In the Maryland Legislature, in January last, Mr. JACOBS, of Worcester, offered the following: -

     ''Whereas, at the 24th anniversary of the American Abolition Society, held in the City Assembly Rooms, in Now York city, in May, 1857, a certain Francis Jackson, of Boston, Treasurer of the Society, reported that during the current year the receipts of the Society were $19,200, and of the auxiliary societies of New York, .Pennsylvania and Michigan, $18,856; making a total of $38,162 from those sources; and,
     *' Whereas, said American Abolition Society also received for the same year, as appears from said report, the further sum of $158,750 from the Exeter Hall Emancipation Society, in the city of London, Great Britain, and both of said two sums make an aggregate of $196,912; and,
     " Whereas, the London Times, a newspaper of high repute on all questions involving the policy of England towards this country, distinctly declares that this money was given as a bounty on slaves - i. e., to decoy them from their owners, and induce them to run away; and,
     "Whereas, a certain Hiram K. Wilson, of Worcester, in Massachusetts, did go into Canada, and take a census of all such runaway slaves during the winter of 1856, and reported their number at 35,000, since augmented to 45,000; and,
     "Whereas, a certain Thomas Garrett, of the city of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, did attend the anniversary meetings as aforesaid in the city of New York, in May, 1857, and did there show by his books of record and entry, where he had stolen 2,059 slaves, and forwarded them North, per underground railroad; and,
     "Whereas, said Garrett did attend a meeting of Abolitionists held at the Assembly Buildings, in the city of Philadelphia, on the 17th December, 1859, where at he stated, that by his books of entry and record, he had stolen and convoyed North by the underground railroad the further number of 386 slaves, since the report in May, 1857, making a total of 2,445 slaves stolen by said Garrett; and,
     '^Whereas, the said sum of $196,912, bestowed upon said Garrett in May, 1857, and his large annual receipts per capita for every slave he can so steal, have made him rich in wealth, and marked him as a wicked and base traitor to man and God; and,
     "Whereas, most of the slaves so stolen by said Garrett belong to citizens of this State, whose rights of property the State is sacredly pledged to secure inviolate - therefore, be it
     "Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Treasurer pay, upon the order of the Comptroller, the sum of ____  to any person or persons who may secure said Thomas Garrett in some one of the public jails in this State; and that the Governor of this State, on information of such fact, is hereby requested to employ the best legal ability of the State to prosecute said Garrett to conviction and punishment."

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some length upon peddlers, their tricks of trade, and the insinuating way they have of ingratiating themselves into the good-will of negroes.  He was particularly hard on Garrett said he was a traitor, and should be hung.
     About having slaves run of, Mr. Jacobs had experienced loss from that cause, fie now had a man in Canada who often wrote home begging for money and to be brought back. The poor devil was nearly starved, but could not come back, although he wanted to do so.  Mr. Jacobs verily believed he was run off by "Old Brown."  Garrett, who sent his minions,
the peddlers, throughout the country, pocketed the money for running them off.  Mr. Jacobs denounced Garrett as an archtraitor, a villain, and guilty of every horrid crime.  There were men that he knew who could convict the scoundrel, and he wanted him caught.  As a matter of course, under the rules of the House, the resolutions of Mr. Jacobs lie over for
another reading.
     Subsequently, Mr. Jacobs asked a suspension of the rules, so as to call up his resolutions providing for the capture of Thomas Garrett, for running off slaves from Maryland.  The rules were suspended.
     MR. JACOBS moved that the blank in his resolutions for the capture of Garrett be filled with $2,000.
     MR. McCLEARY moved to amend with $500.
     MR. CHAPLAIN moved to amend the amendment by $5,000.
     MR. GORDON thought it best first to change the resolution of Mr. Jacobs, so that the bounty would not be paid until Garrett was convicted.
     MR. DENNIS asked, if this man was in the State, what could be done with him?
     MR. JACOBS.  Hang him.  (Laughter)
     MR. DENNIS resumed.  According to the gentleman's statement yesterday, Garrett was never in Maryland.  If a citizen of another State receives slaves from Maryland, and forwards them to Canada or elsewhere, he cannot be touched for violating the soil of Maryland.  The thing is out of the question.
     MR. GORDON, of Allegany, said that without an examination of the questions, he was not prepared to coincide with the gentleman from Somerset.  If a man stands on the Virginia bank of the Potomac, and shoots another in Maryland with a rifle, is he not amenable to the Maryland laws?  Certainly.

