The New York Herald Newspaper, October 20, 1859, Page 3

Mich ity a tesblvagee thas toy wilt ote nied a "Aon he Presidency Vice fasney resid , thus fairly nominated by the Charketon Beare eae te the Treaental election, lican or abolition isdeien then the Souther i fogother, should recall their Senators and Representatives from tle: Oon- of the United States, and invite the ov-operation of ir sister Foutherm Siates to devise means for their com- mon safety. 4. But should the Charleston Convention refuse to de- elare and affirm tho rights of the South, aa deducible from the Dred Scott case, or nominate candidates who wiil not affirm and support them, then let the Southern States nominate and support pny pce of their own, plainly faithfully reflecting and supporting their Showa tie Southern Btates succeed in electing their candidates, thus nominated, of course they will Fa: panna ahaa for the present of their safety in inion. 6. But should the Southern States fail in electing the ee ee a ‘ees tig thy ae ‘eouyse be pursued as n suggested in case - mocratic party be defeated with candidates standing on the rights of the South, and the black republican or - tion candidates be elected, E The Registration of Voters Yesterday. ‘The Registrars of voters proceeded with their-work Yesterday in much the same manner as they did on Tues- ‘em are not Jarge enough.or suitable for the purpose for ‘whieh they are intended. The alphabetical pages are po few that they were compelied very often to register the ames on separate pieces of paper and insert them im-the vegular beok. It is asserted that in some of the wards the Registrars enly copy a part of the poll lists, leaving off the.names of persons not known to be all right. It is aleo stated that fhe ave received tnstructiona to Bec witias extieans vy te Mantioetc WON terns, tccnt, and adjourned snes on the Toceduy preceding esent, an to meet on ay ing te November election ; othérs of the Boards, how- ever, will meet to-day. M Our reporters experienced immense difficulties in ferret- Ing out the Registration localities. The aid of police offi- cers and private citizens was freely called in apd readily poniled i, but yet the result in moet inétances was but ‘ridiculous mues.”’ In some places the try had been ut up early in the day; in othere they never been , and in a few groseries named in the advertise- ment no one knew any thing about the concern. Every- Seer OR ee cae S Registration as a jolly good 0. ‘The Registrars desire that the public should know that ‘ne copy of the register will be left at eachtpoll in order hat volers may make corrections in the spelling of their names, residences, &c. We aubjoin the returns of the week thus fur, with the exception of twowarde. In the others the returns are nearly full, with but few exceptions:— For Comy Por Comptroller. Vote ‘Regis. Vole Regis. Wards. Dec. 1858. Wards. Dec., 1868. tered. aN 1,630 1,868 | 13. » 2,620 3,640 2. 446 1,651 3. 532 1/865 B00 Bae etd 6 2022 7 rt 4 reid ges 10. fe 020 n 3;699 eee 2, ++ 2,166 09,959 Parade of the Daniel E. Delavan Mus- ketcers. ‘The Daniel E. Delavan Musketeers, one of the most ex- tensive independent military corps of our city, made | Geir first annual parade yesterday, and vieited the Red House, Harlem. They assembled at an early hour at the ‘City Assembly rooms, No. 444 Broddway, where, pro- ‘curing muskets, they—under command of Major George B. Wall, and numbering about three hundred and fifty ‘mea, equipped im black coat and pants, blue caps and ‘white belts—were formed into line on Broadway. A troop efabout sixty men also accompanied them, James Ir- ving commanding. After the formation of the Bue the battalion, by companies, wheeled into Column, and, headed by Sbelton’s Bane, numbering iy led uj lway to Prince street, pass! Coates residence of Daniel E. Delavan, Esq. At Sullivan street they couvtermarched and proceeded to Broadway, thence to the Park, where they gaia @ march- ing salute to the Mayor and Common Council. At a little [oe dye, ag Raocamimaienen double care, on the rd Avenue Railroad line, and proceeded to Red House, which place they reached about one o’clock, Here a col lation was in waiting, and a3 soon as the battalion had re- freahed themselves they proceeded to fire at the target. Messrs. John N, Genin, Esq., Aldermen Bradley, Genet snd Boole, Wm. L. Proach, Esq., and Menry Arcularius acted a8 judges. Rifles were only used for firing, and but two bundred had fred when it bécame dark. aud it was imposcible to sre the target at any great distance. Further suaoling was therefore dispensed with, and the battalion again fell line and returning to the cars reached the city about o’clock. They proceeded to the City assembly rooms where they sat down to a sumptuous dinner. which was in waiting. Five tables, running the full length of the large ball room and one extending across, erected upon a platform, were spread with all the delica- tips of the season. At the main table were a large num- Yer of guests. Among others, Daniel E. Delavan, Fon. John Cochrane, Andrew V. Stout, City Chamberlain; ‘Garles Delavan, Captain Richard French, Thomas K’ Downing, John 8. Giles, Wm. D. Kennedy, General Elijah Ward N. Genin, Wm. L. Proach, and Deputy Super- Wntendent Carpenter, After the company had done Justice to the good things the health of Daniel E. Delavan oe proposed, which was drank with nine hearty ours. Mr. Delavan in return expressed himself highly hon- ‘ered for the handsomo manner they had received his Name, more especially coming as it did from go many of hie fellow citizens, 1: was gratifying to him also for the display a had made, turning out over four Bundred, which was to him a surety that as at the head of one of the public departments his Inbors had been appreciated. He alluded to the time when he was called upon to take possession of the City Inspector’s Department, and the state it was in at that time, He had now got it in working order and though ho had to say it himself he had never seen the streets in better order since he wasa boy. He had accepted the position and he intended to do his duty so long as he re- mained. In conclusion ho agked their united support in carrying out the arduous duties of his office. Hon. John Cochrane being honored with a toast re- sponded briefly, alluding in a very complimentary man- ner to the appearance of the Guard and their namesake, Daniel E. Delavan. The jralges here being ready to report the successful wipers, pomeeees. before the company, and Mr. Cor- nell, President of the Board of Councilmen, on behalf ef tho judges, stated that they would award the prizes to ‘bose who bad hit the target, and there being some thirty priges over and abovo the number that had hit the target, those pot having fired should draw for the balance o1 the prizes. ‘This seemed to give general satisfaction, and the judges fat once proceeded to call the fortunate marksmen. The prizes numbered in all about eighty-six. The first Prize, @ gold watch, presented by Mr. Delavan, was awarded to T. W. Kemble, as being the best marksman. Coroner O’Keefo took the second prize, a set of costly furs, and Thomas Rielly a gold watch, presented by the Mayor, the third prize. It was a late hour before ail the prizes were awardod, and the names of the euccessfui ‘winners in full could not be given. The Difficulties at San Juan—England Again Threatening the Tomahawk. 