South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-09-12
Fraudulent Pension Claims.
LlTTLE Rock, (Ark.) Aug. Is.


Suspicious having been excited, for
some time past, that great proper
lion of the numerous claims for dona-
tions Of lands, under the act OF Con-
gress Of Gath May, 1928, which have
been proven up at the Land Offices al
Helena and at this place, (and at 9th
ers, for aught we know, within the last
few months, have been established on
false testimony, and that even some 6c-
tilious claims had been established, the
claimants and witnesses passing them.
selves off on the officers Of the land of.
fees 60 whom they are strangers) by
other than their real names, the Grand
Jury, at their late term of the superior
Court, took the subject under consd.
GRAFTON, and have investigated it as
thoroughly as pfotracted term Of
near thirty days would admit. A
great number of Witnesses we're brought
before the Grand Jury, some of them
from the distance Of one totwo hun
bred miles, and, on them testimony, we
understand, about thirty bills of indct.
ment have been found for perjury and
sabornation Of perjury, against sun.
dry individuals who have been con-
cerned in establishing claims of thai
description.
In the course of the investigation,
we understand, a most infamous scene
Of uiIlany and corruption has been en-
posed, and it is supposed much more
will be brought to light at the mex,
term. This is right, aud we hope the
next Grand Jury will be as dilligent as
The last, in hunting up and bringing the
guilty to puaishmsnl. Not oas ought
TO escape. For the credit Of our conn.
Try, it is time stop were put TO this
system of fraud aud imposition. The
Government has been liberal in her do
nations to our citizgns, and she ought
10 be protected from such fraudulent
practices, which are alike injurious to
her and dlscreditable 10 our Territory.
1t is not unlikely, we think, that ma
ny innocent men who have purchased
claims of this description from irres.
ponsible persons, who were strangers
TO them, will suffer pretty heavy loss,
by the investigation of their claims
but il will teach them to act more pru-
IDENTIFY 10 future. And we fear that, in
many instances, honest men, who are
justly entitled to donations, and whose
claims have been proven up and con.
frmed for years, but not yet patented,
may be subjected to heavy pecuniary
loss, in hunting up and bringing to the
land offices, from the distance of seve-
raj hundred miles, additional testimo~
ny whereby to re establish their claims.
r The Opelousas (Lou.) Gazette,
contemplating the probability OF a war
between the Texans and Santa Anna,
thus compassionately and respectfully
spenks oflhe belligerents
"You are aoeleome to the combat.
gentlemen. One good result is Ger.
tain,-the world soiU lose many bad
citizens, and the dsuil wiU gain some
faithful servants.
"Eusry body knovs that Teas has
bssn to the United States what Bota-
ny Bay has been to Great Britain.-
The emigrants thither, like the foltow.
ers of King David IN the Gaze Of n.
dullum, haze been all those vho acre
and all those .oho ,0ere in
debt-in other 0ords, vagabonds and
refugees from justice. TO read The
laundering manJestoes Of these fs!.
losOs, who knOw nothing about re-
pubHcs, and care nothing about Hber.
ty. one ,oouid think they had been hir-
ed to bring The Immortal doctrines Of
Plato into ridicu1e and contempt"
C. The population of Rochester,
N. Y. is 14,373-increase since last
year, 2,os4. la 1926, the population
was 5,273.-An eel, weighing IS
pounds, was recently caught in river
in Connecticut.-A man from Philadel-
phia named Scott, made great jump
and dive opposite Troy, N. Y. on the
goth ult. He leaped from height of
from two to three hundred feet, and in
The act ofjumpiag, threw two somer-
sets and discharged two loaded pistols
before he struck the waler.-lt is stated
that the people Of Providence r. I. are
contemplating to pass Law that "no
female shall have more than six yards Of