Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1860 — Harper’s Ferry Committee. [ARTICLE]

Harper’s Ferry Committee.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writing under date of January 19,says: “Mr. Amy, of Kansas, was examined yesterday by the Harper’s Ferry Investigation Committee. The gteater part of the testimony related to Kansas affairs during the border troubles? “With regard to Brown’s movements in 1858, Mr. A. testified that Brown proposed to locate somewhere and run off' slaves from the South, so as to make tfiaTkind of property insecure. Amy testified that he opposed their mode of interference with slavery. Brown said he disliked the do-nothing policy of the Abolitionists East, and said they never would effect anything by ther milk-and-water course. Republicans, B. thought, were of no account, as they wer? opposed to carrying the war into Africa. They were opposed to meddling with slavery in the States where it existed- Brown said his doctrine was to free the slaves by the sword. Arny wanted to know how he reconciled to'his Quaker peace principles, which he held when he first knew him, more than twenty years ago. Brown said that the aggressions of slavery, that the murders and robberies perpetrated upon himself and members'of his the violation of law by Atchison and others in Kansas, from 1853 to that time, had convinced him that peace was but an empty word, and he repeated his dislike to the Republican party and the Abolitionists, saying that they were cravens, that they had refused to assist him. Arny testified that he declined to have anything further to do with his operations. MrArny declined giving the names of the persons from Massachusetts who were supposed to have control of the rifles, as he could not state definitely who purchased them, without referring to his book in Kansas, which the Committee would not give him time to procure.

“As Arny was in Cincinnati just previous to the receipt of the letter written to Secretary Floyd, announcing the intention to invade Virginia, it is supposed by some persons that he is the author of it.” The New Y’ork Herald's Washington correspondent of the 20th inst., gives the following additional information: “Reals, old Brown’s Secretary of State, has arrived, and will testify before the Senate’s Investigating Committee to-morrow. It is stated that he declares that the act of Brown was separate from all political organizations and politicians, and that he did nothing to implicate any member of the Republican party.

I “He will testify to.a correspondence between John Brown and Senator Wilson,but he asserts that Mr. Wilson denounced the proposition of Brown to run slaves out of slave States as an act of madness. This will probably induce the -Committee to call Wilson as a witness. Joshua R. Giddings and John Brown, jr., Amos 1,. Lawrence, and Mr. Samborn,of Massachusetts, will be subpoenaed, as well as Reals, who is looked upon as a most important witness, as he has indicated that he will make a clean breast

of the affair, and it is understood that he will implicate prominent persons in New York and New England.”