Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-10

they took S20,000in 1905, $4,000 in bank
bills, and $2e0 bin Specie They maize thsir
escape with the money, and there is no clue
to their identity. There was private watch
man in the mill some distance from the of
ALBANY, Nov. 9.-Another frightful muir
der has been committed in central New York.
On the eth it was discovered that a Mr..
] Crandall and his wife, the former sixty the
latter sixty-five years old, had been brDtally
murdered, at their residence in Coontown,
| six miles from Bridgewater, on the New
| Berlin road. Mr.. C.. was shot through the
| head, and the brains of his wife beaten out
| with bmdgeon. There was $4,000 in the
house not found by tlfe niurderers - / n
New YORK.. Nov. 9.-The Posts Wash
| ington special says it is understood that
Butler will soon publish reply to the CEN
| sure cast upon him by General Grant.
The magnificent new Stock Exchange
| building of the Board of Brokers, which has
been constructing in Wall street, in this city,
| for year or two past is now so near COM
pleted as to allow the business of the Board
TO be done in it. The regular opening took
place to-day. There was no form or cere-
mony, but the Board of Brokers assembled
in the new edifce and made their call in
the usual form.
WAsHINGToNsDec. 9.-The only pardons
granted to-day were those to few Texans
The State Department is still beseiged hourly
by those who have heretofore received the
Executive clemency, and who are now over
anxious to receive their respective papers.
There was quite crowd of visitors at the
White House to-day, including several Con-
gressmen.
The Republicans from Ohio and Ken
lucky were among those admitted TO an III
teryiew with the President.
DR.. Mehafy, Reading Clerk of the House
of Representatives, who has been seriously
i'll with pneumonia, is gradually recov-
ering. ]
The Southern members elect to Congress
are still here, but some of them believing
that it will be a longtime before they are
admitted, contemplate returning home and
remaining there until the door is opened to
them.
The Supreme Court of the United States !
now has before it it the following case: The |
United States defendant in error, Leroy NJ. |
Wiley. 1t involves the question, does the |
Presidents pardon remit the sentence of for |
fixture of rebel property, and reinstate the |
rebel in all his rights thereto? This was a |
motion of L. NJ. Wiley, defendant in error,
and appeals to dismiss writ Of error on APP |
peal of United States, on the ground that |
the Presidents pardon, and acceptance and |
compliance with the terms thereofby defend |
ant, discharged and RENTED the forfeiture for
which sentence ofcondemnation was prOnoun- |
ced in the District Court by pardoning the
acts by which alone, if at all, the forfeiture !
was incurred. The case originated in an in
formation filed in the District Court of the |
United States for the Southern District |
thereof, and one Charles Gould named as
the informer under acts of Congress of 1861 |
and 1862 commonly known as the Confsca-
ton Acts for confiscatiOn and forfeiture of \
1856 shares capital stock of Great Western
Railroad Co. of 1857, and OF upwards of
fifty thousand dollars due of coupons
of bonds of the same corporation, d
the property Of defendant, on the two-fol
ground alleged in the information; first, of
alleged Use of property by Mr.. Wiley in
aid of rebellion, under the act of 1861, and
second, alleged reasonable acts of Mr. Wi
ley under the act of 1862. The motion to
dismiss the case was announced by Mr..
Larogue, in its support. 1t was understood
that the constitutionality of the act of Con-
gress prescribing the test oath is now before
the Supreme Court, on the application of
A. H. Garland of Ark. The whole ques-
ton will be presented on Friday next