10 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Sept. 29, 1859. ‘The London Sun publishes a letter, dated August 1, from acorrespondent at Vancouver, of which the follow- ing is an éxtract:— The Americans did not count the cost of {nsulting or Mttacking us. They forget their old enemies the Indians, who are burning for revonge, thirsting for their blood. Lat it once be known that the English are no longer friend- ly with Americans, and slumbering feuds will break out; Dut let it be known that they are at war, and 100,000 In’ dians will attack the Americans unasked. Americans forget their old enemice the Indians! Never. They do not need this reminder of the fact, that an un- natural mother hounded on hordes of savages against her -shildrea and mg them to bloody butchery, not only by fy ep fall license, but by offering rewards for tho sealp 8 of he progeny, without regard to sex or age. Forgetit! Never; while there livesa man upon our Weetern ‘shores this deep and damned blot upon the page of Eng- Jan«i’s history will never be effaced; and pow in this great age of civilized progress, the nineteenth eentury, we have unmistakable evidence that she is ready to enact the foul tragedy again. Let England know we shall never forget that act, any more than we can ever forget that, in 1812, ‘this eame England landed her troops upon our shores, in- yaded our national capital, and, in a spirit of ruthlessness that would have shamed the Gotha and Vandals, and, in the light of this game century, deliberately applied the twreh to our public builaings and burned the archives of our pation; an act for the paralle! of which we look in vain through history. it! Never. The boy is now in manhood ; but the bitter wrongs of his chikdhood years still ankle in his breast, and let Old Ragland be assured that ‘if the cay should over come (which God forbid) owhen she will ‘be arrayed in arms against us, the recollection of bitter wrongs will rouge @ spirit of retaliation that will not be easily allayed. As sho gees fit in hor to give us this blood: warning, itis but Tigbt alte ehould hee be warned that these bitter that if they ions only sleop, and ‘should bo again aroused sho will long have reason to ro. gret the indiscretion which. will have provoked a gone- rous and forgiving people to fall back upon their wrongs. ‘ORISKANY, Srors on THE Sun.—The its on the sun are unoaally numerous and large this year. At tho present. time there ate cleven groups of spots visible, two of which have just macte their appearanco on tho western edge, A very 1 spod has beou recently observed nearly in the contre, embracj."g & central b} spot and a still larger feuumblar region. Jb 18 suid fo bo daity undergoing re- Barkable changes. oy ‘ . .NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTUBER 20, 1859—TRIPLE SHEET. The Five Prisoners Sent to Charies- town, Va.. Where They Are to Be Indicted and Tried. BROWN’S OUNDS NOT SERIOUS. HIS CONFESSION TO GOVERNOR WISE, Gerrit Smith, Joshua Giddings, Fred Douglass and Other Abolitionists and Republicans Implicated. GERRIT SMITH SUPPLIES THE SINEWS OF WAR Discovery of a Magazine of Arms in Brown’s House. The Constitution and Ordinances of Gerrit Smith’s Complicity with the Outbreak, His Late Manifeste on the Subject of Slavery. Tis Corions Predictions and Their Partial Fulfilment, “Slavery Must Go Out in Blood—The Biacks Must Deliver Themselves—No Resource is Left to Them but in God and Insurrections—For Insur- rections We May Look any Day—Tho Insurrec- tions will be Failures, but will not Slavery Nevertheless be Put Down by Them t—Tele- graphs and Railroads Can be Rendered Useless in an Hour—Fire and Rape and Slaughter for the Senth.” THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. LIST OE THE CONSPIRATORS, WHITE AND GiAcK, THE EFFECT IN WASHINGTON, ke., &e., &e. Peace and quiet are restored at Barper’e Fe The five prisoners in the hands of the troops, including Gssa. wattomie Brown, whose wounds are said not to be serious, have been conveyed to Charlestown, Va., where they are to be tried by the State authorities for murder. If such prosecution fail, then the United States will try them for treason. Brown bas made a full statement, implicating Gerrit Smith, Joebua Giddings, Fred. Douglass, and- other abolitionists and black-republicans. Gerrit Smith appears to bave furnished some of the sinews of war. In Brown's house was found quite a magazine of arms. and aannuni- tion. Our despatches from Washington and Baltimore give full and most interesting particulars. They arc as fol- lows: OUR WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. WASmNeToN, Oct 19, 1959. Brown and the other prisontre have just been taken from the Armory and put on {special train and etarted for Charlestown. There was an immense crowd about the gates and cars, with all sorts of arms; but a guard of twenty-five or thirty marines surrounded ihe prisunesa There was no attempt at violence. Governor Wise, Sena tor Mason and others accompanied the train. The Circuit commences to-morrow when, probably, the prisoners will be indicted and will be tried on Friday. There is no foundation for the rumor of filibusters in the Maryland mountaine. Brown’s wounds are slight. He has made a long state- ment to Governor Wise to-day, and to Senator Mason and District Attorney Ould, in presence of Mr, Vallandigham, ot Ohio, and Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia, members of Con- grees, and other leading men, Papers that have bcen found in his possession implicate Gerrit Smith, Josbua Giddings, and other notorious abolitionists, who furnighed mponey, » ‘Two commitments have been lodged—one by the State and the other by the United States. This was done to meet the question of jurisdiction. Brown abuses Cook for deserting him. The following additional intelligence bas been received by the government: Everything is quiet. There are only five prisoners—three wounded and two unhurt. Six citizens have been killed and one marine, All the citizens were killed outside the limits of the United States territory in Virginia, The ma- rine was mortally @ounded in it. 1 have seen Colonel Ine, but not Governor Wise. Only nineteen persons were engaged in the matter, of whom five were free negroos from the North. Brown has been living a few miles from here, in Maryland, since June last. His premises were searched to-day, and fifteen hundred pikes and two bun- dred guns were found, besides