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sie r'a :>riy insurrection.
The foli'i\vi;ig information concerning
the affair nt Harper’s Ferry will be of
ititesv'l. It is iViim a Baltimore paper :
THE UOXsTITI n -N OF THE PROVISIONAL
OoVF. RN.WKXT.
The constitution of the Provisional
Government contains 48 articles, and
weuld lie laughable if it were not so dull.
It, of course, ah’ lishes slavery, and says
that every body oi mature age shall vote
for a l’usideut i.d V ice-President. The
Congress wan t to contain more than
ten members, and their term of office
wag to be 3 yea; s. All persons who vol
untarily di-;.v. red up their slaves were to
hi registere i in a book, and bpve protec
tion. All persons are allowed the privi
lege oi carrying arms openly. The offqr
in;: of violence to females taken prisoners
was to be punished by death. This sin
gular constitution closes as follows:
The i'r< : in articles shall not be con
p-ruc so n n any way to encourage the
overthrow of any State Government, or
< < inn Goner. | - o’ ernment of the United
States; an : ok to no dissolution of the
Union, but -im. )y to amendment and re
t t.il. Our flag :• hail be the same that
our iatht K m under in the revolu
tion.
Tin; ac.: mi: plot.
A leading anti-slavery man, of Phila
delphia, writes to the Press that more
than a year sign, a man fresh from a par
ed i .ttiou in ihe anti-slavery or “free
<- ;:i” trouble in Kansas, called upon
him .*. fid informed him “that he was now
ready, if an op: ortunity would offer, to |
draw his i,w r.( in :he same behalf in the
moniitain of Virginia, or in the swamps
of South Carolina,"’ and further re
marked “ that John Brown, of Ossawot
tamie, had come home burning under a
st-usd of the wrongs he and Lis country
men suffered in K in-as at the hands of
tho slave holders, and was determined to
make ropr: lie wanted to organize
a baud to go South, establish himself in
the mountains, and inaugurate a species
of puerilla warfare for the liberation of
slavery.” The writer goes on to say he
discouraged the proposed movement, and
then addi:
“But soon after this, I heard, from
another so iree, that John Brown was
still meditating a descent on the glavc
holdc. -id was only waiting to find co
ad'.u: A ut sin weeks ago a highly
respectable >: u tlenum, just returned
from foreign travel, stopped iu this city,
and in the course of a conversation I had
with him, dropped expressions implying
liis knowledge ofDrown’s intentions, and
what sui-pi i 3me most, of his approval
of them. Ascertaining my sentiments on
the subject he did not make me a confi
u cite, and net anticipating any serious
ro lit, nor any immediate result of any
kind, I uiad.> no particular inquiries.”
STARTLING KEVELATION —THE POINTS OF
ATTACK.
ii a trunk, supposed to have belonged
to * nipt. Bl own, was found seven small
tin ‘ di .lai,n ice maps of as many dilfef-
is, ban ing peculiar marks, which
would eem to indicate that the points of
attack, and the course of thejinsurection
ary movement throu, h the South had al
r uiy been care:ally determined upoD by
thi® well organized and confident league
of traitor-. Certain counties in the seven
States, of which only these maps were
obtain ‘d, bear cross-marks formed by a
pen, and in everul instances, as if to corn
in mil •■rater particularity of attention, or
to su ■ t perhaps more available points
of a tack, circular lines are drawn around
tlie crosses.
The designated counties in the States
of S’ nth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, form a continuous chain of
districts, or route of travel from George
town, and from Beaufort, South Carolina,
along the Savannah river, to the Chatta
hoochee liver, on the western border of
Georgia; from thence passing through
convenient points on the Alabama and
Tombigby rivers to the borders- of Mis
sippi; from whence it continues with lit
tle interruption to the lied river. The
maps, which are about 18 by 12 inches,
aro carefully and neatly pasted on stout
cambric cloth. Upon the margin of each
map is pasted the census returns of 1850,
of its tb ue, giving in detail the relative
strength of the white and slave popula
tion of each county, and the proportion
of females to the whole number of inhab
itants By r- fearing to the counties
marked, it will be perceived that in them
the slav-. p uodaiion vastly preponderates,
and might, therefore, have been deemed
a safer tie and oi operation for the abolition
invaders.
The Liavaiiisa :i, Albany anil Gulf
flail Itoait.
Some time :\u e we noticed an article
in the rs.ba (Alt.) Democrat, complaining
of the delay in locating the Udo of the
Savannah, Albany and Gulf Hail Road in
Alabama, a.d inch manifested great de- i
sire lor the restoration to market of the
Alabama bin hi vested in the Company.
The Democrat of the 27th contains a let
ter from Col. Nelson Tift, and also one
from President Screven, stating that the
delay in prosecuting the location of the j
lino is due to the protracted illness and
death of Hr. Screven, the late President,
and the continual absence during the sum
mer, oi’ a portion of the Board of Direc- j
tors. As to the rumor that Col. Tift had
sold the lands and route, he gives it the
denial—the Company never havingclothed
him with sucy a power. The President
states that as soon as the Board of Di
rectors can be convened, immediate steps
will be taken to prosecute the location of
the line and construction of the lload.
A -dairy ar.iOßg tle Sharks !
While the } mongers of the disabled
steamer Quaker City were being hauled
u; i the s !e of the bark Dunbarton, a
he-.vy : ei; was running, and it was with
the utmost difficulty that the ladies could
be gotten Vn board. This was finally
ellVcted, r.'ml then an innocent little
nm-ling. w hose mother had intrusted it
to tin rou;:h hands of the honest tars,
we. handed up.
Toe ittle t,.uig was too tender for their
hard palms, and they sung from the boat
to ino e :'.;>ove o “catch the little one,”
ami the n t moment a score of arms
were ou tretcl ed, as it was lifted crow
ing and kicking towards the gunwale.—
A'-v ! all ii'i.i missed it, and it fell
back into the sc:, among the sharks!
livery e was strained, the pulsations
of the heart v. re stopped, and for a mo
rn r,t all s emeu paralyzed; but this last
e . only fm an iustaut. The sturdy arm
of “ ■ o! . e gallant boat’s crew had
gra p-.nl tlie dear little one by the leg,
a u as he ii;tv • it aloft a hearty cheer
saluted its appearance.
the mother of the child now went into
stro: g c .\ ..... and the infant was
passed into the arms of Mrs. Davidson,
and while resting there a beautiful little
bird hovered r a moment over its
little It rm, - mi then, as if to assure itself
that it lived, perched upon its dress, and
hopped and chirped in concert with the
crowing of the babe. The bird then
jumped to the shoulder of Mrs. Davidson,
thence to the shoulder of Mr. Davidson,
who was near, and then took a final fare
well of he ‘ ; rk and her rescued passen
gers.—Norfolk Bay Book.
St. Loulti ami (eon R. R,
The citizens of Helena, Arkansas, held
a meeting ou the 10th, to receive the
report of th.ir delegates to the
late St. Louis Rail Road Convention. A
resolution was ad pted appointing a com
mittee of two to visit the city of New
Orleans to urge its business men to co
operate with the citizens of Helena in the
construction of ihe Hoad.
