Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-12-18
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MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES
LATEST FROM ALL QUARTERS

case known as the Indiana conspiracy
case, the Supreme Court has unani-
mously sustained the Circuit Court in
issuing its writ OF habeas corpus, and ad-
versely to the power Of military courts to
try citizens where the machinery of the
civil courts is in unrestrained operation.
Judge Davis, for the majority of the
Court, condemned military courts in
such cases, as forbidden by the Constitu-
ton, while Chief Justice Chase, speaking
for Justices Wayne, Swayne and Miller,
maintained that the power to inaugurate
such courts lay with Congress, and were
only illegal in Indiana because that body
had failed to authorize them.
The House adopted anti-repudiation
resolutions, and instructed the Commit
tee on Finance to report a bill modifying
or repeating the usury laws.
The vote in the House to-day on in
structing the Committee on Ways and
Means to report bill retiring the ma
tional bank notes, and substituting legal
tender currency, failed by only few
votes. 1t is understood that the Com
mittee favors the move, and feeling of
opposition to the two classes Of currency
is growing.
Governor Worth, Judge Ruffin and
Governor Swayne had an interview with
the President to-day regarding Sickles
order abolishing corporal punishment
in North Carolina. They were treated
kindly and heard patiently. The Presi-
dent will consider the question in Cabi-
net council and answer Wednesday,
favorably, the Commissioners believe.
They also laid before him detailed
statement of affairs in North Carolina,
including the tone and disposition of the
people, which they represented as peace
full and loyal.
The Loyalists had full meeting to-
night, only one unrecognized State was
unrepresented. They agreed upon the
plan of abolishing the present State gov
ernments and their reconstruction by a
loyal element. Paschal proposed a me-
mortal to the accompanying proposition,
which will be proposed tonight, and
submitted to an adjourned caucus to-
morrow. Judge Deerout presided.
New YORK, December 1.-THE bank
statement shows decrease of$2, 000,0
in loans and $4,000 in specie, and an
increase of $1,000 in circulation, ISL
449 in exports, and s2,347,452 in legal
tenders.
The Congressional Fraud Committee
met at the Astor House to-day. Five
witnesses were examined, including a
penitent distiller. Several additional
distilleries we're seized this morning
Fenian matters are lively. Arms and
ammunition are accommodating. 1t is
stated that two privateers have cleared
this week
The Aldermen have concurred with
the Council in selling the site for a post
efice in the City Hall Park, for a hall
million dollars,
New ORLEANS, December H. The
weather is clear and cool, and frost was
everywhere visible this morning.
The river is steadily swelling, with five
feet ten inches below high water mark.
Business on the levee is very brisk.
RICHMOND, December l7.-H. B. Lewis,
granddaughter of Gen. Washington, was
convicted to-day of the murder of DR..
Rose, of King George county, and sen.
fenced to the peniieptiary for three years.
The Express Company's bill, with
special privileges, has passed bOth
Houses
CINCINNATI, December l7.-GeneraI
Grant will arrive here to-day and pro
coed to Washington tomorrow
Woodrow, Means & Cos boiler at their
mills exploded this morning, knocking
the building into fragments. The engi
neer was killed and several other per
sons injured Loss, $4,000.
RoME, December l7.-IHvitations from
the leading dignitaries of the Catholic
Church Of the United States, extending
to the Pope an urgent request for His
Holiness to visit that country, has been
received, and is under consideration.
There are some probabilities Of its being
accepted
BERLIN, December li.-It is rumored
here that the Emperor Macmillan is de-