BEDFORD INQUIRER.
BEDFORD, Pa.
Friday Morning. Nov. 4, 1859.*
"FEARLESS AND FREE."
D. OVER-Editor and Proprietor.
FOR PRE6IDEST IN 1860,
BON. SIMON CIMERON,
OP PENNSYLVANIA,
Subject to the decision of the National Convention.)
The Harper's Ferry AlTalr.
As we expected, the Bedford Gazette at
tempts to throw the blame of the late out
break at Harper's Ferry, in which the insane
Old Brown, and some fourteen other white
madmen, and five negroes, were engaged, upon
the opposition party. This is perfect nonsense,
and shows to what a desperate game Locofoco
ism will resort to try to retrieve its fallen
fortunes. The attempt to blame this outra
geous and foolish affair of twenty crazy men,
on a wbolo party numbering over a million of
voters, is in keeping with that party. The
■whole opposition press and people of the coun
try condemn the outrage, and if it were
necessary, would at any time be in readiness to
march to the aid of their Southern brethren in
putting down rebellion. We presume the
whole affair will end like the Gazette's attempt
to fasten abolitionism and amalgamation on
part of onr county ticket this fall. The can
didates it abused the ruost on this charge, ran
the highest vote. Instead of injuring the op
position party, it will recoil with terrible ef
fect upon Locofocoisni. No sane man would
believe that our party had anything to do with,
or would sympathise with old JBrowD's crazy
attempt to get up a servile insurrection.
The following articles are from Southern
papers, and are to the point, llead them :
From the Cumberland Civilian.
THE HARPER'S FERRY AFFAIR.
The English language does not furnish terms
sufficient to express our sovereign and supreme
contempt for that malignant party spirit which
would manufacture political capital out of it.
But in this State—in this district—in this
county— the democratic leaders are endeavoring
to prejudice the public mind agaiust our candi
dates for Congress, by charging them with
sympathy for the miserable fanatics who pro
jected it. It is a base means of electioneering,
and we warn the people against the scheme.
Since, however, they have thought proper to
connect the Opposition with it as a responsible
party, it is well enough to see who was con
nected with it. By a memorandum of Brown,
tho ringleader of the insurgout party, we learn
that the band was an admixture of Abolition
ists and Democrats, as follows: John Kagi,
Moffit, Cook, Parsons, Lemm, Democrats; and
Half, Tidd Whiple, Robertson and Brown, Ab
olitionists. This Democratic Administration
conld have prevented the whole affair, for the
Secretary of War received a letter in August
last, setting forth the name of the ringleader,
the general plan contemplated by him, the
place where, and the time when the attack was
to be made, la addition to this, the letter said
they had an accomplice in a government armo
ry in Maryland. This letter the Secretary of
War carefully preserved, and instead of warn
ing the citizens of Harper's Ferry, ho kept
them in entire ignorance of the conspiracy
against their property and lives, and while
they were sleeping, the desperadoes took pos
session of tho town, and imprisoned its leading
citizens. And while this was transpiring, the
democratic Secretary of War was luxuriating
at Washington with the note of warning in his
pocket, and did not think enough of the peace,
property and lives of the Harper's Ferry peo
ple to commnnicate the intelligence to them
before the thin% happened. How careful of
the public welfare are our democratic rulers,
when they neglect end refuse to inform the
people when a conspiracy is plotting against
them, that has been minutely and particularly
described to them. What grateful public ser
vants democratic Secretaries of War arS, who
withhold the note of warning, and allow an in
vasion like that of Harpor'a Ferry, which
could have been prevented by sending the let
ter to the Mayor of the town. Being fore
warned, they would have been forearmed, and
tben the tragedy of Harper's Ferry would nev
er have been reoorJed on the pages of Ameri
can history.
Let dimooralie stumpers and editors explain
these thing? before they attempt to accuse the
Opposition of sympathy with it.
From the Frederick Examiner.
THE BOOT ON THE OTHER FOOT.
