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| ' " ^ ^ ' ' i " _ jj ^ 11 1 ' , 1 './^ m i 1 ^ lewisk.grist,Proprietor, J Ail Independent Journal: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the South. j?mabut* VOL. 5. YOEKVILLE, 8. O., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 34,1859. * ~ -r IpsdlantM From the New York Observer. USING UP A PASTOR'S TIME, Exacting Woman: Unreasonable Men: Returning Calls: Anecdotes in Point. BY REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D. People generally have no idea of mental labor. They know it takes some time to make "* a pair of shoes, or a hat, or a coat, or a table, or to plow a field, or to baild a shed, bat they have np idea of the time or labor it requires to prepare a good sermon. As it may be preached in forty or fifty minates, they suppose it may be prepared in twice that time. When told that some sermons have taken their authors a week, and even a month, to write them, they seem amazed ! They think a minister has bat little to do who prepares only two sermons a week, and ? * 4 3 il 1 preaches them on ounaay : ado tney nave no sympathy with the minister who says, "I am not prepared," when called to preaoh on a sadden emergency They know all about physical labor, but nothing about mental.? They know something about raising a heavy weight, but they know nothingabout the construction of an argument, or the refutation of a popular and plausible error, or the placing of a controverted truth in a light which convinces all. In fine, the multitude have no conception of mental labor; and hence people are so reckless as to the squandering of the time of their minister! There are men of peculiar mental habits who can write a sermon in a very short time, having previously well digested the matter of it. Such a one is the Rev. Dr. , one of the best and most popular preachers of the Church. But ordinarily to write one good sermon a week, and meet faithfully his other duties, fills up the time of a pastor; to write two, if they are worth hearing or worthy of himself, fills it to an overflow. And yet there are those who are never satisfied unless they are frequently visited, and who consider the minister as wasting his time when not abroad among his people. No minister can satisfy the desire for family visitation. Some are satisfied with a visit once a year, bat some require one weekly. There is less piety than vanity in this. They wish to be considered intimate with the minister, and have more of his regard and confidence than others. And some ministers are sednced into these frequent visitations by the adulation with which they are greeted, as flies are attracted by the blaze of a candle. They should be esteemed highly in love for their work's sake, but regard for their work should prevent abstracting their time from it. And a minister, like a physician in large practice, should be required to visit his people only when there is a call for it. "Why do you not come to our Btore and read the paper in the morning, as did our old minister?" said a merchant to his newly-settled pastor. "Because that was not inserted in my call, and 1 have other duties in the morning," was the sensible reply.? The old minister wasted his time, and wore himself out as a preacher. "I thought you were never coming to see us again," said a pleasant lady to her minister no Via oftllarV nna aftarnnnn. ?Hnw long since I have been here ?" he asked.? "Why, not for a month," she replied. "And suppose," said he, "I were to visit eaoh of my three hundred families once a month, that would make thirty-six hundred visits a year, and would you kill me by asking me to make as many?" "Oh no," she replied, "I would only have you visit us once a month, as you know we are special friends. Once a week or once a day would not be too often for ics." And there are a great many such frivolous people connected with every congregation, who are never satisfied with their minister unless he is what they call "sociable," but which really means idle; and the thirst of such, like every vitiated, appetite, increases with the supply. "I thought you had entirely forgotten me," said a lady afflicted with chronic disease to her pastor as he entered her room. "How long since I have been here ?" he asked. "I have been counting the days, and it is now nearly three weeks,' she replied. "One of the elders, and only one of the deacons, have been here in the meantime," she continued: "I like them very tuuob, but they are not my minister." She was truly pious, and thonght of her minister very much in the way that Dr. Lowth thought of the bishop to whom he thus dedicated his work on Daniel: "To the Most Reverend Father in God, William, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, and one of his Majesty's Honorable Privy Council," and to whom he says, "This might afford me a proper occasion to draw a parallel between hi3 (Daniel's) and your grace's accomplishments." But that was no reason why she should tax minister, elders, and deacons to eratifv he thirst for visitation. Indeed, such a thirst seems to be a part of the disease of some nervous people, who imagine that they