The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1859, Page 1

THE NEW_YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 8451. ‘THE HARPER'S FERRY OUTBREAK. he Preliminary Legal Proceedings in the Case of the Prisoners, D BROWNS HARANGUE TO THE COURT. HE TESTIMONY OF THE WITNESSES. a AE OL ETE THE CASE SENT TO THE GRAND JURY. itiable Condition of Brown and his Companions. SPEECH OF GOV, WISE AT RICHMOND. e Extols the Courage of the Miliary, and has a Good Opinion of the Pluck of the Conspirators. MASON'S VIEWS OF THE PLOT. NATOR oshua R. Giddings’ Statement to the Public. [RESTING REVELATIONS FORTHCOMING, &e. &e., &e, Caanuasrown, Va., Oct. 25, 1859. ‘Me trial of Brown and other Harper’s Ferry conspira- rs commenced here to-day in the Magistrates? Court. pl: Davenport was the presiding Justice, and the follow- g magistrates were associated with him on the bench:— . Alexander, John J. Lock, John F. Smith, Thomas H. ‘lis, George W. EicheWberger, Charles H. Lewis and joses W. Burr. At half-past ten o’clock tho Sheriff was ected to bring in the prisoners, who were conducted om the jail under a guard of eighty armed men, A ard was also stationed around the conrt. The Court ouse was bristling with bayonets on all sides. Charles Harding, Bsq., acted as attorney for the county, assist- by Andrew Hunter, Counsel for the Commonwealth. be prisoners were brought in, Brown and Edwin Coppice led together. Brown seemed weak and haggard, ‘ith eyes swollen from the effects of wounds on the head. pie is uninjured. Stephens seemed less injured n Brown, but looked haggard and depressed. oth have a number of wounds on the head. John Cop- nd is a bright mulatto, about twenty-five years old, and pields Green is a dark negro, aged about thirty. Sheriff Campbell read the commitment of the prisoners, ho were charged with treason and murder. Mr. Harding, the attorney for the State, asked that the | urt might assign counsel for the prisoners, if they had ne. ‘The Court then inquired if the prisoners had counsel ? In repiy Old Brown addressed the court as follows:— Vincrxians—I did not ask for any quarter at the time I as taken. Idid not ask to have my life spared. Tho overnor of the State of Virginia tendered me his as- neo that Ishould have a fair trial; but under no cir- mstances whatever will I be able to have a fair trial. you seek my blood, you can have it at any moment ‘ithout this mockery of atrial. Ihave had no counsel; have not been able to advise with any one. I know g about the feelings of my fellow prisoners, and am iterly unable to attend in any way to my own defence. y memory don’t serve me; my health is insuflicient, though improving. There are mitigating circumstances I would urge in our favor, if a fair trial is to be al- wed us; but if we are to be forced with a more form—a jal for execution—you might sparc yourselves that ouble. I am ready for my fate. Ido not ask a trial. beg for no mockery of a trial—no insult—nothing that which conscience gives, or cowardice would ‘ive you to practice. I ask @gain to be excused from tne ockery of atrial. Ido not even know what the special ‘ign of this examination is. Ido not know what is to the benefit of it to the Commonwealth, I have now tle further to ask, other than that I may not be foolishly malted only a8 cowardly barbarians insult those who fall to their powor. At the conclusion of Brown’s remarks, the Court as- igned Charles J. Faulkner and Lawson Botts as counsel br the prisoners. Mr. FAvLKNER—I was about to remark to the Court that though I feel atany time willing to discharge any duty hich the Court can legally claim, and by authority of w devolve upon me, 1am not aware of any anthority ich this Court has, iting as an examining court, to sign counsel for the defence. Besides, it is manifest, “om tho remarks just made by one of the prisoners he regards the appearance of counsel under ch circumstances not as a bona fide act, bat er ,a8. a mockery. Under these circumstances, do not feel disposed to assume the psponsibility of that position. I have other reasons for clining the position, connected with my having been at e place of action and hearing all the admissions of the isoners, which render it improper and inexpedient for he toactas counsel. If the Court had authority to order peremptorily I should acquicsce and obey that autho- ity. Lam not aware that thee is any such power vested h this court; but, ag it is the prisoners’ desire, T will sco at full justice is done them. Mr. Borts said he did not feel it to be his duty to decline he appointment of the Court. He was prepared to do his st to defend the prisoners, and he hoped the Court ould assign some experienced assistant in caso Mr. faulkner persisted in his declination. Mr. Hanpiwa addressed Brown, and asked him if ho ‘as willing to accept Messrs. Faulkner and Botts as his punsel ? Mr. Brows replied :—I wish to say that I have sent for ounsel. I did apply, through the advice of others, to ome persons, Whose names I do not now recollect, to act is counsel for me, and I have sent for other counsel, who ave had no possible opportunity to sec me. I w for lounse] if I am to have a trial; but if 1am to bave nothing ut the mockery of atrial, as Isaid, I do not care any- ning about coungel—it is unnecessary to trouble any gen- heman with that duty. Mr. Harprva—You are to have a fair trial, Mr. Browx—Thore were certain men—I think Mr. Botts as one of them—who declined acting as counsel, but I im not positive about it. I cannot remembor whether ‘© wag one, because Ihave heard go many names, 1 am stranger here. 1 do not know the disposition or cha: lor of the gentlemen named. I have applied for counsel if my own, and donbtless could have them, if I am not, as said before, to be hurried to execution before they can | each me. But if ghat is the disposition that is to bo made f me, ail this trouble and expense ean be saved. Mr. HaAkoiné—The question is, do you desire the aid of fiessrs. Faulkner and Botts as your counsel? Pleas to newer, yes or no. Mr. Browx—I cannot regard this as an examination ndor any circumstances. { would prefer that they nould exercise their own pleasure. I feel as if it was a aatter of very little account to me. If they had designod p assist me a8 counsel, Eshould have wanted an oppor janity to consult them at my leisure. Mr. Hanvtxc—Stephens, are you willing those gentlemen hold act ae your counsel, Mr. Scavaass—T ain willing that yontleman shall (point- ig to Mr. Hots), Mr. Harnivé—Do you object to Me, Faulkner Mr. Srenrcts--No; Tam willing to take both, Mr. Harding addrested each of the othor prigonorssnpa- woly, and each atated bis willingnevs to be defended by 1e counsel named. ‘The Court ened & peremptory order that tho press lnould not pablish detailed testimony, as it Would render he gotting of ajury before the Cireuit Court impovsiblo, ‘Tho examination ther proceeded. ad me oeivok on Bun by a noise: heard went down, and was garruunded py Lawis Wasi ay night he * name called ¥ men: Stephens apy to be in command; Cook, Cop ie, avd two negro prisoners were along, and anoMicr hito man, whour be aftorwards recognized as Kagie F. Washington thap proceeded to detail ail thi partion 8 of his being (akenas A prisoner, with his nogroes, to ————— the armory, and the subsequent events up to tha attack by the marines and bis delivery. A. M. Kiri gave the particulars of his being taken