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CHESS COLUMN.
Warrextox, Ga., Oct. 24th, 1859.
Mr. Editor: Dear Sir —There is no paper
which I read with more pleasure than the Field
and Fireside, and no department of it is more in
teresting to me than your Chess Column. Yet
I think it would be a vast improvement in that
department for you to change the mode you
have adopted of expressing the positions and
moves of the pieces, and in lieu thereof to adopt
the plan used in the publication of the recent
games played between Augusta and Charleston.
It is more simple, and seems really to be more
in accordance with the language of Chess.
There is another thing that I desire to see
connected with your office, and that is, a sett of
Chess Type, and a diagram of the Chess Board.
This is particularly desirable in connection with
Chess Problems.
The problem by Max Lange, on page 101, has
defied all my efforts to solve it. The same re
sult, I suppose, has attended the efforts of all
your chess readers. The amendment made to
the Problem on page 109 does not remove the
difficulty, but rather adds to it It postpones
the mate for two moves. My firm conviction is
that check-mate cannot be given in four moves
under either position. As first published, a
mate can be effected with five moves. As
amended, it will take seven.
I effect a check-mate in five moves in the fol
lowing manner. If any of your correspondents
can suggest better moves for the White men, I
should like to hear from them.
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Knight c Bto d 6.. 1 Pawn g 7 to g 6
2 Bishop b 2 to g7. .2 Pawn g 6 to g 5
3 Bishop e 8 to f 7 f 3 King e 6 to e 7
4 Bishop f 7 to g 8. ..4 King o 7 to d 8
5 Bishop g 7 to f 6 —check-mate.
Check-mate can be given uhder the amended
position of the pieces in seven moves, as follows:
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Knight c 8 to d 6. ..1 Pawn g 7 to g 6
2 Pawn g4to g 5. ..2 King e6to e 7
3 Bishop b 2 to g 7. ..3 Pawn b 3 to b 2
4 Bishop g 7 to King e 7 to f 8
5 Bishop e 8 to f 7. -.5 King f 8 to e 7
6 Bishop b 2 to g 7. ..6 King o 7 to d 8
7 Bishop g 7 to f 6—check-mate.
I have given this Problem no little attention,
and am fully satisfied that a solution cannot be
effected with a less number of moves than above
stated.
I am also satisfied that your correspondent
“ Tyro” is in error about giving mate in four
moves under the alteration suggested by him.
By taking off the pawn from b 3, and placing
the pawn from g 7 to g 6, you will find that it
will still take five moves to give a mate; in fact
this black pawn on the line g seems to have no
influence. A mate cannot be effected with less
than five moves, even though both black pawns
are taken from the board.
If you will change the corrected Problem by
placing a white pawn on h 4, and a white pawn
on a 7, and a white Rook on a 8, you will then
have a very pretty four move problem, the solu
tion of which will be as follows:
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Bishop e 8 to d 7 f. .1 King e 6 to f 7
2 Knight c 8 to d 6 +. .2 King f 7 to g 6
3 Bishop d7to f 5 |.. 3 King g6to h 6
4 Knight d 6 to f 7—check-mate.
I have examined the Problems "YIII and IX,
in the last number of the Field and Fireside, on
page 172 and find the same to be correct. It is
a very pretty problem, though not very difficult
to solve.
The solutions are as follows:
white. black.
1 Rook csto C 7 .... 1 King g7to h 6
2 Rook C 7 toh 7 ■ ..2 Rook »Bto h 7:
3 Knight f 6 tog 8 f... .3 King h9to g 5
4 Bishop d 4to f 6—mate.
OR
BLACK. WHITE.
1 Rook h 8 to h 3 f 1 King g 3 to h 3:
2 Queen d 2 to g 2 f.... 2 King h 3 to h 4
3 Queen g 2 to h 2 f:... 3 King h 4 to g 5
4' Queen h 2 to h 6—mate.
Very truly yours, I. B. H.
Wo cannot agree with our correspondent, I.
B. H., in considering the mode of reporting
games and stating position of pieces in Problems
used by us in July last, (sec i\ & F., pages 62
and 60,) preferable to that now adopted by us,
(see F. Sc F., pages 141, 164, &c.) Under the
system now used, mistakes are much less liable
to occur in printing: and if made, players can,
with much greater facility and certainty, correct
them. Two positions being given in tho state
ment of each move, the eye can run back in
stantly, and ascertain easily the square occupied
by any particular piece at any stage of the
game. It is, moreover, the mode of reporting
adopted by the French, and used by De la Bour
donnais, in the work which is our text-book for
all editorial purposes connected with our Chess
Column.
