rutuastucuipv A 11.3F1111!1E-t..-*'' PITTSBURGH: '''', I3 " ) 4I I I I PRPITO ? nrIKA..64 - 110161 *.AgYetramilloltawr Ur /editorial Roos Istaili•olliailikimit of tb• Daft l.l••sets,•r• opmod • slianAss. •srarassimeholl•dr• timir antler to wow latikalmire m Mo•Asy maga& via plrrlund Mon la WYE lie clod. on fiacirdaz. Atiiimes Pirunts.-.—Ttereafter no.unb• :subbitise irM b tabs lbw the Dolly as *Way a wtt . babas pirrat b . mao la banner., ur kb, to Tkimb the f*Ertptian is bald, the taper sin be 6~100 storied =dm robertotion b amme by *tubs Sanwa. An 12.# 2 0, sh.tha zu ,. ibmionno. win bo nitutr‘i a, D. bbd lb 1.41 mob The boiy asseptioes sin b .le nodal mouth L T . met, folatinetir Ire rdr," torattiv 1111411081•Rpok Weekly Goe•••;,ft• ktte•on ornisom grow mat, amok casts to ear badness nun • mot dadesbis mottos" of making thole . oom, k•mr. Omi devalstkats botlmalbur and fire thois•••, +whirl! wise•bsat; resanbeturar and Ishopt.•••r a rusamanabh aaa sin MSc r wr!I T T!! !!""P i Ri")II,IMiriMI , .. • • Tun CUM 01 PANIXOI.II WILLI/WOL—The - • telegraph Anne time since gate ns 1 an account ,-, of i ass in' phthilelphis in which three slaves weriliterMod, Partfaj through the bat:rumen tallty of Pammore lelthameon,.an agent of the . Antlplamuy Society, and of .the consequent legal Proomulthlts.. had thereon.. The whole story is briefly this: Mr. Wheethr,•on his way to New York to embark for 'Nicaragua, arrived lately in Philadelphia with a 'slam mother ind two thildran. When the boat ciaLb alongside the wharf at Philadelphia, Mr. Williamson called to the slim mother and asked her if she knew that she was entitled to her thethros ; . and , in. ',Medlar ashore with her children: -At lint she • seemed scarcely able to appreciate the truth - pro:dal:nod tis• her, and hesitated tr; iron her. . , self of her right ter " liberty.' Ella" it length, , 'however, gm hold of the idea; '.lhnt by being Mewed t ollmtarily : into al free 'Stite by her Manter, shi .was entitled to her liberty uncon 41110=40nd Professed her anxiety to mail hermit of her precious right. Her toaster here • intespeamed, and milked the woman if she - was willing to be separated from her children in Vir ginia: Her idguilicant reply tras---..N0, Nosed ; Art . 1 10Mb 10 14 ftwit" The 'woman and her. • children were then taken on More—colored men willissz i l teing the principal mange the . work under the direction of Mr. • n—and driven off. On the day following Mr. eeler applied to Judge Sine, of the 17. S. C4t, fora writ of Adidas corpus, directed to Mr.leilliizoson, cam niandMg him to produce before him the bodies of the three- dame. Mr:lllthamson made re turn to thinwrit that the slams 'therein named were not in his pose ndon; had. never been- so, "and 'that he was ignorant of their whereabouts. The Court thereupon held the matter under ad. Mennen; pending a motion made by the Dis trict Afton* to commit. Mr. Williamson for contempt in making afalso return. On Friday morning last Jody Nene rendered his decision, which was jut each an one as , every cap had , reason to expect who waist all aware of his an thoodente. He -is the most thoroughly pro . slavery man at present on the bench,- either North or • South, and embodies, besides, 'more folly than any other, that character which 0 patellar to Northern men; • and which consists lama anxiety to yield ammission to every (tenth eru demand. • ! After ractspitulatbsg the hats in the case, in - his own way, and filing thereby to make out a isthatential accusation against Mr. Williamson : he prime& to sentence him to jail for Contempt of court inloaking a false return, upon a grabble too paltry for the meanest petifogger. He layer ' ..1 *Hewed a 'writ of Habeas Caput at the in- , shame of Colonel . Wheeler, and suldequently an Mess; and to this Let Mr. Williamson made re turn, that the persons named in the writ,. "oar either of them, are not now, nor was at the time of lesuintof the writ, or at any other time, in . , the custody, power, - orpossession of the Ramon ' dent, nor by him confined or restrained; .where - tanks cannot bare the bodies," arte. „Tiarcoot look upon this return otherwise' than 'Minium-4n legal, phrase, ale evasive, if not &Ise: ' It sete,ont that the alleged toia mete are • . - amt now; indigoes Botha= ineethe issue of the ,labeseeorris, in threustedj, power orspoes of the respondent ; and in so far, it uses le - ' plly appropriate language for mho return'.