Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.

AURORA, Illinois, Feb. 15th, 1860.

     With your permission, I will occupy a small space in your paper, as a witness against the tyranny and oppression in the South.  I have resided in Louisiana and Arkansas over ten years, was engaged in teaching, and am an official member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
     Since the Harper's Ferry affair, the Southern people have a peculiar hatred against Northern and Eastern people, irrespective of party.
     In January,

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     FRIGHTENED BY A BLIND GIRL.   The Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer publishes the statement of a blind girl, who was recentlly expelled from Martinsburgh, Va., on suspicion of being an Abolitionist.  She says:  "Some of the people treated me kindly enough, but the lady of the house insisted that I was an Abolitionist; that coming as I did from Indiana, I was not entitled to belief.  A gentleman came into my room uninvited and questioned me in an impudent manner.  I applied to a minister, who said he would be glad to assist me, but would advise me not to stay during the excitement.  It was in consequence of this that I was compelled to leave."  In addition to this, the conductor of the train upon which the blind lady and her sister arrived, told us, in the presence of a number of gentlemen, that the ladies were not permitted to remain.  He was asked if he knew them, and upon replying that he did not, was told that "they could not stay there."

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     A correspondent of a Richmond paper makes the following offer: -

     "$100,000 REWARD - MESSRS. EDITORS. - I will be one of one hundred gentlemen, who will give twenty-five dollars each for the heads of the following traitors:

     "Henry Wilson, Massachusetts;  Charles Sumner, Massachusetts;  Horace Greeley, New York; John P. Hale, New Hampshire; Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, Brookyn; Rev. Dr. Cheever, New York; Rev. Mr. Wheelock New Hampshire; Schuyler Colfax, Anson Burlingame, Owen Lovejoy, Amos P. Granger, Edwin B. Morgan, Galusha A. Grow, Joshua R. Giddings, Edward Wade, Calvin C. Chaffee, William H. Kelsey, William A. Howard, Henry Waldron, John Sherman, George W. Palmer, Daniel W. Gooch, Henry L. Dawes, Justin S. Morrill, I. Washburn, Benjamin Stanton, Edward Dodd, C. B. Tompkins, John Covode, Cad. C. Washburn, Samuel G. Andrews, A. B. Olin, Sidney Dean, N. B. Durfee, Emory B. Pottle, DeWitt C. Leach, J. F. Potter, T. Davis, Massachusetts; T. Davis, Iowa; J. F. Farnsworth, C. L. Knapp, R. E. Fenton, Philemon Bliss, Mason W. Tappan, Charles Case, James Pike, Homer E. Boyce, Isaac D. Clawson, A. S. Murray, Robert B. Hall, Valentine B. Horton, Freeman H. Morse, David Kilgore, William Stewart, Samuel B. Curtis, John M. Wood, John M. Parker, Stephen C. Foster, Charles J. Gilman, C. B. Hoard, John Thompson, J. W. Sherman, William D. Braxton, James Buffington, O. B. Matteson, Richard Mott, S. A. Purviance, Francis E. Spinner, SilasM. Burroughs.  And I  will also be one of one hundred to pay five hundred dollars each ($50,000) for the head of William H. Seward, and would add a similar reward for Fred. Douglass, but regarding him head and shoulders above these traitors, will permit him to remain where he now is.                                "RICHMOND." 

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     An exhibition of wax figures, including the Savior and the Apostles, and John Brown, was burned by a mob at Milton, Florida, recently.

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     EXPULSON OF TWO MECHANICS.

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     A PHILADELPHIA DRUMEMR MENACED.

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     TREASONABLE LINEN.

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     A TRAP TO CATCH HON. JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS.

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     A Young man named Baker, formerly an organist and daguerreotypist at Rome, New York, and son of Rev. Mr. Baker, of Utica, was lately driven from Augusta, Georgia. Mr. Baker went to Augusta to take the position of organist in an Episcopal Church, and had played but one Sabbath, when he was warned to leave, or submit to a coat of tar and feathers.

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     SUMMARY LYNCHING AT CHAPPELL'S DEPOT, SOUTH CAROLINA.

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     The Rockville (Md.) Journal says that a man was arrested near the Great Falls, in that county, on Wednesday last, for the expression of a feeling of sympathy with the late rebellion at Harper's Ferry.  He is now in the county jail.

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     A SOUTHERN OUTRAGE. 

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     It will be remembered that we published, some weeks since, an account of the sacking of the house of John C. Underwood, of Clarke County, Va., and the assault and wounding with a bayonet of one of the women of that neighborhood, who resisted the entrance of the brutal soldiery into her house, and was thus disabled, in defence of herself and daughters from the licentious and drunken forces of Gov. Wise, in the absence of her husband.  We now learn that this woman was the wife of Martin Feltner, a tenant of Mr. Underwood, a most worthy member of the Methodist Church, and the mother of fourteen living children - ten sons and four daughters.  We are glad to learn that a contribution is to be made by our citizens as a testimonial to her courage and virtue. - New York Tribune.

