The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-03-26
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Mashington, n. c., March 14--rho
State Department has been in the rece;n.
Saturday and to eay, Of official dispatches
from our consuls in Cuba, showing tho
condition Of the %insurgcnt cause. Theso
DISPATCHES, taken as a whole, do not seam
to give quite such a 1attering picture Of
the rebellion there as the recent dcclata-
tons Of Gen. Quesada, the Minister Of the
Cuban Republic, have made. Some of
them give less cheering accounts than
! oilers; while in some instances there is a
fiat contradiction. The Consul General at
I~lrvana, Gen. B:ddle, writes that The in.
surgents have been relu&d to a mere
guerilla warfare, and that there are no
conflicts between the Spanish troops and
the revolutioniSts that rise above the dien,.
ty of a skirmish. The Consul at Nueyitos
looks upon the Cuban forces as a littlA
more Formidable.
4 c reception ofthese important dispatch.
es has bnt confirmed the views Of the,
administration on the Cuban question, and
when tn If tenor becomes officially known
IN Congress, it will conteract very mate
Gally the representations made here last
Week by Gen. Quesada.
HE hOhMON QUESTION.
The Committee on Territories has beer
taking more evidence en- tire Mormon oues-
ton. Franklin Head, ex Superintendent
Of Indian Affairs, and a resident of UTAH,
~testifies regarding the feeling there. Some
Of the Mornons would fight sooner than
give up polygamy. They take the posi-
ton that any law to break up polygamy
would be unconstitutional, because the
constitution Of the United States guarar.
tees religious freedom, and pdlygamy is an
essential part of the Mormon religion.
Brigham Young said he wonld never obey
the la" unless it was decided to be consti.
t@utlonal by the Supreme Court, ard he had
full faith that it would not be so decided,
The render spoke of schism in the Mormon
Church, Nbich is widening so rapidly it
will probably overthrow polygamy.
THE SUNDAY COURIER LIBEL SUIT,
New York, March, 15.-James I. Smith
and Spencer W. Coke, editors of the Sun
day Courier, were arrested this afternoon
on a charge ofmlibel, preferred by Mr..
Bergh, Presidenro of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to animals. On Sum
day last the Courier contained an article
headed "TheNHnmors of the Town." in
which the writer protested to give some
extracts from a diary kept by Nj. Bergh,
and containing other scnrrillous matter, at
which Mr.. Bergh took offence. The fol.
lowing is sample of one days notes, as
given in thvdiary:
March 11-Received an anonymous note
saying that in the play of the twelve
Temptations" now performing at the
grand Opera House, there is entirely too
much work on the female calves. IF
have a weakness for anything it is a female
calf I fairly worship it. When it is
sleek and comeIy like to see it kicking up
before my eyes. What a change | have
wrought irrehis city in the treatment of
calves. They. are . longer exposed to
the gaze of the tender hearted, tied with
a dirty bit Of rope.
The Courier editors were taken before
Justice Bowling at the Tombs, and held
in five hundred dollars bail each.
THE Scare FOR YERGER.~
JACKSON, Miss, March 14-No trace has
yet been discovered as to Yerger'S where
aborts. He is generally supposed to have
been concealed in Jackson during the whole
oF Sunday. The only Iumor credited ,s
hat he impressed a countryman's horse.
this morning. a few miles from the city.
Gov. Alcorn has offered a thousand dol
lars for the capture of ais former staff Off
Ger.
4 resolution passed in the Senate and
confirmed in the House, to-day, ordered an
Investigation in'ethe facts of Yerye''s es-
cape.
Senator Morgan introduced a resolution
appropriatSg one hundred Thousand dol.
lars for the Governors nse, for detective
purposes, twenty five thousand of which
to be used for the capture of Yerger. The
eenlleman's resolution was permitted to-
follow the woodbine.