New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-02-27

was heard and decided. No excitement whatever
was observed, and everything passed on very qmety
Gen. Thomas after his discharge, went to the White
House TO consult with the President. The action OF
the court caused considerable surprise, and was by
no means anticipated by the johnson men. The case
will now go to the Grand Jury in the usual way ana
that body will decide upon the violation OF the law
and send the to the Criminal Court for adudlca
ton. 1t can reach the Supreme Court only by APP
peal from the decision of Judge Cartier, should Adj
jutant-Gen Thomas be found guilty of violation OF
the Tenure-of- Office law.
Immediately after the discharge of Gen. Thomas
this morning a suit was commenced in the DISTRICT
Court by him against Secretary Stanton for false I'M
prisonment an d malicious prosecution. damages
100000.
Gen. Thomas has made no fresh attempt 10 capture
the War Department, and Secretary Stanton still
holds the KEYS He made number of acquisitions
upon the Treasury Department to-day, which were
duly honored.
The President has not yet disclosed what move no
intends next to make though tits generally expected
that his inventive legal genius will give birth
to something brilliant and startling.
The President directed to-day that a writ OF quo
dGRtO against Secretary Stanton be applied for IN
one of the courts. Up to a late hour tonight the
writ had not been served on the Secretary.
The documents sent to tho Senate to-day by Gen.
Grant in reply TO q resolution OF that Dody contain
the following telegrams W ,sv,Scrov Arc 1857
To Major Gen. Pore:
I think your views sound both in the construction
which Won give to the laws of Congress and the duties Of
the supporters OF good governments To see that when
Reconstruction is effected that no loophoe is left open
to give trouble and embarrassment thereafter 1t is GER
tany the duty OF district commanders to study what the
OF the reconstruction laws wanted to express as
much as what they DO express and to execute the laws
have generally DONE and so far have the approval OF all
who approved the Congressional plan OF reconstruction
u. 3. GRANT, General.
On the Esd of December last Gen. Grant telegaphed
Gen. Pope as follows:
The constitutions adopted by conventions now in
session not the laws OF the States until submitted TO
the people and ratified by them. do not see, therefore
ratified.
Cen Grant, Jan. 10, teleGaphed Gen. Meade ap-
proving the latters conduct in removing the State
Treasurer of Georgia for not obeying the orders OF
the Conventions also the following:
at would not advise interference with the elections
ordered by the Atlanta Convention unless very sasfac
tory reasons exist for doing So As District Commander
you will be perfectly jusabe in adopting as your own
order the stay laws IN the 10 De
Under new arrangement just concluded between
the PostOfice Department of the United States and
of the Dominion of Canada the single rate of postage
international letters is to be reduced and after
the first day of April 1868 from ten to six cents If
prepaid at the Office of mailing in either country,
but if posted unpaid, or insuficently prepaid.
letters are to be subject to a postage
charge of ten cents per single rate in the country Of
destination The authorized weight of single letter
is Is grammes by the medical scale and half an
ounce in the Dominion of Canada. Postmasters Will
levy postage accordingly on and after the LIST OF
April, 1868.
The following cases were argued in the Supreme
Court to-day:
No 81 Society for Savings Cote Bank tar case
from Connecticut No 2ss Provldent Institution for
Savings vs. The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, bank
tax case.