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1 r ii of the, Watchman, rv 1 Lrri-iVfein, pr yprTwo Dollars pyable in Kill M niu pmu in aavaniT, iww umiara filch W-w-IJent insertion. J . rt hikfi'f than' these rat ' n io tboseno advertise by tbe year.:, , tit m -h Editors must be post paid. r the firsthand 25 eta. Court orders chnrgetH . Lr.i..r iknn the ratrft. .A liberal deduc T rrdTECTING PROPERTY FROM 1 f IKUMSELLEUS. A u-idoiV. lady in Missouri, prosecuted a ,quor ftIr for selling her slave a quart f liiaor orj; Which he became intoxicated, i" consequence, frozen to death. She recover &Q- Hording lhp slave as ropf'riy, w jio will not say that this was a riffhtfous verdict ? .And yet, if this had r,fen W -hutymnd or son. the law would have feiven'po redress. Even if the drunk ard bid.sclfire to hi neighbor's property, be might his punished, but the man who jold hjfrt thf liquor not onty goes unwhip tted o( juntif e, biiUs not even called to ac count in "n") way. The abominable, ab--nrditV of tfiin all can see, and most will acnovWiH'. but who wil set about de vising a reriedy. How ridiculous to re ly on morajisuasion to protect us against lie grft'e!4 enemies of man, the liquor venders We must and shall eventually treat tbm 4s we do the burglar and the incendiary, j Ilow inexpressibly silly and wicked, wbn you punish a man with Siafe Trisoij who burns your building and ..Pt Jet him. burn up your son, or father, or troth er, 'ami take no notice of it. Yes, even (be Board of Excise will give him omler oJtth.ia certificate of good moral character, arid permission to o on with his murderous. work. Slur of Temperance. J. J. BRUNER, i ; :,v: 'n ( "NEW SERIES 'Vr f.v-"v-r--- 'Keep a check trms ali. tow . V-?-' ''j- Do this, as Liberty is safe." i , Editor Proprietor. ',(, ) Rclees. 1 . ' V ' pe'Ur.rri,n.- VOLUME Vll NUMBER 25. i SALISBURY, N. C, THURSDAY', OCTOBER 31, 1850. . i . '! " r- : I - - - i- ulations rigidly enforced and their County affairs well managed they must take the matter into their own hands, and elect their Magistrates themselves, at the ballot box. N. C. Standard. UCENSlvLAW IN WISCONSIN. The following is a specimen of just such a law, ay we would like to see in univer sal op ration throughout this country, and nil otbrs .cursed with the liquor traffic. The provision;, in this law of Wisconsin. '-which strikeus as being so just and equi table, is tharwhich inflicts the punishment of drunWehniss a,nd its crimes upon those ' who nourish and perpetuate this vice with all its evils, ,Section No pexson shall hereafter be al.lpwcd to vend or retail intoxicating liquors or drinks, until he shall have exe cuted to the? Treasurer of the city, town or village irjj which he may reside, or carry on such business, a bond in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ; with two or more . sufficient sureties, who shall be residents of the place'Avhere such business is carri ed on. cpndiioned to pay all damages that comrnunity'oV individuals may sustain by reason of his or her vending intoxicating nquors support an paupers, wiaows ana orphansma;)e or helped to be made by his or her said traffic, and pay the ex pen snot all cm I and criminal prosecutions made, grpwjhg out of or justly attributa hie to his on)ier vending or retailing in toxicating liquors or drinks, which bond itall be surject to the approval of the common council of such citv. the suner visors of sucii tovn, or the trustees of such village, lf6v,ided thry shall not be liable for any costs in suits, unless judgment b .recovered against him or her upon the eause of action upon which the suit brought';' .hut they may recover costs as in other cases,, f . It also authorizes, any married woman to institute suit for damages sustained by herself br.children by such traffic ; and forbids the cognizance of suits for the re covery of retail liquor bills, by any of the j courts of '-th, State. If any person be comes a pauper and a public charge by Pintempcrance, the person who, during the j six months preceding, has usually sold him i liquor, shall e sued on his bond, and the person against wliom a judgment shall be, so obtained, Is empowered to sue all per sons engaged in the traffic, for contribu tions' ""jo ward paying the penalty. The tact, throughout, is. of the most stringent character, and will be very difficult to evade if by any. of the tricks heretofore practised. V? Horrors of Avarice. The Cincinnati papers give us some singular facts con nected with, an old beggar woman hamed Elizabeth Morelock, whose death: lately oceurred in that , city. She died in the night, and in the evening a lighted candle was placed upon a stand beside the bed, her, idiot daughter, a frightful looking hunch-back, being the only attendant though for a part of the time, the 'physi cian was present. The old woman open ed her eyes, and perceiving the burning candle, ordered it to be blown out. saying that she could not afford to pay fdr