Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8208 & S. 25099, John Garner, Continental Va

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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Va

Garner, John
Matilda

NUMBER
N8208
S.25099

CONTENTS

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[illegible] March
14, 1837


[illegible]


3643

[illegible]
Matilda Garner

widow of John Garner
Va

who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private of Infantry.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued 31 day of [illegible] 1836 and sent to [illegible] J. Peace

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1835, page 198, Vol.

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Letter to G. [illegible] Pen Agt [illegible] July 20 1836

Letter to [illegible] Pen Agt [illegible]

30.549
[illegible]
John Garner

[illegible] in the State of Alabama as a Pr. [illegible] in the company commanded Captain [illegible] of the reg.t commanded Cal. [illegible] on the Virginia [illegible] for 2 years.

[illegible] on the Roll of Alabama [illegible] rate of 100 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 183[illegible]

Certificte of Pension issued the 8 day of April 1836 - and sent to [illegible] Lyon, [illegible]

[illegible] to the 4th of March 1836 $300. 
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Sept [illegible]

50.--

[illegible]

{Revolutionary [illegible] Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, Book [illegible].2 Vol. 8, Page 98

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31.745

John Garner
Alabama

Allowed [illegible] yrs
[illegible]
$[illegible]
on Roll

[illegible]

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The State of Alabama
Wilcox County 

On this 27th day of July 1834 Personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable John W. Bridges Judge of the County Court now in session, John Garner a resident of said county, + state, aged Seventy Six years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of United States, he believes in the year One thousand seven hundred + seventy six with Capt -- Handey and served in the regiment Commanded by Col. Henry Lee the number of the regiment he does not remember but he served under the following named officers to wit Col Henry Lee Major -- Agleston, + Capt Handy + Lieutenant Manning. That he does not remember the precise times that he left the service, but he remembers that it was a short time after the surrender of Cornwallis. That at the time he entered the service he resided in Prince William County in the State of Virginia, that had inlisted [enlisted] for and during the war and that he and that he served from the time of his enlistment until he was discharged
as above mentioned, the time that he served, he was a little over five years. After he enlisted he marched from his residence to Petersburg in the State of Virginia where they remained a few days. Then marched Southward
into North and South Carolina when they had

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frequent Skirmising with the Tories. He was engaged in the attack which was made on the British and Tories in George Town in S. Carolina. he was then marched to the northwest part of that State, that the command of Col. Lee, was sent against - the enemy at Agusta [Augusta] (Georgia), that he himself was not engaged in the Contest in Agusta that at that time, he was sick & unable to do duty; he was engaged in the battle at Guilford under General Greene in this battle he was wounded by a shot in the hand which caused him to loose (sic) two of his fingers, entirely, & two others much disabled, after he was wounded, he still remained with the Army, and returned from Guilford again into South Carolina, he was at the Siege at Ninety-six- and was in the neighborhood of Eutaw Springs at the time the battles there was fought - but = not- having recourse from the wound which he rec.d - at - Guilford he was not in the Battle. The declarant further States that afterwards and at the time he was discharged that he was Stationed near Bacons Bridge, near Charleston, in Said State. He further states that under the Act of Congress of the 12th July 1842. entitled an act - concerning invalid Pensioners, he did apply and has recd a pension, and that his name is inscribed on the pension Roll of the Georgia Agency. and that his name is not on the pension Roll of any other agency.
The declarant further states that he did receive

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a discharge from Col. Henry Lee, but dis not now know what has become of it - Some years after the revolutionary war he removed from Virginia to North Carolina, he remained there a few years, & then went into South Carolina, where he resided several years then he moved into the State of Georgia, where he remained until the year 1818, when he removed to Alabama, in which State he now resides.
The declarant further States that his knowledge now of the circumstances of his Service has depended alone upon his memory, which he finds very defective particularly ats to dates and times, that he never could read or write, and that the knowledge which he has of his age is derived from the record of it in this Fathers Bible, that in the year 1808, he visited his native place in Virginia, and assertained (sic) his age. Since which time he has [illegible] account- of it, and that agreeable to his Fathers record, he will be seventy six years of age on the 29th day of August next.
     
John  X  Garner
 his  mark
Sworn to ^in open Court and subscribed this 7th of July And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.
JW Bridges
Judge of the C Co

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I D. C. smith clerk of the County Court of Wilcox county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applciation of John Garner for a pension in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office. this 27th day of July A.D. 1834
D. C. Smith  Clk.

(written sideways on Conf. $100 on Roll
clk

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In open Court this 22d day of October 1855
State of Florida
County of Walton
On this 22nd day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before the Circuit Court of the Western District of the State of Florida, Matilda Garner, a resident in the County and State aforesaid, aged forty seven - years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3rd February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of John Garner, who was a private of Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution; that previous to his death, the said John Garner was, in receipt of a pension for his said services, under the Act of the 7th June, 1832, and that he was paid at the Agency at Mobile, Alabama, (as will be seen by reference to Book E. 2 Vol 8 p. 98 in the Pension Office) and she refers to the evidence filed by him when said pension was obtained. 
She further declares, that she was married to the said John Garner on the 24th day of June eighteen hundred and Forty -- ; that her said husband died on the twenty second day of March A. D. 1846. that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, Eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow.
           her
Matilda  X  Garner
           mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
J. J. Finley
Judge of Ct. Ct. for Western Jud.l Ct.

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State of Florida
County of Walton
I hereby certify that Jesse J. Finley, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, is, and was, at that time, Judge of the Circuit Court for the Western Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida, duly commissioned and Sworn-
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, as clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, this 23nd day of October in 1855
Giles Bowers Clerk
Walton Co Circuit Court

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The State of Alabama}
Wilcox County}
Know all men by these presents that We John Garner & David Hillman are held and firmly bound unto Arthur P. Bagby Govenor (sic) os the State of Alabama, and his successors in office in the just and full Sum of two Hundred Dollars: for the due and faithful payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves our heirs executive administration and asigns (sic) jointly and Severally firmly by these presents, Sealed with our Seals and dated this 24th day of June AD 1840.
The Condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the afore bound John Garner hath this day obtained license to be joined in the holy State of Matrimony to Miss Matilda Hicks of said County. Now therefore should there be no lawful cause why said Marriage should not be solemnized, then this obligation to be void, Otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue
       his
John  X  Garner   Seal (circled)
       mark
         his
David  X  Hilman  Seal (circled)
        mark

The State of Alabama}
Wilcox County}
To any ordained or Licensed Minister of the Gospel, Judge of the Court or Justice of the Peace for said County, Greeting:
You are hereby authorized to Celebrate the rites of Matrimony between John Garner and Miss Matilda HIcks and for so doing this shall be your authority, given under my hand this 24th day of June 1840.
Jos Fairly Clerk

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This will certify that I did solemnize the rite of Matrimony between the above named, 24th day of June 1840.
P. F. Stearns MG

The State of Alabama}
Wilcox County}
I John A Jackson
Judge of Probate for said County, hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true and Correct transcript from the Records on file in the Probate Court of Wilcox County Ala, of the Marriage Bond, and License of John Garner and the return or Certificate of the Minister Celebrating the rites of Matrimony between John Garner and Miss Matilda Hicks.
Given under my hand & seal of Office this 20th day of June AD 1855
John A Jackson
Judge of Probate
Wilcox County
Ala

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Additional Evidence;
in claim of Mrs. Gurmen for revolutionary pensions filed by Birchett & Donning
Washington City
D.C

(written sideways on page)
Lino Morrison to C. C.
By D. L. Campbell D.C.

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State of Florida}
Walton, County} Set
On this 10th day of December 1855, personally appeared before me H. R. Cannon a justice of the peace for said County John Servin and Lewis Miller and N. J. D. Cawthon to me well known persons entitled to full faith and credit who being first duly sworn do depose & say that they have been for years well acquainted with Mrs. Matilda Garner - that she is the widow at this time of John Garner decd, who in his lifetime drew a pension from the Government under the act of 7 June 1832 for his services in the Revolutionary War, which said pension, of $100 per annum was paid him at the agency at Mobile Alabama -
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 10th day of Decr 1855, & I hereby certify that I am in no wise interested in this claim.
H. R. Cannon J.P. 

John Servin
Lewis Miller
W. G. D. Cawthon

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State of Florida}
county of Walton}  Set
I Jno. Morrison clerk of the Circuit Court of Walton County in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that H. R. Cannon who has given the aforesaid certificate is & was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & qualified, that the signature thereto is in his own proper handwriting & that full faith & credit are due to his official acts.
In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & affix my official seal this 12 day of Decr. 1855.
Jno. Morrison Clerk
By D.L. Campbell J.P.

(written sideways on page)
Additional Evidence, in claim of Mrs. Garner for revolutionary pensions filed by Birchett ^ Donning
Washington City D.C.

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Matilda Garner
[illegible] Atty.
Birchett & Downing

Filed by Brichett & Downing

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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Matilda Garner of Walton county, Florida, have made constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint Richard T. Birchett and Charles W. Downing (firm of Birchett and Downing) of Washington City, D.C. my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, place, and stead to ask for demand and receive of and from the United States, or any of its officers, any and all sum or sums of money that may be due me for arrears of pension acruing or accrued to me to virtue of the death of my husband, John Garner; - they are also hereby authorized & empowered to prosecute , recover, & receive the pension due me under the act of February 3. 1853 giving and granting unto my said attorneys, full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as full, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorneys, or their substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. 

In Witness wehreof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the     day of    in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty=five}
In presence of Daniel K. McDonald - Justice of the Peace
           her
Matilda  X  Garner
           mark                 (Seal)

State of Florida}
Walton County.} 
I Hereby Certify, That Daniel K. McDonald Esq., who subscribed the foregoing power of attorney officially as a witness, was at the time of so doing a Justice of Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County, this 22nd day of October 1854 -
Giles Bowens Clerk
Circuit Court W. C.

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Ghentsville 3rd Feb 1857
Hon Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir
please inform me whether Messer Birchett & Downing collected from your office - 306 dollars for Mrs. Garner the widow of John Garner a revolutionary Soldier in the War of 1812 they Birchett & Downing writes to me that she can only draw from 1853 though John Garner has been dead Some 9 or ten years. which has been proved before the Circuit Court in Walton county Florida. If they have collected the money it has not yet been paid you will please write to Me soon
My address Ghentsville Fla
PS we think she is entitled the pay from her husbands death
Respectfully
John Ghent

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Brief in the case of Matilda Garner Widow of John
County and State of Florida
act 3 Feb 4 1853

Claim, ("original" (or "for increase." crossed out))
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was pensioned under the Act of June 7 1832 at $100 a year-
Record of marriage

((If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so what? crossed out)
Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage, her identity as the pensioner's widow, his death, and her present widowhood proved by credible witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
Messer Birchett & Downing
Present

Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk

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Matilda Garner
Widow of John 
Florida
adm.d Feby 3 1833
$100 a year from the passage of the act

Cert to Messer Birchett & Downing
Present

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Washington, Jany 22 1856

Hon J. Minot
Com.r of Pensions
Sir,
Herewith, we file the testimony required by you, in letters of Nov. 21, 1855, in the case of Mrs. Matilda Garner, widow of John Garner dec.d for Revolutionary pensions -
We have the honor to remain
Very respectuflly
Your obt Servts
Birchett & Downing.