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If by means of emissaries, he, on the borders of another State, steals a horse, and runs him off, is he not just as amenable to the laws of the State which he violates in that manner?  And so it was with negroes.
     Mr. DENNIS, of Somerset, replied that there was no analogy in the cases.  In the one instance, there is a direct violation of the soil of the State; in the other, it is asserted that a man in another State has gotten rich from the per capita of slaves run off, as the resolutions say, from this State.  Allowing that it could be proved that they were run off from Maryland, he could not be harmed.  He had never been in the State.  We do not know that he had emissaries, and if he had, it is a question not for decision by this House.
     Mr. GORDON rejoined.  He said it was admitted to Garrett sent emissaries into the State; that he had publicly boasted of having, through their instrumentality, run off slaves from Maryland.  That gave the question another aspect, and it should be well considered.
     Mr. JACOBS said he had no doubt but that Thomas Garrett could be convicted, if taken.  He cited several instances in which the fact that he ran off slaves could be proved.
     Mr. DENNIS asked why Mr. Jacobs or some other gentleman had not gone before the Grand Jury and had him presented, if these statements were so notorious.
     Mr. JACOBS spoke warmly: denounced the London Times and the New York Courier, and declared that before he would have Maryland become secondary to the North, he would go in for a dissolution of the Union.
     Mr. LONG, of Somerset, moved to refer to Committee on Judiciary.
     Mr. JACOBS.  Will that kill it or not? (Laughter.)
     Mr. LONG.  The resolutions embrace important considerations, and should be referred to the Committee.  They were the creatures of the House, and their action, therefore, cold either be adopted or not by the body creating them.
     Mr. JACOBS.  You are  Chairman of that Committee, ain't you? (Laughter.)
     Mr. LONG.  No sir.  I am, however, on the Committee.  Mr. Gordon is Chairman.
     Mr. JACOBS.  Ah, well, I will trust it to him.  (Laughter.)

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THE REIGN OF TERROR IN VIRGINIA.

To the Editor of the New York Tribune:

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A GERMAN CITIZEN HANGED, BEATEN AND ROBBED

     Yesterday, (says the Quincy (Illinois) Whig, of February 25th) a respectable German citizen of LaGrange, Missouri, Mr. Frederick Schaller, (a brother-in-law of Mr. H. Dasbach, of this city,) who has resided in LaGrange for the last twelve years, was brought to Quincy a victim to the horrors of a pro-slavery outrage, the recital of which is enough to make the blood of any man, who has a soul, boil in his veins.  We called upon Mr. Schaller and obtained the statement which we publish below.  We saw the bloody evidence of the horrible treatment he had undergone, heard the story of the affair as given by him, and could not help believing every word of his statement.  He is a respectable and intelligent man, and his plain and simple account of the dastardly outrage, was, we venture to say, implicitly credited by the hundreds of our citizens who called at Mr. Dasbach's yesterday.
     Mr. Shaller has always voted the Democratic ticket, and we are assured by German citizens of Quincy, that in his visits to this city, he has defended the institution as it existed in Missouri.  That he is innocent of the charge of assisting negroes to escape - as he asserts - we have no doubt.
     We trust that our German citizens, especially those who have been in the habit of voting the Democratic ticket, will ponder well this flagitious outrage, and then determine whether they can continue to vote with a party whose cardinal principle is the spread and extension of that institution which is the parent of such damnable and brutal lawlessness.
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STATEMENT OF MR. SCHALLER.

