Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-16
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/ SAVANNAH, April 5.-At O Republican
meeting in augusta, Ga, last night a
disturbance was caused by the Dissolve
ry ola key containing small quantity
of powder under the speakers desk.
The meeting dispersed amid consider
eel to have been done by the Republican
party for capital. as the leaders appear
ed unconcerned.
MEMPHIS, April 5.-GilIem's official
report is required to decide the Arkans-
as election. ~ tp
The new Legislature entered the State
House at night, and ordered the arrest
of the Superintendent who refused them
the keys. Gillem decides that State
officers have no right to exclude the
Legislature from the Capitol.
There are five negroes in the House
and onein the Senate. %.
| WAsHINGToN, April "a conference
| of several Radical leaders, with Mr..
Stanton, took place to-day at the War
Department relative to the organization
known as the KW-KIar- KIan. The ex-
aggerated stories set afioat here within
the past few days of the alleged numer-
GUS threatening missives of the Khan to
Messrs. Wade, Butler and other Con-
| gressmen, have worked upon the fears
of timid men, and caused the conference
to-day to take steps to prevent the exc
cution of the threats, and ferret out the
| Ku-Klux by the employment of detec
! tiveS. - }ftts ty
after industrious inquiry among those
who are reported to have received the
,bugaboo warnings, it is found that the
stories published are extravaganza a
10 of
ed or real Ku Klux notifications by
three several persons, Mr.. Wade among
them, each having received just one mis-
sive; and it further appears that these
pheasant epistles were received about
the LIST inst. The inference therefore is
that they were merely prepared as April
fool jokes by some wag who is now en-
joying the fun hugely. ae apd
| The President to day signed the trea-
! ty recently made with the North German
Confederation, by Hon. Geo. Bancroft,
our Minister there, regulating the right
of citizenship, etc.
In the Supreme Court, Mr.. Justice
Davis delivered the decision in the case
of Mrs. Gaines VS.. the city OF New Or
leans. The court reviewed the whole
case, as TO the law and the facts. The
| opinion is favorable to Mrs. Gaines re-
gardiug her legitimacy, the marriage of
| Zuiieme Carriere with Daniel Clark was
valid. all technical points were decid-
cd in favor of Mrs. Gaines, and the court
|eXpressly stated that it considered this
decision conclusive and final. ID. CLARK IS
will OF 1918, as probated in Louisiana, is
| binding, and sales by the executors I'M
der the will of 1911 are declared null,
and purchasers must take the conSe-
Iquences. f@ftti. stG h. fat
Two other cases, involving the same
principle, were decided in favor of Mrs.
Gaines. Justices lGrier, Swayne and
Miller dissented. 9f"
WASHINGTON, April I'm the case of
the steamer Battle, captured at Mobile,
the Supreme Court declares that the
capture vitiateS existing liens.
| The Supreme Court has decided that
a contract interrupted by war must be
completed on the return of peace.
/ WASHINGTON, april 11.-HOuSe.-M
| Woodward introduced bill to test the
constitutionality of questionable acts OF
Congress. Referred to Judiciary Com
mittee.
The act provides that the Attorney
General shall bring any bill vetoed by
the President on the ground of uncon,
stitutionality, and passed over the veto
before the Supreme Court ON figured is
sues.
The decision of the Supreme Court on
such figured issue shall be valid.
LONDON, April 10.-The war Office has
Abyssinian advices that Napier has
reached latitude ID. Theodora was en-
trenched at Magdala Ia distance OF
about five miles,l with 5000 men and
twenty-six large guns. Napier's plans
for general assault were completed.
y WASHINGTON, APRIL lit is repor-
ted that the counselor of the President
advised him, in case of his conviction,
to test the constitttionality and compe-
tency of the court, by pardoning Mr..
Davis.
THE SUCCESSION. The correspondent
of the Now York Herald says that the
bill for regulating the succession to the
Presidency, now before Congress, is not
so innocent as it looks. 1t is only ssde
signed as a stalking horse to be trotted
quietly through both Houses of Congress
in two readings; after which it is to ba
Suddenly saddled with a revolutionary
amendment procla;ming Gen. Ulysses
S. Grant the successor to Mr.. johnson;
and this is to be put through both
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