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Washington, Nov. 16, 1855.
Hon J. Minot
Comr. of Pensions
Sir,
Herewith, we file power of attorney & declaration, of Mrs. Matilda Garner, widow of John Garner decd. a pensioner under the act of 7th June 1832.
We respectfully request that any arrears of pension, be paid to us for her, & that she be placed on the pension roll under the act of 3rd Feby 1853 - 
We have the honor to remain, Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servts,
Birchett & Downing

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Wilcox C. H A
State of [illegible]

Hon Francis L. Lyon
Washington City
DC
(written sideways on page)
Pension office
John Garner Alabama

Hon. F.S. Lyon

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Wilcox Ctt 29th Feby 1836

Dear Sir,
I am requested by Mr. John Garner a citizen of the County & a revolutionary soldier to ask you attention to his claim for a pension. Hie is now a pensioner under an act of Congress passed in 1812." concerning invalid pensioners," But under the provisions of the ^later law he is not excluded on account of his present pension. His declaration and all the proof in support of his claim is on file I presume in the proper department at Washington. His claim has been suspended on account of his services not being stated with sufficient certainty to satisfy the department that the services were rendered. He is entirely illiterate and is making out his statements has had to rely upon his memory alone. He is old and very infirm & in very indigent circumstances, I should think in the absence of positive proof that the fact of his receiving a pension as an invalid would be entitled to some consideration. The proof which was necessary to entitle to the benefits of the act of 1812 was made many years ago when his memory could secure with more certainty to past events and when it was in his power to provide the testimony others. He says that He cannot now state from memory any further facts in relation to his services than he has already done. There can be no doubt that the applicant is the identical John Garner who receives an invalid pension under the act of 1812. He has the certificate from the war department, and he is disabled in the hand from a wound received in the battle at Guilford 
Your attention will oblige Mr. Garner & will confer a favor upon your friends
Hon. F. S. Lyon
John W. Bridges

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31.745
John Garner
Alabama
let D.C. Smith 22 Augt
1834
on (Georgia crossed out) Alabama Roll as an invalid

Suspended
allowed 
2 yr p Can
$100
Hon. F. S. Lyons
(J.W. Bridges crossed out)
(D. C. Smith crossed out)
Clk Co
Wilcox C.N.
Alabama

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WAR DEPARTMENT
Pension Office,

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace (thus:  }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling (sic) with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

A Statement, shewing the Service of 
(a table with columnar headings; there are no entries in the table)

Period when the service was rendered.
Duration of the claimant's service.
Years.
Months.
Days.
Rank of the claimant.
Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. 
Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service.
Proof by which the declaration is supported.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
James L. Edwards,,
Commissioner of Pensions

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service. but not those who were occasionally employed with, the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops. Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of County of }ss.
On this day of personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of in the county of and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) , with and served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I of the Court of do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of &c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Clerk of the Court of do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but it neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

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alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore. these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6. To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?
To un Officer. Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace. the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. [b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of bis service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:
For year months, and days, I served as a ; For mouths and days, I served as a and for such service I claim a pension."
{It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with au embodied corps called into service by competent authority that lie was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The notes from [a] to [j] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

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J. L. Edwards, Esqur
Com.r of Pensions
Washington City

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Branch Bank State
of Alabama at Mobile - 24 May 1836

Sir

In obedience to your order of the 8th last: I inscribed on my roll the name of John Garner. Pri(?) Cavalry, a Revolutionary Pensioner, at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum commencing on the 4th March 1831 sol under the act of the 7th June 1832. ^1832: and this day the Pensioner applied for payment and proves to be the same individual to whom a Pension was granted 29th March 1814 on account of wounds received by him in the Revolutionary War.
Although I am satisfied that Mr. Garner is fairly entitled to both Pensions granted him, his pension

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affording unquestionable evidence of his disabilities by wounds obtained in battle, from acquiring a support by labor; and his respectable standing in society independently of the significant proofs presented to the War Department from which his certificate, of Pension were granted satisfies me that he is a fit object of the nation gratitude & liberality. Yet as no mention is made of his former pittance by you in and erring his name inscribed on my Roll for this last acct of justice & kindness I have thought it proper to pay him only one hundred dollars as an advance on his claim of $100 per annum from 4th March 1831 to 4th March 1836 and await your instruction

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upon his case now presented to you, (and crossed out) His great age & infirmities calls for prompt payment of every cent due him & I shall be happy to receive your instruction as early as practicable.
Respectfully,
Your obt serv.-
Geo. S. Gaines
Pred.t ^ Pension ag

J. L. Edwards Esq
Pen Agt

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Minot 10 March 1840
Sir
Jno Garner a revolutionary soldier under act 7 June 1832 as $100 per annum has this day called for his pension for 4 March 1839 to March 1840 which I paid. he then presented another Certificate as an Invalid Pension. dates 29 March 1814 at the rate of Two dollar & fifty cents per month. But he claims Four (underlined) dollars per month, believing there might be some mistake on this subject I have thought it most prudent to decline paying him on two separate Certificates untill (sic) I can have your Authority. his name is on my roll in two places first at $100 per annum as a voluntary soldier of Dragoons under act 7 June 1832 and as an Invalid as above states but he says his invalid pension was increased from 2 50/100$ to $4 per month

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of this I have no evidence and again I did sub suppose that any pensioner could be permitted to hold two Certificates and had Supposed that the last Certificate at $100 per annum had included or was intended to include the which please inform me whether I should pay the $48 on the invalid pension Certificate he has left it here with a fund [illegible] at when I hear from you.
With great respect
Your obt Sert
Jno B. Hogan

The Hon J. L. Edwards 

An

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courageous passengers, and contributed h to keep up the spirits of those who other- might have sunk under the awful terrors he scene.
On December the 25th Captain Watkins ke the brig Napoleon, about noon, which mised to lie by the perishing vessel. She appeared, however, in the night of the 26th d was not again seen.
On the 28th, a new hope in the shape of the rk Kilby, of Boston, appeared, which promised lie by. After incredible difficulty, one hun-d souls were transferred from the wreck to vessel, which on the 30th, was driven out sight by a fresh storm. On the 31st the tish ship Three Bells, Captain Creighton, 
ship was leaking and almost disabled. After four days of terrible suffering, 230 passengers were embarked on board the Three Bells, and about 225 on board the Antartic. Captain Watkins was the last to leave his ship, which foundered, it is supposed, soon after all were safe on board the other vessels.
"The total loss of life in this disastrous wreck was 200.
"Too much praise cannot be given to the conduct of Captain Creighton, and of the captains of the Kilby and Antartic. All did their duty like men; and it is seldom that more instances of individual courage have been displayed than in the midst of the awful scenes we have briefly described. "

to be an Indian ght his piece to a only became aware of his mistake as finger rested on the trigger.
I have had great trouble to keep him from ping the fastenings of the door and rushing " said Gertrude.
Well, let him go - Ii will see to him;" and the Major, in as few words as possible, ed what had occurred since he was last in ouse.
ain taking a hurried look at the upper line e stockade, Hargrave entered the swell- to get the knives and axes before mention-
He found the children awake, crying, and dled, and Aunt Chloe in a similar state of ement. Somewhat pacifying the former, few hasty words, kindly spoken, and re-ng the latter in a stern tone of displeasure, caught up the implements he sought, and ied out, bidding Gertrude keep the door med, and be ready to admit him at a mo-t's notice.
Is there any hope that we may escape fall- into the hands of these monster?" asked latter, in a low, anxious tone, as she was ut closing the door.
There is hope, Gertrude," replied Har-e; "but I should not conceal from you, we can only save ourselves by a desperate ggle. The savages are quiet now - but it is because they are plotting how best to cir-vent us - and ere long the contest will begin rnest."
May God have mercy on us, and deliver rejoined the other, retiring and closing oor.
e Major now repaired to the negroes, and ed each an axe and a knife.
Where is Jacob?" he asked, looking d.
ar, Mas'er," answered Dick, pointing to outhwestern angle of the stockade, where simpleton was crouching down, to avoid g seen by Hargrave.
Come Roley," said the Major, kindly, is not place for you- you must go in, and with Gertrude and the children."
moonling got up, came slowly forward d Hargrave, and began to cry. 
don't want to go in," he said.
hy not, Roley" 
ecause I couldn't do anything in the to help you." 
or here either, my poor fellow." 
ou think me of no account, and all be- I'm a fool," sobbed the simpleton.
n the contrary," returned Hargrave, in tle ton," I think you of so much account, should grieve if harm befell you; and fore I wish you to go inside, where you be safe so long as we shall be able to stand the attacks of our blood thirsty foes. u-"
e sentence was left unfinished - for at that nt a hurtling arrow passed between the ker and the simpleton, and quivered in the logs beyond. Hargrave recoiled a pace, an exclamation of surprise and alarm- he arrow, in an oblique line downward, had ed within an inch of his face. He looked out no foe was to be seen; and calling to negroes to be on their guard, he hurried to his own particular post, trembling lest ould find his temporary absence had given advantage to his enemies.
tily sweeping the top of the wall with his he next looked to the fastenings of the and finding all secure, he drew a long of relief, and resolved henceforth to be watchful and guarded. He then reprimed le, keeping a wary look-out for the en- nd leaning the piece against the stockade, k up another, (he had four altogether) he had placed there after arming the previous to his shooting the savage. d likewise reprimed, and returned to its putting the axe beside it; and then bra- back against one of the palisade posts, nging his favorite weapon into a good po-or a quick aim, he awaited, in anxious the next hostile movement of the 
r the simpleton, the moment Hargrave left him, he turned to the arrow which had so nearly proved fatal to his benefactor, and the point of which had been driven deeply into one of the logs of the cabin, and drawing it forth, coolly examined it, with an air of idle curiosity. While standing thus, he heard a distant twang, a whizzing sound, and, almost at the same instant, another shaft, with lightning velocity, passed close by his head, and buried its point in the same log as the first, and within an inch of the same spot.
"O-ho, Mr. Savage: is that your game?" he muttered looking up. "You shoot from the sky, so you? but you don't stand on nothing, as any fool might know; and so on what you do stand is clearly manifest."
Drawing the second arrow from the log, he quickly advanced to the stockade to avoid further exposure, and followed this round till he came to Hargrave.
"See!" he whispered, holding out the arrows: "here are two of Beelzebub's cards, inviting us to a goblin frolic."
"Tso?" returned Hargrave, in surprise.
"Yes, Major - one came since you left- but don't let us accept the invitation."
"Ha!" said Hargrave, uneasily; "two arrows shot into the enclosure, and the Indian living to repeat the daring feat! I fear Dick's eyes are not quick and keen enough for his post!"
"Why, sir, you shouldn't blame Dick for not seeing what is not to be seen" returned Jacob.
"You were there when the first arrow arrived - did you see where it came from?" 
"Some Indian must have climbed the stockade, and shot it from the top. True, I did not see him - but I think, if I had been in Dick's position, I should have seen him the second time."
"No!" said the simpleton, positively; "no, Major, you would not. I know where the Indian was and is," he continued; "and he was and is where you do not suspect him to be."
"And where is he then? If you know, speak!" said Hargrave, quickly.
The simpleton was about to give a correct answer, when his hand accidentally rested on the barrel of the rifle that stood leaning against the palisade. Had it been light enough to have seen his features at that moment, the observer would have been struck with the expression of idiotic cunning which they displayed. 
"In the air, Major - in the air," he said in reply to Hargrave's question.
"Go, Roley - go into the house," rejoined the Major, kindly. "Heaven never made you for such scenes as these - and you will only get killed, without doing us any service." 
The simpleton seemed to slink away as Hargrave ceased speaking- but, unperceived by the latter, he carried the rifle with him. As soon as he believed himself entirely beyond the Major's observation, he both laughed and danced, but without making any noise. When he had thus given sufficient vent to his hilarious feelings, he began a seris of operations, the design of which, if design there was, might have puzzled any one of more brains than Jacob to make out. He first crept round to the spot where the arrows had lodged, and, laying his rifle down alongside the cabin, deliberately took off his coat, keeping his person the while as close to the ground as possible. Then placing the coat over the muzzle of the piece, he laid himself flat on his back, and raising the garment high above his head, moved it slowly to and fro, keeping his eyes at the same time on the upper line of the stockage. 
The ruse was successful; for in less than a minute, an arrow, from an unseen source, pierced the garment, and pinned it to the cabin. We say from an unseen source came the arrow - for he who shot it remained invisible, and not so much as a shadow was seen along the top of the wall. 
The simpleton, however, seemed perfectly satisfied with the result, and at no loss what to do next. With great caution he removed the coat form the arrow, leaving the latter sticking in the log; and then carefully cocking the rifle, he placed the breach against the cabin, a little 

