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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-08-14
The N. Y. TribunD OLA Virginia
fairs.

The New York Tribune, IN an eultoE.aE
captioned "Old virginians, says: 1--WE
protest against the action of Ge test oath as
meditated by Gen. Candy. We want the
leading conservatives to take their seats III
the new Legislature, swear fidelity to the
new constitution and the 18th amendment,
and we want thereupon representation IN
Congress and to ali the rights Of self gov
eminent, and so we are confident DO a
large majority of the Northern people
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-08-14

lie TTarGai, ~ Acut, 1860,
les PROPHECIES ci-apres dtcrites, d~fpendaet de
Ia succession dudit teu Andrew Malta, DECIDE.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-08-14

CubanS as DellTefents WlIIllIl & Wttk.
steamer Lost.
The steamer Germania, hence on the
Sd for Hamburg, was totally lost off Cape
Race. The crew and passengers were all
saved, and it is thought nropablc that the
mails and specie will also be saved.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-08-14
consultation about Cuba and
Mexico.

WAsn1NeroN, Aug. 5.-The President
and Fish will be here on Tuesday, for con-
sultation regarding Cuban and Mexican
combinations
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

KING VICTOR EMANUEL ON THE ROMAN
COUNCIL. his late address to the Italian
Parliament the King said :-"The government
has not thought it expedient to interfere with
the bishops who are going to Rome to attend
the Ecumenical Council; but the King hopes
that word may go forth from that assembly
that will reconcile faith, science and civiliza-
tion." That is a grand idea. But he says,
too, that ''in any case the Italians may be
assured that the King will maintain intact the
rights Of tho State and the dignity of the peo-
pie" And that is also grand idea, and the
main question between the King and the Coun-
oil
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

The weather was so fine yesterday that tho
church-goers of New York and Brooklyn had
no excuse for staying at home and the
houses Of worship were all well fllod.
Our report of the sermons preached In
several churches exhibits great variety OF
topics. Prominent among these are ''Reform
in Public Worship" ''Reliance on Providence"
ssPerfectness of Manhood" Marriage"
shaking Haste to Get Rich the Ruling Pas
sion of Modern Civilization" and Religious
Irreligion." From some of these topics it may
be inferred that theology is still taught from
the pulpit.
The discourse on ''M0riage' was enlivened
by illusions to the recent attempted assassina
ton of journalist by jealous husband and
by novel recommendation of compulsory laws
against celibacy. At Washington sermon
was delivered by colored preacher, the Rev.
Mr.. Martin, on "Caste," the same subject ON
which Senator Summer is to hold forth this
week in New York and In Brooklyn. Tho
immediate occasion of Mr.. Martins discourse
was that his little girl had been refused admis-
sion as a pupil in school at Washington. He
referred to his personal experience in England
and the speech of General Grant to General
Tate, the Haytien envoy, as proof that caste
prejudices on account of color are beginning to
disappear. Among the hearers of this sermon
were Vice President Colfax, General Butler,
George F. Downing and several colored celeb
rities
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

