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MACON, OA.
tzr entrance from the AVENUE.
prl9 ts
RAXI.ROAD HOUSE,
OPPOSITE CENTRAL RAILROAD DEPOT
EAST MACON.
•r* * ‘f S. M. LANIER.
ATTORNEY AT LAYY,
bvkia vista. Marion co., ol
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KELLAM & BELL,
ATTORNEY’S AT LAW & GENERAL LAND AGENTS,
ATLANTA, :::::::::::: GA.
A ill >ractice in DeKalb and adjoining counlies ;
and in thp Supreme Court at Decatur.—Will also vi
•it any p*rt of the country for the settlement of claims
4-c. without suit.
JJTBouNrv Land Claims prosecuted with despatch.
Office on White Hall St., over Dr. Denny’s Drug
Store.
A. a. KELLAM. M. A. BELL.
pTg. ARRINGTON,
Attorney at Law and Notary Public,
Oglc*lliorp<*, .Uaruu Cos.,
dee GEORGIA. 38—ts
J. A. WHITE,
Notary Public, Bounty Land & Pension Agent
CONVEYANCER AND ACCOOTAXT.
(office over the post office.)
julyl2—ls—tf
CITY HOTELT
SAVANNAH,•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•.•••GEORGIA.
P. CONDON.
Terms:—Transient Boarders, per day, S LAO. Monthly an t
•eerl Hoarders iu p.oportion. aprs—y
OSIOKMI A, LOOIHIRAWIg,
ilttoninj nt i'niti,
orriCE OVER BELDEN and co’s. hat store,
Mnlberry Street. Macon. Georgia.
HARDEMAN A HAMILTON,
War* House and Commission Merchants,
MACO.Y, GEORGIA.
HAMILTON A HARDEMAN,
FACTORS &- COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SArjt.V.YAH, GEORGIA.
Will cive prompt attention to all business committed to them
at either place.
TMea. lIRRBEM\N. ( 19—tf> OHiS. T. HAMILTON.
NSW PIJS2*.
DR. G. M. DO.WLI) would respectfully inform the citizrn*
of Macon, and the surrounding country, that he has as
sociated with him in the Denial profession, Dr. Al. J. GAI.LA
GER, late of Wilmington, Delaware.
Dr. biut has had many years experience in the Man
ufacture of Artificial Teeth, and comes highly recommended
for his skill and taste in getting them up either in Blocks or
Single, with or without Gums, so adapted in shape,size and
color, as to suit every variety of case.
As they have the advantage of all the new and valuable
improvements appertaining to the profession, either patent or
otherwise, they feel authorised in promising the people of
Georgia, a style of work far superior to any that hasyetbeen
executed in this Country.
Dr. Gallager has been very successful in the administra
tion of Chloric Ether for the relief of pain in extracting teeth,
and in the Surgical operations of Hospital, as well as private
practice iu New Orleans, Philadelphia. Sic. kc. and he pro
poses to use it here, when desired, or cases my require it.
lie has a preparation for filling doubtful teeth, by the use
of which many are saved, that would otherwise be lost.
Those wishing temporary sets of Teeth, can have them pre
pared an 1 set, as soon as the inflamation from extracting sub
sides.
adr s—ts
FACTORAGE AND
Savannah, Ga.
WM. P. YONGE, N0.94 Bay street, Savannah, continues
tc transact a General Commission Business and Factor
age, and respectfully solicits consignments of t'otton, Corn,
and other produce. 11c will als* attend to receiving and for
warding Merchandize.—
April 5, 1851 ly
FIELD A ADAMS.
FIR E-F K OOF WA R S'.f £ OUSE,
MACON, GEORGIA.
I'MIE undersigned will continue ths Ware-Hovse and Com
. mission Business, at the commodious and well known Fire
Proof Building, formerly occupied by Dyson & Fiuld and the
past season by us. The attention of both the |irtners will be
given to all business entrusted to their care. They respectful
ly solicit the patronage of the public generally. They arc pre
pared to make liberal cash advances on all Cotlwn in store at
the customary rates.
•- IV All orders for Groceries, Bagging and Rope will be fill
d at the lowest market prices. JOHN M. FIELD,
aug9 ts A. B. ADAMS.
BABIUIFULTON & ©©.„
Factor*, & Commission iUcrchants
au C 3O SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. —G-n
I?ANS, of fine, medium aud common qualities, ala, go
supply at E. J. JOHNSON’S.
Cariosities at the World’s Fair.
Coal found in the summit tunnel of the Has
tings and Ashford Railway, three hundred feet
above the sea level.
Magnesia limestone from the Mansfield
Woodhouse quarries re-opened 1840, after a
lapse of several centuries, for the supply of
Materials for the New H mses of Parliament.
Red calcareous sandstone from quarries in work
four hundred years.
Blue flag stone, obtained from Horton Wood
quarries, which have been worked probably
about one hundred years.
Specimen of silver lend, ore, weighing 350
lbs. from the Great Coward silver lead mine.
A block of pure silver weighing more than
140 lbs.
Canister of boiled mutton, supplied to the
Arctic Expedition in 1824 and found by Capt.
