The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-05-07

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SENATE-A potion was presented to strike
the word "white" out of the naturalization
laws.
Bills are introduced granting land in ard
of the Memphis and New Orleans Levee
Railroad, and to relieve, with certain ex-
ceptions, all peasope Engaged in the rebellion
from the political disabilities imposed by
the fourteenth amendment to ~theseonstitu-
ton of the United States.
The. exceptions are All persons who
were formerly ina the United States Con-
gress, or aided< be rebellion, and all mem
of the secession State Conventions.
The South Pacific Railroad.
ST.. LOUIS, April 2S.-A meeting of the
South Pacific Railroad was held to-day,
and a board of directors were elected. The
formal opening of the road to Springfield
takes place next Tuesday. The Tract will
be completed so miles west OF Springfield
within sixty days,
Sales and Receipts Of Cotton,
New York, April 2S.-Cotton sales for
May delivery are reported at 22c. Re-
ceipts for the week are estimated at II, 600
bales ; receipts same time last yesr $4,000.
MayOralty.
RICHMOND, Va. April 29.-At 6 o'clock this
afternoon all the city property in his posses
sion was surrendered by Mayor Ellyson, in
| accordance with the decision ofthe Supreme
Court Of Appeals.
Louisiana Contested Election-Bayou
Teche.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-The motion to
take up the Louisiana contested election
case OF Darrell against Bailey was negatived
by a vote of AZ to IS.
The Senate resolution to provide a sur
! vey and estimates of the cost of removing
distractions in Bayou Teche passed
The Richmond Disaster
RICHMOND, April 3O~-W. G. Durham.
agent of the New York and Virginia
Steamship Company. one of the victims
of The late disaster died at noon to day.
Ex.State Treasurer John 5. Calvert is
considered dying.
The are no other deaths from the disaster.
Offers of aid have been received from
New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Ba1ti,
more and various other places.
Expected Indian War.
CHICAGO, April 3O.-A dispatch from
Sioux City today says that the alarm in the
ed, and that it is thought the Indians
"Sheridanized at once, and will inaugu-
rate the most extended war ever experienced
Railroad to Indian Territory.
KANSAS, City, Mo, April 30.-The Mis-
souri, River, Fort Scott and Galveston Rail
road was completed to the State line to-
day, it being the first road TO reach the
Indian Territory. Regular trains com
mense running Monday rext.
Mormons Aiming.
SALT LAKE, April 3O.-A circular, OF
dering brethren to convene at the ward
school house for drill, was privately circu-
lated through the city yesterday. Drilling
and arming continue throughout the terri
tory. Fifty Danites are said to have been
enrolled since Brigham's return.
Forty-First Congress,
WASHINGTON, May. 2.-HousE.-A bill
was offered to amend the act declaring the
railroad bridges of New Orleans Mobile and
Chattanooga Railroad Cornpony a post
road.
Bills were introduced to enable claim
ants not connected with the rebellion, 10
enter the Court of Claims without prior
proof as to loyalty, and to enforce the
fourteenth amendment, prohibiting any
coercion or intimidation by refusing to en-
ploy or discharging from employment or
otherwise n juring any citizen, with the in
tent to restrain him from the exercise of
the rights meant to be secured to him by
the fourteenth amendment, or because Of
his having exercised the same.
The bill makes such offences punishable
by fine not exceeding $4,000 and impris
onment not exceeding ten years. 1t en-
powers the President to employ the land
and naval forces to Enforce its provisions
and to disband al opposing combinations.
The bill to pay loyal citizens in the late
rebel States for taking the United States
census in 1860 passed, with an amendment
to require proof of loyalty of the person
who performed the service, including the
oath of the narty, if living :; also, House
bill extending the time within which per-
sons elected to office in Texas may take the
oath prescribed by the act admitting the
State to representation.
Massachusetts, to be Reconstructed.
Common, of Texas, has prepared and will
introduce a bill to reconstruct Massachu-
sets.
Bills Signed by the President.
WASHINGTON, May 3.-The President to-
day signed the following bills: A bill to
extend the time thirty days within which
persons elected to Office may take the oath
prescribed in the act entitled an act to adj
init Texas joint resolution to provide for
the survey and estimates of cost of remov-
ing distractions from Bayou Teche, Louis
Gen. Jordan.
Gen. Jordan, it is expected, will arrive
here on Saturday, as tn accredited represen-
tative of the Cuban insurgents.
Rebellion in India.
LONDON, May 3.-Dispatches from En-
report that a rebellion has broken out
among the Khirgish tribe, on the shores of
the Caspian Sea.
France.
PARIS. May 3.-The following is a de-
of the Internal machines which
were captured at the house of the conspira
tors against the Emperor's life.
lhey resembie quoits the ring Is ovid
ed into several small chambers, each of
which contains a vial of nitrate of potash.
Percussion caps were ingeniously fitted
and slightly raised from the surface, so that
in falling upon any hard substance the
machine is nearly certain to explode. 4
ring is attached to the periphery to aid in
throwing the missile adroitly.
La France says that the recently dis
conspiracy makes the amnesty of
forty-two persons now in custody improba-
BILE.
Some disorder, but no violence, has &C.
at the public meetings.
PARIS. Nav 8. p. MA serious riot DC.