Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-06-23
TELEGKANS. &c.

The Supreme Court Of PennsyIyania, sitting
at Wilkesbarre, rendered a decision in the case
of Huber, VS.. Ranker, error to the Court of
Common Pleas OF Franklin county, (the de.
serter voting case.) The decision does not
arsue the consututionaliiy OF the law OF Con-
gress, bnt Is chiefly confined the point st
issue, TO wat. the right OF Judge of election to
REJECT mans vote, when the word ''desertern
Is written opposite his name on tue list of
voters. Cher justice Woodward and Jnstices
Strong and Thompson decided that the Judge
Of elections could not refuse q mans vote un.
nihe had been tried and convicted of deser-
lion; while Justices Read and Agnew, on the
contrary, held that the judges of elections
were the proper persons TO decide the ques.
ton.
On the 10th inst 3, Mr.. Woodward, while
riding to Edenton, North Carolina, was met
on the road, about a mile from the town, by a
negro highwayman, who with very little
CEREMONY demanded his money yaluabies, and
fired pistol at him, shaiterlpg his arm and
woundlnC him in the breast. after which he
was beaten IN the head until life was nearly
extinct, and for his trouble the negro obtain ned
only $40. MIR. Woodward recovering so far as
ID return home, related the circumstances TO
the proper authorities, and the negro was on
after arrested and lodged in Jail.
John w. Forney delivered an address a!
Lebanon, Pa, on Thursday. His points of
argument were OF the most radical character
and he announced them as his platform as a
candidate for United states Senator from Penn
oglNHuis'. 10 sHCC'tU lHs present incumbent,
Edgar Cowan, whose term expires Oh March
I, 1867
Lafayette Laws. who was a general in the
Confederate army, recently elected clerk of the
superior and Inferior Court of Richmond
cOun'y, Ga, has received an order from Gene
raj Nilsson, commanding the post, forbidding
MN 10 hold or exercise any civil or political
office. The order is similar to that served
IN Semmes, as received from the Secretary OF
War
The funeral OF General Lewis Cass at De-
iroii. Monday. was attended by large con-
. course OF people. The military was largely
repTtsen Public and private offices were
closed during most of the dav. The Masonic
fraternity and other societies paraded in large
numbers.
The ship Archer, which occusioned the
strike amongst the caulkers, has been stripped
and sheathed and recoppered by the muster
mechanics OF Boston and their apprentices
and II Is expected the ship will leave next
week for New York, TO load for California
There are fifty cases of cholera in the hos
pital at New York quarantine. All are con-
valescent with bnt few exceptions No new
cases have been reported. One death only has
Occurred
The military commission for trying delin-
quent bureau officials assembled at Raleigh
n. G.. yesterday. They adjourned over M
consequence OF the absence of Major Mann
whose case Is first on the docket.
VIM. Burns, 4 citizen, and John Jackson a
freedmen, were hung at Augusta, Ga, yester-
day. in accordance with the sentence of n
couIt-martial, Tor the murder of Charles H.
Tew, near Marietta, Ga, last October
The New York State Temperance Society
has just closed one of its most interesting ses-
sions.
The conference of the Western Unitarian
churches is in session at Buffalo, N. Y.