Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1859-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

ItO Onlna, mas accepted O call to st. John
4 Church, Richmond.
Roger A. Pryor has been elected to Congress
IN the Petersburg District by 1000 to ]. 800 ms
.ijority oyer hiscompetitor, Col. Goode.
The Synod of Virginia, which lately sat g
Christiansburg, recommended the fourth Thurs
day In November as day of thanksgiving.
1t is said that in the south there are four hun
dred and sxty-eght thousand slaves who ar
members of churches, or one seventh of th
whole number.
Mr.. Buchanan is "very sick man." He i
not only deserted by his party and by Pennsyl.
vania, but by his private secretary, who ba
just been dismissed for being politically unreli.
able. 800 ..
The Syracuse On. W Journal learns from
gentleman who has conversed with the Hon
Gerrit Smith in regard to the trouble at Harper
Ferry, that he was in no way identified with Oh
privy to Browns scheme
A gigantic ditch is being constructed in tn.
Kansas gold region, running distance of %
miles, with width of three feet. Its c0s
will be $4,000, and it is intended to supply
water for mining purposes
By the arrival of the steamer Persia at New
York and the Jason at st. Johns we have for
eign advices to the 18th inst. The negotiation.
at Zurich were still pending. The American
Minister had reached Pekin, had been courteously
received, and expected to send home the ratified
treaty by the next mail. The Great Eastern
was to start on her trans. Atlantic voyage or
Monday, the Oath.
The Obsrlestown Independent Democrat, In
20 Of kha IS 81 la
Guards to Harper's Ferry, says: "We also
noticed the Rev. Mr.. Atkinson, who was on a
visit 70 his brother-inlaw, the much esteemed
pastor Of the Presbyterian Church, in Charles
town, with musket and cartridge box in hand,
ready to do his duty as patriot citizen of the
Republic"
The Harper's Ferry Rebellion continues to
occupy much of the space and attention of all the
public journals in the country-and, indeed is q
subject of absorbing interest. We are pleased to
notice the tone of the conssrsGtiss presses of the
North; and the press in the South has, also,
honorably distinguished itself, generally, tor
moderation, under great provocstion. We are
in hopes that 30 far as this matter Is used polit
icaIly, it may assist in utterly breaking up and
destroying what's called the Republican" party.
Allen. G0zette f i1a
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A CoNFEssIoN.--Iohn Copeland the mulatto
prisoner from 0berlin, Ohio, has made full
confession to the United States Marshal Martin,
of Virginia, aud Marshal johnson, of the North
ern District of Ohio. He has given the names
of the parties at Oberlin who induced him to go
to Harper's Ferry, and who furnished the money
for his expenses, dc. He also states that move
ment of similar character was contemplated in
ko,k .. No.
In Northern Ohio, whose names have not here
tofore been mentioned, are directly implicated.
The confession is withheld from the public until
after the trials are over, by order of Gov. Wise.
Fred. DouaLAss The Rochester Democrat
of Oct 25th has the following: "Some suspi-
cious looking characters, of gentlemaply but of
fetal demeanor, have been hanging about town
for day or two past, and it IL supposed that
their object ia visiting Rochester is to call on
Mr.. Frederick Douglass for explanations regard
ing the recent emeute at Harper's Ferry. It so
happens, however, that Mr.. Douglass Is out Of
town, and his present wheresbout does not seem
to be generally known. The strangers are said
to be connected with the United States Mar
shals otiice-deputies of that gentleman, in
fact" ~
The Pennsylvania, the leading Administra-
ton Democratic organ in Pennsylvania, says that
the assertion "thst the Democratic party Of the
nation is in favor of FREE TRADE, is FALsR."-
And it declares that Mr.. Boilers recent exposi-
ton of the Tariff views of the Democratic par.
ty in Massachusetts, is the recognised creed OF
the Democratic party in Pennsylvania. This
may all be- so. Butt is equally evident that the
Democratic party of the South is in favor of free
III. Dbl. rs..v Tarsfp
are repudiated by the party in the South.-Aler.
Gazette.
An extraordinary statement is in circulation
Bunyan's "Pllgrim's Progress" which
is neither more nor less than that this celebrated
work was not written by John BunyaD, but that
the entire story il made up from an ancient MS.
Miss Catherine Isabella Curt has published
translation, from the French MS in the British
Museum, OF the "Pylegremage of the Sowle, T" by
G.. de Geidevilie, q ohurchman who hourished in
the fifteenth century. A translation of the orig
inal work was printed by Oaxton in 184S, and
Bunyan's "Plgrim's Progress" is said to be nearly
a verbatim copy of this extremely rare book.
The above, with much more upon the subject,
is given ia the papers of this morning, and seems
to be published by or with authority .-London
Cor. Nat. Intelligenoer.
A correspondent of the New York Express in
reply to an appeal from the Richmond Enquirer
to the people of New York to .'show the people
of the South that the sympathy of the great
State of New York is with Virginia and not with
the traitor that must meet the just punishment
of his treason says :-"If the Enquirer appeals
to the New York Democratic party to rally and
rescue the North from imputation, 1t leans on 9
broken reed The Democracy of the North is
anything and everything popular for the time
being. The New York leaders of the Democracy
were in 1S4S, almost all Wilmot-Proyiso men,
Freesoilers; and 1859 they are Freesoilers, II
any sort of a fresh Wilmot proviso becomes pop
ularl When the negro runs well the Demo-
cratic machine runs him with all its might and
MAN,"
THE FUGITIvE INSURGENTS AT CARLISLE
Carlisle, Pa, Oct. 29.-The prisoner in jail here
for whom requlsition was made by the Cover
nor of Virginia as Albert Hazlet, was brought
before the Judge Of the County Court to-day upon
a writ of ho6eas corpus. The counsel for the
prisoner claimed his discharge on the ground
that his name was Vim. Harrison. Several resi-
dents of Harper's Ferry were examined and tes
titled positively that the prisoner was one OF the
invaders They had conyersed with him and
recognised him. Mr.. Copeland SAID be saw the
flash of his rifle when in the act of shooting a
citizen. No one of the witnesses knew his name.
The Court took the ground that "the requisi.
ton is legally and formally right, but there is no
evidence that we have any man 10 our custody
named Hazlet, whom we can deliver on this re-
ouisition. We are satisfied, however, that q
nonstrous crime has been committed, and that
the prisoner was there and participated; there
fore we so commit him to await requisltioB
from the Governor of Virginia"
The INsURGENT PRISONERS AT CHARLEsTowN.
= harlestoon, Oct 30.-This evening the u
nited States Guards of Frederick. under COM
nand of Captain Sim, reached here from Har-