The Citizen says of the Harper's Ferry in
terments, "they were exclusively the Abolition
friends of The Examiner , who were engaged in
the rebellion—as the history of the whole trans
action will prove." The history of tbe trans
action proves that Cook, Leman, Kagi, and
others, are, by their own showing, democrats,
aod as such, they are the "Abolition friends"
of tbe Citizen. These notorious criminals and
rebels are as raucb democrats, in profession, as
Buchanan, .Douglas, Forney, Hale, Gerrit Smith
or any other Northern democrat, with loud pro
fessions, black republican affinities or Abolition
sympathies.
Tbe table of members of tbe Legislature
published in our last was out quite correct. One
of tbe two Locofoco members in Jefferson,Clear
field, Elk, &0., was elected. Our majority is
30 in the HOUM and 9io the Senate, making
89 majority on joint ballot.
EX-GOT. James C. Jones, of Tennessee, is
dead.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.-NOI A single
"Dough Face" will go up to the next OoDgress
from all New England. That cradle of Free
dom has been thoroughly "swept and garnish
ed." Nor is the Free West much behind.
Michigan has presented Stuart his walking
papers. Ohio has just given Pugk formal
"notice to quit." Gen. Shields will very soon
be provided with indefinite furlough. There is
some hope of ejeoting the Indiana interlopers.
Oregon has magnanimously consented to re
lieve Washington from the offensive presence
of Delazon Smith, while, in Pennsylvania,
liigler will be allowed to retire with the bache
lor President ! Not since the days of Herod
has there been such a "slaughter of the inno
cents."
Old Brown Convicted.
We have received the following dispatch
from a friend in Philadelphia :
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. Ist, 1859.
To Inquirer:—Old Brown, the Harpers Fer
ry insurrectionist, was convicted yesterday.—
The Jury found him guilty of Treasou, Con
spiracy and Murder, in the first degree. He
evinced no perceptable emotion at the render
ing of the verdict.
A BAD ACCIDENT. —On Wednesday the
19th nit., ib# clothing of Benjamin Franklin,
iufaut sun of D. B. and Catharine Troutman
of Londonderry Township, took fire from the
cooking stove, and before the fire could ha ex
tinguished, the child was so badly burned, that
be died on Saturday evening following. Their
loss is his eternal gain.
The table of Returns published in onr pa
per a week or two ago, was furnished us by one
of the clerks, who was in attendance on the
day the return judges met. It is probably as
correct as the one the Gazette published. But
that paper is hard pushed for something to talk
about.
Petersons' Counterfeit Detector for Nov.
has been received. It contains a list of 114
new counterfeits It is the best Detector pub
lished in the country, and only sl.oo.per year
monthly, and $2.00 semi-iccnthly. liusiucs,
men, subscribe for it.
[CP" The parade of Wednesday and Thurs
day, of last week, was a fine affair. Fivecom
panics were in aiteDdanoe but the turn-out
was small. Officers and men looked and be
haved well
Fcs.VT !—To see the Lucofocos on election
dav marching up to the polls the paupers from
the Poor House. It didn't take however.
Our fiieods who premised us wbtat, oorn
and buckwheat, will please b. r ' a ? it along im
mediately—or the mon?y.
Gerrit Smith writes to the ft. Y. Tribuoo that
he did not vote tor Fremont. He is not a Re
publican, bat an Abolition Loccfoco.
Joshua R. Giddings denys any knowledge of
tue Harper's Ferry insurrection.
SCOTCH PIG IRON.
With one-half of oar pig metal furnaces
idle, and the other half barely paying ex
penses, with millions upon millions of tons of
ircn ore and coal under our very feet, we arc
sending gold out of the country to buy pig
iron, thus not only impoverishing ourselves by
the gold we send out, but destroying our means
of employing labor nt home. The Cleveland
Herald says:
"Within three weeks we suppose some three
thousand tons of Scotch pig have been landed
here, and several vessels arc now on their way
from England, freighted in whole or in part
with more of it. We had, in onr simplicity,
supposed that we have iron and ore enough
along the lake shore—in the Mahoning Valley,
the Hocking, Muskingum, Scioto, and all the
length of the Ohio river, to supply our wants,
and if any deficiency there should be, that the
mountains of nearly pure iron ore on Lake Su
perior could be induced to contribute still
more than they do from their rioh deposits;
bat we were probably in error in our conjec
ture. Still, the importation of this product of
pauper labor abroad is of little account —but a
drop in the bucket. Our importations thus far
this year count only about a million of dollars
a day, a considerable part in dry goods wbicb
'perish in the use,' and our exports of gold (so
far as shown through the Custom House books,
has not yet exceeded one hundred millions, we
believe; but this does not include what goes
direct from the Isthmus to Enrope on Ameri
can account. That portion going to New York
we have the benefit of counting and seeing,
and that is worth something, for it stays there
long enoagh for suoh useful purposes.' 1
How long can the country stand up under the
ruinous policy which permits such importations
as these? Europe will buy scarcely auy of eur
produce, aod here wo are buying of her for
gold, what we could as well produce at home
under a proper tariff. It i time that the
couutry were waking up to a full realisation of
such facts as these.
