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mm NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS. Tne United States Constitution is a covenant vtta death, and an agreement with halL IS PCBLISH ED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, AT THE Xl-St, AVERY OFFICE, 21 CORNH1LL. i-jtOBEBT F. WALLCtTT, General Agent. TERMS Two dollar and fifty cents per an.

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The free States arc the guardians and essen tial supports of slavery. "We are the jailers and con-, stables of the institution. There is sume excuse for communities, when, under a generous impulse, they espouse the cause of the oppressed in other States, and by force restore their rights tut tAey are trilhovt excuse in aiding other States in binding on men an unrighteous yoke. On this subject, ovx fathers, IX TKAXIXa THE CoXSTlTCTIOX, BWEKTED fUOM TU kiout. We their children, at the end cf half a century, see the path of duty more clearly than they, and must walh in it.

To this point the public mind has long been tending, and the time has come for look-1 ing at it fully, dispassionately, and With manly and Christian resolution. No blessing cf the Union can be a compensation for taking part in the enslaving of our fellow-creatures nor ought this bond to be perpetuated, if experience shall demonstrate that it can only continue through our participation in wrong doing. To this conviction the free States are tending. William Ellekt Chanxiso. TffJU.

LLOYD GARRISON, Editor. VOL. XXIX. NO. 47- KEFUGE OF OPPRESSION.

THE GUILTY PARTIES. Violated laws and murdered citizens demand a tim at the hand of justice if Brown is a crazed irresponsible either in morals or law, there i Hyet guilty parties, ue is tuen tne agent oi wil ted principals. If the Northern people believe Brown insane, what punishment is due to those who have poisoned his mind with the irrepressible ind spurred his fanaticism to deeds of blood and earners He may be insane, but there are other crimi-Ji2i, guilty wretches, who instigated the crimes perpetrated at Harper's Ferry. Bring Seward, Gree- jrv. Giddings, Hale and Smith, to the jurisdiction of Virginia, anu iroii uu ma ueiuueu Tieiims in ine Charlestown jail may hope for pardon.

Intheopin- i ion of Virginia, the five Republican leaders above mentioned are more guilty than John Brown and his tnociates. An ignorant fanaticism may be pleaded in palliation of the crime of Brown, but the five Republican leaders would spurn such a stultifying plea! They would not compromise their intelligence even at the cost of their morality. Let the friends of Brown, let all those who believe him inane, and all who intend to represent him as a crazy fanatic, for whose folly no party is responsible, deliver op Seward, Greeley, Giddings, if ale and Smith. A fair trial, at their own time, with their own coun-kI, will be freely given them, and if Virginia docs Dot find them guilty, they, too, shall go unhurt. Richmond Enquirer.

THE INSURRECTION. We are somewhat surprised that the people of the Booth hare calmly and dispassionately viewed the Harper's Ferry insurrection. When the newB reached our ears, the warm, southern blood, boiled in oar veins, and we thought then, that 'spirits from the vasty deep had been called in to requisition by them, to aid them in their hellish designs. That Brown, even backed by Giddings and others, boold have the audacity to attempt such an outrage, was foreign to our mind. 'No matter how clandestinely the plan was formed how secretly and faithfully they were executed this far-famed personage, who was ever ready to blow the horn belonging to the black cow, and to cry out 4 Freedom, when the Brown Bull bellowed, and the dust was seen flying in the air when he faced the QunQiet lo and behoM this Honorable Gentleman was not in 4 the thickest of the This riot is the blackest crime on the pages of American History, and the result ot that favorite doctrine of that foul-hearted, slimy-mouthed Seward 1 the irrepressible and we presume that his followers are into an in fact 4 irrepressible With Giddings, err it Smith and others lent their aid in, and urged on, this mongrel conspiracy, for which, they richly deserve, and should receive, the same fate that awaits the gallant The Press, generally, North and South, are down on the rebels, so far as we have been enabled to Bee, when we say Press North and South, we do not allude to those who know no other god but the deprivation of the rights of the people of the South of their interest, for, 4 Mene, Mene, tekel TJpharsin has already been recorded against them but we allude to those who are true to the whole country.

Southern Diamond, Dadeville, Alabama. NO MERCY FOR JOHN BROWN. The New York Journal of Commerce publishes the following extract of a letter from a distinguished Southern gentleman to a friend in New York, in reply to a tuggeslion in favor of commuting Brown's sentence adding, It shows how Southern men feel on tht tubject Brown and his fellow-traitors have committed a grievous crime against Southern peace and life, against the happiness and mutual confidence of two races, against the integrity of our Union. Death the least punishment lor any one of these crimes. Shall it be omitted for an offender aeainst all law Doso, and Abolition would yell 4 Craven in our ears, tne effort would be repeated, our slaves would ee it, and our peace be but for a moment.

