The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-11-17
DOMESTIC SUMMARY.

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From DENVER CIrY.-Leauenaoorth Nor IL.
The express from Denver City, of the Sd inst,
has arrived, bringing $35, 900 in treasure.
Mr.. Williams, delegate from the Territory
of Jefferson, comes passenger by the express.
His seat will be contested by DR.. Willing. The
election of Mr.. Steel as Governor is confirmed.
The Legislature was to meet on the 18th.
The weather on the mountains was very
fine.
The yield of gold at the mines continued
large.
The Utah mail of the 2lst ult. has also ar
rived News unimportant
Mr.. PARROTS majority as delegate from Kau.
sas is probably $1,000 The Republicans have
a majority in the Legislature.
GERRIr SMITHS INsANIrY-ATTEMPr TO Con-
NIT SUICIDE.-With regard to the insanity of
Gerrit Smith, the Utica Herald says:
We learn that he is very violent, and has
exhibited a disposition to commit suicide, and
that an attendant keeps constant watch over
him, to prevent him from laying violent hands
on himself This result we hear attributed to
the connection of Mr. Smiths name with
the Harper's Ferry affair, though many will
regard it as the consequence of long
seated and marked disease. Mr. Smith is
said to have an hereditary predsposition to
insanity. Hi. father Peter Smith, though
the possessor of an immense estate, and sur
rounded by every circumstance of prosperity
was subject to fits Of profound dependency,
during which he was under the impression that
he would die beggar. Unlike his noted son,
he was exceedingly sharp in his bargains and
money affairs. 1t is also said that the late
Peter Sken Smith, the brother of Gerrit, was
for some time an inmate of lunatic asylum,
uuha ba cd bo Ilx,o
cred as in possession of his reason. Gerrit
Smith has lost all his children but one, the wife
of Col. Miller, of Peterboro'. nephew of Mrs.
Smith, Col. Fitzhugh, was the captor Of the fu
gitive Cook, fact which greatly disturbed the
mind of Mr.. Smith. John Cochrane, a Demo
cratic politician of New York city, another
nephew of Gerrit Smith, has also, by his
speeches, purged himself of any completely in
the Harper's Ferry affair"
The Rochester Express says:
{" Ever since the denouement of the mad
and foolhardy attempt of old Brown at Har-
per's Ferry, there have been rumors that Ger
rit Smith was in a most distressing and pitt
able state of mind 1t is said that he has been
constantly wringing his hands AID bemoaning
the fate of poor Brown, and accusing himself
with having been instrumental in bringing his
friends into their present sore troubles.
While making a brief visit to the neighbor-
hood of Mr.. Smiths residence, a few days since,
we learned that his friends were apprehensive
that his reason would give way under the load
of grief and anxiety the events of Harpers Ferry
and neighborhood has occasoned, and we were
not, therefore, surprised to learn this morning
that these fears have been realized, and that
the unhappy man is now raving lunatic. He
was taken to the lunatic asylum at Utica yes
terday."
The Court GROWS "WOLFIsH. We find
the following paragraph in the Alexandria Ga
zette:
Notes from Observation-Disclosures, one
| of Browns associates, has been found guilty of
murder and conspiracy but not guilty of trea-
son. because he is a colored man, and therefore
! not citizen.
George Sennott the lawyer sent from Bos-
ton to defend the remaining insurgents, has
made himself exceedingly unpopular. In de-
| Tending Shields Green, one of the negroes, he
picked all sorts of flaws in the indictment, and
was so irreverent generally. that the court and
the spectators began to feel wolfsh, and it was
with difficulty they kept their chivalrous hands
off him.
"Mr. Brockett, Boston artist, arrived at
Charlestown on Wednesday, to procure like
ness of Brown, and measurement of his head
to aid in making bust, for which he has re-
ceved commission, but found it difficult to
obtain access to Brown on account of the new
excitement raised by Sennott, and it is doubt
full whether he will be allowed to take Browns
daguerreotype. The idea of statue to the
man who has plotted treason against Virginia,
does not suit the fitness of things"
THE HARPER FERRY INsuRGEyTs.-Thet trial
of Cook was concluded at Charlestown on
Wednesday evening, by a verdict similar to that
found against Brown and Coppic. The same
motion for arrest of Judgment, with view to
carrying the case to the Court of Appeals, was
made in the previous cases. The prisoner
Stevens has been handed over to the United
States authorities for trial for treason. He will
be tried by the United States Circuit Court for
Virginia, and the decision there will be final,
the law providing for no appeal in criminal
cases tried in the Federal courts, even where
life is concerned The court on Thursday
sentenced Coppic and Cook, and the negroes
Copeland and Green, to be hung on the 10th
of December. 1t is supposed Gov. Wise will
reprieve Brown, previously sentenced to be
hung on the I'd proximo, and that the execu-
| ton of all the condemned will take place on
| the 10TH
CONVICTION OF CAPT. Consolidation
NOU. l0.-The jury brought in a verdict to-day
against John +. Cook, of guilty OF murder In the
| first degree and meeting slaves to instruction.
| The court Immediately sentenced Cook and all
the other convicts tried since Brown was con-
victed to be hung on the 10th of December. 1t
| is supposed the Governor will respite Brown TO
that day, and hang all at the same time. The
court adjourned for the term.
The confession of Cook will not be published
in the papers, as it will be printed in pamphlet
form, and sold for the benefit of Mr.. Samuel c..
Young, of Charlestown, who was severely
wounded in front of the Armory gate whilst as
sisting in the attack on the insurgents.
JOHN BRowN's NURsE-A correspondent
saws: "The lady who, with her son, visited
John Brown, for the purpose of offering her
| services as nurse, and was sent back with little
ceremony, was Mrs. Marcus Spring, formerly of
this city, and now of Eagleswood, New Jersey.
She is the daughter of the Quaker Abolitionist,
Arnold Bufam, and, considering her pacific
principles and gentle character, there is some
thing ladicrous in the suspicious scrutiny with
which the Virginians regarded her. Frederick
Bremen, in the journal of her travels in the
| United States, makes frequent and grateful
reference to the hospitality of Mrs. Spring and
| her misunderstanding Post.
JUSTICE TO JoHS BRowy-THE PoTTAwATo-
ME MAssAcRE.-I read in your issue of this
morning, in connection with merited fagel-
lation OF G. W. Brown, of the Lawrence Herald
| Of Freedom, a tacit admission that John Brown
executed the Pottawatomie massacre of May
| rs, 1856, in which FIVE of Bufords rufians
| came to their death. Brown related the cir
| cumstances to me in the fall of 1856, substan-
TALLY as it was given in the Press and Tribune,
but said expressly and unequivocally that he