The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-26
WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatches to The Evening Telegraph.
WAsHNGToN April 20,
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Ano 1nutama C0m9p1fRtOE1s
There appears to be general misunderstand-
ing as TO the result arrived at by the Supreme
Court in the case of Milligan and other Golden
Circle conspirators. The line of argument on
the constitutional question put forth by General
Butler was not objected to seriously, but the
case went of on the habeas corpus act OF 1868.
The court stood five for the discharge of the
petitioners and four against; and it is well under
stood that no two judges agree on any line of
reasoning, but each will deliver an opinion of
his own.
District Regulations.
petition is in circulation here, praying
Congress to enact a civil code, a general corpo.
ration law, and allow the District delegate in
Congress-
A Reason.
The reason supposed to have influenced the
Naval Committee in rejecting the offer of the
Canton Land Company, Of Baltimore, is the i'm.
preston that the offer was made simply to aid
in approaching that Company's stock In Wall
street.
Culver, Penn e. Co.
The Crawford County National Bank, of Mead
vile, Pa, and the Venango National Bank of
Pa, are the only ones seriously affected by the
failure of Culver Penn d Co., of New York
TIE firstnamed bank has no National notes in
circulation. The Controller of the Currency
has appointed receivers to take charge of the
affairs of the banks referred to.
Soldiers Graves.
The War Department to-day issued an order to
the owners OF property in the South, forbidding
them from disturbing in any manner the graves
of Union soldiers inferred on the battle.felds of
the Rebellion. Prov lMarshals and command
ing officers ct military posts in the South are
directed by the Secretary of War to report all
violations of the order.
wedding Out the ImbeciIes.
A canvass of the different departments of the
Government is at present being made, to ascer-
tain the number of employees who honorably
served in the Union army, with view 10 the
discharge of incompetent clerks and the ap-
pointment of ex-sOldiers and sailors.
Decision.
An important decision, materially affecting
brokers sales, will shortly be issued by the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue.
Mutilated Currency.
In view of the immense amount of mutilated
and redeemed paper money daily destroyed
at the Treasury Department. the Secretary has
determined to adopt the suggestion of the Su-
VI DlNiSiSh, lilouS wv
years ago, recommending, instead of burning,
the conversion of all such currency into pulp
for the manufacture of stationery for the depart
ment. General Spinner estimates that the en-
tire department can by this process be supplied
with envelopes, thereby saving the Government
an expense OF from $4,000 to $4,000 per year.
Colonel TaggarL's Interview with the
President.
Colona1 John II Toooort ran,ouod from, tha
Philadelphia Collectorship, after learning of his
official decapitation, made bold to call upon the
President, and respectfully inquired the reas ons
for his removal. The President refused to
assign any reasons for his action, upon which
Colonel Taggart courteously remarked that he
failed to see in his removal an adherence to his
(the Presidents) late circular in reference to the
appointment to Office of ex-soldiers and sailors
To this the President deigned no reply and
Colonel Taggart left as wise as he came.
A Reconstructed SOutherner.
Colonel Nixon, who yesterday received his
pardon, is publisher of the New Orleans Crescent,
the paper edited by General Simon Bolivar
Buckner, who deserted from the Union Army
after two months service teTnpOrd bell in 1861,
the most atrocious Rebel sheet published any.
where in the Southwest paper which in April
1862, while under Nixon's management, invoked
the terrors of yellow fever against Ben. Buffers
army, then besiegin Fort St. Philip. 81
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