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arged him. Another case, which occupied the attention of the Court yesterday, was that of W. A. Bass, who had applied to be discharged from military service. Mr. Bass, in 1862, was exempt from mMr. Bass, in 1862, was exempt from military duty because of being an employee in the Examiner newspaper office. Some short time after he quit the Examiner, sought employment in the Danville Railroad Company's office, and afterwards lef, reporting him, was referred to the Secretary of War, and that official endorsed upon it that if Bass had been enrolled and detailed, then he was to be taken by the conscript officers. The conscript officers, with this endorsement, arrested Bass and sent him to the conscript camp. Mr. Daniel, the counsel for Bass, took the ground that he had never been conscripted and enrolled, and was not Bass, took the ground that he had never been conscripted and enrolled, and was not liable to military duty, as he had a legal exemption paper when arrested. Messrs. Aylett and Argust argued that the entering of his name on the book of exempts was an enrollment, and that he was