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PERSONAL
A London letter writer says Charles Dickens
is about worn out; fast breaking up. His cares,
his troubles, his years, his habits, and incessant
labor to make both ends meet, have taxed his
mental powers till they are breaking down. In
his readings he looks like a decayed beau, a
patched, painted, peruked he-dowager.
“ Day before yesterday I saw his Holiness.
It was in his library at the Vatican. He takes
snuff, has a fever-sore on his leg, and does not
stand or walk much; he is 67 years old, very
corpulent, and seems truly to be touched with a
feeling of our infirmities. He does not do much;
is regarded as near his time, and Cardinals begin
to look for his shoes.
“Cardinal Antonelli, whose office at the Vati
can is directly above the Pope’s room, is really
the Pope. He is a man 45 years of age, active,
shrewd, clever, with a good address and engag
ing manners, and works all the time like a poli
tician, as he is. Religion he leaves entirely to
the professors of it.”— Exchange.
The editor of the National Intelligencer, who en
joyed long & intimate personal relations with Mr.
Weblter, speaks as follows of Powers’ statue:
We have had the pleasure of viewing this work
of art. It is of bronze, and, without being very
colossal, the figure is larger than life. It is an
imposing work, and no one, we should think,
who personally knew the great original, could
stand before it without emotion. We regarded
it ourselves with curiosity as well as interest,
because we had heard that some had pronounced
it faulty as a truthful representation of the origi
nal We are glad to be able to say that we did
not find it so. We thought it a noble personifi
cation of the great man whose fame it is to com
memorate; and although, had we seen it in
model, we might possibly have suggested some
slight change in one or two of the minor details,
yet, in its grandeur of head and face and brow
and eye and expression, it is all strikingly Web
ster.
Distinguished Arrival. —Among the distin
guished arrivals by one of the recent steamers
from Europe, is Madame Omer Pacha, wife of
the celebrated Turkish commander who won so
many laurels in Silistria. We understand that
she has come to reside in this country, at least
for the present. Her history is somewhat re
markable. She is a native of Transylvania, and
at 11 years of age was sent to school at Bucharest,
where she developed a wonderful genius for
music, and at fifteen had become celebrated in
private circles by the brilliancy of her perform
ances. Omer Pacha was at that time Military
Commander of Wallacbia, and meeting the young
lady at a soiree was delighted, first with her
music, and then with her manners and conversa
tion —became devoted to her, and finally married
her. Not sharing at this time the Turkish no
tions about women, instead of shutting up his
wife at home, she was allowed to accompany
him in his military expeditions, and composed
several pieces of military music, which became
favorites with the Turkish army during the cam
paign. After the war was over, the Marshal,
yielding to more ambitious views, and conform
ing to the custom of his country, married the
daughter of Hafiz Pacha, with whom he had
maintained political relations, and directed the
young Transylvanian to enter lus harem. This,
with a good deal of indignation and spirit, she
refused to do—but at once sought and procured
a divorce from the Marshal, and some two years
since repaired to Paris, where she has since re
sided. She has lived entirely in private, but
has published several very popular pieces of
music, and has become very well known in tho
musical circles of the metropolis. She arrived
in this city by the Arago a few weeks since, and
intends to spend the winter here.— New York
Times,
Old Palmo, the Soyer or New York. — I
met little, dried up Palmo on Broadway yester
day, September fourth. Poor fellow! Ho is
nearly' used up. Lost all. Is cook at twelve
dollars a week to some restaurant on Broadway.
Who is there, even in Charleston, who does not
remember the famous Palmo? Palmo with his
Case des Afille Colonnes, where he made thous
ands. Palmo, the Italian Opera Manager, where
he sank tens of thousands. At one time Palmo
was ahead of the world two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Who so great then as Palmo ?
When Louis Napoleon was in this country, he
lodged at Washington Hall with his suite. —
Palmo supplied the Imperial fodder, done up in
his best style. Louis Napoieon liked him, and
when he went away made Palmo a superb pres
ent ; and in those days if Louis Napoleon had
wanted ‘to come the borrow’ over Palmo, the
Italian could have spared him two hundred and
fifty thousand francs without inconvenience.
