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CHESS COLUMN.
A correspondent asks if he shall send us
Chess Problems for our column ? We have but
little space for chess in our paper, and we must
endeavor to fill it in the manner which we think
would be most generally useful and interesting.
We have commenced a series of Problems,
Openings, and complete Games from the French
of De La Bourdonnais, and until that publica
tion is finished, we must, except in very rare in
stances, decline contributions of that sort. We
give one, however, to-day, below, from a new
correspondent from Virginia. The friend who
sends the problem, thinks it a very fine one.—
We have not had time to examine it ourselves.
Problem (by James.)
Position.
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Rook a 7 Rook b 7
2 Knight a 5 Rook g 8
3 Knight a 3 Queen g7
4 King h i Bi«hop d 5
5 Pawn a 2 .King a 4
6 Pawn b 2 Pawn e6
7 Pawn c 2 Pawn f 5
8 Pawn f 2 Pawn h 7
9 Pawn g 2
10 Pawn h 2
Whites to play and mate in two moves.
“ This was an end game between your corres
pondent and Capt. P. of our club. The Captain
playing the whites, announced to my utter as
tonishment mate in two moves—for didn’t I
have a beauty on him ?
Very respectfully, James.”
Solution to above Problem will be given next
week.
Wo give below a game of Piiilidor, reported
by Be la Bourdonnais , page 143:
Game VI.
WHITE. BLACK.
1 Pawn e 2—e 4 P e 7—e 5
2 Bishop f I—c 4 P c 7—c 6
3 Pawn d 2—d 4 (1) P e s—d 4 :
4 Queen d I—d 4 P d 7—d 6
5 Pawn f 2—f 4 B c B—e 6 (2)
6 Bishop c 4—d 3 P d 6—d 5
7 Pawn e 4—e 5 P c 6—c 5
8 Queen d 4—f 2 Kt b B—c 6 (3)
9 Pawn c 2—c 3 P g 7—g6
10 Pawn h 2—h 3 P h 7—h 5 (4)
11 Pawn g 2—g 3 (5) Kt g B—h 6
12 Knight g I—f 3 B f B—e 7
13 Pawn a 2—a 4 Kt h 6—f 5
14 King el—f 1 P hs—h4
15 Pawn g 3—g 4 Kt f s—g 3f
16 King f I—g 2 Kt g3—h 1:
17 King g 2—h 1 : (6) Q 'lß—d 7
18 Queen f 2—g 1 (7) P a 7—a 5
19 Bishop c I—e 3 (8) P b7—b6
20 Kuight b I—a 3 K castles c 8 : (9)
21 Bishop d 3—a Cf K c B—c 7
22 Knight a 3—c 2 (10) R dß—a 8
23 Bishop a 6—b 5 Q d 7—d 8 (11)
24 Pawn b 2—b4 Q dß—fß
25 Pawn b 4—c 5: P b 6—c 5 :
26 Knight f 3—d 2 (12) P c s—c 4 (13)
27 Knight d 2—f 3 P f 7—f 6 (14)
28 Bishop e 3—b cf K c 7—b 7
29 Bishop bs—c 6:f K b 7—c 6 :
30 Knight c 2—d 4f K c6—d 7 (15)
31 Pawn f 4—fs B e6—gß
32 Pawn o s—e 6f K d 7—e 8
33 Knight d 4—bs B e 7—d6
34 Queen gl—d 4 (1G) Lost game.
NOTES.
(I) You should push this pawn two squares, in order
to prevent the Blacks from bringing their pawns to the
centre, which they would do by playing P. d 7—d 5, at
tacking your bishop; and by this play they would pain
on you the advantage of the first move.
(i) The Blacks play this bishop for two reasons ;
First, in order to enable them to advanco their queen s
pawn, and thus <>i>en a passage to their king s bishop;
Secondly, to oppose it to your king s bishop, and tako
the-bishop, if permitted. . ,
(8) if the Blacks, instead of bringing out their larger
pieces, as they do by playing this knight, had continued
advancing their pawns, they would have risked the loss
of the game. It should be observed that one, or even
two pawns, advanced too far, run great danger of being
lost, unless they can be supported or replaced by others,
or unless ail the other pieces have clear passage to come
up to their support , , .