flints, axes, blankets, clothing, &c., in abundance. Brown says ho has contemplated this movement eince 1856. All his party are cither killed or captured, except one, who lefton Monday. They were driven by the Virginians into the Armory, and there Colonel Leo and twelve ma- rines did the balance. All the slaves ongaged, if any, were forced. None of the persons held by Brown ware burt, although all were in the building stormed by the marines. The books and Papers of Brown are secured, and throw considerable light on the movement. Strange it is but true, that Brown and his eighteen men took pos- feesion of the government property and town, and held them during Sunday night and Monday. The govern- ment money ie all safe. It is not known which of the party killed the marine. The man whocarried off Lewis ‘Washington is one of the wounded prisoners. Ido not apprehend any violence to the prisoners. On receipt of this intelligence the President directed District Attorney Ovld to deliver the prisoners over to Virginian authorities, as it was under the Jaws of that State the murders had been committed, and as the United States had jurisdiction only in ono case, and that the death of the United States marine, The Secretary of the Navy, after consideration with the Secretary of War, despatched an order to the com- manding officer of marines to return at once to Wash- ington. Gov. Wise will therefore take charge of the pri- Sonera. Their trials will come off as soon as the neces- Sary arrangements can be inatituted. ‘The Presi sent has received the papers and documents which were foand on the person and in the valise «f Brown. They have not yet been thoroughly examined but enough is known of their character to show that the conspiracy had an extensive organization in the various States, and that leading men of the North, East and Weet were engaged int. They had a regular constitution and saws, by which thoy were governed. The chicf of the conspirators had power to appoint officers of various Grades, and it is-clear he exercised that authority. ‘The Papers disclose that Brown kept a daily journal, in which he set forth the details of his transactions, the Purchase of arms in large quantities, and stores and am munition of all kinds. Field spyglasees, picks and shovels for throwing up temporary fortifications, calls or boat. swain’s whistles of a new kind, being very shrill and ca- Pable of being heard at a long distance, which are sup- Posed to have been intendod for assembling his bands or ‘warning them of danger, were among these stores. Tho ‘whistles found in bis effects were made in Philadelphia, and forwarded to an agent of hia in Baltimore last week, per Adamns & Company’s express, Some of them wore found in his valise. It's not deemed advisable at present to publish the Lames of persons engaged in this conspiracy, or the con- tents of papers found, as it might thwart and defeat the investigation which is about to bo instituted. Tuore is eald to be nothing lu the papers found showing that the negroes, or others belonging at Harper's Ferry, or ite vicinity, were particeps criminie before fact im Brown’s conspiracy. Among other things embraced in this batch of papers are said to be the names of various persons upon whom he might rely for aid im case of neces- sity, It is alao said to be apparant from them that be was promised instant extensive aid from abroad, which, as the result proves, failed him. There can now be no doubt that his grand aim was to create a general servile insur- rection, The following aro the constitution and ordinances of the copepirators — PROVIBIONAL COXSTITUTION AND ORDINANCES FOR THE PROPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. chizens against another portion which are tual imprisonment or absolute rminativn, in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and scli-evident truths io declaration of » WO the citizens of the United States the oppressed people, who by a recent decision of Supreme Court are declared to have no which singh Binal gave: all the other people degraded by the laws the time be- do A ing Ordain and establish for ourselves the following pro- visional constitution and ordinances, the better ere tect our people, property, lives and liberties, to govern our actions :— Quatizi ion fe Menbership. ications for All persons of mature age, whether proscribed, opprees- ed and enslaved citizens, or of proscribed and opproseed races of the United States, who so sane to sustain and enforce the provisional constitution ordinances of or- ganization Larry) with all minor children of euch per- shall be protection under fons, Ww be fully entitled to the same. 7 ARTICLE 2: Branches of Goverment. The provisional ernment of thie organization shall consist of three pe cosh ruses the legislative, executive and judicial, Annicie 3. The . The legishative branch shalt bea ‘Congress, or House of Representatives, composed of not less than five Bor more ten members, who shall be elected by all the citiens of mature age and of sound mind connected with this organization, and who shall remala in office for three years, unless sooner removed for misconduct or inability, or by death. A ma- jority of euch members sball constitute a quorum, Arnis 4, Executive. 4 ‘The executive branch of this organization shall consist ofa ‘silent and Vice President, who shall be chosen by the citigens or members of this organization, avd each of whom shal hold bis office for three yeare, unless sooner removed by death or for inability or misconduct, ARTICLE 5. Judicial. The} udivial branch shall consist of one Chief Juetice of ‘the Supreme Ovurt and four Aasociate Judges of the said court, ch of them constituting a Circuit Court. shall exch be chugen in the game manner as the President, and shaii continue in office until their places have been sited in the same manner by an election of citizens. Arneies 13 1 26 Provide for the trial of the President and othor officers and members of Congress, the chiment of judges, the duties of the President and Vive President, the punish- Ment of crimes, army appointments, salaries, &c. These articles are not of epecial interest, and are therefore omitted, ARnCLE 2. Treaties of Peace. Before any treaty of peace shall take full effect, it small he mgned by the Pregident, Vice President, Commander- w-Chiez, a majority of the House of Representatives, a majority of the Supreme Court, and a mojori'y of all the General officers of the army. Amncie Duly of the Military. UW whell ve the duty of the Commander-in-Chief and all the ollicers and soldiers of the army, Wo affurd special pro- tection, when needed, to Congress or any member there- of, to the Supreme Court or any member thereof; to the Pres'dent, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary of War, and to afford general protection to al! civi! officers or other persons haying a right to the same. ARTICUR 28, rea or confiscated