-- -,, But it goes further, and by added words, gives; , • as interpretation to that language essentially - • variant from he legal imPort. It denim ' that the: pririonent were within his carer, Custody orposseedonotAny tau &Wax r." . 'OW is equin.luit to saying that ifthir. Wit- Hammon had confi ned his return to the legal por kies. that Monograee were - not then, nor at the time of issuing the writ; in his. possession, he .-- could not hire been committed for contempt; but lawn& as he added that they were not in his messesion or under hli confroVit qny tied, the ratan was WI., because, in, Jedge_,ltane's opinion, the negroes ems under Mr. Williams®', - control before they were carried oft from the wharf. To be mrre , there marl no evidence of. ,this; Mr. ;IVillimoses ' OdoMdf expressly ; denied it: but adgeNone is of opinion that that was the mid, or rather aroma D. ad the fact, and so inendtheitly send, the man to jail for con test:lel ' Meyer Me in act of tyranny committed . lit the Judge 'MOIL a deep Mill lower:Mid ; . ' . this. ;'He Mamie Mil, the impOrinioirie been ' .. ened under the *6614 , Idr: Williamson, they . '..! are its MU., He elie: , ' Kt is clear, then, as it somata me, thrall le , gal pe the parties whore this writ Called , on Mr. to produce, were atoms - time within his power and control; and his enlist; so far as it - Wares to his power over thew makes. . . iiedistinctiinttidvmx: that time:lithe p tion renhit.s. ,- - kap* - avant em that which he lies, practically, - ' . giver Idnmedg andeennot regard him as denying his pram over the prisoners now, when he does not liver that he has lost the PO* 0/101414111 for : This is 'not only contemptible, but an el:trigs ~. open , commis sense. Yr.; -IFasamacee,in his 41 0mim7 bifor• the Cow; expressly 0 4 4 4 that the negroel were not 'in his oustedy,Cthit he ' lad not seen these since they wore 'dared ref in' • entirliite from the wharf; and that hehad 'no ' earthly knoirledge of when theyhteibiteritalten - to. And yet, rya Judge Katie, - 'I cannot re ; • paditha as denying his, power ma the prison- , . ere nosr.'!. What, in the catimatkut•Of_thia ju dkrist Thebes, mould amount to . a denthit 2 . - ' Babied tide.queetion, however, them lathes 1 ' - greater: The : sal Wu* is at to Meted uthethitr ' the mimeo iti•meseetoo of Mr'. Wheeler were , dans. or fro by the ait,of, being broughtinto a tree Stale. There assi be no - questioi,: to emi r .- :ilia, (and la this we hive 'the concurrence of the hist legal minds of the country:) that a ACM is" mtitld'togiiberty the moment be is 'haat& by this mister upon , frie Mil; If Mr. , er took Miasma to a free State, he took; lima thither at ids pea Hi knelt'', of Ought to lan known, that his act is effect emancipated that- ' ',bat the the mom:nitre touched iiiion-elami-• ' ieldlailitate with Ma slams, all power mid * cim troll over them seated; exarpt abehraethey il:di• altiOly and Of love, or fear, or Ivorsuet, yield mt. '- If therefore; en - Machine the wharf at ifitedelphia, he say the,shaphies fall front the . • limits of his sieves 'snakier:4er over themdrop .:...olth - thete, :her had no right to complain. Be Metered *Gibes State with a full - understand- Mg ettkelmeamilhe Ise of. lotriegys slave pro ' perty„atid he katit. -lids Is one of the mum- gnu 'usage 01 . Sties loverteffniY, which our • 7 . Southern tooth= itiliarely be the t o o t„.„ wish, to break „down; for only this doctrine of State • - r t. se gee in regard to local affairs, now pro -- - tuts the "peculiar ;bititldkka;7- '`And,; if the suaielipity of the slave-holding - State, .is to: be ramigased, and thili'looillswe adapted,. to the ~ slave lesiltaikil 'Mt° b° r 3 10 914 .9 1°D 4 i.r'' ' '.. kinky iii sovereigitY of the free Stife, inrschk , , = -4141 hin adapted to their frPo... lAstitagonee cannot bo riffiditint "P'P lahmrot -.-- ' ::". :: ' 4 . - • It la mad * lir el is esee the *lire wen* ome aUresty left line to choose her Ma Muse ; ebeem h mearere MMioralnte freedom; It seetek from the Kermit. that them ~rae wealidse lie riolenoe employed ln paling her we of her bondage. 