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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