The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-05-13

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Attention is called to the card OF
Morris 6 Hazard, receiving and for
warding merchants, Big Cane, La.
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We have been so occupied this
week in putting up a new printing
press, that we have had but little
time to attend to this issue of the
paper. Ii s,ess a1s
Mr.. L. P Goodrich has been APP
pointed Justice Of the peace for the
14th ward, parish Of st. Landry,
and also notary public fox said par-
ish. s@ '''a~~ @
B. A&s s-~~~-~~-~e~>~~-~~ az is So
Mfr. Louis Waiter has removed his
furniture store and workshop to an
other building on Main street, near
Mr.. j. Johns blacksmith shop. We
call attention. to his advertisement
i'm another column, where the par
ticulars Of his business are set.forth.
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Iittle Jimmie Ray, son of DR.
james Ray, of this place, killed an
eagle last Wednesday, within the
town corporation, measuring six feet
and nine inches from tip to tip Of
wings, and two feet and SIX inches
from the beak tor the end of the tail.
Since our report last week, the
following criminal cases have been
tried in the District Court
Henry Johnson, colered-murder
guilty without capital punishment.
vLucien Gibson, colosed-murder
guilty Of shooting at with intent
to eemmitmuBdeE. s6a baa ~,3
Glide Fontenot-disturbfn peace
able assembly-guilty.
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The storm on Tuesday, the I'd
inst, caused, considerable damage
among the steamboats, ON the Mis-
sissippi River, and at Baton Rouge.
The Baton Rouge papers report
great destruction Of property atthat
place. The@walls OF the peniteil-
tiary were blown down, causing a
loss of 100000. All the property
destroyed there was estimated at
from 100000 to 81 900, 600. e..
The Presidents Proclamation i'm Re-
lalion to the Enforcement Of the
Fourteenth Amendment. ns Il.
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WASHINGTON, May 4.-The act
Of Con gress. entitled am act to- en-
force the provisions of the 14th
amendment to- the Constitution of
the United States, and for other
purposes, approved April 20, A. ID.
1871, being a law Of extraordinary
public Importance, Iconsider it my
duty to issue this, my proclamation,
calling the attention of the people
of the United States thereto, en-
joining upon all good citizens, and
especially upon public officers, to be
tedious I'M the enforcement thereof,
and warning all persons to abstain
from committing any of the acts
thereby prohibited. This law OF
Congress applies to- all parts of the
United States, and will be enforced
everywhere to the extent of the
powers vested in the Executive, but
masmuch as the necessity therefor
is well known to have been caused
chiefly by persistent violations of
the rights of citizens of the United
States, by combinations of lawless
and disaffected persons in certain
localities, lately the theatre of in
Srlrrection and military conflict,
K do particularly exlort the peo-
pie of those parts of the country to
suppress all such combinations by
their own voluntary efforts, through
the agency of the local laws, and
to maintain the rights of all citizens
of the United States, aud to secure
to all such citizens the equal pro-
lection of the laws.
Fully sensible of the responsible
ty imposed upon the Executive by
the act Of Congress, to which public
attention is now called, and reluc-.
tant to call into exercise any of the
extraordinary powers thereby con-
firmed upon me, except in cases of
imperative necessity, i do, nevertle-
less, deem it my duty to make
knewn that / will not hesitate to
exhaust the powers thus vested in
the Executive whenever and where
ever it shall become necessary to- do
SO for the purpose of securing to all
citizens of the United States the
peaceful enjoyment of the rights
guaranteed to them by the Constr
tuition and laws.
Itis my earnest wish that peace.
and cheerful obedience to law may