The North Carolinian

COURT.

Is in session this week-His Honor, Judge Caldwell, presiding.

Owing to circumstances, we go to press a little earlier this week than usual-(on Thursday evening after all the mails are in.)-while Court is still in session. There were several cases of interest on Docket-one, the case of Borer & Crist vs Merchants' Steamboat Company, for detaining Goods on the Cape Fear River to the damage of Plaintiffs, was continued. The case removed from Davidson, Dusenbury vs. Wiggins, compromised. And the case of State vs. Ed. Martin, (a free negro,) was set for hearing on Friday.

Since the above, we have the following communication, giving a fair, correct and impartial account of the suit of Cornelia L. Dusenbury against William R. Wiggins.

The slander case of Cornelia L. Dusenbury, by her next friend L. H. Norcum, against William R. Wiggins, excited more interest than any other case on docket. John A. Gilmer, G. C. Mendenhall, Ralph Gorrell and A. G. Foster, Esqrs., for the Plaintiff, and Hugh Waddill, Burton Craig, Thomas J. Wilson and Charles E. Shober, Esqrs., for the Defendant.

This suit was called on Wednesday morning. The Plaintiff's counsel called the witnesses, and declared themselves ready to proceed. The Defendant's counsel, on being addressed by the Court, arose, read in open Court a written explanation, fully exonerating the Plaintiff from all imputation, and asked leave to have the same spread on the minutes of the Court for the Plaintiff's vindication, which was allowed. The Defendant then withdrew all his pleas, called for the writ and confessed judgment for the sum of ten thousand dollars, the amount claimed in the writ and declaration. This being done, the father of the Plaintiff, Henry R. Dusenbury, being deeply affected, retired from the Court with his counsel and his friends, to consult, as we suppose, as to what under the circumstances, was the course of honor and propriety for the Plaintiff. The counsel returned into Court, and stated that the Plaintiff had instructed him to say that she had not sued for money, and that she would have none of the judgment, and with the leave of the Court caused the same to be noted on the docket.

Judge Caldwell made some appropriate remarks tending to show that he conceived the character of the Plaintiff fully vindicated, favorable to the propriety of the course of the Defendant, and complimentary to the Plaintiff in that she declined to receive the recovery.

A fight took place in the peaceable streets of Winston, on Wednesday, between Jen Leach and W. R. Wiggins, Esq., both from Lexington, in which pistols were used,-the latter receiving a flesh wound from a ball, which fortunately is not of a dangerous nature.

We have heard various accounts of the affair, but the above are the facts, without going into particulars, as the matter will undergo judicial investigation. It is generally known that the parties had been at variance for some time.

Mr. Wiggins is doing well.-Salem Press.