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Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
SHERTFI,S SALE.

Grand Gulf Bank Returhable 10 Holmes
VS. Circuit Court to Oclo-
John M Brown eta Der Term 1880
L ii Blake and
VIM II McCutelan
P M Furguson
rs Same
T. II Blnke ct al
WNY virtue Of the above stated execu'
lid tons, which issued from the Clerks
Office Of the Circuit Court Of Holmes
county, TO me directed, and in obedience
thereto, | shall proceed to sell by way Of
public auction al the court house door in
the town of Lexington, Holmes County,
Mississippi, for ready money on the third
Monday of October next, the following
property TO wit: lot number 2l3, lying
and being in town Of Lexington, on which
the defendant E. III. Blake now resides,
on which there is an excellent dwelling
house, and all necessary out houses with
most fertile garden attached thereto, to-
gcthcr with an excellent well Of never
failing water; the lot is situated in desi-
rabie and healthy part of the town OF Lex
ington.
Also will be sold at the same time and
place for cash, the north half of lot mum
Der GO, situated on the west side Of the
public square, in the town of Lexinton,
on which there is large and COM
modious two story framed house well con.
structed for a mercantile house, now
occupied by Jacob Perkins, as drug
store Also will be sold at the same
time and place lot number IL, this lot Is
a vacant lot, and possesses many advan-
tages, for private residence, the above
is levied on as the defendant Edmund ii
Blake, TO satisfy the above stated execu
tons and cost Of suit.
/. w. PICKENS, Sheriff,
by A. G. OTEY, Deputy.
! Sept ID "A ids. Pr. fee Sl7 SO
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
WARREN ADAMS
STATE OF ALABAMA.

BY request Of Warren Adams, do hereby GER
tifv, that,the said Adams was before me n Justice
of the Peace for Pickens county, arraigned on
Friday the 30th Of August last, charged by Eli
O'Neal, special agent of John G. Cayendish, with
stealing and feloniously taking and carrying
away negro girl named Jane, alleged to be the
properly OF the said ]. c. Cavendish, and that
after fair and impartial trial, the said Adams
was acquitted of the charge made by J. c. Cav
endish, through his agent Eli O'Neal, agains, ths
above said Warren Adams.
Given under my hand and seal, at my Office in
Pickensylle, this 81 day Of September, 1888.
WIN. CHAMBERS,
Justice OF the Peace of Pickens county.
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
The STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.

HE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
'4'ou Perkins Attachment returnable to the
Nat, Holmes Circuit Court, to Oc-
"'0n Lewis tober term, 1889, for the sum
Of $l7J.
VIE attachment 10 this case having
, been returned duly executed by
isD1 smg upon the property Of the said de-
i 'n'' also by summoning George Lew
H.. has earnlshee, It is therefore considered
~ m'. unless the said defendant do appear
~, =! before the irst day Of the next term
Ss' '' ss Court, lthe third Monday Of Octo-
,ss ., 1852 give special bail and plead
ar, ss'u' judgment final will be entered
ss' s;'' them, and the property so attach
'''' oe sold to satisfy plaintiffs demand
y NORTON, Clerk,
,s,, ., byS H Basghn, Deputy.
'Sp'sl As Nv pfe'ls fee Is
y
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
MARSliAI'S SALE.


Baker, Johnson & Co Returnable to the u S
VS. Ciruit Court to No.
John Williams veniher Term 1889
Same
VS. Same
Same
Same
vs. Same
Same
EDY virtue Of the above stated Il "a TO
HID me directed, from the Hon. United
States Circuit Court for the southern
district of Mississippi, will expose to
public sale for cash, before the court
house door OF Holmes County, on Mon
day, the 2Sih of October next, all the
right, title and interest the said defendant
hath in or TO the following described pro-
perty, to wit, east half section IL, east
half Of south east quarter, and nortl, east
quarter Of section |, township l3, range 3
east, the south west quarter, the ives, half
of north west quarter, and eighty. light
and a quarter acres bsing part of the west
half OF south cast quarter, ADD of east half
of north west quarter, all Of section Z.
township 10, range east, west half OF
southwest quarter, and twenty eight acres
being part of the east half OF south west
quarter of section 6, township 10, range
east, containing in all one thousand
acres more Or lass; levied on as the pro-
perty Of the defendant, and will be sold 10
satisfy the above stated executions and
costs.
4 VIM nj. GWlN, Marshal,
By P. NJ. FURGUSON, Dept.
sept Ia "A ids Prn'ts fec SIG
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
SHERIFF s SALE.

