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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
The Cases of Milligan, BOWIes
and Congratulations Decision
by the Supreme Court.

Washington, April 3.-The United
States Supreme Court has decided, in the
Indiana Conspiracy cases that the writ OIL
haJeas corpus ought to issue to take
Bowles, Milligan and Horsey from mill.
tary custody, and that the Military Com
mission which tried them had no legal
jurisdiction.
A large number of decisions were de-
livered by the U. S. Supreme Court this
afternoon. Chief Justice Chase read a
paper, of which the annexed is a copy:
Ec paTte. In the matter of Lambhill
P. Milligan, petitioner, the following
order is directed by a majority of the
Court to be entered in this cause, aud the
like order will be entered in No. 365, ec-
parte in the matter of William A. Bowles,
petitioner, and No. 376, &c parte in the
matter of Stephen aorsey, petitioner.
This cause came on to be heard on the
transcript of the record from the Circuit
Court Of the United States for the Dis
trict 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 for
its opinion agreeably to the act ofCon-
gress in such cases made and provided,
and was argued by counsel. On consid-
Grafton thereof the Court is Of the opin-
ion, first, that on the facts stated in said
petition and exhibits a writ of habeas
corpus ought to be issued according to
the prayer of said petitioner; second, that
on the facts stated in the said petition
and exhibits the said Lambkill B. MILF
gan ought to be discharged from custody
as in said petition prayed, according to
the act of Congress passed March Sd,
1863, entitled IAN act rotating to the
habsas corpus and regulating judicial pro-
ceedings in certain cases; and third,
that on the facts stated in the said petit
ton and exhibits, the Military Commits
sion mentioned therein had no jurisdic-
ton legally to try and sentence said L. P.
Milligan in the name and form as in said
petition and exhibits are stated; and it is
thereupon hereby ordered and ~adjudged
by this Court, that it be so certified to
tho said Circuit Court.
The Chief Justice said be was instruct
ed to say that the opinion Of the Court
in these cases will be read at the next
term, when such ofthe dissenting Judges
as see fit to do SO will state their grounds
Of dissent.
The petitioners, it will be recollct-
ed, were condemned to death by a
Military Commission on the charge
Of conspiracy, but the sentences were
committed by the President to impris-
for life. They are now in the
Ohio P~enitentiary. The case was hereto
fore argued by Judge Mcdonald, Of In
diana; Gen. j. A. Garfield. Of Ohio;
Hon. j. S.lBlack, of Pa, and Hon. David
Field, of N. Y, for the petition
srs; BY Gen. Butler, Henry Stansbury,
Esq, of Ohio, and Attorney General
Speed for the United States. The ar
zuments in this important case are
to be published in pamphlet form.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
The Question Between the Presi-
dent and the Radicals.

Thad. Stevens claims that our late war
was against a foreign country, that we
have conquered it, and that we now have
a right to, and ought to hold it as a sub
jugated province, like Poland or Hun
gary.
If it was a foreign country we had no
right to make a war of conquest upon it.
President johnson claims that the late
war was to suppress a rebellion in our
own country and that we have suppressed
it.
If this be true, the Southern States,
now peaceable and loyal, have a right to
be represented as other peaceable and
loyal States. a8s Is
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Cash in Advance.

-tHEFE4. rEarSt.-. ~ .r-.HWH
Hereafter we will not insert
any legal or miscellaneous adj
vertising whatever, without
the pay in advance, or we will
charge and collect the fee of
the Attorney or Attorneys han
ding the advertisement in for
publication. Heretofore we
have waited five and six years
for the fees in legal cases, and
are compelled to adopt this
course in lieu Of a system SO
loose and uncertain.
We would take it as a very
great favor if attorneys having
printers fees in their hands,
belonging to us, would make
return oft to the Clerks Office,
OF pay it IN at this Office.
WILLIAMS & WEST.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

