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I John wat spared because I asked them in From the New Yuik F.ipttae- Coiititeiiiinee John Brown's Tri-itsoii From riis Rlehmoarl Fnsuiret. Demoniac Letters. the tnlon In Danger! Since the attempted insurrection ot Harper's Ferry, there are more men to be found than ever before who apeak despair- A Termont Lnudnrnpr. A friend furnishes us with the following extract from a letter written Him by a gentleman residing in New York, and which, at we think it will prove entertaining to our readers, we take the liberty of publishing. 1 VERMONT PATRIOT, ItlONTFEMEBl Saturday Jltornlug, Dec.

11, 185). I860. VEUMONT PA'fKIOT. On the 23d of December 1839, at No. 728, the present volume of the i'atriot expires.

The Brat number of the volume or I860, will appear Dec. 30, at No. 721). It i now TiimTY-nvn years since the Patriot was established, and fourteen yearn since it came into the hands of its present, conductor. Through all this time, the Patriot has never failed to support every Democratic National Administration.

It has been always among the first to advocate and defend the meusures of the party. It has never hesitated, when new measures have been advanced, to give them warm and hearty support, without waiting till they had become popular, and no reputation was -to be risked in their defense. On the National liank issue, the Independent Treasury, Texas, the Mexican War, and last, though by no means, least on the Popular Sovereignty issue, the Patriot was not a moment behind any ot us coleuiporaries. The old issues are all settled, aud there re mams now but this one, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, and on that issue it is needless to my where the Vermont Patriot stands It defended Gen. Pierce and Judge Douglas, when the issue wus first made up.

It supported Mr. Buchanan, who was nominated and elected on that issue and, Inter, it has sustained Judge Douglas in his udvocacy of a principle, the open acknowledgment of which, as a cirdinal principle of tiie Democratic party, has now become of vital con-sequence. For the Charleston Convention, the Pat riot will urge, so fur as it can, the nomination of the Man, and the endorsement of 'he Principle, imperatively- demarfcled by the crisis the man Stephen A. Douglas, aud the Principle. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY.

That the struggle, let what may be the action of the Charleston Convention will be a sharp one, no one denies. It will require the united and most determined effort of the friends of the Union to defeat the schemes of Northern Abolitionists, under the guise of IVpublieauism. it is, then, the duty of every democrat, to prepare for the contest, and in season, und the first work to be done, is to see THAT THE PEOPLE ARE AMPLY SUPPLIED WITH NEWSPAPERS ADVOCATING the TRUE doctrines 1 The democracy of Vermont, are culpably negligent ol their owu papers. They waste their substance in the support of foreign papers, and strange as it may seem in the support of Republican papers, at home! This is all wrong. Is it too much to gusk of the democracy of Vermont, to inuke one thorough and etlicieut effort to increase the circulation of their own papers The Patriot for lSb'O, will not be behind any of its cotemporaries in the zeul with which it will advocate the nominees and the principles of the party, und will you, and Vol', friends, tuke a few hours interest iu its circulation To the general news of the day, aud the very latest and most important, the latest repartw of thu niMrlceU aud LO me best miscellaneous articles, a large space of the Patriot will be devoted, making it a must desirable family newspaper, irrespective of its politics.

TERMS: $2,00 a yc.u in advance. 7.tld turd riiiioh, to one adilross, in advance. tor 10 ciaiieii, JD.UO foi ill) coihoh, Notice to Subscribers. Pottawatomie Creek IHassncre. AFFIDAVITS IMI'LtOATINO JOHN HROVVN AH TIIE LUALU.Il OF THE UANll-tillOCK-, INO DETAILS.

Captain John Brown; the Republican 'hero" and Representative having previous to his execution, confessed his guilt in the matter of the Pottawatomie Creek Mat-sacie, there it no further necessity for mare fully proving what he himself admits at fact The Republican newspapers, like the New York Tribune who have denied what Brown himself hat tince acknowledged, and also denounced and abused the Kansas Herald of Freedom for the truth, must reconcile their case to their readers si best they may But, in view of Republican endorsements, we deem it proper to present the affidavits of the widows and other surviving relatives and friends of Brown's victims whom he slew In cold blood in Kansas. We subjoin the testimony, as follows From His VVMtporl (Mo.) Rordor SltiJ The Abolitionists of the North are trying to get up sympathy lor Old brown, by representing him to be a worthy but misguided man, and one whose nature had been warned and imbittered by injuries he receiv ed at the hands of the Pro-Slaveriste. This is all stuff. Brown came to Kansas not as a peaceful settler, but as a guerrilla fighter. He never was driven from hit property by border-ruffians, as he never had any proper ty to be driven from.

All the hostility he met with was in retaliation tor his own barbarous and brutal deeds. The first murders in Kansas were those committed by Old Brown. He opened the bloody ball and he more than any one else is responsi ble for the terrible scenes that marked the orotracted political squabbles of the territo ry. Of all the acts of the "Bleeding Kan sas" traiiedv. the first in order ot time were tne murders committed on the night of the 24th of may.

18o6, on 1'ottawatomie Creek. In this massacre, conducted by Old Brown five persons were killed, Allen Wil kinson, William Sherman, old William P. Doyle, and his two sons, William and Dru- ry. the heart-broken survivors oi tins massacre the widows ond orphans oame to Westport and disposed to the facts of the bloody affair before Esquire Goforth, and the record is now before us. TUB MURDER OF VV1LKINSOX.

Allen Wilkinson was a member of the Kansas Legislature a quiet, inoffensive man. His widow, Louisa Jane Wilkinson, testified that on the night of the 24th of May, 1856, between the hours of midnight and daybreak, she thinks, a party of men came to the house where they were residing and forcibly carried her husband away that they took him in the name of the "Northern uroiy," and that next morning he was found about 150 yards from the house dead. Mrs. Wilkinson was very ill at the time with measles. Here follows an extract from her affidavit "1 begged them to let Mr.

