The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1879-01-19

NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10, 1879

pointments. It happened in this way Score
tary Shermrn sent in an elaborate 90 mmu MICA.
ton assigning reasons for the removal of the
New York Custom House eff oisis, Messrs.
Arthur and Cornell. The Secretary charged
them both with inefficiency and mismsnsge.
ment of their offices, and also with positive
neglect of duty, and argued that they could
public revenue. As thess gentlemen were
special friends of Mr.. Conkling, the Senator
came to the rescne in an able philippe against
the ADMINISTRATION, marked by extreme con
| we're false and frivolous, and that the Presi.
dent had been grossly msinfor med. Judge
| Thurman referred to this Republican wranRle
| IN sarcastic manner, and suggested that the
Seoretary'a letter ought to be made public, so
that the officials assailed could have q chance
| to defend themselves. Mr.. Edmunds moved :,
Committee on Commerce, which was carried,
This is like sending the lamb to the wolf
| Coukling and his friends control that commit
tee absolutely. The Democrats on it, and the
Sena'e Democrats generally, despise Mr..
Hayes for his mean partissnship, his Ku Klux
and mher prosecutions, and his slanders On
the South. They will leave him and Conkling
step in the Presidential campaign.
The Senate passed bill granting arrears of
pensions to pers DDS entitled thereto, dating
vice. 1t will require about eighteen millions
to pay euch arrears The bill was passed asbit
came from the House, without amendment.
Wash.ngt9., Jan u The he. new sugar tariff
of Gibson, Robbins, Hsrris Sayler, Tucker,
Burohard and Phelps, against the votes of
Wood, Banks, Kelly, and Garfield. 1t is regard
ed as great triumph for the Louisiana plant
ing intere SITS. The rate is 4O-10O on melado
concentrated, melado and molasses concen ira
ted, and syrups from cane juice and tank bot
toms and on ali sugars not above ID Dutch
standard on grades IA, 10 and 16. Dutch
standard, it is % cents; on oil above t6 it is
cents. The bopee of pes,ing the bill are not
very bright. Mr.. Wood. chairman of the
committee, hiss reported a financial bill 10 the
House fest, thus giving.it a precedence which
may be fatal to the new sugar tariff,
The House has taken up the bill to provide
for Mississippi River improvement commits
sion, and for the impro7 ement of the navigs-
ton of said river and the protection of its
allnvisl lands to which bill Mr. Robertson
had offered amendments appropriating some
S3 500, 900 for closing crevassas to be expended
by the War Department The consideration
of the bill caused much interest among mem
bers from the Southwest, but on the part of
the Hooss generally, there was not evnoed
any interest proportooed to the Importance
of the subject. The bill will probably be de-
fested by the votes of Northern Denoor ats.
FEARFUL SCENE AT AN ExEcUTIoN.-On the
IA h, inst. at Msuca Chunk, Pa, Sharpe aud
Mcdonnell members of the Mollie Mcguire
Society, were banged for murder. moment
eff er the drop fell reprieve from Gov. Hart
ronft W as received. The telegram says: When
the Governors reprieve arrived at the Jail this |
morning a soene of intense excitement ooourr- |
ed, but although the culprits bad only been
banging for few minutes, there was no
made toward cutting them down.
The telegraph messenger reached the Jail be-
fore the drop fell, but no heed was taken of
his knocking and ringing. The wife OF one of
the oulprits having previously been ex tremely
violent outside, when the drop fell the knock
ing and ringing continued, and the Sheriff
sent ou t q man to arrest the parties whom he
imagined TO be creating q disturbance. It was
then found to be o telegraph messenger with
the reprieve. brother OF Mcdonnell, who
had been kneeling by the ecaffold. arose and
excitedly charged the 8 erif and bystSnders
with the murder of his brother. The excite
ment spread, and toe sheriff appealed to one
Of the priests. BIO exonersted him from blame.
Amidst this excitement the reprosches of the
maddeued brother of Mcdonnell and the
wailing of the bereaved families outside, the
oulprits seem to have been forgotten, and
after the drop fell: There is no reasonable
loubt, however, but that they were both dead I
when the reprieve came. After the bodies g
we're cnt down tney were placed IN CON oG "So
heard for several blocks, adding greatly to the G
prev falling excitement. q
lung at 1910 for the murder ofPatriok Burup, 3
It TuscArors Pa, April 18th, 1870. He is the {
nineteenth Molly Mcguire hung for murder in a
his State. b
FEDERAL INTERFERENcE IN STATE AFFAIRS. n
'ama the following preamble and resolution
we're adopted yesterday:
whereas, interference by the officers of the {
United States in popular elections is justly re:
aried by the people of this State as az evil of
reat magnitude; and whereas, such interior
noe in part at least. is TO iot1uence and con- Z
roll the action of the State in selecting electors
or President and Vice President of the United o.
tates; therefore II
Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign m
,eIations be INSTRUCTED to ing uire into the ex- =
ediency of providing for q law for the eeiec-
ion of electors for President and Vice Presi- is
ent by the General Assembly until the acts OF b
'On Kress authorizing interference by tue Fed
raj authority Sre repealed.
TEE INDIANs.-A party of Cheyennes, who ~
sd long complained of starvation and cold b