Who 1H Responsible,
We answer the column and a half of the Post's
insinuations, in regard to the Harper's Ferry
insurrection as follows: If any one white man
in the Uuited States is responsible for this, that
man is Stephen Arnold Douglas, the Post's
candidate jor the Presidency. Ho was the
prime rnovor, a? the N. Y. Herald admits, in
tbe repeal jof the Missouri Compromise, and all
the Kansas fuss. His aiders aod abettors were
the Pro-Slavery Democracy.
Judge M'Clure, every day, charges' in the
Quarter Sessions that the aggressor, the man
who gives the first blow is the party on whom
the responsibility of the light lies. We ad
monish these demagogues to call off their dogs
of war. Mum is tbe word for them at least.—
Pitts. Journal,
BEDFORD XHODZRBR.
For the Inquirer.
CHAMBERSBTRO, Oot. 28, 1859.
Mr. EDITOR:—A letter from hero might be
of interest to those of your readers who are ac
quainted with our town. 1 shall, therefore,
endeavor to ruake up a short one, wherein i
shall try to give you tho news of what has been
going on.
Out Fair opened on Tuesday, the 25th ult.,
and continued four days. The ground is beau
tifully situated, ahont one and a quarter miles
west of town, on tho Chambersburg and Bed
ford Turnpike Road. It is on a high eleva
tion, commanding a fine view of our town,
j and the surrounding country. Our citizens
generally manifested great interest iu the Fair,
inasmuch as there was more of everything for
exhibition than at any former one. The farm
ers, especially, were soen in every direction on
i Tuesday, bringing in their fine stock, and onr
mechanics, too, were eagerly engaged in hav
ing conveyed to the fair ground their manu
factured attic'.es. The ladies exhibited a full
supply of needlework, consisting of fine col
lars, quilts, etc., etc. The iron railing tQ d
castings, the carriages, the furniture, and tfie
manufactured articles, gave evidence of supe
rior taste and workmanship.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather on
Wednesday, onr town was literally orowded,
and hecks were seen in all directions, couvey
iog persons to the fair ground, where every ac
commodation had been made for their recep
tion. On Thursday morning, the sun shone
brightly, and we bad evidence of its being a
pleasant day for the Plowing Match, and
Equestrianism. Many were early on the ground,
anxious to witness them, and were not disap
pointed in their expectations.
ID the afternoon, the Chambers Artillery, iu
full UDifo:m, made their appearance, and elici
ted much admiration. At the same time the
Friendship Fire Company, with their beautiful
Dew apparatus, were present, and attracted
much attention.
On Friday, the excitement of the Fair was
increased by the expected Address of Hon. J.
Dixon Roman, of Maryland, tho Wheeling
Match and the announcement of premiums.—
The Wheeling Match, which was for a silver
cup, created much sport, and, after numerous
trials, resulted in the awarding of the prize to
a young gentleman from a neighboring town.
During tho four days of the Fair, the Mechan
ics' Brass Baud, which, by the way, is the ne
plus ultra of Bands, was iu regular attendance,
discoursing choice music, aui making every
thing pleasant and interesting. In connection
with the Fair, and tho arrest of Captain Cook,
we have been kept in constant excitement dur
ing the past week.
