In the Maryland Legislature, in January last, Mr. JACOBS, of Worcester, offered the following: -

     ''Whereas, at the 24th anniversary of the American Abolition Society, held in the City Assembly Rooms, in Now York city, in May, 1857, a certain Francis Jackson, of Boston, Treasurer of the Society, reported that during the current year the receipts of the Society were $19,200, and of the auxiliary societies of New York, .Pennsylvania and Michigan, $18,856; making a total of $38,162 from those sources; and,
     *' Whereas, said American Abolition Society also received for the same year, as appears from said report, the further sum of $158,750 from the Exeter Hall Emancipation Society, in the city of London, Great Britain, and both of said two sums make an aggregate of $196,912; and,
     " Whereas, the London Times, a newspaper of high repute on all questions involving the policy of England towards this country, distinctly declares that this money was given as a bounty on slaves - i. e., to decoy them from their owners, and induce them to run away; and,
     "Whereas, a certain Hiram K. Wilson, of Worcester, in Massachusetts, did go into Canada, and take a census of all such runaway slaves during the winter of 1856, and reported their number at 35,000, since augmented to 45,000; and,
     "Whereas, a certain Thomas Garrett, of the city of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, did attend the anniversary meetings as aforesaid in the city of New York, in May, 1857, and did there show by his books of record and entry, where he had stolen 2,059 slaves, and forwarded them North, per underground railroad; and,
     "Whereas, said Garrett did attend a meeting of Abolitionists held at the Assembly Buildings, in the city of Philadelphia, on the 17th December, 1859, where at he stated, that by his books of entry and record, he had stolen and convoyed North by the underground railroad the further number of 386 slaves, since the report in May, 1857, making a total of 2,445 slaves stolen by said Garrett; and,
     '^Whereas, the said sum of $196,912, bestowed upon said Garrett in May, 1857, and his large annual receipts per capita for every slave he can so steal, have made him rich in wealth, and marked him as a wicked and base traitor to man and God; and,
     "Whereas, most of the slaves so stolen by said Garrett belong to citizens of this State, whose rights of property the State is sacredly pledged to secure inviolate - therefore, be it
     "Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Treasurer pay, upon the order of the Comptroller, the sum of ____  to any person or persons who may secure said Thomas Garrett in some one of the public jails in this State; and that the Governor of this State, on information of such fact, is hereby requested to employ the best legal ability of the State to prosecute said Garrett to conviction and punishment."

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some length upon peddlers, their tricks of trade, and the insinuating way they have of ingratiating themselves into the good-will of negroes.  He was particularly hard on Garrett said he was a traitor, and should be hung.
     About having slaves run of, Mr. Jacobs had experienced loss from that cause, fie now had a man in Canada who often wrote home begging for money and to be brought back. The poor devil was nearly starved, but could not come back, although he wanted to do so.  Mr. Jacobs verily believed he was run off by "Old Brown."  Garrett, who sent his minions,
the peddlers, throughout the country, pocketed the money for running them off.  Mr. Jacobs denounced Garrett as an archtraitor, a villain, and guilty of every horrid crime.  There were men that he knew who could convict the scoundrel, and he wanted him caught.  As a matter of course, under the rules of the House, the resolutions of Mr. Jacobs lie over for
another reading.
     Subsequently, Mr. Jacobs asked a suspension of the rules, so as to call up his resolutions providing for the capture of Thomas Garrett, for running off slaves from Maryland.  The rules were suspended.
     MR. JACOBS moved that the blank in his resolutions for the capture of Garrett be filled with $2,000.
     MR. McCLEARY moved to amend with $500.
     MR. CHAPLAIN moved to amend the amendment by $5,000.
     MR. GORDON thought it best first to change the resolution of Mr. Jacobs, so that the bounty would not be paid until Garrett was convicted.
     MR. DENNIS asked, if this man was in the State, what could be done with him?
     MR. JACOBS.  Hang him.  (Laughter)
     MR. DENNIS resumed.  According to the gentleman's statement yesterday, Garrett was never in Maryland.  If a citizen of another State receives slaves from Maryland, and forwards them to Canada or elsewhere, he cannot be touched for violating the soil of Maryland.  The thing is out of the question.
     MR. GORDON, of Allegany, said that without an examination of the questions, he was not prepared to coincide with the gentleman from Somerset.  If a man stands on the Virginia bank of the Potomac, and shoots another in Maryland with a rifle, is he not amenable to the Maryland laws?  Certainly.

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If by means of emissaries, he, on the borders of another State, steals a horse, and runs him off, is he not just as amenable to the laws of the State which he violates in that manner?  And so it was with negroes.
     Mr. DENNIS, of Somerset, replied that there was no analogy in the cases.  In the one instance, there is a direct violation of the soil of the State; in the other, it is asserted that a man in another State has gotten rich from the per capita of slaves run off, as the resolutions say, from this State.  Allowing that it could be proved that they were run off from Maryland, he could not be harmed.  He had never been in the State.  We do not know that he had emissaries, and if he had, it is a question not for decision by this House.
     Mr. GORDON rejoined.  He said it was admitted to Garrett sent emissaries into the State; that he had publicly boasted of having, through their instrumentality, run off slaves from Maryland.  That gave the question another aspect, and it should be well considered.
     Mr. JACOBS said he had no doubt but that Thomas Garrett could be convicted, if taken.  He cited several instances in which the fact that he ran off slaves could be proved.
     Mr. DENNIS asked why Mr. Jacobs or some other gentleman had not gone before the Grand Jury and had him presented, if these statements were so notorious.
     Mr. JACOBS spoke warmly: denounced the London Times and the New York Courier, and declared that before he would have Maryland become secondary to the North, he would go in for a dissolution of the Union.
     Mr. LONG, of Somerset, moved to refer to Committee on Judiciary.
     Mr. JACOBS.  Will that kill it or not? (Laughter.)
     Mr. LONG.  The resolutions embrace important considerations, and should be referred to the Committee.  They were the creatures of the House, and their action, therefore, cold either be adopted or not by the body creating them.
     Mr. JACOBS.  You are  Chairman of that Committee, ain't you? (Laughter.)
     Mr. LONG.  No sir.  I am, however, on the Committee.  Mr. Gordon is Chairman.
     Mr. JACOBS.  Ah, well, I will trust it to him.  (Laughter.)

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     After some debate as to the propriety of referring the matter, Mr. Jacobs consented to the reference.  The whole matter - resolutions and amendments - was then referred. (1)

     (1) In a letter from this widely known and greatly esteemed Quaker philanthropist, published in a Delaware paper, with reference to the malicious and absurd things charged against him by Jacobs, in the Maryland Legislature, friend Garrett says: -

     In order to disabuse the public mind, I will state a few facts to show that the charges made by said Jacobs are false.  I am charged with having acknowledged that I had stolen over two thousand slaves from their masters, at so much per head, which, with the large receipts from Great Britain and other sources, amounted to the handsome sum of one hundred and ninety-six thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars, which had made me rich in wealth, and marked me as a wicked and base traitor to God and man.  If there was any truth in the above statement, I ought to be rich, at any rate.  I will now give the facts respecting the above statement, and those who know me, I feel confident, will put implicit confidence in what I say: those who do not know me may doubt my veracity; that I cannot help, and shall give myself no concern about it.  As to the stealing of slaves, I utterly deny the charge.  I never, since I came to the State of Delaware, thirty-seven years ago, asked or persuaded a slave to leave his master or mistress, neither have I, in a single instance, sent a peddler, or any other human being, to persuade, entice, or bring away a slave, much as I detest slavery; but I have made it an invariable rule, if called on for advice or assistance by a slave, or any one in distress, to render such assistance and give such advice as I thought they needed.  This I have never denied.  And if I found a slaveholder in distress, needing assistance, I would endeavor to aid him; but should be very apt to let him know, before we parted, that I looked upon slaveholding as the venerable John Wesley did, as the sum of all villanies.
     I will now state what I solemnly affirm to be true, that I have expended in clothing and in different ways, for the comfort and assistance of colored people, voluntarily, several thousand dollars, and that I have never received from Great Britain, and all other sources together, one thousand dollars, to assist God's poor.
     " In addition to the above sum, which I have at different times expended, some years since, I took a family of colored people out of Newcastle jail, by habeas corpus, before Judge Booth, Chief Justice of Delaware, who, in consequence of the commitment being defective, released them all.  The parents admitted their two eldest children were slaves, but assured the judge, sheriff, attorney, and myself, that the father, mother and four

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THE REIGN OF TERROR IN VIRGINIA.

To the Editor of the New York Tribune:

     SIR:  As I observe that your statements as to the risk of travelling at the South are doubted by your neighbors of the Times and Herald, permit me to relate a fact in my own experience of very recent occurrence.

younger children were free.  It was raining at the time; the family wished to go to Wilmington; a hack was hired, at my suggestion, to take the mother and four small children to Wilmington.  I forbade the hack man to take the father and two eldest boys.  He insisted on taking them all with one horse, and I told him, before he left, if he took the father and two sons, he must look to them for pay, as I would only pay the price agreed upon for taking the mother and small children; and to this day, I have never paid him more than the price agreed upon.  One of them was eight months, the other three years old, - a cripple with white swelling, that could not walk a step.  Suit was brought against me, first under the law of 1793, where the fine was $500 each for aiding a slave; and then, after being fined by Judge Taney, before whom I was tried, $3,500, suit was brought by the slaveholder's attorney, James A. Bayard, for the value of the slaves; and the agent of the mistress of the mother and four young children was called on by Judge Taney to fix the value on the whole lot, and the jury awarded, as their value, $1,900 more, making $5,400 fine in all.  I think he admitted that the mistress of the woman had offered to sell her time to her husband, several years before, for $100, but said she was worth $300 to sell to the traders.  If I am not wrong in my recollection, he also stated that the mistress lived nearly twenty miles from the family, that the father had maintained the four young children from their birth, and that the mother had not lived with her mistress for about ten years; but he stated the mistress always intended to claim the children after they were old enough to become valuable.  There was no charge of crime against me but the hiring a conveyance to bring them from Newcastle to Wilmington.  I was tried for aiding the two eldest while I was sick in bed, in consequence of which my attorney declined defending me, and of course I was convicted, and fined $500 each, when I had no more to do with violating the law than Judge Taney himself, or James A. Bayard, the prosecuting attorney.
     "From the above statement of facts, the public may see how much truth there is in the statement of my friend Jacobs, that I had become rich by the aiding of slaves to escape.