Wilkinson stay wilh me, saying that I was tick and helpless, end could not stay by myself. My husband also asked them to let him stay with me, until he could get some one to wait on me, told them thut he would not run off, but he would be there the next day or whenever called for I the old man who seemed to be in command looked at me, and then around at the children, and replied "You have neighbors." I said, "So 1 have hut they are not here, and I cannot go for them," The old man replied, "It matters not," and told him to got ready. My husband wanted to put on his bouts, and get ready, so as to be protected from the damp and night air, ut they would not let him. They then took my husband away, After they were gone, I tho't 1 heard my husband's voice in complaint. Next morning Mr.

Wilkinson's body was found about 150 yards from the house, in sa ne de brush, a lady wno saw my husband's body, said that there was a gash in his head and in his side. Others said he was cut in the throat twice." Mr. Wilkinson was a poor man of course his widow wus left destitute but regardles of the fact, they took away some property, including the only horse they had. Mrs, Wilkinson was presented at Westport, Missouri with the necessary means to go to her lather's in Tennessee. She had two small children.

Mrs. Wilkinson's description of the leader of the men who murdered her husband, suits Capt. John Brown, a well known character in the Abolition party She says that her husband was a quiet man, and was not engaged in arresting or disturbing anybody, lie took no active part in the pro-slavery cause, so as to aggravate the Abolitionists, but he was a pro-slavery man, HIS MURDER AND JIUTILATION OFSIIKIt MAN. The circumstances attending William Shermans assassination are Testified to by James Harris of Franklin County, Kan sas, Mr. Sherman was staying over night at the home ot when on the Z4ih of May, about 2 o'clock, Captain John lirown and parlii came there and alter laK ins some property and questioning Harris and others, Sherman was asked to walk out Mr.

Harris in his affidavit, says "Old man Drown asked Mr. Sherman to go out with him, and Sherman then went out with Brown I beard nothing more for about filteen minutes two of the 'Northern Army as they styled themselves, stayed with us until we heard a cap burst, and then these two men It'll i next morninir, about ten clock, I found William Sherman dead, id the Creek near my house I wus looking for him as he had not come back, I tho't he bad been murdered I took Mr. Wil liam Sherman's (body) out of the creek and examined it Mrs. Whiteman was with me Sherman's fkult was split open in two places and some oi nis orams were washed out uy the water) a large hole wis cut in his breast and his left hand was cut ojf, except a little piece ot skin on one side. HIS MURDER AND MUTILATION OF DOVLK AND HIS TWO SONS.

In relation to the assassination of James P. Doyle and sons, the affidavit Mrs. Mahala Doyle, the widowed mother. is as tollows MAHALA DOYLK'S DEPOSITION The undersigued Mahala Doyle states an oath 1 am the widow of the late Jatnet P. Doyle, we moved into the Territory, that is my husband, myself and children moved tuto the Territory, of Kansas sometime in November, A.

1855, and settled in Musketo creek, about one mile from its mouth, and where it empties into Pottawatomie creek, in Franklin County oo Saturday, the 24th day of May, A. 1856, about eleven clock at night, an. we had all retired, my husband James P. Doyle, myself and six children five boys and one girl the eldest is about 22 years of age, bis name it William the uext is about 20 years of age, hit name it Drury the next it about 17 yean of age, his name it John the next is about 13 years of ace her name is Polly Ann i the next is about 8 year of age, nit name is James me next It about a years of age, hit name is Henry we were all in bed, when we heard some persons come into the yard, and lap at the door, and call for Mr. Doyle, my husband this was about eleven o'clock on Saturday eight of the 24th of May latt my husband got up and went to the door those outside in quired for Mr.

Wilkinson, and where be aveu: my uuoana taia would tell Ihemi Mr. Doyle, my husband, and several came into the House, and said they were from I the army; my husband was pro-slavery man; tbey told my husband that be and the boys must surrender; the men were armed wilh pistols and large knives; they first took my husband out of the house, then took two of my sons, William and Drury, ot, and then took my husband and these two boyt (William aiid Drury )away my too The tears to spare him, in a short time afterwards I herad the reports of pistols 1 1 heard two reports after which I heard a moaning at if a person wat dying; then I heard a wild whoop they had. asked before they went away for our horses We told them that our horses were out on the prairie my husband und two boys, my sons, did not come back any more I went out next morning in search of them, and found my husband and william my son, lying dead in the road, near together, about 200 yards from the house they were buried the next day on the day of the burying 1 saw the dead body of Drury fear of myself and the remaining children Inducod me to leave the home where we had been living) we had improved our olaim a little I left and went to the State of Missouri. MAHALA DOYDE, (her mark.) J. Goforth.

State of Missouri, Jackson county ss. On the seventeenth day of June, 18-59, personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and Siale aforesaid, Ma hula Doyle, whose name appears to the above and foregoing statement it true as therein set forth. Given under my hand and teal the day and year above written, fSeal. THOS. J.

GOFORTH, J. P. The testimony of John Doyle confirms that of his mother generally, and we only onpy a few paragraphs I found my father and brother William lying dead about two hundred yards from the house I saw my brother lying dead on the ground, about one hundred and fifty yards from the house, in the grass, near a ravi' hisfngers were cut off, and his arm were cut off his head was cut open there was a hole in his breast William's luutd was cut open and a hole was in his side my father was shot in tlte forehead and stvlf bed in ihe breast I have talked often wilh Northern men in the Territory, and these men tulk exactly like Eastern and Northern men talk that is, their language and pronunciation were similar to those Eastern and Northern with whom I have talked) an old mau commmded the parly he was nf dark complexion of most of those eight whom I saw in the house was sandy my father and brothers were pro-sluvery men, and belonged to the law and order party. Such is the man the Republicans style a saint 1 Such is the man at whose just execution the norther fanatics held prayer-meetings, tolled bells, and sung psalms I Arctic Expedition. Another Arctio expedition is in contemplation by Dr.