it. When first taken sick she ordered the chest which was, after hejr death, found to contain nearly four thousand dollars in gold, to be placed beside her. bed, and she kept it within reach of her arms during the whole of her sickness; and when the death struggle came on. and she was told she must die, she flung herself upon the chest, and clawed at it, in her wild avaricious frenzy until she tore the verynails from her fin gers, and thus embracing the ill gotten treasure. br spirit took its flight. An old stove in the room was found after her death, to contain a considerable amount of silver and copper coin carefully stowed away. 1 he money and effects have been placed in the hands of an executor ap pointed by the court. In 1840 when small change was scarce, this woman made a handsome speculation by selling five hun dred dollars' worth at one time to a single individual. This money was accumula ted by beggary, by herself and her idiot daughter. The latter was generally flog ged upon her return;home at night; when she did not make a good day's work of it. and was always whipped before she was sent out in the morning. The cries of the poor creature, while under the lash of her avaricious mother, have frequently exci ted the indignation of the neighborhood. The poor idiot herself was aflerwards un der an attack of cholera, and is probably numbered with the dead. Ex. being a tailor by trade, and employed in the clothing department, and probably ex pected to be addressed esquire. She wrote an angry letter to the offender, who. con sidering the sergeant implicated, com plained to the commanding; officer of the station, and not obtaining the redress ex pected, forwarded his complaint to the Commander-in-Chief, from whom he re ceived the following reply, which we think Would have been recognised with out the signature : ' ' r Camp, 18th April, 1850. Sir, I have received your complaint, and your very sensible remarks on Mrs. Sergeant Rowe's letter. There is, as you say, nothing disgraceful in being a ser geant, any more than being a tailor ; which, by your letter. Sergeant Rowe ap pears to be. My opinion is that he who wears a uniform is of higher iank than he who makes it, and the sergeant is, in my mind, much higher in rank of the two ! all soldiers are gentlemen, and tailors are on ly tailors! But it seems that Mrs. Rowe thinks otherwise, and prefers being a tail or's wife to being an officer's wife. Now, in my opinion, a lady has a right to hold her own opinion on these matters, and I am unable to give you any redress, be cause my commission as Commander in Chief gives me no power to make ladies apologise for being saucy, which is an un fortunate habit they fall into at times, and more especially those who arev good-look-I ing, which I suppose Mrs. Sergeant Rowe happens to be. As to the sergeant having written the letter, that is neither here nor there. Some husbands cannot help doing as they are ordered, and he may be inno cent of malice. The only thing that I can do, is to advise you to apply to your supe rior, the collector and magistrate of tar ruckabad, who will represent the insult which has-been put upon you by Mr. Ser geant Rowe (as you state), and, if possible JVlaj. lucker will endeavor to persuade the lady to apologise for calling you an ass. More than give vou this advice I cannot do, C. J. NAPIER, Commander-in-Chief. n- POLICE REGULATIONS. There is a growing feeling in this City in favor of abolishing the present system 01 a hired uuard, and of supplying its place with a regular nightly Guard draft ed from the citizens. This feeling is tbe result of experience connectedwitb? our Police Regulations ; and we hope it may not be suffered to pass off without some autary refotm in this respect. We can haves no doubt that the Town would be better guarded by the citizens than by the hired Guard, or by any simi lar Guard ; and it can be done, too, with out expense,1 Let every citizen between the ages of eighteen and seventy be en rolled in couipanies of six, with some rt ponsible man for a Captain ; and let them take the rounds in regular ordery from night to niglit; reporting next morning as a niatter of course, to the IntendanL No citizen who is able to turn out, ought to object to it . but if any should decline to Berve, w.ithobt a good excuse, let them.be fined .one dollar in each case for the ben efit of the City Treasury. We hope;those who are in favor of this reform will'prepare petitions at once, get them signed, and send them in to the Board of Commissioners. The next meet ing of the Board will be held the first Fri day in NovlBmber. Vlfhile on this subject, We would call the nxtentlqri of the public generally to the factst set forth in another column of this paper, by our correspondent " Viator." inn evils oC which he comDlains are not AN OLp SAILOR TURNED FARMER. AsIn evidence that those who are brought up from youth upon a farm, do not always make the best farmers, we will