Newspaper Page Text
CHESS COLUMN.
Vie learn that the room of our Augusta Chess
Club on Broad Street, about opposite the Mason
ic Hall, is to be re-opened next Tuesday even
ing. It is likely to become this winter, even
more than it was last winter, the resort for in
tellectual amusement, of single gentlemen who
have no homes of their own, and of married
men who can be spared from, or who can spare,
theirs. But if we were married, we would very
much dislike to find ourselves upon either cate
gory. There, we hope our married friends of
the club will not take offence. Less than this
could hardly be expected from a gallant bachelor
editor. The room is likely, we hear, to be made
more comfortable and attractive than ever, by
the addition of carpet, furniture and various
chess-\y appurtenances. So much the better for
bachelors—so much the worse for our married
lady friends. "We hope that they will be stimu
lated to counteracting exertions that their homes
may become, if possible, more attractive, and
themselves, if possible, more aimables.
Mr. Editor: I notice in the last number of the
F. A F., that I. B. H., of Warrenton, denies that
the Max Lange problem (excuse me for mention
ing it once more,) with the change I suggest
ed, can be solved in four moves. Below you
will find the solution:
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Bishop b 2—g 7 Pawn g 6—g 5
2 Knight c B—d G King e G—e 7
3 Bishop e B—f 7 King e 7—d 8
4 Bishop g 7—f 6 —check mate.
Please examine it, and if you find it correct,
publish for I. B. H.’s benefit. You will also find
below a solution of the same problem, as
ainewled by I. B. H., and which he pronounces
a “ very pretty four move problem.” If your
leisure serves, glance at the solution that ac
companies it, and if correct, please let I. B. H.
see it. Three moves- appear to a tyro amply suf
ficient for the mate, and may-be an expert might
accomplish it in less, thus:
WniTE. BLACK.
1 Knight c B—d 6 Pawn g 7—g G
2 Bishop e B—f 7f King e 6—e 7
3 Rook a B—e B—check mate.
Respectfully yours, Tyro.
We are very fond of chess when we have
time to play it. But that we have not, and
probably the Max Lange problem would go for
ever unsolved, if the solution depended upon
our own attention thereto. It does not require
much time, however, to come quite positively to
the conclusion that either Tyro or I. B. H. has
committed an error that closer attention and a
little more pondering would have avoided. If
Tyro is right, we beg I. B. 11. to be more parti
cular ; if I. B. H. is right, we beg Tyro to be.
Let’s keep our chess column at least clear of
crudities —if possible.
Opening YI.
(From De la Boonlonnais, page 10.)
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Pawn e 2—e 4 P e 7—e 5
2 Bishop f I—c 4 B f B—c 5
3 Pawn c 2—c 3 Ktgß—f6
4 Pawn d 2—d 4 (1) P e s—d 4 :
5 Pawn c 3—d 4 : (2) B c s—b 6 (3)
6 Knight bl—c 3 K castles—g 8
7 Knight g I—e 2 (4) P c 7—e 0
8 Bishop c 4—d 3 (5)
NOTES.
(1) You push this pawn two squares, for the double
purpose of masking the play of the adversary's bishop
upon tho i>awn of your King's bishop, and or establish
ing your pawns at the centre of the board, which is of
great importance.
(2) When you have two pawns abreast, as in the present
position, you should maintain them there without advanc
ing either, until your adversary propose* *» «*»'!'»
pawn with one of your®, seen yr>ti will avoid the ex
change by advancing the pawn attacked.
(8) This move causes the Blacks to lose time, which is
precious, and enables the Whites to establish their pawns
,!n the centre. .
(4) If you should play the Knight to the square f 3, it
would prevent the advance of your bishop's pawn. The
Blacks would then play Knight f 6—e 4:, and afterwards
pawn d T—d 5, which would break your centre.
