The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-10-13

| bankment twenty feet high. dozen persons
We're killed and about one hundred wounded.
The bodies of the dead were robbed by roughs
| of whom there were great number on the
| train.
THE F1Iz JOHN PORTER CAsE.-The rehesr-
| ing of this celebrated case, in whioh Gen. Por-
| ter YVES tried and cashiered during the war for
disobedience of General Popes orders and the
consequent loss of the second battle of Manas
sas, has been progressing during the past three
! months and with results entirely in favor of
Gen. Porter. On the 10Th, Gen. Mcdowell, who
commanded the wing of tho army in which
Porter's corps was, appeared on tine stand. BY
he had published an extract from Stouewall
Jackson's report es referring to the 29th of
August, and subseq quently ascertsiued that it
referred to the 30th of that mouth. Though
he admitted that the difference in g day made
q great difference in the case, he bad never
taken steps to rectify bis error. He was also
forced to make other very damaging admis-
sions the result of which makes it almost GER
tain that Porter will be fully exonerated and
restored to his proper place in the army.
POLITICAL.
Last Tuesday, elections took place in several
States With the following results: In Ohio the
R4pu blicars polled majority of from 70, ,0C0 to
Is 900 votee. Tee Democratic, however, have
Indiana has gone Democratic by 1000 or 5000
mel ority and the Democrats gsfh onSaCongress-
man. Iowa gves its Z 1al Republican MAORI
ty, though there is possibility that two
Greenbackers com bined are elected.
Ne,c York, Oct. O-The Sun say g: Elections
for members of the next House have been held
in Maine, Vermont, Colorado, West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. These seven States
send ffty-four members, and in the present
Congress they are represented by thirty.eight
Republicans and sixteeu Democrats. It is not
posi- BILE to make absolutely certain clat ST.
Fl cation of the results of the election in these
States, ss two or three of the Western districts
close. la Maine one member f the Demo
cratic party was chosen and one Workingmens
candidate was carried in by the aid of Demo
cratic votes; while in one of the Vermont dis
tricts there was no choice at the Septem ber
election, bnt the Republican Green backer is
likely to be successful in November and Ma
tiopal is probably elected IN Indiana by the
help of the Democrats. Upon the whole, how
ever, returns seem to warrant the conclusion
that the Republicans of all sorts will have
thirty of the fifty four members, and he Demo
Gratis and their allies will have the remaining
twenty. fur. Foil returns may add one and
possibly t 40 to the Democratic col1m and
there is even talk of 1e election of two Green
hackers and Democrats in 1owa. If these figures
hold true, the Democrats have made slight
gain thus far in this falls contest for Con-
gress.
The Herald says: We still wait for the full re-
t rms of the Ohio and Indiana elections, but
enough is known to show that the Democrats
have gained two, and perhaps three Congress
men in Ohio, and possibly one in Indiana The
not able feature of the election is the poor show
made by the eGreeuback-National al party. No one
now doubts if the Democratic party in Ohio
had dropped its silly fraud cry and its equally
silly irfstion appeal, and placed itself boldly
on a sound currency platform it would have
swept the State.
MISCELLANEOUS.
O'Lesry won the walking match, having
made 4O3 miles in 141 hours, sc minutes and 80
seconds. Hughes was 20 or so miles behind.
Con. Gideon J. Pillow, the distinguished
General of the Mexican war and of the Con
federate army. died in Helena, Ark, on the ih.
THE eruption of Mount Vesuvius is de-
creasing 1t is said that number of peo-
pie have died of yellow fever in Madrid, Spain,
during this month