1. 1. Hayes, who accompanied Dr. Kane in his expedition, and exertions are now being made to rube the requisite amount of funds. Dr.

Hayes, in a recent lecture, stated that $30,000 would be sufficient to fit out an expedition, and the Scientific and Geographical Societies of this country are exerting themselves to raise the funds and make the expedition an American one, although scientific gentlemen and societies in Europe are willing to assist in Jie enterprise. It it proposed to St out thit expedition with the view of its being strictly a scientific one, and Dr. Hayes, by his former experience in those regions, will be enabled to take advantage of and provide for many difficulties and dangers into which bis predecessors have fallen. Messrs. Brown, Tagqard Chase, of Boston, are about publishing a volume by Dr.

Hayer, estitled, An Arctio Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1851," a liberal share of the proceeds of which this enterprising publishing house have pledged for the outfit of the expedition. The work will no doubt be worthy nf an extensive sale. It is to be illustrated a now and superior way. Naval intelligence." Old Ironsides," the United States frigate Constitution, having undergone a thorough overhauling at Portsmouth, N. has beon left in the stream to await the order from the Department to fit her for sea.

The Constitution is the oldest vessel in the Navy, and was launched at Constitution wharf, Boston, on the 20th of Sept. 1797. The late Commodore Savery broke a bottle of Madeira on her hull when she was gliding into the wa ter. The history of this old ship is too well known to render reference to it necessary. She was almost rebuilt some years ago, but her model and a great portion of her planking remain just as they were on the African Station, when the Cyane and Levant" struck ensigns" to her.

The frigate United States, which was also launched at Philadelphia, in 1797, is still in existence at Norfolk, where she is rolling fast. It is said the Constitution will be sent to the Mediterra nean as flig-ship next spring. td They held a Union" meeting in Boston the other day, speeches were made and resolutions passed which were all well enough. The meeting, however, was about on a pir with one held in Richmond, Va. Richmond wants the Southern trade, and Boston don't want she should have it So long as the people of Massachusetts elect to office, such Abolitionists as Banks, Sumner and Wilson, their republio meetings won't amount to much.

Electing fi-union men, and passing union resolutions is a trifle ridiculous. They havn't got no" small pox in Burlingt.n, no varioloid, nor nothin'," to don't be scart. The impending crisis. During the Session of the General Assembly a person by the name of Underwood, was howling about the streets with a book, entitled "The Im pending Crisis," got up by one "Heifer. The Raleigh (N.

Standard of Satur day, in speaking of Heifer, says "This man Hinton R. Heifer, as we have said, it a native of this State. He is a thief and a scoundrel While employed some years since in Salisbury at a clerk, he robbed bis employer. The fact wat proved on him, and we believe he himself admitted it, and offered some lame excuse for his picking and He was exposed tome two years ago in Congress by one of our sen ators, Mr. Biggs, whose statements where be is known are implicitly relied on.

1 hat exposure is a part of the co gressionil records, and may be examined by Heifer's abolition friends. We cannot just now lay our hands upon it, but we will reproduce it in some future number, to show how aud by what high authority this miserable traitor has been exposed and branded. But, a he is, he is a very good aoolitionist. Heifer stole money, and Greeley and Thurlow Weed would steal and run off slaves from their masters. Heifer turns up the snot that gave him birth, and seeks to destroy its material and social prosperity.

Gover- its material and social nrosnentr. nor Morgan aids him in bis work, and hugs the ttaitor to bis bosom. Nay, more the governor of a sovereign Slate, whose chief city hat been mainly built up by Southern 4 trade and slave labor, bat subscribed money to aid in lighting up the flames of civil and servile war in filioen 'States of the confederacy Is this the message of affection which New York sends greeting to North Carolina I this a common Union The number of letters received by Governor Wise daily, exceeds anything that could be imagined. Prayers for the pardon of Brown, because his execution will make him a martyr" because he has committed no crime" because he is a virtuoui and holy man, engaged in a virtuous and a holy cause to liberate down-trodden huminiiy" because resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Imprecations against Virginia, Virginians and Virginia Institutions ridicule upon the cowardice of her tons upon their degeneracy, effeminacy and degradation offers of bribes of money to himself, or, if he won't take it, the money to be placed in the Treasury) bribes of political preferment, the glory of being can onized by a united Northern sentiment) threats the most revengeful, diabolical and awful. That the people of Virginia may see the demoniac spirit that prevails among North ern men not all God forbid I but those whose morbid appetites for blood have been whetted by the stimulating influences of the prayers and saint like doctrines preached by the Beechera und Cbeevera end other such presumptuous servants of God, we have re quested permission to copy one of the many threatening letters that have been daily poured in from the Northern hive of aboli tion demons.

The fanatical feeling which could Indite such an epistle, whether intend ed as a hoax or a reality, it of a piece with that which proceeds from enthusiastic meet ings in Massachusetts, at which a Senator of that State was present without express ing a syllable of disapprobation and the just emanation from the doctrine embraced in the following resolution of that meeting Resolved, That it is the right and duty of the slaves to resist their masteis, and the right and duty of the people of the North to incite them to resist and to aid them in it." But we give the letter entire. If the writer tupposes that any such letters can intimidate a Governor of Virginia, he is as ignorant as his heart is demoniac. Randolph, Nov. 21st, 1859. Gov.

II. A. Wise i Sir I improve the present opportunity to warn you of your danger, and the consequences attending the execution of John Brown, now under sentence of death within the limits of your State. Mark it well! Just 10 sure as John Brown swings from the scaffold, or is in any way injured or dies, while in your or under ami circumstances sufficient to warrent the belief that he tuts met with FOUL PLAT at Your hands, or at the hands of the SLAVE MINIONS 0 the South, then just so sure so HELP HE Goo in a moment, when you think not, you will be launched into the eternal world. This is no idle threat, tot 1 solemnly swear, by Almighty God, that I will not rest, day or night, until I have taken your life, with lite lives of four of your associates.

