AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
JOHN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor.
CARLISLE, PA., NOV. 10, 1859.
jjy Wu have been requested to. state that all
persons having Administration or Guardianship
accounts to settle at December Court, must have
them filed., in the Register’s Office, on or before
the 19th of this month.
Death *op P. A. Matebr.— F. A. Matbee,
Esq., a much respected and useful citizen of
Mechanicsburg, died ot his residence, in that
boiough, on'the 28th ult.
Cosmopolitan Art Association.— Don’t
fill to see the “’6th AnuuSl Announcement,”
and brilliant offers, in another column.
Don't forget to contribute your share in aid
of the Washington National Monument when
you call at the Post Office.' v
flaowN, the Insurgent. —On our Brst page
will be found-an account of the last day’s pro
ccedings in the trial of Beown, the leading in
surrectionist at RRrper’a Ferry. It will be seen
that he has been found guilty, and was sentenc
ed to be hanged' 1 on Friday, the 2d of next
month. Previous tifliis sentence .the prisoner
delivered a. speech, Which wo also publish.—
Poor “Old Ossaroatumie!” We really pity
him. His sentence is a just one, but yet we
cannot forget tlmt he was urged on in his work
of insurrectionfoy others who were too Coward
ly themselves to share with him the perils of
the enterprise. Thousands of leading Republi
cans—those who preached up treason for years
.—deserve hanging before the brave, bold, da
ring old enthusiast.
Lectures by Park Benjamin. —Mr. Park
Benjamin of New york, will deliver two Lec
tures in RheeraVHall, the first on, the evening
'of the 24th hast., (Thanksgiving day,) and the.
second on the evening following. Subject for
first Lecture—“Fashionfor second Lecture
—“Ridicu'e and the Ridiculous in Life.” Mr.
Benjamin, as our readers are aware, is emi
nent as a lecturer, and we have no doubt he
will command a full house at each lecture.
Taken to- Virginia for Trial.— Oh Sat
urday last, Harrison, alias Haslett, who had
been in our prison for the two weeks previous,
on the charge of having, participated in the
Harper’s Ferry insurrection, was again brought
• before Judge Graham, on a writ of habeas cor
■ pus.
Judge Watts, counsel for the Slate of Vir
ginia, presented a second warrant from the
Governor of Pennsylvania, upon a requisition
of the Governor of Virginia, for the delivery of
w fugitive from justice, whose name was not
known,- but who called himself William Har
rison. The counsel for the prisoner, Messrs.
Miller; Shearer and Sharpe, asked that the
prisoner he again remanded to pur prison for
two weeks,- by- which time, they hoped, they
alleged! to be able-to prove him innocent of the
charge prefered-against him.- Judge Watts
resisted this motion, and'-took the ground that
the had'had'amplU time
- to prove "that ho had’not been at harper* Ferry
oh the day of the outbreak. After considerable
discussion pro and con, by the attorneys, Judge
Bn a'ham stated that he would consider thecase
and render bis decision in the course'of ah
hour.
: Judge Graham,- in the course of- an hour,
filed the following opinion, stating- the- reasons
for not continuing the case, and issued his war
rant to the Sheriff, in pursuance of the warrant
directed to him by the Governor of Pennsylva
nia, for the delivery of the prisoner to the agent
appointed by the Governor of Virginia:
In the matter of tho warrant issued by the
Governor of Pennsylvania, upon the requisition
of the Governor of Virginia, for the delivery of
Win. Harrison, as a fugitive from justice, to
Wm. N. Kelley, the Agent appointed r by the
Governor ol Virginia. 1,6
The counsel for the prisoner ask for a contin
nance of.tbo hearing to a future day, “ on the
ground that on the 27th October,. 1859, bis
counsel addressed a letter to one A. ~W . Knapp
and Marion Andros, at Holton, llipley county,
Indiana, at 'the request of the prisoner, stating
that tho prisoner was detained hero as one of
the Barper’-s Ferry insurgents 5 and that lie ox.
peots.to prove by him the said A. W. Knapp
and others, that he could not have been at Har
per’s Ferry at that time, and requesting him to
come on hero immediately.”
A continuance is objected to by the counsel
for the State of Virginia, as per objections re
dnoed-tO'writicg.
On a former hearing before us, when the pri
soner was committed' to the custody of the
Sheriff of this county, it was proved by three
witnesses that the prisoner was at Harper’s Fer
ry acting with an armed band that attacked and
took possession of Harper’s Ferry, on tho 16th,
JTth, and 18th of Octobor, 1859, and at that
-time murdered divers citizens of the State of
Virginia. Two of tho witnesses swore positive
ly to the identity of the prisoner, and the third
tftat ho saw him passing and re-passing on the
street, armed, to the best of his judgment
aSad belief.
.' IVe are not called to, pass on tho guilt of-the
prisoner; that question must bo decided by tho
proper tribunal of the State of Virginia. The
only-question before ,us is one of identity. The
prisoner when first arrested stated his name was
Wat. Harrison, and bad a writ of Habeas Cor
pus granted by that name. IVm. Harrison is
the person named in tho warrant issued by the
Governor.of Pennsylvania upon the requisition
of the Governor of Virginia, accompanied with
affidavits of citizens of Virginia, charging him
With.boing one of the armed band aforesaid.
Does tho ground upon which a continuance is
asked, 1 ofihr to disprove tho evidence of identity
before us? In substanco.it is, that prisoner
expects to prove, by A. W. Knapp and others,
that ho could not have been-at Harper’s Ferry
at the time mentioned.
• It is not stated that ho can prove by A. W.
Knapp and others an alibi—that he was in In.
dfana, or saw the persons named on tho ‘days
mentioned, nor is there any offer toprovewhere
he was on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of October
last. The prisoner has boon in custody of the
Sheriff for fourteen days, and ample time has
transpired to enable him to bemrepared to prove
where he was at the time tho outrage was perpe
trated at Harper’s Ferry, if he was not there. —
Bat, after the lapse of two weeks a continuance
Is asked! not upon an allegation of positive
proof which he can adduce, but upon an expec
tation that he can prove he could not hare been
there. Tho prisoner certainly knows where ho
was and who he saw on the days mentioned, or
some of the days, but he does not offer to prove
nor mehtion in his offer whore he was on tho
three days in October. The ground upon which
a'continuance is asked Is too vagne and iridefl
nite. r ...
