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"TO THINK OWN SELF DE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW, AS THE NIGHT TIUJ I>.\V. THOU CAX'.ST NOP THEN BE FALSK TO ANY MAN." BY KOB'T. A. THOMPSON". PICKENS COURT HOUSE, S. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1859. VOL. X\. NO. If,. U IF^E, If IKi The Burial at Sea. UV GI1ASI.KS SI'KAOCK. Sparc him one lillle week. Almighty Tower! Yield to his fhllicr's house his 'lying hour; Once more, once more let tliem who hold liim denr Hut see his face, his faltering voice hut hear; AVe know, alas! that he is marked for death, Hut let his mother watoli hi* porting breiUl); <), let hint die at home ! % It could not he ! At midnight, on a dark nnd stormy xoii. Far from his kindred mid his native land. His nanus unsoolhcd l>v tnml?r The put ion I victim in his cabin lnv, Ami meekly breathed liix blameless life awuy. *'*###** Wrapped in I lie raiment tliat it long must wear, llis holy to t'10 deck Mtey slowly bear; llow eloquent, how awful in its power. 'Plte silent lecture of death's Sabbath hour? Oiio voice that silence brooks?the prayer is said, /.id the lust rite man pays to man is paid ; The Hashing waters mark his resting place, And fold him round in one long, cold embrace ; llrieht bubbles for a moment sparkle o'er. Then break, to be, like him, beheld no more; Down, countless fathoms down, lie sinks to sleep. Willi "'1 the liaiisclcfs shinies that haunt tin deep. llcst, lnvcil one, rest?l>cnenOi tlic billows swell, Where tongue ne'er spoke, where sunlight never fell: Host?till the Ootl who gftve thee to ilie <leer> House thee, triumphant, from the long, long sleep. Ami you, whose heart a nrc bleeding, who deplore That ye must see Ihe wanderer's face no more, Weep?he was worthy of the purest grief; Weep?in such sorrow ye shall find relief: While o'er hi# doom 1I10 bitter tear ye shed, Memory shall fracethe virtues of the dead: These cannot die-?for you, for him. theyhloom. And scatter fragrance round his ocean tomb, grr-,-.: ; . .; .; o mm i'i muArmn % roil Tiie courier. Mr. Eiiilnr: I am not a Cross Anchor! Progressionist, nor a would-be Tom l'ajne- j ito. branding every man, woman nnd cliilil. | differing with mo in opinionconcerning polj* | tics. Keligiun, Spirit Happing?, &c., with tlint pretty little high-stcam-pressure epithet ?" 1'ijir rir/hctid, the Fir atl>ut I wonhl rather incline to tho Kentimont of that othor " Pope," ho beautifully expressed in his "universal prayer:" . " Let not this weak, unknowing hand, -ru?muo 11?v hqus to tiirow : Ami deal damnation round the hint], On cnch 1 judge thy foe." t have never flattered myself with tlio thought tlint I would "ono day " hen medium, nor yet that I am. or ever >vill be, "worthy and well qualified .to hold communion tfith ghosts or ludigohlin*'; "hut, I have some reasons for holiqving that? I am u minium man, and professing common sympathies for u certain class of uulToring humanity, 1 thus write. yur summer h gone nml winter in upon us. Crops arc lie in ? gathered. nml tlio report <m a\lI grain crops is slmrt?very short I The price of provisions runs high, .mid heats "quick tiikI Btrong" to the .tunc.yt? liioro than t\ 100. X. Tho spirit of Rpeculntion and'* trading la rife in the- land ; with n money markot. unusually "tight;" nml to comnloto the picture. rho K.iito.', Doctor, MorciiAiit, SchoolTeacher and Minister, nro hopefully expecting to share with tho people for whom they have labored. lint, Mr. K'litor, tho Poor! tho VioriiJontinUi/ Poor! tho orphan Poor 1 What will become of them ? A few months since. I visited many of the ... .... J (vmi.