j is dscredted In well informed washington circles
The report that a large feet OF our own ironclads
had been ordered here Is also officially denied The
Minatonomoh viii make trial trip to this port and
| one or two other vessels have been sent here Tor
repairs.
The Assistant United States Treasurer in this city
has been directed to continue the sales OF gold and
| purchase or bonds during the ensuing month OF
| becen.ber.
/ About eight O'Clock yesterday morning q man
! named Kelly, while In state Of int6xcation, was
placed in a cell in the Oak street station house.
TWO hours later he was found dead In his cell.
The bark Scottish Bride, from Bordeaux. arrived
at this port yesterday reports tnat In latitude 3s l6
longitude "a os, saw TWO sea serpents, one about
fifteen twenty feet long and six or eight in thick
ness; the other about i've feet long They looked
about the color or a sage land snake.
frm OF sharpers calling themselves Totten
CO., having an oiilce in William street. succeeded in
swlndling about $50 laborers out OF i've dollars
each under pretence of furnishing them passage to
New orleans, at which place they TO be set to
work at SO rs per day. On Saturday the day OF
sailing their office was closed and Totten Co.
failed to put in an appearance.
Prominent Arrivals in the City.
Samuel Bowles, of Springfield, aud d. W. Gooch,
General Kent JARVIS, OF Ohio: j. Tllllnghast OF
Albany and +. NJ. McCook OF Colorado, are at the
st. Nicholas Hotel.
Count 2owiskie, OF Russia and Major James l.
Ryley OF Savannah, are at the st. Charles Hotel.
Captain j. Kennedy, OF the steamship Brussels;
Captain w. H. Thompson, OF the steamship queen,
and Julian Fairfax, OF Baltimore, are at the New
York Hotel.
Wallace Graham, OF the United States Navy, and
Charles NJ EsIis, OF Troy, at the St Denis Hotel.
DR.. c. Bailey, of Pittshed: J. ii. Benson, of Liver
poo c. p Hale, Of Albany and f. A. Jewett, OF
Boston, are stopping at the Everett House.
Oliver Ames, OF Massachusetts,; n. H. Rollins, OF
New Hampshire; Henry NJ. Smith, OF Chicago; f.
d. L. Weed, OF Texas, and J. ID. Simpson, OF Ken
tucKy, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
W. b. Cozzens, of West Point, and W. /. Hami-
ton, of Albany are at the Albermare Hotel.
Ex-Congressman Z. L. Woodbridge, OF Vermont
II. Pretell, OF San Francisco; George Eastman, OF
England, and John Hitz. OF Washington, are at the
Astor House.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

CoMPANIoNsHIP IN CRIME.-A vagabond
named Hamilton was sent TO the State Prison
the other day for shooting, with intent to kill,
and seriously wounding an inoaensive citizen
under the impression that it was smart" Allen,
a desperate character, charged with having
taken Hamton's woman from him and made a
panel thief of her. 1t next appears that from
the testimony of this very woman her associate
panel thief, smart" Allen, is sent to the State
Prison for robbing a verdant countryman by
tho panel game. The woman herself will
most probably finish her career on the island
or at Sing Sing while as for Hamilton and
Allen, with five years Of companionship pro-
vided them under the same roof, they ought to
be satisfied with each other and with tho
impartial justice of Judge Bedford.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
The American Woman Suffrage Associat ion

The American Woman Suffrage Association.
That is the name. The late national con-
venton OF the ladies and their assistant volun-
teers in breeches at Cleveland, Ohio, have
settled it. 1t is national organization, with
power to set in motion subordinate associations
all over the country, and with power to raise
money, to spend it and to publish tracts and
papers and to carry the war into Africa. The
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is president of the
new national association, and among the vice
presidents at large Qour males and four
females) are William Lloyd Garrison, George
William Curtis and George w. Julian (member
of Congress from Indiana and author of the
sixteenth amendment, which provides for
woman suffrage). There are hundred and
more other officers, nearly one-half in breeches,
secretaries, vice presidents and executive COM
mttee, and it is in this admission of the men
on footing of general equality and in the
placing man (Brother Beecher) at the very
head Of the concern, that it may be pronounced
as meaning business and vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war. George Francis Train has
been ruled out, Miss Anthony having pro-
nounced him charlatan. This is another
sign that under the new organization the cause
of woman suffrage is to be fought upon its own
merits, and that Train is not the woman's rights
candidate for the next Presidency.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
Disturbances in the French Manufacturing
Districts-CuriOus Political Reaction.


