Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-02-09

belt around his BODY At that time his hair was long
and sunburnt the end His Wh,kcTs were about the
| same length they In few days after hi5
arrest witness called the prisoner at the Jail and
found his hair then short aud that his whskers had
been shaved Off lie has no doubt he the same man he
into Chambersburg On being crosse xamined
witness testified that the rifle found was new Gne had
never been fred aud had never been loaded The pr
had when arrested dark coat and brown pants
George s. Caip identified the prisoner at the bar as
one OF Browns party Harpers Ferry. He conversed
with him the day fthe invasion, and saw him oil
and until about three O'Clock OF that day. The prs
oner was acting as sentinel Shenandoah street. III
front of the arsenal. Witness taken TO Carlisle TO
identify the prisoner but FASTENED through the jail
and unable TO recognize him. Afterwards saw him
in the court house and had difficulty in recognizing
him. He has doubt the identity OF the prisoner
This witness subjected cross-examina-
ton, in which he admitted that he made complaint to
the aer at Carlisle in being hurried through the cell
Witness supposed he would be taken Immediately to the
cell OF the prisoner but akenhrough the entire build
ing. Witness remarked to gentleman after emerging
from the jail that he could recognize any man confn-
ed there as having been at Harpers Ferry.
W. ii. Copeland testified that he saw the prisoner at
the Ferry the morning Of the l1th early in the day
Witness detailed his visit to Carlisle jail and said the
sheriff attempted hurry him around the cells without
giving him chance to identify the prisoner. He, how
ever objected TO this proceeding, and was taken back to
cell where he identified the prisoner at the bar as hay
ing been at Harpers Ferry. This witness testimony
pointed thoroughly to the prisoner.
Nj e witnesses examined in all and their testimony
conclusvey Identified HaZett of Browns party.
The only discrepancy in the testimony to the col
or Of his hair. Some stating that it a light color,
whilst his hair at the present time is rather dark being
coored by hair dye.
Among the visitors in attendance in the court, to-day,
was Rev. Mr. Newton of Vermont who has been before
the Senate investigating committee. The number of
witnesses summoned for the commonwealth is about 40,
/ but all will not be examined
Our community startled this morning by the
nouncement of the sudden death of Dr. Ii. p. Cooke,
promising young physician Of this place. Dr. c.
son of the late Hon. John r. Cooke and married niece
the Hon. John p Kennedy
FRIGHTFuL ACCIDENT on THE DAYTON AND MICHIGAN
| RALROAD-Two PASSENGER CARS PRECPITATED INTO
THE MANA CASAL.-About o'clock Yesterday morning,
the express train the Dayton and Michigan railroad,
which left Toledo the evening previous when at Coles
vile Bluff sixteen miles above Dayton and four miles
south of Troy metswh serious accident by which two
were precipated over embankment twenty feet
high into the Mama Canal and nearly all the passen-
| gers, more or less, injured.
The accident occasioned by the breaking OF rail-
which seemed TO have been rendered brittle by the frost
The locomotive and baggage car however passed safely
but the two passenger cars containing about TWEEN
~ persons each thrown from the track and turned
entirely over and half over again. aghtng in tie
canal bottom upward. The coupling between the bag
ed loose and left upon the road. The train moving
at the rate of twenty miles hour the time and the
speed of the engine could be checked till had
distance Of one two hundred yards.
The in the cars terrible Scarcely passenger
had escaped without bruises and from many the
blood was gushing in streams which, in some instances
rendered recognition almost impossible The cries OF
the women, and the fact that the cars gradually
sinking in six feet water added considerably TO the
element Of the moment. Had it not been for heavy
-tafin NJ tba oft
four inches in thickness which, although broken by the
concusson many persons must hayO been drowned ln-
deed 1t almost miraculous that lives lost as it
was.-CiR. Eng, Feb. @d
IHE FLIGHT OF REDPAra.-The fight of Jas. Redpath
who was summoned appear before the Harper Ferry
Investigating Committee, noticed Yesterday. Before
leaving it seems, he assigned five reasons for doing so,
but the principal one fear which will be seen from
the following extract from letter written the Of
his fight, to Senator Mason
81 do not believe that either my life liberty would
be safe were | TO go to Washington do refer 10
any mob violence but to legal process only. Ny friend
Mr.. Stephen i not yet tried. BY appearing at Wash
ingOn would put myself in the power of the President
and OF Virginia for requisition from the Governor OF
Virginia to the President of the United States would at
be houorcd Were required to appear Charles
town witness, you well know Senator, what the re-
suit would be; | would be murdered by the mob.
When the gentlemen OF State boastingly and I'M
blushingly ayOw under oath, that they participated in
tue cOdbOOded murder OF prisoner unarmed and when
solitary voice in the Commonwealth is raised in
denuncation of the cowardy crime il would be foohar
dy, think and very unwiSe, for any an-savery man to
voluntarily put himself in the power of such people
iou do not promise TO protect from going TO Virgin
ia, and will not walk into your parlor Mr.. Mason.
GsQUorISG ScRIPTURE.-The Boston Transcript re-
marks that the preacher TO the University OF Cambridge
is the first clergyman who has quoted from the Pray
er Book Of the Episcopal Church. and called Scripture
Mark ~ , ia reference which the y. o. P.cayins
SAYS:
"It has been frequently remarked that passages
curing in the Book of Common PRAYER Lave been Of
ten quoted by writers speakers and preachers from
the Bible. Among these may be mentioned the follow
ing:
Read mark, learn and inwardly digest which
ours in the Collect for the second Sunday in Advent
In the midst Of life we are in death and "earh TO
earth ashes to ashes dust dust which in the
vice for the Burial of the Dead - the iron entered
into his soul found in the Psaer the translation of
V. 10 of Psalm cv the Bible version being much less
expressive he was laid in iron :" lie maketh men TO
be Of one mind in house - the Psaer' version OF
the passage given by the King James translaor God
setrih the solitary in families and others might
quote.
Rev. Henry A WisE-The Philadelphia Bulletin of
Monday. SAYS:
The services of the Rev Henry 4. Wise, Jr. rector
of the Church of the Saviour West Philadelphia,
tended by large numbers of Epscopaans and excite
usual interest in the religions community at large The
Young divine in fuflmcnt Of purpose to give Sunday
afternoons the CITY, ociaed Yesterday in the Church
of the Holy Trinity before congregation that complete
ly filed that spacious cdfce. His discourse