(5) You loMdrato this bishop; otherwise the Blacks
playing the next move, pawn d " —<l 5, would force you to
exchange your King's pawn against theirs, which
would break your pawns of the centre. In the present
positions, the Whites have their pawns established at the
centre, which is a very great advantage. This was the
ojiening of one of Philidor's games.
i
FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY.
(Carefully prepared fo| the Southern Field and Fireside.
Hanging an Englishman is called “ dropping
the subject.”
There are 6,000 dentists now practicing in
the United States.
The wisest maxim of economy is, spend less
than you gain.
A tipsy Irishman leaning against a lamp-post,
as a funeral procession was passing by, was
asked who was dead.
“ I can’t say exactly, sir, but I presume it is
the gintleman in the coffin.”
The first printing press in North America was
established in the City of Mexico about the year
1600.
Allow others to discover your merit; they
will value it the more for being their own dis
covery.
“Areyou lookiug for any one in particular?”
as the rat said when he saw tho cat watching
him.
A printing press was established in 1730 at
Charleston, S. C., and one was used in Savan
nah in 1765.
He who knows the world will not bo too
bashful, and he who knows himself will never
be impudent.
Remember that recreation must not be your
business, but a preparation for it.
The first pressed “ work” in the American
Colonies, was “ set up” at Cambridge, Mass.,
in 1629. Stephen Day was the first printer.
If bread could be procured as easily as water,
men would be more likely to become brutes for
the want of something to do than philosophers
from the possession of leisure.
Fanny Fern having asserted that “ the men of
the present days are fast,” Prentice, of the Louis
ville Journal , replies “ that they must be fast to
catch the women."
The first Arab newspaper ever published in
the Turkish empire, and out of Constantinople,
has been commenced at Beyrout.
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than
the merit; posWj-ity will regard the merit ra
ther than the man;
A dandy, in Broadway, New York, wishing
to be witty, accosted a young bell-man as fol
lows : “ You take all sort* of trumpery in your
cart, don’t you ?” “ Yes, jump in, jump in.”
There are now in Germany Denmark, and
Switzerland, 63 Baptist churcfus, and 7,120
members; 25 years ago there weresnly 7.
We ought not to judge of the merit »f a man
by hia great qualities, but by the use he makes
of them.
“ How is it,” said a gentleman to Sheridan,
“ that your name lias not an O attached to it ?
Your family is Irish, and no doubt illustriou
xke gotnmas&xi m &sro sxmssxuag.
“ No family has a better right to 0 than our
family,” said Sheridan, “for we one everybody.”
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,219 pounds,
and is worth $309,760.
A block of gold measuring 30 feet each way
would be worth $8,363,520,000, which is more
than has ever yet been taken from the earth.
Value the friendship of him who stands by
you in the storm; swarms of insects will sur
round you in tho sunshine.
“There’s no humbug about these sardines,”
said Brown, as he helped himself to a new plate
ful from a newly opened box; “ they are the
genuine article, and came all the way from the
Mediterranean.” “ Yes,” replied his economical
wife, “ and if you will only control your appe
tite, they will go a great deal farther. 1 ' Brown
did not ask for any more.
The number of patients in the North Carolina
State Lunatic Asylum is between 170 and 180.
There are some persons in the world who
never permit us to love them except when they
are absent; as, when present, they chill our af
fection by showing a great want of appreciation
of it.
A Frenchman, exhibiting some sacred relics
and other curiosities, produced a sword which
he assured his visitors was “de sword that Ba
laam had when he would kill de ass.” A spec
tator remarked that Balaam had no sword, but
only wished for one. “ Yer well, dis is de one
he wished for.”
It is said that the New York Central
Railroad has two hundred and twenty locomo
tives, two thousand freight and passenger cars,
averages ten thousand passengers, and takes in
thirty-eight thousand dollars per day. It is four
hundred miles in length.
A good man, who has seen much of the world
and is not tired of it, says:—“Thegrand essen
tials to happiness in this life are, something to
do and something to love.”