     I have been a resident of Missouri for twelve years, having resided a part of the time in Palmyra and part of the time in LaGrange.  In the latter place I have property.  I have never meddled with slaves or slavery, and have always been a Democrat.
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had run off; I knew nothing about it till I heard of it, and do not recollect of ever having seen them.  I could therefore not have aided their escape.  Nobody in LaGrange ever suspected me of tampering with slaves, till last Sunday.  I went on that day to Canton, to invite some friends to a party that was to take place last Tuesday.  On my arrival there, I was waited upon by three persons, Jim Ring, Josh. Owens and Bill Webster, who informed me of my being under suspicion of having aided the escape of a slave of Mr. _____ Harris, and that I would have to return with them.  At first I took the matter for a joke, but soon found that they were in earnest.  On the night on which the slave ran off, who was caught again, at ten o'clock, I can prove by twelve or fourteen persons that I was in my house till twelve o'clock, consequently could not have aided the negro.
     I returned with the three, satisfied of my innocence, and asked for a fair trial only, as I easily could have proven my innocence.  I was taken to the LaGrange House, and asked to be tried next day, (Monday,) but was refused.  Monday night an armed posse of twenty-five or thirty men came, tied our (my brother William's, Nob. Mattis's, who had been taken before my return from Canton) and my hands, and put us into a hack.  Two others, Frank Gerlach and a Mr. Holmes, were set free, but ordered to leave town.  Our hands were tied, and we were driven in the hack about three miles on the Memphis road, where the hack stopped, and I was taken out.  To my question where they were taking me to, I got the answer that I was to be hanged.  I asked them what for, and received as an answer that I should tell them all about the nigger scrapes, about Vandoorn, etc.
     As I knew nothing about them, had never seen or heard of Mr. Vandoorn, I could not give the answer they wanted.  They took me about a quarter of a mile into the woods and hanged me.  I caught the tree, but, by beating my hands with sticks, they compelled me to let go my hold.   Soon I was senseless.  When I came to again, I felt two persons, one on each side, whipping me with whips or cowhides.  My hands were tied to the tree above my head, and I was entirely naked.  The night was very cold, and soon my back was covered with a crust of frozen blood.  I became weaker, and when they untied me, I fell to the ground.  I heard one of the say,

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"Now you can go, you son of a bitch!"  When I put on my clothes again, I found my money($128 in gold) and watch gone.  As I could not stand, I crawled, as well as possible, to the house of my father-in-law, where Dr. Niemeyer treated me.
     My brother, whom they had released, told me that they must have abused me for more than an hour.
     I again say that I am as innocent of the charge as a child, and have never aided the escape of slaves.
     The American (Mattis) is still in LaGrange, sick from a similar treatment.              FREDERICK SCHALLER.

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     BANISHMENT OF A SCHOOL MISTRESS.   Within the last few days, an occurrence took place in one of the young ladies' schools of this city, which shows that even Yankee school-teachers, who come South to make money, cannot keep a discreet tongue in their head.  Abolition is in them, and it will gush out one way or another.
     In the case in point, some of the young lady scholars were talking over the excitement of Harper's Ferry, and one or more of them expressed an opinion, saying, "Old Brown ought to be hanged!"  The teacher from down East, who, we understand, gave lessons in music and French, rebuked the young pupils for calling the Kansas murderer and robber "Old Brown," and stated that they should name him as "Mr. Brown, that he was engaged in a meritorious cause, and was a good and brave man, whose object was not evil, &c.
     The young daughters of the South did not relish this laudation of the old sin-dyed rascal, who would incite, pay and arm negroes to maltreat or murder them; they made known the expressions of the Yankee teacher to the Principal of the Academy, who, after investigating the matter, immediately discharged the offending teacher.  She made tracks for the North the same evening, but will, doubtless, make capital out of the occurrence somewhere down in Main or Massachusetts, where every feminine, who is just able to spell "c-a-t," thinks she can teach all Southern children. - Richmond Enquirer.

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A HIRED TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST - PASS HIM ROUND.