property, and all property the product of the labor of those belonging to this organl- zation and of their famitics, shail be held as tho property . of the whole equally, without distinction, and may be used for the common benefit or disposed of for the same ob- ject, And any person, officer or otherwise, who shall impro- perly retain, secrete, use or ‘neediéesly destroy such pro- perty, or property found, captured or confiscated hig to the enemy, or shall willfully neglect to render a full and fair statement of such Property ‘by him so taken or held, shall be deemed guilty of 2 misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished accordingly. Axgnczz 29. Safety or Intelti Fund. Ali money, plate, watches or jewelry captured by honor- able warfare, found, taken or confiscated, belonging to tho enemy, shail be held sacred to constitute a hberal safety or intelligence fund; and any pergon who shall impro- perly retain, dispose of, hide, use or destroy such money or other artivle above named, contrary to ibe provisions and spirit of this article shall be deemed guilty of theft, and on conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly. The treasurer shall furnish the commander-in-chief at all times with a full statement of the condition of such fund and its nature. The Commander Chef and. the Treasury e Comi -in-Chief ai ft. The commander in-oliter have pean to draw from the treasury the money and other property of the fund provided for in article 29, but his orders shall be signed also by the secretary of war, who shall keep a strict ac- count of the same, subject to ex: by any member of Congress or general officer. Surplus of the Safety or Intelligence Fund. the fety or et yee It shall be the duty beep atten te) to advise the President of apy surplus of the safety and inteliigence* fund, and he shall have power to draw the same, his orcer being also signed by the Secretary of State, to enable him to carry out the provisions of article 17, ARTICLE 32. Prisoners. No person, after having surrendered himself a pri- soner, and who sball properly demean himself or herself as such to at officer or private connected with this orga- nization, ebail afterwards be put to death or be subjected to any corporeah punishment without first having had the benefit of a fair and impartial trial. Nor shall any pri- soners be treated with any kind of cruelty, disrespect, in- sult or needless severity; but it shall be the duty of all persons, mate and female, connected herewith, at all times and under all circumstances to treat all such pri- goners with every degree of respect and kindness that the nature of the circumstances will admit of, and insist on a like course of conduct from all others, as in fear of the Almighty God, to whose care and keeping we commit our calise. Eres 33. All persons who may come forward, and shall yolunta- rily deliver up slaves, and have their names rozistered on.the books of this organization, shall, eo long as they continue at peace, be entitied to the fullest protection in person and property, though not connected with this or- ganization, and shall’be treated as friends, and not mere- ly as persone neutral. Anmicur $4, Neutrals. The persons and property of all non-slaveholders who shall remain absolutely neutral, shall be respected go far as circumstances can allow of it; but they shall not be entitled to any active protection. Annicix 36. No Nealless: Waste. *The needless waste or destruction of any useful pro- perty or article by jire, throwing open of fences, fields, buildings, or needless killing of animals, or injury of either, shall not be tolerated at any time or place, but shall be promptly and peremptorily punished ‘ARTICLE 36. Property Confacated. The entire personal and real property of ail persons known to be acting either directly or indirectly with or for the enemy, or found in_arms with them, or found wit fully holding slaver, shall ve confiscated ‘and taken whon- ever and wherever it may be found, in either free or slave States, ARTICLE 37. Desertion, Pereons convicted on impartial trial of desetrion to the enemy, after becoming members, acting ag spies or treacherously surrendering property, arms, ammunition, provisions or supplics of any kind, roads, bridges, per- sons or fortifications, shall be put to death and their en- tire property contleated. ARTICLE 38. Violation of Parole of Honor. Persons proven to be guilty of taking up arma afer having been setat liberty on parolo of honor, or after the wame to have taken any active part with or for the ene- my, direct or indirect, shall be put to death and their entire property confiscated, ArticLes 89, 40 axp 41 Require all to labor for the general good and probibit immoral actions. Anncis 42. The Marriage Relation—School:—The Sabbath. Marriage relations shall be at all times respected, and families be kept together as far as porsible, and broken families encouraged to reunite, and intelligence offices shall be established for that purpose. Schools and churches shall be established as gcon as may be, for tho purpese of religious and other instructions, and the drst day of the week shall be regarded as a day of rest and appropriated to moral ant religious instruction and im- provement; to the relicf of the suffering; the instruction of the young and ignorant, and the encouragement of personal cleanliness; nor shall any persons be required on that day to perform ordinary manual Javor unless in extremely urgent cases. week ARTICLE ea Tarry Arms Openly. All persons known to be of good character, and of sound mind and suitable age, who are connected with this organization, whether male of female, shall be encouraged to carry arms openly. is ie Arncis 4. No Peron to carry Concealed Weapons. No person within the limits of conquered territory, ex- cept regularly appointed policemen, express officers of the army, mailcarriers, or other fully accedited messengers of the Congress, the President, Vice President, members of the Supreme Court, or commissioned officers of tho army,and those under peculiar circumstances, shall be allowed at any timo to carry concealed weapons, and any rson not ially authorized so to do, who shall be founa eo ing shall be deemed a:snapicious person, and may at once be arrested by officer, soldier or ct zen, without the formality of a complaint or warrant and may at once be subjected to thorough search, and shall bave his or her case thoroughly investigated ahd be dealt with as wakes ry shall require. < Persons to te Seized, Persons living within the Umits of territory holden by this organization, and not connected with this organiza. Not for the Overthrow of Government. articles shall not be constraed #o as in to encourage the overthrow of any State govern- of the general Mid pg og: of the United States, to no dissolution of the Union, but simply to amendment and j and our flag ‘that our fathers fought under in the Revolution. ARTICLE 