The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-29

Justice, Mr.. Aughinbaugh. formerly of ITas
keistown, was examined. He stated Thai he
iietoEai1ea me prisoner as man who had been
months ago as Mr.. Cook. The testimony hars
closed, and the prisoner was committed hv The
Justice without any attempt at opDositiar hv
M ms counsel He was taken to prison by the
sheriff, and the vast crowd followed most NJ
the way. There was no disposition either to
rescue him or to do him violence. but tharo
was great curiosity on the part of the crowd To
get a sight Of him. This could oniy he doro
very imperfectly at the street corners where
the lamps were burning.
Search is now being made by quite a num
Der OF people for Cooks companions he left in
The mounts ms yesterday, and also for the oar
pet-bag- Cook directed that If the carpet.bap
should be found, the pistol should be returned
to Washington, adding that Washington was
perfect gentlemen, that they had been shoot
ing togeiher frequently at Harper's Ferry
That the prisoner desires the pistol to he ra
turned have NJ doubt bat The fate of the
pistol is most uncertain, for Cooks compan
ions may have hid the carpet-bag and its con-
tents, or they may have fed and taken the ps
tol along with them.
One of the gentlemen who arrested Captain
Cook-Mr Fitzhugh-is near relative of Hon.
Gerrit Smith.
CONTEMPLATED MOVEMENT FOR THERELEAsE
OF BROWN.
CHARLEsTowy, Oct. 27-l0 p. M-The fol-
lowing Is an extract of the dispatch received
by the superin tendent at Harper's Ferry yes
ielpgf1Dhpd
to the Secretary OF War, Gov. Wise, John
Garrett, and others. and which occasioned the
movement yesterday of troops from Freder-
lex and other points:
NEW YORK, Oct. oath '59-I would not be
surprised If, from what 1 have heard, that
there VIII be an attempt made by the aboli-
tionlsts OF the North to release Brown and his
associates from the Charlestown jail. l do not
desire TO add TO the excitement already great
but TO write you as a caution If an attempt
Is mace IL Will be hidden movement by a
party OF armed desperadoes employed by lead
efS III Tie Tree States. (Signed,)
Ihe above is from an officer of the army. a
Nlrginian, personally known to Sup't Bar
oouf' Inc Secretary of War has ordered forty
marines 10 the Harper Ferry Armory Arms
nave been distributed from the ArTnory to
over two thousand citizens of Virginia
SUPPOSED SEARCH FOR FRED. DOUGLASS
The Rochester Democrat, Oct % has the
following:
"Some 'suspieious-looking characters of
gentIenanly but official demeanor. have been
ma, nan nEi'is aoont town for day or two past,
and 1t Is supposed that their object in visiting
Rochester Is to cali on Mr.. Frederick Doug
lass 1of explanations regarding the recent
| episnte at Harper's Ferry. 1t so happens.
however, that Mr.. Douglass is out of town
and his present whereabouts does not seem 10
| be generally known. The strangers are said
| to be connect ted with the United States Mar
| shals oihce-deputies OF that Gentleman. in
| fact
| THE LEADING ADOLTTIoNISTs AND BRowNh
l. PROJECT.
1 The New York Herald publishes a whole
page OF communications from a Col. Hugh
Forbes, which give the state of aff;iirs between
| Brown and the leading abolitionists. Among
| those to whom the Harper's Ferry plot was re-
vealed, was that arch traitor Seward, who
| said he was sorry Brown chad revealed it to a
| person i'll his position.' The Herald says:
Colonel Forbes-an old comrade Of Carl
baldi's. in 1S4S, and since then refugee in this
| country, seems to have been hired, ON the Du-
gaid Daigetty principle. 10 go 10 Kansas a
couple OF years since, to cooperate with OS-
sawatomie Brown, and to iInpart 10 his raw
| levies little instruction III the art of war.