Did our readers ever hear the dry bon-mot of
Talleyrand, which so took the conceit out of a
young coxcomb at some table in Paris, where he
chanced to be dining? “My mother,” said the
dandy, “was renowned for her beauty. She
was certainly the handsomest woman I have ev
er seen.” “Ah 1” said Talleyrand, looking him
through, and “ taking his measure” at once, “it
was your father, then, who was not good-look
ing!”
The spots on the sun are unusually numerous
and large this year. At the present time there
aro eleven groups of spots visible, two of which
have just made their appearance on the western
edge. A very large spot has been recently ob
served nearly in the centre, embracing a central
black spot and a still larger penumbral region.
It is said to be undergoing daily remarkable
changes.
Next to right principle, there is no element of
character so necessary as the courage to main
tain it by word and example.
The captain of a vessel just arrived in the
harbor of New York, directed one of the crew,
an Irishman, to throw the buoy overboard. He
ips then stepping into his cabin. On his re
turn, the captain inquired if his order had lieen
obej’ed. The Irishman with great simplicity re
plied : ‘ Plase yer honor, I couldn’t catch the
boy, but I threw overboard the old cook!'
A first-class locomotive costs about $10,000:
a passenger car $2,000; a baggage car $1,500;
a freight car $650; a gravel car $450. The iron
of a Railroad costs from $5,000 to SB,OOO per
mile.
In a work lately dublished by Lieber on civil
liberty and self-government, he says: “There
is no right, without a parallel duty: no liberty,
without the supremacy of law; no high destiny,
without earnest perseverance; no greatness, with
out self-denial."
“ Why are you always looking into the glass,
madam ?” “ Sir, the glasses I look into help
me to improve my appearance; those you look
into degrade yours!”
The whole number of inhabitants in the con
solidated city of Philadelphia, is now estimated
at 680,000.
There is a relief in ridicule and good-natured
satire. Laughing at the misconduct of the
world will, in a great measure, ease us of any
disagreeable passion about it.
— —
PERSONAL.
—Among the announneements of new books
is that of “True Womanhood,” by John Neal,
of Portland, Me.
—The first instalment of Victor Hugo's new
poem, La Legends de Seicles, appears in the Sep
tember number of the Revue des Deux Mondes.
—Mrs. Mary Stafford has bequeathed to
the Methodist Church of Savannah, Georgia, a
handsome residence, worth SI,OOO, and 17
slaves.
—The poet Heine's mother died in Hamburg,
on Sept. 3, aged 88, attended by her son Gus
tav Heine, the editor of the Fremdenblatt, of Vi
enna.
—Mr. Butler, the author of “Nothing to
Wear,” is said to have written a story, more or
less of the French School, which is about to be
published by a Northern house.
— “ Grace Greenwood,” of Philadelphia, has
prepared several lectures, and is prepared to at
tend to all calls from literary associations during
the coming lecture season.
—The Duke of Argyle, thinks highly of Mrs.
H. B. Stowe —thinks she can’t be spoiled; but
the Duke does not approve of a woman appearing
on a platform in public, unless she is going to be
hanged, when, he says, “ it is unavoidable.”
— Dr. Charles Mackay having attacked Ten
nyson’s Idyls, is thus replied to by Punch:
The Idyls a rhymester asperses—
Oh, Public, rejoice and be glad I
If he were not abusing good verses,
He’d be busily writing some bad.
—A writer in the Manchester (England) Guar
dian, says that Mr. Wesley was christened by
the name of John Benjamin, that his mother had
buried two sons, one called John and the other
Benjamin, and she united the names in him, but
he never made use of the second name.
—The Derby (Eng.) Mercury says: “The
readers of Scott’s novels will probably bo start
led to hear that ‘ Madge Wildfire’ has only just
thrown off the mortal coil. Elizabeth G r aham,
the real ‘ Madge,’ originally lived near Melrose.
