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u TkU kw ear Um fnpWt rlhta dotUf.n eternal Tlll keep liesootslaa; strata of Mala') eon can lull lilt hanitreileyMtotluep, C. W. FE.VTON, Editor. WAPESBOBO', K. C. TIIURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1859. Thk Arous for I860. Now U tb time of all othert far the, frietidi of tbia paper to be ex erting themselves to give it a more extended cir- caution thaa it has. In few months two ' campaigns will be upon ss National and State and during those campaigns we hope to do much for tie causo in which we are enlisted. Thore are hundreds in this and immediate adjoining counties who are not now, perhaps, subscribers of 10 j paper. With the vitfw of reaching all we will put the paper to clubs of ten and up wards at $1.50 each. This is not a paying rate to ui ; but, nevertheless, with the hope that good mj come of it, we will put the subscription thus down for the year, beginning with January, I860, looking for our reward in the Mure. . Thanksoivino Day. To-day has been set apart by the proper authority to be observed as a day of thanksgiving to the Giver of all good, for mercies and kindness in the past, and to bespeak their continuance in the future. Who is there in this community that has not cause for grati tude f Who, in any community ? Hare we not, as a nation, cause for gratitude and Iliads? Let us, then, with grateful hearts, acknowledge our indebtedness to Ilim from whom all good pro ceeds, by abstaining from business on this day, and by assembling ourselves together for the pur- pise of prayer and praise. Thank Him. Yes We'll thauK him for the Sabbath, That day of holy rest; And for the blestc-d Bible, I The book that we lore best: We'll thank him for our country ' The land our fathers' trod; For liberty of conscience, An J right to worship God. ttsV The " Banner Committee" have intimated to us thaLfitr efforts are being crowned with abundant success. If ladies in other portions of tho county are doing as well, the banner will in due time be ready fur presentation. Ladies trill ing to engage in this patriotic enterprise, by ad dressing t note to the "Banner Committee," Wadcsboro', will be supplied with all necessary information. fcjrThe authorities of the city of Wailing ington have decided that it is inexpedient to ap point a day to be observed aa a day of thanksgiv ing and praise. If they have nothing to be thank ful for, the people, have if, for nothing eke, that things -are no worse' th a rr they are.-- They will hare cause for thankfulness about the 4th of .March, 1S61. Since the above was in type, we learn that the Mayor of Washington has set apart this day, (the 24th.) The above paragraph was based upon the action of Councils in the matter. W.UAT has Democracy done roa tui South f The inquiry is vert poftiuent. Tho Deroocratio organs and orators South) says 'the Nashville Banner, have been for years operating upon a fictitious capital. While they have stu diously misrepresented their opponents by at tempting to place them in a position antagonistic to the South and her institutions, they have as industriously heralded their own praises as the only party able and williug to vindicate Southern rights. Upon this basis they have succeeded in gaining control of the Government. Ilaving such control, it would not be unreasonable to ex poet them to do something practically beneficial to the South. Millard Fillmore gave them the Government in a healthy condition, as well linen oially as with reference to all dombstio questions. The slavery agitation was at rest tho country was quiet. They went iuto office pledgod to maintain this state of things. They solemnly avowed that (hey would discourage any revival of the slavery question, and that the strictest econ omy and integrity should be preserved in the administration of the Government Our readers are familiar with the reckless ex- travaganco and corruption which has character- ized their management of the financial affairs of the Government. An overflowing treasury h been exhausted, and an immense debt incurred. Peculation and fraud in hiph places havo been the rulo rather than tho exception. i utucrmoro, in reference to the mannor in which they have violated their pledges, and brought the country to its present lamentable condition in reference to the great sectional question, tho Philadelphia Inquirer gives tho following succinct review, which we commend to tho attention of every reader : BaS" The Southern Literary Messenger for No vember has arrived. This is a cheap publica tion, pruduein annually two volumes of 480 pages each, at the low rates of 83 per annum. It is valuable, exceedingly interesting, rich and racy. - It is always welcome to our table. The Eclectic Magazine. We have re ceived the October and November numbers of this work, and are much pleased with them. This magazine gives the cream of all the British peri odicals and other foreign journals, and is well supplied with original matter. The November nuoiber contains a fine portrait of Bufus Choate, by Sartain. Among much that is interesting we find the oration of Mr. E. Everett, delivered September 17, 1859, at the inauguration of the statue orriie-Websrei,rp" A NATfOSALTiiANKSfiiviso Day. To day, the 24th, is a national Thanksgiving day in the United States. The following States observe it : New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachu setts, Ehode Island, Connecticut, Niw Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minne sota, Iowa, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, Kansas, Vermont, Delaware, Georgia. Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee. ' ' lf Democracy claims to have been always conservative, and that it is now. the only cooscrv ative nartv in the eountrv. This is the reverse of what. it claimed in the days of Polk, Cass and : Pierce, when it assumed tte title of " 1'eogres. live Democracy' The New York Journal of Cvriimerce has recently asserted that it "never has assailed the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, or sought to bring the high est judicial authority of the land into contempt." But the Favetteville Observer remembers that " in jie days of the great and good Chief Justice Marshall, the ery of Democracy was, down with the Supreme Court,' as about the same time it was, 'down with the Senate;' when General Jackson sought to render nugatory and to cir cumvent the act of Congress establishing a Uni ted States Bank; and ghen the Constitution was interpreted ' as understand it.' " DEMOCRATIC ECOKQMV. '. r - " "We must fall back upon a rigid eeonofcv In 'public expenditure!. " jfr. Iiuehanm, Feb. 2,. 1842... rr '6c)t8Tfim S:ift.552.0M) under 'Filh- raore in 1852 to ?83,8jC,727, under 'Buchanan in 1858 ! That's like falling off from a cart lead - - It " '- to a wagon joau ; ..." The Wat it Goes. It has cost Uncle Sam some 880,000 to substitute benches for desks in the House of Representatives, when a thousand! ought to have been more than enough to cover every expense.' But this is the way the public money goes under a Democratic dynasty: In the Thirty-Third Con?res there were in the Sen ate fifteen Democrats and thirteen Whigs from the slave States, and twenty-one Democrats and seven Whips, in the Senate from the free States; or a total of thirty-six Democrats and twenty Whips. In the House, there were, from the slave States, sixty-eight Democrats and twenty-two Whigs; and from the free States, ninety-due Democrats and forty-six Whigs. In the Senate, there were two Free-noilt-rs, and four only in the llou.c. The Dam; strata then, bad a ma jority of the HoU' memhervof every State except Massachusetts ana ermcnt and Maine and Kentucky. In rifl.iticn of the rWs-rion f the lemteralie Xation- nt Contention, of ltv2, the Democratic leaders, in a few weeks aftor the opening of Congress, commenced their agitation of the Kansas Nebraska Dill, and have kept it op to this very hour. ' Y hat they have done for the South may be read net enlv in the warfnre in jvansas una us sequm at Harper s terry, nut in the condition of parties as they will stand next De cember at the Federal capital. There were thirteen big Senators from the i'sre States, in IS'jS, and only seven Whigs from the North. The Suthern n atg Scnatore art alt.vone, and Maryland onlr. m the next l oppress, win De senaloriaily represented by lii ft or Imposition member. This is one thing that the Democracy aecombiuhed for the South! What has occurred up to this time is still more remarkable There are twenty-four Republican' Senators from 'the rree States now, fifteen Democratic Senators having been pushed from their seats because they vio- six Einws-or Kic rvortn bad two Democratic Scnator before tho renewal of the agitation; and twi I'.cf ublis cans of each State now supply their places. New Jersey and Illinois in 1353 had each two Democratic Senators, but now give each a Republican. Connee ticut gave a Whig and Democrat. She now givbs two Republicans! So much for the loving, blessing, and devotion to the South of the Democracy that he a filled the country with turmoil and disaster! Contrast what has been said of the condition of the House 1803 with what it is about to be. The numbi r of Democrats from the South will be about the same as in 1S58. From the Free States There will be Iwen- ty-two Democrats, eleven of them anti-Lecompton, while they could boast of ninety-one before they started the slavery agitation as a hobby for Southern votes, i ne entire oith will be represented by one hundred and thirteen Republicans and twenty-two Democrats. What then has Democracy done for tho South in the .poidat.lranch of the Federal legisla ture? Six States of ti.e North, which in ISM were represented wholly by Democrats, with the exception of one Senator and one Representative, will be repre sented by Republicans! This is doing for the South all that bus bsen promised by the stupid tacticians who cared not if they ruined the country so that they could obtain, Southern votes for the Presidency, the six States to which we liars referred, iu place of The. old twelve Democratic Senators and seventeen Representatives, have furnished the full Dumber of thirty Republicans and not a Democrat in the whole batch! Ohio, New York, and l'cnnsylTanla, wtitch were two to one on the side of Democracy, have given a majority of Republicans. All this is the fruit of Democracy that still prates to the South, as if that fragmentary party bad any power to place a Presi dent in the White House at the next election. Democ racy, politically, has gone to the wall. The more it deals, with slavery agitation, and its concomitants, the moro weak will it become, because its powder will soon be consumed. AH the votes of the Southern Opposition, could they be won, would not help it. The only course to be pursue 1 is to recover lost ground by retracing the steps which have been taken, and a quarter of a century will be required for the Democ racy to regain the '-bad eminence," which, like Satan it has held so lone. Pooh "Old Buck." The New Orleans Crescent believe in the doctrine of compensation, as it is called. It believes that good doeds art a source of happiness to their performer in this world, as well as bis reward in the next It holds thaFlhosysuniatio, premeditated doer x)f. evil can enjoy little or no happiness on this earth, bo cause ol the ceaseless stingings ofaonsoienco, and that his punishment hereafter is inevitable. This is what it understands by the term doctrine of compensation. . . ', The O-cscoit illustrates this doctrine by reference to the present Federal Executive Shortly after the election of Mr. Buchanan we predicted, it says, that his terra would not expire before ho became tho most odious man b tho Confederacy. Our prediction was partly