“ What a pity Palmo had not invested fifty
thousand dollars in that way. Even now, I
think, Palmo would do better if ho would aban
don ‘cookdom’ and go to Paris. Napoleon
would remember and do something for the old
man, who is now verging on to seventy. Palmo
will not die a regular death; he will dry up
gradually, and his life will go out easily and
gently, like lampwick when the oil is all gone.
There is not that cook alive, since Soyer died,
who can cook a * pigeon stew’ equal to Palmo.
In his hands pigeons are sublime. I once offer
ed to start him in Charleston, furnish capital to
set him up in a restaurant, to advertise his great
ness, to start a club of pigeon-shooters, in fact,
to remodel his affairs. what do you think the
little Italian told me? ‘No-, Jno wantee to
catchee de yallar fevair.’ Fancy «nch an insane
Italian idea, as that small, dried-up ei x ty-two
pounds of humanity catching the yellow f«ver.
1 gave up, and never tried more to get Palmo to
go to Charleston. He was originally caught in
the Mediterranean by one of our oldest Ameri
can commodores, and cooked on board the flag
ship for three years, consequently he must be a
good nautical cook. — N. Y. Correspondent of the
Charleston Courier.
A correspondent of the Springfield Republican
gives the following pen-and-ink sketches of prom
inent literary people:
Emerson looks like a refined farmer, medita
tive and quiet. Longfellow like a good-natured
beef-eater. Holmes like a ready-to-laugh little
body, wishing only to be “as funny as he can.”
Everett seems only the graceful gentleman, who
has been handsome. Beecher, a ruddy, rollick
ing boy. Whittier, the most retired of Quakers.
Mrs. Sigourney, the grandmother of American
“ female” literature, in her prime (if we may be
lieve her portrait,) was quite handsome. Kathe
rine Beecher is homely. Mrs. Beecher Stowe is
so ordinary in looks that she has been taken for
Mrs. Stowe’s “Biddy.” Mrs. E. F. Ellet looks
like a washerwoman. Margaret Fuller was
plain. Charlotte Cushman has a face as marked
as Daniel Webster’s, and quite as strong. So
has Elizabeth BlackwelL Harriet Hosmer looks
like a man. Frances O. Osgood had a lovely
womanly face. Amelia F. Welby was almost
beautiful. Sarah J. Hale, in her youug days,
quite lovely, unless her picture fibs. The David
son sisters, as well as their gifted mother, pos
sessed beauty. If we cross the ocean, we find
this soirsMaa sxru bxrssxse.
Madame de Steal was a fright, but Hannah More
was handsome; Elizabeth Fry glorious; Letetia
Langdon pretty, Mrs. Hemans wonderously
lovely, Mary Howitt fair ahd matronly; Mrs.
Norton regally beautiful; Elizabeth Barrett
Browning in physique is angular, and though
she has magnificent eyes, her face is suggestive
of a tombstone. Charlotte Bronte had a look in
her eyes better than all beauty of features. But
if we look at British men of first-class craniums,
Shakspeare and Milton were handsome; Dr.
Johnson was a monster of ugliness; so were
Goldsmith and Pope ; Addison was tolerable
handsome, and Coleridge, Sheily, Byron, Moore,
Campbell, Burns, all were unanimously so. Sir
Walter Scott looked very ordinary, in spite of
his head. Maccauley is homely. Bulwer near
ly hideous, although a dandy. Charles Dickens
is called handsome, but covered with jewelry, he
can but look like a simpleton.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Consolidation of Telegraph Companies.—
New York, Oct. 15.—The several Telegraph
lines between New Orleans and the province of
New Brunswick, were consolidated under the
name of the New Jersey Telegraph Company,
in this city to-day; and the new Company was
temporarily organized by. the election of Abram
S. Hewitt, President; Zenus Barnum, Vice-Pre
sident; Francis Morris, Treasurer; and R, W.
