Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.

AURORA, Illinois, Feb. 15th, 1860.

     With your permission, I will occupy a small space in your paper, as a witness against the tyranny and oppression in the South.  I have resided in Louisiana and Arkansas over ten years, was engaged in teaching, and am an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Since the Harper's Ferry affair, the Southern people have a peculiar hatred against Northern and Eastern people, irrespective of party.
     In January, a spy was sent to me to ascertain my political views, endeavoring to extort from me a confession that "slavery was a social, moral and political blessing," (or sentiments to that amount,) and also to have me enlist in a military company, to be ready "to fight the North, and particularly the Yankees, in the next expected outbreak"; to "be ready to fight for the dissolution of the Union," &c.
     I informed the spy that "I could not, consistently with my convictions of right and wrong," and further, "I would not!" that "I was proud of Yankeedom as the land of my nativity, and that I would sooner die than take up arms against my parents, brothers and sisters."
     Three days after, I was waited upon by a gentleman slaveholder, showing me resolutions, signed by nearly all the planters in that vicinity, resolving themselves into a "Vigilance Committee, for the security of their slaves, pledging themselves one to another to examine every non-slaveholder, and satisfy themselves beyond a doubt of the soundness of every person; and should they find any one of whom they should have the slightest suspicion, they would communicate at once one with another."
     The gentleman then accused me of receiving Abolition literature, saying that a Congregational Herald was found at the post-office addressed to me, and that I had correspondence and associations in the North and East.  This I admitted; also that "I was anti-slavery from the bottom of my heart."  He then notified me "to leave within thirty-six hours; that

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he would protect me that length of time, but he would not promise me my life to be safe any longer."  I consented to leave rather than lose my life.  I was obliged to leave all my property, library and all, not being allowed time to collect my claims or pay my debts, or to talk with any non-slaveholder -
     I have reason to praise God that I am once more free, in a land where the truth is not muzzled, where free discussion is tolerated, and that I have emerged from that savage wilderness where reigns the prince of darkness, whose haunts are commanded by slaveholders and dealers in human flesh, where, as long as life shall last, and I have the power of expression, and as long as I can wield a pen, I shall bear testimony against that debasing system which is oppressing so many millions of our human race.
     Thanks be to God that there is a party in the North, the great Republican party, that great terror to the South, who are riding forth to conquer, whose great moral influence is being felt in all the remotest parts of slavedom.

     FRIGHTENED BY A BLIND GIRL.   The Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer publishes the statement of a blind girl, who was recently expelled from Martinsburgh, Va., on suspicion of being an Abolitionist.  She says:  "Some of the people treated me kindly enough, but the lady of the house insisted that I was an Abolitionist; that coming as I did from Indiana, I was not entitled to belief.  A gentleman came into my room uninvited and questioned me in an impudent manner.  I applied to a minister, who said he would be glad to assist me, but would advise me not to stay during the excitement.  It was in consequence of this that I was compelled to leave."  In addition to this, the conductor of the train upon which the blind lady and her sister arrived, told us, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, that the ladies were not permitted to remain.  He was asked if he knew them, and upon replying that he did not, was told that "they could not stay there."

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     A correspondent of a Richmond paper makes the following offer: -

     "$100,000 REWARD - MESSRS. EDITORS. - I will be one of one hundred gentlemen, who will give twenty-five dollars each for the heads of the following traitors:

     "Henry Wilson, Massachusetts;  Charles Sumner, Massachusetts;  Horace Greeley, New York; John P. Hale, New Hampshire; Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, Brooklyn; Rev. Dr. Cheever, New York; Rev. Mr. Wheelock New Hampshire; Schuyler Colfax, Anson Burlingame, Owen Lovejoy, Amos P. Granger, Edwin B. Morgan, Galusha A. Grow, Joshua R. Giddings, Edward Wade, Calvin C. Chaffee, William H. Kelsey, William A. Howard, Henry Waldron, John Sherman, George W. Palmer, Daniel W. Gooch, Henry L. Dawes, Justin S. Morrill, I. Washburn, Benjamin Stanton, Edward Dodd, C. B. Tompkins, John Covode, Cad. C. Washburn, Samuel G. Andrews, A. B. Olin, Sidney Dean, N. B. Durfee, Emory B. Pottle, DeWitt C. Leach, J. F. Potter, T. Davis, Massachusetts; T. Davis, Iowa; J. F. Farnsworth, C. L. Knapp, R. E. Fenton, Philemon Bliss, Mason W. Tappan, Charles Case, James Pike, Homer E. Boyce, Isaac D. Clawson, A. S. Murray, Robert B. Hall, Valentine B. Horton, Freeman H. Morse, David Kilgore, William Stewart, Samuel B. Curtis, John M. Wood, John M. Parker, Stephen C. Foster, Charles J. Gilman, C. B. Hoard, John Thompson, J. W. Sherman, William D. Braxton, James Buffington, O. B. Matteson, Richard Mott, S. A. Purviance, Francis E. Spinner, Silas M. Isham. Burroughs.  And I  will also be one of one hundred to pay five hundred dollars each ($50,000) for the head of William H. Seward, and would add a similar reward for Fred. Douglass, but regarding him head and shoulders above these traitors, will permit him to remain where he now is.                                "RICHMOND." 

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     An exhibition of wax figures, including the Savior and the Apostles, and John Brown, was burned by a mob at Milton, Florida, recently.

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     EXPULSION OF TWO MECHANICS.   The Lafayette (Ia.) Journal has the following incident: "Two well known citizens of Lafayette, Freeman Patt and Henry Frounfelter, were driven out of Louisiana, a few days ago, on suspicion of entertaining Abolition sentiments.  The two were brickmasons, and had gone there to build a sugar-house for a planter living sixty miles from New Orleans.  After having worked about two weeks, they were waited upon by the planter and informed that their services were no longer required.  They inquired the cause of dismissal, but received no satisfaction, further than a request to leave as soon as possible.  It being near evening, and the steamboat landing about five miles from the plantation, they requested the privilege of remaining until morning, which was refused.  They then proceeded to the landing, escorted by a number of persons armed to the teeth, who waited until a boat came along, when they were hurried on board, and admonished to leave the State, and not return.  The hint was taken, and the two gentlemen arrived here on Wednesday night, thoroughly disgusted with life at the South.

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     A PHILADELPHIA DRUMMER MENACED.

     The Griffin (Ga.) Democrat says:  "A drummer from the house of H. Bancroft & Co., Philadelphia, by the name of Gonnally, insulted a gentleman connected with one of our business houses a few days since, by the use of language not altogether understood, but, interpreted, meant opposition to slavery.  The drummer, finding he had picked up the wrong customer, made an apology satisfactory to the injured party, and thereby escaped a severe flagellation, which he, no doubt, deserved.  Some of these drummers have the impudence of Old Nick.  It will do no harm to watch them all.  Our motto, when one of them insults a Southern man, upon Southern soil, is to show him no mercy, under any circumstances, until he learns to treat with respect the rights and property of those he seeks to make money out of by a regular system of espionage in divers ways.  For ourselves, we are sick and tired of submission in such cases.  One or two examples of the right kind would produce a radical change in a short time.  The 'Q. V. X. Q.'s should be on the look out.  They may have some fun."

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     TREASONABLE LINEN.     We have seen a private correspondence from a Northern gentleman now travelling in the Southern States, which states that a very worthy and quiet mechanic from New England was driven away from a village in Georgia, because his valise contained a clean shirt, wrapped up in a copy of the New York Sun, containing Henry Ward Beecher's sermon on the Harper's Ferry affair.  Whether the Georgians objected to the clean shirt or the paper is not stated; but as the Sun is in the interest of the pro-slavery Democracy, we presume the shirt was the occasion of their anger.  The test of party affiliation appears to be the same at the South as at the North - clean linen being prima facie evidence of Republicanism, and the contrary of Democracy. - Grand Rapids. (Mich.) Eagle.)

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     A TRAP TO CATCH HON. JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS.      A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who has lately visited Richmond, writes from Mayfield, Ky., that while in Kentucky, he learned of a deep-laid scheme to capture J. R. Giddings, for the purpose of trying him for treason, etc., in view of his connection with the Harper's ferry insurgents.  This scheme is founded upon the reward offered recently, anonymously, for the bringing of his person to Virginia.  This amount has been raised for this purpose, and the object will be to seize him and cross the line to Kentucky and Virginia immediately.  The correspondent, who writes anonymously, says further:  "I would have addressed Mr. Giddings directly, but do not know his post-office.  I would advise him to be ever on his guard, and keep as far from the Ohio river aw possible.  I offer no apology for not giving my name, living as I do in the South."

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     A Young man named Baker, formerly an organist and daguerreotypist at Rome, New York, and son of Rev. Mr. Baker, of Utica, was lately driven from Augusta, Georgia. Mr. Baker went to Augusta to take the position of organist in an Episcopal Church, and had played but one Sabbath, when he was warned to leave, or submit to a coat of tar and feathers.

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     SUMMARY LYNCHING AT CHAPPELL'S DEPOT, SOUTH CAROLINA.     A fearful tragedy was enacted at Chappell's Depot, South Carolina, on the morning of February 6th.  It seems that a man calling himself James C. Bungings was observed prowling about the vicinity for several days, having apparently no recognized business to detain him in the place.  The Vigilance Committee watched his movements closely.
     He was finally tracked, on Sunday night (the 5th), and the Committee, being satisfied of his evil intentions, arrested him and upon examination, found any quantity of papers, showing that he was one of Brown's associates, with a commission to go into all the South, with a view of corrupting the minds of the negroes to make as many converts as possible to the Abolition faith, and to induce as many negroes as possible to decamp for the North.
     The evidence was deemed sufficient, and he was taken into custody and detained for the night.  In the morning, he was led forth in front of Chappell's Railroad Depot, and told to prepare for immediate execution.  There were about fifty persons present, but not one voice was raised to save him from his terrible doom.
     After offering up a long prayer, the wretched man asked to see a clergyman, but there being none present, he called on God to forgive the Vigilance Committee, if they were in error; or if he was the one who erred, to have mercy on his soul.
     He was then mounted on a ladder, a rope with a slip-knot put round his neck, the other end of which was drawn over the limb of a tree.  At nine o'clock, A. M., the ladder was knocked from under him, his neck was broken, and in a few minutes he was dead!  The body was left hanging to the tree until twelve o'clock, the time at which the passenger train is due from Columbia.  It was then cut down, and the mortal remains of James C. Bungings were given to the medical students for dissection.