verified earlier: than we ex pected; for at the session of Congress succeeding his election, his Administration encountered l formidable opposition in the House of Repre sentatives, and 'since that penod has been pow erless and impotent. In the next House the Buohananitcs proper will be in a woful minority; and wo should not bo surprised if tho Federal Senate, Democratic as it will be, improve tho occasion- to administer scathing rebukes to the Dem ocratic President Such will be a fitting reward to one who has been false to all, and true to none ' ' . - There aro " none so poor," save the office-hold ers and tide-waiters, " as to do him reverence," and even their forced respect is all show, which will disappear day'by day as the term of their employer draws near and nearer to a close. Ou the 4th of March, 1SG1, ho will go out of office without a solitary sinccro friend, in all human probability, throughout the length and breadth of the land. Tho Cincinnati Timet snja, of tho City which witnessed his nomination,'" there is not a single paper in Cincinnatia city of two hundred and thirty thousand people that can afford to apolo' gize for bis follies, or labor to mitigate the dam- ges claimed against him by the people of Amer- Makvland Election Baltimoki Riots. Ia this connection, the Greensboro' Patriot, says: "As has been the case for some years past, the late elections in Baltimora w.ore at tended with riot and bloodshed j and, as usual, tbo Democracy falsely charge it to the Whigs and Americans.-It is vory clear, however, to any unprejudiced mind that the.Looofoco re formers, at; they are called, aro responsible for the disturbances and bloodshed, and it is truly gratifying that they failed in their object of tak ing possession of the ballot boxes, and driving the Whigs from the polls. The Baltimore Pa triut says that it has creditable information that the Locofoco party of Baltimore, known now as Reformers had, prior to the eloetion in thut city on Wednesday last, a body of thrco hundred men, divided into bands of fifty each, K fully armed and officered, for the purpospof taking pos session of the polls in the Twonticth Ward, and ofeSeluding the Opposition-frora.voting." On Monday, preceding the election, Mr. Mo Thail, acting mayor of Baltimore, was seriously, if not fatally shot, by a Mr. Hanna, reporter of the Baltimore Sun, a violent Locofoco sheet. The Sun, says an exchange, is a known Loco foco sheet, which has dono more, perhaps, than any other paper to injure the fair name of the city, and to cast odium on the Americans by falsely charging them with tho broils for which the Democracy were responsible ; and it is hoped that the pullio will now perceive upon whom tho responsibility of this rowdyism rests. Tub Rklioiois Peeks os OLiTBnowN. ica. - Cincinnati is a Democratic city. It gave Mr, Buchanan, in 1850, eight or ten thousand ma jority. It has voted Democratic ever since; yet it cannot sustain a journal favoring Mr. Buch anan, so odions has ho become, and so odious have his constitutional advisers become. This is a telling, a significant fact, and its lessons should not be lost upon those who still insanely cling to the skirts of a doomed and fallen Administration in this section of tiic country. - - PS" The New York Express, (tho South he no better friend among Northern journals,) com menting upon the course of the New York Cou rier, Tribune, and other kindred journals toward the South, says ; '.' If anybody supposcs'ihat.tacre are many such men at the North, outside of the lunatic asylum, it greatly mistakes both the men and the opinions of this part of our little Amer ican world. Bold, bad, fanatical, irrepressible conflict men there are among us men who re joice inwardly and often outwardly at every ex cess, every sign or disunion, every bitter word and act at the South but they are not confined to 'the North, and wherever they are, they de- The New York OUerzcr, organ of the Old School Presbvtcrians, takes strong grounds against par doning old Brown. Assuming that ho was guilty of murder and insurrection, it argues as follows: "PunUhmrnt in'the government of (lod and man does not rpring from a spirit of revenge. It is the fruit of love. Lore demands that one who has made war open society shall die. Philanthropy, the love of man, tho love of the human race, the love of the greatest number requires tlmt murderers he punished, as (lod, who is love ordmue I. And e tremble less in view of ltrown s mud freak than we do in the face of the fact tint there is abroad in the land a sentiment that would shield lnui and others from the just eonsc. quences of titeir crimes. When those men embarked in this war upon the State, when they prepared guns for the white men and thuVind spears for the blacks to be used in barbarous slaMSliler, Whn ll:ey imbrued their bands in b'ood by taking the first victim (an uonest eoicrou man wno m!e no rcM.it.inco, but was only seeking to escape from their hand,) and murder ing him in culd LIoo.l, when they refusal to lay Jown their rai after being overpowered, and continued their murderous work, they threw away all c'aim to compassion un-1 pot themselves on the hazard of the revolution they had bei'in. If uthcrs can find anv cause lor parioinng sum crimes we cannot. Fob.net os Buchanan -Forney, in his I'resn, charges tho ra'poiisiLrJify of tho llarpei'g Ferry affair upon Buchanan. Ho siys : "Mr. Buch anan himself is moro guilty, ia a moral sense, for the work at Harper's Ferrv, than poor old Brown;-- And again : "His (Huchanan's) at tempt to carry slavery into tlio midst of a hostile local opinion, is of the same character as that of John Brown to secure freedom to a peoplo who would have none of it. If it was right in James Buchanan to force slavery upon a people, it was right in John Brown to force freedom upon the South. Their authority outside tho law, was precisely the same. It is unfortunate