Russell, Secretary. The other Directors are
Amos Kendall, Wm. M. Swain, Cyrus W. Field,
H. 0. Alden and J'. H. Purdy.
The annual election for the choice of Direc
tors and other officers of the new Company, will
take place in January next, in this city, when
the present Telegraph Company will, we under
stand, probably be dissolved; also, the Ameri
can Telegraph Company, controlling wires from
Louisville, New Brunswick, to Philadelphia;
the New England Telegraph Company, wires
from Boston to New York; the House Tele
graph, with wires from Now York to Washing
ton ; and the Magnetic Telegraph Company, with
wires from New York to New Orleans.
Permanent business connections have been
made between the newly consolidated Compa
nies and each one of the several Western,
Southern, California, and Canadian lines, so that
for all practical or business purposes, the whole
telegraphic interest of tho country is perma
nently united. The movement is one of vast
importance to the public, as well as to the stock
holders of the companies concerned.
Dakotaii. —This name has been proposed for
an embryo Territory to be organized out of the
region west of Minnesota. An election for a
delegate to Congress was held therein on the
I3th ult., when J. P. Kidder received a unani
mous vote —359—at the St. Joseph and Pembina
polls, which are all we have heard from, and
which probably compromise the bulk of the
voters in the expectant Territory. Mr. Kidder
will probably find some difficulty in obtaining
his seat.
The Peiiio Affair. —The Washington cor
respondent of the Herald states that a communi
cation has been received at the Department of
State from the British Government, through
Lord Lyons, requesting that their acknowledge
ments may be conveyed to Mr. Ward, our Min
ister to China, and Commodore Tatnall, for their
friendly conduct at the affair of the Peiho.
In reference to the rumored imprisonment, in
Pekin, of Mr. Ward, the American Minister to
China, the Paris Pays states, in substance,
that he was only confined to his house, while
awaiting an interview with the Chinese Empe
ror, for the purpose of preventing him from ma
king observations of things transpiring around
him, for fear, perhaps, that he would communi
cate them to the French and English command
ers in that country; and that as soon as the in
terview was concluded, he would return to some
seaport.
The Savannah steamship lines are doing an
active, profitable business. The Republican an
nounces the arrival of the Augusta from New
York on Tuesday morning, with a full freight,
and 209 cabin and 150 steerage passengers, be
ing the largest number ever brought to that
port.
The Pensacola and Georgia Road. —Col. E.
Houston, President of the Pencacola and Geor
gia Railroad, has addressed a letter to Gen. Mil
ton, of the Marianna, informing him of the pur
chase of three thousand tons of iron, in addition
to the previous purchase of iron for forty-five
miles. This furnishes the requisite amount to
reach Lake City from Jacksonville. These three
thousand tons are to be delivered at Fernandi
na, the Ist of January, at which time track lay
ing will commence at Lake City and push on
west. The laying is now progressing on the
eastern end of the road, and it is the opinion of
the President that Quincy will be reached early
in the fall, if not sooner. This accomplished,
the great point of interest then will be to put the
road under contract from Quincy to the Apa
lachicola river.
Case of Bishop Onderdonk.— We are au
thorized to state that memorials to the House of
Bishops are being signed by the Laity of both
parties in the Episcopal Church; that waiving
all other questions connected with tho suspen
sion and restoration of Bishop Benjamin T. On
derdonk, the members of the Protestant Episco
pal Church in the Diocese of New York deeply
feel that the position of the suspended Bish
op is such in this community, and that his per
sistence for so many years in denying the justice
of his sentence, had so shaken the confidence of
members of the Church, that under no
circurnswnce can he resume any jurisdiction in
this Diocese, Qr the exercise of any Episcopal
functions, to the harmony and edification of the
Church, or the glory of obrjst, but that, on the
contrary, such resumption would lead to great
and manifold evils, not confined to ibis Diocese,
but extending to the whole Church.
