The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-04-28
1E1xaRAPHic SUNNI AIRY.
UNITED STATES.

assured by Secretary Fish that the Cabinet
was o unit on the subject, and that tho Ameri,
be modified. Referring to the dispatch in the
newspapers that August Belmont was at Gin
cinnati urging the nomination Of Charles
before the convention to assemble there next
May, giving assurance that Mr. Adams woulo
receive the Democratic support. Hon. Fern an
do Wood, chairman of the joint caucus OF Inc
Democratic Senators and Representatives, is
authority for saying there are no Democrats IN
Congress in favor of Mr.. Adams and thas IN
National Convention would nominate another
| ticket if Mr.. Adams should be chosen at Cin-
cinnati. Although the time ana cp place iUn
! are not formally fixed, it is understood me
4th of July will be the day, and st. Louis the
Senate.-Tbe bill prohibiting distinction on
account of color in the public schools OF the
District of Columbia was laid aside by vote
e to 1S Upon ts seating MI on
| congratulated the Senate that for the first time
since 1861 every seat was filled; M sumner
presented o petition, signed by $4,000, against
an amendment to the Constitution acknowi-
Hoase.-On the 25th, Mr.. Voorhees,, in
| speech on the Howard case, denounced the
tible, pnsilanimous and cowardly.
NEW YoRK.-The bill which provides that
| the previous formation of opinio ion from news
papers shall not preclude juror from serving
becomes law when signed by the Governor.
A number of prominent lawyers have drawn
up an opinion declaring the new charter null
| system of voting is unconstitutional. A sim
| gular looking box addressed to Superintendent
Kelso was landed from the steamer Manhattan,
| and exciting the suspicious of the Cnstomhouse
officers, was opened and found to contain q
| coffin, on the lid of which was plate IN
scribed "John c. Heenan, with a representa-
ton of the Angel Gabriel. The coffin was
opened and found to contain o lot OF lace cur
tans, horse Blankets etc., and a small coffin
filed with valuable bronze goods. the last
at San Francisco, brought thirteen hundred
Japanese laborers, and an agent has gone to
Japan to bring twenty thousand more as
laborers for different sections of the country.
PENNSYLVANIA. The meeting of Liberal
Republicans appointed a committee OF thirteen
to arrange for the Cincinnati trip. General
, Thomas said he labored to build up the Re
, was the most corrupt party on the face of the
earth. Colonel Mcclure said the English OF
, the whole thing was rebellion, and bringing OF
there might have been a necessity for the ex.
4 ercise of military power in the South, but not
now. The speaker differed with Grant upon
principles The most dangerous thing the
free Institutions of the country had to meet
Q with was the policy of General Grant to carry
4 elections by force of the bayonet. To his
~ mind the South has been more desotate since
+ the war than before.
l. MARYLAND.-Among the delegates elected tc
the Cincinnati Convention are Governor Brad
10 ford, Melton Whitney and Col. Weitzel Thu
n delegates to vote for Grant and Colfax at Phil
r. adephia.
be South CARo1INA.-The Ku-klux trials con
tinue. Many of the prisoners plead guilty O
conspiracy and the Government withdrew tn
y charges of murder. Amongst the Liberal Re
in publican delegates sent to Cincinnati are tn
tv three leading negro politicians.
y. CALIFoRNIA.-The growing crops of grail
| n
hands to gather the crops is anticipated
is Foundrymen and mechanics are scarce, owinl
be to the increased demand for mining machinery
10 The increased production of bullion, and tn
" advance in mining stocks, stimulate bushes
ss' of all descriptions. Parties arriving at Port
re land, Oregon, from sitka, Alaska, report grea
. excitement in that region on account of tn
4 discovery of rich silver mines within half
mile of the town, and of the discovery of ricl
,e gold mines in other places.
"a INDIAN TERRITORIAL special from Mus
kague, Indian Territory, says: Tallequah wa
"a acquitted of the charge of murder whereupol
st a relative of the murdered man killed the de
ID PENDANT and the Judge on the bench; An in
persons were killed and many wounded
u, Among the killed were three U. S. Marshals
u, The Fort Smith Ne'o Era after giving full par
~ ticulars of the late fight in the Indian coun
v try, detailed by Deputy Marshal Peavy
1t, who, except one other, was the only person
MS that. escaped nnhurt says: On Tuesday
10 with q letter from Charles F. Robinson, il
charge of the party sent ont, dated Fin
IL Courthouse, April II, stating that the rescuin,
l. party had arrived there at 10 O'clock on TIL
" morning ofthe same day, and found the who'll
,e country deserted. The Proctor family hat
ne left the previous day, at o'clock in the even
10 ing, with forty-six well armed men, taking al
. their wounded with them into the mountains
Is Pursuit with handful of men was ont of thu
question. The letter states that the previous
r, reports, as published in the Ne,o Era were no
= exaggerated. 1t was dreadful affair, bott
II sides fighting like bulldogs. There were
I'd thirteen killed and twelve wounded. Secre
" tary Delano telegraphs the president from
-, Muscogue, confirming the slaughter there. HI
" says: Evils arise from bad white men, who
TT follow the progress of the railroad. He urges
q the organization of district courts for the ter
ritory, the only means of quieting matters
=, ENGLAND.
y In the House of Lerds, on the 25th, the Duke
GO of Cleveland moved the second reading of tho
he prisoners ministers bill, the object of which i.
to pay Roman Catholic chaplains for their ser
vices in prisons. Cleveland said he had oh
served that many sections of the country
in notably Liverpool and neighborhood, are in
III tensely Catholic, and the passage of the bill
WAS as muCh n matter of DOIjcy aS of iustice