10y virtue Of the above stated cases to
led me directed, i shall expose to public
sale for cash, at the door Of the court
house in the town Of Lexington, Holmes
county, Mississippi, on the third Monday
ia October next, III being the 2lst day of
the month"; the following lands 10 wit:
the west half of south east quarter section.
Il; south west quarter Of section l; east
half Of south east quarter section 2 east
half north cast quarter Of section IL; !.
north west quarter section IL; north half
south west quarter section -; all in
township IS, range 8 east, containg in
all six hundred and forty acres, said
land is well improved, situated two miles
south east Of Georgeville.
Levied on as the property OF Jones
Harvey, TO satisfy the above stated cases
and cost Of suit. /.
l. w. PICKENs.
Sheriff Of, Holmes County;
By j. C. PICKENS, Deputy;
! sept Il IDS. Fl. fee 81 SO
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
Justice OF the Peace of Pickens county

do certify that the property Redc P. Jack
son took from this county belongs to me by legal
title, for the payment Of sundry debts for him,
which debts, il he fails to pay them, my property
is bound for. The amount Of properly he has
taken away, is nominal amount TO what am
bound for, given under my hand, this Sd Sepiem-
Der, 1899. T,j.JACkSoN.
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27


We the undersigned do certify that we were
nresent at the trial of Warren Adams, before
VIM Chambers, Esq. for stealing and concealiug a
negro gill Jane, said BY Eli O'Nea 10 be the pro-
perry ola Mr.. Cavendish, there was no such legal
titles proven, neither was there any thing like
stealing or concealing proven agains, Albums in
the trial but to the reverse he proved on trial,
that he had sent Eli O'Neal, the agent of Caven.
dish,wod that he had the girl Jane in possession,
and intended to keep her, he also had her pub
licly at business on his place until he had bust
ness in Mississippi, and then he look her with
him. Given under our hands this the 3D. OF Sep
,ember. 1889. JOSEPH JACKSON,
JOHN WEAR,
JOHN C. PROFF1TT,
TTIOS. b. MITCHELL
4 CIR. MITCHELL.
Sept 81 45 3w
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27

Baker, Johnson e. Co Returnabe to the u S
VS. Cirut Court to No.
John L Williams vcmhes Term 1859.
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27

BY L. RAY, Deputy.
sept Ia Al ids prn'ts fee SO 25
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27

Joseph r Plumer Use &c Reiurnable to Holmes
VS. al Fl "a OH bond Circuit Court 10 Octo-
Edward Shaw Der Term 1899.
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27
SHERfFF'S SALE.

J.. w .TlCAEtNC sir. w,
sept Ia, Al ids. Prn'is fee $40 ~
Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-09-27

II H~fH DeFuV'
sept IA IA ids prints fee 81
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23
FOR SALE.

Ata Court of Probate holden at Litchfeld, with-
in and for the District Of .Litchfed, ON the
18Th day of May, A. ID. 1880:
Present, PkinehGs Miner, Esq. Judge.
TTPON the petition of BENJAMIN Vail, Of
u Litchfield, in the county of Litchfeld,
showing to this court that he is guardian Of
Catharine e. Beebe, formerly Catharine E.
Hall, Harriet A. Hall and Charlotte H. Hall,
all of said town and district of Litchfeld. all
of them minors under the age Of 81 years
that said minors are the joint owners Of two
pieces of land lying in said Litchfield, about
two and a half miles southwesterIy of the
court house in said town the first piece con-
tanning about ten acres, and is bounded west
Bissel, and south by Lyman Warren's land,
piece contains about eight acres, and bound
ed west and north by Amos Bissel's land, and
east and south by VIM. Beebe's land, valued
at about 16O dollars that said land in its
present condition will yield them very little
income. and that il would be greatly for the
interest of said minors that said land should
be sold, and the avails thereof vested in other
real estate to be conveyed to them. or placed
on interest on good security, or be laid out In
the nurture and education of said minors
praying for liberty to sell said property for
the purpose aforesaid, as per petition on file !:
his ordered BIZ this cOHyt. that said guardian
give notice of said application, by causing
this order to DO published in one Of the news
papers printed in Litchfield. three weeks sue.
cessively, az least six weeks before the hear.
ing and that said petition will be heard a
tho Probate Office IN said district on the 9Th
day Of July next. at nine O'Clock In the fore.
noon. Certified from Record.
81 PHINEIlAs MINER, Judge.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23
ce q The HOEs0tORic Rol Road Co
BridgepOyf. HE0u n Ta00

