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VOLUME XXIII Ab NUMBER 121 (ri)dhwWM COL LETTERS ic SCOTCH GAMBIT Mm iniH and 23 ch litfs run 1 3 8 lllrt IK Davis and Ebe bishop i 'Offtphtmaitt Doniel Johnson "I rumors cannot be CAI 816 69 her 7y (J th ilbtf to day in the Cir Columbia $16000 lb htT Where two persons and labor it is not How the Cheated orbes and Swindled Each Other thl 'He foul present instance the research successful as hackmen were where the man was not from hie disappearance which was 8 9 10 11 0 7 8 9 10 11 20 27 28 29 30 13 14 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 Last Trip of tub Northern The Steamer Northern Light will leave for Ontonagon and all intermediate porta this (Saturday) afternoon at 2 from the foot of Woodward avenue This being the last trip of this steamer for this season shippers ghoul! not fail to be in Beason with their freight Westminster The Rev Scott (formerly of Cincinnati) Professor in the new Theological Seminary at Chicago will sup ply the pulpit of the Westminster Church in the absence of the pastor to morrow both morning and evening Thanks We are under obligations to the United Slates Express Company for San rancis co papers np to the 3d inst brought by the over land route MA410 Dll iNq 'b $1426 hl 610 12 Mild rntj KT ten th il tdj HiT 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 20 27 28 29 3D $640 12 886 69 liHli II ni thu orfe Ung Congressional Election in Virginia Petersburg Va Oct 23 All parties concede the election of Roger A Pryor in this Congressional district by from 1200 to 1500 majority A great jubilation occurred here last night and Mr Pryor addressed the crowd from the Exchange Mr Porter to 4 1 Kt to 3 takes to 4 to 3 Kt to 3 7 takes Castles Kt takes Kt to 3 to 4 tn 2 to 3 takes to It aq to Kt 4 to Kt Bq to Kt eq to Kt 2 to Bq takes to Kt to 6 to Kt 3 takes takrs to 3 to 6 to Kt a to 11 3 TRIAL JOHN BROWN Close of the Evidence for the Prosecution and Commencement of that for the Defence Attempt to Explain Away liis Connection with Brown Arrival of the Northern Light New York Oct 28 The steamship Northern Light from Aspin wall Is below Her dates from California have been anticipated THE HARPER'S ERRY IN VASION letter forms employment SwiNIUB ON THE NASSAU Bank About two yesterday afternoon a tall man with black whiskers presented himself at the paying desk of the Nassau Bank and handed to Mr Briggs one of the clerks who was acting for the teller a check purporting to have been drawn by Robert Bonner of the Ledger for $3126 The check being a facsimile of those used by Mr Bonner and the name being well executed Mr Briggs told the bearer that it was good buf as he was not known he would have to be identified The man then took the check and left bnt in a few moments returned having endorsed on the back of the check Correct Robert Mr Briggs at once paid the amount in one hunj dred and fifty dollar bills and the stranger left But a few moments elapsed when it was discover ed to be a forgery but too late to secure the forger The police were notified of the fact and a descrip tion of the man given but as yet no trace has been had of him There is no doitbt but that he had the bills immediately changed for gold and fled the city About two weeks ago a man called on an engraver in ulton street and asked to have a set of checks made for him precisely like Mr A day or two ago they were delivered to him and it is presumed he is the same A Herald nth Shook of an Earthquake Boston Oct 28 A shock Of an earthquake was felt at 3 o'clock on Wednesday at Machias Calais and Eastport in Maine and St George St Andrews and St Johns Paul Morphy New York Oct 28 Paul Morpby leaves here on Saturday for Phil adelphia on his way to New Orleans Mr Mor phy will probably stop a day or two in each of the following places: Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Richmond Charleston and Mo bile It is altogether uncertain whether he will as has been reported return to New York to re side or will enter upon the practice of the law in bis native city Pnilv ive $6 the Tri Weekly $3 the lilv fl invaiiabty tn advance Tne Pally iy aulmeribem 12Q cent per week Mr RAm to 4i Kt to 3 to Bl 1 to 4 Kt takes Kt takes to Kt 3 Kt to 3 to 3 to 4 Kt takes Kt to 4 to 3 takes Kt Kt to 2 takes 13 14 15 16 Resigns THE ERRY IN VASION WILBI It STOREY IltlTOH AND IR I It IIITO A Cat as is a There is in the family of Mr John Nolle Brandywine street Spring Garden Philadelphia a gentleman ctst of enor mous a perfect curiosity He weighs thir ty one pounds and measures thirty seven inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail and twenty eight inches around the girth I Where is there an older woman than Mrs Mar tha Reynolds of Coffee county Tennessee? Sha has completed her 118th year 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 4 5 6 7 8 Charlestown Va Oct 28 The afternoon session of yesterday was occupied with the examination of Colonel Washington and Conductor Phelps but nothing of importance was elicited beyond what has al ready been disolosed in their published state ments Cook passed through rederick Olty yesterday in custody of officers on the way to Charlestown Second Dispatch Cook was brought here at 10 this morn ing He says that if Brown had taken his ad vice in relation to mounting the men a force one thousand strong could not have taken them Ho says that red Tfonglass acted the coward as he promised to be there in person There is great rejoicing here at the arrest of Cook George Hoyt Esq of Boston arrived this morning to act as counsel for Brown Ho is quite a young man The court met at 11 Brown was led over from the jail walking very feebly and laid down on the cot Senator Mason entered the court with Mr Hoyt the counsel from Senator Mason remarked that the testimony giv en by Col Washington and Conductor Phillips was very correct The jury was then called and Mr Botts announced the arrival of Mr Hoyt who had come to assist the counsel for Brown At present however he did not feel disposed to take a part in the ease Whenever he should feel dis posed he would do so Mr Hunter suggested that he had better be qualified as a member of the bar on producing proof from the Boston Mr Hoyt stated that he had not brought his cre dentials of admission The court said that the strictly legal evidence of the fact was not re quired but the evidence of any citizen would answer Mr Green said that his partner had read letters from the fellow students of Mr Hoyt alluding to him as a member of the bar Mr Hoyt then took the customary oatb The testimony was then resumed Conductor Phelps being reoalled Mr Botts put a question to the witness proposed by Brown The firing was commenced by those men on the bridge who shot Haywood the next firing was by Throckmorton does not know whether the tiling at Haywood was intentional there was no attack made on men until after Haywood was shot he was shot by the armed men in the Winchester span of the bridge Col Washington recalled The negotiations were opening with Brown for the release of the prisoners befoie the general firing commenced ou Monday does not know whether all the pris oners signed the proposition for a suspension of firing before the opening of negotiations Brown frequently suggested that the prisoners should cross the bridge with him to the second canal lock and not to be tired upon until after they reached that point no objection was made by any of the prisoners to the proposition Brown said he was too old a soldier to yield hia advantage he believed in holding hostages son was wounded during the day ju the breast the ball passing around to the side but be took his wea pon again and fired frequently before his sufler hig compelled him to retire heard Capt Brown frequently complain of the bad faith of the people in firing on the flag of truce heard him make no threat or even exhibit any vindictive ness against the people Mr Brewer went out and brought in a promise that the people would nut fire while the negotiations were pending cannot say that all the firing of Capt Brown or his men was in self defence heard Brown give frequent orders not to tire on unarmed citizens the first firing was against the engine house Brown said the people appeared to pay but little regard to the lives of citizens and we must take the chances with him after the first attack on the engine house by the marines there was not a general cry of surrender one cried surren der but the others fought on Brown had his rifle in his hand when he was struck down by lhe ma rines anil cut over the head