back to the gate, and at once felt for the weapon in question. To his surprise, his utter astonishment, he found it on the very spot where he had placed it.
"This is wonderful!" he said to himself, as he returned to the negroes.
but danger was pressing, and he made no further remark to them on the subject. After giving them some instructions in a low tone, the three advanced to the front wall. Carefully withdrawing the block from the loop hole nearest the gate, the Major, exercising the greatest caution, peered through the aperture. Within a few feet of him stood a number of dusky, half-naked savages, all seemingly intent upon their task of hewing down the gate. 
Perceiving he was not observed, the Major drew back and then slowly and cautiously the muzzles of the three rifles were pushed through the little opening, in an oblique direction. The moment these were fairly brought to bear upon the group of dusky forms, Hargrave, in a tone that was intentionally raised to a perfect yell, cried:
"Fire!"
Like one piece, with a single report, the three rifles belched forth their deadly contents; and four savages, one dead, two mortally wounded, dropped to the earth, with cries of pain. For a moment their companions stood paralyzed with surprise and terror; and then, with screeches and yells, loud and wild, they suddenly bounded away down the knoll, leaving the wounded at the mercy of their foes.
It was now that Hargrave, acting wholly from impulse, and with a reckless daring worthy of a madman, threw down his rifle, seized his axe, tore open the gate, rushed out, brained the deserted Indians, gather up their weapons, and bounded into the enclosure, escaping unharmed. All this was the work, as it were, of a single minute; and not till it was over, did the Major fairly comprehend his own fool-hardiness- Then, trembling at the thought, that he had for the time perilled not only his own life, but lives of those he held more dear than his own, he grew weak as a child, and leaned against the stockade for support. 
"What a thing is man, when reason loses control!" he muttered: "a mariner without a compass - a vessel without a helm."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

Presence of Mind. - the Calders, of Calder, were descended from a brother of Macbeth, to whom, on his assumption of the crown, he resigned the thanedom of Cawdor. They ended in an heir as, Muriella Calder, who was captured in childhood by John of Lorn and the Campbells, whilst walking out with her nurse near Calder Castle. Her uncles pursued and overtook the division to whose care she had been entrusted, and would have rescued her but for the presence of mind of Campbell of Inverliver, who, seeing their approach, inverted a large camp-kettle, as it to conceal her, and commanding his seven sons to defend to the death, hurried on with his prize. The young men were all slain, and when the Calders lifted up the kettle, no Muriella was to be found. Meanwhile, so much time had been gained, that further pursuit was useless. The nurse, at the moment the child was seized, bit off a joint of her little finger, in order to mark her identity, - no unnecessary caution, as appears from Campbell of Auchinbreck's reply to one, who, in the midst of their felicitations on arriving safely in Argyle, asked what was to be done should the child die before she was marriageable? "She can never die," said he, "so long as a red-haired lassie can be found on either side of Lockame." John of Lorn and his captive were afterwards married. 

PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF MARIE ANTOINETTE._- Her precocious beauty elipsed that of Madame du Barry, the favorite of Louis XV., and the modern Phryne. But the beauty of Madame du Barry was that of a courtezan; the beauty of Marie Antoinette was that of a princess. Nature had adorned her with all the gifts that made her, as a woman, an object of admiration , and, as a Queen, an object for adoration; in shape tall, her movements were swanlike in carriage and deportment; in elegance such as to lose nothing of her majesty; her hair was blonde and silken, and its warm tints reminded the beholder of the wavy tresses of a Titian; a lofty oval forehead, like to those of the fair daughters of the Danube; eyes of liquid azure, in which the calm and the tempest of the soul made the look by turns sleep or undulate; the nose slightly aquiline; the mouth Austrian, of her family, that is, a mingling of pride and of a smile; the chin turned up; her color heightened by the chill climate of the north; an irresistible grace shed like a youthful vapor over all her features, and which did not allow her to be viewed but through an atmosphere of fire or of inebriation. -- Larmatine's History of the continent Assembly. 

down, and how you wondered what people meant by calling the moon "cold;" how you wound up your watch half-adfozen times a day, and hadn't the slightest idea whether you were eating geese of grindstones for dinner; how affectionately you nodded to Mr. Brown, of whom her father bought his groceries; how complacently you sat out the minister's seventh-l lie by her side at church; how wolfy you felt if any other piece of broadcloth approached her; how devoutly you wished you were that little bit of blue ribbon round her throat; and how one moonlight night, when she laid her head against your vest pattern, you --- didn't care a in-julep whether the tailor ever got paid for it or not! Now, just imagine her paps, stepping in and deliberately turning all that cream to vinegar; wouldn't you have effervesced? Certainly.
See that little army of boots in the entry ouside the doors. May I need a pair of spectacles, if one of their owners has a decent foot! No. 20 turns his toes in, NO. 80 treads over a the side; No. 40 has a pedestal like an elephant. Stay! there's  a pair now -- Jupiter! what a high instep! what a temper that man has! wonder if those are married boots? - Heaven help Mrs. Boots when her husband finds a missing button! It strikes me that I should like to mis-mate all those boots, and view, at a respectful distance, the young tornado in this entry, when the gong sounds!
Oh, you cunning little curly-headed fairy-footed, dimple-limbed pet! Who is blessed enough to own you? Did you know, you little human blossom, that I was aunt to all the children in creation? Your eyes are as blue as the violets, and your little pouting lip migth tempt a bee from a rose. Did mamma make you that dainty little kirtle? and papa find you that horsewhip?
"Papa is dead, and mamma is dead, too. --Mamma can't see Charley any more." 
God bless your sweet helplessness! creep into my arms, Charley. My darling, you are never alone! - mamma's sweet tender eyes look lovingly on Charley out of Heaven; mamma's bright angel wings overshadow ever little Charley's head; mamma and the holy stars keep watch over Charley's slumbers.- Mamma sings a sweeter song when little Charley says a prayer. Going? - well, then one kiss; for sure I am the angels will want you before long.
What is that? A sick gentleman, borne in on a litter, from shipboard. Poor fellow! how sunken are his great dark eyes! how emaciated his limbs! What can ail him? nobody knows; not a word of English can he speak; and the captain is already off, too happy to rid himself of all responsibility. Lucky for the poor invalid that our gallant host has a heart warm and true. How tenderly he lifts the invalid to his room; how expeditiously he despatches his orders for an Italian doctor and nurse; how imploringly the sufferer's speaking eyes, are fastened upon his face. Ah! Death glided in at yonder door with the sick man; his grasp is already on his heart; the doctor stans aside and folds his hands - there is not work for him to do; dark shadows gather round the dying stranger's eyes; he presses feebly the hand of his humane host; and gasps out the last fluttering breath on that manly heart. Strange hands are busy closing his eyes: strange hands straighten his limbs; a strange priest comes all too late to shrive the sick man's soul' strange eyes gaze carelessly upon the features, one glimpse of which were worth Golconda's mines to far-off kindred. Now the undertaker comes with the coffin. Touch him gently, man of business; lay those dark locks tenderly on the satin pillow hear you not a far-off wail from sunny Italy, as the merry song at the vintage feast dies upon the lip of the stricken-hearted?  FANNY FERN.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST -In November, 1783, Anne, the eldest daughter of George the Second and Queen Caroline, was married, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's, to the Prince of Orange, a man, the hideousness of whose appearance is said to have been only exceeded by some monster in a pantomime, or some ogre in a fairy tale. In giving him her hand, the princess seems to have been entirely influenced by a love of power. "I would die to-morrow to be a Queen to-day." she observed on one occasion to her mother. When her father spoke affectionately to her of the ungainliness of her lover's appearance, and told her it was not yet too late to recede - "I would marry him," she said, "even if he were a baboon." The subsequent story of the princess and her lover is that of the "Beauty and the Beast" over again. Lord chesterfield tells us that he had many excellent qualities; and, accordingly, notwithstanding his revolting ugliness, the princess not only grew extremely fond of her husband, but is said to have been sensibly alive to his attentions to other women. 