She expired lately near Galashiels, her death re
sulting mainly from exposure and want.”
—We understand that a letter was received
in Savannah last week from Ireland, giving the
welcome information that the health of Bishop
Barry has greatly improved, both in mind and
body, and that his physician had advised him to
visit the South of France.
This intelligence will be received with gratifi
cation by the numerous admirers of this truly
good man throughout the State.
—Richard Greexough once said, that, in
studying for the statue of Franklin, he found
that the left side of the great man’s face was
philosophic and reflective, and the right side
funny and smiling. If you will go and look at
the bronze statue, you will find he has repeated
this observation there for posterity. The East
ern profile is the portrait of the statesman Frank
lin, the Western of “Poor Richard.”
Mr. Robert Smith will soon reproduce in Lon
don “ Tho Poor Man’s Bible,” a very ancient
copy of the Scriptures, printed from wooden
blocks, before the invention of metal types.—
Fac similes will be given of the engravings which
illustrate the original work, forty in number,
and, of course rather singular in design and ex
ecution. Several copies are known still to exist
; n Europe, and the present reprint will be cop
ied from the volume in the British Museum.
—
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Georgia Legislature convened at Mil
ledgevillo on the 2d instant. The following of
ficers were chosen : President of the Senate,
LeGrande Gucrry, of Quitman ; Secretary, Fred
ererick West, of Lee; Speaker of the House,
Josiah T. Irvin, of Wilkes; Clerk, J. J. Diamond,
of DeKalb.
Frost. —There was a heavy frost in this city
and neighborhood Sunday morning last, and
again on Monday morning—so severe as to leave
but little doubt that the growing cotton is killed.
Accounts by mail from various parts of the
State, and by telegraph from Louisiana and Mis
sissippi, represent it to have been extended
and generally fatal on Sunday morning. Sun
day night was generally conceded to be some
what colder, and the effect was doubtless still
more marked and fatal.
On the Bth, 9tb, 10th and 11th of November,
the Fourth Aunual Fair of the S. C. State Ag
ricultural Society- comes oft’, at the beautiful
Grounds of the Society, near Columbia. The
Annual Address before the Society will be de
livered by the Hon. J. A. Woodward.
Georgia Annual Conference. —The Annual
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, of this State, will meet this year in Rome,
on Wednesday, the 14th day of December next.
Sinking of the Steamer New World. —The
steamer New World, one of the largest and finest
boats plying upon the Hudson River, was sunk
on Wednesday, 26th ult., shortly after leaving
her dock in New York. The cause of the acci
dent was the breaking of her connection-rod,
which was driven endwise through the bottom
of the boat. The walking-beam also fell, destroy
ing a considerable part of the light work adjoin
ing, and badly damaging the machinery. There
were over two hundred and fifty passengers on
board, all of whom, it is believed, with possibly
two or three exceptions, were taken oft'by boats,
which were fortunately near the scene of disas
ter.
We notice among the names of the new pas
sengers on board the New World at the time of
the accident, those of L. M. Savan
nah; A. A. Baker, Huntsville, Ala., and F. N.
Hughes, Nashville, Tenn., all of whom were ta
ken off and safely landed. During the excite
ment, the stewards of the boat sold the life pre
servers on board to the passengers at from 50
cents to $4 each!
The Post Office Department during the last
week discontinued one hundred and thirteen
post offices in tho southern aud south-western
States, for neglecting to make returns as requir
ed by law.
Mr. Ward, the American Minister, was Cour
teously received at Pekin The nows of his ar
rival at Pekin was brought to Shanghai by a
Russian gun-boat, but no letters were received
from him. It was reported that he would be at
Shanghai about the end of August, and that he
expected to be able to send home the ratified
treaty by the following mail.