They therefore pray the House of Bishops
that the sentence of suspension be not removed
until Bishop Onderdonk shall have resigned his
jurisdiction of the Diocese of New York. —[Y.
Y. Times.
Falsely Packed Cotton.— The Columbus
Sun of Monday says: A man, whose name we
suppress for the present, was detected on last
Saturday in having sold cotton on our streets
which was falsely packed. As soon as the dis
covery was made, a warrant was issued for his
arrest, and placed in the hands of Constable
Lloyd, who soon camo up with the offender. —
Not at all fancying the errand of Mr. Lloyd, the
fellow gave “ leg bail,” and being rather fleet of
foot, escaped the grab of his Constableship. The
proper papers for his arrest have, however, been
made out.
Socoess of Street Railroads.— The horse
railroqds of Boston —the same as the street rail
roads contemplated in Richmond—employ 167
cars, 1,375 horses, carrying an average of 35,-
175 passengers daily, and the receipts for the
year amount to $750,000, or $2.0G0 per day’
The Traveler says the increase of business
upon these roads astonishes those mist interest
ed in their success.
St. Lons, Oct. 29.—The Overlam mail has
arrived with San Francisco dates to Sept. 26th.
Judge Terry had been held to bail in tho sum
of ten thousand dollars, to answer to 2ie charge
of killing Senator Broderick in the lan duel
At the Pacific Railroad Convention, resolu
tions were adopted in favor of a cental route.
The town of Monte Christo was tearly de
stroyed by fire. The loss was ninety thousand
dollars.
Sixty Indians had been killed by the citizens
of Brittle river valley.
Hon. John Y. Mason, American imister to
the French Court, died in Paris, of applexy. on
3d instant
New Orleans, Oct. 17. —The exanmation of
Col. Anderson, Capt. Maury, and ottar fillibus
ters, commenced to-day. There was nothing
important elicited.
The deaths in the Charity Hospital of Yellow
Fever, during the week were fifteen.
New Orleans, Oct 19.—The steanship Indi
anola has arrived, bringing datts from Browns
ville, Texas, to Oct 11th.
The Mexican outlaw, Cartirlas, with several
hundred men, was still encamped above Browns
ville ; and another attack was Expected before
the Government troops could arive.
Cartirias had issued a proclamation in which
ho declared that orderly, innocmt people have
nothing to fear, his object beint to chastise the
sheriff and the lawyers of the lounty.
New Orleans, Oct. 19. —Jutjre McCaleb, in
the Federal Court to-day, det ered a strong
charge against fillibustering.
The Government and the Ilave Trade.—
A despatch from Washington says: The Gov
ernment is satisfied that the y cht Wanderer is
tiie only vessel which has lan ed Africans on
our coast, but with a view to >revent any fur
ther violation of the law, the most stringent
efforts have been and will cont aue to be made,
to intercept any such cargoes lestined for the
United States.
Savannah, Oct 19.—The racht Wanderer
sailed hence last night withou taking out the
usual papers. She had on b< »rd a full crew,
besides provision and ammuniti in. She was sto
len from her owner, Mr. Lamar by the Captain,
Martin, who had been negoti; ting for her for
some time past. The Collector of the port
sent out a steamer with Mr. Lainar, and others,
on board, to capture her, but they returned un
successful.
Savannah, Oct 20. —Capt. Black, the shipping
master, who was carried off it) ‘the Wanderer,
has returned. He was put in a boat near the
mouth of the harbor. Captain B. reports that
the Captain of the Wanderer jaid that he was
going to the coast of Africa for a cargo of slaves.
Rebellion at Harper's Ferry. — Negro In
surrection. — The Town and Armory Seized. —
Battle. —Insurrection QueUed.-t-Insurgents made
Prisoners. —Order Restored.
Harper’s Ferry, Oct. 17, P, M.—A band of
armed Abolitionists have full (possession of the
U. S. Arsenal at this place.
The express train was fired into twice, and
one of the railroad hands, a negro, was killed
while trying to get the train throngli the town.