- mm t>HIUM 111 omul) Carolina, in which, we doubtresg have some, of tin) best lilrrnnj institutions in tho tforhl. I refer more particularly to tho Sohools in Charleston. Let any limn with a lioart in liiin visit those Schools?not a? ton many do, stay ten minutos?look round hastily, nnd ]>;ws out with hand* uplifteil, joml vexed at the moagorno.is of adjoetives in tlio English language, hecaosn they cannot think of a number m?ftioiont to express their astonishment?enter tho;n.calmly, and be thoHf/hf/iil, and if ho duos not cotne away a better man.' be will have a bettfi' right to oxolaiin with the I'oet: "0! ibis heart 1 this hard unfeeling heart of niino!" Tlut just at this point I am met by a man eaying, as many havo said?you need not moot tlio Charleston School-question, it will not d >.for .tlio country, aim If it would, we are not ready for it yet. I answer, arid I trust uivUirxtaivliiiyhj, that it tcill suit the country?the whole country! .and in regard to its adoption, " now in tho accented time." I loavo tliis part of tlio subject, howover, in tlio hand* of thoso who liavo the pawtr and tlio means to do tho work?I mean tho Legislature. I visited tho orphan Sc^'ool in Charleston, and spent nearly ono whole day with Teachers mid Studonts?made the acquaintance of, and enquired into tho whole matter, which was then and there explained tome, and immediately I thought of tho orphans in Pickons?I thought of tho poor Poor-IIouse in I'iekon*, ami asked rnysolf this question, Can't we do better ? I stepped into a School IIouso tho r.thor morning, on some business with ti e Teacher, and saiv somo littlo boys ami gi?'.s with bare feet, and almost nuked, shivering with cold, and tho least one crving. I enquired after AI.a'.M ' - * xiuir iiuihwi, uiki was unaworoil, " They are orphan*." I nhall coiwo m^ro direotW to tlio mihiect in mv next communication?t moan tho claims of God'it poor in our midst, atld especially, orphan children at school. October, 1830 Pickexs. II k that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time, nx well 09 his other conveniences, to his luxury, how quickly does ho ouUlct iiis' j>lc.uuro s'+ ? I .Letter lrom Scnntor Mason. To the Kditors of the Constitution: Tt is right and due to truth, that the materia! facts attending the late incendiary attack on the town of Harper's Kerry should be correctly understood. There was no insurrection, in any form whatsoever, on the part of any of the inhabitants or residents of that town or its vicinity. There is little doubt that such insurrection was fully expected by the leader of the armed miscreants who came from the adjoining States, clandestinely, under cover of night, into the town?an expectation in which they were wofully disappointed, as fully admitted by themselves. The fact is undoubted that not a man, black nui nhiU, joined thorn after they came into Virginia, or gave them aid VI KWiPitlUVV 111 Oil) IWI III. It is true that after their capture tlicir lo/ider (Hrown) st.ttiul that ho had reason to expect such assistance, and had been disappointed. Hut this is fully discredited by the following facts: First, that be had undisputed possession of the town from about midnight on Sunday until after midday on Monday, when the people of the adjoining country, learned tbo state of things, got together in armed bands, and made a dcccnt upon the town. Second, that during this period they seized and held in custody, besides the slaves of Mr. Washington and Mr. Allstedt, taken in the neighborhood, some five or six other slaves belonging to residents at Harper's Ferry, i and found in the streets. It is said that they put spears or lances in the hands of two or three of tbo negroes and compelled them to stand in the char iictuv 01 ficniineis nr. tnc aoor ot tlie engine- | house, occupied by the incendiaries, but at the. first assault made by the citizens, the slaves threw away their pikes and escaped to their homes for refuge. Third, they had in confinement, in addition, some thirty or forty other persons, who were found unarmed in the streets in the early hours of the morning, but 110 adherent or sympathizer turned un flimmwt, tWm ? j * Til addition to all this, after careful inquiry and investigation on the spot, I could not learn that any man of any color (save one, hereafter to bo noticed) was even suspected of bcinir in any way accessory or privy to the plot. The exception was of a man named Cook, who came to Harper's Ferry a year or two since in the character of school-master, mprried there, and j who, after the