The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-03
VOLUME VII.
Msrnlng Star and Catholic Messenger.
sew ORLEANS, SUNDAY, MAY 3, ls74
TELE9RAPHIC SUMMARY.
GERMANY,

GERMANY.
On the 25th the Emperor in person closed
4 the session of the Reichstag with formal
speech of no general Importance.
The Noniteur reports Count de Chambord at
Versailles
President McMahon opened an exhibition for
the expatriated Alsatians on the 26th ult.
Count Won Arnim, Minister of Prussia at
Paris, has written letter to Dr.. Dollinger,
criticising the ecclesiastical policy of the Gov
eminent.
Official dispatches received at Madrid on the
30th announce that fighting resumed be-
fore Bilboa on that day. Some advanced posi-
tions have been captured by the Republicans.
ENGLAND.
The woman's whiskey crusade was inaugu-
rated at Manchester on the 3Oth.
a meeting of farmers was held at Newman
ket on the 2Sth to consider the present
difficulty with agricultural laborers. Among
the speeches delivered was one by Mr.. Wood, o
native of England, but now a resident of Ohio,
who offered to bring from that State any num-
Der of persons who were willing to work for
fourteen shillings a. week, in place of the
laborers now locked out.
UNITED STATES.
:. THE WAR IN ARKANsAs:-The telegram pub
hshed last week by our daily papers that the
war in Arkansas was over turns out to have
been an error. The position of both parties
continues the same and will probably SO re-
meets.
On the Goth fight occurred at Pine Bluff
between the two parties eight of Brooks men
being killed and one of Bakers, besides
thirty wounded on both sides.
-Congress.-The Senate has
spent the week in eulogizing Sumner and in
discussing the Louisiana case and the Presi-
what informal, though finally vote as to
whether the bill should pass over the veto
showed that the necessary two thirds could not
be controlled, there being only thirty ayes to
twenty-fou noes. The Transportation Com
mittee recommend the Improvement of four
great routes:
First-The Mississippi river
Second-A continuous water line from the
Mississippi river, via the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers, and the Hennepin Canal and the Lakes
and one or more of the New York canals, called
the Northern route.
Third-The central route, consisting of the
Improvement of the Ohioriyer, from Pittsburg
to Cairo; of the Kanawha to the great falls,
and OF canal or freight railroad through West
Virginia and Virginia to tide water mark in
Virginia.
Fourth-The Southern route, consisting of
the Improvement of the Tennessee River to
Knoxville, and of a canal or freight railroad
leaving the river at about Gunter's to Tide
water.
In the. House the appropriation bill was
great deal of discussion about the Attorney
GeneraPs landaulet, the Presidents veto and |
other matters, and amid scenes of noise con-
fusion and uproar which have been rarely, if |
ever, parslleled in the House. The COMMITTEES
on Commerce have reported q bill giving |
81 500 900 for the improvements of harbors and |
rivers. Among the items are: Upper Missis-
sippi River, $25 900; Improvements of Missis-
ssppis and Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers,
$4,000; removing Red River raft, $4,000
Improving mouth of the Mississippi River,
$$i3O, 900; Mobile Harbor, S75 900 James
Rfiver, $50, 900; Appomattox, $50, 900; Cape Fear
mouth of Ohio and Missouri River, 5000 900
Improvement of Great Kanawha, S25 900; Ten
hei River, above Chattanooga, S25, 900;
100000; Galveston Harbor, $4,000. A bill
was offered to build bridge over the Qua
SShIlta, at Monroe, La, and over Red River, at