Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-06-28
NEW York. June %

NEW YORK, June q.
Gold continues unsettled in consequence
of the scarcity of cash gold. Bears are Dor
rowing freely to make their deliveries, pay
| ing th%rcc-cighths per cent per day. They d'
this in preference TO buying, in the helt
that after Saturday the payment OF the golo
| interest by the Treasury will compel thu
Bulls to disgorge the five millions they an
| keeping out of the market. The quotation.
offered at 141s, and G upto ZAP.
New YORK, June -.
Lynchburg, Va, papers contain the pro
cecdings OF a meeting OF the farmers Of Mel.
son county, Va, recently held. Resolutions
were adopted TO pay No. l field hands S5.0o
per month, and No. l women and plowboys
81. 30 per month, finding lodging, fuel and
rations as heretofore; the hands 10 find their
own clothing. Loss Of time from sickness
or idlcncss To be deducted, and the hands to
be entirely subject to the order Of the en-
blowers: in no case to hire "A labor who has
not permission to rcbirc himself. Laboicrs
refusing these terms shall OF loiter upon
the employers premises. Payments shall
be in money, if preferred, in supplies at mar
kct rates. Presidents and Superintendent
of public works are required not to hire
hands engaged in agriculture without writ
ten permission from the farmer in whose
service he has been engaged. Parties VIC
laiing these rules after subscribing to them,
will be deemed guilty OF perjury.
WAsHINGToN, June 81.
The argument Of Mr.. Brigham. Special
Judge Advocate. in reply TO several argu-
ments in defence of Mary Surratt and others,
contains the following points
The rebellion, in all OF which this con
spiracy was formed and this great public
crime committed, was prosecuted Tor the
vindication OF no right, for the redress of no
wrong, but was itself simply a criminal con
spitacy and gigantic assassination. The
Court had already oyerrulcd tn plea of the
jurisdiction he would pass it over in 81
icncc but for the fact that il had been grave
" argued by the counsel for the accused,
denying the authority of the President to
constitute this Commission, IS an avcrn.ent
that this tribunal is not a Court of Justice,
has no legal existence and no power To hear
and determine the issue Joined. In making
this avcrment counsel should show how the
President could otherwise discharge theduty
tnioincd upon him by his oath tn protect,
preserve and defend the Constitution and
lake care that the laws be faithfully eXecut-
cd, as to the assertion that civil courts arc
open in this District.
lie answered They are clos ed throughout
half of the republic, and were open in The
District only by the force OF the bayonct.
Withdraw the military forces and would the
rebel bands infesting the vicinity allow their
confederatcs here to be tried in this or any
other Court. The conspirator who assassin
atcd the President was not arrested by civil
process, but pursued by military power, cap
tured and slain. Was this an act of usurpa-
ton Who in all this land is bold enough
or base enough % assert it, 1T the Presi-
dent is justified in this act, which law con-
lfmns him for arrestin~ in ike manner and
suliecting to trial according to mill airy laws
All other parties to this conspiracy. The
Judge advocate argued that the Court Ivy
ing been constitutcdby the President, il was
not in their power as interiors to disobcy
and declare the act II military usuriatlon,
besides the Supreme Court had decided that
the acceptance of judicial officers isl recog-
milton OF the authority from which 1T IS de-
rived. The proposition was absurd. Gen
tlcmen might as well ask the Supreme Court
to decide that the President had no author
ity to nominate and the Senate had no au-
thority to confirm the Judges composing
that Court. The Judge Advocate proceed
cd at length in reply to the argument of
'ouisSis CItihS oHA eAN
action of Government.
He showed that all the proclamations is
sued by the President during the rebellion
were the superstructure of the anne, and
among them the one providing for the trial
of all rebels and insurgents, their aids and
abettors, by Courts Martial or Military Com
mission, were ratified by Congress also that
the Supreme Court had decided that SO much
of these proclamation as provided for the
Courts Martial or Military Commissions,
needed no ratification. The Judge Advocate
did not review the testimony.
WASHINGTON, June 81.
Sanford Conoyer alias Wallace, was re-
called by the Government and testified that
after he left Washington, which was on the
same day that he testified here, he revisited
Montreal, where he met Tucker, Sanders,
Carroll, Palm Woscott and one of the otll-
ers. They did not know at that time that
he (thc witness) had been before the Com
mission, and therefore received him with
great cordiality. Tucker, while speaking OF
this trial, denounced Secretary Stanton and
President johnson as scoundrcls and Judge
Holt as a bloodthirsiy old villain, and added
that they should protect themselves, or by the
Eternal the day OF reckoning would come
and a heavy account would nave to be set
tied. Subsequently, when it became known
that the witness had testified here, his life
was mcnaccd and on several occasions PTS
tolls were drawn and attempts IN de to shoot
him. Witness said ii hc didn't swear to an
affidavit to the effect that he had testified
before the Commission and that LIE (Conover
representing him Wallacc) had testified to a
tissue of falsehood. This. the witness re
peated, was sworn to by him under arrest,
with pistols presented in his face. He did il
to save his lite.
y witness named Anser corrobOrated the
above testimony in part.
Jno. Cauley and W. d. Graves, printers
from Selma, Ala, testified to the handwrit-
ing of &. w. Gle, Of Cahawba, who had
procured the publication Of an advertise
inert in the Selma Dispatch, advertising for
one million of dollars in order to procure
the death of Lincoln, johnson, and Seward
Judge Advocate General Holt said all the
Government testimony was now in.
Judge Advocate Bingham then read an
elaborate argument in reply to Reverdy
johnson on the jurisdiction of the Court.
Mr.. Bingham shows That the proclamation
issued by President Lincoln, authorizing
trial Of Insurgents, their aids and abettors
by Courts Martial, and Military Com
missions, had been ratified by act Of Con-
gress, and also the Supreme Court had de-
cided that the ratification by Congress was
unnecessary.
RosTow lime 81