The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-06-17
THURSDAY. JUNE II, 1875.
,TIsoELLANEoUs NEWS.

James B. Mexican, late Chief JUS
tice of Utah, was, on Tuesday, adj
mitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of that Territory.
In Salt Lake City. the case of Cora
Conroy against Peter Clinton, a Nor
mon Police Judge, for the destruc-
ton of the furniture in her house of
Ill fame, was argued on Tuesday.
The weather is warm, and the
crops throughout Utah are in splen-
did condition. The damage done
by the crickets in the southern part
of the Territory is reported as very
trifiing.
Advices from all parts of California,
except the extreme northern and
southern counties, from which no.
thing has as yet been heard, report
heavy rains with high winds on
Monday night and the following
morning. No definite information
is obtained as to the effect an the
crops, but it is feared that much
damage has been done to the grass
and grain.
The Pacific Mail steamers Colima,
for Panama, and Colorado, for Hong
Kong, via Yokohama, left San Fran
cisco on Tuesday.
The Department OF Agriculture, in
Its cotton report for June, suites that
the threatened reduction in the area
has not taken place, nor has the re-
duced area Of last year been much
enlarged. The report of the condi-
tion Is the most favorable in the past
five seasons, with the exception of
1873.
In the Tweed case, the Judges hold
that a writ of habeas corpus has al
ways been construed in favor of and
not against the liberty of the subject
and citizen, and the reading must be
the same whether the benefit of il Is
invoked by the purest and best citi-
zen of the state, or the greatest sinner
and the one most worthy Of cOndign
punishment. The law is no respecter
of persons, and suffers no man, he he
guilty or innocent, to be deprived of
liberty, except by due process of law.
and a writ of haheas corpus is as
available to even one so guilty rs he
whom the popular voice would con-
denim, as it has proved against
commitments by a King. On
the cumulative sentences, the Judges
state, mo warrant can be found for
cumulative punishment upon convic-
tion Of several o~ffenses charged in a
single indictment, the aggregate pun
ishment exceeding that prescribed
by law for the grade of offensas
charged. The rule, as claimed by
implication, calls for a single judy
ment for all the offenses charged in
the indictment, and of which the
accused is convicted, and it requires
that offenses Joined shall be of the
same grade, and subject to the same
punishment, that is, not punishment
OF the same kind, but the same In
degree"
A st. Louis dispatch says that in
dictments have been found against
Gen. John Mcdonald, ex-Supervisor
of Internal Revenue in this District,
Col. John II. Joyce, Alfred Bevis AMI
Edward B. Frazier, and these gentle.
men appeared in the U. S. District
Court on the 18th. The charge against
Mcdonald and Joyce is marked on
the docket, criminal, destroying of
public documents, and that against
Bevis and Frazer, is removal and con-
cealment of spirits, and failing to
efTace stamps and brands. Judge
Treat fixed the bond of Mcdonald and
Joyce at $4,000.
In the U. S. Circuit Court of New
York, yesterday, the grand jury pre-
scented several new indictments charg-
ing several persons with com lfcity in
the silk smuggling frauds, but the u.
s. District Attorney declined to make
public the names of the indicted, un-
Til they have been arrested.
Kipp's carriage shop in New York
city, was burned on the 18th inst. Loss
II hundred thousand dollars.