that Mr. Buchanan had not possessed the honesty of pur pose of poor old Brown. It wjuld have saved servo the gallows more than the respect or sym pathy of the really human portion of society. We the crciit of the Administration and probably proicst ugamsi, uoiuuig me conservative men oi the country responsible for the Ciddingses, the Smiths, the Emmersons, or even the Rewards of the North. As wo said the other day, there are three-quarters of a million of voters in the free States, disgusted alike with both the Republican and the Democratic parties, who have stcid at home at the recent State elections. These voters will be beard frpm in 1860, and so heard from, we trust and believe, as togive practical evidence that no sectional man or sectional party can re ceive at the hands of tho people an election for the first office in the Government. the life of that crazy and deluded agitator." Alarming Inveluccsi. 'Ji following is thetub- stance of the telegraph an-Hcttcrs received by the Executive of Virginia, says the Richmond Whig" of tho lHth, which will be found interesting at this particu lar timot . Col.. 'Davis, in Charlcstownr telegraphs to Mr. Har bour, at Harper's Ferry, to tclrgiapb tho Mayor of Aiexaiaria to call i npuin 31. Marge, or the Mount cmon Guards, to his aid immediately. Mr. Ciroour adds to tne Mayor of Alexandria, that the me&wge to him reported 'I'M armed men encamped ai kervyvu-c rora. This was all Mr. Barbour knew of the case Captain Marge telegraphed that he would leave Alexandria with his company at .6. o'clock Friday morning. nr-, Col. Stewart and Mnjor Duffy both telegraphed the Governor requesting orders to take two coinpuuics and the artillery. The Governor has given orders to move immediately upon the Bcrryvil'e Ford, unless information guided Blcha.nan and the Missouri 'Compro mise. The following letter shows Buchanan's views of -the Missouri Compromise in 1848 : WAsm.GTOM,.May 18, 1848. lion". Wm. I. Tancey: Sir: I receired jour favor of the 2d iust.,'reqiu.; ing answers to the different proportions contained -I the th, 10th, lltb, laih, 13th) and 14th raolutions of the late Alabama Democratic Convention "on the suhject of slavery, .On the 2fflh of August lasjt, after much reflection I addressed a letter to the Democracy of Dorks couotv Penn., on ibis important and exciting question, in wn:cn i expressea tne opinion in ftvor of the exten sion of the Missouri compromise to any territory which we might acquire-from Mexico. I had entertained and freely expressed this opinion from the time the question was first agitated; . and every day 's experience since the date of my letter, has but seemed to strength en my conviction that the Missouri Compromise is the oesi, ii not me only mode or finally anl aatisfoctorily adjusting this vexed and dangerous question. ' Under these circumstances, I cannot abandon the positiod-whieh 1 have thus deliberately and conscien tiously token, and assume any other that can be pre- senief. I have the honor of transmitting yon a copy of my jvrts county leiier. rr iin semimcnu oi tne nignen reg-tra, I remain, yours, sincerely, JAMES ULCHANAN. Perhaps our Administration friends, ot our Douglas and territorial sovereignty friends can tell us how the President stands now.1 Has he conscientiously taken" then For does he sti.ll hold it? Does he see more utilitjF-in the operations Correct Sentiment. A friend has shown us, says the New Orleans Bulletin, a private let ter from an old and estimable resident of New York, as well known in that commercial empo rium as any of its- merchant trinccs. and uni-them otherwise, vcrsally respected. We have been permitted to tY "V1? 'c',er"P'" ? 0o ''7, to.-or'Jcr J" ,he , J v . ' cavalry, which lias been done. Col. Davis says "there make the following extract from tho letter, which is a guerrilla war here; tho property of five of the Dcst citizens lias Dcen burnt.", Ljion this the Gover nor has ordered the 1st Regiment (Richmond) to last night they were awaiting . A TT w I . . -T-1 "-t-.: . 1 a. nuni iuum. me manaara wants to know whether it was a real hone, or only a hMu mat wiCTniwri w mart reewvad trom- Jin.- friends for his able defence of Whig principles in the labs contest. It is natural lot the Standard to ak that question. A lousy fellow's mind runs on vermin, bo says the Carolina man ... of the Kansas act than he could have expected? or does he still thinkudging from the fruits of t.iat measure, that the extension of the Missouri Compromise line to our new territory would have been " the best, if not the only, mode of finally and satisfactorily adjusting this vexed and dan gerous question f" , We think Buchanan was right; and we also think the nation will yet endorse such a verdict. A Fact to be Borne i Mind Thewecily lUinoit Courier says the only persons throughout tTie--ntTr-wh-ritaTd-tk rerrywiin ieenngs 01 joy and satisfaction, are the miserable set of Democratic demagogues who hope to bake political capital out of the affair. is as creditable to his intelligence and sagacity as it is to his principles as a patriot and and ad vocate of social order. We wouIdalso mention that the writer is an old and consistent member of the'Hoeiety of Friends : "Yon will bo astonished at the Harper's Ferry af fair, thawing how foolish and fanatic some people are ou the slavery question, which I. hope, is on its last legs, and in a few years will all die out. The devel opments in this ease may be the means of hastening the entire downfall of the Abolition party, and I pray God it may be so. So long as that subject is kept alive there will be continual fanatic excitement and outbreaks. I am doing all that I can in my circle of friends to discountenance any talk ana discussion upon the subject,' 'as ungentlemanly and unlady-liko, and not oniy ofTensi-re to th Souths but ar officious, impu dent and insulting among ourselves. I make its rule in my circle and wherever I am, in a pleosint and polite way, to rebuke any and all remarks that aredin- sgrecauie upon the slavery question at the South. I ask this question what business is it to us whether they have slaves or do not have slaves at the South ? and as no one can cive a justifiable answer, in nine times out of tea I put it at re-t; and I find that nine, out of ten ion't understand the suhiect ar fit and i neiH ana passion can te kept down I think it will an die away in a rew years, an-I Abolitioni.ts become as .odions as the Hartford Couvcntionists forty years ago.'