Prisoner and locked up. He subsequently had several in- terviews with Brown, who always treated them with a great deal of respect and courtesy; he endeavored to as- certain from Brown what object ho had in view, and he repeatedly told him his only object was to free the slaves, and he was willing to fight the pro-slavery men to accom- plish that object; on one occasion during the attack I said to Brown, “This is getting to be hot work, and if you will allow me to interfere, I can possibly accommodate mat- ters;’ ho went out with Stephens with a flag of truce on Monday afternoon; he requested Stephens toremain whilst he went forward, when Stephens was fired on and fell; I recognise only Brown and Stephens; I counted only twenty-two men, early in the morning, armed with Sharpe’s rifles; when Stephens was lying wounded he re- marked to me, “I have been cruelly deceived; to which 1 replied, ‘I wish 1 had remained at home.” Mr. Wasuuxcrow recalled—In a conversation with Gov. ‘Wise, Brown was told he need not answer questions un- less he chose; Brown replied he had no- thing to conceal—he had no favors to ask— that he had arms enough ‘for two thousand men, and could get enough for five thousand if they were ‘wanted. r Armisteap Batt declared the particulars of his arrest by the insurgents, I had an interview after his arrest, with Brown, who stated that ho had come for no child’s play, and was prepared to carry out his designs; that his object was not to make war against the people, and they would not be injured if they remained quiet; his object ‘was to place the United States’ arms in the hands of the Diack men, and he proposed to freo all the slaves in the vicinity; Brown repeatedly said his whole object was to release the slayes; I asked him if some plan could not be arranged for the liberation of myself and the other parisoners? he said we could only be released by furnishing able bodied slaves in the place of each’; I recognise Stephens, Green and Brown; Captain Brown told the prisoners, when the charge of the marines was about being mado, that though he did not intend to injuro them himselt, they should equally occupy the post of danger with himeclf; that if they were not dear enough to their fellow citizens to necept the terms he had proposed to secure their safety, they must be barbarians; Coppie, on the other hand, told witness and friends to get behind tho ‘engines; that he did not wish to see any of them injured; one of the insurgents (Becham) I heard say, “I haye dropped him;” I did not see Captain Brown fire once from the engine house; do not think he fired once; Green fired several times; the prisoners never wore unreasonably ex- posed. Jonn Atstapr, one of the slayeowners who was brought fnto the Armory with his slaves, detailed the particulars of the battering down of his door, and his seizure by six armed men. At this point Stephens appeared to be fainting, and a mattress was procured for him, on which he lay during the balance of tho examination. Mr. Arstapt resumed—Thinks Brown fired several times; knows he saw him with a gun levelled; saw all the priso- ners except the yellow man, Copland, AvexanneR Kxiy detailed the particulars of the collision with the insurgents, and the exchanging of several shote; could not identify any of the prisoners. ‘Ws. Jonyson testified to the arrest of Copland, the yel- low man, who was attempting to escape across the river; he was armed with a spear and rifle, in tho middle of the Shenandoah; he said he had been placed in charge of Hall’s rifle factory by Capt. Brown. Anprew Kewxxpy was at the jail when Copland was brought in; I questioned him; he said he had come from the Western Reserve of Ohio; that Brown came there in Angust ,and employed him at twenty dollars per month. Mr. FavikyEe objected to the testimony, as implicating the white prisoners. ‘The Presivine Jupex sad his testimony could only be received as implicating himself. Mr. Kxnnepy resuined:—OCopland said that our object ‘was to release the slaves of this country; that he knew of nineteon in the party, but there were several others ho did not know. Joseph A. Brua was one of the prisoners in the engine house, and was permitted to go out several times with a flag of truce. During the firing Coppie fired twice, and at the geqond fire Brown remarked—“That man is down;” ‘witness then asked permission to go out, and found that Mr. Beckham had just been shot, and has no doubt that Coppie shot him. Mr. Austapr recalled—Think that Capt. Brown shot the marine who was killed; vaw him fire. Tho preliminary examination being concluded, the Court remanded the prisoners for trial bofore the Circuit Court. ‘The cxamination to-day was merely to sec whother tho charges are oi sufliciont importance to go before the Grand Jury. To-morrow the Grand Jury will report the Dill, and the case will then be immediately called for trial ‘There is an evident intention to hurry the trial through, and execute the prisoners as soon as possible, fearing attempts to reseve them. In the case of servile insurrec- tion, thirty days are not required between conviction and execution, ns in other capital convictions. The y al witnesses to-day gave precisely the same testimony in detail, as wae published in their statement in Monday's New York Herarp, The Cireuit Court of Jetlerson county, Judge Richard Parker on the bench, assembled at two o'clock. The Grand Jury was called, and the Magistrates’ Court re- ported the result of the examination in the case of Captain Brown and tho other prisoners. The Graud Jury retired with the witnesses for tho State. At five o’clock they returned into Court and stated that they had not finished the examination of witnesses, and they wore, therefore, discharged until ten o'clock to-mor- row morning. It is ramored that Brown is (-sirous of making a full statement of his motives and intentions through the press, but the Court has refused all further access to him by reporters, fearing that he may put forth something cal- culated to influence the public mind and to have a bad effect on the slaves. Tho mother of Cook’s wife was in the Court House [tee att the examination. The general belief is, that he ig still in the mountains near the Forry. On Sunday night a woman, who keeps a canal lock, says he came to her house and agked the privilege to warm himself. Sho knows him well, and is @ relative of his wife's. Coppiv says that he had a brother in tho party, and that Brown had three sous init, Also that thore were two other persons, named Taylor and Hazlitt, engaged, so that, including Cook, five have escaped, twelve were killed and fiye captured, making twenty-two in all. | Beyond a doubt the trial will commence to-morrow } morning, although much difficulty is anticipated in obtain- ing a jury. isin Hrown's object in refusing the aid of counsel is he has counsel he will not be allowed to speak him- vu counsel will not be willing to express en for hurrying the trial is, that the county aro kept in a state of excite- mont, large armed force is required to prevent at- It is presumed that they will demand separate trials, After conviction, but a few days will be given thom be- fore their exeention, Itis thonght that feasion. ‘Tho prisoners ae Drought into the Court presented a pitiable sight, Brown and Stevens bemg nnable to stand ~e. Brown bas three sword stabs in his body and one vabre eut over the