with a sword by Lieut Green Mr Hunter laid before the jury the printed con stitution and ordinances of the provisional gov ernment reading the first two clauses of the pre amble the seventh forty filth and forty eighth articles and briefly summing up the other por tions of the constitution Sher iff Campbell knows the handwriting of the prisoner having copied a letter from him Brown the prisoner said he would identify himself any of his handwriting and save all that trouble He was ready to face the Mr Hunter said he would prefer to prove them by Mr Campbell Brown Either way as you A large bundle of letters were produced each of which was identified by Campbell They were then handed to Brown who at the first glance replied to each in a loud voice That is The letters and papers were about fifty in number Mr Hunter read the list of members of the convention It was headed William Charles Mor ris president of the convention and Kogi sec retary of the convention On handing the list to Brown he exclaimed with a groan my in reference to another paper he said I have nothing to say about that" The letter from Giddings acknowledging the receipt of a letter from Brown and saying that he would be pleased to see him at his house during the summer was read Mr Hunter then read the letter from Gerrit Smith about tbe Kan sas already published A number of witnesses were examined The evidence elicited no new facts Here the prose cution rested The defence called Joseph A Brewer who tes tified that he was one of the prisoners in the en gine house with Col Washington and others Brown remarked that the prisoners should share their danger they were allowed to shelter them selves as well as they could Cross went out with a flag of truce another went ont and came back wounded Stevens and Kitzmiller went out Ste vens was shot after it commenced very hard I supposed Stevens was dead he lay near the cor ner of the depot beard groaning and saw Stevens moving asked Brown to send a man to relieve Ste vens Brown refused to send one because he would be shot the witness was allowed to go and assist Stevens into the hotel witness returned accord ing to his pledge to the engine house and was sent several times by Brown to reqnest'the cltP zens not to shoot as the lives of the prisoners were endangered negotiations were going on between Brown and the prisoners before the gen eral firing commenced Brown proposed that he should retain possession of what he held inclu ding the armory and negroes Washington and all seemed to acquiesce in this arrangement Cross was sent out to confer with Beckham and others on the subject a guard went with him who were fired on after that Stevens wanted to shoot but Kitzmiller appealed to him and they went out to gether to stop the firing when they did not return Brown seemed to show temper and there was a change in the arrangements after that Brown said he had it in his power to destroy that place in half an hour but he would not do it unless re sisted think a shot from the water tank struck Coppic he then returned the fire and some one said "That the special object of the witness going out was to stop the firing from the tank which was annoying to those in the guard house A Ketzmiller sworn made repeated en deavors to arrange matters with Brown he said his object was to fight the pro slavery men for tic' S'" Seward Hale Sumner Chase letcher Lawrence and Other Black Beptibli cans Implicated in Plot A Mystery Solved Considerable specula tion has for a few days past been excited by a mysterious disappearance which occurred during the latter part of last week under circumstances similar to those connected with lhe still unex plained Rodgers ease A man came to Hotel and left his team and wagon and then dis appeared The team remained several days a fai which excited the suspicion of the landlord who advertised the horses and made every effort to find the owner Yesterday two of his brothers living near Mt Clemens came to town in search of him and officers were set ou the track Of course in such cases tbe lev stan is the first resort and in the was uncommonly found who knew any in entirely voluntary but from the exercise of a fac ulty which they aro generally possessed of by which they know where folks and things are if anybody does no matter how daik the night or remote the recesses in which they may be hidden The relatives of the man offered a reward of $25 to remunerate lhe officers and hackmen ami gave a note to secure that amount whereupon be was dug out of a saloon on Monroe avenue and brought down to Justice office where he was compelled to assume a perpendicular and give an account of himself He was ho full of bad whisky that he was nearly stupid but managed to tell his story by which it was understood that hia name was Chester Hart and that he lives near ML Ciemens He brought in a load of oats which he sold for nine dollars which amount he immediately devoted to the pur poses of a grand drunk In pursuance of this in tention he went to the saloon where he was found and commenced the process of filling himself Having by industrious labor got full belaid down and slept it off and then started in on another individual bust followed by another nap In this manner he had any amount of private and exclusive blow outs all by himself and without disturbance Of course tbe proprietor was will ing the thing should go on so long as the nine dollars lasted so he kept it up entirely oblivious of the sensation that his disappearance was ex citing lie had been there several days when found and looked very simple when confronted by day light and his much disgusted relatives The latter thought at first that he had better ba sent up lor a month or two to get the whisky out of him but finally concluded to take him home to his wife and family who have been very much alarmed on account of his mysterious absence Cricket Match There was a match game of cricket played yesterday between the second eleven of the Detroit Club and the first eleven of the Hamtramck Union Club resulting in favor of the former with seven wickets to go down 13 14 15 16 2 3 4 5 6 LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH Assault upon Senator Wife and Daughter The Racine (Wis) Advocate has the following notice of a daring attempt upon the wite and daughter of Senator Doolittle: As Mrs Doolittle and Miss Doolittle were returning in a carriage from Kenosha last Satur day evening when about two miles north of the city in the woods they observed a man of sus picious appearance in advance and hastening the horse he made a spring at the reins but missing his grasp be endeavored to catch hold of the car riage but the horse a spirited one answered to tbe lash and left the fellow where all his efforts to catch them were fruitless although he followed them at the top of his speed for about half a mile and once came within a few feet of grasping the carriage The evening was so far advanced as to make it impossible to recognize the features of the man or describe bis The San Juan Difficulty We have just received in a private letter from London an in teresting item of information It is to the effect that somewhere about the year 1815 Lord Aber deen in a letter to Mr Louis McLane our Minis ter at London at that time admitted the Haro channel (which gives the disputed island of San Juan to the United States) to be the true bounda ry This was before the ratification or conclusion of the Oregon treaty but this admission of Lord Aberdeen will none the less contribute to strengthen Gen Harney's interpretation of said treaty 1' Herald 27th A Smasher of a oot A firm in Boston have just made two pairs of shoes for a slave in one of the southern States which are elephan tine in their proportions The dimensions of each shoe are 161 inches in length 6 inches across the ball of the foot and 17 inches around the in tsep 41 A married lady in Loudon county Virginia is said to weigh five hundred and fifty three pound? Her husband is a great lady's man at 2 11 at Kt 7 at 2 3 Kt at 4 White to play ami mate in four moves 1 raging The machineryi' 'renhi depot of the Michigan Central used fr hoisting flour into the lofts tin motion yesterday fur the first time in four years The freight receipts of that 4 now assuming so much of their former tbat their immense warehouses arein' manifests itself of storing 11 Hwait HhPmnt the This "ioI llKU not raere'y that stockholders in the to hope for dividends again but 11 UllrB tlie country is reviving Mr Colburn to 4 Kt to 3 to 4 to Kt 4 6 takes Kt takes to 4 Castles to 3 to sq to 3 to Kt 3 Qto It 4 (eh) Kt takes takes (ch) takes (ch) takes (ch) i 1 1 hi 'Inn i The displayed by iiih inmi in the ihschfirge of their pastoral rive lull iHHiirante nl the production of "iid iul resting lectures which will he wel 1 hy their many liiemls in this city 'or( Watson nni White of Ann Arbor aril ulilii' Ii clures which will prove ae dle to lhe many who nre interested in such 'i 'lhe) are lih gentlemen of ability and i "'m ami quile well known to our lecture lot be proposed to keep with him mounting 100 or so of them and make a daah at manufcctory destroying what he could not carry off The other men not of this party Were to subdivided into three fouror five distinct parties each under two or three of the origins! band and would beat np other slave quarters whence more men would lie sent to join him He argued that were he pressed by the Unite! States troops which after a few days might con centrate be could easily maintain himself in the Alleghanfes and that his New England partisans would in the meantime call a northern conveu tion to restore tranquility and overthrow the pro slavery administration This 1 contended could at moat be a mere local explosion A slave in Burrection ijng frora the very nature of things deficient in men of education and experience would njjder such a system as proposed be either a flash in the pan or would leap beyond his control or any eontrol wben it would be come a scene of mere anarchy and would assu redly be suppressed the other hand considered foreign in tervention as not impossible As to the dream of a northern convention I consider it as a total fallacy Brown's New England friends would not have the courage to show themselves so long as the issue was doubtful After days of discussion Brown (whom you reiterate underlined in your letter of the 10th en joys your entire confidence) acquiesced or feign ed to acquiesce in a mixed project styled well matured plan' I consented to make that concession to secure mutual eo operatini and consideration of the prospective committee of management which was at the proper lime to be established 1 preferred however my original plan oi stampedes unalloyed Iy anything else Your assertion that I want to take tbe manage ment is wholly unfounded my insisting upon a committee of management is com lusive on that head Brown had he been truthful might have been useful in some capacity almost every one might if zealous be useful in some place where as the same man might be mischievous iu anoti er place This mixed plan in which 1 am com promised more than you (lying ns you do out of eight) having been definitely settled upon 1 deny the right ot or you or any one from caprice or speculation to set it aside for the Brown pro ject pure and simple or for any other It is a breach of confidence which I will not tolerate es pecially when your first act is to assail my own family You must le worse than insane you must be to expect it of me Now however after what has passed I would not un dertake the intended mixed plan or even mv own project of stampedes in connection with any of you because I can place no more faith in New England humanitarians first thought after discovering complicity in the New England breach of faith let him try Though justly irritated at tha horrible treatment of my family 1 did not till towards the end of April' utter a syllable even to Mr Sanborn which might tend to'cbeek the sup plies i spoke to but one abolitionist for some weeks after my arrival here and he thought as much as 1 did On reconsidering the matter with other abolitionists they advanced such sound reasons that I conceived my first impres sion to have been erroneous ami they say that must be stopped more 1 reflect the more I become con firmed in the opinion of the hist named abolition ist 1st Ueoanse a man who deviates from truth betrays hia associate and ill treats friendly family should not be trusted with any humanita rian enterprise 2d Because Brown with his bigoted mind and limited instruction has not the capacity necessary to direct such an enterprise 3d Because the crude project which he aud his confederates have in their br ads is not likely to succeed but is merely suited for a grand specu lation in the sudden rise of cotton on the ex changes 4f Because some of the hands en gaged by him are highly for ex ample: When was in the first Kansas troubles he was by hia own men robbed of hoises Now a young man whom he asserted had helped to rob him has heen re engaged for the reason that he did an audacious act going with three others to Missouri to the house of another John Brown whence they took money and horses after the troubles in Kansas were over and had left thence they went to another house and did in the like manner and though pursued they got away with the booty Reprisals and foraging for the common stock are justifiable in war when ordered by the directing power hut such things if permitted to be done by individuals for private gain constitute brigandage the robbery ol com rades is however the worst of all pillage I re monstrated against the engagement of that per son but told me he bad already done it his admiration tor the desperate feat effaced every other feeling or these and many other reasons I call on you and your associates to stop and to take from him your arms Ac I have a right to exact this and I do exact it To your assertion that to stop I would denounce and betray 1 echo what the abolitionists here say that if you do not by taking from him your arms Ac slop him you betray them for this concerns the abolitionists and they have a right to be heard has been written that there is nothing new under the suu The proverb is wrong you have laid down a new doctrine viz: he who stops a traitor ami so prevents his treason betrays Notwithstanding this new rule I repr at that'B A Co shall not speculate on the rise in cotton Some may say Why not let them make a little it harm the I say it will be cause prudence may demand that the initiative be unexpectedly hurried forward or it may be es sential that it be deterred some weeks or even months but speculation necessitates that the panic seize the market exactly on the preconcert ed day therefore to manufacture that fraudulent rise the ultimate success of tbe huiuanitii ian move would without scruple be sacrificed Not being a commercial man the full force of pro posal did not strike me till I inquired in conver sation how Lawrence A Co could be so public spirited as to advance $37000 and $8000 to affect a tariff in which the whole trade and not that firm alone was interested The reply was that to a house having heavy speculations it was well worth $100000 to get within a certain time a change of duties which would enable the specu lators to realize five or ten times that amount Then the whole cotton scheme re appeared before me and the recollection that bad told me that Mr Amos Lawrence bad promised him $7000 whenever actual hostilities should be com menced brought to my mind other reflections This iniquitous speculation in human blood for the mere greediness of dollars shall somehow bo though you coolly tell me that it 1 stop it I betray because I will not let certain persons betray To the abolitionists I say You must yourselves unite together and stop it and to the colored people I If you rise at the call of New England humanitarians yon will shed your blood for the sole benefit of New England specu lators and the free colored people may very like ly be re enslaved have as strange a notion of what is gen tlemanly as you have of what is just Last au tumn when 1 was asked to write strong tracks ad dressed to the United States troops pointed against the United States government and the border ruffians I complied with the request and the productions were pronounced to be admira bly adapted to the purpose I was urged to con tinue them and because they suited you and yours nothing was hinted as to their lieing un gentlemanly or that that which cometh out of the mouth defileth the man and him In this very city 1 find that the printer of the (anti slavery) Era was coaxed to print ou credit for the republican committee which hon orable body leaving him $2800 mi nus The editor of the Era was induced to start a daily on the delusive promises of leading humanitarians One of them who promised to send in 100 subscriptions did not procure one or even subscribe himself Tho rest of the promises proved to be much of the same stamp wide circulation among abolitionists of my project of slave stampedes maybe very ad vantageous because it may lead to its adoption for it is so practical that even