event, it. appeared, was an J emissary of Brown's and mid been assoei- ' ated with him in Kansas. Conic imparted the plans of Brown to none in Virginia, so far as known ; or, if he did, it is certain Him none ncicci on incm. I to accompanied tho pinrty to Mr. Washington's, which seized him nnd his negros and brought J them off in the night, but none of the latter evinced any purpose to follow his fortunes. On tho contrary, those that he carried off the same night into .Maryland escaped from him tbcro nnd returned. I think I nin warranted, on the. foregoing facts, in tho belief that no engagement or promises of aid from any, of any race, were given to Ihown invitirg his dcsccnt. n.. ?i.. ?i ?i * v?u wiv [iiiiui me negros, li is ccruun tnaf tlie only amotion' evinced by them was of alarm and terror, and their only refuge sought at their master's homes. Of the conspiracy, outside of this State, enough has transpired, or been obtained from papers taken with Brown's effects, to show that lie acted from impressions made upon him by abolition tracts, newspapers, and orators, in the circles he frequented in the non-sluveholding States. These impressions were that it required only to put arms within immediate reach to bring about immediate insurrection in the slavcholding States?a doctrine openly inculcated, as is known, by abolition leaders. Thus imnrejuinil lm <milin*lr?wl < ..% !?;? I - v.. MHO uwjJUIl.lU | enterprise with but nineteen men ; but he had arms and weapons secreted in the mountain? and thinly-populated country on the Maryland side of the river, and within four or five milc.-t of the Virginia line ??t Harper's Ferry, with abundant ammunition, to have placcd an effective weapon in the hands of each of at least fifteen hundred or two thousand men. The exnct number of these arms cui never bo nscertaincd, as they vrerc cerricd off in great numbers when first discovered, or brought in by the citizens and companies of volunteers who came from a distance, and before possession of them was taken by the regular military authorities.? Amongst them wcro one thousand pikes or lances, composed of a steel blade, sharpnnnrl nf !*/> ~ ' -L 1 * lL * 1 v.vu v..v> |" 11 11L IIIIII lib UUU1 eUf/CS, Bomo six ot ciglit inches long, and tapering from an inch or inch and a half to tho point, btron^iy and securely fixed 011 uniform wooden handles fivo or six feet in length?a most ofFefeMvc arm for hands unskilled in military Weapons?leaving no douht for whom they w^ro destined. Tho wholo military equipment possessed by llrown, nnd seized af\or his capture, could not have cost less tliaK $10,000, consisting, amonght other things, of some | two nunareu tfharpe's riHcs, ^ith a number of six-shooter pistols, contacted in the manufacturer'h boxes, anil not yet usod, n proportionate supply of fixed ynmiuuitiort for the rifles, with enps, &c\ in tlio original boxes, hospital stores, pihjt-nxcs and shovels, unstained With use, Knd a largo box containing ten kogs of powder. A gravo inquiry remains, whicli wil bo dilligcntly, nnd, 1 trust, euccc#sfully pips* ccutcd, to ascertain wlicnce the funds were derived fortius military expedition of out laws against a State of the Union, and whe they wore aiding with money to furnish I arms to such a leader for such a purpose. It remains only to add that, so far as car be discovered, not ono of the nineteen escaped. 1 could nut correctly ascertain the number hilled?some ten or eleven it h known were killed?some were shot in at tempting to escape across the river, and their bodies not recovered ; live only wort captured alive, amongst them their leader, Brown ; two of the five were negroes ; one, u mulatto, reports that he came from Obit 'to join this expedition ; the other a black says that he came from llarri.sbnrg, I'm., leitl; tl?r? l!l;n j jintli that they wore deceived by Brown as to theubI ioilt.S of rvnA/llfi/v? ?,.r,..u^u. Not a slave escaped or attempted toes onpe during the tumult. Of the few car riod off by Cook across the river all esca ped from him and came safely back but one who, it appears, was drowned whilst cross ing