■The identity of the prisoner being satisfacto
rily proved, wo consider it our duty to issue n
warrant for his delivery to the agent appointed
by the Governor of Virginia, in pursuance of
thro warrant issued by the Governor of Pennsyl
vania. J. H. Graham,
6th Nov. 1859. Pres’t. Judge.
The prisoner was therefore surrendered to the
authorities of Virginia, and. accompanied by
four officers, took the 3 o’clock train of cars,
via Obatubersburg.
K 7" Wolves may lose their teeth, but, not
their nature. .... -
BOOMED BALTIMORE.
In another column will be found an account of
thp bloody doings of the Knolv Nothing rowdies
of Baltimore on the day of the late election 1 ih
that doomed city. ’The cold-blooded murdCrs'
perpetrated on that day, and the oiolusion’ of
hundreds and thousands of legal voters from the
polls, furnish melancholy evidence that Balti
more is still the victim of the mob, and yet this
state of things is but. the legitimate fruit of
Know-Npthingism, as shown not only in Balti
more, but in New Orleans, Louisville, and oth
er places whore the clubs of the“ dark lantern”
order have the ascendancy. The leaders in these
outrages upon order, law, and legitimate govern
ment, profess to' be Americans, and yet their
acts prove them to he the worst enemies of our
institutions and the rights guaranteed by the
Constitution to all American citizens, as well
native as naturalized.
That such deeds of violence and outrage are
continued and repeated, as they have been year
after year in Baltimore, is a disgrace not only
upon that city and its official authorities, but
upon the whole State of Maryland; Ossawata
mie Brown’s movement at Harper’s Ferry, vio
lent, murderous, and treacherous as it was, ex
ceeds but little if anything, in enormity, the do.
ings ofKnoW-Nothingisminßaltimorei and yot
Brown and'hislellow-traitors will be punished,
as the law decides they should be, while the
Know-Nothing traitors arid' murderers in Balti
more, will, in all probability, by the connivance
of magistrates and judgearuled by the order, be
permitted'to escape.
. And why this’state of things in Baltimore ?
Simply, because the people of that city, when
Know-Nothiugisra first reared its hydra head in
their midst, gave “ aid and comfort” to the do.
spicdble and God-defying faction, instead of put
ting their heel of condemnation upon the head of
the young monster and crushing it in tho earth.
“ Anything-to-beat-the-Democratio-party” was
their motto then, and they succeeded. They
did beat the Democratic party, and in doing so
they bathed their city in blood. Then it was a
war upon naturalized citizens and Catholics i
now it is a war upon decency, for no Baltimoriau
Who is jealougpf his character, will acknowledge,
himself a Enow-Nothing. Yes!—the people of
Baltimore, embracing hundreds and thousands
of its best citizens, are directly responsible for
the state of things now existing in their beauti
tifiil but almost ruined city. Had they, when
this Thug faction first organized, sot their faces
against it and its teachings, how easily could
they have pul it down? But no!—they aided
and encouraged and voted the Know-Nothing
ticket. The.pulpits even were made to resound
with denunciations of foreigners and Catholics;-
and smooth-faced, oily-tongued hypocrite, who
desired to bo considered preachers of the word
of-God, were seen to sneak like cowards and
culprits to tho dark allej-s,to meet the “Blood
Tubs” the “Ping Dglies” and other theives,
murderers, and villains, in a Know-Nothing
meeting. These preachers, in Baltimore and
elsewhere, who engaged in the Know-Nothing
movement—which was. nothing more nor less
than a moye against the peace of the people and
the country—these preachers, wo say, by par
ticipating with and encouraging the rabble, com
mitted a sin against God and man, that they
never can preach away. Poor Baltimore I Set
toy be in ashes than in her present condition.—
The right of suffrage is denied ojjd prevented—
those who attemp\~to exercise if arc shot down
in their tracks, —the very spirit of freedom is
trampled upon and destroyed. Ting is the way
"Americana rule-America;” Where are such
things to end? If notsuppressed by the strong
arm of the law these riotous outrages will soon
destroy our dearest liberties.
One of the reporters, of the American narrates
hia experience in collecting returns of the elec
tion, showing'the absolute and unrestrained
dominion of the rowdies.' He says:
A Reporter's Exf eribncb. —Reporting yes
terday was not at all pleasant, especially to
those who represented papers opposed to the
peculiar style in which elections in Baltimore
are managed in these days. A single instance
of the experience of one of our reporters is worth
relating. His errand was to obtain the returns
from the Twelllh Ward. After knocking for
some time at the door of the house in which the
polls were held, it was at last opened, and in
reply to his request for the returns, he was in
formed with an oath that they were not ready.
Whilst this parley was going on, two “ roughs”
approached the reporter and inquired.his busi
ness. To the reply that he was a reporter, he
was told that he rausn’t breeze so, that he
could'nt come it in that way.” A demand was
then made that he should treat the crowd, and
his generosity excited by a puncture with an
awl; The reporter refused to “ treat,” and
pistols and knives were drawn to intimidate
him. Whilst the reporter tvas endeavoring to
escape from his. unwelcome company, a larger
party came up and inviled.his captors to take
a drink. This invitation they complied with,
and taking their prisoner with them, they ad
journed to a neighboring tavern. Here the re
porter found two policemen and began to feel
seriously alarmed. Soon a dispute arose bo
tween the party, and two of them stripped for
a fight, one of them handing his arms to a po
lice officer who was sitting by the stove. In
the confusion' that ensued the reporter got out
of the house, glad'to escape without compromi
sing his dignity by paying for his captors’ li-
quor, or getting his head- broke. Whilst en
joying the company of his captors, one of them
informed him that he had voted only seventeen
times in the Eleventh Ward: After leaving the
tavern, our reporter admits that he made the
“ best lime” on record between the Twelfth
Ward polls and the American office.
