The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-09-24
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UNITED STATES.

WAsHINGToN.-The Kukluk Committee mas
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida.
Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. The
committee will not visit Virginia, Arkansas. OF
Their expenses VIII 6s ps1 enera
The commissioners for tho removal OF the
Cherokee Indians some 1900, from North Caro-
lins to their now homes in the West, have gone
ment commences next week. The Secretary Of
War, has designated courtmartial to try
Hodge, the dsfaulting paymaster, Gen. Meade
Fenno, 18th Infantry, to be cashiered, five
years imprisonment in the penitentiary. and
to refund $500, has been approved Fenno
was convicted of embezzlement OF pubic
funds, and betting while he had the funds in
charge.
NEW YoRK.-New York city affairs still con-
tinue in q state of confusion. Comptroller
Connolly, after declining to resign at the So
to- exercises his aEns WITCH aosoS
the Mayor construed as virtual resignation
and appointed Gen. Mcclellan Comptroller.
Gen. Mcclellan declined the appointment, be-
cause he would thereby, under existing cir
cumstances become contestant for the posi-
ton. Had Mr.. Connolly resigned he would,
under certain stipulations, have accepted. The
partments to ignore either Connolly OF Green
as Comptroller, but the best legal opinion
having been expressed as to the validity OF
Green's appointment, the Departments do not
man named Haggerty, his wife and man
named Belch have been arrested for the theft
of the vouchers from the ComPtroliers office.
The evidence against them is said to be conclu-
early in the summer city vouchers for ~, OOO,-
900 were stolen from the Comptroller's office.
The Mayor and other officers outside the Comp
troller's office only recently learned of the alb
straction. The City Auditor, through whose
bands these vouchers passed (adds the Iosfs
articlel is q son of Connollys: now in Europe.
State Central Committee, being asked if what
is entitled the Ring is absolutely devoid OF
strength in the country, said: II do not think
it has any solid strength. told MIR. Connolly,
Friday to ask my advice, that he might as well
make mp his mind that as political power it
had ceased to exist, and that all those con-
nected with the transactions which had ex-
cited the public indignation must go down.
My opinion is that tho fall must carry down
the organization which those men control in
other words, the DemocIatic party of the city
and county must be reorgauiZed by an edict of
the Democratic party of the State. The Dem
ocratic party of the nation consists of four
millions of freemen. Of the State it consists
of 100000 citizens, of the city more than 1OO,-
900. The vast masses of Democrats can never
consent that the sole result of their existenc
should be that half a dozen men might enrich
themselves by public plumber, or that when
Just arraying themselves for national and
State battle, they should be impeded and dis
honored by the offences of p small knot of local
leaders" AT The meeting of the Joint Conn
mittee on City Accounts, Mr.. Osborne said the
statement of the debt, Just presented, is too
expressive to require comment. No one can
tell the amount of public claims on the Board of
Public Parks and in other departments, or the
sum of those in the Comptrollers office-some
of them just, others calling for a most rigid
scrutiny. If the latter are pressed, they
should be fought out in the courts. The Comp
sroller hrs borrowed since the first of January.
on permanent and temporary loans, about
twenty-six millions of dollars. OF this sum
there was q cash balance in the Chamberlain's
Office. on the 14th of September, of $2,504 ,3O6-
quarter amounts to about 81, 5000 but this
has been to O great extent anticipated by
loans maj uring within four months. We have,
however, the experience of the last quarter of
last year, during which the tax levies for the
year were paid into the city treasury and part
of the floating debt was converted into per-
manent debt. The total debt increased in
those months, from the 5th of October to the
51st of December, about S2,5OO,00O The city
has to-day floating debt of more than $685.,
OO0, 900, in short acceptances falling due from
week to week, between the 18th of October
and the 18th of January. Those bills payable
bear the trade marks of city revenue bonds,
county reserve bunds, ETC., but banker
recognizes short bill maturing within call.
debt, and through this the tax levy has disap-
peared again, as it did last year in advance of
its collection.
MAssAcnUsErTs-Small- of very viru-
lent type IL raging in Lowell. Twenty lone
new We're reported the 18th. The
schools closed to children from the vicinity
of the pest. The Journal is authorized to say
that Senators Summer and Wilson deeply re-
greet and deplore Gen. Buffers course, and
state that his nomination would be hostile to
the best interests of Massachusetts,. The pri-
mary elections in Boston resulted in the choice
of SO Rice delegates and A Butler delegates.
Latest returns from the country show 243
delegates for Butler and 400 against him.
1NDIANA.-Fifteen laborers were buried on
the Goth by the caving in of sewer on Ken
lucky Avenue, Indianapolis Two were taken
ont alive and six dead, the others not yet hav-
ing been found.
UTAH.-The Grand Jury for the Third Dis
trict were empannelled on the 10Th inst, in
Salt Lake City. All polygamists were excused
and the Mormon journals are very bitter on
the United States law officers in consequence
Chief Justice Neckain in his charge to the
Grand Jury, said "You are summoned not to
try criminal cases, but to say what criminal
cases shall be presented for trial. In the dis
charge of this duty you will be governed by
the same principles of law which govern
grand juries in Maine and Montana in Georgia
and Arizona. The principles oflaw are every
where applicable throughou the republic
The crimes of murder, arson, larceny bigamy
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