should be the great objects of a ministers solicitude, as they are of their own, and who would squander the time of a pastor to gratify their selfish longings. "Why, I have not seen you for a long while," said a parishioner to his pastor, as he oalled to see him, plaoinga drawling emphasis on the word "long," so as to run it into two or three years. "I have been thinking," said the pastor, "how long it is since you have called on me. I have been here ten years; how often have you been to see me ?" "Indeed," said he, "I have never called, but I will soon." "When you think the time two long since you have seen me," said the pastor, "just call at my house; I will always be glad to see you, and will be always ready toshow myself without charge." Incidents like these, sometimes very amusing, and sometimes not a little annoying, are to be found in the experience of everj pastor. There are many who place no more value oa his time than they do on that of a chambermaid. They must be visited daily when sick; they must swell the pomp of funerals?three, foor, or more?at any hour of the day; tbey must ride miles to the cemetery; they must render respeotable lectures and evening parties by their presence ; they must attend school examinations and be directors in all kinds of associations for moral and benevolent purposes. And by some they are expected to be members of clamorous conventions of all kinds of reforms; and if they deoline, they are denounced by reverend agents and secretaries, who take to these reforms for a living, as other people do to peddle razor-straps or patent medicines, as dumb dogs that cannot bark. Indeed, if pastors should yield to all the demands made on their time by unreaonnfthlA n?nnle. thev would have no time for ww? r?9 y the great work of the ministry. Merchants, and bankers, and lawyers, and mechanics have their daily hours for business; none think of interrupting them during those hours; if any do, they are told to call again. And why should not ministers be left to their regular hours, and to the full improvement of their time ? Why should parish loungers come to their study in the morning at nine o'clock, and, as they are going away at twelve, apologize for the intrusion by saying, "I hope I have not interrupted you ?" Parishes and people should place a right estimate upon the time of a pastor. He has to study much ; to give himself to reading; to write muoh ; to visit the sick and the afflicted ; to oall upon strangers; to preach three or four times a week ; to direct the inquiring; to counsel in oases of difficulty; to take his part in the management of local and national institutions, all which require a kind of ambiquity in a man, who can be only in one place at a time. A man so occupied with important duties should not be asked to give an hour but for its worth.? I Ask him for his money, or for his books, or for his sermons, but do not ask him to squander his precious time. "I am sorry to have kept you waiting these fifteen minutes," said a merchant to a minister as he stepped into his carriage, in which he had left him ; "but in those minutes I have transacted business to the amount of sevency-five thousand dollars." In the hour filched from the pastor, and for no purpose, he might have saved a soul. It requires time to do anything well; and if a people desire a pastor to be a workman of whom they need not to be ashamed, they I must spare bis time. If he does not improve it himself, they should kindly request | him to do so. .An idle minister can never be other than a poor pastor and proacher.? Idleness in the ministry should be treated as an immorality. An idle mind is the devil's workshop, irrespective of positions, professions, and trades. For reasons already given in these pages, it is emphatically so in the ministry. But when a congregation has a pastor disposed to make the best possible use of his time, they should encourage and enable him so to do, and be as sparing of it as he himself desires to be ; and when he is in want of books to make the best possible use of it. they should be promptly and generously supplied. "Send for what books you want, and have them charged to me, and make the best use of them," sard a wealthv parishioner to voung minister of tal ents and industry on his settlement. That one act made him a benefactor of the world, as it enabled that young minister to enter on a course of study whose results are known and read of all men. Ordinarily, the mornings of every day should be left undisturbed to the pastor.? Calls, funerals, all parochial duties, should be in the afternoon. There should be a common law, admitting of necessary exceptions, on this matter. Some pastors lock themselves up in the morning; some see those who call with pen in hand or behind their ear; some hang a card on their door, with the sentence on it, "Be short!" for the admonition of intruders; but we like the honest plan of Dr. Green, who admitted everybody that called, never asked them to sit down, asked them what they wanted, and the moment the business was ended, gently waved his hand toward the door, saying, "I am just now occupied " This we consider an example worthy of imitation. If a people will not duly regard the time of pastors, they should take its protection into their own hands. This may not satisfy the persons that like their minister to be "sociable;" that is, to spend his afternoons in visiting and tea drinking; but its benefits will be apparent to all in his preparations for the pulpit, and in the masculine energy with which he performs his duties. There cannot be a doubt but that the want of emphasis in the ministry of many rural parishes is owing to the way in which the people fritter away the time of their pastors for no purpose, or drive them from their studies by their pe : ?