though a gene ral idea of the plan were through any impru dence before execution to reach the ears of tho pro slaveryites they would not find it an easy matter to prevent it not knowing tbe precise spot whence the first (or next) lot would be spirit ed away That plan would really be hitting slavery blows which it could hardly parry and which must produce a great effect and so that it be done I care not who accomplishes the object Abolitionists must however in the in terest of the cause understand that Brown and hie associate New England speculators cannot be trusted to undertake any project beeause they have a pet scheme of private gain to gratify or this reason it should also be understood wide ly that the secret service fund which you and yours collect professedly for the prosecution of the well matured plan is not fur that but is fur the creation of a cotton panic through the alarm at a probable interruption or a sensible diminu tion of the supply which panic beforehand known to you and yours as a thing about to be would at one sweep bring from the exchanges sacks of dollars into the coffers of half a dozen managers at the expense of the abolition cause the blood of the slaves and the liberty of the free colored 1 1 Terbible Hail On the 17th inst the village of Antioch 111 was visited by a terrible bail storm Several houses were unroofed beat and hay stacks blown down fences prostrated Ac A wing of the house of Mr Jeremiah Quinn was entirely demolished crushing beneath its ruins his son aged 16 or 17 years and causing his death The upright part of this house was turn ed almost completely around and boards blown from it were found about a half mile off scatter ed about the fields Mrs Quinn and daughters were severely but not dangerously injured rom the Herald Oot 87 There appeared in Herald a card signed IL orbes which contained a menace that the writer who was kuowu to have been in con nection with OsaawatOBiie Brown and to have been cognizant of all his plans would after the trial at Charlestown publish certain oorrespond ence whioh might prove damaging to many prominent black republican politicians We will save Colonel orbes the trouble of carrying his threat into execution or at least we will antici pate him somewhat in that matter he our very complete arrangements have brought tho identi cal papers or copies of them Into our hands But first let us briefly stalo the manner in which Colonel orbes comes to ba mixed up in this matter Tho first that was known of him in this country was when some ten years ago he arrived here slier the breaking up of the great European revolution ol 1848 He is a Scotchman by birth we believe and has been a revolutionary soldier from inclination Ha served for some years iu the British army Afterwards wo find him prom inently brought into notice by his connection with Garibaldi in the defence of Rome Then he came to this country and was for a time re porter or translator on the Tribune A few years ago he established an Anglo American paper in this city and was conducting it at tho time ot his first introduction to Ossawatomie Brown This modern Roundhead had come to tho North for the purpose of bringing back with him to Kan sas a man of military genius and experience who would undertake to train tho Kansas abolitionists in all the tactics pertaining to the guerrilla branch of the profession of arms orbes was just the man for tho purpose Guerrilla fighting was his forte and he bad the reputation of being some what of a genius in tho art of war He was an excellent fencer aud although that was of little acconnt among the border ruffians an accom plished linguist Brown and orbes were brought eu rapport by one of the editors of the New Yrork Independent Negotiations were en tered on and orbes was secured to the cause of abolitionism What the exact terms of the con tract were we cannot say but we gather from the correspondence iu our hands that certain month ly remittances were to be seut to family in Europe by those who had eharge of the funds in this region orbes appears however to have realized the utter unreliabililyof these philan thropists and bls letters show that he soon found out that the whole game was one of cheating He appealed to Horace Greeley to have justice done him He put himself in correspondence with Seward Sumner Wilson Hale Chase letcher and other prominent abolitionists and acquaint ed them fully with projects pointing out how they must inevitably fail and bring dis may and destruction upon the anti slavery cause oor orbes found that like Cassandra of old his predictions were laughed at and his entreaties set at naught So long ago as May 1858 he appears to have had an interview with Win Seward in Wash ington in which he went fully into the whole uialter in all its bearings Tbe first letter is addressed to li Sanborn Concord the from whom Brown acknowledged several remittances of money and whois or was the Secretary of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society The fol lowing head note is prefixed to the letter: the 27lh December I wide to Senator Charles Sumner at Boston requesting him to see what could ba done in the case The copy was not taken Mr Sumner transmitted the letter through Dr Howe to Mr Sanborn who replied 1 1st dan) alleging ignorance of my engagement with hi Hila letter orbes relates the destitute posi tion of his family to this situation through the nou fulfillment of the engagements of the New England humanitarians noble generous New Haven which promised $1900 and gave $25 per Ile says: The reply of Horace Greeley is illustrative of the feelings of certain hu manitarians and of the state of public sentiment in this part of the world He did not even hint at remedying the mischief he merely looked at the responsibility and cast about for an excuse for doing nothing irst lie (known as the advo cate of the higher law) argued that I had no legal claim according to the lower law Then that false prophet of higher law laid down a new rule in morals viz that I alone was to blame because I ought to have knowii that engagements of that sort never lire never are meant to be kept What a peculiar school of moralityl No blame no shadow of reproof for those who break moral en gagements the most stringent but culpability and ruin without pity for those who believe in tbe sac redness of obligation" In another portion of the letter orbes says: I will now furnish you with a fact which goes far to demonstrate that the refusal of the New England humanitarians to honor their engagements last summer and an tumn is not an isolated instance of repudiation but is part of a regular system of unscrupulous de ceit practiced whenever a man zealous in the cause can 1 taken advantage some dupe of course who relies on the sacred ness of moral obligations A gentleman now in business here acted from 1835 to 1845 as Treasu rer to the Society for the Protection of ugitive Slaves As the calls for money came at irregular intervals and as it was essential that no impedi ment should delay the fugitives he was requested by the committee to advance whatever cash might be wanted even though there were not funds enough in his hands to cover the outlay the committee promising that any deficiency should bo made good to him He did as he had been asked to do and soon discovered that tho sub scriptions of the exemplary humanitarians were falling short far behind his advances He applied for the promised reimbursement and was sys tematically put off and put off The debt at length accumulated to about $15(10 when bo be came very pressing for a settlement and refused to involve himself any deeper whereupon tho committee guessed it would be better to dissolve the society since it did not cover its expendi tures! Accordingly they did notwithstanding his remonstrances dissolve the society and hav ing by that trick wiped out the debt they imme diately reorganized bringing in a few new mem bers who would not join while the society was in debt atter which manoeuvre the society went ou as before using the same books minutes as if nothing extraordinary had occurred This proceeding I should style impudent lying cheat ing and swindling certain New Englanders may term it smart and praiseworthy but if it tie not swindling I should like to hear what deep degree of fraud constitutes swindling My to that gentleman was that he should lay the whole before the anti slavery societies of Europe and should enlighten the public He replied that be did not wish to injure the cause of abolitionism I maintain however that abolitionism being a struggle for