head. Stevens had threo balls in bis head and bad two in bis breast, and ono in his arm. He was also cut on the forehead with a rifle Dullet, which glanced off, leaving a bad wound. SPECIAI. DESPATCH FROM WASHINGTON, PROBAMLE CALL OF GOVERNOR WISE UPON THE QOVERNORS OF NEW YORK AND ORIO FOR THE OF GEURIT SMITH, GIDDINGS, AND je of the wh ult but Brown will make a full con- Wastinerox, Mot. 26, 1859, A dettor recoived tiie ug from Richmond states that Governor Wi rysinia, will make x demand upon Governor Morgan, of Now York, for the: rendition of Gerrit Stith, he boing implicated in the ailwit at’ Har: pey's Ferry, It Js also highly probable that @ similar demaud will be made pyor the Governor of Ohio for Jesbua R. Gid “ings andotiters, who are clearly implicated, THE INSURGENT ARRESTED AT CARLISLE. CARLISLE, Pa., Oct. 26, 1869. Nothing has been done in the insurgent case to day. ‘The motion for a writ of habeas corpus is postponed until to-morrow, SPEECH OF GOVERNOR WISE AT RICHMOND. ‘HIS TESTIMONY TO THE UNFLINCHING VALOR OF THE TROOP—HIS SKETOH OF THE HARPER'S FERRY TROUBLES. Ricawonp, Va., Oct. 22, 1859. ‘When the despatches reached Richmond, late on Mon- day, the 17th, announcing that the affair at Harper's Fer- TY was serious, Governor Wise immediately issued orders and determined to depart in person, with what men he could raise, by the evening cars. At8 o’clock P. M. pre- cisely, Captain Cary, with sixty men of Company F, was ready at tho cars of the Fredericksburg Railroad, and de- parted with the Governor for the scene of action. Orders were left with Colonel August to follow, with what men he could raise, by the Tuesday morning train. When the cars reached Acquia creek, Monday night, at the Potomac river, Company F was formed on the deck of the steamer, and atthe requestof Captain Cary, Governor Wise ad- dressed the men as follows:— ‘Men or Company F—I thank you for your prompt ro- sponse to the call made on you at fan hoa aatoe.” You are already known as gentlemen at home, and you are now for the first time bed ety yourselves soldiers. Called torestore order, you will be careful to preserve order in our own ranks, On no holiday parade, but summoned ito actual service, there must no child’s play; aad you must, and I am sure you will, observe strictly the or- ders and requirements of the service in which you are It may be my duty to proclaim martial law; is wi yours to enforce it with the sternest discipline and strictest regardto military rule. I shall be jealous of Cembiins yon ill bp-ot caiba, Trely ‘The men cheered and were then dismissed. They reached Washington aout one o’clock and were detained until six o'clock in the morning, the hour of the Baltimore ears. Governor Wise rode to the quarters of the Mayor, ‘at the City Hall, and there he was met by Captain Marye, with 28 men of the Alexandria rifles, who were immedi- ately accepted into service, and thus there was a guard of 91 officers and men, to whom fixed ammunition was dis- tributed at the Relay House. There the Governor met the President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—Mr. Gurrett—who promptly forwarded General Stuart, of Maryland, and Governor Wise and his vad to Harper’s Ferry. Until within a few minutes of Ferry the news was that the fighting was still going on. At the Relay House Governor Wise telegraphed to Colovel Lee to make no terms with the rioters before his arrival. None were made, and Colonel Lee bad captured them some hours before the Governor arrived. Gov. Wise paoeeped Col. August, at the Relay House, to return with his regiment from Ws mn to Richmond. The Colonel had reached Washington with 293 men, and had all the forces gone on the Governor would have at Harper’s Ferry, by Tues- day evening, about 600 well equipped and drilied Virginia troops, besides the hundreds of volunteers who had flock- ed to the Ferry without organization. Company F and Capt. Maryo’s riflemen were all who reached the Ferry with Gov. Wisc. They were ordered back by the night train of Tuesday. Tho Governor remained on Wednesday examining evidence and ordering for the safety of the neighborhood and guarding the prisoners. He went in person with the prisoners and a guard of marines, accom- panied by the sheriff of Jefferson county and the marshal of the United States, to the prison at Charlestown; saw them safely lodged in jail, stayed there all night, and re- turned to Harper’s Ferry Thu morning, where ho organized a guard, and then left on his roturn to Richmond, where he arrived on Friday last. about 2 o'clock P. M. He was received by Company F and a large concourse of citizens, and was by them escorted to the Government House. ’ On arriving there Cary formed his compan: in front of the mansion, and from its steps Gov. Wise ad. dressed them as follows:'— Captain Cary, Company F, AND FELLOW ormzeNe—If you andl pever had a fellow focling before, we have it now. Rumors of insurrection, invasion, robbery and murder by Tvfflang on our bordors, called you to the field, toexert the authority of your State to protect the safety of her peo- ple. You, fellow cit:zens, and citizen soldiers (addressing Company ¥), were ready tostart and did start on the path of duty at a moment’s warning; and we found others like you lying in wait on that path, who tendered their ser- vice. 1 ik you—1 thank all who joined you, and were ready to join, with my whole heart, for this whole people, not only for being ready, but for the manner in which Fog duty was performed, It is duc to you and your fel- low citizens that I should say, and that they should know that you were to do, and if neceseary to die.in their defence. Ikept my eye upon you, and I proudly attest that you were men. (Applavse.) As telegraph upon telegraph met us on the way, that the fighting was stil! going on, informing us of the dan; f the prisoners held as host- ‘ages by the marauders, fthe death in the assaults by the troops, your cdutfnances wore bright with the cheerfulness thut you would be there in the imminent breach. No man turned pale, no cheek bianched; no face was biavk, until, within a few miles of the scene, wolearned thatall was over, and that victo- ry was won without (ho aid af your right arms. Tho brightness of your looks faded not until we found, when we got there, Wo were to look only upon the dead, the dying and the wounded. On the way I reminded yon that you were alread m at home in the character of gen- ‘Uemen, and that you called on to win the character of soldiers. That character you have won. (Applause. ) Althongh not com: to charge a bayonet or pull a trigger, you preserved order, composure, dignity and dis- cipline in the midst of the highest excitement and confu sion I have ever witnessed. I especially thank you and the soldiers who joined us on the way, and I would pass a special encomium upon Capt. Marye, of the Alexandria Rifles, who, without waiting for ball and cartridge, jomod us at Washington with twonty-cight men, and enabied me | to proceed with a guard of ninety-one Virginia goldiers to | Harper’s Ferry. (Applause.) Let ine also thank Col August and the corps of the First regiment of Virginia Vo- | Tunteers, who lef; this city under his orders the next morn- ing. These, and all who marched towards the scene—all, all who were on the way as prompt as preparation | could be made, and as speedily as steam could convey them, I thank with the deepest