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LITTLE ROCK, December 3l.-The river is on a stand, with four feet in the channel to the mouth.
 eparted--Steamer Celeste, for Mem phis.
 A revenue collector named Brown was waylaid at Duvall's Bluff on the night of the 29th, and shot through the jaws and robbed of watch and fifteen thousand dollars. His condition is critical. The money was drawn in Memphis, and it is supposed that he was followed by the two men who committed the deed. No arrests.
 AsHINGToN, December 3l.--Ihe opinion of the minority, delivered by Judge Chase, and that of the majority arc published entire, comprising some twelve thousand words. It isimpossi- ble to telegraph them entire, and the arguments are so close that a synopsis would not do justice to the learned judges. The only point in addition to those heretofore telegraphed is that Chase maintains that Congress can relieve members of the alleged tribu- nals from personal responsibility in damages due to those whom they pun ished.
 In the elaborate opinion of Justice Davis against the Constitutionality of the trial of citizens by military, courts, the following paragraphs. appear:
 ''It can never be in this country, with a written Constitution and laws. and with Judicial Department to investi- gate them, that any Chief Magistrate would be so far forgetful of his duty, as to order the execution of a man that a4 4,,sn ! convicted him. after his case was before a Federal Judge with powers todecidc it. Who being unable to agree on the grave questions involved, who had, according to know law, sent 1t to the Supreme Court of the United States for decision, but even the suggestion is injurious to the Executive, and we dis miss it from further reconsideration, There is, therefore, nothing to hinder this Court from an investigation of the merits of this controversy The con- trolling question in the case is this Upon the facts stated in Milligan' $ petition and the exhibits filed, had the military commission mentioned in it, jurisdiction legally to try and sentence him. ns
 "Milligan, who was not q citizen of one of the rebellion States, or q prlS- omar of war, but citizen of Indian for twenty years past, and never in the military or naval service, was, while at his home, arrested by the military power of the United States, imprisoned, and, on certain criminal charges pre- [ ferred against him, tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged by a military commission organized under the direc- ton of the Military Commander of the Military District of Tndina.9 Has this tribunal the legal power and authority to try this man ?" No grayer question l was ever considered by this court, nol one which more nearly concerns the rights of the whole people, for it IS the 1 birthright of every American citizen when charged with crime, to be punish l ca according to law. The power oi punishment is alone through the means 1 which the laws have provided for thai i purpose. and if they are intellectual l there is an indemnity from punishment no matter how great an offender tho ] individual may be, or how much his crimes have shocked the sense of jus tice of the country, or endangered it; safety.
 GeneralJ J. c. Robinson, commanding the Department af the south, in an or der dated December 22d, announce.
 that on the 18th of that month the Pre-
 sidcmt ordered the revocation of th,