(4) The Blacks advance this pawn thus, in order to
prevent yours from advancing upon theirs. In the actual
iKisition of the men, we see on the chess-board equal bodies
of pawns on both sides. The Whites have four pawns
near their king, against three of the Blacks; the Blacks
have four near their queen, against three of yours. The
I>arty that shall first succeed in separating his adver
sary s pawns there, where they are more numerous than
his own, must inevitably win the game.
(5) This move is most important, for the Blacks, by
playing 1* h s—h 4, might break the communication of
your pawns. The pawn of your king's knight could
never join that of your bishop, without exposing himself
to capture by the pawn of the Black's rook.
(6) Although a rook is a piece of more value than a
knight,'your play is better than that of the Blacks, because
this exchange puts your king in safety, and, because, no
matter on which side they castle, you will be able to plan
and prosecute an attack upon them.
(7) This move is essential for the support of the pawn
of your king's knight, and to prevent the Blacks from
sacrificing their bishop for your two pawns, which they
would inevitably do. The strength of your game con
sisting at present in your pawns, the Blacks should seek
to break them, especially as by success in that they
would gain upon yon the opportunity of an attack which
might cause you the loss of the game.
(8) You play this bishop with a view to make the
Blacks advance the pawn of their queen's bishop, which
would open the passage for your knights, and would en
able you to win the game in a few moves.
(9) The Blacks castle on this side to avoid the attack
of your pawns upon their king, having less to fear from
the pawns on that side on which they are less advanced.
(ltl) If you had given check with the knight, you
would have embarrassed your bishop, and lost much
time. It is best, therefore, to retreat.
(II) The Blacks play their queen in order afterwards
to place it on the square f 8, and better support the pawn
of their queen's bishop.
(12) You play this knight, in order to follow up your
attack upon their pawn, on which the whole game de
pends.
(18) They play this pawn to gain a move, and prevent
your king's' knight from establishing itself upon square
b 3.
(14) Your knights having free entry into their game,
the victory is necessarily yours, no matter what other
piece the Blacks might play.
(15) If the Blacks take with their kin" the bishop of
the Whites’ queen, they lose their queen, the Whites giv
ing check bv discovery; and if the Blacks retire with
their king, they lose their queen's bishop.
(16) Your queen afterwards takes the queen’s pawn of
the Blacks, invades their game, takes all their pieces,
and wins the game.
Ciiess Periodical Literature. —The Gambit,
n Chess Journal recently established in New
York, says: “ Although American Chess Liter
ature has been enriched by the publication of
books and essays, yet the existence of a Period
ical devoted exclusively to chess, is of very re
cent origin. The first weekly chess column was
commorced or. the Ist of March, 1845, in the
Spirit of the Times, in New York, under the
editorship of Charles 11. Stanley, and on the Ist
of October, in the following year, the American
Chess Magazine, uuder the same editorship, and
the Chess Palladium and Mathematical Sphinx,
edited by N. Mara die, both monthly periodicals,
mado their appearance. Os the former, twelve
numbers, and of the latter three were issued,
when their publication ceased. From that time
Chess seems to have languished until the Grand
International Tournament, which took place in
London, in 1851, gave a new impetus to the
practice of our fascinating sport throughout Eu
rope, the effects of which were soon felt in this
country. On the Ist of January, 1857, Mr. D.
