The New York Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1859, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 8498. MORNING EDITION—MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1859, THE “IMPENDING CRISIS.” | HE BURIAL OF JOHN BROWN. APPROAHING EXECUTION OF HIS COMRADES, The Efforts to Obtain a Pardon for Cook. MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA, Sermons of Rev. Dr. Mattison and Rev. George F. Noyes, &., &e., &. THE BURIAL OF JOHN BROWN. Incitenta Along the Route of the Procession— Obsequies at North Elba—The Scene at the Grave—Oration of Rev. J. M. McKim—Interest- ing Letter from Edwia Coppie—John Brown's Last Epistle to His Wife—Eulogy by Wendell Phillips, &c., &. ‘The burial of John Brown, which took place at North Elba, Essex county, N. Y., on Thursday, proved an interesting event. The corpse, it will be recollected, Jeft this city on Monday morning last en roude for tho grave, in charge of Mrs, Brown, the Rev. Mr. McKim and Wendell Phillips, and arrived at Troy about one o'clock the same afternoon. There’‘a large crowd gathered around the coffin, and much sympathy was expressed for the be- reaved widow. The directors of the railroad gave the party a free pass, and’provided for their B0COMMO Yatlon at the American House, where the <ie¢sisog was b the habit of stopping Waen Passing through the ‘city. The Prvorietot of the hotel showed Mrs. Brown “4 autograph of bet deceased husband, for whica ne had been olfered $5 by a gentloman who Ptdmised to place itin a $10 frame. It was here, also, tat Oliver Brown last parted with his wife previous to his Journey to Harper’s Ferry in company with his father. After dinner the party tock the cars for Rutland, Vt., where they arrived in safety that evening, and lodged at the Bardwell House. The next morning they departed for ‘Vergennes, intending to cross Lake Champlain at that point, and then travet over the mountains in wagons to North Elta. At Vergennes the proprietors of the Stevens House very generousty refused to take any compensation from either Mrs. Brown or the gentlemen who accompa- nied ber. Brown, it appears, was well known in Ver- gennes, and the register at the Stevens House bore seve- ral of his autographs, None of the signatures are of re- cent date, but they are objects of special interest to the residents of the town, and highly prized. Wiren the hoar arrived for the departure of the cortege, the inha- ditants, to the number of sixty or seventy, formed in procession, and amidst the ‘olling of bolls the corpse was escorted out of the village en its ‘way to the ferry. Crossing the lake at Adams’ ferry, ‘the party arrived at Westport in time for dinner. Here also the ‘proprietor of the hotel, who was an old friend of Brown's, refused to take any compensation. The inhabi- tants insisted on bearing the expense of transperting the party to North Elba, and provided the best of every- thing for their comfort on the journey. CROSSING THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS. ‘The passage over the Adirondack mountains at this geason of the year is considered a most arduous trip» the region lying between Lake Champlain and the spot selvcted by Brown for his residence being one vast wil. derness. In order ‘to give our readers come idea of the wildness ef the country, we might mention the fact of eight deer, two panthers, thirteen sable and one wild oat having been killed there this season by a single hunter. ‘The distanoe from the lake ¢o North Elba is only abeut forty miles, yet the journey is seldom accomplished in Joss than a day and a half, so rugged and mountainous is the path. After ‘a tedious journey, the party reached Ehzabethon Tuesday night, where they halted for sleep and refreehment. The sheriffof Essex county, who was the proprietor of the hotel, received the party kindly and offered them the best his house afforded, and at his invi- tution the ithabitants formed a procession and couveyed the corpse to the Court House, where it remained all might, guarded by six youths who volunteered the task. ARRIVAL AT NORTH ELBA. On Wedzesday morning the journey was re- sumed. “The party stopped at the house of Phineas Nor- ton, an old'friend of Brown’s, for rest and dinner, and then pushed on to North Elba, where they arrived about five o'clovk:thatevening. The meeting between Mrs, Brown and the ewrviving members of the famnty was