call attention to a place near Nevvburgh, owned and managed htf a man who has spent the most of his life on the ocean. And yet we venture to say that there is not a better cultivated farm in Orange county. We had the pleasure of a short visit to thts farm, a few days ago, and dinner of carp from his fish pond. It may be interesting to our readers to know that this stock of fish, together with gold fish. were imported from Europe by the pro prietor, and are now rapidly multiplying in the Hudson. We saw the best piece of wheat upon this farm that we have seerv this jear; less injured by the drought than other pie ces, and all because the land was plough ed deep, (never less than" nine inches,) and well manured. To grow wheat or corn he prefers aTimothy sod, turned flatand hover stirred afterward. He considers it equal to a good dressing of manure turned 'under ;s and contends that the whole secret of suc cessful farming, consists in manuring bountifully, and in deep ploughing. His rule of seeding wheat is two bushels to the acre never less and with the wheat half a bushel of Timothy seed. He says that Timothy, for grass or hay, is better than clover, that cows will leave clover to eat Timothy, and that they will make more and better butter upon it than clover, and he has considerable experience, keep ing fifty of them. The dairy is in charge of a farmer, who carries on the place upon shares, and gives the proprietor sixty-seven poundsof butter per annum, for each cow. The milk is kept in an underground room -of the farm house, which is regulated, in cold weather, by a stove, at a tempera ture of C5 degrees F. In summer, when cool, it is kept as near that as pos sible, and the milk churned early every morning, in four barreled dasher churns, by horse power. It takes twelve or fifteen quarts of milk to make a pound.of butter, which, when sold averages twenty five cents a pound, and the milk is worth two cents a quart. When this farmer took tasto see his pens of handsome Lancashire porkers, that get half of their living from buttermilk, we acknowledge that it was better to make butter than sell milk: for, in addi tion to the pork, there was a valuable lot of hog-pen manure, to make more grass to make more butter, and so on a continual round. N. C. WATERING PLACES. Our people will learn after a while, it is to be hoped that in North Carolina we have as fine springs, as beautiful scenery and as majestic mountains, as adorn any other country on this green earth. Then, too, we have as picturesque, and, we are sure, quite as terrible and grand ocean scenes as any other State on the Atlantic coast. Yet with all these attractions to the gay and invalid they will leave the pure air of. their native State and spend their money to fatten the thankless Yan kees who revile them as unchristian and ty ranical knaves. Let us seek our amuse ments and recreations at home hereafter, and we shall hear of no more Saratoga robberies or Cape May disturbances or other insults to "Southern slave-breeders Go to the mountains of Western North Carolina if you would breathe the purest air or drink the coldest, clearest water in the world. Go to the Warm Springs in Buncombe or to the White Sulphur Warren, if you would revel with the gay, or flirt with the fashionable. Go to Nags Head and Beaufort and Smithville, if you would lave in the briny waters of the deep blue sea, or vvhile away a thoughtful hour " Listening to the breakers roar," as they lash our snow sand beach. N. C. Star. A only of lhf)!6iost serious nature, but they ore increasing i L.et this matter oe look eu to at once by tho competent authori ties ; and If these authorities, from a lack of information on the subject, or from any other cause; are still inclined to indiffer ence or supineness on this subject, let an Aroused public opinion compel them to their duty, If the pepplo of this State wish as we know they-do to have their Police Reg- NAPIERIANA. The Englishman" (Fndia paper) of the 28th June gives the following: "We have read several very character istic letters, which we regret we are not permitted to publish ; but one has just been handed to us for that purpose, and we accordingly subjoin it. The affair, as related to us, is as follows :--A Mr. Mor gan, employed in a public office, in send ing a small sum due to Mr. Rowe, ad dressed him as Sergeant Rowe. The ser jeintVbcltcr half was incensed ai this, he HEAR! HEAR! If there U any thing that calls for sympathy, aid, or furtherance on the ground of philanthro py, it is the temperance reformation ; for that aids atmostHall other Associations, and would render many entirely unnecessary. Not half our poor-housls would be needed were it uni versally triumphant ; not half our private char ities; not half our orphan asylums, or insane hospitals. Most philanthropic societies are mere palliatives. Temperance, are prevent ives and cures. They seek tb prevent the evil from existing ; or, if exists, to remove it