New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-01
THE COURTS IN SEPTEMBER.


Nsoatio1 il up IN some Of the Courts bu. no. al
or the pas. two mouths but little hss been doing n
any quarter It by way Of raiuraIing the hongs
OF Ei'h and Germans v 20 were after their papers
few habess corpus cases ami few IL functions on
The city authorities have diversified the mong )ny.
which has been otherwise unbIoken since the slave
trail.
The General Term OF the Superior Court opens to-.
day, when some decisions will probably be delivered.
1t Is to be held BY Judges Roosevelt Clerke aud Da-
vies, the same parties who. Will be remembered
sal on the bench together with Mr. Peabody il Feb
rusry and March last, during the troublou- days Of
the disputed Judgeship We trust they viii be more
harnoiious tbs month than they were then.
The calendar comprises about 200 cases; the note
Of issue Of the frat dates in 1913. Among these We
ob-eIve the Lennon slave case, which comes up on
appe al from the decision Of justice Paine dis charging
tie eight slaves, whom jonathan Lennon claimed &
right TO take with HIN an r0nslts through the State
Subsequently subscription was raised to remunera,e
bin for lis .oss aud extipguish whatever dormant
rights of property he might have that the question
between the parties has become abstract one into
which State piide enters as a large element. The
Legislature OF Virginia instructed the Attorney
hersl Of that State prosecute the appeal on BE-
Hf of the claimant; and the Legislature of NJ =
York, in their turn selected Messrs. Ogden Hoffman
ard James Blunt TO assist Mr.. Culver, the present
City Judge OF Brooklyn in the conduct Of the suit.
Though the case stands high the Calendar it
unlikely that it VIII be brought this te IN, a. the
Legislature have failed to appoint substitute fjr Mr..
Hoffman. Indeed, 1t is rumOred that the term will
fall through altc gether for the present.
The Circuit regularly begins on Tuesday week,
Judge Whiting presiding but il is said that it will
probably 20 over to October when all the other
COurts get TO work.
Judge Nelson, Of the Supreme Court, is to hold the
United States Cucuit. During the month OF Septem-
Der, no Jury causes will be tried but the Court will
be occupied with appealed cases, mostly Admiralty.
In or two, however interesting mercantile ques-
tons are involved. Col. Soos case may be called on
as ii probably viii be, at intervals sor some yeau -
come.
Judge Bets will open the District Court at once,
bot the calendar viii not be peremptonly called till
next Monday. The civil calendar is not very heavy.
In several the Government proceed aga;nst
sells to enforce their forfeiture urder the laws
but the bulk of it business will be of ordinary sd
miIalty character Its criminal calendar is long, and
will give the Grand Jury which is summoned for the
second Tuesday Of the mouth, some labor.
The four persons concerning whom the greatest
public interest exists are however, already in
dicted. They BaSilo de Cunha, Refs, charged
with fitting out the schooner Atya to be engaged in
the slave trade and Henrico da Costa and Pa ,do de
Castro, both seriously implicated in the Braman
affair of whose supposed confederates has been
convicted ard sentenced TO two years imprisonment.
The trial Of Capt. Boggs of the steamship Illinois,
indicted for carrying an excess of passengers n viola
ton Of the act Of 1855 is set down for this term. 1t
is palpabe that the offonse charged is not new
thing; but the complaint in this instance grew out of
the character of the passengers taken on board some
Of whom were sent out by or through fear Of the N
lance Committee Of San Francisco
The Surrogate holds Court, as usual, this month.
The Parrish Will will not be continued till toward
the close of the month. The testimony already taken
has been bound up in very substantial printed vol
ume of about 500 pages, 500 folios
The Marine Court theoretically has no vacation, but
will begin to be somewhat more active than it has
hecn