Press enter after choosing selection

The County Court

The County Court image
Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

OurCount) Court has commenced its operntions under very favorable auspices, ■and we should not be surprised if under judicious management the county court gyslem should meet with genera] approval. The expenso to the county is a mere nothing, the litigants paying the costs of litigntion almost wholly, while by it the long delays whieh hiiïe so generally attcndei] the circuit court pystem are avoided, and justice more cheaply and spredily administeied. Some eight or ten cafes are either now pending or have been decided at this Máy Term, while several others were disposed of at the April Term : and on the whole our cltizens promise soon to become familiar with the now sy stern, nnd appenr disposed to give it a fair trial. - S. Joseph Adverliser. QyDr. Delaney, editor of the Mystery, the organ of the colored people in Pittsburg, was convicted a few weeks since of libel, for saying in his paper that a certain colored man in Allegheny City, nánied ;' Fiddler Johnson," was engaged in the business of captiiring fugitivo slaves. For this grievous offense the Court sentenced him to p'ay a fino of $150. This looks severe, but is, in fact the highest possible testimony to the progress of public opinión. A Cew years ago njen in that city considered it no disgrace to be known as slave-catchers ; that fact woked no detriment to their roputa! ion. Bu: now a man suffers so much ir. reputation, from merely being charged with such a thing, that couris deern it necessary to inflict heavy penalties, as a fit punishmeut fur a grave ofence. - Wush Patriot. C?0 A lale writer wishes to know what more precious offering can be laid upon aman's heart thanthe first loveofa pure, earnest and affeotionate girl, with an undivided interest in eiglit corner lots, and fourtecn three story houses ? We give it up. We know of nothing half so touching, or in other words, anything, that most people would sooner "touch." 05 At the expiration of Mr. Polk's Term, :ho Presidcncy will have been filled by slaveholdras, a class comprisiug one seventeenth part of the people,-foi almost forly eight out of sixty years ! - Yet the VVhigs are fierce forelecting one more froiti the same compnny. tt?The Taylor meeting held at Cincinati some weeks since is represented to have been a completo fa'lure. When the resolutions were oiïered, not n speaker could be foutid to respond to ihem. rominent polilicians were afraid of committing themselves. CTThe Monroo Gazette, which was commenced two or three years ago as a W hig paper, has been discontinued. For some months past it hns been changed in politics, and haileilas a Democratie pare r. dL"Fory six million and ninc hundred and seven thousand dollars, occording to the official statement of the Clerkof the House of Representatives, were appropiiated by this most Christian nntion, at the last session of Congress, for the purposes of war, the greater part to be exiended in destroying and laying waste ie territories of a sister republic. Gough recently defined mo'ustaclies to e the upper lip in mourning for the loss f brains.

Article

Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News