-' - . . ' - ' t&T From Washington we learn that the Pres ident Js again occupied: with the disgraceful squabble between-the-ptlitietans and- effiee-bold-4 crsdlChicago. If appeara tbat( Postmaster Cooi has been again overhauled by the Department for misconduct in his office, and is again cited to Washington to answer the charges. He had successfully refuted his enemies up to this time, but the Postmaster General's agent, sent re cently to Chicago, has accumulated a large amount of evidence from the office holders Cook discharged. Cook's disniiesal would croate great joy mong the Douglas party-; The President , will not sacrifice Cook to this feeling, nor dismiss him without clear proof of jjuilt.- iar- All others regard them with feelings of unmio : gled horror and regret be in readiness, and orders. This alarm confirms anonynu us communications re ceived by tne hxccutive in the lat two days, warning him of the iutended raids in different -squads along me Dortiers or Virginia ana Kentucky, lie is also warned of an abolition scheme which may be in con coction to kidnap and spirit -Sway proniinot citizens or members of (heir families, and to keep them as nosiages lor me psiuon oi me cuiprtu. And he is warned to keep himfelf and his friends on their guard, and that it . is prndeht fon Virginia, in concert with Maryland, to augment forces near Charles- town and Harper s retry, is the days of the execu tion approach; and that the abolitionists are certainly tampering with and exciting the free negroes at vari ous points in the Aorth, to some desperate attempt. In view of every thing surrounding the State and its border, it will be necessary for the people not to nock nrcrowds to ihe- scene of the executions.- - The times when they occur will be the very times when the homesteads on the border will be most threatened with torches; Let those not under arms at the execu tions band together as guards of the border. It is very apparent now, that a considerable force wilt be absolutely necessary in alt the region of Loudon Clarke, .Jefferson and Bcrkely cournjcs. Thcro will be full military force at the execution; but every citi-len-aot iu the ranks, one with another, c-ught to be arming an-l organizing as patrolcs and guards, and as volunteer Tiueites. ' Sinoe the above wis put in typo we find tho follow ing dUpatches in the Charleston Courier of the 21.t. Ckarlcitown, Nov. l'J.-Tfic're wis not the slightest cause jor tue mucinous panic. TIC Dre seen was simply a stack of wheat burning. Virginia refused t award a writ of error to the Or- cuit Court of Jefferson county in the case of John Brown. -He (Drown) will therefore be hung on the lid or ueeeniuer. - . CharUttoten, Nov. 13.--Col. Davis has called fur more troops. A rumor says that letters have been inter cepted cheering Drown snd hie associated culprits, and giving -imsutauces that they shall bo rescued, The property of ncrernl of the jurors has been burnod. -J , 1 ..J L ' ., ABaasToraStisrscTao-lMsuaaastaf Ms-anus Moaa DieoLoeoass. It has already bees mentioned that a Dr. Wm. A. t-almer bas been arrested at Hem phis, Tern., on suspicion of being connected with the Harper's Ferry business. The Memphis Inquirer sayst It teems that Palmer has been a wildcat of this vicinity for a number of years past- that he married a lady residing near town, but procured a divorce some months since oa account of domestic difficultiesand bas sinoe that time boarded at the Bedford House, where he was arrested. Palmer Is a man about 40 years of age. very respectable in appearance, five feet eight Inches In height, slightly stooping, and hesitates somewhat la his speech. . It appears that some twe weeks age, during tbevx eitement of the Harper's Perry Insurrection, a gentle man, seated ia a railroad ear between Baltimore and Philadelphia, en his way to Mew York, observed a man on a seat aeee Him closely momed, appearing to use every means possible to prevent recognition, and shield himself from observation. Oa the arrival of the train at a statloithe man hurriedly gathered up and left the ear. th attention of the gentleman who had previously noticVl bis movements wis attracted to a number of letters and papers en th floor beneath the seat, which had accidentally been dropped In his baste. He gathered the papers, with th view ef handing them to the owner, buttb ears at the moment starting, be was obliged to return to his seat, with th documents in his possession. They proved to be two letter and a small memorandum. This being, as stated, at the time whea the whole community was aretised to th movement of the insurrection, the defeat and impris onment of its leader, and the lesr being addressed to John Brown, connected wk the' suspicions move ments of th SMa In whoa poMssioa th had bees, exulted his curiosity not a little. Th ideal flashed to ni mioa ae bad sometinog in bis poser 'ion mat would throw light on this subject. lie accordingly perused th open tetter, which greatly confirmed his suspicions. On h's arrival in New York, he addressed Uor. Wise, of Virginia, an anonymous letter, enclos ing the documents, stating the clreamateDces connected with his possession of them, and bis suspicion. Oa their receipt Uov. Wise immediately forwarded them tj Gov. Harris, who thought the ssatter of snHicient importance to demand aa investigation