.
Increase of Hogs In Kentucky.
The Louisville Journal of the 24th,
has been furnished with the returns of
hogs irom thirty-nine counties, as re
turned by the Slate auditor. The whole
number returned for 1859 is 614,361.
The whole number for 1858, from the
same counties, was 403,787. The increase
of this over last year is 210,474.
Additioal Facts and Incidents.
Tho dead marine. Quinn, was buried
in the Catholic burial ground at Harper s
Ferry yesterday, with the usual military
honors, iu the presence of a large con
course of spectators. He was an Irish
man, from county Meath, aged about 23
or 24 years, and had been in the service
since 1855. lie came to this country
when but nine years of age, and had no
relations iu the United States. lie was
a single man, and very much liked by all
his companions iu the corps.— Washing
ton Star, 2Of/?.
Suspicious Lettf.k.—The Richmond
examiner says:—We are informed by a
highly respectable gentleman of this city
that he was, yesterday shown a letter
which Mr. Samuel Gordon took from Lis
negro, which was addressed to a negro
from Baltimore, saying that he (the re
cipient of the letterjwas expected in Bal
timore by the 13th of this month, that a
post had been assigned him, and that he
was expected to be there by that time.
The letter concluded in these words:
“And you know what will happen next
day.”
Antecedents of Capt. Beown.—A
writer in the New York Commercial says:
“He is the son of a wealthy farmer of
Hudson, Portage county, Ohio, by the
name of ‘Owen,’ or Squire Brown, as he
was generally called. Capt. John Brown
■was born in Connecticut, -butresided for
more than thirty years in Hudson town
ship, Ohio, on a dairy farm, but subse
quently embarked in wool growing, in
which business he was quite successful,
until he accompanied a very large ven
ture of the finest qualities of that article
to England. This speculation resulted
in a ruinous loss, and from that time to
this he has been more or less absorbed
in the furtherance of abolition views, on
which subject he was a complete fanatic.
Sharp’s Rifles at Harper's Ferry.
—Ossawattamie Brown ( nota bene,) says
he had received, along with some other
arms, two hundred Sharpe’s rifles, to put
into the hands of the insurgent slaves.
These Sharpe’s rifles, we understand him
to say, came from Conneticut. We re
member something of a meeting to buy
up Sharpe’s rifles, that was held in a
church in New Haven, not so long ago as
to have passed past yet from public re
collection. It was said their destination
was Kansas. Ossawattamie’s original
“destination” was Kansas, too, but how
came Sharpe’s rifles in such hands at
Harper’s Ferry ? That is the question.
—TV. J'. Express.
The following is Gerrit Smith’s letter
to Capt. John Brown :
Peterboko’, June 4, 1859.
Capt. John Brown— My Dear Friend:
I wrote you a week ago, directing my
letter to the care of Mr. Kearney. He re
plied, Informing me that he had forward
ed it to Washington. But as Mr. Morton
received last evening a letter from Mr.
Sanborn, saying your address would be
your son’s home, viz : West Andover. I
therefore write you without delay, and
direct iny letter to your son. I have
done what I could thus far for Kansas,
and what I could to help you at your
Kansas work.
Losses by endorsement and otherwise
have brought me under heavy embarrass
ments the last two years. But I must,
nevertheless, continue *o do in order to
keep you at your Kansas work. I send
you herewith my draft for two hundred
dollars. Let me hear from you on the
receipt of this letter. Y'ou live in our
hearts, and our prayer to God is that you
may have strength enough to continue in
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 Mr.
Whitman does not pay it. What a uoble
mail is Mr. Kearney! How liberally he
has contributed to keep you in your Kan
sas work. Your friend,
GERRIT SMITH.
Servile Insurrections.
The plot at Harper’s Ferry recalls at
tention to previous disturbances of a
similar character.
In 1835, an insurrection broke out in
the county of Southampton, on the south
ern borders of Virginia. This occasion
ed greater loss of life among the ‘whites
and greater consternation tbau any other
insurrectionary movement among the ne
groes ever made in this country.
About 1835 another extensive plot was
discovered, with which the notorious
desperado and miscreant, Murrell, was
closely associated, and the supposed
leader. A few men in all the Southern
States were believed to be connected with
this conspiracy, but as they were nearly
ail villains of the deepest dye, their
principal object was probably pillage, in
the confusion and consternation they ex
pected to create.
In 1850 great alarm was occasioned in
various portions of the South by rumors
of another servile insurrection. Many
negroes were arrested and severely pun
ished, and several white men were shot
for their alleged participation iu the
movement, but no very serious harm was
done to the whites.
Whether the mysterious and destruc
tive National Hotel disease, which broke
out in Washington city a short time pre
vious to the inauguration of Mr. Buchan
an, was in any way connected with a ne
gro conspiracy, has never yet been fully
ascertained, but many persons suppose
that, in some way or other, negroes were
oonnected with the creation of that ter
rible disease.
■ — • “ “
From Washington.
Washington, Oct. 21. —The President
is now engaged on his Message. He has
before him a large amount of material—
both foreign and domestic. His views on
Mexican matters will be postponed until
something definite transpires, as the un
settled condition of affairs in that country
will necessarily require them to be one of
the last subjects treated of.
Minister McLane, who will leave here
in a few days, will take with him the ul
timatum of our government in relation to
the disputed points in the proposed treaty.
Should the ultimatum not be acquiesced
iu by Mexico, the President will lay the
whole subject before Congress for its ac
tion.
Our government will not be able to re
ceive the reply to the dispatch about to
be sent to Minister Dallas, in relation to
the San Juan affair, before the meeting
of Congress. This important matter will
also be placed before that body at the
earliest practicable moment.
It has been suggested to the govern
ment to station at the various U. S. ar
mories companies of soldiers, to prevent
any future difficulties like that at Har
per’s Ferry. Whether they will adopt
the suggestion, remains to be seen.
New Military Company.
The citizens of Tuskegee lately held a
meeting to organize a military company.
C. A. Battle, Esq., stated that he had al
ready 80 names enrolled, which was in
creased by the addition of several others.
The officers have not yet been elected, nor
the company baptized with a name. The
organization will be perfected at the next
meeting, on Tuesday night.
From the Tuskegee Republican we
learn that the jury returned a verdict for
the defendant in the case of Hicks vs.
Lawson, a suit for damages for alleged
libel. The trial consumed several days.
A motion for anew trial was argued on
Saturday night, which was taken under
advisement by Judge Cook.
The Richmond (Ky.) Messenger, states
that the hog cholera has been committing
most fearfuL among the swine of EstiU
county. Some of the largest farmers
have lost almost all their fatted and fat
tening hogs. Last year Estill county re
alized on her export of hogs something
over $25,006 ; this year the income from
this source will not exceed $2,000.
One of the items of general news by
tbe steamship Ocean Queen, is an an
nouncement of the death of Robert Ste
phenson, the distinguished pivil engineer.