the river homeward bound. Very respectfully, vouch, ,J. M Mason Selma Va., Oct. 21, 1ST)!). More Harper's Ferry Disclosures-Twc Years Secret History of Abolitionism. A batch of some five columns of lotteih, written during 1859, by one Col. Tlngli Forbes, appears in the New York llerald ^ j,<n jjui iu uiouioBu me iaci | that for the last year and a half, at leant, | the projeetof the IT a r par* a Ferry outbreak was known to Senators Seward, Sumner j Hale, (iov. Cha8<J, of Ohio, and others ancl that they suffered the project t<> riper ' and to hear the disastrous fruit that it has borne, without effort to the contrary. The whole, however, rests on the assertions ol the aforesaid Col. Forbes. The Hemic gives the lending statements from the ocr j rospondonce, as follows : Uol. Forbes, an old comrade of Garabal di's in 1848, nnd since thou a refugee ii this country, was induced to go to Kansaf a couplc of years since, to co-operate will Ossawatamie Brown, and to impart to liif raw recruits a little instruction in the ar( of war. Forbes and Brown pulled togeth or well enough for some months, until tliert | came to be a misunderstanding in rcgarc to the pay. Forbes appealed from Browt | to the general abolition commissariat in the Fast, but found that lie was doomed to g(: unpaid all round. Horace (jrecley, whci appealed to, fell back 011 the strict letter o' the law, and plead that be was not bouni by Forbes' contract with Brown. Sanbori who was the secretary of the Massachusetts Emigration Aid Society, and Howe, a wcl known abolitionist of Boston, kont. ivihor. # # 1 ?r i | ing with Forbes until, in the words of on< ' of his own letters, his fumi!y\s credit wui stopped at. the French or Italian restaurant where they used to get their meals, in Par is. Forbes became indignant. against Browr. and the humanitarians, as he styles them and denounced them all in pretty round terms. ]Jut still the troubles of his familv did not wean him altogether from the worli to which he had lent his hand. On the contrary, he devised a plan, which he submitted to his abolition friends North, to perform effectually the " Kansas work" that fterrit Smith speaks of in his letters. Forbes* snlan was simply an organized ~e _?*. -j; ?- * * owtiii >/1 cmuijieuui^ Hinvcs aiong me border States, and thus gradually driving the institution further South. Brown's project was declared?so long ago as May, 1858, to be identically that which lias bad such a miserable failure at Harper's Ferry. Forbes was too experienced a stager not to see the inevitable result of suoh a ridiculous project, and much of his correspondence is taken i'i with denunciations of it, ..'- : i f i ? j/.vnu o vtiii) I aim ui lip])CillS to tllC lending republicans to stop Brown or todcnounce him. It appears by this correspondence that among the persons to whom ho denounced the Harper's Ferry project a year and a half ""is Senator Win. II. Seward.-? Tie had an interview with that. Senator in Washington city, in May, 1858, and, as appears by one of his letters, be went fully into the wholo matter. Again, he bad interviews with Sumner and Hale also in Washington. Forbes's letters indicate another thing, and that is that speculation in tho rise of cotton bad something to do with the Harper's Furry outbreak. 'I be correspondence says Old Drown told Forbes that a member of tho house of liHwrence, Stone & Company, (celebrated for tho 8H7,000 frcewool movement in Con cress, a f<>w vmn n J-, . ? -J had promised him 88,000 if he succeeded iu his Harper's Kerry d;is"h. But Forbes dcnounccd the project. The first letter is addressed to 11 F. B. Sanborn, Concord, Mass."?tho " I?\ H, S." from whom Brown acknowledged several remittances of money, and who is, or was, the Secretary of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society. The following head note is prefixed to tho letter:' " On the 27th Pcccmbor T wrote to Senator Charles Sumner, at Boston^ requesting hint to sec what could bo done in the caflo. The copy was not taken. Mr. Sumner transmitted the letter through Dr. Ilowo m- -l - * w mi. .xiiiuuiii, nuu icpuuu ( isr. lan.) alleging ig.'