The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-18
FROM WASHLNGTON.
Another Yerner Case.

Another HefGer Case.
Special Despatch TO The EreninQ Telegraph.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-In the Supreme
Court to-day Richard M. Corwin, of Ohio,
moved for writ of habeas corpus on behalf of
a civilian arrested and imprisoned in Texas for
murder. The court fixed next Tuesday to hear
the argument, when Mr.. Corwin will appear for
the prisoner and the Attorney General for the
military authorities. The case is similar in all
respects TO the Yerger case.
shermnn's Funding Bill.
Senator Sherman will call up his Funding bill
next week. He has no assurance that It viii go,
through, but he intends to press it vigorously
He will offer two amendments to 1t, neither of
them important
The McGarrahan Claim.
The McGarrahan claim having been dismissed
from the courts, has taken refuge in Congress.
The House Judiciary Committee had q prelimi-
nary examination of the case to-day, and fixed
next week the time for parties to file evidence
The Appropriation Bill.
The House is hard at work on the Legislative
Appropriation BILL having gone into Committee
of the Whole soon after reading the Journal.
J. X. sypher and the Cadetship RascaIity.
A well-known newspaper correspondent WAS
before the House Military Committee to-day,
and testified that he went TO ]. II. sypher, mem
| Der of the House from Louisiana in the Fortieth
| Congress, and offered to buy cadetship from
him. Mr.. Sypher referred the correspondent to.
| his brother, j. r. Syphsr, correspondent and
/ agent of the New York Tribune, at Philadelphia,
| who he said would attend to the matter. The
1 witness saw j. X. Sypher, but the latter aslked
/ too high price for the cadetship, 80 he did
/ not purchase 1t. He understood that it was
| afterwards disposed of to some person in Penn
| sylvania.
/ Disbursements In Alaska.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to the
House a reply to resolution calling for state.
ment of the receipts and disbursements in
Alaska since that Territory was incorporated
into the United States, ETC., by which it appears
that the disbursem ents on account of the reve-
nue. cutter service, by the Collector of Customs
| at San Francisco in excess of what would
have been disbursed had the vessels
remained in port, was $1,000 Disbursements
by the Collector of Customs at Sitka on account
of collecting revenue from customs and revenue
cutter service, $101, 1853. Disbursements on &C.
| count of special service, s6224. Disbursements
on account of War Department in excess OF
| what would have been disbursed had the
troops been stationed elsewhere in the
| United States, $330000. Disbursements on
account of Post Office Department to September
| 80, 1869, $212. Total disbursements, $597, ,7So
| Receipts from customs, $21, ,332. Receipts from
Post Office, $51s. Total, $21, $50. Disburse
| ments in excess of receipts, s575, ,939.
The Secretary of War says that of the
s3So,0Oo spent by the Department, more than
100000 was expended In the purchase and
equipment of . steam vessel employed In the
transportation of public troops, which vessel
with due allowance for wear and tear and risks
of navigation, will long continue to represent
considerable portion Of the sum expended upor
/ the same,