The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-24
FROM WASHING TON.
The Case of MIR. O'NeiII.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Mr. john L. ONeI
calling himself the United States District Attor-
ney for the Eastern District o! Pennsylvania,
arrived here this morniBg, to consult Attorney
General Evarts upon the anomalous condition
of affairs in Philadelphia, resulting from Judge
Cadwaaders refusal TO acknowledge him.
Mr.. Evarts left this city last evening for New
York, so O'Neil laid his case before Acting
Attorney-General Ashton.
The Sub Committee on Retrenchment
had before it this morning Assistant Attorney
General Ashton, to state what were the lnstruc-
tons issued to MIR. Courtney in the New York
aation in which Buckley so immor-
tallzed himself. After hearing Mr.. Ashton's
evidence the Committee adjourned to meet in
New York on Thursday of next week.
No official report from the military authori-
ties in Georgia concerning
The Camilla Massacre
has yet been received at the War Department or
Grants Headquarters.
Spanish Commercial Regulations.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Information has been
received at the Treasury, through the State
Department, that a royal Spanish cdict was
issued July 81, 1868 extending the period for
the admission OF foreign breadstuffs into the
Spanish peninsula and the adjacent islands
until July l, 1869.
The President
ordered his carriage to-day, and rode out to the
State Department, where he had a long inter
caused much comment, from the fact that Mr..
Seward declared for Graut at the Cabi-
net meeting, yesterday and it was re
ported today that he had offered
sired it. Mr.. Seward is shrewd, and wants to
desert the sinking ship of Democracy. 1t is
understood that Mr., johnson is deslrous of
Concliating him, and sought private inter-
Wow with him with that object.
The matter of
one dollar greenbacks. gotten up by the Demo
Gratis, which are circulating throughout Penn.
sylvania and the West, has been referred TO
Solicitor Jordan, of the Treasury Department,
for an opinion as to their illegal character. 1t
is asserted that they are clearly unlawful, and
that all who circulate or traffic in them in any
way are liable to heavy penalties and i'm
prlsonment.
SPAN.
The United States Vice Consul at Malaga has
transmitted to the State Department official intel-
gence in regard to several royal edicts in Spain in
relation to commercial regulations with this coun-
try. One of these edicts announces the extending
of the period for the free admission OF foreign
breadstus into ports Of the e. Peninsula aso and ada
flour, barley and corn are the articles enumerated
Another edict regulates the admission of gummed
cotton for the lining of mems hats, and is referred
TO as follows by Mr.. Geary:-A royal order of July
%, 1865 recognizes that tissues OF. gummed cotton
for the lining of mems hats, clear tissues of fifteen
threads being included, which are of common qua
hty and contain large quantity OF gum, and are
gum should pay the same duty as the tissue ITSELF
as has been already recognized by royal order OF
TS Tsag CO Sa tGe ae hSTe ST bee
taxed at 40 per cent its valuation. 1t prescribes
that article 81 of the special tariff on cottons shall
alone be hereafter applied to these tissues, that is
to say, 40 to AZ per cent by kilogramme of % 046
pounds on the valuation, according to the flag Of
importing vessel.
The Surratt Trial.
The decision of Judge Wylie in the Criminal
Court to-day is believed to be the first judicial one
delivered under the Presidents pardon and amnes-
ty proclamation of July last. The decision enters
into elaborate discussion of the five counts which
the indictment comprises and for the reasons stated
sustans the demurrer, the plea being adjudged
bad The decision takes wide range, and the va,
rous points set forth with great clearness and
force. The principal objection to the plea of de-
fendant claiming to come under the provisions of
the Presidents proclamation of amnesty, is that
none OF the counts of the indictment charge either
treason Gathering to the enemy during the re-
belliOn," which are the only crimes mentioned in
that proclamation.