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(B AUTHORITY.) LAWS OF THE UNITED STATF.S PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWEXTV SECOND CONGRESS.

quire, not to exceed ono for each military post; whose duty it shall be to receive and preserve the ordnance, arms, ammunition, rind other military stores, at the post under the direction of the commanding officer of the same, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and who shall receive for their services five

From the Cincinnati Gazette. THE CASE OF THE MISSIONARIES. The newspapers teem with speculations, suggestions and surmises, as to the probable consequences of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Missionaries. One alleges,

that the mandate to release them has been

Public No. 12. AN ACT explanatory of the act entitled "An net for the relief of the ofiicers and soldiers of the Virginia line snd Navy, and of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary war," approved thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of

America in Congress assembled, 1 hat the provisions of the act, entitled "An act for the relief ;of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line and Navy, and of the Continental Army, during the Revolutionary war," approved thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall not beconsirued to extend to any land Warrants heretofore issued, which have been located, surveyed, or patented, on the lands reserved and set apart for the satisfaction cf the Military Bounty Lands, due to the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Line upon Continental establishment, or for the satisfaction of the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army. Sr:c. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the third section of the act entitled, "An act to extend the time for locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, and returning surveys thereof to the land office," approved twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby continued in force for seven years, from and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and the proprietors of any location, survey, or patent, contemplated by the aforesaid

sections may avail themselves of the pro

visions of the said section m the cases therein enumerated. A. STEVENSON, Speaker cf the House of Representatives, J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate Approved, March 31, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON.

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ciuuctre per monm, m aumuon io meir pa v m bsued tQ Marshal) and supposes he will tlie line. . I refuse to execute it, or will resign. An-

rix j. Ana oc ujuriner cnacieu, a iui the first section of the act . passed on the eighth of February one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled "An act for the better regulation of the Ordnance Department," and so much of the second section of the act, entitled "An act to reduce and fix the military peace establishment of the United States," passed the second of

March, one thousand eight hundred and

twenty-one, as provides for one supernu

merary Captain to each regiment of artillery,

o perform ordnance duty, and so much ol he fourth section of the same act as merges

the Ordnance Department in the artillery, and reduces the number of enlisted men,

be, and the same are herebv, repealed:

Provided, That nothing contained in this

act shall be so construed as to divest the

President of the United States of authority

o select from the regiments of artillery such

number of Lieutenants as may be necessary

or the performance of the duties of the

Ordnance Department.

Sec. 4. And be itfurtner enacted, That

all officers and enlisted men authorized by

this act, shall be subject to the rules and

articles of war, and that the officers shall re

ceive the pay and emoluments now allowed

to, or which may hereafter be allowed Ar

tillery ofheers.

Approved, April 5, 1S32.

From the N. Yew Journal Commerce.

FPUBLTC No. 13.1

AN ACT to add a part of the Southern to

the Northern District of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the country lying within the limits of Alabama, and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, shall be added to, and constitute a part of the Northern Judicial District of Alabama, instead of the Southern District of said State, as now arranged. Approved, March 31, 1832

fPuRLic No. 16,1

AN ACT to authorize the J udges of the courts of the United States to take bail of the claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in vacation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in

any cause of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, or other case of seizure, depending in any court of the United States, any Judge of the said court, in vacation, shall have the

same power and authority to order any vessel, or canio, or other property, to be de

livered to "the claimants, upon bail or bond, under the statute, as the case may be, or to bo sold when necessary, as the said court

now has in term time, and to appoint appraisers, and exercise every other incidental power necessary to the complete execution of the authority herein granted; and the

said recognizance of bail or bond, under

such order, may be executed before the

clerk, upon the party s producing the cor

tificate of the collector of the district, of the sufficiency of the security offered; and the

same proceedings shall be had in case of

said order ot delivery, or ol sale, as are now

had in like cases when ordered in term time

Provided, That upon every such application, cither for an order of delivery or of sale, the collector and the attorney of the district

shall have reasonable notice in cases of the

United States, and the party of counsel in al

other cases. An roved, April 5th. 1S32. SI-

Public No 17.

AN ACT providing for the organization o

the Ordnance Department.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

ntatires of the United States

j America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, the Ordnance Department shall consist of one Colonel, one Lieutenant. Colonel, two Majors, and ten Captains, and as mmy enlisted men as the public service: may require, not exceeding two hundred and fifty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Tint Ihe Secretary of War be authorized to select from the Sergeants of the line of the Army, who shall have faithfully served eight years in the service, four years of which in the nr..de of lton-c oinmlrsioned officer, as many crdn a.ee Sergeants as the service may re

late AND IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.

We are indebted to a friend for the sub

joined extract of a letter, from which it will

be seen that a battle has been fought be

tween the contending parties in Mexico,

and Santa Anna defeated. Vera Cruz, March 7, 1882.

