The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-08-11

dents defended themselves six hours sgainst
hordes OF, saysges, until the house they held
outery sgainst the Government at Buenos
AyreS Tor neglect to'pioyide for the defence Of
the settlers. Tho 1Hdian invasion bad re-
tine confedeistion and Brazil Cen. Mitre
was to be sent TO Rio to settle about the reten-
ton of Paraguayan territory in Brazil.
UNITED STATES.
NEW YoRK.-The pames Of ex-Msyor Opdyke, |
Senator Morgan and. George w. Curtis, among
are .: }n,
II 10 understood, that the Liberal and Demo |
cratic State Convention will be held at syria. |
euse the first week in September. It is stated
ss' two . sf sssfs
xsnuaif bail Wss showed. 4 mad bull Which
SsDg
pursuess, injuring q boy named Geo. Donahue,
also q man named p. AcDermott. The bull
was shot One ss Of the balls ~ hrsd
Chapel, superintendent Of the Roosevelt
Street Ferry. The wound will probably prove
fatal. Chsppell was himself shooting at the
| animal at the time. The Police Commissioner
Bergb causing the blocking mp Of the street
;! BY che stopping Of cars, wagons, etc.
KxsrucKy.-The election on the 5th in
Louisville passed off gdistly. RegulsTly
|
. very large nsjesity. The Opposition, or
Citixens' tickct, which was composed Of Demo
| crass, was elected entire, notw ithstaudiag the
fsot that the regular ticket naa ssnpP0rtea 1y
Of the city.
| ALABAxA.-At the Republican District Con"
vention held in Mobile, composed almost en-,
tirsiy Of negroes, Ben Turner was was nominated
thusiasn. On the LIST inst. fifteen negroes
Formed Liberal Republican club in Mont
gpmery, since which time three of the number
have been seriously maltre3ted by colored
Radicals. One man named Gabe Henley was
u stabbed in five places, and dangerously hurt.
4 NORTH CAROLINA - Tho elections in this
State, instead of having resulted in the choice
week, has resulted in the triumph of the Re
publican candidate by about 1000 majority,
though it is claimed that great frauds were
have majority, the Senate standing thirty:
! one Democrats to nineteen Republicans, snd
the House sixty three Democrats to ffty-seven
/ Republicans.
tho Liberals and Democrats met in Jackson
on the 9TH, and fusion was agreed upon
| The business Of the committees was TO. put
electors in the field The following t1okes Ma va
, phs, late Republican Member Of Congress- =:
: Jeferds, q leading Republican, and Judge Of
the Supreme Court under military rule: Dis
Z. G. Walthall Third. Sam N. Meek Fourth
o Jadge Campbell, 3 supporter Of Gov: Alcorn'
= administration /; Fifth, Judge Hancock; Sixth
s Thomas r. Stockdale.
, TExAs-Iuvestigation of the Frontier Com
= mission on Mexican depredations being held a
Brownsville, have developed facts OF grea
Importance. The testimony shows deiibeE
ate plan devised for shipping of the hides o
d the stolen cattle to Europe, and that 1000 ar
70 now awaiting the arrival of foreign vesse
g for shipment. The losses of stock raisess e e1
d tend to thousands of cattle. Mexican official
q have been found with stolen cattle in thei
2 possession, and have invariably refased t
q surrender them: Direct testimony was OBJ
p been protected by regular Mexican troops, an
10 that the Americans have been in many in
" stances forced to keep silence or risk assass
nation. 1t is proved beyond the possibility o
a doubt that bandit organizations have bee
G. under the influence of Cortina- Positive ties
4 timony shows that &C, 900 head of stolen cattl
q have been crossed into Mexico near Browns
l. Vile during the past seven years.
y THE KU-KLux PRISONERS Gerritt Smit
l. has visited the Ku-Klux prisoners ct Al5anE!
2 and urges clemency in the case of Samuel G
g. .bad advice, and Hezekiah Porter, aged nine
N teen who is dying, and David Collins. Smit
Of says in his letter to Grant that Shotwellt ON
h Of tho North Carolina prisoners, is defiant
IN scorns pardon, and is studying law. Smith
vs. however suggests that these pardons shonl
Is be postponed until after the election, as
e. might be thought that olemSncy was psompt;e e
n short and so cnriouBly written that the entir
ss force of the experts in the Attorney General
p Office was required to put it il such shape ths
,r- nnrnort. In accordance with the suggestion
Ii PfthS letter, TIE Attorney General has Fodues
al ed Col. whitley, Chief of the GoveEnment d
tective corps, to visit the 1nOt 5 coT
:, pleEe investigation into the condition OF IL
u u EusHlir prinSnexs, and reP0rt al the facts
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