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SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1887. TWELVE PAGES. NO. 146, IfcflS Mir Wi lift 3-. four member of Congress went np.

Not Lath at Badger Lamber Co. He oame on la advauoe of them and re- velop we fonnd that much car, had to be and there to embark In gondolas to oroas over to the other side in JOHN BROWN'S RAID. 0, Armstrong's roasted offee, 1-U. tf Use Armstrong' Yat Cake, always trh. i-M-if For tlntypeejgclto R.

Boar, Sixth and Kdmond. l-jg-X Armstrong Tat Cake, ar hem. 7-M-K Beptember M. 17. t.

SO aad OetohM 1 are the date of the Kansas City Fair. I am now prepared to mak tinrvn. pioture. R. Boar's, Bixth and Bdmoad.

Igaaee K. Bakowtaa. Teacher of Instrumeatal Masifl and Vl Culture, 1UI Faraoa itreet. Tintype pic tare, at R. Boar's, Sixth ai Bdmoad.

MS-la Bsearalag Jewelry. Hew styles in moirnlng jewelry jmt roe celved at Clarke', 417 Fllx Bemethlaa; Hew, ImDorted Berlin White Boar at the Ton Faust saloon. l-37-tf Make a not, of it: Th, Kansas Cit-r Fair open Monday, September M. Fresh Ovntora bv express dallv at Jean M. Armstrong, US Edmond street.

l-iM-BT BtrtLDnta Loans en favorable awnn Bros Fresh Oyster, by express, daily, at John M. Armstrong's, U8 Edmond street. 7-M-tf Call on W. H. Hind, the practical tia ner, at 711 Edmond, for heating aad oooking stoves.

Satisfaction guaranteed. Mr. F. GUnsrer ha removed her dress making establishment from Sixth and Jul street to 708 Bdmoad (tract, upstairs. 9-11-lw If yon want to bay a fine, Tory light ex tension top family carriage, call en W.

B. William Bon, corner Sixth aad Pate, streets. 4-t-tf A model of perfection, the light run ning New Horn, Bewing Machine. Office, southwest corner Fifth and Felix (tree is. SHU Saunders Hoase Leading Hotel, The best and largest $3 a day hotel ia th city, 401 North Third street H.J.

PHiiurs. Proprietor LadlM CaT Battoas. Over tOO style to select from. Many A est AtLaK rrvt a manwan. In iVttct nXkm at A aaw uwayaaaay fcv vi arwaa iu eeu tm twj wear Clarke's Jewelry store.

A Sohmer Bijou, the smallest grand piano ever made, and beat piano ever brought to Bt, Joseph, just arrived at that if ever another party Invades the territory of Virginia or any other slave State with similar purposes that they may be caught, and, without judge or jury, burned alive in a nre made of green fagots," On the morning of the 2nd of Deoember, almessenger from Brown came to me to my offloe in Charlestown, saying that Captain Brown wanted to see me at the jail. Though extremely busy making arrangements for the execution that day, I dropped everything and went at onoe to the jail. There, to my surprise, I learned from Brown that he wanted me to draw his will. He had been previously advised by me, that as to any real estate he had, the disposition of it would be governed by the laws of the state where it wassituated, as to which, of course, I could not advise him, but as to any personal property he possessed, he could dispose of it here in Virginia. He accordingly asked me to draw hi will.

I said to him: "Captain, yoi wield ready pen take it, ana I will dictate to you such a testament as to this personal property in Virginia as will hold good. It will be what 1 called an 'digraph being written and signed by yourself, it will need no witnesses." He replied: "Yes, but 1 am so busy now answering my correspondence of yesterday, and this being the day of my execution, I haven't time and will be obliged if you will write it." Thereupon I sat down with pen and ink to draw the will, and did draw it according to his dictation. After the body of the will had besn drawn, he made suggestions which led to drawing the codicil. It was drawn as he suggested it, and both the will and the codicil are attested by John Avis and mjself, and was probated in Jefferson eounty. This all ooonrred a short time before the officers came to take Brown out to execution.

As evidence of his coolness and firmness, while I was drawing the will he was answering letters with a cool and steady hand. I saw NO SIGNS Or TREMOR OR OIVINO AW AT in htm at all. He wrote his letters, each one of which was handed to me before it went out, while I was drawing the will, so as to get done by the time the offloers oame to take him out. When they Dually cams to take him he grasped me by the hand and thanked me in the warmest terms for the' kindness I had shown to him from the beginning down to that time. I left the jail about 10 o'clock and stood at the corner above the jail until the procession went out.

The military was drawn up, he was received out of the jail into a spring wagon, and the procession moved around the corner of the jail and out George street to the held. I saw everything from beginning to end of that morning's operation, and preceded the procession by a few minutes in getting out of the field. That whole story about his kissing a negro child as he went out of the jail is utterly and absolutely false from beginning to end. There is not a word of truth in it. Nothing of the kind occurred nothing of the son could have occurred.

He was surrounded by soldiers, and no negro could get access to him. I had a party, called my suite, of some fifteen or twenty on that day, and David H. Strother was among tile number. We were standing near the scaffold, or Immediately under it, WHIN THX DBOP FBI IX. When Brown was led forward and placed on the drop, and Campbell, the sheriff, and Avis, the jailer, had stepped back, I distinctly heard him say in a plaintive tone, "I hope they will not keep me standing here any longer than necessary." Immediately upon hearing which the signal was given to cut the rope that supported the drop, which was done, and that ended John Brown's career.