Why is sympathy felt at the North for such a ruffian as Brown Why is murder by him to be ex-weed? It it because it is for the down-trodden le? Let us allow that plea, and where are we? He cannot be pardoned by the Governor without tto Legislative action, and should not be with it. Ha kas staked his life upon his wicked scheme of lawless murder, rapine, and rebellion. He has lost and must pay the forfeit Your heart will say, 4 You have let your gwertjas impulse, to show Southern men magnanimous, make yoa forget that if we failed to be just, ordir to be esteemed generous, we should lose oaracter in the eyes of good men, and of God -Excuse this hot-headed letter, as I fear you will I1 it. I do not want Brown's blood. I have no pen feeling.

If we could safely spare his wretched "ft, I would. But justice, not vengeance, requires death, and without any feeling of compunction, wtonly from dread of bis future and eternal state, would, were it my official duty, unhesitatingly ngQ his death-warrant. The chances of a dissolution of the Union be-ifui to taper off into the creation of Southern States Atetably, to devise measures of self-protection ginst Abolitionism. Says the Washington Star: That the Joa th can afford to live under a Gov-Wnraent, the majority of whose subjects or citizens "rd John Brown as a martyr and Christian hero, than a murderer and robber, and act up to -Uhmq sentiment, or countenance others in so doing, Plterous idea, as will be comprehended by tl the North ere the end of the next session of Con-TMt in the course of which the chances are that, to pursuance of an address from nine-tenths of the thern Senators and Representatives, the Gover- of the several slaveholding States will call tocher their rcspectives Legislatures, to authorize regular election of a Southern-States Assembly, "ged with the duties of devising measures of self-Pftion againbt Abolitionism, the Government of Northern States being almost all of them in the of those whom political teachings have hatch-7jl the mischief brewing to the future of the in-rP1! of the Union. In view of the great in sympathizing with Brown and fel-to-eojvicU, with the certain consequences of the Sral manifestation of that sentiment, that such p0 wil be taken by the South is the opinion of "aot every public man, of both parties, through- theUholding IT" We hope to assist In handing Mr.

Brown to i generations as an abolition Republican, Cbarhstown, State of Virginia, by alaTeboIder8. It would also afford us infinite ion tdd to the list the name of Joshua R. i- h. if lving, could certify to the of slave-grown hemp. Canfield (S.

Sen- the ing tor out to to a be fails the by to ty, any are jects and the tcrs ed, and is a at of 8ATANIG ORTHODOXY ON JOHN BROWN. From the Kete York Observer. There may be reasons of policy or expediency for comminuting the settence. But we see nothing in nature of the crime, or the circumstances attend its commission, unless Brown was insane to call clemency in the case On the contrarv. in the deed, the object, the long, cool, deliberate, malignant, murderous calculation and perpetration with which it was planned, the blood-thirstiness with which they murdered the first negro who fell into their hands, the pertinacity with which they held when their inhuman designs were baffled, the slaughter of unoffending citizens, and the avowed purpose to ravage the country and usurp the govern- ment, there is every element that goes to constitute u'gwi crime Known 10 me laws oi uoa ana man.

It is a moral wonder that any one, in his senses, who believes that a murderer ought to be put aeatu, should doubt that these murderers deserve die. In every intelligent Christian mind there is sense of right and wrong, that for a moment may obscured by sympathy with suffering, so that it to utter itself correctly when it speaks, but the sober judgment of the Christian world responds to sentence which God and man have pronounced upon the murderer Whoso sbeddeth man's blood, man shall bis blood be There are interests most awful to be contemplated, when we decide to extend sympathy and forgiveness such crimes as this Where is law. where is eafe- where is virtue, where is the distinction between right and wrong, where the difference between re- ward and punishment, if we are to pardon these men? Is there any crime known to the laws, or circumstances under which crime can be committed, or any antecedents or consequents of crime that would call for the extremes punishment, which not pre-eminently present in this case? From the Central (Richmond, Va.) Presbyterian. We discover, with great regret, that some of the most conservatives journals at the North, which have taken the true ground on other points, are now contending that Brown and his associates are proper sub for executive clemency. They say that a great chivalrous btate like lrginia might forgive a 1 into difficulty through the failure of their diabolical poor old fanatic like Brown and his comrades, now attempt at Harper's Ferry seem utterly friendless, that they have been defeated, tried and condemned.