W. Fiske commenced the publication of the
Chess Monthly, a serial, edited with marked abil
ity, and enj'oying a large and well-merited pa
smn im hi xxbssx&s.
tronage; and in the third number of that peri
odical, the first suggestions were thrown out for
a general assemblage of the American friends of
Chess. The result of these suggestions was the
first American Chess Congress, and a new era in
the annals of American Chess. The ease with
which Mr. Morphy conquered every opponent,
and the astonishing blindfold play of Mr. Paul
sen, which had never before been attempted,
were heralded throughout the length and breadth
of the country, and numberless were the disci
ples that flocked around the altar of Caissa, to
be initiated into Her mysteries and become her
most ardent admirers. But the interest in the
game, which had been awakened among all clas
ses, reached its culminating point, when soon af
terwards Mr. Morphy, conscious of his powers,
crossed the sea to wrest from the Chess magnates
of Europe their ancient laurels. How he suc
ceeded, how he returned, how the highest hon
ors were showered upon him, is still in the re
collection of all. Not alone the lovers of Chess,
but American citizens in general, rejoiced at the
triumphs which he had achieved in Europe, and
felt a national pride in the eminence which his
efforts had given to his country in a field of art,
where the Old World had hitherto met with no
rivalry. Ever since, Chess has become the
amusement and recreation not of only the rich
and educated, but has penetrated into the ranks
of the laboring classes.
The Book of the First American Chess
Congress. —One large volume, with frontispiece.
Price $1,50. A complete encyclopedia of Chess.
—Containing the origin and history of Chess in
all countries; accounts of the most prominent
Chess Clubs throughout the United States; a
complete record of the proceedings of the great
American Chess Congress of 1857; a history of
Paul Morphy and his experiences in Europe, to
gether with all his best games, annotated by
himself; a magnificent relation of the celebra
ted Chess Automaton, and in fact everything in
any way interesting to the lover of Chess.—
This book will be sent by mail, postage free, to
any part of the United States, on the receipt of
price, by Rudd & Carleton, Publishers, No.
130 Grand street, New York.
The Scienoe and Art of Chess. By J.
Monroe. One volume. 12 mo. Price $1. —A
complete history of everything appertaining to
Chess in the present day. No chess player's
library will be complete without it. Sent by
mail, post paid, upon receipt of one dollar, by
C. Scribner, 124 Grand street, New York.
ZW The favor of R. S. P., from Charleston,
just received; shall have place next week.
—
FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY.
(Carefully prepared for the Southern Field and Fireside.
Twenty or twenty-five years ago old Phleg.
up in Madison county, was telling his friend
Jones, consarnin’ of a fight. Phleg had a very
little edication, but Jones was a man of right
smart reading. So Phleg went ontellin': “and,”
says he, “ they fit and lit.”
“And,” says Jones, with a knowing look,
“ did they keep on a fittin’ ? ”
Old Phleg drawed himself up, and looked
as sour as buttermilk into Jones’ sac he:
“You’re mighty precise about langwige—
foutl then, blast you!”
Judge Lowe, of Cincinnati, has decided that
inasmuch as a Jew observes strictly the Sabbath
of his religion, he has a right to transact his
ordinary business in the usual manner on Sun
day.
He submits to bo seen through a raiscroscope
who suffers himself to bo caught in a fit of pas
sion.
“ I presume you won't charge anything just
for re-membering me,” said a one-legged sailor
to a wooden-leg manufacturer.
Water in each of its characters, of a solid, as
ice, of a fluid, as water, or of a vapor, as steam,
developes immense power. When it solidifies
into ice, its crystals cross each other at angles of
60 deg., and enlarge the bulk nearly one-eight,
with such force as to explode rocks, trees, and
even pieces of artillery.
Let no man be ashamed to work. Let no
man be ashamed of a hard fist or a sun-burnt
countenance.
“Sir,” said a pompous personage who once
undertook to bully an editor, “do you know
that I take your paper?” “I have no doubt
you take it,” replied the man of the quill, “for
several of my subscribers have been complain
ing lately about their papers being missing in
the morning.”
The Romish Bishops of Ireland have issued a
circular denouncing the National Schools of Ire
land as subversive of the Faith; as displeasing
to the Pope, and as creating ideas favorable to
Protestantism.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain.
It is a seed which, even dropped by chance,
springs up a flower.
A table, compiled from official documents,
gives the number of Free Masons in the United
States as 211,538, and the income of all the
lodges as about $1,450,000.