Sir James Ross in Prince Regent’s Inlet in
1849, in a perfect state of preservation.
Fine sample of Australian wheat, weighing
64 lbs. per bushel, the produce of Adelaide,
South Australia.
Pure Southdown ewe, stuffed, seven years
old, and which was never shorn. Length of
the wool, 25 inches, weight 36 lbs.
Working model of a pair of non-condensing
bteam engines, standing within the compass
°‘ a shilling, aud weighing three drachms.
Model of a powerful hydraulic press, which
will lift upwards of three thousand tons.
Sewing machine capable of Sewing 500
stiches per minute.
Compass which registers upon paper the
compass course which a vessel has been steered
in for twenty hours.
Model of marine life-preserving deck seat, so
constructed that in three minutes it can be
/sis 4tf sjs, 4. 4ii%.
mm ■ Hit tinsssii
‘ s> v'w -
converted into a raft capable of sustaining eight
persons on the water.
Perpetual motion clock, having no chain or
weight.
Table cover, or bed quilt, 3,320 pieces, and
127 skeins of silk.
A sporting watch, which shows the time to
one sixth of a second.
Clock in a case, which occupied thirty-four
years in completion, with astronomical, chron
ological, and other movements, wind organ, Ac.
Mechanical clock; works without mainspring
or chain, and requires no winding up.
Apparatus for navigating a balloon through
the air by means of paddle wheels and ar.
Archimedean screw.
Artificial leg to enable persons who have lost
the knee, either to walk ride.
Fox’s magnetized balance, weighing to the
ten thousandth part of a grain.
Walking stick, containing an electro galvanic
machine and battery, complete.
Expanding piano forte, for yachts.
A specimen of type, said to be the smallest
ever manufactured in Europe. The whole of
Gray’s Elegy consisting of thirty-two verses, is
contained in two columns, 3 3-4 inches deep.
Patchwork quilt, in 13,500 pieces of silk,
satin, and velvet, and white embroidered
flowers.
Table cover, consisting of 2000 pieces of cloth,
the sole work of the exhibitor, and has occupied
his leisure hours for eighteen years.
A horseshoe, designed to permit the natural
expanding action of the foot of the horse.
Carved book-tray, executed by a ploughman,
in the evening, bv candle light, without the
aid of any model or design, and solely with a
pen knife.
Inlaid marble table, the top contains 700
pieces of 30 sorts of marbles, 10 English and
20 foreign.
Picture frame, inlaid with tortoise-shell and
pearl, composed of 23,000 pieces.
Bed cover of patch work, the number of
pi ces nearly 90,000.
A bird cage containing 2521 pieces, and
composed of twenty-one different kinds of
wood.
Selfacting calculator of surface. The area
of any figure drawn on a plane is found by
moving the tracer over the outline, however
irregular it may be.
Scarlet cloth table cover, braided with up
wards of 2000 yards of black mohair cord,
without patterns or pouncing.
Oval medallion of her majesty, produced by
a single line, of equal thickness, and 299 feet in
length.
Mechanical human figures, eapable of ex
pansion, in perfect proportion, from the stan
dard of the Apollo Belvidere to seven feet high.
For the use of artists, and of manufacturears ot
wearing apparel.
Two vases carved out of a piece of sandstone
from Jerusalem, with an ordinary pen-knife.
Machine moving by the equilibrium of water
and air. Boat moved by the same power.
Clock on the same principal.
A geographical clock, showing the difference
of mean time in all the capitals ot Europe.
A piece of white linen, spun and woven by
hand, having 7000 threads in the warp.
A lump of gold ore weighing three cwt.
A print in Chinese characters. 4200 punches
in these Chinese characters have been cut in
Nte* l for the American Missionary Society in
New York. The types arc divisible on a
perpendicular system, and form by combination
24,000 different characters.
A second watch made of ivory, with gold
screws and steel moving powers. It works ii.
ten rubies, and weighs, (glass and vaseinclud
ed,) only half an ounce.
An octagonal table of inlaid wood, con
taining 3,000,000 of pieces; the arms of Eng
land alone, in a space of three inches by two,
consisting of 53,000 of these pieces.
A watch going one year.
A Berlin wool carpet, executed by one
hundred and fifty ladies of Great Britain. The
dimensions of this carpet has been produced
in the following manner. The pattern, original
lv designed and painted bv the artist, has been
subdivided into detached squares, which have
been worked by different ladies; and on their
completion, the squares have been united, so as
to complete the design. In the pattern, which
consists of geometrical, and partly of floral
forms; heraldic emblems are also introduced.
The initials of the executants are ornamentally
arranged, so as to form the external border.
The whole design is connected by wreaths or
bands of leaves and foliage, the centre group
representing the store from which they have
been distributed. — London Family Friend.
A Hideous Monster.
There exists in French society, remarks
the author of Monte-Leone, and we may add
that it is by no means limited lo French society,
a hideous monster known to all, thongh no one
disturbs it. Its ravages are great, almost
incalculable. It slays reputations, poisons,
dishonors and defiles the splendor of the most
estimable form.
