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It treats npon prevalent diseases, and the -causes thereof. Price 25 ceuts for sale by Mr. Moffat's agents generally. These valuable Medicines arc for sale by D.& J. RAMSOUR, Llncultilon, N. C. tJcptcmlwr 2, 1840. Situation Wanted. n wish to obtain a situation as a teacher of a com; 'H mou English School, in this or some neigh boring onnty. i feel competent to teach the ele mentary principles of the ng'ish language, Na tural Philosophy, Rhetoric fcc. and if required, the rudiments of the Latin and Greek tongues. Address JOHN A. HUGGINS. Lincolnton N. C, Jany. 13th 1841. tf. N. B. Aa I have a small farrtity, I would prefer Wing employe! for a year or term tf years. NEW GOODS. THE Subscriber has just received a large and splcnded assortment of new Good, which he 'purchased in Philadelphia and New York, entirely for Cash, consisting of DRY GOODS, HARDWARE, Hats, Shoes, Bonnets, Paints, Drugs, Saddlery, Crockery, Groceries, And very extensive assortment of PLATED SADDLERY, HARNESS MOUNTING, and COACH TRIMMINGS, which he will sell very cheap for cash, or on a short credit to punctual cus tomers. C.C.HENDERSON. October 28. 22 6t. Blank: Blanks!! Constable Warrants, Ca Sas, Appearance bonds and Ifltucss Ticket st PUBLIC ACTS. OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, COUXTlES. CHAPTER XII. An Act supplemental to an Act passed by ilie present General Assembly, entitled "An Act lo lay off and establish a Court ty by the name of Caldwell." Be it enacted by the General Assem bly of the State of North Carolina, and it is htrcby enacted by the authority of the same, I hat the County ot Ualuwell shall be, and is hereby invested with aMtlie rights, privileges and immunities of the other Counties in this State, except as is hereafter pr willed. II. Be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Peace, and Officers of the Militia, who reside within the limits of the County of Caldwell, shall continue to hold and exercise all the official powers and authorities in and Tor said County, that they have hitherto held and exercised in the Counties of Burke and Wilkes. III. Be it further enacted That the Constables now residing in the County of Caldwell, shall continue to hold their offi ces, and perform all duties appertaining thereto, until the first County Court, lo be held for said County, under the same rules, regulations and penalties as Constables are subject to ia other Counties in this State. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Counties of Burke, Wilkes and Galdwell, shall continue to be represented in the General Assembly in the same manner a3 heretofore, and in the name of the Counties of Burke and Wilkes, utvil a future Legis lature shall otherwise provide and direct; and all elections for Members of "Congress, and both Houses of the General Assembly, shall be held by the Sheriffs or other Re turning Officers cf the Couniics of Burke and Wiikes.inall the territory heretofore comprehended in the limits of their respec tive Counties, at the time and places, and under the same rule?, regulations and restrictions, as have been appointed, or may hereafter be appointed by law, and th- Certificate of said Sheriff, or other Retur ning Officer, to the result of said election or elections, shall be as valid and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if the Act lay ing off and establishing the County of Caldwell had never been passed. V. Be it further enacted. That a Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions shall be, and the same is hereby established in and for the County of Caldwell, to be held by the Justices of said County, the first Courr to be held on the first Monday in March, in llie year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and thereafter, to be held on the fourth Monday in April, July, October and January, in each and every year; Provided, that no Court shall be held on the fourth Monday in April, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-one, and that the Sessions of said Court shall be held at the Core-house of George Powell, near the house of George Smith, jnn. until the seat of Justice for said County shall be established, as herein pro vided, and that at the first Session of said Court, a majority of the Justices of the Peace being present, shall elect a Clerk, Sheriff, Coroner , Register, Entry-taker, Surveyor, Constables, and all other officers for said County, who shall enter into Bonds as required by law and shall hold and con tinue in said offices until successors to them are duly chosen and qualified, according to the Acts of the General Assembly in sttch cases made arid provided. VI. Be it further enacted. That the Court -of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, tstab lished by this Act, shall possess and exer cise the same power, authority and juris diction, as is possessed and exercised by other County Courts in this State, and shaM have exclusive jurisdiction of all crime committed within the limits of Cald well County, of which the County Courts of other Counties in this State have juris diction, until a Superior Court of law is established for said County; and all suits at law, now pending in the County Courts of Burke and Wilkes, wherein the citizens of of Caldwell are