1t is reported from Paris that troops have
been despatched to Abby, in the department of
the Tarn--the seat of the cotton and woollen
manufactures of the southwest-to quell the
disturbances among the operatives there.
These disturbances result from the reduction
of the work or the wages in these factories, or
in movements for an increase Of wages and
similar troubles of late have been reported,
not only in France, but in the manufacturing
centres Of Belgium, Germany and England.
The causes for these troubles are that under
the long reign OF general peace in Europe
the products of the European cotton, woollen,
silk and iron factories have increased tho
general supply of all these goods beyond the
general demand, including the great market
Of the United States; that meantime the
growth of cotton has not kept pace with the
increase of cotton mills in Europe and
Americas that while the general demand for
the raw material and the competition among
the mills have reduced them all generally to
short time, or to suspensions, or to dis
charge of their employees to a greater or less
extent that the consequent depression In the
great cotton manufacturing centres has ope-
rated to depress all other manufactures, and
that there can be no general relief short Of an
immense crop of the raw material from the
cotton growing districts Of Asia, Africa and
America in the same year.
But the most remarkable fact in connection
with these depressions and disturbances in the
European manufacturing districts is this, that
they are producing in all those districts COM
mon political reaction against free trade and
in favor of local laws of protection. II is so
in Belgium, France and Germany; and even
in Manchester and Birmingham there is a
marked reaction against the free trade policy.
We say nothing for the present Of the wisdom
or the fallacy Of this curious political reaction
We simply note the fact that not only on the
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
France-The Manifesto of the ssLeft.' -

EEQNce-Iue NluulltsLO VI inc ''Ielts1
In the HERALD Of yesterday we printed the
manifesto which has been issued by the mem
bers of what is called the 'Left" party in the
French Chambers. 1t will be remembered that
some months ago it was intended by that party
to make a demonstration against the govern
ment, and that by the "reds," or impatients
or rreconcilables, as they are at one time and
another called, they were pronounced traitors
for abandoning their purpose. This document
commends itself to all as able, dgnifed, tenn
perate, but firm and uncompromising. II
shows that though they did not choose to pro-
woke massacre in the streets of Paris they
have not abandoned their purpose. They
mean to put an end to the one man govern
ment; but they propose to do it by legitimate
means We have no doubt at all that this
manifesto will command the respect OF all the
liberals of France, and that Rochefort and the
extreme men will have no choice, but fall in
with the larger and more moderate party or
be swamped Later news by cable telegraph
says that Napoleon means to take the wind out
the sails of this moderate party, and even to
rival the 'reds' in his speech at the opening
of the Chambers to-day. We shall soon know.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

incompatible as means of transit for travellers
cannot compete with water courses, navigated
by ships which carry great cargoes Of mer-
chandise direct to their destination without
breaking bulk. IT. then, we do not intend to
abandon the commercial race to our present
principal rivals we must, without single
month Of unnecessary delay, break through
the barriers Of the Cordilleras and force tn o
rivers Of the isthmus to form ON unbroken
| navigabe connection with the waters of the
| oceans.
That President Grant is alive to the import
ance of the early construction of canal we
| have no doubt, and that he will energetically
prosecute the work of making one we feel
assured. Its successful prosecution will be
the crowning measure of his administra-
tion The almost certain early annexation
of the Island Of st. Domingo and the more
than probable acquisition Of Cuba and Porto
Rico will be but important incidents in the
history of the United States when such
canal is completed. It's political effect cannot
be overestmated. The splendid and fertile
Island of Jamaica will be so surrounded
by American territory or American influence
that its abandonment by Great Britain,
together with the yielding up of all her pos
sessions in the Caribbean Sea, will become
but mere question of time, and not
very remote time at that. Politically, then, as
well as commercially, our necessities point
unerringly to the Isthmus Of Darien for the
practical solution of the great problems they
contain. We trust, therefore, that the expe-
dition organizing now to survey practicable
route will be sent to the isthmus thoroughly
prepared in every particular for successful
exploration. Let us have no repetition Of the
practically useless expenditure of time and
money that characterized the unfortunate
efforts of Lieutenant Strain. Neither do we
desire second expedition like that Of Lieu
tenant Michler, the valuable results Of which
we willingly admit inasmuch as it gave us
thorough knowledge of the Atrato valley; but
we cannot forget that it pointed out to us no
absolutely practicable route for canal. What
we desire now, and what should be ordered
by President Grant, is an expedition which,
after once landing, shall not leave the isthmus
until every gorge and ravine in the Cordilleras
is explored, or until route for an inter
oceanic canal is discovered, surveyed and
made ready for an army of laborers to begin
work upon. Only in this way will the canal
be finally constructed, the commerce of the
United States expanded and the political des-
tiny Of this republic fulfilled.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

A Coop PRACTICE Nor PROPERLY APPRE-
GATED. 1t Is said the Canadians are disgusted
with Prince Arthur in this, that when he buys
anything he pockets the change. But why
should he not pocket the changer If he were
to leave it on the counter the Canadians would
probably say he is putting on airs, and gives
us his change as he would drop penny into
beggar's hat. The Prince is right Business
is business, and in taking his change when he
makes a purchase he is supporting the estab-
lished order of business, which is ono of the
best things even Prince can do.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
yYangings for December.