They were not only left in the lurch by those who What does this mean Here are a company of men had promised co-operation in carrying out the plot, who make a midnight assault upon unarmed and nn- but now in their extremity they seem almost wholly offending citizens; they seize upon the government abandoned. Even the few solitary instances of fidel- mcnal lny ptttuc OcaJljP OlJ1IS lir XllC" llUIUln vC-'liy wilful I lia0 CVmv tu Imtlv, Wuivn luooo iumu- and incite them to butcher their mas- tearing assistance, appear to have been actuated by they murder several persons they are arrest- selfish-motives. fairly tried, defended by counsel of their own Forbes, and the editor of the Lawrence Herald of choice, are convicted and condemned. Their guilt Freedom, complain of treachery and not denied nay, it is admitted to be compliacted Abolitionists appear to be very brave when using aggravated and yet, conservati ve journals ap- quill muskets through newspaper columns, but take peal to executive clemency, and say let these men be good care to keen out of harm's way when there is pardoned And why Because their execution will excite abolition sympathy! Ami this is the logic of these whimperers, Here is a band of traitors, robbers and murderers they have been convicted of their crime; they deserve to die but par don them let them loose upon society again, for, it argued, if tho majesty of law is vindicated if jus- slaves, than the aggregate donations given to pro-tice is administered abolition sympathy may beaug- mote American Abolitionism, from its inception to men ted In this whole matter, nothing has been more discouraging to us, nothing has given as more pain than the lact that some of the very men at the North upon whom we relied, and to whom we looked as the instruments by which we trusted Providence would arrest and turn back the tide of fanaticism, in that quarter, by sternly upholding law, and its solemn sanctions, are now contending that undeserved clemency should usurp the throne, and wrest the sword from the hand of righteous judgment. If the abolition element at.

the North is so power ful that conservative men seek to conciliate it at such price, then indeed may the most Union-loving men the South begin to despair as to the possibility its preservation. From the Philadelphia Christian Observer. Who is responsible for this terriblo drama this fiendish invasion of a peaceful community this long meditated treason and plot to enlist thousands in a civil and servile war against the laws and government of their country? What might have been its horrible consequences, but for the ignorance of the conspirators respecting the condition and feelings of the laves, and the tardiness of their fanatical allies What wide-spr ad scenes of rapine, murder and crimes still more horrible might have marked their progress, had their confederates rushed to the place of action before the military could have reached the field Who is responsible for the thousands of gold and silver, expended for arms and ammunition, which had been brought and concealed near the place of this outbreak? Is not the animus of this horrid tragedy inspired by an un6criptural dogma, that slaveholding is a crime, 4 a or 4 an offence1? Is not the fanaticism of the conspirators tho culminating point, the development of the malign spirit whichi has severed the bonds of Christian fellowship among brethren, created alienations, divided churches, and rent soci eties, formed to evangelize and bless the country and tho world and which is now seeking to control the powers of Church and State throughout the land? THE HARPER'S FERRY INSURRECTIONISTS. We give such details of the trial of these miscreants as our columns will permit. It will be een that Brown, the leader of the nefarious band, has been found guilty of the three charges found in the inuicimeui ireasou, uuuiiwiiuu iuum vmm of which 'crimes are punishable with death.

All honor is due the noble Virginians, for the law-abiding sentiment manifested in this case. And the notorious Brown, whose' life has been literally steeped in blood and crime, who has already disturbed the peace and friendship of the two sections of the Union, and finally crowned a life of wickedness by the most diabolical attempt known to the country in which he lived, will have the satisfaction, if satisfaction it may be considered, to know that although he dies an ignoble death, it is meted out to him by the stern jutice of the law. There are many, very many localities in the South, where under similar circumstances, a more summary judgment would have ended his career. If ever lynch law could be justifiable, or summary vengeance meet the approbation of a whole people, it would have done so in this case. Tallapoosa Times.

Ot'TRAGEors. Dr. Cheever, of Brooklyn, who is so abjectly on his knees beseeching the British public for funds to sustain bis abolition crusade, lectured on Tuesday in Charlestown before what purports to be a literary association. He seized the occasion to outrage his audience by full doses of the worst form of Garrisonian Abolitionism. To their credit they did not listen with perfect composure to an outnour of treason at the base of Bunker Hill but by unmistakable marks hurled back upon the insulter, general and repeated expressions of their indignation.