At the same time I will assist (even to the Unfiling of the matches and placing them at the Juse,) in carrying out a favorite and well matured plan here at the INorth, which is this: That of burning Harper's Ferry, Churlestown, and a few other places, (which I am bound by oath not to reveal,) to the ground, and also to let fit to every village, town and cilu South ot Mason and Dixon's Line as soon as practicable after the execution. You are, then, aware how matters tand. Proceed as you choose, but have a care how you sign your own death warrant, and the warrants of at least four of your associates in crime. I withhold my name, particularly, because I desire my liberty, that in case John Brown is injured in ihe least, at your hands, or at the hands of your Government officials, my dagger, or bullet, or poison, may be forthcoming, to send you for tiial before the bar where the muidered Thomson has already been. If you should wish to address me, there is -only way, viz thrJugh the columns of the Weekly New torn tribune, addressed to the ureen Mountain Boy of Ethan Allen descent, Hon.

1L A. Wise, Governor of the State of Virginia, P. S. I have delayed sending this that I might do do nothing rash, or that I should be sorry lor. I have only to any, may God do so to me, AND MORE, also, it 1 do not tut- fal the vow 1 have made, so help me God.

Amen. Ct The New York Ileruld publishes a curious document. It is Beecher's sermon with old Brown's comments. A gentleman sent a copy of Beecher's sermon to Charles town, with a request that it he shown to the prisoner. Brown read it, made hit com ments on the margin, and returned it.

Beecher launches out on Brown in Kan sas. Brown's comment is Not well post eel." To another remark on the same sub ject, he sayt Doesn't understand his sub ject." Beecher represents Brown as bereft of judgment by the loss of his sons. Brown says He it mistaken in the man." Beecher it against insurrections. Brown says: "Truth and error intermixed Beech er says conspirators are bad men the world over. Brown says An utterly fills sumption, as applied to me." To another and similar remark, Brown lays: "Boastful and false in-inuation." Beecher boasts how he would aid the fugi tive slave.

The master might catch him, not the slave. Brown aays Must be a very brave man. Must be a good man, too. Glad to know it." To much. Brown savt Truth good, very well to say Beecher lauds the direction of Paul to slaves, Sayt he would so preach to slaves, if he were in the South.

Brown Why don't Beecher come South to preach Beecher tells what he would preach to masters. Brown Let the champion come here to preaoh." To another remark of Beecher, Brown ays uood if spoken here. Beecher thowing bow no church South did iu duty, Brown says can he stay away Beecher rises in bis -stirrups, in telling how men ought to pit-till to us heathens. Brown Come on, At last Beecher advises to pray. Brown So tayt old Brown, Amen The grandson of Tecumseh is now liviog In Natchez, Miss.

He is a well educated and accomplished gentleman, having travelled over a greater part of Europe. He is physician, and is said by The Free Trader be an excellent one. In bis pharmacopeia is a lot of medical herbs, the secret of whose curative powers he derived from hit grandmother, who wat a great medicine" if of the TIisj "IrroinTsisiUlo it stop or to on I Thank God 1 the Conspirators and X)i unionists are not to have it all their owi way. The eulogists of traitors and thei treason, are about to be made to feel thu plicc, to fAeir claim, that the musses of tin XT Ctintiie with our Southern oountrvmen An.l inu uiriu in mi irrt-uressiu as seem to have been forced to take a des iu ui uui menu, iii win. eeuiiui .1.: 1..

uiiiiaiiuue ui mj.uiny to mem, ill liurineri uuiuue aim iurinern ptesses, over me lus retribution which has overtaken the liar say, wait, and 111 the ourse of a few days we are greatly mistaken if you will I VT I 10110. mid linen lor i 1.11 akii I fnp STTTUTIO.N IN ALL TI'S PARTS as will silence not only the treasonable maledictions .1.. nil 1 i.i 1 1 kind at large, that the Empire City, ut least follows no banner that does not Keei STEP TO THE MUSIC OP THE UNION." No sootier was the suggestion it fortl in thn Rvm-naw. til-it immu unnH ilii.n.m.ii. tion was needed, that a heartfelt and sn 1- 1 I 1 almost unparalleled excitement, prowim out of our municipal election there is 1 .1...

not take place at once on the spur of thi men vi 111111 iv ntivtfr milw. hiii who probably never saw us before, havi use ol them to help it on lo a glorious cess. This shows the.feeling that is abroad 1 VT ami uui uuiy ueru ill 1 ora, uui, us W( taken the alarm, and is beginning to realize something of the full length, and depth 1 I .1.1. I I i long hurrying it. iviiuw vei wen mat mis imiriuii a tt; nr i 11 nut a repetition ot the uastie uaruen liiii miiviTiiieni.

mill mill Lilt, wiiiiih iiiiii is a mercenary speculation, for southe trade, Sc. Be it so. We must expect these Irrepressihi.e Conflict" men to I considerations of dollars and cents can animate the hearts or stir the bosoms of the nf Nkw nrk. nl tha pitixrni) l'h! lull oil Tif.uli tilt a nf mil rintlani thpm. lci it uiitl tint In InnL- In lUm recoiniiion oi uatriouc imuuises in others.

haiiul.i.ii nai'iiw mini I i.rt hi il away i an it our put 10 aeep xvoine uoui miming We could fill our oolumns, day after day, with the most irrefragable evidences that, under the unremitting provocations and insults of the Northern demagoges and fanatics, who are preaching and writing up an irrepressible conflict" with them, that the Southern people, even the most conservative of them, are gradually feeling their way towards a separation of the Union, regardless of the threat to whip" them back into It. The residence of Mr. Samuel Keyes, of Fownul, was entered on Tuesdry night, the 2'Jd und $110 stolen from the pocket of Mr. Keyes' pants. A young man named Smart has been arrested, and confesses the whole transaction.