Touching tho second objection of I. B. H. to
our Chess Column, we will not so decidedly de
fend the actual state of things. Our Chess Col
umn wouLi, to be sure, look a little more pre
tending, ana have a more professional air, if it
were adorned wia, a “ Be t of Chess Type,” and
a “diagram of the Chess-board.” This we
admit, but are these appw en ances for any pur
pose of real convenience “parw,i ar iy desirable?”
We doubt it. Not one player in t.-PQty would
desire, or would be able, to work ou* q given
problem in his head, with the diagram only be
fore him. He must have the real board ana
men before him, that he may take up and put
down; take back, place and replace, at will.
But having the board and men, the positions
may as well be taken from a report made in our
form, as from the diagram. But perhaps we
may gratify the fancy of our correspondent, and
the pride of our Chess Column, by fitting up the
latter, one of these days, with a set of Chess
type, and a diagram.
With regard to that problem, yclept “ Max
Lange,” we believe that our correspondents
Tyro, I. B. H., See., have said as much and
thought a great deal more about it than it is
worth. We took it, about the middle of August
last, from a spicy and fast contemporary, (a very
racy paper,) The Few York Saturday Press. We
advised onr contemporary that the Max Lange
problem, as reported by him, was sadly puzzling
us Georgia chess-players ; that some doubted
whether it was, even as amended, correctly re
ported by him. Some swore, and some sus
pected, that the facetious editor of the New York
column was hoaxing his readers, by proposing
an impossible problem for them to beat their
brains about. Our fast contemporary gave, in
passing, no heed to our small voice, and we
then determined to forget the problem ourselves,
if our correspondents would let us—but they
won’t. We shall borrow problems more dis
creetly henceforth.
I. B. H. has given above the correct solutions
of Problems YIII. and IX., published in our
last number—F. Sc F., page 172.
We would say to “Tyro," in addition to our
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remarks of last week, that it is, we believe, the
universally acknowledged rule, that a pawn, in
making its first move of two squares, may al
ways and utterly disregard, in passing, the
check of any of the adversary’s pieces except
that of the pawn.
Opening V.
(From De la Bourdonnaia, page 14.)
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Pawn e 2—e 4 P e 7—e 5
2 Bishop f I—c 4 B f 8 c 5
3 Pawn c 2—c 3 Q d B—g 5
4 Queen d I—f 3 Q g s—g g
5 Knight g I—e 2 P d 7—d 6
6 Pawn h 2—h 3 Ktg 8 e7
7 Pawn d 2—d4 B c s—b 6
The game advanced to this point is about
equal; but the Whites having had first move,
may be considered as having still that advan
tage.
“ Tyro ” asks us the distinction between an
“ Enigma ” and a Problem, as we often see the
same proposed in the chess columns. There is
no distinction between them except in the form
of proposition; for the one, the Problem, the
chess types with a diagram of the board being
used, when papers are supplied with this furni
ture ; while for the other, the Enigma, the types
only are employed—the Enigma not being con
sidered a problem of sufficient dignity and val
ue to require the use of tho diagram.
We would also say to “ Tyro ” that we have
this moment learned from the very best author
ity that the rule as given above touching the
first move of a pawn, past the check of an ad
versary’s piece is correct, and universally recog
nized.
•
FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY.
(Carefully prepared for the Southern Field and Fireside.
A lady was recently found weeping bitterly
at the ice-house attached to Mt. Vernon, mistak
ing it for the tomb of Washington.
The curvature of the earth amounts to seven
inches per mile. A man six feet high cannot be
seen seven miles.
When you have occasion to utter a rebuke, let
your words be soft and your arguments hard.
Why are ripe potatoes in the ground like
thieves ? Because they ought to be taken up.
The whole number of inhabitants in the con
solidated city of Philadelphia, is now estimated
at 680,000.
Pride is never so effectually put to the blush,
as when it finds itself contrasted with an easy
but dignified humility.
To Young Men Only. —When your lady-love
can’t be moved by any other process, try the
leave her (lever).