Additional by the Anglo-Saxon.
Liverpool General Markets. —Flour was
firm, advanced 6d. to Is. per sack and
barrel. Wheat firm, advanced 2d. per
cental. Corn firm, advanced 6d. to Is.
per quarter. The reception of the news
| brought by the Persia checked business.
1 Beef steady. Pork dull. Bacon dull.
Lard quiet, but steady. Sugar steady
| Coffee quiet. Rice firm.
London General Markets. —Wheat firm,
in some cases partially advanced Id. Su
gar firm. Tea firm. Rice firm.
General News. —The steamship Nova
Scotian reached Liverpool on the 12th
’ instant.
The Great Eastern had reached Holly
head. Her performance was successful,
hut she made only moderate speed.—
There are some doubts about her leaving
Euglaud this season.
! The peace negotiations have made but
little progress.
A prolongation of the Conference is
anticipated, on account of the difficulties
that remain unadjusted. They were con
sidered doubtful when the treaty was
signed.
A Paris correspondent says that the de
lay is attributable to the Austrian and
Vienna cabinets who are doing all they
can to win France to their views; while
at the same time, they are preparing for
coalition against her in Germany.
The avarage spead of the Great Eas
tern from Portland to Hollyhead was lit
tle over thirteen knots an hour. The
paddles averaged ten, and the screw
thirty-eight revolutions per minute. The
pressure upon her boilers was twenty
pounds, a little over half of her capacity.
The greatest speed she made, was over
fourteen and a half knots, or nearly sev
enteen miles per hour with steam and
caDvass. The weather was squally.—
Some of the passengers say that the swell
caused her to pitch, but others say that
her motion was very slight.
Another of the Insurgents Arrested.
Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23.—A man was
arrested here yesterday, who gave his
i name as William Harrison. He will
! probably be brought out to morrow on a
writ of habeas corpus.
The Habeas Corpus Case.
Carlisle, Penn., OctJ 24.—This place
is quiet to day. The man arrested here
on Saturday, who gave his name ns Win.
Harrison, and who was lodged in jail as
| one of the Harper’s Ferry insurgents,
will be taken out to-morrow on a writ of
I Habeas Corpus. No new developments
| have been obtained in regard to the affair.
Damages from the Kansas War.
Whatever differences of opinion exist
as to the Kansas troubles, all parties in
the Territory seem to be uuanimous in
• calling upon the General Government to
; pay the private losses which they in
volved. During the progress of the war
each party strenuously denied that the
other had suffered any injuries; but now
seem to have met in peaceful conference
for the purpose of estimating each other’s
claims. Governor Geary, in 1857, first
recommended the appointment of a Com
mission for this purpose, and in 1859
Governor Medary presented the report of
General Strickland, who was appointed
Commissioner upon that suggestion. The
report, however, was incomplete, and a
new Commission of three persons was
appointed, one by the Governor and one
by each branch of the Legislature. The
Commission held sessions and took testi
mony in each county where damage had
been sustained, and the following state
ment gives a summary of the results ar
rived at:
Number of claimants 463
Amount of claims $676,020
Amount of awards 412,978
Value of crops destroyed 37,349
Houses destroyed 78
Horses stolen 368
Cattle stolen 533
Property of pro-slavery men 77,198
Property of free-State men 335,779
Destroyed by pro-slavery men.... 318,719
Destroyed by free-State men 94,259
The Commissioners do not claim that
all these losses were incurred by direct
participation in the political troubles of
the Territory. Thieves and vagabonds
of all sorts took advantage of the dis
turbed state of the country to perpetrate
outrages of every kind—and in these
depredations very little attention was
paid to political differences. The Com
missioners express the belief that the en
tire loss during the war amounted to not
less than two millions of dollars.
Application will be made, to Congress
for the reimbursement of these losses out
of the Federal Treasury, and all parties
in Kansas will give the measure their
cordial support.
The Mammoth Balloon.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, in a letter of the
25th, says Prof. Lowe’s new balloon, the
largest ever constructed, was drawn
through our streets this afternoon, by
one of the wagons of the American Ex
press Company, with eight splendid
horses attached. The balloon basket,
and every thing requisite for sailing in
the air, except the gas, were in the
wagon. This large balloon is to be ex
hibited on the square where the Crystal
Palace stood, and hence an excursion
with a select party, will be made next
week, by the adventurous professor.
Tlie United States vs, the Ketch
Brothers.
On Tuesday last Judge Magrath, of
the United States Court of the District
of South Carolina, pronounced judgment
in the case of information against the
Ketch Brothers for the alleged violations
of the laws concerning the slave trade.
The information was dismissed, and an
order made for the restitution of the
property to the claimants. The “infor
mation” was represented by James Con
ner, Esq., U. S. District Attorney, and
the respondents by L. W. Spratt and
A. H. Brown, Esqs.
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New Orleans Items.
A special dispatch to the Charleston
Courier, states that the President of the
Southern Steamship Company, Mr. Har
ris.®, received a dispatch the 25th, from
Adjutant General Cooper, for the Com
mander of the Texas Department, apply
ing for transportation facilities for two
companies of U. S. Artillery from Fort
Clark, who have been ordered to re
garrison Fort Brown immediately.
There were eight deaths by
Fever in New Orleans last week.
At the late term of Haucock Superior
Court, Mrs. Hudson, charged with the
killing of John Bass, was sentenced to
the penitentiary for the term of two
years.
A telegraph dispatch to the Nashville
Union and American, from Philadelphia
on the 24th, states*- that Giddings has
published a card denying ever being con
sulted by Brown in any matter whatever.
The Petersburg Express is informed
that six hands of Col. W. R. Cox, of Ra
leigh, on Friday of last week, picked out
3,641 pounds of cotton —making an ave
rage of 607 pounds to the hand.
♦
A dispatch from the 25tb,
states that it is confidently asserted that
Brown has made disclosures to Governor
Wise, which have been placed in the
hands of the State Attorney to be used
on the trial.
The Blakely (Ga.) News, of the 19th,
says that the gin house of Seaborn
Hays, Esq., of Early county, was de
stroyed by fire a few days ago, together
with about sixty bales of cotton.
, Knvy.
I believe that hatred is envy’s child.
Esau hated Jacob, but he envied him
first. Joseph’s brothers envied him, and
hatred followed. — Mrs. Geldart. ,
Tle Alabama Roll of Honor.
The following revolutionary soldiers
are pensioners in Alabama : Thos. Clark,
Tuscaloosa county, aged 94 years; Wm.
Speer, Jefferson county, aged 101 years.
In his personal narrative, Thos. Clark
states that he was born in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. At the age of five
years, being left an orphan, was bound
to Mr. McGehee, and accompanied him
in his removal to Chester district, S. C.
