Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-29
FROM ARKANSAS
Injunction Against the Railroad Conn
missiOners- The LittIe Rock, Pine
Bluff and New Orleans Railroad
treason.

From the Little Rock Gazette. 22'.l
INJUNCTION AGAINST THE RAILROAD
COMMISSIONERS.
Attorney General Montgomery, on
Tuesday, sued cut an injunction to pre-.
vent the Railroad Com missioners from
distributing State aid to the railroads, to
Rhichsit hiss bsen awarded, on the grouuu
Chst the act authorizing the granting of
aid provided for the distribution of the
same by comEissioneTs-whereas there
were no commissioner at tLRt time. 10
the law regulating general incOrpoFa-
lions, passed Afterwards, com In%issiOusTs
were appointed. The Attorney General
sues OuE the injunction claiming that the
acs appointing tbs Commissioners is Uo-
constitutional, Is the constitution ex-
pressly declares that no set shaii en-
brace more than one subject which shall
be stated in its title. Inc case will be
argued and determined before c. ief JUS
tice Wiltshire and Justice Mcclure, CT
the supreme Court, at ten o'clock this
morning.
Bonds have been sigued to the amount
of $3.50. coo for the first twenty five miles
of the Memphis and Little Rock Rail-
road, but the Injunction prayed has pre-
vented IL from being turned over 10 the
company.
THE LITTLE ROCK, PINE BLUFF AND
NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD.
This being ore Of the most important
railroad routes projected in our State,
particularly to tie capital aud rich belt
Of cotton lands from hence to the Lou
isisn2 line, we sTe act surprised to see
The interest manifested in it by the peo.
pie Of southeastern Arkansas. Large
and enthusiastic meetings have recently
been held at Pine Bluff, Monticello and
Hamburg, and committees appointed to
solicit subscriptions to the road.
Another meeting, having for its object
the advancs ment Of this enterprise, will
be held at Pine Buff on the 10Th Of MAY.
IL will be largely attended by the most
prominent and Influential men OF Jeffsr-
son and contiguous counties, Interested
IL the project. This being a matter in
which Our city is equally, or perhaps
more, interested hi any other city or
town IN the State, we suggest TO our
Chamber Of Commerce the proprietv Of
sending delegates to this meeting. we
should by ell means have some represen-
tGtiOn from u city on that occasion.
n we hope these suggestions NAV not
be overlooked by our community.
TREASON.
OcAUAC OnECA JuHAiCt Hll6GlTe and
Judge Mcclure, OF the Supreme Court.
yesterday, the former delivered an epin-
ion OF the application fer writ OF habeas
corpus in the case of the State vs.. A. G..
Picket and - Suggs, for treason. The
were admitted to bail, the former
10 the sum Of $40. GOO, and the latter in
$40 600, 20 answer 81 the next term of the
Circuit Court Of Woodruff county. The
Judges holding that the "~insurgentsu
who had assembled to oppose che militia
treason, and that the right OF
the Executive to declare certain counties |
under martial law and call u the mill
TIA did not have any bearing in the case.
The parties were remanded to the Gus
tody OF the Sheriff, with instructions TO
to return to Woodruff county, requiring
them to give good and sufficient bond |
before the Clerk Of that county, to be re-
viewed by the Supreme Court.