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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 4.

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Garibaldi, according to the Athens correspondent of the Levant Herald, has offered his services to the Cretans who are in revolt from the Turkish government. Six hundred rifles have already been sent, to be followed by a still larger number; and the N. Y. Tribune thinks that, if in addition to this, the General himself appears upon the scene of action, “the worst of Mustapha Pasha’s troubles may yet be to begin.”
London, Dec. 24.—The Times of to-day considers the affairs of the Holy See in a critical condition in spite of the tranquil appearances.
The 71st regiment has left Rome for France. The Pope addressed the officers of the 85th regiment on their departure from Rome. He said, Your flag left France to restore the Holy See. The flag now returns to France, but many consciences will not be satisfied. Revolution will come to the gate of Rome. Italy is not complete, as has been said, because this scrap of territory still remains. When this no longer remains, the flag of revolution will float over the Italian capital. I pray for Napoleon for his tranquillity, but he also must do something. France is the eldest daughter of the Church, but it does not suffice to wear the title. The right to wear it must be proved by deeds.
The New York Herald’s Madrid correspondent, writing on the 6th of December, expresses a conviction that the sudden appearance of Queen Christina in Spain from France may be accepted as a certain indication of the rapid maturing of the revolutionary movement, the liberal tendencies of her ex-Majesty being well known.
Telegraphic advices from Alexandria say that the prisoner Surratt has been placed on board the United States steamer Swatara, which sailed for the United States on Friday last.
A paragraph is going the rounds, which reads: “New Paris fashions: No crinoline, short gown, and large bonnets.”
The Winchester rifle company of New Haven has contracted to furnish 100,000 of its weapons for the Swiss government, and to manufacture them in that country.
The Jackson Citizen says there are now 502 convicts in the State Prison, being an increase of 187 the past year.
No less than 16,000 revolvers made in England, are said to have been distributed in Ireland during the last few weeks.
Kansas cattle are dying by the hundreds of Spanish fever.
The importation of woolen goods into this country this year amounts to seventy-six million dollars, against twenty-six millions in 1866. Is it any wonder that the woolen market has broken down with such an immense amount of foreign goods?
Churchmen in Canada are beginning to be alarmed at ritualistic tendencies there. One clergyman had actually officiated at a marriage attired in a white silk gown, and another had defended the doctrine of absolution. A third clergyman has published a book called The Priest’s Prayer Book, in which the doctrine of confession, plenary absolution, and prayers for the dead, are maintained. To make the matter worse, the Bishop of Toronto declares that he sees nothing of serious importance in these innovations, and he is suspected of being more than half ritualist himself.
A union religious convention was called at Milwaukee, Wis., on the 19th, by clergymen of several denominations, for conference in respect to practical effort against Sabbath [Sunday] desecration, intemperance, injurious amusements, immoralities in rulers, and conformity to the world among professing Christians.
The length of railroad routes in the United States is thirty-two thousand and ninety-two miles, and the annual transportation thirty million six hundred and nine thousand four hundred and sixty-seven miles. The length of steamboat routes is fourteen thousand three hundred and forty-six miles, and the annual transportation three million four hundred and eleven thousand nine hundred and sixty-two miles.
THE Lynchburg Republican says: Tobacco manufacturers make use of a flavoring oil, known as oil of mirbane, which is said to be made of the oil of bitter almonds, angelica seed, and other ingredients. In the composition of the almond seed, prussic acid enters—a poison summary and deadly in its effects upon animal life. Some negro men working in a factory in Danville recently partook of a bottle of this liquid, two dying in consequence and the third barely escaping.
The Government have given up the steamer Bolivar, suspected as a Fenian privateer, to the Colombian Minister.