Not a few turned their backs on the imnndant clerical brawler, and left the hall. "This Our Country is the World, our BOSTON, Fill DAY, NOVEMBER 25, was as it ever should be in similar circumstances, and not until such a course of treatment is followed up smartly, will the community, on national, literary and other occasions, be secure from similar insult. But in the first place, men of sucli a pestilential cast ought not to be asked to officiate on such occasions and in the second place, if they are asked, and they violate the occasion by a display of their crotchets, the patriotic portion of audiences, men and women, ought to take the matter in hand, and express their disapprobation. More especially is it a duty, on every occasion, to 6 tamp with a just indignation sentiments filtering insurrection and treason. Boston Post.

Ths Natcral Resclt. The telegraph announces that Gerrit Smith is now a raving lunatic in the insane asylum at Utica. Can any one read this intelligence without feeling that the natural result of chronic abolitionism has in his ca3e speedily exhibited itself? That abolitionism is in one sense but the incubative stage of a particular form of mania, whose explosion will occur just in proportion to the strength of the brain in which it resides, who can any longer doubt? Garrison, who is a sturdy old fanatic somewhat of the John Brown school, has managed to keep out of the lunatic asylum thus far, though all things seem at present to indicate that his freedom of pasturage will not long continue. So, too, with Wendell Phillips, the oily, smooth tongued sophist. Phillips came near kicking the beam of insanitv at Brooklyn, when he made his great howl there.

As for Parker Pillsbury, the man who baptized dogs, and whose public speeches are a farrago ot billingsgate and blasphemy, we have long ago considered him among the moonstruck inhabitants of this State. Well, as men sow, they must expect to reap. A man who sows himself full of liquor is very apt to reap a crop of de-lirium-trcmens and a man who sows himself full of abolitionism must expect to reap a crop of insurrectionary fancies and insane delusions, such as will sooner or later send him to the mad-house or the jail. Taunton Gazette. Got io Friends.

The miserable men who got real danger. Gerrit Smith appears to have been about the only one in the whole lot possessed of any liberality or having any magnanimous feeli ng. They give nothing, and risk nothing. There ara men at the South who have individually made greater pecu niary sacrifices to effect the emancipation of their this day. jY.

Y. Journal of Commerce. Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. Lower Delaware, Nov. 4, 1859.

With respect to Brown, the insurrectionist, all are agreed as to the wickedness of his bold attempt, and that he richly deserves the penalty of the rope, while it is thought the ends of justice and the good of the country will be best attained by so commuting the punishment as to render him harmless for the few remaining days of his miserable life. The Abolitionists are iu great want of a martyr just now, and Brown would suit them exactly. He has made. affecting speeches, has sanctified himself with pious language, rectified himself, he fancies, before his country, and now waits to be bound to the altar, for such would the gallows to him and his friends. If the real friends of the blacks and of the Union would unite in expressing their views to Gov.

Wise, it would doubtless much assist him in making his decision, for the life or death of this poor old fanatic is now in bis hands. In his cool moments the Gov ernor easily yields to generous impulses, and perhaps the exercise of mercy would in the circumstances be most advantageous to all parties. If our country is not wrapped in the flames of civil war, no thanks will be due to these agitators and murderers. When as I recently visited the rural districts on the banks of tho Delaware I beheld such evidences of prosperity on every side the well-cultivated tarms the abundant harvests of the season the rich contentment of the people stalwart young men and fair, blooming maidens healthy old men and happy matrons of like age, industrious during the week, and punctual on the Sabbath at the house of God schools well attended, and taverns deserted peace and quietude every where reigning I said to myself, what a happy country is this, and who but a demon incarnate from the pit- of darkness would wish to despoil so fair a heritage to set brother against brother, to array the North against the South, to encourage violence and bloodshed to overturn, if possible, the beneficint institutions of our country, and instead of a well-ordered government with freedom to worship God, a chaotic mass of broken elements, which, like the fragments of a once beautiful temple, tvrve but to remind us of the magnitude of the ruin wrought. If disunion, misery, and destruction are to be our lot, they will have been brought on by the machinations and measures of just such men as sympathize with and encourage Brown, who would gain such notoriety as fell to the lot of the incendiary who applied the torch to the Ephesian temple.

From the tenor of conversation with a friend from the South, I am sorry to infer that there is for Brown little hope, if Southern feelings, so outraged by him, shall have full sway. To deny him the halter would be, it is thought, to deny protection to the wholo community against fearful outrages. Still, time may soften the severity of vengeance a little, and an old man be saved from the terrors of the gallows. It will, I think, be long before such another outbreak will occur. I hope it will not be long before oar armories will be put in a state of more effectual defence.

