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Cjjroitiflf & o * daily, tbi-weekly. and weekly. BY W. S. JONES. Sl .VDAV KOKNINQ, OCT. ‘J3 18'VO. TO DELINQUENTS. I n a few weeks we shall commence striking from our list of subscribers, the names of those who have not paid in advance. This is our only means of protection, for the low price of our paper will not justify the very heavy expense of sending out Agents, and too many of our sub scribers seem to have no idea of punctuality in the payment of their indebtedness. Those, therefore, who may fail to receive their papers, will he at no loss to account for the cause. We shall proceed as rapidly as possible to send Hills to all those in debted, and if they are not promptly paid, the paper will be discontinued. A Teacher. —Those in want of a Teacher are referred to the advertisement of a Graduate of Pennsylvania College, who brings very flattering testimonials of character and capacity. There was a sharp white frost in this vicinity Friday night last, lut not eevere enough to kill the growing cotton, though it was doubtless injured somewhat. The Pvst Office called ‘‘Station,” iu Thomas county, Ga., has been discontinued. « 'oina>«*ot» o! ilif Northern Fnn on the Virginia Insurrection. As a part of tLe history of the times, and a matter of co iitte interest at the South, we subjoin some ex extracts from the comments cf leacing N ■rtiteri! journals cu tha late fanatical movement at Harper's Ferry, leaving our readers to form the r own c.»l- C’uaion?. k The New York Tribu .e, of We netday, raj e : There will be enough to heap execration on the me mot yof these mistaken m-n We leave tLij work to the lit hands and tongues of tko-e who re gard the fauaamectal axioms ot the Declaration o! Independence as “glittering generalities ” Be lieving that the way to Universal Emancipation ties not through insurrection, civil war unci D ood shsd. but through peace, discussion, and the qu et diffusion oi sentiments of humanity ana justice, we deeply regret this outbreak; but remembering that, If their fauit ws3 grevions, grievously Lave they answered it, we will not, by one reproachful word, disturb the bloody shrouds wherein John Brown and his compatriots are sleeping. They dared and died for what they felt to be the right, though in a manner which seems to us fatally wrong. Let their epi taphs remain unwritten until the not distant day when no slave shall clank h:s chains in the shades of MoDticeiloor by the graves of Mount Vernon. The New York Courier 4* Enquirer of Wednes day says: Tue insurrection at Harper’s Ferry is at an end. It never had anything like the formidable propor tions the telegraph first assigned to it. Bet very few negroes of the neighborhood participated in >t, and it cannot rightly be denominated a servile movemet at all. It was all the work of John Brorvn of Ossawatamie memory—a man half crazed and made utterly desperate by the murder of b e sons by the border ruffians in Kansas, and poest:sed of an all devouring purpose to vent h s vengeance upon the instituiion in the interests of which those ruffians did their work. It is premature, however, to speculate upon the extent or precise charsetsr of the plot, which will undoubtedly be made tLe sub ject of a mo a t careful legal investigation. All wili rejoice that the demonstration was so speedily and effectually quelled. The direst curse that could befall our country would be an unchecked slave insurrection. The N. Y. Herald of the same date says : The inevitable effect of this abolition insurrection m the midst of the unsuspecting slaveboldiug com munity around Harpers Kerry will be, throughout the Southern States, a highly exs-perated tee ing of ho tiii’yto all the slavery agitators at the North, not only including W. II Seward and his followers to “an "irrepressible conflict” with the South, but even Sir. Douglas aLd his disciples of “popular sovereignty” in the Territories. Not many days, we apprehend, will elapse before the consequences upon the Southern mind of this desperate experi ment of abolition treason in Virginia will be recog nized in the North as pregnant with danger to the Union. te. We have thus before us some of the ripening fruits of that rn’scLievous reopening of the s.aveiy agitation n 1854, commenced by Dongles and Pierce as Presidential candidates tor the decisive vote of the South in the Cincinnati Convention. There would have been no border war in Kansas between Southern pro slavery adventurers and Northern anti-slavery emigrant aid societies had there been no invitation to them to fight out the slavery issue, face to face, on the soil of Kansas. And this man Brown was only a discharged guer rilla tree State soldier from the border ruffian soenes of that bloody Territority. Flushed with the success of the war for freed jm there, and rendered danng, reck ess, and an abolition monomaniac, by the scenes of violence and blood through which.he had passed, he believed the time at hand for carry ing the Kansas war for freedom into the heart of the Soutnem States lie has met with the fa'e which he courted; but his death and the punishment of ail his criminal associates will be as a feather in lie balance agakst the mischievous conse quences which will probably follow from the rekindling ol the slavety excitement in the South. We trust, however, that something of good will result from this wild and fanatical abolition explo sion at Harper’s Ferry audits bloody results From the extracts which we publ sh in this papsr on the subject, from several ot our Republican co temporaries of this city, it will be teen that they betray some signs of alarm —that they do not like the shape which. Mr. Seward's “ irrepressible con flict'’ is assuming. Let the people of this great conservative (State, however, remember that thij insurrection in question is hut a natural appendage of an “ irrepressible conflict” with Sjuthern slave ry, and the author of this treason may receive a lesson in November which will afford some security to the peace of the country at large, as well as a sen-e ot safety to the South from abolition couspi raiors. China. Affairs—Minister Ward and Com Tatnall.—ln the telegrapulc eummary of the Eu rope’s news, published in the New York papers of Thursday, we find the following : The ofticiel correspondence between the British government and its officials in China relative to the measures taken for the ratification of the treaty at Pekin, is published. The Hod. Colonel Bruce, British Ambassador, states pos’lively that if Admi ral Hope had expressed any doubt as to the result of attempting to force the passage of the Peiho, they would not have been shared by the squadron ; and if it be decided that the means at command were iusuffi iient to justify so bold a line of policy Col. Biuoe accepts the responsibility of Admiral Hope's act. Lord John Russell's reply virtually approves of the course thkeu, and says that ptej a v a:i ns e re be iug made in conjunction witu the F.ench govern ment to enable the forces to t upport the I le-ipo tentiaries in their instructions. Col. Bruce, iu one of bis letters, she ws the jo i- : tion occupied by Mr. Ward, the Auaercsa Minis i ter, and expressed the opinion that the Cuineee wi 1 j not make difficulties about exchai ging reti6cafi<u s j with him, as the conditions under which the Amer- ; ican Minister is alone entitled to \u it Pekin con- j fain nothing offensive to Chinese pride. C l B. uie ; expresses much gratification at the friendly feeling I and assistance experienced lrou< Mr. Ward und j Flag officer Tatnali, and concludes as follows: “ Mr. Ward’s position is one of considerable diffi culty, nor do I see, after our uneuceeselul attempt , at Peiho, ibat any course was open save the one Which he has adopted. He has acted cordially and frankly in the spirit of hie declarations ai Hong Kong, and it is a matter of satisfaction to me that his concert in oar proceedings is a strong ar gument in favor ot the conduct pursued by M. Bourboion and myself.” Lady Fkasklin.