He accord in-fly dispatched John C. Barch, of Chattanooga, to this city, who arrived some time last week, and after various inquiries and investigations arrested Palmer as previously stated. The court room during his examination was densely crowded, and a great dead of excitement was mani fested. After a thorough examination iuto all the fact: of the case, Palmer was required to enter into bonds of $2,500. for his appearance at th District Court, in default of which he was committed to prison One of the letters referred to above Is as follows: ClIAMBSUiDllO. Oct. 20. lhO'J. . Drur WiUiumAt Mr. Martin goes down to llagers town this evening, 1 could not help writing you a line by him. You are to headstrong yoa will not listen to me. lo, ror uoa s sake -don t go to Harper s terry now; yon can do nothing if you go;. I fear for your life. Yon can keep the letter for CapL Brown until all is safe. Yon cannot give it to him now; yoa will be suspected and taken up. Come back and wait at Chaubsrsburg until Capt. Cook gets here. I am afraid tills business will get us into trouble yet. Last nigh . uctcj- iit-pi wins, in come nacs, lor l "hall be crazy until you return safe. Now, for once, do listen to your loving wife, Msar Hobiub. The other letter is signed Lawrence Thatcher. It is addresssd from Memphis, to Capt. Brown. We make the following extracts: "I have Just completed my tour through the South ern States and am now on my way to- Kentncky. In my last letter to yon I mentioned that I.should eive the States of Tennessee and Arkansas a thorough scouring. I did so, and am satisfied that of all the South, Tennessee and Arkansas are the best fitted to make the first strike in. These two States have but jew wniies in isvor or slavery while they contain an immease number of klareaalrea.lv rir. and rmli at the first intimation, to strike a decided bloW for their freedom: while the lartre mass of the white Sre apiinut slavery, 4nd will be ready to estist them at a moment's warning. Several of - them stated to me that they bad coue so far as to DreDara arma for tlu-ir Slaves and instruct them In their use, and hew to act w uen me worn comes to the worst. While at Browns ville, Tenn., 1 addressed a letter to the ecbeol teacher, mi. ii i . aou uv came M llrrnrunlli im ma . ....T.'."Z.- , ; , HEWS ITEMS. ; Senator DoogUs.l deallh U said to be Improving. An eld man in Indiana recehlly eowhided his daughter) nineteen years old, for wearing hoops. . Ex-Governor Gilmer died at Lexington, 0a., on the 16th. He had been ill for a month past. . " McDonald who was arrested la Washington recent- Perry affair, Is believed to be demented. . It is said tbat th members or the National Pemc cratio Committee will fix opon tb 10th of April as ' the day for holding the Convention at Charleston. John S. Qalloher, a whig of long experience In th politics and press of Virginia, is named in eonnectiou with Ihf office of publlo printer in the next Congress. ' It is statej that Dr. Row has gone to Canada. His friends disclaim any connection on his part with the late plot in Vlrglna. At a meeting of the Hard Shell Democrats Central CeeamiUee, at Albany, N. Y. oa the 18tb, but en member was present. He adjourned without taking action on the Charleston delegates, The Richmond Eaqulrer denies that any snch eor respendeoce, ae was reported, has taken place between Uoernor Wis and Fernando Wood la relation te Old Brown. -i i i ; The New York Time learnt that aa effort will bo made to exclude tb Hon. Henry Winter Davis, of Baltimore, from his soat in the House, on th ground that th late election ip that city was not a legal on. The House of Representatives of Oeoreia.has passed in who shalFprocure a Slavs to commit aa offence which, by law, forfeits the life of such slave. Francis Jaekeon Merriam, of Boston, who was re- fiorted to have been with Browa in the Harper's Perry nsurrection aJ subsequently to have died of hia wounds ia Philadelphia, Is alive, aad at present in -Canada. A silver pitcher, valued at f 00. was awarded at the loiuniDia, b. ruir, to seal toe speeimea or a native -Afrioan, imported during the year lbV8-.'69. The prise was givea to a native Congo, named Isaac, abont 12 years old, and witb a face tattooed all over.' Another destructive fire secured la Atlanta. 0.. on the Kith. The Augusta Dispatch says: "At a fire 1 -. I 1 1. ft. lf.u - . Atl4 . I stores were destroyed; also, a warehouse containing 400 bales of cotton. Loss over $75,000." An 'sboiitif-nist, calling himself. T. A. Salvo, was taken up at Hamburg, S. C. oa the 10th last., for being loo free in the expreasion of hit opinions, and ' bis head shaved vn one side and a coat of tar and feathers applied to hhn; he was then road on a rail beyond the limits ef the village. Wilmington llenld. The t'opartne'ruhip of Moor & Powell, in the nub- lioation of the South Carolina Son of Temperance, published at BVnnettsville, hat beta dissolved by mu- -tual content If. Judge Moere bavins purchased the entire establishment, will continue the business ou his ewn account He save there is ne avoeaiian in which m. mn ti do so much good for our cause as that of school-teaching, because all the country aroemd have to ranch con usance in a school-teacher who eondaeU himself right, lie says that the large majority of eolored people in hi part of the State are ready to take up" arms at a moment's warning, and a lurare number of while. reauy to join them., lie rays we mutt send out more well-qualified men to the South as school-teachers, and work them in everywhere." The writer then stales that on arriving- at Mi-mnhi. be bad an interview with Palmer, who sympathized with Capt. Brown. He (Palmer) had mode arrangements to lake five hundred cr a thousand -alaves of! to the swamps of Indiana. That he had friends in Cincin. nati who had promised to have one of the largest and swiftest steaiueri on the river sent to tie