Southern telegraph., 1838-08-29
THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN i.

THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
Some ladies' have distinguished them
selves by declaring against the oppression
Of women,-which they say exist in oul
Christian land. They say women are
kept in condition ofinferiority to men, and
that Of right they ought to be equal. We
have been thinking the matter over, and
have come to the conclusion that the wrong
is quite the other way; and rights ought to
be divided half and half, and should be for a
new division. Not on the ground upon
which Miss Gri;nke goes, that men are not
women, or permitted to engage in women's
occupations, but because, when the simple
question Of superiority is at issue, the men
always have to give it up? If ladies' and
gentlemen meet on the side walk, who has
to turn outf If there are not seats for all
the company, who has to stand upa When
danger is to face, who has to 60 forward? II
there is curiosity TO crafty, who goes be-
hind? Ii there is too much company for the
first table, who eats at the secondi Who
has always the right hand, and the most re-
spectacle position2 We could mention a
hundred other cases, in which on the simple
questions of right, every thing is conceded
to the women But there are cases in which
the condition of men is still worse. For in
stance, if on any public occasion, pew at
church, or seat any where, be occupied by
men ever so respectable and aged, a smirk-
ing little beauty trips along, and presents it.
self at the top of the seat, and they must all
jump up and clear out as if they were shot.
Especially ought il TO be noticed, that when
matrimonial engagements are to be made,
the whole burden performing the delicate
and often embarrassing part of making pro-
posals, is thrown upon men, while women
sit and say "no! no! mol" as long as they
like, and never say yes, until they have a
mind to. Miss Angelina Grimke Weld, may
show catalogue of equal grievances ifshe
can.-N. Y. Jour. Of Com.
AN ACT to re-orgdnize the District Courts
ofhe United States in the State Of Mis-
sissippi.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o.
Representatives of the United States of A
merica in Congress assembled, That the
State of Mississippi shall be, and the same
is hereby divided into two districts, in the
following manner, to wit: The counties Of
Noxubee, Winston, Attala, Carroll, Bolivar,
Coahoma, Tonica, De Soto, Marshall, Tip
pah, Tishemingo, Itawamba, Monroe,
Lowndes, Oaktibbeha, Choctaw, Yalabusha,
TalIahatchie, Panola, Lafayette, Pontotoc,
and Chickasaw, in said State, shall compose
one district, to be called the Northern dis
trict, at the town Of Pontotoc, and the resi-
due of the said State, shall hereafter COM
pose the Southern district of Mississippi, and
court shall be held for the same, as here
tofore at the city of Jackson.
SEQ. 2. And be it further enacted, That
there shall be two terms ofthe district court,
Tor the Northern district, held at Pontotoc,
in each year, TO begin on the first Monday
ofJune and December, and the district Judge
of the United States, for the State ofMissis-
sippi is hereby required to hold the courts
aforesaid.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
all causes at law or in chancery, and all in-
dictments pending in the district court al
Jackson, in which the defendant or defend
ants resided in the Northern district thereby
establlshed) at the time ofserving process or
the finding ola bill of Indictment, shall be
transferred for trial to the district court for
the said Northern district, and be proceed
ed 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 clerk of the dis
trct court at Jackson, safely to transmit to
the clerk of the district court at Pontotoc,
the original papers in all cases andprosecu-
tions hereby ordered to be transferred, to-
gether with transcript of all orders or 9TH
proceedings had therein.
SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That
all suits hereafter to be brought in either of
said courts not of local nature, shall be
brought in the court of the district where
the defendant resides; but if there be more
than one defendant, and they reside in diff
ferenl districts, the plaintiff may sue in eth
er, and send duplicate writ against the
defendant, directed TO the marshal of the 9th
er district, on which the plaintiff or his attor-
ney shall endorse that the writ thus sent is
copy of writ sued out of the district court
of the proper district; and the said writs,
when executed and returned into the office
from which they issued, shall constitute one
suit, and be proceeded in accordingly.
SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That
the Judge of the said courts shall appoint a
clerk ofthe district of the Northern district,
who shall reside and keep his office, and the
records and documents appertaining there
to, at the place Of holding said courts said
clerk shall be entitled to the same fees al
lowed by law to the clerk of the other dis
trict Of the State Of Mississippi, perform the
like duties, and be subject to the same liza
biities a1d penalties.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That
a marshal and district attorney shall be APP
pointed i'm the Northern district Of the Stale