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     The Rockville (Md.) Journal says that a man was arrested near the Great Falls, in that county, on Wednesday last, for the expression of a feeling of sympathy with the late rebellion at Harper's Ferry.  He is now in the county jail.

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     A SOUTHERN OUTRAGE.     A German peddler, named Moses Schlosstein, well known in this place, and who has pursued his business in this region, was the victim recently of a gross outrage in Georgia.  He was selling his wares in Merriweather, one of the western counties of the  State, about sixteen miles from Greenville, the county seat.  He was passing a blacksmith shop, where there was a crowd gathered, and saluted them politely, as traders generally do.  But the "non-intercourse" fever forbade them to reciprocate the civility.  They seized him, and proceeded to beat him unmercifully.  This assault was an outburst of chivalrous feeling, and then , feigning a suspicion of his having "incendiary documents" in his possession, they followed and caught him again.  With their knives, they ripped open his pack, cutting his goods to pieces; they then stripped him, beat him outrageously, and left him insensible.  When he returned to consciousness, he found that he was cut about the face and body, and that the thumb of the right hand was broken.  He gathered together his ruined goods, and fortunately found a fearless and hospitable man, who kept him ten days, when he was able to travel.  He is now staying with Mr. Myerson, his relative, in this place.  Mr. Schlosstein has been in the habit of voting the Democratic ticket, but he thinks the treatment he has received from his brother Democrats has about induced him to change his mind in that regard - Norristown Herald.

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     It will be remembered that we published, some weeks since, an account of the sacking of the house of John C. Underwood, of Clarke County, Va., and the assault and wounding with a bayonet of one of the women of that neighborhood, who resisted the entrance of the brutal soldiery into her house, and was thus disabled, in defence of herself and daughters from the licentious and drunken forces of Gov. Wise, in the absence of her husband.  We now learn that this woman was the wife of Martin Feltner, a tenant of Mr. Underwood, a most worthy member of the Methodist Church, and the mother of fourteen living children - ten sons and four daughters.  We are glad to learn that a contribution is to be made by our citizens as a testimonial to her courage and virtue. - New York Tribune.

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     ANOTHER OUTRAGE.     Mr. David Fuld, clothing dealer, of West Chester, having a claim to collect in Warwick, Cecil county, Md., went down, taking a free colored man, David, along as a carriage driver, when an excited crowd gathered about the house, exclaiming, "Hang the d__d northern nigger," "shoot him," "fine him $150," "fine him $500," and other expressions peculiar to that latitude.  A "squire" was in the crowd, and informed Mr. Fuld that the legal fine was 420, and the costs 25 cents.  (As no warrant was issued, we suppose this was for the use of the mob.)  Mr. Fuld paid the fine, and took a receipt, which the constable endorsed good for five days for the "negro." But his prompt payment seemed to annoy them.  They used abusive and insulting language, and swore he should not take the "nigger"  back to Pennsylvania.  One man offered him $800 for the negro, and he was told that he had better take that than nothing, for he would have to go home without him.  Some one suggested that it would be safest to leave, when Mr. F. and his man left, without finishing his business, and returned to Pennsylvania with exalted notions of our "ga-lo-rious"  Union! - Norristown (Pa.) Republican.

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     METHODISM DANGEROUS IN KENTUCKY.     It appears by the Cynthiana News, that the members of the Methodist Church, North, in Kentucky, are considered dangerous members of society.  The News calls the Conference which is to meet at Germantown, Ky., on the 8th of March, Bishop Simpson to preside, an "Abolition Conference," and quotes a denunciation of the Fugitive Slave Law from the Western Christian Advocate, when Bishop Simpson was the editor, as evidence that he is a dangerous man, at the head of a dangerous abolition association!
     The Methodist Episcopal Church North has an Annual Conference in Kentucky, with 24 travelling preachers from Ohio, according to the News, and 31 local preachers, and 2,496 laymen, scattered along the Ohio river, from one end of the State to the other.  The News insists that slaveholders should desist from driving out such small fry as Fee & Co., until they can manage "one of the most powerful abolition associations in the world, in our midst!"  What next?

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     A few days ago, two or three gentlemen from Philadelphia took a jaunt to the home and grave of the father of his country, and were studiously watched, as if they had come armed with fire and sword, or as if they were resolved to poison the entire State.  On their return, having purchased three canes cut from the homestead of Washington, which they had wrapped in a blanket shawl, they soon discovered that they had become objects of suspicion, and it became necessary for them to explain that they carried no deadly weapons.  Bear in mind that the large Mount Vernon fund has been begged principally out of the North.

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     GEORGIA.  The Legislature of Georgia has passed a law, making it unlawful hereafter for any itinerant person or persons to vend or sell in that State any article of value, not manufactured in Georgia, by sample or otherwise, without a license.  The license is "one hundred dollars, or other sum, at the discretion of the Inferior Court of the county" in which the peddling or sales are made.  An additional tax of one per cent, on one hundred dollars sold is imposed.  The penalty is fine and imprisonment.
     A law has also been passed providing that free negroes, wandering or strolling about, or leading an idle, immoral, or profligate course of life, shall be sold into slavery for a period not exceeding two years for the first offence; but upon conviction of a second offence, they must be sold into perpetual slavery.

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     The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, of Tuesday last, says: -
" Last Saturday, we devoted to the flames a large number of copies of Spurgeon's Sermons, and the pile was graced at the top with a copy of 'Graves's Great Iron Wheel,' which a Baptist friend presented for the purpose.  We trust that the works of the greasy cockney vociferator may receive the same treatment throughout the South.  And if the Parisaical author should ever show himself in these parts, we trust that a stout cord may speedily find its way around his eloquent throat.  He has proved himself a dirty, low-bred slanderer, and ought to be treated accordingly.

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     THE METHODIST PREACHER DRIVEN FROM HIS WORK.  Benjamin Brown, a colored Methodist preacher, sent by the Conference to labor among the colored people of Milford and Slaughter Neck, was arrested, on Friday last, at the instigation of some of the citizens of Slaughter Neck, for being a non-resident.  He was taken before Esq. Revill who was compelled by the law to fine him fifty dollars.  He was also ordered to leave the State in five days, or again be subject to fine and imprisonment.  It seems, that besides preaching on the Sabbath, he had opened a school, in which free colored children, in great numbers, were learning to read and write; and this excited the opposition that was manifested in enforcing an inhuman law.  The preacher is said to be a quiet, peaceable man.  His work among the free negroes of this vicinity was elevating and improving them; but to this many white men are opposed, never seeming, while they abuse the negroes for their immoral and vicious practices, to consider that it is their ignorance and degradation that make them so, and to remove which, intelligence and moral elevation is absolutely necessary.  Ignorance is the mother of vice, and knowledge is the father of virtue, among all classes of men.
     Many of our citizens have since signed a petition to the Judge for this county, for a permit to allow Brown to remain and attend to the duties to which he has been assigned by Bishop Scott; but the Judge has not yet granted it.  Brown was ordained a deacon in the church by Bishop Waugh, late of Baltimore, and to Elder's orders by Bishop Baker.  A son of Brown was also engaged in teaching in Milford, but on receiving notification, he left the town, and probably the State.
     "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." - News and Advertiser, Delaware.

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     A correspondent of the Missouri Republican says that F. P. Blair was near being arrested by the gensdarmes of Virginia, while eating his dinner at Martinsburg.  He was let off, he adds, on giving assurances that he was going to Washington as fast as the locomotive would carry him.

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     A NEW TEST.     The Galena (Ill.) Advertiser states that a former resident of that city, a bricklayer, had just returned from Mississippi, where he had found employment at his trade, under the following circumstances.  He determined, when settled at the South, to keep his own council with regard to his views upon slavery.  Acting upon this course, he managed to glide along smoothly for some time, without molestation.  At last, a new test was applied to his "sympathies:"

     "One rainy day, when the hands were detained in the house, a slave having failed to build as good a fire from green wood as the overseer wanted, the slave was ordered to be thrown down by the latter, and to receive one hundred and fifty lashes, as a punishment.  As there was but one room for shelter, our friend was compelled to stand by and see the inhuman cruelty inflicted, or go out and stand in the rain.  He promptly chose the latter and at the end of half or three-quarters of an hour, came in, drenching wet.  He was met by a laugh, and a remark by the overseer, that perhaps he did 'not like to see such fun.'  His only reply was, that he did not, and nothing more was said on the subject.  The next day, a saddled horse was brought up to the door, and he was informed that he could leave that part of the country.  He was informed that he could ride into Natchez, and leave the horse and saddle at a particular livery stable.  With true British pluck, he refused the service of the animal, and walked to Natchez on foot, and soon made his way back to Galena."

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     A young lady from one of the hill towns of Massachusetts is now teaching in Virginia.  After the John Brown affair, notice was given out that she could not have any of her letters from the post-office, until they had been opened and read, in the presence of witnesses, to see if they contained any "incendiary matter."  She immediately went to the office, and demanded that her letters should be delivered to her unopened.  The Postmaster looked at her a moment, saw that she meant what she said, and delivered her letters to her.  She still remains there teaching, unmolested, but says that all that saves her from a coat of tar and feathers is the fact that she is a woman.

