The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-04-17
VIRGINIA ITEMS
HApEAs CORPUS CASE IN ALEXANDRIA.

HApEAs CORPUS CASE IN ALEXANDRIA
1,yoN,s Jay1ss arrested last summer by the unlteu
to zoo military authorities and imprisoned In the slave
3s at Alexandria Va, Brought out the other oay
before Judge UNDERWOOD on hobeas corpus writ.
The Provost Marshal returned that he held JaTlns oy
ba authority of the President Of the United states
whereupon the Judge saia thsI me of
was not restored by the recent proc OF
dent Johnson and that Captain Hambrlck having maae
return under oath that he retained the saa Jans as
prisoner under the authority OF the President Of ne
United states he estopped from making any ur,
ther INQUIRY into the matter and therefore remandeo
Jayins back to the custody OF Captain hov last
summer. The Washington Chronicle OF Thursoay says
.Judge Underwood decided, In SUBSTANCE t1at .he
peace proclamation did not apply to auch cases anu re-
proclamation, IN excepting Texas, practicay oecleu
that the rebellion continued to exist AS long,
FORE Texas is excepted the writ could not appy 10
such cases as that Of Jayn if the proclamation
was legal which is boldly denied by some OF the aoest
iurists What renders This decision important Is the
Wen known fact that the motion before Judge Under
wood was generally regarded as "a feeler II success
full It would have been immediately followed by an ep
picaton for similar writ in favor Of Jefferson Davis
It Is not doubted that the secession sympahlzers IN
virgns and everywhere else regard Andrew Johnson
peace proclamation universal pardon and as merely
preparatory to the full forgiveness and release of the
chief Of the Confederacy. But Judge Underwood does
not seem to be Of their mind"
This case has been brcugh. the notice Of the Gov
ernnent and referred the AtorneyGencral, who has
the anasr-s
eorresponde ef the New York Times under date Ct
I2th says: No respectable jurist here ventures the
opinion that the writ of habcas corpus cannot be sus-
pended in part ofthe territory Of the United States
while 1t is continued in operation in other par and it
is confidently believed that the Attorney Gelcra will
decide the case directly in opposition to the pinon Of
Judge UNDERWOOD, as reported in the papers,
A TRAGEDY IN RICHMOND COUNTY.
ot cl,,,ro Is,1us u1.f
ing from Warsaw under date Of the 6th says
"a most horrible tragedy occurred in this county,
within few miles cf this place, Tuesday last Apri
g. man named julius D. Hall, who has always sus;
tanned the highest character in TINS community anu
who was noted for his amisbility Of disposition, butch
cred In moet horrible manner negro woman anG ner
three children; the still miracnluousy surt IVES
though she cannot possibly recover The three childreD
an axe. Anwere mangled most horribly Hall was ul-
doubedy deranged inquest over the bodies was held
verdict in accordance with the above facts. Hall ac-
knowledged to his father and mother he had commit
the act without hesitation namiug the parties lie had
killed. OF he arres ed and Is now In jail to
await his trial will add that the witnesses at the i'll.
quest examined In the pres ence OF Lieutenant
Ayres, the Freedmen Bureau agent who was as he re-
marked to me, thoroughly convinced Of Halls insanity
Imenhon this because Of the disposition to make capi-
til OF every circumstance concerning whites asd negroes
by that miserable Radical party at the North
WHITE LABOR IN VIRGINIA.
It seems that some of The Virginia p,anecc Are
periencng considerable din:s In obtaining the pro.
DER kind Of white labor. The Richmond Times. of
Saturday says:
Experiments with Germans, swedes, Scotch and
Engliah aborers SEEM in many instances, to have
come to. grief We have hear1 of a gentleman up on
James River who engaged aud carried home number
Of Swedes whc after having been martyrs to corn bread
for three days. went to their employer and told him IL
he did not send them back to where they came from
they "would kin him" he sent them. Again, we hear
that the German and English lsborers who were EN-.
fy, {noG fv Q0d N
fredericksburg all ran off few nights ago. having
made complaint except that the country was "too
lonesome"
TIE RECIPROCITY TREATY.
The same paper mentions that
The British brig Star Light James A. Scott Captain,
arrived at Richmond the 18th inst which sailed from
Halifax in November last with cargo Of fish and but
ter consigned to Messrs. French Crenslaw The said
brig 10 touch ut Sheet Island Harbor and then COM
plete her cargo with lumber consigned to Messrs CAS-
e Brothers. but owing to the neglect and delay OF
the Captain the vessel arrived here two months behind
tme which has subjected the TO pay duties
on the cargo amounting to about s8001n oid as the
.y.ov..J Treaty between theSUnited States .od 'ne
British Provinces expired o the 18th day of March as
This the first case Of the kind which has occurred III
this port and involves matter Of much interest TO the
public at large
Reports have been circulated says the Times. that
case Of cholera had occurred IN Richmond 1t says the
report is entirely unfounded.