MILLS, ABRAHAM. 



MINNESOTA. 



511 



the arrangement, proposed on t lip Govorn- 



,'-IHV nl' tlii-('lii'l' J'.i*tii-u ill tin; trial 



couse was essential upon viiriouB grounds. I ! 



-iiL'u'fsti'iii iif tin- oiuii.srl, looking 



.!!!. mtaiidiii:,' li.v whirh tin- iittriidam-r <if wit- 



! mi/lit nut lin r.'i|iiircil until Iho 



!.|-M-.TI[ on tlit! <lay a|iiiiiintcil. llr !- 



IK tin- di't'i-iidant that two ju.L'i-* 



: p rvM.li- at tin- trial, as in that, rasr thedofend- 



ant would havi- the a<!\ untune of appeal to the higher 



mease of a disu^m-mi-nt l>rt\vr<-n the judges 



.iiv iiii]inrtaiit i|Ufstini. The proposition mudi; 



('art <>t' the Government, and asHi-nti.l t<> \<y 



:. nit's counsel, was agreeable to the Court, and 



i.-r proposed by defendant's counsel would be 



red. 



Sunn! further remarks were made by counsel in n-- 



irard tn the possible necessity of the removal of the 



-splice given to Mr. Davis, and his being 



i his recognizance in the event of the trial of 



tin' ruuso being informally postponed from' the time 



iixrd to a more distant day. 



.Mr. Evarts said that if, for instance, on the 10th of 

 Mar "h it should be known that the Supreme Court 

 would prolong its session into April, then if this 

 Court, on the motion of the District Attorney ; and 

 with the attendance of Mr. Davis's counsel resident 

 in Richmond, would make another order, that the 

 (1. i\ Milant attend on the 10th day of May, for in- 

 stance, all would be regular, the recognizance would 

 In- binding, and no inconvenience would arise. 



Judge Underwood replied that the Court would 

 take care of the rights of the defendant, and sug- 

 gested that the necessary order in the case should be 

 drawn by the counsel. 



The following order of the Court was then agreed 

 upon by the counsel on both sides : 



The United States vs. Jefferson Davis. The counsel hav- 

 ing been heard tn this case for the United States and for the 

 dci'riidunt, it is now ordered that defendant have leave to 

 drpart hence uutil the fourth Wednesday of March next, at 

 11 o'clock In the forenoon of that day, at which day and 

 hour he is required personally to bo and appear in this court, 

 according to the conditions of his recognizance. 



District-Attorney Chandler stated the day agreed 

 upon had been changed from the third to the fourth 

 'Wednesday of March, in order that the probabilities 

 of the presence of the Cliief Justice at that time 

 might be increased. 



The Court then proceeded with the consideration 

 of the ordinary business of the term. 



The McCardle Case. "William H. McCardle, 

 editor of a paper published at Vicksburg, was 

 arrested in the State of Mississippi, for the pub- 

 lication of certain articles charged to be insur- 

 rectionary in their character. A military com- 

 mission was ordered by General Ord for the 

 purpose of trying McOardle on these charges. 

 On being arrested and brought before the said 

 commission, a writ of habeas corpus was sued 

 out of the United States Circuit Court for the 

 Southern District of Mississippi. The military 

 commission postponed their action, to hear the 

 result of the proceedings under the writ. On 

 the return of the writ and the statement of 

 facts, the Court overruled the motion to dis- 

 charge McCardle, but he was admitted to bail. 

 The case was then carried to the United States 

 Supreme Court, to review the decision of the 

 Circuit Court in refusing to discharge the de- 

 fiMidant, and as affording a case to obtain the 

 opinion of the Court on the reconstruction acts 

 II:I-M-<! during the year. 



M 1 LLS, ABRAHAM, LL. D., an American pro- 

 fessor, lecturer, and author, born in Duchess 



County, N. Y., in 1790; died in New York 

 city July 8, 1867. He had received a good and 

 thorough academic education in 

 count y, ami at tin- ago of twenty-two came to 

 NY\v S'ork ( 'it y, wlu-re lie studied law fora tim.-, 

 but, afterward associated himself with Mr. I). 

 II. M.irnes, an eminent teacher, and opened n 

 cla>- it-al and inatlirinatical school in Warren 

 Street, New York. He had not been long en- 

 gaged in this school when he was appointl 

 I 'n ifessor of Mathematics and Philosophy in the 

 I .apt 1st Literary and Theological Institute then 

 just established in New York City. After two 

 or three years the Institute was transferred to 

 Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., where 

 it eventually formed the nucleus of Madison 

 University. Mr. Mills did not, however, per- 

 mit himself to be transferred with the Institute, 

 but remained in New York, where he was soon 

 very fully employed as a teacher of and lecturer 

 on rhetoric and belles-lettres in the best semi- 

 naries and academies of the city. He had also 

 already turned his attention to authorship, or 

 rather, at first, to the careful editing of such 

 works as ho deemed best adapted for use as 

 text-books on the topics on which he gave in- 

 struction. In 1829 he published editions of 

 " Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful," and 

 " Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Let- 

 tres." In 1830 he issued " Alison on Taste ;" 

 in 1832 a smaller edition of " Blair's Rhetoric," 

 and in 1833 L6rd Kames's "Elements of Criti- 

 cism." These editions immediately became 

 popular, and were adopted as the standard text- 

 books in our schools and colleges. During the 

 succeeding twenty years he employed his leisure 

 time in gathering material for lectures on the 

 "Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain, 

 Greece, Rome and modern Italy, Spain and 

 France." He, however, only completed the two 

 former. His "English Literature," published 

 by the Harpers, appeared in 1851, and his 

 "Greek Literature," by Phillips, Sampson & 

 Co., in 1853. The London Times, in its critique 

 of the former, made the confession that the best 

 work on their own literature had come from 

 the wrong side of the Atlantic. In 1854 he 

 published some original lectures on rhetoric and 

 belles-lettres, and in 1856 a " Compendium of 

 the History of the Ancient Hebrews." The 

 honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred on 

 him, we believe, by Madison University. 



MINNESOTA. During the year this State 

 "has made great advances in population and ma- 

 terial wealth. Labor and industry, in all depart- 

 ments, have been fairly rewarded, and all the 

 substantial interests of the people palpably en- 

 hanced. With immense resources yet undevel- 

 oped, and an almost unparalleled growth, tho 

 future is full of promise, and gives the assurance 

 that the State will soon rank very high in all 

 the elements of greatness that give importance 

 to a commonwealth. The finances of the State 

 are in an easy condition. The public lands 

 will long continue to be a source of large in- 

 come, thus reducing the amount of taxation, 