47, No Pluraity of No two offices specially provided for by this inetrument shall be filed by the game person at the same time, Axmicim 48, E Oath. Every officer, civil or military, connected with thie or- ganization, shall, before entering upon the duties of office, make a solemn oath or affirmation to abide by and sup- port the provisional constitution and these ordinances. Also every citizen and soldier, before being recognized as such, shall do the same, Scuxovis. Tho President. of this Convention shall convene, imme- diately on the adoption of this instrument, a Convention of allguch persons as shail have given their adherence, by signature to the constitation, who shall proceed to fill by election all offices specially bameds in said constitution; the President of this Convention presiding and issuing commissions to such oflicers elect; all auch officers being hereafter elected in the manner provided in the body of thie instrument, GERRIT SMITH’S MANIFESTO. ‘The outbreak and attendant vircametances are very cu- riously: foreshadowed in the following manifesto of Gerrit Smith, directed in August last to the Chairman of the Jerry Rescuers:— Prrinsono, Angriet 27, 1859. Jonx Thomas, Esq., Syracuse, Chairman of Jerry Rescue Committee:— My Drar Sim—I have this day received your letter in viting me to preside atthe approaching anniversary of the rescue of Jerry, and to prepare the papers for it. Thankful for this honor as I truly am, nevertheless I am constrained to decline it. 1 have presided at all the anui- versaries of this important event, and written the address adopted at each o| them. But my interest in. them haz declined greatly within the last two or three years; and I am now decidedly of the opinion that it is wniwise ta con tinue lo repeat the farce any longer. The rescue of’ Jerry was a great and glorious ev Wonld to Ged it had been duly improved. But these who ed it—and I include’ in this number all who cheered it on and rejoiced in every step of ite progre: have, with few exceptions, proved themselves unwertt of the work of. their own hande. vered Jerry in the face of the authority of Congress and Oourts; and, as moet of us believed, in contempt alse of a constitution itself, We i On th casion our humanity was up; a mm wonld all the authorities on earth, even the Bibie included, have Did itdown. Our ee owned Jerry for #3 brother; and £o did it cling to hivo, that all the wealth of the world would not bave sufficed > buy it off, or tempt it to ignore and betray him. Ob, busi the thousands, who on that memorabie night crowded the strents of Syracuse, but mainained the sa Dime elevation to which the spirit of that mat exalted them, what a force for the overthrow of slavery wouid they bave not accumulated by this tune! Bat they sooa fell from tt, They goon eunk down to the low leve! of their poiitical and church parties. Jerry was forgotten. Their humanity was dead—for these parties are the grave of bumauity. tn proportion ag a man becomes a partisan is his manhood lest—for in that proportion is he uatrue to himeelf, to his brother and to God. That tay, alas how distant! when every ove shall be held, and be willing to be held, to his individuality, shall witness an unspeakab y beuer condition of things than docs this, in which mon act in parties, and stand in the strength of parties; and in which the vaguely and feebly felt responsibilities of arty take the place of the definite and deeply conscious respon. sibilities of the individual. When ovr countrymen shall have risen to this higher plane of character, there will be Ghristians instead of Baptists, Methodists and Presbyte- rips, aud patriota instead of republicans, desoorats and Native Americans. Of the thousands who, on, tho glorious night to which we have referred, Were actuated by justice and mercy .Probabiy not less than ninctecn-twenticths fel! imm: ately afior under those ecclesiastical or pottical party { ituences which had previously swayed and shrivellod them, Of the thousands whose motto on that glorious night “No taw for slavery,” perape not a dezen have cal their churches to ‘adopt it, and not fifty haxe pei ringly refused to vote for men who rocognica a 1a slavery. At cach of our anniversaries the reso! and addyess and the discussions upon them have b ii harmony with the high. and holy principles on which Jerry was rescued, Nevertheless, the vast majority of thore who enjoyed the anniversaries returned home with bain pre-e veey, parties in church and State. ‘Jerry Rescuers” voting for men who acknowiedge a Jaw for slavery! Igee not but that they are ag basely in- consistent as are our temperance societies, forty-nive fifticths of the members of which, whilst prating for “pro. hibition,” yote for candidates who opporo it. Indeed, always excepting an anniversary the New York State Temperance Society,I da not know a gre: shameless or more pernicious bypocrisy than an sary of the rescue of Jerr: By the way, I see that gentleman of fine high culture, and marked ability as a writer, to write the history of the temperance reforn my own part, I bad far rather that this bi hidden than published. For, is the great fact it will perpeti was: country +s dead. In vain all societics and temperance newspapers and lecturers to galvanize it into life. Nev: use of tobacco and intoxicating drinks rapidly. All who have any discernmen is this boundless incousisteucy and ur ballot box whi can never be revived by tem| Perance newspapers and tem; the election of rum drinker shameless hypocrisies must give terized by sincerity and self: can come to life. Oh, no, let not the history of cause or ‘the anti-slavery caiise be he temperance with the view of honoring their professed friends. They have lth been killed at the ballut boa by those friends.” We written at ally let it be with the px warning thy world against by pocrisies. To return from this dig D, let mo, my friend, again say that we bad betwr give up the colebratio 2 Tee cue of Jerry. The thing is quite too great and good for us. Earnest and honest men are alone suited to We Jerry rescuers are mean men and sham: men ry’s cainted spirit can take no pleasure in this oxr grand annual hypocrisy. The Saviour, whom ho so heartily chose and so faithfully followed in his last years, can have no sympathy with it. The cause of freedom ig dis- graced and hindered, instead of being liouored and pro- moted by it. Let us stand aside: and then perhaps consistent mon and honest men and high souled mon will ere loug come up to take our place. One of the most beautiful scenes that could bless my sight would bo a Jerry Res versary conducted by men who would brothel as in achurch that recogu: i aud who would as:soon vote for men for sheep stealing, as for men who judicial decree or’a statute or over create any obligation t> pro ; let us who talk w avery for those who will vote well again . Let our profee- sions make room for their practive, and