The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-07

Eari Granville's letter to Secretarv E;sh n Ma.
! and eons;s 1 Caeinet meeting; IL is very long
III Hh'ser. The letter is argumentatiye aaa;~st
iect p pf no OF the United States on the snS.
hone TINE "ne Alabama claims. but Expresses The
SETTLE thai dne two countries may eventually
| Of tha IT, uinerences according to the anirit
Srr eI 10, treaty of Washington The tone T.
dsc;n out friendly The President has formsls
ana noIitics "'er.ere In any manner in Louisi.
somewhat brusque. in'erViews were
pa senate. -Blair authoritatively denied +b.,
dsgnstsd Wits the an eqmss had
Ine south Carolina Ku Klux cases and ahon
ooned the defence. A bill to aid shin hn;iJ;
aom al,g materials duty free, has been *,
aoase-Ihe following bills were introduced.
cait the income tax, and forbiddinn its
collection 1 for 1871. Repeating the tax t on
report Of sI tSs REDUCING the tax on whisky The
case Of Wm. A. Handley DEMOCRACY r.. r W. W
Horris, (KePublican) from Alabama, confirms
Handley in his seat. s'nnfmS
On NEW , YoRK..The Herald says: The whisky
lector Bailey's term involve o loss = t ~
government of $160, 600, OO0 indictments haze .ue
T Teen FOUND against over one hundred persons
the me resident it is understood. directs that
ING Sae prosecutions against them shall be pushed
n stuca malicious and partisan perjury is
charged in getting up these indictments. Gem
anderson was buried at West Point on the 3D..
Ia
Partment no troops we're drawn up; no mnsic
no salute, and not a man raised his Int. III,
eaisson on which the coffin was placed was
spawned horses, one Of which nearly IVY i I;a5
DeiSre reaching tho grounds. Prof. Morse died
In New York city at 8 o'clock on the eyeninr
of the I'd. eA'.s
CALIFoRNIA.-Dispatch from San Francisco
give the following news items. Advices from
the volcanic country north of Moioyo river
show that the recent earthquake was terrific
iwenty-three persons were killed and thirty
wounded at Lone Pine fifty houses were t,e
molished and the town ruined. Adyices from
Lone Fine Friday last state that earthquake
shocks still continue there, although thew
were less violent. Four more deaths Of Injured
parties are reported. Owens Lake has risen
four feet and Owens river shrunk to half its
usual size. A creek is running where dry
land formerly stood: Further advices from
stretching from Owens lake to the Mexican
line, where there arc innumerable craters NOT
long extinct, besides several mud volcanoes
anu some OF these old volcanoes may be in
eruption again. Gentlemen from Independ-
ence assert that the smoke and ashes from the
volcano were distinctly seen southwark from
that place, and word had been brought there
that the lava was seen flowing down the
mountains, but the report is not authenticated.
SHOCKS continued decreasing in force up to
Ihrusday, A. NJ. when over thousand had been
counted. AT Tibbett's rancho. fifteen miles
above Independence, forty acres of ground
sunk seven feet below the surface of the sur
rounding country. Owens Lake has risen four
feet since the first shock. Owens river ran
shore. Afterwards it receded for a distance of
three or four miles. Through Lone Pine the
earth cracked on one side seven or eight feet,
miles in length where formerly was level
plain. Innumerable cracks were IN ade throuoh.
out the valley. Klein and Owens rivers turnel
ana ran up stream for several minutes, leaving
their beds dry. and finally returned, WITH
largely Increased volume. There is no parallel
to this earthquake since 1879, when the mis-
slons ofSan Juan, Capstone and La Purressena,
following, is the general order under which
Gen. Crooks suspended operations against the
Apa;ches in Arizona, the issuing of which was
The Adjutaut General telcgraphs me to pre-
vent, as far as possible, a collision between
the troops and Indians in Arizona. j. NJ Scho-
held. Maj. Gen. Commanding. The Indians
at; are now masters of almost the entire country.
The convicted anti-Chnese rioters of Los
Angeles have been sentenced from two TO six
years in the penitentiary.
MIssIssIPPI: - The civil rights bill was
brought up in the Senate as a new bill. and
passed two readings, and on the third reading
was killed beyond all power of resurrection
by this Leg islature. Senators lodged the
question, and could not be found. The vote
stood fifteen to fourteen. Negro members are
loud in their denunciation Of those Senators
VINO were not present when the final vote was
taken. The Legislature has got reform on the
y
basis, and everything in the way of fees and
salaries is being tumbled to that Gold was
then currency, and now it is State paper at
thirty per cent discount The pay of members
is to be reduced to four dollars per day and
five per cent mileage. A bill to reduce JUDGES,
chancellors' and district attorneys nav from
fifteen to ten dollars day passed the House.
DAcoTAH. - Grading on the North Pacific
kalroad having progressed uninterruptedIy all
through the winter to Dacotah, is now com
plete to point seventy miles west of the
Minnesota line. Rails and engines are already
purchased to lay the track and equip the road
to the Missouri river on this side, and for q
distance of two hundred miles from the Pa
cifc end of the line.
POLITICAL,
In the election in Cincinnati on the al the
Democratic msjorities were as follows: Street
Commissioner, 4301; Judge of the SUPREME
Court, Yaples, short term, 2sO9; O'Connor.
long term, 1919, over both his Republican, on,
ponents The Board of Aldermen and Coupcii
have Republican majority of two on Joint
ballot. The Democrats elected nine of the
twelve Councilman. In the charter elections
in thirty-one of the larger towns the Republi-
cans carry sixteen, the Democrats eleven and
the Independents four
The charter elections in Dubuque; Iowa. re-
suited in the election of the entire Democrats