A heavy battle has been fought between

Santa Anna's party and the government troops about 7 leagues from t:3 city, in

which the former were completely routed

and lost many men, a large number being taken prisoners. The loss on the other side is no doubt very great, as they did not pursue the remains of Santa Anna's army, who

lied for V era Cruz. Santa returned to the city with a very slight wound. Wo have had no news from Mexico for a number of days. Many conjectures are afloat as to the cause. Some suppose that city has also revolted. The Ship Congress has arrived from New York in 18 days. Extract of another letter, dated Havana, March IS. Letters from Vera Cruiz inform me that Santa Anna, animated by his success on the 23d of February, made a second sortie at the head of 1000 men, and directed his

march towards the plains of Solome, where

io encountered the t roops of the government

under General Colderon on the 3d of March,

who was ready to receive him.

Santa Anna, impatient of delay, attacked

hem with impetuosity, and was received

with firmness by the government troops

No quarters were given on either side

The battle lasted from 10 in the morning to

4 P. M. when Santa Anna being defeated

was obliged to retire to Vera Cruz, where

le arrived with only two men. His loss is

computed at 300 killed including Colonel

Landorcs, and 000 prisoners, including 45

officers. On the 4th there arrived at Vera

Cruz 150 fugitives. The inhabitants were

waiting from hour to hour, for the arrival of

the Conqueror that they might open their gates and receive him. The 0th regiment has been put to the sword, and the 4th also has had a large part of it destroyed.

P. S. March I'd. it is rumored that Gen.

Santa Anna has been for three days off St. Antonia, in a brig which has at length disappeared. So you may perhaps expect him soon in the United States. His flight

is very proper, for he had no troops to de

fend him.

DECREE OF THE GOVERNMENT. The following decree was issued by the Federal Government on the 22d Feb. The Vice President of the Mexican States, in exercise of the supreme executive Dower, to the inhabitants of the Re

public. Re it known, that the General Congress has decreed the following. Art. 1. The Government will declare closed to foreign commerce, and to that of coasting vessels, every port of the Republic which is or shall hereafter be occupied by

rebellious troops, giving notice, in each

case, when any port has become subject to tliis order, and taking such measures as may be necessary for the information of Captains of vessels bound to it. 2. The embargo will continue so long as the occupation by rebellious troops shall continue; and when it has ceased, notice of the same will be given by the government. The second and third sections, in the present state of things, are not important. They relate to the collection of duties. Palace of the Federal Government,) Mexico, Feb. 22, 1832. ANTONIO UUSTAMKXTE.

other savs, that President Jackson has de

clared that the sentence of the law must be executed. A third asserts, that the President has declared he will not assist its execution, and talks about impeachment. A fourth hints, that the Supreme Court have indicated that if their judgment is set at nought, they will never meet again. All this is not only idle, it is mischievous. Very sensible men, who are not lawyers, may talk a great deal of nonsense upon legal subjects. When they do so, legal men should set them right. I am surprised this

has not been done, in the matter here refer

red to

The mandate issued by the Supreme

Court, in the' case of the Missionaries, is

not and cannot be directed to the Marshal. It is addressed to the Georgia Court, in which the sentence was rendered. It is

the common ordinary process issued, when

the Supreme Court reverses the judgment

of an inferior court. Exactly the same kind of process will issue, to the U. States

Circuit Court for Ohio, m the case of the

city ot Cincinnati and JL. iiite. It in

forms the Georgia Court that its judgment is reversed and annulled, and it directs that the prisoners be set at large. In common cases, the Georgia Court would recieve the mandate, cause it to be recorded, and comply with its directions. This is the

plain course of duty, in a Government of

laws. But the Georgia Court may refuse to pursue this course. The Court of Ap peals of Virginia once refused to pursue it,

and the proceedings that followed were these: The party interested, applied, at the next term of the Supreme Court, for redress : that Court entered into no conflicts with the Court of Appeals of Virginia. It issued profess directed to the Marshal of Virginia, to put the party in possession of the property adjudged to be his right, by the Supreme Court: the Marshal obeyed, and there the matter ended.

If the Georgia Court refuses to respect

the mandate, that refusal does not defeat

its validity and effect neither does it call for any action on the part of the President.

In fact, it makes no occasion for him to act. Several modes of seeking further redress

are open to the counsel for the missionaries.

