Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-04
FROM WASHINGTON.

Government Advertising Taken
from the Chronicle.
The President yesterday issued an order
to the various Departments to withhold all
advertising patronage from the Chronicle.
1t Is understood that all papers that fail to
sustain the reconstruction policy OF the
President will be treated likewise, and the
advertising will be given to Democratic
papers.
The Mexican Loan.
The House committee on Foreign Rela-
| tions are nearly unanimous against the
proposition to indOrse the Mexican bonds
to either $50000000 or any other amount.
There are, in all, probably less than twenty
members in the House who dare vote for
any such measure and all stories set ailoat
by interested parties are entitled to very
| little credit. The lobby engaged upon it
are persistent in their button -holeing of
members and making huge promises, but
it is OF no avail.
New York Collector.
New YORK, April 3.-The Tribune's spe-
cial Washington dispatch says The Pres
| ident yesterday informed a gentleman that
he would send to the Senate on Wednesday
the nomination of Collector for New
York city.
The Cases OF MilIigan, ROwIes and
HOrscy Righteous Decision by
Ihe Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The United
States Supreme Court has decided, in the
Indiana Conspiracy cases, that the writ of
hdJeGS corpus ought to issue to take BOwles,
Milligan and Horsey from military custody,
and that the Military Commission which
tried them had no legal jurisdiction.
A large number of decisions were deliv-
cred by the U.S S. Supreme Court this after
| noon. Chief Justice Chase read paper, of
which the annexed is a copy:
EG pdrte. In the matter Of Lambhill 2.
Milligan, petitioner, the following order is
directed by a majority of the Court to be
entered in this cause, and the like order will
be entered i'll No 36j, er pdrte in the matter
OF William A. Bowles, petitioner, and No.
31G, eI pdrte in the matter of Stephen Hor-
sey, petitioner. This cause came on to be
| heard on the transcript of the record
| from the Circuit Court of the United States
for the District OF Indiana, and on the
points and questions on which the said
Judges of the Circuit Court were opposed
in opinion, and which were certified to this
Court Tor its opinion agreeably to the
act of Congress in such cases made and
provided, and was argued by coun-
sci. On consideration thereof the
Court is of the opinion, first, that on the
facts stated in said petition and exhibits
writ OF hdbedS corpus ought to be issued ac-
cording to the prayer of said petitioner;
second, that on the facts stated in the
said petition and exhibits the said Lambkill
b. Millgan ought to be discharged from
custody as in said petition prayed, according
to the act of Congress passed March 81,
1863 entitled "an act relating to the habeds
corpus and regulating judicial proceedings
in certain cases; and third, that on the facts
stated in the said petition and exhibits
| the Military Commission mentioned therein
had no jurisdiction legally to try and
sentence said L. p. Mjligan in the name
and form as in said petition and exhibits
are stated; and it is thercupon hereby or
dered and adjudged by this Court, that it
be so certified to the said Circuit Court.
The Chief Justice said he was instructed
to say that the opinion of the Court in these
cases will be read at the next term, when
such OF the dissenting Judges as see fit to
do so will state their grounds of dissent.
The petitioners, it will be recollected,
were condemned to death by Military
Commission on the charge of conspiracy,
but the sentences were committed by the
President to imprisonment for life
They are now in the Ohio Pen
itentiary. The case was heretfore
argued by Judge Mcdonald, of Indi-
ana; Gen. j. A. Garfield, of Ohio; Hon. j.
S. Black, of Pa, and Hon. David Dudley
Field, OF N. T., for the petitioners; by Gen.
Butler, Henry Stansbury, Esq, of Ohio,
and Attorney General Speed tor the United
States. The arguments in this important
case are soon to be published in pamphlet
form.
The Revenue Detective System.
The Herald's special says: A strong eff
| fort is being made in the interest of the de-
ltnquent tax payers to abolish the revenue
| detective system, which has been so sue
cessfnl IN discovering the frauds of the
Government revenue. The fact that some
| of these parties who had been detected by
these officers iE trying to defraud the
| Government, were discovered in this move
ment, has defeated the scheme aud has not
left any too good impression in regard to
| those assessors and collectors who lent
themselves to this scheme in behalf of the
delinquent tax payers.
Seizure of Cigars.
Nathan Pargent, Commissioner of Gus
toms, has been informed of the seizure,
few days since, of seventy thousand valua-
BILE cigars by the Collector at New Orleans
which were being smuggled into the
United States at that point.
Prof Dc bow Before the Recon-
strnctiOn Committee.
The Times Washington special says:
Prof j. d. B. De Bow was before the Re-
construction committee yesterday, and gave
his testimony on the status of the Sout /.
His account is said TO have been substan-
TALLY that the Southern people are in fair
condition for reconstruction.