The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-01
Johnseri's Amnesty.i Preclamations.

The Supreme Court of the United
States has once more decided that the
amnesty proclamations of Presl dent
johnson havasand have had, full force
and effect. One Pargoud brought suit
| in the Court of Claims for the proceeds
of cotton seized and sold under the
Captured and Abandoned Property Act
of 1868. The court held that he did
not show that he had never given aid
or comfort to the rebellion, and on Par
gouds appeal, the Supreme Court de-
cides that President Johnson's amnes-
ty proclamation of December 20, 1868,
relieved him from the necessity ofpro-
wing that he adhered to the United
States during the war. The pardon IN
other words washed out his participa-
ton in rebellion, and made him in law
new man, so that the Court of Claims
could not go into the question OF his
..loyalty" = AS Pargoud's case is the
case of every man participating in the
rebellion, the amnesty of December Is,
1868, being absolute and universal, 1t
can be seen that any man may now
sue for his property in the United
States Court without being hampered
by the question of Hoyalty." The
johnson proclamations have abrogated
all the vindictive legislation of the war.
The abstract of the opinion of the court
as we have it from Washington is here
subjoined:
No. 36.-Prrgoud as. United States
appeal from the Court Of Claims.-This
was a proceeding to recover the pro-
ceeds of cotton seized under the Cap
-tured and Abandoned Property Act OF
1868, and was argued at the last term
of the court. The Court of Claims dis
missed the petition on the ground that
it did not aver that the claimant had
given no aid and comfort to the rebel
lion, nor sufficiently aver Executive
pardon. 1t is here held (the same as
in the case of Armstrong VS.: United
States, recently decidedly that the Pres
idents proclamation of December %,
1868, granting pardon and amnesty UNI
conditionally and without reservation,
relieves the claimants in cases under
the Captured and Abandoned Property
Act from proof of adhesion to the Uni
ted States during the late war. The
: Judgment dismissing the petition is
/ reversed.
The Chief Justice delivered the opin-
: ion.-[New York World.
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VIOLATING THE SABBATH.-A rigid
Sabbatarian, who occasionally exhorts
in church, aud ill the Office of justice
of the peace in Western village, not
long since went on a deer hunt with a
: party composed of five or six young
!, hunters. By some unaccountable mis-
r take he lost his reckoning, and, much
) to his modification, he found, on refer
, ence to his papers on the third day of
p the hunt, that it was Sunday, when lie
had supposed it was Saturday. He
opened the morning with a prayer, and
told his comprehensive as a Chris
;: tian and magistrate, he could not
: hunt that day; and accordingly drew
l forth his pocket Bible and commenced
t reading. His worldly minded COM
4 panions thought, with the Baltimore
| bank man, 'sthat there were no Sab
baths in Revolutionary times" ans
4 took the hounds and started in pursuit
t of game. 1t was not long before the
D whole pack were in full cry, and the
h worthy magistrate, on looking up from
!, the sacred volume, discovered fins
T buck making for the camp. Without
minutes elaboration, he seized {
. loaded rifle and plugged the deer be
Il tween the antlers.
L "Gentlemen," said he, VIII en- Iii
n friends came to the spot, sit is contra
Il ~ to the laws of Moses and the revised
r. statutes of Pennsylvania to travel OIL
l. Sunday, and for that reason I shot tina
V fellow. Still, have violated the Sab
n bath as Il Christian, While have main
a. tanned the dignity of the law as
magistrate, and acting in the latte
6. capacity"
ts "If we thould scare mp another 2"
"Td shoot the rascal for travelling O
~ Sunday"
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of ENGRAVING BY ELECTRICITY.--Th
IL London photographer says: "The et
at forts which have been made from tim
er to time with but poor encouragement
ht to engrave on metals by means of elet
& tricity, seems at last to have resulte
4 in the attainment of practical. result
. An ingenius French mechanic has prt
~ duced an invention by which met
~ plate upon which a design is draw
81 with a chemical ink of some kind,