LATER AMERICAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1128, 26 June 1867, Page 6

LATER AMERICAN.

New Yoek, April 11. t The senate lias ratified tlie Russian-American treaty. There were only two dissentient votes, the treaty cedes to the United States all Russian. America and adjacent islands. The present inhabitants are to be protected in their rights of liberty and property, and permitted to choose whether they will return to Russia within three years or become citizens of the United. States. The purchase money is now said to be $10,000,000 in gold. The petition of Judge Black, Charles O'Connor, and ex-Senator Cowan to the Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Georgia, requesting that tribunal to grant an injunction to restrain, the Secretary of War and Generals Grant and Pope from executing the Eeconstruction Act in Georgia, is based substantially on the same grounds as the recent appeal of Judge Sharkey and Mr. "Walker in behalf of Mississippi. It is reported that if the Supreme Court refusa the injunction in the Mississippi case the petitioners will attempt the indictment and arrest of General Ord for treason against the State. General Pope has prohibited whipping and maiming as punishment for crime in liis district. General Sheridan has declared the recent election of Livingstone for- the parish of Louisiana null and void. The senate has passed a resolution, asking tlie President for copies of correspondence that has passed between this Government and Mexico, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war captured by belligerents in Mexico. The Senate has rejected the nomination of exSenator Stockton as United States Minister at Vienna. I The Jersey Legislature has rejected the bill for enfranchising negroes. The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill for enfranchising all women of legal age. The New York Republican and Demoratic Conventions have assembled at Syracuse to nominate delegates to the State Constitutional Convention. The Republicans have passed a resolution favouring negro suffrage. The Democrats passed a resolution condemning the course of Congress. The Democrats have carried the municipals elections at Albany and Hartford by increasing majorities. The American Consul in Havana has remonstrated against the enlistment of Spaniards in Cuba for the army of the Emperor Maximilian, as a violation of the neutrality law. A statement, has been forwarded to Washington showing that 200 men has been enlisted for the imperial service. April 13. The Supreme Court yesterday heard the arguments relative to the application for permission ; to file a Mississippi petition for an injunction to restrain President Johnson from executing the Reconstruction Bill. The Attorney-General Stansberry argued that the official dignity of the President removed him beyond the jurisdiction of the court. In such a case he could only be reached through the people or their representatives. If the court granted an injunction he (the Attorney-General) would advise the President not to obey it. If the case was then pressed the court would be compelled to arrest tlie President for contempt, and serious collisions between the executive and the judicial branches of the Government would ensue. The President exhausted his rightful opposition to the Reconstruction Bill by vetoing it. His only duty now was to execute the law as enacted. Robert Walker, on behalf of the petitioners, argued that the President himself declared the Re-construction Act unconstitutional. The' Supreme Court was created to decide contested points of constitutional law. The case was, therefore, within the jurisdiction of the Court. The official dignity of the President could not justify his executing laws enacted in violation of the constitution. The consequences of the subversion of the constitution which the President declered accomplished by the Re-construction. Bill would be more disastrous than the consequence of the Supreme Dourt, issued in performance of its sworn duty to protect the constitution. The Senate has adopted the resolution asking the President to furnish copies to any opinion given him by the Attorney-General relative to the execution of the Tenure of Office Bill. New Yoke, April 22, 6 p.m.—A proposal introduced in the Senate for the mediation of the United States Government in the affairs of Mexico has been deferred until next session.— Closing prices : 138. Sterling exchange on London, 109.