Washington, Oct. 17.—Rumors reached this
city, this forenoon that a serious insurrection
has broken out at Harper’s Ferry, Va. The
trains on the Railroads leading there have been
stopped, the telegraph wires cut, and the town
and all the public works are in the hands of the
insurgents.
At first it was believed that this story was
merely an exaggeration of an affray among
some government employees at the United
States Armory. Later despatches, however, from
Monocacy. the nearest station to the Ferry, con
firm the first statement.
The trains have been stopped on the several
railroads, and the employees killed. The ne
groes on tho Maryland side of the river have
been seized, carried over, and made to join the
insurgents. All statements concur in saying
that the town is in the complete possession of
the rebels.
One hundred marines, with two twelve pound
ers, from the Washington barracks went up this
afternoon to the scene of hostilities, and will
reach there about 8 o’clock, P. M. They have
orders to clear the bridge at all hazards. Three
companies of artillery from Old Point are on
the way thither ; besides which, six or seven
companies of military from Baltimore and Fred
erick City, Maryland, have offered their services
and have been accepted by the President.—
Thay have gone up on extra trains. The insur
gents are said to number about 600 or 800, and
that they are under the leadership of a man by
the name of Anderson, who but recently arrived
at the Ferry.
Ofie report from a merchant there, says that
most of the citizens have been surprised, and
that many have been killed. All the roads lead
ing to the town have been barricaded and are
guarded.
Baltimore, Oct. 17.—The mail agent on the
westward bound train returned to Monocracy,
and reports that the train was unable to get
through. He states that the town of Harper’s
Ferry is in the possession of the negroes, who
arrest every one they' can catch and imprison
them. The train due at three o’clock this al
ternoon could not get through the town, and
the agent came down on an empty engine.
The following dispatch has just been received
from Monocacy, the nearest telegraph station
to Harper’s Ferry:
“ The western train has just arrived, and the
officers confirm the statement first received. —
They say that the bridge keeper last night dis
covered that the light had been extinguished,
and on going to ascertain the cause was pur
sued and fired upon by a gang of blacks and
whites.”
Baltimore, Oct. 17.—20 minutes past eleven,
P. M. —The American's special reporter, tele
graphs from plSce No. 14, thirty-one miles from
Harper’s Ferry, that the eight o’clock train con
sists of seventeen cars, and four of them filled
with troops under Major Reynolds, with a num
ber of laborers to repair the track and telegraph
ers to mend the lines.
Baltimore, Oct. 17.—Half past twelve o’clock
P. M.—The American's special reporter tele
graphs from Monocacy Bridge at nine o’clock
P. M., that Luther Simpson, the baggage master
of the express mail train, gives the following: I
walked up to the bridge, but was stopped. I
was afterwards permitted to go up and see the
captain of the insurgents, and was taken to the
Armory, where I saw the Captain, one Bill Smith,
and was detained a prisoner more than an hour.
T saw from five to six hundred negroes, all hav
ing arms, and two or three hundred white men
with them. All the houses were closed. I went
to the tavern kept by Chambers; about thirty of
the inhabitants were collected there with arms.
They said most of the inhabitants had left, but
they declined to go. It was reported that five
or six persons had been shot.
Simpson was escorted back over the bridge by
six negroes. The train from Frederick is lying
at Point Rocks, and a train with the Directors of
the Pennsylvania railroad on board is on the
other side of Harper’s Ferry.
It is believed here to be a move of the Aboli
tionists. Secretary Floyd received some weeks
ago, an anonymous letter, informing him that
there would be a rising, and an attempt made to
capture the Arsenal; but tho letter was too in
definite, and improbable to be believed. It is as
follows:
Cincinnati, Aug. 20, ’s9 .—Sir: I have re
cently received information of movements of so
great importance, that I feel it to be my duty,
to impart it to you, without delay. I have dis
covered the existence of a secret association,
having, for their object, the liberation of all the
slaves in the South by a general iusurrection.—
The leader of this movement is old John Brown,
late of Kansas. He. (Brown,) has been to Can
ada during the winter, drilling negroes, and
they are only waiting his word to start for the
South and assist the slaves. They have one of
their leading men, a white man, in an armory in
Maryland. "Where it is situated, lam not able
to learn. As soon as everything is ready, those
of their number who are in the Northern States,
and Canada, are to come over in small companies
to the rendezvous, which is in the mountains of
Virginia. They will then pass down through
Pennsylvania and Maryland, then enter Virginia
at Harper’s Ferry.
