The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-06-16
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WASHINGTON, June 5-Tho President appoint
ed Charles R. Moblcy, attorney for southern dis
trict of Florida. John Lynch. surveyor general
ofthe district of Louisiana. slad bas4al8 Isl
Admiral Hoff reports from Matanzas 9th,
there was feeling of animosity between the vol
unteer and the Cuban element much less than he
had been led to believe when at Havara, on The
90 A stranger would not suspect revolution
to be in progress. ii
Lieut.. Commander Eastman reported that the
railway to Puerto Principe has been repaired and
locomotive and freight cars come down TO Mclvi-
tas at slow rate, taking three days to make
forty-eight miles, and guarded by two thousand
men. On the Sh or 10th Of May bands of insur-
gents attacked the convoy OF train, defeated
them, destroyed the bridges built by the Span
iards and captured forty three officers and men,
including Colonel. This is the only decided
success the reyolutionists have lately had si;.i'
The removal OF Gen. Lcsca by the government
and the appointment of Gen. Letona to succeed
him gave great dissatisfaction. In consequence
ofthe successful landing of the expeditions in
the district of Guantonirno and the defeat of the
| Spaniards in the recent engagement there, the
insurrection has been greatly Strengthened and
new life infused into it, when to all appearances,
| it was dying out two weeks previously.
WASHINGTON, June 5-Revenue to-day
Charles Langston, colored, has been appoint
| ed to the mission to Liberia. sFaa :.
In the case of James Weaver, citizen Of Texas
| tried for murder, convicted and sentenced to be
| hung by a Military Commission, the Attorney
| General has given an opinion in which he re-
views the reconstruction laws and the duties of
the commanding officer, and says as the State of
Texas had not in September, 1865 and has not
| since adopted the Constitution in conformity
with the provisions of the act of Congress, and
has not become entitled to representation In
Congress, the act was operative in Texas at the
time the Military Commission was organized for
| the trial of Weaver, and the commanding Gen.
eral exercised the discretion entrusted to him
by the third section by deciding that it was nee
essary military commission should be organized
orthe trial. PSI sa sal
IT. therefore, the statute of March I'd, 1857 Is
constitutional and valid statute it then appears
that the jurisdiction of the said military commits.
sion was complete, and that there is no legal OBJ.
stacle to the execution of the sentence The
Attorney General maintains that the right Of
war did not necessarily terminate with the ces-
sation of actu: hostilties and not until the work
of restoring the relations of peace shall have
been accomplished can it be so considered. 1t
is for Congress to determine when the war has
so far ended that The work CAN be safely and sue
cessfully completed The Attorney General sees
no reason in law for withholding the Presidents
approval of the findings. During the argument
the Attorney General says it is obvious that Con.
gross under the Constitution has no right in inc
of peace to subject any citizen of a State to
trial and punishment by military power