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VOL. 2. I'roffssionol fc liustnrss Curbs hVITWooIT DAG UERRLO TYPIST, 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 M* 19 It 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.