The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-11
IELEGRApKIc sUxMARY
UNITED STATES.

=, WAsHINGToN-It is said in official circles
thse our Government has no information
Mnten has excited fears that the general arbi-
tfation will fail in its object. notwithst an ding
the recent comments of the London papers re-
speeding the American statement of the case
before that tribunal, and attention is called to
Tue TACT tnat In commissioning the British
nigh commission, Queen Victoria pledged her
royal word that whatever things should be
transacted and concluded by her high COM
mission should be agreed TO, acknowledged
ana regarded 10y her in the fullest manner, and
That she would never suffer, in whole or in
part, any person whomsoever, to infringe the
same or act contrary thereto, as far as lay in
petition from Louisiana merchants and plant
ers against reducing the duty on rice. Sum
ner's Civil Rights Bill has not yet passed.
Bill Mr.. Critcher took the floor, and directed
his remarks to what Mr.. Hoar had said about
the illiteracy of Virginia and other Southern
states. he would challenge the whole State
OF massachusetts to produce as many elevated,
Intelligent and patriotic men he could name
from single county in his district. In the
n n: Of his own plantation was tho
was Stratford, the residence of "Light Horse
Harry" near there was GENTLY. the home of
Rici'a'd Henry Lee, the mover of the Declare
ton OF Independence, and the Cicero Of
America. In the same vicinity were the resi-
dences OF Charles Lee, Washin gton's Attorney
General, Arthur Lee, the accomplished negoti-
ator of the treaty between the Colonies and
son and Robert E. Lee. He challenged Mr.. Hoar
to find such illustrations of mental visor in his
own State. Mr.: Hoar was badgered to death
on all sides, and ailo wed himself to saw he had
not criticised either the intelligence or the
elegance of the educated tyrants OF whom Mr.
Critcaer had spoken. He had alluded to u
generation of men who had whipped women,
begat colored children and sold them into
slavery and then rebelled against the institu-
tions they had assisted to establish. The bill,
after being amended so as to distribute funds
l.
of States, and not render education compul-
sorry, was passed. The bill consecrates public
lands to public education. One-half the pro-
ceeds of the sales of public lands are distribut-
ed annually among the different States, during
the first ten years, upon the basis of i!literacy,
shown by the present census; the other half
is to be invested, and the interest used for
educational purposes. No State loses its share
of the fund by legal enactments forbidding
mixed schools. After ten years the distribu-
ton will be on the basis of population instead
of illiteracy.
New YoRx.-The misunderstanding about
the Alabama Claims calls forth the following
from the leading New York papers: The Her.
aid says, "Of one stern fact the English Gov
ernment and people may rest we'll assured,
that q deplorable war must almost inevitably
be the consequence of evasion of an honorable
settlement of the differences between the two
nations under the tribunal which they them
makes Great Britain liable for the loss of our
commerce and the prolongation of our civil
war, the damages awarded therefor must be
paid, peaceably or will be collected at the
action of the British Government will he a
matter of surprise to the Americans, who sup
posed an honorable and peaceful way had been
found to settle ugly difficulties growing out OF
the Alabama claims. If it turns ont that our
confidence was misplaced, disappointment will
be added to the sources OF bad feeling, which
are already too numerous" The Tribune
editorially says I" It is not to be seriously ap-
pretended that En- land can be msied into
the folly of repudiating arbitration on the pre-
text that we are asking more than we have .
right to claim. If popular clanor in England
should defeat the Ministry on this question
and compel their successors to denonuce and
withdraw from the treaty of Washington, it is
the United States that will be the heaviest
it should appear that the treaty was under
stood differently by the two contracting par
ties, the question will arise whether this hap
pened by any fault or chicanery on the part OF
the American Government. 1t is unfortunate
that the Geneva Commission is called TO dis
charge it's duties in the year of presidential
campaign. AS things now lock the Admins
make party capital out ofthis controversy, and
if the treaty is repudiated the public verdict
will be that the President and his advisers
bungled great question: instead of settling
it," Mayor Hall has been indicted for signing
fraudulent warrants.
CoSsEcTicur-The Democratic State Con-
venton adopted the following, among other
resolutions: That a true and lasting peace
can only come from such profound reconciila-
ton as acknowledgements has brought to Ms
souri,, nor can those governments be pure or
great in which the tax payers have no active
part.
PESSsYLvASIA.-An explosion of 4 fire damp
at Scranton killed three men fifteen, last
reports being still alive in the mine
ENGLAND.
The past week has been one of the greatest
excitement in this country aud. we might say,
events there have caused no little uneasiness
throughout the entire world AS the day for
the assembling of Parliament approached, the
discussion of the Alabama treaty became very
bitter, the claims of the American Govern
ment for indirect damages being denounced as
outrageous. Chief Justice Cockburn officially
counselled the Ministry to recede from the
treaty, leaving America to decide between
new treaty or war: The only reference to the
subject made by the Queen in her speech at
the opening of Parliament the 9Th is as fol-
lows The arbitrators appointed pursuant t,
the treaty of Washington, for the purpose OF
amicably settling the Alabama claims, held
their first session in Geneva. Cases were laid
before the arbitrators on behalf of each party
to the treaty. In the case SO submitted by the