Smyrna times., 1859-12-08

Cook, the accomplice of Brown, states in hi
> confession that Richard ReaIf Browns Secre.
tory of State, went to England to procure mo
ney for their scheme, and that they had heard
oil his sailing on his return, with quite a sum of
money, but they had never heard of his arrival
and supposed him to be dead. Reafwas a pro-
tege of Lady Byron, whom he offended bv
counting young lady related to her, and he af.
terwards became implicated in Chartist diff.
culties, which made it necessary for him TO
leave his country. He was employed in the
New York Five Points mission, and afterwards
emlgrated to Kansas, where he became associa-
ted with Brown.
EXTENSIVE efforts appear TO be simultaneous.
ly making in different parts Of the country to
put in circulation large quantities of counter
felt money. A party of eleven men lately left
Cairo, Illinois, on a circulating voyage down
the Mississippi, having on hand $I25,000 of
counterfeit 500 notes on the Canal Bank of
New Orleans. Some $4,000 in counterfeits
on the Philadelphia Bank have been received
In Cincinnati within few days, at the banks
Gov. WISE was made prisoner at Charles.
town on Monday night week, by a sentinel.-
The Governor had forgotten the countersign,
but the soldier on the post had not lost sight of
his military discipline, and marched the Com
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he would have done an abolitionist. The Gov.
ernor was not Wise on that occasion to the SOL
der, at least, and perhaps otherwise too.
THE rumor about John A. Washington's en-
barrassment is one of John Wentworths sto-
ries. 1t seems he stopped payment on some
property he bought in Chicago, because of de.
feet of title, but it was made good, and Mr..
Washington completed the purchase. Out of
hiS frif aft wa ha Uhnla
THE Republicans of Missouri are to hold a
State convention on the 28th inst, at Jeffer-
son City to nominate delegates to the National
Repubrican convention.
The Richmond manufacturers seem resolved
to try and get up boots and shoes, as cheap as
they can make them in the North. We see no
reason why they cannot do so. All it wants is
enterprise amongst the whites
The SLAYER Wanderer trials are ended at Su-
vannah. The Grand Jury having ignored the
bills against Rajesto and Aguira, in the Wan
derer affair, the remaining cases were dismiss
ed without trial.
DOUGLASS delegates from Cincinnati to the
democratic district convention, have been elec-
ted, with but little opposition.
THE New York Herald is republishidg the
accounts of the Charleston Insurrection in 1922,
and circulating them through the South by the
thousand. Where are the laws against incen-
diary publications!
WHILE lady in Richmond the other day re-
fused to buy Cotton cloths manufactured in the |
North, military company somewhere in Vir-
ginia recently sent on $25,000 to Hartford, |
Connecticut, to buy Sharp's rifles and Colts re-
volvers.
For THE EASTERN SHoRE.-Gov. Wise, we
understand, has ordered large number of
arms from the Richmond armory to the eastern
shore, to be placed in the hands of citizens, who
will use them in case of any attempted under
ground operations thereabouts.
CONTEST FOR MAYoR.-The list of candidates
for Mayor in New York, stands at present as
follows:
1. Tamany-William F. Havemeyer, (sugar
merchant)
2. Mozart HALF. Wood, (poitician.)
3. Repubican--George Obdyke, (merchant.)
4. Old Line Whig-T. Depyster Ogden,
Cawyer.)
JOHN A. WASHINGTON has performed one
generous act, in presenting to the Mount Yer.
non fund the sum of $l229 25, being the pro-
ceeds of the Mount Vernon steamboat trips for
the past year.