— lt is eaid of Lady Franklin that she has expended nearly every shilling she possessed, to the amount of £30,(100, in various en deavors to ascertain her husband's fate, and that unless something be done for her, she appears des tined to pass her remaining years in penury. It the British Government will not avert this, it is sug gested that the women of England and the United States unite in a subscription to raise a fund for ber future support H. J. Mimcht, indicted for murder at the late term of Bcrlven Superior Court, plead guilty to Involuntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to jiree in the penitentiary Reported for the Baltimore American. Ineurreciioa nt Harper** Ferry—Additional and Interesting Details. give below an interesting mass of details in relation to the iusuirection at liarper a terry. A large number of printed copies of a Constitution for the Provisional Government were found at Browu’a farm, and wo print it nearly entire below. It shows that servile insurrection was fully content plated, and an insane hope entertained that the movement would be formidable enough to with stand opposition and to acoomplish the extinction of slavery. A Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, and member of Congress had been appointed under its provisions. THE LATEST DESPATCHES. Uari’Er's Ferry, Oct. 19.—Gov. Wise has of fered SI,OOO for the arrest of Capt. Cook, who is supposed to be in the mountains with a number of negroes. The mountains are being scoured to-day by ai med men in search of the fugitive. After the train left yesterday afternoon, a detach ment of marines, with a number of volunteers, were sent to tne farm house of Capt. Brown to search it. They returned about »> o’clock in the evening with a wagon loaded with several hundred pikes or spears, two boxes of Sharp’s rifles, tents, blankets, boots and shoes, clothing, &0., with other equipments for the enterprise. The articles pre viously brought in by the Independent Greys were I from the school house, and not from the farm of j Capt. Brown as at first supposed. The most valuable article brought in by the marines, however, was a carpet bag filled with documeu's and letters connected with the expedi tion. They were taken possession of by Governor W ise and many of them read in pubko last night. Among the most important are : A letter from Gerrit Smith, the Abolition Presi dential candidate, containing seine financial state ments, and enclosing a dratt for SIOO, endorsed by the Cashier of a New York bmk. A letter from Frederick Douglas, enclosing a $lO note contributed by a lady for the good of the cause. Several letters from Henry Smith and John Smith, prominent Northern Abolition!-t*. A cumber of letters from different parts of Con necticut. Printed painphle's of the Constitution of the provisional government to be established by Capt. Brown. It was said these letters would implicate s num ber of prominent abolitionists at the North and West, as being cognizant of and favoring the pro ject. There were letters of introduction to Captain Brown presented to him by Aaron S evens, one of the insurgents, in which he was commended to him as worth a dozen ordinary men iu a fight. The writers of these letters stated that they had engaged him to join the expedition, which he had agreed to do on condition that they would give his wife, who lives in Missouri, SIOO to support his family duiiug the winter, pay some small debts for him, and pay ! his travelling expenses to Harper’s Ferry. These documents are very important and inter ! esting, and will attrqpt great attention throughout j the country. The Independent Greys having captured the boxes of Sharp’s K’fies, were each presented with one by order of Col. Lee. They are beautiful arms, ‘ntirely new, just as they were forwarded irorn the Massachusetts armory. Capt, Cook was supposed to be concealed in a | c ave in the mountains, about five miles from the ; Ferry. i csrrAi.v browns statement too.', wise, Harter's Ferry, Oct. 11*—T e wounds of I “Old Osawa’amie” Brown are cot at all dangerous, ; anti he is to day almost well again. Dr. Dunbar Ins attended him, professionally, as skilfully and I kindly as if he had not deserved his late. He is talui ani cool, and exhibits that resoluteness, iu > iew of his certain fa’e, which is a part of his na , u"e. His fanaticism is of that character which . saute out all doubt from his own mind about the j propriety of the desperately wild foray in which he ! Las engaged. He takes it for granted tha! he was , right, cares for nobody e’se’s opinion, and views ! the murders he and his mt a committed as merely j the necessary result of the war in which he had ; engaged egainst slavery. He professes to be pie ; pared foi trial, though having no doubt of hie con viction, and avers bus read ness to die on the scaf fold, t -ough he would not like to be slaughtered by the mob. He made a statement to Gov. Wise this morn ing, of which the following is the substance : “I will be s xty years old next tnoDth. 1 rented the Kennedy farm six mouths ago. It belongs to Dr. Kennedy, of Sharpc-burg, Aid.; had paid the | rent up to Maich next. 1 never had over twenty two men at any one time at that farm, who belong ed to my regular organization, but I bad good reason to expect reinforcements from Maryland, j Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Casada : (negroes and whites.) and had arms enough on the 1 farm to arm about fifteen hundred men—not quite full. The arms consisted of 200 revolvers, 2IM) i Sharp's rifles, and spears. I left these arms at the farm. We had plenty of powder and fixed ammunition. We brought ai! the arms ‘.rom time j to time from the East to Chain b irsburg, Pa, and | they were there paokad in double boxes, »o as to deceive the parties who hauled them to the farm They were oireeled to 8. S cith A: Sons, Kennedy faun, that being the name we had assumed. ’ Gov. Wise this morning with a party ot military weDt to the cave, eome miles above here, ia which Cook and his men were reported to be concealed. ! They found nothing to indicate that thej had been l there. I.IST OE THE INSURRECTIONISTS. The following is the list of the iusurretionists given by Cap ain Brown, with the rank they held in hie service, and their place ot birth. We have l arranged the list eo as to show who are dead and ; wounded : Captain John Brown, commander-in-chief— wounded, wiii recover. Capt. Oliver Brown—dead, f ~, . „ Capt. Watson Brown-de4d, $ 80ne of Ca P‘ BroWD ‘ Captain Aaron C. Stevens, Connecticut—badly wounded ; three ball s; cannot possibly recover. Lteut. Edwin Coppuck, lowa—wounded, Lieut. Edward Hazlitt, Pennsylvania—dead. William Leman, Maine—dead. Capt. John E. Cook, Connecticut—escaped. Stewart Taylor, Canada—dead. Charles P. Tida, Marne—dead. William Th msoii, New York—dead. Dolph Thompson, New York—dead. Capt. John Kugi, Ooio, but raised in Virginia— -1 dead. Lieut. Jeremiah Anderson, Indiana- dead, negroes. Daingerfield