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the largest statue ever cast. It is a majestic and beautiful female figure, standing beside a half-crouching lion. In her left hand, which is upraised, she holds a wreath! she is a rewarder. In her right hand, which hangs by her side, she carries the sword! she is a defender. The pedestal upon which she stands is of granite, and is thirty feet high; the figure towers above to the height of sixty-one and a half feet, and to the summit of the wreath is a farther distance of six and a-half feet. Yet as one looks at the faultless proportions, and the regal head, the thought of its being a colossus almost vanishes, such is the harmony of the whole. From no position upon the outside does it impress you with its gigantic size. It is only when you enter it, and observe an individual part, abstracting you view from the complete whole, that you realize its dimension. You ascend to the head, and find there commodious seats for eight persons. This will convey come idea of its size. At the time of its erection, thirty-one persons crowded themselves into it, the head, not the statue. I suppose their quarters were not very comfortable, but they at least showed the comprehensive capacity of the protecting head of Bavaria. 
The foundry of which this is the masterpiece, is one of the most interesting objects that the traveller can visit. True, it is only on special occasions that one sees the operators at work, but you can see the method of casting, and at all times there is something new and worth seeing. At the time of my visit, a large and very fine statue of Gustavus Adolphus was on exhibition. The colossal models in plaster of Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, the work of Crawford, were standing in the room; these castings are designed for the Richmond Monument to Washington. In the former the fires of enthusiasm, as if "Liberty or Death" were on his lips, flash out in every line of his face, in every muscle of his body. In the later, a calm philosophy is admirably expressed. The former resembled no portrait of the orator I have ever seen. The latter would have been easily recognizable in this foreign land, even if the name had not stood below it. The heads of both are case, and justice is done to the genius of the sculptor in the work of the caster. The coat-of-arms of Virginia, in bas relief, are also finished, and to judge from these isolated pieces, the work, when completed, will be in all respects worthy of him whom they honor. 
I shall not undertake to set for the merits of Munich as a storehouse of art. The liberal patronage of the late King called a multitude of the first artists to his capital, and the buildings abound with statues and paintings, such as no city in Europe can show. The fresco paintings in the royal palace, in one or two of the churches, and in the corridors of the picture gallery, are monuments to the genious of Munich artists. Whether the millions that were spent upon them, were dispensed in the most judicious manner, is a subject about which two opinions may be entertained. For one, I think that a little spent in adorning the capital, and a little more in improving the roads leading to it would have redounded quite as much to the honor of the King and the kingdom. If a part had been devoted to the improvement of the condition of his subjects, instead of allowing poverty to drive them from their homes, his place among the elect in the picture of the last judgement, by one of his favorite artists, would have had more warrant. But let me not judge in this case. 
A visit to the model prison may be worth a slight notice. In external appearance, it looks more like a deserted brewery than a place of confinement. Inside it appears to ustify its name almost as little. You go into the workrooms where, it may be, fifty men are assembled, at work upon the manufacture of cloth in some of its stages; and beside yourself and you guide, there is no one but the prisoners to be seen. There is a control over the confined, exercised however by some from their own number, who have distinguished themselves by their good conduct. In their sleeping rooms, they are also under the oversight of none but their own fellows. Every man is required to work, and he who works diligently is paid a certain sum, of which he may devote half to the purchase of beer and snuff, and half must be reserved till the day of his freedom. Everything works as smoothly as if the house was full of guards, and though the hand of power must be used in extremity, it lies so hidden that the visitor does not see it. That sad physiognomy, which is characteristic of the prison, is here also. Good fare and kind treatment, occasional visits from friends, and rewards of merit do not banish it. And indeed it is no wonder. Four-fifths of the inmates are confined for more than eight years, and the remainder for life.
C. G.

(symbol of a hand pointing right) A Conundrum about Fleet Street. - 
Why is Temple Bar like a lady's veil? Because it must be removed to make way for the 'busses.

Mrs. Southworth, who fascinating works are being rapidly republished in England, also will maintain her old and pleasant connection with the Post. The next story from her gifted pen will be entitled,
MIRIAM, THE AVENGER;
OR, THE FATAL [illegible]
In addition to the above splendid array of Novelets and Sketches - we have made arrangements for the usual supply of Foreign Correspondence from Europe, &c. This will include a series of LETTERS FROM DEMARARA, by MRS. DENISON, descriptive of the manners, customs, scenery, &c., of British Guiana. MR. DENISON, American Consul to British Guiana, also has promised us some letters descriptive of that portion of the South American world. 
Engravings, Choice Selection, Agricultural Articles, the News, Congressional Reports, &c., &c., shall be given as heretofore. And in view of the above attractions, involving a large outlay of money, we feel emboldened in asking a continuance of that warm and hearty support which we have received from our readers in years past. It needs but a proper recommendation of the Post to neighbors and friends, to swell up our list during the coming year, to the grand total of one hundred thousand subscirbers. With less than that number we are resolved now not to be satisfied.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
J. P. H. Your projected paper was noticed in the Post some weeks back. May it succeed equal to your anticipations. 

"PASSION FLOWERS."
The volume of poems, with this title, which has attracted so much attention and criticism of late, is by Mrs. Howe, of Boston, wife of the philanthropist and hero of that name -  the ardent soldier in the cause of Grecian freedom, and the patient teacher of Laura Bridgman. - 
In answer to those who suppose that the authoress of "Passion Flowers" necessarily must be a pale impassioned maiden, fretted to a "poetical" leanness, the Home Journal says:
"Passion Flora" is no such object of high-souled commiseration. Quite the contrary. - She is not even of the delicate constitution which gave Chatterton his certificate of pity - for a finer specimen of rosy and joyous health could scarcely be found; out of England. The daughter of a wealthy banker of New York, Miss Julia War, was a Bond street belle of the highest fashion and the gayest brilliancy of position, till her marriage. With her superior powers of mind, and belonging to a family of remarkably intellectual habits and accomplishments, her education was far above that of most New York belles; and, by the average chances of married life, she was not likely to be fitly mated. But she married Dr. Howe - not only a man thoroughly accomplished by travel and study, but a hero and a philanthropist - removing at once to the more intellectual atmosphere of Boston, where her home, in those beautiful suburbs, has been, ever since, one of elegant competency, constant society and large hospitality. 
Mrs. Howe has, if we may trust her poems upon a matter so very susceptible of enlargement, "children three," - and the following verses represent her as not only a loving and beloved mother, but a wise one - one who preserves her "rosy, joyous health," by a daily taking of what the English call their "constitutionals:"

This evening, as the twilight fell,
My younger children watched for me;
Like cherubs in the window frames,
I saw the smiling group of three.

While round and round the house I trudged,
Intent to walk a weary mile,
Oft as I passed within their range.
The little things would beck and smile.

They watched me, as astronomers 
Whose business lies in heaven afar,
Await, beside the slanting glass, 
The re-appearance of a star.

The rest of the poem, about her being a "comet dire," "between extremes distraught and strange," is not worthy the space it would occupy. It belongs to the "Werter," and low-collar, Byronic school, which Mrs. Howe, we trust, will get rid of as soon as possible. In fact, since we have had the Home Journal's  testimony as to "Passion Flora's" rosy and beautiful appearance, we have had decidedly more hope of her becoming an honor to American literature; because it almost unquestionably proves that what is most open to objection in her poems, is mere affectation - the often-seen rebound of youth, health and happiness. 

Familiar Science. - We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of a new and handsome edition of this very instructive work, of which forty thousand copies already have been sold. 


up to Feb. 10th, had advanced 1-16d. to 1-8d. per pound; while four had fallen 1s. 6d. per barrel, which is good news for the poor both of 
Europe and America. The "next steamer," as usual, is anxiously looked for. 

The Late Burglaries. - A weaver by the name of John Barr, has been arrested as one of the party who committed the burglary at Mr. Wright's dwelling. Mr. Wright is very positive as to the identity of the prisoner. A man also has been held to bail as one of those who made the assault upon Mr. Morris, after breaking into his house.
The consequences of this last burglary have, we learn, been distressing in the extreme, in their effect upon Mrs. Morris. No penalty which the law can inflict, can be too heavy for wretches who, entirely unprovoked, create such suffering in peaceful families as these villains have been the cause of. 
If the men who engage in these infamous attempts for the chances of obtaining a few dollars, were not entirely lost to all feelings of shame or pity, we would ask them, why break into dwellings, where women and children are living in so-thought security, and who are liable to injuries of mind and body from mere fright, which they may never recover from! If you must rob, certainly there are stores enough about on which to exercise your villainous calling.  But we know that it is idle to expostulate with such wretches - they can understand the five or six arguments of a revolver, better than anything of a less solid and penetrating character. 

Sad Fate of Hoffman. - The Harrisburg Herald says that the gifted writer, Charles Fenno Hoffman, is now an inmate of the Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum, near that city.  It says: "Although at times he appears dreadfully excited, yet a ray of reason will momentarily flit through his shattered intellect, and, as the eloquent language of a gifted soul falls from his lips and reaches the ear of the awe-stricken visitor, a tear of sympathy will voluntarily gather in his eye for the fate of the unfortunate maniac! What the cause of the malady may have been, we are unable to say." 
Mr. Hoffman is pronounced "incurable," but we trust this is a mistaken verdict, and that he will ultimately restored by that sympathetic, tender and patient treatment which now distinguishes the asylums for the insane. 

The Consolidation Celebration. - those of our country friends who wish to see the elephant - as he is only to be seen in Philadelphia - will visit us on the 10th and 11th of March. The ball on the evening of the 10th will be attended by the Governor, members of the Legislature, &c., and will be held in the two magnificent rooms of the Chinese Museum. On the next evening, the illumination of the public and many private buildings will take place - and the planets, looking down from their blue abodes, will wonder what new and brilliant star has sprung into existence beneath them. 

The Pension Frauds in Lancaster County. - It is truly lamentable to read of the moral fall of such men as Judge D. P. Vondersmith and Gen. George Ford. But, since they have forfeited their bail, and escaped to parts unknown - probably to Europe - very little doubt, if any, can remain of their guilt. These forgeries against the government have been in progress during the last nine years, and are said to amount to the large sum of $70,000 - of which Judge Vondersmith is supposed to have received about two-thirds. 

The Female Medical college. - The third Annual Commencement attracted a large and very respectable audience. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon Mrs. Lucinda R. Brown, of Galveston, Texas; Miss Elizabeth H. Bates, of Morris, Otsego county, N. Y.' Miss Minna Elleger, of Germany, and Miss Elizabeth G. Shattuck of Philada. May they go about doing good to their suffering sisters, and acquiring an honest livelihood for themselves. 

Beer Drinking in Bavaria - Our correspondent, C. G., it will be seen, does not quite unite with the authors we quoted recently - though he is speaking of the beer, and not of the wine countries. "Who shall decide when travellers disagree?"

Recovering. - The New York city journals are gradually recovering from their late alarming attack of Eriesipelas. Their principal breaking-out was around the mouth, where the inflammation was apparently very great. 

Circumventing commodore Perry. - The Emperor of Japan is dead, and, according to Japanese etiquette, no foreign embassy can be received for three years. Of course, the American expedition will have to return without an answer.


well, and it was only after the congratulation were over, that the hoax was revealed. No thing but his undoubted talent excused hi reckless audacity. Some little poems from hi pen indicate no ordinary literary taste. Hi lady is one of the most accomplished women i the west. Mr. Piatt's appointment was made some months ago, and, we presume, under the influence of his brother-in-law, the late Judge Reed, of the Supreme court of Ohio, and of Judge Wood, late governor of that State, who has long been on the most friendly terms with the Piatt family.  After D??n is fairly installed in his post, we may look for something funny or startling. His dispatches ought to be published; they will be full of jokes which ought not to be lost among the dry archives of the State Department. On his return, he will aspire to Congress or the Presidency - it will matter little to him, which. 

Our fighting M???ster. - The following is going the rounds, as an extr??      letter from Mr. Soule, Senior, relative to his late duel: - 
"And finally it is not true that, 'contrary the general custom, I have left the field with out giving any mark of sympathy to the wound ed.' My first movement, when seeing my -versary fall, was to send him word by one my seconds, the brave and incorruptible Int  dant, Don Benito Aleno de Gaminde, that hoped that the wound would not prove seriou  It was my cloak which, with that of the her Gen. Don Francisco Valdes, my other sedo were used as a litter. It was my linen whi was used to dress his wound, and my doc who gave him the first help.' "

Do write and bring that chivalric gentlem home, Mr. Secretary of State - velvet unifor impetuous offspring, and all, If he is not death of some Spaniard or Frenchman, he w be of some one or two thousands of those represents, from convulsions of laughter. Wh he is a perfect Don Quixote - and is entirely o of place in this prosaid nineteenth century.