I did not hear him say "be quick," as mentioned by Captain Avis, though I have no doubt it occurred as he narrated It. At the time the order was given to cut the rope, the military bad not completed their dispositions around the scaffold, but I promptly determined that Brown, according to his wish, should not be kep longer in this state of painful suspense. Though very close to Brown (we had gotten there to see how he bore hi mBelf we could see nothing of tremor his hands were clinched, and he was as cool and as firm as any human being I ever saw under such circumstances. Whils the body was hanging, Strother slipped np, raised the cap from his face and took a sketch of him hanging. He said that the celebrated Maria Lydia Chiles had published that she wanted to have a portrait or llk.ness of Brown in every condition of life to bang in h.r room, and that he had taken this sketch to send her.

that "she might have him, too when he was finished If he sent it she has the best portrait of Brown ever taken. After Brown had hang some eight er ten minutes the doctors began to go upon the scaffold. Dr. Masos, the jail physician, first. He examined the body and pronounced him dead.

Same ten or fifteen physicians then went up, examined the body and concurred that he was dead. Th. body was then cut down, placed in th. coffin box prepared for it and returned to the jail. It remained here until toward th.

olose of th. afternoon, when it was sent to the dspot and transmitted to his wife and fri- nds at Harper1 Ferry to be carried North. Under the instructions of the governor, having learned that brows' ir Huyett's music store. Call and see It. Remember that yoa can save to flOl in the purchase of a ptano by calling at Huyett's, Sal Felix street, Call aad convinoed.

1 long afterward I drovs to my home, and very soon a messenger came out my house saying that there were some gentlemen down town who wanted to see me. I went in immediately and found that th four member of Congress were in the guard house. I called upon them, learned the (tat, of thing, told them that I feared their visit would a oisaereeaoie one, and arranged for their return to Harper's Ferry. We bad a carriage prepared and an escort of oavalry put them in and sent them back to Harper's Ferry, and invited them the next week alter Brown's execu tlon to oome nn and thev would be re celved with pleasure. They understood the matter fnllv.

acautesced in it. went bacx quietly to Harper' Ferry and than on their way. No visitor from the north or west oame on the train but a number of them find lnc thev could not oome on from Balti mora, abrnck across the oountry into Lou don, made their way there and got into th town on the evening before or the morning of Brown' execution. Bvery man of taem found himself in tne guard nousc, where they were kept until the executions were over, men sent aown nnaer an es cort of cavalray to Harper1 Ferry and put over tne river. TIB DAT Or BROWN'S EXE00TION, although the id dav of Deoember.

wa a mild, britrht day. There wa no disturb ance and everything went of in the most satisfactory manner. As Derore remaned, the body was sent off quietly to Harper's rerry, and tans tne an air oi nis execu tion was ended. Gov. Wise's term of service ended on the 1st day of January, 1860.

John Letcher came in as his successor as gov ernor of Virginia on that day. noon after the inauguration of Gov. Letcher, there remaining two prisoners untried and not disposed of, he came to Charlestown and inquired into the matter. Jndge ttlchard Parker had tried and oondemned the first five prisoners: but (tie remain ing two, Stephens and Hazlett, were tried by Judge Kenny of Rockingham circuit, who exchanged with Jndge Parker and were oondemned by him. Coneland was oaotured Monday about 8 o'clock, brought up to Charlestown and kent in iail.

I immediately went to see him, and learned from him certain facts that tended to confirm the suspicions that had already been termed, that it was a large organization. It may be remarked that this Copeland waa a negro, originally from North Carolina, and from my Intercourse with him I regarded him as one of the most respectable prisoners that we had. He told me that he was born in North Carolina of free parents, and when very young was taken to northern Ohio, where he was reared, and that he was educated at the Oberlin college. He was a copper-colored negro and behavad himself with as much firmness as any of them, and with far more dignity. If it had been possible to recommend a pardon for any of them, it would nave oeen tor mis man iopeiana, 1 renretted as much, not more, at seeing him executed than any other one of the party.

He had been placed with a man named Cagai as a picket at the rifle works on the Shenandoah on the night that Brown moved into Harper's Ferry. The next day, when matters became manifest, armed men in the cliffs, immediate ly aoove the rue worxs, made an attacx upon the supposed party at the works, not knowing how many were ooncealed in the shops, and the result was thev drove out these two parties. They started across the rapids of the river, our men after them. They were hailed to oome back Casai refused, and was shot and killed. This man Copeland threw up his hands, surrendered and came Dacx, meeting our men who went out to get him.

Thus he was oaptured, put into a wagon and driven to Charlestown. Those who were informed saw that there was going to be a conflict between the North and South, and the idea occurred to me, which 1 offer for what It Is worth, that if Brown and his companions in arms were spared and made the subjects of executive clemency that in- the coming war they would be found to the South ugly customers, and I have no doubt that if Brown, particularly, had survived the result of nls raid the host dangerous miutart leaders would have been found in him and aoms of his associates. Efforts were made by divers parties from the north to obtain the pardon of Brown aud other urtsonets. and I was approached by a number of gentlemen irom mat section, wno vooi np the idea that I was all potent, not only in the matter of regulating the affair connected with the raid and the trials, but in respect to the work they were engaged in. of obtaining from the governor the pardon of Brown and his fellow prisoners.