“ Brown left the North about three or four
weeks ago, and he will arm the negroes, and
strike the blow in a few weeks. So that what
ever is done must be done at once, as they have
large quantities of arms at their rendezvous.—
Brown has probably distributed them already.
“ I am not fully in their confidence and this is
all the information that I can give you. I dare
not sign my name to this, but trust you will not
disregard the warning on this account.”
Additional from Harper’s Ferry.—Wash
ington, Oct. 18.—A special dispatch to the Bal
timore Sun, says tho Baltimore troops and the
Marines are under the command of Col. Lee.
The army arrived near the Ferry at one o’clock
last night, and learned that the Virginia regi
ment and the Frederick (Maryland) troops had
entered the town on the opposite side. There
was a good deal of firing heard, and it was re
ported that nine persons were killed. The in
surgents are in possession of the Arsenal, but
were willing to surrender. They demand safe
conduct out of the difficulty, otherwise they
threaten to sacrifice the lives of two of the
prominent citizens, whom they hold as prisoners.
Among the insurgents are Kegg, Seaman and
Brown of Ohio, and Todd of Maine.
Aaron Stephens of Connecticut, now dying,
makes the following statement: That Ossawa
tomie Brown was the sole concoctor of the affair.
This man, of Kansas notoriety, under the as
sumed name of Bill Smith, several months ago
hired a farm in the vicinity of the Ferry, and
gathered around him several impoverished Kan
sas discontents and fanatics, when they laid a
plan to seize the armory, hoping thus to induce
the concentration of the slaves in the neighbor
ing counties of Virginia and Maryland, and
thus ignite a general wide-spread insurrection.
The insurgents stated that they would be re
inforced on Sunday by fifteen hundred men.
Many of tho citizens and government employees
were forced out of the town on Sunday night,
by armed squads of whites and blacks. The
fugitives spread the alarm, which caused the as
sembling of armed men and the military of the
neighboring towns, who concentrated around
the Ferry, thus alarming the negroes who may
have intended to join the insurgents.
The Railroad Companies offered every facility
towards the transportation of the troops, and
before the rioters were aware, every outlet of
the town was guarded, and the insurgents com
pletely penned up. Previously a portion of the
Abolitionists had effected a stampede of the ne
groes of the neighboring farms, forcing them
away against their will, others. had conveyed
the government arms and ammunition, to distant
hiding places, and it also said that they had
plundered the pay office of fifteen or twenty
thousand dollars. About dark last night the
local military made a simultaneous attack upon
the town at four different points, and drove the
insurgents into tho armory enclosure for re
fuge. The fight in the street was very severe,
and fifteen of the insurgents and two or three
of the assailants were killed, and several
wounded. Matters thus rested until the arrival
of the Marines and Baltimore troops, when the
armory was surrounded. At daylight a demand
was made to the insurgents to surrender, which
they refused; the Marines then batted down
the door of the armory, but were met by a
brisk discharge from the insurgents. One of the
Marines was killed, and one it is feared is mor
tally wounded. Two or three others were
slightly wounded.
The Marines, after having forced an entrance,
took all the remaining living insurgents prison
ers, and liberated the prisoners whom the in
surgents had previously threatened to murder if
they were attacked. The number of prisoners
taken were not stated, but out of the original
insurgents fifteen are doad and two are believed
to have been mortally wounded. In a few mo
ments the conflict was over, and all of the living
insurgents captured. The volunteers tried to
shoot them, but were prevented. Ossawatomie
Brown and his son were both shot, the.latter is
dead. Brown is not dead, he may live to be
hung. He talks freely, and says that the whole
object was to free tho slaves.
