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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12

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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12

WEATHER AND CRoPs.-Notwith-
standing the extremelywarm dry wealth
er, the crops, except early corn, are
steadily improving, where the ground
was well prepared, a stand obtained and
wellcultivated. The early corn is great
ly in need of rain, and unless it comes
soon there will be a short crop. The
last rain we had in Opelousas, and the
only n since the 22d or 23d of April,
was to-day Thursday two weeks ago ;
there have been showers since in some
parts of the parish.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12

CHARBoN.-We are informed that in
several parts of this parish, this terrible
scourge of horses, mules and cattle, is
prevailing to an alarming extent-at the
lower end of Faquetaique prairie, on the
TGche and about Barry's Landing.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12
ID. p. Iafeur.
w. r. Ashford,
DIN Vidrine,
Zen0n Vidrine,
David C0urYille.
Joseph Fruge,
JrSin Miller, ,Jr.

On motion, the above report was received and
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Chacher6, resolved, that
AedOiIe q. Fontenot be appointed as road over
seer from j. b. Duplechfn's to Jesse Y0ung's
ferry. .%a4usHIs
Joseph Chenier, CT. Moore and William Young
be appointed a committee to submit a plan and
make a bill of the lumber necessary to rebaild
Reeds bridge over bayou Cane, and report the
same at the next meeting of this Jury.
The petition Of citizens of prairie Laurent.
asking for relief for widow z. Lagrange, also
ing for relief for a colored deranged woman, iv-
ing with Mr.. r. A. Afdrus, was read and, on
motion of Mr.. Durio, were ordered to be filed,
as there is no funds in the Parish Treasury to.
the credit of the fund for the maintainance of
indigentS.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-06-12

OpelGusas is d peaceful Village. The
Town Council publishes two columns oil
0rdinanees-on Saturday which takes
all the peoples time and attention to-
study ont their meaning. bysthe6ine the
council meets again. The idea lisa good
one. It ought to be patented.IThibO
daus Sentinel, june 6tl.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-29

MILK PuNCH.-A good story is
told of Judge p. of Vermont, we'll
known as pronounced tetotallar, to
illustrate the value of some mems
professions. Invited to attend some
agricultural festival, if he would
have glass of milk, and upon re-
spending, eyes" was proffered a
glass of -what-looked like milk, but
was in fact strong milk punch. TAX
ing sip at first, the Judge soon re-
turned to the glass and drained it to
the bottom, when he returned it to
his entertainer with the exclamation,
{" Lord. what a cow!'-Ne,c Bedford
Mercur.N. -.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-29

A FRENCH newspaper states that a
Girl named Cavigrac was carried to
fbe shrine at Lourdes in a dying
state, but had no sooner touched the
holy water than she raised up per-
fectlv well. Another girl, who had
been dumb for seven years, COM
menced singing as Soon as she
reached the grotto. At Marseilles,
moreover, the nuns have marched
in procession to an altar in one of
the churches which is dedicated to
our Lady of Lourdes to express their
gratitude for the miraculous cure of
one of their number, who had suff-
cred for twenty months from an ap-
parently incurable malady.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-09-10

THE State of Georgia having ten per cent
OF its colored population the immediate de-
cendants of some of its best of the superior
race, revolts at the idea Of the social equality
OF mixed schools. Forty-three thousand
three hundred and twenty-eght ofits colored
population are blood relatives of the white
people of that State, and yet the people are
opposed to social equality. The following
shows the insanity of the State School Com
missioner:
"Gustavus j. Orr, State School Commits
sioner of Georgia, has just sent out circu-
lar to the various County Commissioners,
setting forth the amount of money necessary
to be raised, and asking their views upon
the question of local taxation. In conclu-
sion he says: Let not the board decline ac-
ton on the questions herein presented, be-
cause of the tendency of the Civil Rights
bill. Let them give their views of the cues.
tions on their merits. do not believe that
the Civil Rights bill will ever be passed.
Should it ever become law, 1 have in nv
mind plan of testing its validity. which
will probably prevent its being put into prac-
tical operation, and without risk to the State
agents of our school system. The plan will
be given in due time. When it is definitely
decided that mixed schools are to be forced
upon us, every true Georgian, including the
most ardent friends of public schools, will
array himself against the system ITSELF"
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Ouirages.