.orunoe of my engagement with Captain Brown." Tho next letter is the *anic person, and 1h prefaced hy the following head note : On the lfitb of Juuuary Mr. Sauborn Y ' , ? -7-TTT "T.? 'f . replied to mine of the 9th. Ifc explained . that ho had done much to aid the cause ; i that he had causcd 8?JOUO in money >in<l i arms to bo given to Captain 15.. also ?5.000 to bo voted to him hy the Chicago Comi mittce, of which he hud received 8500; . also, had done many othe r things of a sim> ilur nature?ys 3000 recently, for ' secret service"?adding that, if lie had known of . the engagement between Captain I?, and I myself, he would have supported my wife > and children, rather than allow what has happened to take place. , It appears that Brown and Forbes were > brought cn rapport hy one of thcrevereud editors of the New York Independent? , that is He v. .Joshua Ticavitt. It in due to Senator Seward to add that Forbes, in reference to his having gone into the whole matter to that senator, says ho (the seim tjr) expressed regret that he had been told, . ami said that he in his position ought not . to have been informed of the eircumstan, ees." To Senator Hale, in ills interview . | at \\ ash in tit on Vovimo ?.??.?. i?? i: > * o.no UVJ UIU not (Ml j tcrinto the ttfctnil.?of .John Brown's projects but of the othev mutter*. Forbes says ho scut letters to (' j.vrnor Chase, who found money; and (low PMuhcr, who contribu-. ted arms. ' Tiik IIarvkh's Fkurv Atrocity?A SensiiujK Dbduction.?We make the fol1 lowing extract from an editorial in the New I York Timet?: , In and of itself it is simply an an^ry meteor shot athwart the sky, by wluoli slaveholders and slaves alike seem to have' been not unreasonably appalled, and which ? ii - VT- *' " ' u..o o>?iui:u nit; ixmn, wo iooi warranted J in saying, quite nsthoroughly as the Mouth. ( Jt-is a portent certainly nut to be lightly , pondered, that s.ich a grotesquely frightful p episode should have boon possible in ourcurI rent history; but if wenro to profit by the shock it has administered, we must honestly look the fact in the face, that this occurrence shows us, as nothing else could, what vast possibilities of evil sleep in our angry , sectional politics. NV? have boon suffering the extremists of one and other party to ( po on trading for years in the fiercest of I internecine passions as composedly as if no mischief could over come of such light 4 matters to so jrroat a nation a? ours. 31 ad I John Drown has done >!ic State this ser( vice at least, that he linn dashed this false , and foolish confidence in pieces. If we ) are not really the blindest people that ever ( existed, and judicially set apart for defitruej tion, we ought now to begin to sec that the I most important political work we have to ( do is to combine as one people in the re? solvo to put this tremulous social question I of slavery out of the reach of parti/,an agitators. It is a madness, to which the mad4 ne.ss of Johtf* Drown was statesman-like . good acn.?<e, to trifle any longer in caucuses t and conventions with issues so full of the very life's blood of one great section of ( the Confederacy. The South owes it to herself to pre*.* this view of the matter j calmly upon the Northern mind ; and she . j may rest assured that her appeal to the practical conservatism of the free States will not be made in vain, if it be made tem pcrateiy, earnestly and in pood faith. 1 IIoRiunr.it: Murdeh.?We have received a communication from Mr. T. 11. Collins, Coroner of Orangeburg District, informing us of an inrjuest. held on Monday, the 25th, on the body of Franklin Brown, a young lad only four years of age, who was most cruelly murdered by sumo unknown persons. Deceased was the only child of Mrs. Klizabeth Brown, who, for somo time past, has been vesiding with Mrs. 1 II. ii. Jennings, of Orangeburg, nea. whose residence the mutilated body of the lad was found on Monday night. Tin- coroner and the jury thoroughly investigated ine manor, Dut wo regret to say that nothing was clicited to throw any lipht on the