Entered the service under Captain John
McClure, and marched to join General
Sumter near Rocky Mount; but before
reaching that place was captured by the
tories, and immediately carried within
the enemy’s lines, under the command of
Colonel Turnbull. While a prisoner,
frequent solicitations, accompanied with
many flattering inducements, were made
to him to desert the cause of his country
and join the British forces; but he “res
olutely refused” them all. He was ena
bled soon to make his escape and join the
American forces. At separate periods,
while in the companies es Captains Car
lisle, Frances, and Yloses Liddle, under
the command of Col. Andrew Pickens and
General Green, was stationed for several
months at Bacon’s Bridge, on Cooper
river, twenty miles above Charleston,
while the British were in possession of
that city.
At two other periods, under Colonel
Pickens, in Captain Robert Currather’s
company, was stationed at Fort Indepen
dence, on Itocky river, an<j under, and
at the house of, John Norwood, to pro
tect the frontier from the harrassing
depredations of the Indians.
After the close of the revolutionary
war, he settled in Abbeville district, S.
C. ; then removed to Elbert county, Ga. ;
then to Ray county, Tenn. ; and in 1816
resided iu Jefferson county, Alabama.
In 1830 he moved into Tuscaloosa county,
same State.
Wm. Spear was born on the eastern
shore of Maryland, and commenced his
service in 1780, in Surrey county, N. C..
under Col. Joseph Williams, and contin
ued it under Colonels Joseph Phillipsand
Martin; was in various periods in the
service at Salisbury and Guilford, in
North Carolina and Virginia. At the
time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis,
was in active service in the vicinity of
Wilmington. N. C.
From 1801 to 1824 he resided in Ken
tucky, aud then removed to Jefferson
county, Alabama.
The Word “ Barbarian.”
Consider for a moment the late dis
patch of the Imperial Commissioner,
Sung ko lin-sin. He is made by the
translator to write to Pekin of the
“barbarian ships,” the “barbarian
troops;” but is this English? Do barba
rians build ships and organize troops?
And is it possible that a high officer of
State would commit such a solecism, in
a country where every official is a good
scholar in his own language, even if he
wished to deceive his Government as to
the true character of the force opposed
to him ? Is it not, on the contrary, ob
vious that “ foreign” is the idea he would
convey, and that he uses the generic
term “foreign” properly, because it
would have been incorrect to speak of
the English alone, when both English
aud French vessels were before him, and
the American flag within sight ? The
notion of making the Chinese call the
rest of the world “barbarians,” must
have originated in some schoolboy remi
niscence of the Greeks and Romans hav
ing applied this term to surrounding na
tions. If so, it is a pity that the classi
cal studies of the translator did Dot carry
him sufficiently far to discover that the
barbaros of antiquity, and the modern
term “ barbarian” have but little iu com
mon.
Who Paid tine Expenses?
The Chief of the Harper’s Ferry In
surrection, Brown, we believe, is not un
derstood to be a man of much wealth.
He probably had means enough to sup
port himself comfortable in life, but he
certainly had not the wealth necessary to
put an army of fifteen hundred men on a
war footing. We say “fifteen hundred,”
because that is his own statement.
Among his inventory, we see, arc, two
hundred Sharpe’s Rifles, two hundred
Revolvers, one thousand Spears and
plenty of ammunition. A good rifle costs
about $25. (We think that was about
the quotation at the New Haven Church
meeting.) Two hundred of them would
make a bill of $5,000. Two hundred re
volvers, at the New Y r ork average price
—say sls each—would make $3,000
more. The “spear” is anew instrument
of death, we believe, in this country;
but as a “spear,” to be worth anything,
ought to cost at least $5, one thousand
of them adds another $5,000 to the bill.
Total, (without the ammunition) $13,000.
Until it can be proved that Brown had
that much money, in cash, —the infer
ence remains that there must be some
out-side contributors somewhere. Now,
the question is, who are those contribu
tors ? Time and enquiry will tell.— N.
Y. Express.
Episcopal Convention
The general Convention of the Protes
tant Episcopal Church of the United
States adjourned sine die on Saturday
night last. The proceedings throughout
were of a deeply interesting and harmo
nious character, and the discussions en
tirely free from sectional or party spirit.
No previous Convention, it is said, has
proved so productive of good to the future
prospects of the Episcopal Church, espe
cially in regard to the progress of the
missionary work. Five Bishops have
been consecrated, three of whom are to
enter upon Dioceses never before under
Episcopal supervision. Two great Dio
ceses have been admitted into union with
the General Convention, and two Mis
sionary Bishops elected. While it was
thought inexpedient to elect, at present,
a Missionary Bishop for the Empire of
Japan, the interests of the Church in that
country have been placed under the su
pervision of the Bishop of China. In ad
dition to these important results, a vast
amount of business was transacted, per
taining to the affairs of the Episcopal
Church. — Richmond Dispatch, of 2ith,
Price of Negroes in Cuba.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald,
writing at Havana on the Ist instant,
says :
The scarcity of laboring hands on the
South coast of the island, and more es
pecially in the districts ranging from
Santa Cruz to Cienfuegos, has of late
years, become so great that most of the
planters have been compelled to abandon
their coffee estates and remove the ne
groes to swell the dotations required for
the cultivation of the sugar cane. Five
years ago a good field hand in those dis
tricts could be bought for $400; at the
present date a bozale or newly imported
African will fetch from S9OO to -$1,400.
Indictment and Trial of the Out-
Laws.
A dispatch to the Augusta papers from
Charlestown, Virginia, states that the
Grand Jury found indictments the 26th,
against the prisoners taken at Harper’s
Ferry. First—For conspiring with the
negroes for the purpose of creating an
insurrection. Second—Treason against
the Commonwealth. Third Murder.
The Court appointed able counsel for
the prisoners. The Government has de
eided not to strengthen the guard at
the Federal Armories and Arsenals.
A second dispatch the 27th, states that
the trial of the outlaws is progressing.
The jury were obtained the 26th.
Cotton Burnt.
The Augusta Constitutionrlist, of the
28th, says that as ihe cars were being
shifted the afternoon previous, at the
the Hamburg depot of the South Caroli
na Rail Road, the cotton on one of the
open cars was discovered to be on fire.
The entire lot, about forty bales, was
consumed. The cotton was owned and
shipped at Hamburg.
A telegraphic dispatch from Boston,
states that the abolitionists of Worcester
proposo to contribute, to pay for Brown’s
defence in his coming trial.
From the Baltimore Clipper.
The Harper’s Ferry Plot—New Rev
elations—Maps of the Insurgents—
Supposed Points of Attach in the
South.
The following districts in South Caro
lina (the farthest Atlantic State North of
which any Map has been found) are thus
especially designated:
Marlborough, marked with a cross;
Darlington, the same; Sumter, a cross
within acircle ; Georgetown, with a cross
and a single dash pointing southward ;
Charleston, near Monk’s Corner, a cross
and semi-circle ; Colleton, between Skull
creek and the Edisto, a cross within a
circle; Saint Luke, near Grahamville, a
cross within a double circle; Orangeburg
on the Middlepen Branch, near Orange
burg, a cross within acircle; Barnwell,
between Buck and Turkey creeks, on the
line of the South Carolina Rail Road, a
cross; Edgefield, near Horn’s Creek, in
the neighborhood of Williston, a cross;
Abbeville, near Long Cane Creek, a cross.