not charac. termed by any Joud demonstrations of grief. ‘Tears did not tlow as profusely, perhaps, as might be expected un der the ciscumstanges, but a close observer Could per- ceive that the anguish of the bousehold wes intense. Ove by one they silently embraced their mowher. First came Ruth, the eldest daugbter, who married Henry Thompson; then followed Salmon and bis sisters Anna, Sureh and Ellen, the tntter oeing only lve years old, Murtha Brown, wife of Watson Brown, who was ‘kWlea at: Harper's Ferry, was also present. The coffin was brougut inw the house and deposited inoue of the upper rooms, where it was we object of much cariosity among the neighbors who han crowded in. After tea the family sarrounded Mr. McKun, and learned from him the particulars of the late sceves at Charlestown and Harper's Ferry. The reverend guatleman testified to tae courtesy ‘of several prominent citizens iv Virginia and Maryland, and tbe sympathy that was felt for Mrs. Brown all aloug the route from Harper’s Ferry to North Elda. Ho said thatthey hed been treated with all proper respect, and made favorable mention of Mr. Garrett, Presideat of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Col. Suatt, Dr. Phelps, Capt. Lion, Col. Lee, Capt. Moore, Col. Barber and others, who vied them anaterially in their mission South. At the close of the evening the lid was raised from the coffin and the body of Old Brown was exhibited to all) present. The countenance of deceased was more natural than it ap- peared in New York, and bore a placid aud serene exprescion, Av hour or so wag then spent in con- ‘vereation, and the bousebold retired forthe night. PREFARATIONS FOR THR FUNERAL. Thersday morning dawned bright and clear. The sun shone brilliantly, and reflected with dazzling effect upoa the enow-clad peaks of Mount Marcy andthe Keene Mounteons. The thermometer was down to zero, it is trne, bat no oneceemed to feel the cold, #0 deep was the interest in the ceremony that was about to be serformed. Jeubel Brown, wite of Watson Brown, with her babe five months old, arrived in the course of the morning, a8 also Roswell Thompson and wife, parents of William Thomp- son, who fell. at Harper’s Ferry. Later in the day the Rev. Mr. Young, of Burlington, arrived, having ridden all ight over the mountains for the purpose of being pre- rept at the interment. About tea O'clock the neighbors, to the number of two hundred and fifty, perhaps, com- meneed & aseemble, aud it was decided that the proces- sion should start trom the house at twelve o'clock, DIGGING THE GRAVE. About twenty yardecust of the house stands @ large rock about eightfect high and oval-hke in shape. At the base of this boulder che neighbors dug a grave six fect deep. The work occuyed conriderable time, in cousequence of the frozen state of the earth, but at noon all was in readiness receive the remains. TAKING A LAST FAREWELL OF THR CORPSE. r At welve.o’clock the house was tilled to its utmost capecity withthe friends end relatives of the deceased, An hour or so.was spent by.the assemblage in taking @ last farewell of the body. The entire family embraced aoceaved, and ahen falling back allowed the fi come forward und view the cangse previous tw its 10 its last resting place ‘The prosession started at one o'clock, preceded by about a dozen @lored persons, singiug— “ «Ble A favorite hymn 08 « all his children to ¢ house by Six young ine the mourgers th the fo! low? ch he nsed to sity Ma was borne from J y And foRowed wo the grave by ONL On em PDs. 4 by Wendell Phitiips, her daughtor Bllen, supported by Rey. Mr. MoKina, ye the ee b's whi Mpa. Brown, supyor Mra. Oliver Browa au Rey Mr. Young, fe Ruth, i Sattioa Brown, bie wi itd, Roswell Thecpsan ard wite, Friewdia of and neighbors. Arriving af the grave, the Row, Mr. Young offeret up a very impressive prayer. THE FERAL ORATION, Mr. MoKim, io pronouncing the fanerat oration, said that weras were ut inadequate to the occasion, ‘These mountain peaks, this weeping group, the body of the martyr for liberty what coatd be added to theie ol we And it was due to these stricken boarks th say soreetbing in honor of the hero whose majes were about to dG jaid in the dust—sumarbing qomiort those Whose hearthatone bad been left desolay Heo bad not known @aptain Brown in iite—had never looked upon bis face till it was cold in death; but how he | cated to several of his children