The Advertiser, of Mobile, estimates the pres
ent population of that city at 32,000; an in
crease of 11,500 since 1850.
Real pleasure consists in that interior satis
faction which renders us happy—a good deed
done, for instance, to a friend or neighbor.
“ I know every rock on the coast,” cried an
Irish pilot. At that moment the ship struck,
when he exclaimed, “ and that's one of them.”
The Jews in America number 250,000 who
still adhere to the faith of Abraham.
Life may be merry as well as useful—every
person that owns a mouth lias always a good
opening for a laugh.
An aged bachelor being asked if he had ever
witnessed a public execution, replied: “ No,
but I once saw a marriage.”
In 1690, the manufacture of white paper first
commenced in England. The idea of convert
ing pulp into paper first originated in France.
That man will never be proud who considers
his own imperfections, and those of human na
ture.
Why are the pimples on a drunkard’s face like
the engravings in a London newspaper ? Be
cause they aro illustrations of Punch.
There are 245 gaslight companies in the
United States, with an aggregate capital of $40,-
000,000. The price of gas ranges from $2 50
to $7 per thousand feet.
In matters of conscience, the first thoughts
are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts
are best.
Some of the States of Europe before long,
will do like English travelers upon the continent
—change their sovereigns into Napoleons.
Our naval force in tho Pacific consists of eight
vessels of war, 11,328 tonnage, carrying 151
guns, and a force of 2,350 men.
Misplaced honors ancj titles are a splendid
sign to a wretched inn ; an illuminated frontis
piece to a contemptible book ; a lofty *areh over
shadowing a glitter.
It is a common saying of moralists that the
lower orders of animals have not the vices of
man, yet it is certain that some of the insects
aro backbiters, and all of the quadrupeds, tale
bearers.
Zinc is found in immense quantities in tho
south part of Wisconsih, and in the north part
of Illinois. It is said that there is more of the
mineral there than in all Europe.
Many persons, when they find themselves in
danger of shipwreck in the voyage of life, throw
'heir darling vices overboard, as other mariners
tliei. treasures, only to fish them up again when
the storn. i g over.
A little girl, uu, R years old, having attended a
soiree , being asked tier mother, on returning,
how she enjoyed herself, Sewered, “ I am full
of happiness ; I couldn t be an v Happier unless
I could grow.”
The State of Virginia contains more Bapw s
than any other State in the Union ; their num
ber is 115,126.
Common sense can accomplish much without
great talents, but all the talents in the world
can accomplish very little without common
sense.
Dr. Johnson once dined with a Scottish lady
who had hotch for dinner. After the Doctor
tasted it she asked him if it was good. “It is
good for hogs, madam,” said the doctor. “ Then
pray,” said the lady, “ let me help you to some
more.
There are nearly 28,000 miles of railway fin
ished in the United States, and about 16,000
miles either under construction or projected, re
quiring $400,000,000 for their construction.
The reason why a great man meets with so
little sympathy in adversity is, that his friends
were made by his fortunes, his enemies by him
self ; and revenge is a much more punctual pay
master than gratitude.
Jo. Cose defines the exact height of a young
lady’s ambition to be two little feet.
Between the year 1850 and 1859 the railways
of the United States increased from 7,255 to
27,944 miles in length. In this ]eriod the in
crease in the New England Statesaraounted to
62.74 per cent., while in eight ofthe Western
States the increase was 1,201.41 j»r cent.
It takes four things to make a through gentle
man. You must be a gentleman i| your tastes,
a gentleman in your person, a gmtleman in
principles, and a gentleman in ytir manners.
No man who does not combine th«e qualities,
can be justly termed a gentleman.
A gentleman who has for two yeifs refused to
contribute anything towards thesujport of “the
stated preaching of the Gospel,” Jcently sur
prised his friends by contributing to lie purchase
of a bell for the new church edifice On being
asked the reason for this exercise )f liberality,
he replied that he never put his moiiy where lie
could not hear it ring.
Not a trillion of seconds has elated since the
creation of Adam, nor will that lfimber' have
elapsed until February Ist, in the year of our
Lord 25,385. For a trillion of sca»ds there are
31,687 years, 22 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, and
40 seconds.
Envy increases in exact proportion with fame;
the man that makes a charact r, makes enemies.
A radiant genius calls forth s raras of peevish,
biting, stinging insects, just as the sunshine
awaken the world of flies.
