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re- Two weeks ago we stated that com
plaints were made by our subscribers living
on the line of the Pa. Railroad, that they did
not receive their papers regularly; and we
insinuated that there might be a disposition
with some of the persons connected with
the Post Office Department and their Or
gan in this place, to " double team" us.—
The insinuation has waked up the Organ—or
rather the thing of an editor employed at a
" rat" salary to do the dirty work for our
active and attentive P. M. He says that we
think the P. M. hero is treating us as we
treated the editor of the Journal when we
were P. M. The editor, of course, speaks for
his employer, and in bringing in as evidence
against us the falsehoods of the Journal edi
tor, he shows his true character and his fit
ness for the very honorable position he occu
pies. Henry Murphy could not be persuaded
to come down so low fora foundation to stand
upon. If the present P. M. is as anxious, as
his tool shows him to be, for a public inves
tigation of the manner the duties of the office
were performed during our term, and have
been since he has had it in charge, we are
ready for it. We have the " documents" to
show how some things can be done with im
punity by faithful, willing tools of corrupt
men.
And further, if we are to be held responsi
ble. for the defeat of a certain candidate;
(whose name we are not permitted to give,)
we must be permitted to explain why the P.
0. Organ clique spoke of the contest as nothing
more than a " scrub race," and why the de
feated candidate did not get all the Demo
cratic votes.
We like to call things by their right names
and Must be excused if we hereafter decline
to notice other than the responsible persons
connected with the P. 0. organ. We shall
deal with the masters, not with a menial,
who, for the privilege of distinguishing him
self, will 6 , 64r:bidding, and ut nix etz.
rge-.Bennet, of the .N Y. Herald, is in fa
vor of the re-nomination of James Buchanan,
and we suppose he "speaks from the book,"
as he is intimate with the powers that be,
and has had considerable to do with the dis
tribution of the patronage of the President.
A late Herald contained the following. :
" Where, then, is our available Northern
Democrat for 1860 to be found ? There is no
other than Mr. Buchanan. lie can secure
all the Southern States and the two or three
Northern States necessary to an election on
the Democratic side. The late Northern elec
tions have gone by default. Their results
indicate that upwards of half a million of
votes are missing. But let the issue in 1860
be between the conservative national policy
and principles'of Mr. Buichanan on the one
hand, and the revolutionary policy and doc
trines of Seward on the other, and these mis
sing votes will be found on the side of the
Union and the Constitution,"
With Seward as the Opposition candidate,
the Democracy would cast a solid vote for
Buchanan with all his faults. But the sug
gestion to make Mr. Buchanan our candidate
in '6O, coming, as it does, from the N. Y.
Herald, is calculated to alarm the Democracy.
The Herald is anything else than a Demo
cratic press, or honest friend of the party.—
Here is what it said after receiving the re
turns from this State : •
"It is made plain by the news from Penn-
sylvania, given elsewhere, that the Buchanan
Democracy have been beaten in Mr. Buchan
an's own town by four to five hundred major
ity, and in the county by three to four thous
, and. This shows a wonderful want of pope
- larity in the nominee of the border-ruffian De
' moeracy. The people of, Lancaster county
and town are respectable and intelligent men,
ofto '')
minds and reasoning habits. They
have known Mr. Buchanan for thirty or forty
'years ; and of all their knowledge of him,
both personal and political, they now declare
solemnly at the polls that he is not their
choice. This, is a most singular fact; it in
dicates that Buchanan has in his own State
and his own neighborhood no perSonal or po
litical popularity."
The P. 0. Organ asks us if we
wouldn't like to be P. M. again ? We an
swer: Not just now, and have not had a de
sire to be since white slavery has been in
troduced by those having the office at their
disposal. We would rather bo free to speak
-our sentiments, without an office, than to
hold the best office in the gift of the Depart
meni and be compelled to sustain the pres
ent Administration in all its acts. The only
differero between a white and black slave,
is in the color of the skin—the black, a slave
from pecessit,y, being the most honorable
'Matt,
THE LATE ELECTIONS.—New York has
gone for the Republicans. That portion of
the State ticket supported by the Americans,
will have about 20,000 majority, that portion
opposed by the Americans will have about
3,000 majority. The Republicans have ma
jorities in both branches of the Legislature.