     Our attention has just been called to a copy of the Clarke Journal, (a weekly sheet, published at Berryville, Clarke Co., Va., )bearing date the 11th inst.  This journal is professedly Democratic in politics, and now keeps the following ticket at the head of its leading columns: -
     For President - R. M. T. Hunter of Va.
     For Vice President - D. S. Dickinson, of N. Y.
     Under color of this show of conservatism, the editor of the paper, Alexander Parkins by name, publishes As an Advertisement the full prospectus of the New York Tribune, occupying an entire column, and for which doubtless, Mr. Parkins receives a considerable moneyed compensation.  That our readers may properly appreciate the nature of the inflammatory article thus paid for and published within a few miles of Harper's Ferry, we reproduce the following sample of Greeley's prospectus: -

     "The 'irrepressible conflict' between Darkness and Light, Inertia and Progress, Slavery and Freedom, moves steadily onward.  Isolated acts of folly and madness may for the moment give a seeming advantage to Wrong; but God still reigns, and the Ages are true to Humanity and Right.  The year 1860 must witness a memorable conflict between these irreconcilable antagonists.  The question, 'Shall Human Slavery be further strengthened and diffused by the power and under the flag of the Federal Union?' is now to receive a momentous, if not a conclusive answer.  'Land for the Landless versus Negroes for the Negroless,' is the battle-cry of the embodied millions,,, who, having just swept Pennsylvania, Ohio and the North-West, appear in the new Congress, backed by nearly every free State, to demand a recognition of every man's right to cultivate and improve a modicum of the earth's surface, wherever he has ot been anticipated by the State's cession to another.  Free Homes and the consecration of the virgin soil of the Territories to Free Labor - two  requirements, but one policy - must largely absorb the attention of our Congress through the ensuing session, as of the People in the succeeding Presidential canvass; and, whatever the immediate issue, we cannot doubt that the ultimate verdict will be in accord at once with the dictate of impartial Philanthropy and the inalienable rights of man."

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kins belongs.  A hired disseminator of Abolition treason is the very man of all others to tamper with slaves, to run them off, or, if he had the courage to do so, to lead the van of servile insurrection.  Whether Mr. Parkins has not already laid himself liable to fine and imprisonment in the county jail for his complicity with Horace Greeley's incendiary efforts, is a question which we recommend to the careful consideration of the prosecuting attorney of Clarke county.  But there can be no doubt whatever that the people of Clarke and the surrounding counties owe it to their own safety to suppress this incendiary sheet.  A respectful request to Mr. Parkins to leave the community, signed by all his subscribers, would perhaps prove efficacious; but don't lynch him.  The friends and supporters of Messrs. Hunter and Dickinson  should especially attend to this matter.  The impudence with which Parkins attemps to shelter his treason behind the names of these worthy gentlemen deserves especial reprobation. - Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Nov. 15th.

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therefore; go at once to your Foreman, and see if he cannot introduce you to the Association, if you are not already a member.
     Let us urge you to disseminate among your fellow-laborers the idea that you have not wages proportioned to the present high scale of prices.  When once the mass of your country-men are filled with the notion that the Free-Soil capitalists are withholding the price of Irish labor, while trying to incite the negro of the South to rebellion, it will be easy enough to gather large mobs of your brethren, and when large mobs assemble, ware-houses may be burst open or fired.  Be careful, however, that only the property of Abolitionists is harmed; every where protect those who are friendly to the South and true to the Constitution.
     Irishmen!  the South relies on you!  Depend on it, that for every dollar's worth of injury to our enemies in the Northern factories, &c. &c., by riot or the torch, the South will amply compensate, and, besides, furnish you a safe refuge and a homestead.    Remember to apply at once to your Foreman, for particular instructions.  If you should not be able (which is not likely) to inform you, show this privately to some Irish gentleman of intelligence, after ascertaining his feelings towards the South.  Thousands of copies of this confidential circular will be sent by Irish people in the South to their friends at the North.
                                                                        THE COMMITTEE.

     November 23, 1859.

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SHOCKING CASE.

GLASTENBURY, Conn., Dec. 28th, 1859.

