The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-03
THE NEWS.

Judge Miller, OF the United States Su-
preme Court has rendered yery imnor-
tant decision. He discharged man Who
had aided in securing fraudulent exemp-
tions, and who was indicted therefor, on
the ground that that provision of the
draft law was void, as it did not fixa GER
tain term of punishment. The penalty
provided was imprisonment during the
existence of the rebellion, and the Court
held thai it was impossible to ascertain
any definite length of time of imprison.
ment under such a law. There We're
twenty-five or thirty cases to be tried for
the same offence, and this decision re-
leases them all.
John Cornell and Nicholas Bradley
on Tuesday last entered the banking es-
Enlistment of Conklin Brothers y Co.,
Cincinnati, at noon, and while Mr.. ):
b. Conklin was there alone, assaulted
him with slung shot, intending to
commit a robbery. They were defeated
by Mr.. Conklin, andwere subsequently
caught, though one of them discharged
a revolver while he tried to escape,
wounding an officer, Emanuel Aachey,
in the wrist.
Two hundred and fifty freedmen's
teachers are now employed in Virginia
alone.
Major General Saxton has arrived in
Washington from South Carolina.
Mosby, the guerrilla chiefhas received
the same terms of parole accorded to
General Lees army, and has settled
down at Culpeper, where he has opened
a lawyers office. &c.,
The colored people of washington will
have celebration on the Fourth, on the
grounds adjoining the White House.
| Major General Hunter is to deliver the
Grafton, and the Rev. John Pierpont the
| poem.
The Government expenses during the
past year amounted to three and hall
millions per day.
The Treasury Department has now
cash enough on hand to pay all the coin
| interest on Government securities falling
due prior to next February.
Judge Campbell of Alabama, Alfred
Rhett of South Carolina, and s. r.
Mallory of Florida, are among the recent
applicants for pardons.
The Government is making arrange
ments to send to Atlanta sufficient
quantity of supplies to relieve the neces-
stiles of the people in that section, who,
for some time past, have been reduced to
the last extremities by famine.
J. B. McFerrin, D. D., the well-known
book agent of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, and one of the most
prominent Methodist Episcopal preach
ers in the Southwest, has receiveda full
pardon and amnesty. ~
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, be-
tween Baltimore, Washington and the
West, which has been under military
control during the war, has been restor-
ed to the management Of the Company
The Commissary General reports YET
in Federal hands about ten thousand
prisoners, exclusive of the officers above
| the rank of captain. He thinks they
will all be released within ten days
though they are not likely to be all sen
4 South in that time.
Governor Bramlete of Kentucky ha!
addressed the citizens of Louisville in
favor of the constitutional amendment
| prohibiting slavery.
A land slide on the Redwood Rivel
has brought to light coal bed which Il
three feet thick, three hundred and fifty
feet wide, and nobody knows how long
1t makes quite an excitement in thai
region, but will probably prove to be-
drift coal. 7 his coal mine is about one
hundred and ten miles west of st. Paul
and is within mile of the Minnesota
River.
The State Department has. sent circu.
lars to all the cities, giving the substance
of information recently received from
our Minister in Russia, respecting the
plague, which is spreading Westward
with great rapidity. Precautionary
measures are suggested, and the atten.
ton of the authorize is urgently invit-
ed for the immediate adoption of sani-
tary improvements.
The first train on the repaired Orange
and Alexandria r. R., was started'on Fri
day. The entire road to Richmond. via
Gordonsville, will be in Operation in
ten days.
The romantic attachment between
Lord Hood and the Princess Mary, was
the subject OF considerable gossip some
months ago. The dream of an alliance
between royalty and an inferior nobility
has now vanished, the fashionable pa
pers having announced that his lordship
is to be married to Miss Edith Ward. q
daughter of gentleman of fortune.
| A fair is now in progress in Milwau-
kee for the purpose of raising o fund to
secure for invalid and Impoverished
Wisconsin soldiers a comfortable home
A Grand Jury in East Tennessee has
unanimously declined Judge Trigg's
order to indict Governor Brownlow for
executing some law Of the United States
while he was Treasury Agent. Judge
Trigg held it to be unconstitutional.
| FAREWELL ORDER OF GEN. MEADE
TO THE ARMY OF THE PoToMAc.-The
following order of General Meade to the