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     For fifteen years past I have been in the habit of visiting the South, having certain interests in Tennessee which require my personal attention.  In the latter part of Jan., I was on my way to Tennessee, with Judge Platt, of Yonkers, and Mr. Lewis Edwards, of Orient, L. I.  When passing through Virginia, I fell into conversation, somewhere between Lynchburg and Bristol, with a fellow passenger.  After some talk upon indifferent matters, this person asked me "if New York merchants did not feel the withdrawal of Southern trade."  I replied that it was too early in the season as yet to judge whether there had been any diminution of trade from such a cause.  "I am," he continued, "interested in two mercantile firms, and 1 have given orders to both that they shall purchase no goods north of Baltimore, and not even there, except of direct importation."  "You have," I answered, "a perfect constitutional right to buy your goods where you please.  We are, however, glad to deal with you as long as you pay your notes.  The South," I remarked further, on some allusion on his part to Northern sympathy for John Brown, " does not understand the feeling of the North in regard to that affair.  Not a hundred people among up knew of Brown's intention, or approved of his acts when known, however much they might admire the character of the man.  And on that point," I added, " no one has paid him a higher compliment than Gov. Wise, who said he was the pluckiest man he ever saw."
     "Sir," said my interrogator, with a good deal of emphasis, "before having any further conversation with you, I wish to know what you think of Helper's book."
     " I have never read it," I replied.
     "I have never read it," I replied.  "At any rate," said he, you cannot be ignorant of its contents.  But I will tell you what it advises : it advises non-slaveholders to cease all intercourse with slaveholders not to employ them either as physicians or lawyers, not to trade with them, nor to go to communion with them.  Now, what do you think of it? "
     "Have you ever read that work yourself?"  I asked.
     "I have not," said he.
     "Then," said I, "I think that you are not the proper person to interrogate me upon this work, nor am I the proper person to criticise it, when we have neither of us read it."
     But this did not satisfy him.  He wanted and insisted upon having a more positive answer.  At length I said:  "I ac-

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knowledge that Virginia has a perfect constitutional right to continue or to abolish slavery as she shall see fit, and that we of the North have nothing to do with it.  This should satisfy you as to my opinions of the Helper book."
     But this was not enough.  He wanted a more positive expression of opinion on the book itself.
     "It seems to me," said I, "that the question is one that belongs to you alone.  It is simply a quarrel among cousins.   The book was written by the South, in the South, and for the South, and we commercial men at the North care very little about the matter any way."
     He burst out here with great violence and vehemence: "Sir, I believe you are a d__d Yankee Abolitionist!  I am a member of the Vigilance Committee, and I will have you arrested and examined! "
     "I am,"  I answered, "a merchant of New York, passing through the State on my way further South, where I have large interests, and am on my lawful business."
     He continued his abuse, reiterating,  "You are a d__d  Abolitionist!  I will have you arrested and examined!"
     Presently he asked me for my address, which I gave him without hesitation. "I," said he, am Fayette McMallen.  I have been for eight years a member of Congress from this State, and two years the Governor of Washington Territory.  And you," he repeated, "are a d__d Yankee Abolitionist, and no gentleman."  Here I turned my back upon him and took up a newspaper.  Then he left me; but going through the car, he pointed me out to a number of persons as an Abolitionist.  My fellow passengers were some of them Southern men, and some Northern.  With many of these passengers I had travelled from Washington, and we had been together for four and twenty hours. It was to this circum stance, perhaps, that I owed it that Mr. McMullen's attempt to get up an excitement against me was a failure.  There were some muttered remarks, it is true, undoubtedly intended for me, such as "that any Abolitionist going through the South ought to be tarred and feathered;" but I was not molested.  My assailant went through the other cars of the train, with the amiable intention, I presume, of having me mobbed.  He failed, however, there also, and finally returned to his seat near me, and went to sleep after his labors.

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A GERMAN CITIZEN HANGED, BEATEN AND ROBBED

     Yesterday, (says the Quincy (Illinois) Whig, of February 25th) a respectable German citizen of LaGrange, Missouri, Mr. Frederick Schaller, (a brother-in-law of Mr. H. Dasbach, of this city,) who has resided in LaGrange for the last twelve years, was brought to Quincy a victim to the horrors of a pro-slavery outrage, the recital of which is enough to make the blood of any man, who has a soul, boil in his veins.  We called upon Mr. Schaller and obtained the statement which we publish below.  We saw the bloody evidence of the horrible treatment he had undergone, heard the story of the affair as given by him, and could not help believing every word of his statement.  He is a respectable and intelligent man, and his plain and simple account of the dastardly outrage, was, we venture to say, implicitly credited by the hundreds of our citizens who called at Mr. Dasbach's yesterday.
     Mr. Shaller has always voted the Democratic ticket, and we are assured by German citizens of Quincy, that in his visits to this city, he has defended the institution as it existed in Missouri.  That he is innocent of the charge of assisting negroes to escape - as he asserts - we have no doubt.
     We trust that our German citizens, especially those who have been in the habit of voting the Democratic ticket, will ponder well this flagitious outrage, and then determine whether they can continue to vote with a party whose cardinal principle is the spread and extension of that institution which is the parent of such damnable and brutal lawlessness.
     We are under obligations to the editors of the Tribune for the translation of Mr. Schaller's statement: -

STATEMENT OF MR. SCHALLER.

     I have been a resident of Missouri for twelve years, having resided a part of the time in Palmyra and part of the time in LaGrange.  In the latter place I have property.  I have never meddled with slaves or slavery, and have always been a Democrat.
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had run off; I knew nothing about it till I heard of it, and do not recollect of ever having seen them.  I could therefore not have aided their escape.  Nobody in LaGrange ever suspected me of tampering with slaves, till last Sunday.  I went on that day to Canton, to invite some friends to a party that was to take place last Tuesday.  On my arrival there, I was waited upon by three persons, Jim Ring, Josh. Owens and Bill Webster, who informed me of my being under suspicion of having aided the escape of a slave of Mr. _____ Harris, and that I would have to return with them.  At first I took the matter for a joke, but soon found that they were in earnest.  On the night on which the slave ran off, who was caught again, at ten o'clock, I can prove by twelve or fourteen persons that I was in my house till twelve o'clock, consequently could not have aided the negro.
     I returned with the three, satisfied of my innocence, and asked for a fair trial only, as I easily could have proven my innocence.  I was taken to the LaGrange House, and asked to be tried next day, (Monday,) but was refused.  Monday night an armed posse of twenty-five or thirty men came, tied our (my brother William's, Nob. Mattis's, who had been taken before my return from Canton) and my hands, and put us into a hack.  Two others, Frank Gerlach and a Mr. Holmes, were set free, but ordered to leave town.  Our hands were tied, and we were driven in the hack about three miles on the Memphis road, where the hack stopped, and I was taken out.  To my question where they were taking me to, I got the answer that I was to be hanged.  I asked them what for, and received as an answer that I should tell them all about the nigger scrapes, about Vandoorn, etc.
     As I knew nothing about them, had never seen or heard of Mr. Vandoorn, I could not give the answer they wanted.  They took me about a quarter of a mile into the woods and hanged me.  I caught the tree, but, by beating my hands with sticks, they compelled me to let go my hold.   Soon I was senseless.  When I came to again, I felt two persons, one on each side, whipping me with whips or cowhides.  My hands were tied to the tree above my head, and I was entirely naked.  The night was very cold, and soon my back was covered with a crust of frozen blood.  I became weaker, and when they untied me, I fell to the ground.  I heard one of the say,

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"Now you can go, you son of a bitch!"  When I put on my clothes again, I found my money($128 in gold) and watch gone.  As I could not stand, I crawled, as well as possible, to the house of my father-in-law, where Dr. Niemeyer treated me.
     My brother, whom they had released, told me that they must have abused me for more than an hour.
     I again say that I am as innocent of the charge as a child, and have never aided the escape of slaves.
     The American (Mattis) is still in LaGrange, sick from a similar treatment.              FREDERICK SCHALLER.

__________

     BANISHMENT OF A SCHOOL MISTRESS.   Within the last few days, an occurrence took place in one of the young ladies' schools of this city, which shows that even Yankee school-teachers, who come South to make money, cannot keep a discreet tongue in their head.  Abolition is in them, and it will gush out one way or another.
     In the case in point, some of the young lady scholars were talking over the excitement of Harper's Ferry, and one or more of them expressed an opinion, saying, "Old Brown ought to be hanged!"  The teacher from down East, who, we understand, gave lessons in music and French, rebuked the young pupils for calling the Kansas murderer and robber "Old Brown," and stated that they should name him as "Mr. Brown, that he was engaged in a meritorious cause, and was a good and brave man, whose object was not evil, &c.
     The young daughters of the South did not relish this laudation of the old sin-dyed rascal, who would incite, pay and arm negroes to maltreat or murder them; they made known the expressions of the Yankee teacher to the Principal of the Academy, who, after investigating the matter, immediately discharged the offending teacher.  She made tracks for the North the same evening, but will, doubtless, make capital out of the occurrence somewhere down in Main or Massachusetts, where every feminine, who is just able to spell "c-a-t," thinks she can teach all Southern children. - Richmond Enquirer.

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A HIRED TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST - PASS HIM ROUND.

     Our attention has just been called to a copy of the Clarke Journal, (a weekly sheet, published at Berryville, Clarke Co., Va., )bearing date the 11th inst.  This journal is professedly Democratic in politics, and now keeps the following ticket at the head of its leading columns: -
     For President - R. M. T. Hunter of Va.
     For Vice President - D. S. Dickinson, of N. Y.
     Under color of this show of conservatism, the editor of the paper, Alexander Parkins by name, publishes As an Advertisement the full prospectus of the New York Tribune, occupying an entire column, and for which doubtless, Mr. Parkins receives a considerable moneyed compensation.  That our readers may properly appreciate the nature of the inflammatory article thus paid for and published within a few miles of Harper's Ferry, we reproduce the following sample of Greeley's prospectus: -

     "The 'irrepressible conflict' between Darkness and Light, Inertia and Progress, Slavery and Freedom, moves steadily onward.  Isolated acts of folly and madness may for the moment give a seeming advantage to Wrong; but God still reigns, and the Ages are true to Humanity and Right.  The year 1860 must witness a memorable conflict between these irreconcilable antagonists.  The question, 'Shall Human Slavery be further strengthened and diffused by the power and under the flag of the Federal Union?' is now to receive a momentous, if not a conclusive answer.  'Land for the Landless versus Negroes for the Negroless,' is the battle-cry of the embodied millions,,, who, having just swept Pennsylvania, Ohio and the North-West, appear in the new Congress, backed by nearly every free State, to demand a recognition of every man's right to cultivate and improve a modicum of the earth's surface, wherever he has ot been anticipated by the State's cession to another.  Free Homes and the consecration of the virgin soil of the Territories to Free Labor - two  requirements, but one policy - must largely absorb the attention of our Congress through the ensuing session, as of the People in the succeeding Presidential canvass; and, whatever the immediate issue, we cannot doubt that the ultimate verdict will be in accord at once with the dictate of impartial Philanthropy and the inalienable rights of man."

     We merely suggest to the good people of Jefferson and Clarke counties that the squad of Yankee peddlers lately ordered away from their borders are emissaries of a much less dangerous description than that to which Mr. Alexander Par-

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kins belongs.  A hired disseminator of Abolition treason is the very man of all others to tamper with slaves, to run them off, or, if he had the courage to do so, to lead the van of servile insurrection.  Whether Mr. Parkins has not already laid himself liable to fine and imprisonment in the county jail for his complicity with Horace Greeley's incendiary efforts, is a question which we recommend to the careful consideration of the prosecuting attorney of Clarke county.  But there can be no doubt whatever that the people of Clarke and the surrounding counties owe it to their own safety to suppress this incendiary sheet.  A respectful request to Mr. Parkins to leave the community, signed by all his subscribers, would perhaps prove efficacious; but don't lynch him.  The friends and supporters of Messrs. Hunter and Dickinson  should especially attend to this matter.  The impudence with which Parkins attempts to shelter his treason behind the names of these worthy gentlemen deserves especial reprobation. - Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Nov. 15th.

FREE SPEECH IN VIRGINIA.