This minotaurus, which devours so many
innocent persons, is especially fearful, because
its blows aie terrible. It presents itself under
rlie midest and gentlest forms, and is received
every where in the city. We find it in oui
rooms, in the interior of our families, in the
palaces of the opulent, and the garrets of the
poor. It has no name, being a mere figure of
speech, a very word. It is composed ol bu;
one phrase, and is called—They say. ‘‘Dm
you know such a one ?” is often asked, and
the person pointed out.
“No; but they say his morals are very bad.
He has had strange adventures, and his family
is very unhappy.”
“Are you sure ?”
“No, I know nothing about it. But they
say so.”
“ This young woman, so beautiful, so brilliant,
so much admired—do you know her! ’
“No. They say that it is not difficult to
please her, and that more than one has done
so ?”
“But she appears so decent, so reserved.”
“Certainly ; but they say ’’
“Do not trust that gentleman who has such
credit and is thought so rich. Be on youi
guard—
“ Bah ! his fortune is immense : see what an
establishment he has.”
“Yes! But they say he is very much in
volved.”
“Do you know the fact f ’’
“Not I. They say though—”
Thisjhey say is heard in every relation of life.
It is deadly mortal and not to be grasped. It
goes hither and thither, strikos and-kiils manly
“ Staiirpnilent in till tljings —Jirntrui in notlpg.”
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1851.
honor, female virtue, without either sex being
ever conscious of the injury done. Each
he reads these lines will remember cas°-
illustrating the truth of what we say.
A Courting Sceuc Spoiled.
Dear Sir : —Having never seen the follow
ing anecdote in print, and deeming it “to good
to be lost,” I take the liberty of sending it to
you for publication. The principal character,
‘ Old Bangs,” was notorious for his use of “die,”
words and often caused much merriment to
his acquaintances by the frequent use of words
not put down in Webster or Walker. But
to the anecdote.
Old Bangs, besides being the owner of a
comfortable farm in the interior of New Hamp
shire, was the happy father of two plump, bright
eyed, romping daughters—seventeen aud nine
teen respectively—whose alluring charms at
tracted many of the beaux around them. A
mongthe smitten throng, two young bucks—
clerks in a store on “the street”—figured con
spicuously. Their visits sadly annoyed the
good man, their father, who, ever careful of
the virtue and good name of his blooming
daughters, had a suspicious eye upon the
movements of the young blades ; thinking. ,>ei
haps, that their attentions were not as honora
ble as every prudent parent would wish them
to be.
One evening our young triends came as usual,
“to see the girls,” and at nine o’clock the “old
folks” retired to their bedroom adjoining the
kitchen, when the young people remained by
the blazing fire.
Matters proceeded very well, until about ten,
when the young gents, thinking, perhaps, that
they might be better understood were they
seated nearer to their dulcineas, edged up
nearer and nearer, until at last, as a matter of
course, the arm of each gallant gently encircled
the tempting waist of either charmer.
Things had now reached a climax.—“ Ole
man !” said the wife, in a whisper, taking her
partner by the arm’ “Ole man ! d’ye see that!”
pointing through the half closed door at our
friends, who seemed in mighty close quarters
with the fair damsels.
“You keep quiet ole ‘email! ‘said he, “I’ve
bin watch'n ‘em for an hour—l’ll fix ,em !” At
this juncture a hearty buss, like the popping of
a cork resounded through the hou>e. “Thunder
and blixens!’’shouted the old man jumping
from the bed; and confronting the astonished
bucks aforesaid, without waiting to don his
trowsers—“Thunder and blixens! D n vez’
Ifyezcome here to lustify ver tarnal gratifica
tions, I’ll skin yez alive! Hum widyez!”anJ
applying his brawny foot, sent them “all flying”
through the door, from a temperature of 120“
Fahrenheit, to say about 10“’ below zero, of a
January night. Turning to find the ‘gals,, he
found them ‘among the missing,’ and returned
grumbling and sputtering to bed.
Our friends, the bucks, agreed on the way
home to ‘keep daik,’ ‘twas of no use; it leaked
out, and a bad cold, with which each was trou
bled afterwards, was laid to going so suddenly
from the fire into the cold air, without ‘wrapping
up’ warm. They never darkened ‘old Bang’s
door afterwards.— Spirit of the Times.
A Picture far Bachelors.
If in that chair yonder—not the one your feet
lie upon, hut the other beside you, closer yet
were seated a sweet faced girl, with a pretty
foot lying out upon the hearth, a hit of lace
running round the throat, and the hair parted
to a charm over a forehead fair as any in your
dreams, and it you could reach an arm through
that chairback without fear of giving offence,
and sutler your fingers to play idly in those curls
that escape down the neck, and if you could
clasp with your other hand those little white
taper fingers of hers which lie so temptingly
within reach, and so talk softly and low in tin*
presence of the blaze, while the hours slip
without knowledge and the winter winds whis
tle uncared for, if in short, you were no bache
lor, but the hu.iband of such a sweet image
dream call it, rather—would it not be far
pleasanter than a cold single night sitting count
ing the sticks, reckoning the length of the blaze
and the height of the falling snow?