New Jersey, has also gone Republican for
Governor. The Americans hold the balance
of power in both branches of the Legisla
ture.
In Massachusetts, the Republicans have
elected their Governor, and both branches of
the Legislature are largely Republican.
Louisiana, Wisconsin and Kansas, repor
ted to have gone ditto.
Vr An Arkansas paper publishes a thril
ling narrative of an Englishman's adven
tures in the gold. regions of Kansas. Mr.
Pope went to Pike's Peak, and. he and his
companions roamed about all winter through
the mountains and on the head of the Platte.
For twelve months they had nothing to eat
but fresh meat, without salt or pepper. One
night they found a cave, into which they
crawled, and found the bodies of six persons
who had been frozen to death. They found
great quantities of gold, but had scarcely
any tools, and made but about twenty-five
dollars per month each. Mr. Pope intends
to return to the gold region.
Aar- The Baltimore Patriot states that
Judge Kemp, who was elected Judge of the
Orphan's Court at the late election in that
city, has decided not to claim the position.—
This declination is believed to proceed from
dissatisfaction with the manner in which the
election was conducted, he having been the
candidate of the American party. Mr. Wil
liam A. Wisong, elected to the House of Del
egates on the American ticket, has also pub
lished a " card," in he which he says he will
not claim his seat as a member of that body,
but will leave it for them to judge of his
right to do so. What must have been the
scenes enacted at the so-called election, when
the men returned as chosen refuse to serve ?
ga- The trial of the Harper's Ferry insur
gents, closed on the 11th, and the Court sen
tenced Cook, Coppie, Green and Copeland,
the remaining prisoners, to he hung on the
16th of December. Brown has been sen
tenced to be hung on the 2d of December.
Another man, named McDonald, one of the
escaped insurgents, has been arrested at
Washington City, and another reports him
self safe in Canada.
ger. lowa has just completed a State cen
sus, showing a. population of 633,549. She
had 192,214 in 1850, and 43,111 in 1840.
She has thus more than trebled her population
in the last nine years, and increased it about
fifteen-fold in nineteen years.
As " birds of a feather .flock togeth
er," we are not surprised to find the P. 0.
Organ endorsing the falsehoods of the Jour
nal. Won't they be happy, good fellows.
CORRESPONVENCE. OF THE GLOBE.
TYRONE CITY, Nov. 7, 1859.
DEAR GLOBE :—Months have rolled away
since I last grasped the editor's sword—the
pen—to hew out a few lines for the press.
Since then, Old Mother Autumn, with her
lap full of ripe fruit and nuts, has been play
ing " bopeep" with Old Father Time among
the fading shrubbery, occasionally pelting
the old gentleman with handfulls from her
well selected store, or whitening his wig with
an early frost. Your correspondent has been
getting along about as usual—living to learn,
and learning to live. I spent last week among
the good citizens of Hollidaysburg, was kind
ly entertained during the greater part of the
week by my esteemed friends, Dr. H. T. Cof
fy and his worthy wife. I remember the
tenth commandment too well to be envious,
but, Mr. Editor, I am more than ever con
vinced of the truth of the wise man's asser
tion, " Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good
thing," that is, provided she be a good one.
Should it ever again fall to my lot to be on
my back, and swallow as much medicine as
I did one winter, not long since, may I have
so kind a doctor to administer the doses. And
if in the course of human events, Venus
should award me one of her daughters, may
she be as gentle, refined, and withal, as good
a house-keeper as is the Doctor's companion.
Took tea one evening with our quondam
friend and townsman, Mr. Thomas C. Burch-
Unlike a farmer we once knew, who
prayed and neglected his work, thinking,
doubtless, that Providence would reward the
good, Mr. B. and his family seem to remem
ber that Providence always helps those who
help themselves; that wealth and its concomi
tant advantages are the rewards of industry
and' frugality.