to BECOME friends, or else they must be
held BY absolute military power SO as to
prevent them from ever again doing harm
as enemies, which last named policy is
abhorrent to humanity and freedom; and,
WHEREAS, The Constitution Of the
Ur tied States provides for Constitutional
communities only as States and not as ter
ritories, and provides no protectorates;
and,
WHEREAS, Such constructed States
must necessarily be, and by the Constitu-
ton and laws of the United States are,
made equals, and placed on a like footing
as to political rights, immunities, dignity,
power, with the several States with which
they are united; and,
WHEREAS, The observance of politi-
cal equality as a principle Of right and
justice is we'll calculated to encourage the
people of the States to be and become
more and more constant and persevering
in their renewed allegiance; and,
WHEREAS, Standing armies, military
occupation, martial law, military tribu-
nails, and suspension of the privilege of
the writ Of habeaS corpus, are in time of
peace dangerous to the public interest and
incompatible with the individual rights Of
citizens, contrary to the genius and spirit
of our free institutions, and exhaustive Of
our national resources, and ought not,
therefore, to be sanctioned or allowed, ex-
cept in cases of war for repelling inya-
ders, or suppressing Instruction or re-
b%ellion; and,
WHEREAS, The policy Of the Govern
ment of the United States. from the be-
ginning Of the instruction to its final
suppression, has been in conformity
with the principles herein Sc. forth and
enumerated; therefore,
|, Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the instruction which here
tofore existed in the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia,
Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, Texas and Florida, is at an ehd,ana
heucefcrth to be so regarded.
In testimony whereof, Ihave hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed. Done
at the City of Washington, this Sec
ond day of April, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-six, and of the independ-
enee of the United States Of Amer
lea the ninetieth.
[Signed] ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President: W. FL. SEWARD.
Secretary of State.
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The speech of MIR. Plants.

The agony is over. Our mis-represen-
tatife in Congress has been delivered of
his speech again. The few correspond
ents whe notice it at all say it was made
tosmpty chairs, which We can easily be-
lieve. His prosy dissertation on "the
germs Of possibilities in every infant"
would certainly drive out all it left
awake rss6
tits tho same that was heard hero, that
was heard everywhere be spoke in the
District. and everywhere else that he has
had an opportunity to infict it upon an
audience for ysars past. In the same Ian
guage, word fer word, We heard it in the
last canvass, it was recited in Congress,
and we will hear it in the next canvass.
He can't keep it out of bis. speech.
Mr.. Dick in David Gopperfeld, labored
twenty years to write a memorial to Par
lament, without putting ID the name Of
King Charles, but in. vain; it would get
in. "The germs of possibilities are to
Mr. Plants what King Charles was to Mr..
Dick. But Mr.. Dick was a little crack
Drained; is Mr.. Plants2
Mr. Plants has. worked this essay over
until he has made a tolerably smooth
piece Of composition of it. Al boy offfteen
writing such a piece for recitation at
school, would be pleased with his per-
Torrance. We are not disposed to assail
his theory, for it cannot make any differ
ence to anybody whether it is true or not.
Isdoes good to one man-Mr. Plants
for it gratifes him to think his little hum
buga profound discovery in philosophy;
and il harms n~obody,so to this part of his
speech We urge no objection.
But bis speech is not ali of this stuff.
It is equally divided between dreamy the
Org and political slang-whang-a cross
between trascendentaIism and i~nsolent
sbuss-bstween brain-sick philosophy
dscked in juvenile rhetoric, and partisan
malice set of with bar-room inyective.
Dir. Plants abruptly tarns from his lit
tie pet humbug to another subject Of
equal practical importance--the question
whether slavery, if 1t had an existence,
would be right or wrong. This leads him
into the very ~BilliDgsgate of politics..
His arguments are substantially the same
that the old Liberty party used twenty
years ago, but he has spangled them with
tie most Opprobi0us epithets which Abo.
lition ingenuity has devised from that
day to this, mixing them alike a rotten
nacksrel By Notwithstanding and
shining, and shining and sinking" For
example:
aAnd I do not mean by this term mere.
u its vulgar aud brutal side as seenin the
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

There is scarcely a township in the
county in which the Republicans made
any opposition to the Democratic ticket.
As this has never occurred before, We at.
tribute it to the prevailing desire in that
party, in this county, to sustain johnson
and the Union against the Radicals and
disunion. If they do the same thing this
fall we will admit that we have heretofore
moderated their political integrity.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
The Spring Elections.