Lite on Tuesday evening, Capt. Cook was
brought to town by several gentlemen, who ar
rested him at Mont Alto, fourteen miles from
this place. He bad a hearing before Justice
Kisber, and being fully identified, was commit
ted to our county prison, aud the Thursday
following, wis lawfully removed to Virginia,
by officers who came for that purpose. Seve
ral of Sharpe's rifles have been found indoor
immediate neighborhood, which, it is supposed,
belonged to some of the insurgents of the
Harper's Ferry expedittga.
lu the midst of the excitement wo look up
oc the Fair as the best we ever bad, and too
much praise cannot be bestowed upon tb gen
tlemanly managers. The encouragement with
tfhiob our farmers have met, and the maoper
in which our grounds are now fitted up, we
mav look forward with bright anticipations to
the future, for still larger and better fairs.
Yours, &e.,
J. H. 11.
The Brown and Black Trouble.
Notwithstanding the pertinacious tfForf* of
the Southern and Buchanan organs tc unk po
litical oapital out of the crazy thi-insss at Har
per's Ferry, the excitement has altogether died
out. The public does not care any more ft'i i?
than it does for a Baltimore riot, a New York
murder, or a Virginia tournamen'. The poor
wretches that engaged io the mad undertaking
a.e nearly ail dead, and those that are alive
are not in a condition to do any mischief.
But it is now laughable to see into what
convulsions of terror the ancient coaimonwealth
of Virginia was thrown by this riot of a score
or two of men. Is the whole country to be
put in commotion whenever a Virgiuia village
goes pauic-strickeu? Are the President and
the army and the voluuteers to be called on to
stop every little row, such as should be stopped
by a force of a score or two of policemen?—
Are these cowardly Harper's Ferryitos to be
suffered to diffuse their nervous terrors through
out the ceuotry on all occasions? Why ten
thousand blacks led by a hundred Browns would
not have created more consternation, if they
had invaded Pennsylvania, than was oreated in
Virginia by the littlo handful of half-maniacs
at Harper's Ferry. By trying to keep up the
excitement, with exaggerated reports of a vast
conspiracy, with flamiug aud furious editorials
and speeohes from Gov, Wise, the Virginians
are making themselves more ridiculous every
day. They bad bettor let the subject die quiet
ly, and try to let the world forget what a uer
vous and timorous people they have degenerated
into, since the heroic days of tbo Revolution.--
Philadelphia Bulletin.
,Good Mews from Minnesota,
This flourishing youDg State, the only one
in the North-west of which the sham-democraoy
have been able to retain possession, has at length
cotne forward and ranged herself under the bau
ner of Republicanism. Our latest advices as
sures us of the election of Alexander Ramsey
as Governor, and the wholo Republican State
ticket, including members of Congress and a
majority of the Legislature. Governor Ram
sey is • native Pennsylvauian, and lived in
Harnsburg. He was rightfully elected Gov
ernor two yoars since, but was cheated oat of
the offioe by barefaced fraud and corruption.
His majority this time is so decided that bis
eoe'jnies will not be ablo to repeat th 6 nefarious
operation. Mi. Donnelly, thoLieutenant Gov
ernor elect, is abo a Pennsylvauian by birtb,
and was formerly an active democratic politi
cian in Philadelphia. VVe gain a Republican
Senator in Minucsofca, in place of Gen. Shields,
whose term expired last spring. Well done
for Minnesota !
The Cbirqui gold diggins aro 'played oat.*—
The graves have been exhansed, and only about
one hundred thousand dollars is the amount of
gold obtained. There is no digging going on
now.
Ossawaitomie Brown's Speech to the I
Importers.
Capt. Brown spoke as follows to several Re
porters of the pres*, who saw him the other
day. jt Harper's Ferry
If you do net want to convetse any more I
will rem ,rk to these reporting gentleman that 1
claim to be here in carrying out a measure I
believe to he perfectly justifiable, and not to act
the part of an incendiary or ruffian; but on the
contrary, to aid those suffering under a great
wrong. I wish to say further that you had bet
ter, all you people of the South, prepare your
selves for a settlement of this question. It must
eotne up for a settlement sooner than you are
prepared for it, and the soouer you commence
that preparation the better for you You may
dispose of me very easily, 1 am nearly disposed
of now, hut this question i to be settled—this
negro question, 1 mean. The end is not yet.—
These wounds were inflicted upon the different
parts of my body, some minutes after 1 had con
sented to surrender for the benefit of others,
and not for my own benefit.