Harper retry would be a sort ot lhermopylae to a foe advancing from the East or West. No flank movement could possibly be made there. So pitiful are the pretexts that the Black Republicans profess to set up in disguising their complicity in the Virginia invasion, that they unwittingly expose the designs they had secretly matured. Baffled in their intentions by tha untimely attempt of Brown, defeated in their treasonable purposes by the miscarriage of the plot which they iniquitously conceived, and arraigned before the bar of public opinion for the conspiracy against their country, which they incited, they now give expression to the despair which haunts them, by acts of contrition, which are unmeaning only as far as they show to what extent their canting phrases can impose upon the too credulous. Louis Bulletin.

Countrymen axe all Hankind. SELECTIONS. From the New York Tribune. JOHN BROWN'S COLORED REFUGEES IN CANADA. Wixdsor, Upper Canada, Nov.

6. 1859. As everything relative to 4 Old John Brown is now interesting, I would inform your readers that I have spent a few hours in Windsor, Upper Canada, with seven of the twelve colored Missourians who are now residing in that place. The other five are living about nine miles in the country. These make the twelve persons taken by Brown last January into Canada.

As various reports are afloat concerning them, I wish to inform all parties that those living here are very industrious. Two of the seven are men. They 4 saw wood, and 4 job round. One, a boy about twelve, helps around generally. Two of the women, who were field bands in Missouri last spring, on arriving at Windsor, hired, for $4, an acre of land, and with a spade each, they actually spaded it, planted it with -corn and potatoes, and attended it well this crop would challenge any crop I ever saw in Missouri, and not often beaten even in Kansas, where soil and climate are superior to most portions of this world their potatoes are very fine all dug and put up in secure manner in the garden back of their house, for winter; the corn, of which I brought some away, is beautiful.

One of their houses has a small garden attached; they pay $2 a month for this. In this littlo garden they have grown some very fine onions, carrots, parsnips, and some extraordinary cabbages the cabbages are taken up, put together, and covered thick with fodder or straw, rather neatly packed. They have amply sufficient corn, potatoes, for winter. As to meat, they do without, till they have some fit to kill. They have three hogs growing finely, which they paid $1 each for, and feed them on what they collect in swill from neighbors, As to clothing, they are neat, with well patched articles.

They say they have $20 salted down. They informed me that, after being here a short time, they were burned out, losing all, or nearly all, of the useful articles given them by friends on their way, while escorted by that man whom they venerate. While I read aloud the sentence of Brown, with his speech from the paper, to them, oh how enacting to see their tears and hear their sobs two women declared, if it could bo, they would willing- IhemVemarkUr it tnefe'was practised most of it here so he would be rewarded by 4 old Master up higher, with greater happiness. The father, mother, and.three children in the country, work a farm on shares they hare about sixteen acres of corn, potatoes, 4c, part of which are theirs they all are anticipating the day when they can get a piece ot land ot their own. JOHN BROWN'S EARLY HISTORY AT- MOST A D.

D. Want of space compels as to abridge somewhat a communication received from William II. Hallock, of Canton Centre, designed to correct erroneous concerning. Capt. John Brown.

We live tnat portion relating to nis eany me. J.ne public are already laminar with his history during the past few years. In the burying-ground near the church in Canton Centre, stands a marble monument upon which is inscribed the following 4 In memory of Captain John Brown, who died in the Revolutionary Army, at Mew York, Sept. 3d, 1776. lie was of the fourth generation in regular descent from Peter Brown, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, who landed from the May Flower, at Plymouth, December 22, 1620." 4 Captain Brown, at his country's call, led forth a company of West Simsbury (now Canton) troops, to the deadly connict, and fell a victim to the then 1revailing epidemic in the American camp.

He eft a numerous group of little ones, who were reared by his widow with singular tact and judgment, to habits of industry and principles of virtue, and all became distinguished citizens in the commu nities in which they resided. One of the sons became a Judge in one of the Courts of Ohio. One of the daughters had the honor of giving to one of our most nourishing riew colleges a President for twenty years, in the person of her son. 4 Owen Brjwn, one of the sons, and father of the present Captain John Brown, married a daughter of Gideou Mills, who was himself (Mills) an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and was intrusted with the command of the guard who had in charge a large portion of the prisoners comprising Bur-goyne's army, thus proving that John Brown inherits bis military spirit through a patriotic ancestry. Soon after the marriage of Owen Brown, he removed with his family to Torringford, Connecticut, where the present Captain John Brown was born.