Surely imagination would be stronger and
purer if it could have the playful fancies ol
dawning womanhood to delight it. All toil
would be torn from mind-labor, if but another
heart grew into the present, soul-quickening
it, warming it, cheering it, bidding it ever God
speed. Her face would make a halo rich as a
rainbow atop of all such noisome things as we
lonely souls call trouble. Her smiles would
illumine the blackest of crowded cares ; and
darkness that now seats you despondent in yo ji
solitary chair for days together, weaving bitter
dreams, would grow light and thin, and spread
and float away, chased by that beloved smile.
Your friend, poor fellow, dies—never mind ;
that gentle clasp of her fingers, as sho steals
behind you telling you not to weep—-ft is worth
ten friends.
Your sister, sweet one, is dead-buried. The
worms are busy with all her fairness. How
it makes one think earth nothing hut a spot to
dig graves upon ! It is more, ishe says she
will be a sister: and the waving curls, as she
leans upon your shoulder, touch your cheek
and your wet eye turns to meet those other
eyes. God has sent his angel! Is there am
bitterness to a youth alone and homeless like
this ? You are not alone. She is there ; her
tears softening hours, her grief killing yours,
and you live again to assuage that kind sorrow
of hers. Then these children, rosy, fair-haired
no, they do not disturb you with prattlle now ;
they are yours. Toss away there on the green
sward—never mind the hyacinths, the snow
drops, the violets if so be they are there. The
perfume of healthful lips is worth all the
flowers ofthe world.
No need now to gather wild boquets to love
and cherish. Flowers, tree, gun, are all dead
things. Things livelier hold your soul; and
she, the mother, sweetest and fairest of all.
watching, tending, caressing, and loving till
your heart grows pained with tendered jeal
ousy. You have no need now of a cold lec
ture to teach thankfulness; your heart is full of
it—no need now, as once, of bursting blossoms,
of trees taking leaf and greenness, to turn
thought kindly and thankfully; for ever beside
you there is bloom, and ever beside you there
is fruit for which even heart and soul are full
of unknown, unspoken, because unspeakable
thank offerings. —Reveries of a Bachelor.
Men are to be estimated, as Johnson says by
mass of character. A block of tin may have
a grain of silver, but still it is tin ; and a block
of silver may havo an alloy of tin, but still it is
silver.
A Persecuted Man.— A Northern paper
tells the following good one:
Hamilton of the Tribune, was travelling
in the cars, the other day, from Bellefontaine to
Kenton, when he fell iu with a decided char
acter. He was tolerably drunk. Let Hamilton
tell the rest:
He said he lived in Urbana ; that the Meth
odists had a great revival there a year or more
ago, and that more than a hundred were con
verted some years before, and had joined the
church. We asked him him if he still belonged
to it.
“No, said he, “they turned me out for th ■
most frivolous thing in the world; if I’d knowed
they’d a turned me me out for such a little
thing as that I’d never joined,”
Said we, “What did y< u do?”
“O nothing—only i Abel my horse outrun
another fellow’s; L won She money, and then
got drunk, and had two fights. Thai’s all.
And they turned me out for that!”
Gen. Carey, the Temperance Lecturer, is
reported in the. Ciucinati Nonpariel as follows,
speaking of Distilleries about Cincinnati:
“ He said that a good professor owns a dis
tillery that turns out 4J barrels a day and the
ol 1 man takes up his hymn hook everyday and
sings.
“Come thou f >unt of every blessing ” [roars
of laughter] aud as he looks at his prolific
fount he do hi less sings with much truth—
“ Streams of mercy never ceasing.”
There is much wholesome advice contained
in the following few lines:
“ Come here, Kate, love. Now tell me what
does b-e-l-t spell.” “Don’t know, martn.’’
“Ilow stupid ! What is put round your waist
every day? Come, now, speak out. What do
you look so sheepish lor ? answer me directly
—what is put round your waist every day ?”
“Sniggle Fritzzle’s arm but he never kissed
me but once.”
A small bov not more than six years old, in
reply to a man expressing his surprise that a
a baker’s horse did not stait at the explosion ol
crackers around him on the 4th, pertly said.
“Why sir, that horse has carried crackers these
flirty years.”
Economy. —A man who chews §l4 worth
of tobacco annually, and stops his newspaper
because he cannot afford to take it.
ijpiffifvb&l*
From the Chronicle J* Sentinel.
The Alberti base.
We have received from Andrew J. Miller,
Esq. the subjoined authentic report of this
celebrated case, which we publish for the better
information of our readers, as well as all those
persons in Georgia who have been imposed upon
iy tile report copied £\n the Richmond (Va.)
Enquirer, which has bXn so industriously cir
culated throughout by the disunion
organs and their allies. We have already ex
pressed the opinion that the review of the Rich
mond Enquirer was not entitled to credit, and to
the reader will be able to judge how fully that
opinion is sustained after reading the following
report, which is copied from pages 495 to 492
inclusive, of a forthcoming volume of “ Reports
of Select Law and Equity cases,” decided in the
courts of Philadelphia. This, therefore, is tio
newspaper report of the case; made up for polit
ical effect iu the South, but it is an authentic
Law Report, designed to elucidate the princi
ples of law adjudicated; and like all such re
ports is a fair and impartial history of the case.
