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tly responded to-day to the call of the Secretary of the Treasury for the remaining three millions and a half of their quota of the Government loan; and what must be equally gratifying to Secretary Chase, in so doing they only employed Treasury notes to the trifling amount of $14,000. The United States Circuit Court was again crowded to-day with spectators anxious to witness the continuation of the trial of the Savannah privateers. The testimony for the Government having been taken, Mr. Laroque opened in an elaborate argument for the defence. He referred to the letters of marque granted by the Continental Congress to citizens of Massachusetts as a precedent, and defended the prisoners on the ground that they were in the service of what they considered a de facto Government. The learned gentleman objected to the jurisdiction of this court to try the prisoners, contending that, when the prisoners were taken by the Minnesota to Hampton Roads, that they were within the jurisdictio
tly responded to-day to the call of the Secretary of the Treasury for the remaining three millions and a half of their quota of the Government loan; and what must be equally gratifying to Secretary Chase, in so doing they only employed Treasury notes to the trifling amount of $14,000. The United States Circuit Court was again crowded to-day with spectators anxious to witness the continuation of the trial of the Savannah privateers. The testimony for the Government having been taken, Mr. Laroque opened in an elaborate argument for the defence. He referred to the letters of marque granted by the Continental Congress to citizens of Massachusetts as a precedent, and defended the prisoners on the ground that they were in the service of what they considered a de facto Government. The learned gentleman objected to the jurisdiction of this court to try the prisoners, contending that, when the prisoners were taken by the Minnesota to Hampton Roads, that they were within the jurisdictio