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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for December 16th or search for December 16th in all documents.
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The Garland case. Washington, December 16.
--The Supreme Court of the United States has ordered that Robert H. Marr have leave to file a printed argument, asking, as does Mr. Garland, that he may be readmitted to practice without taking the oath prescribed by Congress.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Highway robbery. (search)
Death of Ex-Governor Allen. Providence, December 16.
--Hon. Philip Allen, formerly Governor of this State, and afterwards United States Senator, died this morning at his residence here.
Loss of a schooner. Fortress Monroe, December 16.
--The schooner Georgia, from New York for Petersburg, was burned here last night.
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia . (search)
From Washington. Washington, December 16.
--In the United States Supreme Court yesterday, argument was commenced in the case of the application of Mr. A. H. Garland, of Arkansas, a pardoned rebel, to be allowed to practice in said Court without taking the oath prescribed by act of Congress.
The question involved is the constitutionality of the oath, which requires every applicant for admission to the bar of a United States court to swear that he never voluntarily aided in the rebellion.
Mr. M. H. Carpenter, counsel for Mr. Garland, took the ground that the President's pardon restores his client to all his former rights, and that this bar to his entry into national courts as a practitioner is therefore unconstitutional.
Attorney-General Speed replied, maintaining the constitutionality of the oath.
The argument was listened to with much interest by a large assemblage of legal gentlemen.
It will be continued on Friday next.
The Cabinet meeting yesterday was long and i
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Court of Conciliation. (search)
The cholera in Paris. Philadelphia, December 16.
--A letter from the Paris correspondent of the Ledger informs us that down to November 23, the date of his letter, there had been sixty-six hundred deaths from cholera in that city.
It also states that the milder form of the disease, known in Paris by the term chlorine, had attacked nearly everybody during the damp, sultry weather that had been prevailing for the preceding five or six weeks.
The Markets. New York, December 16.
--Cotton dull — middling, 49.
Flour firm and unchanged.
Wheat and corn quiet and unchanged.
Pork firm at 29½.
Whisky firm
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Joint meeting. (search)
The ice Gerge —— Damage to steamers, &c. St. Louis, December 16.
--The ice gorge in the river gave way to-day.
The ice swept past the city with tremendous power, sinking and severely damaging a dozen steamers and a number of barges, involving a loss of about three hundred thousand dollars. The danger is still imminent to the other beat