Newby, Ohio; raised in Virginia— dead. O P. Anderson, Pennsylvania—dead. "Shields Green alias Emperor, New York, raised iu South Carolina—prisoner at the Ferry. Lewis Leary, Ohio, raised in Virginia—dead. Copeland, Onio, raieediu Virginia—prieon j er at Charlestown. Meuioer of Congress under the “Provisional Gov ernment” he intended establishing. condition or the wounded We have the following intelligence in relation to the condition of the men wounded in the attacks on the Armory: Harper’s Ferry, Oct. lit—Evan ILrsey is in very good spirits, at E. C. Murphy’s house, receiv ing every attention from his family and from Pro fessor Dumbar, of Baltimore, who came up with the troops as Surgeon General, who thinks he is improving, but is doubtful as to his ability to w i ll stand the inflammation now setting iu. Ilis moth er, and other friends, are also with him, and the Railroad Company ia doing everything to benefit his condition, with that of the other biave men in thtir service, who were wounded in the fight. Private liuppert, of the marines, who was woun ded iu the assault upon the engine house, is dead. KMartinshurg, Va , Oct. P* Richardson and Wotiett are both doing very well; neither of them dangerously wounded. Woilett’s wound ia ou the arm only, but the bone is not injured ; the ball has not yet been remored. Richardson wili lose his eye, but the bail did not penetrate his head. They are both comfortable as can be under the circum stances. Harper’s Ferry, Oct. Ill,— The insurrectionists taken prisoners were to day conveyed to Charles town jail, the seat of justice ofJeflVrson county, in j the j nnt custody of the Sheriff and Marshal Capt. Brown is coneitdered out of danger. Ilia son, Watson Brown, died last night. Gov. Wise has gone to Charlestown with the prisoners. It is understood that the prisoners have been .surrendered entirely to the Virginia ! ur >v. Wise argued the question of jurisdiction with •dr. Ou!d, the United States District Attorney, iu j tb,s way; ‘lf the United States has jurisdiction j over the prisoners it must go into Court and eatab | iak that iact in a legal way. Iu the meantime : ihey will be committed to the jail at Charlestown, i The Grand Jury convenes next week; they will be I tried, couvicted and executed, if the United ; S ates establishes its claim of jurisdiction, it may ! t .ke what the State of Virginia has left of them.” iroritional Constitution und Ordinance* for ibe People of the United States, PREAMBLE Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existenoe in the United states, is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon" another portion; the only conditions which are perpetual imprison ment, and hopeless seivitude or absolute ex er miuation ; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident tiuths set forth in the Declaration of Independence: Therefore, We, Citizens of the United States, and the Oppress ed People, who, by a recent decision of the Su preme Court are declared to have no right which the White Man is bound to respect; together with all other people degraded by the laws thereof, Do, for the time being, ordaio -nd establish for our selves, the following PROVISIONAL CONSTI TUTION and ORDINANCES, the better to protect our Persons, Property, Lives and Liber ties ; and to govern our actions: ARTICLE I.—QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP. All persons of mature ege, whether Proscribed, oppressed and enslaved Citizens, or of the Pro scribed and oppressed races of the United States, who shall agree to sustain and enforce the Provi- eional Constitution and Ordinances of the organi zation, together with ail minor children of such persons, shall he held to be fully entitled to protec tion under the same ARTICLE 11, BRANCHES IF GOVERNMENT. '1 he provisional government of this orgamzatiou shall comiat of three branches, viz: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. ARTICLE III.—LEGISLATIVE. The Legislative branch shall be a Congress or House ol Representatives, composed of not less than live, nor more than ten members, who shall be elected by all citizens of mature age and sound mind, connected with this organization, and who shall remain in ctliee for three years, unless sooner removed for misconduct, inability, or by death. A majority of such members shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE IV.—EXECUTIVE. The executive branch of this organization shall consist of a President and Vice President, who shall be chosen by the citizens or members of this organization, and each of whom shall hold his office for three years, unless sooner removed by death, or for inability or miscondKct. ARTICLE V.— JUDICIAL. The judicial branch of this organization sbal consist of one Chiet Justice of the Supreme Court, and of four Associate Judges of said Court; each constituting a Circuit Court. They shall each be chosen in the same manner as the President, and shall continue in office until their place? have been filled in the same manner by election of the citi zens. Said court shall have jurisdiction in all civil or criminal causes, arising under this Constitution, except breaches of the Rules of War. ARTICLE VI. —VALID IT Y OK ENACTMENTS. All enactments of the legislative branch shall, to become valid, during the iirst three years, have the approbation of the President, and of the Comman der in Chief of the Army. ARTICLE VII.—COMMANDER IN CHIEF. A Commander in Chief of the Army shall be chosen by the President, Vico President, a maiority of the provisional congress, and of the Supreme Court, and he shall receive his commission from the President, signed by the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Ihe Secretary of War; and he shall hold his office for three years, un ess removed by death, or on proof of incapacity or misbehavior. He shall, unless under arrest, (and until his place is actually tilled as provided for | by this Constitution,) direct all movements of the army, and advise with any allies. lie shall, how ever, be tried, removed or punished, on complaint to the President, by, at least, three general officers, or a majority of the House of Representatives, or of the Supreme Court ; which House of Represen tatives, (the President presiding,) the Vice Presi dent, and the members of the Supreme Court, shall constitute a court martial, for his trial, with power to remove or punish, as the case may require, and to fill his place as above provided. ARTICLE VIU,—OFFICERS. A Treasurer, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and Secretary ot the Treasury, shall each be chosen for the first three years, in the same way and manner as the Commander iu Chief, subject to trial or removal ou complaint of the President, Vice President, or Commandei -in-Ghief, to the Chief Justioe ot the Supreme Court; or ou com plaint of the majority of the members of said court, or the Provisiaual CougteS3. Tue Supreme Court shall have puwer 10 try or punish either of those officers; and their places shall be filled as before. ARTICLE IX —SECRETARY OF WAR. The Secretary of War shall be under the imtne ; diate direction of the Commauder-in-Chief, who i may temporarily till his place, in caaa of nrrest, or j of any inability to serve. ARTICLE X. —CONGRESS OR HOUSE OF RE PRESENT A TIVKS. j The House of Representatives shall make ordi- I nances providing tor the appointment (by the ! President or otherwise) of all civil officers, exeept ! ing those already named, and shall have power to | make all laws and ordinances for the genera! good, 1 not inconsistent with this constitution and these | ordinances. article xi.