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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. ■ • 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.