After gaining this great triumph over order
ly and quiet citizens, the rowdies were congrat
ulated by Henry Winter Davis and other Ame
rican leaders, upon the great “ victory” they had
achieved!
Notwithstanding the election of ten American
members of the House of Delegates by violence
in the city of Baltimore, it appears that the De
mocrats have carried the Legislature, which
will elect a United States Senator in place of
the Hon. James A. Pearce. The Exchange es
timates that the Democratic majority in the
Senate will be five, and in the House of Dele
gates twenty-five.
Autumn-and its lessons are beautifully
pictured in the foliowingstanza which just now
catches-our eye in the columns ol a contempo
rary :
<‘ The loaves grow golden with the sun j
Gods glory enters every one.
And gilds it with a heavenly guise;
So may we, while the season dies,
Grow purer by its own pure skies I”
As we write, the subjoined apropos lament of
a horizontal loafer—a sarody on lira. Heemans’
well-known linos—turns up in another of our
exchanges t
“Loaves have their time to fall,
And likewise so have I;
The reason too’s the same—
It comes of getting dry,
But hero’s the difference
Twixt leaves and mo;
I falls more harder
And more frequently.”
That lament deserves to be perpetuated.
“Americans Ruling America.”
If any greater outrage could bo committed
by the party at Baltimore which rules that city
by the brute force of rowdies and bludgeons, it
is the attempt .of the organs of Ping Ugly ism
to attribute flio disturbances at..the polls to the
Reformefa'. This is part of the plot by means
of which they expedt to ward off crushing
blows of public opinion against them. The tos-
timy, however, is too decided to be outweighed
by bold assertions. Tho testimony of the most
reliable and respectable portion, ot the press of
Baltimore is against tho American party. The
Baltimore American has always been an Oppo
sition newspaper, and until recently a supporter
of the dominant party in the city, and it says,
on the morning after the election : “The elec
tion yesterday can he justly termed nothing but
an outrage—an outrage against decency, against
law, and against ail rights, public and private.
The city was given up to the control of lawless
ruffianism,-supported ahd encouraged by tho
police, and approved of and urged. on by the
recognized leaders of tho American party.—
Armed bands of lawless Characters held posses
sion of nearly all the polling places—tho efforts
which the friends of a fair and legal election
made to preserve order were treated as acts of
riot, and tho only arrests made by the police
were of respectable and well known citizens,,
whoso whole lives are the guarantee of their
obedience to the.lawS. Every species of fraud,
every degree of ruffianism, and every violation
of sworn duty, was used to defeat .the express
siori of, tho will of the people. Bands of men;
whose looks bespoke their character, rude in
omnibuses and carriages Irom one poll to tho
other, voting.without check at each.. Tho ac
cumulated disgrace and shame of tho scene was
painful to contemplate, and wo can scarcely
control our own feelings to write of it with any
degree of calmness.”
In so mo parts ol Virginia meetings have
been called to appoint vigilance committees, and
to petition the .Legislature to give the border
counties a corps ol armed men, officered and
paid by life State, whoso sole duty it shall be to
guard tho property of citizens, arrest suspected
persons, and exercise a rigid police
It is to- be regretted that there should exist a
necessity for such precautions as these; though,
if adopted, the security against abolition inroads
would undoubtedly bo increased. 1 That-condi
tion of society must bo far (rom enviable, which
is constantly apprehensive of invasions from
kidnappers and lunatics. Those who are dis
posed to ridicule tho fears of the Virginians,
would appreciate their feelings better were they
in the same situation. In unwelcome proximi-,
fy to those whose consciences and Instructions
make it morally right to steal slave property,
the slaveholder has greater anxiety than we
should have .hero at the North, were.burglary
legalized by statute. That the causes foralarm
may be mostly imaginary, does not affect tho
case. Unknown dangers are more dreaded
than those which are apparent.
03~ Gov. Willard, of Indiana, says a Char
lestown (Va.) correspondence of. the Baltimore
Sun, visited his brother-in-law j Cook, on the
28thult., in jail, in company with Senator Ma
son. Mr. Mason, proposed to the Governor to
retire when the latter entered, suggesting that
ho would probably prefer that his interview
should be private, and also for the reason that
anything Coojr migbjt shopld/ieel bound'
to teilify to if called, upon as a witness. Gov.'
Willard very promptly replied that ho himself
would he a witness in court to any facts Cook
might communicate, and insisted that Mr. Ma
son should bo present. Gov. Willard urged
Cook to make a full confession of all ho know
connected with tho affair at Harper’s Ferry, in
order to exonerate those who were innocent,
and to punish those who were implicated, as the
only atonement he could now make. Cook sig
nified his willingness to do so, and he will pro
bably makoa written confession. He told Cook
ho had nothing to hope for, but death. . Gov.
Willard states that his family had lost sight of
Cook for several years, and supposed be was
dead, Until upon reading his name in the p’apers
he determined to visit Charlestown to ascertain
if ho was his relative. Mrs. Willard, ho states,
is in great distress at tho conduct of her brother.
"Captain Cook.” —The Hartford (Conn.)
Currant, the lending black organ in Connect!’
cut, of Septembr 1, 1856, thus spoke of Cook,
Brown’s‘chief aid in the Harper’s Ferry affair:
“John E. Cook, Esq., a lawyer from Lawrence,
Kansas, is expected in town to day, and will
speak at Touro Hall this upon the
wrongs and the wants of Kansas. Mr. Cook
went from lladdani to Kansas, and while there
has made himself perfectly familiar with the
movements of both parlies. He starts for Kan
sas on Thursday, at the head of a brave band
of men, who go prepared to defend themselves
from attack, and to give the ruffians an oppor
tunity, if they can or dare, to earn the reward
of eleven hundred dollars which has been offered
for his scalp. We are assured that he is a
brave, fearless man, and defies them. Let there
be a grand rally to hear the truth.”