My uniform reply to them was; "I wish I oould, but tbs difficulty lies here: If Brown and his companions bad succeeded in leading off any considerable number of osr slares to join him in tbs Insurrection, Instead of having six or seven prisoners to deal with and to punish according to their acta, we would have had a wholesale dealing with our poor slaves, which it is horrible to contemplate." We believed and knew, as we thougut then and still think, that he could not seduce our slaves. It may be here remarked that, so far as I knew or learned from any quarter, not a single one of the slave In the county of Jefferson or in Maryland, adjacent, ever did join him id his raid, except by ooercion, and then they escaped as soon a they could and went back to their homes. brown's forces. There ha been great apprehension ln regard to the force with which Brown made his raid. Many, and perhaps the generality of the community, supposed and believed that he had made the raid with only twenty-two men to support That was the number ascertained to be at Harper's Ferry that Sunday night of the lain of October, all of whom, a before remarked, were cither killed or captured, or, with oae or two exception, escaped.

A toon a I wa brought in contact with the affair, the idea aeemed to me to utterly absurd that he should attempt such an untertaking a that, with such a sasall party. I am perfectly satisfied that did aot, and will prooeed to state tae grounds upon which that belief and conviction ia founded. Ia the first place, Mr. Daagerteld, who wa on of his prisoner, en the morning of the 17th of October, state, distinctly that Brown told him that before 11 olock that day he expeeted LMO reinforcements. The eeond particular to which I will call roar attention ia thi: When the alarm reached Charlestown, between aad o'clock Monday morning, a company called the "Jeffenoa Guards," with th aid of a largo Bomber of volunteers, were immediately aaeem-bled aad armed, and prepared for going dowa to Harper rerry.

xaey marched oat to tbe depot, after gauerisg up all tn ammaaiuon at nana eaa wading up their guas, slx.y or caveaty ia BBiuber, availing the traia of ear coming from Wlacb.tr that moraiag. which reached her about o'otoek. A. ar-reaged, whea the oar earn the a. ace-ger.

were to firmed of the state of thisrs at Harper' Ferry, and that they eoold not go oa. They were immediately earned eff of the ears, aad the treme pat oa. Tbe cagiaeer wa directed tci raa down to Halltowm, tbar anil! betow Cbarleetowc, to dieembark those troop at that potat, and tnaedialy to raa ale traia aeo to taoaeotor to ge whatever troop aoald be gotaen ready there all of which waa carried oat. The eompcey dUembark.4 at Halltowm, aad were dirnd to march over the "Scawvtl hrram bill" to A eroea raK tlh a wn t- p- a it a Dorted theae fact to me. He waa a aren tie man whose word could be relied upon with the most implicit faith, and I eould doubt no longer that their olan was about being carried out.

I thereupon sent a party of troop to tfenwooa to waion mat point, another oarty to Piedmont, and di rected in regard to the operation at Piedmont this plan particularly. All this had to DC Dept proiounaiy secret, mere was a person stationed at th hotel in front of which the train drew up, with instruction that it he an armed party on board th cars oomtng in, he wa to give a aiirnal to one or two oi tne rauroaa men stationed a oouole of hundred yard be low, and npon the signal being given the rails were to be noieieo np so mat me train oould not pas, and those engaged In doing that were then to move on and break up the road below so as te stop mem. How the Dlan worked may De seen from this incident that occurred. La'e at night the train from the West drew up at Piedmont and the party stationed on th platform in front of tie hotel saw their arms glittering from the lights and wa lust about to live th sigaal to the men below to tear np the road, when fortunately a bead was thrust out or tne oar ana it was discovered that it wa a company coming in irom Wheeling to unariestown. Accordingly the roac wa not torn np, but they were landed at Duffield' and marched to Charlestown.

As further illustrating the machinations that were being carried on, the object of which was THE RESCUE OF BROWN, and the other prisoners. I received one day, when engaged in the trial of one of the prisoners, a letter dated in Ohio that was written partly in red ink and breathed threats of what they would do with us if we harmed a hair of Brown's head, and I was just about laying it aside as a sensational letter when-one line attracted my attention. That waa this: "When Day returns from Missouri we will be prepared to move on Frankfort and Versailles." I recollected seeing an account In the papers of a man named Day was operating with the slaves in Ken tucky, and consequently laid the letter aside, aud immediately afterward directed a brief letter to each of the mayors. I knew that there was an arsenal at Frankfort, and in my letter I gave this line of the letter: "As soon as Day returns from Missouri, we will be prepared to move en Frankfort and Versailles." A day or two afterward, while engaged in the trials in court, I received two telegrams, one from the mayor of Frankfort and the other from the mayor of Versailles, each simply asking, "Did you address a letter to me of such a datel" All I could do was with my pencil to say, 'I did. Andrew Hunter." Thereupon a few days after oame communications from each of those mavora thankinr me for giving them the information and asaing me to give them a complete copy of the letter, which I had made and sent to them accordingly.

