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THE COURTS. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTS. Adam Wagner, Wm. Watney, Geo. Ross, Geo. Foley, Herman Long and John Baker filed this morning a libel against the steamship City of Houston for twenty-one hundred dollars damages. They allege that they were part of the crew of the tug Tillie C. Jewett, plying the Mississippi River, and were on board of her on the night of the 13th inst., when the City of Houston collided with her. They say that the collision was purely the fault of the steamship, and, that by this negligence, they have suffered in the amount claimed, by reason of personal suffering and loss of wages. A monition was issued, and the City of Houston seized. SECOND DISTRICT COURT. The successions of L. Clairvani, Daniel Marr, John Kirwin, and O. J. Donnell were yesterday opened in the Probate Court. FIFTH DISTRICT COURT. Before Judge Cullom Richard C. Cammack has filed a suit against Morgan Cammack for $500, alleged to be due on a certain promissory note, and Win. Leake, of the parish of West Feliciana, has filed a petition in the same court, claiming $1006 from A. Petit. He alleges he has rendered legal services to the defendant before the courts of his parish for which he was not paid. Judge Cullom decided this morning the case of Temple S. Coons vs. Jas. F. Kendall, in favor of the defendant. SUPERIOR DISTRICT COURT. The injunction obtained by Jos. H. Oglesby from Judge Hawkins restraining the city from receiving Metropolitan Police Warrants has produced considerable stir. The brokers have taken advantage of this bombshell, and some of them listened to its explosion in great glee. It is stated one Mr. Straus unloaded several thousand dollars worth, just at the very hour the injunction had been issued, to another broker, who felt somewhat chagrined to know shortly afterward he had paid 781 cents for what had become so suddenly depreciated. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Judge Woods was engaged in listening to the argument of Hon. T. J. Semmes in the telegraph case between the Western Union Company and the Southern Atlantic, a rival line. The day will be fully occupied by this case. Judge Woods yesterday entered the following order: "Ordered, That whenever a Commissioner of the United States for this District shall, conformably to the provisions of section 1042 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, discharge from imprisonment a poor convict sentenced by this Court, or by the District Court, to pay a fine, or fine and costs, they shall forthwith report such proceedings to the District Attorney, and of this District to the Attorney General of the United States." 5 In the case of Miltenberger & Norton vs. W. N. Mercer, on motion it was ordered that the executors of Dr. Mercer. Pierce Butler and I Wilmer Shields, be made defendants. Frank F. Case, Receiver, US. Henry Abraham et attorneys for complainants in this case have filed a motion setting forth that the suit is instituted to enforce the liability of share-holders in the Crescent City National Bank to contribute to the payment of the 1: debts of this bank, and that a large number 11 of the defendants are not yet served, and that it is necessary in order to establish their liace bility that they should be; it was ordered that subpœnas to all defendants not heretofore served, have time until the 15th day of March for taking proofs, and that F. A. Woolfley, Esq., be appointed special examiner. 7 In the cases of Cockrem, Receiver of New Orleans National Bank, vs. several defendants, he court ordered that owing to the absence of the judge of this court, the time for taking vidence be extended until the first Monday