     The Rev. Mr. Alberton was brought to his home - three miles from here - last Friday, with one leg broken and his head and arm bruised, by a fall from the cars, on his way home from Alabama, where he went a few weeks since, in the employ of Mr. Stebbins, of Hartford, peddling books.  He was arrested after the John Brown invasion, on suspicion of evil designs, and imprisoned twelve days.  The suspicion was

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founded on a passage found in a letter to another person, in the same business, from Mr. Stebbins  The suspicious sentence was this:  "Take the best men, be faithful, do your work thoroughly; my agent in this section is the Rev. Mr. Alberton whose head quarters is at _____."  I don't recollect the name of the place.  On this expression they founded a suspicion of treason, and sent forthwith to the place and arrested Mr. A., and the mob gathered around and cried out, "Shoot him, shoot him!"  "hang him, hang him!"  He was searched, tried, and false charges were brought against him, and he was thrust into prison. He was so excited that he finally had turns of derangement.
     His case being reported to Mr. Stebbins, he procured the testimony of persons in Hartford, Gov, Seymour and others, who could be trusted, and he was released, and paid $60 for false imprisonment.  He was put on board of a steamer on the Alabama river to Montgomery, and thence by cars came home, in a fit of derangement, he jumped out of the cars this side of New Haven, and lay from 6, P. M., Thursday, to 3, A. M., Friday, when he was found, and accompanied to Hartford.
     I saw him on Monday of this week.  He is very feeble, and lies prostrate, bruised and mangled, like the "man who went from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves."  He is unable to talk much yet, he is so exhausted and excited.  He has a family consisting of a wife and six children; is an Englishman by birth; has preached in this part of the town five years, and has preached in this country about ten years.  He owns a house in Manchester, and suspends preaching on account of the inconvenience of moving about with a family of small children.  He is a whole-soiled, large-hearted Englishman and Christian; a man of unblemished moral character, and in good standing.  He spent last winter in North Carolina, and preached at times on the Sabbath to his own and all other denominations.

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     Helper, the author of the Impending Crisis, had a lot of his books burned at Maysville, Ky., a short time since.

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THE LYNCH CODE ENFORCED.

Correspondence of the Newbern (N. C.) Daily Progress.

     A few days ago, two Abolitionists of the most flagrant kind, from Connecticut, under the guise of book agents, were put in jail here.  At their examination before Mayor Shaver, many damning facts were elicited in connection with their prowlings through Salisbury and neighborhood, in the shape of tampering variously with slaves, pulse-feeling of non-slaveholding whites, confabing with free negroes, &c.; indeed, they were arrested in a free negro house, in which it was stated they had sojourned, a la Hotel de Dumas!  All this, together with the incoherent and contradictory statements made by themselves, relative to their business and movements, warranted the Mayor in ordering them to jail to await a trial.  The indignation of the citizens was so wrought up that the miscreants begged pitcously for protection, from the office to the jail.
     On Saturday forenoon, an Irishman, named Tait, was loudly announcing to a crowd in front of the post-office that he was an Abolitionist, and that he hoped before long every slaveholder's throat would be cut; he has been in this vicinity some eight years, and, by those who know him, is said to possess a fine school education - to have been a bookkeeper at one time here.  Since I have been here, two years, he has been a common laborer, very low in his conduct and associations, and habitually drunken; he is also said to be very quarrelsome, very cowardly, and, covertly, very malicious, spiteful and revengeful.  I mention these facts that you may understand the rather culpable leniency of the people here in this case.  Well! continuing to express his worse than seditious sentiments and wishes, a crowd soon gathered, by whom he was seized and carried down to the yard of the Mansion Hotel, where, I really believe, had he retracted, they would have let him go, in consideration of his having been in their midst and known to them so long (an aggravation of his crime, in my mind); but when questioned, he repeated what he had before said in a mocking and spiteful manner; also acknowl-