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     MR. WALTER, - As it is two days' journey (sometimes) from this to old Chester, and as long back again, how does it happen that you have beaten all of the four newspapers here, and furnished the Athenians with an account of some of their own doings, before they could tell it themselves?  not to speak of giving such fresh news to the benighted "aboriginees" just outside, where your paper circulates pretty extensively.  I leave this for you to answer at leisure.
     A gentleman who left New Orleans in December, told me, a few days ago, that in coming up the great river on a steamboat, they picked up a man who has been a school-teacher, at a certain place in Kansas, for six years past.  He had been kindly placed on a log, (to save his life, of course,) and was comfortably furnished with clothing suited to the times, namely, a close-fitting jacket and pants of a dark material you rarely hear of in that direction, and a well-wadded overcoat of that article sometimes treated of in works on ornithology - I like to be brief.  His friends had been thus thoughtful to reward him for his sincere endeavors to teach the dark skins how to read and write, as well as in consideration of his six years' faithful services.  This gentleman also stated that in passing the mayor's office in Macon, Georgia, he saw about a dozen rails, cushioned at the ends and sharpened in the middle, ready for use at the shortest notice, one with the mayor's mark upon it - doubtless a two-edged one.  but enough - as I want to go South some day, I had better close here.  M.

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     WHOLESALE PROSCRIPTION.  In the Oxford (Miss.) Mercury, of last week, we find the following: -
     "We believe that if the excitement gets mush higher, all Northern-born people, of whatever grade, standing, or time they have been living here, will be forced to leave.  They never can hope to be considered or treated in the social circle here with the respect once shown to all people of respectability.  An Englishman, or any foreign gentleman, is now more highly respected by the people of the South than a Yankee."

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     ANOTHER EXPULSION FROM KENTUCKY.  Mr. D. B. Hamilton, of Trumbull county, removed from Ohio to Kentucky, last October, for the purpose of keeping school.  He received the Western Reserve Chronicle regularly, and the New York Tribune occasionally.  Mr. H. was in Medina on Thursday, having been driven out of Kentucky by the pro-slavery mobites, for a high misdemeanor, thus related by the Gazette: -

     "He, on one occasion, took the New York Tribune in his pocket into the school room, and laid it on his desk, and some of the larger scholars seeing the paper in the school room, informed the citizens of the fact.  The result was, that Mr. H. was arrested and tried, for introducing incendiary reading matter into the public schools, fined one hundred and fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, and warned to leave the State immediately.  They kept his wages back to pay his fine, and drove him off with one dollar in his pocket, leaving his wife and children behind, not having the means to take them with him.  Mr. H. is now on his way to Trumbull county, to raise the means to send for his family.  He has walked all the way from Kentucky, near five hundred miles, and came into our town pretty badly used up.  It is not necessary to make any comments of any kind on such proceedings, but they will show the freemen of the North what their rights are, and how much they are respected by the men-drivers of the southern part of this great republic."

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     TWO DAYS TO LEAVE THE STATE.  An Abolitionist in Clayton, Alabama, was brought before a meeting of the citizens, whose sentence was to array him in tar and feathers, and then ride him on a rail around the town.  The resolution was carried into effect, and the Abolitionist was ordered to leave the State within two days.

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     A correspondent of a Charleston (S. C.) paper is highly indignant at what he calls "a clear case of impertinence," viz.: A Yankee peddler canvassing that city "with the Constitution of the United States in bronze, with gilt frame!"  It is not the market for any such document as that.

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     ARREST OF A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER IN CHARLESTOWN, VIRGINIA.  A man, who gives the name of Otis, and claims to hail from the town of Yonkers, New York.  was arrested on Saturday, under suspicious circumstances.  He made his appearance in the town at a late hour on Friday evening, and put up at the Carter House, and on Saturday he called on Rev. Mr. Waugh with a letter of introduction, which not  being satisfactory to the reverend gentleman, he handed him over to the Mayor of the town, who had him placed under guard in one of the rooms of the hotel, where he still remains,  but will probably be "shipped" to-day.  He has made a variety of statements, one of which is that he had been in Washington on business, and wishing to be present at the execution, left Alexandria for Leesburg, Va., and from that place he came here in a buggy; that he came through curiosity alone, having determined not to discuss the subject of slavery while here.  He also says he was not aware that the Union had  been dissolved, and was under the impression that he was still in the United States, until he reached this town.  Whilst conversing with the guard in relation to the hanging of Brown, he burst into a flood of tears, and on being asked the cause of his grief, he said he had lost his father a few months ago.  In appearance and conversation, he is very gentlemanly, and bears up under his confinement with patience.

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     MEN OF BUSINESS OBLIGED TO ABANDON THEIR BUSINESS. - Washington, Dec. 8th.  Thirty-two9 gentlemen, agents of New York and Boston houses, arrived here to-day from the South, and report the feeling of indignation so great against Northerners, that they were compelled to return and abandon their business.  These gentlemen have  been known for years as traders in the South.  They also report that Northerners of long residence in the South have been disfigured, and driven from their homes.
     Eleven business men who were on their way South returned last night, after having reached a station in Virginia, being turned back by a Vigilance Committee.  They say the feeling in six of the States through which they have passed is very intense against the North, and against the continuance of the Union.

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     THE WAY ABOLITION EMISSARIES ARE TREATED IN SOUTH-WESTERN VIRGINIA.  A philanthropic pilgrim from the land of wooden nutmegs, supposed to be an agent of some Abolition Aid Society or underground railroad, was arrested the other day in the neighboring county of Pulaski, and dealt with in the most summary manner by his captors; one of the most influential and worthy citizens of the county acting as judge, jury, and executioner.  After ordering him to be hung by the neck, he very coolly proceeded to execute the sentence.  Having hung him up until the "vital spark" was nearly extinct, he cut him down and gave him a breathing spell.  When sufficiently restored to undergo another swinging, he was again haltered, and suspended for a few moments.  After having undergone this process five times (once each for old Brown, Coppick, Cook, Stevens, and Hazlett,) he was kindly permitted to retrace his steps to a more congenial clime, but not until he had been fairly admonished that if ever caught in Virginia again, he would have to take the sixth and fatal leap.  It is said by those who witnessed the whole proceeding, that when the fellow got loose, he ran like a quarter nag. - Wytheville (Va.) Telegraph.

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     A MAN INDICTED FOR EXPRESSING SYMPATHY WITH BROWN. - The Grand Jury of Norfolk, Va., have found a true bill on an indictment against S. Daneburg, who keeps a clothing and shoe store in that city, for seditious language, calculated to incite insurrection.  The Day Book says: -

     "The first count charged him with having used the words, 'John Brown was a good man, and was fighting in a good cause, and did nothing but what any honest man would do.' And the second count charged that he had used the following expressions:  'John Brown was fighting in a good cause,' (meaning that he was fighting in the cause of the slave against the master,) 'and that owners have no right of property in their slaves'; and said that "Brown did nothing but what any other honest man would do.'  Daneburg left the city a few days ago, having an intimation that he had got himself into trouble.  His cause will come on early in the present term of the Superior Court, now in session.

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     A CONSERVATIVE MINISTER DRIVEN FROM NORTH CAROLINA.  The Rev. B. C. Smith, of Prattsburgh, is sojourning temporarily in the "Old North State," having the double object in view of benefitting his health, and laboring in his calling with such ability as is left to him.  He went out under the auspices of the Southern Aid Society, after having correspondence with a prominent public functionary of North Carolina.  At Washington he was warmly welcomed by Hon. John A. Gilmer, of that State, and furnished with kindly passports to the confidence of that gentleman's family and friends.  He carries with him the earnest hope of troops of friends that the mild Southern skies may be beneficial to him, and that there, as here, he may have strength to proclaim those essential doctrines of Christianity which he so well understands, and which alone constitute "the glorious Gospel of the blessed God."

     We copy the above from the last Advocate.  Before its publication, the Rev. B. C. Smith had returned from the "Old North State," without "having proclaimed" to its citizens "those essential doctrines of Christianity which he so well understands," and without having materially benefitted his health.  Notwithstanding he went thither under the auspices of the Southern Aid Society, and with "passports" from Hon. John A. Gilmer, the fact that he had breathed the air of freedom was an insuperable objection, and he was not allowed to enter a pulpit.  Learning that a Methodist brother was in "durance vile" across the way, on suspicion of entertaining anti-slavery sentiments, the Rev. B. C. Smith bade adieu to "mild Southern skies," and returned to his Northern home.  Mr. Smith was regarded here by a portion of his congregation as "pro-slavery," and would have been the last man in the world to give offence to the advocates of the peculiar institution, but he has retuned the victim of, if not a firm believer in, the "irrepressible conflict." - Northern Christian Advocate.

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     A suspicious man is in jail at Union, Monroe Co., Virginia.  He has but one arm, sais he is from Baltimore, and that his name is Nicholas Mitchell.

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     THE VIRGINIA FRIGHT.     The panic has seized all classes of the people, and most exaggerated reports are in circulation.  Some think that hordes of Northerners are on their way to invade the State which has given birth to Presidents and statesmen.  Petersburg has been divided into patrol districts, and fines of $25 and $50 are to be imposed upon those who disobey orders to perform patrol duty whenever Major Davenport, the officer left to protect the city, may call for their services.  Seven men each from eight companies were on patrol duty last night, and a special detachment was sent to guard the powder magazine on the other side of the river Appomatox.  These warlike preparations are, of course, a serious interruption to all business in the city, and the suspicions which are excited by them contribute to the same result.
     If five or six negroes are seen talking together, they are Speedily magnified by rumor into a hundred, armed with pitchforks and scythe blades.  Beggars are arrested and put into jail, and strangers, if they happen to be poorly dressed, are accosted by the police and examined.  Two of this class, who were found a night or two ago, had in their possession a tin cup and a whiskey-flask, with a little spirits in it, supposed to be of Northern manufacture, an old jack-knife, and a piece of string.  They were ordered to leave the city immediately but before they had time to comply with the injunction, they were again taken into custody.  — Letter from Petersburg, Va

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     In North Carolina, Rev. Alfred Vestal has been forced to leave his work, by the spirit of violence which has recently broken out there.  He is now in Indiana.  A Christian sister in North Carolina writes that the immediate cause of his leaving was his having learned that warrants for his arrest, on charges similar to those against Mr. Worth, were issued, both in Randolph and Guilford counties.