gratitude. Ire- gretted to feel it my duty, at the Relay Mouse, to order the First regiment to return to Richmond from’ Washing- ton. We there heard that Col. Lee had telographed that no more United States troops would be wanted, and or- ders to those from Fortress Monroe were countermanded. But I took on company F, if need be, to form guard and scour the surrounding country, When we arrived at Harper’s Ferry, I found that there had beon doubly more than ample forco. The gallant volunteors of Jefferson were first on the ground, and soon after them the noble men of Berkeloy were there. Farmers, with single and double barrelled shot guns, and with plantation rifles, were there. The people, with arms and without arms, rushed to the scene. For what? What had happoned? What summoned them to shoulder muskets and snatch Weapons as they could? What had disturbed their peace? ‘What threatened their safety and to sully their honor? Alas! to the disgrace of the nation, not of Virginia—I re- pel.all imputation upon her—but to the disgrace of some- ody, fourteen white ruffians and five negroes had been permitted to take the United States arsenal, with all its arms and treasure, and to hold it for twenty-four hours, at that Thermopyle of America, Harper’s Ferry— ‘on the confines of two slave States, with the avowed object of emancipating their slaves at’ evory hazard, and the very perpetration of the seizure and the imprisonment of the inhabitants, and of robbery and murder and trea- son! You will indignantly ask—how could such outrage and disgrace be brought upon a country like this, strong as it is in everything? I will briefly inform you. Con- gress had by law displaced the regular army from the superintendence of its own arms, as if it was unworthy of the trust of its own affairs; and its officers very natura turned away in disgust from giving attention to (hi arsenal. A civil superintendent was placed in charge, and I know the gentleman, a Virginian, is as worthy of itas any civilian can be. He was absent on oficial duty at Springfeld, Mass.; and I haye great confidence, had he been at the arsenal, it could not have been captured and held as itwas. And I donot mean to go into the dispute or question whether civil or military superinten- dence ig most proper over @ manufactory and arseaal of arms. But this I do say, emphatically and indignantly, that, whether the superintendence was civil or military, there ought to have been an organized and sutticient mili: tary guard there; and there was hothing of the kind. There was no watch, even worth naming, and no guard at all. ‘Thus, an arsenal, which ought to be a depot of arms and munitions of defence for the citizens atall times to flee to for means of protection, became a depct for desperadoes to agsall us, and a positive danger to our people. Tt would be better for Virginia and Maryland to havo tho arsenal removed from their borders than to allow it thus to be- come a danger by being left unguarded. ‘The civil su perintendent was not responsible for a miliary guard. ‘The question, Who is responsible, I leave to thie proper executive authorities of tho United States. By the frossect negligence somewhere, which it is not my duty to lock after or to correct, except to pro- claim it and complain of it for the sake of the pro- tection due to our own people, nineteen lawless men have seized this arsenal, with its arms and spoils, and have imprisoued, and robbed and murdered our inhabi- tants. “How?” you eagerly inquire. Ever since the border war in Kansas ceased, and the abolition ruf- flans there were disbanded, their leader has been or gapizing this invasion. Thoy held a convention, i seems, at Chatham, Canada West, within a year and formed what they call a provisional government with Its President, Vice President, State, Sec- retary of War, Treasurer, &c,; with its Supreme Court, its Congress and. ita Commander-in-Chief. The notorious chief of banaits in Kansas, John Brown, the terror of Ossawatomie and Fort. Scott, was appointed ‘commander- in-chicf, and he and his eons and other agents perambu- Jated the whole conntry and corresponded in all parts. They traversed Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Oumada, Pennsylva- nia. New York, New Kngland,’ Maryland, Virginia, Ken- nck’, Tennessee, Tn these ticularly, and in other States, they had collecting , onlisting meu, taking the census actually of @laves, preparing arms an munitions of war, looking out Yor et geod and spying out the weak points for attack, About June of this year, Brown, under Ube name of John Smith, rented what is called tho Kennedy farm, within six miles of Harper's Ferry. ‘There and thereabouts, at various times, he. col- lected 200 Sharpe's rifles, 200 revolver pistols, some num- bor of otier odd arms, among the rest. a large rifle on a pee EE tae meget ; an ie the form of a elug, ranging a long distance, and 1,000 spears, about eight fect long, With a blade ten inches long, about vn wide, “jagged ebarp’’ on edges, sharp cat and trust, with @ belt and a tayned sbaft of hickory, with afurrule at the end where the blade is let into tho wood, ee @ ecrew through the furrule and wood aud of Diade. These spears were obviously mado for the hands of negroes, to do the butchery of gorvile les these arms, he had a jarge quan- tity of c ing, wearing he gees and bed clothing; a store of surgical instruments, lint, medicines and the minutest parations and provieion of all kinds. Atno time had more than twenty-two men, and on the night of Sab- bath, the 16th inst., be invaded the county of Jeffur- son and ’s Ferry with butnineteen men—one of the latter from , One born in North Carolina and last from Obio, These men came, few as they were, from far distant points—trom Essex county, New York, from Nor- wicb county, from Harrisburg, Penn., from lowa, from Ashtabula, Obio, and from Capada and other . ‘They transported their arms through Pittsburg to - bersburg, @ man named Henrie being chief agent, and at be taba pads concentzated, and thence moved to the Reooay ane oe fr had beon for nome or eight weeks. e these ‘a tiona were on foot, they kept a man namod Foun E Cook at Harper's Herr, or near by, pro- fessedly teaching school Maryland across the Potomac” ite the arsenal. lo had married at Harper's, , and his wife’s mother and brother lived there; and he spent much of his time there. He was in constant communication with the slaves of the surrounding: country, took a census of them, and was thoroughly in- formed ’of everything about the areeual. Tho plan of operations, with all this opportunity and information, was easily formed and oxecuted. (nthe night of the ioth, armed with rifles and revolvers, the nineteen men, about ‘one o’clock, entered the town, put out the lights, cut the te wires, and stationed thirteen to arrest the in- habitants as they should appear in the morning, one b one and two by two, unsuspicious of danger and pow igon them in the strong walled yards with iron. gates. of the men, Captain Stephens at their head, went four miles into the county of Jeflergon and took Col, be a aed and Mr. Alstadt from their beds, placed them and slaves in a four horse wagon, and drove the masters prisoneys to Harper’s Ferry, ‘Cook, ono of the men of this ition, drove the wagon and slaves across the Potomac into Maryland, to bringin the spears and other arms they had left at their depot, to