The reader will perceive that “ the abduction
of the child was—without any form of law being
observed for the arrest of the mother or the child,”
and “ that there was no leyal proof that the
woman was a since, or that Mitchell was the
owner, or that Alberti had any power of Attor
ney or authority to arrest or remove the woman.”
Mr. Miller’s friends, Law Booksellers aud
Publishers iu Philadelphia, who sent him the
pages containing the Report, say of Judge Par
sons, that “He has honesty if not ability : none
who know him doubt his uprightness aud vir
tue, and few public men equal him.
It may not be improper to add that the Re
view of the case published by the disunion or
gans of Georgia, is without name or authority,
was got up with a view to obtain a pardon for
Alberti and Price, as we are informed, aud was
“so grossly unfair in its narrative” that the
counsel engaged against Alberti, refused to at
test its truth. It is circulated in Georgia as a
faithful report, and attempted to be introduced
into the political canvass with a view to make
party capital.
Voters of Georgia, you now have the facts of
this case in an authentic form ; read and digest
them, and mete out to those who have thus at
tempted to deceive you, the measure of your
just indignation.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs Alberti et al.
ihe right of holding negroes iu slavery is one
of tile principles of our government, and recog
nized by the Constitution of the United States.
Tiie master can take his slave when he has
absconded, in any State of the Union, He
must do it peaceably, and use no more violence
than is necessary to accomplish his object. He
can send a duly authorized agent to act for him
in the recovery of his slave. He can have hint
removed under the act of Congress, by an ap
plication to a judge of the United States Court,
or to a commissioner appointed by the said
Couit.
Birth in Pennsylvania gives freedom to the
child of a slave, who lias absconded from an
other State before she became pregnant.
To justify the removal of a negro from the
State of Pennsylvania, to make him a slave for
life or years, it must be proved that he is a
slave. V\ ithout such proof, if the design was
to sell him into bondage, those who caused his
removal are guilty of a misdemeanor. If it is
proved that the mother was a slave, and she
w as not pregnant when she came into the State
and afterwards had a child, if the mother is re
moved as a slave, the child cannot be taken with
her. The child is a tree negro. No slave own
er can take such a child against his will and sell
him into bondage. A child 18 months old can
not give consent to his removal to be made a
slave tor life. Nor can a mother, by her en
treaties and prayers, have such child removed.
If the mother is taken the child cannot be.
If a free negro is carried out of the State by
force, or seduced by artifice and fraud, and car
ried to a slaveholding State, with a view of sel
ling him as a slave for life or years, it is a vio
lation of the Act of 1847, prohibiting kidnap
ping.
J Larch. The bill of indictment charged Geo.
Alberti, James F. Price, and J S. Mitcliel with
the kidnapping of Joel Henry Thompson, a free
male negro child, with the design and intent: >n
of selling him into slavery, as a slave fur life, in
the town of Elkton, and the State of Maryland
Such was the fir>t count. There were nine
counts in the indictment, charging the offence
in various ways aud also a count for a con
spiracy to entice the child away, and sell him
into slavery. It is unnecessary in the report of
the case, to set forth at length the indict
ment,as the main points which arose on the trial,
will be fully comprehended from a brief state
ment of the facts aud the charge of the Court.
There were various questions as to the admis
sibility of testimony which arose on the trial of
the cause, uone of which it is deemed sufficient
importance to state in the report. The abduc
tion of the child was proved to have taken place
on the 14th of Augu>t, 1850, in the county of
Philadelphia, without any form of law being
observed for the arrest of the mother or the
child.
The facts of the case were briefly these. One
Will iam Thompson married a colored woman
in Wilmington in the year 1845, and immedi
ately after they removed to this part of the
country. By her he had two children ; the one
that was the subject of this indictment was a
year and nine mouths old, and was born in New
Jersey.
In August, 1850, Thompson with his wife
and child, were living near Burlington, when
Price, one of the defendants, came to the house
of Thompson, on a gunning excursion, as he
pretended ; the parties were acquainted, and
had been for some time before. Price was treat
ed kindly and hospitably by Thompson and his
wife while with them. Before he left he invi
ted the wife of Thompson to come and see him
self and family when she came down to market
the next week, and urged her trongly to bring
with her the child, saying that his wife desired
very much to see the child, and must be sure to
bring the little boy with her. The woman on
tile following Wednesday went to market at
Philad lphia and tookthechild with her. She
did not return home. On Friday the husband
became alarmed lest something had happened
come to the city in pursuit of her. lie went
immediately to the bouse of Price and inquir
ed for his wife. He was informed by Price
that she ate breakfast at bis house on the pre
vious morning, and that he had not seen her
si nee. It was proved by a number of the neigh
bors of Pi ice that they saw a Colored woman and
child, answering the description of the vvi'e of
Thompson at the house a day or two before she
was missing.
One witness testified that Price and his wife
said she was the wife of Thompson. Price was
seen to go down an alley with the wife and
child and finally seen to take them both to the
house of Alberti. Alberti then employed a
man to drive a carriage with a colored woman
and child to Wilmington, alleging that she had
robbed her master, and he wished to return her
there.