the trinmph of tbe great principles of liberty truth and justice the sooner it is ta ken out of the hands of cheats the better for hu manity for most assuredly if it be left in the bands of swindlers it must be swindled You express surprise at ray letter to Mr Sum ner as if that were the first you ever beard on the subject How then last summer did you write from Massachusetts to Capt at Tabor Iowa telling him that I had a few days previous been at Davenport on my way to join him? You say that Mr Amos Lawrence probably never heard of ray name How then did he give Capt a copy of my The next letter is to the same person and is prefaced by the following head note: the 15th January Mr Sanborn replied to mine of the 9th He explained that he had done much to aid the cause that he had caused $3000 in money and arms to be given to Capt also $5000 to be voted to him by the Chicago com mittee of which he had received $500 also had done many other things of a similar as $600 recently for service adding that if he had known of tbe engagement between Captain and myself he would have supported my wife and children rather than allow what has happened to take In this letter orbes says: I left Iowa though intensely anxious respecting my family I did feel considerable confidence that the letters I had in October sent to Gerrit Smith had explain ed the urgency of sending quickly succor to Paris Also I felt a certain assurance that those sent to Mr Joseph Bryant of New Y'ork had convinced him that no delay ought to be allowed in forward ing assistance But on reaching tbe farm of young John Brown in Ohio (where I was most kindly received) I got a letter from Mr Morton informing me that Mr Smith having been very ill had not yet opened any of his letters Mr Bry ant did nothing I also received there the letter from Paris dated November 1 already alluded to iu my last and then I saw that my fears had not been exaggerated or unfounded as Captain had almost persuaded me that they were There certainly is one error and there may be others in your letter of the 15th respecting the sums received by Captain Brown The national committee which promised $5000 scut $150 (not $500 as you supposed) and the person who brought the $150 charged $40 fc? expense leav ing $110 only This was all Captain had when I joined him at Tabor The $600 for secret service yon speak of as being enough for the pur pose is not enough This is another error and a aeriousone Get managers from out of the rank and file of the anti slavery party then you can find materials but let them not be men who think that all the duties of men are fulfilled when they have said a long prayer Somehow atop the ruinous system of deceit collect that if wolves were to tear and eat each other there would soon be no more wolves jf border ruf fians were to rob and kill each other there would soon be no more border ruffian and if the anti slavery party tear and cheat each other it must soon use itself The next letter in point of date is directed to Dr 8 Howe a noted abolitionist of Boston it j9 dated Washington April 19 1858: Senator Snmner has read to me Jour answer to the letters he wrote to yon in accordance with his kind offer to get this matter straight' He wished to effect that object and judging of his New England friends by his own feelings he thought he could get justice done to me Bnt tho doing of justice entailed ou the New Eng landers a tacit acknowledgment that they had been wrong pride as well as purse had to suffer therefore the grievance has not been put nor will it be though tho longer it re mains crooked the worse it becomes Capt who enjoys your entire confidence made an engagemenc with me at tbe instance of certain free Slate committees and wealthy and leading citizens all of whom are morally respon sible for the same though not all of them may have cared to know the name of the who might lie Induced to go It was on that oc casion agreed that I was to abandon my then ex isting means of supporting my family a certain sum per month for oue year being promised for their maintenance by the humanitarians through Capt whioh sum was much less than I was then earning Uapt came to me with a letter from tho Rev Joshua Leavitt of the New York Independent and on my making inquiries of him ho stated that Capt had no meaus of his own to meet any obligations but that ho believed him to backed by good and responsible men and that at any rate I might repose faith in his word Brown oa his part trusted to the New England promises made to him which promises being subsequently brokoti (because it was imagined that the border ruffians had abandoned Kansas) he of course could not fulfill his compact it me And when I remonstrated the humanitarians re ply know you' We made no engage ment with while Brown says quiet weaken my and when I refuse to be quiet since my children are being killed by slow torture through the culpability of the humauita riaus then denies his obligations to me rather than displease the men ot money The human itarians aud Brown are guilty of pertidy aud bru tality to which may be added stupidity "Speculation is perhaps hardly the proper name by which to designate the proposal of John Brown to raise a sum by coming to an under standing with some metcautile house (which was to make its own profit also) by speculating on the principal English and American exchanges for the rise of cotton lii would surely result from diminution of tbe usual supply through our projected movement I peremptorily refused to acquiesce and tho subject was not again mooted to me But the discovery of the Boston $87000 affair in wool reminds me of John cot ton scheme and induces me to guess that he is uot tlie ouly New England humanitarian who en tertains peculiar notions of speculation Indeed greediness to turn insurrection to pecuniary protit may not unreasonably lie regarded as the grand motive for that projected movement south of Mason and line which movement 1 looked upon till lately as being purely philanthrop ic Judging of the probable march of future events by those past I say to the colored people as 1 aud others have been duped so will tie the slaves and it they rise at the call of New England hu manitarians they will undoubtedly sbed their blood for the sole benefit of New England specu Tbe next letter is dated Washington April 24 1858 and addressed to Sanborn Concord Mass It says: abolitionist whom I need not name though he is known to you and is very intimately acquainted with Dr Howe remarked to mo that it Brown were to try his plan aud were to fail he alone would suffer whereas if he were to succeed in raising an insurrection the great object of emancipation would be attained And such was also my impression at the first in stant therefore as yon must perceive I refrain ed from interfering with him But more mature reflection and the earnest representation ot some abolitionists here induced me to regard that as an optimist rather than a sound practical view of tlie case Slave insurrections are very peculiar differ considerably from other revolutions in which men of highly cultivated minds and ot experience as well as information abound If gets from the slaves no response or only a fee blo one to hia invitation to rise then tbe anus aud means placed at his disposal by lhe humani tarian (or speculating) oommittees will be wasted the lives ot' many compromised with Brown will lie needlessly sacrificed and the cause will be thrown back far back If on the other hand a great rising take place which leaps beyond his unskilled direction sweeping like a prairie lire from Mason and Dixon's line to the Gulf of Mex ico must not such an unorganized mass be easily subdued and will not that be equivalent to a fail ure unless it be a money speculation for the rise in cotton ou the exchange? I addressing certain persons 1 should say to see that Brown be not permitted to put into execution hia own plan let the well matured or mine or some other better oue be substituted see that a proper committee of management be put at the head and that leading men be sought different from Brown in their hu manity integrity truthfulness and capacity But addressing persons who have implicit faith iu Brown persona who have treated brutally my innocent children destroying their health and maybe also their lives as a recompense to me for reposing confidence in New England good faith as 1 am addressing such men I say i in sist that all the arms and means confided to John Brown be instantly withdrawn from his hands and that they be deposited in such custody as shall insure their not