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     ANOTHER OUTRAGE

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     METHODISM DANGEROUS IN KENTUCKY.

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     GEORGIA.  The Legislature of Georgia has passed a law, making it unlawful hereafter for any itinerant person or persons to vend or sell in that State any article of value, not manufactured in Georgia, by sample or otherwise, without a license.  The license is "one hundred dollars, or other sum, at the discretion of the Inferior Court of the county" in which the peddling or sales are made.  An additional ta of one per cent, on one hundred dollars sold is imposed.  The penalty is fine and imprisonment.
     A law has also been passed providing that free negroes, wandering or strolling about, or leading an idle, immoral, or profligate course of life, shall be sold into slavery for a period not exceeding two years for the first offence; but upon conviction of a second offence, they must be sold into perpetual slavery.

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     The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, of Tuesday last, says: -
" Last Saturday, we devoted to the flames a large number of copies of Spurgeon's SErmons, and the pile was graced at the top with a copy of 'Graves's Great Iron Wheel,' which a Baptist friend presented for the purpose.  We trust that the works of the greasy cockney vociferator may receive the same treatment throughout the South.  And if the Parisaical author should ever show himself in these parts, we trust that a stout cord may speedily find its way around his eloquent throat.  He has proved himself a dirty, low-bred slanderer, and ought to be treated accordingly.

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     THE METHODIST PREACHER DRIVEN FROM HIS WORK.  Benjamin Brown, a colored Methodist preacher, sent by the Conference to labor among the colored people of Milford and Slaughter Neck, was arrested, on Friday last, at the instigation of some of the citizens of Slaughter Neck, for being a non-resident.  He was taken before Esq. Revill who was compelled by the law to fine him fifty dollars.  He was also ordered to leave the State in five days, or again be subject to fine and imprisonment.  It seems, that besides preaching on the Sabbath, he had opened a school, in which free colored children, in great numbers, were learning to read and write; and this excited the opposition that was manifested in enforcing an inhuman law.  The preacher is said to be a quiet, peaceable man.  His work among the free negroes of this vicinity was elevating and improving them; but to this many white men are opposed, never seeming, while they abuse the negroes for their immoral and vicious practices, to consider that it is their ignorance and degradation that make them so, and to remove which, intelligence and moral elevation is absolutely necessary.  Ignorance is the mother of vice, and knowledge is the father of virtue, among all classes of men.
     Many of our citizens have since signed a petition to the Judge for this county, for a permit to allow Brown to remain and attend to the duties to which he has been assigned by Bishop Scott; but the Judge has not yet granted it.  Brown was ordained a deacon in the church by Bishop Waugh, late of Baltimore, and to Elder's orders by Bishop Baker.  A son of Brown was also engaged in teaching in Milford, but on receiving notification, he left the town, and probably the State.
     "Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." - News and Advertiser, Delaware.

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     A correspondent of the Missouri Republican says that F. P. Blair was near being arrested by the gensdarmes of Virginia, while eating his dinner at Martinsburg.  He was let off, he adds, on giving assurances that he was going to Washington as fast as the locomotive would carry him.

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     A NEW TEST.

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     A young lady from one of the hill towns of Massachusetts is now teaching in Virginia.  After the John Brown affair, notice was given out that she could not have any of her letters from the post-office, until they had been opened and read, in the presence of witnesses, to see if they contained any "incendiary matter."  She immediately went to the office, and demanded that her letters should be delivered to her unopened.  The Postmaster looked at her a moment, saw that she meant what she said, and delivered her letters to her.  She still remains there teaching, unmolested, but says that all that saves her from a coat of tar and feathers is the fact that she is a woman.

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     MR. WALTER, - As it is two days' journey (sometimes) from this to old Chester, and as long back again, how does it happen that you have beaten all of the four newspapers here, and furnished the Athenians with an account of some of their own doings, before they could tell it themselves?  not

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     WHOLESALE PROSCRIPTION.  In the Oxford (Miss.) Mercury, of last week, we find the following: -
     "We believe that if the excitement gets mush higher, all Northern-born people, of whatever grade, standing, or time they have been living here, will be forced to leave.  They never can hope to be considered or treated in the social circle here with the respect once shown to all people of respectability.  An Englishman, or any foreign gentleman, is now more highly respected by the people of the South than a Yankee."

