Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-03

dlately. lie knew the people too well not
to be wise enough to take the hint. Ills
wife who was Southern lady, and had
never been in the North, was thrown into
great grief on reading the letter, but nd
vised her husband TO leave before daylight,
as she feared for his safety il he remained
longer. So at three o'clock in the morning,
he saddled his horse, and taking with him
what clothes he cou!d put in his saddle-bqgs.
gallopped away--an exile from home and
friends lie has since reached Northern
city, and is now making arrangements to
bring his family to a place where they can
breathe freer air
From the ringiamton Standard. Jan II.
More Dcspoti.m.
On Saturday last and over the Sabbath,
our friends DR.. S. Meirs Case and lady
made visit, on their northward fight, from
the Barbary States of this glorious Union.
The facts of their case, in brief, are these.
They left their home at Oneonta, Otscgo,
Co., some three months ago, for the pur-
pose of establishing yo0ng ladies' Semi
nary of a high order at Salem, Alabama,
and also to secure the needed aids of a
milder climate. After some months of
preliminary work repairing seminary build
ings, &c. involving the expenditure of sew
eral hundred dollars, DIR. Case was suddenly
notified that he must leave, and that, too at
once
A secret meeting had been held, resolu-
tions passed, and the fistissued, from which
there was no appeal. And so, on days
notice, with the loss of every dollar expend-
ed for repairs, living, and the loss Of months
of time, these unofftndng people managed
TO escape the usual appliance of these Bar
barians of Alabama, and are thus far safely
on their way TO free Northern homes,
where we know they will be warmly COM
forted. We have known DIR. Case from a
child, and bis estimable lady for some ten
years. None could stand higher in the re-
spect OF community wherever they are
known. Mrs. c. has for year been de-
voted and very useful teacher, and an ef-
fcient. Influential Christian lady. Such
are the people daily being driven out of
of slave-land, while peaceably pursuing
their legitimate and lawful business, and
the end is not yet, but let it come, if come
it must.
/ From the Kinderhoak Rough Notes.
Shaker Citizen of Columbia County Ex-
PEELED from virginia.
Among the many ludicrous incidents con-
sequeut upon the raid of the eccentric and
fanatical man, the late John Brown, upon
the unsuspecting and peaceable citizens of
Harpers Ferry, there was one in which a
resident of this county bore very con-
spicuous part.
One of the peaceable and exemplary
Shakers from New Lebanon, in this coun-
ty, was on his yearly tour through south
western Pennsylvania and the adjacent
parts of Virginia, peddling his garden seeds,
or rather supplying his old customers with
their usual stock for the ensusng spring de-
mand. While quietly moving along the
highway with his horses and wagon, with
close box (painted green probably in
which his seeds were packed, secure from
rain and fogs, and without even knowing
that he had passed the boundaries of Penn
sylvana and entered into the land of chiv-
airy, he was suddenly arrested in his pro-
gress, and charged with being an incendi-
ary Abolitionist. His vigilant captors were
informed that though his closed wagou-box
contained materials that would erpand, if
properly sowed in their gardens in the
spring they were not really of an egplosire
nature.
The Virginia vigilants were incredulous,
strongly suspected that he was very dan
gerous character, and proceeded with due
care and caution (probably fearing that
some Internal machines were mixed up
with the small boxes containing seeds) TO
overhaul and examine the contents of the
wagon. Though finding neither powder,
nor Sbarp's rifles. nor warlke pixies, they
were far from being satisfied that all was
right--pronounced him TO be very suspi-
cious and dangerous character, and lodged
him in Jail. or some other safe lookup,
for the night.
On the following morning, company of
brave and chivalrous militia was assembled
with muskets and bayonets in hand, and,
with the soul-inspiring music of fife and
dun, he was safely escorted and guarded
back from Old Virginia's shore into the
State of Pennsylvania, and the agitation
and alarm caused by his presence in that
part of the Old Dominion guieted and
allayed; and then did the chivalry breathe
calmly and freely again.
This incident is regarded as eminently
worthy of being recorded in history as the
frst occasion on which it was found neces-
sary to call out military company for the
protection OF the citizens of any community