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     Vigilance Committees are being organized in every county town and village of the Commonwealth.  The following preamble and resolutions, adopted at a highly respectable meeting of the citizens of the counties of Madison and Culpepper, held recently at a place called Locust Dale, will suffice to show the object of these Vigilance Committees.  The sentiments they express may be esteemed a fair index of those uttered at meetings held elsewhere for a similar purpose, and, in fact, of the general sentiment of the State: —

     Whereas, in view of the present troubled state of the times, and the outrageous inroad made upon our peace and happiness by recent occurrences in our midst, and in view of the fact that we have reason to believe that our country is traversed throughout its whole extent by Abolition emissaries in the guise of peddlers and venders of patent rights, quack nostrums, &c., we, a part of the citizens of Madison and Culpepper, deem it a duty to ourselves, to the welfare of our country, and more especially to the protection of our peculiar institutions, to adopt the following resolutions, to wit: -
     1. That a Vigilance Committee be appointed, whose duty it shall be to examine all suspicious persons who cannot give a satisfactory account of themselves, and to dispose of said persons as may seem to them to be expedient.
     2. That it be considered the duty of each member of this meeting to exercise the utmost vigilance in arresting every individual of suspicious character, and in handing him over to the Vigilance Committee, and that every citizen be requested to co-operate with them.  A third resolution, naming twenty-six gentlemen as a Vigilance Committee, was then adopted.

     A similar meeting was held in Luray, Page county, and a Vigilance Committee, consisting of thirty-two, appointed for the same purpose.  Meetings have also been held in Rockingham,, Shenandoah, Orange, and several other counties, each of which has organized its Vigilance Committee.  Volunteer companies are also being rapidly organized in every town and village of the State - Virginia correspondent of New York Herald.

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     PERSONAL.  Several Cincinnati ladies were travelling down the Mississippi, and while the steamer was letting off freight at a station, went ashore for a walk.  Dr. Horton, the owner of the plantation sent a negro to order them off, to which they paid no attention, when the chivalric Doctor himself informed the ladies that he "didn't want people, male and female, from so abolition a hole as Cincinnati, prowling about his premises."  The ladies retired.

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     First be sure of public opinion before you express your own in a free country!  Because he did not keep this sound maxim in mind, Mr. T. A. Salvo has had his head shaved gratis on one side, been treated to a coat of tar and feathers, ridden on a rail, and compelled to listen to a lecture.  All this happened at Hamburg - not in Germany, for they are not enlightened there, but in - South Carolina.  Mr. Salvo's offence was his expression of the opinion that slavery was not a good thing.  Strong as were the arguments made use of to convince him of his error, we doubt if his sentiments have undergone any change.  What a terrible cry there would be if a Palmetto man should be tarred and feathered in Massachusetts for saying slavery is a good thing!  Yet the deed would be in no respect different from what has just been done in South Carolina, because a man said he thought slavery was not a good thing. - Boston Traveller.

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     A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, writing from Blackville, in that State, after narrating the circumstance connected with the tarring of Salvo, says: "On the 14th, we sent off a foot-traveller, who was passing through the country with an air-gun, a dice-box, and some stereoscopic views and last night we started back to Charleston a man named Jones, who came here with his wife direct from Vermont, for the professed purpose of taking ambrotypes.  Having no use for such vagabond characters, when they hail from Abolition territory, we advise them to keep away."

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     Two persons, whose presence was considered undesirable on account of Abolitionism, were ridden on a rail at Kingstree, South Carolina, not long since.   One was an old man, and the other a young man of good personal appearance.  They were carried about the village, borne by negroes, and compelled to sing while travelling in this manner.  They were then turned loose.  They took the noon train for Charleston, but the other passengers refusing to ride with them, they were put out of the cars at St. Stephen's station.

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     MORE INCENDIARISM.  The States and Union keeps up its vile and incendiary appeals against this office, in its issue of Monday, as follows: -

     "The police should have a scrutinizing eye on all suspicious, evil-looking persons who may take shelter in the city.  The railroad depot should be closely observed.  The incendiary printing offices should be closely watched.  The 'devil's den,' or Black Republican Association Lodge, should not escape attention.
     "If Black Republicanism had in its service John Brown, who risked so much upon an expedition to take Harper's Ferry, what may not be undertaken with such shelter as may be afforded by the league of Black-Brown spirits who infest this community?  The price of public security, like that of public liberty, is eternal vigilance."  - National Era, Wash.

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     AN ABOLITIONIST CAUGHT IN ALABAMA.  We heard on Saturday that an Abolitionist emissary had been detected at Prattville, in Autauga County, on the previous day, and rather summarily dealt with by the citizens of that village.  He was immediately arrested and put upon his trial, which resulted in his being bound over in the sum of $10,000.  It is stated that this fellow had in his possession several letters from some of Brown's men in the North, relative to the plans of that infamous band of rebellionists, and containing advice as to how he should act - what point to fix upon as headquarters, &c. &c.  He was first arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of McCrabb, and, on examination, these incendiary documents were found about his person.  We hope to be able to give full particulars of this affair in our issue of Tuesday.  The plot, indeed, seems to thicken. - Montgomery Advertiser, Nov. 28th.

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     The Warrentown (Va.) Flag, having been informed that over twenty copies of the New York Tribune are taken at the post-offices of Prince William county, suggests that those receiving them should not only be presented before the Grand Jury and fined heavily, but dealt with even more severely.

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     SENT AWAY.     No less than four men, suspected of being Abolition emissaries, were arrested in our city on Friday and Saturday, examined before a committee appointed by the citizens, and finally discharged, with an injunction to leave, with their faces turned Northward - which injunction they seemed to obey, not only readily, but thankfully.  We understand that there was no strong, positive evidence of very improper conduct on the part of any of them, and, therefore, we refrain from giving a description of them.  It is best for all transient Northern men to have a known and honest business when they come South just now, and we do not condemn the disposition to expel them if they cannot exhibit such "credentials;" nevertheless, we trust that the people of this and every other Southern community will continue to act coolly and cautiously - that they will not inflict personal violence without sufficient proof that it is deserved -  Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer.

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     Arkansas has been extending her pro-slavery courteous hospitalities to a Democratic citizen of Clark county, Ohio, who was on a visit to that State, in connection with the sale of fruit trees.  He registered himself at Napoleon from Springfield, Ohio.  This was enough to excite suspicion.  The mob gathered, he exhibited letters from prominent Democrats of Ohio, among them Hon. W. S. Groesbeck, but these, and his tree talk, were no go.  His credentials were returned, he was escorted to the boat, and the nursery agent hurried up the Mississippi as a "d__d abolitionist!"

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     Mr. Ashley, a Republican member of Congress from Ohio, went to Charlestown, Va., and witnessed the execution of John Brown.  Some hours before the execution, he was discovered to be a spy, and he plainly avowed himself to the crowd to be a Republican member of Congress.  His intrepidity alone saved his life.  He was insulted, his life was threatened a hundred times, but by cool bearing, he put his panic-stricken foes to shame, and they did not venture to attack him.

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     THE "IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT"     A TWO-EDGED SWORD. - The South is laying about with its anti-abolition weapons with such blind fury that friends as well as foes are struck down.  An incident illustrative of this recently occurred at Columbus, Mississippi.  The agent of a Northern mercantile house visiting the city was suspected of being an Abolitionist in disguise, and having left town for a day or two, Mr. James Blair searched his trunk for proof of his treasonable character.  He found, on opening the trunk, a copy of a letter to a friend, which commenced by saving that it was "all right with him and the Brown family;" then Mr. Blair's excitement was reported to have been very great, and he threw down the letter, confident that he had detected treason.
     A bystander picked up the letter, and upon a further perusal, discovered that the "Brown family" in question was not that of Osawatomie, but was the family of old Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who had a certain daughter that had captivated the unfortunate drummer; then followed an over hauling of the correspondence of the unfortunate swain, which resulted in some very interesting developments in the way of soft sentiments.  At this juncture of affairs, Dr. Shepherd came up, and pronounced the procedure an outrage; Mr. Blair replied with a curse, saying that if he took sides with the Northern agents, he was no better than one of them.  Shepherd then told him that he would have to answer for his remarks, or something to that effect, and, arming himself with a walking-stick, for a day or two was on the watch for Blair to show himself in the streets.  that individual, however, kept out of the way until the second night after the words were passed, when they met, and Shepherd commenced caning Blair, whereupon Blair drew a pistol, and shot him three times, Shepherd continuing to cane him until he fell dead.  Thus was the Doctor's life sacrificed to a blind rage against Abolitionists.  Dr. Shepherd formerly resided in Texas, and held the position of Secretary of the Navy under Gen. Houston, in the time of the Texan Republic.  He was the special friend of Commodore Moore, of the Texan Navy.

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     Two alleged abolitionists have been arrested in Mobile, Alabama, and compelled to give bonds or leave the State.

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     MORE ARRESTS AND EXPULSIONS.    The Charleston Mercury, of the 17th ult., says that a man, supposed to be an Abolitionist, of dark complexion, with black hair and a scar over the left eye, about five feet eleven inches in height, and calling himself James W. Rivers, was taken up on the 13th by the Vigilance Committee, tarred and feathered, and the right side of his head shaven.
     We learn that two men arrived in this city yesterday morning, having been dismissed from Sumter.  Confidence in the honesty of their intentions, and feeling innocent of any misdemeanor, they will endeavor to regain their residence at Sumter.
     During last week, a few young men, in a frolicking spirit, agreed to play Vigilance Committee, and cause the first man they should meet to give a strict account of himself.  They had not proceeded far ere they met a Charleston gentleman, who, surmising that nothing but sport was at the bottom of it, submitted to their catechism, and told them distinctly that he was a South Carolinian and a Charlestonian.  One of the self-constituted Vigilants, in the pride of his position hinted that the matter might be all right; but that an unprejudiced evidence, other than the examined gentleman, was necessary to satisfy him.  This was too much, even for the good nature of the impressed gentleman, who squared off, and, by a well-directed blow, landed his persistent examiner in the middle of the street.  As his comrades picked him up, he exclaimed, "I reckon he's a Southerner; let's go along!"  This was the end of that Vigilance Committee.