The last month Of the expiring year will, at
its close, leave behind melancholy record.
The gallows will be in requisition to sad and
fatal degree indeed throughout the month.
Inexorable justice demands the punishment Of
no less than twelve malefactors guilty of the
highest Of crimes-the taking, with ''malice
intent" the lives of their fellow men.
The record of crime to be expiated for by
the inliction of the extreme penalty presents
the following cases Owen Hand to be exc
cuted at Brooklyn, L. l.; John Fields at Will
Transport, Pa. 4; Zachary Taylor (colored) at
Butler, Pa; DR.. Paul Schoeppe at Carlisle,
Pa. +; Antoine Maurer at New City, N Y. !;
William Burke at Jamaica, L. l.; Joseph
Messner at Rochester, N. Y; Daniel Walsh
at Chicago, Ill. ; Robert II. Goldsborough in
Sussex county, Delaware Max Klengler at
St. Louis, Mo. ]; Benjamin Farhout in Wyoming
county, N. Y.
Our own city will be exempt from witness
ing an execution in the coming hanging
month Of December, though within the Tombs
one man lies under the death penalty sentence
Enough is presented in the above list, how
ever, to impress all with the conviction that
crime, particularly that Of the taking OF life, is
greatly on the increase in every section of the
country; but whether the example to be set in
the persons of the Condemned will have any
salutary effect is more to be hoped than to be
expected.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

BONE GRAvY.-The Board of Assistant
Aldermen on Saturday concurred in the reso-
luton Of the other Board increasing the COM
pensation of the Long Island Bone Laboratory
from $4,000 to 100000 year. Assistant
Alderman Roberts objected and pleaded such
old time considerations as ''heavy expenses"
contractors security" ...the interests of tho
city" and the old fashion of awarding contracts
to the lowest bidder, and moved, accordingly,
that the Street Department be instructed to
advertise for the lowest bid; but his motion
was not even seconded. The fact is Mr.. Rob
erts is behind the age, in looking after ''the
interests Of the city instead of the largest
division Of the plunder all round among the
rings; but still honest men will endorse him,
though he stands alone in his glory.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
TRI PIE S III E E T
TO ADVERTISERS.
Increasing Circulation of the Her,

Increasing Circulation of the Herald.
hand in their advertisements at as early an hour
aspossible.
Our immense and constantly increasing editions
compel us, notwithstanding our presses are
capable of printing seventy thousand copies an
hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than
stop the classifcations of advertisements at nine
O'Clock ?. M.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

A GREAT RRLrEF.-The assurance from high
Spanish sources that the expected Spanish
feet of iron-clads is not coming through the
Narrows, nor yet through He'll Gate, to blow
the city OF New York out of the water. All
parties, therefore, in the city engaged in build
Ing houses may proceed with their work. The
outside Spanish fleet is not coming in, and the
inside Spanish feet Is not going out for some
time to come.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

THE DESPERATE AFFRAY IN KENTUCKY, OF
which we publish an account this morning,
recalls the violence Of pioneer days on s'tha
dark and bloody ground. A desperado, who
had been whipped by the Regulators" causes
twenty Of his neighbors to be arrested on the
charge of having assaulted him. With about
the same number of confederates he meets
them, ''armed to the teeth" in the county scat
on the day set down for the trial. Both parties
blaze away at each other, exchanging one hun
dred and fifty shots. Three men are killed
and another is mortally wounded. After q
brief truce ''by mutual CONSENT their ammu-
milton having been exhausted, fresh supply
is obtained and the battle is about to be
renewed when the bellgerents are dispersed
'sby armed citizens" The "cruel war was
over" and 1t was time it should be ended.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
Our supreme Court Judges and Their Con.
aicting Orders.