There have been paid to Revolutionary pen
sioners $64,518,281; to other army and navy
pensioners, $21,836,063, making a total (since
the organization of the government) of $86,-
354,344. This amount has been paid to 13,-
168 pensioners.
A married lady in Loudon county. Virginia, is
said to weigh five hundred and fifty-three lbs.
Prentice says her husbaud is a great lady's man.
The Spanish titled Aristocracy, according to
one of the journals, consists of 2 princes, 82
dukes, 689 marquises, 546 counts, 74 viscounts,
and 63 barons. The American titled Aristoc
racy consists of 675,327 captains, 149)476 col
onels, 102,349 majors, 4,321 generals, 526 ex
cellencies, 97,325 honorables, 374,532 deacons,
46,196 able editors, and 1 baron.
Life is mado up, not of great sacrifices and
duties, but of little things, in which smiles and
kindnesses are given habitually, that win and
preserue the heart, and secure comfort.
The total vote of Virginia in the late election
was only about 150,000. The vote of Ohio
which, some years ago, was a county of Vir
ginia, is about 400,000.
Rev. Dr. Hawks once wanted an increase of
salary, and a stingy old parishioner opposed
him. “Law, brother,” said he, “what do you
want more salary for ? Hain’t the Lord said
he’d hear the young ravens when they cry ?”
“ That’s all very well,” said the Doctor, “ but
the Lord doesn’t say anything about the young
Hawks."
Chemical examinations, it is said, go to show
that most of the vinegar made in New York is
adulterated with sugar of lead, vitriolic acid, and
other poisonous metals and minerals.
He who is always enquiring “what will peo
ple say? ” will never give them an opportunity
of saying any great things about himself.
Two travelers were viewing Mount Vesuvius
early one morning. “Would you like a ‘hot
roll ’ for breakfast ? ” ask«d the guide, “ No,
I thank you,” was the reply of the travelers,
as they looked into the terrible abyss of red-hot
lava.
In the Eastern .Suites there are 3,749 miles of
railway, built at an average cost of $36,328 per
mile; in the Middle States 9,415 miles, at an av
erage cost of $40,919 per mile; in the Southern
States 5,512 miles, at $22,906 per mile, and in
the Western States 10,138 miles at an average of
$36,333 per mile.
Religion should begin in the family. The
holiest sanctuary is home. The family altar is
more venerable than that of the cathedral. —
The education of the soul should begin and be
carried on at the fireside.
An English physician expressed the opinion
that all the diseases known in European coun
tries, prevail to a greater or less extent in the
United States. To this an Irishman replied:—
“ You are mistaken, Doctor, in one particular,
if no more; the King's Evil is a disease which
has not been known among Americans since
the days of their revolution.” “True,” was the
reply, “ but you have in its place the epidemic
of voting every year, which is, perhaps, worse
than the King’s Evil.’.’
When a law is found to work injuriously to
the public good, it should be mended with cau
tion and wisdom, not with mob violence. A
mob never reasons—though it might excite to
reflection.
If a locomotive going at the rate of 60 miles
an hour were to be run up a short incline of
45 deg., and allowed to jump from the top, the
engine would describe a curve 60 feet high in
the air, and 240 feet long.
Mrs. Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell preach
ed to Theodore Parker’s congregation recently.
There was nearly a “ titter ” manufactured by
the young people when she read her text as
follows: “ When I was a child, I spake as a
child, understood as a child, I thought as a child,
but when I became a man I put away childish
things.”
mi
PERSONAL.
Hon. Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, has
been elected President of the'Georgia State Uni
versity, at Athens.
Geiirit Smith was sent to the Insane Asy
lum, at Utica, N. Y., on the 9th instant. He
is seriously deranged.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Holly, who died
at AVashington, last month, was the daughter of
General Alexander Hamilton,
Leopold Ranke, the historian of the Popes,
has been invited by the king of Bavaria to fill
the chair of History at Munich.