He was assisted by two others, who are ut On the night of Nov. Hth, a horse, buggy, harness, and buffalo robes, were stolen from the stable of Jonas Elliott, of Manchester. A soouudrel has been making wholesale rob beries in J'oru. lia gaen round bvft-emg in the day time, and at night takes whatever he can lay his hands upon, without seeming to be Very particular as lo what it may be. In one instance he stole a horse and wagon, in another a harness and haltur, in another a buffalo robe and an ux, and was foiled in an attempt to lead off another horse.

Ho took the properly to ihe woods, where it was discovered and returned to its owners, but it is supposed he has still more stolen property with him, as when last seen he had a lurge box in the wagon. The following is the description of him Large, stout, very broad shoulders, with black hair some curly long, black whiskers und mustache his hat wus old and of a light color) his coat of a dark brown, aud his pants of a light color with stripes running around the legs." An attempt was made to fire the barn of Mr. F. D. llamlin, of Bennington, on the 28.

but fortunately a passer by discovered the tire before it got muoh headway, and it was extin-guished. Bennington Banner. An Eagle Caught. Some three or four weeks since Walter Philips of Glover, caught a large full grown eagle on the farm of Cyrus Bemis, which measured from tip to tip of his wings seven feet and seven inches. His weight was about fifteen lbs.

Mr. Phillips made a cage of wootlen slats and fastened it to the outside of ihe barn, where Mr. was imprisoned several days. During the time lie was kept there, a large number of visitors honored him with their presence. When the weather became so cold that the republican bird needed warmer quarters he was removed to the inside of the burn.

A slat ill his cage happening to be loose, the eagle workej it off and escaped through the birn window, lie new away and alighted in a piece of woods near the village, but tlid not seem quite ready to leave the vicinity. Mr. Philips pursued him with his sho'. gun and after much callous maneuvering sticcee 1 ed in getting a shot at him, which somewhat disabled the bird. He afterwards flew towards a neighboring piece of woods and the next shut took him on the wing, which proved fatal.

Irasburgh Standard 9iA. TnE Union Demonstrations at the North. The Union demonstrationsut the North look very well on piper) the speech es read admirably in print, hut re thin thit will be necessary to satisfy the South that it means something. In the pulyits of certain churches in Boston to morrow, no doubt directly opposite sentiments "will be proclaimed and listened to with approval by ten times the number of persons who bdeame enthusiastic at the eloouence of Everett and Cushinir on Thurs day. Immense meetings can always be got up in rich cities at New York, Philadelphia, ahd iston, on almost any subject therefore, public demonstration of any character are not a fair evidence of public senti-men and the South, knowing this, will not be lulled into the belief that Helper-ism" es not exist to any great extent in the North.

When the people of the NDrthern Statet tend naiionsl men to sit in the councils of the nation, instead of" Sectionalism," like Seward, Wilson, Hale, aad those who in dorse Helper's" villanoun schemo to throttle the South;" then, and tut until then, can the South have confidence ihat the demonstrations which have just been held in Philadelphia and Boston really mean that ti people in the North are in earnest. WnAingfsn States. That't it, exactly. Henry Ward Beecher lectured in College street church, last cvenini, before the Institute, on Heads and Henrts." It wast very shallow cloak fur covering a eulogy on old Brown whom he declared a saint in Heaven." His hearers were mostly of the female gender and hisses and applause, followed a portion of his remarks. Of ihe two, we confess to a greater admiration of Brown's character for while he dared to give a practical illustration of his In the Burlington Times of the 10th, the foil iwing appears I But universal democracy" has stuck to the transparent lie that Brown was encouraged, helped, and urged on, by prominent and leading ltepubiicans just at though a matt wno nsd bruins and heart enough to be a prominent leading Republican, could nave encouraged so preposterous a raid, un dertaken without means, or men, or ration al prospect of success In the columns of the same piper appears what follows which we give in full FUNERAL OP JOHN MHOWN WENDELL PHILLIP AT VlililiK.NM'.S.

John Brown was buried at North Elba, the highest tract of inhabited toil in the state ot York, on 1 hursday afternoon last at one clock. His remains reached his home in North Elba about 4 o'clock, P. on the preceding day. About two bun dred and fifty persons were in attendance at the funeral, mainly hit relatives, friends and neighbors, with some persons Irom the surrounding towns, and a few gentlemen from a distance. The exercises which were held at John Huown's bouse, were the singing of a favorite hymn of old Brawn's a prayer by Uev.

Mr. young, or Hurling-ton a feeling address bv Wendell Phil lips, commemorative of Brown's virtues and biuve acts. The body was then buried, according to Brown's directions, at the foot of the west tide of a large rock, about 20 feet square, opposite the Ktst front of his dwel ling. As the body was sl iwly lowered into its humble grave, amid the sobs of the group of sad widows and sorrowing children who stood around, Mr. Young repeated mose nooie woros ot the ureat Apostle I have fought a gmiil right, I havs fiuisllad Mr Course.

I have fcmtt the lailli." Hencelorth Uier la laid up tor me a crown of un, a.uu, iiyiiwuiie tfUUgS, shall give me nt that day." Mr. Phillips, wilh his companion, Mr. A1CK1M ot rniludelphia, then took a tor- rowlul leave of the bereaved widow, and re turned to Vergennes. i Mr. Phillips, on Friday evening, in obe dience to a pressing invitation of the citizens of Vergennes, addressed them on "John Hrown and the lesson of Harper's Ferry" the lown liali was tilled to overflowing and the eloquent speaker was introduced by Gen.