The elections this Spring show immense
Democratic gains everywhere. The indi-
cations by the result 10 Cincinnati, Day.
ton, Columbus, Newark, &c., show that
there is now in Ohio a decided Demo-
cratic majority. In Indiana still larger
gains are shown. There is probably not
a Western State which would not to-day
give a large Democratic majority against
the radicals.
Cincinnati alone gains three thousand:
and indianapolis five thousand.
There's a rood time coming.n
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
The Peace Proclamation.

The President has issued his proclama-
ton declaring the rebellion suppressed,
and "war measures" at an end. Every
form has now been complied with for the
restoration of the Southern States to their
full rights as equal States in the Union;
yet the radical f~actlonists will doubtless
continue to keep their Representatives
out of Congress.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
Passed Over the Veto.

The Civil Rights Bill was passed over
the Presidents veto, in the U. S. Senate,
the 9th inst by SO yeas to 16 nays
There is no doubt of the final triumph
of the bill in the House, as hat body is
radical by more than twe-thirds.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
.Thefe's q good time coming"

Commemorative are informed that it
is not true that the Speaker of the House
had to be put under the influence of
chloroform during the delivery of Mr..
Plants speech; nor is it even true that he
had a boy pulling his hair to keep him
awake.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

A gentleman residing in the yicini-
ty of Memphis, Tennessee, has, it ia
believed, the largestd dog in the United
States. 1t is an imported Siberian blood
hound, seven feet eight inches in length,
thirty-three inches across the chest,
weighs n hundred and eighty pounds.
He is eleven months old.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

1.-THE UNION AS 1T WAS, AND,
THE CONSTITUTION as 1T Is"
II hold thatTHIs Government was made
~ the WHITE BASIS, by WHITE
MEN, for the BENEFIT of WHITE MEN
end their P0STERITY forever. Ste
phen 4. Douglas.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

BG-The message of the President, We.
toiug che Civil Rights Bill, will be found
on our first page.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

~ Rep~resentative Headley has placed
rs lnder obligations for Pnb. Docs.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10
weodsGeld, April 10. 1866.

"A union Of hearts, a union of hands,
"a union that none may sever;
A union Of lakes, a union of lands,
The AMERICAN UNION FOREVER"
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1866-04-10

New York April Gold closed at
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WILLIAMS d WEST.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1866-06-02
SheriH,s Sale.

Jas. McGuigan In District Court of
VS.. Bossier parish, La,
Elisha Dunn. No. 17oS.
Dy virtue of writ of feri facias
I'D issued in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, / have seized and
will proceed to sell at public auction, to
the last and higest bidder, before the
Court house door, in the town Of Belize
vue, said parish and State, on the first
Saturday, the 7th day Of July, next,
1865, the following described property,
to-wit
The northeast quarter Of the north
west quarter Of section twelve, in
township twenty-five, of range twelve,
Northwest La, containing forty acres,
more or less.
Said land seized al the property OF
said defendant, Elisha Dunn, and to BE-
sold to pay and satisfy the aforesaid
writ.
Terms of Sale Cash, with the ben.
eft OF appraisement.
Bellevue, La, May 3oth. 1866.
PHIL0 ALDEN, Sheriff:
Inc 6ts Per W. e. HrLL, Deputy
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No 5ts