One of them is, that pursued in the Virginia case. Let the matter rest until the next

Supreme Court, and then apply to that Court for the proper writ addressed to the Marshal of Georgia commanding him to set the prisoners at liberty. If he refuse to

obey this writ, then the next measure is to

nroceed against him bv attachment. In

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France, The following horrid occurrence, is said to have taken place in a lonely house at the Camp de Lune, arrondissement of St. Menehould. The account is extracted from the Echo de r Est; A person, of the department of the Marine, who had about him a sum of 800 francs was arrested, towards the close of the day, in a forest, by a fellow who demanded his purse or his life. "My purse is light," said he, "six francs is all it contains." "Give them," said the robber and pass on your way." The traveller was scarcely out of the woods, when, perceiving a light in the field?, and afraid of being attacked by other thieves, he thought it prudent to direct himself to a lonely house and ask for refuge. He there found a woman alone, to whom he related what had happened to him, not forgetting to add, that by his presence of mind, he had saved his 800 francs. The woman readily consented to give him a bed, and conducted him

movements in the opposite way of the planets that some had passed wiihin a third of the distance between the earth and the sun that their appearance is about 70 year3 apart and that that of 1456, 1531, iG07, and 1GS2, were re-appearances of the same comet, making its circuit of revolution round the sun once in 75 or 7G years. Dr. Halley was convinced that comets were regular &. permanent bodies, obeying the general law of matter, and calculated that tho comet would re-appear in 1757 cr 1758. He died in 1742, and in Dec .,"1758, the comet re-appeared. At the time this correct calculation was made, its perihelium distance and magnitude was also known. The distance between the earth and sun is calculated at .V,000,000 miles the mean distance of the comet is 1705,250,000 miles its least distance 55,000,000. Hence we see that comets belong to the solar system, and are not amenable to the attraction of any body not belonging to this system. This is the case with the comet of 1759, which has re-appeared four times, and is ex-

j pected the present year. The Encke com

et has made the most noise among astrono-

to a back-room. Her husband who, was ! mers since its appearance in ISIS. Pro-

no other than the thief of the forest,

came in soon after, & she told him what he already half knew. The worthy couple immediately laid a plan to assassinate their guest, which was fortunately overheard by the traveller, who armed himself with a heavy ttick, and resolutely awaited his murderers. The husband seizing a large kitchen knife, and the woman a hatchet, went straight to the stranger's room. The door was barricaded; they broke it open, a conflict ensued in the dark, in which the itranger by a blow with his stick, feiled the husband to the earth.

Thejwoman concluding that it was the traveller whom she heard fall, struck several blows with her hatchet on the head of her victim, and thus accomplished the death of her husband. Justice is inquiring into the circumstances ; but if these facts be exact, Divine justice

has already avenged society

lessor Encke was successful in showing that the comet of ISIS, would re-appear in 1S22, 1825, and 182S. If comets can have no influence on planets passing so much nearer to them tlian to the earth, we have no cause of alarm on this "mundane sphere.'1 What matter they are composed of we cannot know, hut there is nratter by seeing the nucleus through a telescope. If it is light or fire, it may be a collection drawn from the sun, concentrated in the nucleus, and drawn out as the tail expands thin, fibrous and vaprous, moving with "reat velocity at an immense distance from the earth, portending no harm to its inhabitants, and in fact not in itself necessary to the creation of a moment's uncasiness.

case of such refusal, it would, perhaps, be

the legal duty of the President to remove the Marshal and appoint one that would act ;

but his omitting to do so, could hardly be held an impeachable of fence. If the Marshal take upon himself to execute the process, and the officers of Georgia resist, it then becomes his duty to call for aid upon the citizens of the state, as state officers call for assistance when resisted, in the execution of legal process. If he cannot obtain this assistance, then it is his duty to represent the matter to the President ; and it is the President's duty to call out the military power of the Union, to enforce the execution of its laws. There is another mode of proceeding

which may bring the contest to this crisis in less time. The reversal of the Georgia judgment totally takes away its validity. It is of no more" effect than if it had never been rendered. The missionaries are illegally confined, as if no accusation had ever been preferred against them or sentence passed upon them. Their counsel may therefore apply to the U. States District Judge of Georgia, or to the U. States Circuit Judge for that district, for a writ of habeas corpus. This writ must be granted,

and those judges being concluded and bound by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the U. States must, and no doubt would, order the prisoners to be discharged. Process to insure their discharge would be issued to the Marshal, and then the same predicaments occur as already stated. But until the state officers of Georgia refuse

to respect the decisions, until a Marshal has refused to act, or until he is resisted in acting, and unable to command assistance to enTorcc obedience, the President has nothin to do. It becomes him to remain siIent"until called upon to express his opinions and intentions, and it is most likely he has pursued this course. Militia.- A bill has been reported in Congress for organizing the Militia of the United States. It provides that the enrolled militiashall consistof free white male citizens between the ages of 21 and 30; to be armed and equipped by the government; allows young men of 18 to form voluntary corps with consent of parents, and after 9 years service, will be entitled to a discharge in in the same manner as if they had attained the age of 30.