     Every body in Virginia knows or ought to know that she has a set of laws for the especial government of her negro population, bond and free, one of which makes it an indictable offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, to give utterance to Abolition language and sentiments.  We know that in the so-called free States this interdict is severely commented upon; but if they will persist in sending their emissaries among us to corrupt our negroes and entice them away from their owners, they deserve themselves whatever odium may be attached to such a law, the necessity for enacting which they have enforced upon us.  All we ask of strangers coming among us from those States is implicit obedience to our laws, be they good or evil in their eye; if they are not prepared to yield it, let them pack up and quit our borders; otherwise they are to expect no immunity for their disobedience.  The tiling is very simple, and cannot possibly be misunderstood, we should think, even by a crazy abolitionist.  Yet instances

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of a disregard of this provision of our municipal code are by no means unfrequent; and two have occurred here since that of S. Danneberg, which we mentioned a few days ago.  One was that of a clerk in a store, a young Scotchman, who strongly advocated the conduct of Old Barabbas Brown. His employer, having more compassion for him than Old Barabbas had for the wives, mothers and children of Virginia, gave him his discharge without subjecting him to an arrest, and, following the advice of a friend, he "took out in the first boat" for the North.
     The other was that of a resident on Ferry Point, opposite this city, John Fletcher by name, who came from Washington City some five years ago.  On Tuesday last, in the grocery store of his neighbor, Mr. James P. Jones, in the presence of ten creditable witnesses, while in conversation about the Harper's Ferry affair, "he avowed himself an Abolitionist, and asserted that there were many in Norfolk and Portsmouth, but that they were afraid to say so; but he was free, white and twenty-one, and had no hesitation in declaring that if he had five thousand dollars, he would give one-half of it for the release or rescue of John Brown."
     The bystanders were highly indignant at such language, and immediately had information of it lodged with T. Portlock, Esq., J. P., who thereupon issued his warrant for the apprehension of Fletcher.  The warrant was given to officer John M. Drury to execute, who proceeded to Fletcher's dwelling, and knocked for admittance at the front door; but he made his appearance at a side door, and, being told by the officer that he must go with him, said he would do so, and re tired to get his coat and hat; but on his return, said he had changed his mind, and was determined not to be taken.  The officer then attempted to seize him, when he held the door nearly closed with one hand, while with the other he drew a knife, which he held up in a threatening manner, and said, "d__n you, if you attempt to enter, I will kill you."  Mr. Drury then went and summoned persons to his assistance and on his return, Fletcher, after consulting with members of his family, and being threatened with a forcible entrance by the posse without, quietly surrendered and was taken off to jail, to undergo an examination. - Norfolk (Va.) Herald.

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DASTARDLY OUTRAGES UPON NORTHERN CITIZENS AT THE SOUTH.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28th, 1859.

     Slavery has taken another advancing step, and this time it is free speech which has been stricken down in the capital of the country.  I allude to the case of Dr. Breed, referred to in my last letter.  The main facts, agreed to by all parties, are as follows:  A gentleman who has lived in peace and respectability in Washington for the last seven years - who has had high office under successive administrations - a Quaker - calls upon a neighbor upon business.  He there meets a stranger, and is introduced to him.  The two gentlemen talk of John Brown - get excited - both say extravagant things - get cool afterward - make up - shake hands, and part.  The next day, one of the parties is arrested for the expression of his sentiments respecting slavery, and he is forced to take his choice of a prison, or give $2000 bonds to keep the peace for a twelve month!  No man swore that he was afraid Dr. Breed would attack him; not only that, but the man one Dr. Camp) who instigated the arrest of Dr. Breed, himself threatened the life of Dr. Breed if he dared to utter certain sentiments respecting slavery.
     Your correspondent attended the trial before Justice Down, and is forced to say that it was a farce from beginning to end.  The two witnesses covered each other's tracks in their testimony;  one of them swore positively that he did not believe either of the gentlemen (Van Camp and Breed) knew what they said - that they were much excited  - and that he did not suppose Dr. Breed meant what it is alleged he said.  It was evident to every body present that it was simply an angry private discussion between two persons who call themselves gentlemen.  Dr. Breed utterly denied, before Justice Down, the utterance of the sentiments imputed to him; and none of his friends here, who know him to be a Non-Resistant on principle, for a moment credited the statement of Van Camp.  Justice Down seemed to have no idea of law or justice, for he bound Dr. Breed to keep the peace in the sum of $2000, on the ground that, if he had uttered his sentiments before

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slaves, or a white audience, it would have endangered the peace of the community!  What an insolent defiance of all law and justice!
     In the court-room, a gang of ruffians was gathered, and threats were openly and loudly made to take the life of Dr. Breed on the spot.  One man cried out in open Court: "Let's hang him up when he goes out!"  and no man reprimanded the scoundrel for his offence.  The Star very candidly admits that if the police had not been present in strong numbers Dr. Breed would have  been in danger.  This affair did not occur in Virginia or Naples, but in the capital of the United States!  Henceforth, Washington is to be set down as a spot where freedom of speech is not allowed.  Any member of Congress may be thrown into prison by this so-called Justice Down, for words uttered in private conversation, and left there till he will give bonds.
     Brooks was fined three hundred dollars for making a murderous assault upon a United States Senator in his Senatorial seat; while a Northern man is held to bail in the sum of two thousand dollars, and but for the presence of a friend, would have gone to jail, upon a charge of using "seditious language."  He might have blasphemed God, or threatened to dissolve the Union, with impunity; to speak against slavery is the unpardonable sin. - Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post.

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A NINE YEARS' RESIDENT DRIVEN AWAY FROM ALABAMA.

     We have authentic information, that a gentleman who has resided for nine years in Georgia and Alabama was driven away from home a few days ago, and forced to take a hurried passage to the North, leaving behind him his wife and children, and a thriving business, which must now o to wreck.  What was his crime?  He had not only never spoken against slavery, but always in favor of it.  He honestly held Southern sentiments, and was always ready to avow the same, although he could never persuade himself to own a slave.

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His profession was that of a teacher of vocal and instrumental music.

     A fortnight ago, a book agent was arrested in a town in Alabama for soliciting subscribers to "Fleetwood's Life of Christ,"  published by a Northern publisher.  The Methodist Conference was in session at that time, and the case was noticed on the floor of that body.  The members advocated the unfortunate agent's immediate expulsion from the place, on the ground that his continued presence would be dangerous to the existence of Southern institutions!  A paper was drawn up, adopted, and published in the newspapers, setting forth the ground of their action, substantially as follows: -

     "We have examined this man's case.  We find no evidence to convict him of tampering with slaves, but as he is from the North, and engaged in selling a book published at the North, we have a right to suspect him of being an Abolitionist, and we therefore recommend, in order to guard military out of this county into the next adjoining."

     Accordingly, the militia were called out, and the poor book-peddler was summoned to receive military honors.  But this was not all.  The musician of whom we have spoken, a nine years' resident, whom nobody ever suspected of being an Abolitionist, was called upon to ride at the head of the procession, and play the flute!  He immediately declined, and took occasion to express his opinion that the agent had done nothing worthy of his expulsion.  The procession accordingly marched without the flute player.  In the evening, greatly to his surprise, he received an anonymous letter (whose source, however, he could not fail to detect) commanding him, under penalty of tar and feathers, to leave the State immediately.  He knew the people too well not to be wise enough to take the hint.  His wife, who was a Southern lady, and had never been in the North was thrown into great grief on reading the letter, but advised her husband to leave before daylight, as she feared for his safety if he remained longer.  So at three o'clock in the morning he saddled his horse, and taking with him what clothes he could put in his saddle-bags, galloped away - an exile from home and friends!  He has since reached  northern city, and is now making arrangements to bring his family to a place where they can breathe freer air. - N. Y. Independent.

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MOB VIOLENCE IN KENTUCKY.

     The many reports thrown into circulation since the ungallant attacks made upon me and my principal office by certain individuals in our city, have moved many of my friends, and the friends of common justice, to inquire into the cause of such an unlawful procedure.
     The cause, so far as made known to me on Friday night, October 25th, when they carried off the inside forms and destroyed them, was, that they wanted a charter for a bank in Newport, and that the Legislature would not grant them one while my paper was printed here.  But it is hardly likely that the Kentucky Legislature will grant a bank charter to a party of house-breakers and sackers, to strengthen them in such fearful acts of violence.
     Not a word was spoken to me on the subject until the first night of attack - the combination being a dead secret, unknown to me or any of my friends.
     The next day, (Saturday, 29th,) no excuse was offered, but a demand made to enter my office again, to carry off the remainder of my printing material.  I expostulated with them; told them it would be an injury to their own standing as men, a disgrace to the city of Newport, and no credit to the cause espoused, viz.: slavery.  But all the pleadings of myself and family were in vain.  They procured a heavy plank, and battered in the door with the end of it, entered, and took out all they could get out, and left the house a perfect wreck.
       The heart-rending sorrow of my family, working so many years, night and day, so long as our physical strength would allow, and being harassed by the law for debt, (after the destruction of my former office and machine shop by incendiarism,) sued for slander because I published the truth upon a man who had acted unjustly in his official capacity as sheriff - wading through all these trials and troubles of six years duration, and beginning to live a little more comfortable, mobocratic violence has fallen upon us again, and our whole means of subsistence been destroyed.  To stand by and behold these ravages filled the hearts of my family with irrepressible grief.
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public improvements, and have spent much time and money to that end. *   *   *   *   *
     The stories told about me as  having correspondence with Brown at Harper's Ferry, and the officers there having a letter from me to him, are without foundation or truth.  I never saw Mr. Brown - never wrote to or received a line from him in my life, nor knew any thing about his movements until the difficulty was published in the newspapers.
     Falsehoods have been thrown into circulation here by persons professing the most frantic terror at the "horrible" think I was about to do; that I contemplated the capture of the United States Barracks of this place, intending to arm the negroes here (although there are none to arm) and commence war upon the slaveholders in the State; but how any person could be so credulous as to believe such an extravagant story is alone with the wicked plotters who destroyed my office to conceive. *   *   *   *
     On the first night of attack, a pocket-book, containing one hundred and fifty dollars, which I handed to my wife, was lost in the confusion, and has not been heard of since.
     My loss in printing material and damage to the house is about three thousand dollars.
     I hve transgressed no law of Kentucky, nor do I intend to do so; but I ask protection from lawless violence in the legitimate publication of my paper.  I dislike the taking up of arms, even in self-defence; but, for the righteousness of my cause, the dignity of my State, and the honor of my people, I shall maintain my position, and labor, and I ask the friends of true American liberty to aid me.  The spirit of freedom and true greatness is beginning to be planted upon Kentucky soil, and it illy becomes the legal authorities to stand aloof and suffer the freedom of speech and of the press to be trampled under foot, to stifle that liberty which tyrants in all ages have south to overthrow.

     NOTE.  The Grand Jury of Campbell county found bills against about a score of persons for a riot, in the destruction of Mr.  Bailey's paper, the Free South.  The State's Attorney, hearing of this, argued the matter before them, taking the ground that it was the law that where a nuisance existed which could not be reached by law, the people had a right to abate it.  The jury sought the opinion of Judge Moor on the question, and he told them that it was the law; whereupon they reconsidered and quashed the indictments!

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VIRGINIA RUNNING OUT WHITE MEN.