Singular Omission. - It has been a subject general remark, that Senator Seward, of Ne Yrok, in his speech upon the Nebras question, while specifying the various ca and railroad routes which now exist between the East and the West, should have omitted allusion to the Pennsylvania Railroad a Pennsylvania Canal. If this was intended a punishment for the course of Pennsylvania the late Erie difficulty, we humbly implore th being patiently submitted to, it may be taken a full satisfaction for that heinous offence the eyes of our New York brethren. To thus given the go-by completely by their il trious Senator, should, we think, balance our iniquities in their view. New York had her revenge - and the Pennsylvania provements are nowhere. Now let us be fir again.

The Storm. - The rain-storm of last Sun was a suitable accompaniment to the g snow-0sotm of the Monday previous. It ra the waters of the Schuylkill and Delaware, of the smaller streams, very high, but damage, so far as we have heard, was com tively little in this neighborhood. Along Susquehanna much damage however is a hended - and doubtless injuries will be wo by the flood of rain and melted snow in va quarters. Both of these storm, especiall snow-storm, were of the real "old-fashio kind - and "the oldest inhabitant" was a convinced at last, that the country and wo have not degenerated. 

The Press - The "southern Weekly P published at Raleigh, N.C., recently ha larged its boundaries, and made other imp ments. The Post is a good-looking and edited paper, and we are pleased to see tokens of prosperity.
The "Forest Garland," published at Cin nati, herea ll be issued weekly, instea semi-month de Garland is "devote the interest and amusement of young ladies gentlemen." 

Park BEnjamin's Lectures - A numb our most respectable citizens having in Mr. BEnjamin to give a series of five lect at the Musical fund Hall, he has signifie acceptance of the invitation. The eve fixed upon, are Friday and Saturday o week, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thu of next. The price of admission will cents each. We trust Mr. Benjamin will the crowded houses his ability as a l deserves.

Raising the Prices. - The newspape
lishers of Boston have raised the prices vertising twenty-five per cent. In donse of the advance in wages, paper, rent, costs much more to publish a newspaper did some years ago, and publishers, in their prices also, are simply "keeping the times" - a thing which every jou course is bound to do. k

Nebraska. - this territory is said to times as large as Pennsylvania; or la some thirty thousand square miles, than existing free States, excluding Californ

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Mr Edwards
BE pleased to make out a duplicate of the transfer of John Garner from the pension Agency in Georgia to that of Alabama, for me, finding that the transfer has been communicated & intrusive to the case of an [illegible] who does not reside at the residence of said Garner
and oblige  yr. obt st
G W Owen
May 7 1824

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The State of Alabama}
Wilcox County} On the 23rd day of September 1834 - personally came into open Court [illegible] the Honorable John S. Hunter, Judge of the Circuit Court now in Session, John Garner, a resident of Said County, and State aged mentioned in the declaration to which this is an amendment, and States that all the knowledge he has of the particular period or dates in which he entered the Service under Col. Henry Lee, is derived from what other persons have told him of the time that Lee's [illegible] was formed, he well remembers that at the time that Lee's legion was raised that he entered the Service, in the State of Virginia, as he Stated in his original declaration - immediately before Lee marched into the Carolinas, but having never learned either to read or write, he cannot state with any precision as to particular dates or the happening of particular events of that day, He omitted to state on his first declaration his first entry into the Service because the period he then served was Short - He enlisted, under our John Waters, a recruiting officer, in the light-Horse or Cavalry, and went - went- southwardly as far  Burlington under Major Lee, afterwards, Col. Lee, that "at Burlington, he this declarant, reco-

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a wound from his horse, which rendered him unfit for service, and he was sent home as an invalid, and afterwards, when Col. Lee returned to Virginia, he the declarant, had recovered from his wound received from his horse and again entered the Service under Lee in the infantry for and during the war and that this {illegible crossed out) under circumstances of his Service an Stated in his original declaration. He cannot pretend to State the Particulars of {illegible] time at which he left the Service but he well remembers that it was after the Surrender of Corn Wallis, at Yorktown, that the discharge which he received was Signed by Col. Henry Lee, but that he did not receive it until after he returned to the State of Virginia - that at this time he was disbanded he was at a place caled (sic) Bacons' Bridge, near Charleston in South Carolina.
      his
John  X  Garner
       mark

And the Said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
John S. Hunter
Presiding Judgee Le

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I Duncan C. Smith, clerk of the Circuit Court of Wilcox County do certify that the foregoing pages of this shall contain all the proceedings had in the (case of crossed out) matter of the application of John Garner for a pension in the Said Court.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office at office the 23rd day of September A D 1834

D.C. Smith clk

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No. 6-11(3?)
Matilda Garner
Widow ofo John
Florida
(page torn)chet & Downing Au 21 1855

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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 8208
Matilda Garner
Wid 
John Garner
Privt Cavy Rev W
Act: Feby 3.d 1853
Index: - Vol. A, Page 263
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Revolution
25099
INVALID

File No. 25,899
John Garner
Pfi U.S. A.

Act:
Index: - vol. 2, Page 148
[Arrangement of 1870]

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The State of Alabama}
Wilcox County} County court
320 Monday in March
1835
Personally came into open Court John Garner-, a revolutionary Soldier, aged Seventy Seven Years, next August - who, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed July 1832 Sworn to the following facts in addition to and in Explanation of his former declaration and his amended declaration.
1st He States that he cannot from memory give a more full account of his Services in the Revolutionary War than he has done in his original declaration, He does not know, for what purpose the Corps to which he belonged was ordered to the North, When he first entered the Service, he enlisted under a recruiting officer by the name Waters, and that he found Lee, at a little village in Maryland Called Charles Town, from thence he went to Philadelphia & thence to Burlington, at which place, he got crippled by his horse, which rendered him unfit for Service, and he was discharged as an invallid (sic), - he remained at Burlinkgton a few weeks, when he recovered from his wound and returned to Virginia, where he remained until Lee returned Southwardly when he again entered the Service, in the infantry under Capt. Handy and Served as he has Stated in his origianl declaration and in his amended declarations. He further States that at the time which he enlisted under Handy that His Brother William Garner entered the Service, also, - That there are no other facts that he now remembers that would be supported to Establish his claim, - Sworn to in open Court this 17th day of March 1835. 
        his
John  X  Garner
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D. C. Smith Clk

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and the Court further declares it to be there opinion that the applicant Served as he has Stated in the his declaration and further certify that the applicant John Garner exhibited in open court a certificate from the War Department as follows.

"Capt Handys company -
Col Lee's Regt
War Department -
I certify that in conformity with an art of Congress of the 5th of July 1812 entitled "An act concerning Invalid pensioners John Garner is inscribed on the pension List of the United States, Roll of the Georgia Agency," at the rate of Two dollars and fifty cents per month to Commence on the twenty ninth day of February One thousand Eight hundred and Twelve.

LS (circled)
 Given at the War office of the United States this 29th day of March 1814
J. Armstrong,,
IW Bridges
Judge of the County Court

The State of Alabama{
Wilcox county} I Duncan C Smith
Clerk of the County Court
in and for the Court, & State aforesaid Certify that the foregoing pages of this Shut. consider the amended declaration of John Garner as his (paper covering word) plication for a pension
Given under my hand and Seal of office at office at Wilcox Court House this 17th March A D 1835
D.C. Smith

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(left hand side of page)
Invalid (underlined) case
Alabama
John Garner
private in
U. S. Army
Inscribed on the roll o f the Georgia Agency at $4 per month, & transferred to Alabama, 21 Apl. 1824

Invalid
Transferred 
from
Georgia, to
Alabama
(at [illegible] crossed out)
Duplicate notification of transfer sent to Hon. G. M. Owen H. R. of May 1824

(right hand side of page)
See letter of May 1834 to Hon. G. Murphy, N.K.
Letter to G. L. Gaines, Pen Aft
July 20 1836
Letter to J. B. Hogan Pension Agt. 30 March 1840

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is a hell of ice; in another, the punishment is pulling out the tongue of those who tell lies: another is a hell of poisonous serpents; in another, the victim is drawn into pieces; another is a hell of blackness and darkness; and you may hear them praying in one, "May I not fall into the hell of swords!" and in another into this or that place of torment.
(symbol of hand pointing right) The late snow storm appears to have extended from Maine to Virginia, and embraced a range of territory over three hundred thousand square miles. All the papers in these various quarters speak of it as being the most severe snow storm of the season.
(hand pointing right) A Canada paper, speaking of the opening of the Great Western Railway, says: "As the first train of cars sped through the marshes of West Tilbury, on Tuesday last, a herd of wild ponies took fright, ran away, swam the Ruscum, Pike and Belle rivers, plunged into the wild St. Clare, made good the American shores, and were seen, on Wednesday, on the Plains near Chicago, making upwards of 300 miles in twenty-four hours. Most of them went on snow shoes."
(hand pointing right) Have we any Bonnets Among Us? - The rule now is, to place a little wisp of pasteboard and ribbon so far back upon the head, that the wearer cannot see any part of it.  The bonnet patch is secured to the "philoprogenitiveness" by a wafer, and the stars look down "on the place where the bonnet ought to be,"
(hand pointing right) A nephew of Robert burns is Free Church minister, at Dunedin, in New Eealand (sic).
(hand pointing right) The New York Tribune thinks that aristocracy does not bear showing up anywhere. Even though it escape negro blood, it stumbles over a cobbler's work-bench, or an old woman's apple stall, and in fact is very ordinary crockery at best. 
(hand pointing right) The Height of Inconvenience. - There is a man, somewhere in America, who is so tall that he is obliged to run up a ladder every time he brushes his hair. 
(hand pointing right) Barnes, formerly editor of the London Times, said to Thomas More, that the great deficiency he found among his writers, was not talent, but common sense. Not one of them, he said, can be trusted to write often or long on the same subject, as they were sure to get bewildered with it; and he included himself in this remark. 
(hand pointing right) An "Umbrella Greatcoat: has been invented at Paris. When required, aid is blown into the coat, the skirts are expanded, and the rain falls off beyond the legs.
(hand pointing right) Mr. A. A. Hudson, of Syracuse, sold three white Shanghais for sixty dollars, at the Poultry show in Albany, last week. A turkey was exhibited at the show, which weighed 35 points!
(hand pointing right) A brutal teacher whipped a little boy for pressing the hand of a little girl who sat next to him at school, after which he asked the child "why he squeezed the girl's hand?" - "Because," said the little fellow, "It looked so pretty I couldn't help it."
(hand pointing right) Some workmen engaged the other day in sawing a locust log in Poughkeepsie, found a large toad snugly secreted in the centre, which was alive, and weighed 7 1/2 pounds. The log is perfectly sound, and is supposed to be 100 years old. 
Miscellaneous.
Progress of Steam. - In August, 1814, Mr. Niles, the indefatigable editor of the Weekly Register, made an elaborate calculation to show that the grand route from Buffalo, in New York, to New Orleans, a distance of 2,744 miles, might be performed in a steamboat of 500 tons, except between Michigan and the Illinois River, where there was a small obstruction, (since removed.) in thirty-two days and eight hours for the voyage down, and in forty-six days for the passage up!
The route from Washington, by way of New York city, Buffalo, Chicago, and St. Louis, to New Orleans, a distance of nearly 8,000 miles, can be traversed in less than eight days! And the return trip does not require ten hours longer time!
If our venerable contemporary of 1814 could now revisit the earth, what would be his astonishment at the progress of improvement by steam power! - National Inteliigencer.

