Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-01-18
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HARRIsBURe, Jan. l5.-Simon Cameron /:
elected Senator by strict party vote. Ii
the Senate il stood Cameron 10, Cowan 10
The House voted Cameron 90, Cowan 81.
ST.. Lous, Jan. l5.-Chas. D. Drake wa.
elected U. s. Senator for Missouri to -day, BY
vote of ll2 TO AZ. Blair received 80
votes.
ST. LOUIS Jan. l5.--The Illinois Senate
rial election to-day resulted as follows
Trumbull 70; Dickey 80.
NEw ORLEAxs Jan. l3.-The United
States grand jury have failed to find an In
dictment against the persons concerned in the
July riots. P. Fl. Morgan, United State:
District Attorney, when the jury was EN-.
paneled, declined to apply the test oath tc
jurors.
NEW York, Jan. l3.-Five negroes were
taken from the Green county, N. O., Jail. on
Tuesday last. body of armed men, and
lynched.- They were charged with outrag.
ing the person of Mrs Miller. ~.
LoSDSs, Jan. IL, P. M.-The Lords and
Admiralty are busily engaged In the pre-.
paration of estimates for the large increase
of naval arms lately ordered.
The Times has an .argumentative article
on impeachment of the President of the
United States, and says the scheme looks
like fatal blow at the Constitution.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. IL, M-The cotton mar
ket closed dull and lower. Mddling uplands
l43d. Sales did not exceed the noon esti.
mate, 5000 bales.
NASHVILLE, Jan. l2.--The Union State
Convention, to nominate candidate for Gov
ernor, meets on the 22d of February. A
number of counties in East Tennessee rec
ommend the denomination of Gov. Brown
low for that office. -
Chancellor Campbell to-day decided that
the law providing Metropolitan police for
Nashville was unconstitutional, and decreed
a perpetual injunction against the Police
Commissioners. An appeal was taken 10 the
Supreme Court now in session.
New YORK, ian. l2..-John II. Lester has
instituted suit against General Butler for
damages. He alleges tina: the said Butler
arrested him at Fortress Monroe, and took
$4,000 in money and other property, and
though court martial sentenced him to ten
years imprisonment, he was sent to Hatteras
Island and kept many months, until released
by Gen. Grant. lie claims $l00,000 dam
ages, and $4,000 for property. 6I
LA CRossE, Wis, Jan. 1.-THE Demo-
crat this evening, publishes copies Of letters
Just unearthed at Washington, over the sig.
natures of Major Generals Sherman, Steele
and Weitzel, in which they give to Lieut..
Colonel II. r. II. McIver, of the Mexican
Republic, while on service on the Texan
frontier authority to raise troops and arms
in the United States for Mexico to prosecute
the war against Napoleon. They also open.
" violate the neutrality laws by giving war
rants, for piracy, and transportation to Next
can troops, against our stipulations of neu-
trality with France and Austria. The pub
lication of these important letters explains
the cause of our trouble with France. Cop
les of these same letters have been received
by Napoleon. In this matter, not only the
Generals named but also the President and
Secretary Seward are implicated.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. ls.-Freedmen are
leaving this vicinity in such numbers as to
excite alarm far the future cultivation of the
lands. They are chiefly bound to Florida
and transported at Government expense.
PARIS, Jan. l5.-The last of the trans
ports for Vera Cruz, to bring home the
French troops, sailed last evening.
PARIS, Jan. ia detachment of the
French troops from Mexico has arrived in
France.
LIvrRrooL Jan. l5.-Cotton very dull
and lower. Sales 1000 bales. Middling
uplanis l4ld. Breadstuffs frmer Corn
AIS Cd. Tallow declined Id. Petroleum
declining; refined ls Cd.
NASHVILLE, JAN Ex-senator Case, from
the Ohion District West Tennessee, was as
sassinated on the l4th, near his residence in
0bion. The cause was an old political
grudge as is supposed. A son of Mr.. G. was
killed last summer through mistake for his
father The same parties are suspected of
both murders. No arrests. Mr.. Case was
Radical.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.--Associate Justice
Field to-day delivered an opinion to the Uni
ted States Supreme Court in Missouri, in the
test oath case; Jno. @. Cummins, Roman
Catholic Priest who was indicted for preach
ing without taking the oath prescribed by the
Constitution Of the State, being plaintiff in
error. The Court decides that the oath in
this case was unconstitutional, being in ma
ture Of punishment without trial, and in its
character ex-post facto, and as bill of at
taindar. The Judgment of the Courts below
is reversed, with directions that plaintiff
shall depart without delay.
TEST OATH For ATTORNEYS ILLEGAL.
Associate Justice Field also delivered the
opinion of the Court in the ex parte case of
Garland and Moore, who, taking part In the
rebellion, asked to be admitted TO practice.
The Court held that as the Statute imposes
punishment which may not have been i'm
posed at the time the offense was committed,
this in Its nature is an ex post facto law
Attorneys are not officers of the United
States, they are officers Of the Courts, aud
hold their Offices during good behavior
The Court is not the register of the edicts of
any other power. The applicants obtained
pardon from the President, which relieves
them from the consequences Of their oiienscs
and makes them citizens in the eyes OF the
law, what they we're before Il was commit
ted. Congress cannot limit mercy
1t cannot be limited or lessened, by legis-
latiye restriction. II followed, then,
that the prayer of the petitioner must be
granSi, aad also the prayer OF Mr.. Moore.
The rule which requires Others 10 take the
test oath must be rescinded.
AT an evening party Foote, the humorist,
was reminded by The master of the house
that his handkerchief was hanging out from
his coat nncket q think Won sir p said the |