While he was yet in infancy or early childhood, the parents returned to West Simsbury, and there remained for a few years, when they emigrated to Hudson, Ohio, where Owen Brown became one of the principal pioneer settlers of that then new town, ever respected for his probity and decision of character. He was endowed with energy and enterprise, and went down to his grave honored and respected, about the year 1852 or 1853, aged 87. At the age of eighteen ortwenty, the present Capt. John Brown left Hudson, Ohio, and came east with the design of acquiring a liberal education through some of our New England colleges. His ultimate design was the Gospel ministry.

In pursuance, of this object, he consulted and conferred with the Key. Jeremiah liallock, then clergyman at Canton, (whose wife was a relative,) and in accordance with advice there obtained, proceeded to I flainneld, where, under the instruction ot the late Key. Moses Hallock, (father of the present senior editor of the Journal of Commerce,) fitted, or nearly fitted for college. While there pursuing nis stuaies, ne was attacked with lnnammation ot the eyes, which ultimately became chronic, and pre cluded him from the possibility of the further pursuit of his studies, when he returned to Ohio. Had not this inflammation supervened, John Brown would not have died a Yirginia culprit upon a Virginia gallows, but in all probability would have Hied on a feather-bed.

with D. D. affixed to his Tribune. BROWN'S CONVERSATION WITH GOV. WISE.

A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, under date of Richmond, Oct. 29th, detailing incidents in relation to the Harper's Ferry Insurrection, gives a more extended report of the conversation between John Brown and Got. Wise than that at first received.

He says I have heard Governor Wise questioned to-day re garding the statement circulated by the press that Brown, in an impertinent manner, said to -the Governor, 4 If you have vour opinions about me, I have my opinions about was true. The Gov ernor positively denied the troth of this statement and, moreover, added that Old during of or is I it a cy 4 J. B. 18 5 9 their interview, never uttered a single word which was personally offensive to him. The Governor says that somebody in the crowd applied to Brown the epithet roooer, and that Brown retorted by saying, You (alluding to the slaveholders) are the And it was in this connection that he said, If yoa have your opinions about me, I have my opinions about you.

At this time the Governor remarked to him, Mr. Brown, the silver of your hair is reddened by the blood of crime, and it is meet that yoa should eschew these hard allusions, ami think npon eternity. You are now suffering from wounds which, perhaps, may terminate your existence and should you perchance escape death from these causes, yoa will have to submit to a trial in the court which may involve that result. Your confessions are of a character which might well justify the presumption that you will be found guilty and even now you are committing a felony under the laws of this State, by uttering sentiments ike those you have just expressed. It is better you should turn your attention- to matters concerning your eternal future than, be dealing in denunciations which can only injure Brown replied by saying, 4 Governor, I have, from all appearances, not more than fifteen or twenty years the start of yoa in the journey to that eternity which you kindly warn me and whether my tenure here shall be fifteen months, or fifteen days, fifteen hours, I am equally prepared to go.

There an eternity behind and an eternity before, and the little speck in the centre, however long, is but comparatively a minute. The difference between your tenure and mine is trifline, and I want to there- fore tell you to be prepared. You all (referring to the slaveholders; have a heavy responsibility, and behooves you to prepare more than it does Such, as I gathered them from Gov. Wise, was the substance of the remarks on both sides. From the York Tribune.

NO CHANCE OF REPRIEVE. Certain Northern papers convey the impression of very general belief in John Brown's safety from execution. They assume that, for political or other reasons. Gov. Wise will be induced to show clcm-n to this condemned man.

Such ideas are here re ceived with indignation. I certainly do not see any ground for hope in Brown's case. It is evident that any attempt to remove him alive from this town would fail. The people say that a regiment of soldiers, with the Governor at their head, could not cue, which has been tfie great "leaVa 11 afong prevent which all these extraordinary military precautions are still kept up, the jailers have been instructed to Bhoot him and his companions instantly. The populace are resolute in their determination that their victims 6hall never be taken from them, and it does not seem that this determination is to be shaken by any expedient.

Brown's own ideas on the subject are characteristic. He tranquilly says 1 do not know that I ought to encourage any attempt to save my life. I am not sure that it would not be better for me to die at this time. I am not incapable of error, and I may he wrong but 1 think that perhaps my objects would be nearer fulfilment if I should die. 1 must eiv ic some xuem ii iuuwny nwut wm, uu mtj uuouio.