Grandey, for the firat time to speak ol REEDOM to atl audience ot Ureen Moun tain sons and daughters. The orator then for nearly two hours enchanted hit hearers by the magic power his eloquence. John Brown, suid Mr. FhUips, represented the idea ol tne iNnrtherti people. He was emphatically one of those old Puritans of whom we love to dream, It is the deaths of men that make the greatest changes in the world, John Brown's death would effect a great change in politics.

A great man is one who becomes a centre for people to crystilixe iixounJ. John lirown was such a man. One such mun outweighs a commonwealth he stands beside six noughts, and makes million I The plain farmer and his brave sons go ing down to Harper's Ferry to fight for the slave, showed what, furitan blood and orthodox faiih could do when flowered out into the production of men. Gov. Wise went up to Charlestown to say, Murderer but his lips could not form the word, and it oime out Hero.

Daniel Webster lived seventy years, and taught. the nation many things but in his forty years of public life, he did not teach America one-halt as much as did old Brown in the last fortnight nf his life. As the first gun at Lexington and Concord severed the tie between the colonies and George the Third, so did the first gun, at Harper's Ferry say to Virginia, Your slaves are emancipated. John Brown has awakened the sympathy of the American people he has touched the religious sentiment, and will change the church. In three years, a hundreds pulpits will exclaim, ''Do you want an An ti-Slavery Martyr See, the holiest mun for a century, John Brown the C'alvanist Hero 1" Mr.

Phillips ridiculed the idea of South Carolina and Virginia going out of the Un ion 1 why the town's poor might jusl as well separate from the town Mr. Phillips then went on to pay a high tribute to verinontand Wisconsin, lor their strong anti-slavery position, and the enact ment ol stringent personal liberty laws, lie closed by a beautiful apostrophe to the memory of Hrown. We are informed that Brown's remains were received with marked tokens ot res pect at mony points oq the route to North Elba. At Vergennes a procession of seventy-five citizens headed by major Grandey escorted the body to the limits of the city when dividing into two lines, they stood wilh uncovered heads while the body passed through. At Elizabeth, IS.

Y. the body at the in stance ol olierin Adams ot lissex l-e. was kept in the Court House through Tuesday night, while Mrs. Brown. Messrs.

Philips and McKim received many testimonials of kindness and respect. Comment upon this article, and answer to the question, who countenances John Brown's Treason, can hardly be necessary. If the whole drift of the article is not to honor and glorify a traitor to the Union and a murderer, what is it? THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Washington, Dec. 7.

The National Executive Democ atio Committee met this evening. All the States were represented except Georgia, Maryland, Alabama and California. After a brief interchange of o-pinion, Monday, the 23d of April was fixed for theetime of the meeting of the National Democratic Convention. A resident Committee was appointed to superintend the printing and publication of documents, constituted as follews- C. L.

Vallanding-ham of Virginia, Chairman John Cochrane, of New York, John A. Loagan, of Illinois, William Bigler, of Pennsylvania, Will. am Barksdale of Mississippi, Miles Taylor, of Louisiana, and W. II. English of Indiana.

On motion of Mr. Vanala, of New Jersey, the Chairman and Secretary were author ized to procure a suitable hall in Charleston in which to hold the Conven'ion, and to issue tickets of admission to the Delegates to said Convention, duly appointed by the reg ular Democratic organization of the parly in the Strtcs respectively, and to make such arradgemetits as may be necessary for the assembling and holding of said Convention. A resolution was adopted with a view, if possible, to correct the telegraphic misrepresentations concerning the interests of the Democratic! pirty. The Convention then adjourned sine die. ELECTION OF DELEGATES.

Portsmouth, Dec 7. At the conven tion of the Democrats of Rockingham Coun cillor District, held in this city to-day, Hon. John S. Wells, of Eseter, and Jnsiah Mi- not of Concord, were elected delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to be held at Charleston. KANSAS ELECTION.

Leavenworth, Kansas. Dec. 8. The entire Republican State ticket is elected by over 3000 majority. Holderman, for Corgress, runs ahead of his ticket so fur.

Dyspepsia is known as one of the most distressing complaints which hfliict humanity and until the advent of the Oxygenated Bitters, hid been considered incurable, or wh curable, requiring years to aocom lish The Oxygenated Bitters perform in a few days, cures, which other medioio.es take ears to alleviate Folks must put up wi' their own kin as they do wi' their own noe. I i ingly of tire perpetuity of the federal Union. It is supposed that our Southern brethren, disgusted with 'he fanaticism and insurrec- tionurv Linmintretif the Deonle of the North will, at last, declare the connexion dissolved which binds as together as one people. We are not alarmists. We are not disposed to quail before the treascnable machinations of disunionists, let thtir residence be in New England or any other section of the country.

Let us reason together on this topic, for a brief period, and tee to what conclusions we must inevitably arrive. The affair at Harper'i Ferry was both foolish and wicked foolish because impracticable, and wicked because its object was a bad one. What was that object To liberate the oppressed from bondage," say its advocates, and certainly the liberation of the oppressed is a commendable object. However much John Brown and those a-gree with him, may have flattered themselves that such was the motive by which they were impelled to action, ihe fact seems to be that the intended liberation waa not for those who did not even ask for it, and even if they had asked, could not have been benefitted by the coveted boon after it had been grunted them. Treason and murder, it should be' remembered, are not the legitimate means of bestowing freedom.

Who would be free, theiniielvee must strike the tilow." When the negro race, oppressed by the Caucassian, shall themselves arise, in their manhood, evincing to the world their fitness for civil equality and freedom by their conduct, it ill be lime enough for Northern abolitionists to fly to their rescue. Until that distant day arrives, it will be better for aj of us to evince our love for freedom and republican institutions, by cultivating the art of peace at home. Until that time, let those of us who believe slavery to be the foul blot on our escutcheon, endeavor by gentle words and mild council, to couvince our Southern brethren that it is for their interest to emancipate these bondmen, but let not word, not a whisper be uttered that breathes of disunion, or forcible resistance to Southern rights. Whatever may be our opinions on the subject of slavery, as citizens we have no right to interfere with it. So long as our Southern brethren only ask of us to let them alone, they have a right to have that request unhesitatingly granted.