A San Francisco, California, writer, of late
date, says the following are about the rates of
wages now paid in that city: Carpenters from
four to seven dollars per day; bricklayers and
masons from four to six dollars; blacksmiths,
wheelwrights, machinists, painters, tinsmiths,
from to three to four dollars and a half; common
laborers three dollars; farm hands from thirty
to forty dollars per month and found; cooks
from thirty to sixty dollars.
New Orleans, Oct. 31.—1 t is reported that
another Vigilance Committee is being organized
here. The election takes place on the 7th. De
putations of Plug Uglies, it is reported, have
arrived from Baltimore.
Naval. —Capt. Hartstein was in our city yes
terday, and in receipt of orders to repair im
mediately to Washington. Whether the filli
busters or the slave traders have created the
emergency, does not appear.
A dispatch from Washington says the instruc
tions to our naval commanders in the Gulf con
cerning fillibusters, are to seize them on the
high seas or in our own ports, and not to take
them from land or from a harbor within a for
eign jurisdiction.— Savannah Republican, Oct. 31.
Stock Driving. —lt is estimated that over ten
thousand head of stock—mules and horses—
have passed through this place for the South
within the last ten weeks. Much the greater
portion were raised in Kentucky, and large and
fine, and will readily command S2OO per head
in market. Think of that! And nearly the
same number pass every year. Our southern
neighbors must be death on quadrupeds.—[Post,
Athens, Tenn., 2Sthult.
Increase of Hogs in Kentucky. —The Louis
ville Journal of the 24th, has been furnished
with the returns of hogs from thirty-nine coun
ties, as returned by the State auditor. The
whole number returned for 1859 is 614,361. —
The whole number for 1858, from the same
counties, was 403,788. The increase of this
over last year is 210,474.
Italian Bees. —lntelligence has been re
ceived at the Agricultural Bureau of the United
States Patent Office, that a large swarm of Lom
bardy bees have been shipped from Havre,
France, for this country. They arc described as
being of a larger size than the ordinary bee,
and having a longer bill, and are able to suck
flowers inaccessible to the American bee. The
product of an old hive of these bees is some
times one hundred and fifty pounds of honey in
one season. These bees will be sent upon their
arrival here directly to the Agricultural Bureau;
but will not be disturbed until 1851, by which
time it is expected to rear from the stock enough
for six hundred lives.
Bishop Onderdonk. —The delegates to the
Episcopal Convention at Richmond, who have
arrived back, say, in regard to the restoration of
Bishop Onderdonk, that nothing that his friends
could do to induce the House of Bishops to act
favorable upon the petition and memorial was
left undone. It is said that certain documen
tary evidence bearing upon the Bishop—evi
dence never before presented—was forwarded
from this city, and that it was the influence thus
exercised, which induced the “Star Chamber"
to dispose of the whole matter by simply giv
ing leave to Bishop Onderdonk to “withdraw his
petition."—[V Y. Express.
Among the passengers by the Arago, are
Mrs. Mason, widow of the late American Minis
ter, and family.
Harper's Ferry Insurrection. — Trial and
Conviction of Brown, <tc. —The G iqnd Jury found
indictments against the conspirator in the Har
per’s Ferry rebellion. The first in«ctment is
for conspiracy among the negroes to cteate an
insurrection. The second is for treason against
the commonwealth of Virginia. Thb third for
murder. Able counsel have been appointed for
the prisoners. Government has decidedqjot to
strengthen the guard at the Federal Armories
and Arsenal. * \
The trials of the insurgents are
Charlestown, Va.
Charlestown, October 27.—The storm of last'
night interrupted tho telegraph wire from this
point and prevented the sending of the full de
tails of Wednesday's proceedings. The Oourt
refused to postpone the trial, but tho whole af
ternoon was taken up in obtaining a jury for the
trial of Captain Brown, who was brought into
Court on a cot.
Orders were received this morning from Rich
mond and Washington to bring the United States
marines here if required. The military from
Frederick arrived at the Ferry last night.