aicting Orders.
The frequent conflicts in the decisions rem
dered by the Judges of our Supreme Court
must leave most unfavorable impression upon
the public mind, either as to the GLORIOUS un-
certainty of the laws" or their ability to expound
and administer them rightly by the Judges
themselves. 1t is very noticeable, However,
that it is on questions involving great pecuniary
interests and large monetary transactions that
our official doctors disagree oftenest and most
Occasionally we have a political snarl to smooth
away, and here again the Judges who are
appealed to in the premises make confusion
worse confounded, and the claw and the
prophets" become SO inextricably mixed and
muddled that it would require Jack Bunsby
to ''say as to how" one of these cases properly
stands.
We have seen the fact of judicial conflicts in
orders and decisions emanating from the Su-
preme Court 80 forcibly exempliied in the great
railroad wars Of last year that it is sufficient
merely to advert to the subject to awaken
attention to it. We have now strong illustra-
ton of this diversity of opinion on purely po-
litical question, and which again suggests the
consideration whether it is in the abstruse-
ness and unintelligbleness of the law or in
the ready obliquity of mind with which its ex-
Founders read and interpret it that all this
strange conflict of opinion arises. In the case
Of the contested Supervisorship in this city one
Judge-the presiding Judge of the Supreme
Court-on application made to him, grants a
writ of mandamus directed to the Board Of
County Canvassers to exclude all votes cast in
the late election for particular candidate for
Supervisor and to count the votes in favor of his
opponent. Another Judge of the same court,
on an application made to him in the premises,
vacates the order of his associate on the bench,
leaving things in statu quo, and further direct
ing the Board to close the canvass and declare
the result. The Board does so and then
adjourns, Here is direct conflict of orders
and decisions on a political question by two
Judges not en- rapport in politics. How far
this fact has tended to the result can perhaps
only be decided after thorough examination Of
the law; but who will decide when doctors
disagree?
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
FIRES IN the CITY.
In Beekman Street.

Between two and three O'Clock yesterday morning
fire broke out at No. so Beekman street, occupied
on the first floor by Pinkncy Miller as paper
warehouse. Their damage by water is 5000. the
second floor is occupied by the Ne,o York Ctttzea
ana Round 7ao,e newspaper, and the stock was
slightly damaged. The front OF the second door Is
occupied Dy Isaac ]. oliver, who also occupied tne
third and fourth doors Mr. ~ 'Is' Tomlin
son. bookbinder, who sustained 5000 loss. insur-
ances not asccrtained. Tho nre broke out In Mr..
NramIgea.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29
CONDITION Or ALBERT 0. RICHARDSON.

Mr.. A. d. Richardson, who now lies at tho Astor
House, suffering from pistol shot wound inflicted
by Daniel Mcfarland, at the Tribune once, q FEW
evenings since, was reported by his attending
physician OF twelve O'Clock last night to be In about
the same state AZ during the past two days no ma
teral change for botter or worse having manfestae
ITSELF
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

Mr.. WAsHBURNE IN HIGH FAVOR WITH
MISUNDERSTANDING the few invited guests
at private (not Officially ball at the
Tuileries on Saturday night last was our
Minister, Mr.. Washburne. This is another
indication Of tho policy of Napoleon TO keep
ON the right side Of General Grant.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

European Continent, but in the manufacturing
centres of England, the theory of protection
against the competition of outside manufactures
is rapidly gaining ground under the general
depression Of trade. The fact is very inte-
resting one, and will probably soon become the
bone of q lively contention between our pro-
tectionist and free trade philosophers.
The New York herald., 1869-11-29

The JEWS IN RUssIA.-A cable despatch
from St. Petersburg informs US that by putting
In force certain medieval law the Russian
officials in Bessaraba have forced some two
thousand Jews from their homes into the heart
of Russia. 1t is added that it is not believed
that the Emperor will approve Of these pro-
ceedings. Why should he? 1t is a good
opportunity for the Gar to show by abolishing
those medi9val laws that he has some decent
respect for the opinions Of the civilized world.