| Forbes and Brown pulled together well enough
| for some months, until there came TO be mis-
| unders landing in regard to the pay and prov
ender. Forbes appealed from Brown TO the
general abolition commissariat in this region,
| but found that he was doomed to be cheated
all round Greeley fell back on the strict let
ter of the law, and pleaded that he was not
bound by Forbes contract with Brown. San
BORN who was the Secretary of the Massa-
chusetts Emigrant Aid Society, and Howe, q
well known abolitionist of Boston, kept pal
tering with Forbes until, in the words of one
of his own letters, his family's credit was
| stopped at the French or Italian restaurant
where they used 10 get their meals Forbes
became indignant against Brown and the hui
| manitarians as he styles them, and denounced
| them all in pretty round terms. But still the
| troubles of his family did not wean him alto
| gether from the work 10 which he had lent his
hand. On the contrary, he devised a plan
| which he submitted to his abolition friends
| North, to perform etiectually the ''Kansas
| work. that Gerrit Smith speaks of in his
| letters.
Forbes plan was simply an organized sys-
| tenn of stampeding slaves along the border
| States and thus gradually driving the insti-
| tuition farther South. browns project was
| deelared-so long ago as May, 1s56-to be iden
| tieally that which has had such a miserable
| failure at Harper's Ferry. Forbes twas too
| experienced a stager not to see the inevitable
| result of such a ridiculous project, and much
| of his correspondence that has IalIen into our
| hands is taken up with denUnciations OF
| Browns crazy idea, and of appeals to the
| leading republicans TO stop Brown or to de-
nounce him.
| Itappears beyond all peradyenture, by this
| correspondence, that among the persons to
| whom he denounced the Harper'S Ferry pro-
| ject, year and a half ago. was Senator Wm
II. Seward. He had an interview with that
| Senator in Washington city. i'll May, 1858; and,
| as appears by one of his letters, he went fully
| into the whole matter. Again, he had inter-
| views with Sumner and Hale also in Wash
| ington; and, in fact, it appears that all the
leading republicans and abolitionists of the
| country were fully cognzant of the plans Of
| Brown, and, if they did not actually identify
| themselves with him, they did not denounce
| him to the authorities. On the contrary, they
carried on correspondence with him.
Forbes letters show another thing. They
show that ii was not alone feeling OF phiian-
thropy, nor even political motive, that led
these New England and New York abolition
lists TO encourage old Brown, of Ossawatomie.
Some thing more than all tina twas at the bottom
of the movement. And what! Speculation
| in the rise of cotton had more to do with the
Harpers Ferry outbreak than all other causes
combined. Tine correspondence places that
beyond doubt. Old Brown told Forbes that
q member OF the house of Lawrence, Stone &
Company celebrated for the SS7, 900 free-wool
movement in Congress, few years ago) had
promised him s., 500 if he succeed in his Har-
per's Ferry dash. But Forbes, like a blunt
soldier who had gone into the thing as mill
tary speculation solely, could not understand
making a commercial speculation out of il :;
and so he denounced the project bitterly
and obstinately as old Dalgetty himself could
have done.
The main thing proved by this correspon-
dence is, that for the last year aud q half, at
least, the project OF the Harper's Ferry out
break was well known TO Seward, Sumner,
Hale and others, and that they in their intense
selfshness, and 10 forward their political or
commercial speculations, suffered the project
to ripeG aud to bear the disastrous fruit that
.t has borne
THE GREAT EAsTERN.-The trial trip of this
great steamship has satisfied the owners that
she is mechanical success. Her maximum
speed was seventeen and half miles an hour.
She drew ~ feet and , inches OF water forward,
and Is aft. The steering apparatus has been
improved and works well. The ship rolls de-
cdedIy, but not excessively. The engines were
not once stopped and worked beautifully. The
bulk-heads are not water-tight, nor SO near SO
they ought to be. The consumption Of coal
was about 800 tons per day. Captain Harrison
declares his Willingness to take her to sea at
once, and Mr.. Russell, her builder is, also, per-
fectiy satisfied that shs is in good sea-g0ing
condition. The directors have decided that she
shall sail for Portland in November, provided
the Board of Trade do not require needless re-
pairs before they will grant her a license to