It was proved that the woman and child were
at the house of Alberti most of the day after she
was brought there by Price, and that Alberti
said she had made resistance, but he had quiet
ed her with a ‘ billy,’’ and that there was a
bruise on the head of the woman, as if caused
by a blow.
About four o’clock in the afternoon, on the
14th of August, Alberti took the woman and
child to the carriage, in company with a young
man, his assistant, when the driver started with
them, as he supposed, for the State of Delaw are.
And when arrived at Wilmington, the driver of
the carriage supposed, they were at the end of
their journey ; out Alberti directed him to drive
on, and about eleven o’clock they stopped some
miles below Wilmington, where they stayed all
night, when the driver testified that for tiie tir->t
time, he learned the woman was being carried
oft’ as an alleged slave, and she appealed to him
for protection for herself and child. But he
said lie thought it was not in his power to pro
tect her, and drove them on to Elkton, Mary
and.
Then they stopped at a public house, whn
Alberti went into the country and brought a
man by the name of Mitchell, one ol the defend
ants in the bill of indictment, but not trial,
when he saw the woman exclaimed, “We have
got you, you b—h, at last.”
The woman appealed to the driver, and v g
ged that he would take the child back to its tam
er, and claimed of Mitchell that he should let the
child be sent back. But he refused ; said he
would keep the child, and send her to the
Georgia market for sale. It was also proved
that Alberti said he was to have for his trouolc
one half the mother and child brought, aud that
they were sold for one thousand dollars. Price
said he got seventy-five dollars for bringing the
woman and child to the city.
There was no legal proof that the woman was
a slave, or that Mitchell was the owner, or that
Alberti had any power of attorney or authority
to arrest and remove the woman.
The defendants proved that when the woman
was at the house of Alberti, lie called on Alder
man Allen, who made some order about her
removal ; and that the lawyer wtio Alberti had
at his house with the alderman, told Alberti the
child was free, and that he had no right to take
it. The woman begged if they insisted on tak
ing her, that Alberti should wait till her hus
band could be sent for, in o iler that he might
come aud take the child; but this Alberti re
fused. He offered to let her leave the child
with him but this she refu ed to do, upon the
ground that she feared be would keep the buy
till grown up, and sell him as a slave. This is a
general outline of the facts.
The prosecution was conducted by W. S.
Pierce, David Webster, and D. P. Brown,
Esqrs. and the defence by \Vm. E. Lehman aud
H iiubbell, Esqrs.
Parsons, Judge,charged the jury in substance
as follows :
The decision of this case is of great impor
tance, when considered in its effect upon the lib
erty of our colored population. It is of still
greater importance when we reflect upon the
great question which has recently agitated the
people of the United States, relative to the ex
tradition of persons of color, claimed as fugitives
from labor. In the argument of counsel, it has
not improperly been styled a national question.
It is so, at least, as it may effect the minds of the
community in relation to the rights of the own
ers of slaves, aud on our decision affording prop
er legal protection to the colored race.
If such is the character of the cause, the Court
and jury should approach its consideration with
calm deliberation, and suffer no feelings of sym
pathy for persons of co or, who are legally held
in bondage, to mislead our judgment, or divert
the miud frqra the standard of right. We should
abo direst ourselves of any prejqdic3 which may j
have found a lodgment in the heart, against the
institution of slavery being recognized oy the
laws of some States iu the Union, aud those of
the general government.
The rights of citizens to hold negroes in bond
age for life, in many of the States in the Union,
is recognized by the fundamental law of the
nation. It is a law we are all bound to respect
and obey ; no matter what may be our individ
ual opinions upon the subject of slavery. The
constitution, and the Acts of Congress passed in
pursuance of it, must be enforced in the State
Courts, when a question relative thereto arises
with them, and it b your duty as jurors, to re
gard the law of the nation as much as au Act of
Assembly of our own State.
When a slave has escaped from his master,
under the general law of the United States,
the owner or his authorized agent, lias a light
to pursue the fugitive, and capture him when
ever he can be found ; and no one should ob
struct the ow ner in the exercise of this right
because the law has given him authority for the
recapture of the fugitive, and all interference by
strangers, is a violation of law.
But when the owner of a slave comes into a
free State to regain his property, he mu-t do it
in a legal manner. There are three ways in
which this can be done. The owner can come
to the place where he finds his slave and arrest
him ; it should be done in a peaceable manner,
simply using all the force Recesstiry for the pur
pose ; and remove the slave to his domicil,
which no one has a right to resist in so doing.
If the ownership of the alleged slave be doubted,
it can always be tried before a legal trbunal.
So if the master does not desire to coine in per
son to recapture his slave, he can delegate his
power to a regularly constituted agent, who can
arrest the fugitive in the same wav. When this
is done, the agent must see that his authority is
full and clear, and should be able to show by
competent proof, that such delegation of author
ity is complete.
But the most efficient and satisfactory way of
reclaiming a fugitive, is under the Act of Con
gress, by an application to a judge of the U.