     Some years since, Mr. Reuben Salisbury, then of Sandy Creek, in this county, and brother of Mason Salisbury, Esq., disposed of his property, and, with his family, removed to Virginia, where he engaged in the business of farming, and where he led a peaceable and peaceful life, until the unfortunate occurrence at Harper's Ferry.  He was a quiet man, a member of the Baptist Church, and estimable in all the relations of life.  Though not an advocate of, nor an apologist for, the institution of slavery, he was a man who attended to his own business, meddling with nobody's slaves, and questioning no man's privilege to hold them, if he was satisfied that it was right to do so.  He was a man of rare integrity and moral worth, charitable, tolerant - in short, a good man.
     Well, a short time since, a complaint was lodged against this gentleman, who is now about sixty years of age, some kind of a process obtained, and about twenty of Virginia's chivalric sons deputed to execute it.  They were all armed, and, visiting the premises in a body, they had no serious difficulty in capturing Mr. Salisbury.  A search was then instituted for evidence to sustain the charge that had been preferred against him.  His house was ransacked from cellar to garret; every nook and cranny was peered into, and his private papers fumbled over, and the hunt had well-nigh proved fruitless, when a few copies of the Albany Evening Journal, which had been sent him by his friends in Sandy Creek, were discovered, and the venerable old man was hurried off to jail.  Here he remained several days but was finally admitted to bail, and by the advice of friends, was induced to quit his home in the Old Dominion and the State of his adoption.  He returned to Sandy Creek last week.  His farm in Virginia he advertises for sale at auction, and expects it will go at a sacrifice of from $2,000 to $3,000.
     So much for Virginia justice.  We ought to add, that the magistrate before whom Mr. Salisbury was arraigned belonged to the same church with that gentleman, for that will show the kind of Christianity they have down in that section.
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friends.  And it is remarkable that it should?  Turning to the Constitution of the United States, and learning that the object of that instrument, according to the preamble, was to "establish justice" and "secure the blessings of liberty,"  they very naturally ask themselves if "liberty" and "justice" have not, in this instance, been ruthlessly trodden under foot?  John Brown and four others were adjudged guilty of murder, and have been executed, for their attempts to run black men out of Virginia; what is the offence of those other men who are engaged in running white men out of the State?  If it be a high crime to seek to deprive slaveholders of theirs?  Are doings of this sort calculated to increase our respect for the Union, to allay the anti-slavery feeling at the North, and bring us over to the faith of those who are opposing what they term "sectionalism"?  Has the time indeed  come when people living South must stop reading Northern newspapers?  Shall we of the free-States be denied the privilege of sending papers to our friends who have gone South to reside?  Shall we stop corresponding with them, lest we get them into difficulty?
     We cannot reconcile these things with our notions of justice.  If a man leaves New York and takes up his residence in Virginia, we expect he will conform to the laws of the latter State, and in so doing he ought to be protected in his person and property, and we think he would be, if the head of the Government cared as much for the rights of freemen as for the wishes of the slaveholding oligarchy; in other words, if our Federal Executive was an impartial ruler.  such a ruler may we not hope to elect in 1860? - Pulaski (N. Y.) Democrat, Dec. 29.

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     A mob of pro-slavery men recently broke up a school taught by Robert Milliken, at Kirksville, Mo.  He was conceded to be a good teacher, and personally unobjectionable, but was guilty of having a father who had incautiously expressed anti-slavery sentiments in a letter to a friend in New York!

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A SHAKER CITIZEN OF COLUMBIA COUNTY EXPELLED FROM VIRGINIA.

     Among the many ludicrous incidents consequent upon the raid of the eccentric and fanatical man, the late John Brown, upon t he unsuspecting and peaceable citizens of Harper's Ferry, there was one in which a resident of this county bore a very conspicuous part.
      One of the peaceable and exemplary Shakers from New Lebanon, in this county, was on his yearly tour through south-western Pennsylvania and the adjacent parts of Virginia, peddling his garden seeds, or rather, supplying his old customers with their usual stock for the ensuing spring demand.  While quietly moving along the highway with his horses and wagon, with a close box (painted green, probably) in which his seeds were packed, secure from rain and fogs, and without even knowing that he had passed the boundaries of Pennsylvania, and entered into the land of chivalry, he was suddenly arrested in his progress, and charged with being an incendiary Abolitionist.  His vigilant captors were informed that though his closed wagon-box contained materials that would expand, if properly sowed in their gardens in the spring, they were not really of an explosive nature.
     The Virginia vigilants were incredulous, strongly suspected that he was a very dangerous character, and proceeded with due care and caution (probably fearing that some "infernal machines" were mixed up with the small boxes containing seeds) to overhaul and examine the contents of the wagon.  Though finding neither powder, nor Sharp's rifles, nor warlike pikes, they were far from being satisfied that all was right - pronounced him to be a very suspicious and dangerous character, and lodged him in jail, or some other safe "lock-up," for the night.
     On the following morning, a company of brave and chivalrous militia was assembled, with muskets and bayonets in hand, and, with the soul-inspiring music of fife and drum, he was safely escorted and guarded back from "Old Virginia's shore" into the State of Pennsylvania, and the agitation and alarm caused by his presence in that part of the "Old Do-

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minion" quieted ad allayed; and then did the chivalry breathe calmly and freely again.
     This incident is regarded as eminently worthy of being recorded in history as the first occasion on which it was found necessary to call out a military company for the protection of the citizens of any community from the evil designs of an unoffending, unwarlike and non-combatant Shaker, -  Kinderhook Rough Notes.

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LYNCH LAW MEETING IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

      A public meeting (says the Kingstree (S. C.) Star) of a portion of the citizens of Williamsburg District, S. C., was held at Boggy Swamp, at Mr. McClary's store, on Tuesday, the 22d inst., for the purpose of taking the preliminary steps of ridding the community of two Northern abolitionists, who have been for some time teaching school in said district.  The two characters are W. J. Dodd and R. A. P. Hamilton.
     Nothing definite is known of their Abolition or insurrectionary sentiments, but being from the North, and therefore necessarily imbued with doctrines hostile to our institutions, their presence in this section has been obnoxious, and, at any rate, very suspicious; therefore the meeting was called.  On motion, Samuel W. Maurice was called to the chair, and James Potter acted as Secretary.  On taking the chair, the Chairman explained the object of the meeting whereupon , on motion, it was.

     Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meeting, the presence of W. J. Dodd and R. A. P. Hamilton in this community, under the present critical condition of public affairs, touching the institution of slavery, is obnoxious;  and although we entertain great respect for the persons in whose employment they have been, yet we deem their longer continuance here as being so dangerous and suspicious as to be our sufficient apology for taking some coersive measures for their removal.
     Resolved, That a committee of twelve be appointed to proceed forthwith to the whereabouts of said Dodd and Hamilton, and give them notice that they will have until Saturday, the 26th, to leave the District.

     The chair appointed the following as a Committee to wait upon them:
     R. C. Logan, Chairman; T. S. Chandler, Dr. W. L. Wal-

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lace, John M. McClary, T. A. McCrea, W. H. Griggs, R. H. Shaw, James Potter, S. J. Strong, Wm. McCollough, Enoch Dudley, James C. Murphy.

     Resolved, That another public meeting of all citizens in the District favorable to the move is hereby called in the court-house at Kingstree, on Saturday, the 26th, M., to hear the report of said Committee; and if said gentlemen do not quietly leave, pursuant to notice, by that time, that then such measures of a coersive character will be adopted as in the opinion of said meeting may be necessary to put them off by force.
     Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the Kingstree Star.

     On motion, the meetings adjourned, and the Committee proceeded to the performance of their duty instanter.

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PUBLIC MEETING

     At a public meeting (says the Sumter (S. C.) Watchman) of the citizens assembled on Wednesday afternoon last, at the Town  Hall, Col. G. S. C. DeSchamps was called to the chair, and T. W. Dinkins, Esq., requested to act as Secretary.  The Chairman having stated the object of the meeting, asked if gentlemen had prepared business for the consideration of the meeting; whereupon the Chair (in conformity with a motion to that effect) appointed the following  Committee to report on business: T. W. Dinkins, D. J. Winn, H. L. Darr, A. Anderson and W. L. Pelot.  The Committee, in a few minutes, reported the following preamble and resolution.  After discussion, they were unanimously adopted: -

     Whereas, disclosures of an inflammatory character are brought to our notice by every mail, showing that it is time for every slaveholding community to be on the alert for its own security and protection of its interests; and whereas, notwithstanding the warnings from the press growing out of the present state of the country, stragglers from the North continue to visit and tarry in our town as agents for books, medicines, &c., whose real object may be to act as spies and Abolition emissaries; therefore,
     Resolved, That we, the citizens of Sumter, in public meeting assembled, do call upon the request our Town Council to institute a rigid surveillance on all such transient persons; and where full satisfaction is not given, to notify such persons that their presence in our community is not to be tolerated.

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     It was further moved and adopted, that a committee of five be appointed to lay the foregoing preamble and resolution before the Town Council.  In accordance with which which motion, the Chair appointed Messrs. W. E. Dick, L. P. Loring, H. Haynesworth, A. A. Nettles and Dr. J. L. Haynesworth a committee.
     It was also resolved, that the meeting, when adjourned, be adjourned to meet again on Wednesday next, 23d inst., at 11 o'clock, and that an invitation be extended to the citizens of the District to attend and co-operate in measures for the public safety.

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VIRGINIA INDIGNATION.

     A large meeting of the citizens of Barbour and adjoining counties was held at the Court House in Phillippi, Virginia, on the 7th ult., the same being court day for said county, to express a public sentiment concerning the late insurrection at Harper's Ferry.  Among the resolutions passed were the following: -

     "Whereas, we contemplate with shame and destestation the late deadly affray at Harper's Ferry, from which it appears that a treasonable scheme has been for some time in preparation by certain instigators and emissaries of 'Irrepressible Conflict,' 'Higher Law,' and Abolition doctrines, whose end and aim is an assault and warfare upon the constitutional end and aim is an assault and warfare upon the constitutional and guaranteed rights of the Southern States of our great confederacy; and whereas, by this attack on an arsenal of the United States, in the heart of the nation, and on the soil of our beloved Virginia, encouraged by advices and counsels from individuals in various of the Northern States, and emboldened by the appliances of money, and stores of arms and ammunition, furnished by accessories to this treacherous scheme of plunder and murder, it is evidenced to our belief

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that no mere riot of deluded fanatics was intended, but that a great, bloody and destructive project of civil war was contemplated, in which our servants and citizens, in co-operation with their Northern leaders and abettors of this rebellion, were expected to join in the plunder and butchery of their masters and brothers; therefore,
     "Resolved, That we will, at all times, as Virginians and citizens of the United States, hold ourselves ready, as one man, to  bear arms, even to death, if necessary, in defence of our constitutional rights, our liberties, and our homes.
     "Resolved, That while we deprecate this invasion of Harper's Ferry as the ebullition of a blind and misguided fanaticism, which has resulted in bloodshed and the loss of the lives of valuable citizens of our State and country, we, notwithstanding, assert a confidence in the conservative element and spirit of the mass of the Northern people, and that our brethren there will unite with us in strengthening the bonds of government, the preservation of law and order, and in suppressing the incendiary movements and purposes of an infuriated and misguided portion of their population, who blindly plot the destruction of the Union.
     "Resolved, That a committee of thirteen be appointed, whose duty it shall be to notify all persons in our county, known to be Abolitionists, to leave the county of Barbour in sixty days, if there should be any in our county."