up and wait for them at the mouth of Hatchic river, uuder the pre tense of undergoing repairs. Ksssst WoiK." av ma SotVH. We were in formed , some days ago, by a gentleman whose state ments are entitled to credit, that letmttrn gin houses, with their contents, have been destroyed in the eourse of the last two weeks, in the county of Talbot alone. The number repels all ides of accident, and ospcciilly when we recollect that incendiarism was one of the plans of "O d ' Brown's,'" and- that particular region wat specially designated on his map. i mriner statement gives connrmation to this conclu sion. A letter reached Milledgeville a few days aio. announcing the belief that a squad of Brown's emiiwa rics were concealed in the neighborhood of Pine Mountains, in Meriwether county, and that an express bad been sent to Talbotton for a force to scour that region and capture the miscreants, if possible. There is but little doubt that detachments of Brown's gang have traveled throuith end set on foot plans in nearly all the Southern States: bat with due watcntulnese on the part or our people, we do not think there is the slightest cause- for alarm. -A few bad characters may be seduced into such plots, but we have no idea that sufficient cooperation could be Obtained to inaugurate anything like a Serious morc- mcnt, arjannaft lirpublie an. ' i 'i i i Tun MfxiCA-t OtTLAWs r Baowxsviits. The New Orleans Picayune of Hie 14th contained still further intelligence from the Kio Grande. There ie no positive proof that Brownsville hod fallen, although I'ortinas, at the latest dates, had four hundred and fifty men encamped near the city ; and it was believed that an equal number was scouting about, attacking the settlements. It was also reported tbst he had re ceived a reinforcement of one hundred men from Slex ico, which would swell his band to one thousand. The town ef Corpus Cbristi and the surrounding country were greatly endangered by his followers, who were attacking aud plundering the farms of the American residents in the most daring: manner. The inhabi tants of Rio Grande city were in hourly expectation of nnomer auacx, ana were Drenanns to make the be defense possible. The citizens of Goliad, Refugee i.nru auu Aiive una counties naa been called unon to arm themselves immediately for the protection of vorpus 1,0 rnu snu tue neighboring settlements. From KranrS. Br the steamship Canada, we bar i.iTL-riiooi uaies to tue itn last, me authorized quo. tations of Cotton at Livarnaol are- Vmr lirt.-K. a Middling 7 7-16; Fair Mobile 7j, Middling 71; Fair t -1 1. 71 m .1.11 : a it ,n v . , ." uLMBiiua ,1. hiuuiuikd itf-iu. 1 no StOOK OI tiatlnn in Liverpool ia estimated to be 457.000 bales of which ao,uuj are American. - - it it asserted that England has consented to send representatives to an European Congress, and that prance ana tngianu naw agreed on the -basis of noao- viaiiuiH. It ie vaguely reported that Garibaldi, at an inter view with the King of Sardinia, hod declared that Italy had been betrayed, and that be Wonld bead a revolution. The Kma had Dro tested araiast such a proceeuwg. , ' . , Troops leave Hichmond f r Chsrlestown in the morning. a-1 :n : I v. ! - . i ' - - V iikiv is (.ui'Bfucruuiti c&'jii'.-ij'viii urre. A copy of the new Bib'e of the edition lust DublUbed under the auspices of the Methodist Kpieconal Church. South by the Southern National Publishing House at .Nashville, Tenn., has beea presented to the President of the United Mutes, by Wm. T. Smilhaou, Esq. acting fr the Rev. R. Abbey. The Dayton (0.) Journal makes an authoritative de nial of the statement tbat Governor Corwin is not a - candidate for the Speakership of Uie next House of itepreseniatires, ana says thai be desires it to be nader nod that he it a candidate, and that hi name will be preieated te th Uoate, There are still occasional rumors of a clot to res cue Old Brown and bis companions. The Hichmond coi respondent of the Petersburg Kprea sayt tbat or ders have been given to the guard, in the event of encu an attempt, to shoot the prisoners at once, and then defend themselves from the attacking party. . The following gentlemen were elected officers ef the Chertw and Darlington Railroadrat- the recant annual meeting of the Company: President Allan Macfarian; Directors Thomas Smith, J. N. Williams, C. Coker, E. -W. Charles, J. D. Kirkpattick, T. P. Lide, J. A. Inglia,' A. McQueen, D. Malloy, and B. D. Townaend, in place ' of J . Kli Gregg, who declined a re-election. By the way of Washington, wo leara by a dispatch dated the 1Mb, that the War Department have received a dispatch from Gen. Twiggs, dated San Antonio, No vember 12, saying that Cortinas had laid Brown-ville in ashes, killing ope hundred Americans, and then narehad toward the Xenees with eight hundred men. There it some doubt as to the truth of Ibis report. Nothing as yet has been received to juitily iu correct ness. They got newt in England of the Harper's Ferry outbreak by the steamer .Circassian. It created some thing of a "sensation." The London papers print it," as telegraphed from Liverpool, with big heeding-. The ManebeitcrGuardian speaks of it as 'alarming,'.' bet thinks "Harper's Perry is loe near the emnitsl and a numerous white population, to t fiord- the insur gents any chance of success." The Liverpool Journal thinks "the United Stales will have enonah to do. without justifying the outrages of Gen. Harney at 8an Juan." The Cincinnati Gazette list a Hl-nntrl, frnm R I Louis, Nov. 8, as follows: "An imnortant dmnimrai' bat been prepared for the Dri and nnhli.hx.l I..,.. to-day, presenting an authoritative exposition of the views of the Hon. Edwtrd Bate. on the slavery nnn. tion. It it of a radical republican character. He believes that slavery is not beneficial either in a polit ical, social or religious sense, and he Is nnalti-rahlr opposed to its extension into a free territory. Ho fa