States Court,or commissioner appointed by that
tribunal, where proof is made of the ownership
<*f the slave, and where the person arrested lin
the right to controvert the facts, and show that
he is a free man. If it be established, and the
proof is satisfactory to the judge or commission
er, that the individual arrested is a slave of the
claimant, then an order is made for his removal.
But no one has a right to remove a colored
person from this State, on the allegation that
he is a slave, except it is legally done, under the
constitution and the Acts of Congress. And he
who attempts it, with the intention of selling
the negro as a slave for life, or for years, is
amenable to the criminal laws of this State.
It is a peculiar feature in this case, that we
have no legal evidence, that the wife of Thomp
son, the mother of the child, was a slave; none
on which a judge or commissioner would order
a removal. There is no proof, which would au
thorize a tlavelrtilder to arrest her, none to
show that Alberti or Price had the least author
ity to apprehend her. But the defendants are
not indicted for the kipnapping aud removal of
her, it is for removing the child to Maryland,
with the intention of selling him into bondage,
aud then actually selling him, that constitutes
the offence with which they are charged, and it
is the crime you are to pass upon. Had the
defendants proved (which they have not done)
that the mother was a slave for life, under the
laws of Pennsylvania, the child was free. Fur
it was decided in the case of the Commonwealth
vs. Holloway, 2 S.&R 305, by Chief Justice
Tilgliman, that “ Birth in Pennsylvania, give3
to the child of a slave who had absconded from
another State before she became pregnant.”
This child had breathed the pure air of freedom,
and no human power could legally remove it, to
inhale another atmosphere, that of slavery.
But had it b;cn shown that the mother
was a slave, these prisoners had no authority
to remove her; nor if she was a slave, could
they take the child. Nay, had she even begged
and prayed those who were removing her, to
take her child along with her, and sell it into
slavery. It was a freeman ; and while it is uur
tiuly togive all legal and proper aid to the mas
ter, to enable him to remove his slave, our law
dues not suffer him to take one that is free born,
even if he severs the fond ties of a mother's love
for her child, aud tears asunder all the tender
affections of the human heart. Our law speaks
in the spirit of England’s accomplished poet:
“ l ake then thy b.iuJ, take then thy pound of flesh,
Shed thou no blood ; nor cut thou !es, not more,
But just a pound of flesh.”
Take your slave, but the infant boy, born in
freedom’s land, you cannot take, even to an
swer a mother’s prayer, or to stifle the sobbings
of her breaking heart.
If the jury believe the child was not a slave,
ro was free colored person, and ho was taken
by the prisoners with an intention of selling him
into slavery, it is a violation of our Act of An,*
sembly, passed iu 1316 This Act provides
“tnat if any person or persons shall by force or
violence take or carry away,or cau-e to he taken
or carried or cany away, and shall by fraud or
pretence entice or cause to be enticed, or shall
attempt to take, carry away, or entice, any free
in*gio or mulatto from any part or parts of this
Coin moil wealth to any other place or places
whatsoever, out of this Commonwealth, with a
design and intention ot selling, or causing to be
kept and detained, such free negro or mulatto
as a slave or servant Ibr for life or for any term
whatsoever, every such person or persons, h;s or
their aiders or abettors, shall be deemed guilty
of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction,” <kc.
Your first inquiry under this Act of Assembly,
and the evidence, will be, was this boy a free col
ored person i If we regard the solemn deci-ion
of the Supreme Court ot the State, we are
bound to instruct that he was free born, and in
the language of the law a “free negro.” For
there is no evidence thot his mother or father
were ever slaves. He was b >rn in a State where
freedom is reeogrized. He was in Pennsj I
vania, where in a case like the present he could
not be called a slave, but was a ‘ free negro.”
Was he taken away by force and violence? R
the evidence is believed, he was. No consent
Could be given by him. Both mother and child
were by the mot brutal violence taken against
their will, and carried off Was this done with
the design and intention ol selling too boy as
a “ servant for life, or for any term whatsoever”
in the language of the law / The proof is that
Alberti said, that the mother and child were
sold for one thousand dollars, and he got the
one half, and tha’ Price said he got seventy-five
dollars for bringing the mother and child to Al
berti for that purpose. On the facts adduced
upon tho trial, you will decide upon the inten
tion of these defendants, in their connection with
the affair.
This law would be violated under the follow
ing circumstances. If a free negro is carried out
ot th • Slate by force and violeuee, with the de
sigu and intention of Felling and disposing of
him or causing him to bo sold, or to be kept
and detained as a servant for life or any term
whatsoever. So if by fraud or false pretence a
negro is enticed or caused to be enticed away
for the purpose above mentioned, then the crime
Is complete. So if one shall attempt so to take,
carry away or entice any free negro or mulatto
from any part of this Commonwealth with the
design and iuteution of selling and dis|*osing of r
or causing to be sold or kept any such free ne
gro or mulatto, for the purpose of making liiin
a slave or servant for life, or for any other term
whatsoever, then under such a state of facta the
law is violated.
