The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-04-10
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mIddlp d.lrlcl o' Nldarln. v1s 4,
vcrNl, With costs, md me- Orn ID
unndDl. Win dHp.ilma lu allow Ma
plnInlIIl tu umrnd hiJ plUu.
Tic court Of t'ullnF lm decided Nh
cnaU NJ fupldo ~ MnIfn, u minuI
against the United Stnlp. The rtn.
ury agent having lpnsad 0r rented m
lands and house Of her late father A
North Carolina ~ abandoned pfUpprly
during the civll war the court spya th
right of action given hy the act q
March u, 1903, applies to rents col
'octcd aud pnil into the public treas
ury under the provisions Of Tie act q
july, 1862, by treasury agents appointed
by virtue Ot the first section of Ia,
former net, aud the claimant IL there
fore entitled to recover for rCut-, In
/ the right Of action given by the act q
March u, 1858, does not apply tu the
proceeds Of property which was cap
tured on land by the military ana
naval forces of the United States, re,
moved into q loyal state by said forces
and llOelled in u district court before
the passage of the net Of July, 1862, and
which was sold and the proceeds
thcrcofpald into the public treasury be-
fore the passage Of said act.
Appointments. Madison Wells,
surveyor of customs, New Orleans; j.
NJ. :. Parker postmaster, New Or
leans; j. w. Ward, postmaster, Corpus
Christi; Berj. Conley, postmaster, At
lanta, vice Governor Bard.
The first national bank pays ten per
cent to its creditors on the lith inst.
There are in circulation dangerous
five dollar counterfeit bills on the
Traders first, third and Merchants
ma ional banks, all of Chicago. They
are exceedingly well done. No more
notes of these denominations will be
Issued to these banks.
The supreme court will sit on the
famous Elger Cotton case this week.
The case of House ct al. vs.. Mulens,
from the middle district of Alabama,
was reversed.
The state Of Texas vs. Chiles, was
decided. Chiles may, under AN act of
congress, be compelled to testify, by
the State in its behalf. An order was
made directing his dispositions to be
taken.
Gen. Sickles, 1t is decided, retains his
place on the retired list.
Judge Richardson, in the court of
claims, to-day, delivered the opinion
in the ease of AlphOnse vs.. the United
States, 1t being IL claim! for costs. The
conclusion reached is:
First-The claimaups domicil, found
to have been in the city of New Or
leans before the war, and not proven
to have ucen changed, is presumed to
hn,.u continued ,l ln,,, "a, Lnt .;I
when the purchases OF cotton were
made by him within the rebel lines.
Second-The claimants donicile
being in the city of New Orleans, he
is presumed to have been there per-
sonally until he is proved to be else
wnere, and the claimant not showing
that he was absent from the place of
his domicile when that city was cap
tured, April p, 1872, it is presumed
that he WAS there at that time and
subsequently crossed the federal lines
about the time he is proved to he in
the parish of st. Landry.
Third-The purchases of cot ton by
the claimant under the circumstances
set fo't. in the finding were void rs
against thu law and public policy ii
the tAi' cd States and he acquired no
title to the property thereby.
The opinion concludes as follows:
Although the public enemies within
their own disloyal territory have
right t. make contracts among them
selves, and such contracts are held
valid in other countries, we do not
think the claimant acquired that right
by leaving the city of his domicile and
residence after it had been six months
in the possession of the federal forces,
crossing into insurgent territory and
then accepting Office under the cOnted.
crate government as agent for lie eX-
change Of its bonds, especially
as it does not appear that he
intended to desert wholly to the enemy,
and to take up his domicile in their
territory. On principle and theory We
are of the opinion that the claimant is
not entitled to recover.
Judge Lorlng dissent ted, saying,
among other things, that the only OBJ
lection made to the petitioner, rec0v-
ering Is that the sales of cotton to him
were made between enemies, and are
therefore absolutely void. In the
whole case | think the sales in ques-
ton are valid and lawful, because the
DtliltOHti dll'l tiiNSe Wltu NliDul IIt
dealt were confederates in fact and
name, and all alike enemies of the
United States when the sales were
made, in October, 1862, and / think
that the time to which the question of
the validity of the sales is to he re-
terred and the onlytime material to it.
Advices from the coal region are
more pacific.
Private dispatches from Connecticut
indicate Kellogg's defeat in the fifth |
district, and u clean sweep is possible, |.
almost probable.
HARTFORD, April 5.-F0rty towns /
in the state give Charles r. Ingersoll,
democrat, for governor, II, l5S votes,
James Lloyd, republican, S,8Os aud |
Henry ID. Smith, prOhibtinnist, 1872. /
Last year the same towns gave Inger-
soil, democrat, 0,S0S; Harris, republic /
.an, 1928; Smith, prohibitonist, 94l. /
Ingersoll is probably elected by the
people.
The legislature, as far rs heard from,
5 about the same as last year.
This county, with Hartford, Rock
ill, CRANKY and Southing to hear
rom, gives James Hawley, republican,
or congress from the first district 6 2GG
md George Nj. Landers, democrat,
1916.
New HAvES, April 5.--Returns to
O'Clock this morning, show PHELPS
majority, in the second district, to oe
wo hundred over Barnum's majority.
In the fourth district the majority is
bout 1000
The state has undoubtedly gone
by over four thousand ma
GRITTY.
The senate is largely democratic,
laNing already elected thirteen out of
he twenty-one members. There are
lrge republican gains of representa-
ives and the house will probably be
lose.
Starkweather, in the second district,
J elected hy about 1000 majority.
iawley, In the first district, is defeated
y plurality of 400.
HARTFORD, April, 6.-Total vote:
ngersoll, IS, 1874; Green, l4,255; Smith,
ga. The democrats carry the ,
rst district by 4SS, the second
y 800, and the fourth by 2,235. The
epublicans carry the third by 73l. |
enate, democrats, fifteen to six. The
ouse is largely democratic. ,
NEW HAVEN, April 0.--Governor
ngersoll's gain was chiefly in New |
Iaven and Hartford, the city of New I
Iaven alone giving an increase of
bout / 800 over his majority in the
ty last year. There was largely [
ecreased prohibition vote, the total '
ote in the State being about 2,400 to
$50 las. year. Democratic majority 1
! the house about twenty.
COLUMBUS, o., April 5.-Heitman, I
amOcrnt was elpcted MAYOR nv pisrlf /