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BY AUTHORITY.
jjAVS OF THE UNITED STATES,
jASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE
TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Public No. 24.
N ACT to amend the act of the third
" jarch eighteen hundred and thirty
seven,cntitleJ "An act supplementary to
the act entitled An act to amend the judi
cial system of the United States and for
other purposes.
Beit enacted, by lhe Senate and House
tf Representatives of the Uni t 'cd Stales of
Jmnica in Congress assembled. Thit I
itshall be the duty ot the district judge oi
Missouri to attend at St. L.ouis, on thciirst
Monday ofOctobcr annually,who shall have
power to make all necessary orders touch
in? any suit, action, appeal, writ of error,
process, pleadings, or proceedings returned
to the circuit court or depending therein,
preparatory to the hearing, trial, or decis
ion of such action, suit, appeal, writ of er
ror, process, pleadings; and all writs and
process may be returnable to the said courts
on the first Monday of October in the same
runner as to the sessions of the circuit
courts directed to be held by the said act
of third March, eighteen hundred and
thirty-seven; and the said writs returnable
to the circuit courts may also bear teste on
the said first Monday of October as though
a session of said circuit court was holden on
that day.
Sec 2. dnd be it farther enacted,
That the district court of the United States
for the district of Eat Tennessee shall,
hereafter, be holden on the third Monday
of October in each year, instead of the sec
ond Monday of October, as now prescribed
bylaw; and tint the district court of the
Middle District of Tennessee shall be hold
en on the first Mondays of March and Sep
tember, in each year; and all cattses and
processes shall be continued over, and be
returnable to, the respective terms of said
courts as hereby established; and said courts
shall be holden at the places now prescribed
U- law, and exercise all the powers and ju
ris diction they now enjoy.
Sec. 3. dnd be it further enacted,
That from and after the first day of June
next the circuit court of the United States
fw the southern district of Alabama shall
commence its terms on the second Monday
of March and the fourth Monday of No
vember, in each and every year: and the
Circuit court for the eastern district of Lou
isiana shall commence its terms on the first
Monday of April and the third Monday of
December in each and every year; and all
vrits, pleas, suits, recognizances, indict
ments and all other proceedings, civil and
criminal, shall be heard, tried, and pro
ceeded with by said court, at the times
rcin fixed, in the same manner as if no
rilangc iftthe timesof holding said courts had
token place.
Sec 4. dnd be it further enacted,
That the circuit and district courts of the
itcd States for the district of Michigan,
ehall be held at Detroit, on the second Mon
yy of October, instead of the first Monday
1 November, as heretofore established; and
aull writs, pleas, suits, recognizances,
Indictments, and all other proceedings, civ-
" and criminal, shall be heard, tried, anci
Pocceded with bv the said court, at the
times herein fixed, in the same manner as if
"o change in the times of holding the said
tu in had taken place.
OEC. .1
;nat the district court of the United States
Ior the district of Arkansas, shall he held
J1 tattle Rock on the first Monday of Oclo
;er instead of the first Monday in Novem
annually as heretofore established and
'at a'l writs, pleas, recognizances, indict
ments, and all other proceedings, civil and
criminal, shall be heard, and proceeded
vith by thG sajti courf at the times herein
- in the same manner as if no change
Y"e times of holding the said court had
Whole JV
wcn place.
Tarborough,
Sec. 6. dnd hp. Y,..
that the circuit court of the United States
for the southern district of New York,
shall hereafter he held on the last Monday
in November1, instead of the last Monday
in October, the time heretofore established
by law; that all indictments, informations,!
suits or anions, and proceedings of every
Kind whether of a civil or criminal nature,
depending in the said court, on the first day
of October, next, shall thereafter have day
m court, and be proceeded in, heard, tried,
and determined, at the time herein appoin
ted for holding the said court, in the same
manner as they might and Ought to have
been done had the said court been holder,
at the time heretofore directed by law.
Sec. 7. dnd be il further enacted, That
all wri's, suits, actions or recognizances or
other proceedings which are or shall be,
instituted, served, commenced, or taken
to the said Circuit Court to have been hoi
den as heretofore dircc:cd by law, shall be
returnable to, e itered in, heard, tried, and
have day in court, to be holden at the time
by this net directed, in the same manner
as might and ought to hav e been done had
the said court been holden at the lime
heretofore directed bylaw.