Brother Aminidab, a still Qt iker, on receiving
from a “ worthy man ” a blow in the face, turn
ed the other cheek, to which a similar salute
was applied. “ Friend,” said. minidab, “ Scrip
ture injunction being now sa sfied, I will pro
ceed to administer thee a litt 1 wholesome cor
rection,” and he therefore ma ed the assailant
most unmercifully.
— 1 «> m
PERSONAL
Kossuth, after spending lime time in Paris,
has returned to London.
General Twiggs has ask® to be relieved
from the command of the milifery department of
Texas.
“It is not my intention to visit the United
States this autumn,” says Chlu.es Dickens, in
a recent letter to a gentleman in Boston.
Henry Atiierstoxe, an aid English poet,
the author of tho “ Fall of Nneveli,” has been
placed on the pension list for aventy-five pounds
a year.
“ The handsomest woman ok the stage ’’ is said
to be Miss Crcvelli, one ofptrakosch’s opera
troupe. She is a masculine d&ntralto, like Vest
vali.
CraxcH, now iu Paris, occupies the studio
lately vacated by Edwin Warn:, who recently
arrived in this country, withlhis “ Washington
Resigning his Commission.” j
Richard H. Stoddard is pe author of the
“ Life of Humboldt” which wjs published anony
mously some months ago bf Messrs. Rudd Sc
Carletox, who have a fifth Edition in press, and
wo understand that the wort is to be republish
ished in London.
The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon lias written a letter
to his friends in America, in Which he declares
that, in his belief, immersion p the only Christian
baptism; and that he believes that members of
all Christian communities should be admitted to
the Communion.
Accounts from England say that Dr. Thomas
Nuttall, the botanist, who has done so much
toward spreading a knowledge of botanical
science in this country, died at his residence
in Lancashire, England, on the 10th of Septem
ber.
Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, a brother of the late
Margaret Fuller D’Ossoli, has prepared a new
volume entitled “ Life Without and Life Within,”
from his sister’s unpublished manuscripts, which
will soon be issued by Brown, Taggard and
Chase, of Boston.
Dr. Robert Nichol, Professor of Anatomy in
the Glasgow University, died on the 19th lilt.,
of congestion of the brain, at the age of 55. He
was the author of popular works on Astronomy,
and lectured on that science in tho United States
about ten years since.
Strakosch has engaged the following addi
tional artistes for the winter season at the Acad
emy of Music: —Mll’es Cruvelli and Speraxza
and Signori Beaucarde, Stigelli, Lesta and
Ferri. Beaucarde is a most popular tenor.—
It was for his voice that Verdi wrote the part
of Manrico in the never failing “Trovatore.”
The Duke of Wellington in his private ex
planatory letter to Mr. Canning, in regard to a
misunderstanding between them in 1827, used
this language: “lam notin the habit of deci
ding upon such matters hastily or in anger, and
proof of this is that I never had a quarrel with
any man in my life."
Charles Kean, the eminent tragedian, is pas
sing the autumn at Tours, with part of his fami
ly. He is there with the double view of relax
ation after his long and laborious campaign, and
of visiting Plessisles-Tours and other sites now
become interesting iu connnection with Louis
XI., a role which, with Casimer’s well-known
tragedy, Mr. Kean has rendered as popular in
England as in France.
John Ruskin is at Basel, Switzerland. He
has a new work nearly completed, and it is re
ported that he has written a series of lectures
with the ultimate design of delivering them in
the United States. His appearance here would
be welcomed by a large number of admirers.
The New Orleans True De’ta says that Judge
Miek is in New York, superintending the pub
lication of his history of Alabama. The Judge
is understood to have had this work on hand for
a number of years, and to have bestowed upon
it a great amount of labor and research.
Dr. S. P. ToWnsEXD, who retired from the
sarsaparilla business some years ago, with a
fortune of half a million, having lost much by
speculations, has resumed it again. He is fond
of speculation and it was he who sent the Rev.
Mr. Cosey to England, to invite Mr. Spurgeon
to this country.
The Rev. Dr. Cahill, of Ireland, has given no
tice of his intention to visit the United States,
for the purposo of delivering lectures on astron
omy. For many years Dr. Cahill has been
much before the Irish public as a lecturer and
writer on political questions. He expects to
sail for New York on the 22d or 29th instant.—
Besides lecturing he intends to write letters to
Ireland, but will not treat directly or indirectly
of political matters, international or domestio.