both plaintiffs and Defen dents; and all indictments in said Courts against citizens of Caldwell County, shall he transferred to the County Court of Cald well, in the manner now provided for transferring suits from one County to an other; and all appeals from the County Court of Caldwell, shall be sent to the Superior Court of Wilkes for trial, when the plaintiffs reside in that portion of Cald well taken from Wilkes, and to the Superior Court of Burke, when thp plaintiffs reside in that portion of said County taken from Burke. VII. Be it further enacled. That all criminal offences which may be committed in that part of Caldwell taken from Burke, which are cognizable only in the Superior Court of law, shall be, and continue under the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of law of the County of Burke, and similar of fences committed in that portion of said County, taken from Wilkes, shall hi. and continue under the jurisdiction of i 5pe- rior Courts of Wilkes until a Superior Court of law shall be given to the Countv of Caldwell. VI1L Be it further enacted, That all persons who may be liable to imprisonment under arty process, either criminal or civil, in Caldwell County, before the Completion of a Jail in said County, shall be commit ted to the Jail of cither the Couuty of Burke or Wilkes. IX. Be it further enacted. That all pro cess issued fro.n the Superior Courts of Burke or Wilkes against the citizens of Caldwell, shall be valid without the Seal of office being affixed thereto, until a Supe rior Court is created for the County of Caldwell; and ail process so issued, until a Sheriff shall have been elected for the County of Caldwell, shall be executed by eitfrer the Sheriff of Burke or Wilkes; and after that lime such process shall be direc ted to the Sheriff of Caldwell, and be exe cuted by him. X. Be it further enacted. Thai Cadet Jones. Edmund Jones, William Dickson Daniel Moore, senior-, William Watts, John Blair, senior, Levi fcaxton, senior, Peter Ballew, junior, and Abner Pain, are hereby appointed Commissioners to select and determine upon a site for a permanent Seat of Justice for said County, who shaH locate the same as near the centre of said 'County as practicable, and a majority of s&it! Commissioners shall have power to act. XL Be it further enacted. That a ma jority 'of said Commissioners shall have power to purchase or receive by donation, for the County ot Caldwell, a tract of land, consisting of not less than twenty-five acres, to be conveyed to the Ohairtnan of the County Court of said Corrnty, and his suc cessors in office, upon wlrtch a Town shall be laid off, and called "Lenoir" where the Court House and Jail shall be erected, and where-, after the completion of the Court House, the Courts of said County shall be held, and the Clerks and Register shall keep their offices. XII. Be it further enacted, That the County Court of Caldwell, at its first Ses sion, shall appoint five Commissioners to lay off the lots of said Town, and after designating such as shall be retained for Public use$, shall expose after due notice, the residue to sale at Public Auction, upon a credit of one and two years, and shall take from the purchasers bonds and security for the purchase money, made payable to the Chairman of the County Court, and his successors, and upon the payment of the purchase money, the Chairman, or his successors, shall execute title therefor; which money shall be appropriated to the building of a Court House and Jail. XIII. Be it further enacled, That no thins in this Act shall be so construed as to prohibit the Sheriffs of Burke and Wilkes from collecting such monies as afe due, or may become due, on any judgment before the first Court of Pleas an ! Quarter Ses sions that shall be held for CaldwelU Coun ty . XIV. lie it further enacted, That this Act shall not be so construed as to prevent the Sheriffs of Burke and Wilkes from collecting all arrears of taxes in the same monner as they could have done previous to the creation of the County of Caldwell, Provided, nevertheless, that the Sheriffs of Burke and Wilkes Counties shall not col lect any taxes in the County of Caldwell, or of the citizens cf said Conuty, imposed by the County Courts of Burke and Wilkes, and which afe to be collected in the year one thousand "eight hundred swd forty-one; but that the same may be collected up n the tax duplicates of the Clerks of Burke and Wilkes, by the Sheriff of Caldwell, and be paid over to the use of Caldwell County. XV. ' Be it further endtied. That the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Burke and Wilkes, shall have power until a Superior Court is created for Caldwell, to draw Jurors from said County as hereto fore for Burke and Wilkes Superior Courts, and the Jurors s drawn shall be summoned by the Sheriff of Caldwel5, ami for non-attendance, shall be suhject to the same penal1 ties as afe now prescribed by law. XVI. Be it furiher enacted. That, the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Burke, heretofore held upon the fourth Monday in July and January, shall after the first day of March next, be held upon the third Monday in July and January in each and every year; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. XVH. Jindbe it further