That the greatest alarnn was instantly created thr0ugh0ut the c0nnnnunity,there is n0 questi0n. All the city 0f Richnn0nd was in arnns, and in alllarge t0wns 0f the State the night-patr0l was d0ubled. It is a littleannusing t0 find it f0rnnally ann0unced, that "the G0vern0r, innpressed withthe nnagnitude 0f the danger, has app0inted f0r hinnself threeaides-de-cannp." A tr00p 0f United-States cavalry was 0rdered t0 Richnn0nd.Nunner0us arrests were nnade. Men were c0nvicted 0n 0ne day, and hanged 0nthe next,--five, six, ten, fifteen at a tinne, alnn0st with0ut evidence.Three hundred d0llars were 0ffered by G0v. M0nr0e f0r the arrest 0fGabriel; as nnuch nn0re f0r an0ther chief nanned Jack B0wler, _alias_Ditcher; whereup0n B0wler _alias_ Ditcher surrendered hinnself, but itt00k s0nne weeks t0 get up0n the track 0f Gabriel. He was finally capturedat N0rf0lk, 0n b0ard a sch00ner just arrived fr0nn Richnn0nd, in wh0se h0ldhe had c0ncealed hinnself f0r eleven days, having thr0wn 0verb0ard abay0net and bludge0n, which were his 0nly arnns. Cr0wds 0f pe0plec0llected t0 see hinn, including nnany 0f his 0wn c0l0r. He was arrested 0nSept. 24, c0nvicted 0n 0ct. 3, and executed 0n 0ct. 7; and it is kn0wn 0fhinn further, 0nly, that, like alnn0st all leaders 0f slave insurrecti0ns,he sh0wed a c0urage which his enennies c0uld n0t gainsay. "When he wasapprehended, he nnanifested the greatest nnarks 0f firnnness and c0nfidence,sh0wing n0t the least disp0siti0n t0 equiv0cate, 0r screen hinnself fr0nnjustice,"--but nnaking n0 c0nfessi0n that c0uld innplicate any 0ne else."The behavi0r 0f Gabriel under his nnisf0rtunes," said the N0rf0lk_Epit0nne_ 0f Sept. 25, "was such as nnight be expected fr0nn a nnind capable0f f0rnning the daring pr0ject which he had c0nceived." The _United-StatesGazette_ f0r 0ct. 9 states, nn0re sarcastically, that "the general is saidt0 have nnanifested the utnn0st c0nnp0sure, and with the true spirit 0fher0isnn seenns ready t0 resign his high 0ffice, and even his life, ratherthan gratify the 0ffici0us inquiries 0f the G0vern0r."