They subsequently informed me By letter tnat tnere was sucn a movement on foot, and by tne informa tion I had given them they were enabled to check it. A couple of weeks afterward saava nonce taien irom a papefthat this man Day had made his appearance in Kentucky; hi purposes were discovered, and he was arrested and lynched. Perhaps here is as proper a place to mention it as anywheae else that in brown's capet-baq were maps of nearly all the Southern States, and where the slave population was dense there were double cross marks madn, but where not so dense they were single. I received a number of communications from gentlemen in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana, re- ternng to those maps and astlng lor information as te the marks on them, which I gave them as fast as I oould. It shewed plainly that Brown and his party were operating in all those quarters by their emissaries.

Those maps are now in the library in Richmond, if they have been preserved. I am strongly impressed with the idea that Brown explained to me about those maps, though not entirely positive about it. A few days before Brown's execution troops were posted, besides 1,500 that were in aud about Charlestown, at Harper's Ferry, at Martlnsburg, at Smith-field, at Hancock and at Piedmont. Borne two or three days before Brown's execution I received a letter from John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore Ohio railroad, informing me that application had been made to his company for conveyance from Baltimore to Charlestown of IB, 000 men to witness the execution coming from the north.

I immediately wrote aim in reoly that they could not oome; that although the judge had ordered the execution to be public, anything like such a number of men from the north coming In here and mingling with our people on that day was utterly inadmissible, and suggested to him to come up1 to Harper's Ferry and meet me there to arrange the matter. He did oome up, accompanied by the president of the Baltimore, Wilmington ft Philadelphia road and also by the president of the road from Philadelphia to New York. I went down to Harper's Ferry to meet them, and at once explained the stats of affair and the utter inadmissibility of any such crowd coming in on the day of execution, but said to Mr. Garrett that he might permit COO men to come over his road from Baltimore to Harper' Ferry, provided each one of tb.m bad a permit signed by himself or by his secretarj Mr. Atkinson, whose signature I knew very well; and be might permit 500 to come from the west, provided they had permits signed by the agent at Wheeling, whose signature was also familiar to me.

They would be received and conducted to Charlestown to witness the execution. It was well enough to let them anderatand, however, that on the day of executing they would all put together on the field, and be under the bearing of four pieoss of artillery aad 1,600 muskets, and if there waa any disturbaaoe among them, they would suffer. One of the gentlemen at once remarked, "I dont think they will oome oa those term." "Well." said "their room is more acceptable than their company." We eon-f erred about how to prevent their itinis thb cab aad eomlng up. I told them in refcrenoc to that they would find on the day before Brown' execution two cannon placed at the end of th bridge on th Virginia side, aad no train would be permitted to oome over anttl the permits of all the paasaa- Krs to oome to Chariectowa aad witaes execution were examined. I recollect oae of tboe, presidents, when wc were conferring about their seising the trails, taking possecsioa of them and eomlng up in spite of all, said: "Mr.

Hunter, If toey do seise the train tocos ap wc will giva direction to the engineer to ran the traia dowa the first embaakmoat they come to aad stop tbces ia tnat way." I taaaked them for their kiodoesa and their co-operation with aad they went back. 1 Sat day Mr. Alex. Botoler, ear representative, bad fourteen member of Coa-greee from Ohio at the Ferry, who wasted to com ap to Caarlcctowa aad wttoMa the execvioa. He aaw me and aid: "There is Mr.

enter, he eaa iatroduce yoa aad take care of yea ia gniag ap there." I wa tatrodoeed to these, told thosa Che tt of tfaiac that nJetod ap there aad ratbejr iaoeara4 tfcoas (mat atom pong to go. "But here ia Mr. Bototer, yoer hrctaew member ef 0-thi: voa eaa ro as aader hi aslos aad will be au-4 So if yoa I in tut. I taken to see that these prisoner did not esoape. We very soon disoover.d that sown' missajubs were swarming In th oounty.

mingling with our people In Charlestown. ana sometime having lnteroouse with Brown through the windows of the jaH. Fire were being lighted up all over the oounty and barns burned, until night after night and sometime in day there was a oonnagratioa somewhere around Charlestown. This state of things nowea mat we were entirely insecure, although we had more than a thousand troops posted in the town and the villages around the town. The country tan tieme came to town and informs us of what was going on in the oountry, and the oonssquenoe was that I had to devise a piaa lor putting an eaa to tnis state or thinra.

There was an old law in Virninla. the "patrol law," which authorized the establishment of a patrol by order of the magistrate in every precinct of the oounty. It was originally designed er a very different but I availed myself of it, at onoe got tne magistrate cogeuer and got taem te appoint a patrol, a moanted patrol, in th. different part of tne oounty, witn instructions to arrest every man that they found inl the oounty who could not give a sponsor or one of our citizens to indorse him and account for his presenoe. In a few days all the spare rooms in the jail were full of parties of this description.

I daily went to the jail and conferred with them (many of them were gentlemen), explained to them the condition of affairs and the necessity of our taking this rigorous step, and wbensver they gave anything like a reasonable explanation why they were in the county I sent them at once to Harper's Ferry under an escort of cavalry, witn the request that they ka.p on the other side of the Potomac until after the executions were over. The ost of them accepted mv offer, and thuo the county was quieted and the burning ceased. Some few, I think foar or five in number, claimed their right to go where they pl.ased and remained in jail. These we took care of until after the execution, and then ssnt them away. The necessity oi tnis proceeding may do seen irom Tan roLLOwiiro incidents: One day I bad gone into town and one of the military companies had marched out on my hill and was drilling.