at once, by drying up its fountains. And there is no objection brought against this which may not be brought against every other philanthrop ic association in the land. If this is wrong, they are wrong; for both seek the renovation of physical andmoial evil. If this is unneed ed, so are they ; for without this, manyof them are utterly vain, and can effect nothing. A Hard. Hit! In a speech at Macon, Ga., in which- he advocated temporary secession from the Union, II. Barnwell fthett, is reported to have said : You may hang up a copper in Hell, and the Yankees will plunge in aier it !" To tbs we find the following severe truthful retort in the Macon Journal : " Well, this may be true, or may not. But, pray, bow much worse would that be, than for a great leader of the self-styled Southern party to change off his ancestral name for money 7 And yet we learn that one Robert Barnwell Ctnitli nrCntli !n n n n K Ca mm n A s I rt A changed his name from Smith to Rhett mere ly to enable him to inherit a fortune !" Romantic Story. The Evansvi'.le Journal says : Last Monday a stranger made applica tion lo our city grave digger for employment. He was at once set to work digging a grave, which he completed before evening. He was paid one dollar for his job, and feeling unwell went to bed. During the succeeding night he died, and in the morning was buried in the same grate which but a few hours before his own hands haddug ! We were unable to learn the name of the unfortunate man or any part of his history, save the. sad part here, re corded, lie died among us a total stranger. "BOUNTY LAND BILL. We publish at length, from the Washington City papers, for the benefit of the soldiers, their widows and children, the following important information connected with the Bounty Land Bill passed by the late Congress, vVe present, first, the letter of Mr. Stuart, the Secretary of the Interior, on the subject ; and next (he forms to be observed by persons interested. "These forms,' says the Wash ingtou Republic in laying them before the pub lie, " will, with the military rplls, be deposited in the clerk's office of every county. The evidence" of service and discharge being thus accessible, together with the forms necessary to verify the claims, the simplest business knowledge will be sufficient to fill up and forward an application for a warrant, and lo direct if necessary, the location by the Commissioner of the General Land Office : Department of the Interior. October 3, 1850. THE BOUNTY LAND BILL. The Congress of the United States, at its late session, having, in a spirit of justice and liberality, passed an act, ? granting bounty laud to ceitain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United btates, the President has esteemed it no less a privilege than a duly to adopt all the means in bis power to give prompt and effi cient operation to this beneficent measure. I deem it proper, therefore, to announce to hose entitled to the benefits of the law, that, with bis sanction, I have caused all the neces sary forms and instructions to guide claimants n applying for and obtaining their rights, to be prepared, and they are now in the hands of the printer. At the earliest practicable moment, copies of these papers will be forwarded to each member of Congress, and to the clerk of the court of every county in the United States. It will be his purpose to administer the law in such manner as to make: it what Congress designed it to be -a bounty to the soldier, and not to agents and speculators. 1 he forms and the mode of proof have there fore been -made as simple as possible, and eve ry facility will be afforded to applicants to es tablish their just demands, k Clerks are now engaged in preparing from t be rolls on file, cer tificates of service, in order that those who have not received discharges or have accidently lost them, may not be disappoiuted in obtaining their just reward. - The policy of this law, in all its provisions. is to discourage speculation in the claims o soldiers. The act provides " that all sales, mortgages, letters of attorney, and other in struments of writing, going to a fleet the title or claim to any warrant hereinbefore provided for,"made or executed prior to the issue, 6bal be null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; nor shall such. certificate or war rant, or the land obtained thereby, be in any wise affected by, or charged with, or subject to, the payment ol any debt or claim incurred by such officer or soldier prior to tbe issuing o the patent. In his judgment, the issue contemplated in the body of the above-recited clause of the law, is the issue of the patentl consequently all sales, transfers, assignments, and incumbran ces of soldiers' land claims, made before tbe emanation of tbe patents, are void, and will be disregarded by tbe government. Speculators are therefore admonished that they can acquire no rights by purchase which will be recogniz ed by this department. I