CCT’It is ascertained that, under the' laws of
Virginia, the Governor cannot pardon a person
convicted of treason to the Commonwealth, ex
cept with the consent of the General Assembly,
declared by joint resolution. This rids Gover
nor Wise of all responsibility in the matter of
the insurrectionist Brown. What the Legisla
ture will do is not known.
Mysterious Disappearance op a Clergyman
and a Grass Widow— The Eev. Mr. Keosoy,
pastor of the United Brethren Church of Grefcns
burg, left his homo on the 19lh of October, to
assist a brother at Altoona. Since then' he has
not been heard of. It is ascertained that ho did
not go to Altoona, and the most painful appre
hensions are felUbwhis wife and friends on bis
account. MthKeeaby is said to be anable and
popular preacher, happy in his family relations,
and no man was more prudent and circumspect
in his deportment. He has a wife and live
children, to whom ho was a most kind and af
fectionate husband and father. For some days
before bo left, he appeared to bo gloomy and in
deep trouble. Simultaneous with his leaving
home, a very handsome and fascinating young
grass widow also disappeared in a mysterious
manner; The disappearance ol the grass widow
on the same day that Mr, Keesey loft has thrown
a dark cloud around the circumstance, and filled
the hearts of bis wife and children with unal
loyed anguish.-
0“ The last Thursday in November, the
24th of the month, will be observed as Thanks
giving in fifteen States, namely: Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Alabama, South
Carolina, North Carolina, and Minnesota.—
Thus far the same day has been fixed upon in
all the States where the festival has been ap
pointed.
Indian Sommer.
Arcportorial brother, describing tho splen
dors of tho Autumnal season, says of Indian
Summer that it is Nature’s ‘‘sober second
thought.” A veil of golden gauze trails through
the air; the woods, in dishabille, ore gay with
the hectic flushes of the Fall: and the ■ bright
Sun, relented, comes meekly back again, as if
he would' not go to Capricorn. He has a kind
ly look : he no. longer dazzles one's eyes out,
but has sunset softness in his face, and fairly
blushes at the trick ho meditated. Round, red
Sun 1 rich ruby in the jewelry 'of God! sets as
big as the woods ; and. Ten acres of forest, in
the distance, are relieved upon; the great disc
a rare device upon a glorious medallion. The
sweet south wind has come again, and breathes
softly through the woods, till they rustle like a
banner of crimson arid gold ; and waltzes gaily
with the dead leaves that strew the ground, and
whirls them quite awaysometimes, in its frolic,
over the fields andfthe fences, and into the
brook, in whose little eddies they loiter on the
way, arid never get down to the sea at all. And
with the sun and the wind, here are the birds
once more. A bluebird warbles near the house,
as it used to do; tho sparrows arc chirping in
the bushes, and, tho jftrood-robins' flicker like
flakes of fire through |he trees. Now and then,
a crimson or yellow winnows its way slow
ly down, -through tbi smoky light, and the
sound of dropping riots is heard in the still
woods. Tho brook; *( hat a little while ago,
stole along in the shadow, rippling softly round
the boughs that trailed idly in its waters, now
twinkles all the way, on its journey, down to
the lake. It is the Saturday night of Nature
and the Year. There is nothing more to be
done; everything is pocked op; the wardrobe
of Spring arid Summer is all folded in those
little russet and rudlfcases, and laid away here
and there, some in the water, and some flung
upon the bosom of the winds, and lost, ns we
say—but after all, no more lost than is the.lit
tle infant, when, laid upon a pillow, it is rock
eted and swung, this .way"and that, in the arms
of a careful mother, So the dying, smiling
Year, is all ready lo go. But how :much bet
ter than we can ever tell it, is this, which is
itself two stanzas of an Indian Sumrner:
There is a time just when the frost
Prepares to pave old Winter’s way.
When Autumn in n reverie lost.
The mellow dgylimc dreams away ;
When Summer comes in musing mind,
To gaze onco’.tiiore on hill and dell,'
To mark how many sheaves they bind.
And see if all are ripened well.
With ba'my breath she whispers low.
The dying flowers look up and give
Their sweetest incense ere they go,
For her who made their beauties live.
She enters nealh the woodland's shade,
Her zephyrs lift the lingering leaf,
And bear it gently where are laid
The loved and lost one’s of its grief.
At last old,Autumn, rising, tabes
Again his scepter and his throne,.
With boisterous hand the tree he shakes,
Intent on gathering all his own." • ■
Sweet Summer sighing, flies the plain.
And waiting Winter, gaunt and grim,
Sees miser Autumn hoard his grain,
And Smilcsjo think it's all for him. ;
* Get Kkadv fob tub “Census Man .”—Next
yeat, says thtAjSLnmcga. Agriculturalist, will
of the United States,
j made by the ulpS«9#Jovornment. Persons
I will ba apjjoinlodjfor ovary locality In tbo States
and Territories to gather statistics of the inha
bitants, and ot all the agricultural productions,
manufactures, &c. Every cultivator wil) be
asked for a concise, accurate statement of land
occupied by him; the number of acres and (he
amount of each crop raised during the year end
ing Juno, &o. Those who were called upon in
1850 will doubtless’ remember the difficulty ex
perienced in making up an accurate report 0/
the various crops. As these reports will be
called for in June, it will be necessary to give
in the crops gathered this year, and the sugges
tion that we would now make is, that cultiva.
tors write down', while fresh in mind, tho"num
ber of acres under culfifiitibnV including the
wheat,’ Sc*., alfeatfy gathered. The number of
acres of each kind, the amount . per acre, and
the gross amount Will be required. The milk
products alsoj an4,the amount of pork, beef,
&0., will also be afire d for.