~i. ? : j uuriuusu^da IU sujjpieujeuo uu luaucijuaiu salary by some worldly employment. The work of the ministry is a great work, and difficult in its performance, and diligence in its prosecution should be in the proportion of its greatness and difficulty. If parishes knew what is for their own interest, they would not squander the time of their pastors. They would prefer good sermons to social visits. The people that want a parish gossip should hire one for that purpose, and relieve the minister from the endless task. Follow tiie Right.?No matter who you are, what your lot, or where you live ; i you cannot afford to do that which is wrong. The only way to obtain happiness and pleasure for yourself, is to do the right tbiug.? You may not always hit the mark ; but you should, nevertheless, always aim for it, and i with every trial your skill will increase.? Whether you are to be praised or blamed for it by others ; whether it will seemingly make you richer or poorer, or whether no - other person than yourself knows of your i action ; still, always, and in all cases, do the > right thing. Your first lessons in this rule will sometimes seem hard ones, but they will grow easier, and easier, until, dually, doing the right thing will become a habit, and to do a wrong will seem an impossibility. # THE WORKING MEN. This nation owes everything to her working men. Idlers, men of leisure or drones, have been an inoubus, which must have held her back and ruined her, but for the powerful intellects, the stalwart arms and the enterprise of our working men. They are the true nobility of the land, whose wise counsels, untiring industry and indocaitable energy, have pushed her forward with giant strides, among the nations of the earth. In this classification we include men of all work; whether it be the labor of the intelleot or tbe physical man. Degradation of position does not inhere necessarily to either class. The man who labors with bis hands, or delves and toils under the pressure of manuel labor, is as much a man, nay, as much a gentleman, other things being equal, as the man who labors with his mind, closed in from the burning rays of sun, or sheltered from the chill winds and rains of mid-winter.? Both are working men, and are equals, if they be .men of sound principles and virtuous habits ; or both are equal if alike degraded by vicious conduct. The conventional and irrational rules of society, unsound as it has become, we know, make distinctions where there is no difference; stamping with honor and position men who belong to that class of working men, whose employments are intellectual, and too often branding with disgrace those who labor with their hands, and from whose brow flows the sweat of toil. But who does not see the injustice and baseness of this ? Does the vaoOtion of a doctor, a lawyer, a merchant, possess any intrinsic excellence per se, over the vocation of a mechanic? We think not. All are essential to the well-being of society, and equally so?yet superior wealth have raised the one, while the lack of these have depressed the other. Yet the poor laborer is a more important fixture, in ? r\f flifl nfhprQ ? SULLiC ICOpUUUSj tuau cibugi v& vuv His bands feed and clothe and provide the conveniences and luxuries of life for them. Without him, time and meaDS would be denied them for the pursuit of knowledge or wealth. Indeed, if there be wealth and intelligence and happiness and prosperity in the land, we owe it to that class of men who are not too indolent or too much ashamed to obey the divine command, to work with tbair own hands. Every man should work. His owa health and virtue, and happiness, and the good of society, demand it. Labor, in no sense, is degrading. But there arc disabilities connected with manuel labor which often lead to degradation and ruin. Men whose lot or choice may be to engage in the mechanical or agricultural pursuits, should be placed in position in early life to acquire intelligence, to receive the bias and bent of a virtuous education, so as to fit them to take positions in society, which they can rightful ly claim, because ot their essential impor tance to mankind. Intelligence and virtue are as precious in the rude sailor, the blacksmith, the shoemaker, the tailor, and all other laboring men, as in the more privileged walks of life ; and these should entitle mechanics to positions of honor and influence, and as high as any other living men. Let the working men of the land look to these objects, and labor to promote them. Benefit