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Day
29
Month
January
Year
1864
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Public Domain
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- Congress secnjs to be "peokiDg" away without accomplishing muoh of interest to the public. - The Senato has been engaged on the "test oath," the resolution expelhng Davis for " freeing his mind " conceraing the policy of the adrninistration, and, since it passed the enrollment bill, on the House Revenue bill. The House haa materially ameuded the Senate enroilment bill, reducing the commutatioQ to $300, striking out the clause exempting Quakers and Cleigymen, &c. We are neither a prophet nor a " mejuni," and can not predict in what shape it will go back to the Senate, In the niean,-. tiine ".yedraft" is posiponed, and volunteering ia bejng relied upon tQ fill the several State quotas. ESP The Legislature of the State of Alabama, not having in fear tho arbitrary aets of the Jeff. Davis governinent, has passed a law niaking it a penal offonse for any Judge or other offieer authorissed by law to issue writs of habeas corpm, to refuse to do so on proper applioation. Alabama, dyed as she is with seoession heregy and kindreü crimes, does not propose, without an effort, to yield up the writ of personal liberty. History would give the free States of the North oredit if they would follow the exatnple of Alabama in standing by the writ of habeas corpus. There is not a whit of personal liberty left to tho citizen who can not take shelter against il legal and arbitrary arrests under the habeas corpus. E Congress bas revived the joint committec ou the couduct of the war, eonstituting it nearly as n the last Congress, Messrs. Harding and Loan taking the placse of Androw Johnson and Covode. It is now cornposed of Messrs. Wade, Chandler, Harding, Gooch, Julian, Odell, and Loan, the first three named aro Senators, the others Kepresentalives. Wo may now expect that a suíficiericy of evils diré will be inflicted upon the country. JJ2ËT Gen. Rosecrans bas been asaigned to the eommand of the Department of Missouri, and Gen. Sciioi'iEtD, reoent pommander of thut Department, haa been ordered to report to Gen. Gbanx, and. it U aid. wiii takg a e.omroa.nd in East Tennessee. O We invite a careful reading of the noble vpords of Andkew Joiinson in another column. A.ndy sooutg alike the modern heresies of secession, State suicide, and reconstruction. He believes in the Constitution, aud in standing by it. We expect to hear the radicale clamor for the removal of Andy Johnson. Such sentinients will not ho tolerated. KrST W give in our columns to-day the report of StatoTreasurer Ovven, setting forth the receipts and expenditures of the State for the fiscal year ending Nov. 30th, 18G3, with the condition of the several Trust Funds, the nature and iftnount of the State indebtedness, &c, &.c. Also extracts from tho ropots of the Commis.sioner of the State Land Office, and the Quartermastcr General,

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Michigan Argus