We havt no right to interfere with the institutions of any sister State. Unless can make up our minds to let them alone, the Union in danger, whether we believe it or not. neith Virginia or Massachusetts will con sent long to remain in the Union, if the price either has to pay for a continuance in it in incessant interference and marauding expeditions from abroad. There is not a State in the Union that would willingly consent to such impertinent intermeddling, and if its own domestic peace can only be secured by the severance of the federal bond, the Union, depend upon it, will be compelled to slide." Of course, indiscreet observations are lie-ing made 011 both sides of this controversy. There are ultruists and fanatics, both in the Vnrth and in tKo Ouuih.

Tli6 UldlS- creet man of all is he who can frame any other apology for the conduct of John Brown than the oi.e which his friends first made use of, viz his insanity. Insanity, in fact, if the truth would only warrant is, is his only justification. He is said to be honest, and if honest, he must be insane. Waiving all discussion upon that point, however, a justification of his act will do more towards weakening the bonds of the Union, than aught else can be imagined. A final stop must be put to all such insurrectionary movements, or civil war, and eventually a dissolution of the Union must be the inevitable consequence.

How in it well be otherwise Let our fanatics pause, one moment, and seriously answer the question. Treason and murder are not the means God has appointed by which to accomplish good results. If we fancy that the African race deserve their freedom, and yet there is no other mode of procuring it than by wading through the blood of our brethren, we are certainly insane in our conclusions. Our Heavenly Father has made better provision for the African race, than would or couid be made for them by their would-be deliverers. These architects of ruin" may dissolve our Union, destroy our commerce, and create intestine feuds, but meanwhile, the sable sons and daughters of Afriaa will be no better off than before.

So says the Lowell Patriot. By-and-by it will be a luestion whether the South have not borne the assaults of Northern abolitionists long enough. That a large portion of the North are Union men, there is no question; but, for politics 1 effect, at home, they allow such men a Seward, Banks, Sumner and Wilson, to keep up an eternal agitation of a subject abiut which they can do nothing but talk, upon which the South are sensitive, as they have a right to be, and as is natural they should be. Will the John Brown affair open the eyes of the people, and will they now, repudiate these arch-agitators, and whose agitation has resulted in murder a' treason tJhai it the question. DoM't Forget That you are to get up a club for the Patriot of at least 10, for 1860 1 DOJfT FOROF.T! That you are to see that the list of the Patriot in your town, for 1860, is double what it is now.

DOJfT FORQRT That you can do something, yourself, towards increasing the list of the' Patriot tor 1860. See your neighbor aud induce him to try it. tf VEIf SUBSCRIBERS Our friends will notice, that they do us a positive injury by sending- us worthless, or doubtful 'subscribers. Good or none. tf Kf Parson Brownlow is in this city having a surgical operation performed on his throat.

V. Hope they will get the bawl out of it. We believe in the ttoriet of haunted houses we know of manv old taverns thai are haunted day and night. LtuisviUt Journal, Guest that it a Nkw York, Dec 10, 1839. My Dear 33- Ynu remember the superb view from the summit of old Mansfield.

The broad landscape stretching away to wards Lake Champlain, it at tarted in its character, as any, perhaps, that can be teen from any mountain-top in yotr Slate of mountains, and is at well worthy at any in the world, of being made the study of an artist. The face of the diversified with green patches of woodland, tnd smooth meadows, broken by here and there an abrupt rising hill, and watered by silvery rivers, it spread like a picture before you. Yoa cast your eye down the rough and shaggy side of the mountain, lpatd the smiling, white, clean villages about its base, or you gaze away towards the Like, which seems, in the distance, only a sixer stream winding its way along the foot of the towering Adirondack. It it a view in which all the wildness of uncultivated natire it mingled with the smooth fields and pleasant gardens of refined and cultivated iiie. No Vermonter but may be proud of, the unequalled scenery of his native Stats.

Having a leisure hour the other day, I called in at the studio of one of the most prominent of American artists, Mr. Jerome 1'hnoipson, of this city, to see a picture which I had learned he had just completed, as well as to see the artist himteli. Mr. Thompson is a geutlemon who unites with a warm love of his profession, the most simple, agreeable manners and pleasant ways, and one cannot spend a more pleasant hour than in his studio. Ho has sketched and studied the scenery of Vermont, and passed many weeks on and about old Mansfield, and no doubt many of the residents of that part of your Stale, remember him wilh pleasure.

The picture I have alluded to, is certainly one of the very best delineations of northern American scenery, t'aat it has ever been my fortune to look at, and one which I wish every Vermonler wko appreciates and loves artistic genius, could see. 1 will describe it for you as well as 1 can It is of the summit of Mansfield iuelf, and a view toward Champlain, taken from the Chin. In the foreground is an agreeable aud pleasant group of figures, evidently a sketch of a party who have attained the heighth from which the view is taken. To the right, the side of the mountain, with its dark and sombre covering of a forest of spruices, and to the left, the Varied landscape spreads dreamily away. One may imagine it is a day in the Indian Summer the landscape looks to hazy and soft, and the sky so golden.

In the centre, and the main object in the picture, rues the Nose, looking gaunt and rough, and gigantic in its large proportions. Around its base are the hemlocks and the evergreen), which form the chief churacteristio of the Vermont for est and along and about its sides, the huge, disjointed fragments of rock, covered with shrubbery, giving a softer loon to its roughness. No one who has ever ascended the mountain, and stood upon the Chin, could fail to recognize the picture. Indeed, it would not require a very violent stretch of the imagination for one to imanine liiuiself-o of the figures of the group standing up- the rock in the painting, and gazing to wt rd the distant ahining lake. The party ve but just arrived, and while some are r-t lining beneath, or rather by the side of a ge table-rock, others, mounted upon it, are enjoying the reward of their labor and enterprise.