This indictment charges the offence in the
various forms mentioned in the Act of Assem
bly, and it is for you to determine under the
evidence that has been adduced whether the
law has been violated. The Court have pre
sented a brief outline of the facts. They are
all fresh within your recollection, and we have
given what is conceived to be a correct exposi
tion of I lie law, and a fair and legitimate con
struction of the Act of Assembly, and we leave
tire cause for the consideration of the jury,
No prejudice, against slavery should have the
ltast influence upon your minds, whatever mey
be your personal v iews as to the propriety of thi
institution in our government. The authority
to hold slaves is a part of the law of the Union,
and we have no right to disregard it. While it is
equally clear, unless a negro is a slave for life,
no human being has any right to sell him into
bondage or attempt to make him a slave for life.
While slavery is tolerated by law, the kidnap
ping free negroes is equally abhored by the law.
and of the better feelings of humanity, both in
the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States.
Before any one can be held as a servant for life,
it must be dearly shown that he is a slave. Be
fore a negro can be removed from the soil of
Pennsylvania against his will, it must be clear
ly established that lie is in laic a slave. If that
is not shown, and a negro is removed against
his will, and by any of the means pointed out
by the act of Assembly of 1847, and with the
design therein expressed, then lie whocausesit
becomes a violater of the law, and his acts are
made criminal.
Alberti and Price were found guilty, r. and the
first named was sentenced to an imprisonment
of ten years, and the other for eight years in the
Eastern Penitentiary.
Louis, the inimitubie sketcher of the
North Mississippi Union, thus hera’ds Quit
man’s approach. There is truth and fancy in
ihe picture:
Mkn with Heads!—Our distinguished
Yankee friend, Gen. Quitman, will vLit you
on tht* Ist of August, lor the purpose of asking
your Votes. He is a live Yankee, asperirr :of
the ame brand can be seen at our office c■ a. i Iv,
bpi ween t he hours of 3 o’clock a. M. and 4 P
M. (Sundays excepted.)
By way of parable, let us picture him:’
Before him a crowd of Tax Collectors.
Above him a Flag of fifteen stars. Around
him a cmnmitee of Safety. Behind him a Stan
ding Army. And in his pockets 8*200,009
School Fund.
He comes up to one of you (remember thus
a parable), runs his hand down into your pock
et—hauls out the “truck,” such as dimes, to
bacco, and jack-knives—takes all the money
fi>r the tax of the Extia Session, Convention,
dsc.—and puis the rest of the truck back.
lie then catches hold of your bead.
“Is this your head ?” asks he.
“Yes.”
‘‘We'l, tir, ifyou wear it in this State, hear-
After you must pay two dollars extra for the
privilege, so that l can support a standing ar
my.”
Here he raps on it with his knuckles, to see
if it’s one of his’n; if it sounds like an empty
gourd, it’s full of ‘‘chivalry.” and ho winks
knowingly to himself—hut if it sounds fir:r
it’s foii of common sense and he draps it, as
quick as be would a hot potatoe*
Men with heads, who wish to pay two col
lars for the privilege of wearing ’em ,can bt
accommodated by voting for our Yankee friend
Quitman.
A Yankee Trick.—We hare says tbs
Miss. Union.) taken the whole department o
Yaukeeism, in Mississippi under our own eon
tro!—therefore it is incumbent on us as a faith
ful sentinel on the watch tower, and all tha
sort of thing, to “keep an eye out,” any thing
in that line we see “sticking out,”
We learn that a few months a g o , in Yalb
hu*ha county, a few of the South Carolina clr
airy, established an association — with the f
lowing articles of faith:
The members of this Association do golem
promsie to faithfully support and carry oul th
following atiides:
Art.lst. We will employ no Yankee Doe
tor, Lawyer, or School.master.
Art. 2nd- We will not take the time from
Yankee clock.
Art. 31. We will not snuff a Norther
breeze, whenever we can snuff a Southern cr-
Art. 4th. We will not eat Dutch satis”
Ohio. tl -ur. Herkimer cheese, and K <-r
---booker sour-krout.
Art oth. We will not wear Yankee auspe
ders dickeys and little heeled boots.
AktGili. We wili not take Yankee Pa
pills.
Art 7th. We’ll not hoy nor use Yan ?a
made fine combs and pocket hankerchieb
And 6o on to the 24ih Art.
The first man that signed this, was agr -
legged, knock kneed, overgrown, double-:
rad-headed, tallow-faced, lantern-jawed c
eyed, hump-shouldered flat-fooled,
Yankee, by the name of Smith, only t
months from the land of the baswood-r ams,
wooden nut-megs, and horn-gun 0t s— c.i
nec-tient ; so green when he started, hom r me
that a card was pinned to his back, so that if be
lost his way he might he directed I on e.
For a live Yankee only thi.* a months from
C mneclicut, to be tire first to sign a Southern
Bights Association, pledging himself not to
suppport any Northern mars daetttre, is the
richest‘‘Yankee Trick,” we have heard offer
a long time.
Wo learn that a project is now on foot (say*
iho Charleston Courier) in Calii'crr.ia, t v many
leading men, strong politician-, to h;iog a'rmut
a division of that State, to enable them to in
troduce slavery, and slave labor into the South
ern half of iU
NO. 26.