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     MORE ARRESTS AND EXPULSIONS.    The Charleston Mercury, of the 17th ult., says that a man, supposed to be an Abolitionist, of dark complexion, with black hair and a scar over the left eye, about five feet eleven inches in height, and calling himself James W. Rivers, was taken up on the 13th by the Vigilance Committee, tarred and feathered, and the right side of his head shaven.
     We learn that two men arrived in this city yesterday morning, having been dismissed from Sumter.  Confidence in the honesty of their intentions, and feeling innocent of any misdemeanor, they will endeavor to regain their residence at Sumter.
     During last week, a few young men, in a frolicking spirit, agreed to play Vigilance Committee, and cause the first man they should meet to give a strict account of himself.  They had not proceeded far ere they met a Charleston gentleman, who, surmising that nothing but sport was at the bottom of it, submitted to their catechism, and told them distinctly that he was a South Carolinian and a Charlestonian.  One of the self-constituted Vigilants, in the pride of his position hinted that the matter might be all right; but that an unprejudiced evidence, other than the examined gentleman, was necessary to satisfy him.  This was too much, even for the good nature of the impressed gentleman, who squared off, and, by a well-directed blow, landed his persistent examiner in the middle of the street.  As his comrades picked him up, he exclaimed, "I reckon he's a Southerner; let's go along!"  This was the end of that Vigilance Committee.

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     Itinerant teachers, peddlers, drummers, &c., are so numerous in Frederick County, Md., that the people fear a second Harper's Ferry affair, and have set a watch over the barracks, where seven hundred stand of arms are deposited, lest they should be broken into to taken possession of.

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     In South Easton, Pa., on the 22d of February, an itinerant peddler of the "Life of John Brown" was treated to a dozen lashes on the back, and ordered out of town!

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     A REWARD OFFERED FOR THE HEAD OF MR. GIDDINGS. -   The following advertisement appears in the Richmond Whig:
     Ten Thousand Dollars Reward. - Joshua R. Giddings, having openly declared himself a traitor in a lecture at Philadelphia, on the 28th of October, and there being no process, strange to say, by which he can be brought to justice, I propose to be one of the hundred to raise $10,000 for his safe delivery in Richmond, or $5,000 for the production of his head.  I do not regard this proposition, extraordinary as it may at first seem, either unjust or unmerciful.  The law of God and the Constitution of his country both condemn him to death.
     For satisfactory reasons, I withhold my name from the public, but it is in the hands of the editor of the Richmond Whig.  There will be no difficulty, I am sure, in raising the $10,000, upon a reasonable prospect of getting the said Giddings to this city.
     Richmond, Nov. 1, 1859.

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     The Providence Journal says: - "We lately mentioned that a twelve pound cannon ball had been found here in a bale of cotton, and we then took occasion to remark, that the substitution
of iron for sand as an article to increase the weight of the bale showed a slight moral improvement in the dishonest packers.  But something worse even than sand has been found in a bale which recently arrived.  That is, lucifer matches.  They were in a pine box, which was partially broken, so that they could not fail to ignite in passing through the picker.  Had they not been accidentally discovered, they might have caused the destruction of one of the most valuable mills in this State."

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     A dentist, who has advertised himself for the last eighteen months in Charleston, S. C., as desiring ot cure tooth-ache without pain, was waited upon, on the 17th ult., by a committee, who were fortified by the oaths of two reliable citizens before a magistrate, and notified that, considering his avowed Abolitionism, he must select another residence.  He left.

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      A NEW YORK CAPTAIN FINED.  The Richmond Enquirer, of Nov 30, says:  "The schooner L. Waterbury, Capt. S. A. Swinnerton, of New York, last July violated the inspection laws of Virginia, and escaped, doubtless believing inspection laws were the greatest of humbugs.  She returned to our port last week, when that ever-vigilant Yankee-hunter, W. H. Parker, Chief Inspector, ponced upon the L Waterbury at this port, and her captain was compelled to pay $528 fine.  The L. Waterbury's cargo was about $750 in lumber form Florida.  Rather an unprofitable voyage for an "enterprising" Yankee.
     "This added to the previous fine, swells the amount to $3,000, besides the costs, recovered since last October, for violations of Inspection laws."

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     A letter from a Boston gentleman who has gone South for hi health, states that on the first day out from Washington, he had a pistol held to his head, and that he was dogged by four Southern men for hundreds of miles, annoyed and insulted until he challenged the whole crowd of them to fight him whereupon they backed out.  All his newspapers from Boston have been withheld from him, and his letters have been broken open before they reached the post-office to which they were sent.

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                                                         LOUISVILLE, March 27th.

     A man named Hanson, who was recently expelled from Berea, Madison county, Ky., with J. G. Fee, returned to Berea, whereupon a committee waited upon him, for the purpose of again ordering him from the county.  Hanson, with twenty-five or thirty associates, armed with rifles, fired upon the committee, but without injuring any one.  Hanson's party then retreated and barricaded themselves in a house.  The committee, which is composed of twenty-five or thirty men, are armed with revolvers.