The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-08-07

Our fsadefs will no doubt Feinember,
that some sightesn monthssgo whilst
the Hon. j j. Burk. was, presiding
Judge Of The Sixth Judicial District.
one Eficheal Conner, d private in Col.
| Webster's Company, was on writ OF
haJens corpus, taken before Judge
lBurl, and after the evidence in his
ease was heard, judgement from that
/ Court granted his release from The q.
ls., service. A question Of the right
Of jurisdiction was raised at the time,
and By reference TO files Of this paper,
| IL viii be seen how the matter was
eantassed pro and con With the evi-
4 denee then addueed, we have nothing
to do at this time, Ii il sufficient for
lis To know that The Supreme Court OF
this State sustained the judgement OF
the lower Court, and Conner was set
at liberty He at once went to work
at bis trade, "a Tailor" and opened
a shop on Church street. On Lafay-
ette street he owns small house, where
! his family has resided for the past
two years When Conner became es.
tablished In his business, he was not
q little surprised to find that Mr.. + NJ
/ Conrad, then Secretary Of war, had
issued ali order for his arrest as DIES
i erter, the order being sent to Capt.
/ Morgan Conner was commanded to
report himself to that officer. He hes
tated ---and after consulting various
persons on the subject, he closed his
ship and left the place, to await the
1 issue Of the matter On Thursday
Il evening last, be was arrested, and is now
under guard at the Garrison. The
arrest was made by Capt. Ricketts,,
now in command Of this post.
This is a brief statement Of the case;
ifnct strictly true, we shall be happy
TO correct it. We do not wish to at
taeh any blame to the officers here,
and no one will; for IT is we'll known
that they act under imperitiye instruc-
! lions. but we do say that Conner is
victimized on account Of d conflict
E between the Civil and Military powers
that should be settled at once. The
! question is simply this. Is Conner le.
gally detained ID The service Of the
{ United States ? The Civil authority
e 1.-The highest we know Of in this State
/ says mo Then why arrest him as 3
b ,leserter Is 1t to be said that even
i the most humble citizen of this Repnb
! lie shall be deprived Of bis liberty
when it has been awarded to him By
the highest tribunal we know off,
shall the Secretary Of War; declare I
= man to be 'sdeserter' when the courts
have set him at liberty
!. Now that the question Is raised lci
us have il settled. that the innocent b,
Q not made to suffer.
al 10 Bayard Taylor writing from
! Nubia in Bgypt, says something Will
al regard 10 the ancient Egyptians tina
Iruns counter to The testimony Of eS'
ell witnesses. For instance, Herodatu
81 who travelled in Egypt long before
L HE birth Of Christ, says that he fount
Is the Egyptians, not only with eris1
aud curly hair, but Of a dark aud swa
q thy complexion. We have no objec
p ton TO have the building Of tho Pyr
r aniids, placed to the credit Of til
r white race, since il can never b
q proven but We refer to Hsrodatu
4. to show tue difference between hin
d, and Mr.. Taylor. Here is what MI
y Taylor says
Those friends Of the African rae
y Who point to Egypt as q proof Of wha
y that race has accomplished, are Who'll
g mistaken. The only negro feature