The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-17

game. They (the Pawnees) were prrsued
twenty-five or thirty miles. and only escaped
when light came on. When the Siouxs gained
possession of the Pawnee camp, thew killed ,
numbe OF squaws and Children dashipg til,
papooses' brains out against the ground, TIL,
Pawnees lost the meat of about six hundred
bnftaloes which they had killed The Sion,
numbered $50 warriors, under the command O
Snow Flake, successor of Whistler. Their los
was thirty warriors. The United States troop,
from Fort Mcpherson have forced them hack
to their reservations.
PoLITICAL.-The recently elected Genera1
Assembly of Kentucky will be composed as
follows: Senate-32 Democrats and six Repub.
llcans. Honse Of RePresen atves-S1 Demo-
crats ana ~ Republicans. The Repu blicans
gain two IN the Senate and the Democrats one
in the House.
The Democratic Convention of Maine met
on the 18th, SOB delegates present. The reso.
lutions adopted are Identical to those of the
recent Ohio Convention. JAS Titcomb was
nominated for governor.
The State Executive Committee of the Con-
serVatlve Democratic party of M .ssissippi met
in Jackson on the 18th, and called q conven-
ton OF all parties opposed to Radicalsm to
meet at Meridian on the 18th of September to
nominate q State ticket, take such OF her
action as may be deemed best. The Republican
State Convention meets in Jackson on the 9th
inst.
Durell, Casey, Billings, Jonbert. Lewis.
Brown, and other well-known Republican po-
liticians of New Orleans, are in Washin gton
and have been exceedingly acti g and ener-
getIc in calling upon prominent officials of the
Government. Among the prominent men in
terviewed was Attorney General Williams,
with whom the delegation was in consultation
for sometime:
In California the Democrats are at present
indulging in the 1axury of two Conventions
The Legislative Convention, which it is
charged had been packed by the RAILROAD mo-
nopplsts, having made nominations to the
Legislature satisfactory to that interest the
Municipal Convention now proposes to make
q separate ticket, indeDendent of the Influence
of the railroad companies. Eight members of
signed, for tue stated reason that the majority
had treacherously sold out to Stamford d Co.,
aud that the Legislative Convention had beeu
packed by them. There is much excitement
about the matter in the ranks of the party.
The anti Monopoly aud Farmers State Con-
vention of Iowa, mot at Dubuque. on the
18Th, and nominated full ticket. About one
third of the coun ties of the State were repre-
sented by $50 delegates. An effort to ascer-
tain the political complexion of the Conven-
ton, as to whether delegates were formerly
Democrats or Republicans, was defeated. The
platform adopted favors the fixing of railroad
freights by the Legislature; asks change in
the mixing system SO that its benefits will ex-
tend to the whole people demands revision
of the tariff laws, making salt, iron, cotton and
WOODEN goods free, and denouuces tho back
salary steal, Credit Mobilicr, etc. The Conven
ton concluded with a speech by John p. Irish,
Chairman of the Democratic State Committee,
who pronounced uncquivocalfy in favor of the
movement, and said that the last year had
shown him that the Democratic party had
outlived its day and usefulness.