our hypocrisy for their sincerity. Men make light of the crime of there is no other crime so fail of the hes pr Quite bad enough is it when, in my private or individual deulings with my fellow man, loppress him. But when I vole against his rights, as [ do when I yote for candidates who holt that there may be a valid and obligatory and real law for his slavery, or who thold that there can be such a law for driun selliug, such a law for makivg and keeping him adruakard, then I vote to array the government an the collective people ag siust him; then I vote not that I inay wrovg him—not that I, with such comparatively insignificant powers as an indi: vidual can summon, may oppress him, Out that a whole State, a whole nation, may fall upon and crush him. Churches and parties may be stone blind to it; neverthe- less Heaven sces that this voting nst human rights, and this voting temptations ja the way of the weal, con stitute the mightiest wrong that men are capable of por ct aud ho petrating. Much ts said and written ogainst the breaking of human laus, But they are entitled to obedience only so far as areone with these Divi e laws which cannot be broken. ¢ law of his God’? was Daniel’s only 1; No frien t knows any other law. Apostlos answered and id: “We ought to obey God rather than men; 89, too, “Whether it be right in the sight of Goa to hear! unto you more than unto God, judge ye.” How sensoluss and wicked is this declamation against trampling under foot these human laws, that are no laws. To susb tram- ‘pling are the nations indebted for the instances of their greatest progre Often indeed have the nations found it their only salvation, How shameless the hypocrisy of our countrymen. Whilst giorying in the historical fact that our fathers were ready to take up arms aginst laws imposing petty taxes on tea and paper, they nevertheless roil up the whutes of their oyes in holy horror at refusals to obey laws, if laws they caa be called, which sink inno- cent mep, women and children in the bell of slavery. The reecvers of Jerry were called rebels. But the re Dellion in the casy was chargeable not on thom, bat on the government. It was the government and not the rescuers, who were guilty of resisting law. ‘The law in the case was tho right of every innocent man to his per sonal liberty. That law the rescuers upheld, and agaws: it did the government rebel. What if tts rebellion was carried om under the forms of law? none tho less was it rebellion. People are wontto regard every enactment as law. But Many an ¢nactment is not law. Sqnatter sovereigaty is much extolled, aud now and then there are signs tha even the republican party is fast coming to acquiesce in it. Nevertheless squatter soverciguty is not law. The liberty given by'the Nebraska bill to enslave men was not liberty toset up law, but to put down law—quite as em. hatically such ag if it had been Nbeity to murder mea, Tne invasion of human rights by government can, no more than such invasion by an individual be law. The invaders, be they gueernmenis or individuals, are tis rebels, and they’ who resist themare the tare aviling. Tho passage ot the Nebraska bill afforded amply justification to the people to enter the halls of Congress and hurt the rebels from their seats. A poor chance of any other than a hempen elevation woul such rebels stand were tho wa of this country Chris baste and its politics democracy, As things are, it is tho man here aud there who dares to live the Christive fe on whom the American church pounces, and it is tho Httle handful of real democrats toward wiiom American potits «jane—American demoorats—show po merey, Iv ia, per haps, vain as respects its effect on 8% wery, for me, or for'any one else, to remonstrate agninst voting for those who believe in a law for slavery, ov, ' other words, against pro-slavery voting, Jt i, perhaps, tov late to | never had over tweaxy-two mon atthe farm at oao timo an end by maans—too late to lashed fears thas Aotys gl d Jn Congreason’ tho. Nobrast, ill was marked with such fears. ‘Those fears have grown . Bo debauched are the white by slavery there is net virtue enough left in to put itdown. If Idond the words and the the most intelli- fore "ome i depo ceo @ work the » the eg ths elly ts we been deceived by the liberty party, the : i tT 7 free soil party, the republican party, and of oven, the most Wad-moutled tol that all these, instead of voting sla down, have itup. True, the erties, Party did not promise much, But they did not expect it wontd ingult and Perate them by taking the name of “the white man’s party.” They did for some help from thie party, but they got none, It nota finger to 1 the Fugi- tive Slave act, nor to abolish slavery in the Diatr.c: o Columbia, nor to abdoligh the tnter-State traffic in huma : flesh. Nay, it goes so far as to admit that the slavery of black men (it would pot dare admit it in the case of one white man) can be legalized in every State of the Union. The Dred Scott decision and the reopening of the African slave trade are proofs that slavery has never strengthened itself so rapidly as during the exievence of this new and misnamed republican party. The republican writers and orators declaim much against the obvious purpose of the slave power to over- spread the free States with slavery by the help of its “ patural ally,” the Northern democracy. Bnt do not these writers and orators admit the right to do this when they admit the legality of slavery in the slave States? ‘What is property in Virginia is Uy a Jaw above haman enactments property in Vermont also. He who is a slave or property 16 Mississippi is aslave or property in Massa chugetts aleo. What is property anywhere is rey everywhere, Morsover, it will in the ena be found to be as vain as itis inconsistent to oppose the extension of slavery into the free States while upholling it in the slave Mates. Governor Sewant was Tight im saying that the States must ultimately all be secured to freedom or given up toslavery. But he did not ace that his standing by slaye- ry in tho States rendere unavailing his opposition to ite extension into the free States. Governor Seward can do nothiug to prevent slavery’s where it is not_un- less he holds it 10 be a piracy and an outlaw where it is. No wonder, then, is it that in this state of facta which Thave sketched, intelligent black men in the States and Canada ehould see no hope for their race in the practica and policy of white men, No wonder they are brought to the coneluston that no resource 43 left them but in God and insurrections. For Saserrectioe then, 5 ome i any year, any month, an A a terrilie wrong, Bud. come ts rial indent oneicd ipatad by repentance and the jutting away of the terrible wrong. It will be said that these insurrections will be failures; that Uey rill be put down. Yes, tut will slavery nevertheless be put down by them? For what portions are there of the South tut will cling to slavery after two or theve Considerable insurrections ‘shall have filed the whole South with horror? And is it entirely certain that these insurrections will be put down promptly, and be- fore they can have spread far? Will telegraphs aod railroads he too swift for even the iftegt insur- ctions? Remember that legraphs and railroads can be dered useless inan hour. Remember, to, that many, Id be glad to face the lusurgents, would be busy ‘orting their wives and danghters to places whore ould be safe from that worst fate which husbands and fathers can imagine for their wives and daughters. 