Brown does not value his life or, at least, is whol ly unmoved at the prospect of losing it. He was never more firm than at this moment. The only compunctions he expresses are in relation to his management at Harper's Ferry, by which he lost not only himself, but sacrificed his associates. He sometimes Bays that if he had pursued his original plan of immediate escape to the mountains, he could never have been taken, for he and his men had studied the vicinity thoroughly, and knew it a hundred times better than any of the inhabitants. It was.

he says, his weakness in yielding to the entreaties of the prisoners, and delaying his departure, that ruined him. 4 It was the first time, are his words, that I ever lost command of myself, and now 1 am punished for The reason Brown has given for asking his wife to remain away is also characteristic. He knows it will cause great suffering, and will, possibly, shat ter his composure in a manner which he is resolved against, lest his captors should esteem it an evidence of regret tor what he has done. Here is his own account of his purpose at Harper's erry He had calculated upon, and fully expected to ac- comnlish. a rescue of a preat number of Blaves.

To maintain a warlike position in Virginia for any deli- nite period was not his object. is object. The idea-of his seii- ing the Arsenal for the sake of the weapons it contained, he will not admit. He says he had far better weapons of his own. nis occupying it at all was a variation from his original determination.

lie had decided to take Col. Washington aud the other prisoners to the Harper's Ferry Bridge, and there to establish a commanding position, from which he would insist upon exchanges of slaves for bis prisoners. In case he should have been dislodged, he would have retreated in haste to the mountains. with the intricacies of which he had made himself so much more familiar than the inhabitants themselves, that he believed he could defy all attempts to apprehend him. lie had supposed, that alter a tew days of successful evasion, he would be joined by hundreds of slaves anxious to escape, by whose aid he could have perfected arrangements tor an enor mous rescue.

This, as I understand it, was his real plan. The reason of the change was, he avers, that as the night of the rising was very severely cold, he suddenly concluded to have the prisoners taken to the armory, where they would not be exposed to the il 11 tr- i weamer, unucipawug uu truuoio in moving OH WHO them, in case he should not be able to effect the ex changes with negroes before the general alarm should spread. JJisappoioted this hope, he had only to ngnt to me ena. Some one the other day asked Brown the reason why he did not go further South to make this at tempt. He answered that there were stong objec tions on the score of hamanitv meaning, as was alter wards explained, that the ferocity ot the slaves further South could ot have been checked, and that a great massacre would have been the result.

CAPT. JOHN BROWN. From a notice of Brown, published in the Exeter News-Letter, we copy the following concluding paragraphs: 4 In person, Capt. Brown is tall, sinewy, and hard featured, with blue eyes and grey hair. In times of excitement his severe eye flashes, and his closely cut hair seems to stand up like ruffled plumage.

He generally dresses in sombre colors, and in the fashion of twenty years ago. He speaks in a measured, decided tone, going straight to the point. His hand-writing is angular and constrained. Like Cromwell's men, be is devout to the verge of fanaticism, bat in his intercourse with men, he is without cant. In Kansas, he forbade all swearing among his men, and prayed night and morning in his tent.

4 The Puritan tbowa In him, tooch to tfcs core, Boca ss praTsd, amiunc agafcoa r4 JUotoaHoor. WHOLE YERRINTON SON, Printers. NUMBER, 1508. His courage is undoubted at the bnttle of watomie he went from point to point, arranging his men in full view of the enemy, whose whining balls he minded no more than the boning of flics. His sense of honor is most keen his word is as good as his bond.

Of him it may be said, as the Arab Chief said of the traveller, I love him, for bis word is as straight as my spear. Yt ith his great and manly virtues, and his excusable he is now a prisoner, awaiting the judgment of the chivalry of Virginia. Having hacked bis body, after his surrender, her distinguished norm are now seeking to entangle biro in his talk before his trial. Soon, undoubtedly, the old man will follow his children to tho land where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. There they hear not the voice of the oppressor the small and the great are there, and toe servant ia free from his master.

Hampton Falls, Oct. 24, 1859. c. H. 5.

AN IRREVERENT JXJDQE ON TBI AX. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says that when Thomas Cuuningham, of Beaver, went to Kansas, under an appointment as United States Judge, in passing through a settlement he met Old Os-watomie Brown, who had just arrived with halt a dozen pro-slavery prisoners, captured while in arm to assail the free state settlers. Among them were several slaveholders, who were discharged by Brown, (as Gov. Wise promised to discharge Gerrit Smith.) with a lecture, as poor, ignorant devils, who knew no better then, turning to tho northern men with southern principles, he remarked 4 As for yoa fellows, yoa ought to know better, having been brought up in the free north I mast ask the Lord what I shall do with you Whereupon the stern old man commenced praying to the Almighty, asking his aid, that he might so dispose of thcae prisoners as to best promote the free state cause, in the midst of which Judge Cunningham, after vain attempts at restraining it, buret into a fit of laughter. In a moment Brown ceasec praying, and, turning bis piercing eyes upon the offender, remarked And if yoa don't stop laughing, I shall dispose of you sir, without asking the Lord anything about it It is unnecessary to say that the honorable court re sumed its accustomed grave demeanor, and that the subsequent proceedings of John Brown'a drum head court-martial were marked with no levity, bo far as Judge Cunningham was concerned.