From the X. Y. Courier Enquirer. The expected comet in June next, has produced considerable sens ition fiom the fact that some German astronomers have prognosticated that its approach will be so near to the earth, and its well known velocity so great, as to produce an awful shock,

if not utterly to destroy the great globe itself and all that inhabit it. The celebrity which German philosophers have acquired as skilful mathematicians, profound astronomers, and acute observers of the heavenly bodies, has tended to create great alarm among the weak, and some apprehension even in persons of stronger minds. The idea that the world is to be destroyed by fire that the great deluge was produced

by a comet together with signs, prognostics, and calculations with prophesying

divination, war and pestilence, earthquakes and famine all lead to some foreboding or fearful apprehensions. For our part, we can indulge in no such feeling, nor can we see any more cause of alarm than that to which we are daily subjected by all "the ills that-flesh is heir to." The Mussulmen (or Infidels, as they are called by many) say on all occasions, "God is great." So we say; and all his works are governed by fixed laws, and subjected to no sudden or capricious revolution. Those who have faith need not be alarmed those who are fit to live, and whose works are those of truth and

charitv, should say with the Mussulmen,; 7 at ' I

uGod is great," and not bo afraid ot what is to come. From the earliest and darkest periods of history, eclipses of the sun and comets have created alarm and forebodings among all

classes of the superstitious and ingnorant,

From Liberia, The ship James Perkins, vhich sailed from Norfolk on the 8th December last, with emigrants for the American colony at Monrovia, returned to that port on the 29th ultimo, via Isle of May. Three died during the voyage, an elderly and weakly woman and two children. The balance of the colonists, after recovering from the sea sickness produced by the usual roughness of the weather, continued in fine heath. Their conduct throughout the voyage was of the most orderly and becoming character. The Captain, says the Beacon, represents the colony as enjoying excellent health, and exhibiting the pleasing spectacle of an industrious, contented and thriving population, and that in the 12 days of his stay there, he did not hear from any one a desire to return. Good order, the fruit of good government, wai every where manifest, and the military were a numerous and fine looking bodv of men. The commerce of this - i ... prosperous co.onv wa in au improving

and nourishing condition. A". C. Star,

A Yorxc Hero. The following extraordinary circumstances occurred about a fortnisht ago, in the family of Mr. Eagle, a respectable farmer living at the junction of Frenchtown and Red Lion roads, about eight miles from this city. Mr. Eagle and his wife had gone from home to spend the niht, leaving in the house his son, of about 2 years of ?ge, a nephew of tire same age, a daughter of about S years cf age, and a negro boy and girl: the loy about 20 years of age. In the evening, when the children were about retiring for the night, the black boy came into the room and manifested the most brutal intentions towards the liule girl; took i:n a loaded musket which was in the

room, and threatened the boys with instant

who, unable to account for their existence, d th if tl0V interfered. The boys, who

have naturally conceived the phenomena to

be precursor of destruction and evils to the human race, and felt that alarm which even at this day partially exists. But comets have appeared and disappeared eclipses have occurred tempesis and hurricanes have carried desolation in their tract pestilence has walked at noon day, yet the world still exists, the laws of nature continue fixed and unalterable, and matter and space remain the same since the token of peace appeared in the Heavens. The urwearied sun from day to day 'Doth his Creator's power display ; 'And all tLe planets, as tuty n l, Doth spiead nis tiuth fn in pole to pole." The existence of comets have long been a subject of speculation among philosophers and astronomers. What they are, and for what purposes they exist, continue unknown. Brahie, the great Danish mathematician, discovered, by acute observation and correct calculation, that the comet of 155? was at a greater thstancefrom the earth than the moon, consequev-ty could answer no eartldy purpose, and was too remote to create apprehension. Newton, Dr. Halley. and the French and German philosophers made many interesting experiments and calculations on the comets, from wlueh it was inferred that the orbits of comets were like those of planets, eclipses, having the sun in one focus that some have retroMde

both displayed remarkable presence of mind and intrepidity throughout the whole affair, contrived to secure the musket, and forced the young ruffian from the room. After se-

! curim; the door, the boys retired to their

bed, and the little girl to hers, in the same room. They had been but a short time in bed, when the negro returned to the door, and with violent threats and imprecations began to firce it with a heavy instrument, with which he broke through the pannel,and was making his way into the room, when veung Eagle, who had the musket along side of his bc-d, and wr.s coolly watching the operation, took deliberate aim at the villain, and shol hm through the breast, of which wound he died in a few hours. A Coroner's inquest was held upon the body, and foimd the facts as we hive related them. Del. Jour.

Cigar Smoking hs3 of late years become very fashionable in London, ss well as in many other parts of the Empire. John Bull is not so very knowing as to the quality rnd flavour of the leaf, as well as we are at least it would seem so, for it is stated as a well authenticated fact, that the greater a fid more common part of the cigars vended in the kingdom, and sold at form to U the hundred, are pre part d from the cabbage leaf soaked in a strcr.g scluticn of tobatco vi.ter.

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