Free Negroes

Sheriff’s Sale.
By virtue of an Order of the Orphans’ Court for Washington County, to me directed, under the Act of Assembly, passed at December Session, 1839, Chapter 36, prohibiting Free Negroes from coming into this State; I hereby give notice, that on MONDAY, the 22nd day of June inst., in front of the Court-house in Hagerstown, I will expose to sale to the bidder for the lowest term of service, a certain Arnetta Graham, a Free Negro Woman, to pay the fine and costs imposed by virtue of said act.

June 17, 1857 B. A. GARLINGER, Sh’ff.

LIBERATED.

– Joseph Balance, Esq., who lately passed through this city on his way to HagersTown, Md, to prove the freedom of a colored man who had been kidnapped in this State, and taken and lodged in the prison of that place as a runaway, returned on Saturday last with the information, that after considerable difficulty, he succeeded in obtaining his discharge, and bringing him back to this State.
Lancaster Examiner

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Volunteering OF Colored Men

—We understand that some seventy or eighty free colored men have enlisted in the United States service in the Clearspring District, and are awaiting transportation to Baltimore. It is now said that the County will receive credit on the draft for its volunteers, which, if true, will greatly diminish its quota.— Col. J. P. Crenger in a letter to the Frederick Examiner, says upon the authority of the Secretary of War that all men recruited in the counties will be credited accordingly.

Black vs. White-

Four or five persons, male and female, were last week tried in our Court, upon an indictment charging them with being negroes, and with having come from another State into this contrary to the statutes made and provided in such cases. Their genealogy was thoroughly investigated and their features and complexions rigidly scrutinized, but the evidence was insufficient to identify them with the African race, and they were acquitted.

The Case of Alfred Howard.

The Circuit Court.

The Trial of Mary Ellen Thomas.

In another column, a brief notice appears of the conviction, in our Circuit Court, of Mary Ellen Thomas (free negro) of murder in the first degree. The murder was committed upon an infant about four months old, son of Mr. William T. Baer, near Sharpsburg in this county, and the facts in the case, as they were detailed by the witnesses, are thus stated by a Hagers-Town Correspondent of the Baltimore Clipper :—

A Fatal Affray at Williamsport.

There are at present a large number of boats lying near Williamsport, being detained in consequence of a leak in the Canal. On Saturday evening last, as we understand, a fight occurred between some of the hands employed on these boats, in which knives were freely used, which resulted in the death of a colored man who was stabbed by a white man, the latter making his escape before he could be arrested. Another colored man was also severely stabbed.

A Painful Injury.

A colored man was brought to the Alms-House in this town, on Monday last, whose foot had on that day been torn from his leg, at or near Williamsport. We could not obtain a correct account of the accident, but we believe the man was working about a Canal Boat, and his foot becoming entangled in one of the ropes, was twisted off in a shocking manner.

The Legislature.

On Wednesday, Mr. McCardell presented a petition of sundry citizens of this county, for a new Election District, and also one of the Manor Agricultural Society, of this county, for an act of incorporation. The bill to prescribe the oaths and bonds of the Treasurer was passed this day.

On Thursday, George French, Esq., qualified and took his seat in the Senate. The nomination of John C. Legrand, as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, was this day confirmed.