I had the pleasure of v4ing two of the
schools of that place. pleased with
the appearance of .I)9,tif.` • Miss P. H. Hart,
formerly of Susquelfa,nna, co., has charge of
a school composed of
.young Misses. I had
not an opportunity for .examining any of
her classes, as I was only in her school room
a. few minutes, but from their respectful be
havior during my stay, I formed a favorable
opinion, both of the teacher and her pupils.
The citizens of the town certainly deserve
credit for the improved manner in which they
have their school rooms erected and furnished.
During my last night in town, I was much
gratified by hearing the " Vantries Cornet
Band"—led by their skillful instructor, Prof.
Rowbotham—play some of their sweetest
airs.
About the latest news from this part of the
of the county, is, that the mother of the
babe found on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
one night last winter, has returned, and is
now with her babe at Fostoria. A glance at
the mother and child, is sufficient to prove
their relationship. She gives her name as
Sarah Alcott, of Allegheny city, • Pa. She
tells a pretty straight story, and accuses the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company of inhu
manity. If she can prove what she asserts,
she may give them trouble.
We have this day received the third volume
of Peterson's cheap weekly issue of "Dickens'
Works for, the Million," which contains the
continuation of the Pickwick Papers. These
volumes are furnished at 25 cents each, or
the complete sett, 28 volumes in all, for $5,
and sent free of postage, to any place in the
United States. We have examined minutely
the manner in which these volumes are is
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pronounce it admirable. We would advise
any of our readers who wish to a com
plete sett of these unapproachable works at
an extremely low price, to remit Five Dollars
at once, per first mail, to T. B. Peterson &
Brothers, Philadelphia, for the entire sett,
who will send the 28 volumes, complete, to
any one, free of postage, on receipt of that
sum. Probably such an . opportunity may
never again be offered.
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ber. It is a splendid number. " Peterson"
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but will be greatly improved in 1860. It will
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THE ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER OF
RURAL AFFAIRS, FOR 1860, published by Lu
ther Tucker & Son, Albany, N. Y., is a valu
able book for farmers, gardeners, builders,
and everybody else. It gives no less than
178 engravings. It will be sent by mail,
post-paid, for 25 cents. Address as above,
or call at Lewis' Book Store, where a few
copies are for sale.
ne'c. A Lawrence (Kansas) correspondent
of the New York Times, says that recently
a slave residing near Independence, Missouri,
who was at the head of a slave family of
five, learned that his master intended selling
him for transportation to a more southern lat
itude, and he sent word to some friends in
Kansas that be would give $5OO if ho could
be safely transported to, a place where his
freedom could be secured. A small company
from Central Kansas started on the precari
ous mission, and on arriving at the mansion
of the slave owner, found a Southern planter
gresent, and about completing the purchase
of the negro family for $3,500. The corres
pondent of the Times says :
"The planter had gold upon his person,
and proceeded to count out the $3,500, when
the party seized him, bound him fast to his
chair, and took such other steps as would se
cure their own safety from exposure or pur
suit. The planter had brought with him sev
eral extra mules to transport the negroes.—
These the party took for the negroes also,
and soon they were all under rapid headway
out of the State. What has since transpired
with them is not so well known, except that
they are hastening onward, all safe,' and
ere this must be in that Abolition State, called
lowa.
"One very singular fact in the transaction is,
that the $3,500 was not disturbed in the least.
That will all go to prove that not robbery,
but emancipation, was their mission. It was
a daring feat that but few could accomplish.
It was more so at this particular time, when
every stranger in Western Missouri is watch
ed with a suspicious eye, and every neighbor
is on the alert to prevent just what has been
accomplished."
John Brown's Idea of His Position.
