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Show 1, ..,,..,. Hoi, 'I' I , v. v ' -: ,. ., 1 1 , ; . ; ,' . '1 i. ' ' y :: I an attachment of Secretary Cox and the commissioner of the land effief, for contempt of court, wa- heard by .Indue Hauiphreysto-dny. The counsel askiiig for attachment made a long arp-r.-crTt to support the motion, and was" followed follow-ed by the assistant attorney general for the government. Secretary Cox also sent an argument, in the si .apt-of .apt-of a letter to Juice Hamphrey, shewing shew-ing evendvdy else if not the latter, by the citation of previous supreme court decisions in this very ease and a imilar one that his court had no jurisdiction in the case. The argument wii! een -tinue to-morrec The result is watched watch-ed with general interest. The Secretary Secre-tary yields nothing. The condition iu which the court finds itself is somewhat some-what novel. A New York banker proposed to the Secretary of the Treasury the question, whether notes of the gold banks now being distributed will be received and paid at the sub froaeury and the custom cus-tom house, the same as coin. The acting Seeivkiry Richardson d,ide the question ia the negative, so far as receiving them in payment of dutit- on imports is concerned, holding (but under the law they cannot answer for cain in the payment of custom dacs- |