In Georgia.—ln Georgia, the following
counties are marked:
Camden, near Burnt Fort, with a cross;
and near Waynesville, in Wayne county,
with across also; Glynn, near Bethel, a
cross; Mclntosh, near Jones’s creek, a
cross; Liberty, near Taylor’s creek, a
cross within a circle; Bryan, near Fort
Argyle, a cross: Chatham, near Whites
ville, a cross ; Screven, near Black creek,
a cross ; Burke, near Beaver Dam, a cross
within a circle; Columbia, near White
Oak, a cross; Lincoln, on the Savannah
river, a cross ; Warren, near Mayfield, a
cross ; Taliaferro, near Crawfordsville, a
cross; Greene, near Parks’s Bridge, a
cross ; Hancock, near Sparta, a cross;
Putnam, near Kingston, a cross ; Jones,
near Hillsboro’, a cross; Monroe, near
Forsyth, a cross; Upson, a cross ; Craw
ford, near Hammack’s, a cross; Talbot,
‘near Davidson, a cross; Harris, near
Mulberry Grove, a cross; Troup, near
Shiloh, a cross.
IN ALABAMA.
The following counties in Alabama are
marked:
Russell, near Lexington, a cross ; Ma
con, uear Fort Bainbridge, across; Mont
gomery, near Mount Meigs, a cross;
Lowndes, near Mt. Willing, a cross ; Au
gusta, near Kingston, a cross; Dallas,
near Selma, a cross ; Wilcox, near Alien
ton, a cross; Monroe, near Bell’s Land
ing, a cross ; Marengo, near Laurel Hill,
a cross ; Sumter, near Dansboro’, across ;
Washington, near Barrytown, a cross.
IN MISSISSIPPI.
In this State the following counties are
designated:
Noxubee, near Mashulaville, with a
cross ; Warrer, near Warreuton, a cross ;
Claiborne, near Bartonton, a cross Jef
ferson, near Church Hill, across; Frank
lin, near Malcolm, a cross ; Adams, near
Kingston, a cross; Wilkinson, near Cold
Spring, a cross ; Washington, near Clear
Creek, a cross ; Bolivar, near Tilatoba, a
cross.
In Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and
Kentucky, there were no counties marked.
Auburn Male College.
Eds. Mail: It may interest the people
of Alabama to know that the last Alabama
Male College, situated in Auburn, Ma
con county, opened its exercises on the
first Wednesday in October with a much
larger number of students than its most
sanguine friends had anticipated. It has
now (the second week) between seventy
and eighty students, and is receiving ac
cessions almost every day. All the regu
lar College classes, from the Freshman to
the Senior, are represented. Such a be
ginning,we presume no other College in
this country ever had. Judging from
first appearances, we suppose no institu
tion ever had, for the same number, a
finer body of young men.
The friends of the institution are
greatly encouraged. It is believed that
it is destined to be an agency of immense
usefulness to the State. It is certainly
a no unimportant event, the establish
ment and successful opening of a first
class Male Colleg immediately in the
midst of a people, so numerous and intel
ligent, and so well prepared to sustain
such an enterprise, as are the people of
East Alabama. The provision has not
been made sooner than the wants of the
people indicated an urgent demand for it.
Dr. Sasnett brings to the Presidency of
this promising institution the very high
est qualifications of both character and
attainments. A large experience in the
duties of College educa-ion, and an emi
nentdevotion to practical results, combine
to render him efficient in his office. He
is at his post and laboriously laying the
foundation of this new College, on the
rock.
Professors Glenn and Dunklin are equal
to all demands of their responsible sta
tions as Professors of Languages and
Mathematics. They are active working,
thoroughly trained instructors. Indeed
the work has been done!—the consum
mation has been attained !—a splendid
triumph has been achieved!—and East
Alabama can now boast in active opera
tion, as good a College as can be found in
any State! Anew life will henceforth
invigorate and elevate every public in
terest in this part of Alabama. Heaven
send propitious gales to waft this grand
enterprise of enlightened patriotism and
practical Christianity, with its precious
freight, over every storm and peril, to
the distant ages!
WM. F. SAMFORD.
Sunny Slope, (near Auburn) Ala.
P. S—Such papers as are friendly to
the College, would oblige the public by
giving this card an insertion. W. F. S.
Wm. A. Choice.
The Savannah News alluding to the
conviction of the above individual for the
murder of Webb, at Atlanta, says:
Poor Choice! We knew him at Athens
some years since, where he might have
taken a good stand in his class, but for
his early habits of di-sipation. He was
the idol of a widowed mother, who in
dulged his slightest wish, but cards and
liquor occupied his time to the exclusion
of everything else, and he left college
after having risen Sophomore, if we are
not mistaken. For some years we lost
sight of him, and next heard of him at
Atlanta, where he occupied a position in
the State Road office, and was the “ lead
ing man” in a Thespian Corps. In the
latter capacity he displayed very consid
erable dramatic talent. During all this
time his habits of drinking and gam
bling were growing on him„ until, in a
fit of madness, brought on by drink, he
committed the crime for which he is now
to suffer the extreme penalty of the law.
God pity his poor mother!
A Bane Swindler—No Marriage.
A few days since we published the
marriage of Mr. Lewis Schuessler, at
Apalachicola, on the cutbority of a letter
signed “Thomas 11. Nanly,” and pur
porting to have been written by Mr.
Schuessler's request. This morning we
received a note from Mr. S., (who is in
the employment of Hall, Moses & Cos.,
Columbus,) informing us that we have
been grossly imposed upon by some de
signing scoundrel. The man who would
concoct any such plan, as a false publi
cation of marriage, to injure any one,
male or female, is an incorrigible brute,
for whom the penitentiary is the only
proper receptacle.
Mr. L. Schuessler is a very deserving
young man, whom we have known from
his childhood, and we regret that he
should have been singled out as the vic
tim of this hidden malignant.— Mont.
Mail.
Negro Homicide at Auburn.
The Mail of the 27th learns that a boy
belonging to Mr. E. F. Malone, stabbed
and killed another boy owned by Mr. B.
F. Johnson, at Auburn, last Sunday night.
Mr. Malone’s boy was arrested Monday,
and will be tried by due process of law.
Tbe Southern Diamond.
The above paper, once the Dadeville
Banner, comes to us for the first time. It
presents a neat appearance. The new
editor, Mr. John H. Harriss, makes an
appropriate bow to the public. We cheer
fully extend to him the right hand of fel
lowship.
ARRIVAL
OF THE STEAMED
P ER_SIA-
Cotton advanced 1-1 G to 1-Scl.
New York, Oct. 20, 1859.
The steamship Persia, with Liverpool
dates to Saturday, 15th instant, has st
rived.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —Sales ot Cot
ton for the week were 60.000 baies.
