Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-03-08
invitations for tho Cabinet will be issued to

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morrow. st,.. ...s.., - 81
, There is great run, to-day, on the Gov
: ernment funds; several Bureaus, including
the Navy Agency, have psid their last dollar
Latest advices from San Antonio intimate
that the Government dispatch ordering Col
Waite to supercede Gen. Twiggs was inter.
7 cepted between San Antonio and Camp
Wide. -... 80
Dispatches from Richmond announce that
the secession ordinance is drafted. John
J Tyler is doing oil he can to drive Virginia
from the Union, and it is believed he will
succeed, in case Mr.. Lincoln's inaugural
suggests coercive policy. ..et. e. -
| a.. WAsHINGToN, March Q.
The following is an abstract of the amend
ment to the act for the rendition of fugitives
from labor, which passed the House to-day ::
Every person arrested shall be produced be-
fore a Court, Judge, or Commissioner for the
State or Territory in which the arrest is made;
such court to proceed to hear and consider
the case publicly, and if such court is Of
opinion that the person arrested owes labor
or service to claimant according to the law of
the State or Territory, and has escaped there.
from, the court shall deliver to claimant q
certificate of such facts, and if such fugitive
AYERS that he is free, such averment shall be
entered on the certificate, and the fugitive
shall be delivered to the Marshal Of the State
from which the fugitive is ascertained to have
fled, who shall produce the said fugitive be-
fore one of the Judges Of the Circuit Court
for the last mentioned State, who shall cause
a jury to be empanneled to try whether such
fugitive owes labor or service; the fugitive
being entitled to aid of counsel, and to pro-
cess for procuring evidence, at the cost of the
United States aud upon such finding the !
Judge shall render judgment causing the fu-
gltive to be delivered to the claimant, or re.
turned to the place where arrested at tho
expense of the Government. Ifthe Judge is
not satisfied with the verdict, he may cause
another Jury to try, forthwith, when the yer
dict shall be final.
The section also imposes fine of 81 900
on the Marshal if he does not fulfill the duty
assigned by this act
Section two enacts that no citizen shall be
compelled to aid the Marshal or owner in the
capture, unless force is employed for capture
from the Marshal also, fixing the fee of the
Commissioners at $40.
The Secretary of War has published an
Official order dismissing Gen. Twiggs from
the army, for treachery to the flag of his
in having surrendered on demand
Of the authorities of Texas the military posts !
and other property of the United States in !
his charge.
Forty-three army officers have resigned
since the passage Of the South Carolina ordi.
nance Of secession-several of them without I
reference to that subject.
The recently passed Post Route bill con-
tains section requiring ten cents prepaid I
ettcr postage to and from the Pacific coast d
without regard to distance All drop letters Q
ire hereafter to be prepaid with postage d
stamps. a
Mr.. Buchanan has postponed the court Q
martial Of Captain Pope till the 18th inst. Il
lie could not breast the contempt which his Q
BETTY revenge excited. q