— appropriation of money, Ac. The Provisional Congress staff have power to ! appropriate money or other property actually iu I the bauds of the Treasurer, to any object calcula ted to promote the general gcod, so far as may be I consistent with the provisiot iof thie Constitution , I and may, in certain cases, appropriate, for a mode | rate compensation of agents, or persons not nsem | bera of this organization, for important service they | are known to have rendered. ARTICLE XII. —SPECIAL Dt'TITS. It shall be the duty of Congress to provide for the : instant removal of any civil officer or policeman who becomes habitually intoxicated; cr whoia audio ted to other immoral conduct, or t>> any neglect or unfaithfulness in the discharge of his cfiioi il duties. Congress shall also he a s'anding Committee of Safety for the purpose of obtaining important j information, and shallbe in constant communication j with the Commander-in-Chief, the members of which shall each; as also the President, Vice President, members of the Supreme Court, Secre tary of S f ate, have full power to issue warrants returnable as Congress shad ordain, (naming witness es, &.c.,) upon their own information, without the formality of a complaint. Complaint shall be inline diately made after arrest, and befere trinl; the party arrested to be served with a copy at once. (Articles XIII. to XXV. provides for the trial of President and other officer-! and Members of <*• ti gress ; the impeachment of Judges; duties of the President and Vice President; Punishment of Crimes, Army Appointments, Salaries, Ac, Ate, and not being of special interest, weom 'Jthero | ARTICLE XKVI. —TREATIES OF PEACE. Before any treaty of peace Bhall take full effect, it shall be signed by the President and N ice Presi dent, the Commander in Chief, a majority of the House of Representatives, a majority of the Su preme Court, and a majority of all the general offi cers of the army. ARTICLE XAVU. —DUTY OF THI MILITARY. It shall be the duty of the Commander in Chief, and all the officers aud soldiers of the army, to afford special protection when needed, to Congress, or any member thereof; to the Supreme Court or any member thereof; to the President, Vice Presi dent, Treasurer, .Sect etary of State, Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of War; and to afford general protection to ah civ 1 officers, or other per sons having right to the same. ARTICLE XXVIII.— PROPERTY. Allcaptn>-6d or confiscated property and all pro perty the product of the labor of those belonging to this organization aLd of their families, shall be held as the property of the whole, equally, without distinction ; and may be used tor the common ben elit, or disposed of for the same object. and any person, officer or otherwise, who shall improperly retain, secrete, use, or needlessly destroy such property, or property, found, captured or confisca ted, belonging to the enemy, or shall wilfully neg leet to render a full and fair statement of such property by him so taken or held, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished accordingly. ARTICLE XXIX. — SAFETY OR INTELLIGENCE FUND. All money, plate, wa'ches or jewelry, captured by honorable warfare, found, takeu or confiscated, belonging to the enemy, shall be held sacred, to constitute a liberal safety or intelligence fund ; aud any person who shall improperly retain, dispose of, hide, use or destroy such money or other articles above named, conttary lo the provisions aud spirit of this article, shall be deemed guilty of theft; and on conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly. The Treasurer shall iurnish the Commander-in- Chief at all times with a full statement of the con dition of such fund, aud its nature. ARTICLE XXX.—THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND THE TREASURY. The Commander-in Chief shall have power to draw from the treasury the money and other prop erty of the fund provided for in article twenty ninth, but hia orders shall be signed also by the Secretary of War, who shall keep strict account of the same ; subject to examination by any member of Congress or general officer. ARTICLE XXXI. —SURPLUS OF THE SAFETY OR INTEL- UtNOE FUND. Jt shall be the duty of the Commander irt-Chief to advise the President of any Surplus of the Safety and Intelligence Fund ; who sbail'have power to draw such Surplus, (his order being also signed by the Secretary of State,) co enable him to carry out the provisions of article seventeenth. ARTICLE X.XXII.—PRISONERS. No person, after having surrendered himself or herself as such, to any officer or private connected with this organization, shall afterward be put to death, or be subjected to any corporeal punishment, without first having had the benefit es a fair and impartial trial; ner shall any prisoner be treated with any kind of cruelty, disrespect, insult, ©r needless severity ; but it shall be the duty of all persons, male and female, connected herewith, at all times aud under ail circumstances, to treat all such prisoners with every degree of respect and kindness the nature of the circumstances will admit of; and to insist on a like course of conduct from all others, as in the fear of Almighty God, to whose care and keeping we commit our cause. ARTICLE XXXIII. —VOLUNTARIES. All persons who may come forward and shall voluntarily deliver up their slaves, and have their names registered on the books of the organization, shall, so long as they continue at peace, be entitled to the fullest protection of person and property, though not connected with this organization, and shall be treated as friends, and not merely as per sons neutral. ARTICLE XX XI V. — NEUTRALS, The persons aud property of all non-slaveholders who shall remain absolutely neutral, shall be respec ted as far as the circumstances can allow of it but they shall not be entitled to any active protection” ARTICLE XXXV.— NO NEEDLESS WASTE. No needless waste or destruction of any useful property or artiole, by tire, throwing open of fences fields, buildings, or needlees killing of animals or injury of either, shall not be tolerated at any time or place, but shall be promptly and properly pun ished. v ARTICLE XXXVI.—PROPERTY CONFISCATED. The entire percouai and real property of all per- 1 son» known to be acting either directly or indirect * i ly with or for the enemy, or found in arms with them, or found wilfully holding slaves, shall be confiscated and taken, whenever and wherever if may be found, iu either Free or Slave Stales. ARTICLE XXXVII DESERTION. Persons convicted, on impartial trial, of desertion to the enemy affer becoming members, acting R 3 spies, or of treacherous surrender of property, arms, ammunition, provisions or supplies of any kind, roads, bridges, persons, or fortifications, shall be put to death and their entire property confiscated. ARTICLE XXXVIII. — VIOLATING PAROLE OK HONOR Persons proven to be guilty of taking up arms after having been set at liberty ou parole of honor, or after the same, to have taken any active part with or for the enemy, cirect or indirect, shall be put to death and their entire property confiscated. ARTICLE XXXIX,—ALL MUST LABOR. All persons connected in any way with this or ganz&tiou, and who may be entitled to full protec tion under it, shall be held as under obligation to labor some way for the general good ; and persons refusing or neglecting so to do, shall on conviction receive a suitable and appropriate punishment. ARTICLE XL. —IRREGULARITIES. Profane swearing, filthy conversation, indecent behavior, or indecent exposure of the person, or in toxication, or quarieliug, shall not be allowed or tolerated ; neither unlawful intercourse ot the sexes. ARTICLE XLI. —CRIMES. Persons convicted of the forcible violation of any female prisoner, shall be put to death. ARTICLE XLII. —THE MARRIAGE RELATION—SCHOOLS —THE SABBATH. The marriage relation shall at all times be respect td ; and families kepi together as tar as possible > and broken families encouraged to leuuite, and in teiiigence offices established as soon as may be, for the purpose of religious and other instructions; and the first day of the week regarded as a day of rest, and appropriated to moral and religious instruction aud improvement, relief of the suffering, instruction of the young aud ignorant, and the encouragement of pereoua.l cleanliness ; nor shall any persous be required on that day to perform oidinary manual labor, unless in extremely urgent cases. ARTICLE XLIII. —CARRY ARMS OPENLY. All persons known to be of good character, and of sound mind, and suitable age, who are connected with this organization, whether male or female, shail be encouraged to carry arms openly. ARTICLE XLIV. — NO PERSON TO CARRY CONCEALED WEAPONS. No person within the limits of the conquered ter ritory except regularly appointed policemen, express officers of the army, mail carriers, or other fully accredited messengers of Congress, President, Vice President, members oft! 3 Supreme Court, or commissioned officers of the a my—aud those only under peculiar circumstances—shall be allowed, at any time, to carry concealed weapons; and any person not authorized specially so to do, who shall be found so doing, shall be deemed a suspicious person, and may at once be arrest -d by any o fficer, soldier or citizen, without the formality of a com plaint or warrant, and may at once be subjected to I thoro ugh search, and shali have his or her case thoroughly investigated, and be dealt with as cir cumstances or proof shall require. ARTICLE XLV.— PERSONS TO BE SEIZED. Persons within the limi.s of the territory bolden by this organization, hwing aimi at all, concealed or otherwise, ala ill be seized at once, or be taken in 1 chs-ge of some vigilant officer, and their cate j thoroughly investigated; audit shall be the duty I of alt citizens and soldiers, a« well as officers, to j arrest such parties as are named in this and the j preceding section or article, without the formality of compiaint or watrant, and they shall be placed 1 in charge of some proper officer for examination, or for safe keeping. I ARTICLE XLV 1. —THESE ARTICLES NOT FOR THE OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT. The foregoing articles shall not be constiued so j as iu any way to encourage the overthrow of any j State Government, or of the General Government ; of the United States ; am! look to nq dissolution of tne Union, but simply to amendment and repeal i And our dag shall !>e the same that our fathers ! fought under in the Revolution, ARTICLE XLVII. —NO PLURALITY OF OFFICERS. No two of the offices specially provided for, by this instrument, shall be filled by the same person, at the same time. ARTICLE XLVIII. —OATH. Every officer, civil or military, connected with j this organization, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, make solemn oath or affirtna tion. to abide by and support this Provisional Con stitution aud these Ordinances. Also, every oiti— I sen and soldier, before being folly recognized as such, shall do the same. SCHEDULE. The President of this Convention shall convene, immediately, on the adoption of this instrument, a ; convention of alt such persons as shall have given ) their adherence, by signature, to the Constitution; who shall procesd to fill by election all offices specially named in said Constitution, the President of this convention presiding, and issuing eomrair sdons to such officers elect: all ruoh officers being hereafter elected in the manner provided in the body of this instrument . THE PAPERS FOUND ON CAPT. BROWN. | The Washington Star of last evening says : The Government have received the papers found on the person and in the valise of Oawuttamie Brown. From ail that we have been able to gather with reference to their character, t ese papers disclose that he kept ada !y j urnal, in whi< h he set iorth the details of his transactions , which show his pur chase of arms in large quantities, and ammunition and stores of all Rinds necessary to the success ot an extensive insurrection—field spy glasses, picks aud shovels for throwing up temporary fortifica tions, calls or boatswain’s whistles of a new kind, being very shrill aud capable of being heard at a long distance, (which ate supposed to have been i intended for assembling his bauds or warning them of danger,) were among these stores, ihe whistles, as per bill found in his effects, were made in Phila delphia aud forwarded to an agent of his in Balti more, last week, per Adams & Co.’s Express—some of them were found in his valise. We understand that the names of various persons in different States are embraced in the papers found, as being well posted in regard to his plans and movements. From tiie tenor of his papers it is now not to be doubted that the conspiracy of which he was the head and front bad an extensive organization in various States. There is said to be nothing in the papers found showing tbatnegroesorotbers belonging at Harper's Ferry or its vicinity wore partiesps criminis before the fact in Brown’s conspiracy. Among other things embraced in this batch of papers are said to be the names of various persons upon whom he might rely for aid in case of neces sity. It is a’so said to be apparent from them that ha was promised instant extensive aid from abroad, which, as the result proved, failed him There can now be no doubt that his grand aim was to create a general servile insurrection. WHEN THE PLOT WAS CONCOCTED. The Philadelphia Press of yesterday publishes the following, which it says is “from tne pen of a leading anti slavery man’ in that city. It shows that we were correct in having supposed that Brown’s first visit to Harper’s Ferry, which was made more than a year ago, was for the purpose of preparing for the insane attempt which he at last carried out : “You ask me what I know in regard to this out break at Harper’s Ferry. I answer—l know noth ing ; and yet I am not altogether ignorant concerning it. “More than a year ago, when the Kansas trou bles bad oonae to an ena, a gentleman—for such he was by birth and breeding—fresh from the scene of strife, and ready for another contest, called to see me at my office. He was a soldier by profession ; had fought for freedom in Hungary and on the plains of Kansas, and was now ready, if au oppor tunity would offer, to draw his sword in the same behalf in the mountains of Virginia, or in the swamps of South Carolina. On this last point he wanted to know my opinion, which, of course, I was prompt to give. “Our enterprise," I said, “is a moral one. It rejects the sword It seeks to accomplish its end by ideas. It appeals to the understanding, the heart, the conscience, the purse. Its object is, by changing public opinion, to effsci a moral revolu lion ; that to be followed by a proper political re construction, the same to be