Fair and Middling qualities improved
1-16 to |d. The market closed firm.
Liverpool General Markets. —Breadstufis
declining. Provisions dull.
London Money Market.—Money slight
ly easier. Consols were quoted at 95|.
Pate’s head.
further by the Persia.
Os the sales of the week speculators
took 3,000 bales aud exporters 11,500
bales. Good qualities were scarce, and
sandy qualities unsaleable. Sales on
Friday 10,000 bales, of which specula
tors aud exporters took 2,000 bales, l'he
following are the authorised quotations :
Fair Mobiles V/ 2 i. \ Mid. Mobiles 6%d.
Uplands 7V*d. | *• Uplands.... 611 10d
“ Orleans 7%d. | li Orleans 7 l-10d.
The stock of cotton at Liverpool is
536,000 bales, of which 410,000 are
American.
State of Trade. —Manchester advices
were favorable. There was an improved
demand for yarns, and they closed with
an advancing tendency.
Havre Cotton Market. —Orleans Tres
Ordinaire is quoted at 111 f.; Bas 103f.;
all qualities have slightly advanced.
Sales of tbe week 12,500 bales. Stock
52,000 bales.
London Money Market. —Consols were
quoted at 95J to 96 for account. The bul
lion in the Bank of England has de
creasd £354,000.
Liverpool General Markets. —Flour de
clining; the advance reported on Tues
day was lost. Wheat declining. Beef
quiet. Pork steady. Bacon dnll. Lard
steady. Sugar firm. Coffee quiet.
General News. —Accounts from Zu
rich are contradictory.
A report says that ilie treaty will soon
be signed, and the European Congress
assemble.
The exequator of the American Consul
at Leghorn has been withdrawn.
Hewitt’s circular quotes a continuation
of last week’s improved feeling, with a
liberal business, and 1-16 to Jd. advance
in all descriptions free from sand. Better
qualities are still more iu demand, and
the chief advance is upon them. East
India cotton has been taken universally
for exports; being free from sand its gets
a decided preference over common Ameri
can. The imports for the week were
14,000 bales; known to be at sea from
America 45,000 bales, against 10,000
same time last year. Middling Orleans
7 l-16d.; Middling Mobiles
dling Uplands 6 11-ltkl. The Manchester
market unsatisfactory—declined farther,
with little disposition of buyers to make
extensive operations, even at lower prices
than the present.
Wakefield, Nash & Cos. report more
steadiness in the market, and that better
descriptions of American had advanced
l-16d. Lower grades were less unsalea
ble. This circular gives quotations the
same as those given by Hewitt & Cos.
Clare & Sons, iu their circular, report
an |d. advance for desirable American
descriptions ; and state that the market
closed healthy with a good demand.—
Their quotations are, for Middling Or
leans 7|d. ; Middling Mobiles 7d. ; and
Middling Uplands 6|d.
Richardson & Spence say that the de
mand was good for the Middling and bet
ter grades. In Orleans and Mobile good
qualities there was gd. advance, but the
lower grades were sold with difficulty,
even at a reduction on former rates. In
Uplands there was scarcely any improve
ment, as holders generally were willing
sellers. The business in Manchester had
increased under hardening Liverpool
prices.
Drake, Kleinwert & Cohen sky that
speculators occasionally venture on the
cheap American grades, but seem now to
remain in abeyance, awaiting, apparent
ly, farther developments of the American
crop, as well as the turn in European
politics. The exports were 12,000, id
cluding 4,200 American.
The Abolition Leader.
There is no doubt that “old Brown,”
possesses the coolness and sagacity which
were accorded to him by Governor Wise,
aud the additional one of being the most
untruthful man that ever lived. If he
had himself prepared the interrogations
published in Saturday’s Dispatch, bis an
swers could not have been more adroit,
nor better calculated to promote his
cause, enlist the sympathy of his friends,
and excite in the minds of even his ene
mies, the sort of respect which is always
felt for boldness and nerve. The personal
examination by the Governor of Brown
was proper and pertinent, though it is to
be regretted that his Excellency could not
have been permitted to conduct that in
vestigation without the publicity which
bas been given to it. But the promis
cuous questionings to which we refer;
the interrogatories by “bystanders,”
which, though not so intended, were ad
mirably adapted to give the crafty old in
surrectionist a fine opportunity to say
just what he desired, and of which he
availed himself in the most prompt and
skillful manner; and finally, his speech
to the reporters —or rather to the South
and the world—were all performances,
which, considering the inevitable publici
ty that must ensue, were of very ques
tionable discreetness and propriety. The
great Founder of Christianity enjoined
his apostles: “Be ye wise as serpents
and harmless as doves.” John Brown
seems to have appropriated the first part
of this injunction, and some of his inter
rogators the last. It is lawful to learn
from an enemy, and a little of old Brown’s
shrewdness and reticence would not be
amiss in those who have intercourse with
him. On the whole, he is about the most
cunning as well as fearless fox of the
abolition pack, and that is saying a good
deal for him. A more subtle, secretive,
and malignant set of enemies no people
ever had than are the New England abo
litionists, those genuine descendants of
the Roundheads, with whom fanaticism
supplies the place of religion; who look
upon the Ten Commandments and all
commandments as of inferior obligation
to the higher law of their individual
opinions, and (what they call) their con
sciences ; and who are as cunning, cir
cumspect aud silent, as they are unscru
pulous and malevolent. The Thugs of
India are no more besotted and bloody in
the fanaticism which teaches them that
murder is a virtue—and which impels
them, secretly, to destroy as many of the
human race as possible—than the aboli
tionists of America, whose religious creed,
proclaimed from the pulpit by Beecher
and Parker, and putin practice by Brown
and Stevens, declares that bloodshed and
robbery are justifiable in the cause of
abolition. The Thug asserts that it is a
duty to kill men, because they believe
death to be a boon to the soul, and the
abolitionists, because they believe tbe
death of the master a boon to the body of
the slave ; and of the two, the Thugs are
the more philosophical and humane. It
becomes the South to keep as vigilant
an eye upon the Thugs on her own bor
ders, as travelers in India bestow upon
those interesting gentlemen who are al
ways on the alert to choke somebody to
death, and who have their spies, agents
and correspondents in every caravan and
every city.— Richmond Dispatch.
The ‘A atican” at Rome, the palace of
the Pope, is a pile of buildings covering
a space of 1,200 feet in length and 1,600
in breadth, on one of the seven hills of
Rome. The site was once the garden of
the Emperor Nero. Early in the Sixth
Century the Bishop of Rome erected there
an humble dwelling, and this has been
added to from time to time by the Popes,
until it is now one of the most spacious
and magnificent palaces, stocked with
paintings, statues, books, and antiqui
ties of the rarest kind.
The steamer Baltic arrived at New
lork on the 24th with California dates of
the sth, and SIBO,OOO in specie.
The New Market.