Republican
of Vermont, at a rii
following resolution
OCtbine.—The Republicans
icent convention, adopted the
Resolved, That e ;ery true anti-slavery Amer
ican is imperative y bound to labor, “ with
might and main,”lor the toial and immediate
abolition'of American slavery, either through
the instrumentality or over "the rhins of the
United Slates Constitution.
This is about a, faithful translation into plain
language of Mr. Seward’s “ irrepressible con
flict” doctrine, uptih which the Republicans
generally are requilVdlto stand. “Old Brown”
and his-coadjutors, in their recent efforts at
Harper’s Ferry, labored "with might and main”
to give practical effect to this doctrine, but he
wits basely dcscrted‘in the hour of need by his
B’ack flepublioan friends, who now coolly turn
round and taunt hitfi with being ‘ demented."
“ Old Ossawattomia,” in the fullness of his
heart,.may well exclaim, “preserve mefrommy
friends.”"-.'
John P. Warreni the wife-murderer, whose
escape from Tolland county jail, some two
months and a-half since, was the cause of gen
eral excitement in that part of Connecticut, has
at last been found and secured. He was dis
covered under his father's barn in Mansfield.
O' At Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, 27th
ult.,_two men were buried to the depth of 20
feet, by-the caving in of the embankment of a
sewer which they were digging. They were
rescued alive after about four hours’inhumation
A late Utah city paper mentions the ar
rival of a company of European saints,' who
came in fifty-six wagons, and numbered about
four hundred souls, mostly from Scandanavia.
There were six-deaths and three births on their
journeyof‘three monthsihrough thefiountry.
O' A-ftital duel was-fought on-the Bth ult.,
in tho vicinity of' Columbus,. Miss., between
Mr. Moore, a merchant of Greensborough, Ala.,
and a Dr; Wiley. Tho latter was shot through
the head and killed instantly.
O' The Frec-lovers have - emigrated from
California, and’purohased’frony the San Salva
dor Government it tract of some 30,000 acres of
good arable land, at twelve and a-balf cts. per
acre, for $0,250.
Mdeder jut York i
ago, Mr. Wm. Weakj
township, York coun|
Noel Kelcbaugh, and i
died. We learn that
rested' and committed
Is par Self-Governing System a Failure ?
The dreadful scenes enacted at the election In
Baltimore on the 2d instant, have awakened
tho good men of all parties to the necessity of
taking vigorous measures to prevent a repeti
tion of them. The Washington States of the
3d inst., asks the question, “Is our self-govern
ing system a failure ?” and replies thus to its
own question:
“As far as concerns Maryland, yes—assur
edly yes. The continued risnrpalion of the
noils by systemized mobocracy in Baltimore—
more formidablb and more ferocious yesterday
than ever-stabs fatally in that city the great
bulwark of American liberty. The ballot-box
yesterday was palpably violated—the freedom
of the polls turned into mockery. Law was de
rided withimpunity. 'Crime, its fingers dip
ping with innocent blood, was majestic and in
solent. . . . .
‘•Davis and Harris will appear again at the
bar of tbo House to lake their oaths as repre
sentatives'of two Congressional districts. Are
they virtually such representatives? Can they
be regarded otherwise than the mere instru
ments of the most remorseless mobocracy that
ever disgraced Christendom ?
“If the times were not so deplorably out of
mint, there would not be a member of , the
House that would extend to cither tho right
hand of fellowship, nor a hotel or private man
sion that would be open for their reception.
They would bo met at the threshold of every
circle which they might attempt to epter with
tho indignant expression, quit
my sight!’ Practically,Davis and Harris will
no more represent constituencies in the next
Congress than if they had been designated
members of that body by the Emperor of Rus
sia.”
It seems that the Baltimore roughs were as
sisted in their outlawry by delegations from
Washington. The States says:. .
“It,has been well known ifor two or three
days that rowdies left this city, who were not
citizens of Maryland, to take part in the Balti* 1
more election ; and if the ‘election’ held there
yesterday is any indication of their manage
ment, they have been quite successful. Our
city police, however, determined to see who
they were, and Oaptain Goddard and Lieuten
ant Thomas, together with others of the police,
were at the depot last night on the arrival of
the Baltimore trains to mark these interferes.
But it is io be regretted that Conductor Collins
deemed it necessary 10 stop I the. express train
in the deep cut between thjs city and Bladens
burg, and allow some seventy men to gefout
and come to the city through the woods, and
across the country. This proceeding is unu
sual, for the express train stops at but two
stations between here and Baltimore, and will
not stop at any other for passengers, and much
less on the road between two stations to take
on or let off passengers. In this instance- the
general rule was violated, and the ends of jus
tice somewhat defeated. .
“The police were determined to see who these
fellows were, in order to be on. the lookout for
them here, and to arrest such as were suspected
of carrying concealed weapons, or having left
the city for the purpose of interfering in the
Baltimohe election.. Some of the party remain
ed in the cars and came to the depot. A few
searches were accordingly made, and others
attempted: . In one case of the latter descrip
tion the suspected man took to his heels, but,
being hotly pursued by an officer, dropped, in
his flight, a horse pistol, yery heavily loaded,
and 0 most villianous knife, with an edge al
most as keen ns a razor, and shaped for deeds
of murder. Both weapons were picked up, and
are now in the hands of the police. The pistol
showed that it had been frequently fired. .
“This is a slight indication of the manner
these fellows were armed, and the. way they
could easily afiect the peace of this city. It is
to be haped that; through the instrumentality
of the-flpliwv awre cJ-fegv-«Tay ■
summaSiiy dealt with. The manner in'which
rho character of our city has been defended by
those iif authority, ought to be sufficient warn
ing to tall desperadoes not to attempt any of
their‘Plug Ugly’warfare here. It is cert Sin
to be crushed put in its inception.”