being applied to specula ting or merely ambitious purposes If you ask by what right I so insist 1 reply I do this by the right of common sense and be cause a great humanitarian cause on which de pend the lives and liberties of millions must not be entrusted to the mismanagement of incompe tent and inhuman A letter to Dr Howe of Boston Mass da ted Washington May 6 1858 says: Satur day (1st May) 1 had an interview with Senator Win fl Seward of New York having been in troduced to him through a letter from a leading abolitionist Dr of the Era I went fully into the whole matter in all its bearings He ex pressed regret that be had been told and said that he in his position ought not to have been in formed of the circumstances In part I agree with him and in part I differ I regret that the misconduct of the New Englanders should have forced me to address rayself to him bnt being now enlightened on the subject he cannot well let this business continue in its present crooked condition instead of causing it to be both as regards my situation as well as the cotton speculation of the humani tarians made several attempts to get a quiet conversation with Senator John Hale of New Hampshire I met him accidentally on Sunday morning I could not then enter in to the details of John project therefore I confined myself to explainiug the urgency of sending relief to my family and he promised to take some active steps iu the The next letter to the same party and dated Washington May 14 1858 is prefaced witb the following memorandum: show to Messrs Sanborn Lawrence Ao Copies will be eent to Governor Chase who found money and Governor letcher who con tributed arms and to others interested as quickly aa In this letter orbes says: When John Brown applied to me last spring in the name of the com mittees and leading humanitarians 1 answered as you are well aware that being an anti slavery man I would not stir merely to get Kansas for free white and on hie assuring me that he himself and leading minds among his associ ates had views similar to my own I considered that the application being put upon that basis I ought to go Brown could not then discuss those details We examined at Tabor the respective merits of our plans Mine was aa follows: With carefully selected colored and white persons to organize along the northern slave frontier (Virginia and Maryland especially) a series of stampedes of slaves each oue of which operations would carry off tn one night and from the same place some twenty to fifty slaves this to be effected once or twice a month and eventually once or twice a week along non contiguous parte of the line if possible with out conflict only resorting to force if attacked Slave women accustomed to field labor would be nearly as usdful as men Everything being in readiness to pass on tbe fugitives they could be sent with such speed to Canada that pursuit would be hopeless In Canada preparations were to be made for their instruction and employment Any disaster which might befall a stampede would at the utmost compromise those only who might be engaged in that simple one therefore we were not bound in good faith to the abolitionists (as we did not jeopardize that interest) to consult more than those engaged in this very project Against the chance of loss by occasional accidents should be weighed the advantages of a series of successful Slave property would thus become un tenable near the frontier that frontier would be pushed more and more southward and it might reasonably be expected that the excitement and irritation would impel the pro slaveryites to com mit some stupid blunders The Missouri frontier being so far from the habitable part of Canada and the political parties anti flhd pro heing in that State (Missouri) so nearly balanced suggested a peculiar action in that quarter which would depend in a great measure on affairs in Kansas Brown had a different scheme He proposed with some twenty five to fifty (colored and white mixed) well armed and bringing a quantity of spare arms to beat up a slave quarter in Virginia To this I objected that ho preparatory notice hav ing been given te the slaves (no notice could witb prudence be given them) the invitation to rise might unless they were already in a state of agitation meet with no response or a feeble one To this be replied that he was sure of a response He calculated that he could get on the first night from 200 to 500 Half or thereabouts of thia first DETROIT MICHIGAN SATURDAY MORNING OCTOBER 29 1859 Oil OHS Correspondents will please direct to Box 885 Detroit Tbe aunual meeting of the Detroit Chesa Club for tbe election of oliicere will be held on the first Thursday in November Mr Cudmun Kalamazoo 1 to 4 2 Kt to 3 8 to 4 to 4 Castles to to 5 Kt takes 9 to Kt 5 10 takes Kt 11 to 2 12 Kt to 2 1 to lx 3 takes Kt Kt to 3 to 3 to 5 to Kt 3 Kt to 4 to 3 (a) takes takes (di) to 6 to 7) takes to sq It tn li sq to 4 Likes BP to Kt 3 Kt to 5 and owing to the lateness of the hour the game was de clared drawn (a) ell played Black dare not take tbe Bisbop GAMBIT that purpose I was first surprised then indignant and finally disgusted with Brown he said to me There is a company of riflemen on the bridge get them to went in company with Stevens and Hunter told them I was sorry they did not leave their guns Stevens remarked would not I had no flag and did not consider myself the bearer of a flag of truce as I was desired as to the rifle company on the bridge' I saw they were our own men I waved my handkerchief and told Stevens and the other man to remain I soon heard firing very close Stevens fired in reply to a shot which struck him from the house side of the Winchester Railroad Rhilaorlphia Oot 28 Giddings delivered an address this evening for the purpose of explaining what he knew about Brown He says he invited Brown to Jefferson Ohio where he delivered a lecture one Sunday after church telling his trials in Kansas After the lecture Giddings prompted the audience to contribute to th Telief of Brown Afterwards Brown took tea at his residence where they had a conversation Though Brown never said ho In tended to visit the slave States to free the slaves Giddings inferred that he would if opportunity offered mainly from having done so in Missouri These were the only times that Giddings saw Brown Ho asserte that neither In th lecture nor in the conversation did Brown say that he had as sistants or associates No mention was made of Harper's erry or Virginia organization or provisional government ac knowledges contributing three dollars to son towards the necessities of his father after tlie rescue of Doy from the kidnappers a matter in which Giddings acknowledged taking a strong interest In bestowing this gratuity he had little idea it was to fit out an expedition to capture erry to effect a conquest of the Old Dominion and strike terror to tlie Executive Imperial government Serious Accident to the New A serious accident happened to tbe well known steamer New World as she was making her reg ular trip to Albany last evening About? when off ort Washington the connecting rod of her engine broke By the accident a portion of the machinery was driven through the bottom of the vessel making a large hole through which the water rushed so rapidly as to defeat all at tempts to keep the vessel afloat Much alarm was excited among the passengers of whom there were 250 on board but the steam tug Ohio and a schooner which was in the vicinity immediately coming to their relief disembarked them in safe ty But little baggage besides carpet bags and valises was saved The freight of which the New World had a large amount will of course be seri ously injured as the vessel is submerged to the second tier of state rooms The amount of dam age which she will sustain cannot yet be accu rately ascertained Insurance against fire had been effected on her but none against marine diaj Times 27th rf 1 Specie The' exports of specie from New York to foreign ports for the week ending the 22d inst were making a total since Jan 1 1859 of $61129128 same time in 1858 915615 same time in 1857 $33216777 same time in 1856 $30644599 same time in 1855 $25496338 Supreme Court Present yesterday a full Itench William Little et al vJohn Derby Case made from Saginaw Circuit Opinion by Campbell One Monroe deposit ed with plaintiffs an altered draft for $800 upon which they advanced him $400 and forwarded it to New York for collection at tho same time giving Monroe a certificate stating that he had delivered said draft to them This certificate Monroe sold to tho defendant Before purchas ing