Eds. Sun : —lt is probably uot unknown
that certain tax payers ot our city re
ceully tiled a bill enjoining the building
of the new Market House, which has been
commenced iu our city, lhe Mayor and
Council have since tiled their answers to
this bill, aud I have had the pleasure of
wading through the voluminous docu
ment. A lqrge portion of the said docu
ment is taken up in explaining that the
movement was the act of the Council iu
its official capacity, and a small portion
in attempting to show there was a neces
sity for the building. That Council gave
a committee of its body power aud uu
thority to obtain plans and contract for
the building, I do not deny, for that is on
record, although they (the Council) them
selves, for a time, had forgotten that any
such authority had been given, nor did
they find it out until Mr. Stratton, in
looking back over the proceedings, dis
covered the resolution granting the neces
sary authority. Ido deny, however, that
there is a shadow of reason for the build
ing, or that such a place is called for by
the necessities of our city. I wish to
convict the Council and the Clerk, Mr.
Stratton, who signed the affidavit, and I
think I shall, that they have made a slight
mistake. They say our citizens are much
in need of a public Hall wherein to hold
public meetings, Concerts, iheaters, Ope
ras, &c , aud that there is but one hall in
the city in any wise suited for such a pur
pose. Now, gentlemen, I will show you
that either you have erred willfully or
that your memory had gone on a wild
hunt after anew idea, when you made
this assertion in your answers.
For public meetings of the citizens we
have the Court room, the Council Cham
ber, Concert Hull and Temperance Hall.
The Court room will very comfortably ac
commodate at least one hundred of the
sovereigns. The Council Chamber, if it
was arranged as it should be with seats,
as many. Concert Hall full four hundi ed,
and Temperance Hall from five to six
hundred, according to the quantity of
ladies comprising an audience. The
Court room is never in use when a meet
ing of the citizens is desired, uor the
Council Chamber uor Coucert Hall, and
Temperance Hall not often. Now with
this showing on my part does it not
plainly appear that the Council strangely
lost its recollection, or that they just
shut their eyes and weut it blind. Mr.
Stratton, when he placed his signature
to that affidavit, declaring Hhe answers
contained within to be true, must have
taken a double turn on his peepers, or he
could not have affixed his autograph
thereunto.
There is another feature in these an
swers that should condemn the whole affair
and consign its authors to retirement for
the balance of their lives. I mean the
building of a Hall to be let to Concerts,
Operas and Theaters. The city of Co
lumbus turne 1 speculator ! The city of
Columbus erecting a building to compete
with individual enterprises in keeping
public Halls! Read, citizens; voters,
read, and learn that your Council propose
to erect a building with a Hall therein,
which they also propose to rent out for
Concerts, Theaters and Operas ! Yes,
they wish to erect a Hall which shall
break up private enterprise. Citizens
expend their money to build Halls for
such purposes, and so soon as they begin
to realize a little from the hazardous in
vestment, your Council, lion like, steps in
to deprive them of their legitimate busi
ness. Where shall this thing end? If
they build this Hall, will they not buy
lots and build warehouses, storehouses,
and dwe’lings, because tbe investment
will pay a good interest? Is it for this
you pay taxes —is it for this you entrust
them with your funds? Who gave, or
how obtained they the right to take tbe
people’s money and invest it in specula
tion? We put them in office to adminis
ter the affairs of tbe city, and it has al
ways been understood that that body
were not authorized to invest any monies
outside of the legitimate and current ex
penses of the city. The present Board
have found anew rule, and they now be
stir themselves to use the tax money in
building a play-house, and that, too,
without the consent and general knowl
edge of the tax payers. If the Board
wished to act correctly in the matter, how
does it happen due notice of their action
in the premises was not given in one or
more of the city papers ? It is true their
acts and doings was published in the
Corner Stone, a weekly paper of perhaps
one hundred subscribers in the city, about
twenty-five of whom read the paper, and
that was all was known of the matter
by the major portion of the citizens
until the excavations were commenced.
Why was this thing hid from tbe public ?
Was the Board” fearful the people would
not stand it, and they determined to keep
dark on the subject until matters had
progressed to a point where there could
be no backing down ? Really tbe facts
and circumstances indicate such to have
been the motives prompting the action in
the premises. Gentlemen, you have
reckoned without your host. There is
such a thing still inexistence as repudia
tion, a course to which no people should
resort only when saddled by a wild and
extravagant administration.
I’ROBUS.
Iron District oF Georgia.
Iu a letter to the Atlanta American,
upon the mineral resources of Georgia,
the Hon. Mark A. Cooper thus maps out
the iron region of the State:
This iron district lies north-east and
south-west, coming down lrom North and
South Carolina, in Rabun and Habersham
counlies, through this part of Georgia, to
Alabama, iu Chattooga, Floyd, Paulding
and Polk counties. It passes through
the intermediate counties, comprising a
belt of fifty’ to seventy-five miles—the
best supply and most convenient locality
for it being in Cass county. This county
alone, it is believed, has concentrated in
its limits as much iron ore as all Penn
sylvania together, and is of superior
quality. Here are found the chief opera
tions in iron of the State of Georgia.—
This iron and gold region of Georgia
(they lie contiguous) is traversed by the
Etowah river, from its source to its junc
tion with the Oosteuala, at Rome.
SLort-Weight Cotton Bales.
It is stated that the discrepancy be
tween the southern iuvoiced weight of
cotton and the weight of the same cotton
after being stored in New York, has at
tracted the attention of the trade. On the
17th inst. a meeting of cotton receivers
was held at the office of Mr. J. T. Ad
ams to consider the question. The loss
has increased largely of late, reaching
in some instances as much as one hun
dred pounds per bale, and it was consid
ered expedient to ascertain where the
leakage occurred whether before ©r
after the cotton is placed in the charge of
tne New \ ork storekeeper. A committee
was appointed to investigate particular
cases ot loss and report at a future meet
ing what means can he adopted to rem
edy the evil.— Mobile Tribune.
-
Among the Bishops consecrated at the
recent Episcopal Convention in Richmond,
we observe the name of the Rev. Henry
C. Lay, D. D., of Alabama, recently
elected Missionary Bishop of the South
West
The farmers of Campbell county, Vir
ginia, are losing their hogs in great num
bers from eating what is known as the
mushroom. In one neighborhood nearly
all the hogs have died.
The Milledgeville Recorder, of the2sth,
says that “ forty-three thousand dollars
was paid into the State Treasury on
Wednesday last, the earnings of the State
road for the present month.”
♦
A telegraphic dispatch from New Or
leans announces that seventy buildings
were destroyed by the fire which occurred
there on the night of the 23d, on Maga
zine street.
By the Overland Mail, which brings
news from the Pacific coast to September
30th, we learn that Mr. Crane, delegate
elect from the proposed Nevada Territory,
died at Bald Hill, Carson Valley, on tbe
26th of September.
Letter From Charlestown, Virginia.
Charlestown, Jeffers.- n Cocntt, Va„ 1
* Oufo'er it, 1569. j
Court Proceedings—Examining Trial of the lniur.
gents —Counsel for the Prisoners —Separate Trials
—Condition of Stevens.