J. Watson Webb. —During the last Presi
dential contest, this important Republican lea
der used the following language:
f‘ On the action of this (the republican) con
vention depends the fate of the country; if the
republicans fail at the ballot box, we will be
forced to drive back the slaveocraoy With fire
and sword:
Now that the fruits of Webb's incendiary
doctrine are apparent in the Ferry insurrection,
and'the consequences stare him in the face, he
gives utterance to the “ sober second thought.’,’
Webb now says:
“ Hang Brown and his associates, and all sane
persons who may be rightfully convicted of ha
ving aided or abetted their criminal attempt
upon the peace of a sovereign State. Nor is
this all; wo would through all future time pun
ish it by hanging every invividual, who may
hereafter directly or indirectly, aid in any at
tempt to interfere with the Constitutional rights
of the South'in'relation to slavery, where it con
stitutionally exists. ”
Tub Owners op tub Sharpe’s Rifles.—
The Chambersburg Times of the 4th inst. coo
tains the following paragraph:
We have been told that three men Were in
town begging'for bread, the night after the
Sharpe’s rifles were fonnd in Beaty’s wood ;
add-who wire undoubtedly fugitives. They
were almost starved, and devoured gluttonous
ly the provisions which a good woman set be
fore them. They alleged that they had slept
in the woods the previous night, and had woke
up in the'morning frozpn to the ground. The
appearance of their clothing indicated this, as
leaves, moss, etc., were yet adhering to them.
The morning following a farmer in Green town
ship, saw three men bearing a wounded com
rade from his barn. The general belief here is.
that this party belonged to Cook, and that the
wounded man was one of Brown’s sons, whom
they had carried from Harper's Ferry.
Old Brown.—Forney’s Press —a paper the
Republican journals so frequently quote from—
thus speaks of Capt. Brown, the leader in the
Harper’s Ferry insurrection:
Old Brown is a bravo, chivalrous, self-sacri
ficing, deluded man. With just capacity
enough to comprehend the value of freedom to
the race, and none to understand tho relative
interests of human society, ho entered upon his
work at Harper’s Ferry, never doubting his
success, and never dreaming for a moment that
more would be required than the simple pro
mulgalion of his well arranged Provisional Gov
ernment. The old man has committed a capi
tal ofience against the ancient Commonwealth
of Virginia. Ho has raised the standard of re
bellion ; he has organized and put in force a
servile insurrection. The proof is conclusive
'that this wild sheme has been long the cherished
purpose of his life. He had disclosed it in many
places and to many persons, and sought the
counsel and aid of his former associates in the
interest of anti.slavery. He had been employed
in the work of the latter in Kansas and else
where. They were engaged in politics, making
use of the-slavery agitation; poor old Brown,
more honest, believed in the justice and human
ity of the cause, rthd went straight forward to
put in forcO-its principles. They had concoc
ted a theory of freedom, with high sounding is
sues. the advocacy of, which was,to win them,
the name and character of philanthropists, with
out inking upon themselves eiiher the burdens
of their enforcement or the labors and risk of
their practical application, John Brown was
the victim of their false and hollow professions.
!ounty.—A short time
/, of Lower Cbanceford
v, was stabbed by one
[ter lingering sotrie days,
lalcbaugh has been ar
il trial.
Li
General Pierce—The Concord.(N. H.)
Patriot states that under no possible circum
stances will Gen. Pierce allow his name to go
before the Charleston Convention' as a candi
date for President.'
*~r: ‘V'" V"*-
The Maryland Election!
Great Excitemcht at Baltimore—The Polls
Blocked by Rowdies—Eight Men Shot-Two
Killed— Judges of Election Intimated—Bloody
Baltimore Non 2.-The State election if.
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rowdies, and tbo police are doing nothing to
hinder them. . , ,
In the Tenth.ward, the Reform judge of elec
tion was intimidated, and compelled to leave his
post. Hinsloy, who was appointed by me
Acting Mayor, and rejected by.the Councils, lias
been reappointed* The Belormora have-been
driven off.
James Jeffers, son of Madison Jeffers, was
shot in the side, and beaten over the head, by
the Reformers, whom hp had maltreated.
In the fifteenth ward, Adam B. Kyle, Jr.,
merchant, doing business at No. 88 Hanover
street, and a Reformer, has boon shot in the
temple, and is in a dying condition. His bro
thcr, Gao. Kyle, who came to his rescue, was
also shot, and is dangerously wounded., .
In the Fourteenth ward, a desperate struggle
occurred. ,Tho Reformers wore rosisfed'with
arms. Sonny White, alias James Johnson, a
notorious rowdy, ran an awl into a Reformer,
and was shot dead with, a pistol ball. Two oth
er rowdies, named Harris and Duffy, wore shot
in the legs. Henry Starr, a Reformer, was al
so shot in the leg. .
William Stiles, a Reformer, was shot in the
arm and leg. Thedoro,Woodall was badly bea
ten. Dr. 0. Richardson, a Reformer, was pur
sued by the captain of the Thunderbolt Club
with a drawn sword. Ho took refuge in a store,
and the rowdies pursuing broke the windows. —
Richardson, however, managed to make his es
cape.
Judge Giles, of the United States District
Court, mot Sheriff Creamer in the street, and
told him in decided terms that ho was to bo
held accountable for all the blood shed to-day.
Ho also told him, as a judge and a lawyer, that
ho had. the authority and it was his duty to in
terfere. •
In the Eighteenth ward the rowdies took
possession of the polls, and gave the Reformers
notice to quit. Felix McCurley was severely
beaten..
Baltimore, Nov.' 2.— ln the Fifth ward the
, Reformers were driven off at an early hour.
The son of the Hon. Joshua Vansant was
beaten while attempting to vote- Several shots
. were tired, but no person was injured.
The First, Second, and Fomtq., wards are al
-Iso in.possession of the rowdies, to‘the total ex
-1 elusion of alf who oppose them.
In the Twentieth ward the rowdies areknock
ing down and maltreating whom they please.
The police oiler no protection to Citizens.
The rowdies have brought a swivel on the
ground.
In the Twelfth and Sixteenth wards a gang of
rowdies Irom Washington, fully armed, are aid
ing the Baltimore roughs.
The indications now are that the Reformers,
as a general thing, have abandoned the contest,
finding it impossible to vote without risking
their lives. 1 .