1 admit that but for this embarrassmest Southern men would laugh at thejdea of an insurrection, and would Z quick!y dispose of on®, But trembling as they would for their beloved ones, Tknow of ‘no part of the world wheré, so much as in the Scull, men would be t sin a formidable insurrection, (0 lose the most important lime, and be distracted and panic stricken Whin the day of her calamity shall have camsto Ne South, and fire and rape and staughters shall be fling up the moa surcof heraffbetion, then will the North have too reasons Sor rémorte— First. That she waz not willing (whatever the attitude of the South at this point) to share with her in the expense ond logs of an immediate and woivereal emancipation. Second. That sne was not willing to yote slavery out of exigtence. Then, too, when alas it will be too late, will be seon in the vivid light of the sufferings of our Southern brethren, both black and white, how shameful and of what evil in- fiuence was the apestacy of those “Jerry cuers,"? who were guitty of falling from the “Jerry level” and casting pro-slavery yotes. But why should T have spoken of the sorrows that await the South? Whoever he may be that foretells the horrible end of American slavery, is held both at the North and Soutia to: be a lying prophet—another Cassan- dra. The South would not respect ber own Jefferson’s redietion of gorvile insurrection, How, then, can it be hoped that she will respect another's? If the South will not with her own Jefferson “tremble” when reflecting that God is jast’’—if }@ will notsee with her own Jet- Serson that “the Almighty has no attribute which ean take side with” her in “a contest” with ber slaves, then who is there either North or South that is capable of moving her fearg aad helpiug ber to say? Respectfully! your friend, GERRIT S3MTH. ‘WHAT THE HERALD SAID OF IT. [From the New York Heraxp, Sept. 5.) * 7 * * * * * * Afer giving his old general broadside all around, Mr. Smith goes to work to explain in bis jereniad What ho intende to do. Jit doa ie -tmply to slir upsnsur- rections among the negroes atthe South. Insurrections are Mr. Smith's rather viclent remedies or the daseases of thebodi politic. Congress wou’t do anything; the church is afraid; “Jerry's old friends have taken the back track. So Smith has ext them alt, and ts going into, the fire, rape and slaughter” busiuets all by hims:lf. He backs up Seward’s brutal and Woody speech at Rochester to ihe bitter end. SEWARD'S PROGRAMME. Smith endorses Seward ; and what does Seward say? He says:— The’ two nysteme (ciavery and frexdom) are at once perceived to be incongruous: they-ere more than in- congrucus—they are incompatible. They never nave permanently existed together in one country, and they never can. * * . * * * ‘Thus these antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, aud collision resuits. Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, onnecessary, the work of intereste or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case alto- gether. ‘itis an irrepressib'e confict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United Staws Must and will, sooner or jater, become entirely a slave- holding nation or entirely a free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice flelds of South Carolina and the lor onl plantations of Louisiana will ultimately lulled by free labor, and Cbarleston and New Orleans become marts for iegitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye flelds and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slave, and Boston and New York be- come once more markets for trade in the bodies and eouls of men. OUR HARPER'S FERRY DESPATOHES. Harver’s Ferry, Oct. 19, 1859. The prisoners have been committed to Charlestown jail to await the action of tho Grand Jury. They will bo indicted and tried in @ fow days. The question of jurisdic tion has been settled in this way:—The local authorities are to try the prisoners for murder, and meanwhile the United States authorities are to proceed on a charge of treason. Gov. Wise said to United States District Attor ney Quld that he has no objection tothe general govern ment proceeding againat the prisonere—that is, what will ‘be 1eft of them by the time the Virginia authorities have done with them, Brown is better, and has made a fullor statement, in which he says he rented the farm from Dr. Kennedy six months since, and the rent is paid till next March. He that belonged to the organization, but he had good reason to expect reinforcement? from Maryland, Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Canada. He had arms suf ficient for fifteen hundred men. He had two hundred revolvers, two bundred Sharpe’s rifles, and a thousand epears. Te left them at the farm. He had abundance of powder and other ammunition. He brought all the arms from time to time, from Connecticut and other Eastern points to Chambersburg, Pa. They were directed to “J. Smith & Sons gKennedy Farm,” his asstimed name. They were packed in double boxes, £o as to deceive the parties who handied them tothe farm. He says he made ove inisiake, in either not detaining the train on Sunday ight, or permitting .t to go on unmolested. This mistake, be seemed to infer, exposed his doings too soon, and pre- ted his rei monts from coming. sof ali the partivs eugaged on Sumday night, white men whom he admits he sént away on an errand, are as follows, vith their proper titles under the provisional government:— WHITES. OFFICERS OF THR PARTY, General John Brown, Comumander-in-Chief, wounded, but w ecover. r Brown, dead, con Brown, dead. Captain Aaron C. Stephens, of Connecticut, wounded badly. Ie has three balls, and cannot possibly recover Lieutenant Edwin Coppich, of Iowa, unhurt. Lieutenant Albert Hazlett, of Pennsylvania, dead, Lieutenant Wm. Leman, of Maine, dead. Captain Jolin E, Cook, of Connecticut, escaped. PRIVATES. Stewart Taylor, of Canada, dead. Chas. }*. ‘Tidd, of Siaine, dead, ‘Wm. Thompson, of New York, dead. Adolph Thompson, of New York, dead. Captain John Kage, of Ohio, raised in Virginia, dead. Lieutenant Jeremiah Anderson, of Indiana, dead. With’ the three whites previously sent off—making seventeen whites. T exeopt thr ni wound ia prener "Ho wag cictod a member of the provisional government so! Y c ised in Virginia, dead. ~ onan, pA eae in virgua, not wounded, a