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edged to and glorified in having wrote passes for the slaves of Mr. J. Clark (one of his examiners) and others, to trade with, &c.  They then proceeded to remove a luxuriant crop of dirty red hair from his head, after which they peeled him to the waist.  The day being rather cold, and it being resolved to ride him out, "without horse, saddle or bridle," they humanely replaced the articles of covering of which they had divested him with a very neat-fitting garment of North Carolina manufacture - tar is the name; but this was not enough, for the more fastidious and tasteful J. B., who, resolving to combine the ornamental with the useful, rushed into my, neighbor C.'s room, seized one of his pillows, and soon had its contents all artistically attached to Tait's new coat; it was a complete success; and I remarked to some one that, with their limited practice, they could "tar and feather" with, neatness and dispatch.  Now, to a man of mind, principle and honor, such a degradation would be worse than death, and he would die rather than submit to it, but of such men Abolitionists are not composed, particularly those who have been living any length of time in the South, where they have ample opportunity to know the negro and his position; their sentiments are caused by that malignant and jealous hatred
and envy which is too often found to exist in the hearts of the ignorant and vicious poor towards the good, the intellectual or the wealthy, or to all combined.  When they rode Tait out, he did every thing like a buffoon, to attract attention; this disgusted me so much that I did not follow.  I thought that his thus glorifying in his disgrace as well as his crime would incense the parties who were carrying him out of town to such an uncontrollable degree that they would hang him, and he richly deserved it, for the necessities of the times imperatively demand terrible examples, through short trials and condign punishments, in such cases.  They only ducked him two or three times in a creek, however, and let him go, he refusing to leave the State or retract any thing he had said, and, when at a safe distance, turned and threatened several of the parties with a speedy and terrible vengeance.  A crowd of us went down to see the upshot of the affair, and finding him gone, and learning particulars, blamed them for their forbearance in thus letting him go, worse than he was before.  Some then started after him on horseback.  It was twenty-four

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hours before they recaught him.  He is now in jail, with the two precious villains from Connecticut.  All irresponsible (i. e., non-property holding) parties from the North, at the present time, are naturally enough looke I on with distrust by the people here, and all of them who have deeply pondered on the subject of slavery, and are still anti-conservative, should immediately leave.  The peace of society here and their own personal safety require it; for the criminal suggestions of the higher law delirium, which they attribute to inspiration in their unprincipled leaders, will be viewed here as something worse than the oozing out of distempered natures and the vapors of spleen, which are the mildest terms possible by which to designate their diabolical rhodomontade.

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     A BLACKSMITH DRIVEN AWAY.  Benjamin F. Winter, a blacksmith by trade, has been ordered to leave the town of Hamilton, Harris County, Ga., by a meeting of citizens, for avowing Abolition and incendiary sentiments.

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MORE SOUTHERN FANATICISM

     On Monday last, Marshal McDonald brought before the Vigilance Committee two men, named Manchester and Bishop.  About the first of December last, the Vigilance Committee examined two young men who were procuring subscriptions to the American Cyclopaedia.  It was charged on them that they had been tampering with slaves.  The Committee not deeming the evidence against them sufficient to authorize summary punishment, they were discharged, with the injunction to leave the State, and to abandon their agency, and inform the publishers or their agents that the book should not be delivered in this county, the Committee at that time thinking they were agents for Appleton's "New American Cyclopædia," which had been condemned by Mr. Pryor, and which was regarded by the Committee as being incendiary in its tendency.
     The two men, Manchester and Bishop, notwithstanding the warning given to Smith and Tilden, undertook to sell them, whereupon they were arrested, and upon examination, a book was found in their possession entitled "Cotton is King," which, after a careful perusal by Dr. W. S. Price, R. S. Wier, and ourself, who were appointed a Committee for that purpose, was reported as being incendiary and of a dangerous character.
     It was further shown in evidence against them, that they had sold and circulated said book in this county and Newton.  After much discussion as to what action the Committee should take in the premises, the vote was taken, when six present voted to turn them over to the authorities, and five voted to treat them to a coat of tar and feathers.  The majority ruling, they were then turned over to R. T. Kennedy, Esq., who committed them to the county jail, to answer at the spring term of our Circuit Court.
     A strong feeling on the part of the citizens to tar and feather them was manifested, and, as for our part, we think that the proper way to deal with such men.  The books were burned in the street. - Enterprise (Miss.) News.

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A CHIVALROUS DEMONSTRATION.