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      SIX SALESMEN SENT BACK TO NEW YORK.  A large and well-known business house in New York (who carry on a large trade with the South in the two articles of liquors and Union-saving) were greatly surprised to find that their great zeal in getting up the recent Union meeting had profited them nothing among their Southern customers.  Six of their salesmen and agents were summarily forced to leave the South, a recently returned to their employers.  Perhaps the firm will think twice before they sign a call for another meeting at the Academy of Music.

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     The New York Journal of Commerce says that the following incendiary handbill was received, a few days since, "by a highly respectable citizen, an American by birth, a patriot and a Christian, to whom it was addressed through the post-office.  The envelope was post-marked Montgomery, Alabama, Nov. 25.  The carrier who delivered it remarked to our informant that he had several others of the same appearance, addressed to other persons in his beat.  It is probable that a large number of the same have been forwarded to different places at the North and West."

[CONFIDENTIAL]

TO THE IRISH FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH IN THE NORTHERN CITIES.

     FELLOW-CITIZENS, - You who have always been true to the Constitution and the South - who have never degraded yourselves to the level of the African race, as the dirty Free-Soilers do - you are aware that the borders of Virginia have been profaned by the tread of the Free-Soil assassin.  The South looks to its Irish friends in the large free cities to effect a diversion in its favor, and for this purpose the United Constitutional Irish Association has been formed, of which some of you are (and doubtless all will be) members.  In the great cities, prominent Free-Soilers and Abolitionists own large factories, stores and granaries, in which vast sums (made out of the South) are invested.  This fact furnishes a means of checking their aggressions on the South; and the Irish friends of the South are relied on to make the check effective.  Property is proverbially timid.  Whenever a hay-stack or cotton-gin is burned at the South by Free-Soil emissaries, let a large factory, or a plethoric store, or immense granary, in New York or Boston, be given to the flames.  To make this course safe, your Association must be true to itself and its principles; method, caution, our double secrecy, will insure the safety of the actors.  Southern gentlemen will be constantly among you, amply supplied with means to remove those whose patriotism has subjected them to suspicion.  Besides, many friends will be found, both among Southern steamers' crews, railway conductors, and the police.  In fact, you will find friends and funds on every hand.  Be energetic,

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therefore; go at once to your Foreman, and see if he cannot introduce you to the Association, if you are not already a member.
     Let us urge you to disseminate among your fellow-laborers the idea that you have not wages proportioned to the present high scale of prices.  When once the mass of your country-men are filled with the notion that the Free-Soil capitalists are withholding the price of Irish labor, while trying to incite the negro of the South to rebellion, it will be easy enough to gather large mobs of your brethren, and when large mobs assemble, ware-houses may be burst open or fired.  Be careful, however, that only the property of Abolitionists is harmed; every where protect those who are friendly to the South and true to the Constitution.
     Irishmen!  the South relies on you!  Depend on it, that for every dollar's worth of injury to our enemies in the Northern factories, &c. &c., by riot or the torch, the South will amply compensate, and, besides, furnish you a safe refuge and a homestead.    Remember to apply at once to your Foreman, for particular instructions.  If you should not be able (which is not likely) to inform you, show this privately to some Irish gentleman of intelligence, after ascertaining his feelings towards the South.  Thousands of copies of this confidential circular will be sent by Irish people in the South to their friends at the North.
                                                                        THE COMMITTEE.

     November 23, 1859.

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SHOCKING CASE.

GLASTENBURY, Conn., Dec. 28th, 1859.

     The Rev. Mr. Alberton was brought to his home - three miles from here - last Friday, with one leg broken and his head and arm bruised, by a fall from the cars, on his way home from Alabama, where he went a few weeks since, in the employ of Mr. Stebbins, of Hartford, peddling books.  He was arrested after the John Brown invasion, on suspicion of evil designs, and imprisoned twelve days.  The suspicion was

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founded on a passage found in a letter to another person, in the same business, from Mr. Stebbins  The suspicious sentence was this:  "Take the best men, be faithful, do your work thoroughly; my agent in this section is the Rev. Mr. Alberton whose head quarters is at _____."  I don't recollect the name of the place.  On this expression they founded a suspicion of treason, and sent forthwith to the place and arrested Mr. A., and the mob gathered around and cried out, "Shoot him, shoot him!"  "hang him, hang him!"  He was searched, tried, and false charges were brought against him, and he was thrust into prison. He was so excited that he finally had turns of derangement.
     His case being reported to Mr. Stebbins, he procured the testimony of persons in Hartford, Gov, Seymour and others, who could be trusted, and he was released, and paid $60 for false imprisonment.  He was put on board of a steamer on the Alabama river to Montgomery, and thence by cars came home, in a fit of derangement, he jumped out of the cars this side of New Haven, and lay from 6, P. M., Thursday, to 3, A. M., Friday, when he was found, and accompanied to Hartford.
     I saw him on Monday of this week.  He is very feeble, and lies prostrate, bruised and mangled, like the "man who went from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves."  He is unable to talk much yet, he is so exhausted and excited.  He has a family consisting of a wife and six children; is an Englishman by birth; has preached in this part of the town five years, and has preached in this country about ten years.  He owns a house in Manchester, and suspends preaching on account of the inconvenience of moving about with a family of small children.  He is a whole-soiled, large-hearted Englishman and Christian; a man of unblemished moral character, and in good standing.  He spent last winter in North Carolina, and preached at times on the Sabbath to his own and all other denominations.

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     Helper, the author of the Impending Crisis, had a lot of his books burned at Maysville, Ky., a short time since.

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THE LYNCH CODE ENFORCED.

Correspondence of the Newbern (N. C.) Daily Progress.

     A few days ago, two Abolitionists of the most flagrant kind, from Connecticut, under the guise of book agents, were put in jail here.  At their examination before Mayor Shaver, many damning facts were elicited in connection with their prowlings through Salisbury and neighborhood, in the shape of tampering variously with slaves, pulse-feeling of non-slaveholding whites, confabing with free negroes, &c.; indeed, they were arrested in a free negro house, in which it was stated they had sojourned, a la Hotel de Dumas!  All this, together with the incoherent and contradictory statements made by themselves, relative to their business and movements, warranted the Mayor in ordering them to jail to await a trial.  The indignation of the citizens was so wrought up that the miscreants begged piteously for protection, from the office to the jail.
     On Saturday forenoon, an Irishman, named Tait, was loudly announcing to a crowd in front of the post-office that he was an Abolitionist, and that he hoped before long every slaveholder's throat would be cut; he has been in this vicinity some eight years, and, by those who know him, is said to possess a fine school education - to have been a bookkeeper at one time here.  Since I have been here, two years, he has been a common laborer, very low in his conduct and associations, and habitually drunken; he is also said to be very quarrelsome, very cowardly, and, covertly, very malicious, spiteful and revengeful.  I mention these facts that you may understand the rather culpable leniency of the people here in this case.  Well! continuing to express his worse than seditious sentiments and wishes, a crowd soon gathered, by whom he was seized and carried down to the yard of the Mansion Hotel, where, I really believe, had he retracted, they would have let him go, in consideration of his having been in their midst and known to them so long (an aggravation of his crime, in my mind); but when questioned, he repeated what he had before said in a mocking and spiteful manner; also acknowl-

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edged to and glorified in having wrote passes for the slaves of Mr. J. Clark (one of his examiners) and others, to trade with, &c.  They then proceeded to remove a luxuriant crop of dirty red hair from his head, after which they peeled him to the waist.  The day being rather cold, and it being resolved to ride him out, "without horse, saddle or bridle," they humanely replaced the articles of covering of which they had divested him with a very neat-fitting garment of North Carolina manufacture - tar is the name; but this was not enough, for the more fastidious and tasteful J. B., who, resolving to combine the ornamental with the useful, rushed into my, neighbor C.'s room, seized one of his pillows, and soon had its contents all artistically attached to Tait's new coat; it was a complete success; and I remarked to some one that, with their limited practice, they could "tar and feather" with, neatness and dispatch.  Now, to a man of mind, principle and honor, such a degradation would be worse than death, and he would die rather than submit to it, but of such men Abolitionists are not composed, particularly those who have been living any length of time in the South, where they have ample opportunity to know the negro and his position; their sentiments are caused by that malignant and jealous hatred
and envy which is too often found to exist in the hearts of the ignorant and vicious poor towards the good, the intellectual or the wealthy, or to all combined.  When they rode Tait out, he did every thing like a buffoon, to attract attention; this disgusted me so much that I did not follow.  I thought that his thus glorifying in his disgrace as well as his crime would incense the parties who were carrying him out of town to such an uncontrollable degree that they would hang him, and he richly deserved it, for the necessities of the times imperatively demand terrible examples, through short trials and condign punishments, in such cases.  They only ducked him two or three times in a creek, however, and let him go, he refusing to leave the State or retract any thing he had said, and, when at a safe distance, turned and threatened several of the parties with a speedy and terrible vengeance.  A crowd of us went down to see the upshot of the affair, and finding him gone, and learning particulars, blamed them for their forbearance in thus letting him go, worse than he was before.  Some then started after him on horseback.  It was twenty-four

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hours before they recaught him.  He is now in jail, with the two precious villains from Connecticut.  All irresponsible (i. e., non-property holding) parties from the North, at the present time, are naturally enough looked on with distrust by the people here, and all of them who have deeply pondered on the subject of slavery, and are still anti-conservative, should immediately leave.  The peace of society here and their own personal safety require it; for the criminal suggestions of the higher law delirium, which they attribute to inspiration in their unprincipled leaders, will be viewed here as something worse than the oozing out of distempered natures and the vapors of spleen, which are the mildest terms possible by which to designate their diabolical rhodomontade.