accomplished by the least possihle exercise of force ” This, he said, was all well enough in theory, but it would not work in practice. It was too slow. In the initiatory stages of the movement it might do weii enough, but the time bad come when something more de cisive was called for. He was not sn Abolitionist in the common sense of the word, but lie was a friend of freedom the worid over, and was ready, at auy time, to unsheathe his sword against oppres sion Did I know John Brown, ol Oaawattauiie 1 No, I did not know him, though I had often heard of him. Wei!, said he, I don’t like him; he and I don’t agree. He has treated me badly; but he is a brave man and efficient soldier. He has come home burning under a sense of the wrongs he and his countrymen suffered in Kansas at the hands of the slaveholders, and is determined to make re prisal. Ho wants to organize a band to go Soutn, establish himself in tbs mountains, and inaugurate a species of guerilla warfare for the liberation of slavery. Are there any amongst your friends that would co-operate in such an undertaking ? To the best of my knowledge and belief there was not one. Weli, he would find them somewhere; for he was bent on fighting the slaveholders with their own weapons—the use of which they had so well taught him in the battles of Kansas. “Such, in substance, was the convocation be tween Captain and myself, of whom or fiom whom I have never heard since that lime. But soon after this, I heard from another source, that John Brown was still meditating a descent on the slaveholders, aud was only waiting to find coadju tors. Aud about six weeks ago, a highly respeota ble gentleman, just returned irom foreign travel, stopped in this city, ana in the course of a conver- i eation I had with him, dropped expressions mply ing his knowledge of B'owu’s intentions, and whai surprised me most, of his approval of them. As certaining my sentiments on the subject, he did not 1 make me a confidant, and not anticipating sny i serious result, nor any immediate result of auy kind, I I made no particular inquiries. . , I ‘•This is the extent of my knowledge m regard to this startling affair. When I heard the ff o rumor yesterday, I credited it, and bs.ieved i John Brown had a hand in it , subsequent discio sures have proved that I was right. “This is the beginning of the end. The drag* * teeth which have been so protuseiy sown nav sprung up and are bearing their natural fruit. Stringfellow and Buford initiated thß movement; who will be the men to consummate it ?” Among the papers found were the following : LETTER FROM UERRIT SMITH TO CAPT. JNO. BROWS. “Peter boro’, June 4, 's9—Capt John Brown My dear friendl wrote you a week ago, direct ing my letter to care of Mr. Kearney. He replied, informing me that he had forwarded the letter to Washington. But as Mr. Morton received last evening a letter from Mr. Sanborn, saying yout address w'ould be your son's home, via: West Andover, I therefore write you without delay, and direct my letter to your son. I have done what I Os uld thus far for Kansas, and what I could to keep you at your Kansas work. Losses by endorsement and otherwise have brought me under heavy em barrassments the last two years, but I must never thelesa continue to do in order to keep you at your Kansas work. I send you herewith my draft for S2OO. Let me hear from you on the receipt of this letter. You live in our hearts, and onr prayer to God is that you may have strength to continue m your Kansas work. My wife joins me in affectionate regard to you, dear John, whom we both hold in very high esteem. . “I suppose you put the Whitman note into Mr. Kearney's hands. It will be a great shame if Whitman does not pay it. What a noble man is Mr. Kearney! How liberal yhe has contributed to keep you in your Kansas work ! Your friend, Gerhit Smith. On the back of this letter is endorsed —Gerrit Smith answered June 17th, and enclosed E. B. Whitman's note, aud 11. Tubman’s receipt. I.ETTER FROM CHARLEB BLAIR. “Collinsville, Conn., June 10th, 1859 —Friend Brown : Your favor of the 7th inst., was duly re_ oeived, with the draft on New York for S4OO. I have made arrangements to have the goods finished up as soon as possible. The only man I could think of in this vicinity, who i 3 in a situation to uo it, 1 have agreed with. But he would not agree to get them out in less time than eight weeks. Perhaps he can finish up one-half the number soon, if you desire it. But he has positively agreed to have them all out in eight weeks. I find that some of the handles have come up missing, and I shall not be able to make out more than about 950. Considering the delay aud the extra trouble 1 am to be at, I think you will be satisfied with that nttmbei. I could have furnished them when 1 had them under way for much less than lean now. Wishing you peace and prosperity, I remain yours, truly, * “Charles Blair. There was also found the following receipt: “Received, Collinsville, June 4th, 1850, of John Brown, on contract ot 185<, one hundred and titty dollars. Charles Blair.’ A. WATTLES TO CAPT. JOHN BROWN. “Moneka, K. T., March 20, ’59 —Dear Friend : Your favor of the 10th instant was received last evening. We were gratified to hear from you and your Lucceas. We had followed you with anxious heart from point to point on your perilous journey. Be pleased to let us hear Horn you from time to time as you have opportunity. We are ail well and have been neither frightened or hurt, though in constant peril of assassination or arrest. The pro slavery party has defeated itself, more by their own stupidity than our smartness We vote on the county seat in June. Send all the abolitionists you can. Please coniinue that writing you begun at my house I am a member of the Historical Society of Kansa“, and am appointed on the de j partment of biography. Please make a note of this, and act accordingly. Yours, truly, A Wattles. “P S—Dr. Weavei killed himself,! presume you have heard, while bringing in guns from Mis souri to murder his neighbors with. It was a pro | vidential interference tor our protection, I have no j doubt.” LETTER FROM O. 8. TO CAPT BROWS, JR “ Cham her sburg, Pa., September 9, 1859.—Dear Brother, Sister and others All is weil with us. At present our prospecting appears to be favorable, aud some of us will find employment in a few days. Tidd is here. God speed you. Your brother. O. S.” LETTER FROM FRED. DOUGLASS. My Dear Captain Brown—l am very busy at home Will you please come up with my son Pred, and take a mouthful with me ? In haste, yours, truiy. Pred Douglass. Dee'r 7. letter from m. r. delaney to j. h. kagi. Among the papers was found a letter dated at Chatham, Canada, August lfith, one or two para ■ graphs of which are of interest. Delaney says : ' * I have beeu anxiously looking a?.d expecting 1 to see some thing cf uncle's movements, but as yet have seen nothing; the letter from you being the ' tirst Intimation of his whereabouts since he wrote me P,ea?e send me any paper that may mention your doings. All are in good spirits here, hoping and waiting for the good time comtrg ” * The letter fell into the hands of Tmd, who open pened and appended to it—“ Friend Kagi, seeing a letter tor you fiom Canada, and knowing that a letter from there would relate to business, I took s the hbe ty to peruse it. I know yon will not tkiDk > hsri. Tidd.” Besides the above were several letter sheets of : maouecript so closely written es to be almost illegi i ble, but it was a sort of scriptural