The following is list of Democratic and
rebel murders in the State Of Tennessee for
the month of August. We copy 1t from the
Nashville Bulletin. Is it record of which
Americans are proud? Can Americans
abroad speak with pride and satisfaction of
the enlightenment and civilization of this
nation in face of the fact that in one half
of the States murderers have the greatest
impunity in the preparation of their crimes I?
The paper established by Horace Greeley
attempts to 'stigmatize the Government for
offering resistance to cutthroats in the South.
The pulpits Of the country are silent in face
of the barbarlsm of the South. Surely it
would appear to people in other lands that
civilization in the United States is far, very
far, from being powerful
August burning of the school-house at
Commerce, Smith county.
August Massacre of the Reeves broth
ers at Somervile.
August lO.-Burning of two churches near
Cypress, West Tennessee.
August ll.-Burning of two churches in
Haywood county.
August l2.-Midnight murder of Sandy
SCpiCos tth iuOucuSlNc Oiu CUlOICu IIldu, ny
masked men at Stewards Creek, Rutherford
county.
August 15.-Unprovoked murder of Robert
Banks, colored musician, near Kingston
Springs, by one William kellam
August 13.-Burning of school-house at
Gardner's Station, Weakly county.
August 14.-Burning of school-house near
Grant, Smith county.
August 22.-Fiendsh murder of Julia Hay
den, colored school teacher, at Huntsville,
by midnight marauders.
August 24.-Cruel and unprovoked murder
OF Dick Mckinney, an inonensive and aged
colored man, by maskers, at Chestnut Mound,
Smith county.
August 25.-Wholesale buchery of sixteen
colorsd men, who were taken from the iail
at Trenton, Gibson county, by armed and
masked men and shot down like dogs.
August 2O.-The finding of the dead bodies
OF three negroes fastened on raft floating
down the Tennessee river, with a card at
tached to their persons with the following
inscription: ''They have a ticket to New
Orleans; please let them pass"
August 30.-StOpping of the train at York
Station, on the Alabama and Chattanooga
and the deliberate and unprovoked
murder OF Thomas Ivey, cOlored mail route
agent.
The above are but a few of the many out
rageous deeds which have been perpetrated
during the past month, and which have been
prompted by the teachings of prominent
Democratic politicians.
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DOWningiSRal.

A few colored citizens in New England,
following the suggestions of man who
would divide the colored vote between the
party that comes nearest our hopes and the
party that is numbering our people in the
South, are passing resolutions declaring their
want of faith in tie Republican party. In
this colored crusade OH the Republican party
George 7. Downing is the recognized leader.
Fortunate it is that the colored people have
the good sense not to follow where he leads.
The New York Tribune, the organ chosen by
Mr.. Downing to give publicity to his sug-
gestons of division of the colored vote. is
VIGOROUSLY inimical to the idea O. protecting
the negro from the outrages of the Demo-
cratic party. No good can come to our race
through defeat of the Republican party. a
declaration of want of faith in the party
is equal to declaration that the party
ought not to be supported Can any sensi-
BILE colored man really desire the defeat of
the Republican party? If not, let him
eschew Downingism and take counsel of COM
mon sense
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no the CoiOred Voters In the South

The action Of the President and the Attor-
hey General of the United States should give
hope and courage to the colored voters in
The South. In the State of Georgia the larger
portion of colOrcd voters have been deprived,
through intimidation and murder, of the
exercise Of the elective franchise. AS in
Georgia, so in other Of the late slave States.
We feel justified in saying to colored voters
that the safest course for them to pursue is
10 stand by the Republican party and to
exercise their right to vote. In all those
instances where colored voters have been
compelled by brutality to organize Demo-
cratic clubs, we say make the fact known to
the authorities of the United States and pro-
lection will be afforded. The reasonable,
as well as murderous, intent of the White
Leagues is being understood in that section
Of our country where truth and justice are
respected. A few papers like the New Y rk
Tribune and the infamous Sun are doing their
best to stir up the passions of the lower
classes against the negro. Powerful as are
those journals, the wicked sophistry, and
illy-dsguised negro hate that inspire them,
is understood by the masses of freedom
loving, patriotic citizens of the North. The
barbarism of slavery is clearly recognizable
i'll the fienlish atrocities and barbarism of
men who boast of their superiority because
they are white. The character of the negro
as peaceable, inOIensive, and law-abiding,
is too well known by the people of the North
for them to believe the lies telegraphed from
the South of threats against the white popu-
lation by colored people. II is remembered
that no Outrages were committed by the
slaves when every opportunity was offered
by the absence of the white men in the rebel
army. Ii is remembered that outrages were
begun Oh the negro immediately on the return
of the rebel soldiers to their homes. Vagrant
laws were enacted. Passes were required
for the freedman from his employer before he
could enjoy the freedom of the public high
way. When Congress took the question of
reconstruction into its hands, and the rights
of the freemcn were respected, the Ku- KluX
Klans began their iiabolcal atrocities against
not only the negro, but against every loyal
citizen of the United States who openly sup
ported the Union cause. From these begin
nings We have come down to the present day
of outrage, with the attempt of rebels and
7ebel-sympathizing papers of the North to
Gay at the door Of the negro the blame for the
blood-chilling horrors of the South. To our
COlored voters We say take courage and exer-
else your rights without regard to threats
! is your duty to make known to the proper
authorities every attempt at intimidation.
BE peaceable and orderly yourselves, and
the Government will protect you.
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A Lesson TO be Taught.

