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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1865., [Electronic resource], Semmes, of the Alabama. (search)
well understood to be any law which makes an act a crime which was not a crime when the act was committed. But the law of 1865 does punish in point of fact, because it precludes the petitioner from the exercise of a lawful occupation, and strikes aticted of the offence charged; and these rights include the holding of office of emolument and trust. Such laws as that of 1865 were penal statutes. The Attorney-General had argued last Friday that the admission to practice in the courts is not a naity of the United States, and resisted it by levying war. The punishment for treason anterior to the passage of the act of 1865 was death or imprisonment; but this act imposes an additional penalty, that persons thus accused shall not be admitted as ore the commission of the crime, makes him a new man, and divests him of all antecedent consequences. Suppose this law of 1865 had been made a part of the act for the punishment of treason, and the man committing the crime had been pardoned, would i
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], The poor of Richmond. (search)
Government to keep a strong power in these States for some time longer, to secure justice to all. Decision on claims. On an inquiry made by a provost marshal, it was recently decided by the Pay Department that provost marshals and other members of boards of enrollment are not entitled, when discharged, to the three months pay proper under the act of March 3d, 1865, nor to traveling allowances to their homes. Patents. The estimate of the number of patents issued for the year 1865 shows the aggregate to be 6,600 --an increase of 1,600 over that of any previous year. New patents. There will be issued from the Patent Office, for the week ending January 2d, 1865, one hundred and twenty-nine new patents. Sale of Dead letters. The great sale of articles accumulated through the year in the Dead Letter Office was commenced on Saturday by Boteler, and has been continued with the liveliest kind of bidding ever since. Over half the immense catalogue is of art
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], French industrial Exhibition. (search)
Additional details of Foreign News. The Atlantic cable — operations to be Resumed in June--the submerged Wire in perfect order. Mr. George Seaward, General Superintendent of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, publishes the following letter in the London Times, December 12: In the review of the work by Dr. W. H. Russell on the subject of the Atlantic Telegraph Expedition in 1865, which appears in your columns this day, the expedition referred to is spoken of as "the late, and possibly, for some time to come, as the last Atlantic expedition." In making use of this expression the writer was necessarily unaware of events which have recently transpired, and I am, therefore, instructed to ask of you the favor to allow me to state that the arrangements of the directors as to new capital are now completed, that several hundred miles of the core, or interior portion of the cable, are completed, andthat the Great Eastern is chartered to go to sea in June, 1866, for the double purpos
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