leel it to be my duty, also, to warn the frank and confiding soldier against tbe arts and devices of agents, who wjll seek to exagger ate tbe difficulties of obtaining the land, in or der to enhance their own charges. Tbe evi dence of service exists among the archives of the country. In nine cases out of ten the only proof required will be of the indentity of the applicant, or of marriage and widowhood, or heirship. These are facts readily proven, and therefore the difficulties wid in most cases be merely nominal. And to remove even these slight obstacles, and to give more full and com plete effect to the munificence of the govern raent, I beg leave respectfully to recommend to the proper authorities of each county and town-I ship to employ a suitable agent, at the expense of tbe county, to supervise Ihe preparation of the applications and proofs of claimants. The ignorant and unwary would itbus be protected from imposition, the poor soldiers from burdens they are not able to bear, and the government from manv embarrassments which may result j ' from awkwardness of incompetent agents. In conclusion, I desire to say that great care will he used to guard against; undue preferences of one class of applicants over others. With ibis view, at tbe proper time, a sufficient num ber of clerks will be employed lo issue the certificates with the least possible delay, so that all may have an equal chance of making advantageous locations. i ALEX. H. H. STUART, Secretary cf the Interior." " INSTRUCTIONS anD FORMS To be observed, by persons applying to tbe Pension Office for Bounty; Land, under the act ot September 23th, 1$50. entitled " An act granting Bounty Land to certain officer and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United Siales." In every application for jthe benefit of the act aforesaid, whether made by the surviving of ficer or soldier himself, or by his widow or minor child or children, a declaration, under oath, musi be made as nearly according to tbe fol lowing forms as the nature of tbe case will ad. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the pa per is not written on tbe same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit or other papers autheniicaticated, the certificate must be at tached thereunto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, ihe ends of which must pass under the official seal, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to thj certificate. The 3d section, in express terms, only pro vides for the location of a warrant under tbe law. Thus, the right to locale not being given to an assignee, tbe Department may well say that no assignments made prior to location will be recognised. The 4th section declares all sales, &c., go ing to affect the title to any land, granted or to be granted "prior to the issue," shall be null and void, and expressly declares that the land esfed person, proving ihe genuineness of tbe oritflual, and that the copy certified is a true and correct copy ol it. ' If the claimant was a regimental or staff officer,, ihe declaration roust be varied accord, iog to the facts ot the case. : V i I - f If the discharge has been lost or destroyed, the words in italic will be omitted, and the facts in relation to the loss of. the discharge stated in lieu thereof. If the claimant never received a written discharge, or if discharged in consequence of dLahility, or if 'te. was lio captivity with the enemy, he must vary his de clarationo as to set forth the facts ihe case. X The notes to ihe preceding declaration are also applicable o this. In some cases! it will perhaps be impossible for ihe widow to state tbe facts, in relation to her husband's ser- ices, with tbe particularity as to dates, 5ce indicated by ihe above lorm. In such case she must set forth the facts with as much accuracy as possible, h will be indispensable for her to state ibe Company and Regiment in which he serred. If her huband was killed in battle, ibat fact must be set forth in tbe declaration. This declaration must Imj accompanied by satisfactory proof of ihe marriage, and of tbe husband's death. If there is any public re cord of the marriage, a duly certified copy of such record should be forwarded if possible.-! If there is no public record of the marriage, but a private or family record, such family . re cord, or a certified copy of the same, should be forwarded, with the affidavit of some disinter .iin.l . : t e located shall not be charged with or subject to ', I! 1" 7 i , ,V B h73- . I . . o J i or "inal. and that Ihe ronv rrtifijl ima A r j w w any debt or claim " incurred prior to the issuing ot the patent." It thus annears clear that it si was the intention of Congress that the claim of the soldier or his heirs should continue free rom every kind of incumbrance until after the issue of tlie patent, and thus relieve the Depart. ment from all tbe evils crowins out of con flicting claims under alleged assignments. 