vors the colonization of the free territory. He favors me colonization or the free blacks, ft is a powerful article, and will produce a sensation." There it said to exist a confederation of outlaw t whose headquarters are in New York, who came orig inally from Poland and Uermany, and extend their 1 travelt te all portions of tb United States. By day time they operate as shop lifters and pickpockets, and by night ts burglars. Their booty it distributed at convenience among pawnbrokers, jnnkdealert and brokers, who are of the same affiliations, and are in the practice of acting aa reeelvert. Several of these have come under police notice, and scandal has more than once represented the oflicera as "levying black mail'' upon them. One of the gang named Roberts alias "Big Michael" has Just been arrested. ' , With regard to the insanity of Ocrrit Smith, the ' files Herald says: "We are greatly pained to lctm mat on omun, ine rree hearted but sadly erratic . philanthropist, became on Monday last, an initiate of the New- York State Lunlatie Asylum where it has been found necessary to place him, on account Of marked Insanity. We lean that he is vtry violent, and has exhibited a disposition to commit suicide, and that an attendant keeps constant watch over him to frevent him from laying violent hands on himself, his result we hear attributed to the connection of Mr, Smith's name with the Harper's Ferry affair, though many will regard it as the consequence of long seated and marked disease" The far West correspondent of the IWni. Innm.'i writes- that the Choctnws have a permanent fund-of - - &?A -meeting ef -the-Oppoeition of - JtowanJ was held at the Court IIoue in Salisbury on the 8th inst., at which resolutions were passed, and delegates appointed to attend the Bute Conven od the 22d. We will give the proceedings next week.' - - Richmond, 'i.,No,, 19, ol. Davis bat tele graphed Gov. Wue that a large body of armed men ere approaching rrom tne direction of Wheeling, Va. A regiment of volunteers, -400 in number, left this city to-day, in an extra train, with.Gov. Wise as a passenger. More troops have been ordered to hold themselves in r.radincss. " Wathington, Nov. 20, p. m. Gov. Wine; with 600 State" troops","jit"ssed 'through here to-aay", ro'ufirror Cbarlestown, Va. JA does not believe the report of an approaoa oi an armeu loree, nut thinks the pres ence of an imposing body of military will impart a feeling of security to the population, as well as fully mrare the tafo-keeping of the nrisouera. and nrevent any futile attempt at rescue. Ail was qaiet at Cbarles town at the latest accounts. ' ' A New Orleans dispatch of the 16th savs: ''Soma demon in human shape seems determined to destroy this city. Five more fires have occurred sine lu.t catunjay . Three were unimportant. One consumed the ew ltasln Row ana tlx stores on Rampart street, Loss $70,000. Another conenmed nine suuares con! listing oi eignty small ounuingt above Chippewa ttreet, in the fourth District, Loss $100,000. One hundred fimiliee have been rendered houeeless. All the work of an incendiary beyond a doubt. No water could be procured." Another fir occurred on the 18th, destroying ten dwellings in the Fourth distrrcf " n -A The trial of Stevens, the Harper's Ferry Insurgent, will not take place before the United States Court at Staunton, Va., until May next. Heilett. alias Harri son, cannot be tried until the spring term of the Jef ferson Circuit Court, aolese the Legislature thould authorise tpecial teem e the court for Us trial. i more than $1,000,000 in the hands of our aoverr,m.nt including $100,000 set apart for school purposes.- The merest ispai.j annually, allorling them a revenue of $00,000, which meets all their governmental and ed ucational expenses, and obviates the necessity of taxes. There are ten "mission" boarding schools in the na tion, at which, iq addition to the common and higher English branches, the boys are systematically exercised on farm labor, and the girls Initiated Into the manifold mysteries of housewifery. The Methodists have charge of the most of these inttitutions, but several are eon ducted by the Preabyteriane. Some six hundred cbil-i dren are receiving instruction in these schools. The people of Virginia and Maryland are turning their attention to the Northern peddlers who are do ing business pretty freely in those flutes, as being operators -on the "underground Railroad." anrl ., taking means to" head them off. ' Our snrprlse it that" something hat not been done before in keen thou States from being overrun by these gentry. At a ease in point how Nable all are tosuimieion. we rive thonl. lowing particulars of the arreat of a Dr. Boyd, in the neighborhood of Westminster. Md . ,a week or two ago, with two alaves in '.possession, whom he was try- ' ing to get into Pennsylvania.. Bovd's ostensible hn.l. ness has been' the peddling of French goods through the State of Maryland. Suspicion was fixed upon him, and on the ocoaaslon of his latt visit to Westmln. star it was determined to spot him. His attention was called to tht met that a shoe was missing from one of his horses, and while he had gone with the horse to a -blaoksmitkj.idiop,' the opportunity woe taken to inspect ' his beam. Amongst hit tract wat noticed in oblono- box, with some suspicious holet bored in the eovtrj Boyd teeing that an inspection wat going on, came from the blaoksmlth shoo in a hurry, and assured the searchers that th box contained nothlne but i'F-,B :' goods.' They ehoee to look for themselves, and rin-" plng off the box cover, lot there were ensconsed a negro man and his wife, with provitioDi.elothinir. etc.. and all things necessary te enable the dark h-i to "keep house" antii they reached the etW tide of Nasoa'a. aad Dixon's line. The box wat larct enooeh to ena ble them to torn in it, but pot to tit up. I
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