Huntington, the artist, suggests, in a letter
to the “ Crayon," that there be an exhibition of
the works of Sully, “whose honored name has
been associated with the history of American
art for half a century. Mr. Sully has painted
the portraits of very many distinguished men
and beautiful women, besides admirable works
in every department of art, and a collection
might be brought together which would be very
interesting to the public, honorable to the pain
ter’s genius and industry, and profitable in
every way.”
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Census of Georgia for 1859—Accord
ing to the Table of the Census of Georgia for
1859, in the Comptroller General’s report, the
whole population of the State in 130 counties is
1,014,418; viz : 571,534 whites, 439,592 slaves
and 3,292 free persons of color. The same
counties or territory in 1852 showed a total pop
ulation of 906,076. The increase since then has
been 80,256. The whites have increased 31,-
477, and the slaves have increased 45,487. Two
counties, Butts and Montgomery, omitted
to send in their Census Books. If these coun
ties increase in the same ratio, the whole popu
lation, the whole population of the State will be
1,024,000. —[ Federal Union.
' State Road. —The Federal Union of Tuesday
morning, Oct. 26th, says:—“We are authorized
to state that $43,000 have been received at the
Treasury as the net earnings of the State Road
for the month of October.”
Death of Robert Stephenson, the Engi
neer.—The Ocean Queen brings intelligence of
the death of Sir Robert Stephenson, the great
English engineer, in the 56th year of his age.
He commenced life as an apprentice in a facto
ry where steam engines were made, and first at
tracted the attention of the public in 1828, by
inventing a locomotive which consumed its own
smoke, weighed only six tons, and drew 20 tons,
at the rate of ten miles an hour. For this
work he received a prize of $2,000. He then
commenced building railroads, and all the prin
cipal lines in England, Belgium and Norway,
were constructed under his supervision. The
works to which he owed his chief reputation,
were the tabular bridges over the Conway and
the Menai at Britania Rock. Unlike most stu
dents, he was apprenticed to the engine-making
business after having gone successfully through
the classes at the Edinburgh University.
New'Orleans, Oct. 21.—The U.S. steamship
Fulton, that went ashore off the coast of Flori
da has been got off and towed to the Pensacola
navy yard.
New Orleans, Oct. 25.—The Grand Jury in
the cases of the recently arrested filibusters,
find no true bills against them; consequently
the parties have all been discharged.
New Orleans, Oct. 22. —The Government
steamer Crusader arrived here to day from Phil
adelphia, in search of the filibusters.
Episcopal Connention. —The General Con
vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the United States adjourned sine die on Satur
day night last. The proceedings throughout
were of a deeply interesting and harmonious
character, and the discussions entirely free from
sectional or party spirit. No previous Conven
tion, it is said, has proved so productive of good
to the future prospects of the Episcopal Church,
especially in regard to the progress of the mis
sionary work. Five Bishops have been conse
crated, three of whom are to enter upon Dio
ceses never before under Episcopal supervision.
Two great Dioceses have been admitted into
union with the General Convention, and two
Missionary 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 supervision of the Bishop of China.
In addition to these important results, a vast
amount of business was transacted, pertaining
to the affairs of the Episcopal Church.
The next General Convention will be held in
the city of New York, three years hence.—
Rich. Dispatch.
The case of Bishop Onderdonk, whose appli
cation to be restored has been fully considered
during the session by the House of Bishops,
was finally disposed of a day or two since, by
the passage of a resolution giving the suspended
Bishop leave to withdraw his memorial.
The Protestant Churchman gives the first an
nouncement of the names of the Bishops who
voted aye on the motion of Bishop McCoskry to
restore Bishop Onderdonk without any condi
tions. The ayes (report says) were Bishops
Otey, Kemper, McCoskry, De Lancey, Chase,
Whittingham and Odenheimer.
harper’s ferry insurrection.
Harper’s Ferry, Oct. 19.—The wounds of
“ Old Osawatamie” Brown are not at all danger
ous, and he is to-day almost well again. Dr.