(Several persons present denied this state
ment.)
Brown resumed—l believe the Major here
(poi- ting to Lieut. Stuart) would not been alive
but for me I might havo killed him just as
easy as 1 could kill a musquito,'wh'jn became
in, but 1 supposed that he cauio in only to re
ceive our surrender. There had been long and
loud calls of surrender from ua—as loud as men
could yell—but in the confusion and excitement
I suppose we were not heard. Ido nut believe
the Major or any one else, wanted to butcher
us after we had surrendered.
An officer present here stated that special
orders had been given to the mariues not to
shoot anybody, but when they were fired upon
by Brown's men, and one of them bad been
killed and another wounded, they wore obliged
to return the compliment.
Brown insisted, with some warmth, that the
marines fired first.
An officer—Why did you not surrender be
fore the attack?
Brown—l did not think it was my duty or
interest to do so. We assured our prisoners
that we did uot wish to hurt them and that th&y
should be Bet at liberty. I exercised my best
judgetneut, not believing the people would wan
tonly sacrifice their own fellow-citizens. When
wo offered to let them go upon condition of be
ing allowed to change our position about a quar
ter of a mile, the prisoners agreed by vote
among themselves to pass across the bridge with
us. We wauled them only as a sort ot guar
antee for our own safety; that wo should uot
be fired ioto. 'We took them, in the first place
as hostages, and to keep tbeuj from doing any
harm. Wo did kill some when dofending our
selves, but I saw no one fi.-o except directly in
self-defence. Our orders were strict aot to
harm any one not in arms against us.
Q. —Well, Brown, suppose you bad any ne
groes in the United States, what would you do
with tbeni?
Brown (in a loud tope, and with emphasis)—
Set theiu free, sir.
Q. —Your intention was to carry them off and
free them?
Brown—Not at all.
Bystander —To set tbem free would sacrifice
the life of every man in this community.
Brown—l do not thiuk so.
Bystander—l know that i think you are fa
natical.
Brown—And 1 think you are fanatical.—
"Whom the Gods would destroy they first make
mad."
Q. — Was your only object to free the ne
gro?
Brown—Absolutely our only object.
Bystander—but you went and took Col.
Washington's silver and watch.
Browc--Ob! yes, we intended freely to have
appropriated the property of slaveholders to
carry out our object. It was for that only ;
we had no design to eorich ourselves with any
plunder whatever.
Q.- Did you know Sherrod in Kansas? 1
understand you killed him.
Brown—l killed oo man except in fair fight.
1 fou\?bt at Black Jack, and at Ossawattomie,
and if J killed anybody it was at one of these
places.
The surgeon Laving at this time arrived to
look after his eharge : and the dinner bell hav
ing rung, the visitors left biuu and i>is compan
ions to (hut geotleiucn's oafs',
I* Gerriit Smlib a Republican 1
In reply to a charge by tin N. Y. Express, ,
that "Gerrit Smith is a Republican ex-member
of Congress," the JV. Y. Tribute says:
Mildly speaking, this is aD untrue asser
tion.
The Express koows, what all the woj<] knows,
that Gerrit Smith not only never was v Repub
lican, but has long been ao ardent antagonist
of the Republican party. A year ago, \ e did
his best to defeat the Republican candidal for
Governor of New York, preferring even that
the Democratic nominee should bo elected. k, ; -
fore that, when he w*s returned to Congress,\t
was not as a Republican, but as an eccentric,
independent advocate of the theory that the
Federal Constitution does not recognize Slavery,
but is an Abolitionist instrument. VVbeu the
Kansas-Nebra.-ka outrage was being pressed
through Congrees, Mr. Smith refused to co
operate in the attempt of the Republicans to
delay and prevent its passage by parliamentary
strategy. At the same time, he advocated the
acquisition of Cuba—the great measure of Dem
ocrats and Fiilibusters.
Such is the political record of Mr. Smith.—
We are not aware that he has ever agreed with
the Republicans except in voting for Fremont,
which he declared that he did from persona!
liking for the man, and not from sympathy with
his party. [He did not vote for Fremont.—
En. JNQ ]
Close Voting.
