HY AUTHORITY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
rASSED AT THE TltllUl SESSION Otf TttK
TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Public No. 5.
AN ACT to recognize the District Courts
of the United States in the State of Ala
bama. r llrpreuntalira of the VmlSMr"f
.....;. Cnnm-exs assembled. 1 lui the
State of Al abama shall be, and the same is
hereby divided into three districts, in man
ner following to wit: The counties of Wal
ker, Pickens, Sumptcr, Marengo, (Ircen,
Perry, Bibb, Autauga, Coosa, Tallapoosa,
Chambers, Shelbv, Jefferson, and Tusca
loosa, shall compose one district, to be cal
led the Middle District; and a court shall
be held for the said district at Tuscahosa.
The counties of Jackson, Madison, Lime
stone, Lauderdale. St. Clair, Marion, Fay
cite, Randolph, Taladega, Franklin, Law
renco, Morgan, Denton, Marshall, Do
Kalh, Cherokee, and Hlount, shall hereaf
ter compose one district, to be called the
Northern District; and a court shall be held
for the same as heretofore, at Huntsville;
and the residue of the counties of said State
shall hereafter compose the Southern Dis
trict of Alabama; and a court shall he held
for the same, as heretofore, at Mobile.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.
That there shall be two terms of the Dis
trict Court for the Middle District held at
Tuscaloosa, in each year, to begin on the
fourth Monday in May, and the first Mon
day after the fourth Monday in November;
and the District Judg of the United states
for the States for the State of Albuna is
hereby required to hold the courts afore
said; and, furthermore, to hold one or more
special terms at Tuscaloosa in each year, if,
in his opinion, the business ol tho court
shall require it to be done.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
Thai the fourth Monday in May, and fiist
Monday after the fourth Monday in Nov
ember, in each year, shall be return days
for writs and executions returnable to the
said district court at Tuscaloosa; and the
parties to such suits as shall he so returned
shall make up their pleadings under such
rules as the court shall prescribe, in order
to hive the causes so returned in a state
of readiness for trial at the succeeding reg
ular term.
Sfx. 4. And be it further enacted,
That all causes at law or in chancery, pen
ding in the said district courts at Mobile
and Huntsville, or in the circuit court of
the U. States at Mobile, in which the de
fendant or defendants resided in the Mid
die District (as hereby established) at the
time of serving process, shall be transferred
for trial to the district court for the said
Middle District, and be proceeded in,
heard, adjudged, and determined, in the
same manner as though originally com
menced or prosecuted in the said court;
and it shall be the duty of the clerks of the
said courts at Huntsville and Mobile safely J
to transmit to the clerk of the district coun
at Tuscaloosa the original papers in all ca
ses hereby ordered to be transferred, to
gether with a transcript of all orders and
other proceedings had thereon.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That all sui s hereafter t be brought in ei
ther of said courts, not of a local nature,
shall oe brought in a court of the district
wh ore the defendant resides, but if there
be more than one defendant, and they re
side in different districts, die plaintiff may
ue in either, and send duplicate writ or
writs to the other defendants; on which the
plai dill or his attorney shall endorse that
the writ thus sent is a copy of a Writ sued
wris, Waco executed and a returned into
the office from which they issued, shall
constitute one suit, and be proceeded in ac
cordingly. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted,
That the judge of said district courts shall
appoint a clerk of the district court of the
Middle District, who shall reside and keep
his office, and the records and documents
appertaining thereto, at the place of holding
said court; said clerk shall be entitled to
the same fees allowed by law to the clerks
of the other districts of said State, perform
the like duties, and be subject to the same
liabilities and penalties.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted,
That the district attorney of the Northern,
and the marshal of the Southern District of
Alabama shall respectively perform the
duties of the district and marshal of and for
the Middle District, hereby established;
and the said marshal shdl keep an office at
the city of Tuscaloosa, and his charges for
mileage in the execution of the duties of
his olhce within said Middle District shall
he computed from the said city of Tusca
loosa. Sec S. And be it further enacted, That
the said district court for the Middle Dis
trict of Alabama, in addition to the ordina
ry jurisdiction and powers of a district
court of the United States, shall, within the
Wus of said Middle District, have juris
diction of all causes, excent anneal :.n,i
writs of error, which now are or hereafter
mlv hv hw be made cognizable in a cir
may by aw amJ shaU
circuit court. ufuriher eJiacled, That
u and writs of error in the nature of
appc s and from
?ff "hi cUstrLt court at Tuscaloosa to the
circuit court of the United males ai iwo
bilein the State of Alabama.
m .n,l he. it further enacted,
That should the judge of the district courts
aforesaid fail to attend at the time and p ace
of holding the court, for the said Middle
. . . . f lie forms nfniPSaid.