The Charlestown correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that John Brown says :
" do not know that I ought to encourage
any attempt to save my life. I am not sure
that it would not be better for me to die at
this time. I am not incapable of error, and
I may be v✓rong ; but I think that perhaps
my objects would be nearer fulfilment if I
should die. I must give it some tbought'—
There is no insincerity about this, you may
be sure. Brown does not value his life ; or
at least, is wholly unmoved at the prospect of
losing it. He is never more firm than at this
moment. The only compunctions he expres
ses are in relation to his management at Har
per's Perry, by which 'he lost not only him
self, but sacrificed his associates. He some
times says that if he had pursued .his.origi
nal plan of immediate escape to the moun
tains, he could never have been taken, for he
and his men had studied the vicinity thor
oughly; and knew it a hundred times - better
than any of the inhabitants. It was,le says,
his weakness in yielding to the entreaties of
his prisoners, and delaying his departure,
that ruined him. `lt was the first time,' are
his words, that I ever lost command of my
self,-and now' I am punished for it.' "
The same correspondent gives the follow
ing account of what Brown's plan really was :
" I have not heard of anybody who, what
ever crimes he may have attributed to Brown,
has doubted his word. Here is his own ac
count of his purpose at Harper's Ferry :
" He had calculated upon, and fully expec
ted to accomplish, a rescue of a great num
ber of slaves. To maintain a warlike position
in Virginia for any definite period was not
his object. The idea of his seizing the armo
ry for the sake of the weapons it contained
he will not admit. •He says he had far bet
ter weapons of his own. His occupying it
at all was a variation from his original de
termination. He had decided to take Col.
Washington and the other prisoners to the
Harper's Ferry bridge, and there to establish
a commanding position, from which he would
insist upon exchanges of slaves for his pris
oners. In case he should have been die
lodged, he would have retreated in haste
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Our Book Table.
to the mountains, with the intricacies of
which he had made himself so much more
familiar than the inhabitants themselves, that
he believed he could defy all attempts to ap
prehend him. Re had supposed that, after
a few days of successful evasion, he would
be joined by hundreds of slaves anxious to
escape, by whose aid he could have perfected
arrangements for an enormous rescue. This,
as I understand it, was his real plan.
" The reason of the change was, he avers,
that as the night of the rising was very se
verely cold, he suddenly concluded to have
the prisoners taken to the armory, where
they would not be exposed to the weather,
anticipating no trouble: in moving on with
them, in case he should not be able to effect
the exchanges with negroes before the gen
eral alarm should spread. Disappointed in
this hope, he had only to fight to the end.
" Some one, the other day, asked Brown
the reason why_ he did not go further South
to make this attempt. He answered that
there were strong objections on the score of
humanity—meaning, as was afterward ex
plained, that the ferocity of the slaves further
South could not have been checked, and that
a great massacre would have been the result."
Thrilling Incident---Heroic Act.
The Hollidaysburg Standard of the 9th
inst., says :
"As one of the freight trains east rounded a
sharp curve, near Barree Siding, on Friday
last, the engineer saw a small child sitting
in the middle of the track, playing, uncon
scious of its danger. He instantly whistled
down brakes and reversed his engine, but the
weight of the train and the high - speed at
which it was running, rendered it impossible
to stop before reaching the child, which must
inevitably have been crushed to death. In
this emergency, when most men would have
stood paralyzed with horror, the conductor of
the train, Daniel McCoy, - with a bravery and
steadiness of nerve that has few parallels, ran
to the front of the engine, crawled down on
the cow-catcher, and, holding himself with
one hand, leaned as far forward as possible,
and as he approached the child, with a sweep
ing blow of the other he threw it off the track.
It was the work of an instant, and required
a steady hand, cool head to accomplish it, but
he was equal to the emergency.
The train was immediately stopped, and
on going back the child was found lying at
the foot of a small embankment, some twenty
or thirty feet from the track of the road, alive
and kicking, but somewhat stunned and bruis
ed. The child belonged to a farmer named
Neff, residing immediately along the road.—
As may well be supposed, the parents were
profuse in their expressions of gratitude to
the noble hearted conductor, but for whom
their child would have been carried to its
home a shapeless mass of flesh and bones.—
All honor to Conductor McCoy—compared
with whose disinterested act of heroism, the
boasted feats of warriors sink into iusignifi
can ce."
Harper's Ferry Trouble
Cook found Guilty of Murder and Insurrec
tion—Motion for a New Trial Over-ruled
—Stevens handed over to the U. S. _Marshal
Time of Execution Fixed.
CIIARLESTOWN, Nov. 1.0, P. M.
