The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Attorney General-Col. Weather
by-Jeirerson Dayis-Telegrnm from
Gen. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS General
Randall.

Gen, ShertnH n-Postinahier eehcroi
Randall.
New YORK, May 6.-The time OF the
Attorney General has been 50 wholly
engaged with the injunction cases, that
he has not yet completed his opinion
on the DISTINGUISHING clause OF the re-
construction act.
The Judiciary committee are now all
here.
Col. Weatherby, of South Carolana,
is among the late arrivals. He will be
remembered as the gentleman who had
a conversation with the President last
November, in which the President W as
supposed to have advised him against
the adoption of the constitutional
amendment, and il is upon this point
that he will be questioned.
The TriGunc'S special says: The
friends of Jefferson Davis have sent him
a request that he formally petition the
President for pardon.
United States District Attorney
Chandler tc-night filed written re-
quest with the President for an order
ON the commandanS of Fortress Monroe
TO deliver Mr.. Davis to the United
states Marshal, in case the. process shall
he issued To Bring the prisoner before
the United States Circuit Court of
Judge Underwood. The order will
probably he issued in accordance with
that request tomorrow.
An impression prevails that when
Dir. Davis gets into the custody of the
Marshal and under the jurisdiction of
the Cont, that the President ceases to
have control over the prisoner. The
President can pardon before or after the
trial of the accused, and his authority
TO release prisoners is not affected by
the question of whose custody he may
lie in.
The report, originating i'll n New York
paper, that Postmaster General Kan
dali had rendered his resignation to the
President To b. used at the latter's dis
cretion, is unfounded. 1t is denied by
both the President and Governor Ran
dali.
A telegram from General Shcrna Ia,
ut 81. Louis, received to-day, says that
Green Clay Smith is i'll that city, and
starts for Montana tomorrow. Arms
have been sent To that Territory and it
is understood that with these arms the
people of the Territory will protect
themselves. General Augrr will soon
be among the Indians whC nave 0cca-
stoned the alarm To acting Governor
Meagher.
These arms are not TO he used unless
General Sherman would sanction the
call of actual necessity.
The Georgi md Mi-si-sippi Injnnc-
ton Gases.
WASHINGTON, May 6.--m the Supreme
Court this afternoon: Attorney General
Stanbery closed the argument on the
Georgia and Mississippi injunction
cases. He spoke as to the general prin-
ciples involved, aud denied, rs herstO-
fore, that these eases had any place III
Court. They were not within the jul
risdiction ola Court of equity. There
was in them no basis of property on
which relief could be given. Georgia
and Mississippi, according to bills filed,
undertook 10 speak for all the people
off those States, which was evidence of
this fact, besides of the ten Southern
States over which the reconstruction
acts operate. Only two were here. 1t
was not known to the contrary that the
remaining States were dissatisfied for
they had not presented any bill ofgriev-
anceS.
The law gave u citizen the ght to vim
dictate himself. and could do this rs sue
cessfully as n State could for him. The
counsel on the other side had invoked
the Court to save their liberties from
destruction, and to preserve the integ-
rity Of the States on whose behalf they
,.naara1 I'm Sat1 fha GAnar-
al was no inherent power for that pur-
pose in this Court, for Congress might SO
act rs to destroy the efficiency of the
Court by impeachimg Judses on false
accusations or by denying The salaries
requisite to their support. 1t rested
with the people, however, To secure the
honesty aud right doing of the Legis-
lature, and OH this basis we must look
for the preservation of the rights of cit
liens and the guaranteed rights of the
States. No further proceedings took
place OH the question before the Court.
Adjourned, immediately OH the conclu-
sion Of the Stanbery argument.
JET DnSis-nnbeas Corpus.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-In accordance
with the advice of the Adjutant Gener-
III, the War Department has ordered
the Commander ut Fortress Monroe to
obey q, wit of habcas corpus for the
production Of the body of Jefferson Da-
Wis i'm the United States Circuit Court
at Richmond on Monday next.
Adispatch from Richmond says the
grand jury of the United States Dis
trict Court WAS empaGneled this Isorn-
ing. 1t had three colored men from Al
exandria among its number. r,4.
The Tribune says: We have conclu'
sive evidence that no offer To release
Mr.. Davis has been made and no CON-
manication Of any kind on the subject
has passe,l between him and the Exec
utive.' s.o=
From Buffalo.