The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-31
NEWS By rEI.reaApg.

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PARIS, Oct. 27.--The Patrie says that a wide.
9piSau eonsniraey has been discovered in
turkey ana eInnected with the revolt In Cal
saFos Austria and Turkey are acting in concert
~ ssnppresslng the conspiracy. The city is
Perieetly tranquil. No disturbances whatever
nav nave occurred The Emperor attended the
1neatFe trancais last evening. The Ernperor
returns to Compeigue to-day. The city CON
have ceased.
MADRID, Oct. 27.-Gen. Prfm has published
letter announcing that Minister Zoryilla
aooepts the modification made by the other
nhehloers OF the Cabinet in the ecclesiastical
nnanee section of the treasury budget reducing
80 per cent. Tho ministerial crisis has con-
sequently terminated.
LONDON, Oct. 2S,-The DnbEn Fan;an nm,
nesty association passed resolutions reprettinp
1iadstone's refusal to release the Fenans, and
resolving to continue the agitation aud form
iocaI associations throughout the country
PARIS, Oct. 2S.-The Ministers have decided
not 10 prosecute the press for any alleged
violation of the press law. The Austrian
government censures Metternich for his con-
nection with the late duel. &.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2S.--The details of the loss of
the steamer Stonewall state that the vessel
left 81. Louis on Tuesday evening, bound for
New Orleans, heavily laden with passenpers
horses, mules, hay and other freight The
boat was burned to the waters edge An
effort was made to land, but the boat was 80
n! heavily laden that she could not reach nearer
than ono hundred yards to the shore. The
greatest confusion and terror prevailed There
were about two hundred cabin and deck Das
sengers on board, large number of whom
were women and children. The flames spread
rapidly, and scores of men Jumped into the
water and attempted swimming ashore, nearly
all OF whom We're lost. The pilot, engineer,
striker, carpenter and forty-four passengers
are known to have been saved. The captain
clerks and other officers and many passengers
were lost All the books and papers of the
boat were lost, as were all the cattle and other
freight: Many persons died after reaching the
shore from exposure. ALI the women and
children We're lost-nearly, if not all of them
being burned to death. The conduct of the
been most heroic. Such an appalling scene
has not been witnessed on the Mississippi
river for many years. The saved were kindly
cared for by the officers of the Belle Memphis,
and were carried to st. Louis. The alarm was
given at half past six, A. NJ, and in ten minutes
the boat was i'll sheet of flame, and every
person had deserted her. All that were lost
w ere drowned, and none were burned OIL
eleven women on board only three were saved
There was but one yawl seen, and that was
taken possession of by some deck passengers. |
l he last seen of Capt Scott he was floating
DOWN the stream on log. The people at |
Neelys saw the light, and hastened to render |
one man rescued sixteen persons |
" it'll a skiff, and had it not been for this help
I'll would have been lost.
A gentleman from Paducha, XIV. SWAN
tshore with lady, and at her entreaty re-
urned to save her child, and in swimming
'shore he was grasped by drowning man,
was taken from the wreck SO badly burned |
hat he died on reaching the shore, There
we're l39 cabin passengers and crew and q
arge number of deck passengers. All the
aides ON board were lost but one. Mr.. Fulker-
on, the pilot, and the carpenter, were the only
mes of the crew, saved. But of $50 passengers
md crew only 80 are known TO have been
aved. Private dispatches state that the
teamer Stouewall was burned As miles above
afro and that, out of crew and passengers
$50, but 43 were saved.
CoNsPANTISoPLE, Oct. 29.-The shipping was
decorated, the city illuminated, aud much
nthusiasm prevailed when the Grand Turk
eceived the Kaiser.
4iADpID,. Oct. 90. - Seven battalions of
olunteers will soon depart for Cuba. Enlist
rcnts continue. The dissentions among the
'abinet and the people touching the choice of
monarch continue undated. The dissen-
ions among the opposition make the final
election of the Duke of Genoa probable 9.
MADRID Oct. ga complete dsunion
eli gned ut the recent meeting of the represent
tives of all the political parties. General
rim made great efforts to avoid q rupture, in
oalition questions that relate to the
hnrch and the future monarch. There haze
cen several preliminary meetings of the diff
erent parties in Constituent Cortes to-day, to
iscuss the question of n choice of a monarch.
t that of the Unonist members every mem
cr save two voted against the Duke of
enoa. At the meetingOf the progressiouists
nd the democrats 1O2 voted for the Duke of
enoa, and 2 for the Duke of Moutpensier,
iood judges say that in the Cortes itself I66 b.
ut of the 209 monarchists will record their
otcs for the Duke of Genoa.