Baron Marociietti, the sculptor, has gone to
Turin, to superintend the erection of his eques
trian statue of Charles Albert.
Mr. Sala, author of “ A Journey due North,”
is about to publish his series of papers—“ Twice
Round the Clock”—in a complete form.
The Inverness Courier hears that a new ver
sion of the Poems of Ossian has been completed
by the Rev. John Forbes, minister of Sleat, in
Skye.
The November number of Bentley's Miscellany
will contain the opening chapters of Ovingdean
Grange, a tale of the South Downs, by W. Har
rison Ainsworth, Esq.
KarlSimrock, the poet and archaeologist, who
has been for some time in an insane asylum in
Bonn, is much better, and will soon be able to
resume his labors.
Alfred de Vigny has superintended a ver
sion of the “Merry AV r ives of Windsor,” which is
about to be produced under the title of “ Les Joy
etises Commeres de Winsor."
Mr. John Bardoe Elliott, a gentleman for
merly of the East India Compauy, has given to
the Bodleian Library upward of a thousand val
uable Oriental manuscripts.
Bishop Soule, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Dr. Lyman Beecher, and the
the Rev. Dr. Biggs, of Cincinnati, are the only
survivors of the founders of the American Bible
Society in 1816.
The volume of Ranke’s History of England,
particularly for the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, has just appeared in Berlin; also the
greater part of the 4th volume of Gervime’s
History of the Nineteenth Century. The final
volume of John’s Biography of Mozart, will be
ready at the end of the year.
There is in New York, fresh from the chisel
of Hiram Powers,# of Florence, a beautifully ex
ecuted full-length statue of the Father of his
Country, clothed in Masonic regalia. It was ex
ecuted for Fredericksburg Lodge, A T irginia, in
which Washington was initiated, passed and
raised, at an expense of $6,000. It will proba
bly be placed on exhibition before being sent to
A'irginia.
It is said that when the famous Gen. Moreau
was in this country, he was invited to attend
the Commencement exercise of Harvard College.
In the course of the performances at Cambridge
an ode was sung, the chorus of which was “To
morrow, to-morrow, to-morrow.” The French
officer was imperfectly acquainted with our lan
guage. and fancied the singers were compliment
ing him, and at every recurrence to the chorus
he rose and bowed gracefully to the gallery,
pressing his laced chapeau to his heart. These
movements afforded great amusement to the
spectators.
—A writer in the London Literary Gazette
thus describes the personal appearance of Leigh
Hunt :
“In person he was rather above the middle
height, slender in figure, and extremely prepos
sessing in countenance. His eyes were large
and lustrous, of a peculiarly rich and deep hue.
His hair, always remarkably fine, hung in thick
masses around" his face in his youth, and his ad
dress was winning and pleasant; his voice was
remarkably delicate and musical, and it was im
possible to be an hour in his company without
recognizing in him one of the choicest and most
genial of spirits.”
Schamyl, at the age of thirty-seven, is descri
bed as distinguished in personal appearance as
he was in character and intellectual culture.—
Ho was of middle stature, had fair hair, grey
eyes, a small mouth, a Grecian nose, and a com
plexion fair and delicate. His hands and feet
were small. He carried himself erect, and had
naturally a noble air and bearing. He regarded
himself as an instrument of a higher power, and
held that all his thoughts and inspirations came
immediately from Allah. While his ordinary
manner was calm, his eloquenoe was fiery and
persuasive. His usual dress was the same as
that of his countrymen, but on special occasions
he wore a white mantle as indicative of his
priestly character —the second prophet of Allah.
He had threo wives, and his handmaidens were
generally captive Russians.
Letters from Florence state that Mrs-
Browning has passed most of the summer at Si
ena, in Tuscany, seeing no visitors, and most of
the time unable to walk, except across the room;
the change of air and entire rest have begun to
yield good fruit; she has gained strength, and
hc-r worst symptoms have abated. In her im
mediate vicinity Walter Savage Landor has
been living. Poor old man, yet noble and intel
ligent, he has not found the solace and comfort
which he seems to hate gratefully sought, after
the unfortunate libel suit; and, leaving the
Florence villa, lie passed a secluded and tran
quil summer at Siena, where his interesting con
versation charmed a little circle of friends. Lax
dor still writes Latin verses, is as enthusiastic
a lover of Freedom and Italy as ever, and has
just prepared an enlarged edition of his “ Hel
lenics” for the press.