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L ,21,,,:;*...,a7.:t e e,,p.,..,e., _ ~• ' ' 4...-.- 4 - 44 1 ,N.,N 4 0 ,I . . - . • , , . , i tho retTele&lutd%the tint vestiie of Ageary in this Illommoiris• - alth witi•blitexualtd. There is Mornetight tiiiwneit - brisg anhive, upon our soil; and, according to decisions made Judith' *cutneky and, elsewhere in the alive and in O6io, Peunsylvinia, New fork and elsewhere in the free Steel* thirmement a elm geteheyond the Jurisdiction of the laws that made him a elm, that moment he is free.,. This was the legal ground of the decision in the Lemmon case, in New York-La case very much' like this one and iiscdeittg precisely theasme pint**, and this bib ground taken by name of the highest legal authorities. - Mr. Milligram, therefoi — in the course taken towards Mr. Wheeler's negroes, WAS nierely enunciating to them a broad legal principle end following it to its legitimate results. Remade them acquainted with their legal rights, and others helped them to maintain them; and Judge Kane In undertalhig to , punish him' for a strictly legal act, is not only compelled to quar ter himself--behind the .puniest pretences, but betrays the rage of acircumeented tyrant in em ploying the only means of antiom ce left to-him. „ . Following tide comes a still greater question— , that cf State Bights. Judge Nanir-(a sugges tive name,- if spelled more consistently with Ike character ate bearer betraystenias not only sa imowledge of Pennsylvardilawit mode' In be hill freed*, but thi right of. 'Pennsylvania to Pam laws.' snchsays: know of no statute of Pennsylvania, which affects to divest the rights of property of a citi zen of North Carolina.; acquired sad asserted an der the laws-of that State; because he has found it needful or convenient. to lass through the esnitory of Pennsylvania.. . .‘ • Imo, not aware.that any saah statute, if inch a onc.werre shown, could be recognized as valid inn Courtaf the .llnited States”. • • _ . It is a pity, then, that *the judiciary of the United' States should be disgribed by one so ignorant - and so wilfiff. 'ffhe,stataite book of Pennsylvania is not so hard of acmes that aJudge residing in Philadelphia-And - oltiming to tie a Pennsylvanian may not readily be made so _Anointed with its contents ; and Pennsylvania is a commonwealth sufficiently large and import ant, sad with reservist rights of . sufficient mag nitude to give validity to legislation that has never yet been inicoseafally questioned. It may snit 'a pompous and self-Important Judge of a petty U. 8. District Court to affect to set a sov ereign State aside ee having no jurisdiction Orel her own territory; but he may live-to find that the States, In this Confederation, are sovereign in all matters not delegated to the general gov arnment t and that, beyond the narrow °free of his duties; heis utter!, impotent It mioht be supposed, too, that a Judge who de rives a commission from the United States would be, if ignorant of Pennsylvania law, at least ao quainted with the law as settled bythe U. S. Supreme Court. He talks about "the rights of property of a citizen of North Capplina" held in doves brought on to Pennsylvania soil, just the same as If the Supreme Court had not decided that the Constitution of the United States does not regard slaves 18 property, but as persona. 'his is the law, as settled by the highest legal tribunal in the land; and although the judges of that tribunal are not to be compared to Judge Kane -for ability, and learning, and profundity, it happens, unfortunately for him, that be is boind to take thelsir as they interpret it. No Citizen of North Carolina can hold property in man upon the soil of Penrusylvarda, by virtu). of any pro in the Constitution of the United States. • We hope that the power of the State Courts will be,tested in this case. It is too much that a °Risen of the State should thus be deprived: Of his liberty for doing an act not contrary to list, Let the State assert her rights, in belief of her citizen, and . let the line of demarcation be strictly drawn between the State, is • sovereign, and the United States as a Federal... Government. If this act of tyranny be permitted it will be more