Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-12
FROM WASHINGTON.

4 WASHINGTON, April IA large nulnDer ol &c
cisions were delivered by the United States SUI
preme Court this afternoon Chief Justice Chase
read paper of which the annexed is copy:
Ec parte.-In the matter of Lambdln I. MILL
gan. petitioner: The following order is directed,
by majority of the court to be entered I'D ,1ls
cause and the like order will be entered IN NO.
365, ex parte, in the matter of W m: A BoWles,
petitioner, and No. 374, parte, III the matter OF
Stephen Horsey, petitioner.
This cause came on to be heard on the taStnS-
cript 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, ana
which were certified to this court for It's OPINION,
agreably to the act OF Congress III such cases
made and provided, and was argued by counsl.
On consideration thereof the court IS of opinion ::
First-That on the facts as stated Ill SAID petl-
ton and exhibits writ of habeas corpus ought
to be issued according to the prayer OF SAID petl-
ton.
Second That on the facts stated in the said pc
tition and exhibits, the said Lambdin P. Milligan
ought to be discharged from custody as in said Pc
tition prayed, according to the act of Congress
passed on the Sd of March, 1868, entitled an act
relating to the habeas corpus and regulating judi
cial proceedings in certain cases and,
Third-That on the facts stated in said petition
and exhibit, the military commission mentioned
therein had no Jurisdiction legally to try and sen
tence said Lambdn ?. Milligan in the manner and
form in said petition and exhibits are stated
And it is thereupon now ordered and adludged by
this court that it be certified to the said circuit
court.
The chief justice said he was instructed to say
that the opinion of the court in these will be
read at the next term, when such of the dissenting
judges as see fit to do will state the ground Of
dissent
found guilty by q military commission of the
charge Of conspiracy and condemned to death, bat
the sentences were COMMITTED by the President to
imprisonment for life. They now in the Ohio
Judge Mcdonald of Indiana, Gen J. A. Garfield,
of Ohio, Hon Jeremiah S. Black, Of Pennsylva-
MIA, and Hon. David Dudley Field, of New York,
for the petitioners, and by Gen. b. f. Butler,
Henry Stansbury Esq, of Ohio, and Attorney
General Speed for the United States.
TROOPS FOR MACMILLAN.
The following extract from a letter dated Paris
has been received in this city:
PARIS, March TO- 1866.
The principal object of these lines is to let you
know that 5000 men left here week ago for
Vera Cruz, with the greatest secrecy. Among them
are 400 hussars, of Algiers Brest and CherbOurg.
The press has not mentioned anything about it,
nor do they dare to speak at all about the MeXi-
can question, because they have been warned not
to do SO.
\ Geographic dispatch from Vienna, published
here day before yesterday, informs Us that an
agreement has been concluded with Macmillan
for the purpose of sending him ,, 900 Ausrians to
I'll up the losses Of the Austrian contingent i'll
NleH1CO. lnc necessary expenses Will OF course
be betrayed by the French government
TEST OATH CASE.
The case of ca parte Garland, of Arkansas, and
NLalr of Louisiana, asking to be readmitted to
practice at the bar of the Supreme Court, and in
voving the constitutiOnality of the congressional
test oath, together with the Missouri State test
oath case and many others, are continued to the !
next term, the court having to-day ad OurnGd till
that time.
MADAME JUAREz
The Secretary of Stategave this evening hand
some entertainment to Madame Juarez, the wife
Of President Juarez. It is said that all the repre-
sentatives from the Spanish American republics
we're present. also the Russian minister, |
and that the party was one of the most brilliant
Of the
Correspondence of the Baltimore SUM-
WASHINGTON, April ;.
The Proclamation Of Peace C7ld ReSt0rotiol--TAe |
Reckoning Of the Duration Of the F'eedoae,'S BIZ
reou-Reducti0n ofMe A1my to q Peace Standard
Prospect Of tSustoining the Jet0 dc
The appearance of the long expected proclama- !
ton of peace and restoration little sensa-
ton, for the that its purport had been well
for some weeks The President after
writing the proclamation, had waited first for
Florida and Texas in order to include both within
it. He has waited further for the reorganization
Of Texas, as long as was deemed expedient. The
proclamation embraces all the States lately in in
ou1IeCLlOu eACtpG 16AdS
This document, considered by the light OF !
MI. Stewards speech in New York the ODD of
February, is intended to fix the legal date of the
termination of the war. From this date the legal !
duration of the Freedmen's Bureau will be reck-
Oned. That bureau will cease to have legal exis-
tence one year from the date Of the proclamation
unless 1t be continued by some law hereafter to be
enacted
At the same time with the appearance of the
declaration of peace, we have the confirmatorv
fact that the army will, ere the first of May be
reduced to about forty seven thousand men. This
force would not be sufficient to enable Congress
to give effect to their plan for holding the eleven
Southern States in military subsection as conquer
eel provinces and under martial law. One man 4
10 a square mile would be necessary for this pur-
pose; that is to say, eight hundred thousand men
But it is proposed to retain only man for six
;een square miles, and supposng that all the
roops should be kept within the eleven States,
eaving none for the frontiers, sea COASTS, &c
Such preparations for state of peace have been
;tu ally made by the administration that Con
5ress ,annot keep up the war unless their radical
chiefs will take hold in person.
Senator Wright has arrived, and will be ready
10 sustain the veto. Senator Dixon, it is ascer-
aimed, will be in his seat on Thursday Thus. i:
quite probable that the veto of the civil rights
dill will be sustained
IOTA
Correspondence of the Baltimore SUM-
WASHINGTON, April 4, 1866.
The Bankrupt Bill 10 Come Up Aqaiu-Secreto1.v
4HcCuN0ch and the Loan Bill oauecticw and the
Questions Of the Doy-Senoto,' ,Steecoyt's Plan Of
Restoration, dc.
The bankrupt bill will probably be soon brought
Up again In the House, under favorable crcumstan-
es. When 1t was rejected, fiftv-one members were