In the Fifteenth ward, a boy has been mortal
ly wounded by a shot in the breast.
Win. F. Preston, the Democratic candidate
for Congress in'tho Third district, is now lying
at Barnum’s Hotel, badly beaten about the head
with a billy. The outrage is said to have been
committed in (ho. Seventh ward.
In the Eleventh ward, which is the stronghold
of the Reformers,. Mr. George McGill, a promi
nent Reformer, made a'speech, and announced
the wilhdiaw.nl of Mr. Thomas, the candidate
for Attorney General. ; The Reformers then all
withdrew, finding it impossible to accomplish
anything.' !.
Baltimore, Nov. 2—Evening.—Mr. Adam B.
Kyle, who received a pistol "ball in his temple
this morning, at the election poll in the Fif
teenth ward, was reported dead at 2 o’clock,
but ho was still alive an hour since, but his case
is hopeless, as the ball is buried in his brain.
At 8 .o’clock Dr. Robinson, of the Central
Reform Committee, visited the polls in the
Eleventh ward, itnd announced that the Refor-
every (ward ejpept
that and the Eighth, and he heretofore coun
selled the RCfonhefs to withdraw, to avoid fur
ther bloodshed. Dri Thom|is, the Reform
judge, retired; and the contest was abandoned.
The Reformers throughout the city took the
same course, leaving the polls in the,hands of
the dominant party.
Numerous reports are afloat with regard to
minor outr ges on the rights of the citizens in
the several wards.
In the Second ward, Charles Barkard, a Ger
man, was allot in the hip.
In the Fifth ward, a man, whoso name is un
known, was dreadfully beaten. .
In relation to tho assault upon Mr. Preston,
the most reliable report is that it occurred at
Govanstown, in tho Ninth district, Baltimoie
county. One account says that tho assailant
was a “Blood Tub,” Ipit it is difficult to arrive at
tho truth with so many conflicting reports,
.This evening thd streets are nearly deserted,
Except by the victorious party. The Stores
were generally closed at dark.
Tho proprietor of i\\o. Exchange having been
threatened with an assault upon bis office, has
made a demand upon the city authorities for
protection.
BAiTisronkr, Nov. 2—lo o’clock. —The Amer
icans are rejoicing over their victory in the ci
ty. Tho Reformers, however, deny that any
thing that can be called an election has taken
place.
It wilj ho late before any returns of tho vote
cast can bo obtained, as thero-was a large num.
ber of officers voted (or, and all on one ticket.
In tho Seventeenth; ward it is reported that
the'average vote for!f fie American ticket is BC9,
and the'highest vote on the Reform ticket only
24.
Mr-.Kylo died at half past nine o’clock this
evening.
Affairs in BalUAiore-
The funeral of Mr. A. B. Kyle, Jr., who was
murdered at the Fifteenth Ward polls on elec
tion day, took place from the residence of his
father in South Hanover street, at noon to-dayl
There was an immense gathering of people
to view tho body, and the remains were followed
to the grave by the members of the Reform As
sociation and citizens generally, embracing mer
chants, business and professional men of the
highest respectability. The procession moved
through the wholesale business portion of Han
over and Baltimore streets, to Charles street,
passing around the base of the Washington
Monument. All the stores and residences on
the route were closed, and the respectable por
tion of the.inhabitants of Baltimore testified, in
a quiet manner, their deep sympathy with the
deceased, and condemnation of the lawlessness
which had such a tragical result.
Maryland Election.
Baltimore, Nov. 4. —The Congressional
Delegation from this State will be as follows:
First District—James A. Stewart,'’Democrat,
Second District—Edwin H. Webster, Ameri
can.
Third District—J. Morrison Harris, Ameri
can.
Fourth District—H. Winter Davis, Ameri
can.
Fifth District—Jacob M. Kunkle, Democrat.
Sixth District—George W. Hughes, Demo
crat.
The political complexion will be ihe same ns
in the last Congress—three Democrats and three
Americans.
The Democrats will have a majority in both
branches of the Legislature. Twenty-five Ame
ricans and forty-nine Democrats are elected to
the House, nod eight Americans and thirteen
Democrats' to'the Senate.
Trial of' Hto Harper's Ferry Insurgents.
Oiublbsxowk, Va.. Nov. 5..
Shields Green, one of the negro prisoners, was
found guilty this "morning. The first count,
for treason, wad abandoned upon objection ta
ken by Mr. Sehnott, that it was not proven that
the prisoner was" a free person, and therefore did
not come under the statute* which reads ‘ 1 any
free person," &c. His sentence was deferred.
Copeland is now on trial; Mr. Sennott defending
him. Tranquility is being-restored.*
Reward for Fngiliyein^^
Richmond w ■
Gov. Wise has issued a ° V ’*'
a reward 0f.5600 each for ,the arrest nr°? erin K
lowing named fugitive insurgent.. sr °>-
Brown, Barclay Coppee. Merrian and'TuJN
Proclamation of Governor Medan, ft > ■
the Wyandotte Constitution MopuffijP l^
Leavenworth, K.T., N 0 .
Gov. Medary bps issued a proclaim/' 6 '
daring the Wyandotte Constitution
also designating the 24th inst.’as . j Pted !
.thanksgiving. , a da y of
, Terrible Shipwreck and Lost of Life.
Montreal, Nov. t
The following important item of news t..
ken from the Liverpool Daily Post' 0 f ttJ «*•
of October, a copy of which whs obtainJ7 1
the steamer North Americap. eQ ty
The public will learn with overwh.t
grief that the splendid vessel, the Royal nT*
ter, was totally lost yesterday, i D fiufl.Tl
Bay, near Bangor. • *
The melancholy intelligence, which reant.*
us into last night, was brief, but we lenr t,
ly too true. Of upwards of four hundred :
sons who were on board, only ten aie said i
have been saved. . There is some hops how °
er, that this statement is exaggerated, but i.V
der the circumstances, the loss ol life, j t
feared, has been immense. ■ ’ 0 “*
The Royal Charter had ahout-half a min,-
in gold on hoard. .When" the fliseute?
place is not known, for the telegraph h,5
ceased to work, and .so destructive had C
the storm along the coast yesterday, that th!