The Court remained in session until one
o'clock, when the jury in the case of Cook
rendered a virdict of guilty on the charge of
murder and insurruction. Before the jury
retired to consider upon a verdict, Mr. Vcor
hees delivered a most powerful appeal in fa
vor of the prisoner, which drew tears from
the eyes of the most embittered of his audi
tors. A motion for a new trial for Cook, made
by counsel, was argued, and finally over
ruled by the Judge.
Mr. Harding, the District Attorney, refu
sed to sign a nolle pros. in favor of Stevens,
demanding that be shall be tried by the Vir
ginia State Court. The Court has, however,
handed the prisoner over to the U. S. Mar
shal, paying no attention to the objection of
Mr. Harding.
The Court to-day sentenced Cook, Green,
Coppee and Copeland, to be executed on Fri
day, the 16th day of December. It is sup
posed that Governor Wise will respite Brown,
and execute the whole of the condemned
prisoners on the same day.
From Washington.
Deplorable State of Affairs in Utah—Mur
ders and .Assassinations—N - o Arrests—ln
to:frence, of the Mormons with Justice—
General Johnston Powerless.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Reliable informa
tion, just received from Utah,states that Judges
Sinclair and Cra,ddlebaugh are on their way
to Washington.
Mr. Hartnell, the Secretary of the Terri
tory, arrived here yesterday. It appears that
there continued to be frequent murders and
assassinations, but no arrest are made, as the
Mormons systematically obstruct the course
of justice.
The opinion prevails among the Gentiles
that the Courts will be useless unless the Gov
ernment shall change its policy. Gen. John
ston is so restricted -by instructions that he
cannot move to afford the necessary protec
tion.
The continuance of the army at Camp
Floyd only serves to add to the prosperity of
the Mormons, by means of the large sums
spent in the Territory for supplies.
Later News from Europe.
Loss of the Royal Charter Confirmed—Over
Four Hundred Lives Lost.
NEVT YORK, Nov. I.o.=The steamship City
of Baltimore has arrived. She brings Liver
pool advices of the 27th ult., received at Cork
by telegraph. The toss of the steamer Royal
Charter, from Australia, is confirmed. Near
ly four hundred lives - were lost. -The ship
England, from Liverpool, bound to New Or
leans, was driven ashore during the same
gale, in Holy Head harbor. The Great East
ern rodt out of the gale admirably.
The condition of affairs in Naples was
alarming, and a fight was thought to be pend
ing. Gen. Garabaldi had issued a stirring
proclamation to the Neapolitans.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Oct. 27.—Midnight.
Reporters have arrived here from the wreck
of the Royal Charter. They state that the
vessel struck at two o'clock, and the strain
being too great for her cables, one heroic
sailor swam ashore and made fast a hawser,
by which several lives were saved, and more
might have been rescued had not the vessel
parted in two with a deafening crash.
The passengers and crew were either killed
by the falling mast or perished in the waves.
Four hundred and seventy persons were lost
and thirty-one saved. All the women and
children perished. The bulletin, it is expec
ted, will be recovered. A large number of
wrecks are reported on the English coast
with much - loss of life. No American ves
sels are mentioned.
THE FREE BLACKS OF THE Sour —The
philosophy of the invasion of Harper's Ferry
is well worthy the patient consideration of
the statesman. Its bearing upon the fate of
the free colored population of the South, is
an element of especial importance. This un
fortunate race—always the subject of suspi
cion and excitement in that quarter of the
Union—will find itself greatly imperilled and
harassed by the feeling produced by the raid
of John Brown and his followers. Not only
will the laws of the different Southern States
be made more severe in regard to the slaves
themselves, but it is now apparent that a
system of legislation is to be resorted to look
ing to the speedy expulsion of the free De
grees. Long ago, before such a thing as the
Harper's Ferry tragedy was dreamed of, the
statesman of the south had given this sub
ject their most careful attention. Arkansas
has, I believe, adopted a law compelling the
free negroes to leave the State within a. cer
tain time, or to accept a master should they
refuse to do so. - Two similar bills were pend
ing before the North Carolina Legislature
when that body last adjourned. Maryland
will unquestionably take action upon it, and
Virginia has long been preparing itself for
some extreme and decisive measures in re
gard to it. A late Alabama paper uses the
following language in an appeal to the ap
proaching Legislature of that State to re
move free persons of color from beyond its
borders:
" From their social isolation and irre
sponsibility, free negroes gradually become
desperate and abandoned. The pursuits
and habits of civilivization are repug
nant to the negro nature. very correctly says
the Augusta Dispatch. Contact with the
white man, under the restraints of our in
stitutions, induces a material elevation in
his character, but left to himself the negro
relapses into his normal condition of barbar
ism. Involuntary servitude is the only sphere
in which he can be useful, and evidently the
condition of God intended he should fill in
contact with the Anglo-Saxon race. A free
negro in a slave country is a natural incen
diary. If he commits no overt act of crime
or insubordination, his presence is a perpet
ual incentive to discontent among his breth
ern in bonds."