difficult to interrupt the next, and by-and by a conflict will be inevitable. The closing 'metres before Judge Blue ore thus given in the Bulletin ...After Judge lane had coneluded, District 'Attorney Vandyke movedebst a commitment an, der the seseof the Court be Mowed, and that the defendant, Dinsmore Williamson, be pieced in custody of-the MarebaL •• - • •. Mr. Gilpin mid he delderd to - make a motion thee the defendant be granted permission to - aziend his return to the wrieof habeas Carpus. - Mrs Vandyke objected. Judge Kane said that Mr. Gilpin was Moises with his motion. Mr. Vandyke . ' motion- has already been granted, and the prisoner was in the buittkly of the Marshal. • Mr. Gilpin then commenced an argument on the truthfulness of the original return. ". • Judge Kane said tberhia decision would be on file, and he also understood that it would be reported in full in-the newspapers of this after noon. He thought it would be better for the counsel for the prisoner to examine the decision at their leisure, and then prepare any motion. they might think proper to make. Mr. Gilpin acquiesced and the Court adjourned. After the adjournment of the Court Mr. Wil liamson's friends surrounded him and greeted him warmly. The defendant himself appeared perfectly cool and collected. Upon the other side of the Court Boom Mr. Wheeler was the centre of.a circle of sympathisers. The Wheeler party seemed in high sprits-at the result: - An:intense feeling: was evident in the manta narthex of the persons who witnessed the pro ceedings.- 'Little • groups talked the matter over, among themselves, ma the scene afforded an en cellent indication of-the strength et feeling en gendered by the vexed question of slavery when ever Sr wherever it mimes. • • M3EiiE!MM2 marEtaturday was a beautiful day with • dry. -ing. westerly wind: This would give those who have wheat, exposed tint excellent opportunltY to' seam it, and ao doubt the chance well actively erabsiced. The Toledo Blade says that, wheat was growing badly, in that region, and we fear the evil has been extensive in the northern part of Ohio. Near thetakOshare ' however, there has not been so touch rain, and the di4age is not.ao greet. East of the mountains in this State, the wheat is all saved. - We fondly hops that the damage done to the wheat by vetweether has not been so great es our Years' led us to enT tieipate, and that we shell now have . sufficient dry weithice to enable farmers to secure 'theft OWL BOOK TABLE. Tea ESCIA.PID Nun: or Disarmes, of Conotnt If.; amide Confessions of a Sister crekarits. New York: De Witt .A-Davenport .. This is not Wes Brinkley's book' at least no name as iuthor is affixed' to it. ~ I t seems to be a work of fiction and Poor one at, that. Con vent life is undoubtedly attended with evils' of great magnitude, and It has beim developed in snits deformity to the Limiting gaze of the world In Works of authenticity. There needs nothing to convince American Protestants .thit tenrent life in America must be similar to that In Eur,, trope, modified by eirenametennes and localities. That 'lt •is always under all circumstances mil evil; and is fraught with both misery, and danger to the inmates, and that ll:st/Orde npportunitlint by Ile secret And despOtio government- far the 1 entrance of corruption and tyrinny,.'needt not now to beproven. But such works as the above, instead of increasing the conviction in the putt 4 Ho mind of the truth of the foils asserted of the evils of convents, only ,thMovr doubts over the whole suhject. If tide -book wee intended to re. late facts; why were not names and dates, and plaie• given. As a Mere !lotion it is unworthy , of its aim, and sinks, billet! medoority. Maas Lannon• .or heretstions of .a Mfg. . Autobiography: New York : Stanger & Town- We have not read this work,lnit • glance over its pages has hemmed its unfavorably with ins, Morality. It Is eridently a work of very 'eon siderable rigor 'ind'holdness. It is spoken of by some of. the Eastern papers In terms of high praise, as a second Jane Eyre, 1 The New. rook Itioroysthat It Is the welt of a woman, and it'peeeenes most of the i 4 class . bb4 its.worthleOb* nOt10148•11dIng, nal' featorea and-individuality. at aharsoter are so strikhig, that we