Chester and Birkenhead railway had been it
stroyed in two places. ,
' At PenmanaWn twenty of the bodies of (h«
dead.had. been washed ashore. The bay ih
which the catastrophe occurred is two or three
miles westward of Puffin Island, Anglesea, ln d
six nr seven miles to the northwest of Be«.
mares. It has a shallow, sandy bench for sev
eral miles, with promontories at. each end of
the bay. The country around is wild mj ■
there are but few houses about. 1
DC?” The St. Paul (Minnesota) Daily fimii, ,
of November 2, furnishes us vtrith. the following ’
particulars of on Indian battle near St. Cloud
a few days previously : 1
•• We learn that a desperate fight occurred
near St. Cloud on Friday last, between a small
party of Chi ppewas, of the Red Lake bind, who
were returning home from a visit to St.isul
and a party of Sioux who had been can™™
for several days near St. Cloud, for the purpose
Of hunting deer. The treacherous Sioux tnetthe
Chippewas, (only Uve in number,) androids
signs of friendly recognition, which were recip
rocated by the latter, but no sooner had they
taken the Chippewas into their good graces than
they fell upon them in cold bulhery, and sue
needed in killing one of their number and woun
ding one or two others. The Chippewas, with
their usual bravery, fought hard and succeeded
in taking two Sioux scaips. The Chippewa
who escaped swore vengeance against the Iren
chcroUs-Sioux. and started for Red Lake tout.'
ly n war party to avenge the death of their
brother. Some of the citizens of St. Cloud, aj
soon as they heard of the murder, formed them
selves into a Company and repaired to the Sioux
camping ground for the purpose of requesting
the’Sioux to leaved forthwith.; We think it it
about time some active steps were taken on the"
part of the authorities to compel these red skim
to remain on their own reservations. They are
slaughtering deer by Hundreds on ground the;
have no right to tread upon, and unless they
are summarily checked in these depredations,
this flue game will soon become very scarce.—
And, further, that the Sioux and Chip pen*
Should perfhitted, yeir in and yeav-p&.ts
murder each other in cool blood, and yet bo at
tempt be made by the authorities to briilf them
to justice, is as foul a disgrace as ever matted
the record of a civilized country, or bltfCkentd
the name of a Christian people.”
if C7* The Richmond Enquirer intimates that
there is little probability of the pardon of John
Brown, by Gov. Wise. It says:'
The Constimtion of Virginia has placed
the mercy scat in the enlightened conscience of
her Executive, and that the high prerogative of
pardon has not been mercilessly, exercised, n
point to a long list of Executive clemencies that
grace the Administration of GbV, :Wise. But
in all the pardons, granted by him neither the
crime nor the motives of Brown find any place
To cool and calculate crime, to murder, pillage,
and. plunder, to servile wars and its attendant
horrors, the Executive of Virginia will aliraji
turn a deaf ear, and soil not the robes of mere; •
with the crime of permitting such wickednda
to go unpunished. .. . .
“ Violated laws and murdered citizens de
mand a victim at the hands of justice. If
Brown is a crazed fanatic, irresponsible either
in morals or in law, there are yet guilty parties-.
He is. then, the agent of wicked principals. It
the Northern people believe Brown insane, what.
: punishment is dni to those who have poisonfd
his mind with the ‘irrepressible comet, m.
spurred his farmtaoism to deeds of mi
carnage 1 He/rnay be insane. buMbOT W
other criminals, guilty wretches,
ted the crimes perpetrated a; harper e
Bring these men—bring Seward.
dings. Hale, and Smith fo the jumdmtion M.
Virginia, and Brown and his deluded vie ,
the Charleston jail may hbpcfor-'P“™. 0 "'
the opinion of Virginia, the five B»P U ' > . a U
ders above mentioned are more guilty jay ■
John Brown and his associates. -A" S „
fanatacism may be pleaded in P?" 101 ' 1 !. i,,.
crime of Brown, but the five Rcpubh
ders would spurn such a stultify ing
would npt compromise their n 2 ,e ' , f., B y-| e „ds
at the cost of their morality, Let the
of'.Brown, let all who believe him 1° ■
and'all who intend to represent him a -y'
fanatic, for whose folly no party is reap
Seward, Giddinge, Greeley, ,|j
and. Hale. A fair trial, at their own tun • '
their own counsel, Will be freely give"
and if Virginia does not prove them guiltji
too, shalligo unhurt.”
Baltimore, Nov. 4.
O” The%asbington correspondent of
New, York Tribune says that reliable l«
from Richmond state that, under no p°
circumstances, will Governor Wise oora ® ,i
Brown's sentence. His fate may be eonsi
as sealed. V. '■
KZr The American fkate Convention of
York have agreed to support a ticket corop
of the nominees of ihe Black Republics
Democratic parties-—thus showing 1 a -
care nothing about the principles of either pa J
07".« Pus€ii”ought to havVb!® bead pu
ed with the sharp end of a parasol b an ■
perpetrating the following: “ _ oo '
gue is the most powerful and efrecf r® mW ,
with which she can bo armed. -It W *V
execution in a given time than the mp V „ 0 ,rar
ous of the new inventions exhibited a jf cnera l
Department. It is an article of TC jt jjorld.”
use by Ikdies in all parts of the civilirlf-
BIT' Senator Wilson, of Massacbusetj
speech at Syracuse on the 28th ult., sa ' K q tie nce
Harper’s Ferry Outbreak was
of the teachings of Republicanism- ’
RdmisBion ' . , • a—-r~~vi Lwster,
A Profitable Chop.— Alady >n f # pout,
Massachusetts," gathered this fa'k of
three acres of ground, two
cranberries, for'whioh shereceiTed|
thousand dollars. I
From Kansas.