Where, after their expulsion from the
South, are these unfortunate people to go ?
Of course, into the free States, and several of
these have passed laws prohibiting their ad
mission, whilst nearly all the rest have adop
ted measures by which the free negro is made
inferior in a political sense. In whatever
State they are found, North and South, they
are, in at least one respect—and in some in
many respects—made inferior to the whites
by local legislation; and they are so regar
ded, as we all know, by the common law of
social-life. Thrown into our large cities, af
ter they are forced to leave other States, they
are certain to become a charge upon the com
munity, if not an element inciting to popular
tumult. Thus expelled from the States South,
and after awhile from the States and cities
North, they will be thrown into British Amer
ica and Canada. It requires no prophet to
foretell that the Canadian, Government will
soon rise and insist upon some provision be
ing made for this unfortunate class. Here
now is a question well entitled to the atten
tion of patriotic and benevolent men. In a
very short time it will demand a remedy.—
Occasional.
Important from Blezico.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11.—The steamship
Tennessee has arrived from Vera Cruz, with
dates to the Bth inst.
The exhibition of the Liberals against Te
huacan, Orizaba, and Cordova, had proved a
disastrous failure. General Mejia, without
firing a gun, had retreated, losing six hun
dred men, who were taken prisoners. He
also lost a thousand muskets and twelve can
non, which were captured by Gen. Nunon
without killing a single man.
Marguiza had pronounced in favor of Santa
Anna, after seizing the conducta from the in
terior, with $2,800,000 in specie, which .he
had undertaken to escort to Tepic. He ap
propriated $600,000 for himself, and detained
the rest at Guanajuato. The British and
french ministers had energetically protested
against this seizure.
Miramon, against the wishes of his Cabi
net, accompanied by only four aids-de-camp,
had left the capital, ostensibly to collect - troops
and pursue Marquiza, but it is feared that
Miramon was leagued with Marquiza, and
the Liberals are greatly encouraged thereby.
General Dogollado had defeated Alford,
captured his artillery, and entered€-Guanaju
ato with 5,000 men.
General Woll was at Legros, and General
Degollado was pursuing him.
Rio Grande City, in Texas, has been at
tacked by a portion of Cortinae' band, who
pillaged nearly every house.
It is reported that the two bands of Corti
nas now number seven hundred men. The
people of Brownsville are greatly distressed.
The mails have been interrupted by Cortinas,
and he threatens to destroy the town, and cut
off and murder all the reinforcements sent to
its relief.
Destructive Fire's in Mifflin County.
LEWISTOWN, Nov. 12, 1859.—The commu
nity of Reedsville, five miles north of this
place, has been thrown into a panic by the
frequent fires they have had during several
nights this week. The first occurred on Tues
day night, by the burning of a large barn
belonging to Mr. Reed, early in the evening,
which was filled with valuable grain, stock,
&c. As the fire had subsided, most of the
people then went to their, homes, when an
other fire was seen in a barn not more than
sixty yards from the first, which was also
consumed, defying all human efforts to stop
the devouring elements. This was also well
filled with valuable products. On Wednes
day night, notwithstanding the. vigilance of
the farmers watching in this vicinity, at 10
o'clock another barn, a short distance from
the latter, was fired and consumed, with a
largo quantity of grain, stock, &c. The loss
in these was not less than ten thousand
dollars—besides the tenants who lose their
all.