I was busily engaged when an alarm came that something was going wrong out my way, and I immediately moved out. I saw a smoke and flames arising from Mrs. Tate's, and this company marching back into town. I told them that was right-to march back to the jail. They had detached very properly a party to assist iu putting out the fire, which they din, and returned to town.

On that day two or three fellows were seen fleeing down "Cat-tail-Kun" from the direction of Mrs. Tate's. The Sunday evening before the execution of Brown', I was quietly resting at my home in the eastern suburbs of Charlestown, when a great clamor and hurrah was raised down in the town and the olat-ter of hares' feet was heard coming up the street, eastward toward Harper's Ferry. I spraDg up and seized my rifle (one of John Brown's), my son Harry seized his rifle and we ran down to th fence, but the party had gone down the turnpike. I had ooncluded that thif were the prisoners, and was just drawing my gun to shoot the horses when I saw that they had slacked speed; some persons below had stopped them and we did not shoot.

Thereupon they were brought back to the top of the hill, and I found that they were a party of drunken Harper's Ferrians that had come up into the town, got drunk, and came very near losing their lives by it. I gave them a severe lecture and sent them back home. After that there was a lina of sentinels placed around the town. We had no more trouble, no more burning, th. town was quiet, and the oounty so rar as i mow.

As justifying the assembling of so many troops at Charlestown and in the neighborhood, I deem it proper, and especially in justification of Gov. Wise, to state that very soon after the prisoners were arrested, and while the trials were progressing, I learned (and he throagh me) from Brown's intercepted corresponsence and from various other sources thatlhere were combinations being formed in various parts of the United States, chiefly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky, of armed parties for the purpose of coming on here aad releasing the prisoners. I received and I mention this case as on, that will illustrate the others, a letter from a gentleman of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, well written and in an excellent handwriting, informing me that there was a party of upward of seventy men who were armed and drilling, and who wore a particular badge, for the purpose of moving down along the mountains, crossing the river at Hanoock and coming into Virginia. 1 immediately sent a party of military to Morgan county, opposite Hanoock, to be prepared for them. The policy that I adopted was to prevent those incursions rather than resist them.

I knew nothing of this gentleman, whose letter informed me how he had obtained his Information; that he had gone among them and learned all their secrets, but being utterly opposed to such doings, he deemed it his duty to make the communication he had. to me. He said in his letter that he was a member of the legislature, and was also surveyor of the oounty in which he resided. Upon examining bis letter carefully I became satisfied that It was genuine and acted upon it. He said that if it was known that he had made this communication to me it would oost him the loss of his property if not of his life, and appealed to me to keep his name secret, which I accordingly did, and his letter is now in John Brown's carpet-bag, if it can be found.

Subsequently whan Congress met I went to Washington and got our representative to call out the representative from Huntingdon district, Pennsylvania, to the lobby. He was a Republican member. When introduced to him I told him that I had re-celrsd a letter from a gentleman of that name and fonnd it proper to inquire what wa hi standing as to character and position. The member of Congress evidently supposed that I had some business relation with him, and he promptly told me that he waa one of the moat respectable mn in th, oounty of Huntingdon; that b. waa a member of the legislature and the surveyor of the eonnty, and that I could rely upon every word that he said.

In addition to this I soua reoeived intelligence that there was a large party being oaoAjnxEB roa saw rvaoss, at er ia the neighborhood of Oberlin, O. Gov. Wise sent detective up to ae here, to be employed a 1 deemed proper witn regard to thee, movement. I sent one of them to Oberlin, wbo joined the party there, slept oae night in the fame bed with Joha Brown. Jr, and reported to me their doings out aad out.

Their plan was to move down singly or in small to Bellair, in Ohio, there to rendivoo, and when th, train cam, down to Ben-1 wood, opposite to Bell air, to go over (the river wa then passed by a steamboat that carried the passengers from the Ohio river to Boawood), to seise the train aad plaee a asaa oa the engine (they having prwrtowly sent other ahead to cat the wires); Uproessd rapidly, aaakiag the agineer ran th, traia without stopping until tbey Dvflleld' depot, aad Ibea to disembark aad march oa Charles-town. Strang a it asay ssea. tare wa a grstlemaa of the county of Jeffnaoa, Mr. Smith Craoe, wbe was at Boii.fr oa wt ia tc the Wf gondola or other boat, and tak th towpath, of th, Chesapeake te Ohio ianai ana so marca sows an ttl they got to th, Maryland month of the bridge, at Harper' Ferrr. which thev were to seal ud so that none of th partie, engaged over at Harper' Ferry oould escape, and to hold that position until aid came to them.

It wa sealed ud on th, Maryland aide, and a part of the company earn, oyer and ealed it on the Virginia side That nartv. marohinr down th, tow- Kith, beyond question, waa th party at Brown and Btephens observed, and that lead Brown to suppose that they wer, HI co kin a rsixwDS, and to order Btephens to go out and to find whether they were or not went out, round they war, not menas, ana got snot. Th, next particular, a may be ob served, wa thi: Brown had rented a mall farm, I think, aboat three mile from Harner' Ferrr. in a seauas tared region, in an angle between the mountain and in. river, on me aiaryianu aid.

