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HABENECK HACKBERRY ,u no further, but must leave the validity of s claim to be determined by the federal courts. -The technical name of this writ is habeas ins ad subjiciendum, from the requirement jntained in it that the alleged prisoner and le persons restraining him should "submit jmselves to the order of the court." It is letimes called also habeas corpus cum causa, corpus ad testificandum was formerly to compel witnesses to testify in certain and habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum was iployed to obtain satisfaction of certain judg- ants. But these are now obsolete. This writ now frequently resorted to by parents of linors who have enlisted without their per- lission, by parents who wish to obtain posses- of children withheld from them, and for lilar purposes. It has been solemnly de- led that the habeas corpus act can be sus- led only by the legislature ; and that the lation of martial law by a military offi- is not sufficient. HABENECK, Antoine Francois, a French mu- jian, of German parentage, born in Mezieres, 1, 1781, died in Paris in February, 1849. father, a musician of a French regiment, ive him lessons on the violin, of which instru- it he became a distinguished master under tuition of Baillot. The empress Josephine gave him a pension of 1,200 francs, and he be- came adjunct and successor of Kreutzer as solo player, and from 1806 to 1815 he presided over the orchestra at the conservatoire ,- and he was the first to produce there the music of Beetho- ven, which through his perseverance and en- thusiasm gradually acquired universal popular- ity. From 1821 to 1824 he was director of the opera ; and he was leader of the orchestra till 1846, and in this capacity and as a violinist he was without a rival, though he composed little, lis younger brothers COEENTIN and JOSEPH ime also known as excellent violinists. HABERSHAM, a N. E. county of Georgia, lering on South Carolina, and containing sources of the Chattahoochee, Broad, and jr rivers ; area, about 500 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 6,322, of whom 949 were colored. It is iversed by branches of the Blue Ridge, be- reen which are fertile valleys. Iron is abun- it ; rubies, carnelians, and occasionally dia- >nds have been found ; and the gold mines rere formerly among the richest in the state. ~ie chief productions in 1870 were 5,409 bush- Is of wheat, 4,795 of rye, 132,824 of Indian >rn, 5,915 of oats, 16,297 of sweet potatoes, ",127 Ibs. of tobacco, 83,241 of butter, and 79 of cotton. There were 695 horses, 1,354 lilch cows, 2,244 other cattle, 4,729 sheep, id 7,370 swine. Capital, Clarkesville. HABINGTON, William, an English poet, born Hindlip, Worcestershire, Nov. 5, 1605, died lere, Nov. 13, 1645. He was educated at the Fesuit college of St. Omer, and at Paris ; but le showed no inclination for a life of celiba- cy, and married Lucy Herbert, the daughter " Lord Powis. He lived mostly in the coun- try, and his life passed quietly. His works, marked by nice fancy and moral elevation, are : "Castara," a collection of poems addressed to his wife (4to, London, 1634; with a preface and notes by Charles A. Elton, 12mo, Bristol, 1812) ; " The Queene of Aragon, a Tragi-com- edie" (fol., 1640), revived in 1666 with a pro- logue and epilogue by Samuel Butler, author of " Hudibras ;" " The Historie of Edward IV." (1640), said to have been partly written by the poet's father ; and " Observations upon the His- torie of Henry the Second's Association of his eldest Sonne to the Regal Throne" (8vo, 1641). HACHETTE, Jean Nicolas Pierre, a French mathematician, born in Mezieres, May 6, 1769, died in Paris, Jan. 16, 1834. At the age of 19 he was made designer to the professors of physics and chemistry at the engineering school of M6zieres. In 1792 he became professor of hydrography at Collioure, in 1794 adjunct pro- fessor of descriptive geometry in the polytech- nic school in Paris, and in 1810 adjunct pro- fessor in the Parisian faculty of sciences and the normal school. On the restoration he was dismissed from the polytechnic school on ac- count of his political sentiments, and although elected a member of the academy of sciences in 1823, he was not allowed to take his seat until after the revolution of 1830. He wrote many works on mathematics and physies. HACKBERRY (celtis occidentalism the popular name of a tree belonging to the nettle family (urticace(E and the elm suborder (ulmacece). In different parts of the country it is also known as sugarberry, nettle tree, sweetgum, false elm, beaverwood, and hoop ash. The ge- Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis). neric name celtis is the Greek for the lotus, the berries of C. australis, of southern Europe, be- ing supposed to have been the food of the loto- phagi. The hackberry is found as a small straggling bush, and as a medium- sized or a large tree. It has a very close resemblance in