Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-02-22
Yesterday Afternoons Report.
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEW YoRE, Feb. q.

New YoRK, Feb. q.
The Tribune's correspondent says:
Senator Polk having tCtuntd. there Is now I
msjoriiy on the Committee Of Foreign relation.
favorable 10 reporting the Mexican Treaty, bot a
the prospect for ratification 4 discouraRinV. a,
movement viii be probably made until The aTriva
ofSenor ocampo, who is expected in about threi
weeks, with the fullest discretion TO accept what
ever notifications may promise its success.
The Com. on WaJs and Means reported thi
Fertilization aud Indian appropriation bills to-day
and will complete others BY the beginning Of mex
week thus clearing the calendar preparatory L
general legislation.
Immediately af.erWard the tariff will be iakeE
up with the intention Of bringing forward a mode
rate and well considered bill, founded on the bes
practical Information aud having stability ans
| proper discrimination for leading ideas.
! The friends Of Protection do not ask any excess
i've measures, but Tariff which will afford rtYe.
nue. and encourage suR.Ting ind lstry.
| Mr. Augustus W6ttles was to-day examined be
/ fore the Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee
/ Mr.. W. said be did not believe Capt. Brown con-
'emplaied the invasion Of the Slave States until
after be was driven from Kansas, and then only as
measure Of defence 70 Kansas. He had no funds,
aud every msn who approved bis doctrine went
with him, which was more than q bali dozen
| from Kansas. Mr.. W. presented letters from
Brown written in 1857, SO. and 49, these were
read aud explained One Of them requested him TO
see VIM. Phillips a1d others, and ask them 10 meet
him (BroWn) at Tabor, Iowa, on very important
business. He showed the letter 70 Mr. Phillips,
and asked him what the meeting was for. Phillips
replied that he did not know but be could not az.
tend Only One mentioned 10 the letter went 70 that
meeting. Mr.. W. also had letters from Mrs. Hin
ton. Of Waunlsha, Wis, Secretary Of the Female
Aid Society Of Kansas, and also from Prof. Edward
Daniels, State GeOlogist Of Wisconsin, furnishing
him with funds aud eljthng for the poor people Of
Kansas who had been robbed and driven from
the territory during the ! summer Of 1856 -
de had never received arms aud ammunition from
any quarter had not supplied them 70 any one
The only allusiOn which Brown ever made TO his
invasion Of Virginia, was when he was leaving
Kansas for the last time. Mr.. Waltles being sick,
Brown called 10 see him, Wbe Mr. W. expressed
bis regret that he bad been into Missouri aad taken
slaves, and especially condemned the killing Of
CrIise. Brown replied that he was stopping at q
house on the Little Usage when the men went
down TO Fort Scott to liberate Ben Rice II
chanced that poor eolered man came along look
ing for some one to help him get bis wife AZ
children out Of slavery in Missouri. l told him 10
90 home and prepare, and / would come for him.
did so and have brought eleven human beings
out Of bondage, without hrng gun or swapping
a cap de was then told that another company
went TO another place and brought away four and
in doing so bad killed one man 10 save them
selves.
Brown replied that be be regretted il exceeding
" the taking OF human lie was terrible thing
but be continued, L have considered the matter
well, you will have 10 more inroads from Missouri
The poor people Of Kansas have suffered enough;
my heart bleeds for them l now see it my duty
to draw the scene Of The excitement to some other
part of the country. You may never see me again
-fsreWell-GOd bless you" and he departed
To day the Committee demanded the attendance
Of Hyatt before them, bet he sent letter declining
This will be considered a case Of contempt, and
will bring HYATT before the Senate
The Secretary Of War has instructed the com
mander Of Fort Bliss. that at the request Of the
civil authorities Of El Paso United States troops
may be placed there for the protection Of Ameri-
cans and tbeir property.
1t is probable that the Congress Of chihuahua
and the civil authorities Of that State may 60 to
n Paso on the Rio GraDde, opposite Fort Bliss -
The invaders Sf that State have come from Du-
rangO, aud some ara represented as robbers, und
By others IS supporters Of MirauoD's Govern
ment.