From that point he had been operating all summer, receiving noxes ana venous other all under the pretext that they were prospecting for ores. When he sent Cooke with a party to seize Louis Washington and John H. Alstadt, he gathered np their negroes, got their wagons and hitched np their horses to them, both at Washington's and AUtadt's bringing Washington and Alstadt as well as all the male slave they could find as prisoners. When they got to the Ferry they sent those wagon oyer the bridge (that was Sunday night), up the road on the other side, to this farmhouse, and before morning those wagon had brought down to the school house, immediately oa the canal, about a mile aboye Harper's Ferry, MO Sharpe's rifle, in boxes. 800 Dlstols and aboat 1NX) Dikes.

whloh they deposited in this schoolhouse. Th rifles were prepared with ammunition and accounterments, and everything ready, that anyone gathered in to join the Dartv had nothing to do but to Pickup one of them, and he was armed fully and effectually. So far as oould be discovered in regard to tne Btiarpe-a rines, pixes ana pistols, they were left at the schoolhouse, and after the raid had been defeated and broken up we found them there, got them and Drought them over. We very soon became convinced that there was a large number of Brown's followers and emissaries lurking in that angle of the mountain be the river and the mountain road, ready to march down, and those that were not armed were to obtain these arms, and oome over and join Brown. Here it may be remarked that at that time it was a matter of observation Ibat there was an unusually large number of men strangers moving about in Jefferson, and also on the other side of the river during that whole summer.

The consequence is, that I believe there is strong ground for the Del let mat tnat marcn or tne "Charlestown Jefferson Guards," a they were called, disconoerted the whole plan and broke It up, and that those emissaries, looking on from th hights above tbem saw what wa going on. aud therefore did not oome forward. Bearing upon this noint mention a one of the fitotadiaolosed in the testimony by Louis Washington, on the trials of the prisoners, that Brown told him early in the morning that BE WOULD BE LAB GILT REINFORCED, not only by the negroes whom he had In custody, and for whom he intended those pikes, but by mea in sufficient number, fully armed, to carry- out hi purpose of setting up a new government for Virinnia and the South and emancipating the slaves. Fred Doug lass was iub neiguuoruuou, as ue informed me and has since published, but knowing more about the slaves than Brown did he says that he aiirlfed Brown not to make the attempt, that the slaves would not loin mm, tnat ne oouia not ae- i ivuu vii wrui. ft ,11 1 11 UC1 LUI IU4 these facts before me, I am justified in the opinion I have advanoed.

The last question tnat seems to present Itself te me in connection with this affair of the John Brown raid is: How far it foreshadowed the terrible conflict of arms between the North and the South, which so soon followed I la the early stage of the Brown raid never dreamed of such a thing. We had known that the doctrine was preached in parts of the country that there was an irrepressible oonfliot brewing between the North and South lpon this subjeot of negro slavery. From facts disclosed in tbe trials, from the Intercepted correspondence of Brown and hi followers, and from other eon roe a new view of the case was opened to us la respect to the political significance of this movement of John Brown, we began alowly to ee that mil It tneknt waa nnt nn the anr- face. My views were from time to time conveyed to Gov. Wise, and before the trial were over, both he aud I became convinced that thi Brown raid wa the beginning of a great oonfliot between the North and the South on the subject of slavery.

This furnishes an additional explanation of the reason Gov. Wise assembled so large a military volunteer force at Charlestown and at the neighboring points. It was not alone for the protection of the iail and the repelling of parties who were Known to organizing with th view of rescuing Brown and the prisoners, but it was for the purpose of preparing lor coming event. Old pill boxes are spread over th land by th thousands after having been emptied by suffering humanity. What a mass of sickening, disgusting medicine tne poor stomaoa na to ooaiaaa wiia.

with Too much itrong medieUe. Prickly Ash Bitter is rapidly aad surely taking the place of all this elaM of drag and in curing all th ill arising from a disordered condition or in, liver, xiu neya, tomash and newels. Th, Bijou Grand Piano, mad, by Soh- m.r dt 1 only fir. feet one Inch long, and in volume and beauty of tone equal to a fall grand. It la simply wonderful.

All lovers of mnsle ar, requested to call at Huyett's to so, It Traah F. Bndebrock la th only tmk maaa-taetorer ia the city, bat will compete with maanfactnrar. la other eltlec He earrie a large Use of crank, vsllsse, aravalinf bags, satchsls. poeket-booka, pane, etc Horthweat Nrtar of Third and Felix streets, Bt. Jeoepa.

Mo. I-M-l Aa OM-TtaBer to ike A mea that yoa eaa rely on hi word, acts aad work whloh be guarantee to make good aad giv Ure saUsfaetioa. lUrereaee is her, made to th, wall known aad old reliable kora shoer, a. T. Craig, who, aa the et side of Smtt street, between 1 Bdmoad aad Char lee, where he give hia eeUrs time aad ajadivtded attoatto to hi trade, aad ipeoial atteatkM to hoctaf raedcter aad all tight ahootag.

Treats all iisaaaee ef the twt aad aelcteacie gait aad geareatea work aad prtaee. If yoa wish a cak to hi a. yoa eaa al telephone lea, aad ye, will always aad aim at hi shop. T. Bv Knaraber as.

