boys and carried to the said Abraham Johnson (colored) and received by him. He knowing that the said wheat was feloniously stolen from his granary, and that the other circumstances narrated in said letter are true to the best of his knowledge and belief, Sworn before E. A. R. SPARKS. State of Maryland

, respectively, sixty to the pound and thirty-two, or half-ounce. As to variations in length and weight, the author of this work possesses a collection of four historic old flint-lock rifles, made between the years 1753 and 1800. Two of them—one made by Starr, at Lancaster, and one by Jacob Palm, at Esopus, New

life, have added lustre to the family escutcheon; and his later descendant, John Houston Merrill, adorns the profession of his forbears. The Linn family, of much eminence in Central Pennsylvania, had repre- sentatives named John B. Linn and James Merrill Linn. I may add that as the elder of the

State magistrates could not be required by Federal law to perform any duties involving the recapture and return of the escaped or escaping human chattel. This de- cision—which is quite as monumental in the history of slavery as the more famous Dred Scot case—practically enabled every State and community

handsome structure, in admirable state of preservation as a farm house; while across a little brook and meadow stands the beautiful stone mansion which has been the private residence of the Slaymaker family for more than a century. It is one of a group of fine farm buildings in a well-im- proved and highly