District, ai any unu u. -----
f the tourih tlav ol any
such term, the business pending in such
court shall stand adjourncu 10 me
.!.-.r
lerm iul-iwi. . ,
u..,. ii n.Ml he it further enacted,
That all laws contravening or opposed to
the provisions ol mis aci ut, a..u
arc hereby repealed.
J JAMES K. POLK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
HI1. M. JOHNSON,
rice President of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved, February Clh, 1S39.
M. VAN BU REN.
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1S39.
(PThe Spring Term of the Superior
Court for this county was held in this
place the present week, Jud e Baity pre
siding. There was but little business
brought before the Court, and that not of
public importance. Judge Daily presided
in his usual able and dignified manner, giv
ing entire satisfaction to all parties.
(JVe commence in this paper and
will conclude in our next, the remarks of
Mr. Stanly, Representative in Congress
from this district, purporting to be a reply
to the speech of Mr. Duncan, of Ohio, on
the motion for an inquiry into the late de
falcations of public officers. We do so,
however, with extreme reluctance, as it
principally embraces garbled extracts from
a document expressly intended for another
occasion, for persons residing north of Ma
son and Dixon's line, and Thich should
not, in our opinion, under any circumstan
ces be promulgated in the Southern coun
try. But Mr. Stanly has thought proper
in this manner to "awaken the attention"
of the Southern people, and as we have
been repeatedly solicited to do him justice,
notwithstanding he manifested so little dis
position to do the same to his opponent in
the present instance, we shall endeavor to
do so; not only by giving his own version
of the affair between him and ?lr. Duncan,
but will also call the attention of the peo
ple of this district to the unjust, unwise
and impolitic course pursued by its Rep
resentative, on one of the most vital ques
tions that ever has, or ever will have, a
bearing upon their political or personal
welfare. We pronounce it unjust, because
Mr. S. would not read the entire article from
which he was making detached extracts,
nor permit the author to do so nor to state
the contents hav ing a direct bearing on the
subject under consideration, and in which
Mr. Stanly's constituents were most deep
ly interested. As unwise and impolitic,
fr if such returns as these arc made to our
Northern brethren, for their endeavors to
stem the torrent of abolitionism, may we
not reasonably anticipate that they will
soon entirely cease their efforts in our fa
vor, and permit the abolitionists to have un-
lisputed sway throughout the entire north
ern s ction of the Union.
We also wish our rcailcrs to notice par
ticularly, how ably Mr. Stanly assists his
federal whig friends in Congress, in con
suming time by remarks on all sorts of
subjects," calculated and intended to em
barrass and retard its legislative actions
how he attempts "to impose upon the Sou
thern people" by contrasting declarations
touching slavery in the abstract addressed
to non-slaveholders, with those made in
Congress respecting abolitionism, thereby
palliating if not justifying the conduct and
language of the rankest whig abolitionist in
that body; &. to heighten the effect, introdu
cing a reputed declaration" made, if made
at all, seveial years since how insultingly
he can taunt another with "assumed gal
lantry," and then give indubitable evidence
that he himself considers discretion the
better part of valor. In short, we want
our readers to scrutinize closely these re
marks of Mr. Stanly, and see if they can
find in them a plausible justification for his
declining to rote on the anti-abolition re
v -'a..a w t, ArWnn: rc -
SO UUOI1S 1I1UUUUI.UU uy
solutions emphatically Southern, being the
production of a Southerner, and sustained
nearly unanimously by the Southern mem
bers, without distinction of party.
