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Spanish granls by letters patent. or mandamus lands.
?	>.	Spanish grants on lands formerly granted hy 1?iitish (lovernors, hut never occu-
jl?y	the British j>:it4*ntthev	not priding in tin' district.
7.	The last description. with	this ?IiIV<*?"iico, that the patentee, although ho never
nenipied his land, wus a resident. jn another pari of the (?obmy, who, upon resisting this now grant, of his land by petitions to the Spanish fiovernor, was overruled for non-occu-pam'v and improvement. aereosihlv to 1.h?? conditions of the British grants, and reiterated Spanish	proclamations to the satin*	effect..
X.	Spanish grants upon lands	wdiich wop? vacant, during lli* I?rilish government.
!> Lands purchased at public sale of tho Spanish government, which lands had boon declared forfeited by an insurrection in favor of the Knglish, soon after tho post of Natcho/, had been surrendered to the Spaniards. And this included British mandamus grants and patents hy tho British governors of West Florida
10.	Lands for whieh warrants of survov had h'-eu obtained prior to tho ratiiioa-tton of the Spanish treaty, hut which could not ho p.it?*nIf?l until after that date.
11.	Lands of (he nhnvo description, but n'*vr patented, tho proprietor holding the wanant of survey, and plot, and certificate of the district, surveyor prior to the treaty.
IH. Land for whieh warrants of survov w?*ro obtained Indore the treaty, hut surveyed and patented after the tiealy.
Lands for whieh warrants of survey wop* obtained prior to tho treaty, hut surveyed all? r tho treaty, and not patented.
LL Warrant of survey and patent obtained since th<* treaty, hut during tho exercise of the Spanish jurisdiction, as agreed in an instrument between tho American commissioners and tho Spanish authorities.
Lr?. Warrant of survey, with plot and certificate of the district surveyors obtained since tho treaty, but tin patent.
1<?. Warrant of survey obtained before tho treaty, and improvement thereon, hut the land not surveyed.
17 Warrant obtained since the treaty, with improvement and actual occupation, but no survey.
IS. Wan ant before the treaty, without improvement or survey.
Warrant since the trentv, without improvement or survey.
-0. Improvement by houses, crop, stock and actual occupation, without authority by warm nt oj otherwise.
Jl. Improvement and cmp without priding on the land. and without, warrant.
Improvement and occupancy, and vnbal permission ot the Spanish (lovernor. with surveyor?s certificate.
Here th(Mi are twenty-two conflictin';' classifications covering the lands of West. Florida, and the Mississippi Territory, and each one big enough to hear a. hundred law-smts' No wonder the law-vers came, to this country in crowds, and the very ablest o!' the profession.
The J Lon. John Henderson?afterwards U. S. Senator?associated himself with Gen. I?ray. Most of vou remember him?his courtly demeanor?his severe logic?his inexhaustible argumentative faculty?his great and generous efforts and sacrifices for the liberation of Cuba.
Thomas B. Heed came to Natela*/,, from Kentucky, in early life. He was a man of imposing, but haughty exterior, of com -manding manners, but not pliant or popular. His superior talents provoked envy, and the number of his enemies kept pace with his professional progress. He rose to the head ot the bar; had no rival as an orator ; and in spite of ill-health and powerful oppo-
nents, he obtained a seat in the Senate of the U. S. He soon distinguished himself there, but died in the prime of life. When Attorney General, he occasionally attended our courts.
Richard Stockton resided in Natchez?was from New Jersey? son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence? graduated at the head of his class at Princeton, began a brilliant, career in Mississippi?was attorney general I believe?quarreled with a New Orleans gentleman at Stovalls Springs, in Marion county, and in the duel that followed, was shot through the heart.
Harry Cage, of an influential Tennessee family, settled in Wilkinson county, made a fortunate marriage, and by the influence of his wife?s connections, became circuit judge. He was afterwards elected to Congress as the persor.al and political friend of President Jackson, but went off, like so many others, on the bank question, and lost his popularity. He and the famous Franklin E, Plummer were canvassing the piue-woods counties together, but on opposite tickets. Both were trained electioneered. They stopped one ni<dit with an aged couple, who had lots of children and grandchildren living around. Just before going to bed, Cage went to tho woodpile under the hill, cut a lot, of wood, and brought it in for the old ladv to make her lire with next day. He was warmly thanked, and fancied he had made a ten-strike. Next morning at daylight, lie missed Phmmer and the old lady, and on looking around he found her milking the cow, and Plummer holding the calf back by its tail I
When they stopped for dinner next day, there was a house full of little children. Cage kissed them all round, but Plummer took the baby from its mother?s arms, tenderly laid it across his lap, turned up its little, slip, and began to hunt for rad-bugs/ The mother was perfectly carried away ; and when she saw her husband coming from the Held, she ran to meet him and tell him what a kind-hearted man they had in the house.
Cage lost his temper, and, when they mounted, said to Plummer :	" lit;re- we .separate?you are too aggravating?and if we
travel one day more together, you will tempt me to shoot you.?
R. W. Webber was a Virginian ; settled in Franklin county; was eccentric and somewhat dissipated, but had a mind capable of rapid concentration and the nicest discrimination; clear as a sunbeam and cutting as the seimetar of Saladin. He too was cut o(F in the prime of life.
Judge Adams was a Virginian, immigrating from Kentucky, where he'had been eminent at the bar. He became in Mississippi,