Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-01-18

p!sn the necessary PROOF at TINS ONCE without
delay, and return this note az inc same time.
Very respectfully,
john KNOX, LIST Lit eth V. RIO,
And Acting Commis'r Enrolment ID. o.
THIRD WARD DRAFT MENINGITIS citi.
xens OF the Thire Ward met last evening, at
Temperance Hall, on 4 street, for the purpose
OF adopting some plan for protecting them
selves against the coming draft.
MIR. n. ID. LaTner was called to the chair,
and Mr.. +. X. Mexican was appointed secre-
tary-
A set of by laws, prepared by Messrs. r. E.
Preston and j. H. Bartlett were considered by
the meeting, and adopted in substance, as fol-
lows:
The association shall he termed "The Third
Ward Mutual Exemp ion Association " A
president, vice president, secretary and treas
urer to be elected by the association, and none
but persons enrolled in the ward shall b. ad.
mltted as members. Any person enrolled
can become member by paying into the fund
of the association $50, with one dollar ad-
ditional for incidental expenses. Any mem
Der who shall put substitute into service be-
fore being drafted. will, on presenting a GER
ufcate to that effect, receive $50, minus his pro
rata of expenses of the association. No member
can receive more from the association than his
substitute costs him. and shall receive
money until he shall have been examined by
the board of enrolment. If, when draft shall
have been made, there is not money enough TO
purchase substitutes for all who shall have
been drafted, each member sh all be subject TO
an additional assessment to raise the amount
required, and I'm case a member refuses to con-
tribute, he shall forfeit all claims to the assocI-
alton if drafted. All members drafted and ex-
empted and all who shall have put in substi-
tutes shall be liable to assessment. After the
final draft under the present call, and if all
members drafted have substitutes, If an over
plus Of funds are then on hand, they shall be
divided between those members who shall
have been drafted and exempted and those not
drafted.
Mr. Larner stated that a committee would
commence to enroll in the Third Ward on the
following morning, and that they had been
sworn to make fair and correct enrolment;
that the new enrolment would be compared
with the old one, and q correct list would, in
this way, be produced. He also said a room
had been engaged in Mr.. Lorch's saloon, at the
corner OF f and 9th streets north, where a clerk
and magistrate would be In daily attendance
to make any corrections suggested.
DEATH OF MR. VIM J. SToNB-Mr VIM
Stone, ST., died yesterday, at his residence, on
the corner OF 14th and streets, OF apopIexy
Mr.. Stone has had several attacks Of this dis.
ease of late years, the last one about six weeks
ago, and with this last attack paralysis also
set in, and caused his death Mr.. Stone was,
we believe, native OF England, and was in Z
in the 9th year of his age He came to this
country when youth, and learned the bust.
ness OF an engraver in New Yo.k, which he
followed in this city until about sixteen years
since. In this capacity he was for long time
engaged in engraving for Government. He
leaves considerable property in this District,
including the Mount Pleasant farm, near the
Column ban College, and valuable reai estate in
the city, as we'll as considerable amount OF
stocks Of different kinds. MIR. Stone many
years since served in the City Councilifrom
the Second Ward, and about forty years ago
was connected with a volunteer military COM
pany commanded by Captain Philip Mauro,
as some OF eur older citizens will remember.
He was one OF the vestry OF st. Johns Episco-
pal Church for number of years. Mr. Stone
was always ready to aid any benevolent object
brought to his notice, and was known as one of
our most enterprisIng and respected citizens.
His funeral takes place at noon to. morrow,
from st. Johns Church.
SUICIDE PREvENTED-Last night patrolman
j. o. Johnson found lady, who gives her
name as Olivia Shirer, cher maiden name, her
name by marriage being withheld by hero
standing In door on Pennsylvania avenue
asleep and helpless from the effects OF dose
of laudanum which she had taken. She was
taken to DR.. Keasby's office, where a prescrip-
ton was obtained, and then she was taken to
Nairn s drug store. Having been sufficiently
aroused to know that her attendants were try
ing 70 save her life, she refused to take the
medicine, and the officers had TO force the
medicine down her throat; and three OF them,
roundsman Greer, patrolmen johnson and q.
L. Greer, remained with her till * O'Clock
this morning, when she was taken TO her home.
She sold she wanted to die, and be rid of do
nestle trouble. She took an ounce OF Iauda.
mum, End stood in the door TO die, as she said,
that wien her husband returned in the NORM
sill ~ ' '' WY - '--' N0''
THR BAKER CAsR-Yesterday the argument
in the case of Col. l. q. Baker, convicted OF
false i'm prisonment in the Circuit Court, was,
continued in the Supreme Court in General
Term, and Mr. Bradley, ST., for the prosecu.
ton, spoke at length urging that an order for
arrest AID: imprisonment, no matter hy what
tribunal or official issued, if issued under the.
Constitution OF the United States must be In
its nature a judicial order or warrant that the.
act OF Congress of March 3, 1863, authorizing.
the President in particular cases to suspend
the hdbeds corpus, and to order arrests, made
no change in the essential nature Of the war.
rant, but only, for the particular cases speci-
fled, in the laagistracy by which it might ia W.
fully issue; and that, as In this case, the only
authority contended for is destitute OF all an.
alogy to judicial process, the arrest is clearly
unwarranted by the act of Congress undercoa--
sideratiGn.
DIsMIssED.-Phifip Shanklin, Daniei Garter
and@W m: Hnmphries, the parties arrested on
suspicion of robbiDg John r. Rawlings last
Thursday. and had a preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice Thompson, which was Published
in the StdT, had a further hearing yesterday
before Justice Thompson. The evidsnce for
the prose cution did not positively identity the.
prisoners as the parties concerned, and the de-
the case of each individual. They were atE
promptly dismissed by the examining sastics.
TEE BAKER CAsE-The case of Col. EE
Baker was again before the Supreme Court
to. day, and Mr.. Stanton was engaged In olOs-
ing the argument on the EXCEPTIONS taken nam
the rulings in the lower court.
WE HEAR or an affair promising to bs> %sry
enjoyable, in the shape of a " Family Circle
Ball." to como Off at Seaton Hail en- ThIrssiay
night. The LIST of managers embraces an.rge-
number oil esteemed citizens.
MARIKI's, next fashionable siTai-1tr nthly-
soiree COMES off at Temperance Hala Ga Fri
day evening. They are vecy ,attractnre and
enjoyable.
Affairs In Georgetown
DEATH OF WIN. H. EDRs, .EsQ.-grur com.
munity has lost one Of its hEightess, ornaments
VIM. II. Edes, Esq, departed. this lite last
night about 20 min utes pastI0 sscAock, at his
tsesidenos, on Beale, nese uunbarton street,
after painful illness. HI fShss was many
trade, and within the past twelve years WIS