The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-10-09
The SueZ Canal n Success

pdtChcs IotA CuSA alatAOuilCc lIlat the OAR
riers against foreign nations have been re-
moved, and M. Lesseps has passed through
the canal in a steamer from Port Said t.
Suez in five hours.
Interesting Items from Wash
fmgtOa
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-Senator Spen'
Ger and Col. Stokes, of Alabama, visited
Grant. They represent the interview as
being highly satisfactory and compliments
ry to the people of the South and their in
tentions.
Grant hopes to visit the South this win
ter.
Internal revenue receipts to-day 1868,
900.
The President ugged the appointment Of
D. G. HUMPHREYS, of Alabama, to succeed
Justice Swayne, of the Supreme Court.
The President has recognized Peter
Staub as Swiss Consul for Tennessee, res.
idence at Knoxville.
Delano decides that wholesale druggists
selling spirits, less than half q pint or more
than five gallons of alcohol, must take out
o retail and wholesale license.
Customs receipts from Goth to 25th, in
elusive, over So, 100000. r
The New York Herald has a special from
Key West claiming thatsthe battle of Las
Tunas was a victory for the Cubans.
All the Spaniards who could not get into
the stronghold were captured and killed.
Among those killed after the capture were
fifteen Spanish officers. q
The superintendent of recruits at Car
isle Barracks, Pennsylvania, has been or.
dered to send all disposable colored troops
to Galveston at n
The President approves the court mar
tial sentence dismissing Capt. Walter S.
Long from the service.
Mississippi Radical Nominal
sio"s and Platform
JACKSON, Sept. 3O.-The Republican
State Convention to-day made additional
nominations, as follows Fl. Musgrove for
Auditor W. ii. Vasser for Treasurer ].
S. Morris for Attorney General, and H. r.
Pease, Superintendent of Public Education.
The following is a summary Of the reso-
lutions that were adopted:
The Union first, last and forever.
q. The freedom Of speech and of the
8. Universal suffrage and universal am
nesty.
4. Free schools, presenting the benefits
of education to every child in the State.
5. Opposition to that unequal and n
lust system of taxation that discIiminates
against labor, and bears unjustly upon the
laboring classes.
6. A revision of the condition Of free
labor with q view especially to the adoption
of a more Summary process for the recovery
of debts.
7. Adherence to the thirteenth and four
teenth amendments of the Constitution of
the United States.
8. The exercise Of the whole political
~ianuence of the State with Congress for
the immediate removal as provided of all
disabilities imposed by the fourteenth
amendment
9. The ratification Of the fifteenth amend.
ment to the Constitution Of the United
States.
10. The New constitution of Mississippi,
with the DISTINGUISHING and proscriptive
clauses left out.
Washington Items
WASHINGTON, Oct. Internal revenue
receipts to-day $685.. 00o.
Fish and Delano have returned.
Fish and Boutwell, were absent from the
Cabisct meeting.
The Supreme Court convenes on Monday
with a full bench.
The Conmandant of the Asiat:c squad
ron reports the health of the squadron
good, AMI American interests folishing in
Chinese waters.
Delano thinks Geary will be reelected
nv a small majority
The debt statement shows a decrease of
$500. 900.
Coin in the Treasury nearly l09, oo0, 900,
currency $~6,25o,ooo.
Suspected Steannslfs ss--Arms 81 md
Ann ID saitiOn for the Sp:sniar ds
New YoRK, Oct. 1.-The steamship Eu-
terpe, of the New York and Galveston Line,
is under surveillance pending instructions
from Washington. She had a cargo of
huge PARROT guns, and, ton upon ton of
shot and shell.
The authorities suspect that the cargo
was intended to arm the Spanish gunboats
now ready for sea.
The account says there are just thirty Of
these gunboats, and, singular enough, there
were found in the old Euterpe just thirty
Parrot guns of the 100 pound species.
There were also three thousand solid shot
and shell, which had been cast for these
same PARROTS.
Speaking, editorially, Of the E~uterpe's
detention, the Tribune says:
The authorities have just laid hands on
a vessel, which, from all accounts, appears
to have been destined to supply with arma-
ments the Spanish gunboats at Mystic.
The possibility that great harm might have
been, and yet may be, done thereby to the
cause Of struggling patriotism. naturally
proyokes q most earnest desire that no
want of vigilance shall permit q wrong to be
done to a neighbors whose comparative
weakness and whose noble aspirations have
our hearty sympathies. The plea of the
Cubans, that they should have the same
right to purchase arms as their savage
antagonist must be admitted, in the light
of these menacing events, to have the unu-
sual force" -..H g. 49, ..-
ls -a1- A Pirate i'm the Gulf
= The Telegraph, recently cruising in West
Indian waters, has been declared q pirate,
and Commodore Poor ordered to capture
her. ...' .'- %t.' IT,.
Steamer Hornet watching for
tine SPRafsk Ship
I. The steamer Hornet is of New York.
She is supposed to be there waiting for
the %gunboats, and also to intercept the Eu-
terpe, which was expected to sail with
supplies for the Spaniards. The Hornet is
daily receiving supplies. Her Captain is
10 New York city and well posted regard
ing the Spanish movements. The Cap
name is withheld, but it is under
stood to be a noted Confederate. The
Hornet has been fitted out by parties in
New York and Boston, who have nc con-
with the Cuban. .Junta which has
been operating here. The Hornet Is for
and very first. W., ~.
So Calac& Texas al Democratic
f4- -o...s.1 Convention ~