Si:c. S. dnd be it further enacted,
That it shall 1)3 the dutv of the clerk of the
i district courtof thesouthern district of New
York, within six months after the passage
of this act, to transmit a certified copy of
the dockets of all judgments, rendered in
that court, or in the circuit court of the
United Stales for that district, since the
fourth daj' of March, eighteen hundred
and twenty nine, to the clerk of the su
preme court of said State, in the city of
New York; and on the twenty fifth days
0f ench month thereafter, to transmit a like
certificate of all dockets of judgments as
nmf have been rendered in either of said
courts since the last certificate was trans
mitted.
Skc. 9. dnd be it further enacted,
That it shall be tho duty of the clerk of
the northern district of said State, within
six months after the passage of this act to
transmit a certified copy of all judgments
rendered and docketed in that court,
cither as a district court, or as a cir
cuit courf, and of all judgments in the
circuit court of the United States for that
district, docketed since the fourth .day of
March eighteen hundred and twenty nine,
to the clerk of the supreme court of said
State at Utica; and on the tenth and twenty
fifth days of each month thereafter, to trans
mit a like certificate of all such dockets
of judgments as may have been rendered
in cither of said courts since the last certi
ficate was transmitted.
Sec. 10. dnd be. it further' enacted,
That every judgment which shall have
been rendered either in the district or cir
cuit courts aforesaid, previous to' the pas
sage of this act, shall, as against subsequent
purchasers or incumbrances, cc ipc to be a
lien upon the real estate or chatted real of
the person or persons against whom such
judgments may have been rendered res
pectively, at the expiration of five years
from the passage of this act ; and every judg
ment to be hereafter rendered in cither of
said courts, shall, as against subsequent
purchasers or incumbrances, cease to be a
lien upon the real estate or chattels real
of any person or persons against whom each
judgment shall be rendered at theexpiiation
often years, from and alter the day ol
docketing such iiidsrrtenis respectively.
JAMES K. POLK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Mil. M. JOHNSON,
Vice President of the United States, and
President of I he senate.
ArruoVED, March 3d, 1S39.
M. VAN BUREN.
From the Louisville Public ddvertistr.
FEDERALISM ABOLITIONISM.
We copy the following paragraphs from
the Cincinnati Gazette, one ot tnc oldest
and most influential Whig papers in the
West. They disclose some facts worthy
df recollection. lhe Gazette contends
that Athcrton's resolutions were concocted
and passed to sustain tbe positions previ
taken bv the President against fanat-
icism, and in iavor ot tne insmuuuns ui uie
South, The editor forgets the excitement
which was felt on the subject; the previous
fthn Ahnlihon ducstion bv the
dil,aiiu" itpw 4
Wliirsin Congress: their intcriercnce and
manifestation of power in the elections of
Mow York and other States; the mobs and
the lvnchinas in various quarter's and the
1 .lf-m;nntinn nC 1 Up n CPfl fl J firieS
to control the nomination ot the Opposition
candidate for President, dictate to congress
and extirpate slavery, it was alter mis uo
velopment of their policy and dctcrmina
,;nJ Mr. Atherton's resolutions were in
trndheedi with a view to prevent agitation
in the Capitol, and the occurrence of scenes
...u:K tttnnld have driven the Southern
members to their homes, and effected a vir
tual dissolution ot the union.
nr numose, however, in presenting Mr,
Hammond's views to our readers, was not
to enter into a acience vi mc iuuu.iS -
(Edgecombe CounlyX. C.) Sctlurduy, May 18, 1839
CM"CT'"' l TTLM IF 1-T t.-Jf.-..-J11.r.-..-CT;.-. , -g. c.3ilCT?im
M
r. Alherton, or of the avowed opinions!
ot the President. Both mav be pronoun
eed correct, as they are assailed by tho
Opposition, and treated by that party as if
they were designed to 'entrap" its leaders.
Mr. Clay could not have entcrtaind such
suspicious. He saw the danger of the agi
taalion of the Aboliton question, the grow
ing power of the incendiaries and did not
ft-'el that he could longer refrain from de
nouncing thriir. leaders as enemies to the
Union; ami Mr. Clay is very good authori
ty against the assumptions of the Gazette on
this point.