mysterious murder ef the poor little inno1 cent. The wounds were on the head of tho child, and were such as must have Caused immediate death. Verdict?" That Franklin Brown was murdered by eov.xc. person or persons to tho jury unknown." [Citdrlcatnn Mircury. IIorriih.e MuanF.u in Y.wev.?A liloody affray occurred at Barnsville. in the adjoining County of Yanov. on FrW'av n'nrlit. In?t bt tweeI) liig Jim B ion anilC 11. A. l'\ Koith. which resulted in the dofith of the latter.? The circumstances our informants state wore about as follows: Keith had enteredn room in a hotel about midnight, and having lighted bin pipe floated himself on the side of a bed. when Boon entered the room, and after a few angry words B. caught K. by the hair and throw him on, the lloor, and with a largo knifo indicted some nine or ten stabs in the throat, breast and buck : either one of which it was supposed would have proved fatal.? H<J expired in a few minutes after, and was found weltering in his blond. Boon made his eseapo and is supposed to have made for Tonnossoe. A toward of $100 is ofl'orod by tho County. Court, and tho Governor will, iip doubt, offer $2.?0 more for his apprehension.?Abbeville (.V. C.) Xrirs, 3d. The Fubk Coi.onF.i) Peopi.k.?Tho Xulioiutl lulcUifjenct r?ay? it in proper to lie mentioned, | among tlio other incidont* of tho time, thivt on Tuesday la*t. when tlie excitement on tho ! subject of tho Ilurjier's Ferry insurrection won at ita highest, a eommitteo which had ! boon deputized l?y the free oolored population of Georgetown. wailed upon the Mavor if that town, and ro?pcotfully prolforod him ; their united end thorough co-operation In any service in which ho might rco lit to employ them in *ho preservation of the public order and peaco. New hrooiu.s clcun. I, ; j i mi Baltimore Rowdyism. There \v:ih sirs error in the transcription of tlio dispatch published yesterday morning relating to the Baltimore election.? We liave tlio following further items concerning this disgraceful lawlessness : IIAl.'i'l Molt Nov. 2,1-5 p. in.*?1The election solar to-day has been a bloody one.? Tlie reformers have been driven from the polls in some of the wards, tho rowdies taking complete possession. In others there is a great deal of fighting, some pevj sons killed and many w< unded. 11 is feared the worst has not yet been reached. Xoykiwukk 2, !> p. m.?Mr. l'reston, j the Democratic candidate in the Third I lislrift. \r;in lii/llv liont.." ?i-~ i? ' vvuivn u>v:i VI1U JIUilU with a bill;*. In tlit; seventh word tlio reformers left the polls in the hands of the rowdies. NoVKMMSH, 2, 9.-1 .r) p. in.?It is impossible to give a list of the outrages cominit; tod in Hultiinore to-day. The reformers, after being driven from all but two of the i wards, abandoned the whole city to the dominant party. So far as reported only | two persons were killed outright, and three mortally wounded. A largo number of J persons were beaten, many of them peri| ously, besides a number of minor outrages, ! not positively ascertained where or by j whom committed. It is reported that Mr. Preston has been nRX!i*?in-i??fl \? ! ! accounts lie was lying at Barnum's Hotel. I 'J'lic streets arc deserted, except by the victorious party. A large delegation of l'lug i lTf?lics from Washington assisted in thOBe trntrnges. Further from Baltimore"Wc Vw^vo the following additional items f^oin the l*^ltimore election on Wednesday: .I'at.timoSh Nov. 2.?Itbecamc evident j early in the day,.that scenes of rioting and [ j bloodshed would *^nrk the election. At , I noun, i nc reports fr&m tho various wards | showed that the RefonS^rs stood nc chance of securing an impartial >010. Tlifi '5(1 ward was blookeuNm by rowdies and tho police wem inactive. In the 10th ward, tho rowdies (Siupelled the Reformer .J udgo of the election tblpave the polls, and all the Reform votes w?r<> driven away, beaten and otherwise maltroal ted. | Tn tho 1 f>th wards, Adam R. Kyle, a merchant of Hanover street, was shot and killed, and < !co. Kyle, hia brother, danger- I onsly shot. In t lie 15th ward, tho Reformers resist- | cd