of Agricultural Fairs.? Every thing from the lips of Daniel Webster still continues to be read with interest. The following is an extract from an Address of his, delivered at the Annual fair of the Norfolk Agricultural Society, at Dedham, Massachusetts, in the year 1819 : "The principle of Association?the practice of bringing men together bent on the same general end, uniting their intellectual and their physical efforts to that purpose, is a great improvement in the present age. We saw it years ago?perhaps I raight say centuries ago. It began in the professional associations of the world?in the legal, the medical, the theological. But it was long in that country and in this, before the principle of combination came to be acted up an in the great system of Agriculture?before it was brought to that purpose of life?agriculturists were brought to act in unison. And the reason is obvious. In the city, communities strive together. The merchant and ship owners can come together at the sound of a bell. The mechanics, generally living -? ? 1 ?1- onma TK/iv ID populous piclCCS Ilioj uu iuc oaujc. j have the opportunity of interchanging sentiments every hour, and what one knows, all know, and what is the experience of one, all soon become acquainted with. But the agricultural population is scattered over all | the fields of our country. Their labors and their toils are in some degree isolated. They are in the midst of hills and valleys, and the recesses of every solitary forest. There is no change for them to assemble upon at noon. There is no Athaeneuras for them to meet in the evening and converse on their interests. "Why, gentlemen, every one obtains a very great portion of all that he knows in this world, by conversation, intercourse with other miuds, is the general soul of most of our knowledge. Books do sometimes, but every man has not opportunity to read. It is conversation that improves. If any one of us here to-day, learned or unlearned, should deduct what he has learned by conversation from what he knows, he would find but little left, and that little not of the most valuable kind. It is conversation?it is the meeting of men face to face, and talking over what they have in common interest? it is this intercouse that makes men sharp, intelligent, ready to communicate to others, and ready to receive information from them and ready to act upon those only which they receive by this oral communication. Therefore, if there were not a thing exhibited, if there were not a good pair of steers, nor a fine horee, nor a likely cow, in ; . - " 77*vr ' ? * ' . the whole country, if there be ladies, wives aod daughters?if there be those connected with tho tillage of the land, I say that those annual meetings are -highly important to progress in the art to which they refer. I came as a poor farmer, to meet with better farmers, to receive from them any intimation their experience may teach, and desirous only of suggesting something for their reflection which now or hereafter may draw it usefully to something in the agricultural art. Boy Soldiers.?A-correspondentin the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, writing from Zurich, thus speaksof the Cadets, by which are meant the boys in the public schools: In one of my recent letters, when explaining the Swiss military system I men? t . lL.1 11 __A tioned the cadet institution?mat excellent preparatory school for the Swiss army, and for future officers especially. The Zurich cadets number about 600, varying in age from 10 to 18 years. They wear grey pants, blue coats and military caps, and are armed with muskets, bayonets being of different sizes according to the stature of the little soldiers. Besides, they have a field battery of 2 two-pounders and 2 four-pounders.? Their officers of lower rank, including lieutenant^ are selected from their own midst, while their instructors and commanders are officers of the Swiss army. Two days ago the Zurich cadets were inspected by the chief o the staff of the federal army, Col. Ziegler, going through all the military exeroises with a precision folly equal to, if not surpassing many troops of full grown soldiers, and afterwards they performed a field manoeuvre, or a sham battle, at a little distance from the city of Zurich, the outlines of the manoeuvre being given by the inspect -~ "P^r. T>tirnna? fhpw WPTP 1 UiUUCIO* X'Ui tUUV J/v?? b>vuw tr ?