The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-06-11
Resozsea, That a committee Of five be

whese dutv it shall be to consider the
whol. subject of Sredeeming the ~aIluvial
lands of the Mississippi Valley from over
flow by a complete and effective levee sys-
tenn, and What aetioS, if any, Congress
ought to take to promote this object; that
said committee be authorized to sit CURING
the recess of the Senate and to report ey,
bill or otherwise at the next session OF
Congress, and that said committee be au-
thorized te employF clerk.
Chinese.
SAN FRANcIsco, June 3.-Seventy five
Cinnamon left here yesterday for Massacnu-
setts, to work in a boot and shoe factory.
~ Railroads.
TERRE HAuTE, Ind, June 3.-Thc first
annual report of Josephus Collect, DR.,
President of the Evansville, Terre Hante
and Chicago Railroad. a new line from this
city to Danville, ILL.,, will be published to-
morrow. 80,
The directors believe that the road will
be completed to its northern termination
by January LIST, 1871.
The thirty five mile gap in the Evans.
vile, Henderson and Nashville Rallroao
will be closed during the month OF Septem-
Der. - ,
CHICAGO, June 3.-Thc Chicago and
Dayille Railroad is reported to be making
fair progress, and its managers promise
to complete the road to DanVille by the
close of the present year, thus making a
through route from Nashville to- Chicago.
Cotton.
New York, June 3.-Receipts of cotton
at U. S. ports for the week just closed, p
900 bales; exports, Sc, 600; stock in all U.
4. ports at present dat, 276,OO0.
Cotton has further declined. Futures are
at 2lc.
Advices from Liverpool report cotton
depressed.
Receipts of cotton in Bombay for the
, month of May, 800, 900 bales. ~
virginia-Impoftant Decision.
} RICHMOND, June f-In a case origioa
ting in the U. S. Circuit Court, Chief Jus
tice Chase decides as follows:
The Government of Virginia. organized
. at Wheeling has been recognized by thu
T. United States as the rightful government
: of that State. After all organized resis
/ lance to the national authority had ceaset
in Virginia, that government was estab
lished in undisputed exercise OF It's authori
ty at Richmond.
The government was thus established
: during the year 1865, when the insurgen
: government If Virginia was disposed b,
= the superior force of the United States, tn
: civil authorities did not necessarily cease a
: once to exist. They continued IN beihI
!. the d.. tfucto, charged with the duty of main
tanning order until superseded by the regu
lar Government. Thus, the Common
Council of H~arrisonburg, though eIecte
under the in~urgent government, RENAME
charged with the government OF the town
Notwithstanding the temporary occupat'o
of the place by the United States forces
n It might have been superseded for tn
Government of the United States was nc
bound to recognize any authority whic
h originated with the rebel government, bu
it was not superseded, and, therefore,, tn
Mayor and Common Council, exerclsln
their authority, which they derived fror
y an election, and not by virtue OF a mllltar
order, have no right to remove a suit fro1
the State court to a Federal court whe
that suit has been brought for any allege
g false Imprisonment and malicious prOsec,
e. ton thereon, charged to have been commltte
lie by them in the discharge Of their municip'
a. duties. The case was remanded 10 tt
If State court.
ID Washington News.
WASHINGTON, June 6.-The compensate
Of census marshals viii not exceed I
per day, with mileage. This is an advant
J. on previous compensation under whie
OF competent service could not be bad.
he The following dispatch was received he
OF this evening from New York:
IT, To Simon Wolf, Washington: Just r
DIS ceived a dispatch from Cremenx, Presidel
IN Of the Jewish Alliance at Paris. Jews
m Roumania are expelled, plundered and no
q. ribly maltreated numbers are wounde
1t and perhaps dead. Shall telegraph to E
rope again.
(Signed) NJ. 5. lsAAcs,
"a, 243 Broadway, New York.
lie HousE.-Newsham introduced a bill
repair the levees of the Red River fro
w Shreveport to the mouth of the anne.
M SENATE.-Stewart introduced a bill
ly prohibit contracts for servile labor, whic
IA he said, was intended to break up the 81
tenn Of coolie contracts by which the CT
e nese laborers were imported to this cou
Ia try and held to their labor for four yea
lis The contract is to return the Cl
to nese to his own country, dead or alive,
"a the endof four wears. The religious fet
es, ings of the Chinese prevent them fro
x breaking the contract. This is really
We system of ~servile labor, the wages are e
ng eeedingly low, and can be called py
To means free. @ .
at The bill provides that no contracts wi
I'm the Chinese shall be good longer than S
e, months, and that immediate action shou
he be taken, as agents are now here to, init
ct duce them into South Carolina and NJ;
at sachusetts. He moved that the bills
ro- referred to the Judiciary committee.
sss WAsHIseroN, June 6. -The Reconstrr
he ton Committee has adopted as a rule r
ry to remove disabilities except upon writ
mt application. The recommendation of frien
or high officials will not be respected. I
We petition must be accompanied with {
pressions indicating proper submission.
10 20 Mexico.
ay HAVANA, June 6.-Vera Cruz advices
le- the LIST inst. state that the Mexican Ct
gress would probably hold an extra sessi
nd to discuss the constitutional reforms.
led The stage between Vera Cruz and
les lapa was robbed, and one passenger kill
100 Six bandits were recently captured
ice Zacatecas.
o., The new, Permissible mines are yield
on enormously.
The citizens of Guatemala have inyad
Mexican territory. It is generally belies
that Felix Diaz, Governor Of Oaxates,
,ns the prime mover of this invasion, and
tends establishing a separate republic.
- llo- .a4;nnal traasurN Is hankEunf -