''The receut amendments to the national
Constitution should be cordially sustained
because they are right, not merely tolerated
because they are law and should be carried
out according To their spirit by appropriate
legislation, the enforcement of which can
safely be entrusted only to the party that
secured those amendments"
The foregoing is the second plank in the
Philadelphia platform of 1872, adopted by
the convention nominating General Grant
for the second term. The political assassina-
tiOns, lynchings and whippings in the South
for the past few weeks give evidence that
the people in that section not only do not
cordially sustain" the recent amendments
''bet ause they are right" but do not even
ioierate them "bccause they are law"
re massacres ia tke slave States grow
ST settled purpose of opposition to the
recent amendments TO the national Consti-
tuition. IL is the firm conviction of the
white people of the South that those who
are laborers should be the property Of the
land owners or aristocratic element in the
South. That class of white people who were
slave owners are not reconcied to the thir-
tecnth amendment and cannot tolerate it as
law. With eX-slaveholders laborers are in
ferior beings and can have no rights worthy
of respect. This feeling had become so gen.
eral in the South that white men preferred
TO steal rather than TO degrade themselves
by honest toll, hence large portion of the
white element gained precarious livelihood
by hunting, fishing, and stealing, and formed
a class known as ''poor white trash.' The
''poor white trash," though despised to
great extent by the Shareholders, were toler-
ated as allies in the work of keeping the
negro in subsection. They were taught that
because they were white they were superior
to the "niggers," whether bond or free,
teaching that became crystallized INTO con.
viction which inpels to such murderous an
tagonisms as have been chronicled during
the past few weeks. For the negro to have
freedom and to exercise the elective fran
chise TO the mind of the ex-slaveholder are
denominations that Justify the most positive
while the poor "whlte trash, -
with feeling akin to that Of their own
though to them unconscious cppressors
carry out the resentments in the mcst shock |
ing and barbarous manner.
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string up the prejudices of the people, how
can we have peace? And when these "su-
perior" and "chivalrous" people remember
that they outnumber us five to one in the
State, how can we have war? But they
have already solved the problem, and are
massacreing the negroes. While many de-
nounce their Infamous actions, others are
trying to justify them. Now, Mr.. Editor,
cannot take any pleasure in chronicling these
outrages, for 1 am a citizen of Tennessee,
and must grow with it in its prosperity, or
suffer with it in its adversely; and, as man
OF feeling, must regret that so many of my
fellow-beings have been sent to eternity,
and, perhaps, without preparation.
On the 9Th of August Sandy PEBBLES was
murdered in Rutherford county by masked
men who visited his house by night. In
Sommerville Cash Warren was. shot on or
about the 9th of August. Robert Banks was
shot and killed at Kingston Springs by one
kellam, who asked him if he didn't want to
shoot? Banks replied, mo, sir" to which
kellam said, 'Then will shoot you," and
shot him dead. This outrage was committed
IN the day in the presence, Of a company of
men among whom was an officer Of the law.
d. II. Nelson was shot at Pulaski in the day
by unmasked men. Miss Julia Hayden,
colored schOol-teacher, was shot at Harris
vile, TrOusdale county--shot dead in her
bed at midnight by unknown (?) parties.
Dick Mckinney, an old man sixty years OF
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shot by masked men who went to his house
about midnight and killed him because he
had said that he would not be frightened
away from home by the Ku-KuX or anybody
else in disguise. For this piece Of mpudence
the old man was shot to death and his head
battered in with an Ak. Then on the night
of the 18th, sixteen colored men, who were
placed in the Picketville Jail, on suspicion Of
being leaders in a riot, were taken out by
about seventy five armed and disguised men
after midnight and shot to death. Three
more unfortunate men were shot to-day, and
their bodies tied to raft, were found floating
down the Tennessee river, with card attached
bearing this inscription: "Free transpor-
tation to New Orleans These and others
who are being murdered in the South whose
only crime is that they are negroes. Except
only in one case none of the scoundrels have
been arrested.
The Governor has issued proclamatons
and offered rewards. but negroes are still
being outraged in many ways which we cam
not endure much longer. We are whipped,
our school-houses and churches are burned,
and no redress whatever Is there no
remedy. L.
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The Tribune Don't Like IT.