John Copeland, the mulatto prisoner from Ob
erlin, Ohio, has made a full confession to United
States Marshal Martin, of Virginia, and Marshal
Johnson, of the northern district of Ohio. He
has given the names of the parties at Oberlin
who induced him to go to Harper’s Ferry, and
who furnished the money for his expenses Ac.—
He also states that a movement of a similar char
acter was contemplated in Kentucky about the,
same time. Many persons in Northern Ohio,
whose names have not heretofore been mention
tioned, are directly implicated. The confession
is withheld from the public until after the trials
are over, by order of Gov. Wise.
I was shown to day by Mr. Johnson, mar
shal of the northern district of Ohio, a large
number of important letters implicating Gerrit
Smith, and a number of prominent men of Ober
lin, Cleveland, and other portions of Ohio.
Among these letters is the following :
Tribune Office, April 30, 1859.
Mr. J. H. Kagi—Sir : Yours is received, and
we enclose our check for forty-one dollars, for
seven letters from Kansas and two from Ohio.
Yours, Ac., Horace Greely A Co.
Kagi was one of the killed, was formerly a
correspondent of tho Tribune, and this letter is
doubtless one enclosing his pay.
There is also a letter from Capt. Brown to one
of his sons, dated April 16, 1859, describing his
visit to Gerrit Smith, at Peterboro’, which he re
garded as highly encouraging, and stating that
Smith gave him one hundred and eighty dollars;
that he also at his house, received a note which
he considered good for two hundred more, and
that Smith had written to his friends at the East
that two thousand dollars must be raised for
Brown, of which he would agree to furnish one
fifth himself.
There is also tho notice of a draft from the
cashier of tho New York State Bank for one
hundred dollars, sent him by direction of Gerrit
Smith. This is dated Albany, August 29,1859.
Marshal Johnson desired to furnish me with
this mass of correspondence, but Mr. Hunter, by
direction of Gov. Wise, objects to its publica
tion at present. It contains a list of officers of
the Provisional Government and a list of con
tributors to the project. Marshal Johnson left
for Cleveland this evening, taking copies with
him, and you may look for it in that direction.
The examination which has been made here
to-day by the United States Marshal settles this
fact: that this movement has long been matur
ing, and that many prominent men in Northern
States Rave given money and influence in its be
half.
Charlestown, Oct. 28.—Captain Cook was
brought here at 1 o’clock this morning from Penn
sylvania. He says that if Brown had taken his
advice in relation to the affair, one thousand men
couldn’t have taken them. There is great re
joicing here at his arrest.
Cook also says that Fred Douglas acted the
coward, having promised to be there in person.
Gov. Willard, of Indiana, a brother-in-law of
Cook, accompanied by J. E. McDonald, Attorney
General of Indiana, and others, arrived here
morning, and had an interview with Cook at the
jail.
Mr. Hunter, for the prosecution, laid before
the jury the printed Constitution of the “ Pro
visional Government;” also a large bundle of
letters and list of the members of the Conven
tion, headed by Wm. Chas. Morris, President;
11. J. Kagi, Secretary. Brown acknowledged
his signature to the paper.
A letter from J. R. Giddings and Gerrit
Smith, about the Kansas work, both addressed
to Brown, were read.
George 11. Hoyt, of Boston, arrived here this
morning as counsel for Captain Brown. He is
quite a youth in appearance.
The Court met at 11 o’clock, when Brown
was led over from the jail walking, but very
feeble. He laid down on the cot, as on yester
day.
.Senator Mason entered the court with Mr.
Hoyt, of Boston, counsel for Brown.
Mr. Botts announced the arrival of Mr. Hoyt,
who had come here to assist as counsel for the
prisoner. At present, however, he did not feel
disposed to take part in the case; whenever he
should feel disposed he would do so.
Mr. Hunter suggested that he had better be
qualified as a member of the bar on the produc
tion of proof from Boston.