enacted. That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified, the 11th day of January, 1841. COXGRESStOXAIi. T W E NT Y-SIXT II CONG RESS. SECOND SESSION. HOUSE UP REPRESENTATIVES, SATfcrtDAY Feb. 13, 1841. Mr. Pickens, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, mado-the following report which was ordered to be printed. The praruiuee ou Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the message of the Pre sident, transmitting a correspondence with the British Minister in relation to the burn ing of the steamboat Caroline, and the de mand made for the liberation of Mr Alex ander McLeod respectfully report: It appears that the steamboat "Caroline" was seized and destroyed in the month of December, 1837. The committee ate in duced to believe that the facts of the case are as follows; The boat was owned by, and in possession of, a citizen of Hew York. She was cleared from the City of Buffalo, and, on the morning of the 29th of December, J837, she left the port of Buffa lo, bound for Schlo-ser, upon the Ameri can side of the Niagara river, and within the territory of the United States. The or iginal intention seem I to be, to run the boat between Buffalo And Schlosser, or, per haps, from Black Rock dam to Schlosser, and, should it seem proiuble, it was in tended to run her also to Navy Island, and touch at Grand Island and Tonawanda. Her owner was Mr. Hells, said to bea respectable citizen of Buffalo, and it is ob vious, his intention in putting up the boat was one of speculation and profit entirely. The excitement upon that portion of the frontier, at this period, had collected a great many 'in the neighborhood some from cu riositysome from idleness and others from taking an interest in the unusual and extraordinary collection of adventurous men gathered together at that time on Navy Island. Navy Island was nominalIy" in the British "territory' The owner of the Caroline took advan tage of these circumstances to make some money with hrs bo2ft, over to Navy Island. AH these facts appear from testimony reg ularly taken, '(see H. R. Doc. No. 302. page 46 and 33, 2d Session, 25th Con gress.) and the committee know of no 'legal evidence to contradict them. There ts no proof that any arms or munitions of war were carried in the boat, except, perhaps, one small six-pounder field-piece belonging to a passenger. The principal object was to run the boat as a ferry boat from Schlos ser, on the American side, to Navy Island, on the British side. It is believed that, even in war, a neutral power has "the f ight to trade in contraband articles, subject, of course, to seizure and confiscation, if taken within the jurisdiction of either of the con tending parties. What is contraband of war i not always certain. Treaty stipula tions frequently include some articles, and exchule others -recognised in the law of nations. Trading in contraband articles is no excuse for invading the territory and soil of a neutral and independent power, whose private cirizens may choose to rim the hazaids of such a trade. In this in stance there were no two foreign powers engaged in wa;r but all concerned in the outbreak or excitement within the British jurisdiction, claimed to be British subjects, in resistance of the authorities of Canada, a province of the British empire. Even admitting, then, that the Caroline was en gaged in contraband trade yet it was with citizens who claimed to be subjects of the same empire with those who were styled the legitimate officers of the Province. Ab stractly speaking, how was a private citi zen to decide who were right and who wrong in these local disputes I And which portion of Citizens of the same province must our citizens refuse to have any com munication with ? But the boat was mere ly used for one day as a ferry boat; and on the night of the day she commenced running, she was seized while moored at the wharf in Schlosser, and burnt. Sever al men were assassinate; certainly one. who tell dead upon the dock. Now the insinuation of the British Minister, that Schlosser was "nominally" within the ter ritory of the u ntled States, may well be retorted, as we can with equal truth say that Navy Island was "nominally" within the "territory" of the British Government; lor at the period to which we allude, the people collected there had as effectually de fied Canada authorities as anv nuriion ( our people had disregarded ours. Yet Britis't authority thought proper to pass by Navy Island, then in its "nominal" territo ry, and in the pleiuiu le of its p iwer, to cast the alis of British jurisdiction over Ameri can soil. Tiii. was truly extending over us that kind giiar liatiship wtiich they had not the ability at that time to extend to a portion of iheir own territory, and which recommends itself to us, full as much from its assumption as from its lot; of right or law, The British Minister is pleased also to call the Caroline a "piratical steamhoat." The loose epithets of any one, no matter how high in plaC, cannot make that piracy which the law of nations does not recoj nise as such. Pirates are freebooters, ene mies of the tan nan race; and eminent ju rists describe them as ravaging every sea and Coast with no flag an n li ime. Pi racy come iind-r the vncurreiit jurisdic tion of all nations. Even in the worst point of view that it can be