Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-04-11
WASHINGTON NOTES.

United States Consul General Adamson,
at Panama, telegraphedt the Secretary of State
this morning as follows: Preston, the rebel
leader, has seized the Pacific steamship at
COlenO, imprisoned the Captain, Purser and
agent of the company, Consul Wright, ana
other Americans urged Commander Lane,
Ofthe Galena, to rescue the citizens and prop
erty at all hazards. Instructions desired"
Upon the receipt Of the dispatch the Secre-
tary of State and the Secretary of the Navy
held a consultation. Secretary Whitney
then ordered by telegraph Admiral Janett,
now at New Orleans, to proceed to Key
West with the Tennessee and SWatara, and
await further instructions. An order was
also sent to the Commander of the Alliance,
now at Key West, instruCtiRg him to pro-
coed at once to AspinWall. The Secretary
also telegraphed Commander Lane, Of the
Galena, at AspinWRll, and asked him why
he had not protected the American citizens
and property in the trouble yesterday. He
directed him to afford all protection posi-
bic while the difficulty continues.
A decision has been rendered by the Su-
preme Court of the United States in an in
teresting original action entitled "EXparte
in the matter of James B. Wilson" This
was an application for a writ of habeas
corpus to relieve a prisoner confined in the
district house Of correction under sentence
from the United States District Court &C
Arkansas. He was tried and found gull ;
upon a count under the Revised Statut-9
for having in his possession with fradu-
lent intent, an obligation engraved and
printed after the similitude Of an interest
bearing coupon bond of the United States -
This Court holds that crime liable to infam-
GUS punishment within the meaning of the
words: Capital OF otherwise infamous
crime, in the fifth amendment, cannot
be lawfully presented in any court in the
United States without indictment or pre-
sentiment by a grand jury, and that i'm
ant at hard labor for farr1 of
fifteen years is infamous punishment. The
prisoner is therefore entitled to be discharged
and the petition for a writ of habeas corpus
is granted.
The Secretary of the Interior has received
from the Attorney General an opinion con-
corning the status of lands in the old Win
nebagO or Crow Greek Indian reservation
that the order of President Arthur of Sch
ruary 9th last, (Opening these lands to
settlement) is imperative, for the reason
that the Sioux Indians hold title to the
lands under the treaty Of 1868. The land
has already been covered with entries by
white settlers under President Arthur's
order, but it is probable that the effect Of
this decision will be to deprive them of any
rights they may have acquired.
The following dispatch from Commander
Kane, of the Galena, was received by the
Secretary of the Navy AspinWaH is in
ashes, burnt by the insurgents to escape cap
ture by the government troops. The Pacific
Nail dock and railroad property on thenCrth
end of the island and the canal property at
Crispal were the only buildings saved.
Shipping safe. All my forces on shore are
protecting the property, and my ship is
crowded with refugees. Thousands are des-
titute, and are without shelter.
A prominent navy officer, in speaking OF
the Panama difficulty and the sending Of a
force from the United States, said: 1T is a
subject of comment among naval officers
that the sailors who viii probably form a
part Of the forces to be sent to the Isthmus
Will not be as well armed as the marines,
or even as the forces with which they viii
have to contend. Their arms consist Of the /
short magazine guns, which viii not COM
pare in range with the Springfield rifles
neither are they supplied with bayOnets.
The Indian Bureau has not vet determined
upon the line Of action to be pursued in the
case of the WinnebagO or Crow Creek reseT-
walton settlers in Dakota. Commissioner
Atkins said that, while the men who had
gone upon the reservation would have to
leave, the Government would adopt the
mildest means possible to effect their re-
mOval.
The President to-day appointed John R.
Garrison, of Virginia, to be Deputy First /
Comptroller Of the Currency, vice Judge
Tarbell, resigned, and John i. MCCallmOnt, |
of Pennsylvania, to be Commissioner OF
Customs, vice Judge Johnson, resigned.
The total number of nominations sent /
10 the Senate by President Cleveland was
lz5, OF which 159 were confirmed, two re-
jeCted and twelve left Enacted upon by the
Senate.