A number of instanoes of close voting at the
recent election, have come nnder our notioe.—
For instance, in the 11th Legislative district of
Philadelphia, Isaao A. Sbeppard, Opposition is
eleoted over John 8. Riehl, Democrat, by tioo
volts ! In the Westmoreland district the Re
publicans lost a legislative candidate by six
votes, and one tu aohuylkill ouuty by twenty
four votes. In Adams county we elected a
member by elevea votes.
Au Infidel Couvcutioa met at Philadelphia
on Monday last. What uoxt ?— Stlma Repor
ter.
The Charleston Convention is the ' next."—
Marion (jJla.) American.
PEXNSYLVAJIA ELECTION.-OF
FICIAL.
Aud. Gen. Sur. Gen.
• ? ? FT
COUNTIES. g !* ?
> r
■A
Adams, 2529 2539 2520 2646
Allegheny, 7934 4720 7930 4729
Armstrong, 2282 1943 2201 1942
Beaver, 1756 1181 1748 1132
Bedford, 2011 2147 2009 2150
Berks, 6251 7444 6451 7268
Blair, 2600 1449 2602 1449
Bradford, 3743 1639 8733 1651
Bucks, 5172 6159 6176 5154
Butter. 2075 1614 2087 1514
Cambria, 169-3 1868 1 581 1900
Carbon, 149! 1640 16'3 1626
Centre, 2446 2333 2444 2233
Chester, 6066 4044 5055 4046
Clarion. 532 1216 531 1225
Clearfield, 1129 1448 1122 1455
Clinton, 1226 1600 1255 1680
Columbia, 1005 1782 1070 1808
Cumberland, 2921 3224 2932 3234
Crawford, 2766 2141 2765 2125
[Delaware, 2097 1280 2111 1261
Dauphin, 3331 2217 3284 2277
Erie, 2325 1119 2299 1144
Elk, 317 411 309 418
Fulton, 716 851 715 851
Franklin, 8692 3267 3562 3393
Forest, 37 30 37 31
Fayette, 2676 2824 2651 2517
Green, 785 1596 760 1588
Huntingdon.. 2264 1774 2283 1778
Indiana, 1922 B>7 1932 795
Jefferson, 1071 851 1070 806
Juniata, 1223 1309 1223 1309
Lawrence, 1351 526 1339 420
Lancaster, 7602 8488 7598 3443
Lycoming, 2590 2949 2608 2904
Lehigh, 3613 3866 3622 3842
Luzerne, 6071 5936 5112 6839
Lebanon, 2451 12ft9 2461 1283
Montgomery, 4535 5056 4572 5026
Mercer, 2770 2225 2755 2222
Mifflin, 1372 1439 1376 1434
Monroe, 409 1777 435 1754
McKean. 600 687 603 585
Mountour, 602 1154 618 1142
Northampton, 2797 4077 2791 4066
Northumberland, 1602 2159 1642 2167
Hotter, 918 602 893 617
Pike, 136 721 127 720
Philadelphia, 29525 26366 29701 26208
Perry, 2070 2052 2069 206!
Schuylkill, 4879 4534 4966 4169
Snyder, 1286 736 1822 709
Somerset. 2187 1190 2196 1175
Sullivan, 324 625 331 607
Susquehanna, 2807 3U91 2805 2092
Tioga, 1940 1012 1962 1031
Union, 1363 840 1375 829
Venango, 2022 1837 2')22 1844
Warren, 1139 757 1129 759
Washington, 3745 3399 3749 3396
Wayne,? 1609 1949 1610 1947
Westmorelind. 3803 4163 8780 415?
