The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-09
VOLUME VII.
Msrntng Star and Catholic Messenger.
fELEaRAPHIc SUMMARY.
ENGLAND.
WnW oRLEANs. SUNDAY. AUGUST O. ls74.

ENGLAND.
During the discussion on the public worship
regulation bill in the House of Commons
Disraeli, referring to the strife between the
Church and State on the Continent, expressed
the conviction that however tranquil might
be the general state of Europe, there were
agencies at work preparing period of great
disturbance.
On the 31st, the Assembly, by large
majority. agreed to adjourn from the 9th of
August to November 30th
During the recess O permanent committee of
the Assembly will sit to consider any import
ant question of foreign policy that may arise.
held eaucas at which they resolved to agitate
for a general election for the reason that they
consider the present government anti Republi-
can. The Legitimists, on the other hand,
threaten to renew their efforts in favor of a
Monarchy.
There has been fighting reported since
our last issue.
From the mass of contradictory kilograms it
would appear that, after all, the German Gov
eminent is the only one that is anxious to in
terfere in behalf of the Seranno Government.
On the 4tb, in the House of Commons, Mr..
Bourke, UndeI-Secretary for the Foreign De-
partment, in answer to an inquiry from Sir
George Bowyer, stated :" that her Majesty's
government had no intention of taking part in
armed Intervention in Spain, and had no reason
to suppose that other European powers con-
templated such a step, which would not meet
with encouragement from England"
UNITED STATES.
BURNING OF AN OHIO sTEAMER.-On the
morning of the 9TH the steamer Pat Rogers was
burned within mile of Aurora, Ills. She b ad
seventy passengers aboard of whom from
sixteen to thirty were either burned or
drowned, most of those rescued being badly
the time tho fire was discovered to the moment
when the vessel was entirely in flames She
WAS headed for the shore, but owing@to the
shallowness of the water could not get nearer
than thirty yards, the side nearest to land
being, unfortunately, the one on which the fire
originated. Most of the lost were women and
children.
PoLITIcAL.-The city elections in Vicksburg,
Miss, on the Ath, notwithstanding the great
fears every wv here entertained of disturbance,
were conducted in a most orderly manner: The
issue was made one Of race only four white men
voting the Radical ticket. while many negroes
voted with the whites. The result was q Con-
servative victory by 300 majority, thus saving
the city from ruin after misrule of six years.
The result has been everywhere received with
the greatest enthusiasm At Monroe, La
one hundred guns were fred in honor of the
gallant citizens of Vicksburg.
The Kentucky elections, the same day, were
also very orderly and resulted in complete
Memphis, Tenn, august THE Conservative
victory yesterday was much larger than was
supposed by the most sanguine, the supporters
OF inc conservatives having CRrTleu every
ward in the city except the Fifth, which only
gave majority of twenty nine for the Repub
hcans; the Conservative ma jority in the city
being 1898, and the total vote over 10000, or
about 1000 more than the ordinary vote This
is accounted for on the ground of hostility to
the civil rights bill and mixed schools on the
part of the whites, and the fact that business
was almost entirely suspended, and all went
to the polls, while the Jews, who rarely vote
and are very numerous, were enthused in be-
half of A. Z. Frankiand, the yellow fever hero,
who was a candidate for the lucrative and i'm
portant office of tax collector, and regarded as
a representative man of their race, and they
turned out masse and worked for his cleo
tion. The conservative majority in the county
will be over four thousand