Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-10-26
The Rebellion at Harpsr's Ferry.
Dispatch TO the Baltimore SUM-

! Dispatch TO the Baltimore Sun.
| CHARLESTowS, Va, Oct. 24-The Circuit
| Court OF Jefferson county-lIon. Richard
Parker, Judge; Chas. d. Harding Common
wealth's Attorney, Andrew Hunter, assistant.
The Court adjourned early this morning, such
| Icing the excitement that no civil cases were
ready for trial.
| The State Of Virginia vs.. John Brown,
Aaron c. Stevens, and Edwin Coppee, white
persons, and Shields Green and John Cope
land, negroes, committed on charges of con-
spracy 10 make rebellion, instruction. and
open war against the Commonwealth Of Nir-
| GINA, and also for the murder of +. Beck
ham, G. W. Turner, Thomas Burley, Luke
Quinn, marine, and HAYWOOD Sheppard ne
gro. The following justices of the peace
have been summoned by the sheriff to hold
the examination trial tomorrow of the above
| prisoners :-Braxton Davenport, presiding
justice; Geo. W. Eichelberger. John W. Me
Curdy VIM. T. Alexander, John J. Locke,
&. T. Mason, and Thomas II. Willis.
The law requires that the decision of the
justices of the examination court, who may
number from five to sixteen, must be unani-
8, nous.
The prisoners will be examined together.
and it is supposed that the examination trial
will be concluded BY two o'clock tomorrow.
To which time the grand jury have been adj
.iourned by the court. The grand jury will
! then take up the case Immediately, aud the
/ indictments, which are already prepared,
| will probably he presented to the court on
! Wednesday morning, when the trial of the
! prisoners will commence before the court and
jury. Should they be found guilty, aud sen.
! tence Of death be pronounced upon them.
the Judge, under the laws of this State. fixes
the day Of execution independent of the
Governor The usual delay of thirty days
after sentence is excepted in cases insurrec
ton and rebellion, and the prisoners if con-
yicted Of the same, may be hung immediate
ly, either within or without the jail yard
Judge Parker to-day ordered the S3oj
| taken from Brown to be paid 10 him. The
Judge also stated that all their personal pro-
perty. Including the Sharps rifles and other
arms which belong t. the prisoners, will be
! given to the heirs Of the prisoners should
they be captally convicted.
a man named James Lynch, alias William
j. Stabough, supposed to be one of the in
surgents, was brought in a prisoner to-day,
and lodged in Jail. He was captured some
days ago by Mr.. NJ. +. Price, the L. S. mail
agent on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
cars, ut place called Sir Johns Run. and
keptin Romney Jail till to-day. lie is quite
understood, Of simple and foolish appear
ance, and had been for several weeks lrtcr-
ing about this and the adjoining counties beg
ging and borrowing money. lie registered
himself here some days before the outbreak,
! nc Il 1 t'ip.irnoti nhin lur
the time of his arrest gave the name
of Vim. }. Stabough. of Louisa, Lawrence
county, Ky. On Friday night, the 18th
| he called Mr.. Barbour, the superintendent
of the armory at lIarpcr's Ferry, out Of his
house, insisting upon u private interview on
the lawn, which was refused. Then he ask
ed the loan Of a dollar and then left. Since
his arrest he has said il Barbour had granted
him All interview he would have revealed the
whole plot. Both at Ilarpers Ferry and here
an excited crowd followed the prisoner rs he
passed manacled through the streets in the
charge of officers His commitment on su1-
pcon Of aiding and .4hcttng John Brown
Il Co., was issued by Justice Eichcbcrger.
The prisoner Stevens is considered out OF
immediate danger from his wounds, and the
others are III good condition.
The excitement in town is increasing Is
the time for trial approaches. The town is
guarded by very large body of military
under the command of Col Davis, which was
reinforced to-day by men from Shepherds
town. Col. Davis arrived in town from Rich
mond, and took command to-day OF all the
troops lie il Il staff officer of Gov Wise
Senator Mason. Mr.. Faulkner and other
prominent Nirginians, are here.
Ii is expected that the requisitlon "t Coy
Wise for the prisoner III Carlisle jail will
reach there in time 10 enable him Ia h. com
United to the Jail OF this county on Thursday
night.
lIARrER's FERRY. Oct. 24.-still further
discoveries rs to those implicated III the out
break have been made, which seem To pro-
dure much excitement here and at Charles
town. although the nature of the discoveries
has not TRANSFERRED. There was last night =
number of alarms and great deal ofhmrrying
to and fro: arms from the armory were dealt
out to every citizen, and guards were dispatch
ed with the trains. The workmcn in the
arnory. who had resumed work were all
again idle to-day.
FREE NEGRoEs.-Idle. and shiitess. and
tlisSpated, some OF them doubtless are: but
conservative they are and always have been.
They cling with dcathlike tenacity. when
permitted to do so, to Southern soil and IN
stitutions. When divorced from them IT Is
by legal coercion. The very fact is y com
mentary upon the freedom which the North
offers to them They seldom 80 TO free States
except upon compulsion. Aud if the legal
restrictions were removed there would be
into the South general influx, a mighty
rush Of the free colored population, scattered
throughout the North and West. We men
ton these things because we wish to di>pcl
any ilIuSory hopes founded on the supposed
sympathy Of the free black with the slave, and
to dispe amy fear among ourselves. NJ
such sympathy exists. The historical facts
exhibit no such sympathy. The free negroes
at the North who make themselves busy i'll
the matter are well understood. Nutorlety
and money are their aim, and these only
Many Of the free colured people OF the South
are INDUSTRIOUS useful persons, and - far
from being really objects Of jealousy and sus-
picion, are, considering their legal status aud
actual circumstances, worthy Of kind consld.
Grafton and sympathetic regard. They I'LL
up useful and needful place, in orr social
and domestic economy. 1t is an i'll Policyto
visit upon them punishment which they
in nnt incur For the most part thew