The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles
Kean, by John Williams Cole, affords some
amusing anecdotes, of which the following is
ofle: “ Mrs. Garrick frequently visited at
Kean's house in Clarges street, and one day,
making a morning call, she found the tragedian
in the drawing-room, in a state of unusual ex
citement. He received his guest rather abrupt
ly and retired. The old lady’s eyes followed
him with some astonishment, and turning to
Mrs. Kean, she said in her broken English,
“ What is the matter with your husband ? ho
seems disturbed.” '‘Oh,” replied Mrs. Kean,
“you musn’t mind him; lie has just read a sjflte
ful notice of his Othello in one of the newspapers
which has terribly vexed him.” “But why
should he mind that,” said Mrs. Garrick, “he
is above the papers and can afford to be abused.”
“Yes,” observed Mrs. Kean, “but he says
the article is so well written; but for that he
wouldn't care for the abuse.” “ Then, my dear
Mrs. Kean, he should do as David did, and he
would be spared this annoyance.” “What is
that?” exclaimed the anxious wife with intense
eagerness. “ Write the article himself; David
always did so /”
NEWS SUMMARY.
The opening exercises of the Schiller Festival
in Augusta, were held in Masonic Hall last
Wednesday evening. They consisted of vocal
and instrumental music, an oration by Rev. Mr.
Meister, pastor of the German Lutheran Church,
and the deliveryTof an extract from Schiller’s
works, by Mr. Ludekens.
Cotton and Cars Burnt. —Six platform cars
of cotton, about two hundred bales, were destroy
ed by fire on the Macon and Western Railroad,
about seven miles above Forsyth, Friday last.
About two hundred yards of the track was also
burnt. The loss of the Company is estimated at
between twelve and fifteen thousand dollars.
The fire is supposed to have been caused by
friction.
Eatonton & Madison Railroad. —The Mil
ledgeville Federal Union says:—We are much
gratified to announce that the proposition made
by Mr. Cuyler In reference to this enterprise,
has been approved by the Board of Directors of
the Central Railroad. This settles the question
as to the building of the Road. The C. R. R.,
it will be remembered, proposes to take the
Road, when built, work it, and guarantee 7 per
cent, to the stockholders.
Georgia Finances. —The Controller General
of Georgia reports the amount of cash in the
Treasury at $288,765. The public debt and
bonds outstanding, amount to $3,354,750. The
Treasury receipts during the year sum up sl,-
163,000, and the expenditures $874,500.
Exodus of Free Lovers. —A society of “ free
lovers” in San Francisco, has purchased 50,000
acres of arable land in San Salvador, Central
America, for $6,250, and about twenty of them,
headed by a Dr. Tyler, left that city on the 6th
for their new homes. One of the company sold
an estate worth $40,000, before leaving, and
threw the money into the general fund of the
society.
Large Accession to the Protestant Epis
copal Church. —On Sunday the 25th ult., the
Rev. Charles Chiniguy, Pastor of the French
Canadian Colony in St. Anne, Kankakee county,
Illinois, numbering about six thousand souls, sol
emnly conformed with his people in the com
munion of the Episcopal Church, by the celebra
tion of the Lord's supper according to the Book
of Common Prayer; using for that purpose a
French translation published in New York, with
copies of which they had been furnished at their
own request, by the New York Bible and Com
mon Prayer Society.
It is a remarkable coincidence, that on the
Thursday preceding, in Grace Church in New
York, the Rev. John Rose,formerly a Priestofthe
Roman Communion in Ohio, had been solemnly
reconciled and admitted to the exercise of the
ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church, on
his own formal profession and declaration of re
nunciation of his former tenets and communion.