Dunbar has attended him, professionally, as skil
fully and kindly as if ho had not deserved his
fate. He is calm and cool, and exhibits that
resoluteness, in view of his certain fate, which
is a part of his nature. His fanaticism is of that
character which shuts out all doubt from his
own mind about the propriety ofthe desperately
wild foray in which he has engaged. He takes
it for granted that he was right, cares for no
body else’s opinion, and views the murders he
and his men committed as merely the necessary
result of the war in which he had engaged
against slavery. He professes to be prepared
for trial, though having no doubt of his convic
tion, and avers his readiness to die on the scaf
fold, though he would not like to be slaughtered
by the mob.
He made a statement to Gov. Wise this morn
ing of which the following is the substance:
“ I will be sixty years old next month. I ren
ted the Kennedy farm six months ago. It be
longs to Dr. Kennedy, of Sharpsbuag Md.; had
paid the rent up to March next. I never had
over twenty-two men at any one time at the farm
who belonged to ray regular organization, but I
had good reason to expect reinforcements from
Maryland, Kentucky, North and South Carolina
and Canada, (negroes and whites,) and had arms
enough on the farm to arm about fifteen hun
dred men—not quite full. The arms consisted
of 200 revolvers, 200 Sharp’s rifles, and 1,000
spears. I left, these arms at the farm. We had
plenty of powder and fixed ammunition. We
brought all the arms from time to time from the
East to Chambersburg, Pa., and they were there
packed in double boxes, so as to deceive the par
ties who hauled them to the farm. They were
directed to S. Smith & Sons, Kennedy farm, that
being the name we had assumed.
Gov. Wise this morning with a party of mili
tary went to the cave, some miles above he* 5 ’
in which Cook and his men were reported *
concealed. They fountl nothing to indic' e ia
they had been there. ,
Harper’s Ferry, Oct. 20, 11 P. M.-.‘ In conver ‘
sation with “old Brown” yesterda* in
of Senator Mason, Hon. C. J. F^ ner - ° r '® >
and Hon. Mr. Vallandighamy mj *de
several answers which dec 1 ? demonstrate the
complicity of numerous <vf ßon3 in the Northern,
Western and Eastern States. He refused to
answer the question whether he had a conter
ence with Joshua *• Giddiugs about his \ lr
ginia expedition. He admitted that he had cor
responded withparties at the North on the sub
ject, and had numerous sympathizers in all the
free States.
Washitvf*° n i Get- 22..—a man was seen near
Chambe’&urg. yesterday supposed to be the in
surgent Cook. He wasarrestodat Carlisle about
noon and is evidently a desperate fellow and
one ofthe gang; but it is thought that it is not
Cook. He was committed for a further exami
nation.
The colored military company was disarmed
to-day in Philadelphia by the Adjutant-General
on account of the Ferry affair.
Carlisle, Penn., Oct. 24.—This place is quiet
to-day. The man arrested here on Saturday,
gave his name as Wm. Harrison, and who was
lodged in jail as one of the Harper's Ferry Insur
gents, will be taken out to-morrow on a writ
of Habeas Corpus.
Washington, Oct. 24. —A number of the pa
pers brought from the insurgents’ camp at Harp
er's Ferry, and in possession of the Government,
will be published to-morrow. All of them are
signed “John Smith,” in the hand-writing of
one of the sons of Ossawattomie Brown, and en
dorsed in that of the father. The documents
show the conspiracy extended throughout a por
tion of Ohio, New York, New England, and some
towns in Pennsylvania.
One letter says; “Our hands, so far, are com
ing forward, probably better than I expected, as
we have called on them.” Some of the papers
give the number of pick-axes and shovels, and
articles of personal comfort, together with the
bills for the same; while others ask for money,
&c.
“F. B. 5.,” of Concord, N. H., subscribes $55.
A letter, dated October Ist, is among them, in
which the writer says he was in Ashtabula coun
ty, Ohio, and “met with sonic success. Our
old friend, J. R. G., took stock to the amount
of $3.”
Washington, Oct 25.—A special dispatch from
Harper's Ferry, states that further discoveries
have been made of a nature which have not
transpired, tending to the suspicion that a plan
of an outbreak which is more exteuded than it
was first supposed.
Circumstances have transpired recently which
revealed, leads to the belief that the negroes in
the adjoining counties are cognisant to the demon
strations to bo made.
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 26.—Governor Packer,
of Pennsylvania, has ordered Cook and Hazlitt,
who were arrested in this State, and charged
with being Harper's Ferry conspirators, to toe
delivered up to the authorities of Virginia for
tnal.