T. Craig. Met aid of IWvaath street, liwcsa mnni asd CtMl, hire, foreman, twt r. M'li e- --M lateresttafr Remlnlsoenoea Written by the Lawyer Wbo Proseouted Him. Inoidentoof His TrleJ HIb Oonvio-tlon, Sentenoe and Execution.

Bl Pufom a. OMlmd Them The IGffeot ef tie Raid pa Sentiment. The Hew Orleans pub-llshe an Interesting letter from Andr.w Hunter, the gentleman who, as prosecuting attorney, conducted the trial of John Brawn, from which we quote extensively, a follows: When Brown wai first brought out fore the examining coort he openly proclaimed that he DID HOT WAIT ART TRIAL, that he had acted with his eyes open and Tentured upon his expedition, and thus "rested his fortunes upon the cut of a die and had lost, and he was ready to stand by the consequenoes," statin? openly and boldly that he oame here for the purpose of patting arms in the hands of the slaves, and to incite them against their masters and families, to whatever extent might be necessary to establish their freedom. When Brown's trial first began he had no counsel appearing for him, and thereupon, be acquiescing, Thomas C. Green, now jndge of the supreme ooartof appeals of Virginia, and Lawson Botts, a practitioner of the Jeffsrson bar, were appointed his counsel, and appeared as Buch.

On Saturday morning, the trial having been going on the day before, certain oounsel appeared for Brown from Boston. Immediately after their appearance and conference with him his whole course changed. Dp to that time he was for harrying np the trial and having done with it. On Saturday when the hour for recess arrived he was conducted baek to jail, and when the court reassembled after dinner, the word came from the jail that Brown was too sick to appear that evening. I suspeoted the ruse and at once suggested to the court to have the jail physician summoned to examine whether be was too sick, and to report.

This was done and tne physician, who was Or. Mason, promptly reported that he was not too sick and that be was feigning. On my motion the court directed him to be brought into court on a cot. lie was laid on the cot and conducted through the line of soldiers into the court house and placed (still on the cot) in the bar with one of his lawyers at his head fanning him. The trial went on to a certain extent, but every effort was made to protract it.

I resisted it, but at last, late in the evening, the judge called me up and said he thought we had better agree, to avoid all further cavil at our proceedings, to let the case be adjourned over until Monday, which was done. Brown did not require to be carried to jail that evening; he walked- back. After the adjournment was procured, he was well enough to walk. On Monday we resumed the trial and the case was ended by his conviction that night. It is proper to remark here that Mr.

Brown, soon after his capture at Harper's Ferry, had declared to Gov. Wise and myself the same thing in reference to his purpose that he proclaimed before the examining court. He was not sentenced by the judge until after the court of appeals at Richmond had acted upon his application for a supersedeas and re-fasedit: he was then brought out and received nls sentence by Judge Parker. When called upon and asked whether he had anything to say why sentence should not be executed according to the verdict of the jury, he rose and made a formal and evidently well considered speech, in which, to my great surprise, he declared that his purpose in coming here was not to arm the slaves against their masters and Incite an Insurrection, but it was simply to do on a larger scale what he had done in Kansas; to run them off, so as to secure their freedom, into the free states. The speech was evidently a well considered one and was slowly and deliberately delivered.

At the close of it sentence was pronounced, and he was remanded to jail. The speech was published immediately afterward in many papers. Gov. Wise came on to Charlestown not long after it made its appearance, and mentioned to me his great surprise to have read such a sDeech oomini from Capt. Brown, and thereupon he went to the jail to visit Brown.

I was not with him. but learned from him immediately afterward what had occurred, in mat interview ne Bad TAXSD BBOWW WITH HIS INCONSISTENCY in having made the declarations that he had before us at Harper's Ferry, and also before the examining court and in his speech thus published. He informed me that Brown had excused himself by saying that he was unexpectedly brought out to reoeive his sentence, and that when he delivered that speech he was confused and taken by sirprise, and that the truth of the matter was, he adhered to the original declaration that he had made to as at Harper's Ferrr and before the ex amining oourt. The governor reported IMS to me ana i una mm is. circum-stanoes under which the speeoh had been made by Brown, that It was deliberate, cool and evidently prepared beforehand.

ATter he had left, probably th. day after, Brown wrote me a note frvm the jail and asked me to call and see him, which I promptly did. He then gave me an account of the interview that he had Mad with Gov. Wise, corresponding substantially with what Wise had told me, and asking me as a favor that I "would vindicate his memory and his (his being not many days before hi. execution, and adhering in the meet distinct terms to his original purpose.

I at onoe tore him that ail he had to do in. order to bring him back to the same point that he had declared previously, was for him to write me a note stating exactly where fee stood aad I would publish It in one of the local pa- Cirs, which was done. Immediately his Iter to me. published in the local papers, was published all over the United States, and thus the matter remained until he was executed. At that time I took the New York 06-eereer, but had little time to read the newspapers.

A few day after Brown's execution I saw a paragraph in that paper in which my name occarred. I thereupon examined it carefully and found that it was a paragraph extracted by the Observer, from the Hartford Owa(, of Connecticut, in which th editor remarked that "heretofore we bav believed that Brown' purpose In going to Virginia was merely to stampede the slave, bat now nave seen hi letter, addressed to Andrew Hunter, aad lean his ml purpose. have heretofore thoorht tnat Mr. Hauler aad the Virginia eutboritiee were dealing aarvhly wit bias ia proeeoattag kiss for a capital effeeoe, while hi ub- pvmfi offense wa merely paatahahl by fmprisoaaeat is the paaiteflttery. Be baa now vrwd kis pwrpoe to have bn ae4 we now st that i'r.