Mr. Hoyt stated, that not expecting the ques
tion to arise as to his being a member of the
Boston bar, he had not brought his credentials
of admission.
The Court said that strict legal proof of the
fact was not required. Any citizen's evidence
would answer.
Mr. Green said that his partner had received
letters from fellow students of Mr. Hoyt’s, al
luding to him as a member of the bar.
Mr. Hoyt then took the customary oath, and
the testimony was resumed.
Charlestown, Va., Cct. 31.—The case of “Old
Brown” went to the jury to-day, who soon
brought in a verdict of treason, insurrection and
murder.
Charlestown, Nov. 2. —Coppee, one of the in
surgents in the Harper’s Ferry affair, was con
victed on all the counts in the indictment against
him.
The Court overruled the motion for arrest of
judgment in the case of Ossawatomie Brown.
He was sentenced to be hung on Friday, the 2d
day of December next.
Carlisle, Penn., Oct 31.—The Habeas Corpus
case was under examination on Saturday. It
was not proven that the prisoner was Hazlitt, as
named in the requisitions, but it was established
that he was a participant in the Harper’s Ferry
invasion. He was re-committed, to await ano
ther requisition from the Governor of Virginia.
It is said that Fred. Douglass had fled to Can
ada, to avoid being involved in the Harper’s
Ferry difficulty.
Ossawatomie Brown. —A bolder or worse
man than that same Ossawatomie Brown, the
world never knew. His single virtue, “lined
with a thousand crimes,” was bull-dog courage.
Fanatic to the highest degree—a pupil, in poli
tics, of the Giddings school —he has been taught
to believe tliat the killing of a slaveholder was
an act which God would approve. When in ,
this city last spriDg, in his lectures, he told of
his stealing negroes and running them to Can
ada—of his stealing horses, which he then had
with him for sale—of his shooting down slave
holders, and of other acts equally atrocious.
“ And now,” said Brown, “ I wish to know if
the people of Cleveland approve of what I have
done. Those who approve of my acts will say
‘ aye,'" and more than one-half of his audience
nshouted “aye,’’ whilst not a single “nay” was
by any one present
Such approval as tltis—and the question was
puNtall his lectures—gave Brown confidence
that lAa party would sustain him in whatever he
the men of the South, and thus
emboldeudi the miserable wretch, by servile in
surrection, stwht to overthrow the government
and bring t o its head.—[ Cleveland Dem
ocrat. N.
A Siit to he CraSni —jt is stated on reliable
authority that the stores of a widow lady in
Shenandoah county, Va\ were furnished with
arms by the abolitionists, a night appointed
for them to start for Ilarpefy Eerjy. Instead
of doing so, however, when thcxi me 'eaine they
held a consultation, and, taking tmLj very arms,
kept guard from dark till dawn arourtytheir mis
tress’ house. In the morning, they slib^. e( j her
the arms, told her what they had don'ey and
went to work as usual.—[ Washington Star\
The Students and the Invasion. —A letter
says that when the Harper’s Ferry news was re
ceived at the University of Virginia, a large
body of the students had determined to go arm- N
ed to the Ferry. The next day dispatches came
stating that the insurrection had been suppress
ed. This laudable desire to assist was not con
fined to the Virginians, but manifested by stu
dents of the distant States, to the number of 100
or 200.
Denials. —Horace Greely of the New York
Tribune says in his paper of Thursday:—
“We have not tho faintest recollection of ever
writing a word to Old Brown on any subject
whatever; but it is just possible that, sometime
in 1856, when be was traveling somewhere in
the East, we wrote him word that there was a
letter or letters awaiting him at this office, hav
ing been sent here in ignorance of his wherea
bouts. That is quite as near as we ever came to
having any confidential correspondence with
him; and we supposed him to have been, and
still to be, living in Canada, when we heard of
him as rampant at Harper’s Ferry.”