Ball s. Dashiell jim District Court
VS.. of Bossier Parish,
VIM. Harrison & wife. La, No. 1897.
DY virtue of writ of feri faeias is
I'D sued from the District Court Of
said parish and State in the above ed
titled suit and to me directed, | have
seized and will proceed to sell at public
auction to the last and highest bidder,
before the court house door 10 the town
of Bellevue, La. on Saturday, the 7th
day of July next, 1885,. the following
described property with all the i'm
provements thereon, toSwit: The south
west quarter of section twenty six of
township l9 of range Il; also the west
half of south east quarter and south
west quarter of north east quarter Of
factional section 27 township 10 Of
range IL, Of north west Louisiana, con.
tanning in all 1853 s6-1o0 acres, more
or less.
Said lands seized as the property Of
the said Harrison and wife, and to be
sold to pay and satisfy said writ.
Terms of sale-cash, with benefit Of
appraisement.
Bellevue, La, May 31st, 1866.
PHILO ALDEN, Sheriff,
Per w. Il. HILL, Deputy.
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~ A late issue of the Daily Cit.
zen, of Macon, winds up an article on
President Davis trial with the follow.
ing:
"We have no idea that be can ever
be convicted of treason by jury of his
peers; and, further, if conviction re-
suits from picked jury of bis enemies,
we have received kilograms from over
the river Jordan that he never will be
hung. Let the friends of patriot Davi:
take courage"
kilograms from over the river Jor.
don !" We regret indeed, that the
editor of the Citizen did not learn from
those kilograms received by him, the
price of cotton, and what was the pre-
mium upon gold in that isolated local
ity--as a friend at our elbow (who has
both upon the brain is very DESTROYS
of learning.
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Commons, on May 8. Mr.. Gladstone
made his annual financial statement
for the ensuing year. He estimated
the expenditure at eco, DDS, 600, and
the revenue at EOS, $40 900, leaving .
surplus of sl35, 900. Mr.. Gladstone,
in referring to the American debt used
these words, II must confess that I
think the future of America, so far "a
finance is concerned, will not be alton
ded by any embarrassment. | do not
believe that the debt will constitute
any difficulty for the American people.
In moderate time it will be brought
within very small limit, and within
the lifetime of persons now living, may
be efaced altogether. At this moment
she is paying more tax, and the amount
of her revenue is not less than eighty
millions sterling, the largest sum ever
raised in any country for the purpose
of aiding the Government"
| Louisville, May 1S.-The wires are
interrupted at GAINESVILLE, Tennessee,
|, it is supposed on account ola railroad
construction train breaking one span
of the bridge over the Cumberland,
precipitating number of hands into
the river. Seven lives are reported
} lost. No further particulars yet at.
) tainable.
4 New York, May 1912 M.-Cottor
Q rules firm at 35a037c. Gold stand o
1893.
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QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE FENIAN!

QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE FENIANs.
A London correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes:
An interesting anecdote of the
Queens humanity and attachment to
her army has just come to my knOwl-
edge. You may have noticed, in the
News from ireland, the trial of a
Serg't Darrah for Fenianism, of which
he was found guilty and sentenced to
be shot. When the warrant was
brought to the Queen for signature,
her consent was urgently solicited on
the grounds of the necessity of making
an example, and obtained, though she
burst into tears in the act of accord
ing it. Within an hour afterward she
sent for the warrant again, and tore it
to pieces-and God bless her for it !!
The act will effect more toward extir-
pating Fenianism in the ranks-if il
exist there-than all the eonstables,
spies, lawyers, judges and hangmen
within the fair seas of Britain could
do.
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deemed proper to withhold our means
from such works at present, let as dis
cuss the matter-determine upon the
construction, and the work will be
done, ''for to determine, with an ener-
getic people, is to accomplish
Where there will there is a way"
ITO begin is half the battle" These
are works of such general utility that
they should receive at the hands of the
parochial authorities, the most mature
deliberation.
And now, that "war no longer rears
his horrid head in our 'front.'" ''thai
peace reigns throughout Warsaw"
that there are no more negroes to buy
with our surplus capital, to be wrestec
from US by atyrant's edict, may we no
most confidently hope, at no distan
day, to see public spirit aroused-al
needful or useful public works con
strueted-all our roads made passabl
all needful bridges erected-peac
and prosperity reigning throug hou
our once happy, but now desolate land
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THE DEVILS Tho Cincinnati G.

THE DEVILS Tho Cincinnati Ga
zette, speaking of the Southern people,
says:
And if, by the necessities of war,
their cities and plantations should lie
waste, her people exterminated, and
heaps of smouldering ruins mark the
coarse of our armies, there would not
go out, from one loyal breast in this
whole land, a sigh of regret. Their
calamities furnish cause for unmixed
Joy and unbounded enthusiasm.
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Succession Notice.

