Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-12
cd States, and which the United States have or


may acquire by cessions as well jurisdiction
as Of soil, solar as the soil is iflc property Of
the parties maidng the ceSsiou. Congress has
the power to gslate With TO the Terri
tories until they shall apply for admission into
the Union as States The laws must be stneed
fnl, and arel left to alive discretion. There
two classes of acts aud in Gig ht distinct i'm
stances, beginning with the first Congress and
coming down to 1913, Congress has excluded
slavery from the Territories; and there arc six
distinct instances in which Congress has prgan=
lied gOyernments for Territories and recognized
slavery, and continued it therein; also begia-
ming with the first Congress aud coming down
to 1922. These acts were signed BY seven Pre-
sidents, coming regularly down4fr0m Washing.
ton to. John Quincy Adams, thus including all
those who werein public lilss when the Consti-
FtntIon was adopted. This should have much
weight on the question OF .cnnStFuctiOnSI aud it
would be difficult to resist the force Of the acts
to which reference was made. His opinion WIS
the decision of the Circuit Court for Missouri
should be reversed, and the cause remanded for
a new trial.
MeSsrs Wayne, Daniel, Gricr and Campbell
views on particular points, but they were not
read. e5sTfsf
The Court adjourned to the day fxedby law.
NEWS ITEMS.
AsES4Tu MULLEN, an insane woman of about
so years, died at the Boston Hospital, recently,
of osSfcation Of the arteries.
Az Exchange says All that man has to
do in these days to pass for a genius, is to but
ton his coat behind, and wear his hat; wrong
side out Ifhe can upset an apple stand two or
three times, it will help the matter vastly.
THs Louisville. Eourasr2 remarks: .'NIr. Choate
+ is a scholar, and arich ifnot ripe one, but
his scholarship is the mere slave of his wild and
'sIS7s''s fA',sy ne IS TOO much ola rhetorician
to be anything of a critic We doubtifa an inn
partial thought ever entered his head We are
sure that one never came out ofit,'
.'DRATH by starvation is alsnggcstiye theme
for political economists, and the problem was
presented to them last week in, New York, by
the rendition orsuch'a verdict in the case of. a
poor intirm man, who, after subsisting for a
time on the miserable pittance which his, wife
was enabled to. earn, succumbcl to the pangs
of want; and that, too, within stones throw Of
the great centre of wealth aud fashionl
Al late meeting of the Scottish Curative
Mesmeris Association, held at EdinLurg, Mr. A,
Ellis announced to the audience that, il they
wished to avoid slepless nights, they should lie
with their heads to thewest.
TnE Sydney (Anstralia) Morning Herald states
that nugget of gold was recently found ut
Louisa Greek, the value of which is estimatd
ut 100000. tits said to be the largest ever found
and weight five cwts.
Tue sale oflands, belonging TO the Delaware
Indians in Kansas took place at Fort Lcyen-
worth on the l 1th of February, under the dir
cotton of the Hon. Norman Eddy, the Govern
tneut agent. There was no excitement, and
there seems to be much satisfaction felt that all
difficulties in regard to titles will be-removed
The Levanworth Herald anticipates rapid
growth of the town hcnceforHard, and that the
population and business will be doubled in the
#nextyear.