In reference to the New England Emigrant
Aid Society, the Boston and other Massachu
seets papers say :
“ The company has never invested a dollar in
cannon or rifles, in powder or lead, or in any es
the implements of war, for use ie Kansas or any
where else. The money subscribed to its stock
—about $130,000 —has been expended in Kan
sas in the erection of hotels, mills, and machine
ry ; by favoring the establishment of Schools
and churches; and by doing every thing that
could l>e done to snrround the settlers, even on
tiietrflrst arrtvni, with the comforts of civilized
and cultivated life. It has never paid the pas
sage of an emigrant to the Territory. It is a
purely business organization, and all attempts
to connect it with Brown’s project will be futile,
as will those to connect the Republicans in any
way with it.” 1K
Gerrit Smith and Brown. —The Syracuse Jour&
nal learns from a gentleman who has conversed
with Gerrit Smith in regard to the trouble at
Harper’s Ferry that he was in no way identified
with or privy to Brown’s scheme. His expla
nation of the matter is this :
Two years ago, Mr. Smith, in order to help
the free State movement in Kansas, gave Brown
a note of about S3OO, against a man then in
Kansas. Brown could not collect the note, so
he returned it to Mr. Smith, who agreed to give
him, at some future time, cash to the amount of
the note. After that he lost sight of Brown un
til about the first of June last, when he received
a letter requesting him to send a draft for a cer
tain amount, SIOO we think, payable to the or
der of another party.
Mr. Smith, in compliance with the request
and his former promise, promptly forwarded the
draft, supposing it to be a bona fide firm to whom
it was addressed.
He probably believed also that the money was *
to be used, at least indirectly, in assisting fugi
tive slaves, as that was the last “ Kansas work”
that he knew anything about. Mr. Smith says
distinctly that he had no knowledge or the least
suspicion that Brown was engaged in planning
an insurrection. This agrees perfectly with
Brown’s statements, that he alone originated
and carried on his scheme.
Charles Blair — Who is he ? —Among the let
ters found in “ Old Brown’s” possession, was
one from Charles Blair, of Collinsville, in this
State, in relation to a certain contract We have
learned the following facts with reference to the
matter. Mr. Blair is a workman of the “ Collins
ville Axo Company,” employing the men under
him, and taking wliat contracts be pleases. Some
time in 1856 or ’57 “Old Brown” came to Col
linsville, and contracted for a thousand pikes
to be used in Kansas. Eive Luudred were
finished for him at this time and the other
five hundred were left in the hands of the
contractor. Last June, “ Old Brown" again made
his appearance in Collinsville, and requested Mr.
Blair to finish up the remainder of the pikes. Blair
asked him to what use he intended to put
them, now that the Kansas disturbances were
over ? To this question Brown gave an evasive
reply. The finishing of the contract was given
to a Mr. Hart of Union ville. It was found,
however, that it wonld be impossible to furnish
more than four hundred and fifty of the number
due on the contract—making nine hundred *nd
fifty in all. When these were sent, Blak sent
with them the letter that has been .pub.'ished.—
Whether such contracts are prop«’ ones to
make, we leave our readers to dete-’Uime. — Hart
ford Post.
On the 25th of October, in R>«seli county, Alabama, by
Rev. Mr. Williamson, Dr. J A. Barnette, of Oak Bow
ery, to Miss Bell Swearingen, of Russell county, Ala
bama. t
On Wednesday evening, October 26th, at the Sand Hills,
near Augusta, by R<*. Dr. Davis, Gasoline S., daughter
of the officiating clWgyman, and Professor Joseph Jones,
M. !>., of the MoflcaK’ollege, Augusta.
The periodical column of Marriages and Deaths
which has IvUierto been published, last on the fifth pace,
on the lstdaturdav of each month, has been discontin
ued. TtCse notices, in the usual form, will hereafter be
published at the time they may be handed in—at the
usua-' charge of One Dollar.
189