     Albertis Patterson, a citizen of West Finley township, in this county, happened to be at Haineytown, a small village in Virginia, situated near the line that divides that State from this county, on or about the 25th ult., and was accosted by three of the chivalrous citizens of that region, named Seaton, Caldwell and Wherry, and interrogated as to his political opinions.  He replied that he was a Know-Nothing, when his interrogators charged him with being a "Black Republican or Abolitionist," and asked him if he did not sympathize with John Brown.  To this he answered that he was a Republican; and as for John Brown, he "believed that Gov.Wise was as big a fool as he was."  Upon making this declaration, he was violently seized by Seaton and Caldwell, a
rope was procured, looped and thrown around his neck, and the desperadoes immediately proceeded to strangle him, which they most unquestionably would have succeeded in doing had it not been for the interference of two men, named Armstrong and Bemer, who happened to be on the street at the time. When Patterson was rescued from his brutal assailants, his face was black from strangulation, and his neck bruised and discolored by the abrasion of the rope.
     The scoundrels, we are sorry to say, escaped unpunished; but should any such demonstrations be made in future by the chivalry of that region, we are assured the ruffians will be hanged to the nearest limb.  They will find that Haineytown is not Charlestown, although both villages are within the jurisdiction of the Old Dominion, where every petty postmaster and country squire is, ex officio, inquisitor of the opinions of his neighbor.  But Haineytown catches some of the healthy breezes of independence from our western boundary, and it is not quite a safe experiment there to choke people to death, even for believing that his late Excellency, Gov. Wise,
is a little weak in the upper story - Washington {Pa.) Trihune.

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     TWO YOUNG LADIES DRIVEN OUT OF RICHMOND.    Two intelligent young ladies, formerly well known in the choirs of churches in Boston and Hartford, went to Richmond in September last with a view of establishing a private school.  They soon gained the confidence of many friends, and succeeded in starting an enterprise which gave fair prospect of speedily prospering.  As soon as the recent excitement began, they were waited upon by some very respectable gentlemen, who informed them that Northern school-mistresses, however amiable and competent, were not the proper persons to teach the children of Southern parents and guardians! The ladies were forced immediately to break up their school.  Wishing, on account of their health, to remain in a Southern climate, and hearing of a vacancy in a school in another city in Virginia, they made application and presented their letters.  They received a reply from a clergyman, who wrote to them as follows: -

     "The Board

     Accordingly, the ladies, being compelled to leave Richmond, and unable to find a place for the soles of their feet any where else in Virginia, and knowing the uselessness of going further south, too an early train to New York.  One of them still remains in this city, where she is anxious to procure a situation as soprano singer in a choir, or as a teacher of music to private pupils.  Any application sent to her through the office of the Independent, addressed "Richmond," will be immediately forwarded to her.  The name of Mr. Horace Waters, music publisher, is among her references. - New York Independent.

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     PUSHED OFF A RAILROAD CAR.  A passenger on the Mississippi Central Railroad was pushed off the train while it was in full motion, for denouncing Gov. Wiseand lauding John Brown.

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     EXPULSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM ARKANSAS.   At the late session of the Arkansas Legislature, an act was passed giving the free negroes of that State the alternative of migrating before January 1st, 1860, or of becoming slaves.  As the time of probation has now expired, while some few individuals have preferred servitude, the great body of the free colored people of Arkansas are on their way northward.  We learn that the upward bound boats are crowded with them, and that Seymour, Ind., on the line of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, affords a temporary home for others. 
     A party of forty, mostly women and children, arrived in this city last evening by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.  They were welcomed by a committee of ten, appointed from the colored people of the city, by whom the refugees were escorted to the Dumas House, on McAllister street, at which place a formal reception was held.  They were assured by the Chairman of the Reception Committee, Peter H. Clark, that if they were industrious and exemplary in their conduct, they would be sure to gain a good livelihood and many friends.  The exiles, as before stated, are mostly women and children, the husbands and fathers being held in servitude.  They report concerning the emigration, that hundreds of the free colored men of Arkansas have left for Kansas, and hundreds more are about to follow. - Cincinnati Gazette, Jan. 4th.

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     TWO HEADS HALF-SHAVEN.  The steamer Huntsville, which arrived in New York from Savannah, on Monday, Dec. 19th, brought several passengers who had been driven away from different parts of the South.  Among them were two gentlemen whose heads were shaved on one side!  They had been exiled from the chivalrous State of South Carolina!  One of the victims avowed his determination speedily to return to execute vengeance on his maltreaters.

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     At Danville, Va., a clerk in the Post Office saw a man throw a letter, which he had just gotten, into the stove, and, on taking it out, found it to be a proposition for running off slaves.  The man was arrested.

