The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-11
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M6ut tnat eue ble86 Of 1funS uR0 a been
ssFaised lie denied by .he Carlists hsere.
WHO profess to have information that
the besiegers are violently canuonad.
ing the town to-day. They also state
that Don Carlos visited all outposts
yesterday. a Republican battalion
has landed at Fontarnbia, and deci-
eive action is expected to take place
tomorrow.
LONDON, November 10.-Two killed
and several hurt in the pressure of the
Lord Mayors festival.
Austria will make commercial
treaty with R0umania, without regard
the Grand Turks protest.
MADRID, November lO.-The muni-
cipal authorities OF Seville have offered
areward of $4,000 for the recovery
OF Murillo's great painting of St. An.
thony which was stolen from the ca
thedral in that city.
" KINGSTON, JAMAICA. November 10.
The hurricane of the 9Th instant swept
through Portland and st. AIMS, with
great severity. Among the vessels
damaged was the American brigantiue
Helen, it St. AIMS Buy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Matters.
WASHINGTON, November 9.-The
Home Insurance Company rs. Morse
and another. Error to the Supreme
Court OF Wisconsin. In this case the
Home Insurance Company, Of New
York, complied in writing with the
statute of Wisconsin, by which, among
other things, it agreed not to remove
any case commenced against it in
State Courts to the Federal Courts,
but upon the commencement of the
present case it nevertheless moved for
the transfer to the Federal Court. The
Court below regarded the statute and
the agreement as ground for the denial
OF the motion. This Court reverses
the Judgment based upon that theory,
and hold that neither private citizen
nor corporate body may barter away
substantial rights. and that the com.
pany was entitled to removal, not With.
standing the State law and the con-
tract. Mr.. Justice Hunt delivered
the opinion. Mr.. Chief Justice White
delivered dissenting opinion, in
which Mr. Justice Davis concurred.
holding that State had power TO
enact such law plaoing foreign and
local business and corporation in the
same position as to State authority and
TO make oil doing business in the State
amenRble to the same tribunals.
Pollard os. Bailey, assignee; in error
to the District Court for the Middle
District of Alabama tn this case the
court below allowed recovery against
stockholder of an insolvent bank
without reference to the question of
proportion. The judgn snt is here re.
versed-the court holding that each
stookhoider is liable only to pay
sum which shall bear the same pro-
portion to the whole indebtedness that
his stock bears to the whole capital.
The Chief Justice delivered the
opinion.
In the case of Spratt us. the United
States, the Supreme Court, to-day, af-
frmed judgment of the Court of
Claims, holding that the claimant q
Confederate citizen, gains no title to
certain cotton by purchase from an
agent OF the Confederate States, be-
oause those States were without COR
porate power to take, hold or convey
a valid title to any property whatever,
asa ss:s:ass S!a;;:s;;s:;i: &c: oharssa55ie with
notice OF reasonable intent Of sale by
the Confederate Government, to wit:
10 raise money for the purchase Of
munitions OF war. Mr.. Justice Miller
delivered the opinion. Mr.. Justice
Field dissented. taking the view that
the pardon of the claimant reinstated
him in all his civil rights, and gave
him the assurance that he should
stand in the courts of his country in as
good condition as any OF his fellow
oitizens who had never sinned against
the authority OF tbs Government.
Boiey os. Griswold to tho
Supreme Court of Montana. The
Chief Justice delivered the opinion in
this case. affirming the judgment be-
low, holding that in an action for re-
covery OF personal property. if the
court is satisfied there can be no do.
livery OF property, the judgment may
be absolutely for the payment of value,
and that such q judgment is eauiva-
lent to finding that there eau bs no
delivery.
Lyon 1s Poliard-the Supreme
Court OF the District of Columbia.
This was the case involving Mrs. Pol.
lard's rights az superintend dent of the
st. Cloud Hotel IN Washington,
and the judgment was in her favor.
1t Is here reversed, tho Court finding
that there was error in the ruling be.
low in not granting the prayer of de.
fendnnt there, Pollard. That if a for
mer notice of discontinuance had been
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