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     Itinerant teachers, peddlers, drummers, &c., are so numerous in Frederick County, Md., that the people fear a second Harper's Ferry affair, and have set a watch over the barracks, where seven hundred stand of arms are deposited, lest they should be broken into to taken possession of.

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     In South Easton, Pa., on the 22d of February, an itinerant peddler of the "Life of John Brown" was treated to a dozen lashes on the back, and ordered out of town!

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     ANOTHER MECHANIC DRIVEN FROM THE SOUTH.     Mr. Perley Seaver of Oxford, a year ago last May, went to South Carolina to superintend a steam saw mill, his employer also being an Oxford man.  By industry and economy, he accumulated sufficient funds to purchase a house, and he thought himself settled for life.  Mr. Seaver, says the Worcester (Mass.) Transcript, was a quiet, religious man, and as there was no preaching or other religious exercises in the place he was wont to call his neighbors together on the Sabbath to read the Bible and hear a sermon.  A rumor got round the village that "Seaver preached Abolition sermons," but nothing was done about it until Saturday night, Christmas Eve.  At 1 o'clock in the morning, he was waited upon by a large delegation, who, after ransacking his papers and books, and obtaining from him an admission that five negroes had attended his meetings - how many whites attended is not stated - ordered him to leave within twenty days.  Seaver offered to go at once if they would buy his place, but this they refused, and he came away within the specified time, finding it impossible to dispose of his property.

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     ARREST OF SUSPECTED EMISSARIES.  A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Rockville, Md., under the date of Nov. 25, says: -

     "We have one of Brown's sympathizers with us, a man calling himself Wm. McDougal, or Dougal.  He was committed to our jail on the 23d inst., and had a second hearing on the 24th, before Squire Braddock, of our town, after which he was recommitted, for uttering sympathy sentiments for 'Old Brown.'  The language used was that he thought Brown was doing right, and that he ought to free every negro in the South.  He says he was born in Franklin County, Pa., but for the last twelve or fifteen years, has been working in Maryland and Virginia.  His wife and child are in Cumberland, Maryland, and his brothers and sisters live in Monroe county, Ohio.  He says he had no idea of doing any harm in saying what he did.  He was arrested on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, near Seneca.  I suppose he is about 30 or 35 years of age, about 5 feet, 6 or 7 inches high, and not very stoutly made.          B."

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     ANOTHER ALARM - TORPEDOES DISCOVERED.     The Richmond Enquirer reports another important discovery: -

     "Among the thousand rumors which we have heard daily of revengeful acts, as being in contemplation by the hardened sinners, the friends, admirers and abettors of Old Brown and Company, is the following;
     "When all chances for making a successful rescue fail the Abolitionists, they will strive to get satisfaction for the deaths of the miserable beings at Charlestown by sending parcels of death-dealing and explosive materials to the most prominent parties in Virginia, who were in favor of the letter of the law being strictly carried out in regard to the condemned prisoners.
     "These 'torpedoes," or infernal machines,' are generally made up in most deceptive packages, and labelled so as to prevent all suspicion of danger on the part of the receiver.  the latter naturally undoes the package in a hurry, and, in pulling off the lid or cover, starts some concealed spring, or other igniting contrivance, and the whole affair explodes, with the sound and fury of a bomb-shell, dealing death and destruction around.
     "Such a killing conception is truly worthy of the demons who would lend money, means and succor, to incite our Southern slaves to rise in rebellion, with midnight dagger, poison with our wives and children!"

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     SENT OFF.     We learn from a gentleman just arrived from Unionville, that the citizens of that place are exercising a commendable vigilance with regard to suspicious characters among them.  At a meeting of the Town Council, on Wednesday last, three persons, whose movements have been regarded with some suspicion, were ordered to leave the place, within twenty-four hours, or be dealt with summarily.  Our informant states that they complied with the order immediately, without even bidding their landlord adieu.

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     A FULMINATION FROM VIRGINIA.  The Richmond Whig publishes the following amiable exhortation: -

BUCKINGHAM, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1859.         

     TO THE EDITOR OF THE WHIG: - In yesterday's Whig, I notice a paragraph, about eight lines in length, which I do think is worth all that I have seen about Harper's Ferry altogether.  You have hit the nail exactly on the head!  The article is headed "Abolition Emissaries," and the part which pleases us most is this.

     "The truth is, we have no longer any use for the vagabond tourists or itinerant peddlers, of unknown characters, who have heretofore found free course among us.  And it becomes our citizens to hold all such to account."

     Now, that's sense.  Them's my sentiments, and I go in for getting rid of the whole crew.  A plague upon their whole mas!  Don't encourage them; don't buy any thing from them, of every description, style, caste and color.  If they don't leave, why, starve them out!  Any thing, any way to get rid of them.  Amen!

A SUBSCRIBER           

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     Two young men (brothers) took letters from _____ _____, a noted Democrat of Woodstock, Connecticut, to Governor Letcher, of Virginia, stating that they were all right, i. e., "sound on the goose" in regard to slavery.  But, (mark this!) they were mechanics - carpenters - and, of course, "had no rights that slaveholders were bound to respect"; consequently, they were watched in words and actions.  One day, some of the butterfly troops of Virginia were on parade, and a remark was made by one of the brothers that they were a fine-looking set of men!  The other replied, Yes, they were; but twenty Yankees would drive them all into the swamp; which observation was overheard by a slaveholder, who instantly had the mob upon them, and they barely escaped with their lives, glad to get home to old Woodstock - changed in their views in regard to the peculiar institution and Democracy. -  Correspondent of the Boston Liberator.

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     TWO TRENTON MECHANICS DRIVEN FROM VIRGINIA.  Two tinsmiths of Trenton, who had been hired to go to the vicinity of Charlestown, Va., to do some roofing, returned a few days ago, having been prevented from doing their work, and driven by threats of arrest to leave the place.  An account of the affair, which appears to be authentic, is as follows: -
     "A wealthy gentleman of New Jersey, understood to be a Mr. H. J. Garrison, formerly a dry goods merchant at Trenton, who removed to a locality near Charlestown in 1854, or about that time, having concluded to remain permanently at the latter place had partly built a house, which he designed to cover with a metallic roof.  Preferring the work of Northern mechanics, or finding it impracticable to get it done without incurring the considerable expense of bringing them so great a distance, he came on to Trenton and engaged two tinworkers, who had been employed in the hardware establishment of G. Brearly & Co., of that city.  Taking them with him, he returned to his Southern home, and the work was about being commenced.  But the Virginians had no idea of allowing any such proceeding; nobody knew but that this was a contrivance of the Abolitionists - at any rate, it could not be permitted.  So they threatened the tin-workers they would arrest them and deal summarily with them, if they did not forthwith depart, and the mechanics, to avoid trouble, concluded to go home.  Their employer was at the same time informed that his house might remain for ever uncovered, if he could not get it roofed without sending to the North for Abolitionists to do the work."

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     NOT A SAFE PLACE FOR YANKEES.    On the day that John Brown was in possession of Harper's Ferry, the Superintendent of the Harper's ferry Armory was in Springfield, Mass., to get a new master armorer for that establishment, and engaged Mr. Salmon Adams, the clerk and assistant of the master armorer at the Government shops in Springfield.  But since he has got home, he writes back cancelling the engagement, for the reason that the people there are so exasperated with the Yankees, that they would not stand one of them in the place of master armorer.  They would butcher him, he says, should Mr. Adams come on and take the place!

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     EXCITEMENT IN TALBOT COUNTY, MD.     On Sunday last, an incendiary letter was picked up in St. Michael's, which purports to give the outlines of an extended insurrectionary movement in Maryland and Virginia.  It states the very improbable fact, that over 12,000 men are engaged in the crusade who can instantly recognize each other by a look in the eyes whenever they meet.  The plot contemplates the capture of the city of Baltimore, by the aid of 40,000 men from the North, the time to be fixed by a State Convention of the crusaders, to be held in this city.  The name and date of the letter were both torn off.  This ridiculous document created great excitement among the good people of Talbot.  Patrols were immediately formed in the St. Michael's district, and a strong guard placed in Easton on Sunday night.  A public meeting of the citizens of the county took place in the court house at Easton, yesterday afternoon, to take into consideration the existing state of affairs, but we have not learned the result of their deliberations. - Baltimore Republican, November 30.

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     Col. S. A. Cooley, of this city, was in Charlestown, Va., last week.  Mr. Penfield, agent of Sharpe's Rifle Company, was also there.  Both were placed under arrest, but were treated kindly.  Mr. Penfield showed a letter of introduction from the Secretary of War, Mr. Floyd.  Col. Cooley protested that he was no Abolitionist.  But all availed nothing.  The officer said, "Gentlemen, we have no reason to believe that either of you meditate harm; but the authorities have directed that the movements of all strangers shall be guarded; this is absolutely necessary for our safety; persons pretending to be friendly have been among us for some time, and our horses and cattle have been poisoned at night; our barns and sheds and haystacks have been destroyed by fire; the property of some of the jurors in John Brown's case has been burnt by incendiaries; we have only stopped these alarming proceedings by the most decided action in permitting no strangers to be staying about here in idleness."  Messrs. Cooley and Penfield, seeing the absolute necessity for the regulations which had been established, then left the place. - Hartford Times, Dec, 14th.

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     A REWARD OFFERED FOR THE HEAD OF MR. GIDDINGS. -   The following advertisement appears in the Richmond Whig:
     Ten Thousand Dollars Reward. - Joshua R. Giddings, having openly declared himself a traitor in a lecture at Philadelphia, on the 28th of October, and there being no process, strange to say, by which he can be brought to justice, I propose to be one of the hundred to raise $10,000 for his safe delivery in Richmond, or $5,000 for the production of his head.  I do not regard this proposition, extraordinary as it may at first seem, either unjust or unmerciful.  The law of God and the Constitution of his country both condemn him to death.
     For satisfactory reasons, I withhold my name from the public, but it is in the hands of the editor of the Richmond Whig.  There will be no difficulty, I am sure, in raising the $10,000, upon a reasonable prospect of getting the said Giddings to this city.
     Richmond, Nov. 1, 1859.

