Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-01


1t would take away the food Of fanaticism, if,
should Brown, the conspirator, be found gull
ty and sentenced to be hung, the Governor
Of Virginia would commute his sentence to
Imprisonment for life, or Punishment from
the State! The latter alternative, would
surely, We have no doubt, be very accep-
table to Brown himself We certainly have
, not a word to sag, in reference to the future
action of the State Executive, in the case
supposed, whatever we may think. But
the Commercial must admit, that when
Brown invaded the State of Virginia, rails
cd rebellion, violated our laws, murder
! cd our citizens. and attempted TO excite a
servle instruction by which thousands OF
\ lives might have been sacrificed, he knew
the peril he encountered, and the penalty
| affixed to his crimes if he should fail and be
arrested and was prepared ''to stand the
hazard of the die" lie went into the work
with his eyes wide open to the consequences.
Nor, can the lo~s be faithfully executed, if
when offenders are found guilty, they are to
90 ''unwhipped of justice" from any fear Of
af'nrding food to fanaticism, or of making
them martyrs" They are martyrs" only
to their own bad passions, evil doings, and
villanious intentions. And let fanatics make
the most OF it.
A lattar from, Chorlnsfnwn la saws
Il detachment of regular troops, consisting
of twenty-five men, under Capt. 5. NJ. Bar
bour and other officers, arrived at the Har-
per's Ferry armory to-day, and will proba-
| bly, remain there for its protection until
spring Superintendent Barbour is organ
zing TIVE companies of armcrers, employed
al the works, who will be drilled by the Off
GERS Of the regular troops, and who will be
qualified TO take place of the regulars when
they leave The Secretary Of War, Gov.
Floyd, who has been at lIarper's Ferry for a
day or two, left yesterday. Charlestown
and the surrounding region remains under
strict military surveillance. COL Davis, of
Richmond, is exercising military superinten-
dence here under orders from Gov. WISE
All stragglers and strangers are required to
give good account of themselves. A da-
guerreotypist, with his van, and soap and
medicine pedlar, were ordered out of town
yesterday"
Intelligent gentlemen who have arrived
from the Pacific coast say that the people
there will be surprised at the visit of
Gen. Scott to San Juan, rs it is only in the
Atlantic States that the Island Of San Juan
has been magnifed into the importance of q
continent While it belongs TO the United
States, and will be retained, they add, that
it is not really worth quarreliing about, and
that its value has been surprisingly over-es-
timated 1t is certain that the tone of the
British ministry on this subject is not agree
able to our government, but an explicit de-
claration that Gen. Harvey was not instruc-
ted to occupy the Island, and, calm and
dignifed explanation of all the attendant
circumstances will, it is thought, produce a
| better state OF feeling on all sides.
Charles Blair, the Collnsville manufactu-
rer of pixies for Brown, whose letters were
found among Browns effects, is thus spoken
of by the Hartford Post: ale is workman
in the Collinsvllle Axe Company, employing
the men under him, and taking what con-
tracts he pleases Some time in 1856 or
1857 old Brown came to Collinsville and
contracted for thousand pixies to be used
in Kansas. Five hundred were finished for
l., 81, ha fyp hunI
were left in the hands of the contractor
Last June old Brown again made his appear
ance in Collinsville, and requested Mr.. Blair
to finish up the remainder of the pixies
Blair asked him to what use he intended to
Put them, now that the Kansas disturbances
were over? To this question Brown gave an
eyaSive reply"
The Philadelphia Press copies the follow
ing editorial opinion given by the New York
Herald, when Mr.. Buchanan was running
for the Presidency:
James Buchanan is an old dotard, an
imbecie, a miserable, gabbling old granny,
who has lost his mind and his memory, aud
who is. consequently, utterly unfit for the
important duties Of the Presidency.
Ao,r, the Herald is Mr. Buchanan organ,
and his constant eulogist
Tho Washington Constitution publishes
another mass of correspondence taken from
Browns house, near Harper's Ferry. Most
Of it is Of but little interest. Among the
papers is the journal Of the proceedings OF the
provisional constitutional convention" held
at Chatham, Canada West, May :, 1888, which
was put in evidence in the trial OF Brown at
Charlestown, on Friday last, and Brown
signature to which be acknowledged III court.
The remains Of Hon. John J. Mason, late
Minister to France, were received &c iAch-
mond. Va, on Saturday morning, by the
steamer Yorktown from New York. a pro
cession, under charge of the mayor, convey
ed them to the capitol and thence TO 81:
PauPs church on Sunday, where a funeral
sermon was delivered. The intermeat was
in Hollywood Cemetery.
The Lost ia the Arctic Regions.
Captain Parker Snow, who was second in
command Of the Prince Albert discoyery-shlp
which engaged in the search for Franz lin IN
the year 1850, in public lecture lately de-
| livered IN London, gave touching account