defendant called on plaintiffs and asked if they would pay on the certificate tho $100 unpaid on the draft and was informed that they had sent the draft to New York for collection that if it was paid as it probably would be they would pay him tho $400 if he bought the certificate that they would not have advanced the $100 toMonrooif they did not believe it all right and that they had no doubt it was all right The draft was paid at maturity and plaintiffs paid defendant the $400 The forgery being discovered tho various parties wore called upon to refund and the plain titls having refunded the amount collected by them cull upon defendant to return tho amount paid to him No question can arise as to the general liability of a party to re fund money received upon a forged paper The few exceptions which exist do not np ply in this case The plaintiffs having dealt with tho New York bank without disclosing their agency were liable to refund the amount collect ed Any passing of the draft for value whether endorsed by them or not made them liable to re fund because ot a failure of consideration (28 and 256 24 do 156 3 Hing ct 724 11 and 64 Gray 618) The plaintiffs had not purchased the draft They received it for collection and made uu advance upon it 1 heir certificate was not an independent engage ment or liability to pay money but merely evi dence ot an undertaking to account for what should be collected upon a draft supposed to be genuine They entered into no bargain with Derby nnd were guilty of no fraud upon him He did not purchase any debt against them All that occurred operated merely as a transfer to him of a particular fund or security which plain tiffs were employed to collect They paid him the supposed proceeds of his own not any debt due from themselves That fund having fail ed and they having been obliged to reimburse those who jiurehased it defendant was upon the principles referred to bound to repay them It is all one as if the draft had not been paid at maturity and they had paid Derby on mistaken information of its payment All he had a right to receive was the proceeds of bis se curity and no proceeds resulted from iL There was therefore no consideration for the money paid him and plaintiffs are entitled to recover it hack Humphrey Shaw Alonzo nezer Davis Error to Saginaw Circuit Opinion by Cbristiancy sue for a joint claim for work error to allow proof of a letter to one of them Ln the purpose oi showing the employment as it is competent to show its reference to joint busi ness by further evidence and when this is dune as in legal Where clothing bedding axes hoes and other necessa 1 artlClfifl tVlA Pvlromaln vvuvuuij lUUlgCUl The excellency and success of th labors were never more apparent nor the pros pects of future usefulness more flattering than at the present The report was adopted fl he annual election of officers was then held resulting as follows: Rev Kitchell Rev Colver Treasurer IL Hallock Kecordihg Secretary Raymond Corresponding Rev Wm Webb Walker General Rev oote Executive Rev Mumford Rev oote Rev Wm Hogarth Nathan Power Rob Garver Holmes Zng ueo iieBaptiRtP The meeting then adjourned the case here the evidence of the joint a suit is brought on the common counts lor work and labor and it is set np in defence that there was a special contract the question whethei th work sued tr was a part of that embraced by the special contract was in this case a question of fact and evidence of a quan tum meruit was therefore proper A person con tracting to raft staves is not liable for more than the ordinary diligence required of a common bailee for hire unless a greater respou i bility is expressly and clearly agreed upon Judgment ano uiei Enssell et al defendants Appeal from Saginaw Circuit Argued by Wm enton for complainant and Jas Birney fur defendant ami submitted Eber Ward plaintiff in error vs Will mm II arner et al defendants in erroi Error to Wayue Circuit Argued by Towle for plaintiff' and Iothrop and Holbrook for defendants Case still un Cases on coll lor to ly: Nos 13 23 25 27 3o 15 32 33 and 16 Annual Electing of the Refugee Home Society The Refugee Home Society is an organization of tlie more humane abolitionists designed to turnish homes and succor to the starving negroes stolen from the South and run into Canada Its seventh annual meeting was held at the Congre gational church in this city yesterday the Presi dent Rev Dr Kiteliell in tho hair The annual report of the Treasurer was submit ted as follows: Dec S68 balance ou band Gaab receipt for tbe year Total Diriburfied during the year Balance ou hand Oct 28 1859 The report was accepted Rev oote General Agent of the Society then read tlie annual report of the Executive Committee as follows: In presenting the seventh annual report the Executive Committee of the Refugee Home Socie ty are happy to inform the friends of the Society that tlie past year has been marked with unusual success relations existing between the Society and the settlers are more harmonious and satisfactory than ever before A degree of confidence is es tablished that bids fair to bo abiding The false reports oi evil minded personshave spent their force and the settlers are now coming to regard the Society as among their best friends persons have obtained deeds from the trustees of the lands aud thus settled the question of the possibility of securing good titles Others have declared their intentions to pay for their farms during the coming year Rut tlierte are some who are evidently making no effort to meet their installments as they become due It will be the duty of the Executive Committee ere long to till the places of these delinquents with persons more worthy of them past season has been unusually fruitful and productive to the communities under the So care Notwithstanding the severity of the early and late frosts an unusually large crop of corn has been secured An unusual yield has also been realized from oilier and smaller crops Most of the people are gradually surrounding themselves with increasing comforts by rearing and purchasing cows hogs horses and other do mestic animals Two of our settlements have so far crowded back tbe native forests that they have already pnt on the air of advanced improvement and culture A new settlement has been commenced with flattering prospects during tho past summer on Relle River and the Society will probably be call ed upon for the erection of a school house and the establishing of a school in thiscommuuity during the ensuing year Tbe school on the Puce River has been kept in successful operation dur ing the year but wo have to deplore tbe loss ofur excellent teacher Mrs Hotchkiss The care and exhausting labors of the school under her charge have it is to be feared permanently im paired her constitution long and heavily taxed in promoting the education and elevation of the people to whom her life has been given The Executive Committee extend to Mr and Mrs Hotchkiss their sympathy and profound appre ciation of their heroic services anil self denying labors for the people in whose moral nature slave ry has made such fearful havoc settlers on Iittle River having fonnd them selves inadequate to independency are again looking to the Society for its fostering care Ar rangements are therefore making to revive their school Tbe school in Gostield has been support ed during a part of tbe year by the funds Some assistance has also been rendered to the school in Windsor Urgent appeals have been made for the sup port of schools in several communities too poor to support teachers without foreign assistance but the financial embarrassments of tbe country have so limited the Treasurer's receipts that an ad verse response has been reluctantly returned to these appeals Not a few parents have fled to Canada for the express purpose of securing to their children the knowledge of books denied to them in slavery There is therefore occasion for regret that so many children are not blessed with schools and it is greatly to be desired that Provi dence will ere long enable the Society to meet these urgent and increasing demands upon their care and patronage growing demand is lieing made upon the Society for providing for the 'immediate wants of families and persons fresh from slavery To these must lie added the wants of the aged the unfortu nate tho infirm and the sick The necessities of those dependent opes are being constantly pressed upon your Agent and to supply them increasing demands are made npon the treasury Conside rable disbursements have been made through these channels in the furnishing