1 be object of tbe law is lo confer the right to ihe land itself on tbe warrantee or his heirs. After that purpose is effected, it is of course com- petent for the grantee lo dispose of it as he may think proper. ss. Form of a Declaration to be made by Uie surviving officer or soldier. State of County of r On this dav of , A. D. one thous and eight hundred and , personally ap- peared before me, a Justice of the Peace (or other officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes) within and for the county and Mate aforesaid, aged years, a re sident of in the State of . who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical wbowas a' in tbe company commanded by Captain in tbe regiment of commanded in the war with Ureal lintain. declared correct copy of it. If no public or private re. cord of the marriage exists, or can be procured, that fact should be set forth in the declaration ; and in such case, other evidence, such as tbe testimony of persons who knew the parties in tbe lifetime of ibe husband, and knew them to live together as husband and wife,-and to be lo reputed, will be admissible. OT In no case, however, will the mere state ment of witnesses that ibe claimant is the tcid' ow of the deceased be taken as evidence of tbe marriage ; but the witnesses must state the facts and circumstances from which they derive their knowledge or opinion that she is ibe wid ow of the deceased. A certificate from the clergyman or magi, irate who solemnized ibe marriage is not com petent evidence, unless the genuineness of the certificate be proved, and the person who gave it be shown to have been authorized to solemn ize marriages. by by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812, (or other tear embraced in said act, de scribing what war ;) that he enlisted, (or vol unteered, or teas drafted) at on or about the day of , A. D. for the term of , and continued in actual service in said war for the term. of , and was honorably discharged at on the day of , A. D. , as trill appear by his original cer tificate of discharge herewith presented or by tbe muster rolls of said company. He makes this declaration for tbe purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which be may be entitled under the "act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in tbe military service of the United States," passed September 18th, 1850. (Signature of the claimant.) Sworn to and subscribed before me the day From die Philadelphia Nrwrof October 18 - SLAVE CASE AT PHILADELPHIA. Yesterday afternoon, about half past three o'clock, an alleged fugitive slave was brought to tho Marshal's office by the Depuly Marshal, arssisted by Constable Agen.ofthe third Ward, Soutbwaik. and Messrs. Johrv Thornton and Thompson Tully. He was arrested while fat work as a bod-carrier, on the Ridge road, near Poplar street, at the instance of bis master, Thomas P. Jones, of Cecil county, Maryland. The name of ihe alledged slave is Henry Gir netl. He appears to he about 25 or 27 years of age, and has been absent from his masfer for eight years. He was accompanied by, a young man of bis own color, who desired that he might have counsel which request was granted. Tbe warrant for the arrest of the slave was Is sued by Justice (Jrier, and the right of owner ship and identity of tbe person was heard by him. ' jj Tbe right of property in Henry Carnett was traced through several wills lo tbe present mas ter, T. P. Jones. His identity was about-to bo established by Mr. Jones and others, when Mr. Pierce, for the prisoner, asked that the case be postponed until a future period, to afford an op and year above written. And I hereby certify, j portunity to Charles Gibbons lo attend as cotin- that 1 believe the said -. to be the identical man who served as aforesaid, and that be is of tbe age above staled. (Signature of the magistrate or other officer.) ss. Form of a Declaration to be made by the widow of a deceased officer or soldier. State of-. County of On this day of -, A. D. one thous and eight hundred and , personally ap peared before me, a Justice of the Peace, (or other officer authorized to administer oaths for general purposes,) within and for the County and State aforesaid, aged years, a resident of, in ibe State of , who being duly sworn according lo law, declares that she is the widow of deceased, who was a in the Company commanded by Captain in the commanded by Regiment of in the war with Great Britain declared by the United Slates on the 18th of June, 1812, or other war as the case may be ;) that her said husband enlisted (or vol unteered or was drafted) at on or about the day of -, A. I). , for the actual service in - and was honor- on the day of term , and continued in said war for the term of ably discharged at , A. D. as will appear by us original certificate or discharge Iterewith presented. She. further states lhal she was married to the said in on ihe day of , A. D. and that her name mit. ! Such declaration, and