prigoner*at Charlestown. Gen. Brown has nine wounds, but none fatal. Bushols of letters have deen discovered in all parts of the coan- try—one from Gerrit Smith informs Brown of money’ being doposited ina bank in New York to the credit of J. Smith & Sons, It appears to be one of many, inform- ing him from time to time, as money was received, OUR BALTIMORE DESPATCHES. Barrons, ‘We have just received the following important intelli- gence from Harper’s Ferry:— ‘Last evening a detachment of marines and some yolun- teers made a visit to Brown's house. ‘The first visit was Constitutions and by-laws of an organization, or indicating ramifications in varioug of the Union. They also found letters from various ‘at the North; one from Fred Douglass, contain- ing ten dollars from a lady for the cause; also, a le:ter from Gerrit Smith about money matters, and a check or draft by him for $100, endorsed by the cashier of a New York bank, name not recollected. AM these are in possession of Governor Wise. The Governor has iasued a proclamation offering $1,000 reward for Cook, and a large number of armed men are now scouring the mountains i pursuit of him, Our despatch yesterday incorrectly gave credit to Meesrs. Westervelt and Taloott for repairing the line to Harper’s Ferry. It should have said C, Westbrook, Su- Perintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Telo- graph, and H. Kelty, operator at Frederick. ©, Ways, operator at Martinsburg, was one of the party who helped. to drive the insurgents from the bridge. Some timo yos- terday morning, Riley, the line repairer, whilst repairing the line between Hatper’s Ferry and Martinsbarg, wag shot at by Captam Cook, whom he recognized. A despatch just received from Harper’s Forry, foots up the killed and wounded in yesterday's conflict as fol- Jows:—Killed, six citizens and fifteen ineurgents; wounded, three insurgents; prisoners, five. OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENOB. Wasmxaron Cry, Oct. 18, 1860, Excitement Caused by the Insurrection ot Harper's Perry | The news of the alleged insurrection at Harper’s Ferry spread throughout Washington with great rapidity. Fears of an outbreak here became genoral, and many allusions were made by our oldeat citizens to the rising of the negroes in 1681 or 1832, when the citizens were called out to put them down, On that occasion the battle ‘was fought where the City Hall now stands. The citizena commenced the fight by @ rapid onslaught, and the ne- groes fled without firing a gun, leaving the city to the contro! of the proper authorities. Since that time Wash- Secretary of War, indicating Washington as one of the places to be attacked. Allusions were also made to the horrible deeds enacted at i ‘about menee Feet: oe fore Dight prompt measures were taken Mayor to prevent any attempt that might be made By te aa tion emigsaries here to follow up the violence at bn rai Ferry. babe Prsrar ry sag: ae — with ammunition, were proour 7, taken, to the City Hall for tbo use of eitineta; the whole force were ordered on duty; two military companies wera ou duty during the entire night; the armories of the mili- tary companies were vigilanuy guarded; heade of Vics and their cons burnished up rusty , and horeemen were stationed on the it into. the city. 2 ain ese preparations of course increased general ex- pecean iba bee Gresides of our citizens, the oat hotels, telegraph offices, street corners and #, Were crowded with excited people. The tion against the known abolitionists and black managers at several points nearly led to fisticufis bloody noses. At the bookstore apd Acasneee on Sertath srs, a tween Mr. a Secretary lican bere, and the difficulty with the Postmaster the frank! of abolition documents; parties separated. the here. The sympathy of Clephane with his warlike friends at Harper’s Terry ee raised a bee: Provocation may lead toa im. ‘This morning, near the National Hotel, an oxcited on ee Kc Mr. aoe Coyle free tora nent discussed the propriety calling a vente) resohutions, and ve the city instanter. Some per- sons in the crowd pie prong Dapiees Asoc he ought to be hung, which seemed not to anpleasing to the majority though noother t is the ‘ee wry ge possessed ae piegeen oar Governor Wise was emphatic in his declaration that he Tromld not epare the authors of he rebellion againet law and order and the rights of the citizens of the commonwealth of Virginia. Notw: the ride from Rioh- iene Govatboe wie excellent mond to this [From the W: goa aes Os. Upon receipt of the etatticnes in’ this of the insurrection at Harper’s Fe , the orders to Col. Harris of the United despatch all the available force of the bar: cial train) to the scene of the difficulties. from the receipt of the order a detachment non-commissioned officers of the corps, Green, arrived at the railroad depot. The consisted of 81 privates, 11 sergeants, 13 one bugler. They took with them seven guns, Quite a numbe! the troops, but they could not be received. were received by the Secretaries of War and Navy, communicated to Capt. Green his instructiong as course of action when he should arrive on the spot. Russell, of the naval stail, accompanied the der instructions from the Secretary of the N it became known [that been received by the months ago, giving warning of an organized attack to made simultaneously upon the armory works at Ferry, Wheeling and Washington, considerable hension was felt by the and a thorities, and measures instantly taken ex. ngs ee possible disturbance that might take place at this point. Mayor Berret despatched of War, who upon receipt to draw ou the United States Arsenal stand of arms and five thousand rounds: id The arms were received Chiet of Police, where loaded with and fixed, pelice force was on duty, one ‘on parade and the other tity under arms at the City Hall, for action at a moment’s warning. Police mounted on horseback were stationed at every outlet of gen at warning of any city. ‘Were instructed to signalize the first movement by acertain alarm agreed upon at structed the ‘sons found on pavon ge and parti to ‘were found, proceeded to search him, when he cried out, “Breas massa, no use oer He was Em deen free times afore to ni ” tioned tracks for home, and released. Permits to colored ple to hold balls and festivals, which had been issued, wore countermanded, and the ante police force, as well as the clerks in on the alert until daylight this morning. Numbers of hoger lssag ro at the "s volunteered their services, if necessary. Of, however, {1 a remarkably quiet fo iresnm ay slightest thing occurred in any quarter to occasion prehension. ‘About three o'clock this » the Southern arrived at the wharves, having ou honek Goeoanae of Virginia, and a company of on te ental rowls the scene of the insurrection. On arrival ‘@ov.. where he was received t 3 2 g E j i i i Wiso proceeded to the City Hall by the Mayor, and with upbl the time arrived