- ? divided into two corps, each of them commanded by a colonel of the Swiss army.? The idea of the manoeuvre was this: the vanguard of the invading army approaching Zurich, a detachment of the Swiss army was sent against it, when a battle ensued, the Swiss attacking first; but the attack being repulsed, the enemy on its turn went over to a charge, and compelled them to retreat; the Swiss, however, taking a strong position and offering a vigorous resistance, the enemy desisted and broke off the battle. The battle commenced at three o'clock, P. M., and lasted until 4 J, the young warriors fighting gallantly all the time, each of them con-1 suminpabout 40 cartridges. After the combat was finished, both armies were led to a public garden, where they received some re- J freshments, including a bottle of wine for | each of them, wh;ch disappeared rather quickly, more so than even the cartridges. ' The whole affair was a very interesting, and { at the same time a very useful entertainment. Fixedness of Purpose.?When a child is learning to walk, if you can induce the little creature to keep its eyes, fixed'oh any point in advance, it will generally 'navigate,' to that point without capsizing; but distract its attention by word or act from the object before it, down goes the baby. This rule applies to children of a large growth. The man who starts in life with a determination to reach a certain' position, nnd adhere un waveriDgly to his purporse rejecting the advice of the over cautions, and defying the auguries of the timid, rarely fails, if he lives long enough, to reach the goal for which he set out. If circumstances oppose him, he bends them to his exigencies by the force of energetic, indomitable will. On the other hand, he who vacillates in his course, 'yawing,' as the sailors say, towards all points of compass, its pretty sure to become a helpless castaway before his voyage of life is half completed. There can be no question among philosophic observers of men and events, that fixedness of purpose is a grand element of human success. Weather-cock men are Natures failures. They are good for nothing. Better downright pig headed obstinacy than eternal vacillation ; better willful blindness to danger, however menacing, hesitancy which is forever weighing the possibilities of defeat against the chances of victory. The men of action, whose names are written imperishable on the page of history, were men of iron. Silky fellows may do for intrigue; but the founders, and conquerors, and liberators, and saviors of empires have all been of the warrior metal. No human being, who habitually halts between two opinions, who cannot decide promptly, and having decided act as if there was no such words as fail, can ever be great. Caesar would never have crossed the Kubicon, nor Washington the Delaware had they not fixed their stern gaze on objects far beyond the perils at their feet. The Bright Side.?Look on the bright side. It is the right side. The times may be hard, but it will make them no easier to wear a gloomy and sad countenance. It is the sunshine and not the cloud, that makes a flower. There is always that beforo or around us which should cheer and fill the heart with warmth. The sky is blue ten times where it is black once. You have troubles, it may be. So have others. None are free from them. Perhaps it is as well that none should be. They give sinew and tone to life?fortitude and courage to man. That would be dull sea, and the sailor would never get skill, where there was nothing to disturb the surface of the ocean. It is the duty of every one to extract all the happiness and enjoyment he can, without and within him ; and, above all, he should look on the bright side of things. What though things do look a little dark? The lane will turn, and the night will end in broad day. In the long run, the great balance rights itself. What is ill becomes well?what is wrong, right. Men are not made to hang down either heads or lips, and those who do, only show that they are departing from the paths of true common sense and right.? There is more virtue in one sunbeam than a whole hemisphere of clouds and gloom.? Therefore; we repeat; look oa the bright side ! r " ? ?1 . - : of things. Cultivate what is warm and genial?not the cold and repulsive, the dark and morose.?Anon. Singular Tradition ?Among the Seminole Indians there is a singular tradition regarding the white man's origin and superiority. They say that when the great Spirit made the earth, he also made three men, all of whom were of fair complexion; and that, after making them, he led them to the margin of a small lake and bade them leap therein and wash. One imme'diately obeyed, and came up from the water purer than before; the second hesitated a moment,-duringwhich time the water, agitated by the first, bad become slightly muddy, and when he "had bathed he came up copper-colored; the third did not leap in till the water became black with mud, and he came out with his own color. Then the Great Spirit laid before them three packages of bark, and bade them choose; and, out of pity for his misfortune in color, cave the black man the first choice. He took bold of each of the packages, and haviog felt the weight, chose the heaviest; the copper-colored one then chose the second heaviest, leaving the white man the lightest. WheQ the packages were opened, the first was found to contain spades, hoes and all the implements of labor ; the second enwrapped hunting, fishing and warlike apparatus ; the third gave to the white man, pens, ink and paper?the engine of the mind ?the mutnal, mental improvement?the social link of human ideas?the foundation of the white man's prosperity. Physical Benefit of the Sabbath.? The Sabbath is God's special present to the working men, and one of his chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. In the vital system it aots like a compensation pond ; it replenishes the spirit, the