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     The Providence Journal says: - "We lately mentioned that a twelve pound cannon ball had been found here in a bale of cotton, and we then took occasion to remark, that the substitution
of iron for sand as an article to increase the weight of the bale showed a slight moral improvement in the dishonest packers.  But something worse even than sand has been found in a bale which recently arrived.  That is, lucifer matches.  They were in a pine box, which was partially broken, so that they could not fail to ignite in passing through the picker.  Had they not been accidentally discovered, they might have caused the destruction of one of the most valuable mills in this State."

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     A dentist, who has advertised himself for the last eighteen months in Charleston, S. C., as desiring to cure tooth-ache without pain, was waited upon, on the 17th ult., by a committee, who were fortified by the oaths of two reliable citizens before a magistrate, and notified that, considering his avowed Abolitionism, he must select another residence.  He left.

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     IN A DILEMMA.  A young gentleman, whose parents reside in a neighboring county in an adjoining State, is just now in rather an unpleasant dilemma in Kentucky, the result of the jealousy induced by the persistent attempt of Abolitionists to excite a servile insurrection, which culminated by the invasion at Harper's Ferry.  The facts came to our knowledge today, and are vouched for by men of veracity, though the name of the young man was not given.  He was, it seems, employed as a teacher, and was in the full tide of success, and quite popular among the patrons of his school, until the fact became known that he frequently received letters from Oberlin, about which he Was extremely shy.  The excitement about the Harper's Ferry invasion, and rumors of contemplated attempts in Kentucky, awakened so much suspicion, that the young man was finally taken into custody, and placed in the hands of a committee of citizens to investigate his case, about which suspicion was very much increased upon his refusal to divulge the nature of his correspondence with Oberlin. - Adrian (Mich.) paper.

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     LITERATURE IN LEECHVILLE.     Somewhere down in the tar and rosin State is a shambling sort of a hamlet called Leechville.   They have a post-office in Leechville.  The man who overhauls the mails at this out-of-the-way spot is one Augustus Latham.  From the Blue Book, it appears that the annual receipts of this post-office are thirty-one dollars, whereof Latham pockets twenty-one for his salary, leaving ten to replenish the Federal Treasury, which probably pays some Democratic contractor a hundred dollars per annum for going off the main road in search of Leechville, and stopping long enough for the contractor's horse to catch breath, and the contractor's driver to imbibe a draught of whiskey, while Latham peers into the half-dozen letters and newspapers, more or less, in the mail bag.  One would suppose that the arrival in this desolate locality of a half-dozen speeches, bearing the frank of some U. S. Senator, would be hailed as a godsend, even if only for the novelty of the thing.  It seems that there is a resident in Leechville, permanent or temporary, who is pursuing knowledge under difficulties - one Thomas Dunbar, the

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senior of that name.  Hearing (we confess we are at a loss to guess how) that Senator Wilson had delivered a speech exposing the Disunion schemes of the Democracy, Mr. Dunbar wrote to that gentleman, requesting him to send him two or three copies of that speech; which, of course, Mr. Wilson did.  The return mail brings to the Senator a missive from Mr. Holt's man Latham.  We print it as an average specimen of Southern respect for law, Southern manners and Southern grammar : -

               "LEECHVILLE, Feb. 16, 1860.               

     "SIR Your speeches and your Black Republican friends cannot circulate your Abolition speeches through this Post office so you need not send any more to Thomas Dunbar senr.

"Yours &c.     AUGUSTUS LATHAM P M"         

     Latham's orthography is inimitable; so, in that particular, we fall back upon Webster.
     In all seriousness, there has been quite enough of this sort of mail robbery under the rule of Mr. Holt.  If he doesn't stop it promptly and peremptorily, he should be impeached.  Such creatures as this Latham should be dismissed instanter.  If Mr. Holt, on due notice, refuses to have this done, then the House of Representatives should immediately take the initial step toward degrading him from office. - New York Tribune.

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     Dr. Mulroe, of South Carolina, the owner of two plantations, and negroes sufficient to work them, was arrested a few days ago, as a suspicious character, by a Vigilance Committee, in Eufala, Ala.  The Doctor was peddling ploughs, and it was hard to believe that so wealthy a man would turn "travelling Yankee."  A friend, who knew the Doctor at home, happened to be in town, however, and hearing of the difficulty he was in, went to the place where the committee were trying him, and when he entered, and found Dr. M. occupying a chair, and undergoing an examination, under such peculiar circumstances, he was so astonished that he exclaimed, "Why, Dr. Mulroe!' and burst out in a loud laugh, while the Doctor, overcome with his feelings, burst into tears, and the sympathy was so intense, that the whole committee were soon in tears!  As a final, all pledged themselves to sell as many ploughs as they could.

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     THE EXCITEMENT AGAINST NORTHERN MEN IN VIRGINIA. - The Richmond correspondent of the New York Herald, writing on the 18th, says: -

     "A gentleman from Baltimore, who was on his way South upon a tour for the benefit of his health, informed me, last evening, that however great might be the advantages of the trip, he would forego it, sooner than submit to the suspicions and scrutinies of which he was the object at various points upon his passage through Virginia.  He travelled through some portions of the interior of the Commonwealth, before reaching here.  I know an instance in which the presentation of a Massachusetts bank note at a tavern in the country, by a gentleman who resides in Virginia, and is sound upon the State, was nearly subjecting him to serious indignities and in conveniences.  His recognition by a gentleman of the locality, as he emerged from the tavern, was the only thing that saved him from a disagreeable overhauling.  The gentleman assured me that he was well armed, and determined that the first man who laid hands upon him should die.  I have had myself some little experience in this sort of treatment, and I can therefore appreciate its disadvantages.  While standing in the hall of a hotel, in North Carolina, some year or two ago, awaiting the meeting of an assembly whose proceedings I had gone to report for the Herald, I was rudely seized by two ruffians, who planted themselves on each side of me, and carried me into the street, there to ascertain what my purpose in coming to town was, and to administer due punishment, if it was not in keeping with their views.  By this time, we were approached by several persons, amongst whom, most fortunately for me, was a distinguished gentleman of that State, who instantly recognized me.  The observance of the recognition by these ruffians caused them immediately to release me.  Being then without any means of defence, I was forced to submit to this indignity."

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     The surest way, and perhaps the only way, to prevent such resorts to that justly reprobated code - lynch law - is, for those philanthropists who cannot restrain the expression of their anti-slavery sentiments, to leave the benighted communities of the South, and make their homes in more congenial regions. - Savannah News.

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     There is a College at Roanoke, Va., and, of course, its students had to improve John Brown's raid.  'Twas thus they did it, on the 3d of December: -

     "Forasmuch, as the sacred soil of Virginia has been invaded, her citizens incarcerated, and innocent blood shed by a band of monomaniac fanatics, instigated to the desperate deed by individuals beyond the reach of law and justice, therefore,

     "Resolved, 1st.  That we, the students of Roanoke College, under the protection of the laws of Virginia, do express our sentiments towards Wm. H. Seward, Joshua R. Giddings, and Wendell Phillips, by casting upon them the infamous stigma of burning them in effigy.
     "Resolved, 2d.  That we fire a cannon as each image is consumed by the flames, and give three cheers for our intrepid, indefatigable, vigilant Governor, Henry A. Wise.
     "Resolved, 3d, That we shall ever be ready to enlist under the standard of our State, to defend Virginia and her rights, under all emergencies."

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      JOHN BROWN IN FLORIDA.     A gentleman, who is spending the winter in Florida for the benefit of his health, writes: - 
     "The news of the John Brown affair reached Florida before we did, and a party of chivalrous citizens had an indignation meeting, and threatened to tar and feather any Abolitionist who might venture among them.  I understood from one of the residents of the place, that not one of the indignant citizens aforesaid owned a slave, or had money enough to buy one.  They appointed a committee to wait on a poor Jersey minister, half dead with bronchitis, but the only thing they could find against him was, that he had been seen to shake hands with a nigger, so they only warned him."

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     A book agent, named Day, who made his appearance in the village yesterday afternoon, was ordered to leave on the one o'clock train for Columbia.  Before the arrival of the cars, however, he was seen giving leg bail along the railroad, in the direction of Charleston. - Orangeburg (S. C.) Southron.

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     "Let us prepare for disunion; not precipitate it.  Between this and the 4th of March, 1861, the Union cannot harm us.  In the meanwhile, let us enact laws of retaliation and non-intercourse, and establish a direct trade, and, consequently, friendly relations, with Europe.  Let us charge heavy license for the sale of all goods from the North, whether produced there, or imported from abroad; let us send our cotton, rice and tobacco, directly to Europe; let us establish a stricter espionage over all visitors from the North, and a stricter espionage over all Virginians who deal or associate with them.
     "We may treat such Northerners as we please as persons of ill fame, improper company for Virginians, and recognize, fine and imprison our own citizens, who deal or associate with them.  Thus we might expel all the itinerant quacks and peddlers and teachers from the most inimical Northern States, - and from all of those States, if experience proved it necessary to our safety.  We might also punish our citizens who shipped grain by Yankee vessels, or procured goods of any sort by them.
     "The election of a Black Republican as President in 1860, unless that party adopts new leaders and a new platform, will render disunion inevitable on the 4th of March, 1861.  We should delay it until that time, preparing for its consequences." - Richmond Enquirer.
 

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     The Cincinnati Commercial states that anonymous letters in mourning envelopes are being sent through the Newport (Ky.) post-office, to Republican residents of that town, warning them to take their leave of the soil of Kentucky.  Mr. J. B. Whittemore, a gentleman who resides in Newport, and does business in Cincinnati, recently received notice to leave, on or before the first day of December, 1859.
     Four individuals, who were regarded as "rather noxious to the community," have recently been ordered to leave Orangeburg, S. C.  The first was a school teacher, a young man calling himself D. Heagle, from New York.  The next were two young men, house painters, one by the name of Mahon, who also hailed from the State of New York, and the other, who signed his name as Clarkson, from North Carolina.  The fourth was a book agent, named Day.  Each was compelled to take the first train which left town after the warning.