QpWc invite attention to the following
,r.p,lln(rs of the Democratic Republicans
of this county, and trust that our Republi
rin brethren in the other counties in this
Congressional district will also make an
eatly move in this matter.
FOR THE TAKBOlto' PRESS.
REPUBLICAN MEETING.
At a meeting of the Democratic Repub
licans of the county of Edgecombe, held at
ihp Court House in Tarboro on Tuesday
Lth March, 1S39, for the purpose of res
ponding to the republican meeting recently
held in I'itt county: On motion, Rev. Wil
li am Iyman was unanimously called to
the chair, and Messrs. Ralph E. Macnair
and Gi0re0Mirappoinied Secretaries
Gen. L. D. Wilson explained the oh
iects of the meeting in a brief and pertinent
address, and disclaimed any wish that his
friends should suppose him inclined to
continue his pretensions to being a candi
date, from the circumstance of having been
a party in the late Congressional canvass
his part in that contest was a mere sacrifice
for principles, at the urgent solicitations
of his friends, which lie thought it a duty
to make, lie did not therefore desire, that
his too partial friends should place him in
the way of the success of those principles
to which he had always shown himself
devoted; but he hoped the Republicans
in this Congressional district would bring
forward and unite on the strongest man in
it, who'-ver he might be; that he went for
principles, and the man who could best
sustain them.
On motion, a committee was appointed
to draft resolutions expressive of the sense
of the meeting, consisting of the following
persons: Messrs. J. P. Pitt, John Mercer,
Dempscy Bryan, Willis Wilkins, Edwin
Barnes, Bei.j. R. Hincs, Ralph E. Mac
nair, and George Howard.
'1 he committee, having retired a short
time, reported the following resolutions;
which having been read collectively and
separately, were unanimously adopted:
1st. Resolved., That the resolutions pass
ed by our republican brethren of Pitt coun
ty on the 11th February, have our cordial
approbation.
2nd. Resolved, That we concur with
them in entreating the republicans not
only of ihc South but also of the North
to forget their past and present feuds and
Unite as one man for our whole country.
Patriotism and the crisis demand it.
3rd. Resolved, That we arc convinced
that the majority of this Congressional dis
trict are decidedly in favor of the Adminis
tration and its policy, and that their 'sob. r
second thoughts" impel them to correct
their grievous misrepresentation in Con
gress 4th. Resolved, Th .t we heartily unite in
the plan of sending delegates to Washing
ton, on the third Monday in April next,
who may recommend to the people some
fit person as a republican candidate for Con
gress and wt invite our republican breth
ren of the oilier counties to do the same.
5th. Resolved, That dch ga:ts be appoin
ted to represent Edgecombe county in such
a meeting, at the aforesaid time and place.
On motion, the following persons were
appointed delegates, in pursuance of the
last resolution: Messrs. Joab P. Pitt, Hen
ry Bryan, William Norflcci, Benjamin
Sharp, Robert Bran, Elheldrcd Gray,
James George, David Williams, Meedy
i.n:r ...i i r 1 u ni ii'-n
iuii' iu, iuiiMuru i. v.nerry, niiam
H. Bcllam), Edwin Barnes, John J. Dan
iel, William S. Baker, Dcmpsey Bryan,
Robert D. Hart, James Bridgers, John G.
Williams, Joshua L. Lawrence, Charles
Mabry, Benjamin Baits, Joshua Barnes,
Wyatt Moye, John Mooring, Joshua Pen
der, Theophilus Cherry, Joseph J. Pippcn,
William R Dupree, Willie Belcher, Jona
than T. Eason, Daniel Hopkins, William
Thigpen, William R. Long, Phcsanton
Sugg, Willis Wilkins, John Mercer, Moses
Baker, Spencer L. Hart, Richard Harrison,
Charles W. Knignt, Benjamin R. Hincs,
Ralph E. Macnair, and George Howard.
On motion, the thanks of the' meeting
were tendered to the Chairman and Secre
taries for their serv ices on this occasion.
On motion, resolved that the Chairman
and Secretaries sign these proceedings, and
that the Editors of the Raleigh Standard,
Washington Republican, and Tarboro'
Press, be requested to publish them.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
WILLIAM H YMAN, Chai rman.
Ralph h. Alacnair, c .