elasticity and vigor which the last 6ix days have drained away, and supplies the force whioh is to fill the six days succeeding; and, in the economy of existence, it answers the same purpose as, in the economy of income, is answered by a savings bank. The frugal man who puts away a pound to-day and another pound next month, and who, in a quiet way, is putting by his stated pound from time to time, when he grows old and frail gets not only the same pound back agaia, but a good many pounds besides. And the conscientious man, who husbands one day of his existence every week?who, instead of allowing the Sabbath to be trampled and torn in the hurry and scramble of life, treasures it devoutly up; the Lord of the Sabbath keeps it for him, and, in the length of days, the hale old age gives it back with usury. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabhath.? North British Revierc. A Constant Mtracle.?The Bible itself is a standing and an astonishing miracle. Written fragment bj fragment, throughout the course of fifteen centuries, under different states of society, and in different languages, by persons of the most opposite tempers, talents and conditions, learned and unlearned, prince and peasant, bond and free; cast into every form of instructive composition and good writing, history, prophecy, peotry, allegory, emblematic representation, judicious interpretation, liberal statement, precept, example, proverbs, disquisitions, epistle, sermon, prayer?in short all rational shapes of human discourse, and treating, moreover, on subjects not obvious but most difficult; its authors are not found, like other writers, contradicting one another upon the most ordinary matters of fact and opinion, but are at harmony upon the whole of their sublime and momentous scheme. The Census.?Everybody, at all conversant with newspaper literature, knows how much discussion has been wasted in deliberative bodies, and how much ink wasted in newspapers, upon the "startling disclosures of the census of 1850." At best it was a bundle of guess-work? nor could it well be otherwise. The censustaker had to labor against the ignorance, the indifference and the prejudice of the people, who, although they may be fond enough of asking questions, don't like to answer them. It is our duty as well as our interest, to know how much we have made upon our plantations in 1859, how many animals we have, their value, the cost of our fencing, cultivation, etc T At ARAxtt tnnn V?nr? tnrifo /Intun in q JLlCt CVOIJT Uiauj l/libuj nuw vivnu| ?u w memorandum book, all these facts, that he, or, in his absence, any member of his family, may be able to answer questions properly. "What is worth doiDg is worth doing well " Let us keep this in mind, and may be spared the mortification, in after years, of hearing our own agricultural condition and intelligence misrepresented.?Farmer and Planter. A Sermon on Mean Men.?Rev. W. R. Alger preached last Sunday, a discourse in Boston, on "Mean Men," of whom, we understand, there are a number of specimens in that city. The Sermon was founded on the following text: "The mean man boweth down."?Isaiah ii; 9. The preacher divided the "mean men" into three classes: 1. Aristoorats, who inherited wealth and position acquired by the industry of their ancestors, and who wished to appropriate all their resources to pampering themselves. 2. Beggars, who get a subsistence by wearying with their importunities, too mean to earn it themselves. 3. Knaves, consisting of fast livers, gamblers, bar-keepers, kc. A Louisiana paper, in recording the death by lightning, 'of two likely negro men,' says : 'The electric flnid of the clouds is no respecter of persons. It would as soon k'll a negro worth fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars, as a poor white man not worth the powder and lead that it took to blow his brains out.' -A \ y ?*/' V . . j&aT A French paper related ttie case of a ' young lady in Lyons, who waa engaged to i be murried, and who was predisposed to cor- . pulency. Some of her young friends ridi- 1 culed her stout figure, &c., which at the time i only excited her laughter. Her health sub- < sequently declined, and she finally died rath- i er suddenly. As there was no apparent cause i for snch a quick death, the account states "with grief the parents resigned themselves to having a post-mortem examinatioa. They then found what they had never before sua- i pected; her intestines were burned up by acids, which she had taken unknown to them, to stop the growing fatness, which reduoed her to despair. The young girl died the victim of rediculous vanity." THE INSURRECTION. Charlestown, November, 11. 