The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-19
From the Washington Star, Of Thursday erening.
A RELIC OF THE HARPER'S FERRY RAID.

COL. WASHlNGTON'S PISTOL,
Mr.. Thaddeus Hyatt who has been in this CITY for
lew days past with view to procure from the Ex-
ecuhve postpOnement of the sale of the New York
Indian reserve lands in Kansas, proclamation 667
on account of the present starving condition of the
settlers there leaves this citv today on a tour to
the North to raise funds for the relief of the people
OF Kansas. Mr.. H. after his release from the con-
hnement imposed upon him by the Senate for con-
tumacy In refusing to give information to the
Senate committee regarding the Harper's Ferry
raid, went to New York for the purpose of collect
ing from the agent the proceeds of the sale of the
John Brown photographs, with a view to their
distribution amongst the members of his family
Having succeeded in this obj ject he proceeded to
North Elba, and attended IN person to the appor-
tionment of the money.
On his arrival there he was waited on by many peo-
ple-triends and sympathizers of the Brown family
and incidentally mention was made of a pistol
IN the possession of some member of the family
Not having any idea what pistol was meant in the
cautious remarks which had dropped from time to
time from several persons, he made no inquiry
about 1t; but at last so much was said about this
pistol that he began to tax his mind in relation to
it, and finally it occurred to him that during the
raid upon Harpers Ferry a descent had been made
by Browns followers upon the residence of Col
Lewis w Washington; that they had invaded that
gentleman private armOry, and taken possession
OF pair OF pistols, revolutionary relics and of in
estimable value to the Washington family on ac-
count of their having been presented to General
Washington by Lafayette.
Further investigation into the matter convinced
him that the remarks bore reference to this same
pistol, the fellow to the one that had been recov-
cred from the insurgents at Harper's Ferry. Mr..
Hyatt expressed his Indignation at the fact of
Colonel W ashington having been thus pillaged of a
valuable family "reminiscences, in most emphatic
manner, and gave the family to understand that
whatever the object of the invasion had BEEN there
was no excuse for taking advantage of their posi-
tion there for purposes of plunder. Having dis
charged his mind of the matter, he LETT North Eba
lnhn Tad FOL - 4
over day or two in Cincinnati, and while there a
stranger stepped up to him in the street. saving,
"Hyatt, have you got that pistol yet2'' Having
forgotten all about the incident about the pistol at
North Elba, Mr. Fl. could make nothing of the in
quiry, and the man referred to what had been said
when Hyatt last at North Elba, and informed
him that he would find Colonel Washington's pistol
at his house when he got home.
Mr.. H. proceeded to his house in New York, and
sure enough found that the weapon had been en-
closed to his address in a mysterious box, which
had excited no little apprehension in his household
of its being internal machine, containing any
quantity Of death-deang missiles. He then hunted
up the published accounts of the John Brown raid
and at length succeeded in finding the address of
Col. Washington, and gave orders to have the pis.
tol Immediately sent to its owner. He then came
on to asbington, and the day before Yesterday
received letter from home stating that his orders
had been duly executed, and in all probability ere
this writing the pistol has been restored to its
place among the revolutionary relics of the Wash
ington family.
ACADIANs IN LoUIsGANA.-No one who has read
LongteOw's beautiful poem "Evangelne," will
fail to be interested in the following brief descrip.
tlon OF the descendants OF the ancient AcadanS as
now found in the place OF their retreat and settle
ment in Louisiana:
81 have been looking, for season, over that
beautiful portion of the sugar region of Louisiana,
known abroad generally the 'Grasse Tete'-
taking its name from stream connecting the Mis-
sssippi river with the Gulf, and which Mr.. Long.
fellow has immortalized in his beautiful poem ot
Lvangeline, under the name of Plaquemine. have
friend who possesses sugar estate on its now
classic banks and it is such a beautiful and at
tractlve region that have resolved to spend a
portion of the summer with him, amid its genial
influences. Here you meet daily the identical
colony of Acadians which the poet represents a:
emigrating from Canada, and taking up their
abode under our cleaning Southern suns. These
people all speak the French language still live tC
| themselves, and have little intercourse with the
world, contenting themselves with the satisfaction
of few simple wants; cutivating with their own
hands their humble acres; rearing few cattle
and occasionally manufacturing few barrels and
| hogsheads for the wealthy planters. They
| strange clannish people, resembling much in ap
| pearance ana habits, the race of Gipsies."
kANsAs.-Thaddeus Hyatt gives an extreme pic
| ture OF the destitution existing in Kansas. In
| letter to President Buchanan be saws: Thousand:
| of once thrifty and prosperous American citizen,
are now perishing for want. Winter is upon them
of clothing they are nearly bereft food they have
not to last them through the cold season that is ap
| preaching, OF over a hundred thousand people
| upon Kansas soil, six months ago, at least one
fourth onethird have left; Of the remainder it il
safe to say that forty thousand at this moment see
nothing but exodus starvation at the end Of the
| sixty days before them; from ten to twenty
| thousand look with only despairing eyes upon N o
| vember; thousands cannot subsist a month longer
unaided; other thousands living upon the little
which their neighbors deprive themselves of to give
to them-neighbors equally unfortunate, and will
| whom starvation is merely question of but few
| days longer; while still other thousands if not a
| once relieved. must perish from hunger or the dis
eases that follow in its train. Some have already
died, others daily dying, while the hours grow
darker and the days wax longer for the living t.
whom relief comes not, and whose eyes are aching
with watching for the succor that delays.
Garibalda,at Caserta, issued the following lacon
| order of the day:
'Brave Soldiers! The Sardnans are about t,
| enter Neapolitan territory. Very soon you shal
have the happiness of clasping their victorious
| hands"
W. d. Wallach, ESQ.,, editor of the Washington
Star, has been expelled from the Breckinridge Clul
of that city because he published an account of th
/ late Republican demonstration.