Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-05-18
TELEGRAPHIC.

Hon, r J. Walker addressed the
court in three hours speech to-day
on the amended Mississippi bill,
which is described rs II mastery eff
fort. llc said that constitutional
liberty and sclf.govcrnment were
now on final trial, and it was about
to be decided for posterity and the
world whether written constitutions
were parchment scrolls or words
written in parchment to be swept
away by the first angry surge OF
popular passions. whether they can
be evaded by technical issues on n
plea of want of ofjurisdiction. A bill
of attainder and penalties had never
been passed reducing ten millions
ofloyal and disloyal people to state
Of territorial bondage, and substitu-
ting the cleaning sword and bristl-
ing bayonct for constitutional guards
and courts of law. The case was
continued to Monday when STAINS
bury will reply.
Judge Underwood, District Attor-
ney Chandler, and Mr.. Davis attor-
ney, Mr., O'Connor, arc in the city
and purpose consulting with the
President regarding the habeaS cor
puS in the case of Mr.. Davis. Ifthe
government obeys the writ, which
it probably will, bail will be tender
ed and the prisoners limits enlarged.
AUGUSTA, GA, May 3,-Foster
Blodgct, the mayor appointed by
General Pope, and the new council,
were inaugurated to-day, in the
presence of a large number of citi.
zens. The appointments are salts
factory.
RICHMOND, April 3.-Gcneral Will
cox, at Lynchburg, ordered that
Rives Pollard should not deliver his
lecture on "The Chivalry of the
South, i'll Lynchburg. Pollard has
appealed to General Schofield.
Speaker Gibbons, of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, addressed q large
audience OF blacks tonight. He
urged them to cling to the Rcpubli-
can party and abandon the idea of
confscation.
CHARLESTON, May 3.-The street
car question is at last settled. The
directors to-day determined to ad-
nit all classes Of citizens to all the
cars, but few negroes availcd them
selves of the privilege, although the
concession is not generally known.
Senator Wilson, who arrived yes
terday, addressed large crowd IN
citadel square this afternoon. About
1000 negroes and about 200 whites
were present.
The speech was two hours long,
consisting mainly of the argument
that South Carolina was the formost
champion of slavery in the past, and
advice to- the people, white and
black, to unto upon a platform of
union and the Republican party.
WASHINGTON, May 5.-The Chilian
Minister has official adviccs of the
success of the administration in re-
cent elections.
The State Department is advised
of the discovery of silk plant in
Peru, and that extensive prepara-
tions for its cultivation are being
inaugurated. The shrub is from
three TO four feet high, and the silk
is enclosed in pods which are very
numerous. The silk is very fine
The stem also produces afbre supe-
rior in strength and beauty to the
finest linen thread
New YORK, May 5.-Counterfeit
notes of ones and fives on the Peo-
pies National Bank of Michigan and
legal tender ones have been discover
ed by the detectives.
Matamoros correspondence of the
oath state that Juarez has issued a
decree Withdrawing privileges from
European citizens who recognize
the Empire, and abolishing treaty
stipulations with such powers.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch dated
April Sth says that the Emperor has
issued decree declaring the slaves
free, the mandate to take effect with
in twenty years. Children born
hereafter are free.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The Dem
ocrats have carried Lancaster, Pa,
by $40 majority-a gain of 1000
since last year.
A paragraph in Mr.. Davis habeaS
corpus petition says: "Your peti--
toner further shows that his i'm
prisonment has greatly impaired his
health, that the continuance thereof
through the ensuing simmer, would
involve serious danger to his life as
your petitioner believes"
LEXINGTON, Ky, May Cit.
Price with q detachment of soldiers
attempted to make somo arrests in
Nicholasville, Ky. The soldiers
were driven off, and Price and a
soldier were wounded. The trouble
grows out of lynching a negro who
killed a white boy.
SAN FRANcIsoo, May 6.-Arizona
advices say that the war Of exter-
mination has commenced against
the Indians in that Territory.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-General
ReSseau has been placed in COM
mand of the Northwestern district,
embracing Oregon, Washington and
Montana territories.
Interior Secretary Browning is
convalescent.
Agricultural Commissioner New
ton has resigned.
Internal Revenue receipts TO day
sT3S, ,000.'
Hon. L. III. Chandler, district at
torney for Eastern Virginia, has ad-
dressed letter TO the Secretary Of
War, requesting that the command
ant of Fortress Monroe should be
ordered to obey Judge Underwood's
writ for Mr.. Davis.
Stausburv closed his argment on