1 TV? a (miaaaa/1 * r* /n f fhrt Pm/inif l uc piuwutuiuga ul iuv v;uuuib vuun ivi Jefferson county were brought to a close yesterday morning, after a session of three , weeks, which was occupied exclusively in the trial of the Harper's Ferry conspirators. ] The Circuit Court for Frederick county, ( over which Judge Parker presides, commerces to-day, and hence the necessity of j closing the term for the county. The term will long be remembered as the most interesting ever held here, five men having been tried and found guilty of the highest crimes known to our laws. The convicts, Cook, Coppie, Copeland and Green were brought out yesterday at 2 o'clock, to receive the sentence of Judge Parker. The Court room was crowded, and the anxiety to get another view of the prisoners was great. They were brought into Court by the deputies and placechin the bar, in a range of chairs facing the Judge.? Near Cook was seated Governor Willard and Mr. Crowley, both of whom seemed bending beneath the weight of sorrow this affair has cast over them and their families. The prisoners were then directed to stand up and asked if they had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon ?liAm PaaIt nn/1 Pftnnia tkon r>rAona^nrl fn tuciu. \juua ftliU VUppiG l/IIUU w deliver short addresses, the former beiDg somewhat vehement in his manner of speaking, whilst the latter made a firm impression by his great and collective style of delivery. Both protested their ignorance of the attack on Harper's Ferry, until the Sabbath before the night of the attack, when they were called on to swear to obey the orders of their commander Brown. Coppie stated that he knew he would be punished for his foolhardy attempt, but be thought it should have been lighter than had been adjudged. The negroes declined saying anything. Judge Parker proceeded to deliver the sentence on the prisoners, which was received by them with great firmness. The sentence was that John E. Cook, Edwin Coppie, Shields Green and John Copeland :? Your trials, on which we have been so long employed, have at length ended, and all that remains to be done to complete these judicial proceedings, is to pronounce and record the judgments which by law must follow apon the crimes for which you have been tried, and of which you have been found , guilty. These crimes have all grown oat of a mad inroad upon this State, made with the predetermined purpose to raise in our midst the standard of a servile insurrection. In the execution of this purpose, in the darkness of a Sabbath night, you seized upon a portion of our territory, captured several of our best citizens?holding them as hostages of war until vour party was itself o overcome by force?armed such of our slaves as you could seize upon with deadly weapons, which they were to use against their owners, whom you denounced to them as their oppressors ;aud, iD your efforts to push your bold and unholy schemes through to a successful issue; you have taken human life in no fewer than five instances. The evi dence most abundantly proved that all these things have been done, and by the force of that evidence, jury after jury has felt itself compelled to bring in its verdict of guilty against eaoh one of you. Happily for the peace of our whole land, you obtained no support from that quarter whence you so confidently expeoted it. Not . a slave united himself to your party, but, so soon as he could get without the range of J your rifles, or as night gave him opportunity, made his escape from men who had come , to give him freedom, and hurried to place himself once more beneath the care and protection of his owner. When we reflect op- . on all the mischief and ruin, the dark and fearful crimes, which must have attended even your partial success?men everywhere should be thankful that you were so soon and so easily overpowered. For these offences, the law demands the penalty of death, and imposes upon me the duty of pronouncing that sentence. It is the most painful duty I have been called on to perform. In spite of your offence against our laws, j I cannot but deeply feel for you, and sin- ] cerely, most sincerely, do I sympathise with ? those friends and relations whose lives are f bound up in yours, and whose hearts will g be wrung with grief when they shall hear ( of the sad fate whioh has overtaken you, the ( objects of their warmest and holiest affec- , tions. For them we all do sorrow; whilst , due regard for our safety may not permit us to forgive the offence of which you have been guilty, I hope that they will turn for oonsolation, and you for pardon, to that good Being who in his wrath remembereth mercy. Make, then, your peace with him?for you must soon be ushered into His presence, there to be dealt with as His justice and His mercy may ordain. To conclude this sad duty, I now announce that the sentence of the law is, that you and each one of you, John E. Cook, Edwin Coppie, Shields Green and John Copeland, be hanged by the neck until you be dead; and that the execution of this judgment be made and done by the Sheriff of this county, on Friday, the sixteenth day of December next, ; upon you, Shields Green and John Cop^- i - - " ?? .... land, between the hoars of 8 and 12, noon, of that day?end ?pgo John E. Cook and Edwin Ceppie, bnfcweofe the hours of 12, -noon, and 5. in the afto* noon of same day. And the Opart hHaflt opinion that the execution of tirifl ipptfflpgr should be in pnblio, it is farther oedeyijL that this judgment be enforced and o^ecW ted, not in the jail yard, bat at mth poUft place convenient thereto as the said may appoint?and may GodhfW mercy-Upon the soul of each one of yoa. wlrm - During