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     A KENTUCKY SYMPATHIZER IN TROUBLE.     The Cincinnati Commercial, of Nov. 29, has the following: -
     "We learn that a man by the name of Brown, late a conductor on the Lexington and Danville Railroad, happening to be in May's grocery in Lexington, last week, was bantered by the proprietor on his name, and asked whether he was 'any relation of old Osawatomie.'  He replied that he was not, but took occasion to say that he endorsed his sentiments as to slavery.  Thereupon the bystanders put him out of doors by violence.  Shortly after, he was called on by some pretended friends, who invited him to go to Beard's stable, in Lexington, which he did, and there found a lot of men, who demanded that he should repeat what he had said about slavery.  On doing so, the crowd became very much excited, and told him he had  better leave Lexington, and the State.
     "We are also told that he received an anonymous letter, signed, 'Many Citizens,' warning him to leave within three days, with a threat of summary measures being used to eject him, if he failed to comply.  He left and came to Covington, on Saturday, where he met some of the employees of the railroad, who pretended to sympathize with him, but soon advised him not to stay longer in Kentucky.
     "He has left for the West, although he would have preferred remaining in Kentucky, had it not been for this intolerant and persecuting spirit.  Brown is spoken of by the Superintendent of Lexington and Danville Railroad, as a sober intelligent and steady man."

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     AN ABOLITIONIST ARRAIGNED.     The Charlotte (N. C.) Carolina Bulletin says: "We learn that on yesterday, before the county court, now in session, a Mr. Franklin Davis, residing in Farrelltown, about ten miles north of Charlotte, sitting as grand juryman, was, on motion of Solicitor D. B. Rea, expelled from the jury, for having expressed sentiments in opposition to the institution of slavery, and he was immediately bound over in the penal sum of one thousand dollars for his appearance at the next sitting of the Superior Court.  The facts will all appear at the trial in May next.  We take great pleasure in commending Mr. Rea for the prompt and faithful manner in which he has discharged his duty.

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     EXCITEMENT AT ABBEVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.     The Oxford Mercury of Thursday, Jan. 24th, says: -
     "Considerable excitement was produced in our neighboring town of Abbeville, last Sunday and Monday, by a gang of ten peddlers.  Some stories represent them to us as having been Irish or German, and others that they were Abolitionists, endeavoring to stir up an insurrection.  The neighborhood became greatly alarmed when they appeared, as so many of that kind of traders do not often travel together.  They were, the whole ten, arrested on Monday, and taken to Abbeville and examined, but no proof was elicited against them, except that several were operating without license.  They were ordered to leave the State within a given time.

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     ONE OF BROWN'S MAP MEN.     A book peddler, named Albritton, was arrested in Marion, Ala., on the 3d inst.  The American says: "He was arrested about 8 o'clock this morning, and carried to Cahaba, where, it is reported, they have the documents showing him to be one of the original men to be stationed on the line of the published Brown Map.  We learn from Marshall Curtis, that there is sufficient proof, found in the prisoner's trunk, to convict him, beyond a shadow of a doubt, of being an emissary.  If so, the Lord have mercy on his soul (?), for we know the people of Cahaba well enough to feel confident that they will give him full justice, terrible as it may be." - Richmond Dispatch.

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     A negro barber, named Wilson, went, a few days since, from his home in Chattanooga to Knoxville, Tenn., to make a few purchases.  He was followed closely and keenly watched by two men of stern  visage, one of whom finally drew a fearful knife, and rushed at him, exclaiming, "You're Fred Douglass!"  In peril of his life, Wilson took to his heels, hotly pursued by a constantly increasing rabble, and barely escaping a terrible fate by dodging behind a fence and permitting his followers to pass by.  He went home by the first train.  The next morning, the two gentlemen addressed the Mayor for papers for the arrest of Fred Douglass.

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     A POLITICAL REFUGEE. -  IS THIS A FREE COUNTRY?  A gentleman of good address, bearing the evidences of sincerity and respectability, called upon us yesterday, saying that he was an exile from Kentucky.  His name is E. J. Dean, and his story is as follows: -

     "I have been a resident of Kentucky for the last seven years, all of which time I have been engaged in teaching.  Latterly, say since which time I have been engaged in teaching.  Latterly, say since September, I have been living near Richmond, the county seat of Madison county, where I had a school, in which I supposed I gave my patrons good satisfaction.  I do not know that during the whole time that I lived in the State, I ever said a single word in condemnation of slavery.  Certainly I have been a brawler about that or any other political matter.  To the best of my ability, I discharged the duties which I had undertaken for pay; and I declare that never have I tampered with any slave or in any way attempted to make a negro dissatisfied with his lot.  What then was my surprise, on Saturday morning last, to receive from a man who represented himself as the chairman of the County Vigilance Committee, a warning to immediately give up my employment and quit the State.  In answer to my inquiry - 'Of what crime am I accused, that I should be punished thus?' I had only this answer, 'None, only that you are a d__d Abolitionist!'  Pleading my inability to settle my little affairs in five minutes' time, I was graciously permitted to remain in Richmond until Monday, when, in obedience to the mandate which I was not at liberty to disobey, without bringing upon myself great indignity and peril, I set out, and arrived here this morning.  This is a plain and perfectly truthful account of my expulsion, and, so far as I have been informed, of the causes which led thereto.  In conclusion, I have only this inquiry to make - Is this a free country?  If so, where and what is despotism?"

     Madison is one of the wealthiest, most populous and civilized counties in Kentucky, but mob law is administered there with a degree of vigor that is without parallel in all the United States.  From that county, Rev. John G. Fee and his associates - twenty-eight in all - as peaceable, orderly, industrious, Christian men and women as there are in Kentucky - were driven out.  In that county, C. M. Clay - brave Cas-

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sois - has been subjected to dangers which have more than once put his life in peril, and to a series of petty annoyances which have for years made that life a perpetual torture.  The people of Madison are naturally kind and hospitable; but the majority are possessed of that purely American devil - the intolerant, rampant, persecuting spirit of slavery; and under its influence, all within its reach are subjected to a despotism, compared with which the rule of King Bomba and Naples was a government of which his subjects might be proud.
     Well may Mr. Dean ask - "Is this a free country?" - Chicago Press and Tribune.

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     HOW THE SOUTH RESPECTS THE CONSTITUTION.     An ebullition of Southern chivalry was witnessed at Demossville, Pendleton county, on Saturday last, which resulted in the driving away of a peaceable citizen, for no other crime than possessing convictions, and having the manhood to express them.
     According to Mr. Payne's version of the singular proceeding, he was at the depot when the cars were detained by an accident, a few days since, when a gentleman from Covington approached him, and questioned him as to his politics.  Mr. Payne replied that he was a Republican. "Of what kind?" continued his interrogator.  "One of the blackest," was the reply.  During this conversation, several of Mr. P.'s friends were present, and the matter rested until Saturday morning, when he received the following notice, handed him by Dr. Cummins: —

DEMOSSVILLE, KY., Dec. 10, 1859.        

     MR. CHARLES PAYNE - Dear Sir: - You having declared yourself an Abolitionist of the blackest character, we give you the limit of twenty minutes to leave this town; if not, you will be dealt with as we think proper.

CITIZENS OF DEMOSSVILLE,         
Pendleton Co., Ky.       

     A large and excited mob gathered around at the same time, and he was compelled to leave, in obedience to the warning.  He has long been known as a Republican, and was the candidate of that party for Congress, two years ago.  He has a family, who are yet in Demossville.  He purposes returning home in a day or two, there to await the progress of the " irrepressible conflict."  - Cincinnati Commercial.

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     ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT OF A KENTUCKY PIONEER IN VIRGINIA.     We received a visit, yesterday, from a gray haired Kentuokian, just from the "inhospitable shores" of Virginia, where he has been incarcerated in jail for two weeks, for having the presumption to be an American citizen, and attempting to cross the State by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.  The old gentleman is a citizen of Oldham county, Ky., - 73 years of age, - had been on to Washington to see about some land, which fell to him under the act of Congress making provision for the soldiers of 1812, and on his return, was seized at Martinsburg  as the train West stopped at that place) by the vigilant military stationed at that place, and incarcerated in the jail.   He was suspected of having conceived the "deep design" of rescuing  "Ok! Osawatomie" Brown, and accordingly, this regiment of soldiery, aided by two or three "peace officers," instituted a vigilant search of the old man's wardrobe.  Each boot-leg, in the heated imagination of the Virginians, contained a knife or pike, and every pocket a revolver.  The only article that was left him was a cake of soap, which he had thoughtfully provided himself with, having been duly advised of the impurity of the Federal city.
     He remained in jail two weeks, and on the 2d of December, after the last ghost of fear of a rescue of old John Brown - that is to say, after the hour of 11 o'clock and 15 minutes, A. M. - he was released, first being graciously furnished with a pass, of which the following is a verbatim copy: -

MARTINSBURG, Dec. 2d, 1859.         

To Capt. of any patrol or military company in Virginia:
     You will pass James C. Gardner through the State of Virginia without molestation.  He has been under arrest here for two weeks, and is all right.  He was discharged this morning, by order of the Commandant of the battalion stationed at this point.

GEO. H. MURPHY              
Attorney for the Commonwealth for Berkley Co.    

     How the blood in the veins of this pioneer on the "Dark and Bloody Ground" boiled at such indignity, those who still have faith in the existence of chivalry, generosity, and honesty of purpose, can best imagine.  The old gentleman arrived in our city last evening.   Through the kindness of the officers of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, he has been furnished with a pass over the road to Louisvillle, for which place he will depart this morning. - Cincinnati Gazette.