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NEW-YORKERS EXPELLED FROM SOUTH CAROLINA

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES:

     I see in your Times of Monday last, I am put down as one of the unfortunate individuals lately sent away from South Carolina with a "new coat of tar and feathers."  Not quite so bad as that, but, nevertheless, I was sent away, and without the least shadow of a reason.  I had gone down there like any other honest Northerner, with trunk and books, and recommendations, and, having got a place in a little village by the name of Orangeburg, went to teaching.  Thinking myself perfectly secure, and having got a very good place, I began to be considerably satisfied when suddenly my quiet was broken up, and I was ordered to take my books and recommendations and trunk, and start for the North.  It was a week ago on Saturday last, about two o'clock in the afternoon.  I thought it best not to confine myself too much to my room, but take a walk.  Accordingly, I took a short tour of the village, stopped at the post-office, and then called on one of my friends.  To avoid suspicion of being thought an insurrectionist or an emissary of John Brown, as the Southerners think

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all the Northerners among them are, I had been especially careful not to say or do anything that would at all alarm, not even whispering that slavery was an abominable thing, nor attending any of their "nigger meetings," except once or twice by special request, and in company with some of my friends.
     Such being the case, one would naturally think himself safe enough in any place, especially in one that professes to have reasonable men.  So I thought, but, having stayed awhile at my friend's, and read his papers, I was on my way back to my boarding-house, thinking, I believe, about Coleridge - something or other of his speculations - "Stop a minute, if you please; going up to your room?" and before me were standing Capt. Salley, Maj. Glover, and one or two others I did not know.  Meaning to pass the time of day, and not expecting any such visitors, I was unprepared for receiving company; nevertheless, I gladly accompanied them to my room, and, as politely as I could, gave them seats.  "Hem!  We might as well commence business," said Capt. Salley.  The rest assented, and then he went on to say that they had been appointed a committee, by the citizens of Orangeburg, to inform me that I must leave the place in the next train.  If he had said, Take a trip in the New York City across the Atlantic, I could not have been more astonished.  "You surprise me," I said, and wanted to know the reason of such a course.  This was the contemptible thing offered as such:  "They had come to the conclusion I was not exactly a proper person to be allowed among them, on account of my political sentiments."   How they knew my political sentiments was, of course, a mystery; for no one there knew them.  But they chose not t reason further; "the exigencies of the times demanded it."  I "might be innocent for aught they knew; but the case was such, the innocent had to suffer with the guilty."  I asked them for a chance to vindicate myself; I asked them for time to collect my bills; I asked them to lend me money to get away with.  They granted neither.  I then appealed to them as men endowed with reason; showed the cruelty and foolishness of what they were doing; but the only answer to every thing was:  "You must expect the consequences, or leave town by the next train," which would be in about two hours.  They did, however, at last agree to col-

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lect my bills, and give me money enough to get to Charleston; and having assured me I should not be troubled by a mob, left the room.
     I left it, too, a short time afterwards, considering it best to go where my own will might control the ways and means of my own body - this flesh and bones that troubled them so, because it came from the far North.  I thought it best to take care of it, and not let it get broken, or bruised, or covered over with Southern slime, mixed up with prickly quills.  This is the sum and substance of the affair, though I might say a good deal more of other men who were sent out in the same way, and some, alas! who got the "tar and feathers."  I do not blame all the Southerners.  A good many I found whole-hearted, noble souls, whose memory I shall always cherish; but those men who sent me away, and the brainless hotheads, generally, there, I hardly known what to think of.  I would have said nothing about them - not wishing my self to be connected with their little, silly, villanous affair - but they have already put it in the papers; and it is only justice to myself and friends prompts me to give as much as I have, merely a plain statement of facts.

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THREATS OF EXPULSION.

     Resolutions of a public meeting at Beaver Dam Depot, composed of citizens of Hanover, Louisa, Spotsylvania and Carolina Counties, Va.: -

     1. Resolved, That all classes in our community have one common interest in opposing the wicked intermeddling of the Abolitionists in our affairs.
     2. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to each other to keep a strict eye on all suspicious persons, particularly on all strangers whose business is not known to be harmless, or any one whatever who may express sentiments of sympathy or toleration with Abolitionists, either directly or indirectly.
     3. Resolved, That Vigilance Committees, twenty-five in number, be appointed to act in the 4th and 6th magisterial 

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districts, whose especial duty it shall be to carry out the foregoing resolutions, in which all our citizens are expected to co-operate; all suspected persons are to be brought before the chairman of each committee, who, with any two members, may act, and either bring them to trial or drive them from the neighborhood, as may be determined.
     4. Resolved, That the Delegate and Senator from this county be requested to endeavor to have the law of criminal trials so amended that a Justice of the Peace may be authorized to require the Sheriff in this county to empanel a jury for the trial of any person brought before him on a charge of encouraging or promoting insurrection or insubordination among the slaves; and also to have the sentence of the jury executed without delay.

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EXPERIENCE OF AN INDIANIAN IN KENTUCKY.

COVE SPRING, Mercer Co., Dec. 20th, 1859.         

MR. B. R. SULGROVE:

     DEAR SIR, - I will endeavor to write you a few lines, and I know it will surprise you and my friends.  I started from Indianapolis last Monday, the 14th.  Little did I think, when I got here, that I would be notified to leave the State, or take a coat of tar and feathers for being an Abolitionist.  On Saturday, I went up to Harrodsburg from here; and when I came back, there was a company of slaveholders here to arrest me for being a negro-stealer from the North, and they notified me to leave the State.  I told them I was ignorant of the laws of Kentucky, but I thought the law of the land was that before they could hang a man, they must find him guilty, and therefore I should not go until I got ready; and if they chose to apply the tar and feathers, they could pitch in; but I thought they would have a warm time of it before they got through.  That is what they call Democracy here - the man that can scare and catch the most men from the North here

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is the man they intend to run for the next Congress.  But I told them I did not come from Indiana here to be run off by a pack of ruffians.  I told them I lived in a free State, and was a Republican; that every man spoke his sentiments there, and, thank God, I was glad of it.  They may hang me yet - I can't say what they will do - but I want it distinctly understood that I am no negro-lover.
     I was going to start back to-morrow, but I shall remain longer, to let them know that they can't scare me: and if anything worse occurs, I will try and let you know.

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     Since the above letter was put in type, we have seen Mr. Demott himself, who has returned home.  He says he was arrested on Monday following the writing of his letter, and put in jail till the next day, when he was released on $500 bail.  The charge against him was that he was tampering with some body's slave.  He was on a visit to some of his relatives and his guilt has just the extent, and no more of being an Indianian.  His attorneys, Hon. J. F. Bell, the Opposition candidate for Governor last fall, and Mr. Fox, certify that there was no evidence of the truth of the charge.  The fact is that the feeling in Kentucky, as in all the other slave States, makes criminal purposes of the mere presence of free State men; and while this feeling lasts, it is actually useless for an Indianian to visit the interior of Kentucky, unless he chooses to play the lick-spittle to their prejudices.  the arrest of Mr. Demott, from all that we can learn, was nothing, and was intended to be nothing, but the most offensive mode of insulting and outraging his Republican opinions.  He made no concealment of them, though he did not offensively parade them, and his imprisonment shows the appreciation that Kentuckians have of freedom of speech and opinion.  People from that State will never be molested here for an expression of their opinions.  May be they may learn some time that it will be wisest for them to show equal liberality.   - Indianapolis Journal, Dec. 24th.

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GROSS OUTRAGE.

     The Belfast (Me) Age publishes a letter from a correspondent in Georgia, giving the revolting particulars of a gross outrage committed upon a ship's crew near Jeffersontown, in that State.  The writer says: -

     "The brig B. G. Chaloner, of East Machias, Me., was chartered in New York to come to Statilla Mills, on the Statilla river, to lead lumber.   Capt. A. V. Kinney was master, who had with him his wife, Mr. Patterson the mate, and a crew of four men.
     "Mr. Patterson was well acquainted with the river, having once been wrecked up White Oak Creek.  At that time, while stripping the vessel, he lived with a wealthy planter, who became much attached to him.  No sooner had his planter friend - Mr. Morrissey - learned that he was again on the river, than he sent a negro to conduct him to the house.  Mr. Morrissey, learning that the Captain had his wife with him, sent a pressing invitation by Mr. Patterson for the Captain to come, and bring his wife with him, to take a Christmas dinner with his family.
     "On Sunday morning, Dec. 25th, the Captain, with his wife and mate, took the crew in the boat and started for Mr. Morrissey's plantation, having to go about fifteen miles by water to his place of landing, from which, to the plantation, was five miles.  After landing, he sent his men to Mr. Peters' house, (he being acquainted with Mr. P.,) to tarry until his return.  The crew had been in the house but a short time when six armed men came there, by the names of David Brown, and his two sons, Burrill Brown and Nathan Brown with their brother-in-law, Thomas Harrison, and two others whose names I don't recollect, and told them they must go to mail.  The sailors, believing their innocence would appear the more apparent if they yielded, concluded to obey their orders, supposing they were authoritative.  They were then taken into the woods, tied to a tree, and a negro made to give three of them fifty lashes apiece.  The reserved one was a tall man, of the height of six feet three inches, whom they called 'the captain of the crowd.'  Upon his back, they dealt one

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hundred lashes.  After he was taken down, they asked him if he would run as fast as the other had - they having been compelled to run as fast as released.  As he did not at once start, one of the gang raised his gun, saying, '____ you, you won't run, won't you?' and fired, the ball passing near his head, and lodging in a tree.  With what strength remained, the suffering man then started, hastened by the profane threats of his menacing tormentors.  By the kindness of Burrill Brown's wife, the men were shown the way down, and a boat was provided to take them on board the vessel.
     "On Monday morning, as Capt. Kinney, his wife, and Mr. Patterson were coming down toward the landing, they were met by the men who took the sailors aboard, and told what had happened, and advised to go back to Mr. Morrissey's and leave the woman, and then go round the other way and send a sheriff for the boat.  This advice was acted upon.  They had not gone more than half a mile before they were overtaken by a man on horseback, who pointed a double-barelled gun at the captain's head, and told him to stop.  Presently, old Brown and his gang came along, armed with pistols and guns, and ordered the captain and mate to take off their coats, which they refused to do.  Guns were at once cocked and lefelled at their heads, and compliance demanded by threatening to blow out their brains.
     "After they ahd divested themselves of their outer garments, a negro was ordered to give them fifty lashes apiece.  The captain's wife piteously interceded in behalf of her husband and companion, but they coarsely told her to stop her d___d crying, or they would give her the same number of lashes they were not giving her husband.  After the negro had completed his task, old Brown, who was unable to walk without a cane, came hobbling along, and commanded the slave to give them four more for tally.
     "The six inquisitors then marched the sufferers before their guns to the boat, and shoved it off, leaving them to row fifteen miles, against the tide, to their vessel.
     "A few days after the transaction, the mate showed me his back, which was bruised and cut from his neck to his knees, as was also the case with the others who were flogged.
     "The only reason given for committing this outrage was, that the captain and his men were 'damned Northerners.'"

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A METHODIST CLERGYMAN IMPRISONED.

     We have to-day to add another to the already long catalogue of outrages on the liberty of speech committed in behalf of slavery.
     Rev. Mr. Howe, a Methodist clergyman in Harrison Co., Missouri, was challenged by a Kentuckian neighbor to debate the slavery question.  He accepted the challenge in good faith, and the debate took place, with no unusual circumstances, about six miles from Bethany, the county seat.  Immediately afterwards, Mr. Howe was arrested.  A man owning $3,000 worth of slaves had made affidavit that he was "an Abolitionist," and demanded his incarceration in the penitentiary.  A prosecution so evidently malicious and absurd did not alarm Mr. Howe until his return to town, when he found that all the lawyers, with one exception, had combined to refuse to defend him.  Out of this combination were selected W. G. Lewis, Circuit Attorney, and J. W. Wyatt, to conduct the prosecution.  The one exception was O. L. Abbott, Esq., a native of this State, and a graduate of the Albany Law School.  He undertook Mr. Howe's defence, but was allowed no time for preparation.  Notwithstanding he offered, in behalf of the prisoner, any amount of bail, and asked that the examination might be posted, he was compelled to go on immediately, without having had an hour's time to ascertain the nature of the case or obtain evidence, and that, too, in regard to an offence hitherto unknown to the record of crime!
     During the examination the court sustained every objection made by the prosecuting attorneys to questions which were all-important to the interests of the defence.  The defendant was required to produce all the testimony in  his behalf in court at midnight!  At one o'clock, however, the judge, for his own convenience, having other business coming on in the morning, consented to a postponement for two days.  In the mean time, all the influences that could be exerted to embarrass the defence were resorted to.
     When the trial was resumed, the town was filled with people from all parts of the county.  The large court room was densely crowded.  The evidence closed late in the afternoon.

