The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-10-27
WASHINGTON NEWS.
wAsn1soroN, Der. "a, 1869.
From Exchanges.)


WORK OF DEGRADATION GOING on.
Although the election in Texas i,
not far distant, the Administration in
tends to be in time with its removals
of every ofice-holder who support:
Hamilton for Governor. Additional
orders were given yesterday for the
decapitation of postal andirevenue off
Gals. The Collector of the Port Of
Brownsville and internal revenu off
cials in the Austin district r IN tn,
lists. ..
FINANCIAL.
There is considerable anxiety felt in
the New York market to know if the
Secretary of the Treasury intends to
continue his bond purchases and gold
sales through November. The condi-
ton OF coin in the Treasury warrants
the Secretary in selling gold through
November, but it questionable now
if he does not decide to allow the
heavy payments of the November in
terest to take the place of the Weekly
gold sales. The Secretary declines to
answer the numerous inquiries made
to him in this particular.
CASE OF GENERAL BUrTERFIELp.
General Butterfeld, the Assistant
Treasurer at New York, makes the sin
gular request in his letter to the Presi-
dent that the charges made against
him of speculation and completely in
the recent gold ring be investigated by
a court of inquiry. Although he is a
Colonel in the regular army, the au-
thorities do not see how he can be
granted a court on charges I ade
against him as q civil officer, and the
request was therefore refused, The
President said yesterday to a member
of Congress that he did not believe the
charges made against Butterield, but
at the same time he did not look upon
him now as a man of capacity enough
70 hold the place,
AGAIN on THE wING-Hts MOVEMENTS.
The President informed a Balti-
more delegation to-day that he intend
ed TO start on another tour of recrea-
ton, leaving tomorrow, to attend the
marriage of Bishop Simpsons daugh-
ter, in Philadelphia, on Wednesday.
He visits ex-Secretary Borie, to whom
he said he had long owed a visit -
Thursday he attends a jubilee for the
benefit of the soldiers orphans, and
on Saturday he returns TO Washing
ton, to remain till Wednesday of next
week, when he leaves to attend the
Maryland State Fair; afterward, the
MARYLAND Institute Fair at Baltimore.
He will remain then another week
here, and then go to Louisville.
II SCENE IN COURT.
- The Supreme Courtroom this morn
ing was crowded with members of the
bar and interested spectators, to listen
to the decision in the now celebrated
Yerger case. Among them were
Judge Curtis, who was formerly an
Associate Justice on the bench; ex-At-
torney GeneralsEvarts and Caleb
Gushing, Ben Butler, General Ewing,
Judge Yerger of Mississippi, an uncle
of the defendant, and others of legal
eminence. Chief Justice Chase de-
livered the opinion of the Conrt on
the question of jurisdiction, and in the
course of the decision alluded very
pointedIy to the action of Congress
some eighteen months ago, when it
passed over 4 veto a general act to de-
stroy the appellate jurisdiction of the
Court, the intended effect of which
was, however, to prevent a decision
on the famous McArdle case on ap-
peal from the same State and CT similar
| circumstances, under the reconstruc
ton laws. Congress was in such
haste that it did not repeal the act OF
1889, defining the Jurisdiction Of the
Supreme Court. The Court, there
fore, decided that it has jurisdiction
in this case, but does not enter at all
into the question of the constitutional.
ity of the reconstruction laws That
comes up in the arguments to be heard
in the petition for writs of habeas cor.
pus or certiorari be issued by the Chief
Justice. The members of the ban
now more fully agree, as heretofore
telegraphed, that on this petition the
Court will decide as unconstitiopa!
that portion of the reconstruction laws
which provide for the trial by Mill
tary Commission of citizens in the so
called unrecopstructed States.