Otate of Louisiana, Parish of Bossier!
y Clerks office, 10th District Court.
Notice is hereby given that Sarah
Miller has this day filed in the Office
of said clerk, her application praying
to be appointed Administrative of the
succession of Sarah E. Miller de-
ceased:
Now, therefore. this is to admonish
all persons concerned, that if opposi-
ton is not made thereto within the.tims
prescribed by law, the said applicant
will be confirmed Administrative, as
prayed for.
Given under my hand and seal Of
office, at Bellevue, this the 3lst day Of
May, A. D. 1866.
T. N. BRADEN,
n9-2t Clerk.
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HID. Q'Rs. BUREAU OF REFUGEES. J
FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS )
State of La, New Orleans,
May II, 1866.
Circular No. 81

S1ASuioA AVE-
The agents of this Bureau will i'm
mediately put themselves in commu'
nication with the police juries of their
respective parishes for the purpose of
obtaining the following information:
|. The extent of the overflow, and
the number of acres of sugar. cotton,
corn. rice, and other crops destroyed
by the food.
II. The number of persons who, in
consequence of the inundation, or from
other causes, will. be reduced to q
starving condition, and whose wants
the parish authorities will be unable to
relieve.
III. How many such persons there
are who would be able, after the subsi
dence of the waters, to raise crop Of
corn for their support during the win
ter, but who will be unable to procure
the seed necessary for the purpose.
". The police jurors will be re
quested to furnish this information il
tabular form, which will be indicated
and when they ask for assistance
from the Government, they will be re
CURED to certify, from their own per
sonal knowledge, to the restitution O
the persons for whom it is desired, an
also to the inability of the parish t
afford the required relief. They Wi
at the same time indicate the points t
which provisions should be shipped 70
distribution.
V. The agents will be careful to stat
that no authority has yet been given
the Bureau to issue rations in all case:
but that the information is asked for i
anticipation of such authority, and wit
the hope that it will be granted.
By command of BreVet Major Gen
eral A BAIRD, U. S. ", Assistar
Commissioner Bureau of Refugee
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Stat
of Louisiana.
A. F. HAYDEN,
r Captain and Asst Adj't General
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u Having received no mail at
this place, up to the time of our going
to press, for near two weeks, we are
without news, In this section, we are
entirely 10 the dark, in regard to the
fluctuations and vast concerns
social, political and commercial-of
the 'best government under the sum-
But we presume the glorious old orb
still moves on; and that Bossier is ye'
considered no Insignificant part and
parcel Of the great stupendous whole
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Succession Notice.

& tate of Louisiana, Parish of Bossier.
- Clerks Office, 10th District Court.
Notice is hereby given that Edward ].
Kennon, has this day filed in the Office
of said clerk, his tableau of debts, as
administrator of the succession OF J.
II. and r. s. Brown, deceased.
Now, therefore, this is to admonish
all persons concerned that if opposition
is not made thereto within the time
prescribed by law, the said account
will be homologated as prayed for.
Given under my hand and seal of
office, at Bellevue, this the 29th day Of
May, A. d. 1866.
T. n. BRADEN,
No 5ts Clerk.
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II We notice an article going the
rounds of the press, taken from Halls
Journal Of Health, attempting to prove
that outdoor exercise before breakfast
is unhealthy. We would copy the
article referred to, in our columns, were
it not for the fact that it certainly has
no application To our immediate section.
All our local friends, who are given to
such perfginatious, generally limit
themselves to very short distance
the confines Of the parallellogram, for
instance,
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A. F. HAYDEN,
Captain and Asst Adj't General
SUITS DysMIssED.-The Columbr

SUITS DysMIssED.-The Columbus
Miss Index, of the 5th, says:
We were yesterday shown an order
from Major Gen. w. J. Wood, at
Memphis, Tenn, directing the Sheriff
and Circuit Clerk of this county to
dismiss all suits instituted against Mr..
Harrison Johnston. as Uunited States
Treasury Agent for collection of Gov
ernmeht cotton. There have been a
great many suits entered against Mr..
Johnston by persons who have had TO
deliver their cotton to the Government
since the surrender. This order places
our Sheriff and Clerk in quandary.