The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-30
UNITED STATES.

!t has been ascertained that instead of car
rylng into effect the provisions of the Protocol
IN the girsinius affair, Spain now demands
suffered through filibustering expeditions,
Inns government has answered that the posi-
o aGn taken zen b.. Spain is nnteuable. The
TO result from this affair is gaining ground
POLITICAL.
Gen. Hancock for President-The Morristown
9Pa.,) Herald states that Gen. w. s. Hancock
81, has intimated to his friends in that city that
the Democratic ticket. He stated there would
be number of candidates brought forward.
put there were certain considerations which
he thought entitled him to party favor
. During the past week Democratic Conyen-
mons met in PennsylvaDis, Missouri, Ohio and
LIMOS. The Currency, Free Trade and Civil
Rights to the negro questions formed the chief
planks in the published platforms. with the
usual dennnciation of the opposing party.
republican Conventions were held in Michigan
an ana ~ Kansas: Among the resolutions adopted
That the powers of the General Government
having been stretched to an unhealthy extent |
TO meet The CRISIS of civil war and reconstruc- |
ZION, should be restored to their normal action |
0reatScar6 Aiaong South Carolina RndicaZs-
columbus Aug. 2G.-Governor Moses, Senator
patterson and other officials were terribly
irightened last night at the supposed raid Of
said oficials) out. He appealed to Acting
Post Commandant Ogden for protection and to
order order out the military. The Governor and
colored State militia conld not be found. =.
Cass Carpenter, candidate for Congress, hur-
red off to Washington to-day to report to the
f,Lesldent The whole affair is regarded as
ridiculous.
INDIAN TROUBLES.
, Gen. Davidson, commandment at Fort Sill.
11oNpg heard that the Oconees, Kiowas and
Comanchss were off their reservations took
SSo troops and marched against the Indians
agreed TpInFn In hoir ! (
W ME the troops were scattered around the
indians attacked them, a lively fight ensuing {
Naaby Indians were killed, as also four soldiers
RACE TROUBLES THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. )
Almost every day the dispatches bring us '
news of troubles, either between the whites | I
md blacks, or between demagopues of the
anne political creed, growing out principally a
y the unwarrapted interference of the Federal b
government in State affairs. \
Kentucky has been the scene of two of these a
ncounters during the past week. The most t
- Portant was at Lancaster, Garrard county fl
1u was the o1tgrowth of an old feud between il
Aenneuy and Sellers, Democratic and Republi- t.
an candidates at the last election. The State Il
!lItla and United States troops quelled the F
aSsrsI doos @itgr sne parties had been fighting
oilers, (Rep). The killed are three naoroea r
pa one white man the wounded number W
reated with that abject submissiyenesa Iaro l.
'iore shown them in the South, and il annsors ~
lat they were fred upon by both parties The nj
unity. Two" q,
In Chootau County, Alabama, there was a di
snEbsnce resulting from the lynching of a TO
gro by mob of other negroes who accused of
m of telling their plots. c.
The most serious difficulty, and one in which MS
. moo, composed of white men, were guilty ca
the most outrageous cruelty, took place in
bson county, Tenn. re,
The origin of the troubles occurred at n tai
aDecue near f1ckettsVille some five weeks Lar
o In dificulty between a white man named ex
: . nate and JOSH Webb, colored, about the RE
J ulenb OK haH dollar; since when the wa
Sroes made numerous threats of violence. be-
saturday night last, while two young men Co
~; ~; 1-onEoe morgan and JAS. Warren were to
dIug aI9,1g tne road, some three miles from thi
'sct tsytiie, they were fired upon BY some me- Of
~ .Yn2 lHeIo hldinR ~ the N1oda. q