with fire-arms, and one of the notorious ' rowdy leaders was killed and two others ; WOUnded. Two Reformers wow wmnwLO I In tho 10th ward, tho Reformers were driven off. In the ISth ward, tho rowdies were in full possession, and one of tho Reformers was severely beaten. In the 5th ward, the Reformers were driven oil' early. A son of Joshua Vnnsnlit was .severely beaten. Shots wore fired, ; but with harmless result. In the 1st, 2d and 1th wards the rowdies had the voting all to themselves. In the 12th ward, the rowdies had a , swivel and drove off all the Reformers. In this and the 15th ward, pangs of rowdies j from Washington, aided those of this city, j In the last named ward a boy was mortally j .l. i <i v I Mini 111 me urease. I These arc only a portion of the incidents. 1 | In most of the wards, the Reformers wore ; I assaulted, beaten and maltreated. In the 11th ward, a stronghold of the ' j Reformers. Gen. McGill,n prominent Ive- ! | former made a speech and announced the i withdrawal of Mr. John II. Thomas, Re| candidate for State Attorney. The | Reformers ihcn nil withdrew, linding it iin| possible to accomplish anything. j Win. 1\ Preston, Democratic Candidate i for Congress in the 5>d district, is now ly| in? at Rarnum's Hotel, having been badly beaten with a billy over the head. The assault :k said to have occurred in the 7th i ward. 8kcoxp dtspatrit. ! Uat.ttmon i**, Nov. 2.?0] o'clock, P. .M.?At 15 o'clock, Hr. Robinson, of the I Central Reform ( nuinittee, came to the j ! 12th ward pull, and announced that the Re- ' funnel's were beijig driven from every ward except that and the 7th, and counselled those there to withdraw, to avoid further bloodshed; whereupon, I>r. Thomas, Rci form Judge of election, retired, and the j contest was abandoned. 1 Previously, the I Reformers throughout the city withdrew, ; leaving the polls in the hands of the rowdies. Numerous leports of minor outrnires on private rights of citizens arc in circulation ; in the several wards. In the 2<1 vird, a (jrOrinnn was shot in ! tlic hip. Tn iho r?th, a man whoso name is unknown, was dreadfully beaten The most reliable account is, that Win. P. Preston, candidate for Congress, was assnultcd at (?ovanstown, in Baltimore county. One account says he was beaten by an Irishman. There are so many reports that it is difficult to arrive at the truth. Mr. Ivvle was shut, in din ir?. > living an hbursinco, but in a hnpelesHeon- I dition, us tlx: ball is buried in his brain. Tbo streets nro nearly deserted to tii?rht, ' except, hy the victorious party. All tbo I stores clo^od nt Oavk. Tbo .proprietor of tbo Daily Kse.hanir? i having been threatened with assault of his J nllico, made a demand on the city authorities for protection. Til I UP DJSI'ATCU. ' B^LTiMOPtfyffov. 2?11 o'clock, P. M. 0 0 ?Tim Ahum'leans arc rejoicing over their victory. The III formers deny that ai.13 tl?i?i<r liUo an election lias taken place. All the olliccrs being on the same ticket, it will be late before returns are received. In the 17th ward, the average American vote is 800; the highest Reform foto is 24. Mr. Kyle died at 0 o'clock to-night. Make a Note of It. The following communication, from tho l'ee Dee ((Svorgetown, S. ('.) Timm, will, when taken in connection and linkedwwith the marked maps of Brown and coadjutors. be well understood : " Mr. I'ditor :?- Inclosed I hand you a letter clipped from the Charleston Courier of tlic 21th. Jt is addressed to Alou/.o (i. Bradley, Kso., and was found among tho papers that have recently turned up at Harper's Kerry. Some time in July or August last an individual who subscribed tu.s name -J. W. Bradly, made his appeared in our town and took up his abode at one of our hotels. He said he had becu a' practieiug lawyer in New York, and had come to Georgetown for his health, whero he intended to remain six months, and had no objections during this period to engago in teaching, or in the more arduous labors of his profession. lie applied for a situation as teacher to one or two gentlemen, and perhaps proposed a law co-partnership with others. 