bridgeport, May Is, 1889.
THE Board of Directors Of the Housafon;r.
Il Rail Road Company have assessed ana
require to be paid to the Treasurer on the
2Oth day Of June, 1889, an instalment of ten
dollars on each share Of the capital stock of
said company.
Stockholders residing in 3rookfield, New
Milford, and Sherman may pay to Asa Pick
ct, Esq. of New Milford those in Kent, to
AlPheus Fuller, Esq. Of Kent those in Corn
wall. Warren. Sharon, Salisbury, and South
canaan, to Peter Bierce, Esq. of Cornwall !;
ana those in North Canaan, to William Ad-
am, Esq. of North Canaan. These gentlemen
are authorized by the Treasurer TO receive
InstaIments and give receipts therefor in his
name. FromPt payment in all cases will be
one Of the persons above named, or to the
Treasurer at Bridgeport.
81 JESSE STERLING. Treasurer.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23
NOTICE.

NOTICE.
TIME Judge Of the Court of Probate for the
Il District of Kent has limited and allowed
six months from the date hereof for the cre-
ditors to the estate of DAVID MoRGAN, late of
said Kent in said district, deceased, repre-
sented insolvent, in which to exhibit their
claims thereto and has appointed Hender-
son Benedict and John w. Slosson, Esqrs.
Commissioners to receive and examine said
claims. Certified by
NArH'L p. PERRY, Judge.
The subscribers give notice that they Shall
meet at the late dwelling house Of the said
deceased, in said Kent, on the second Monday
in June, and on the second Monday in Sep
TENDER next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on
each Of said days, for the purpose of attend
ing on the business Of said appointment.
HENDERSON BENEDICT, ! Commits
JOHN w. SLossoN, I sioners.
All persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make immediate payment to
JOHN l.. STUART, Admin.
Kent, April ~, 1889. so
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23

BISHOP BRowNELL will. by Divine permission, ad.
minister the rite Of confirmation and perform an ordi.
nation in ST. Michael's Church in this village on Sum
day morning next, the 26th of May.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23

Cotton T09'ae.
g. GALPIN has just received supply Of
-. Gotten Warp for Carpets.
May 90. 81
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23

AT q Court Of Probate holden at Harpinton,
sOithin and for the District Of HarpintOn, on
The 1Sth day Of Mag. A. n. 1850:
Present, AbVah Calm, Esq. Judge.
an motion Of sheldon Pond, administra-
" tor on the estate Of JOSIAH P0ND. within
said district, deceased, this Court doth assign
the Sd day Of June. 1889. at 2 o'clock p. NJ.
ut the probate Office Ia Harwinton. for the
hearing, allowance and settlement Of the adj
ministfation account on said estates and di-
reefs the said administrator 10 give public
notice 10 oil persons interested In said estate
70 appear (ifthey SEQ cause) before said court
at said time and place. tO 10 heard therein,
by posting notice ofthe same On the eignposs
ia said HaFwinton. and advertising The same
in a newspaper puhllshed In LlIchflcld. at
least two weeks before the said ga day Of
June. Certified from Record.
% JosEuA WnIIAma. Clerk.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23

Marseilles QRilis end Toilet COvsrs.
Of the latest style, by
May 10. MORSE & CAMP.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23
MARRIED.

In WATERFOWL. Mr.. Caleb T. Hickox, to Miss
Emily H. daughter Of Abraham Hawley, ESQ.
In Sou,hbury, Mr.. Curtis D. Downs 10 Miss Ange.
nette c. Mitchell; Mr.. Monroe B. Downs to Miss
Mary c: Mitchell; DR.. John N. Northrop to Miss
Nancy Peck
DIED,
In Houston. Texas, DR.. Gideon /. Cowles, formerly
Of Plymouth, Conn.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23

