The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-03
Domestic Neyys.

WASHINGTON. May 1.-Gensral Jordan.
who enlisted for one year, is not q de,
serter from the Cuban cause. He comes
here in the Cuban interests, with two
Cuban secretaries.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the Assistant Treasurer, at New
York, to sell 81, 100000 of gold on each
Wednesday of the month of May, COM
mencing May 4th. The first and third
sales on account of the sinking fund, and
the second and fourth on account of the
special fund, or four millions in all. Also
to purchase 81, ,O00,0 600 of bonds each on
Thursday, the 18th, and Thursday, the
26th, for the sinking fund, aud So, 600, :
600 each on Thursday, the 5th, and
Thursday, the 10th, on account of the
special fund, or Sc, 600, 900 in all.
CHARLESTON, May 2. 2.-Arrived-steam-
er Tennessee, New York.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Supreme
Court of the United States has decided
the case of the United States against
Edward Padelford, on appeal from the
Court of Claims. The appeal brought
before the court a claim under the Cap
ture and Abandoned Property Act of
March IL. 1868, for half the proceeds
paid into the Treasury of 1898 bales of
cotton, captured at Savannah, and turn
ed over to treasury agent, and sold
under that Act. The Court says, in con
clusion: It follows that, at the time of
the seizure of the petitioners property,
he was purged of whatever offence
against the laws of the United States he
had committed, by the Acts mentioned
IN the finding, and relieved from INV
penalty which he might have incurred;
it follows, further, that if the property
had been seized before the oath was
taken, the faith of the Government was
pledged to its restoration, upon tho tax
ing of the oath in good faith. We can
not doubt that the petitioners right to
the property in question, ut the time of
the seizure, was perfect, except as against
the acts of the military commanders. and
that it is made absolutely perfect by par
don, notwithstanding the seizure: but il
has been suggested that the property was
captured in fact, if not lawfully, and
that the proceeds having been paid into
the Treasury of the United States, the
petitioner is without remedy in tho Court
OF Claims, unless proof is made that he
gave no aid or comfort to the rebellion.
The suggestion is ingenious, but we do
not think it sound. The sufficient answer
IS that after the pardon, no offence con-
nected with the rebellion can bo imputed
to him. If, in other respects, the petit
toner made the proof which, under the
Act, entitled to him decree for the pro-
ceeds of his property. the law makes the
proof of pardon complete substitute
for proof that he gavo no aid or comfort
to the rebellion. A different construc-
ton would, as it seems to us, defeat tho
manifest intent of the proclamation, and
OF the Act Of Congress which authorized
1t under the proclamation; and by the
act the Government became n trustee,
holding the proceeds of the petitioners
property for his benefit, and Having been
fully reimbursed for all expenses incur
red in that character, loses nothing by
the judgment, which simply awards to
the petitioner what il his own. These
views require the affirmnnce of The iudo-
mont of the Court of Claims. and il Is
accordingly affirmed.
z. Mn tho House, bill wos
passed. giving pension of So, 600 to
Mrs. Lincoln.
In the Senate, numerous petitions for
relief of political disabilities were pre-
sentod. Sawyer introduced a bill to
enable claimants in cases not connected
with the rebellion to go into the Court of
Claims without proof OF loyalty.
In the House, resolution declaring it