Harper’s Ferry Insurrection.—Charles
town, Va., Nov. 9.—Cook, one of the conspira
tors in the Harper’s Ferry affair, has made a full
confession, and plead guilty.
Stephens, another of the conspirators, has
been given up to the Federal authorities for
trial, for the purpose of subpoenaing Gerrit
Smith, Joshua R. Giddings, Senator Hale, Gov
ernor Seward and others.
Copeland has been found guilty of murder
and insurrection.
Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 9.—W. N. Palmer,
another one of the conspirators in the Harper’s
Ferry affair, was arrested here to-day. Gov.
Wise has forwarded a requisition for him.
Shields Green, alias Emperor, one of the
negro conspirators, has been found guilty of con
spiracy with slaves, and murder, the prosecu
tion abandoning the count charging treason.
During the trial, Mr. Sennott, counsel for Green,
raised the point that the abandonment of one
count vitiated the whole indictment; the Court
gave no decision, and the case will probably be
taken on this ground to the Court of Appeals.
The case of the negro Copeland was commenced
on Saturday. There are three prisoners yet to
try —Stevens, who is still in a dangerous condi
tiohfrom his wounds, Cook, and Wm. Harrison,
arrested at Carlisle, who was on Saturday taken
to Charlestown on a requisition from Gov. Wise.
— Balt. American.
A Richmond letter in the Keio York Herald
says:
I am informed to-day that it is the intention to
try Cook, the Harper’s Ferry rebel, in the U. S.
District Court for that district. This course has
been determined upon with a view to compel
the attendance of Seward, Greely, Wilson, Howe
and the other outsiders, who are suspected of
complicity in the late insurrection. If, in the
progress of the trial, their guilt as aiders or abet
tors shall be established, the probability is that
they will be assigned positions in the dock be
side Cook, and subjected to the same ordeal that
led to the majority of them being brought for
ward as witnesses. The list to be summoned
will embrace every individual, wheresoever he
may reside, whose name has been identified with
this movement in any connection, however re-
mote. As to their appearance in obedience to
the summons, that must be presumed as certain
inasmuch as it is a question involving the ability
of the Federal Government to enforce obedience
to its summons.
Governor Wise has issued a proclamation, in
which he offers $2,000 reward lor the apprehen
sion of Owen Brown, Barclay Coppie, Francis J.
Meriam and Charles P. Tidd, who were engaged
in the Harper’s Ferry invasion. A letter in the
New York Tribune , written in Chambersburg,
Pa., says that they were in that place the very
night that Cook was taken from there to Vir
ginia. He adds that “ they are now safe,” but
we think it very likely that $2,000 will bring
them.”
The effort now being made by the Republican
journals and other Northern papers, to effect a
commutation in the sentence of Old Brown, is
thus noticed by Gov. Wise's organ, the Rich
mond Enquirer:
“To us it appears that John Brown, at hard
labor, would be a continual source of supply lor
Abolition fanaticism; that his groans would re
sound from Richmond to Eastport, and from the
James river to the St. Lawrence; that every
meeting of the Black Republican and Abolition
parties would herald forth resolutions for his
liberation; that the stump, in every election,
from a constable to the Presidency, would be
redolent with praises of his heroism and curses
upon his imprisonment. Not so with John
Brown executed. He has forfeited his life, and
though possessed of many traits of character
that were worthy of a better fate, pity and com
inisseration are closed against the murderer of
Tumor, Beckman, &c.”
A telegraphic dispatch from Richmond says
that it has been ascertained that under the laws
of Virginia, the Governor cannot pardon a per
son convicted of treason to the Commonwealth
except with the consent of the General Assem
bly, declared by joint resolution.
Charity Begins at Home. —We have already
published the touching letter which was found
on the body of Wm. Beeman, one of the insur
gents, from his sister in Hallowell, Maine. The
following paragraph in that letter is a suggestive
one:
“ Would you come home if you had money?