Hut wc suppose Mr. Clay did not know
that the great body of Abolitionists are
W"higs. This fict is repeated in the ex
tract which follows from the Cincinnati Ga
zette; and it admits that the Whigs must be
defeated in Vermont, Maine, Massachu-
setts, New Y'ork, Pcnsylvania, and Ohio,
if they venture to separate from their Abo
lition brethren.
The Gazette uses this emphatic lan-
g oage: "Drive from the Whig ranks the j
Aboliiionisls of Vermont, Maine, Massa
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and 0
hio, nnd what hope could there be of a
Whig vote for President in these S:ates?"
We know there would be none. We have
o stated a in in and again, and the truih of
the assertion has been denied in the Oppo
sition papers. Now we have the admission
of one of tli2 prominent organs of the par
ty that its strength will be annihilated the
moment it may dare to cast off tho Aboli
tionst. But, what can Mr. Hammond mean by
tilling his Whig brethren, at this juncture,
that de.ith is their portion, unless they re
tain their Abolition brethren' in their
ranks? Is he striving to prevent the nom
ination of Mr. Clay as the candidate of the
party for President? Does he intend to
low that Gen. Harrison is the only man
in whose support the Abolitionists can
unite with tho other Whigs of the country?
Jut wc must let Mr. Hammond speak for
limsclf.
From the Cincinnati whig) Gazelle.
Wc made a suggestion on Saturday, that
the Whigs of the free States could gain
nothing in denouncing Abolitionists, be
cause the great boJy of dbolitionisls were
fVhigs. '1 his suggestion was well recei-
ed, except by a lew, whose exasperations
against Abolitionists have their own private
objects, or have their foundations in person
al causes of which the individuals them
selves may be unconscious. The sug
gestion was not lightly made, and I have
. . '. .... ii
some things to say in respect to it wnicn
may be of interest, worthy serious con
sideration.
The Atherton resolutions in Congress,
extraordinary in themselves, where moved
and carried in a manner peculiar, unparli
amentary, altogether out of the usual modes
of legislation. " The result of a party cau
cus, fore .'d to decision by the party lever
of the previous question, without allowing
time for debate or giving time tor consid
eration got up for no perceptible useful
ness and vet involving questions ot the
best interest, and of the most exciting
character! 1 be actors m tins woik pro
ceeded as men do who arc seeking to en
trap and circumvent an opponent. The
supporters of the Administration are a
perfectly compact mass, holding tneir poli
tical adheivncc as of paramount obligation.
President Van Buren had committed him
self to the Southern doctrines, on the sla-
vcrv question; these doctrines were conse
quently those upon which his re-election
ivnnhl have to be sustained. It was then
important to specify them, and give them
new publication thus whipping in any dis-
posed to stray oil alter lesser uiots, mat
might occasion discord or distraction in
their ranks. For these purposes the reso
lutions were effective, and the whipping in
of Doctor Duncan is an evidence of it;
The Whigs were to be effected in anoth
er way. lhe resolutions wore empnau-
cally directed against Abolitionists, the
whole of whom arc in the free States,
and the great body of whom, arc tVhigs.
To the Whigs the resolutions could not fail
to serve as an apple of discord. Between
the Abolitionist Whigs and Anti-abolition
ists Whias, the lesser difference would ori
ginate irritations leading to division per-
P 'pi.- i.i
haps separation. jiiu consuijuuiitvswuuiu
be a spirit to defeat each other, rather than
to unite in a common cause. The gain
would all he to the party of the Adminis
tration. Drive from the Whig ranks the
Abolitionists of Vermont, Maine, and Con
necticut, Massachusetts, New York, Penn
sylvania, and Ohio and what hope could
there be of a Whig vote for President in
these States?
Reflections of this kind naturally arise
on the Atherton resolutions, worded, timed
and forced into adoption as they were.
'fhc Cotton Crop. The New Orleans
pr;.r nf the 15th savs: It is curious
rnouffh to see the discrepancy which ex
istsin the estimates made for the cotton
crop of lStfS-9. A merchant at Mobile,
BWFT Mi i iWIIMg
who s thought to be a man of information
ami judgment by all acquainted with him,
has written to New York that the crop
will fall short 450,000 bale. Bets have
been made in this city lhat the deficiency
will not exceed 250,000 bale. Which
calculation approaches nearest to the truth?