The Circuit Court of Jefferson county.
Hon. Richard Parker, Judge; Charles
D Harding, Esq., Commonwealth Attor
ney.
The case of the State of Virginia vs.
John Aaron C. Stevens and Edwin (J
Coppee, white persons, committed on
charges of conspiracy to make rebellion,
insurrection and open war against tLe
Commonwealth of Virginia, and also for
tbe murder of F. Beckman, G. W. Turner,
Thomas Burley, Luke Quinn, marine, and
Haywood Sheppard, negro, will be takea
up on Tuesday tor examination trial,
previous to the action of the Grand Jury,
ex parte, thereon —a form peculiar to Vir
ginia. It is understood that the Court
will assign Robert Y. Conrad, a talented
lawyer of Winchester, as the counsel of
the prisoners.
It is understood that Brown has made
application by letter to Judge Chase, of
Ohio, and other prominent members of
the bar, in other States, to appear as the
counsel for himself and his associates.
Also, that the prisoners will be allowed
by the Court to avail themselves of every
privilege which would be accorded to any
citizen of tbe Commonwealth in like cir
cumstances.
It is also asserted that should the pris
oners apply for a separate examination
trial that it will be granted them, and
also a separate trial betoie the Court and
jury, should their counsel rna e a motion
to that effect. As two ot the prisoners
are negroes, the Commonwealth’s attor
ney will introduce negro testimony in
their cases.
Should the five prisoners insist upon a
separate examination trial an 1 separate
tiiaf before the court, their cases will un
doubtedly occupy several weeks. Their
is no probability that their trial will be
postpoued beyond the present term.
It is apprehended that the empanelling
of the jurors in the different cases will
occupy considerable time, for the reas
on, it is supposed, that but few persons
can be found in tbe country who have
not formed or expressed an opinion on
the subject.
The prisoner, A. D. Stevens, was much
worse to-day, and is not expected to
live. He has the best medical atten
dance.— Charleston Courier.
Dueling; in CallFoi-nia.
The following clause was adopted by
the people, November-14, 1849, in the
Constitution of the State of California,
the State being admitted in 1850. Arti
cle 11, section 2, is as follows:
“Any citizen of this State who shall,
after the adoption of this Constitution,*
fight a duel with deadly weapons, or
send, ot accept a challenge to fight a
duel with deadly weapons, either within
the State, or out of it; or who shall act
as second, or knowingly aid or assist in
any manner those thus offending, shall
not be allowed to hold any office of profit,
or to enjoy the right of suffrage under
this Constitution.”
This article in the Constitution was
inserted at the instance of Hon. Wm. M-
Gwin, now United States Senator from
California, and then a member of the
Convention at Monterey, where the Con
stitution was framed in 1849.
To show how little respect is paid to
this wise provision of the organic law of
the State, it may be stated that there is
hardly an exception in favor of it. Al
most every member of Congress bas been
engaged in duels since it3 adoption.
Hon. J. W. Denver, ex-member of Con
gress and ex-Governor of Kansas, shot
Hon. Edward Gilbert, member of Con
gress, in 1852.
llou. W. M Gwin, U. S. Senator, fought
a duel with Hon. J. W. McCoukle, mem
ber of Congress, in 1853, and challenged
Hon. Henry Wilson, U. S. Senator from
Massachusetts, in 1858.
Hon. D. C. Broderick fought a duel
with a sen of Extra Billy Smith, of Vir
ginia, in 1852, and lias again fought with
Chief Justice Terry, of the Supreme Court
of California, and with what fatal result
we have before stated.
Later From Mexico.
New Orleans, Oct. 26.—The steam
ship Tennessee, bringing Vera Cruz
dates of the 22d, arrived here to day.
The Tennessee brings thirty-seven
thousand dollars in specie.
The United States sloop of war Savan
nah, and a French brig of war were at
Sacrifieios.
It was reported that the acting British
Minister, Mr. Matthews, bad authorised
the British Consul, at Vera Cruz, to rec
ognize the Juarez Government.
Robles had returned to Jalapa.
Miramon’s expedit ion against Sau Luis
Potosi is still taiked of.
Degollado is still at San Luis Potosi.
Marqueza is at Gaudalujara.
A Harper’s Ferry Weapon.
We were shown, yesterday, by the Ad
ams’ Express Company Agent, one of the
pikes which were found at Browns
house, Harper’s Ferry. It was directed
to Richard Yeadon, Esq., and came from
the Clipper office, Baltimore. This pike
would be a most formidable weapon in a
close encounter. The blade is about ten
inches long, poiuted and sharp on both
sides, and perhaps a quarter or three
eighths of an inch in thickness. Its
shape is somewhat like the pocket-dag
ger, only of more mammoth proportion,
and uot so finely finished. It was at
tached to a handle of white ash about
six feet long. Chas. Mercury.
Tse Tennessee Legislature.
The following resolution has been in
troduced in the Legislature of Tennessee:
It provides that “ whereas the sedition
law passed during the administration of
the elder Adams has met with the almost
universal condemnation of the American
people, as being dangerous to civil liber
ty and destructive to the freedom of the
press, and believing that the principles
of that law are not sanctioned by any
portion of the people of this Stote,” it
is enacted that so much of section 4,766
of the Code as incorporates the features
of said sedition law be repealed. Passed
first reading and referred to the special
Committeee on the Code.
Spurgeon’s Anti-Slavery Mission to
America.
Rev. Mr. Howard, a Baptist Minister of
Alabama, and an Englishman by birth,
made a voyage across the Atlantic to
Fatherland during the summer. Among
his letters was one to Spurgeon. On pre
senting his letter, he was received with
great cordiality, at first : but when the
celebrated young divine learned that be
was an Alabamian, his cordiality sensibly
diminished. Spurgeon told him he wanted
to go to America, and desired to travel
through the Southern States, but he sail
he must preach his sentiments, and
sought an intimation from Mr. 11., wheth
er the people would stand his anti-slavery
sermons. Mr. 11. replied that he should
not take the responsibility of sa ing that
they would, but thought he had better
not undei take it.— Mobile Mercury.
Tiie Free Coloreil People-
The National Intelligencer says it is
proper to be mentioned, among the other
incidents of the time, that on Tuesday
last, when the excitement on the sibjfC l
of the Harper’s Ferry insurrection was
at its highest, a committee which had
been deputized by the free colored popu
lation of Georgetown , waited upon the
Mayor of that town, and respectfully
proffered him their united and thorough
co-operation in any service in which !* e
might see fit to employ them in the p re ‘
servation of the public order and peace-
A Stampede.
We learn that on Saturday night IMb
some thirty slaves in all ran off from then
homes iu Alexandria and Fairfax coun
ties, Va., near this city. Six were the
property of the Rev. Mr. Lippett (of tb( j
Episcopal Church), and one of D* v ’
Fitzhugh, Esq. Some of them are sau- -
be the property of the estate of the hu
Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby J° IH
and two other gentlemen in the
neighborhood, whose names we havens
yet learned. —Washington Star.