who died in their | to assert their right to freedom? Wa honered, admired and loved him, in view of the deve- lopements of the last few weeks, words could not tell He felt it the highest honor of his life to take part in the burial of one so noble. He alluded tothe tributes paid to the bravery and ity of Captain Browa, even ‘by those who had treated him asa criminal, and also the respect manifested for Mrs. Brown during her sad and solemn journey to Virginia, to receive his remains. More than one Virginian seught to comfort her by paying ‘a tribute to bis bravery and consistency. A blunt militia officer said in ber hearing, “Pll tell you what my opinion is of Brown; be’s ove of kind of men that God does not put many of above ground.’ Another officer, tho- roughly pro-siavery in his sentiments aud feol- ings, bad begged for some memento—his auto- graph, or some other relic, however trifling. Mr. McKim then spoke ot the last incidents before the execution, and described the muavly and noble bearing of the old hero a he was led forth to die, and as he stood upon the scaffold, He would attempt nothing as a tribute to John Brown. The facts of his life and ot bis bearing in the face of death were his beet eulogy. He sympathized most profoundly with the bereaved widow and children, and felt it a privi- lege to mingle his tears with theirs. Joho Brown and the sone and sou-ia-iaw who, with him, had sacrificed their lives in an effort to break the chains of the enslaved, were all benefactors, ali martyrs in the sacred cause. Their lives bad not been spent in vain, and the world would ye acknow pigs itwelf their debtor. ‘Their memory woula be embalmed in history. Mr. McKim also spoke tenderly o those who are yot in prison, and read the following touch ing letter from Coppie, brought to Mrs. Brown at rs Ferry, wy the officer who accompanied her busband’s body to that place:— Cuariestown Jatt, Va., Nov., 1850. Mas. Joun Browx— Dear Mapam—I was very sorry that your racnest to eee the rest of the prisoners was not comp'ied with. Mra. Avis brought me a book, w! ea are full of truth and beauty, ent “Voices of the True Bearted,” which she told me waa pre. vent from you. For this dear token of youll, deeply” ayeapethize? m i © Bereavement’ We i, were Marba. TI aa drotbers we aym of trial and afMiction Oliver lived but a very few momenta shotat 10 relcek =. seat al x s Orelock on W cyesday MOTD, He much writ te eg Nive as be acy e foug) ly Gor when the eneaiy were repulved, and the excivement dip z n cj 8 coat and placed Fated these facts, te 5 the bereaved wiiows they have left Give my love to Anna and Yours truly. £ 4 >. g3e8 2 Aasion, Some of Captain Brown’s friends, said Mr. Mc’ gms, seem to regard the result of the affair at Harper’® , Percy as a diraster. Disastrous it was in some ” @, but nota failure. Ithad developed the weakness, the impeoility,, of a slaveholding State, in such a way a8 must imevitably lead to emancipation. He has ‘builded better than heknew.”” He bad wielded “the gword of the spirit ‘sgainst slavery with wonderful effect. His words » Gone out to the world and were doing their work. T.hey were inspired words, needing neither alteration Fr or addition. us, with the sword of the flesh and the swerd of the spirit, John Brown -bad performed & 0' adie mission, and the bandwriting that doomed the sy' stem‘fiamed out on the wall. Mr. McKim enid that the ‘crave'ef the mai been made in the very spot selected’by himself. ‘He also read the inscription for the farriily monument, which Old Brown wrote after the last inserview with his wife, and | which was sent to her with his deed body. The inscrip- | tion was accompanied by some directions about his pro-! perty, and also by the following lettor—the last, probably, that he ever wrote>— My Dean Wirx—T bave time to enclose the within and thro above, which I forgot vesterdayy ant! to bid you another fare cy — ‘Through all the dreary night of death In peaceful slumbers: inytyon rest, Avd when eterna) day shall dawn, And shades and have past and gone, Oh, may you then, with glad sarprise, In God’s own imago wake and rise. THE HOMBSTEAD AT NORTH ELBA is built upon the tract of land purchased by Gerrit Smith for a colony of negroes, some tifteen years ago. It isa rude frame building, two stories high, and has anything but @ pretentious appearance. The farm, in point of elevation, is said to be the