At Savannah and Charleston, the receipts
this season, compared with the one prece
ding, have lalleri short 11,000 bales at both
ports.
In Alabama and Florida thus far, G0,000
bale less have been received this year.
Our Nftw Orleans prices current, reports
a falling off something near 260,000 bales
making a grind total of 430,000 bales as
thcdeficit in this year's cotton crop thus
far. But it is said that a larg? quantity
of cotton remains in the hands of the
country merchants and banks besides what
his been kept on the plantations owing to
the want of facilities for sending it to mar
ket.
Here it is that room for speculation
nnd conjecture is opened, and but few have
the means of cominji at any thins apnroach-
ig at any thing approach
ing to truth. Yet much money depends
on ihc accuracy of the calculations of the
stock of the cotton above us; and we cannot
avoid feeling some surprise that more
pains are not taken to get a true statement.
(QThe offerings in one discount day
recently at the Union Bank in Misissippi,
amounted to about 815,000,000!
d Snug Fortune. The Mds'rs.
Prince of Flushing, have cleared $230,000
last year, in mulberry trees and if their
agent in Europe had obeyed instructions,
they would have cleared 500,000, after
paying all expenses. We have this fact
from the best authority one of the firm.
They have sold 200,000trccsin ten months.
That's a business. Ar. Y. Herald.
Horrible! Two married women have
lately been committed to Milltonville,
Ohio, prion, charged with murdering their
husbands. The one was that of John Know-
los. late a merchant Perrvsbursr. bv his
wife Eleanor. Thev had been married
less then a year; he was a rich old bache
lor shea poor young girl both members
of the Baptist church. He was poisoned
by arsenic. The other case was that of a
Mr. Simmons. He was put out of the way
in a summary manner, by a single blow
from a broad axe, in the hands of his wife,
directed as he lay sleeping in bed, to his
throat, but passing through his mouth in
its. way thither.
Melancholy Death. .tames Freeman
Curtis, Eq. the highly esteemed Superin
tendant of the Worcester Railroad, came to
his end in a shocking manner. The cars
had just left the Depot at Boston, when
Mr. Curtis put his head out of a window,
and received a severe blow by striking one
of the posts of a bridge he lived but a
short time afterwards.
jV? Vankec Notion.' Some few weeks
ago a Mr. Curtis was killed on the Worees
R. Road, in the neighborhood of Boston.
The inhabitants of that citv immediately
made up neuly twenty thousand dollars
for his widow, y1
(ffiThc Northern papers mention the
athof Zerah Colbourn, at Norwich, Ver
de
mont, in the 35th year of his age. It will
be recollected that he was possessed when a
child, of an almost miraculous power ofa
rithmp.lin.il calculation. He could solve
with scarcely a moment's reflection, the
most abstruse questions in arithmetic and
bv a mental process altogether. He visi
ted Europe, where his astonishing powers
were witnessed by the most eminent scien
tific men.
He lost hi peculiar talent on. attaining
mature age, but still evinced very respect-
II 1 -l.:Ktr. A flm rnfurnlnir
aoie general amnucn. nti imu
from Europe, he became a Clergyman of
the Methodist Church, and suosequently a
professor in a literary Institution, in which
situation he died.
(jyThc property of lhe Presbyterian
General Assembly in the United States is
estimated by the editor of the Charleston
Observer at $155,000 00; which ol course,
if the late decision of the court in Philadel
phia be sustained, passes to the hands of
the New School party.
Immense claim of Properly. It
will probably be new to many it was to
us yesterday morning thata poor journey
man printer named Smith Hardening, now
a resident of Tennessee, but formerly of this
city, where he is well known has institu
ted in the United States Circuit Court of
this District a claim to an immense estate
in thiscity. His action is brought against
the ministers, elders and deacons of the
Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, of
the city of New York, and others, and
the estimated value of the property he
claims is about twenty-five millions of dol-
lars. He makes his claim as heir at law-. :,
a direct linej to a traot c?iapns:rig about
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Vol XF.No. 20.
sivt cn acres, bounded by Broadway, Mai
den Lane, Fulton, Nassau and Johnsir3et?i
The documents comprising his bill, of
which a copy has been sent us, are very
voluminous, too much so for perusal; and
we can offer no further evidence of the:
support they give his claim than we carl
draw from the known character of his em
inent counsel, Messrs. Graham j Hoffman
and Sanford.-Ax'W I ork Suit.