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     INCENDIARY DOCUMENTS IN VIRGINIA.     In our last paper, under the head of "Political and Personal," we briefly noticed the arrest of John H. Gargas and Thomas Cruix, in Fairfax County, Virginia, charged with circulating incendiary documents, Helper's book particularly.  They were held to bail in large sums to answer at court.  We learn from the last number of the Fairfax News, that Mr. Gargas was tried for the offence before a "called court," consisting of five justices.  It appears that Mr. Gargas is a Postmaster in Fairfax county, and handed out one of Helper's books, received by mail, to a citizen of the neighborhood, being of course ignorant of what it was.  This coming to the ears of the Virginians, they determined to act at once in the spirit of Postmaster General Holt's decision, authorizing the robbery of the mails.  However, at the trial, after hearing the testimony, the court concluded to discharge Mr. Gargas.  Mr. G. is nearly connected with the Geil and Gargas families, living near Doylestown, being a nephew of Abraham Gargas, of Warrington.  His father moved to Fairfax county many years ago, and held a post-office, in which he was succeeded by his son.  The other suspected person, Mr. Cruix, who was held in $2,500 to appear at court, has  forfeited his bond by making his escape from the Commonwealth. - Bucks County (Pa.) Intelligencer.

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     SERGEANT BIRNEY DRIVEN OUT OF THE SOUTH.     The Virginia panic, since the shooting of the cow, seems to have extended into other States.  Sergeant Birney, whose career in this city, as a policeman, was brought to a termination some months since, has just arrived on the Columbia, from Charleston.
     It seems that the sergeant has been pursuing the business of a merchant, in the State of Georgia, and that, since John Brown's capture of Harper's Ferry, the people of his neighborhood have been coasting about to discover any enemies lurking in among them, and suspicion fell upon the sergeant.  He was questioned, and, his answers not proving satisfactory to his inquisitors, he was notified to leave.  Our informant states that the alternative was a coat of tar and feathers. -  Evening Post.

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     GOV. WISE WARNS THE SOUTH TO ROUSE - YANKEE PEDDLERS, &c.     The following brief letter from Gov. Wise shows what he considers the necessity of the times.  We learn that very stringent measures have been adopted in South Carolina, Alabama, and in some portions of our State, against peddlers, showmen and others, who are reasonably suspected of hostility to our institutions.  Scarcely a day passes, that we do not hear of some itinerant, unable to prove himself to be of reliable character, having been expelled from Southern communities.  Here is the letter of the Virginia Governor : -

RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 25th, 1859              

     MY DEAR SIR: — I have time only to acknowledge yours.  Say to your father, and all others, that there are serious times here. "We are arming, and have need to do so; and the Southern States all had better be rousing.  Drive out peddlers and schoolmasters (not well known) from Yankeedom,

Yours, &c.,                               
HENRY A. WISE.  

     WILLIAM SCOTT, Esq.
     - Atlanta (Ga.) News. 

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     As an illustration of the annoyance and persecution to which strangers are subjected in the sacred district of Virginia, it is stated that a Mr. Charles Grattan, of Easton, Md., hired a house and shop at Harper's Ferry, and he went there with his wife and family, and with goods to open a millinery shop.  On his arrival, he was dragged at once to the arsenal, and kept in custody, and was subjected to such annoyances for several days, that he concluded Harper's Ferry was not a pleasant place to live in, and packed up his goods again and retreated back to Easton, cursing the stupidity and cowardice of the Virginians.

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     The Columbus (Geo.) Sun mentions the arrest, in that city, of Wm. Scott, a member of the firm of Charles Scott & Co., dealers in embroideries, linens, &c., New York.  An open expression of sympathy for "Old Brown" and the possession of Beecher's incendiary sermons, were the occasion of the arrest.  He received "notice to quit," and took his departure by the first train.

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     The Norristown (Pa.) Republican says: - "Christian Stout, a good Democrat, long a resident of Upper Dublin, and for a year or two of Plymouth township, removed to Maryland a few years ago, to work a farm for Wm. Earnest, Hon. John McNair and others, and has resided there ever since.  About two weeks ago, he appeared amongst us again, and informed us that he was a fugitive from his home.  He says that a short time after the opening of Congress, and the introduction of Clark's resolution, a wealthy Englishman, his neighbor, handed him Helper's book to read.  He read it, and then seeing his neighbor, he told him that he was done with it, and desired him to take it; but he said, 'No, never mind giving it to me, hand it to one of your neighbors.'  He did so, and shortly afterwards the Englishman was arrested, as were some others.  He was then informed that the slaveholders had sixty-two names on their paper of persons who were to be arrested for circulating Helper's book uttering Abolition sentiments, and sympathizing with Brown.  As his name was among the proscribed, he suddenly left for Pennsylvania.  The Englishman was bailed in the sum of $2,500, and immediately left for New York, intending to forfeit the bail, and abandon the State.  Before Stout left, he consulted a lawyer, who told him that although they might perhaps not convict him, they would probably keep him in jail a year or two, and put him to much cost, so he concluded he had better leave.  He is now waiting the result of the trial of others."

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     A SOUTHERN OPINION OF THE REV. MR. SPURGEON.  A newspaper published at Jacksonville, Florida, has a very savage attack upon the New York publishers of Mr. Spurgeon's works, apropos to the statement that "they stand ready to publish any thing that he may say on the subject of slavery."  The following language, which is more forcible than elegant, is applied to Mr. Spurgeon and his publishers: - "If Messrs. _____ intend to publish the insane conceits of a beef-eating, puffed-up, vain, over-righteous, pharisaical, English, blab-mouth, ranting preacher of doctrine not found in the Bible, and worse, if possible, than the infamous book of Helper, then we think the South should know it, and bestow their patronage accordingly."

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     The Harper's Ferry raid demonstrates the necessity of the Northern people, in a body, and with one voice, putting down and crushing out such miserable, incendiary Abolition wretches as Giddings, Garrison, Fred. Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Seward, Wilson and Sumner.  These are all schemers and conspirators against the peace of the Union.
     All the powers of the federal Government and the Government of Virginia should be employed showing the complicity of Giddings, Douglass, or Thayer, or any other person in this affair, let them be arrested, tried and convicted, and punished.
     As to them prisoners who were caught in the act, let them be hung, and that forthwith.  There should be no temporizing and no fiddling on the part either of the President or of Governor Wise.  The insurgents are nothing more nor less than pirates and murders, entitled to none of the courtesies of war nor clemencies of law.  Immediate shooting or hanging, without trial, is the punishment they merit, and the only punishment which will have the desired effect, either at the North or the South.  In regard to such offenders, a just and safe principle is to hang them, and try them afterwards. - Richmond Whig.

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     The Staunton Virginian tells this story: - "One of our townsmen, Mr. George W. Dilliard, was involved in great danger at Harper's Ferry.  He had gone there on business on the day after the capture of Old Brown and his party, and in walking along in the vicinity of the Ferry, enjoying the splendid scenery, with one of the pikes in his hand, and two or three blank commissions in his pocket, taken from the insurgents, and which Gov. Wise had given him the day before, he was pursued and captured by a party who were hunting for Cook.  Mr. Dilliard was immediately charged with being one of Cook's men; the pike was satisfactory evidence, and the cry was raised of 'shoot him!  shoot him!' and several loaded guns were pointed at his breast.  Fortunately, Mr. Dilliard retained his self-possession so well that the party at last yielded to his request that he should be taken to the Superintendent at the Ferry, and there be permitted to prove his innocence.  Mr. Dilliard said it was about the most trying half hour or more he ever spent.

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     The Charleston Mercury, of Tuesday, says that two Abolitionists left town on that day for the North, by steamer.  One of them was taken in charge several weeks since, and has been earning his living for a month, by cracking stones for the city, agreeable to sentence imposed by the Mayor.  He has acquired his trade, and leaves without a single regret.  The other was received from Georgetown, where he had expressed obnoxious sentiments.

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     We learn from the Auburn Signal, that some short time ago, near Society Hill, Macon County, Alabama, a man named L. Stearns, claiming to be from Montgomery, was caught tampering with a Mr. Richardson's negroes.  He was driven off, and a party of citizens caught and whipped him.  Two or three nights afterwards, Mr. Richardson had a lot of cotton set on fire.

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     ABOLITIONISTS.  As it is becoming evident that we have numerous Abolitionists in our midst, tampering with our slaves, it will behoove the planters to be strict with their servants, and not allow them too much latitude during the coming holidays.  We are not alarmists, and would not create unnecessary excitement, but we warn the people to be on the alert, and hope that "a word to the wise will be sufficient." - Vicksburg (Miss.) Southern Sun, Nov. 22.

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     The Western Christian Advocate publishes the following from a Postmaster in Virginia: -

WAYNE, C. H. Va. Feb. 28, 1860                 

To the Editor of the Western Chreston Advocate.
     Sir you will Please Discontinue sending your paper to this office as it has bin found to contain incendiary matter, and burnt.

Yours & c.                               
J. M. FERGUSON                     

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     The Porter of the steamship Marion, named Francis Mitchell, has been tried at Charleston, S. C., for aiding a slave in trying to escape, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged!

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      A NEW YORK CAPTAIN FINED.  The Richmond Enquirer, of Nov 30, says:  "The schooner L. Waterbury, Capt. S. A. Swinnerton, of New York, last July violated the inspection laws of Virginia, and escaped, doubtless believing inspection laws were the greatest of humbugs.  She returned to our port last week, when that ever-vigilant Yankee-hunter, W. H. Parker, Chief Inspector, pounced upon the L Waterbury at this port, and her captain was compelled to pay $528 fine.  The L. Waterbury's cargo was about $750 in lumber form Florida.  Rather an unprofitable voyage for an "enterprising" Yankee.
     "This added to the previous fine, swells the amount to $3,000, besides the costs, recovered since last October, for violations of Inspection laws."

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     A letter from a Boston gentleman who has gone South for hi health, states that on the first day out from Washington, he had a pistol held to his head, and that he was dogged by four Southern men for hundreds of miles, annoyed and insulted until he challenged the whole crowd of them to fight him whereupon they backed out.  All his newspapers from Boston have been withheld from him, and his letters have been broken open before they reached the post-office to which they were sent.

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                                                         LOUISVILLE, March 27th.

     A man named Hanson, who was recently expelled from Berea, Madison county, Ky., with J. G. Fee, returned to Berea, whereupon a committee waited upon him, for the purpose of again ordering him from the county.  Hanson, with twenty-five or thirty associates, armed with rifles, fired upon the committee, but without injuring any one.  Hanson's party then retreated and barricaded themselves in a house.  The committee, which is composed of twenty-five or thirty men, are armed with revolvers.