all; affidavits, must be sworn lo before some justice of the peace or other officer authorized to admister oalbs for general purposes, who must certify ihe same. The official character and signature of the magistrate who maV administer the oaibmust be certified by the clerk of jibe proper court of . i a t a record of his county, under Ibe seal ot tne court. Such certificate must accompany every case. , by one before said marriase was ; that her said husband died at on the day of A. D. , and that she is still a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the ' act passed September 28th, 1850." (Claimants signature.) Sworn to and subscribed before me tbe day and year above written. (Officer's signature.) Application by Minor Children. If anv officer or soldier who would he enti tled to bounty land under said act, if living, has died, leaving no widow who still survives him, but leaving a child or children under the age of majority at tbe lime of the passage of said act, such minor child or children are enti tled to the same quantity of land that the father would be entitled lo if living. In such case tbe guardian of such minor child or children must make a declaration as ! nearly corresponding with the foregoing forms as ihe nature- oi tne case win aamu. ne must state the lime of ihe father's death ;. ibe fact that no widow survives him ; and must state ibe name or names, and exact age or ages, of bis surviving minor child or children. This declaration must be accompanied by satisfactory proof of the lather's death, that no widow survives him, of tbe ages of the minor children, and of bis own appointment, by com petent authority, as guardian. If there is any family record showing the ages of the children, j it. or a certified copy ot ine same, soouia be j forwarded, with the affidavit of some disinter- el. ! Judge Grier said : That this was, to be sure, a summary proceeding, yt be desired to gfve tbe prisoner an opportunity in be. properly de fended ; and if he proceeded in a summary manner, it would be owing to the ill advice the colored population were now receiving. (Ie said he bad read in the papers of meetings be. ing held, at which resolutions were passed ad vising and urging the colored race to arm them. L selves against the laws, and shoot down the of. ficers of the law. If such advice should be lik en, tbe firt oflirer killed would bj ibe signal for the extermination of the" black race. All laws, he thought, would be set at defiance' as they bad been but a short lime since. He was as much a friend to the unfortunate rare as any man. but be looked upon white men who would give advice of armed resistance to the laws' as the colored people's worst enemies. If ihe ' were to adjourn this case until ibis day, he felt ! satisfied that thousands of blacks would assem 1 hie, perhaps lo reisl the laws. This would compel him to send to the Navy Yard for their whole military force ; and liue as God liveth, and my soul liveth, said tbe Judge, I will main tain the law, though I have to order every man who puts himself in armed opposition to its "ex ecution to be shot down. I will execute the law as I find it at all hazards. It was here rugge8ted ibat tbe laws of Penn sylvania made it ill-"! to place the prisoner in any of its prisons. The Marsbargreed to ! keep tbe alleged slave until ibis day. The j Judge said that if any mob should Congregate black or white, with a view lo resist the laws, would be. repelled, even lo ibe shedding of blood. The bearing of tbe case was then post poned until ibis iiioruiug. - The fugitive on ruday morning was again brought into court. Alter the hearing of tes- : titnony and tbe discussion of certain points of, law, the judge said, (bat as tbe claimant had failed to make out bis cae, the prisoner had a ; right to bis discbarge, and he was accordingly I discharged. ' ! new: IScw Locomolire. it is staled tbat a locomotive engine, on an improved principle, has lately been manufactured at the Great! Northern Works, Boston, which the maker; warrant will run the distance from Boston to! Loudon, 10S miles, with six carriages and two breaks, the usual express train, in one hour; and thirty minutes. This is at the rate of 74 : miles an hour.- The engine will be ready fori trial in very short time. " j i . : ' :jU To Make Hens Lay. The South Caroli nian says a neighbor states that hog's lard i the best thing that he can find to mix wilbjlhe,' dough he gives to hens. He says that one cut, of this fat as Urge at a-walnut, will set a hen lo laying immediately after she has been ro-' ken up from sitting, and ttrat, by leeuing mem with tbe fat occasionally, bis hens continue lay ing through the whole winter. ' r Michigan, with a population of 400,000 has 360miles of railway completed and 330 miles more in course of constructioa and pro jected. ! -
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Oct. 31, 1850, edition 1
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