The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-06-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
washington News.

mt shows q decrease in the puolc deot
II nearly Sl4.5OO,0 oe; cash in treasury,
gold, sFo6, 75O, 600 !; currency s14,25o, 900;
sinking fund $50, 500, 900; bonds purchased
$50, OOo, loco.
HoUsE.-The tax bill was resumed.
An amendment allowing a discount q
ten per cent. on stamps for amounts IN ex-
cess of $500, was adopted. =,
In the course of a discussion in regard
to penalties for washing defaced stamps
Mr.. -Schenck stated that it was the inten-
ton of the Committee on Ways and Means
to wipe ost the whole system OF spies and
inforrners and to allow no more notifies.
A Treasury estimate, which was presen-
ted during the5discussion, shows the fol-
lowing as the probable amount OF receipts
for next year: From customs, $lo5,OOO 900;
from internal revenue tax, $l75,OOO,O 600 ;
from lands, $500. 600 from miscellaneous
sources. S38, 900, O00-making Is total OF
$3.50, 900, 900. The estimate expenditures
were 1921 900, 600, which would leave a sur
pies of $lO2. 10000.
The amendment fixing stamps on checks
for any sum, two cents was adopted.
The income tax was finally reached,
when a long discussion indicating an in,
crease of exemption to..two.thousand dollars,
and continuance of the present rate. House
adjourned.
HAVANA, June 1.-The troops had q
skirmish yesterday with a band of rebels
near Managua. ~ e.
The insurgents have killed five volunteers
and one Spanish soldier at Monte Alto
near Palmillas.
The planters and others are holding, pri-
vate NEE ings in Havana, at which they
discuss the proposed abolition OF slavery
Too Much Cotton.
LONDON, June 1.-The. Shipping ant
Mercantile Gazette fears that the Southern
States are planting too muchcotton and toe
little grain, and apprehends bad results.
Ohio Democratic Convention.
COLUMBUS, O., Jrne 1.-THE Democrat
ic State Convention met to day at II A. M
1t is the smallest held by that party fo
years, there being only $50 of 537 dele
gates present. D. j. CalIen was olectet
temporary chairman. and R. t. Hurlbut
Secretary.
Rode Island Legislature.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., June 1.-The Gen
eral Assembly was organized by the cleo
ton of Republican officers. The Repub
lican caucus has r~enominated Mr.. Anthem,
as United States Senator by Ga to 10
The nomination was then made unanimous
This is a clear defeat of the Sprague part.
in Rode Island.
Ecclesiastical.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-The Presbyte
| rian Assembly to day heard the delegate
appointed to visit the Assembly at Louis
vile.
The delegates presented a communicable
from the Southern Assembly replying t
the overtures f)r a union of the churches
which states that the Southern Churc
does not approve Of a union because it
a total surrender of all fundamental doc
trines, and embraces all shades of belle
and there are impossible barriers to an
official intercourse between the two chu'
ches.
The delegation bringing the commune
ton also submitted their reports shown
what action had been taken at Louisville
Several representatives then present mac
speeches, showing in what spirit the Soutl
ern Assembly had been directed in the
opinions. It was thought the report woul
be received and the committee discharge,
Citizens Bank of Louisiana.
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Mr. Kellogg
Joint resolution authorizes the Srcretal
of the Treasury teapot t a commission
three persons, to hear and determine tt
claims of various parties to the sum
S2l9.000, which was On deposit in the Cit
zens' Bank of Louisiana, and afterwar'
seized from the Confederate Receivers
New Orleans, for the benefit of Northel
creditors whose debts had been confscate
The resolution was referred to the Comm
tee on Claims.
Senator Harris on the Levees.
The speech of Mr.. Harris, of Louisian
regarding the levees, attracted considerah
attention. -
Mr.. Harris said a large area of land TIC
nnder cultivation is liable to damage fro
foods that sugar plantations are most
on low lands, and also many cotton plant
tons, and the damage to the crop on t
Texas bottom, a fertile and cultivated I
gion near his own home, has been estim
! ted at IS, 600, 900 in a single year. Tt
would give some faint idea of the peril
which these products ale unnecess
. rrily subjected. A perfect system of leves
such as could be made practicable, as G
~perience in Europe showed, would relic
| the people from this sense of impendil
danger and add immensely to the veal
Of the nation He proceeded to show tn
t a perfected leyee system would protect fro
inundation an area of $4,000 square mill
and claimed that the restoration of t
Louisiana levees even to their imperfe
condition before the wal would enable til
State at once to equalizer former %annualp l
|, duction Of 225, 900 tons ofsugar, and in K
: than ten years to make all the sugar I
! country needs, thus saving the count
a yearly balance of $50, 000,0 600 how Sc
abroad.
After presenting many statistics relati
+ to the subject of cotton production, \
: Harris continued Perfect our leve
! and we can have 1000, 900 acres of t
3 best cotton lands in the world, and to s
+; they win yield 1000, 900 bales is a mot
j rate statement.
E Let 1000, 900 industrious freedmen lie
their labor to this task. on these reclaim
5 lands and they can raise 10000 ba
4 ofteotton O 4o0pounds each, or {, 00o, 0o0,o
/ pounds worth $500, DOC, 600 at the low pr
Of fifteen cents per pound, and over $40
i o00, 900, at present prices. Resoluti
, adopted.
Ohio Democratic Convention.
. CoLumBus, Ohio, June 2.-The Der
: cratic State Convention passed resolutie
3 d~enonncing the tariff and internal rever
2 laws and p%rononncing law for the enfol
: ment of the fifteenth amendment unc
!, stitutional.
! Railroads.
Denver, Colorado, June 1.-Two mi
. and six hundred feet of track was laid