(hand pointing right) The Law's Delay. - If, in the celebrated arbitration case of Paris and Apple of Discord, the three goddesses - Venus, Juno and Minerva - had been each defended by counsel, we wonder when the case would have come to an end? The apple would have been thrown into Chancery, as a matter of course, and the chances are that the celebrated judgment would not have been delivered at the present day! - Punch. 

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sell their reservations, and the amount of [illegible] tory they are willing to dispose of; and to get the several tribes to give certain chiefs plenary power to repair at once to Washington, for the purpose of concluding a treaty. Should Col. Gatewood succeed, he is to take the chiefs on with him to Washington to make the treaty.- The district of country which it is proposed to buy from these Indians is about one-half of the reserved land s included within the bounds of the Nebraska territory. It is all that tract fronting on the Missouri River opposite the State of Iowa, and opposite that part of the State of Missouri above the Great Nemaha. - The taking of these Indian chiefs to Washington to form the treaty, looks as though the new system was to be incorporated in its provisions, in expectation of the passage of the bill. - North American.

The New Jersey Railroads. - Com. Stockton, in reply to a Committee of the Senate of New Jersey, says the terms upon which the joint companies, (Camden and Amboy Railroad and Delaware and Raritan Canal) will surrender to the State the works of the companies, as follows: - They will transfer all stock of the companies, at the rate at which the last thousand shares of stock have been sold in the market. - The stock consists of 30,000 shares, of which the State now owns 2,000, leaving 28,000 unbought, which at $145 per share, which is about the market rate, would amount to $4,060,000: the debt due by the companies, which would naturally have to be assumed by the State, including subscriptions to Belvidere, Delaware, Freehold and Jamesburg, and Flemington Railroad Companies, would amount to $5,230,000, (bearing interest at six per cent., excepting $1,008,000, which is at five per cent.;) this would make a total of $9,200,000, for which the State would become possessed of all the works.

A New Post-Office Delivery. - The Post-Office wagon drove down to the corner of California and Davis streets, on Wednesday, and dumped a load of paper rubbish into a hole at that spot. Some spectators of this apparently unobjectionable proceeding were prompted by curiosity to overhaul the pile of rubbish, and were no doubt very much astonished to find among it a number of letters and papers that should have been delivered somewhere else. We were shown one letter, post-marked New York, Dec. 17 1853, and directed to Santa Clara, which, of course, cam by the Golden Gate mail; also several eastern newspapers, which, from their dates, must have also arrived by the same mail. We were informed by a spectator that several other letters directed to Maysville were also found. This is certainly a very singular occurrence, the result of very culpable carelessness somewhere in the Post-Office Department. We trust the Postmaster will look to it, and prevent its recurrence. - San Francisco Herald. 

Extraordinary Exhibition. - A curious spectacle (says the Paris Pays.) was witnessed in the great avenue of the Champs Elysees the day before yesterday: - A well dressed person appeared with a great number of bladders, each nearly filled with pure hydrogen gas, covered with a net-work of silk, and attached to his body by means of a strap fastened to a belt beneath his arms. The bladders possessed a sufficient ascensional force to diminish the weight of the man by three-fourths, without lifting him from the ground. This lightened he was able to take leaps of five or six yards at a time with extraordinary rapidity. After descending the great avenue from the quarter Baujon to near the Palais de l'Industrie, he returned in the way he came. A vast crowd followed him, and seemed astounded at his pace. 

Children born Abroad. - The editor of the American Law Register, in writing on the laws of American citizenship, says:
"It does not, probably, occur to the American families who are visiting Europe in great numbers, and remaining there, frequently, for a year or more, that all their children born in a foreign country are aliens, and when they return home, will return under all the disabilities of aliens. Yet this is indisputably the case; for it is not worth while to consider the only exception to this rule that exists under the laws of the United States, viz.: the case of a child so born, whose parents were citizens of the United States, on or before the 14th of April, 1802."k

Colts' Revolver Beat. - The Boston Daily courier says that there is now in the market a better pistol than Colt's, which is manufactured by, and the property of, the Robbins & Lawrence Company, of Windsor, Vermont. - This pistol is said to be entirely different from any ever before offered to the attention of the public. It is simple in its construction, has a revolving hammer instead of a revolving cylinder, is loaded by unscrewing the barrel, which exposes the chambers, and is not at all liable to become inoperative by corrosion or rust, as all the working parts are contained within the stock or breach, free from any connection with the exploding gas. 

Sudden Check to Railroad Speed. - It is computed by the Journal of Commerce that the effect of a sudden and accidental stoppage to a railroad train, the cars going at twenty miles an hour, is equivalent to a fall of thirteen feet and a half; at a speed of forty miles, to a fall of fifty-four feet, while fifty miles an hour would give a smash as if we had come from the top of a steeple of eighty-four feet. Passengers may amuse themselves, while travelling, by noting the rate of speed and calculating the chances between getting a fall of thirteen feet and a-half, and one of eighty-four feet, with its possible effect upon the machinery of the cars and their own personal security.

Board of Health. - The number of deaths during the past week in this city 280 - Adults 92 and children 138

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burglars early on the morning of the 23rd ultimo. Mr. tiller escaped from the house in order to procure help, and during his absence the burglars shot Mrs. Tiller dead and carried of $400.
The Legislature of New Jersey has again rejected, by a decided vote, a bill to charter the Air-Line Railway from New York to the Delaware Bay.  
The Tayleur Disaster. - From Dublin we learn that the verdict of the Coroner's inquest found that the three hundred and fifty passengers on board the ship Tayleur, were drowned in consequence of the highly culpable neglect of the owners permitting the vessel to leave port without compasses properly adjusted, or a sufficient trial having taken place to learn whether she was under the control of her helm or not. 
A Buffalo correspondent of the New York Express says that there is no truth in the report that any "engagement" exists between Ex-President Fillmore and Miss Porter, of Niagara, as stated from Washington by the Washington gossippers!
The Palace of Industry in the Champs Elysees, Paris, which was so immense as to inspire astonishment, turns out to be too small by one-half for its destination. On being measured in every direction, it only offers a surface of 48,000 metres, and the Commission of the Exhibition, in accordance with the Engineers, declares that it can do nothing with less than 95,000 metres. A report has been addressed to the Emperor demanding the authorization to create additions to the edifice. After some hesitation he has accorded it, on the express condition that not a single tree shall be cut down.
Caution to Purchasers. - A tradesman advertises that, on receipt of a postage stamp, he will forward, gratis, an illustrated catalogue of his goods, with prices affixed, proving them to be cheaper than those of any other establishment in London. Don't believe a word of it. The mere fact of his asking you to send a postage-stamp proves that he means to stick it on. - London Diogenes.
A Splendid Diamond. - The following paragraph in regard to a remarkable diamond found in South America, appears in the money column of the London Times:
One of the largest diamonds known was deposited yesterday at the Bank of England, by a London house, to whom it was consigned from Rio Janeiro. Its weight is 251 carats and its estimated value, according to the scale, (pound symbol) 280,000. It is said to be of the finest water, and without flaw, and was found by a negro slave, who received his freedom as a reward.  
Sea Soundings. - for a year or two pasts, during the summer season, vessels have been kept at sea sounding the depth of the Atlantic Ocean, and in no place has it been found deeper than 1,500 fathoms, 9,000 feet, which is much less than the height of many mountains on the earth. Mount Washington, in New Hampshire, is between 6,000 and 7,000 feet high.
A Mohogany Bridge. - One of the bridges built by the Nicaragua Transit company, on the road leading from Lake Nicaragua to San Juan del Sud, is made entirely of mahogany.
A cargo of American salted beef arrived recently at Marseilles. The Mayor has published a proclamation on the subject, to the effect that he has tasted it and fins it very good; that it may be had at the extremely low rate of eight cents a pound, and that to render it eatable and to withdraw the overdose of salt, purchasers must soak the meat half a day in cold water. Salt beef must be scarce in that market. 

Old Times. - The building occupied by the Germantown Bank, at Germantown, Pa., was at one time owned and swelt in by Clarkson, a popular Mayor of Philadelphia, before the year 1793. Also by Dr. Brandt, an eccentric and imaginative philosopher of some note in his day. And during the prevalence of the yellow fever in Philadelphia, in 1793, it was occupied by Thomas Jefferson, and by Mr. Randolph, the Attorney General of the United States. It was also in the garden attached to this building, that the first Paper Mulberry tree was planted, by Mr. Baylie, who for many years, and up to his death, was a clerk in the bank. The tree was brought from the East Indies; and by the time that is real character was discovered, it had over-run a portion of the garden, and required considerable effort to extirpate the young trees. - Daily Register.

Wealth of the States. - The population of the States is set down at 25,746,000, and the aggregate personal and real property is estimated at $8,294,560,000. The following are the estimates:
New Yrok,    $1,112,000,000
Pennsylvania,    850,000,000
Ohio,    710,000,000
Virginia,    6487,000,000
Indiana,   384,000,000
Tennessee    380,000,000
Kentucky,    342,000,000
Massachus'ts    340,080,000
Georgia,    366,000,000
N. Carolina,    306,000,000
Illinois, 294,000,000
Alabama,    276,000,000
Mississippi,    256,000,000
S. Carolina,    242,000,000
Missouri,    240,000,000
Maine,    240,000,000
Maryland,    $193,000,000
Louisiana,    188,000,000
New Jersey,    160,000,000
Michigan, 148,000,000
Connecticut,    132,000,000
Vermont,   120,000,000
N. Hampshire,    120,000,000
Arkansas, 60,000,000
Texas, 46,000,000
Iowa,    52,000,000
Rhode Island, 52,000,000
Wisconsin, 36,000,000
Delaware, 32,000,000
Florida.    38,000,000
Dis. of Col.,   18,000.000
Oregon,    8,000,000

Exploding the Charges. - The remarks of Lord John Russel on the alleged unconstitutional interference of Prince Albert in political matters, which which he had no business, was considered as having successfully refuted these accusations. He analyzed the various charges of unconstitutional interference on the part of the Prince, either at the Horse Guards, or with Ministers themselves, by thwarting their advice; and lastly give an emphatic denial to the assertion of his having kept up a correspondence with English Ambassadors abroad. He succeeded in eliciting the sympathies of his hearers for the Prince Consort as an extremely ill-used person, and was loudly cheered by all parties at the conclusion of his speech. The London Advertiser, however, looks upon the refutation as affording indirect testimony of their truth.  