CJcori
:c Howard, 5 VLai1
(jThc first number of "The Republi
ean," published by George Houston, Esq.
at Washington in this State, was issued on
Thursday of last week. From the spirit
manifested in this number, we hail it as an
able asscrtor and defender of the Democra
tic Republican cause, and heartily wish Mr.
Houston success in his arduous underta
king. He says, in the conclusion of an ar
ticle touching the chief object of his paper:
"After what we have now said, and
what we have distinctly stated in our pros
pectus, it may be considered superfluous
!lo make a lormai prciess.on 01 our onjecis
.-WUrr tl.o U rn i hi i .i viA
11 vjiu... 0 - J
there are misrepresentations abroad as to!
our real intentions, we embrace this oppor
tunity to say that we have no personalities
to indulge the interest of no individual to
jeopardize. We aim at higher objects
the unqualified auvocacy 01 cnaio mgnts -the
entire separation of the general govern
ment from banks; and the exposure and
counteraction of every attempt to encroach
on our natural rights, or to impugn the
guarantee of their safety, as exhibited in the
Constitution."
QJ Daniel W. Courts, eso the present
Treasurer of this State, is appointed Con
sul of the United Slates for the port ol
Matanzasj in itie Island of Cuoa. The
health of Mr. Courts, as well ss that of his
family requires a change of ciima e, and we
rejoice that thisappoinniient conus in aid ot
arrangements so necessary. He will carry
witii him the bus! wishes o! all who know
him and the citizens of Matanzas will find
hun an honorable gentleman; possessing
the integrity and puiuy ot purpose neces
sary to mat chuiLi'tcr.
Rata mil Stand.
Washington Market, March 12. Tur
pentine, new dip, u,00; Uu, 2,50;
Scrape, & 1 1 ,0. Tar, i i 40. lYhig.
(jNo change in other markets.
(j'Vhc following are among the recent
appointments ot hishop Jves: Ortenvilie,
Pitt co , I iiuisday, Muich I4di, morning.
Calvary, Tarboro", 1st buiiiia in Lent,
(17th) with IGthand 18th. 'i runty, bcot
land Neck, Tuesday lDib, morning.
The sick aie all taking lioe'icke's .Match
less Sanative, which is astonishing Europt
and America with its mighty cures.
A pcrfct cine oj Asthma, fifty four years
standing, tfcled by the treatment vj Ur
Wm. Evans. This is to rrrtify, that I was
attacked wiih the Asthma in the ninth y ear
of my age, and from that time until the pre
sent year, a period of fill) four years, 1 have
been subject lo (hat disease. I' or the lat
five years, I had it alums! incessantly not
being exempt from it rnnre ibau twenty
four hours at any one time. I had con
suited the most skilful physician?, and tried
many remedies without auv relief. In
June last, I commenced using Dr. Wm
Kvaiis' Vegetable Medicine, not with the
expectation of efiVciing a cure, for I be
lieved my case hopeless and my dissolu
lion near, but with the hope of obtaining
momentary relit f. Hefore I had used to
packages, I was entirely relieved; and I
have not been attacked with it since.
ran now say that I am permanently currd
of the disease, and 1 can confidently re
commend it to all who are afflicted will
this distressing complaint.
SARA It SMMOXS
Prince George, co. Va , Njv. 10.
tt7J M. Redmond, Agent,Tarboro
JXotic&
TIIK subscriber having
more blooded Mock on baud
than l.e desires io keep, of
fers for sale his half ol the
celebrated American
Hacchotse Rtl Wasp.
Thi hnr-C Will make his sland lhf nnsoincr
season a' Rdeigh, N. Carolina, where it is
exp-cted and believed he will receive a
V ry liberal patronage, si ffi.-ient at lea-t.
lo constitute seventy five or a hundred
mat es. 1 1 early ;pplfejtion is made, a
bargain will he granted to the purchaser.
He will also m ike sale of his almost un
rivalled mile horse called CRAVEN, and
in the sale will grant a bargain. He ha
been in low order some time go, hut all
the liveliness of action and vigor of spi
rits that he once had, he now possesses.
JOHM J. DANIEL.