Anderson, of Connecticut, another leader, was
killed. Three of the Marines and several of the
State troops were shot.
Among the citizens that were murdered by
the insurgents, were Mr. Fountain Brekliam, a
prominent and respected citizen, and the agent
of the Railroad Company. Mr. Joseph Burnly
and Mr. George Turner, one of the first men in
that vicinity, were also killed. The following
were killed in the fight: Eron Dorsey, a Rail
road Conductor, George Richardsou, and one
Martinsburg. Several of the soldiers were se
riously wounded.
The Rangers under the President's orders, ar
now in pursuit of the fugitives. The Distal
Attorney has gone up to Harper’s Ferry X' take
charge of the legal proceedings against ** e P rl3 ‘
oners.
The arrangements of Gov. Wise 10 prevent
the spread of the disaffection we*' complete and
admirably executed. Gov. Wi«* arrived at the
spot too late to participate ir 4116 attack.
Seven companies of inf» tr 7i two of rifles and
one of artillery, all with ranks, beside seve
ral local companies, under orders and len
route for the Ferry i* less than four hours after
the news of the irfurrection was received y
him. _
It is feared toe insurrection has many ramifi
cations. In Baltimore, Washington and Alex
andria, the authorities are all prepared for any
emergent/* if it occurs. The governments of
Maryland and Virginia have taken every pre
cautionary measure.
'Washington, Oct. 18, P. M.—A company of
mounted men, under the authority of the Presi
dent, left Baltimore this afternoon, for the pur
pose of pursuing the fugitive insurgents and -
overtaking them in any State or locality of the
Union in which they may be found. The
United States District Attorney left here this
evening to bring on the immediate trial of the
persons. Three hundred Virginia military ar
rived from Richmond this evening, but found
orders to return, as their services were not
needed. The most energetic measures are on
foot to ferret out and capture all involved in the
insurrection. Quiet has been restored.
Washington, Oct. 19.—At Harper’s Ferry at
noon to-day, no signs of the fugitives had been
discovered.
The Chambersburg and Bedford rangers were
searching the mountains.
Yesteray morning a detachment of the ma
rines and volunteers visited Brown’s house and
found a large quantity of blankets, boots, shoes,
clothes, tents, and fifteen hundred pikes, made
in Connecticut; the handles are six feet long,
with a blade a foot in length; there were also
found nine hundred Sharpe's rifles, a box of re
volvers and a box of swords, with a carpet-bag
containing documents which throw a good deal
of light upon the affair. There was in the car
pet-bag a printed Constitution and by-laws of
the organization, showing or indicating ramifica
tiens in the various States of the Union.
The letters were from various individuals at
the North, and one of them was from Fred
Douglass, containing ten dollars from a lady;
there was also on 9 from Gerrit Smith about
money matters, and a check or draft by him for
one hundred dollars, endorsed by a cashier of a
New York bank, the name not recollected. All
of these are in possession of Gov. Wise, who
has issued a proclamation offering one thousand
dollars for the arrest of Cook. Large numbers
of armed men are now scouring the mountains
in pursuit of him. Cook took tea at his father
in-law’s house near the Ferry on Monday night,
only a few hours previous to the arrival of the
marines. It was reported that he was seen on
Tuesday morning, only three miles off.
Two wagons loaded with Government arms
have been recovered.
Brown denies that any others, besides those
at the Ferry, are connected with this movement.
His wounded son, however, says there are other
parties at the North connected with it.
Among the letters found at Brown’s house,
the following a spjpimen:
Dear Sir r : J. have been disappointed in not
seeing you ejetlus£otake charge of yoiiT freight.
They have been here two weeks, and as I had
to superintend, the providing for them has im
posed upon me no small task. Besides, they
are getting discontented, and if not taken charge
of soon, will go back to Missouri. They cannot
be kept here much longer, and if any of them
go back, it will be a bad termination to your en
terprise.