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     HOW TWO ORGAN-GRINDERS WERE TARRED AND FEATHERED - We have private intelligence from a friend in Alabama of a case of tar and feathering which is both serious and comical.  Two Italian organ-grinders, who could scarcely speak a word of English, made their way from Mobile into the interior of the State, to earn a livelihood by itinerating with their poor tunes.  After playing in a bar-room in a small town, and gathering all the pennies which Southern generosity was likely to bestow upon such entertainment, they asked to be directed to the next town.  Whereupon, a wag took a piece of paper, and, under pretence of writing down the necessary direction, gave the poor men a fatal letter, somewhat as follows: -

"TO THE KNOWING ONES:
     "Pass my Italian friends.  All right.  Mum's the word.
                         (Signed)      "JOHN BROWN, of Osawatomie."

     The music peddlers, on reaching the net town, faint and weary with the weight of their organs on their backs, went immediately to a tavern, and unwittingly presented their letter of recommendation!  They were at once taken by the whiskey drinkers, stripped, threatened until they were terrified out of their wits, tarred and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail!  Such is Southern chivalry!

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     THE NEW YORK INDEPENDENT OUTLAWED.  A correspondent in Texas, who has for years received the Independent, has written to us to stop it, as the continued sending might cost him his business and possibly his neck.  No Northern publications but the New York Herald and the Nassau street Tracts are now considered safe reading on the other side of the line. - New York Independent.

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     NARROWLY ESCAPED LYNCHING.  An Italian grocer, named John Ginochio, narrowly escaped being lynched by the citizens of Petersburg, Va., last Monday, for saying that John Brown was a good and very useful man, and, instead of being hung, he ought to have been made President of the United States.

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     Mr. J. P. Gillespie, of New Albany, Indiana, publishes a card in the Ledger, of that city, in which he explains the circumstances connected with a recent visit which he made to Franklin, La., for the purpose of practising his profession.  On his arrival there, it became noised about that he was an Abolitionist.  A committee waited on him and advised him to leave the place forthwith if he wished to escape lynching.  Mr. G. denied the accusation.  A large crowd assembled around the hotel to carry out the threat, and Mr. G. armed himself and walked out into the crowd, demanding to know the person who made the accusation. Capt, Atkinson was given as the author, who had said that he (Gillespie) had gone into Kentucky, with an armed band of men, to rescue a "nigger" thief by the name of Bell, and that they had carried off some slaves at the game time.  Mr. Gillespie left on the following day on a steamer for Berwick Bay, and then for New Orleans, accompanied by a number of persons from Franklin, who pointed him out as an Abolitionist. Immediately on his arrival at New Orleans, he took passage on an up-river boat.

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     We learn that Rev. George Gandee, Rev. Wm. Kendrick, and Robert Jones, missionaries of the American Missionary Association, in Jackson County, Ky., (Jones, a colporteur,) were recently, near Laurel, where they were preaching, waited upon by a committee of five, and requested to leave.  They were engaged to preach the next morning, but were prevented by a mob, which took them a half mile and interrogated them, then took them five miles further and left them, after shaving their hair and beards, and putting tar on their heads and faces.  Mr. Kendrick was in the Union Theological Seminary of this city last year. - New York Independent.

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     The Sylvania (Georgia) News reports that two book agents were treated  to thirty-nine lashes each, after the style of "Russian executioners," by a planter in that vicinity, recently, because they had visited his plantation and rendered themselves not only disagreeable by their volubility, but suspicious by their conduct.

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LEGISLATION IN MARYLAND

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     WHITE FAMILIES LEAVING VIRGINIA.  The New York Times says that it has reliable information when it states that, in consequence of the Harper's Ferry affair, the heavy property-holders of Virginia begin to see that the subject of slavery is destined to produce interminable strife in that State in the future, and materially decrease the value of property.  Families are accordingly preparing to leave the State; panic pervades all classes of citizens; there is no freedom of speech; suspicion and distrust are abroad; the last resort to check the progress of crime, the jury system, has become weak and corrupt; the spirit of religion is dying out, and infidelity taking its place.  The country, according to this representation, is in fact but one degree removed from anarchy.