provisions viri imy be all'ff in legnrd to the class of 'lei win Imvc Ih cii selected it is often cx "Iiliit men of notoriety ami high preten silt be chosen to fill a portion of the course "itli a view to satisfying this demand the t) Iris iiuole every effort to procure such I without result Considered in a pecuniary uitut view there is no doubt that the class of 'o' who have absorbed tho greatest 111 jaildic attention whether on the 'aid ol uiatorical ability or of personal ce will bring the nost money into the treasu 1 bin bin very fact precludes the possibility iin Henry Ward Beecher 11 Oliver Wendell Holmes Bayard Taylor Bauerolt and numerous others of like him have been written to and all returned i that their entire available time was occu iu eastern engagements which precluded 1 'iving any lectures west of Buffalo The i) was willing to pay such men in conside 1 'i ol tin ir notoriety which to say the least 1 iu stionalde quality the highest prices Iidght have received double and treble 1 'i price had he chosen to comply with the ha italion The sum of $5l)u was not 1 led exorbitant in consideration of his on New York to Detroit and back but lie ret choose to accept it as he makes it more il) a his own vicinity Others were similar Li lted consequently the course is filled by I iqual ability and of less marketable no i) and if we mistake not the beneficial ef regards solid instruction and entertain "hl "iii be vastly greater I 11 si ican Nominations The black 1 le Ward have put in nomi jttrf lie I dlowiiig ticket: I i ge I'lipntor John Hosmer David Dickson Thomas Hurst Augustus eidi i 1 i1 sam party the Ward have made mg nominations: Samuel Zug William Cranage nry May Ihghunys William Young 1 ItoLeit Wyekoffi a Brooks and James 'iiiiiel Zug chairman PROBLEM No XLI1 ROM THE BERLIN JSClIACHZEl IGiite mark at 4 TIIR VARIOUS THE CON SPIRATORS PROJECTED SPECULATION IN COT TON ROM WASHINGTON Washington Oct 28 The United States District Court of South Car olina has made an order for the institution of the ketch to the claimants thereof The court 'said that the cargo crew and destina tion are the circumstances chiefly relied upon to prove an alleged violation of the laws prohibiting the African slave trade It may be that these are are sufficient to excite suspicion but they do not produce that conviction of a guilty they do not leave that reasonable doubt as to the object which must precede and support a decree of condemnation and forfeiture Applications are frequently made to the Presi dent for appointments and some friends of the applicants come from a considera ble distance to urge their claims The President has under the law power to appoint ten Cadets at large but no Midshipmen The latter are rec ommended by members of Congress in the same manner as Cadets are appointed The last mail from England brought advices from distinguished sources respecting the pres ent unsettled condition of affairs in Europe by which it appears that none can foresee how the difficulties attendant on the Italian question can be settled or what will be the result of the Zurich conference It is evi dent that the various sovereigns are alarmed fearing apprehensions of a general war Eng land it is said has no Power to depend on ex cepting Germany aud being favorable to the re foim movement in Italy she knows not howto act between the two and is fearful of losing the friendship of the one in the advocacy of the cause of the other Russia who since the Cri mean war has hud no more continental alliance) awaits events before coming to a decision as to what part she will take and with the view of acting intelligently the Emperor has ordered bis Ministers from the principal courts to join him at Warsaw in order to give him ample in formation on tho state of the respective coun tries to which they aro diplomatically assigned or prudential reasons more than the usual caution seems to be observed in official quarters in concealing from the public the present condi tion of the San Juan Island question and hence the contradictory statements prevalent concern ing it The new steamer built nt Pensacola will soon arrive at Norfolk to be fitted with her engines and will couvey thither the officers and crew the ulton Reports prevail that requisitions will bo made for certain aiders and abettors of tbe erry conspirators but the traced to reliable sources Aaron Van Camp obtained cuit Court for the District of against Jonathan Jenkins This was a suit for damages Buffered by the plaintiff three years ago from the act of the defendant as Commercial Agent of the United States at tlie Is lands in the South Pacitic ta 1ie 'ol4' Society IecturcN wintcr course of lectures before tar! Young 11 Society commences on or about h' ibe 19th Nwmber on which occasion Hon 1 11 11 make his first appearance I his city The lect ure will be given at the new iisll un tlie corner of Jefferson and Woodward AH 3i nues which is much more capacious than the l' longing to the Society as well as more cen 'c nail) located The engagement of this hall tor rutin: course has been contemplated but no siMim will be deferred until after the first lure lor obvious reasons In announcing tho iiance of Mr Halo as the pioneer lecturer da i' mm tnoy fue catering to M' popular tnatc and expect to meet with a i my rnspuuHe from the public as a reward for th Hii ii libois for a Hitueessfiil and encuOraKi'uir I qoumir iiniiminccH as bls subject The I I ti ileliatornil Exhibition at Rome ofl'eriug as I almutex eithtT of his two lectures entitled lid by Jury and Agrarianism It jiroper in this connection to add a few re iii ulei in regaid to tlie list as it now elands ar i mi Im the auspices of the Committee on unre George Vandenhoti the celebrated I iiiuiii reader and instructor stands at the head i nr xpe tally and although unknown to our except by reputation will not fail to draw Imuses While dramatic readings as a popu un ituiimeiit are almost universally field at I iulvudage the performances of Mr Vauden Lre never fail to attract and to pleaxe Those umst deprecate theatrical entertainments find nothing to cavil at in his renditions are tlirougliout but illustrations of the uu nt ancient and modern poetry He gives 11 iidings which we anticipate will const! i main attraction in tlie course i ulph Waldo Emerson is a lecturer too well in to our public to need any notice He hasii i nt I before the oung Men's Society several xulaajH to the popular acceptation Tbewime 1 I a id of the Rev Starr King who has been will continue to be a popular lecturer with lutioit public also of Prof Youmans whose i Imply iuteiesting scientific discourses have listened to invariably by crowded houses ii hu If flhompson is a southern gentleman ofik hu iiry reputation the editor of the South I Messenger He was recommended to i ling Society of Detroit Ly literary iik ii ol undoubted position at the East and el Lilre his first northern lecturing tour this m' Disabilities as a writer and a lecturer in an elevated position at the 0'4 ul and insisting as ho does upon the avoid Si "I dl wctioiialiiies we have no doubt that t'' vl11 cnt'rely acceptable lei 'LUliritock of Brooklyn has been nam 1 connection but is not fully deci i' Hpm ns one ol the lecturers of the season HeI 1 'bvino belonging to tlie Methodist i and is placed npon the list in KB li with tho desires of a large portion of iu 'H 111 nt i'll denomination It is left with recommend name to fill this depart tc 1r' Alcf 'linl0('1 or some equally i ''Hirer will lie invited 'th i xiinihir object in view the name of n'l (lie editor of the New York Preemad is been announced in the list Mr Me lE i dits a Uathidi' paper and is a man of 1 1 1' cml conservative opinions Possessedre ted ability lie will make his first ap O'' with the endorxenieid and support 1 1 111Il iudiieutial portion ot our citizens He illiam Hogai Hi well known as the 1 the lefferaon Avenue Presbyterian tW' 11 ures lecture during the course also 1 G' 11 Peter Laderoot late turnkey Jd in this city was yesterday examined PiJit fLitr lol ER 1 uu iuigo ut uuuNpiin tl 11 ''ulle of the prisoner Orlow Maybee of the case the prisoner E' eounsei Mr Sylvester Larned stated 1 Ul Diat he did not wish to be discharge any technicality of evidence or law LAiE il to be judged strictly by the letter and it lhc law' If the 1'rnof esablishei his reJ 'ilv tho8h ncre miht exist loop holes he could escape he did not wish HI himself of them and would waive thempnM Url that the evidence was insuf nB Ut ho charge and the prisoner hf ore houurably acquitted Cljc SttWit jree 1 7'" re I' I il.