considered, those connected with the steamboat Caro line were hill aiders and abettors of other engaged in rebellion. And the committee are totally at a loss to know upon what au thority rebellion is recognised as piracy. i Such confounding of terms U resting the case upon epit'iets, instead of sound law or facts. But even supposing it to. be a "pi ratical boa:,V as the Minister asserts it to be; yet the moment it touched our soil it fell under onr sovereignty, and no power on earth eould rightfully invade it. There is no doctrine more consecrated in English history, than that every human be ing who touches the soil uf Great Britain Is immediately covered by British law. Suppose one ofiiett vessels were cut from the banks of the Thames and burnt by Frenchmen, and British citizens Were as sassinated at night, and the French Minis ter were lo avow that they acted under the orders of his Government, and that the ves sel was 'piratical,' and the citizens murder ed were outlaws then there is not an En glishman whose heart would not beat high to avenge the wrong, and vindicate the rights of this country. The law there is the law here. And there is no interna tional law consistent with the separate in dependence of nations, thai sanctions the pursuits of even pirates to murder and ar son over the soil and jurisdiction of one of the States of this Confederacy. No great er wrong can be done to a country than in vasion fsoil. If it can be done with im punity at one point, and on one occasion, it can be done at another, and the nation that submits to it, finally sinks down into drivelling imbecility. If a representation of the slate of things at Schlosser, and the conduct of those who had control of Ihe Caroline, had first been made to the prop er authorities of N. Y or of the U. S., then there wonld have been some show at least of respect for our sovereignty and in dependence, and a disposition to treat us as an equal. But in this case, as it to treat our authorities with contempt, there was no preliminary demand or representation made. It was hoped that the outrage was per petrated by a party in sudden heat and ex citement, upon their own responsibility. But the British Minister now avows that "the act was the public act of persons obey ing the constituted authorities of her Majes ty's Province," and again affirms that "it was a public act of persons io her Majes ty's service, obeying the orders of their su perior authorities.''' If this had been the first and only point of collision with Great Britain it might not have "excited such interest, but there is an assumption in most of our intercourse with that great power, revolting to the pride and spirit of independence in a free people. If it be her desire to preserve peace, her true policy would be to do justice, and show that courtesy to equals which she lias al ways demanded from others. The com mittee do not desire to press views on this part of the suhject, particularly as a demand has been made by our Government upon the Government of (ireat Britain f r ex planation as to the outrage committed, the answer to which it is hoped will prove sat isfactory. As to the other points presented In the demand made by the British Minister for t!ie "liberation" of Alexander McLeod, the committee believe the facts of the case to be, that the steamboat was seized and burnt as stated before, and that a citizen or citi zens of New York were murdered in the affray. And there were reasons to induce a belief that McLeod was parlicrps crim inis. He was at first arrested, and upon various testimony being taken, was then discharged. He was afterwards arrested a second time. Upon the evidence then pre sented, he was imprisoned to await his tri al. There was no invasion of British ter ritory to seixe or take him. But upon his being voluntarily within our territorv, he was arrestad as any citizen of the United States, charged with a similar offence. night have been. We know of no law of nations that would exempt a man from ar rest and imprisonment for offences charged to be committed against the "peace and dignity" of a State, becatM-; he is a subject of Grp-.it Britain, or because he committed the crime at the instigation or und ?r the authority of British Provincial officers; much less do we know of any law that would justify the President to deliver him up without trial, t the demand and upon, the assertion as to facts, of any agent of the British Government. If we had been at open war with Great Britain, and Mc Leod had committed the offences charged then he might have fallen under the rules and regulations of war, and been treated as a prisoner of the United States Govern ment, and would have been subject to the laws of nations in war. But as the alleg ed criminal acts, in which McLeod is char ged to he im plicated, were committed in profound peace, it is a crime, as far as he may be concerned, solely against the "peae and dignity" of the Stale of New Yoik, and her criminal jurisdiction is com plete and exclusive. If the crimes com mitted be such as to make a man hostis hu mani genuan outlaw a pirate, ift the legal acceptation of the term, then tinder the law f nations, the United States Courts and tribunal would have jurisdiction. But the offence charged in this case, commit ted as it was in lime of peace, as far