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GRIMES IN THE INDIAN C0UNTRf-lM.

 PoRTANT DECISION AS TO TIE JURIs-

 BI, ZION OF THE U $. COURTS OVER

 THAT COUNTRY.

 Dtsrmcr CouRr or THE U. S FOR ARKANSAS AND

 THE INDIAN GouxfRY-ApalL TERM, ls45 Vnited States }charged with passing counterfeit Harvey WyaHe, }

 This ease came on for trial on Thuisday last Cen Hampstead prosecuting, Judge E. L. Johnson de lending. Plea of mol guilty, extending as 1t does to tae jurisdiction of tbe Court The charge was proven, we presume, to the satisfaction oi Jury Count Attorneys and by sanders-thh Wyatte had passed basa counterfeit coin upon several persons III the Cherokee Nation-and that he was drinking gambling man, poorly calculated to add to the cl'l- li1ation of the people among whom he lived But Il soon appeared n the progress of the tral that the prisoners counsel did not rely upon his innocence but upon want Of jurisdiction in the Court 10 pun sh him.

 The act of Congress extends the criminal jurisdic- lion of the Court over the Indian county except as 10 crimes committed by one Iadiaa upon another Wyatte, il was proven, was d white man. settled in tae Cherokee Nation seveno eight years siace mar rcd Cherokee woman by takiag ep toM her, {. no other form of marriage being then required, Ii was further proven that aoou five years since he was pit ot of the Nation by the Chiefs on account oi bad conduct, but retunpd again and had since been fe safded as citizen of the Nation, and as such voted al the elections

 Mir. Yam. the Treasurer of the Nation, stated that piof to the adoption of the constitution in l839, which prescribes the plan by which persons may become citizens ofthe Nation, marriage with a Cher okee woman, and settlement ill the country, would constitute foreigner citizen, and that the consti- tuition having only prospective operation, did mol affect the citizenship of Wyatte--and that he was certainly citizen of the Nation.

 Under this state of facts judge Johnson decided that Wyattc's case came within the erccptioa con tainad in the act of Congress- and that consequently his Court had no jurisdiction over the case.

 Tn. Judge remarked that a citizen of the United States might cSpatriate himself and become citizen oi the Cherokee Nation in any form that the gov ernmcnt oi that Nation might prescribe or reeog- nize-and then he would be an iadian within the meaning of the act oi Congress, amenaba 10 the laws, and subject o the jurisdiction of the Courts o the Nation, and without the jurisdiction olthc Courts of the |. S.

 Wyalte was discharged, and should he (hopefal tadjaa return to the country of lis adoption, il is to be expected that he will be punished there for his crimes.