March 1 3th, 1S39. n
KJThe Raleigh Standard will please
insert three wreks, and forward account
to this office f r collection.
$100 Reward.
RAN A WAV from fhe subscri
'er, on Wednesday night last, my
negro woman
CI1AMEY,
Aed about 40 years, slender built, urighl
mulattoabout the sight of one of her
eyes she has a white speck. Chaney look
with her, her three children MARY, a
ged II or 12 years mahogany color
L VZARUS, aged ahout 4 years, blight
mulatto, nearly white and TOM, ahout
2 years old, mulatto color. I have been
informed, that Godwin Cotlen's Eli has
of late frequently vUitcd Chaney, and in
all probability will assist her in getting lo
a free Slate. The above reward will be
given for the apprehension of Chaney and
her Ihree children, if delivered lo me near
Falkland, Pitt county, N C. or if confi
ned in any jail so that I get them again.
All persons are forbid hai boring or carry
ng ofTsaid negroes under penallv of ihc
Jaw. JOSIAII BARRETT.
March 15, 1839. j j
(0The Norfolk Herald will please in
sert until otherwise directed.
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DA XI EL S FltlCMu
I l ( II I. li .rl
io jj.vc -aiiHaetion to iiioe wh
vor him with th-ir p-droiuK'e
Rrii rhuig, Vi. March 5, 1839.
$30 Reward.
frJ7 . 14 wN AWAY, a short lirrj
A?"4''' fi,ree negroes i,at!HJ U'i
IJARDV, na.JACK.hAu:
to.loiir. S. Ra-.dolpli, whoMciiiN
ly removed from this c-miiii to
Fl.tnda. Thee negroes are Mippoxrd ta
he lurking a' out Tai fimo', and au.soivill
know that it is deemed unntcevaryto
give a description ot them. I am author-
i-ed lo i.-ffer the above reward fur llainp.
prehension, or $10 lor each, if delivered
to me or secured in any jul so thai their
owner can get them again. All prr-mii
are frhid harboring or curving off sjij
negroes, under penal y ol t f law.
D. RICIMRDS.
T;.rhoro MvCh 14. IS ;9 11
$20 Reward.
R N AVY -i :)ii t ie sub
scriber, in May last, a ni gro wo
man naned
HOSE,
Aged ahont 20 year", near the u-ul hcif,
slender, and dark complecied. She hi-a
htHband at Wm. D. V way's, her foil"
ind mother are at Jamc P.ti's, ami -he
las connections at Col Peter I Jines's, ia
the vicinity of which places she i suppo-
sen to be lurkins. i ne annve re'
will be naid for her apprehension and df
livery to me, or if confnnd in any jlfl
that I gel hei again. All person are for
bid harboring or carrying her off. ""''
penalty of the law. ' JOHS PITT.
Edgecombe co. Feb 27. 18.39. 9 t
Moms Multicaulis.
Battle $ Brothers,
JO AVE just received two boxe of
K11 valuable plant, which they are stln'5
at 3 cents per bud. When a quantity'
taken, 10 per cent, discount will be alli
ed. Those who want, had best appf
ear ly, as they are rapidly sellii sr
Rocky Mount, Feb 27lh, Kc39.
Notice.
THE Subscriber lost, early on Friday
morning the 8th inst. in Tarborougn,
or on the road leading to Slantonsburg.
J larse Sheepskin Pocket Hook,
'nff con
wrapped with a cotton twine string
laining the following Notes of Hnj
vs. Asa Amason, for 81,000, dal J"" J
lS35or 6 -one vs. Samuel Spe 'Sj
suheriber security, payable to e ' ,
.v . . J . ' i ..m hrr. 1")8
Ueberry.tor 5ly, dateu u"" ; ' ,
one other vs Sammd Speight, lor
same dale one vs. Abner Eaon,
for $lt
l5v
dated January 4, 1 S3S-and several
small notes, receipts, tax lists aons3re
papers no money in it. A II PPJS 0
forewarned trading or trafiiekfiC
above papers. A reward of''f poCket
will be given, on delivery of the i
Rook and contents to Geo. Howar ,
borough, or to the subscriber, na
rVe- KLBBBT JMS
March 8, 1S33.