The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-05
By LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

: B1 LAST AIuHT0 NAIL
WAsHIEGroE, April 3.-The United States
Supreme IouIt has decided in the Indians
conspiracy cases that the writ Of habea
corpus ought to be issued 10 take Bowles
Millgan and Horsey from military custody
and that the Military Commission whict
tried them had no legal jurisdiction. A
large number Of decisions were delivered
by the United States Supreme Court thi
} afternoon. Chief Justice Chase read
paper, OF which .he annexed is s copy
Exparte IN the matter Of Lamblin P. Mill
gau, petitioner, the following order is di-
feeted, by majority Of the court, 10 be en-
tered ia this case, and the ike order wil
be entered in number S65. Expsrte in the
matter Of Vim. a. B5wles, Petitioner, mum
Der 567; exparte ia the matter Of Stephen
HOrsey, petitioner. This case came on tC
be heard on the transcript Of the record
from the Circuit Court Of the States for the
District Of Indiana, and on the points aud
questions on which ssid Judges Of the Cir
| cult Court were opposed in opinions, and
which we're certified to this court for its
opinion, agreeably 10 the act Of Congress in
such cases made and provided, and was
argued by the counsel. On consideration
thereof, the court Is Of the opinion-frst,
that on the facts stated in said petitions
TO be issued, according to the prayer Of said
petitioners; second, that on the facts stated
| in said petition and exhibits, said Lanblin
?. Milligan ought to be discharged from
custody, as in said petition PRAYED, accord
| ing 70 set OF Congress passed March 2d
1865, entitled "An act relating 10 the ha-
bess corpus, and relating to judicial proceed
! ings in certain cases." ana third, that on
toe facts stated in said petition and exhi-
bits, the Military Commission mentioned
therein hsd no Jurisdiction legally 10 try
and sentence said Alilligsn in the manner
/ and form as stated in said petition, and it IS
now hereby ordered and adjusted by this
| Court, and that it be go certified to said
circuit Court, that the Chief Justice said
ne was instructed to say that the opinion Of
the Court il these cases will be read at the
next term, when such of the dissenting
judges as see ft to do 50 will state their
grounds for dissention.
The petitioners, it will be recolleeted,
were condemned TO death by Military
| Commission, on the charge Of conspiracy,
but their sentence was commuted BY the
President, to imprisonment for life. They
are now in the Ohio Penitentiary. The case
was heretofore argued by Judge Mcdonald
| Of Indiana, General j. A. Garfield of Ohio,
J. S. Black of Pennsylvania, and David
Dudley Field Of New York, for the petit
TONERS; by General Butler, II. Stanbury of
Ohio, and Attorney General Speed, for the
United States.
The arguments in this case are soon to
be published in pamphlet form. The case
Of Mr.. Garland, Of Arkansas, and Mr..
Morla, asking to be readmitted to practice
At the bar of the Supreme Court, and in
yolving the consttutionality Of the Con-
gressional test oath, with the Missouri test
oath case, and many others, are continued
10 the next term Of the court, having to-day
adjourned ill then.
CIEcINSATI, April 3-p. MFRS. Zissel-
man, whose husband keeps q beer house,
No. 625 Vine street, has for some time been
subject TO fits of mental abstraction, and at
about four o'clock this morning, while her
husband was sleeping, che slipped out of
bed, seized a revolver and shot herself
through the abdomen. She died in & few
msHuUes.
A tragic affair occurred at Burlington,
Boone county. KY, yesterday, resulting in |
the killing Of discharged Federal soldier |
named Silas Merchant by a man named Z. |
Weaver. The difficulty between the par
ties originated in January 1865. Merchant, |
then q private of the 55th KY. mounted in |
iantry, was sent, with another member of |
the regiment, to press horse belonging to /
Weaver, near the town of Union. When /
they reached Viewers house and informed /
him the nature Of their business he dew /
into a passion, saying that they could not
take his horse without whipping him.
Heinally got into fight with Merchant.
Weaver fired two shots at his opponent
neither one Of which took effect. Mer-
chant then struck him on the head with his
musket, inflicting dangerous wound which
it was thought would prove fatal.
The soldiers then departed without the
fnal1rr he /
since declared on several occasions he
would kill Merchant the first time he met
with HIM.
The parties visited Burlington yesterday,
it being County Court day and while Mer-
chant was standing in a crowd looking at a
horse, Weaver stepped up behind him and
shot him through the head. He fred three
shots, either one Of which would have
proved fatal
Weaver was arrested and lodged in jail.
EVANSVILLE, IND, April 2.-The Work.
ngmen, Democrats and boiling Republic
:ans, of Evansville, have very probably
:arried the whole city. The Reform ticket
S elected by a large majority. The test was
distinct one politically between the |
friends Of President johnson and the Radi-
,als. The Radical ticket has been over
urned. The Workingmen have und0ubl-
IDLY carried majority OF the wards, and
perhaps all. The eight-hour men have
,sptured the strongest Radical citadel on
he Ohio. A salute will be fred tomorrow.
The election passed of quietly.
BALTIMORE, April SIN the case of prad- i
ey Johnson, Of Maryland, late Of The rebel
-rmy, and who participated with the police
nd Marshal Kane at the eCamencemept Of
he war in an effort TO yepel the rational
roops, and who wcE recently held to bail l.
q the United States District Court in this /
ity, TO answer an indictment for treason,
be PRECEDENT has ordered his bail to be Dis I 4
h4rged, and the abandonment Of his case. \ p
ohnson claims exemption on tie terms os R
is parole. 81
HGKTFORD, CoNN., April 3,-The complete
eturns from every toHn in he State give | h
be following result Havley's majority
W. The Democrats carry the Sixteenth
enatoTial District by so majority, giving
hem eight Of the tWenty-Une Senators.
arlyle, Union, is elected in the Seventh
district by u majority.
NEW YORK, April 3.-The following dis
a'ch is said to have beenFeceived at Tren- tT
N yesterday te
LANCASTER, Pa, April ?.
BY all means 60 into convention; send
ldical don't defeat the interests Of IN,
alton which are at stake. No man wor =
We under the odium of preventing the a5
ission Of true man TO a doubtful Sc -
(Signed) THAD. STEW Ne
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