Wyoming, 751 945 758 942 j
York, 4983 5203 4941 5266 j
Total, 181835 164544 182282 163970
164544 163970
Majorities 17291 18312
Virginia is still in a ferment. "Old Giz
zard-fool" is on bis high horse, talking away
bj the hour, distributing arms to overt? county
in the disturbed commonwealth, and putting
the whole country into mortal terror at the in
terminable letter which is sure to come from
his pen. Harper's Ferry is yet in the pa
roaysjos of fright, and Saudy Hook is in mo
mentary expectation of a general uiassacte.—
Throughout the entire OU Dominion there is a
hunting up of old sword", burnishing of titles,
and careful inquiry iuto the state and supply
of the ammunition. The chivalry is all agog
for deeds of high emprise, and demanding to
be led against the luillhn of Drowns and
Smiths whom its affrighted imagination has
ooojured up. "To arm*! to arms! ye brtvel"
And what is the cause of all this commo
tion' What has occuried to stir up thus the
courage of the undaunted sons of Virginia*
Why this blowing of trumpets and marshslling
of hosts —this delivery of speeches of "learn
ed leDgth and thundering souud," and ratilc of
bayonets a? the mighty battalions gather?—
Virginia has been iuvaded! One of her
strongholds has been captured! Twenty meD,
fifteen of them white and five black, have
marched into the bowels of the land, taken a
town, captnred an armory, formed a provision
al government, treated Gov. Wise as nobody,
blotted out the Constitution of Virginia, and
put ber entire people into convulsions of
terror. One old man, wi'h nineteen puny
backers, has done it all!
If the thing had occurred at onr arsenal,
here in Pittsburg, our day police would htve
put an end to the riot in an hour; but dowu in
that classic State, renowned for ebo-shias and
gizzard-foots, oysters and Gov. Wise, there is
a (,-udden hurrying to and fro of military com
panies; the aid of the General Government is
iuvoked; three or four thousand man ore sped
to the place c* conflict; old Brown and bis
nineteen lunatics are abot down, and the seve
ral thousand peoplo of Harper's Ferry, hud
dled togbther like sheep, as their Governor un
coniplimentarily observes, breathe freer and ea
sier again!
But the end is not yet. Brown is mortally
wounded, and fifteen of thi fools who went
with him are dead; hut the appalling dismay
spread over Viiginia by these twenty power
less men is not dispelled. The danger still
continues, though they caDnot tell from whence
is to come. There must be daDger, sorne
\bere, else why should the brave, chiva.'rie,
c Virageous Virginians be all of a trembu-?—'
Wtyld tbey, the lion hearted fellows of the
the very embodiment of vigorous oour
*ge> >ould they tremble, think you, if there
were rea ] danger? Not a bit of it. Could
twentymeu scare two hundred thousand fight
ing of their wits? The thing is not to
be though of. They are the conservators of
toe uatiant) peace, and are not to he scared by
any amounVff Browns. Not they. Did cot
some three Musand of them recapture Har
per s ..erry frvW the bloodthirsty Brown? Yes,
sir! 1 hey did iVeasy.
Seriously, it i>ugbable to witness the ter
rible fear into whid, Virginia bas been thrown
by a paltry score moonstruck adventurers.
But why dothcynKje, their fears subside,
now that the danger i Vover> (if u evef
ed,) and uot try to puty whole country into
a ferment because • oo^ dJj vi]lage haß " bneD
panio stricken? Here id the Norlh we BU
press our own rows; but * er there th b J O
to call on the President yj lhe anuy . ao(i
now die craven Harper's are str.viog
to diffuse their nervous terrory ver , be eouD .
try, without compreheudiug y w ridiculous
they are making themselves. Yrhe w ! iO ] o of,
the original affair was silly but this
effort to keep up the exoitemeut y b exagge
rated reports of a vast conspiray atl( j w j tb
flatuiug and furious editorials, is o\j n t eaKe | v
silly. It were better, far hotter f\ thorn to '
let the ridiculous muss die out of remembrance
as soon as may be, and let the world forget, if
possible, into what a pack of ninnies the de
scendants of the old Ytrgiutam here degenera
ted. Pitti. Gazdlt.
Arrest of Cook 1 --His Identity Estab
lished.
CaAMttK&giiUßO, CM. 26
Cap*. John K- Cook, was arrested yesterday,
by Messrs. Daniel Logon, and Claggett Fiti
fcurg, at Mont Alto, Franklin county, fourteou
miles from this plare. There ir no doubt of
this being the man. llis printed commission,
filled up an • s : goed by Gen. Grown, and mark
ed No. 4, was found upon bia person: also, a
memorandum written on parchment, of the pis
tol presented to Washington by Lafayette, and
bequeathed to L wh W. Washington, in 1854.