writing; a poetical t effusion by W. H Lseman, one ot the insurgents, and several papers which were taken by Gov. t Wise, aud which are mentioned under the tele t graphic head. i A manual guerilla warfare, with instructions to use the iar.ce, so many of which were found, was , carefully preserved. , Among a quantity of capers in our possession found in the house of Capt. Brown, is the following brief, written upon a scrap of paper, in a good professional handwriting : “At the right hour, by all you deem sacred, re member me." [Signed] George B. Gill. VVe give literatim el punctuatim, the following scrap written by Watson Brown, who was seriously wounded by one of the Martiusburg men, and found on the floor of the engine house immediately after the storming: Fight on, fight ever yoo Hell Hown of the Lower Regions l Your day has come. Lower your black flag, shoot yoor Dogs yoo Devils. Hell and foiies! go in for Death. In an enveloped, addressed to “Captain John . Brown, care of Dr. S. G. Howe, 20 Bromtield street,” where a number of clippings from the New York Tribune, Cleveland Plaindealer and Rochester Union, referring to the Kansas exploits of “Ossa wattamie” Brown. Scattered over the floor of the rooms were hundreds of copies of a pamphlet work entitled “extracts from the manuel of the Patriotic Volunteer on active service in regular and irregular war, being the art and science of obtaining aud maintaining liberty and independence.” By Hugh Forbis. Certain passages in one ot the copies in our possession, referring to the duries of riflemen, is pencilled down the margin, and dog eared, as if for future reference. STARTLING REVELATION—THE POINTS OF ATTACK. In a trunk, supposed to have belonged to Capt! Brown, was found seven small though elaborate maps of as many different States, bearing peouliar marks, which would seem to indicate that the points of attack, and the course of the insurrectionary movement through the South, had already been carefully determined upon by this w'ell organized and confident league of traitors. Certain counties in the seven States, of which only these maps were obtained, bear cross marks formed by a pen, and in several instances as if to commaud greater particu larity of attention, or to suggest perhaps more available poiuts of attack, circular lines are drawn around the crosses. The designated counties In (he States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, form a continuous chain of districts, or route of travel from Georgetown, and from Beaufort, South Caro lina, along the Savannah River, to the Chattahoo chee River, on the western border of Georgia; from thence passing through convenient points on the Alabama ana Tombigby rivers to the borders of Mississippi; from whence it continues with little interruption to the Red river. The maps, which are about 18 by J 2 inches, are carefully and neatly pasted on stout cambric cloth. Upon the margin of each map is pasted the census returns of 1850 of its State, giving in detail the relative strength of the white and slave population of each county and the proportion of females to the whole number of inhabitants. By referring to the counties marked it will be pereeivod that in them the slave popula tion vastly preponderates and might, therefore have been ueen ed a safer field of operation for the abolition invaders. Harper’s Ferry , Oct. 20, 11 p. M.-In conver sation with old Brown yesterday, in presence of beuator Mason, Hon C. J. Faulkner, of V a , and Hon. Mr. \ allandigham. of Ohio, be made several ers wrnch Ciearly demonstrate the complicity of numerous persona io the Northern, Western cmd .Eastern States. lie refused to answer thequestion whether he had a conference with Joanna R Giddings about his Virginia expedition. Ho ad mitted he had corresponded with parties at the North on the subject, and had numerous sympa thisers in all the free States. r Dispatches to night from Hagerstown, Md de otare that Cook s wife certainly went to Harrisburg Pa f - T a T? a u y - She took board at the same house with “ old Brown s' daughter-in law. The Sheriff and deputy of Hagerstown followed Cook as iar as Greencastle to day, and the irnmes sion there is that Cook left for Chambereburg P At Kigh't.” 11 is he | Sh !w i Wa3 credibl y at Greencastle, fmm w w° f *° XBB passed throu * h there Tuesday, 1 pi«iSX noo ' u “ 7 '“ d " k, " iß,i : The Sheriff is going in search in the morning. The 1 stage driver of Cbambersburg, also confirms the 1 statement regarding Cook’s wife. A bill to ens ave or banish the free negroes of leaneßsee, has been int Ouiiced in the Legislature ' Os that State. < I Rome Jacksonville Railroad.—A met t ing of the citizens of Rome and vicinity was held at Rome, on Tuesday, 18fb, to take into considers - tion tie enterprise of building a railroad to some point on too Alabama line. After the meeting had been addressed by a number of prominent gei tie men, Hon. John H. Lumpkin introduced the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted : Ist. Resolved , by the citizens of Rome in town meeting assembled, that ff is important to the iu tereat of this city aud the surrounding country, that a line of railroad ba constructed connecting m with the Selina Railroad at Jacksonville, Alabama and with the Northeastern and Southwestern Rsi'* road at or near Gadsden in the State of Alabama 2nd. Resolved farther, that we earnestly request the President and Directors of the Georgia and Ala bama Rail Road Company to take immediate steni to increase their subscription of stock to an amount sufficient to enable them to build the Road ; anti without further delay, to survey, locate and put tba work of grading the Road from Rome to the State line, on the most practicable route from this place to Jacksonville or Gadsden, under early contract Mb). George S. Black introduced the following preamble and resolution which were also uaani mousiy adopted. In view of the fact, that a Rail Road hence to Jacksonville or Gadsden Alabama, would be a most important “feeder” to the Western and Atlantic Kail Road, Kt solved, that our Senators and Representatives in the next General Aa-enabiy, be and they are hereby, instructed to use their best efforts to pro cure the passage of “an act” authorizing and in structing the Governor of the State to subscribe for two hundred thousand dollars of the stock in said Rail Road. On motion of C'ol. S. Fouche, it was unanimously Resolved, that this meeting request the Inferior Court of Floyd county to take immediate steps to ascertain the sense ot the county in regard to sub scribing not lecS than fiity nor more than one hun dred thousand dollars to a Railroad from Roma to the Alabama line, in accordance with the provisions of a “special act” of th- Legislature, passed on the 22d day of December, 1857. On motion of Col. S. Fouche it was Resolved, that the meeting request the President and Direc tors of the Georgia and Alabama Railroad to confer with the President and Directors of the Dalton and Jacksonville Ro3d, with the view of inducing them to construct that road byway <-f this city and to co-opeiate with the Georgia and Alabama Company in building the Road|hence to the State of Alabama Extent of the Harper’s Ferry Plot —The N. Y. Post, in the course of its comments on the late insurrection, says : “Rumors which arc current among the free blacks of this city represent that this outbreak was only a premature explosion of a more general conspiracy. It i-> alleged that a rising all over the states