as this individual was concerned, was one J purely against the lex loci, and corning ex clusively within the criminal jurisdiction of the tribunals of New York. The Minister, in his letter of the 13th December, 1840, saysi "it is quite notori ous that Mr. McLeod was not one of the party engaged in the destruction of the steamboat Caroline; and that the pretended charge upon which he has been imprisoned rests only upon the perjured testimonoy of certain Canadians, outlaws and their abet tors," &c This may perchance all be so, but it would be asking a great deal to re quire an American court to yield jurisdic tion, and surrender up a prisoner charged with offence against the law, upon the mero ipse dixit of any man, no matter how high in authority. Whether McLeod be guilty or not guilty, is the very point upon which an American jury alone have a right to de cide. Jurisdiction in State tribunals ovet criminal canes, and trial by a jury of the ienue, tre essential points in American ju risprudence. And it is -a total misappre hension as to the nature of our system, to suppose that there is any right in the Fed eral Executive to arrest the verdict of the one, or thwart the jurisdiction of the other If such a power existed, and were exercis ed, it would effectually overthrow, and up on a vital point, the separate sovereignty and independence .of these States. Tho Feder-t Executive might be clothed with power to deliver up fugitives from justice for offences committed against a foreign State, but cveu then it might not be obliga tory to do so, unless it were made matter of treaty stipulation. This duly and right in an Executive has generally been consid ered as dormant, until made binding by treaty arrangement. But when the matter is reversed, and demand is made, not to fu gitives from justice for the liberation of a man charged with offences against the peace and dignity of one of our own States, then then it is, that the demand becomes prepos terous in the extreme. The fact the of fences were committed under the sanction of provincial authorities does not alter tho case, unless we were in a stale of war. In such cases as the present, the power to de liver up could not be conferred upon thff Federal Executive by treaty stipulation. It could only be conferred in those cases over which jurisdiction is clearly delegated by the Federal Constitution. Such, for instance, as treason, which is an ollcnce a gainst the conjoined sovereignty of the States, as defined in the Constitution.' Over all cases except those defined in the Constitution, and those coming clearly un der the laws of nations, the States have ex clusive jurisdiction, and the trial . and pun ishment for offences against them, are in cident to their separate sovereignty. It is not pretended in this case that there is any treaty stipulation under which the demand is made; and the Federal Executive, under our system, has no power but what is con ferred by the Constitution, or by special law of Congress. In the former it is de clared that "the Executive power is vested in a President of the United States," and that power is then to be pointed out and de fined by special laws passed from time lo time, imposing such duties as are thought proper and expedient by Congress. Your committee deem it dangerous for? the Executive to exercise any power over a suhjecl-matter not conferred by treaty or by law; and to exercise it in any case in conllict with State jurisdiction, would be worse than dangerous; it would be usur pation. Bui your committee forbear to press these points further at present, and they would not have said as much on such clear questions of international law, but that in this, the demand for liberation has been made by the accredited agent of a great power, and under circumstances of pecul iar aggravation and excitement. We have other points of difference with Great Britain, which add interest to every question that arises between us at present. Neither onr Northeastern or Northwestern boundaries are yet settled with her, and the subject is not entirely free from diffi cu'ty. She has recently seized our ves srls and exercised a power involving the right of search, under the pretext of sup pressing the foreign slave trade, which, if persevert-d in, will sweep our Commerce from the coast of Africa, and whifh is in compatible witli our rights a a maritime power. She has recently, in her inter course with us, refused indemnity and de nied our rights to property, on a subject matter vital to near one half the Slates of this Confederacy, and which, considering her military position at Bermuda and her growing power in the West Indies, is of the last importance to our national indepen dence. All these subjects make every question between i s, at this peculiar juncture, of the deepest interest. Besides this, we are both permanently destined to have, perhaps, the most exten sive commerce of modern nations. Our flags float side by side, over every sea, and bay, and inlel of ihe known globe. She moves steadily upon her. objects with an ambition lhat knows no bounds. And wherever she has hat a conflict of in terest she lias rarely yielded to any power. At this moment she presents to the civ- ilized world ihs spectasle of the greatest V
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