AT Court Of Probate holden at Litchfeld, ,oith-
in and for the district of Litchfeld, on the 18Th
day Of May, 1889:
Present, Phinehas Miner, Esq. Judge.
an motion of the administrator on the es-
" tate Of ALEXANDER HAMILTON, late the
state Of Ohio, deceased, this Court doth as
sign the 25th day Of May, 1889, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, at the probate Office in said
Litchfield, for the examination and settlement
of bis account as administrator on said estate
and also doth direct said administrator to
give public notice Of this order by causing
the same to be published in newspaper
printed in said Litchfield for two successive
weeks, and also by posting a copy Of the
same on public signpost near the north
meeting house in said Goshen, at least ten
days previous to said 25th of May, that all
persons interested may appear at said time
and place to be heard therein.
60* PHMEHAs MINER, Judge.
Litchfield enquirer., 1839-05-23

AZ Court Of Probate holden at LitchfelA, iCith-
in and for The District Of LitcAfsl1, on the 1st
dayef May, 1889:
Present, Phinekas Miner, Judge
0N motion of the executor of the last will
" and testament of EDWARD LANcMAIp late
Of said Litchfield, deceased, this Court doth
assign and appoint the 18th day Of May inst.
at 9 o'clock in the forenoon, at the Probate
Office In said Litchfield, for the examination
and settlement of the administration account
Of the executor on said estate; and doth di-
rect said executor to give public notice Of this
order by advertising the same in newspa-
per published in said Ltchfeld, and also by
posting a notice Of the same on the public
signpost in the village Of Litchfeld.
80 PHMEHAs MINER. Judge.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-21

ought not to be tried, and ought not to have been
imprisoned. They are not suspected OF CRIME ana
cannot be. The occasion of this imprisonment
and trial is their color and their origin, and the
fact of their being claimed as slaves we treat
them in this way because we have enslaved their
kindred Why should they have been captured
! What propriety or usage warranted the brig Wash
ington in taking Them? We put it to the country,
its law and jurisprudence to say why is all this.
What had these men done before they left their
native land,-what in leaving it, what crossing
the old sea, redeemed all the way by the track Of a
centurys slave trade, what at Havana and what, we
challenge the land what on the way to the den OF the
young Spanish Ruez, when they did what men
could to regain their wrested liberty & humanity, &
what all men would, land after they had slain the
illfaed RamouAous, what did they do, to merit
capture or mpriSonment WAS it that they trus-
ted Monies to steer? Caesar could not or Hanba
any better than he. Napolean must have trusted
the false Spaniard, for all the native genius he
possessed.
BY the way, the caloused hearted monster Rucz
must have been keeping these poor victims as near
starvation as practicable, without hazarding their
lives, on that voyage TO his plantation, for he says
he ordered Tread Mrovn 10 pecify them. He tho't
they were rising for Jread-Cingues was thinking
of something he hungered more for. He was
thinking of LIBERTY,-and his people were think
ing of that-for they would not touch the base
Spaniard's bread. That they were hungry and
famshed appears from their devouring the sweat
meats medicine, as they got their liberty.
" Or dered bread TO Le throa0n to Mem," as the
farmer throws corn knobs to his pigs in the pen
a pretty way Of treating mem.-Who does not feel
his nature insulted, beyond the utmost Christian
endurance, by this swine estimation and treatment.
We can forgive murder or any other injury.
But to be estimated as swine-to be FoDDERED,-
puts US beyond and below the forgiving capacity.
Hogs can't forgive. No beasts of BURDEN it seems
to us, are required to exercise Christian charity,
We are almost prepared to say that with the New
Testament in his hand, Cingues might have
risen from his brutality and asserted his right 10
be man, even at the expense it cost that Spanish
pirate For how can a MAN consent to be slare !!
We can scarcely maintain the calmness of an
anti-slavery editor (SC a storm becomes him, much
better than a cam) when we looh at this affair,
and 900, in tho light oft, the temper and position
of this slaveholding country. And we feel
the more deeply, since, as abotionsts, we are
identified, in estimation and treatment, with Gin
CUES and his people. tits we'll perhaps we should
be. We can thereby the more readily remember
those in bonds as bound with them. "-Hcrald of
Freedom.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-21