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arrived here from San Francisco, brought on her deck one of the greatest natural curiosities that could be offered to the public. It is nothing more nor less than a section of the great California tree; the largest single tree that has been discovered in the modern Eldorado - the largest in the world. This tree was situated in the south-westerly slope of a hill, in a soil fifteen feet in depth. Its roots extended in all directions for more than fifty rods upon the hill-side, and downwards to the depth of the soil. At the ground its circumference was 92 feet, 4 feet above that it was 88 feet, and 10 feet above 66 feet, and the tapering of the shaft was very gradual and symmetrical upwards for 325 feet to its very top. From actual estimate of its diurnal layers, it is more than 8,000 years since this unparalleled majesty of cedar was a sapling in its teens. Then for a large space on the outer surface next to the bark the rings of growth are so thin as not to be distinguished from each other. 
The outward dimensions of the main trunk were about the same as the Bunker Hill Monument. From actual measurement it contained more than 300 cords of wood. A vast deal of labor was required to level such a mountain of wood to the earth, and after almost incredible toiling with augers, axes and saws at its foot, it finally fell prostrate, the crash can neither be imagined nor described, the jar of the hill was perceived for miles, as if an earthquake had passed that way. 
The base having been much burned by the fires of the Indians, it was necessary in order to get a perfect section, to chop the tree entirely through twice. After one hundred and fifty days incessant labor this was effected, and the block of ten feet in length lay severed from the huge pile.  But the next thing was to transport such a mass, and by any available means at hand it was apparently as impossible as it would have been to move the hill where it laid. It was finally burned through the centre, the earth was dug away from one end and a fire built underneath, which was left burning for several weeks. The auger hole made a good chimney, which was gradually enveloped by the action of the fire until the men could work inside with their axes. In this manner it was excavated to within about two feet of the outer surface. It was afterwards moved down the levers for more than a mile, then drawn 18 miles by 20 oxen to Mentinut, and then shipped to San Francisco. 
At San Francisco, only about fifty miles from the place of its growth, it was the greatest curiosity ever exhibited. The whole city of men, women and children flocked to see it. One hundred men could easily stand inside the hollow at the same time, and a six foot man rode a full-sized horse through it without touching his hat to the upper surface. 
This great curiosity is to be exhibited in this city for a short time before its removal to New York and Boston. - Philadelphia Ledger.

Walking on Water. - The perilous experiment of "walking on water" was recently repeated, before a concourse of Dublin spectators, by the Hon. Mr. Swift. This gentleman's former experiment, was that of "walking" by sea, from Venice to Trieste, a feat by which his life was well nigh forfeited. In repeating the attempt in Dublin harbor, between the Custom House and the Pigeon House Fort he encountered no risk, and was thoroughly successful. His apparatus consists of two air-tight tin floats, twenty feet in length, tapering to a narrow point at each end, and joined together by bars of iron. Standing on the floats, Mr. Swift propels  himself by a double bladed oar, which he uses with great dexterity.

A Noble-Hearted Wife. - A romantic story of female devotedness has just been circulated at Valence. Is it stated that a Prussian woman, named Hipson, has been working in male attire, as a navvie on the railways, for more than five years. She had an infirm husband and four children; their family were starving she disguised herself, worked hard, and had her wages advanced for her assiduity; with her earnings she supported her pretended "father" and "brothers and sister," her husband and her children. When her secret was discovered, gifts poured in upon her from the neighborhood, and work more suited to her sex has been provided. 

Railroad Collisions. - Two passenger trains recently came into collision on the Columbia road, this side of Lancaster. Some eight cars and five or six engines were disabled. One the passengers, a Mr. Hudson, of Philadelphia and formerly of Lewistown, had both his legs broken, one near the hip, and the other at the ankle. Mr. Wm. Lerk, also of Philadeph had the toes of one foot cut off; and another man had an arm broken. His name could n be ascertained. 

The Extent of the Storm. - At Porl there was a brisk gale, but no snow. At M treal no storm was felt, and no snow fell. New Bedford the snow fell to about two inches in depth, and travellling was badly peded. At Baltimore and Pittsburg the sn was very deep - not far from two feet. W Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis were vis by heavy rains and strong gales, Chicago a Buffalo enjoyed clear and spring-like weath At Cleveland and Columbus snow fell only the depth of two or three inches. 

A Sensible Woman. - A magnificent do tion has been made by the widow of Ant Arevalo de Alverado, the executrix of her h band, who had designed $25,000 to be given the priests, for masses. She concluded she would better consult the benevolent des and do something more acceptable to the s of God for the salvation of her deceased h by making a different appropriation of the ney; and she has given it to the Hospita Valparaiso.

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Gertrude; and if so, do not forget that each life is as valuable as your own: and that if you falter in your duty, the savages may force an entrance and put us all to death; but, on the contrary, if you stand firm, and do as I direct, we may be able to withstand the attack of a large force, and all eventually escape. For an emergency like this, I taught you how to load and fire a rifle before we came ther; and now I shall expect you to make e of that knowledge for the benefit of all rties. Remember! let happen what will, u must be silent - and, in the hour of danger, ve - and in that case, I think, with the de ces which we have, we shall be able to hold s place against a host. Now go in, and tell nt Chloe she must be silent also, and be you readiness to come to me the moment you ar the report of my rifle. I shall keep watch re alone; and unless my piece is discharged, ou need not come forth again to-night."
This address was well-timed and had a good fect upon the blacks, who promised obe ence, and retired into the dwelling. For an ur longer, the Major stood at the loop-hole, zing out toward the west, his mind busy with housand thoughts of a nature the most asant. By this time the light of the fire s no longer visible; and only the pale rays the moon illumined a scene, which a combi ition of circumstances made appear most oomy to the eyes of the mourning, solitary tcher, who now carefully closed the aper re, and with slow, heavy steps, paced to and beside the lonely grave of his beloved wife. length he turned away, and stealthily entered dwelling, where he found the children leep, and Cuba and Dick stretched out on the or before the dying fire. Without disturbing y one, he took down all the rifles, powder- rns, and bullet-pouches, and with these re- rned to his post. 
Some three or four hours now passed in a ence broken only by the cheerless hooting an owl, or the distant howl of some hungry olf. The moon now went down, darkness retched it sable pall over the earth, and a ousand bright stars became visible in the ure vault above. It was now the Major felt at vigilance waws most needed - for if the vages were near, and meditating and attack, it is now that they would begin to put their ans in execution. Accordingly, he took a vey of the scene outside - beginning at the uthern loop-holes and ending at the western but without seeing any thing to excite his arm. At the central loop-hole on the western de, he was still lingering, and congratulating mself that his fears of a night assault would obably prove groundless, when his eye chanc- d upon a dark object at no great distance, which o at first believed to be a stump, but which, otwithstanding, he eyed with a strange interest at he could not account for. While looking eadily at this object, he fancied it drew nearer: ertainly it either moved, or his eyes deceived im. With awakened suspicion, he now riveted his gaze upon it, and watched it with breath0- ess attention.
He was not long kept in doubt - for, in less han a minute, the dark object had dawn so ear to the stockade that he could no longer see it. What was it? was the next quiry to e settled. Could it be an Indian? If so, it as an Indian creeping upon his hands and nees - for it had not, while in sight, assumed n upright posture. The Major listened, but e could hear no sound. All was still - a gloomy, ppressive stillness - a stillness that seemed oreboding, like that which precedes the burst f a tempest.
Stilll keeping his position at the loop-hole, argrave now ran his eyes hurriedly over the m scene, in eager search of some other object give a sad confirmation to his worst fears; t oping the while, with a faint, tremulous pe, that nothing to excite further apprehen- n might be seen. While looking, he heard soft notes of a whipporwill, so close to him, t he fancied the bird must be sitting on the of the palisade above his head. He took a p back, and turned his eyes upward - but hing in the shape of the nocturnal warbler visible on the dark line which the stockade w against the clear sky. REsuming his place he aperture, he again peered through; and he did so, the music of the bird ceased, and dismal hooting of an owl, not quite so near, upon his ear. This continued but a few ments, and then all became as silent as ore.
Hargrave now began to indulge the belief t the dark object he had seen was merely ne proling animal, and consequently that ere was no cause for fresh alarm; and he s just on the point of closing the aperture , d turning away, when he was again startled, seeing some ten or twelve moving objects, t unlike the first, within a few yards of him, d all approaching at the same slow pace. e of these objects, ere it drew so close to the ockade as to be to him invisible, suddenly elongated vertically, and displayed the figure of a human being.
All hope of danger being distant was now banished - all doubt concering (sic) the objects he had seen was now dispelled. He knew he was surrounded by a band of hostile savages, all eager to begin their bloody work; and he rightly conjectured that what he had believed to be the notes of the whipporwill and ow., were merely the signals of a scout to his dusky brethren, conveying some intelligence by which their first movements were to be determined. 
Major Hargrave was, in the full sense of the term, a brave man; and one who could bear up unshrinkingly against much that would appal some, who, though of weaker nerve, might prove themselves heroes on the field of battle; but in this terrible moment of grief and danger - danger not only to himself, but to all he loved - he was completely unmanned; and with the first consciousness that a blood-thirsty foe stood within a few feet of him - a consciousness derived at the very point of time, too, when the elastic spring of hope was raising his depressed spirits - he was seized with a violent trembling; and his knees fairly smote together, as did those of the ancient King, Belshazzar, when he saw the spirit-fingers write his destiny on the wall of his palace. 
Happily, this nervous fear was only of short duration; and then the Major collected his scattered faculties, grew composed, and prepared to act as became one in his situation. Cautiously, carefully, silently, he closed the apertures, gathered up his rifles, etcetera, and, stealthily advancing to the door of his dwelling, pushed it open, without noise, and entered. He found the two negroes still stretched before the fire-place, and his little children asleep on the bed so lately occupied by the cold remains of their dear mother. He bent over them, and, with lips that trembled with deep emotion - for who could say this might not be the last time - pressed a father's warm kiss upon each little upturned face. Then moving away, with a noiseless, step, without disturbing their innocent slumbers, he sought the apartment of Gerturde, and whispered her name.
She started up in bed, for dark fancies had kept her awake, and in a low, eager tone, inquired:
"What is it, Edward?"
"Hush!" he whispered - "do not speak above your breath! Try and be firm," he continued; "and, so far as you are able, act the part of a heroine - for you are about to be put to a fearful trial. We are surrounded by a body of savages, of whose numbers I know nothing, and ere long they will begin their attack."
"Oh, merciful God!" groaned Gertrude, in horror.
"Hush!" he again whispered - "do not let them hear a sound that can make them aware that we are cognizant of their pesence. I am about to go outside again, to render what defence I can, and shall take Cuba and Dick with me. You had better get up and keep the door; but do not disturb Aunt Chloe, or the simpleton, who I trust are asleep above - for neither, in such a time, would be of any service." He then advanced to her side, pressed his lips to hers, and added, in much agitation: "Should I fall, let this be our farewell kiss. Should I fall, and you and the dear children escape, be as a mother to them, dear Gertrude - be as a mother to them - and tell them their father died in their defence. There! there! farewell! farewell! and may God have mercy on us all!"
Saying this, he made a hasty retreat, leaving poor Gertude trembling with horror, and more dead than alive. Advancing to the negroes, he roused each with a shake, and said, in a fearful whisper:
"Hush! be silent - not a word - not a breath. Get up and follow me as stealthily as a cat. The least noise may coast you your lives. WE are surrounded by Indians, and nothing but bravery can save us from a horrible butchery. Here is a rifle and ammunition of each of you. I charge you not to speak - scarcely to breath! When we go out, I will station each of you. You must watch with eagle glance, the top of the stockade; and if either of you see a human head rise above it, give it the contents of your rifle. There - come! Come! for delay may be fatal."
Neither of the blacks replied; but both silently arose, trembling with terror, and each mechanically took his rifle and followed the Major. At the south-west angel of the palisade he stationed Dick, and at the north-west Cuba; and as he left each, he grasped his arm, without speaking, and pointed upward, as a sign that he must keep his eyes fixed on the upper line of the wooden wall. 
This done, the Major, with stealthy steps, repaired to the gate, and placed himself in such as position that he could command a view of one half of the stockade - of all, in fact, that could not be seen by the blacks. Now came moments of painful suspense - of a suspense that seemed to have in it more of horror than the certainty of real action. Minute succeeded minute, and save an occasional movement of some of the horses, not a sound was heard, and nothing to indicate the presence of a savage fore eager for blood. Minute succeeded minute, and a quarter of an hour passed away, and yet all remained still and quiet; and the wondering and expectant Major was beginning to hope that his senses had deceived him - or, if no, that the Indians, finding him so well fortified, had gone to seek other and less guarded victims - when he fancied he heard a slight noise at the gate. Cautiously he drew up to it, and placed his ear against the timbers. No! his sense of hearing had not deceived him. There was a noise here - a very slight noise - noise as of some one slowly and carefully climbing.
"It is as I expected." thought Hargrave. "They will first assist one of their number to scale the wall, to reconnoitre and unfasten the gate. t is a perilous venture for him."
He clutched his rifle with an iron grip, set his teeth hard, and, gently cocking his piece, raised it to the position of an upward aid, and then fairly held his breath with anxiety. 
He had not long, to wait. first one dark, shadowy-looking hand, then another, was seen to grasp the top of the post above him; and then slowly - very, very slowly - a dark, shadowing-looking head and face rose into view. A single moment the Major glanced at the grim, shadowy face along the barrel of his rifle, and then his finger pressed quick and hard against the trigger.
A sharp report, and a spasmodic groan, simultaneously followed; and then a dull, leaden sound, as of the fall of some body heavily to the earth.
The next moment there arose upon the still midnight air a series of such horrible yells as the bravest have never heard without quailing - yells that sounded as if all the demons of hell had suddenly been let loose; and with the infernal screeches mingled the reports of at least twenty fire-arms, the balls of which ledged in the stout posts of the stockade without doing any injury. For perhaps a minute, these yells and screeches continued without cessation; and then, as suddenly as they had burst upon the ear, they ceased, and the silence without became awfully impressive. 

