The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-07-02
NEWS OF II WEEK.


Washington News.
WASHINGTON, June 81. -HousE.-fn the
case of Whittemore, member elect from
South Carolina, Mr.. Logan offered a resoln-
ton that the House decline to allow Mr..
Whittemore to be swim, and direct that
! his credentials be returned to him.
Mr.. Farnsworth opposed the resolution,
but at the close Of his speech the resolution
was adopted by yeas 1871, nays "a.
SEsArE.-The Post Office appropriation
bill, with the frank lpg repeal bill, as amen
ded, was considered.
The amendment abolishing the ranking
privilege was rejected-yeas 20, nays IS,
and the bill then passed.
Amnesty Bill.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-Thc Reconstruct
ton Committee reported a bill for full and
general grace, amnesty and oblivion of GER
tain wrongful acts, doings and omissions
connected with the late rebellion. It cx-
cludcs persons educated at West Point or
Annapolis, members Of Congress before the
rebellion, heads of Executive Departments,
Judges Of Federal courts or foreign Minis
tets before the war, signers Of ordinances
Of secession and Governors Of States during
the rebellion, persons who treated cruelty
Federal prisoners, persons who held Eede-
raj moneys and property at the commence
ment of the war and have not made restitu-
ton, and all dcsertcrs from the Federal
army Or navy. The bill was ordered to be
printed and ~rccommitted.
Virginia Republican Convention:
WHEELING, W. Va, June 22.-The Re
publican State Convention assembled at
Parkersburg this A. NJ. at 10 O'Clock.
Thomas B. Swan, Of Kanawha, formerly
acted with the Republicans since the war,
made a speech of half an hour, appealing
to the republicans to be magnanimous to
the rebels, and closed saying that if this
was done, they would cooperate with the
party.
Chinese and Indians.
ST. LOUIS, June 22.-About $50 Chinese
arrived here to-day en- route for New Or
leans.
Late letters from the Plains report that
nearly all the young Indians belonging to
the A~raphahoes and Cheyenne tribes, be-
low the Arkansas River, are on the war
Ddti. DtNtldl IidlliS nave GScil GapluIcu
and a number of white men killed. It is
very dangerous for trains, mail parties, or
anybody else to travel below Fort Dodge.
Internal Revenue Receipts-Cotton
to be Reduced in Price.
WAsHINGToS, June 22,-Internal revenue
receipts to-day $G3C,000.
The internal revenue receipts for the
present fiscal year will reach $780, 00, 900,
which is a great excess over previous years
and Boutwelrs estimates, and the agricul-
tural report for the current month of cotton.
Cotton growers seem determined this
year to reduce the price to Is cents, with
every prospect Of doing it. The acreage
is materially increased in every State,
while that of wheat and probably of corn,
though the county estimates for the
entire country do not come in until
July 1st, has decreased. II the neglect
of all other interests can only be cured by
cheap cotton the sooner the reduction, comes
the better.
Separation Of Church and State.
ZURICH, June 22.--The Nenfchat-
ell Council voted by a large majority in
favor of the separation of Church and State.
washington News.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-SENATE.-The
bill making the 4th of July, Christmas,
New Years and Thanksgiving Days legal
holidays in the District of Columbia, passed.
and goes to the President for his approval.
The tax bill was then taken up, and the
income tax stricken out By a vote of 81 to
SO, after which the bill was made the spe-
cial order for Monday.
HoUsE.-After prolonged discussion, and
a decided negative vote upon mixed schools,
the Georgia bill passed in ther following
shape, and goes to the Senate
SECTION /. Be it enacted, That the State
of Georgia having complied with the re-
construction acts, and the fourteenth and
fifteenth articles of amendment to the con-
s%titution of the United States having been
ratified in good faith by a legal Legislature
of said State, it is hereby declared that the
said State Of Georgia is entitled to repre-
sentation in the Congress Of the United
States, but nothing in this act shall be-
construed to deprive the people of Georgia
of the right to an election Cor members of
the General Assembly of the said State as
provided for in the constitution of said State.
SEC. 2. That so much of the act entitled
IAN act making appropriations for the
support of the army for the year ending
June 30th, 1868, and for other PURPOSES"
approved March 3, 1867, as prohibits the
organization, arming or calling into service
of the MALTA forces in the State of Georgia.
Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, be and the
same is hereby repealed.
The President has signed the Department
nf Tpcfioo bi11 uhich, rpoat1r A.
patronage of the Attorney General.
Accommodation
CHICAGO, June 24.-The Episcopal Coun
Gil of Wisconsin, held at Milwaukee yester-
day, promulgated the following: Every
communicate of our church who marries
outside of our communion, or is married by
any other than a clergyman of our church,
shall stand pro .tscto communicated.
Railroads.
WASHINGTON, June 25.-SENATE.-Mr.
Abbott introduced as bill authorising the
consolidation of the Western North, Caro-
lima Railroad, the Wilmington, Charlotte
and Rutherford Railroad, and the Spartans.
burg and Union Railroad under the, name
of the Western North Carolina Extension
Railroad Company, for the purpose of Con
structing a railroad to Cleveland, Tenn.
and establishing a continuous railway CON-
munication between the Atlantic ports of
North Carolina and South Carolina and the
Pacific ocean by way of the contemplated
Southern transcontinental railway.
WASHINGTON, June 27.-SENArE.-The
Southern Pacific Railroad bill passed.
Goes~to the House for concurrence.
NJ pirh4 +ba Hcuo, Do,.a. D..I.z.J LII
was considered, and was amended to require
the width of gauge from Marshall, Texas,
to San Diego, Cal, to be Eve feet.
ST.. LOUIS, June GA dispatch from
Denver says the last spike in the Beaver