Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-12-08
TELEGRAMS. &c,


The Hon. q. ". Culver, memoer of Congress
from the 2oth district Of Pennsylvania, held at
Franklin, Pa, IN custody by the civil laws,
was brought before Judge Turnkey on a writ
OF hdteds corpus claiming his privilege as a
member OF Congress, and asking to be dis
charged from arrest and Imprisonment After
able arguments from counsel on both sides,
Judge Trnnkey decided that member Of Con-
gress Is not entitled to privilege when held for
An indictable offence.
+ Recent letters from Montana bring inteili-
gence of a bloody work among our troops at
Virginia City, Fort Smith, and Fort Kearney:
About $50 men had been killed be rween Platte
river and Fort Smith. Ii was feared that Fort
had been received from that post for sc veral
days, and AZ 1t was known from Information
given by Grow Indians that some !, 500 lodges
Of Indians were moving In that direction.
The Equal Rights Association is in session
in New York About three hundred ana fifty
persons in attendance, mostly women Reso-
lutons were adopted declaring that women
can hold seats and vote in the coming consti-
tuiionai convention in New York State, and
recommending the election of delegates, ire
spective OF sex or complexion.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Natchitoches
established school for colored girls in that
city under the care of the Sisters of the Sacred
Heart, but the Arc chbIshop of New Orleans
has offered the services OF mans to the colored
Catholics in New Orleans for the like pur-
pose.
A party connected with the Russa- American
telegraph expedition, which has arrived At
Victoria from Russian America, reports the
company all well and the work proceeding
satisfactorily. The entire route has been ex.
plored
Attorney General Beal, of Massachusetts,
has given an opinion that il is the duty of the
Governor TO give certificate - General But
Jer as member of Congress elect from the 5th
congressional district, even If he did not re-
side therein.
A special agent of the Treasury Department
is now in New York, engaged in investigating
frands or the Government in relation TO the
Illicit disullation of spirits. Thursday he
caused the seizure Of over fifty distilleres in
various parts of the city.
daring attempt was made to blow mn
Beard's foundry in Toronto. by placing a
lighted lamp under barrel oont tanning coal
oil. The barrel was completely charred, but
was unsuccessful.
The Montreal Transcript says:-"we learn
from an authentic source thai within few
days from l5,GO0 To 1900 rifles have been sold
on FenIan account, the destination OF which is
not Ireland We cannot announce that they
were intended for this country"
DIR. j. t. Shirland, of Augusta. Georgia
cut his throat in Baltimore yesterday, about
noon. at his boarding house. No cause IS as
signed for the act. The body is in charge of
his friends.
General Fitzpatrick. of New Jersey, United
States Minister to Chill, was married on the
"a OF N0NtmDer 10 tne SenOrlta Louisa haldn-
rama.
The Western engagements OF Miss Anna
Dickson are broken off for the present on ac-
count of her serious illness at Rockford, IIli-
nois.
The sheriff at Toronto has received informa-
tien from the Canadian government that the
Eenian prisoners under sentence OF death were
respited until the 18th of March.
John III. Sothorou, of St Mary's county,
Md, who sometime since killed a Federal Of
ficer, was tried for manslaughter this week
and acquitted.
at the monthly meeting of The Board of
Trade OF Baltimore, held on "wednesday last a
resolution was adopted asking the repeal of the
cotton tax imposed by the Government
The Bank OF Montreal, while Withdrawing
its agency from Chicago, will make arrange
ments to do Canadian business there.
A proclamation has been published further
proroguing the Canadian Parliament until the
I9th OF January.
The loss OF life among the fishermen at
Gloucester is more than double that of last
year, being twenty-six in number.
The Legislature of Alabama has rejected the
cons ttE tional amendment by a vote of u tn .
In the Senate. aud 60 TO in the House
One of the SUBJ committees of the Congress.
sional Committee on Retrenchment was in
session in Baltimore yesterday.
r. Il. Hart has been nominated for street
commissioner OF New York city
Captain Maitland, of the Royal Engineers.
broke his leg in Quebec while skating
A dispatch from Quebec says it is showing
quite fast, but the harbor is still open.