provent them from into the bands of’ troops or ple come to attack them. They tia. not need the arms, for they captured the arsenal ; but their object was to prevent them falling into the hands of the unarmed country people, Thus, Mon- scpeninacenned, Oar fully opened the despe- rate campaign. They shota negro on the bridge; oe bad stopped the cars eastward, and detained of ; Turner—who resisted their violence. The news of this flew to the country around. The volunteers of Jefferson, with Colonels Baylor and Gibson, rushed to the scene, and soon came the men of Berkeley, unorganized, in working day dress, and without arms or munitions, sup. ing they could get ammunition at the arsenal. Bur hen they got there ‘they found: all the arms and ‘munitions in ids of the marauders. But, with what arms they had, they attacked them, and some seven of them were woundeo; bat they killed and wounded several of the enemy. They could have stormed and taken them in an hour, but they were anxieus for the lives and safety of their neighbors and friends, who were under the muzzles and knives of the rufflans; and they were restrained by their apprehensions tha: they might be slaughtered by the des- peradoes. By this hesitation hey al wed them to hold the arsenal all day Monday. On fay night that gal- lant and noble Virginia Colonel, Robert Lee, worthy ot any service on earth, afrived with his regular corps of marines. He waited only for light. Then tendered the assault, in State pride, to the Virginia volunteers who were there. Their feelings for the prisoners made them decline the risk of slaying their own friends, and Lee could not delay a moment to retake the argenal, punish the impudent invaders and release the prisoners at the necessary risk of their own lives. His gallantry was mor. tilled that the task was so easy. He saw a United States armory in the possession of bandits, from the superinten- dence of which his profession had been qjected; and he felt that the regular army and his native State were alike dishonored. With mortification and cl inexpressi- ble, he picked twelve marines and took the engine house in ten minutes, with the logs of one marine killed and one wounded, without hurting a hair of one of the. prisoners. And now I say to you, that I would have given my right arm to its shoulder for that feat to have been performed by the volunteers of Virginia on Monday before the ma- rines arrived there. (Loud applause.) But there was no cowardice or panic on the part of the inhabitants who were made prisoners, or on the part of the volunteers who first reached the scene. They first were bewildered. by the surprise. They were caught unsuspecting, un- armed, and knew not what to make of the extraordinary thing. ’ They could not, at first, conceive what it meant. ‘They, more than 100 of thein, were prisoners before they realized the purpose of the invaders, and then they could not ascertain their numbers, and could not but believo that they were in very considerable foree to attempt £0 daring an act. And so thought the volunteers, who had but few arms, no cartridges, and no training, and who were wholly ignorant of the force they bad to overcome, and who felt for their neighbors and friends, the Ts, with great anxiety, after Secing how ly Tarner and Beckham had been shot down. They vigorously played their firearms, and made one assault, and retired only after sustaining severe volleys of ’ritles .from brick walls deuzely looped to receive them, and when they were without any arUillery or means of battering doors or walls. The prisoners were tho walls of the marauders—stronger, with our volunteers, than brick and mortar. They loved Washington, and Alsta:t, and Mills, and other prisoners, and wouldn't risk their lives. ‘This was wrong, but natural, and net cowardly. I chided them for their mistake, and told them that had 1 arrived there in time, I would have stormed the strong: | hold in the shortest possible time; and that if Gen. George Washington had been one of the prisoners, and even his life had been imperilled by the attack, it should not havo been delayed five minutes. (Lond applanse.) The lives outside, in this cage, Were as. precious as the lives inside of the prison; and to prove that it was not inhumanity to risk the lives of prisoners, I would have giadly risked my own life to rescue them, at every hazard of their lives and. my own. (Tremendous applause.) Such was my sense of degradation at allowing these marauders to hold that arsenal, with its prisoners, for five minutes, I would not have parleyed with them a moment—I would have order- ed the attack and led it. (Tremendons applause.) 1 would proudly have risked my life to have gotten my guard there in time, and to haye taken the with our own Virginia boys. (Applause.) I was ready to weep when Ifound the whole force overcome was only some twelve or fifteen men, and the Virginia volunteers had not captured them before Ooi. Lee arrived. But, my fellow citizens, you must not imagine that this invasion was so insignificant, or that Commander Brown was mad because this force was so small. His force, small as it was, was largo enough to divide, to penetrate a sleeping country around, and to tako a United States arse- pal, with all its arms. Taking these, his expectation ‘was to be joined immediately by hundreds and thousands of whites and blacks; and itis ‘purpose was to turn the arms of the United States which ho had captared on the slaveholders of Maryland and Virginia. In this consisted his disappointment ‘and failure. No negroes roso up to seize the arms he hai captured. The negroes he had cap- tured, as soon as they crossed the river with Cook and got out of his wagon, ran back in trepidation to their masters. All of Mr. Alstadt’s returned, and ail of Mr. Washington but one—his carriage driver’s body, theone who drove ‘wagons intotown when his master was made prisoner, was found drowned on Wednesday morning in the 2 And this is the only consolation which I have to offer you in this disgrace, that the faithful slaves refused to take up arms against thoir masters; and those who were taken by force from their happy homes deserted their liberators a8 fon as they could dare to make the attempt. (Applause. Not a slave around was found faithless, and not one will have lost life except the one of excollent character who was shot by Brown's party on the bridge, and except this servant of Colonel Washington, whose body was found in the river, and whom Cook may have shot in his attempt to escape from him. Brown was not mad, but ho was misinformed as to the temper and dispoeition of our slaves. Ho ought to have known that all the slaves on our north- ern border are held, as it were, by sufferance—their own sufferance—that they can run to liberators in Pennsylvania easier than liberators can come to their emancij ; He was ignorant, it seems, of the patriarchal relations in which our slaves are everywhere held by their masters, and what bonds of affection and common interest exist ‘betweon them and their masters. And thus it was that “Old Brown,” the fanatic of Ossawatomie and Lawrence and Fort Scott memory, who deuounced the Missourians as “border ruffians. ecame the “border ruffian’’ of Vir- ‘inia himself, aud is now a prisoner of treason to hor au- thority. Tho siaves he would incite to insurrection and massacre would not take up arms against their masters. His