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THE CONFEDERATE COURT.

The McNairy county prisoners, five in number, charged with getting up an Union insurrectionary assemblage in that county, were bailed some days since to enable them to go home and get their testimony. They appeared at the time appointed, and after an examination, two of them were discharged on taking an oath of allegiance; the third was discharged on entering into bond for his good behavior; and the remaining two, HURST and SANDERS, were committed to jail for trial.

This attempt of the Unionists of McNairy county to make a call by the [Confederate] Government for troops a pretext for the execution of their treasonable scheme, has proved a miserable abortion. It died out after their leader. HURST, a lawyer of some force of character, was taken from them.

The case of the Confederate States against JOHN M. FLEMING has been set for trial on Friday, and the case of the Confederate States against the alien stockholders of the Union and Planters' Banks has also been postponed until that day.

Source:
Nashville Union and American, 17 December 1861.

Notes:
The trial was held on December 16, 1861.