The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-09-13

present branch of the Executive, not o.
the judicial power. Their duty is not &c
interpret laws, but TO obey orders.
There can, therefore, DE no doubt tina
Lieut.. Touen, in ordering the men Or
Round Island to disperse, and in cutting
off their supplies, has committed seriou:
violation of law, and trespass upon the
rights of citizens, for which he is amena
BILE to the courts of Mississippi. If he
attempts to execute either threat-if, by
force or menaces, he disperses the assem-
blage, or consummates his audacious threat
of stopping the free passage of vessels to
and from Round Island, we trust that there
is vigor enough in the law, and 6rmness
enough in the magistracy of Mississippi
to resent and punish such an invasion OF
State sovereignty. A constable's warrant,
for trespass and breach of the peace, would
be the most appropriate response TO such
an outrage.
If the men on Round Island are there
in contravention of the law, are there not
courts of justice in the vicinity, which can
pursue and punish them! Is there not a
, United States District Court, District At
torneys, Magistrates, United States Com
missioners, and other competent judicial
officers, who, without threats or menaces,
without the insulting display of Paixhan
guns and boarding pixies, but by the SIM
pie magic of that little potent instrument,
a magistrates writ, can arrest the law ess
purpose, detain the wrong doers, secure
the ends of justice, and preserve the digni-
ty of the State?
The Round Island expedition may, for
all we know, be very insignificant body
of men; but this is no justification for an
invasion of their rights, and gross inter-
ference, on the part of the military, with
the civil power. What we say, therefore,
proceeds from no sympathy with the
Round Islanders, of whose intents we are
profoundly ignorant, but from deep hos
Utility to every form of oppression, and
every interference with the rights of citi-
zens and the supremacy Of the civil pow
er.
The New York Courier, of yesterday,
says:
We stated yesterday, that the Sea Gall
had gone to sea, no evidence having been
discovered sufficient to warrant her deten-
ton. Private information from Washing
ton leads us to believe that facts in regard
have not transpired here. We were as
sured that orders had been given for her
detention, by letter from the Department
in that city-but by whom they were re-
ceived we are not aware. The Sea Gull,
1t seems, has been lying at quarantine
since Saturday last. Yesterday afternoon
the steamer Duncan G. Pitt, with the
Marshal and company of U. S. marines
from the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, went down
seized her and towed her to the Navy
Yard, where she now lies under the guns
of the North Carolina.
meeting of four five hundred per-
sons-mostly young men and many mere
lads-was held last evening at Lafayette
Hall. 1t was private, none being allowed
to enter "whose names were not on the
roll" 1t seemed to be understood, how
ever, that the persons enrolled were en-
listed in the Cuban expedition. We were
told, also, that the company was full, that
no more would be received, and that those
enlisted would leave this city within few
days.