Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-11-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

GOdoOu III nuIucE. AllCf hoy l, VI AoSC1
chusetts, Griswold of Ohio, and Chiffon of
Washington City, had arrived, to take part
as Browns counsel, he stated in insulting
terms, that he had no confidence in Messrs.
Bolts and Green, of Va, who had been ap-
pointed by the Court to defend him; where
upon they both threw up the case, and the
lawyers from abroad undertook the manage
ment Of his defence. They contended that a
man could not commit treason against a state
or country of which he was not a citizen, and
that it had not been proven that Brown him
self had killed any body. The case went to
the jury on the 30th, and after retiring half
an hour, returned with a verdict of guilty Of
treason in conspiring with slaves and others
to,rebel and also guilty of murder in the
first degree. A motion for arrest of iudg
ment was argued but refused by the court
and Brown was sentenced to be hung on thu
I'd day of December next.
The trial of Coppee, one of Browns fanat-
les, was disposed Of in two days. He wa
convicted and sentenced to be hung with his
leader. IN appeal will doubtless be takeni
in all the cases, and the time of execution be
probably delayed som months.
A dispatch from Richmond states, that it
has been decided on by the Virginia authori-
ties to hand over Cook, John Browns lieu
tenant-to be tried by the federal court in
Harper's Ferry district. The object Of this is
to have Seward, Greeley, Sanborn, Wilson,
Ha1a Forhoo Gou~o4& Ca,.4I IL III IL.
who were implicated in the conspiracy, or
who are known to have been in the secrets of
the conspirators, subpoenaed as witnesses
and placed on the stand to tell all they know
in the matter. They are outside the juris-
diction of the Virginia State Courts, but not
of the federal courts.
BALTIMORE ELEcT1oN.-The election in Bal
timore on Thursday last, was marked by
great violence and bloodshed. The telegraph
reports that the Americans took possession
of all the polls in the city except two wards,
and prevented all opposed to them from vo-
ting. About 8 o'clock in the afternoon, it
became apparent that there was no chance of
securing an impartial vote, when the "Re-
formers" surrendered the struggle and
withdrew their candidates names from the
contest. The election was for Congressman
and some of the State officers. Several per-
sons were shot, a considerable number NAL.
treated and beaten; among the latter was W.
P. Preston, democratic candidate for Con
gress in the third district. One account says
he was beaten by an Irishman, in the county,
but SO many reports were in circulation il
was difficult to arrive at the truth.
The American papers, on the contrary, sa y
the rioting is greatly exaggerated, and whar
little there was, was provoked by the IRE
formers"
ROBBERY AND ATfEMTED TO MURDER-Th'
Goldsboro' Tribune gives an account of
most desperate attempt to murder, committed
on the night of the Goth ult., by a man nance
Blackman Capps, assisted, as is supposed, b.
his brother Jerry Nc Capps, upon Mr.. JOIN
B. Bowden, of Mount Olive, Wayne County
Mr.. Bowden was beaten almost to death an
robbed of a considerable sum of money, an
now lies in a very precarious condition, hi
life being despaired of by his friends. ]
was several days before the Sheriff could g
on the track of the perpetrators. His dept
ties succeeded last week, in tracking thel
to Boon Hill, Johnston county, and foun
them just in the act of taking the cars fc
the West. Jerry Nc. Capps was taken, br
Blackman Capps made a desperate dash ft
the woods and succeeded in making his e
cape. Jerry was returned to Goldsboro, an
after a preliminary examination was commi
ted to jail. We understand since writingt II
above, that Bowden is slowly recovering.
FRATR1cIDE.-James White, of Edgecomb
was killed by his brother Jerry White {
Were they sober? We doubt it.
RETIRED.-Daniel E. Sickles and wife,
is reported, have gone to Key West, Floridi
Wonder what for
UrAH.-The last advices bring a repo
that a party of seventeen emigrants, fro
Buchanan county, Iowa, had been attack
by the Indians near Kinney's Cut Off, ar
that Mr.. Kline, and Mr.. Mittemore with b
? wife and six children, were killed. Mr.. Nj
temore's two oldest sons and the remaind'
3 of the party escaped, and are now at Can
Floyd in a destitute condition.
MoBBED.-The office of the Newport Ke
tucky) Free South, a newspaper with abo
ton proclivitles, was mobbed on the night
the 9th ult., and the types scattered in t
: streets. Served them right.
FUGITIVE S~LAvE.-John Tyler, a fugiti
slave, who escaped from Campbell count
Va, in 1854, was arrested in Columbus, Oh
; re Gently, and brought before Commission
. Newhall, who remanded him to his owne,
He was taken to Kentucky.
. DEAD.-Ex-Governor and Elk u. S. Ser
e tor James G. Jones, of Tennessee, died
Memphis on the 10th ult., of consumption.
lie FUGITIvEs.-The Rochester Express stat
IS that twelve fugitive slaves crossed the 81
n penion bridge at Niagara, on Saturday e
ming last, and they "were part of a lar
10 shipment which left Alexandria Va, abe
III the time of the Harper's Ferry instruction
COUNTY FAIRs.-The Richmond Cour
Fair will be held on Wednesday, Thurs6
and Friday, the Oath, 25th, and Goth Move
- Der.
The Robson County Fair will be held
i'd Red Springs, on the 10th, 18th and 18th
ct November.