the delivery of the aeutonofc At* utmost silence was observed, and the sctiesa^ oity was very marked. A large nnmbetdc tlirt mmaatatam ?ant ao a]oa Jay] tl>a Til?11? tuc opQUMibUiO wvpvj po Piov u?ni we#v pqppp The prisoners were remanded to jfil? VfiBH to await the ezeoation of this jttdgme?M^ Correspondence of the Baltimore American. . r; . > t ,nv\? ' R* <jA m EXCITEMENT AT OHABLE*TQ3^fc Considerable excitement Mill pfefeilt Charles town, Ya., caused by BonerOWf-jM oendiary fires in the neighborhood, Mi ti belief among the inhabitants that emiipHoi af old Brown are stjU lingering about -The Mayor of Charlestown had issued the folhwto ing proclamation: "A Proclamation.?Whereas, j,tisde*pa ed prudent and right, by the Town Cooneit of Charlestown, that there shook! no loaget be permitted to remain in our town or aonfe ty, any stranger who oannotgive I'Stide tory account of himself, now, therefore^ Thomas C. Green, Mayor of Chatfoatwwa, do hereby proclaim, and. make koowiv-that all snob strangers must immediately .)ep? the town or oountv. and if that do sot oM member of the Town Council, the XmhI Sergeant, Col. Dav.'s, Laweon Botte, ?,.& Aequith, Welle, J Hawks, are requested to make it their apeeial boaineas to briogatdb strangers before the Mayor, or soma Julfra ot the Peace, to be dealt wiife eoOordU(&JO law; and the authorities of Rarpeff'ft.Jtaob Bolivar, Shepherdstown, or Middlewaj,~a&d all other authorities in the conety, arglgE* by requested to take like action." ... Thomas C. Green, Nov. 12, '59. Mayor of Cbatlertewv : On the appearanee of this proclamation, Mr. Hoyt, who had returned to the town, Mr. Sennott, one of the counsel for :the prisoners, and Mr. Jewett, connected with Frank Leslie's paper, received an intimation from Col. Davis that they were .Rmong. -the strangers whose presence wasnotulsfactary to the people, and that tbeir personal safety would best be secared by an early departure. Mr. Sennott declined leaving until he bad concluded his business. Jit. Hoyt bad already made arrangements for bis dfr parture before the proclamation appeared* and be, with Mr. Jewett, left.thfliw on Saturday. Mr. Jewett was suspected?nnjnst 1 j, he declares?of being the correspondent of the New York Tribaoe, whioh paper h? recently published some letters from Chat* lestown of an irritatiog charaoter. . insurrectionists in westtenni* see.?The Trenton Journal of the 10th stant, says: Recent developments l prm$ that Brown bad agents scattered throoghjtWi Tennessee and Kentucky. We have-feismi many rumors ahont Brown and his moos* plices in this Congressional TMntririf tto he had emissaries eanvasnng this portion or the State arming and preparing slaves Car rebellion. We see by the Memphis papers that a man named W. R. Palmer was ana* ted in that city, and sufficient proof, i%4tt gainst him to convict him as one of Brom2l acoomplices. Brown certainly has enu'sw ries in Wes^ Tennessee. A detective police from Nashville passed* through hern* few days since in search of one these scoundrels in Henry county; and in the neigkr borhood of Dresden, Weekly county, wears informed by a private sonroe that Jt school teacher, who was snspeeted of being a follower of Brown, and who in part acknowledged that he was, was ordered by the oittnttp to decamp, which he accordingly did. W# ire of the opinion that if any of these seowwirels are caught around here they will And this latitude rather too warm for an oAeef )f the 'Provisional Government.' r.rf "Almost every day some citizen brings to ibis oity captured runaway slaves. They >ay tbey have friends here who will free ;hem. Our citizens should be on the watoh, tod if they find an officer of the 'Provisiont] Government' among their negroes, they ibonld bang him to a tree as an example for legroes?yes, let them see how we tvat raitors" btg, "Kansas Work" at thr South.?rws vere informed, some days ago, by a gentlenan whose statements are entitled to oredit, bat seventeen gin houses, with their con? ants, have been destroyed in the course of .he last two weeks, in the county of Talbot done. The number repels all idea of aooilent, and especially when we recollect thiii ncendiarism was one of the plans of "old Brown," and that particular region was ipecialiy designated on his map. A farther itatement gives confirmation to this oonfcthlioa. A letter reached Milledgevi!Te,'a few lays ago, announcing the belief that a squad )f Brown's emissaries were concealed in the leighborhood of Rue Mountain, in Meti vether County, and that an express had jeen seat to Talbotton for a force to scour hat region aod capture the miscreants, if possible. There is but little donbt that detachments )f Brown's gang have traveled through and ict on foot, plans in nearly all the Southern States} but with due watchfolness on the part of our people, we do not think there is ;he slightest cause for alarm. A few bad jharacters may be seduced into such plots, )ut we have no idea that sufficient co-opera* ;ion could be obtained to inaugurate any;hing like a serious movement.?Savannah Republican. B6T" Nature knows no pause in progress ind development, and attaches her curse on ill inaction.