CATATN JOHN BUOW Correspondcncs of tho ieir iurt iriDua. Iowa, Nov. 4, 1859. Far away in Iowa, distant from he wounded pris oner, there are those who knew him well to admire him for all that was known of his career, up to the Harper's Ferry occurrence. It was my pleasure to chat with Brown many hoars while he was under my roof.

In correspondence with the JV. Y. Inde pendent, months I made him the hero of my heart, lor wnat ne naa sunerea and dared to do. While in Iowa, the flash of his eye and the boldness of his movements led many to pronounce him insane. Nothing seemed to so much excite him as an intimation that oppression aroused a spirit of revenge.

ai no BpoK. iu puuuc, mere wm no oououng nor A display of himself. The wrongs of Kansas and the atrocities of Slavery he pictured in a clear style, de claring that it was nothing to die in a good cause, a a. 1 dui an eternal uisgrace to sit stui in tne presence oi the barbarities of American slavery. Uislogio with all who were captious as to his course, was like a chain-shot argument, yet he courted no discussion, being then occupied with the safe escape of the eleven supposed chattels from Missouri.

4 said he, 4 has made me an actor, and Slavery an out law. A price is on my head, and what ia life to met An old man should have more care to end life well than to live long. Duty is the voice of God, and a man is neither worthy of a good home here, or a heaven, that is not willing to be in peril tor a good cause The loss of my family and the troubles in Kansas have shattered my constitution, and I am nothing to the world but to defend the right, and that, by God help, 1 have done, and will This, in substance, and much more, was said in reply to a wish which I expressed that he would not return to Kansas, but seek that rest and quiet with his family which his health demanded. He scouted the idea of rest while be held a 4 commission direct from God Almighty to act against He claimed to be responsible for the wise exerciso of his powers only, and not for the quality of certain acts. In taking slaves out of Missouri, he said that ha would teach those living in glass-houses not to throw stones, and they would have more than they could 1 CI i uo Keep oiavery in miwun, wunoui extending it against the will of Kansas.

The battle of Black Jack' and others, ho was free to say, he thought had scared Missouri, and that was Gen. Lane's opinion. They did not report half the number killed, which they were ashamed to do, nor will it ever be known. I could repeat much that he said which showed a wonderful sagacity, and a bold, undaunted spirit. xiis wnoie aemeanor was tnat ot a weii-orea gentleman, and bis narratives were given with childlike simplicity.

He feared nothing for, said he, Any who will try to take me and my company are cowards, and one roan in the right, ready to die, will chase a Not less than thirty guns have been discharged at me, but they only touched my nair. a man aies wnen nis urns comes, ana a man who fears is born out of It was the opinion of a physician here, a graduate of Harvard, that by bis rolling eye he was insane, and that his futare would prove it. There was, at times, a wirdncss, then a gloomy expression, noticeable and I have no doubt that he was a monomaniac, as shown by his desperate resorts. Yet what millions honor him for courage and endurance Who would not make a long iourney to dress his wounds If insane at all, it is by the wrongs of Slavery. The nation was not worthy of him.

Tyranny is relentless as the grave, and its tools want a victim. Cowardice will hang him, but humanity will stand appalled at the sacrifice of such a victim to the cruel Moloch. The cods I. 1 I 1 a 1 nave made tyrants maa, reauy ior ineir uestrucuon. The Slave Power will be brought to the judgment, and tried for almost every crime known to the race, and one 4 count' will be inviting the violence of those who deem it a sacred duty to be as Joshua, in leading out those who are in chains.

Let the trenches around the great Bastile be filled with the wounded and the slain the sooner will truth scale the fortresses and beat down the oppressors. Let the poor, bereaved, wounded old man die ia seeming ignominy! It will only bo seem in the present hour. Thousands and millions would coffin his bones, and will build him a monument imperishable as brass, and in a better age will associate his name with the faithful among the faithless found' to his convictions. i A MEMBER OF THE IOWA LEGISLATURE. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says that the negro who was one of the insurgents at Harper's Ferry, was a while since the slave of his own father, in Virginia, by whom he was emancipated, and that Newlj's wife and two children are eUll slaves..