Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-26

stopped. Troops were sent from Wash. lngton, Baltimore, Fredericktown, Rich mond and Charleston, the arsenal stormed and all the sraitors, who were not killed. captured. The insurrection seems to have been under the leadership of the notorious ossawottamie Brown, of Kansas, who was Killed Tn the fight, or supposed to be dying from mortal wound.
 from the imperfect account dispatched by telegraph, we form the conclusion that Brown and his followers were set of mis- chlevlous fanatics, whose fanaticism is an admixture of treason and folly. They were certainly guilty of both treason and murder Tn bringing war against their coun- 1 try' and they deserve no other punishment | than death.
 | The promptness with which this insane instruction has been quelled, will have a Salutary effect in crushing out the bud of any deeper and more dangerous treason that may Turk behind 1t. If there has been any deep seated or general pretext for such a rebeIilon, the plan of the insurrectionists seems to have been well devised. They first seized on the arsenal, where thousands or arms are in store. They next stopped the railroad trains and cut the teegraphic wires. With the arms obtained from the arsenal, they hoped to arm all followers they might be able to gather up in their progress. By cutting off railroad and te- le2faphlc communication they expected to mutfie their movements until they could get sufficient headway to enable them to as sume defiant attitude There was cer- talnly much method in their madness" if madness 1t can be called which deliberately concocts scheme so villainous and at the same time so hopeless.
 No such overt, concerted and deliberate act of treason and insurrection has occur red under our government since the cele- brated whisky instruction of the last cen tury. We trust that the condign punish ment which will be meted out to the crimi- nals III this case, and the speedy retribution that has already visited the ringleaders, will be lesson to all daring and reckless adventures who may hereafter harbor a design so ridiculous and at the same time so clearly reasonable as that which we are now considering.
 The dispatches of this morning will be ! looked for with great interest, if they shaH throw any additional light upon the origin and design of this most extraordinary n- surreciion. Up to the hour of writing this article no dispatches have been received which shed additional light upon the mvs- tery. We shall certainly be much sulpris- ed, however, if some deep-lail plot does not lie at the bottom of a movement, which is, in all respects, so novel, high-handed and unprecedented. It bears more the appearance of wild foray of savages than an organized instruction of. civilized malcontents, who cherish a merely ambi- tious design. In civilized States such murtleous movements, in the midst of a peaceable community and under the sway of a mild and traternal government, without even an alleged grievance-an in cursor, it may be said, from neighboring States, by desperate and wicked outlaws Is wholly unknown. The widest legends of border feudS, woven by the great Wizad of the North, fail to produce case like this. occurring without cause or pretext. without adequate resources or hope of success. We can only hope itmay not prove as desperate and diSgrace1ul as the telegraphic accounts lead us to suppose