spears were untouched by them. - And they are them. staken otake hi be a mad t er saw @wt and thrust and din bonds. He is a man of clear head, of Litude and simple ingenuousness. He is cool, collected an‘l indomitable, and it is but just to him to say that he wus humane to his prisoners, as attested o me by Colone! Washington and Mr. Mills, and he red mo with great trust in his integrity as a man of He is a fanatic, vain and garrulous, but firm, trathful and intel- ligent. His men, too, who survive, except the free ne- grove with him, are like him, Ho professes to be a Chris tian in communion with the Congregationalist church of the North, and openly preaches his purpose of universal emancipation, and the negrees themsolyes were to be the agents, by means of by wlite commanders. When taken, his watch, and plate, and jowels, and money were demanded, to cr what they call a ‘safety fund,” to ccmpensato the Uberators for the trouble and. nee of taking away his slaves. This, by a law, was to be with all sluvehoiders. We of course, refused to de- liver up anything, and it is remarkable that the only thing of material valuo which they took, besides his slaves, was the sword of the Great, which sent to General Washington. was by ive Stat romised Colon: 1 ast ington’s native Stato. Dp c to return i 0 hin when he was done with it. ‘and Golo: ‘nel Washington saye that he (Brown) was the coolest and firmest man he ever saw in defying dangor and death. ‘With one son dead by his side, and another shot through, he felt the pulse of his dying son with one hand, and held his rifle with the other, and commanded his men the utmost composure, encouraging them to bo firm to sell their es a8 dear as they could. three white prisoncrs—Brown, Stephens and ) pie—it was hard to say which was most firm; and of the two negrocs, it was hard to say which seemed wardly and false. The North Carolina negro. offered to betray all persons ‘involved in the affair if ed, and the Canada who was, I believo, ‘ono of the m@mbers of their Provisional Was & crouching craven, who lied, as Brown said, for his life. But Twill exter nio no furlner detala, 1 Fecetved into my keeping a large mass of papers und correspondence, Shun cates pretty clearly tbeir whole plan of opera: tions, and expores many names implicated in their crimes, We gotail, perhaps, except a clothes bag of papers, which ‘was taken and carried off very improperly by some one Of the Eaitimore troops. The originals of these I will try to have restored for the trial of the prisoners. Among other papers I found a letter of credit from one of the vanks in the State of New York, informing Brown that Gerrit Smith had placed to his (Brown’s) credit $100. ‘Bhat is now in possersion of the Assistant Prosecuting At- torney at Charlestown, It would nut become me to counsel or countenance any one in dong tw Gerrit Smith what Stephens and Ins party did to Col. Washington—take ‘him out of his bed at night and smuggle him off from home; but if apy one should bring him to me, by fair or foul meaus, I will read him a moral lecture and send him back to bis home if innocent, or secure hima fair and impartial trial if guilty of aiding and abetting these murders, robberies and treason. (Laughter and applause.) I remained in Harper’s Ferry and went to Ohrrlestcwn to protect the prigoners we now have in cus- tody egainet Lynch law,” determined as [am that the laws shall reign whilst [am chief magistrate of this com monwealth. (Loud applause.) Our people were incensed ‘beyond expression; but they felt, as I do, that it would be disgraceful and cowardly to murder their prisoners, after failing to take them for twenty-four hours. \ (Applause. ) They were securely guard in the guarded and Charlestown jail, to be tried in the Virj court, under Virginia laws: United States served warranta for two cases of murder and for treason States; but there was no difficulty about jurisdiction. I told the officers of the United States that they might have the bodies of the prisoners efter Virginia tribunals were done with them. I would not have delivered up these prisoners to any claim of priority of jurisdiction if the President of the United States had ordered. (Loud applause.) But there was no issuo of jurisdiction, apd there was no occasion for nf except gs to, the“ pandoning power. I will | protect and guard the prisoners the atv, and the mercy, art ee pap ee guard at Harper's on ing the marines were ordered away, notwithstanding the ob- vious necessity of a military guard, cumstances, the last thing I did on bicypny dem was to organize a volunteer on the Virginia, border around the confines of the ceded for the arsenal; and I mean to inform the nt of the United States that this guard will incidentally ron the arsenal and ee pebey tie otnayrins until balay neta: rmanent provision for ‘protection. -) armed this guard with part of ritles captured from Brown. And I shall goon arming and supplying ammu- nition to our frontiers until every neighborhood where there are slaves bas the means of self defence. ly and the other slaveholding States must rely on them- gelves. This is a severe lesson, and we must profit at once by its teachings. It urges upon us stronger than procla- mations, the necessity for the organiaation, arming and drilling of our militia. I shall implore the people to organize and take arms in their hands and to practise the use of arms, and Iwill cause depots to be esiablished for fixed ammunition along eur borders and at every assailable point. As for myself, have manifested only my devotion to the duty of protecting the honor of the State of Virginia, and the safety of the lives and property of her people. I regret that it has been my fortune to do so hitle. (Applause.) But Ithank you, gentlemen, one and all, for this compliment, as I more than thank you again for your gallant and noble services. The crowd gave three cheers for the Governor, and then dispersed. Company F. marched off in order, and was greeted by the city. In the evening the Blues called and saluted Governor Wise nt his mangion, and were again addressed by him briefly, but with much warmth and an earnest appeal for thorough organization. Here it is proper to add, at the request of Governor Wise, thaf he was much fatigued, and was suffering under a bad cold, Fm a in the night, and omitted to add much which he intended, especially to acknowledge the debt. of thanks due to General Stewart and his noble Maryland troope, who rushed to the defence of our citizens, and to john R. Dunbar and his corps of surgeons. Dunbar is @ Virginian, volunteered to accompany the Baltimore volunteers, was present when the marines made the as- sault, tendered his services to Colonel Leo, who accepted them) and with his fellow surgeons was in at the engine house ministering to the men who fell—one killed and the other wounded, by the time almost they were shot. In fact the fight was over the bodies of the fallen and the surgeons. RESULT OF THE INVESTIGATIONS OF SENA- TOR MASON It is right, and due to truth, that the material facts attending the late incendiary attack on the town of Har- per'a ferry should be correctly understood. ‘There Was no insurrection, in any form whatsoever, on the part of any of the inhabitants or residents of that town There islittle doubt that such insurrection was fully expected by the leader of the armed miscreants who came trom