The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-03-22
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
WV ORLEANS, SUNDAY. MARCH 20. 1874.
TELEGRAPH1c SUMMARY.
ROME.

tic bishops of Austria, exhortipg them TO
combat the pending ecclesiastical bill in the
Reichstag, is dated the seventh instant. HIS
Holiness says the measures are calculated to
rlase the Church in ruinous servitude, and
cakes occasion to renew his protest against ne
rupture OF concord. The Pope has also writ
Sen to Emperor Francis Joseph personally
adiuring him 10 protect the Church within ms
dominions.
GERMANY.
Tho Reicistag has refused to pass bill
fixing the ordinary strength OF the regular
army at 100000. The government threatens
TO dissolve ID in it persists in the reinsal.
srA1N.
g Serrano with "a, 900 men and 80 pieces OF
artillery, is now fnce to face with tho entire
Carlst army, numbering 3J,t0o men, while
.lnother government army of 5000, under
Lama is marching on the rear OF the Carllsts
FRANCE.
After n long debate on the 10th, the resolu-
ton offered by the Left censuring the Govern
,ncnt for its action in reference to the nomina-
Gion' of Mayors of cities, was defeated by
majority of 81.
On the 10th Napoleon's son having attained
his majority (l- years., was visited ut Chsel-
hurst by about 5000 influential persons from
France.
Parliament rcasscmbled on the 10Th, and the
Queens speech was read After congratul atInS
the country on the success of the Ashantce
expedition, the marriage of her son and the
Irieudliness u foreign powers, she advises
chat legislation be had to facilitate the
transfer Of lands England and Scotland,
AID that tho encouragement of the tudicature
And the blending of the administration of law
and equity which were Effected in England by
The enactment of last session, ought to be cN-
GCndcd to Ireland. She has also directed the
Governor of India to spare expense to
mitigate the snifeiinSs of the famishlng people.
UNITED STATES.
WAsuINGT0N.-- Congr.sS.-There has been no
legislation in the Senate since our last issue,
in fact on two days no sessions were held Tho
army bill now has precedence, finance comes
next, and the Louisiana case Is postponed in
definitely.
In the House, the bill appropriating $50, 900
Cor the mouth of the Mississippi, passed. The
army appropriation bill has been discussed
during three days and no conclusion is yet
reached.
A bill has been introduced granting lands in
Alabama and Florida for railroad purposes. 1t
grants the right of way through public lands
in the States aforesaid, to Daniel p. Holland,
proprietor of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile Railroad for the construction Of O road
from the present terminus of said road at
Cattahoochee to the city of Mobile, Ala, and
city of Pensacola, Fla, and from st. Johns
r1ver to st. Augustine, Fla.
VIRGINIA ArrAIRs.-GovernorK emper's veto
message of the bill granting new charter to
Petersburg, states that this would practically
disfranchise the negroes there. The speeches
on the message were very bitter but the veto
was finally sustained by twenty five to thirteen
This act of Kemper's has incensed many of his
constituents, and he was burned in efigy in
Petersburg.
ST. rATRICK's DAY CELEBRATIONS.
Observation-Disclosures from many points
servance of St. Patrick Day by various Irish
Associations, and the display, in all instances,
was reported as exceedingly creditable. In
this city the Irish societies achi eved the grand
eat display ever made in this city. They were
in full regalia and had seven bands of music
in the ranks. The procession was reviewed by
the President and members of the Cabinet.
Char'esiom.-St. Patrick's Day was celebrated
here by large military and civic procession
public banquet and n grand ball.
!S.Iuannah st. Patrick's Day was celebrated
with great eClat. The day was opened With q
salute of eighteen guns one for each of the
provinces OF ireland, one for Ireland, and
thirteen for the Southern States. The demon
stration was imposing and the weather fine.
The procession numbered 1900, comprising
eight societies, military company, three
bands, carriages containing the orator, Bishop
and others.
INiidd, phid.-St. Putrick's day was celc-
Grated by the Irish societies of temperance,
beneficial, literary and social and national
organizations despite tho rainy and disagree
able weather Fully 10000 men paradcd, with
sunumerable banners and over thirty bands of
fnds!c. One Of tho organizations paradcl 1900
'vr'c.
-ic1phis.-St. ratrcl>'s day was duly Oh
served by the various IIibernian societies with
grand procession through the principal
streets, in which the Italian Societo de Union
fratellaZza took part, after which High Mass
was celebrated At st. Patrick's Church.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho Germans of Cincinnati have held an
kuamense mass meeting, at which measures
were resolved upon to resist the temperance
crusaders.
o. Il. Hart, Radical Governor of Florida,
died at Jacksonville on the 18TH
Advices from Rio Janioro state that the
Bishop of Pernamhuco has been sentence ed to
four years imprisonment for resisting the
new laws regulating ecclesiastical affairs.
A meeting of Louisiana bondholders was
ueld on tho 18th in London, and resolution
Sdopted denonucing the funding bill of the
tate session of the Legislature as arbitrary
unjust and injudicious, and calculated TO shak,
confidence in all American securities. Tn,
meeting resolved to take measures to resist
carrying the bill into effect.
The mass meeting held in Hyde Part Lon
don, on the 18th inst, in favor of amnesty &c
fenian prisoners, was attended by 10000
persons.
A telegram from London, 18th inst. state.
Chat the steamship Laconia, while on hel
voyage from Alexandria, Egypt, for Algiers
having passengers 27S pilgrims, returning
from Mecca, encountered terrific gale. On,
huge wave, which struck tho vessel, wnshcC
overheard from her deck III of the pilgrims
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