The Virginia Movement

We are grutified to learn from the Louisville Examiner, thai r.n organized ffïort, has ot length been made, in West ern Yirginialooking to Emancipation. - Say the Examiner : "The first important circumstnnce to be noticed is, that this step has beei) taken by slavehotders tkemselves: The chief aotor is the Re". Henry Rü'fpneu, D. D. He is well knöwn pérsonalfy or by charnctcr, throughnut Virginia and Kentucky, asan able Divine of the Presbyten'an Church, and one of the learned men of the South. Witti bil are a?sociated S. Mc D. Moore. John Letcher, David B. Currey, James G. Ilamilton, George A. Baiker, J. II. Laoy, Echols. Jame John II. Gordas, J. FuHer, Jr. D. E. Moore and J..hn W. Fuller. All these are men of character, and nearly all ot' them we know to be slavehoWers." Ar. address, written by Dr. Ruffiier, to the people of Western Virginia has heen issued, showipp that Slavery is jurious to the pub! c welfare and developing a plan for gradual Emanciparon. - . A copy of it vvill bo publiéhed in the Examiner. We trust that ibis important step wil] be followed op, with speed}', unremitted and encrgetic action. The day that sees Virginia (Vee wil? write the doom of Slavery in the Continent. Heaven grant iimay soon come! - Cincinnuti Herald. (Jr The folio wing is the first instance we reïïiembeiyn whicha slave was delivered pp to ijs rr.aster by a nonhein jury of freerr.en. Interf.stino Slave Case. - An intercsting and novel slave case ha jusl been decided at Mount Holiy, N. J. - The Plnladelphia Daily News says that it vss a claim made by Mr. John Rotli, a slaveholder who resides in Cecil county, State of Maryland, to recover asfugiiive slaves, Perry Heiibon, Noah llenson, and Rachel Pine, three respectable colored ciiizens, who have been rettiding for several years in the neigliborhood of Mount Ho!ly - two of them being married, and oneliaving a family of children. These persons w ere seducej from their homes on Thursday lasv, on a pretended claim lor taxcs. On omving in Mount Hol ly in the evening, ihey w.ere all seized ns fugitives by a warrant, and taken before Judge Ilayward. Some oftlieir friinds, hearing of the proceedings that niglit, nsfembled very early n ihe morning, and employed lor them as counsel Dr. R. D. Spencer, of Mount Elolly, who went beforo the said Judge and demanded a trial by jury, under a recent law of ihe State of New Jersey, whieli was granted, and tho hearing postponed until Thursday morning, whtn Messrs. Stratton and Moflit, of Mount Holly, nppeared as counsel for tl. e cloinr:on:s,ar.d Mr. Spencer, assisied by David Paul Brown, of Philadelphia, for the defendnnts. Mr.D. P. Brown made a powerful appeal, and was replied to by Mr. Stralton. 'J'he jury retired for about twenty minulcs and relurned wiih a verdict in favor of the plaintifl's; nnd p? tlic cfficf!r wcroaüout removing the prisoners,ono ofthem made somo resistanco, or au effurt to escape. when lie was soized, and the court was nmnedmtely clenred of colored persons, without t h-.ï lont diapotition being mnnifett'd hy them lo mnke a nol. '1'liPre i was mach excitement not oiily during llie trin!, hut afler liie vcrdic!; and onc report is, ihat n an aíTrny nco!ired barbar had bis tkull frac tu red. It is nlso saio ihiitthe miliiary were calleó out to prevent and put down any dijtürbnuce l hrtl miglit take place. - Emancipalor. Qf" Stones are in great demand by a portion of newspaper readers, "'hile another portion condernn iliPin as silly and inurious. But every thing depends on the nature (if the stories. Tlic Founder of Cliristiatiiíy w;s a gre-it story-telier, descending even lo the most ordinary every day 'nr.ttcrs, to tlie sweeping of the imusp. he raising ofbread, and llie plays of c-hikfi-Mi. Bat tho:i n'l his tales liad a moral to them. I'hey all ta'j;;ht some important tnitb, and so nlt tales should. i Our selemions D this department have given í-alisfaction almot universally ; anj many persons read slores in liv Signal who p-.ss ihem by in evory olher puilicntion. During ihe coming winter month,we sliall scarcely have roomfor any lengthy articles of lliis !;ind. ns we menn to give our readers ful] informal ion of nll important'politicn) doings: and we therefore, for ihis week and next, before the President's Message arrivés, inserí ons of Arthur's tales, entilled "Conquering n Peace." Th ippücation cf the slory will be easily made.