of Maryland and Virginia was contemplated, that the 24 th of October was the day appointed for the attempt, and that the seizure of the Arsenal was to be ’he signal to the insurgents. The taking of the Arsenal in anticipation ot the day whereby the conflict has been precipitated, before the slaves were ready for it, is supposed to be a mistake of some one entrusted by the leaders with the execu tion of that part of the plot. Whether there is auy foundation for these rumors, or whether they are mere inventions got up after the event to stimulate public curiosity, we cannot say.” Our Allairn with China. The Philadelphia Ledger has a letter from its correspondent nn board the U S. steamship Pow hatan, about thirty-six hours later than the previous advices, detailing the result of the attack on the forts, containing a few items of interest in relation to the movements of the American Minister, Mr Ward, which will have the effect of throwing some doubts on the French story of his being boxed up and sent to Pekin. He states that the English slg French Ministers had both remonstrated, (the latter on the 4th, and the former on the sth of July,) in a friendly manner with Mr. Ward, the object being to deter him from going to Pekin. Crider date oi July fi, he eays : “Finding, yesterday, that our “junk" was getting along very slowly, and feeling confident that Ehe had a communication from the Governor General, we got up steam on the Toey wan, and sent to tow her up. At one P. H., she was brought alongside and two white ball Mandarins came on board in company with Mr. Martin, the interpreter. The 1 latter at once handed Mr. William? a letter from 1 Governor Genera! Hung, of which the following is the sense: “Governor-General Hung had received the let ter of the American Minister, and would be at the fortified entrance, seven miles to the North of the . Peiho for’s, to meet upon any day that he, Mr Ward might select. Thence he would be conduct r ed to Tein Sing, where the treaties c-ou’d bs ei : changed, and alter that he would be escorted to s Pekin, there to deliver the President’s letter to tee i Emperor in person. It gave Governor General j Hung great pleasure to be polite to the Americans r their bearing had always been so friendly. * The foregoiDg is what table talk tells ns it con taintd, at-d the same authority says that Friday ; the Bth, is the day appointed for the interview.” i The friendly feeling evinced by the Chinese to c Mr. Ward, first by sending him a junk load of ; provisions byway of an apology for the mistake in driving his messenger back to his boat, and f subsequently in the proceedings narrated above, would indicate that the indignity of carrying him 1 to the capital in a box is altogether unfounded. In the treaty which Mr. Ward is about to ratify, says . a correspondent of the Philadelphia American, there are two clauses of great significance, which have escaped a*tention. By one the Chinese are to afford conveyances to the embassy, and the i number ot the embassy are limited. It runs thus:, “The Minister of the United States of Americi in China, whenever he has business, shad have the right to visit and sojourn at the capital of His Ma [ jeaty the Emperor of China, and there confer with a member of the Privy Council, or any other high officer of equal rank deputed tor that purpose, on matters of common interest and advantage. His visits shall not exceed one in each year, ana he shall complete his business without unnecessary deley.— He snail be allowed to go by land, or come to the mouth of the Peiho, into which he shall not bring 1 ships of war; and he shall inform the authorities at that place, iu order that boa s may be provided for him to go on his journey. Whenever he means to proceed tr the capital, he shall communicate, in writing, his intention to the Board of Rites, at th 6 capital, and thereupon the said Board ebail give the necessary directions to facilitate his journey, aud give him necessary protection and respect on bis way. On his arrival at the capital, ho shall be fur nished with a suitable resiaence prepared for hun, i and he Bhall defray his own expenses ; and his entire suite shail not exceed twenty persons, exclusive of his Chinese attendants, none of whom shall be en gaged in trade. And if, at any time, His Majesty the Emperor of China shall, by treaty voluntarily muae, or for any other reason, permit the repre sentative of any friendly nation to reside at his capitai for a long or short time, then, without any further consultation oi express promise, the repre sentative o? the United States shall have the same prviiige.” Here is ample provision for escort, protection and respect, and the route is designated. The other article alluded to, in view of recent events on the Peiho, will also be a strong reason for insuring to Mr. Ward a kindly reception and proper treatment. It is the first article of the trea'y of Tientsin, aud, a? was understood at the time, was inserted by the Chinese Plenipotentiaries. It certainly has a Chi nese style of language : “There sha.l be, as there always has beeu, peace and friendship between the United States of Ame rica and the Chinese Empire, aud between their people respectively. They shall not insult or oppress each other for any trifling cause, so as to product an estrangement between them. And if any other natign should aot unjustly or oppressively, the United Stqtea will exert their good offices, on being iutormed of the case, to bring about an amicable ariaugement of the question, thus showing their friendly feeling.” ihe Chinese have, therefore, a clear interest in treatmg our Minister with consideration—and if they do, the attitude of the United Stales in tbs east must be an imposing cne, in view of the ap proaching struggle. Ail this may be frustrated By Chinese perversity.— Ball. 4raer. Dawson, Oot. 20, i • • Editor Savannah Republic an We were gi> t ed this morning with a fine frest. Cotton coming in freely. Good Middling 9| cents. Yours respectfully, S. R. Weston. The Post Office Department during the last week discontinued one hundred and thirteen post offices in the Southern and Southwestern Stales, for neglecting to make returns as required by law The following are the offices in Georgia discon tinued, but we do not know that all of them were abolished tor the reason above given :—Daviston, laibotcounty; Brooks, Worth county; Cornueo pia, Jones county , Delay, Jackson county , Ghentsville, Henry county ; Gordon Springs, Whit field county; Harmony Grove, Jackson county. Harmony, Elbert county; Location, Coweta coun ty- The Sugar Crop. —The sugar crop, from all the information we can gather will fall far short of the estimates heietofore made of it. We were assured yesterday, by odo of thp most experienced Planters of Lafourche, that the crop in that section of the State will fall far below the mark of the lowest estimate made ot it, and that the entire crop of the State, will in all likelihood, be less than 250,900 hhds— N. O. True Delta, 1 6th %nst. Steamer DeSoto Sunk — We have been inform* ed that the steamer DeSoto, which has been plying between this place and Calhoun, ran upon a log yesterday, the 19th, and was totally wrecked. She was heavely loaded with Goods lor parties in this city. Nothing lost. We learn that another boat will be plaoea upon the line in about six weeks. — Rome Southerner, Oct. QOtk. The wife of the Bev. Mr. Granberry, Chaplain to the university of Virginia, died in Washington city, on last Monday