meet to hear is laughed at had gored, bdOrt4 tiol:stnee4 mere than any work. published , for stiaif seasone. With seine of the =hoe*. opinion we hart 130,spipsthy. rant eveorrith- them Abbate the book:la mat the which Oil be Maio-'day and tergettentobo. :, - soffifirhet trOtd!otlghit the eiTeeiiir • poetic& ;Thta a cot ali g ht, -u itopz. deeern4 pave" r 0 •'' [ ThebborelrOlen for nisby it; Vet pa, Wool stmt. Tasawor4T dienryf Inunni—A:-Arranidist . MrearAer and litt:asaid;ir Drorned. eadeoseident Occurred on Weinesiiir. at Wail ] . N;l%, where a number of pen= from Williamsbarg were hotAbg. The ,Hrrel4es7 l :.. . . Al Paned off pleanntly unlit cry was raised, "the undertow. l" "the =denote Pr. 'indica lubk, ingtowarda the ocean the company saw with dia. may five of their party drifting out to sea. Great confoolon immediately prisralled,ated efortiwere made to procure a boat, but none could be found for smile either way along the beach. No other reisouree being left, the doom of the bathing bottler 'wore torn off and shaved ' out after the persons in the water, and two of them were eared - . But the most meleioholy part of this story re- Aldus to be told.. It appears the difficulty origi nated by • pang lady named Mary Sop Elliott getting beyond her depth, mad feeling the under tow taking her °tit, she screamed out, "I am sinking, ears me IP Her father, Her. John El liott, who was in the water, seeing the danger of his child, swam -towards her; but before reach -fug 4he spot where she was, he was also taken with the Anneal and drifted out to sea and soon sank. He rose once to the surfam and threw his arms wildly in the air, then sank again and was seen no more. • . The peril of Miss Elliott was also seen bya Mr. ThomasAilibborus, the affianced husband of the lady, who immediately waded andswainto where the was struggling in the water, and succeeded in holding her np for eome time. The greatest excitement prevailed at the moment the tragedy was being enacted,, and no one beamed able to offer any assistance. The couple were borne out raphily and those on the shore gave them up for lost, when it was seen that Mr. Gibbons had secured a piece of timber, and had seized it the support, but it was not large enough to uphold both, and Mr. Gibbons disengaged himself from Miss Elliot *ad told her to grasp the suspenders of his bathing dress. behind, *dials held on to the wood. This abe did for a time, but, with a true woman's devotion, seeing that her lover was sinking, and fearing that he would drown, she suppressed in that mo t, of peril,. when the horrors of - death were tering around her, the selfish instinct of her • for life, 'and let go her bold, though he ,11 for God's and her g m own sake to never • kis, ut herself. She soon sank and was seen no e. Mr. Gibbons was fortunately drifted to • a point on the Wand where he found a foothold, and was dragg inlis ed ashore by means of ropes. Two other persons, Mr. Fleury Boyd, jr., and a Miss Eastman, were also brought in the same current, but fortunately managed to secure one of. the boards floating about and were towed to wards the shore. Mies Eastman had sunk once or twice, and was so overcome by terror and her injuries that it is feared she will not recover. She was taken to the Ocean Howie, and now lies there in a critical condition. Mr. Boyd escaped unhurt. This melanoholy affair Amused deep feeling on the Island, and the self-devotion exhibited by the unfortunate girl was the theme of many an ad miring eulogy. She was quite young, and said to be of rare beauty of person and amiability of deposition.. It will be a heavy blow to her rela tives in Williamsburg. Her father, who was drowned, was a local preacher in the Methodist church, and was much respected for his many virtues. 16 the Editor of as Gazette In your paper of Saturday a complaint is made that the. news furniehed the Pittsburgh press, by the New York Associated Press, is not received in time to appear consecutively with Its publication in the New York papers, and that the foreign news brought by the Mande vas not received in Pittsburgh until the day of its publitatiod in New York, Philadelphia, Balti more and Cleveland. Bow far the Reporters for the Associated Press, east of Pittsburgh,, are