the adjoining State clandestinely, and under cover of night, into the town—an expectation in which they were woefully disappointed, as fully ad- The fact is undoubted that not a man, black or white, joined them alter they came into or its vicinity. mitted by them ves. Virginia, or gave them sid or assistance in any form. had been disappointed. med bands and made a descent upon the town. that during this period they seized and held in custody, besides the slaves of Mr. Washington and Mr. Alstadt, taken in the neighborhood, some five or six other slaves mging to residents at Harper’s Ferry aud found in the Streets, It is stated that they put spears or lances in the hands of two or three of these negroes, and compelled them to stand in the character of sentinels at the door of the engine house, oveupied by the incendiaries, first assault made by the citizens the slaves threw their pikes and escaped to their homes for refuge. Third. They had in confinement, in addition, some thirty or forty other person’, who were found unarmed in the streets in the early hours of the morning, but no ad- herent or sympathizer turned up amongst them. In dition to ali this, after carefnl inquiry and investiga- tion on the spot, Tcould not learn that any man of any lor (save one, hereafter to be noticed) was even sus- pected of being iv any way accessory or privy to the plot. ‘The exception was of a man named Cook, who came to schoolmaster, married there, and who, after the event, it appeared, was an emissary of Brown’s, and had boen as- sociated with him in Kansas. Cook imparted the plans of Brown to none in Virginia, so far as is known; or, if he did, it 8 certain none acted on them. He accompanied the party to Mr. Washington’s which seized him and his negroes and brought them off in the night, but none of the latter evinced sry purpose to follow his fortunes. On the contrary, those that he carried off'the samo night into Maryland escaped from him thore and returned. + Tibink Iam warranted, on the foregoing facta, in the belief that no engagoments or promises of aid iromany, of any race, were given to Brown inviting his descent. the part of the negroes, it is certain that the only emotion evinced by them was of alarm and terror, and their only refuge sought at their masters’ homes. Of the conspiracy, outside of this State, enough has transpired, or been obtained from papers taken with Brown’s effects, to show that he acted from impressions made upon him by abolition tracts, newspapers, and orators in the circles he frequented in the non-slayehold- ing States. Those impressions were that it required only to put arms within immediate reach to bring about im- mediate insurrection in the slaveholding States—a doc- trine openly inculcated, as is known, by the abolition leaders, Thus impressed, he embarked on this desperate enterprise with but. nineteen men ; but he had arms and weapons secreted in the mountains and thinly populated country on the Maryland side of the river, and within four or five miles of the Virginia line at Harper's Ferry, with abundant ammunition, to have placed an effective weapon in the hands of each of at least fifteen hundred or two thousand men. The exact number of these arms can never be ascertained, as they were carried off in great numbers when first’ discovéred or brought in by tho citizens, and companies of volunteers who came from a distance, and before posses- sion of them was taken by the regular military authori- ues. Amongst them wero one thousand pikes ‘or lances, composed of a steel blade sharpened at the point and at both edges, some six or eight inches long, and tapering froman inch or inch and a half to the point, strongly and securely fixed on uniform wooden handles five or six feet In Jength—a most effective arm for hands un- skilled in military weapons—leaving no doubt for whom Wey were destined. ¢ whole military equipments possessed by Brown and seized after his capture could not have cost less than ten thousand dollars, consisting, amongst other things, of some two hundred Sharp’s rifles, with a like number of six-shootor pistols, contained in the manufacturers’ doxee, and not yet used, a proportionate supply of fixed ammunition for the rifles, with caps, &c., in the ori- ginal boxes, hospital stores, pickaxes and shovels, un- stained with use, and a large box containing ten kegs of der. PeX grave inquiry remains, which will be diligently, and I trust, successfully prosecuted, to ascertain whence the fonds wero derived for this military expedition of out- laws against a State of the Union, and whe they wore aiding with money to furnish arms to such a leader for such @ purpose. It remains only to add, that #0 far as can ne discovered, not one of the nineteen excaped. could not ascertain the number killed—some ten or cleven it is known were kiked—some wore shot in attempting to es- across the river, and their bodies not recovered; five a were eee atye: wn: two ie five ure negrocs; one, a mulatto, porte that he came from Ohio s this ’ the cian 8 Dot says that he came from Harrisburg, Pa., dy Brown as to. e chees oe bs, ‘ined the Not a slave escaped or ‘to escape dui tumult. Of the few carried off by Cook across the river, one, GARD FROM JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS. ‘The following Card appears in the Philsdelphia North American of October 2th :— ‘ '; While coming to this city, on Saturday, I first read a tolegraphic: nS from Washington, saying ‘ that John Brown (tho prisoner captured at Harper's Forry) re fused, in the presence ly of Senator Magon and Messrs. Faulkner and Vallandigham, to answer the question whether he had consulted Mr. Giddings about the Virginia Ss ia ovidont that the object of these gentlemen was not 28 los krow, and the country knowe. may proponnd to me touching the government, or jresent position, will be frankly, promptly and answered, to the extent of my knowled; It is true that after their capture their leader (Brown) stated that he had reason to expect such agsistanee, and Bot this is fully diseredived by the following facts:—First, that be had undi=puted pos- session of the town from about midnight on Sunday antil after midday on Monday, when the people of the adjoin- ing country, learning the state of things, got together in Second, Harper’s Ferry a year or two since in the character of to obtain facts on which to predicate a charge of crime, or ofany immoralor dishonorable act. Hat such been their’ object, they would not have published what was not Bard ; ipnucndoes and insinuations seek to impugn the character of one who was not present. but they proclaim their suspicions, and by such 1do)0t feel called upon to reply to such attempts to oie, reproach upon myself, J say to these questioners, ncn, 1am your peer. Ihave served my country near t Saee yestly as either of you; and you iiat. ser duecion, 123 . ge and beliof; T pronounce this attempt to assail me dishonorable, un- worthy of your positions, unworthy of honorable mem. But you must not expect to eseape the responsibility of your own conduct by thus aseailing one who has for J cautioned you of the results that must follow the e! of yourselves and party to extend slavery, and your de- termived pyrpose to involve the people of the frce States in the disgrace and crime of supporting an institution which ai} honest and independent men of those States re- pudiate. No map of onr