And, indeed, to those who love the face of nature, the reward could not be more ample. You have been there, and can say whether or no I speak the truth. You will remember, probably, the charao-teristics of the landscape better than I have or can describe them but you have not seen the picture, and cannot say how well these characteristics are delineated. But, take my word for it, you would see Old Muiisileld In all its native grandeur and sublimity, surrounded wilh that landscape, wicii is so beautiful and pleasant. Mr.

Thompson called my attention to a copy of the large picture 1 have spoken of, in which mav be recognized the same gene ral features of the larger landscape. Though of not so striking a character as the larger one, it is a beautiful painting, and finished with the greatest care and elaboration, lie told me that it had been ordered and paid for, by a geulleman residing in in Vermont, I could not but envy the Moutpeiier gentleman who is to be tae possessor of it. I should think, now that your State has just completed a magnificent State House, it would engage tome first-class artist, like Mr. Thompson, to beautify it with a few pictures represneting the most noted and grand scenes in your State. Surely nothing could be in better taste, and there is no State that includs within its borders so many landscapes so worthy of being transferred to canvass, as ours.

Such a picture as this, or one of Camel's Hump, or uf the scenery of Clmmplaiti, would most nobly ornament your Capitol, it would be money well invested, were they all like this picture of Mansfield. Yours, truly, K- tj If you want to luok over a Shop where you can find a clean assortment of Goods, cheap, drop into J. Lee's and you will find a larger assortment of Heady-Made Clothing, Shirts, Drawers, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Buffalo liohes, Penknives, Razors, than anywhere to be found this side of Boston. Those who wish to teach young ideas how to shoot," will also find at ill's establishment, a well selected assortment of Hides, such as bringeth joy to the heart and glad tidings from afar. In short, Mr.

L. would be happy in seeing his old friends and as many new ones as are desirous of obtaining a good bargain. Cv The splendid chandelier in the Rep resentatives Hall of the Capitol, in Mout peiier, among other ornaments, contains several bronztd statuettes of Powers' Greek Slave standing among its chains The fact attracted some observation, and during the mock session" of the closing evening, the following resolution would have been passed it had been presented: Burlington Times. Resolved, Bu the Senate and House ol Representatives That it is due to the anti-slaverv senti ment of the State of Vermont, profoundly felt and frequency expresttd, that every appearance of tolerating involuntary servitude should be carefully and scrupulously avoided, in all the appurtenances and fixings the State House and therefore the sergeant at arms is hereby directed, previous lo the meeting of the next Legislature, to cause the several Greek Slaves now confined among the lights of the costly Chtlde-lier in the Hall of the House of Uepresta-tives, to be emancipated, and permitted to run at large." Dfatu of Mr. Clarke.

Mr. Charles Clarke of Glover, who was injured in hVhting fire at his hotel on the 26th ulu. died last Monday. Mr. Clark was in the room with the devouring element abiut three-quarters of an hour, and when over come by the heat be was carried out into cold air, where he revived, but was so seriously heated as to cause hit death, sacrificing bit life to save his property.

Bills. will be made out and sent to all who owe for 'the Patriot one 5 ear or over. 'Those whose year expires at No. 728, Dec. 23, 18J9, will receive a bill for that year and a year in advance, to No.

7-SO Sltf.OO, all times previous to one year at $2,00 a year. These bills must be paid, before the commencement of the new year Dec, 30, 1850, or the paper be discontinued and the bill collected at once. This jvill be done without reserve. Subscribers who Jiave paid to Dec. 30, I8j0, No.

728, need not consider themselves dunned, though they can send $1,50 if they please. CLTJllg. I Should commence with the fi.st No. of the year, Dec. 30, 1850.

It is particularly! desired, that thoso who have the charge of Clubs, will notify us, if they wish them discontinued at the end of the year we have sometimes, given offence by discontinuing ihem, without notice. We have been compelled to add new type and presses to uur establishment this present year, and are really in need of every dollar 1 bat is due to us, and if our subscriber have "a bond" uf compassion left thi-y will make the arrangement which they can make as well as not, to pay up lor the Patriot, on the first of December, and give us a fair addition to our list. WASHINGTON COUJfTV. are four opposition pipers pub-! lished in Washington, any one of which has a list as large, and most of therein much larger thau the Patriot. The friends of these papers spare no pains to increase their subscribers.

For the last fourteen years, no general effort has been made for the interest of the Patriot, Why not do It, this yearP We venture there is not a town in the county, in which the list cannot be idoubled.if our friends generally and the Town Committees will take hold of the business in earnest. Mind, that we want good subscribers or none. Take particular notice, that the bills all include a year in advance, and are reckoned at $2,00 a-) ear, for all time previous to 1859 that year and 1860, at $1,80 a-year consequently, as those who wish to discontinue at the close of 1859, must pay $2,00 a year, the deductionof $1,00 from their bills will be the amount due. Notice further, that all bills are made out for even years, so that, the odd cents, that appear in bills, are for the odd numbers. Errors will undoubtedly occur, but they can easily be corrected.

every subscriber who receives a bill, examine it, at once, and if correct for ward the amount. Subscribers who wish to discontinue at the close of the year should notify us at once. It is a trifle mean to "nig" us out of two or three numbers, aud then notify us to discontinue, without forwarding the pay for what they have had, as the manner of some has been. CO. EASTMAN Moatpelier VU Uf EACU SCHOOL DISTRICT.

A little labor devoted to a canvass for the Patriot for 1860, will do wondera towarda increasing its list. In Washington county, will the Town Committees make a thorough effort in the 1 business tf.