Tell me what it would cost. Oh, I would be un
speakably happy if it were in my power to send
you money, but we have been very poor this
winter. I have not earned half a dollar this
winter. Mattie has had a very good place
where she has had seventy-five cents a week •
she has not spent any of it in the family, only
a very little for mother. Father has had very
small pay, but I think he has more now ; he is
watchman on the Eastern Queen, that runs from
here to Boston.”
Here is a family, one of thousands of families
in New England, in similar circumstances, where
one daughter thinks it a “ very good place ”
when she can get seventy-five cents a week ;
another has not earned a half dollar during the
winter ; and all are “ very poor;” yet the son
and brother goes off and deserts a mother and
sisters, who, though poor, have evidently the
most affectionate feelings and tender sensibili
ties, for the purpose of liberating a class of peo
ple not one of whom knows anything of the
want or privation from which his own family is
suffering, or who would not look with contempt
upon such remuneration as seemed the height of
good fortune to the destitute sisters and mother
of this abolitionist.
Great Bbitaik —The Great Eastern—Utr de
pai ture indefinitely postponed. —The directors of
the Great Eastern held a meeting on board, on
the 19th, and it is authoritatively announced
that the departure of the vessel has been post
poned sine die, and orders given that all passage
money received be returned. No time will be
fixed for the trans-atlantic voyage until good
progress has been made in fitting out the ship
in thorough sea-going completeness, and, accor
ding to some authorities, there is no likelihood
of the voyage being made before next spring.
The ship would remain at Holyhead about ten
days longer, and then go to 'Southampton to
complete her fittings, after which a trip to Lis
bon is spoken of. It is stated that, in her pres
ent condition, the directors will not accept the
ship from Mr. Scott Russell.
The Fcxebal of Stephenson, the Engineer.
—The funeral of Robert Stephenson took place
at Westminster Abbey on the 21st, in the pres
ence of a great concourse of people, and with
every demonstration of respect. The Abbey
was crowded, and the attendance included the
most distinguished men of all rank and profes
sions. Mr. Stephenson bequeathed £25,000 to
public institutions.
A letter from Florence details the grounds on
which the exequator of the American Consul at
Leghorn, Mr. Joseph Blinda, was withdrawn.
It is asserted that he busied himself greatly for
the restoration of tliedethroned Princes, of whom
he was a warm partisan: Blinda is directly
taxed with having recommended certain Repub
licans to proclaim a Republic, while, at the same
time, lie was exerting himself from the Princes,
and the inference is that he sought to raise a
pretext for armed intervention.
Spain.— The difficulty between Spain and Mo
rocco had reached a crisis.
Madrid. 22d.—The Government has declared
to Cortez, in the sitting to-day, that it was go
ing to begin war with Morocco. The declara
tion was received with great enthusiasm.
A Pans letter in LoXord asserts that Palmers
ton had declared to the French Ambassador
that England would not suffer Spain to occupy
both sides of the Straits, and would oppose it by
force; the English Cabinet, he said, would make
the question an European one.
The London Times is of the opinion that all
danger to Europe or to the British Possession of
Gibraltar, from the Spanish enterprise against
Morocco is absurd, but an attack by France on
the independence of Morocco, and an attempt to
add its territory to Algeria would justify the
strongest remonstrances in behalf of Europe.
The Daily Ninos thinks the alliance between
France and Spain against Morocco, or at any
rate was simultaneously threatened by both
powers against her, as by no means reassuring
to England.
Morocco. —Late advices from Tangiers state
that Mr. George Y. Brown, the U. S. Consul,
was preparing to leave for Gibraltar, taking with
him all his baggage, horses he.
It was stated thst the French soldiers who
were made prisoners on the 31st of August, had
all been burnt aliie by the Moors. The French
troops were burning to take revenge for this
act.
The Times' Paris correspondent says that the
French government will not change its Morocco
policy.
The French expeditionary force is ready to
take the field. O’Donnell commands the Span
ish operations. The London Times thinks that
the only danger is that France will annex Mo
rocco to Algeria.
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