On Thursday night, a large, well organized
Vigilance Committee, was on the watch until
five o'clock in the morning, when they thought
all danger would be past for the night ; but
they had scarcely returned when the alarm
of fire again aroused this frighted people, by
the burning of a stable of Mr. Reed's. All
this is evidently the work of an infamous
scoundrel, and for what purpose no one can
conceive, as there has been no plundering
done as yet. The citizens have offered a re
ward of $lOOO, for the arrest and conviction
of the fiend or fiends.
fie' Materials for Flowers, handsomely
assorted in boxes, just received and for sale
at Lewis' Book Store.
Sac' When Thomas Cunningham, Esq., of
Beaver, Pa., went to Kansas, under an ap
pointment as U. S. Judge, in passing a set
tlement he met old Ossawattomie Brown, who
had just arrived with half a dozen pro-slavery
prisoners, captured while in arms to assail
the Free State settlers. Among them were
several slaveholders, who were discharged by
Brown, (as Gov. %Vise promised to discharge
Gerrit Smith,) with a lecture, as poor igno
rant devils, who knew no better ; then, turn
ing to the "Northern men with Southern
principles, he remarked : "As for you fel
lows, who ought to know better, having been
brought up in the free North, I must ask the
Lord what I shall do with you !" Where
upon the stern old man commenced a prayer
to the Almighty, asking his aid, that he might
so dispose of these prisoners as to best pro
mote the Free State cause, &c., in the midst
of which Judge Cunningham, after vain at
tempts at restraiying it, burst into a fit of
laughter. In a moment Brown ceased pray
ing, and turning his piercing eyes upon the
offender, remarked ; " And if you don't stop
laughing, I shall dispose of Wu, sir, without
asking the lord anything about it!" It is
unnecessary to say that the "honorable Court"
resumed its accustomed grave demeanor, and
that the subsequent proceedings of John
Brown's "drum-head court martial !" were
marked with "no levity" so far as Judge
Cunningham was concerned, as it is probable
the commission he held from James Buchan
an would have elicited as little respect from
John Brown as one with Brown's signature
does now in Virginia. Whether this inci
dent had aught to do with Judge Cunning
ham's resignation, which soon followed it,
we are not informed.—Pittsburgh, Dispatch.
Vir On Friday night week, a negro man,
belonging to Washington Waller, Esq., of
Somerset county, Md., was shot dead by a
patrol of white men, in Dames Quarter dis
trict. The circumstances, as we learn from
the Union, were substantially as follows :
" On Thursday night, an alarm of insur
rection and murder was given at a meeting
house in the neighborhood The congrega
tion were at prayers at the time the alarm
was given. The prayers were forgotten, and
the utmost confusion and excitement pre
vailed. The benches were broken up for
clubs, and with these, and such weapons as
the men could obtain at the time, they scour
ed the neighborhood, but finding nothing on
which to vent their indignation, they dis
persed, still under great excitement. The
following night a patrol was organized, and
with guns, clubs, and other weapons, they
proceeded, under great excitement, to search
the huts of the the free negroes in the neigh
borhood; at one of these huts the unfortu
nate negro was found. He was attempting
to escape when fired upon by the crowd, who
mistook him for an insurgent. The shot
pierced his back, taking effect in his lungs
and bowels, and producing instant death."
Startling News from Texas.
NEW ORLEANS, 1N V. 12.
The Delta of this city publishes, a letter da
ted Corpis Christi, Nov. 7th, which says that
it is almost certain that the town of Browns
ville has fallen into the hands of Cortinas.—
The Mexican flag was flying four miles above
the town. All communication had been cut
off. The entire poliulation on both sides of
the Rio Grande were in arms, with the inten
tion of exterminating the Americans, and re-,
conquering the country to the Colorado river.
The news is confirmed by the affidavits of cit
izens of Cameron county, who were obliged
to fly for their lives. Another affidavit says
the frontier of the Rio Grande is in a state of
war. Cortinas is sustained by the Mexican
population. Earnest appeals are made for
aid by the Americans. EWity men were
advancing to the relief of Brownsville, but
they will have to encounter seven hundred of
Cortinas' men. Col. Robert E. Lee succeeds
Gen. Twiggs in the command of the military
department in Texas.
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