The pistol, he says, is in a catpet bag which he
left on the mountains, lie was fully armed and
made a desperate resistance.
He cauie out of the mountain into the set
tlement to obtain provisions. He wis much
I f.tigued, and almost starved. He was brought
ti this {lace at 8 o'clock, last oigbt. After
an examination before Justice Keishsr and be
ing fully identified by one of our citizens who
formerly knew him, be was committed to jail
to await a requisition from Gov. Wise. He ac
knowledged having three others with him on
the mountain. One of thein was seen and con
versed with He had a blue blanket over bis
, shoulders and named u Sharpes rifle and double
| barrelled gun. He said one belonged to his
| partner, who bad gone for provisions.
RICHMOND, V>. Oct. 26.
Gov. Wise has despatched a requisition to
the Governor of Pennsylvania for the custody
of Oapt, ('• ok, aTcsted last night, near Chatu
| burg.
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CONSIDERABLE OF A CHANGS. —The Oc
tober election in 1855 indicated an electoral
vote of 27 for the Republicans and 64 for the
Democracy. The ssme States this October,
(audtng Kansas) show n electoral vote of 75
Republicans and 20 for the Democracy. This
change aloce would change the result on the
Presidency Sotne <>f the Democracy atiJ
i bins that Doughs cocld sava tbcm in 1860,
but these elections show that to bo all gam
mon. Doughs has helped to kill off the Reg
ulars, and the 11-gulurs to kill eff Doughs,
and now both are in the same boat, fighting
Ike dogs and cats. Th"y were odious in their
lives at d their deaths were not divided. The
democracy U)u*t next beware of the ides of
November. A fiost, a chilling frost, we fear,
has come over their prospects, sna like wither-*
ed ieaves they sre falling dry and lifeless to
• bp ground.
The New York Herald, one of Mr. Buch
anan's organs, says :
"The Democratic party —the late all power
ful national democratic party—has, we appre
hend, Jinishd its career. The receut Northern
elections, from Pennsylvania to Minnesota, si]
I toll the snoio story of its demoralized and
sinking condition. We presume that N. York
and New Jrtsey wilt sing the same music in
November, and that thus the opposition will te
found iu substantial occupation of every North
ern State this side the Rocky Mountains"
As a candid confession is said to be good for
the soul, we tope the Herald feels "good."-
We do.
-• ■ ■.— ♦
' The Iron City College, of Pittsburg, Penna,
drew first Premiums for best Business Writ-
I mg, at the State Fair at Philada., September,
JSS9, over the Cominereial Schools at the
Eyst. The superiority of the Penmanship of
this Institution, has been scknowledged at tb#
principal Fairs of the U. States, for the lt
four years.— Pittsburg True Press.
John A. Washington bas "suspended." I
was stated some time since, that ho Lad in
vested §175,000 of the money he had received
for the sale of the home of his great ancestor
in corner lots in Chicago. The presumption
was that he had paid over the cash for them,
but it seems that he gave his note* for them,
and they hive gone to protest.
Mr. Douglas is the father of the Kansas bill
the father of Squatter Sovereignty, and tbo
father of a fine little girl born oo Saturday week.
Louisville Journal.
The little girl is the only one of this progeny
that will be likely to do the father any credit
—says the Doily \'ews.
Oo you want something to strengthen you 1
Do you want a good appetite 1
Do yon want to bniH up yonr constitution f
Do you want to feci well I
Do you want to get rid of nervonsncss T
Do yon want energy f
Do you want to sleep well t
Do you want a brisk and vigorous feeling f
If yon do.use Hoo&and's German Bitters, prepa
red by Dr. C. M. Jackaon.4lß Arch Street,, 3 hi lad*V
phia.P*., and eolt by druggists and storekeepers
throughout the United States, Canadas. West In
dies and South America, at 75 cents per bottle.
May, 27-1 y.
WE have on hand three new two borse Wagons
which we will eil cheap-ia <xchange for nay
Kind of grain, or give a reasonable credit thereon.
A. B. CKAMEK A CO
Oct, 7, 1839.