Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-11-08

Union publishes the following decision Of
the Attorney General upon important points
connected with the Ordinance '86 and the
Missouri Compromise
l. 1t has been sdjudged by long series
Of decisions Of the Supreme Cour. that the
United States never held any municipal SOW
ereignty, jurisdiction, or RICH. of soil in the
territory Of which any Of the new States are
formed, except for temporary purposes,
namely 10 execute the trusts created by
deeds Of session Of Virginia, Massac huse,ts,
Georgia and other States in the original COM
mon territory of the Union, or by treaties
with Frsnce, Spain, and the Mexican repub-
lie, in the territories of Louisiana, the Flori-
dss, New Mexico, and California.
2. ]. has been adjuged by the same series
ct decisions that The provisions Of the ordi-
nance for The organization Of the North
west Territory were ex,inguished by the
constitution; or if any Of them retain con-
tnning validity, j. is only so far as they
may have authority derived from some 9TH
er source, either the compac.s Of cession or
acts Of Congress under The constitution.
3. This doctrine has been applied in lead
ing cases 10 questions touching The property
IN public lands, the relation of master and
slave, religion and navigable waters, and the
eminen. domain, and may be taken as the
established leading truth.
4. In obedience 10 the same principle,
and proceeding in the same line of sdjudca-
lions, it must have been held if the question
had come up for legal determination, that
The provision of the &C, Of March 6, 1920,
which undertakes to determine in advance
q perpetual rule of municipal law for all .ha.
portion Of the province Of louisiana which
lies north of the parallel OF SO deg. 80 min.
north latitude, was null and void ad incepto,
because incompatible with the organic fact
of equality of internal right, in all respects,
between the old and the new States.
FRENCH FAsHInNs.-KendalI, Of the New
Orleans Picsyune, wiring from Paris, Of the
fashions, says with a sor. Of French freedom
Of STYLE:
Fashion seems 10 be leading its female
vo,sries more exiravagant dance than ever
here in France; 10 what extent they will
eventually carry out their inflated petIcosts
is m"re than can say, bu, presume they
will GO on increasing in volume so long as
The wearers can find room TO expand. You
mus, recolec, the story Of the precious lii
lie fellow who told his mother that he had
Sc, The old hen turkey. "Hnw many eggs
did you put under her p qua'ied his snx
ions maternal parent. "Eleven dozen !"-
Wha. upon earth did YOU pu, so many for,
SONNY ?" "Becsuse I ius, ns,urslIy wanted
to see her spread hersslft retnined the
smart youth. So Of the new fashion, each
lady seems de-irous Of spreading berseH. or
TO see if she csRnn, oaispresd her neg hbor.
until each one Of The 'fuH blown fa>hiona
bles takes up slmo s, as mach room or shades
as much ground, as load Of hay.
Omnibuses and common carriages are
terribly irving on thus new and highislu'in
s'vle offemiHIne baIloonerv, snd The narrow
in some Of the theatres would
block them out altogether. 70 stow .
quart Of milk into pin, cup has bee" con-
sIdered BY RaHy matter Of some Difficult.
ty, and by Others an imposslbiii,y i, looks
at frs. sight, jus. as Difficult for some Of the
women one sees nowadays to crowd or
squeeze themselves into places not one
eighth their apparent size. Ye, they con-
rive i. in some wav. A few nights since
saw lady, whose amplitude was so great
tia. you would almos. swear she would
stick fas, in barn door, sqnirm and twist
herself through a passage, along which q
child Of six wears would hardly find elbow
room ,hey flallen down, when j, comes to
a pinch there's nothing of them when you
&c. down or through TO the real flesh and
blood VS. ell >hsm--s counterfeit"
SINGULAR TEsTlMoNY.-ln q recen,
breach of promise case tried at Springfield
Mass, in which a man by the name OF
Dwight was the defendant, The mother oil
The plaintiff gave the following very salts
factory testimony:
GA, one time Dwight saw Eunice mop.
ping the floor. He asked her to come to
the door and see a big hawk there was there
She went on, and in a moment ! follow
to see the hawk too. / did not see ans
hawk, but I did see DwigM acih his arm a
round Eunice's waisl. saw hin kiss her
end tell her he didn't wan. her 10 mop floors
She said she could do il better than moth.
err"
This evidence was considered so conclu.
sive tina. the jury gave the fair plain'ia
twenty five hundred dollars damages. He,
however, is so unreasonable that he has ap
pealed to The Supreme Court, on The ground
tina. he "knows a hawk from handsaw,''
and girl's waist from a mop.stick.
A. F. Leonard, editor Of the Norfolk .Ar-
gus, being nominated by "Many Voters" as
q suitable person 10 represent that city in
the Legislature, declines the intended honor
because ''he wants to get TO heacen"