The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-26
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Old Chorpenning Steal
Still Alive.
Yellow Fever at Pensacola.
The Louisiana Steals.
Charles O'Conor Sharply
Criticised.
Crop Reports from various
parts.
Prospects Good.
A Pripters' Declaration Of
Independence.
Quincy wants the Feeble
Minded.
Prospects Good.
A Pripters' Declaration OF
Independence.
Quincy wants the Feeble
Minded.
Accidents. Crime. Etc.

WASHINGTON, July "a. .-AttorneyGeu
eral Pierrepont has given an opinion 10 the
Chorpennlng case. After reviewing the
various acts of congress relating to it, his
opinion is that SAB, 900 said to be due bv
the late postmaster generals decision
cannot be paid, since the repeal OF the res
olution, which referred the case to the
postmaster general, he did not act as a
Judge, but merely as minister of con-
gress. He holds that iu the present con-
dition of the law the court of claims has
Jurisdiction in the case, but is clearly OF
opinion that the amount found due by the
last postmaster general is an award which
the court cannot enforce, and that unless
congress intervenes the claim is debarred
by the statute of limitations.
! The commandant at the Pensacola navy
yard has been ordered to take whatever
precautions he deems necessary for the
protection of officers there against yellow
| fever. even if he has to close the yard.
There are thirty nine cases at Barrancas.
New ORLEANS, July 24-Attorney Gen
eral Field filed to-day an information
against Charles Clinton, auditor, Antoine
i Dubuclet, treasurer. 2. G.. DemsOnd, sec
retary of state, and Charles W. Lowell
sneaker of the house, all members of the
Funding Board in 1874, charging them
with misdemeanor in Office for funding five
warrants drawn by the auditor amounting
to Sl38, ,557 80, and representing an illega
, and invalid claim against the state. Bal
was fixed at $4,000 each.
The attorney general also flied in the
9 first district court an Information agains
, state senator E. T. Herwig, containing tw
counts, the first tor obtaining money unde
false pretenses by issuing vouchers Will
, chairman of the senate committee on con
n tingent expenses for fraudulent claims ap'
e obtaining warrants from the auditor b
4 Representing that said fraudulent claim
lwere Just and legal warrants, being indor'
ed by pretended payees, and by Il. +. hel
wig, The second count is for obtainiD
money under false pretenses in ISSUING
while chairman of the senate COMMITTEES
le fictitious vouchers knowing at the tim
y that there were no such persons as th
IN pretended benefciaries, aud no such claim
q or demands as represented in these voucl
Of ers existed at the time. Bail $4,000.
& ss New YORK, July 24-George E. Cor
r. If. stock, of counsel for William NJ. Tweed
ry the habeas corpus case before the court
appeals, and an ex-judge OF that court, d
published reply to the attack OF Charl
OConor and Judge Davis upon the cou
ja ia. of appeals for giving decision tavoras
ss. to Tweed. In the letter Mr.. Comsto
says: :.
I'm all the arguments of counsel in OPT
70 sition to the lawless sentence pronouced
IN Judge Davis. that magistrate was treat
len with furbearance, but it ought now to
mel said that there were circumstances after
up ing the last and final trial. conviction a
,eaa and sentence, which may justify more tn
mi a doubt whether he is longer entitled
ron such ,forbearance. The trial proceeded
Ne if the purpose was his conviction and pr
ers, ishment for only single crime. Ih
y the prisoner and his counsel were
trapred into the belief that only one c
lere viction aud one sentence were intend
'ne No change in the opinion OF the judge
ue announced on he first trial, was sugges
on . by him until the jury rendered their ger
ing -, al verdict OF guilty" Then the mas
o,o battery was uncovered; then the treu
mn dously acc lmulated sentences Of the ju
A fell upon the deceived and wretched p
resb oner, charged with neglect of official dl
Il "a or bad performance OF official duty
ubt- the auditor of certain accounts. The p
d by ishment iu its accumulated severity
that more than twice greater than the
$ to- would have tolerated if he had been GU
cor of the larceny OF 240, 600, 900 OF money.
egu- know oi no precedent for such trial s
,ien- the time when Jeffreys aud Scroggs adI
bles istered the criminal law Of England.
that transfer of the case from the murky
itch, mosphere of Judge Davis's court, char
food with electric passion and vaulting al
eted ton. to the court of appeals, was Ii
IL Its translation to another world.
'eeu Of Mr.. OConor and his share in the
: shen ticism of the court OF appeals, Judge I
stock says:
. II will take his opinion with just
profound respect, after he has made
!. examination in the light of the author
of the proceedings Until then it "
be becoming to withhold his abuse {
CD Thigh tribunal which has carefully
u Ilaboriously considered the question an(
- cided it.
MEMPHIS, July "a. News from a
is again encouraging this evening, as
LIS. believed the decline at Cairo will offse
short lfreshet coming out OF the Ohio. i
has been some damage to cotton on
low lands, but 80 far it Is insignificant.
0l NASHVILLE, July 24--The Comm
on information submitted the July
e report to the Exchange to day, The
q r,tory assigned to this district is comI
Of Londerdale, Franklin, Colbert,
renee. Limestone, Madison, MARSHALL,
son, DeKalb, and Cherokee countie
Cd Alabama, and all Of Middle Tenn
ct east Of the Tennessee river and w
60 the Cumberland Mountains. The col
= tee have received oyer 130 replies to
n lars sent, the replies bearing an av
" date Of July 81. In Alabama good
- . with but few exceptions have prev
IS J altogether more favorable than last
Up to this time the stand of cotton Ii
e. exile to orally reported good, and is for
= Web blooming, and balling very well. fu
thus re- to the average, and compares quite
Innss and Is ably with the crop of last year. La
Of sas- continue to work well, There is little
%: age to wheat in this state, and corr
m nroTmisinV