The disposal of the blacks captured in the
schooner La Amistad, is likely to bring up ques-
tons of much interest.-We believe it is admitted
that they were brought from Africa, and landed
in Cuba, but a very few days before they were
purchased by Ruez and Monies, and that they
could not with any show of justice, be held as
slaves previous to the purchase. They were sto-
len from the coast of Africa by pirates 1--WE use the
word as applied to the slave trader in the law OF
civilized nations,) and Ruez and Montes by the
purchase, became the receivers of stolen goods,
and should be held in the eye of the law as bad as
the thief himself-We have no commisera;ion
for any man engaged in the African slave trade,
either directly or indirectly, and would as soon see
the man who purchased any part of the cargo,
punished, as TO see punishment inflicted upon the
wretch who stole :hem from their homes. A cor
respondent of the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser puts the following questions as likely to arise
in the discussion before the Courts
LIST. Do the laws of Spain prohibit the slave
trade!
Cd. If imported into Cuba in the month of June
last and that fact now admitted, had been estab-
lished them would they not under the laws of
Spain, have ceased to be slaves?
3D. Are there any treaty obligations, or does
the comfy OF nations require, or are there moral
rights, which would justify the delivery of these
girls, or of any acquitted males, to the persons
pretending to own them as slaves?
In reference to acquitted males it might fur
Their be asked have the United States Courts any
Jurisdiction in the case, so far as to try any of the
blacks for murder or if they ceased to be slaves"
was it murder, if they put to death those who would
lake from them natural right guaranteed by the
law of nations?
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-21
The Congolese Hero.

We devote our sheet, this week, mainly to him
this young and august chieftaln, from the lane
of Juba and Hannibal. Providence has wonder
fully cast him upon our shores He comes to tes
tifv on the great question anti-slavery is laborng
to settle before the nation, that the negroe as MAN.
Our oblique minded people doubt this If they reck-
on he is of an inferior race" let them look on Gin
CUES, as strong specimen to be sure,-but still
a sample of the humanity of his people. They
NAV see by him. what are the capabilities OF his
race, as they call It, ;.
The eyes OF the agitated nation are upon him.
His mighty character is creating a sympathy Who'll
" mike anv thing ever felt before for his color
or his kind. 1t conflicts strikingly with the scorn
and contempt felt by US, for the "negroe race"
Cingues has not drilted here on the waves Of
chance. God has cast him here, at this crisis Of
human liberty. We hail him, all unatught and
rough hewn and savage, as he comes from the sa-
bic depths of the mourning continent. He is an
unadulterated sample of the nature our republican
ism is enslaving. One of liberty's sentinels es-
mates him. that he would bring $500 in the New
Orleans markell! Our country has got so as to
look on his people merely with an eye to what
they would bring in our slave markets.
That estimate they need not make on the nigh
ty Cingues. Our editor was unwary to utter his
judgment on the heros price The country does
not generally, II we mistake not, tnlnh Vi nun III
that behalf His price is not fxed-or paid. He
dies here, the victim Of murdered law, or he goes
back to his country in freedom and honor. lfthey
hang him. the law Of the land hangs up with him.
Every heart and head in the land (where the two
exists in the many cry out instnctIVely, that
he has committed no crime. But he does not go
to the plantation. They don't have the breaking
of him there-ether in the United States or the
n,ildes. island-serritude of the accursed Cuba.
That priucely neck bows not to their demon yoke.
The sweat of their reptile toll will never moisten
his Joye-like forhead. His kingly blood-they
NAV shed it, and let their canibal SOIL drunk with
tarrying long at" the human banqut,-drink it
up,-eushing warm from his mighty heart But
thew don't have him on the plantation there to coil
about his giant spirit the anaconda of the "pecu-
fer institution" Thank Heaven for that.
We are not solicitous whether Cingues lives
Fife can have but few charms for him. If heI
could be taught Christianity, from the bible, exist
ence were worth his while, and he might be a
blessing to his countrymen. We trust pains will
be taken to enlighten him,not with the hght OF A.
n,erica,s Christianity, or American rcpublicanism'
They have as many whips to them, as Medusa
had snakes in her head Of hair" We wish his
noble eye could see the glorious pages ofthe bible
Will not the abolitioniss see to it
As az abotionist we insist that the Africans j
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-21
The African Prisoners.

We devote liberal share of our space to-day
to interesting details connected with the case of
the Spanish SLAYER, which is the leading topic in
most of our exchange papers. tits an suspicious
TOKEN that the public attention is so general
Iy turned to this novel and important matter A
goodly number of the commercial papers of the
cities have spoken out with unwonted freedom,
considering that the crew of the Amistad are
dark colored We copy several articles from diff
ferent journals, in which the legal questions in
voved in the case are ably examined. The point
ed article from the pen of brother Rogers of the
N. H. Herald Of Freedom, is especially commend
ed to the readers attention.