True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1838-12-07

The dispn'e between Judge Lawrence, and Mr..
ColIens, tho deputy clock of the Circuit court has !
taken quite another turn. On re-hearing OF the |
matter before his honor yesterday. Mr.. Collens
was again called upon to surrender up the papers
OF the Court, in answer to which he entered the
startling plea that he had resigned his office, and
was therefore no longer the legal keeper of the
required documents: that MIR. Hennen the clerk,
having several other deputies, into the hands Of
them he had surrendered the records. His letter
OF resignation bears date the LIST December and
therefore it could be made TO appear that be was
no longer in Office: could he be incarcerated
aga'n for having refused them while in legal pos
session, since the constitution plainly forbids
man being punished twice for one offence. The
present custodian of the papers may be subject to
the Judges committal for still Withholding them,
but as it is quite clenr that coercive assures
will bring them forward while the subject is still
pending before the Supreme Court, in our hum BILE
opinion he would better consult the dignity Of hi,
office by waiting the issue in the Courts above
The present deputy is better prepared for the
honors OF martyrdom than Mr.. Co!lens, as he has
not those interesting adjuncs, wife and family
to be ruined by HIS imprisonme nt whether legal
or not.
W TREASURY HuMBUG Benton, Esq, has been
re"elected senator from Missouri for another six
years, from the 4th March next.
The french blockadng force seems 10 be re-
moved from before the barbour of Tampico, with
q view, should suppose, of c, ncen.ra,ny for
| Off
ings have been received of blow being struck
On the 18Th u!t two mexican schooners left Tam.
pico, and reached Campeachy without hindrance
from the French One Of their briggs of war, tn 0
Sylphyde, had arrived at Havana from Sacrifcios
She lett the latter place on the Goth at which time
nothing had been done. The ruling party in
Mexico seem TO have suppressed tho late insur-
rectionary movements. They have reaken the
| fort which commands Tampiso bar, and it was
thought tina, all the revolted troops had returned
to the side of the present government.
| hoary headed centenatlan was tried at Mobile
| for murder the LIST inst. His name was Ben
Jnmin Alexander, aged nearly O0:-The prncl-
pal witness was his own daughter, his victim her
son. 1t being proved that the act was caused by
|
liquor. the Judge sentepced him to nominal
punishment OF 90 DAYS imprisonment.
The english universities of Clmbrd &c and Ok
ford nre among the earliest established IN En-
| rope and are yet more extensive than any now
known. There are bu, four more antique thnn the
former, and but six that date their origin pror to
the latter. Both were regularly established in the
reign Of Henry the third Of England that of Cam
bridge in 1923, and that of Oxford in 1903 aIthou Oh
The first, which was an early Roman station called
Granta, is sid by many Of the old writers o have
been founded as early $50, aud consists of no
less han 10 colleges. The government is admin
is'ered by Chancellor who is nobeman; a high
steward chosen by the Senate:a vice chancellor,
who is usually the head of some college, or hall
two Proc'ors moderntors, &c. &c. Three years
study are requisite for taking the degree of bachc-
Tor OF arts and four years more for thu of m aser
In divinity, student may commence yeara after
receiving the degree of B. A: in law wears at,er
in physic five years after The university of Be-.
ogna is The oldest, dating from Il68 In the thir-
rcenth century there were but ten established in
Europe, and they founded in t he fol !owino or
der. Paris in 1900: Naples 1924; Pndua 1928;
Cambridge 1929; Toulouse 1888; Oxford 1861.
4 C"mhra 1870 Montpelier 1889; and Rome (sa.
piensa) 1895.
| Booth took his benefit ut Louis vile on the 3Oi
ult, so VIC may expect him here before any great
length o. time has elapsed. He finished ,h,,s
with King John, to the L,dy Constance of Miss
Clifton, aud the Falconhrdpe of Mr. G.. Mason
strdnge! u teru.-trum Il st ~ ia the Mob la Jour
nell Would appear that a spring of oil dubbed IN
through the waters OF the Tombgby river, which has
spread over the entire surface # long way down, and
bur's all over IL with lih equal TO that given out by
sperm oil. The n', it is said is lu " six in, hes
high: we only wonder it is not called six feet This
mineral whale was tapped by Mr.. J. NJ Cooper after
boring 80 feet on McGraw's shoals. The English
peopl, tk occasionally OF setting their Thames on
fire. but it appears by this that Alabama neighbors
"do 1t. "
| DELAWARE LEGlsLAruRE.-The latest account of
the comparative political strength of parties in the Two
Houses OF the Legislature of Delaware, stands thus:
Sente,
House, IA
Wing majority on joint ballot EIGHT. This will &C
cure The re elee ton of the present Wing Senator from
hat state MIR. Baya,d
Jncksons last.--in commenting the splenetic and
undgnlhed latter which Gen. Jackson in reply to
the invite to Join in the Polk Barbecue the Courier
and Enquirer gives the following summary of the evils
the present administration has wrought lin .he land
It's tit reply to the esy perversion of truth which
the old man has INDUCED in charging the wing party
with federalism, and producing the present crisis
The attempt to transfer the responsibility of the
present crl's Is most amusing Who have controlled
large majority of our State Legislatures Who have
controlled the act as of CongrrsS The wretchpd and
proigate cahal who the soul of Gen. Jacksons
administration. They have had every thing their own
way. II is to them that indebted for our nre. |