nation has done more than one of you to produce the resalts which haye recently attractéd the attention of the people. Tay are the immediate and unmistakable effects of the efforts of yourselves and party to establish slavery in Kansas. Murderers there were rewarded by executive appomtmente to office. Brown's sons were the victims of that cespotiem which your perty exerted in favor of an institution which the people abhorred. ‘There faets do not rest on suspicion, nor on the refusal of a victim to answer any question. They rest upon the records and the history of the government itself. No evasion, vo tergiversation can change the enduping traths to riniapk See nd you worig pease a a the public good by exerting your sad cocapy: ied ‘time in correcting the ¢vils zou and your party ne rought upon the country, than by the vain in- volve others ip the crimes which you and your associates: have committed. ‘To the public I will say, that Brown never consulted me in rd to his Sspicsahecmsenaschsiies or ~~ a or mailer whaterer. J. RB. GI Gs. Ginagp Hoven, Paapenruia, Oct. 24, 1850, WHO ARE IN THE PLOT. It is understood that tho fnitials “PF, B 8.” signed to John Brown’s letter from Concord, Mass., refer to Mr. F. B. Sanborn, Secretary of usetts Aid Society; and the initials “S. G. H.” to Dr. 8. G. Howe, of COLONEL HUGH FORBES AND HIS CONNEC- TION WITH OS8SAWATOMIE BROWN—A CHANCE OF FURTHER DISCLOSURES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘New York, Oct. 25, 1880. ‘There having appeared in yesterday’s Tribune a false and malicious attack upon me, I shall, after the trial of John Brown, publish the correspondence between him- self, his friends and myself, which correspondence com- menced about two years ago, and was continued during the spring of 1859." Some abolitionists of good judgment insisted strongly that Ishould make Brown desist from his projects, which they considered would prove fatal to the anti-slavery cause; and as there were sundry persons in the free States interested, copies of most of tho letters were furnished to each of them and to Brown. I could not myself take all the copies, therefore some friends oc- casionally copied for me. 1 feel sure that none of these letters were suffered to be seen by the Secretary of War: first, because Ihave faith in the reliability of those who had them in their hands; and, secondly, becanze it is ab- solutely impossible that, ha such authentic evidence been placed before him, he could have been taken so by surprige as he was at Harper's Ferry. FORBES. Commercial Lerorraxce ov Say Fraxcisco—AN AMERI- can Rovrs 10 Cava 4xp Jaran.—One of the most note- worthy-features in the news by the Baltic, from Oalifor- nia, is the reception of nearly a month’s later news from Japan. The schooners Lewis Perry and San Diego, from Petropaulovski, arrived at San Francisco on the 23d ult., the one having made the passage in twenty-three days, and the other in twenty-four. Had these vessels connect- ed with the regular mail steamers we should have had news from Japan in forty-three days—as fast as it comes. ‘by the European route. Bat, suppose the communica- tion between Hakodadi and San Francisco was direct, and by a line of steamers connecting»with the Atlantic ports, or, as it may be at no distant aay, with the trains of the Pacific Railroad, would not all our news and most of the light trade go and come by that route? It is fairto pre- sume that it would, and in connection with this subject it may not be inopportune to inquire what is to be done with the feet of American steamships collecting in the Pacific, unless some of them are applied to this trade. Our Commodores have done more astounding things than would be the opening of this new route to China. Let us look for a moment at the commercial importance of San Francisco, as shown by the statement of importa for the past three-quarters of the present year, taking the principal articles. There were 54,430,000 feet of domes- tic lumber, 6,444,898 pounds of coffee, 49,906 barrels of flour, 51,208 firkins of butter, 27,880,151 pounds of rice, 21,809,077 pounds of sugar, 1,125,836 pounds of tea, and a mult'tude of other articles in proportion. Tho freights ‘on cargoes from New York for the same poriod were 31,766, from Boston, $785,436; from other Eastern ports, $92,582; and from foreign ports, $780,056. Of the exports of treasure about fifty millions per annum are to the port of New York, and over five times as much as is shipped to all other ports comes here. The exports are rapidly growing in importance, and, now that California capitalists have turned their attention to woo! raising, we may expect heavy shipments of that article. The excellent California native wines are also becoming a staple export, while, from recent discoveries, it is not at all improbablo that coal will be added to the list. Labor is in demand, and altogether the future of the Golden State looks prosperous. greatly would ita progress be stimulated, should it form a connection in the new American route to China and Japan, OPeranic Marrers.—The performance at the Academy to-night will be an exceedingly interesting one. Madame Gazzaniga makes her first appearance this seagon, and sings Paulina in the ‘Poliuto,” with Brignoli as Poliuto and Amodio as Severvs, a trio of superb artizts. Madame Gazzaniga will sing in this opera for the first time, and has a fine artistic opportunity, which she will, without doubt, improve to the fullest extent. ‘The début of Speranza, the now prima donna, will take place on Thursday, when she will sing in the “Traviata.” The new tenor, Beaucardé, arrived yesterday in the Ocean Queen. Also his wife, who is known to the ope- ratic public under the name of Albertini. Beaucardé is engaged by Strakosch. Great preparations are making for the production of the new opera, “The Sicilian Vespers,” which is to be brought out within the next fortnight. This opera has been very successful in Paris and London, and has at- tracted the largest audiences ever seen in the Italian theatres. Thé directors of the Academy promige that the mise en scene shall be the moet splendid ever known here. Everything, scenery, dresses, properties, &c., is to be new, and manufactured from patterns received from the Grand Opera in Paris. The total cost of ‘mounting’? opera is estimated at $15,000, The principal parts will be sung by Brignoli and Colson. The production of this opera is to be the great event of the season. The Latest Charge of Post. Office Robbery and Embezzlement. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE. Belere Mr. Commissioner Bette. Oct, 25,—he United States vs. Wm. Hutchison.—The de- fendant, William Hutchison, was yesterday morning brought up in the custody of a deputy marshal, to be ex- amined on a charge of illegally taking letters from the Post’ Office, directed to Winslow, Lanier & Co., in whose gmply he bad been as clerk up to the 20th day of July From the evidence given by one of the firm, it appeared that they were bankers in Wall street, and that they had received notice of remittances having been mailed to them by their correspondents, which had not arrived; also a check drawn byjtne Marine Bank of Buffallo on the Bank of North America, for $208; it was ascertained that the accused had od the letter and remittance from the Post Office, 5 Office, testitiod after the lapse of some days a: ion of attem| @