Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-04-14
THE WILLIS CAsE.-The Cincinnati


THE WILLIS CAsE-The Cincinnati
Commercial of this morning says
"The case of Mr.. Willis of South Car
olina, who came to this city to manumit
his children by slave mother, and who
died on our wharf, leaving will giving
all his property to those children, and ap-
pointing John Toliffe, Esq, his executor,
is well remembered. This will was con-
tested on the ground ofalleged insanity Of
the testator, and in the Barnwell district,
S, c., was in October last, pronounced in
valid. 1t was carried up to the Court of
Appeals, and letters were yesterday re-
ceived in this city, stating that on Friday
of last week, jury (of South Carolini-
ans, Of course had returned verdict
that the will was valid"
COLUMBUS, NEBRAsKA-About 100
Mechanics and Laboring men of this City,
and some thirty farmers with their fami-
lies from this and surrou nding Counties,
will leave this City on Monday, 3th of
April, in company with Mr.. John Rickley,
for the newly settled and flourishing town
of Columbus, Nebraska Territory. They
will proceed to Cincinnati by railroad,
from there by steamboat to st. Louis, and
miles to Omaha where wagons will be pro-
vided to convey the party 80 miles west
to Columbus. The whole expense of trav-
cling from Columbus, Ohio, to Columbus,
Nebraska Territory, is said to be about
thirty dollars. Columbus Gazette.
LAND SALE IN KANsAs.-The President
has issued his proclamation for the sales
of the trust lands of the Iowa, Wea and
Delaware tribes of Indians in Kansas, to
take place in the months of May and June.
There are about $4,000 acres of the first,
GA, 900 acres of the second and 345,Oo5
acres of the third named tribes.
They have all been classified and ap
praised, and will be offered for cash only.
No tract will be sold for less than the ap-
praised value. These lands are appraised
in quarter sections and are represented as
being very choice and desirable.
The sales are to take place in Iowa city
in Doniphan county.
FROM KANsAs.-ST. LOUIS, April s.
The Lecompton correspondent of the
Democrat says:
The census takers of Kansas are doing
their work in very bad manner, missing
some neighborhoods entirely, and not ia
king the names of half the actual residents
in others.
Much quarreling has taken place be-
tween squatters and land associations in
different parts of the Territory.
Several Deputy Marshals were arresting
political prisoners on charges growing out
of difficulties which occurred last sum-
mer.
A WIFE MURDERED.-LoUIsvIL s.
Mary Traber, beautiful young woman,
twenty-five years of age, was murdered
by her husband to-day. Traber was found
in bed with the body of the victim, when
the police entered his residence. He i'm
mediately sprang out of bed md attempt
ed suicide by cutting his throat slightly.
He had only been married eight months.
COMPENSATION OF PosTMAsTERs.-Ther P
is an impression that the emoluments of :
the postmasters in our large cities result
ing from the hire of boxes or otherwise is
enormous. This is mistake. The COM
missions of postmasters are limited by
law to SO, 900, and the receipts from boxes
to be retained by postmasters are likewise
limited to $4,000, so that .four thousand
dollars is the maximum annual salary for
the most lucrative offices.
GS During the continued sickness OF
Mr.. Appleton, the new conductor of the
Washington Union, the paper is edited by
Ben Perley Poore, the celebrated hero Of
the wheel barrow, and correspondent of
the Boston Journal. He was also the Ma
tive American Fillmore candidate for MEM
Der of Congress at the last election in his
district. A nice young man to be the or
ganist of the new administration.
The Catholic Telegraph of this week
announces that ''the Right Rev, James
Frederick Wood is appointed cosdjutor
Bishop of Philadelphia, with the right of
succession
ES- A brutal murder was nerpetrated.
upon Samuel H. White, in Washington
county, Pa, on Monday last. The deed
was perpetrated with an axe while he was
in bed asleep. No clue has been obtained
he e Al. l.