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Mr. Abbott summed up his case, assisted, since no lawyer would assist him, by Rev. John S. Allen, who, though a slaveholder himself, was not willing to see his town disgraced by such tyranny against free speech.  Judge Lewis followed in a fanatical pro-slavery tirade against the prisoner, his counsel, "incendiaries" and "Abolitionists" in general, and the case was submitted for decision.
     That decision will be looked for with interest, even at this distance from the scene.  The crime with which Mr. Howe is charged is defined at "uttering words, the tendency of which is to excite any slave to insolence and insubordination," [Missouri R. S., vol. 1, p. 536,] although it was shown in evidence that there was not a negro, bond or free, within two miles of the place of debate!  The penalty for this offence is five years' imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary.
     During and since the trial, threats have been freely made of "tar and feathers" against the prisoner's counsel, and various attempts made to intimidate and drive him from the place. - Albany Evening Journal, Mar. 7

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THE REIGN OF TERROR IN MISSOURI.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE:

     SIR, - In the Tribune of Jan. 6, you publish a letter of mine to Mr. Anthon, of New York, which has caused great excitement here, and subjected me and others to much abuse.
     My son, Robert Milliken, graduated last June at Antioch College, in Ohio, and established a school here the 6th day of last month, and was doing well.  He gave general satisfaction until my letter to Mr. Anthon was published in the paper here.  Suspicion was fastened on him as the author of the letter, and the pro-slavery men, alias the Democrats, commenced threatening to break up his school.  His assistant, a young man by the name of Ira Chamberlain, was violently

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assaulted at a public meeting, and struck a blow on the head.  Notwithstanding I came out and avowed myself the author of the letter, and they poured out a flood of abuse on me, they do not abate their persecution of my son.
     Yesterday, a Methodist clergyman called upon him, and told him that money would not hire him (the clergyman) to stand in my son's place; for, said the clergyman, your life is in danger.  I hope and trust taht he was mistaken.  I am sure that if whiskey were let alone, there would be no danger.  I have been informed by some Free-State men, who have not openly avowed their Free-State sentiments, and consequently mingle with the pro-slavery squads who are engaged in discussing this matter, that the pro-slavery men threaten to make me leave the State.  What the result will be is difficult to conjecture, but I think they will hardly carry matters thus far.  Still, it is hard to say what men will not do when intoxicated with modern Democracy and pro-slaveryism.
     I live out of town, and have had nothing to say on political matters since I came here, for the reason that all my time has been employed in improving my farm, having made improvements costing over $2,000.  It is true, when asked what party I acted with, I have answered, with the Republican, which is nearly enough to forfeit all rights as a citizen.  So, there is on feeling against me except for my politics, and this letter to Mr. Anthon.
     At a public meeting held at the court-house in Kirksville, the Democrats read extracts from the "Compend," and denounced the book and me in no measured terms.  what I regretted the most was, they read extracts that I could not endorse.  When I get the book and read it for myself and not have it dealt out to me in garbled extracts, it may put a different face on these passages.  They could hardly find words strong enough to show their hatred to that part of the book that advises non-slaveholders not to patronize slaveholders, and all who endorsed such procedure by circulating the book.  Now, the very next morning, these same men went to work in good earnest to break up my son's school, who had circulated no Compends, but simply because I had written that letter, and that he was an anti-slavery man.   They have succeeded in driving half of his scholars from his school.

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To show the strong efforts they made to break up his school, I will here copy a letter that he received from the home patrons: -

"MR. ROBERT MILLIKEN:

    DEAR SIR, - It is with regret that I take my son from your school.  It is not because of your political views, or any disrespect I have for you or any of the family, but I want to live in friendship with all men, and my friends are falling out with me.  I could not send him much longer any how.  To save difficulty with other men, I will take him away.  Don't think hard of me.

     The author of the letter told a neighbor that he was in danger of being mobbed if he did not take his son out of school.  Look into these statements, and you can see the men who are so shocked and outraged at Helper's advice to non-slaveholders not to patronize slaveholders.
     Slavery has crushed the spirit of '767 in all the slave States.  Since I came to Missouri, I have been astonished to see the restraint it exercised over free-labor men from the free States.  To hear them say, "I know that slavery is a curse, but it will not do to say it publicly," makes one feel that the patriots of the Revolution bled in vain for the rights secured to us in the Constitution of the United States, for their unworthy posterity are about to yield them up to satisfy the demands of slavery.

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     EXCLUSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM MISSISSIPPI.  The bill for excluding free negroes from the State of Mississippi passed the House on the 7th December, by a vote of 75 to 5.  It provides that they shall leaves the State on or before the 1st of July, 1860; or, if they prefer to remain, that they shall be sold into slavery, with a right of choice of masters at a price assessed by three disinterested slaveholders, the proceeds to go into the treasury of the county in which the provisions of the bill may require to be executed.

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ASSAULT ON HON. MR. HICKMAN.

     The Hon. Mr. Edmundson, of Virginia, is well known as a most courteous and unexceptionable gentleman.  But under a very quiet demeanor, he carries a chivalrous estimate of the respect due to his own personal honor and the good name of the State to which he belongs.
     So it chanced a few days since, as the Hon. Mr. Hickman was leaving the House of Representatives, he was followed and accosted by Mr. Edmundson, who held him to account for the slanders uttered by him against the State and people of Virginia.
     Just as Mr. Hickman said, "I did not mean to" _____ his disclaimer was cut short by a slap in the face from Mr. Edmundson, accompanied with the emphatic assertion that Mr. Hickman was a "d__d scoundrel."  At this moment, Messrs. Keitt and Clingman, who were leaving the Capitol at the same time, seeing from Edmundson's manner that he intended to chastise Hickman, and knowing that they would be placarded in the Tribune next day for a conspiracy to beat an unprotected free-soiler, ran up and seized Mr. Edmundson, who struggled very violently to inflict further indignities upon the affrighted Timour.
     According to our information, Hickman's hat had been knocked off, and he had staggered back with an aspect and attitude of the most abject alarm.  Mr. Keitt cried out in a loud voice to Mr. Hickman, "Pick up your hat and go away; we can't hold this man all day!  and added to Mr. Breckenridge, who was passing at the moment, "Take him along."  The bewildered Hickman collected his hat and mechanically obeyed the conservative counsel, and soon, like one of the discomfitted heroes in Homer, "ascended the Black ships," or took refuge in some Republican stronghold.  Nor has he been since heard from, so far as we are advised, by cartel, military proclamation, or otherwise. - Washington States.

     The Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post gives the following account of his disgraceful affair: -

     "The attack upon Mr. Hickman on Friday evening by Edmundson, of Virginia, creates a good deal of excitement

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among the opposition members.  The attack was entirely unprovoked, and was made by a large, stout man, accompanied by two of his friends, upon a weak, slight, sick man, who was alone.  Mr. Hickman was walking down the Capitol steps, when Edmundson approached him saying: 'You made a speech the other night at Willard's Hotel.'  'I did,' replied Mr. Hickman.  "and d___n you, you slandered my State, you liar and coward,' continued Edmundson, the same moment striking him with his cane across the head.  Mr. Hickman was about to repel the assault, when he was caught by Vice President Breckenridge who led him away; Keitt, and Bouligny, of New Orleans, taking care of Edmundson.  It is reported that Keitt called out to Breckenridge, alluding to Hickman, "Take the hound away!'
     "It will be remembered that both Keitt and Edmundson were the instigators of the attack upon Sumner, and stood sentinel while Brooks did his bloody work.  No one thinks Mr. Keitt had any thing to do with the recent outrage except to separate the parties.  I understand that Mr. Hickman bled at the lungs freely the night and morning after the brutal attack upon him.  It was marked yesterday that Mr. Breckenridge was in the House for half an hour, and all the time he sat laughing with Edmundson, who, overcoat on or cigar in his mouth, sat upon one of the sofas in the extremity of the hall, and finally the Vice President went out with his Virginia friend, as if he meant to testify to the House his approbation of the attack on Mr. Hickman.  It must be remembered that the brutal attack was unprovoked, and if the excuse be offered for Edmundson that he was tipsy, it will be replied that when sober he offered no apology.  I think it is safe to say that the offence will not again be repeated this winter, for every Republican member will henceforth be prepared for any assault, at any time, even at the breakfast and dinner table; for Southern gentlemen chose most singular places and occasions to attack Northern representatives."

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     A BLACKSMITH DRIVEN AWAY.  Benjamin F. Winter, a blacksmith by trade, has been ordered to leave the town of Hamilton, Harris County, Ga., by a meeting of citizens, for avowing Abolition and incendiary sentiments.

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MORE SOUTHERN FANATICISM

     On Monday last, Marshal McDonald brought before the Vigilance Committee two men, named Manchester and Bishop.  About the first of December last, the Vigilance Committee examined two young men who were procuring subscriptions to the American Cyclopædia.  It was charged on them that they had been tampering with slaves.  The Committee not deeming the evidence against them sufficient to authorize summary punishment, they were discharged, with the injunction to leave the State, and to abandon their agency, and inform the publishers or their agents that the book should not be delivered in this county, the Committee at that time thinking they were agents for Appleton's "New American Cyclopædia," which had been condemned by Mr. Pryor, and which was regarded by the Committee as being incendiary in its tendency.
     The two men, Manchester and Bishop, notwithstanding the warning given to Smith and Tilden, undertook to sell them, whereupon they were arrested, and upon examination, a book was found in their possession entitled "Cotton is King," which, after a careful perusal by Dr. W. S. Price, R. S. Wier, and ourself, who were appointed a Committee for that purpose, was reported as being incendiary and of a dangerous character.
     It was further shown in evidence against them, that they had sold and circulated said book in this county and Newton.  After much discussion as to what action the Committee should take in the premises, the vote was taken, when six present voted to turn them over to the authorities, and five voted to treat them to a coat of tar and feathers.  The majority ruling, they were then turned over to R. T. Kennedy, Esq., who committed them to the county jail, to answer at the spring term of our Circuit Court.
     A strong feeling on the part of the citizens to tar and feather them was manifested, and, as for our part, we think that the proper way to deal with such men.  The books were burned in the street. - Enterprise (Miss.) News.

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A CHIVALROUS DEMONSTRATION.

     Albertis Patterson, a citizen of West Finley township, in this county, happened to be at Haineytown, a small village in Virginia, situated near the line that divides that State from this county, on or about the 25th ult., and was accosted by three of the chivalrous citizens of that region, named Seaton, Caldwell and Wherry, and interrogated as to his political opinions.  He replied that he was a Know-Nothing, when his interrogators charged him with being a "Black Republican or Abolitionist," and asked him if he did not sympathize with John Brown.  To this he answered that he was a Republican; and as for John Brown, he "believed that Gov. Wise was as big a fool as he was."  Upon making this declaration, he was violently seized by Seaton and Caldwell, a rope was procured, looped and thrown around his neck, and the desperadoes immediately proceeded to strangle him, which they most unquestionably would have succeeded in doing had it not been for the interference of two men, named Armstrong and Bemer, who happened to be on the street at the time. When Patterson was rescued from his brutal assailants, his face was black from strangulation, and his neck bruised and discolored by the abrasion of the rope.
     The scoundrels, we are sorry to say, escaped unpunished; but should any such demonstrations be made in future by the chivalry of that region, we are assured the ruffians will be hanged to the nearest limb.  They will find that Haineytown is not Charlestown, although both villages are within the jurisdiction of the Old Dominion, where every petty postmaster and country squire is, ex officio, inquisitor of the opinions of his neighbor.  But Haineytown catches some of the healthy breezes of independence from our western boundary, and it is not quite a safe experiment there to choke people to death, even for believing that his late Excellency, Gov. Wise,
is a little weak in the upper story - Washington {Pa.) Tribune.

