New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-29

DELEGATION AND THE PREsIDENT-DEL-
MARS LETTER-MUDD, ARNOLD, AND sPANG-
LER--JEFFERs0N DAvIS--TRoOPs FOR TEN
Observation-Disclosures.
WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept %, 1863.
well informed army officer at Marshall. Texas
writes to friend in this city gloomy accounts of the
situation in that country. lie says that the whole
State is infested with robbers and outlaws, and that
travel is unsafe and for large bodies
of troops. He adds that freebooter whose name is
terror to the whole country rOams about with
$50 men. well armed and mounted. About the LIST of
September they openly captured train of 30 Gov
eminent wagons loaded with supplies. The conf
handing officer at Sulphur Springs, Texas, a
post garrisoned by small company of
the Goth Infantry, had sent word to Gen.
Hayden, commanding at Marshall that if not re-
enforced. his garrison, which was surrounded might
be slaughtered. A Company of the 18th Regiment
and so picked men beside had just started to re-
enforce him. The officer continues: This is fine
peace: A United States post besieged by Rebels in
arms, and no notice taken of it This is every word
trustworthy and can be snbstantated if it is desired
The Rebel newspapers sending abroad reports Of
fight at Camilla. do not believe the negroes
were in the wrong. Lies against them, accusing
them of every crime, teen in these journals for
Northern Rebel newspapers to copy"
The Alabama delegation, accompanied by Gov.
Smith, called on the President to-day. and were in
trOduced by United States Senator Fowler. State
Senator Hays read to the President the Legislatures
resolutions The interview, which was private.
continued several hours, during which the situation
was freely discussed. The delegation profess
to be perfectly satisfied with the Presidents
assurances of military aid. in ease of
necessity. They are to have another
interview with the President and with the Secretary
of War tomorrow. The Committee will probably 90
hence tomorrow evening, bearing the Presidents
assurance that he will instruct Gen. Meade TO take
the necessary precautionary to prevent dis
turbances at the ensuing election by proper dis
tributiOn of the troops now in Alabama and of those
which may in addition be furnished. Members
of the Alabama Legislature, not connected wifh
the Committee, here, say that Gov. Smiths
veto of the bill authorizing the election
of Presidential electors by the Legislature
has not been considered by that body.
majority of the Legislative Committee, who are in
Washington are represented opposed to any cleo
ton. being apprehensive of bloody results. The Gov
ornor and minority of the Committee and possibly
majority of both branches of the Alabama Legisla
ure do not entertain these fears and desire TO take
the sense OF the people at all hazards.
Delmars letter, pretending to contain an official
exhibit of the receipts and expenditures of the Gov
| eminent, is both amusing and disgusting TO the
Treasury officials. Delmar is a sorehead Congress
provided for the adjustment of his office after the
LIST Of next January and of course Mr. Delmar not
friend of the Congress party. He has been waiting
long time for revenge. and thinks he has it, since
his letter has been published. Secretary McCulloch
frowns at it, and Gen. Spinner laughs, and Treasury
people, and all. inquire whether Delmar has for
gotten an order which was issued by Secretary
McCulloch in 1867. and which is on file among the
records of the Treasury Department directing that
the whole edition of "Delmar's Statistics of the
United States" be burned. Such is fact. and only
few copies of Mr.. Demar's Statistics were saved
from destruction.
The Attorney Generals Office has received a copy
of the opinion of Judge Boynon of the Southern Dis
trct of Florida, on the application for a writ of
habeas corpus to release from imprisonment Dr.
Mudd. Arnold. and Spanglor who were sentenced by
military commission in the Spring of 1865, TO
fnement at the Dry Tortugas for conspiracy to take
the life of Abraham Lincoln The two points relied
upon in support of the affirmation of this question
were.
l. The Military Commission had at the time and place.
at which held jurisdiction TO try and sentence
for the oense with which these persons were discharged
July last they were paroned oy the Presidents Proca
nation OF that date and ought TO be set ut liberty
The Judge did not think parte Mlligan the
IN point. He found no difficulty In CHASING the ofense
conclusion that the proper tribunal for trial Of those en-
gagged III it was military tribunal. The proclamation
plainly excludes all persons standing In the position Of
these petitioners whether they have been convicted
not IL paroDs the crime Of treason pardons persons
who have levied against the United States
aid and comfort to their enemies within the laws and
OF war; but pardOns persons who have trans
crossed the laws OF no spy assassin and per
who has been guilty Of barbarOus treatment 10 pris
For these reasons, deliberately set forth, the writ
was denied.
1t is believed in official quarters that the authori-
ties will not try Jefferson Davis the October term
of the United States Court in Virginia.
The garrison of Washington has been further re-
duced by the departure of the Twenty ninth lnfan-
try for Tennessee-two battalions of infantry and o
company of cavalry are all the troops remaining
here. There only four companies of cavalry this
side of the Mississippi
Mrs. Harriet c. Risley. wife Of the Hon. IT, A. Rs-
ley Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury died here this
evening, at o'clock, of typhoid fever.
The Secretary of War has published an order sus-
pending for the present the sale of all Government
arms, amnunitions, etc.
Gen. Rawlins has gone to the West. ........
Revenue appointments have been made as follows.
soekeepers1J n "son for Mete Mass A%asa WentscIth
~ Allen kdeTek Morrison D. d. Odds Charles Ticker Charles W.
James Bueker Keokpk VIM Moore. Cascade W.
smith W. Harke for Cheago john Lener Wimingcni Henry
H. Gould. NewhuDPo. Mass Henry L. Noyes Penn YAM Y,
Miller Fifteen District; Farrell aud
Ikmer Second Missouri District; Mathew McKeen Ninth New
THE MAINE ELECTION.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 28.-Returns from all the cities
and towns OF the Sate nearly all of them Official and