Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-04-29
RESTRAINT, FOR REBELs...-s.
whnt theLaw agufnst the Ku-1x1ux


proposes 10 accomplish.
The main features of the Ku-klux bill
are as fellows. The second section pro-
vides that if two or more persons within
any State or Territory Of the United States
shall conspirc together to overthrow the
Of the United States, or to
levy war against the United States, or to
oppose by force the authority of the Gov
crnmcnt of the United States, or by force
or intimidation hinder or delay the execu-
tion of any law of the United States, or by
force to seize, take or possess any property
of the United States contrary TO the au.
thority thereof, or by force, intimidation or
threat to prevent any person from accept-,
ing or holding any Office, ior trust, or place
of confidence under the United States, or
to injure him in his person or property on
account ofhis lawful discharge Of the duties
of his Office, or to injurc his person while
engaged i'm the lawful discharge of the
duties Of his Office, or to iniure his property
so as to molest, hinder, interfere with or
impede him in the discharge of his official
duty, or by force, intimidation or threat to
deter any party or witness in any court of
the United States from attending such
court, or from testifying in any matter
pending in such court, fully and truthfully,
or to injure any such party or witness in
his person or property on account OF his
having 80 attended or testified or by force,
intimidation or threat to influence the ver-
dict, prescntment or indictment Of indict-
ment of any juror or grand juror in any
court of the United States, or to injure
such juror in his person or property on ac-
count of any verdict presentment or indict-
ment lawfully assented to by him, or on
account of his being or having been such
juror, or shall conspire together or go IL
disguise upon the public highway or the
premises of another for the purpose either
directly or indirectly, of depriving any per-
son of the equal protection of the laws, or
Of equal privileges or immunities under the
laws, or for the purpose of preventing or
hindering the constituted authorities of
any State from giving or securing to oil
persons within such State the equal pro-
lection Of the laws, or shall conspire togeth-
er for the purpose of in any manner imped-
ing hindering,u obstruGting or defeating
the due course of justice in any State or
Territory, with intent to deny to any cit-
zen of the United States the due and equal
protection of the laws, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than
5000, or by imprisonment, with or with
out hard labor, as the court may deter
mine, for period ofnot less than six months
nor more than six years, as the court may
determine, or oy both such fine and inn
prisonment as the court shall determine.
The third section enacts that in all cases
where insurrection, domestic violence, un-
lawful combination or. conspiracy in any
State shall so obstruct or hinder the execu-
ton Of the laws thereof and of the United
States rs to deprive any portion of the peo-
pie of such States of any of the rights,
privileges or immuntieS, or protection
named in the constitution and secured by
this act, and the constituted authorities
of such State shall either be unable to pro-
tect, or shall, from any cause, fail in or
refuse protection of the people in such
| rights, such facts shall be deemed denial
by such State of the equal protection OF
the laws to which they are entitled under
the Constitution of tho United States; and
in all such cases, or whenever any sucl,
insurrection, violence, unlawful combna-
tion or conspiracy shall oppose the laws OF
the United States, it shall be lawful for the
President, and it shall be his duty, to take
such measures, by the employment of the
militia of the land and naval forces of the
United States, or of either, or by other
means, as he may deem necessary for the
suppression of such instruction, domestic
VIOLENCE or combinations; and any person
who shall be arrested under the provisions
of this aud the preceding section, shall be
delivered to the marshal Gfthe proper dis
trict, to be dealt with according to law.
Section four provides that such combina-
tions shall be deemed rebellion against
the Government Of the United States.
1t shall be lawful for the President off the
United States, when in his Judgment the
public safety shall require it, TO suspend
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus,
to the end that rebellion may be eovcrthrown.
The fifth section provides that jurors shall
lake an oath that they are not parties to
suchcombinations.S Section six provides that
damages may be recoverable by widows or
others against persons neglecting to give
information Of intended outrages. The first
and last sections are not material to under
standing the merits of the bill. ~ rt
WE LEARN that the breaker Of IIclfcns.
tein,s Lykens Valley Colliery is finished
and ready TO ship coal. That this work
has been done so expeditiousN and we'll
is due we understend to the vigor and zeal
Of Messrs. Reese, Shipp, Boughner & Co.,
and all with whom they had contracts, rs
folows:- Messrs Billmyer, Nagle 4 Co.,
of Lewisburgh, through the active agency
of their partner, Mr.. lIimelright at Sun,
bury, who furnished ailThe timber; Mr. j.
L. LaInie, who supplied the hewed timber
Dah'l Weaver, the builder; Mr., John Ship
of Shamokin, who made the machinery
Mr.. Jabez Sparks of pottsyille, who con
tributed the boilers; Messrs. Laubensteir
of Minersville and Boyd of Tamaqua, who
furnished the screens: Messrs. Hoover
Co., who pushed ahead the mason worl
in all kinds Of weather; Mr.. Joseph Byers
who shaped the work for the siding, 81
that Mr.. King, the contractor, could drive
the work TO its completion in short time
1 We are informed that the material ani
work at this breaker is plain but substan
tial. Its capacity Is 100000 tons per an
mum, which can be easily increased ThI
slope is about 100 yards in length, and th,
/ gangway has been driven east and west {
| number of yards. The vein Is now driver
also, above water level, and with q large
/ breast win afford gangwAys, and thus MAKE
the eolliery capable Of the largest produc
/ tion. The two veins opened are th'
I Iykensi Valley and the coal has MI In