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE ATTACK.

For a few moments after the savage outburst of rage and fury had subsided, not a human sound was heard, as if terror had for the time paralyzed every tongue. Then arose a series of wild cries within the cabin, and voices were heard calling to each other in tones of frenzied alarm. 
The Major knew enough of the INdian mode of warfare, to feel satisfied that no concerted attack would commence till the latter had taken time to deliberate upon the facts, that their presence was known, that their first attempt to gain an entrance had proved a failure, and that the besieged were armed and resolved to dispute possession with their lives. Accordingly, he reloaded his rifle, even while the demoniac yells of his disappointed foes were ringing in his ears; and then hurried to Dick and Cuba, to see what effect the startling events recorded had produced upon them, and be able to judge what amount of dependence he could place upon them in the moments of greatest peril and sorest need. He found each at his post, watching the upper line of the palisade as he had directed; and though both were much frightened, he rejoiced to perceive that neither would be likely to prove craven-hearted in the hour of dangerous trial. 
Calling them together, he hurriedly related what had taken place; complimented them on the courage they had displayed, in remaining where he had stationed them, and doing their duty, under circumstances calculated to appal the bravest; and said that with vigilance, caution, and firm resolution, he nothing doubted being able to keep the savages outside the walls, till such time as succor might arrive, or they, becoming weary of the contest, might be glad to raise the siege and depart. 
"Remember, boys," he continued, impressively, "all will depend on you. If you stand firm, and act courageously, all may be saved - if you falter, and coward-like, shrink from your duty, we are lost. Yet I will not ask you risk your lives for me and mine without the hope of further reward than the mere saving of your own lives. If, by reason of your good conduct and bravery, we escape from our foes, you, Dick, and you, Cuba, with your wife, shall each and all have you liberty. I promise on my own part, and I take the responsibility of promising on the part of Miss Gertrude, that you shall be set free, to be your own master, and go where you like."
The address of the Major roused the pride of the negroes, who felt they were appealed to as freemen, rather than as servants in bondage; and his offer to make them freemen indeed, touched their finer feelings, and affected them deeply.
"God bless you, Mas'er," cried Cuba, "and Missus Gertrude, and de childrens! I'll do what I can for yo all, de Lord help us! and I's jus' say for myse'f, dat dar was no need ob dat dar compli'tary succumstance ob de liberties, to make dis ole nigger do his best - dar." (sic)
"'Sider what Cuba says, said for me," (sic) chimed in Dick sententiously. 
"Well, now, each to his post, and be wary," rejoined the Major. "There is no telling what moment the savages may begin the attack in a body, and we must all be prepared to give them a warm reception. If you have occasion to fire, remember to load your piece the very first thing you do, and as expeditiously as possible. By-the-by, I will provide each of you with a knife and an axe, which will be serviceable weapons should we come to close quarters with the enemy, which God forbid! Will now speak to those in the house - for they know not what has happened, and are in a state of wild alarm and terrible suspense. 
Saying this, Hargrave hastened around to the front of the cabin, passing three or four horses on his way, which, with heads up and ears erect, were snuffing snorting, and exhibiting other signs of alarm, occasioned by the fearful and unfamiliar sounds they had so recently heard. Making a quick but keen survey of the top of the wall, to be certain that no other Indian had ventured upon the experiment which had cost the first one his life, he advanced to the door, and gave several quick heavy knocks with the breech of his rifle.
"Who is there/" called out Gertrude.
"Is is I - Edward - all is so far safe - do not be alarmed."
"Thank God! thank God!" ejaculated Gertrude: "I was afraid you were killed. Come in!" she added, opening the door. 
As Hargrave was about to comply with her request, the simpleton darted out past him. 
"Here, Jacob," he called, "you must remain inside." 
If Jacob heard, he did not heed, but turned the corner of the house with a bound, and came nigh receiving the contents of Dick's rifle - who, startled at his sudden approach, and supposing
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thentic materials, according to  "Pictorial Times," from which we engraved.
"The San Francisco was a new vessel, and built by Wm. H. Webb, for W. H. Aspinwall & Co., proprietors of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line. She had a fine model, and was considered a very strong craft. The spar and hurricane deck ran the whole length of the vessel. She had a plain clipper bow, and was rigged with two masts, carrying foresaid top-sail, and jibs, with smoke-pipes fore and aft. Her deck length was 285 feet; keel, 280; beam, 41; hold 25; tonnage, 3,000. 
"Under a charter from the Government, the San Francisco sailed on Thursday, Dec. 21st, from New York, for San Francisco, purposing to to touch at Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, and Aca-

ment, constituted over 500 men.
"At 9 o'clock, in the words of Lieut. Winder, a passenger on board the ill-fated vessel, on the morning of the 22nd day of December, a tremendous gale sprang up, which increased to a hurricane; and about 12 o'clock at night the engines gave out, and the foremast was carried away. The starboard wheel-house was smashed in by a tremendous sea, and a portion of the upper cabin was stove.  This destructive sea swpt away, in a few moments, over 100 souls. The scene on board, from this moment forward, became truly distressing. The lower cabin was crowded to suffocation with passengers, who had rushed there under the impression that it was the only safe portion of the ves-

pumps, though worked with vigor, were unable to keep the water from gaining. A temporary steerage apparatus was erected, and some attempts were made to get the vessel under way. But after one or two revolutions of the wheels, the machinery gave out; and it was evident that further exertion in that direction was useless. During all this awful scene, when the passengers were lying soaked in water, expecting the vessel to founder every moment, and fresh disasters and losses of life were every instant announced, nothing could exceed the calm courage with which the officers of the ship performed their duties. Captain Watkins never for an instant lost heart of coolness; but wherever personal exertion or calm superin-

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Capt. Handys company
Col. Lees Regt

War Department

I certify that in conformity with an act of Congress of the 5th of July 1812, entitled, "An Act Concerning Invalid Pensions." John Garner is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States. Roll of the Georgia Agency," at the rate of Two dollars and Fifty cents per month, to commence on the Twenty ninth day of February, One thousand Eight hundred and Twelve."

Given at the War Office of the United States this 20th day of March 1814.

L. Armstrong

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The State of Alabama}
Wilcox county} ss.

Be it Known, That before me        a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Garner and made oath in due form of law, that he is the identical person named in an original Certificate in his possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy: "War Department. Revolutionary Claims.
'I certify that in conformity with the Law of the [illegible] States of the 7th June 1832:
"John Garner of Alabama who was a private of Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution "is entitled to receive One hundred dollars and - cents per Annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable Semiannually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year-
((Here inset a copy of his Certificate of Pension.) crossed out)
Given at the War office of the United States this Eighth day of April One thousand Eight hundred and thirty Six.  
C.S. (circled)
Lew Cass
Secretary of War
[illegible] & countersigned 
J. L. Edwards
commissioner of Pensions
That he now resides in Wilcox county Alabama and has resided there for the space of five years past; and that previous thereto he resided in the County of Monroe & Conecut of this State for the last Eighteen or nineteen years
Sworn and subscribed this    day of     18   Before me        J.P. 

Note. - The above deposition must be signed by the deponent. Where the Pension has been increased, since the Certificate has been given, the Magistrate will note the fact.

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Payment to be made 
at Mobile
by J. S. Ganes, Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Alabama

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book 62 Vol. 8
Page 98 by Wm. Allison, Clerk

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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, John Garner of Alabama who was a Private of Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive One hundred dollars and -- cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighth day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned,}
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Invalid case-
John Garner -
Pension office
JCC

For Transfer
Rec.,d 17 Mar: 1824

Transferred from Georgia to Alabama.

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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER

State of Alabama
County of Monroe    SS.

On this twentyfifth day of February 1824, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Monroe personally appeared John Garner who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Handy in the regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Lee in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Georgia from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of State of Alabama and county Monroe where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future, That he at present receives four dollars per month
       His
John  X  Garner
      mark

Sworn and subscribed to, before}
me, the day and year aforesaid.}
H. H. Mabtring
(Illegible crossed out)
Note. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated. 

State of Alabama Set
Monroe county } I James H. Dranghon Clerk of the County court of the County of Monroe in the State of Alabama do hereby certify that William Walker Esquire shoe name is signed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same as acting Justice of the peace in & for said County and state and that the above is the proper hand writing & signature of the said William Walker Esquire and that all full faith & credit is due & original to be given to his Official acts of William Walker Esquire In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name

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and affixed my Official Seal this 27th day of February 1824 and 48th year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Attest
James H. Dramghan Clk

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Pen Off. Jany 28/56
Sir,
Please show when John Garner of Ala Act 1832, at $100 a year was last paid 
[small righthand facing pointed finger] & to whom (underlined)
Very Respectfully R. McRae
for Commissioner
Triplett
R J Atkinson Esq
Third Auditor

(very faint) 21 Mar 1846
President himselfat [illegible]

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3d. Auditor's Office
Jan'y 30, 1856.

Sir,
The within named pensioner (John Garner) paid to 4 March 1848. He received it himself tho an attorney.
Very Respectfully
Rob J. Antinson
Auditor 

J. Minot, Esq.
Comm of Pensions

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name Garner, John     Grade Private    Line Virginia (Lee's Legion)

Warrant Number 12148     Acreage   100   Issued    April 13, 1791 to James Reynolds, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.