Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-01

"Whereas, 1 have called forth part of the
militia of the State to suppress combinations
to obstruct the execution of the laws thereof
in the ordinary course of proceeding in the
county of Jefferson; and may have to call
forth an additional force for that end and am
invested by law with authority to issue
such orders and take such measures for pro-
curing and transporting the attachments as
shall seem best; and have appointed j. Luz
cious Davis acting Quarter Master and Com
missary General for the troops under Major
General William b. Taliaterro, and assistant
to the Adjutant General here, for the accom-
mediation, equipment, and support of the de-
tachments in service.
Now, therefore, all persons are notified that
the trains of the Winchester and Potomac r
Road Company are placed under the orders of
acting Quarter Master and Commissary Gen
eral Davis, for impressment on the first, sec
ond, and third of December next. He will,
under orders of Major General Taliaferro,
guard these trains for the use and occupation
of Virginia troops alone, and no other trans
portation but for them.
And the citizens of this commonwealth are
warned to remain at home and on guard or
patrol duty on the second of December, and
to abstain from going to Charestown. Orders
are issued to prevent women and children, and
strangers are hereby cautioned that there will
be danger to them in approaching that place,
or near it, On that day. If deemed necessary,
martial law will be proclaimed and enforced.
| Given under my hand as Governor, and I'M
der the seal of the Commonwealth, at Rich
mond, this 18th day of November, 1859, and
in the eighty-fo year Of the Common
wealth. HENRY A. WISE.
The special dispatches to the New York
Times represent that
Brown maintains his wonderful equanimity,
and is busted with correspondence and read
ing. No further interviews with him will be
allowed His time and patience were ex-
hausted by curious visitors. On being impor-
tuned ior his autograph, he kindly but firmly
declined. Cook is very much shaken His
lip quiyers, his hand shakes, and his eyes wan
der. lie evidently anticipates his death with
great horror. Tne other prisoners are much
the same. Stephens face is very much swol-
len. The negroes say they are "as comtorta-
bic as could be expected"
On the day of execution all communication
between Charltestown and Harper's Ferry
will be suspended, and no dispatches will be
permitted to leave the latter place without first
| having undergone a strict supervisor. All
persons Especially northerners) are solicited
TO stay away, on peril of their comfort if not
OF their life. All newspaper correspondents
are in extremely bad odor, and it is doubtful
whether any one unless endorsed by military
uniform) will be permitted to see Brown hung
Gov. WISE ARREsTED.-On Monday night
Gov. Wise was at Charlestown, and being
anxious to know if the gift of vigilance was as
fully developed in the guardians of that place
as it ought TO be, bethought himself to try the
old strategic idea of sauntering by the sentinel
incognito. He loafed suspiciousy about the
lines of the camp for a while, and then ap-
preached within few steps of one of the SEN
tinels Stop" said the sentinel, land who
are you? 2" he added, as the suspicious charac-
ter reluctantly halted. Friend" replied the
Governor. advance and give the counter
sign" The Governor had no countersign-he
had forgotten about getting it, &c. The senti-
mel was firm, and the Governor was iii guam
Diary as to what he should do, but he at length
replied, 81 am the Governor of the State of
Virginia, Henry A Wise" "Perhaps YOU
are, replied the sentinel, who was confident
he had caught lying abolitionist, "but you
are my prisoner" and straightway marched
the Governor to the guard-house, somewhat
accelerahng his speed by significant move
ment of his bayonet. Arriving at the guard
house, the Governor sent for one of the COM
manding officers, to whom he was known, and
his release was effected.
Accounts multiply of the arrest or expulsion
of persons in several of the Southern States,
for expressing heretical opinions in the matter
of old Brown. One of the Savannah journals
contains the following:
Two persons, whose presence was consid-
cred undesirable on account of abolitionism,
were ridden on rail at Kingstree, IS C.) on
Wednesday morning. One was an old man,
md thn 9th %
appearance. They were ridden about the vii
lage, borne by negroes, and compelled to sing
while travelling in this manner They were
then turned loose. They took the noon train
for Charleston, but the other passengers retus-
ing TO ride with them, they were put out of
the train at st. Stephens station. They will
probably endeavor to reach Charleston by
foot"
Mr.. Dougal was arraigned on the oath be-
fore Squire Bradford, of Rockville, Nd, for
uttering sympathizing sentiments with Old
Brown. The language used was that he
thought Brown was doing right, and that he
ought to free every negro in the South He
was committed to jail. John Fletcher for
similar "seditious" language, has been arrest
ed and committed at Norfolk, Va
Close upon the formal contradiction, by
Gov. Packers secretary, of the report that aid
from Pennsylvania was rendered to Governor
Wise, comes similar correction from South
Carolina. The Columbia Guardian says
owe are authorized and have been request
ed to state that the telegraphic announcement that
Cor. GiSt had rendered military aid to Coz Wise,
is incorrect. Gov. Gist has been restrained
from doing SO only by the conviction that Vir.
ginia is abundantly able to take care ofherself
Should her exigency ever become such as to
require aid from other States, we know no one
who would more cordially extend it than the
present Chief Magistrate Of South Carolina
In such case, the promptings of high spirit,
and of unimpeachable fidelity to the great
cause of southern rights, would be warmly
seconded by grateful recollection of the active
sympathy with South Carolina in her nullifica-
ton contest, and of the noble declaration of
her then Governor Floyd, that a march into
South Carolina, for the purpose of invading
her soil, should not be permitted through Vir-
ginia, except over the dead bodies of her sons"
DRUNKENNESS AND WIFE-MURDER.-Frank
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