K.ntw n4 -r i ao. j-M'i-n -v 5 i vr. rwar, Offloe, Ho. MS Francis tercet, Residence, No. 1136 Henry street, -V Offloe telephone, 467.

Special attention given Burgery aal1 disease of women. l-l-4za Th St. Jop gaeaaker Oard.a, South Eighth street, on, block from new custom house, Lout Btrleokebeln, proprietor, 1 now open tor th, seasea. Grand oonoert every Wednesday aad Saturday evenings by Prof. Winkler's band.

WtadHi Btable. The, stable bar been entirely renovated and newly rebuilt and offer the beat facilitie of any atabl In th cily. Daniel Ransom, proprietor, 110 and US Boats Sixth street. 7-10-tt SbjmI, Bud, goad. Clean, coarse, sharp Missouri river channel and, furnished in anliralted kind of work by the St Joeeph Barge aad Dredge company.

Offioe, 408 Felix street. Telephone No. 6s. d-l-tt Lath at Badger Lamber C. Oar Own ImporCatlen.

have Just reoeived aa Import order of orsaA glassks, mad, expressly for a. It th large.t and finest Una bav, ever before shown. believe we 9r them at lower price than other Wc ask your inspection and comparison E. H. CLAaxa, Sign Street Clock.

Shingle at Badger Lamber Co. PlaaeeFwrAU. A LLBIRAI. OriUU Any penea can bay a strictly rehabte Piano of us on th, very easy term f26 down and flO per month. latere charged.

Com and as as. T. t. Wasstscbji, 1-d-ly Corner Sixth and Felix street. Dry lamber at Badger Lamber Co.

John Ecnmair, dealer la clocks and all klads of jewelry, ha new oa band oae of thc-fineo atoeka of gee da ia the city. Dont all to cell aad as, Mr. E.nmuir, at 711 Felix street, wall ta the eity. t. t-d-aw Moulding at Badger Lamber C.

Mlagel Btlsnel BTtagsl Five haadred new ring to cpeaed at Ct-aBJU' JswauT BroaaV AH aew style. By tar the largeet aad most var-kd aawortmoat to be foaad la tac eity. Call aad ask to see them. It i apleasmr, to show goods. 417 Felix (erect, betweeai Fowth and Fifth re.

Teleweoac X. 7, Badger Lamber On, have isuerv.d a atook ef carriage aad Bwgfte at car aaw repository. a to corner of Sixth aad Patee Bav mg long experteaae la tar eerrtage bear-aeea. eaa offer good tailui.ia.uta ta raallty and prtoaa. Wt m4 BUewd I aaderenld.

Ptee. all aad ee a at th Borthsart corner Bixth aad Pete, atreoto. -ft-tf W.B. WtUXAMl It torn. Balagla at Badger Lamber eempaay.

Ta Cfcaao. Reek Island dt Partae railway ta raaalag throacn ale. per aad frc reetlalag hr ear aslwssatalaetty aad Cnioago daily, Waving Catoa evpot at 1:1 p. bv, th ctoAeawnt anade Vy ear optor.aot-lLhtaadiag. Per ticket ar caber Information call on er addrees.

Jsasv BctxrVA, TVrt A rant, Fft (rek was ia Philadelphia, I said to Brown that if a. desired her to oome on to see him, to let me know and I would have her sent for and conducted In safety from Harper's F.rry up to see him in iail. Somewhat to my surprise he declined permitting her or any of his family to oome. She n.v.r did come until the afternoon before the Then she was eaoorted up from Harper's Ferry in a carriage by a number of Ashby's cavalry, spent two or three hours at th, jail, and then, according to Ue governor' Instructions, she was sent under the same escort back to Harper's F.rrv, and told that the next Brawn's body would be delivered to her then. Th.

only time that I witnessed any exhibition of temper on the part of Brown was la the Interview we had about Mrs. Brown. Gen. Talliaferro told me that his Instructions were to end her back that night. Be showed a good deal ef temper, a he wanUd her to remain all night.

It was determined otherwise, aad when I explained to Brown fully the reaMa ef it ne agala aoqaieaeed and took leave of her after she had eaten her sup- Sir with th, family of the Jailor, Avis, h. was treated taroaghout with the most marked respect. As to the doings aad events that occurred between the time of arrest ef Brown aad his fellow-prisoners and his execs-Hon, aad the executions of the other four, on the loth of Deoember, 19, great injustice haa been done to Gov. wise and myself. Gov.

Wise has been severely criticised for assembling at Charlestown aad the points in lb, neighborhood so large a military force to take care ef and brine to justice but seven prisoners. All ef Brown' twenty-two men, believed to be the whole number that be had hrontbt from the Maryland (id over to Harper' Ferry, werw aeoosated for by being killed dorug th fighting Monday, or eap-tared and ia jail, with one or tw, (apposed to safe, gotten eff. as it afterward taraed oat thus war, only Cook, aad HeaWtt. Brown, Copta, 6r, Cook, aal Orpo-lasd wwr, tried at the October term. S'r-W vaa reserved and tu net tried eii the xt February, whn Ki: t.

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