1 le was without any letters of rccommendatton when he arrived, and afterwards obtained only one such lotto from a man in New York, lie, of course, procured no situation. " Pnring his stay here lie amused himself by seeking information in a general way about the population, habits, itc., of tl?> .....i " ' * mill no UIUKVIIH. I1C lind conic, ho said, by the-advice of his physician, to remain six months, and lie intended to do so?at all events he would stay until! the Charleston Convention. He was a devout attendant at church, &c. So matters stood untill the report of the Harper's Ferry difficulty became public here. He immediately took passage in the staaco for the railroad. He was told on Friday last that he was rn object of suspicion by tt>e citizens. He replied that it n ade no diiTbtonco, as be had already taken bis passage* for the stage of that evening? but for th*t he would st.ty and see it out.? ile repaired to his hotel, and after an Hour s absences returned and said to the gentlemen with whom the previous conversation had occurred, that lie had made up his mind to remain lu town untill Monday evening, and if the citizens desired it, they could search him or his ofleets. No search was entered upon, for the hour's ubsoncc at his hotel had probably put matters beyond the reach of buccessful search." " The accounts which reached our town on Saturday morning stated, in jel'erenec to the Harper's Ferry affair, that sundry letters and documents had been found among the papers of the insurgents, arid our peregrinating attorney took French leave o! the place on Saturday evening without footing his hill at the hotel. May not, therefore, Alonzod. Bradley be J. W. Bradley (?) tho abolitionist to whom tho inclosed letter is addressed ? And if so, does it not stand us in hand to woleonic all such strangers hereinafter to " hospital graves?" There is little doubt among the citizens that this fellow was an emissary in our midst. But as Usual, we have waked up too late. Is it not a warning to keep ever ready and on tho watch tower?with our senses about us and our powder dry? Bradley is n tall spnre-built man, complexion rather florid, withsiinrp features?what is usually called " hatchet face"?dresses very common, anil wor.i wliil?? > - comical old white luit. lift left for tho Northeastern Railroad on Saturday night la^-t, and may have gone towards Charleston, as ho was particularly anxious when hero tolenrn somctbingnbout J lean fort District." In the same connection, we clip the following paragraph from thcChcraw (ln/otte, from which it will be seen that incendiary documents have boon passing through tho mails in that vicinity, and that public attetioii had been called to the fact : " Within the past few months wo liavo seen intercepted documents from more than one abolition State, announcing that such a conspiracy existed, and that the time was soon to come for its consumption. Tlieso documents have been circulated through flu mails, and could hardly have entirely escaped the scrutinizing eyes of Post Mastors. One of these documents, to our knowledge, was gent to tho l'ost Master (!oneral,an his attention particularly directed to its fiendish contents. Why has not some action been taken by that Department to arrest these treasonable plot tings?" a Distinction with I'iitki :k\tk.-"Yo? "vo no wife, ( bclirve?" hi*.i<l Mr, I'lunk to bin neighbour. "No, Fir," wns iho reply, "I never wan married." " All !" fluid Mr. lilaek, " von are a happy ?lo^!" A short time alter. Mr. Blank. aiIdro*.'?inj5.n married man, said : " You have a wife, nil* ?" " Yos, sir a wifo and three children." " Indeed," t*uhl Mr. Wank, "r^u aro a hftp"py man!4' "Why, Mr. lllank," said ono of the e.impany. " jour remarks' to I lie ma-rifd and the nninnrriod seem to conflict flomeAvhat." " Not at all? II ?!? fi ... ? rr . . ..? % ,U ?? ?. oil. j II* IV? 10 a (UIK-M.IM O IU Uljf statements. i'lease be more observing, sir. I wild the man who hail no w ife wuh a " happy dog." and the man who hud a wife was ft ' Imppy man." Nothing donflicting, sir? nothing nt nil. I know what I s?y, sir f"