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IMPORTANT JUDICIAL DEcIsIoN.-Capt Jewett, of the United States army, citizen of Kentucky, and who is still domlcled hele. having been ordered to Fort Winnebago, in the Territory of Wisconsin, proceeded thither in the year l842, taking with him his slave Amelia, and kepther there performing service for him until lS44, when he sent her back to Kentucky On the return of Amelia to Kentucky, she filed her bill asserting her right to freedom by virtue of these facts and of the ordinance of Congress passed for the regulation of the Northwestern Territory, which ordinance declares that ..neiiher slavery nor involuntary servilude shall exist in said Territory"

 Chancellor Nicholas decided yesterday that the ordinance of Congress does not apply to mere sojonrners or persons transiently in said Territory, and that Amelia is not entitled to her freedom. We are informed that the case will probably be taken to d higher court

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