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     In Charlottesville, Va., a man from the North, named Rood, has been arrested on suspicion, and papers found on him sufficiently important to warrant his imprisonment.

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     TWO YOUNG LADIES DRIVEN OUT OF RICHMOND.    Two intelligent young ladies, formerly well known in the choirs of churches in Boston and Hartford, went to Richmond in September last with a view of establishing a private school.  They soon gained the confidence of many friends, and succeeded in starting an enterprise which gave fair prospect of speedily prospering.  As soon as the recent excitement began, they were waited upon by some very respectable gentlemen, who informed them that Northern school-mistresses, however amiable and competent, were not the proper persons to teach the children of Southern parents and guardians! The ladies were forced immediately to break up their school.  Wishing, on account of their health, to remain in a Southern climate, and hearing of a vacancy in a school in another city in Virginia, they made application and presented their letters.  They received a reply from a clergyman, who wrote to them as follows: -

     "The Board of Trustees met yesterday, and passed upon the various applications, yours among the rest.  I deeply regret to say, that although your recommendations were altogether the most favorable, your proposal was immediately rejected, as soon as the fact became known that you were both from the North.  The feeling is so strong, and the foolish excitement has run so high, on the subject of Northern people, that the community here seem almost blind; and if they continue in their present policy, they will lay themselves upon to severe criticism, if not to censure."

     Accordingly, the ladies, being compelled to leave Richmond, and unable to find a place for the soles of their feet any where else in Virginia, and knowing the uselessness of going further south, too an early train to New York.  One of them still remains in this city, where she is anxious to procure a situation as soprano singer in a choir, or as a teacher of music to private pupils.  Any application sent to her through the office of the Independent, addressed "Richmond," will be immediately forwarded to her.  The name of Mr. Horace Waters, music publisher, is among her references. - New York Independent.

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     PUSHED OFF A RAILROAD CAR.  A passenger on the Mississippi Central Railroad was pushed off the train while it was in full motion, for denouncing Gov. Wise and lauding John Brown.

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     EXPULSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM ARKANSAS.   At the late session of the Arkansas Legislature, an act was passed giving the free negroes of that State the alternative of migrating before January 1st, 1860, or of becoming slaves.  As the time of probation has now expired, while some few individuals have preferred servitude, the great body of the free colored people of Arkansas are on their way northward.  We learn that the upward bound boats are crowded with them, and that Seymour, Ind., on the line of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, affords a temporary home for others. 
     A party of forty, mostly women and children, arrived in this city last evening by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.  They were welcomed by a committee of ten, appointed from the colored people of the city, by whom the refugees were escorted to the Dumas House, on McAllister street, at which place a formal reception was held.  They were assured by the Chairman of the Reception Committee, Peter H. Clark, that if they were industrious and exemplary in their conduct, they would be sure to gain a good livelihood and many friends.  The exiles, as before stated, are mostly women and children, the husbands and fathers being held in servitude.  They report concerning the emigration, that hundreds of the free colored men of Arkansas have left for Kansas, and hundreds more are about to follow. - Cincinnati Gazette, Jan. 4th.

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     TWO HEADS HALF-SHAVEN.  The steamer Huntsville, which arrived in New York from Savannah, on Monday, Dec. 19th, brought several passengers who had been driven away from different parts of the South.  Among them were two gentlemen whose heads were shaved on one side!  They had been exiled from the chivalrous State of South Carolina!  One of the victims avowed his determination speedily to return to execute vengeance on his maltreaters.

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     At Danville, Va., a clerk in the Post Office saw a man throw a letter, which he had just gotten, into the stove, and, on taking it out, found it to be a proposition for running off slaves.  The man was arrested.

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     HOW TWO ORGAN-GRINDERS WERE TARRED AND FEATHERED - We have private intelligence from a friend in Alabama of a case of tar and feathering which is both serious and comical.  Two Italian organ-grinders, who could scarcely speak a word of English, made their way from Mobile into the interior of the State, to earn a livelihood by itinerating with their poor tunes.  After playing in a bar-room in a small town, and gathering all the pennies which Southern generosity was likely to bestow upon such entertainment, they asked to be directed to the next town.  Whereupon, a wag took a piece of paper, and, under pretence of writing down the necessary direction, gave the poor men a fatal letter, somewhat as follows: -

"TO THE KNOWING ONES:
     "Pass my Italian friends.  All right.  Mum's the word.
                         (Signed)      "JOHN BROWN, of Osawatomie."

     The music peddlers, on reaching the net town, faint and weary with the weight of their organs on their backs, went immediately to a tavern, and unwittingly presented their letter of recommendation!  They were at once taken by the whiskey drinkers, stripped, threatened until they were terrified out of their wits, tarred and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail!  Such is Southern chivalry!

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     THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT OUTLAWED.  A correspondent in Texas, who has for years received the Independent, has written to us to stop it, as the continued sending might cost him his business and possibly his neck.  No Northern publications but the New York Herald and the Nassau street Tracts are now considered safe reading on the other side of the line. - New York Independent.

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     NARROWLY ESCAPED LYNCHING.  An Italian grocer, named John Ginochio, narrowly escaped being lynched by the citizens of Petersburg, Va., last Monday, for saying that John Brown was a good and very useful man, and, instead of being hung, he ought to have been made President of the United States.

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     Mr. J. P. Gillespie, of New Albany, Indiana, publishes a card in the Ledger, of that city, in which he explains the circumstances connected with a recent visit which he made to Franklin, La., for the purpose of practising his profession.  On his arrival there, it became noised about that he was an Abolitionist.  A committee waited on him and advised him to leave the place forthwith if he wished to escape lynching.  Mr. G. denied the accusation.  A large crowd assembled around the hotel to carry out the threat, and Mr. G. armed himself and walked out into the crowd, demanding to know the person who made the accusation. Capt, Atkinson was given as the author, who had said that he (Gillespie) had gone into Kentucky, with an armed band of men, to rescue a "nigger" thief by the name of Bell, and that they had carried off some slaves at the game time.  Mr. Gillespie left on the following day on a steamer for Berwick Bay, and then for New Orleans, accompanied by a number of persons from Franklin, who pointed him out as an Abolitionist. Immediately on his arrival at New Orleans, he took passage on an up-river boat.

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     We learn that Rev. George Gandee, Rev. Wm. Kendrick, and Robert Jones, missionaries of the American Missionary Association, in Jackson County, Ky., (Jones, a colporteur,) were recently, near Laurel, where they were preaching, waited upon by a committee of five, and requested to leave.  They were engaged to preach the next morning, but were prevented by a mob, which took them a half mile and interrogated them, then took them five miles further and left them, after shaving their hair and beards, and putting tar on their heads and faces.  Mr. Kendrick was in the Union Theological Seminary of this city last year. - New York Independent.

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     The Sylvania (Georgia) News reports that two book agents were treated  to thirty-nine lashes each, after the style of "Russian executioners," by a planter in that vicinity, recently, because they had visited his plantation and rendered themselves not only disagreeable by their volubility, but suspicious by their conduct.

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LEGISLATION IN MARYLAND

     They have a most iniquitous way of legislating on some subjects in the State of Maryland.  The Committee on Corporations of the House of Delegates recently had an investigation into alleged frauds in the passage of the City Passenger Railway Ordinance of the city of Baltimore.  Among the witnesses was Mr. Jonathan Brock, and he was questioned after the following manner.  We are not able to see exactly what this has to do with railroads, but we suppose the Maryland Legislature could tell: -
     Q. - Will you state whether you have any Black Republican proclivities?  A. - I have not.  I do not belong to that crowd.  Q. - Did you ever know Passmore Williamson?  A. - I do not.  I would not know him, if I saw him.  Q. - You never, of course, engaged in any effort to rescue him from the grasp of the law or from punishment?  A. - No. sir.  Q. - Do you know whether your associates, or any of them, are Black Republicans?  A. - I do not think they are; they are not politicians.  Mr. Grove is an American, and sometimes takes part with the opposition.  Q. - To what party do you belong?  A. - The old line Whig.  I have not meddled with politics since 1844; it would not do well.  I am engaged in business in Florida.  Q. - You mentioned Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania.  What is he; an American, or a Democrat?  A. - A Democrat.  He was Clerk of the Senate.  Q. - No Black Republican?  A. - I don't think he is.  Q. - And none of your people are tainted with it?  A. - They are all Union men.  Q. - It has even been charged that your wife is some connection of Lucretia Mott; did you ever se her?  A. - I have seen her.  Q. - Does she know you?  A. - No. sir.  Q. - Does your wife know her?  A. - She knows her in the street, but she is no connection of hers, and no acquaintance.  Q. - Your road is never used to run off negroes from Baltimore?  A. - No, sir, and never shall.  Q. - Has SIMON CAMERON directly or indirectly any interest in this road?  A. - He has not.  Q. - Is it understood that he is to have any, or his friends?  A. - There is no promise; no understanding.  He is with the other side.  Q. - He and you are not friendly?  A. - No. sir.  Q. - You are antagonistic?

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A. - He is here, endeavoring to get this grant after the passage of it.  Q. - Is the party of which the counsel spoke known as the Black Republican or Republican party?  A. - In some States, it is called the Opposition party.  Q. - When was the last State election in Pennsylvania?  A. - In October.  Q. - Where were you at the time?  A. - I do not recollect whether I was in Pennsylvania, or not.  Q. - Did you vote?  A. - I do not recollect that; I am not positive.  Q. - Who were the candidates for State officers?  A. - I do not know; I took no part in politics.  Q. - Did you vote in 1856?  A. - I did not vote for President, in 1856.  Q. - Have you voted since the party, known as the Republican party, ahs been in existence?  A. - It is not called the Republican party in our State.  Q. - The Opposition, then?  A. - I have.  Q. How did you vote then?  A. - I voted a mixed ticket - for my personal friends - I did not care whether they were Americans or Democrats.  Q. - Have you voted for a Congressman since that time?  A. - I presume I have, but really, I do not know who the candidates were, I tell you plainly.  Q. - If a Democratic Congressman were running, and an Opposition candidate, which one would you vote for?  A. - Whichever was my personal friend.  Q. - Suppose neither was?  A. - I can't tell; I have no decided politics.  Q. - Was, or was not one of your associates elected to the City Council in a Black Republican ward?  A. - I do not know that one was elected.

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     WHITE FAMILIES LEAVING VIRGINIA.  The New York Times says that it has reliable information when it states that in consequence of the Harper's Ferry affair, the heavy property-holders of Virginia begin to see that the subject of slavery is destined to produce interminable strife in that State in the future, and materially decrease the value of property.  Families are accordingly preparing to leave the State; panic pervades all classes of citizens; there is no freedom of speech; suspicion and distrust are abroad; the last resort to check the progress of crime, the jury system has become weak and corrupt; the spirit of religion is dying out, and infidelity taking its place.  The country, according to this representation, is in fact but one degree removed from anarchy.