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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 XS3E 80VSX8SX FIELD &EB XX&ESX9X. 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. 181