It appears that the insurgents had printed a
constitution and bye-laws for the provisional
government of the United States, and also is
sued commissions from their war office near
Harper’s Ferry. The following is a specimen:
“ Whereas, W. H. Leeman has been nomi
nated Captain of the army established under the
provisional government, now, therefore, in pur
suance of the authority vested in me by said
Constitution, we do hereby appoint and com
mission the said Leeman as Captain.
“Given at the office of the Secretary of War,
thisthe 15tli of October, 1859.
“John Brown, Commander-in-Chief.
H. Keys, Secretary of War.”
Harpers Ferry, Oct. 19. —The prisoners, ta
ken in the late conflict with the insurgents at
this place, have been committed to the jail of
Charlestown, (Jefferson county. Va.,) to await
the action of the Grand Jury. They will be in
dicted and tried in a few days. The arrange
ment about jurisdiction has been settled in this
way; the local authorities to try the prisoners
for murder; meanwhile the United States au
thorities will proceed to try them on the charge
of treason. Gov. Wise said to United States
Attorney General Ould, that he had no objec
tions to the General government proceeding a
gainst the prisoners, if anything be left of them
by the time the Virginia authorities get through
with them.
Brown is better. He has made a fuller state
ment, in which he says that he rented the farm,
on which his rendezvous was located, from Dr.
Kennedy, six months since, and that he has paid
the rent for it until next March. He says that
he never had over twenty-two men at the farm
at any one time, who belonged to his organiza
tion ; but that he had good reason to expect re
inforcements from Maryland, Kentucky, North
am) South Carolina, and the Canadas. He
states farther that he had arms and ammunition
sufficient for fifteen hundred men; that he had
two hundred revolvers, two hundred Sharpe’s
rifles, and one thousand spears, which were left
there at the farm, where he had, also, an abun
dance of powder and fixed ammunition. He
brought all his arms, from time to time, from
Connecticut and other points in the Eastern
States, to Chambersburg, Pa.; they were direct
ed to J. Smith & Sons, Kennedy Farm, (his as
sumed name); and were packed in double boxes
so as to deceive the parties who handled them
in transporting them to the farm. He says that
he made one mistake in either not detaining the
train on Sunday night, or in permitting it to go
on unmolested. This mistake, he seems to -:n
fer, exposed his doings too soon, and presented
his reinforcements from reaching him
The names of all his party at the Ferry on Sun
day night, except three white whom Brown
admits were sent away on * a errand, are as fol
lows; with their proper t yes under the provision
al government affixed- Gen. John Brown, Com
mander-in-Chief, mounded, but will recover;
Capt. Oliver dead; Capt Watson Brown,
dead; Capt. -*^ ron C. Stephens, of Connecticut,
wounded MtUj. has three balls in his body, and
cannot .’°ssibly survive; Lieut Edwin Coppice,
0 f j (v *n, unhurt; Lieut. Albert Hazlett, of Penn-
dead; Lieut. Wm. Leeman, of Maine,
jead; Captain John K. Cook, of Connecticut,
escaped; Capt. John Kagi, of Ohio, (raised in
Virginia,) dead; Lieut Jeremiah Anderson, of
Indiana, dead; privates—Stewart Taylor, of
Canada, dead; Charles P. Todd, of Maipe, dead;
Wm. Thompson, of New York, dead; and Dolph
Thompson, of New York, dead. These, with the
three previously sent off, make seventeen whites.
The negroes were: Pangerfield Newly, of
Ohio, raised in Virginia, dead; Emperor, of New
York, raised in South Carolina, not wounded, a
prisoner—the latter was elected a member of
Congress of the provisional government sr.me
time since; Lewis Leary, of Ohio, raised in Vir
ginia, dead; Copeland, of Ohio, raised in Vir
ginia, not wounded—ft prisoner at Charlestown.
General Brown received nine wounds, but
none it is thought would prove fatal There
was about a bushel of letters discovered from
all parts of the country.
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