Hancock, Md. May 2, 1830. Our
little community were frightened from their
propriety, about seven o'clock Idst evening
by an explosion in Mr. Rush's store.
It appears t feat an open keg of ptiwder was"
placed under his counter; two ciMomert
wished to see some goods, upon which h&
snuffed his candle with his fingers, and
dashed the horning snuff towards the
ground, it alighted in the keg the powder"
instantly ignited and blew up the building
Poor Rush is mortally wounded. His
children have their arms and legs broken
and the two purchasers are dreadfully mutn
lated their clothes were burning on them
some time before the ruins could be cleared
to extricate them: fears are generally ex
pressed now (noon) that they cannot recov
er. The site cf the building is a perfect
chaos.
fJJThc family of Mr. Wilson Hub
bard, consisting of himself his wife and
six children, recently fell victims to poison
at La Grange Tenn. The whole fdrnily
had drailk freely of a barrel of cider which
had been some" time in the cellar after
which they were taken suddenly ill, and
died The cider in the barrel was after
wards examined, when a snake aboUt two
feet long partially decayed, was discover
ed, with a collection of green glutinousmat
tcr, woven over it. A female servant was
suspected of having put the reptile in tho
barrel, through no proof of it existed.
The commercial public of New Orleans
has been thrown into the utmost state of
excitement by the operations of a dashing
speculator by the name ol Vincent JNolte9
who was formerly an extensive merchant irt
that city and bore an honorable character.
He purchased within six days upwards ot
30,000 bales of cotton, representing all the
while that he was sustained by staunch
banking houses in England and NewYork
and that he possessed letters of credit, from
them, on which the Banks of New Orleans
would make the necessary advances to en
able him to fulfil his contracts. He went
on to load ship after ship, when the cotton
dealer, becoming alarmed at his failure td
meet his obligations, or to give satisfactory
information ot his letters of credit, refuse,d
to make any further deliveries of cotton
and took measures todetain the loaded sliipSi
Eight ships accordingly had their cargoes"
seized. The cotton purchased by him
was resold at a reduction of let. pcrpoUnd
The Great Cotton Speculator.-
We learn from the New Orleans Lduis
ianian, that the ships laden wirh cotton by
the gentleman who dipped so deeply into
the speculation, have been detained by
the Sheriff at the suit of the owners of thd
cotton. A meeting of the presidents and
directors of some of the Banks has beert
held at which it was partially arranged
that the cotton on shipboard should be al
lowed to go forward, and the remainder
returned to original sellers. The amount
which will be thus replaced in market iS
estimated at 15 to 20,000 bales. The cot
ton shipped, it is said, will sfford a large
profit and the difficulties are supposed to
have resulted from the Banks who induced
expectations of aid which the speculator
was unable to realize Boston Posti
Tht VicUhilrg Dueh -Two of tjid
Vicksburg editors, Dr. Hagan of tbe Sen
tinel and Maj. McArdle of the Whig met
on the Louisiana shore, opposite that place
on the morning of the 24th ult at 10 o'-
clock and exchanged shots without effect
in the presence of hundreds of spectators.
Hostilities were then suspended, but in
the afternoon thdy went over again at 4 o'
clock, and the editor of tbe VVfiig was
wounded in the thigh, but riotdangeroUsIy
Several bets wife rriade On the result ' both
in Vicksburg & New Orleans. A letter tb a
gentleman in the latter city says, thejr f8
beginning to fight here pretty fast now.
Three at this place yesterday, arid one at
Manchester. Thermometer 93 to 96. No
body killed yet. Bait. Post. " J
Pew Sale. The pws in the church of
the Messiah, (Unitaiian, Rev. Mr. Dewey
pastor) were sold this morning by auction
The amount of sales was about- $70,000;
the highest premium on a pew S250,' -making
with a valuation of 1000, the full
price S1250. The cost of the church was
596,000. It is on Broad Way, opposite
VVaverly Place. N. Y. Jour, of Com.1
frThe Lexineton, Miss., Union slates
that land which will not bring overl per
acre-cash, is selling on credit from 10 to 1$
uoiiar. "