Charlestown, Va., Oct. 26.—The Grand Jury,
to-day, found the following indictments against
the prisoners taken at Harper’s Ferry:
First—Conspiring with the negroes for the
purpose of creating an insurrection.
Second—Treason against the Commonwealth.
Third—Murder.
Able counsel has been appointed by the court
for the prisoners.
The government have decided not to strength
en the guard at the Federal armories and
arsenals.
Startling Revelations—The Points of Attack. —
In a trunk, supposed to have belonged to Capt.
Brown, was found several small though elabo
rate maps of as many different States, bearing
p'cujiar marks, which would seem to indicate
that the points of attack, and the course of the
insurrectionary movement through the South,
had already been carefully determined upon by
this well organized and confident league of trai
tors. Certain comities in the seven State*, of
which only these maps were obtained, bear cross
marks formed by a pen, and in several instances
as if to command greater particularity of atten
tion, or to suggest perhaps more available points
of attack, circular lines are drawn around the
crosses.
The designated counties in the States of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, form
a continuous chain of districts, or route of trav
el from Georgetown, and from Beaufort, South
Carolina, along the Savannah River, to the Chat
tahoochee River, on the western border of Geor
gia; from thence passing through convenient
points on the Alabama and Tombigby rivers to
the borders of Mississippi; from whence it con
tinues with little interruption to the Red river.
The maps, which are about 18 by 12 inches, are
carefully and neatly pasted on stout cambric
cloth. Upon the margin of each map is pasted
the census returns of 1850, of its State, giving
in detail the relative strength of the white and
slave population of each county, and the pro
portion of females to the whole number of in
habitants. By referring to the counties marked,
it will be perceived that in them the slave pop
ulation vastly preponderates, and might, there
fore have been deemed a safer field of operation
for the abolition invaders.
The Manufacturer of Pikes. —Among the other
epistles found in the possession of the insur
gent leader, Brown, was a letter from Charb*»
Blair, Collinsville, Connecticut, who seep* s to
have been the manufacturer of the pike^ ol ton< d'
ed for distribution among the negr<* s - These
pikes are fifteen hundred in numM'i might
have proved a very formidable n ' ea P on even in
hands entirely unaccustomp* to weapons of war.
These pikes are said to oave been made in a
workmanlike manner, some of them to have
been finished in qut® handsome style. It is not
probable that thv manufacturer of these murde
rous instrument* was ignorant of the purpose
for which tj»cy were to be used. At all events,
he should be brought to trial for his participa
tion m this treasonable and murderous conspira
cy against the United States ami Virginia, as
much as if he had been found using, in our own
State, the veapons he had manufactured. In
the adoption of vigorous measures against the
conspirators in other States, tve shall have
evidence of the good faith of the non-slaveiold
ing communities upon a subject which -involves
the life of every man in the South.
Who Paid the Expenses ?- jrown i the lead
er of the invaders at Harp*' 8 Ferry, is a poor
man, and was, of course un£ >ble to provide the
sinews of war for su" 1 an enterprise as that laid
down in the pro famme °« the abolitionists.
The question iv where did he get his funds?
His inventor enumerated two hundred Sharpe’s
rifles tv- hundred revolvers, one thousand
ar’. an( l plenty of ammunition. According
estimate in the New York Express, the
*/o hundred rifles wonld make a bill of $5,000 •,
two hundred revolvers, at the New York aver
age price—say sls each—would make $3,000
more; the spear 3 add another $5,000 to the bill;
total without the ammunition, $13,000. Who
are the outside contributors ? Gerrit Smith is
one, and time and enquiry will bring out the
others, who, behind the curtain, and destitute
of the openness and courage which redeem ras
cality from being utterly despicable, have been
hiring assassins to spill Southern blood. The
New York Daily News says there is no doubt a
deeply organized society in that city for the as
sistance of old Brown and his confederates, and
speaks of a gentleman who that morning heard
a man say he would willingly contribute SI,OOO
to put a revolver in the hands of every slave in
the South.— Rich. Dispatch.
Legal Counsel for John Brown. —A proposition
is now before the abolitionists of Worcester to
raise money by contribution for the purpose of
obtaining counsel for Ossowatamie Brown at his
coming trial. Rev. T. W. Higginson acts as
treasurer.
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