The New York Tribune does not like the
course to be pursued towards protecting the
loyal citizens of the South from assassination
and outrage by Democratic organizations in
that locality. The President of the United
States has placed the matter in the hands of
Attorney General Williams, whom the Tri-
bune declares is not to be trusted. Not be-
cause it thinks he will not exert himself to
protect the loyal people in the South, but
because he treats the outrages as ''consp ira
cies of the white men to drive the ne gro away
from the polls and rob him of the equal pro-
lection of the laws" The Tribune may
attempt to deny or dlsbelieve that intimida-
ton of voters is aimed at by White Leagues
and Color Line parties, but every sane man
in the country, be he honest or dishonest,
knows that the struggle to-day in the
South is on one side for the naturalization of
Che results Of the war, and on the other for
their maintenance. The arguments Of the
New York Tribune are all in sympathy with
the barbarians of the South 1t interposes
objections to any and every measure to bring
about condition of peace and safety for the
Union people. Carpet-bagSers, thieves,
ignorant and degraded negroes, are the cpl
thets hurled at the victims of the Ku-Klux
qy the Tribune. In the belief of that organ
of defense of the miamy of the South Attor-
ney General Williams is not to be trusted
because he has taken measures to protect the
dearly-bOught freedom of the black man in
the South. The Tribune Office will not be
mobbed again for supposed sympathy with
anti-slayary sentiment.
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DIED.-William Storum, at his late resi-
denee, Busti, Chautauqua county, New York,
September s., 1874, aged sc years, one month
and twenty-one days. Mr.. Storum was one
of the early settlers in Western New York,
and was highly respected throughout the
county of which he was one of the pioneer
settlers
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-09-10

The Pennsylvania Republican State Cen
trail Committee has been appointed for the
ensuing fall campaign. Among the members
at large we notice the names of Prof. VIM.
Howard Day, of Harrisburg, and VIM. c.
Foster, Esq, of Philadelphia. These gen.
tlemen are highly respected and leading
colored citizens of the State and the Repub-
lican party. Prof. Day ably manages the
National Progress, an influential weekly Re-
publican journal printed at Harrisburg, now
in its fifth year. Washington Republican.
The recognition of colored Republicans by
the appointment of Mr.. Day is as it should
be. 1t is in striking contrast with the APP
pointment of the Union Republican Congress
sional Committee. just why no colored Con-
gresham is on the Congressional Committee
we have never learned
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Hon. Alexander White.

Hon. Alexander White, of Alabama, was
in the city last week. He is a staunch Re-
publican recruited from the rebel element in
the South. He has accepted the results of
the war and is in earnest in the effort to Sc
cure peace and prosperity for his section. Mr..
White will, as he deserves, receive the uni
ted support of the Republican party of Ala
bama for Congressman at large. Mr.. White
believes the South as much the home of the
negro as of the white. That each race is
necessary to the prosperity of the other, and
that the interests Of both are advanced by
the cultivation of friendly relations between
them. Mr.. White represents the advanced
sentiment of the truly patriotic white people
Of southern nativity. Our colored voters
must not fail to rally to his support in Ala
bama. There Is no longer, we trust, occa-
sion for serious fear of the Ku-Klux. The
Government will do its duty, and all will be
able to exercise the elective franchise without
intimidation. The law-abiding citizens of
Alabama are in no small degree indebted to
Mr.. White for the promise of protection
from the Government
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874.
Rates Of Postage.

For the information and convenience of
Our readers, we publish the following abstract
of the postal laws of the United States. We
advise our readers to cut this out and pre-
serve it for reference:
Postal cards, one cent each, so without
further charge to all parts Of the country.
All letters to all parts Of the United States,
three cents per half ounce.
Local, or drop" letters, that is for the
city or town where deposited, two cents if
delivered 10y carriers, and one cent if there is
ho carrier system.
For newspapers aud magazines, regularly
issued aud sent to regular subscribers, the
following rates per quarter of three months,
payable in advance at the Office where re-
CeiYed
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W. Now is the time for delin-
quent subscribers to renew their
subscriptions.
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OUR friend, Samuel Lee, ESQ.,, will accept
thanks for his kindness in sendiug us several
important papers from South Carolina.
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s4r Elsewhere will be found speech
Senator-elect Pinchback on the outrages in
the South. 1t will repay pcrusal.
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NEW NATIONAL ERA.
OCTOBER.
SEPTEMBER.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Al communications relative to matters in the District
should lie sent in by Monday evening Of each week.