Em-anuel, the supremacy of Sard an ia in Italy, the unification of the states of the church under the Sardinian Sar-dinian crown. For years the contest went on, Pius IX. fighting the inevitable inevi-table with unflinching bravery, losing his territory piece by piece; pretended friends playing him false the mun-aichs mun-aichs he trusted aud depended upon i secretly assisting in depriving him of I his temporal power; and the work was completed by Cavour, Garibaldi, and Napoleon III., who withdrew the French troops from Rome in time to let the Sardmians take practically unresisted possession. In 180, the army of Victor Emanuel entered the city of Rome. Since September 20 of that year, the popo has never left the Vatican. His abstemious habits enabled him to withstand shocks, sieges, and misfortunes mis-fortunes ; and after his thiity onc years in the pontificate and fifty -years in the priesthood, almost con stantly in keen anxiety, was in possession pos-session of much physical power and all his meatal faculties up to the time of his death. He was a rare and wonderful man. Much as he loved power, and thorough thor-ough churchman that he was, he did more than any of the 25(i popes before be-fore him to accelerate the decline of the temporal power of tho papacy. His election to the pontificate naa & concession to the liberalizing tendencies tenden-cies of Italian thought, aud after bia ; accession be fanned the revolutionary flame to fever heat, before he discovered dis-covered what he had done. When he realized the full extent of his reformatory reforma-tory programme, he sought to reverse his course; but the blaze bad beoome too great for him to control, though he lought to regain what he had lost until the final abolishment ol the papal temporal power in 1870, by the absorption of the church stateB by the kingdom of Italy. However, the spiritual power of the papacy increased in-creased more under him than under any other pontiff. He was the spiritual spirit-ual father and Bupreme in the hearts of 253,000.000 Catholics. His life was pure aud irreproachable, his deeds of charity and love innumerable. innumer-able. On a recent occasion, when asked what his policy was, ho replied: "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done iu earth as it is in heaven." The pope's death will have no startling etlect upon the world. Had be been the ruler of a kingdom; been engaged, like bo many of his predecessors, prede-cessors, in resisting with arms, or conciliating with diplomacy hostile monarchs; had orowna and thrones been at hie disposal ; were his office, as previously, the arbitrator arbi-trator of international disputes, his death would create a profound sensation throughout Europe, aud little else would be considered by the nations uutil alter the election f a successor. Now it will be otherwise Pio Nono dies, the disarmed representative repre-sentative of a lost lower to all ihe earth, save the Roman Catholic church. Whoever may succeed him it is not possible that he can regain : what has passed away. Hb will simply be the spiritual head f a great ecclesiaiticul organization, with no power to mould the destinies of nations na-tions or influence the governments o the world. SL'ius IX, named Giovanni Maria Maitai FerreUi, was born at Siue-gaylia, Siue-gaylia, "May lo, 17U2. He was intended in-tended for the army, but resolved to devote himself to the church. The lea ding events of biB iile are noted above. After holding many important cedes-aMico cedes-aMico civil offices, in 1636 he was sent as apostolic nuncio to Naples, where bis name is revered by the poorer inhabitants for bis efforts to alleviate their euflerings during the1 cholera Bcuure,e. In 3840 he was created Cardinal Archbishop of Imola, in the Romactia. Pope Gregory XVI died June 1, 1846, aud Cardinal Ferrotti was ousted to the papacy, under tho name of Pius the Ninth, Juno 10. The chief ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical acU of the pope were the condemnation con-demnation of Irish colleges; the divis ion of England into Roman Catholic dioceses in 18-jO; the lorm il definition of tho dogma of the Immaculate Conception Con-ception ol the B leased Virgin Mary, December N, 185 i; the publication ot the famous EncyncltcU and Syllabus, ! December 8, 180-1; the canonization of the Japanese martyr:.; and lv:nra-euical lv:nra-euical council of the Vatican, con volied by a bull, December 8. 18G7, and solemnly opened in the Vatican Basilica, December 8, 1SG9. Hi death occurred in the Vatican, Rome, February 7tb, 1873. |