The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-26
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION, OF THE IN

10. ,.,;l 4..fi I'm "a SURGENTS., E -. .-y,,,s
A magistrates court met at Charlestpwn, ,Yirgi
MIA yesterday, to examine the parties captured at
Harper's Ferry, who were engaged in the insurrec-
ton Col. Davenport presided, and Charles B.
Harding and Andrew Hunter, Esqrs., appeared for
the Commonwealth. The prisoners were brought
in amid profound silence allof them looking haggard
and eare7worni Brown seemed more feeble than
any of the rest, ,,sig, ,it gn ,b.a i.,,s ;-a,s,
i Brown ., and Edwin ,Coppee, were manaqled
together. Brown seemed haggard, with his ewes
swollen from the effects of the wounds on bis head
Coppee is uninjured. Stevens seemed less injured
than Brown, but looked haggard and depressed.
He has also q number of wounds on the head.
John Copeland is bright mulatto, about twenty
hye years OF age. Green isia dark. negro, about
Sheriff Campbell read the commitment Of, Of the
prisoners on the charge Of. treason and murder,
when. Mr.. Harding, the States Attorney, asked
TIA. ne Court might assign counsel for the prso1
The Court inquired if the prisoner had counsel
when Brown addressed the Court as follows
II dld not sia as for any quarter at the time
Governor Of the State Of Virginia rendered me his
assurance that should have fair trial, and under
no circumstances whatever will be able to attend
TO trial. If you seek my blood you can have it at
any moment without the mockery of a trial. -i
"I have had no counsel. | have not been able to
advise with one. know nothing about the feelings
Of my fellow prisoners, and am utterly unable to
attend in any way to my own defence Ny memo
ovh NS5 nv nMt HedlLu is lIlsuiuclenty al
though Improving There are mitigating circurl-
stances if fair trial is to be allowed MS that
would giyein our favor But if we are to be forced
with mere form Of a trial to execution, you might
spare yourselves that trouble am ready for my
fate. 4lubsa s.i lon ,...1. ..I I,s., Inn.
~ ask to be excused from the mockery of a trial.
do not know what the design of this examination
is do not know what is to be the benefit of it to
the Commonwealth. have now little to ask other
than that ] be not publicly insulted as cowardly
baLbarians insult those who fall into their hands,
i The Court then assigned Hon.. c., j, Faulkner and
Lawson Bolts, Esq, as counsel for the accused the
former Of whom declined and the latter accepted
the appQln lment,,4R ,tif A4a ,..fo tiI II. tl.r,q
i'u FROM UTAH.-Capt.sS @. Mills, one of the two
Gentles elected to the Legislature of Utah. arrived
in our city on Friday last y4f1E.F 81 aus- .,.n.
ieC Capt. Mills left Camp Floyd on the 9th of Au-
gust, with party Of civilians and military es-
cort, under the direction of Capt. Simpson, of the
Typographical Engineers. Capt. Mills states the
condition of affairs in Mormondem to be exceeding
ly unsettled The bitterest feeling exists between
the MormOns and Gentiles, though the presence of
the armyrestrains the violence of the former, 1t
is not possible long topreserpe peaceabe relation
between these elements. Mr.. Greeley's account of
the Mormens is considered by Captain Millsito be a
most faithful and accurate picture of that people.
The Captain intends spending the winter at Wash
ingten, thinking it somewhat unpFoftable to run,
the risk of assassination, for the empty henors
of q seat with Aormons in a Terr iterial Iiegisa-
turo.-Leduenteorth Tisaes Oct. l7th.j .'lt-..5 ~
ID, SPONTANEOUS. COMBUSTION. or A SAFE.-The Hart
ford Cogrart gives the following instance of spon-
taneous combustion, which occurred in Hartford on
w adn last. A SAFE which had, for