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THE MISSISSIPPI ELECII0N.
Prsclamattsn by the President Of the
United Atates-The Election to be
Held November 30th.

The following is promulgated to-day:
By The President Of the United States Of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
In pursuance Of the provisions Of the act Of
Congress approved April 10th, 1869, hereby
designate Tuesday, the Both day OF Novemosr
as the time for submitting the Constitution
adopted on the 18th day of May, 1865, by the
Con vention which met in Jackson, Missis-
sippi, to the voters OF said S.ate, registered at
the date of such SUBMISSION, viz: November
SOtb, 1869
And l submit to separate vote that p ,rt of
Section 3, of Article VII, Of sad Constitution,
which is In the following words:
"That am not aisiranchised In any Of the
provisions of the act known as the Rscon-
gress, and that admit the political and civil
equality OF all men; so help me God. Pro.
vided II Congress shall, at any time, remove
said Reconstruction Acts OF the said 39th and
40th Congress, tand the Legislature OF rhi $ ate
shall concur therein,) then so much Of this
Reconstruction Acts, shall not be req uired of
such person, SO pardoned, to entile him TO be
registered"
And farther submit to a separate vote sec.
tiop CT the same article Of said constitution,
which is in the following words:
"No person shall be eligible to anv ohic, of
proht or trust. civil or military, la this State,
who, as member Of the Legis ature, voted for
the cali of the convention that passed the or.
dinance OF secession, or who, as q del-ga ate to
any convention, voted for or signed any ordi-
nance of secession, or who gave voluntary aid,
countenance, counsel or encouragement to per-
sons engaged in armed no ;tihty to the United
States, or who accepted or attempted to exer-
else the functions Of any Office, civil or mil
itary, under any authority or pretended
government, ln authority, power, or con-
hostile or inimical thereto ex .ept all persons
who aided reconstruction by voting for this
Convention, or who have continuously ad yo-
Gated the assembling of this Con vention, and
the acts OF the same; but the Legislature may
remove such disability: Proridsd, That nothing
In this section, except voting tor or signing the
ordinance of secession, shall be SO con strued as
to exc, ude from Office the private sold er OF the
late so-called Confederate States army"
And further submit to q separate vote, sec.
ton OF article xii Of the said Constitution,
which Is in the following words:
1.-The credit Of the State shall not be pledged
or loaned in a'd OF any person. association, or
corporation: nor shall the State hereafter b.
come a stockholder in any corporation or asso-
ciation."
And 1 farther submit, to a separate vote,
part of the oath Of office prescribed in section
z6 Of article XII of the said Constitution, which
is in the following words:
THAT 1 have never, as a member OF any
Convention, voted for or signed any or jinance
Of secession; that have never, as a mem oer
Of any State Legislature. voted for the call of
any Convention that passed any such ordi-
nance"
The above oath shall also be taken by all tie
city and county officers before entering upon
their duties, and by all other State officials not
included in the above provision.
i direct the vote to he taken upon each of the
above cited provisions alone, and upon the
following manner, viz:
Each voter fsvoring the ratification of the
constitution (excIudiRg the provisions above
quoted) as adopted by the Convention Of May
IS, 1e6s, shall express his judgment BY voting
PoR THE CONSTITUTION.
Each voter fav oring the rejection of the Con-
stitution, excluding the provisions above
quoted,> shall express his Judgment by voting
AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.
Each voter will be allowed to cast q separate
ballot for or against either or both Of the pro-
visions above quoted.
Itis understood that sections 4, S, 6, 7, 8, 9, TO-
IL, IL, 13, II and Is, Of article XIII. under the
head OF ordinance" are considered as forming
no part OF the said constitution.
In testimony W hereof have hereunto set my
hard and caused the seal Of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this
thirteenth day Of July, in the year OF our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
r.. 81 sixty. mine, and Of the independence
Of the United States Of America the
Hlnety-fourth. u. s. GRANT
By the President:
HAMILTON Fish, Secretary OF State.
THE YIRGSR HABIAs CORPUS CASE BE.
PoRB CHIEY JUSTICE CHAss.-On Monday
last, as heretofore stated In TIE STAR, Messrs.
James N. Carlisle and Philip Phillips present.
ed 10 Chief Justice Chase a petition Of e. NJ
Yerger, now ON trial before a Military Com.
mission in Mississippi for the murder of COL
Cane. U. 5. Army, praying :or a writ of habeas
corpus to take him from the custody of said
Commission, and Chief Justice received the
application and fixed III O'Clock this morning
as the hour for hearing arguments on the same
This morning at IL O'Clock Chief Justice
Chase was in his seat on the bench, to hear the
argument in the case. The court room was
we'll filled, nearly all the prominent members
of the bar Of this city being present.
Mr.. Phillips, counsel for the petitioner,
oIened the case by reading the petition, and
then spoke for nearly two hours in ad vocacy
OF its merits. The gist Of his argument was
the present peaceful state OF the country, he
claiming that, NO war now existing, trials by
military commissions were against the spirit OF
the law.
Attorney General Hoar, representing the
Government in the case, then said that he
hardly knew how TO explain his presence on
the occasion. He had been notified to attend
here, but the Supreme Court had adjourned
and he could not see how the functions Of the
court could be performed by any one men,
ber thereof during q recess Of the court
He then referred to the statute defining the
powers Of the Supreme Court, and denied the
Jurisdiction of the Court either appella or
otherwise. over the case in its presen. forms.
ton. He referred TO the fact that there was no
precedent for such action. The Judges who,
by virtue Of their appointment, were distrib.
uted In circuits all over the United States,
each had power in his own individual circuit,
probably to take action on cases, returnable
in his own circuit, but this ease would lead to
the conclusion that certain powers could be
exercised by the Chief Justice, which NO Dir.
cult Judge could exercise without liability of
NON concurrence by Q District Judge, and In
that case, OF appeal 70 the full bench Of the Su.
preme Court.
The case was q subject tor the consideration
only OF the Associate Justice IN whose circuit
IL was located.
He was speaking Of the merits Of the petition
when our report closed.
CONVICTIONS AND SENTENCES FOE FRAUDs
ON THE acknowledgements has been re.
ceiyed at the Internal Revenue Department
that the cases against Edward Lyon and
Michael Weaver. recently on trial At Reading,
~. -. ~>~ulkaA An n verdict tor eha (3ovorn