The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-11-17
From the Memphis Avalanche.l
Proposed Negro lmsurrccti0n I'm
Shelby County.
Preliminary Examination OF II
Follower OF Brown.
w. r. PALMER HELD TO BAIL
or THE PROVISIONAL Gov
ERNMENT IN MEMPHIS.
ALARMING DISCLOSURES /
LETTERS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE,
FULL PARTICULARS.

Yesterday morning, DR., VIM. Rus.
sell Palmer, as he calls himself, and
Of whose arrest on suspicion of being
u co.conSpirator with OSsawattomic
Brown, we gave the particulars in
our last, was taken before u Magis.
trate's Court, composed of Justices
Josiah Horne, of this city, and J. w.
| A. Pcttitt, OF Germantown. His ey-
animation occupied the attention Of
the court from 10 o'clock in the NOR,
ming until three in the evening, and
was listened to by an eager crowd of
spectators, deeply interested in ob.
tanning n fall knowledge Of the facts
of the case, and they are substantial
ly as narrated by us in our paper Of
yesterday.
1t seems that IL traveller on y rail
road between Philadelphia and New
York observeda fellow passenger who
occupied the seat in front Of him stand
up and walk out of the cars. In the
act, the young man dropped two let
terS and IA memorandum, which seeing,
the traveller picked up but was una
bic to restore TO the loser. Glancing
at the address, he observed that one
of them was addressed to Capt. J.
Brown, llarpcrs Ferry, Va" This
was on the 2ad of October, only a few
days alter the nsurrcction at llarpcr's
Ferry, and time when the boil at
tempt of Blown and his ranatcal fol.
lowers occupied the attention OF all
The traveller, naturally enough, on
seeing the address, conc udcd that the
/ documents he had accidentally be-
come possessed Of related in some
manner to the affair at llarpcr's Fer
~, and, on arriving at New York dis
patched the letters and memorandum
to Coy. Wise. The following is the
letter received by the Governor with
the letters referred to:
"A TraUcNcr'S' Letter.
Dcar Sir While in the cars to.
day on u passage from PhiIadeIphla to
/ \. Y. a Young man who occupied the
seat first in front OF me, got up to 30
out at one OF the way stations. llc
had an over.coat on his arm, thought
saw something fall from his side
pocket Of his ovcrcoat as he started.
Ga looking over into his seat discov-
cred he had dropped two letters and Il
memorandum. took them up, but
too late to give them to him, as the
cars had started again. discovered
a sealed lcttcr TO Capt J. Brown, llar-
per's Ferry, and having my curiosity
excited on account Of the coincidence
of the addrcs with that Of Brown
the in urrectonist, was led to read
the other letter addressed to William
I!oyucr, which had been opened;
when found it was satisfied from
reading this letter, that the scaled
letter was for Brown, the llarpcr's
Ferry inSurrcctlonlSt you now have
unlcr arrest. AS | suspect the con
tents Of that letter to be oran inccndi-
ary character, have concluded to
send them to you for disposal, there
fore send thea just as | found them
incIoscd in the same envelope with
this note. Ifthcrc be no inccndiarism
in the letter to Brown, it may be OF
service to you, and if not, Captain
Brown cannot be injured by receiving
it ut your hands. In this matter, | feel
that act only rs good citizen, and
lover Of the Union. hope you will
not feel offended at my sending this as
an anonymous note. | do 50 simply
because | do not wish my name in any
manner connected with Brown OF
iIarpcr's Ferry. Yours respectfully,
A TRAVELLER.
To Hon. Gov. II. A. WISE.
Upon receiving the above letter,
and examining the contents of the
others, Gov. Wise deemed them of
sufficient Importance to send to Gov.
Harris, which was done in the follow
ing letter:
Letter from the aid.de-camp of Gov.
WISE.
Executive department,
R,chmond, Oct. 25, 1859.
10 his Ercclency the Governor Of Ten.
RcSSee:
Sir am instructed by the Gov
ernor ofthis Commonwealth to enclose