highest in the State; hence it is not what might be called productive land, The inhabi- tants in that part of the country just manage to live ou the product of their farms, und that is all. When Old Brown first settled at North Elba, about a dozen colored families followed him thither, and it was believed. by Gerrit Smith that a flourishing colony would grow up , instead of increasing in population or wealth,” howeve the colony bas decreased in both, and now there are pot more than half a dozen negro famitics in the place. Thy enterprise proved @ compiete failare, but Brown t OCAF 40 quite ‘aituched to the spot, and refused to leave , i His family have also resolved to make the place thy gy p.4ie home, although few can see the inducement fc ¢ BP endi c a lifetime in such a dreary wilderness. Hn SERMON BY THE REV. DR? THE OBJECT, FAILURE AND DEATH 0 BROWN, The Union church, situated at the ¢ ninth aret and Brenda, wae, cro gw ascot evening, the ccomsiia ‘being Yhe delivery of a die Course on the views, intentions and fate of John Brown’s Caort to revolutionize Virginia. The au’ {Ueae3 for the most part—v 4any of whom were doubtless gttracted by the “popularity of the theme and the ve] known ability of the preacher—consisted of Persons in the upper and Md ro fashionable ranks of s0- ciety. Lang before the Serv joes commenced the room was thro aged with an intelliger st crowd, and the utmost atten. tio 2 was paid to the wort'.s of the minister, and several T ints of the discourse ‘actually elicited a sort of subdued applause, which is rat ser an unusual thing in cases of re- \gious demonstrations, The services of tb e evening began with the singing of a hymn, after which, the Rev. H. Mattison offered up an clo- quent and impre/asive prayer. In the course of his re- marks, be pray ed that God would enable his servant not AAT’PISON. # TH'g LaTR JOnN EDWIN OC ferret | only to do ani to say what should be seid, but to say it mildly arid kindly, bi each sentence in a | spirit of ppavecly, charity, and tthe blessing of God might rest upon him to guide bie heart and bis tongue, so that nothing should be withhed that should be ‘sald, ane nothivg aid that should be withheld, and that he migtt speuk as one. who has to give anaccount. He then prayed for the, unfortunate companions of John Brown, new under semtence of death. He said that before anotuer Sabbath breaks upon the world these men would be Damished into eternity. He trusted that God would be merciful to them, and that they might be like ‘beends snatched from the bursing. He concluded his prayer by imploring the Almighty to bring about the cause + had 4 ® Universal freedom without bloodshed, contention, or wivil war. The reverend gentioman selected his text from tho fourth verse of the eleventh chapter of the Epistle of the Apostle Faul to the Hebrews:—‘He being dead, yet speaketh.” This, he said, related to the first man’ who died, and whose death grew out of a conflict between right and wrong—just as if it wereto foreshadow the great fact auested by all history, that in the mora! conflicts of this world, wrong will often be in the ascendency, while the Mell’ "Hof goat cheer and God’ Almighy blew, ners, advocates of right will, perish; and algo, as if to fore- four aifec’ OHN BROWK. Mr. McKim ¢lored with a fow words of exhortation to the family and, friends, assuring them that by their sscri- fices they hart made large contributions to the caues of freedom and, umanity, and ‘that they hed the earnest sympathy off thousands ofthe noblest and best-mea in the world. EULOGY BY WENDELL PHILLIPS. ‘Wendell, Phillips then followed and spoke as {ollows:— ‘How feelsie-all words are here. You think you have ‘known him. None of ts seem to bave k/aown him. ‘Walking serene to the scaffold, we say: what eourage! ‘Stooping to kiss that negro child, he seems all, tencerness. But he is only the centre of a group. These quiet homes sent six to that score ofheroes. How bravel y thoy died— each standing in his post till bis voice sa id “cnough.” ‘And these weeping children and widows, how blessed, since in the last throbs of the brave young hearts at Har per’s Ferry, thoughts of them mingled wit!a love for God and hope for the slave. He has abolished slavery in Vir ginia. Some may say that is too much. “Bunker Hill se vered New England from the mother covmtry. Yet men that night pitied Warren. We see him cutting the link George IN. ceased that day to rule bere. History wil date Virginia emancipation from Harpe fs Ferry. When the tempest uproot one of those pines, if may live months, but it is Umber, nota tree. John Brown has loosened the roots of slavery—it may gasp, but itis dead, He said he could take the town with twenty men, and did it. Who stopped him? Not Virginia; her be: conquered. The Union seemed to ck him. In reality God said “that work is done; yorr have proved that a slave State is only Fearin the mesh of Despotiem; now come up highest by martyrdoio—chanze a million bearts.’’ Such a hfe was no failure, Virgima stands at the world’s bur, on trial; round ber victim stand tho aposties and wartyre all, who have said “God is God,” and trampled wicked laws under their fect. Ho said, “My fathers have given their swords tw master; [ give mine to the slave.” If God is ever the Lord of Hosts, “making one man chase 2 thousaped,” surely that band comfort, guide and beep you to ‘the end.”” husband, J at Harper's Ferry may claim him es their captain. Men say, how coolly brave! “But in bim matchless courage seems the least of bu merns. Hose geutievess graced it, When the srightoned town wished to Dear off the boay of the Mayor, « i, OL will go uande> their ritles if you, Mrs Foute, knew he co them and me.” ~ He ject for woman. He f the fight, and bore off girl flung bereelf between your youvg, brave Thompson. They . The merciless bullet reached nim in spite of srayers, though the gut bad long been over. y was the Joweri ev nd daughters show how whoily ue Harper lived for bis dea, as each accepts 8o serenely his or her partin the movement—the share of toil and grief. As tne passes, history will paint that gal girt by thon- sends of armed men, guarding Virginia from her slaves, and over ugamst it that serene old man etooping to kiss wo child. Thank God for our emblem. May ‘¢ Virginia soon to blot out hers by repentance al hide it with broken fettors. We envy yon your nearer place to these noble martyr, Slavery wil not go down by force, Hearts are stronger than swords. How sud lime thet last fortnight. His words ure strouger than even hie rifles. These erusbed a Si those will yet crush slavery. God give him beter than a oldiers place— that of teacher. The ochovs of his rifles have died away among the hille—his words millions treasure. God biess this roof—make it biess us. We dare not say “Bless you chilaren of this home,’’ for you stand nuarer to ove ‘Whose lips God touched,and we bend for your blessing. God make us worthier of -bim whom we lay among these hills. Here he girded himself with more of success than he ever dreameo God gave him. He sleeps in the bless- inge of the slave. Men bedieve more in virtue since he has lived. Standing here, jet us (hank God for a firmer faith and fuller hope, The coftio was tien lowered into the grave amidst deep silence, Just as it reached the bottom of the pit, and as the first shovel of earth grated burshly on the ear, the Rev. Mr. Young lifted up ¢his voice, and, in loud, impres- Rive tones excisimed:— ‘I have fought the good fight; I have finishes my course; benceforth there is laid up for Me acrown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give we at the last ay.” ‘The work of Aig im the grave having beea performed, Mra. Brown and ber relatives slowly wended their way back to the house, but the great bulk of the crowd re- mained idly gaging on the mound for an hour or go aller all wus over. i JOHN BROWN'S EPITAPH. The first article of Old Brown’s will refers to a monu- ment at North Elba, which be bequeaths to bis son, John Brown, Jr., with ivstructions to bave his epitaph in- scribed upon it. Thie stone was erected to the memory of the deceased’s grandfather, who fell in the Revolution; but it was also intended as a monument for Oid Brown Dimeelf, as will be secn from the following extract from his will — “I give tomyaon, Jobn Brown, Jr.. wy surveying enm- para and ether surveyors’ articles,” if found; also my old favorite monument, now st Nor.h Elbe, New York, 19 re getve upen ix twoaldes a farther inscription, such an { wil bere. fer write, said stone monument, however, te remain a adow this additional fact, tbat though they will speak stil by their example, their innocency, by their principle and influence, that shall live on in the ages that follow to the cnd of time—that therefore the cause of right on earth ¢hali lose nothing by the violent death of its supporters and advocates. ‘Notas Cain, who was of that wicked oneand siew his:brother. And wherefore skew he him? Because :his own works were evil, and bis brother’s righteous.”” The reverend gentleman then pro- ceeded to explain his reasons for dealing with this subject 1 the pulpit. First of all, 1t was an occusrence of unusual public interest and-significance, and therefore worthy of some notice frota the pulpit.’ It had its distinct moral and religious agpects, aud therefore belonged to the pulpit. He owed a duty to his flock to give his views on the subject. A great many confused Statements, right and wrong, had been mude,and it was ciilieult to judge of the truth. It wasa duty to the dead, whose lips are now silent forever, and whether Le was in error or not, justice shoul be doe him. It was a duty to the cause ip which he died. 1 was a duty to our com- mon country to basten the dowufull of » slavery. He held no one responsibie for his opinions, nor did he speck to coerce or force any one toadopt them. Whatever might, however, be said, it must, be admitted that Joba brown was sincere and un- selfish, acting as.he did against what he regarded as an indescribable evil, and with the design of benefitting his fellow beings. Some say he was insane; others that he was mistaken; others, again, that he was deesived, These were all charitable opinions, however untrue they may “be. But attention ‘must be — paid to the evil against’ which be was acting and which cost him his hfe. This nation was now eignty-three years old, and boasts of being the asylum of the oppressed and the movel republic, But kere we have four miiions Of sloves, increasing at the rate ot 100,000 every year. England, France, Turkey, Portugn on Rassia, had ubolishea slavery in their dominion: we are seek: | ing to extend thé sin and to appropriate territory already consccrated to Divine liberty for the empire of slavery. He then characterized the system of slavery as being Jounded on principles 0! injustice, extortion, oppression, man stealing and robbery. Slay T parent die they of adultery, fornication and incest; it was the echool of cruelty, whumanity aud murder, Why was there such great difference between the North and the South? Why Was not the sound of the pistol heard all along the bor- ders of our lakes, and why was there no duelling nor lynching heard of here? Where, in the most barbarous part of the earth, 18 it ever beard that men are burned ? In India the suttee long prevailed, but even that is now almostaltogether abolished. Bat go to the South of this couxtry, and what do we find? Men burned alive, not for the crime of murder alone, but for such an offeuoe as striking a white mrn, He would give one or two instances from the Sonthern papers. The Natchez Free Trader last year supplied the particulars of the burning | of a man for striking a white man, It says:— The victim was chained to a tree, faggota were placed around { him while he sbowed the greatest indifference, When the chivalry hid arranged the ple. 10 reply to a question if he had anything to say, he ie reported to have warned ail staves to take example by bias. and asked the prayers of those around. He then asked ior adrink of water, and after quadling {t sald, "Now eet tire, Cam ready to goin peace.” When the flames began to burn ins, in hls agony be showed gigantic strength, Aud actuaily forced the staple from the tree and boundad from the burning aes but be instartly fell pierced with rifle bails, and then bis body was thrown into the flames and con- sumed, to show that no such hetog bad ever existed. Nearly four thoneand slaves from the neighvoring plantations were present a6 at a moral desson written in characters of hell fire. Nomerous apeeches were made by the magistrates and ters of religion (facetiously so called)-io the slaves, them that the same faic awaited them 4fthey proved to their owners. The other case was-reported by the Missouri Democrat, pe longer back ‘than in the month.of July last. In this case the man hai committed murder—go they said. ‘The negro was alripped to his waist, avd barefooted. He Joked tho picture oftteapair; but ere’wen ne aympathy felt for him at the moment “Presently the fre began to surce up in flomes around ey and its effects were scon made viable in the fnole attempts at pe poe wretch to move his feet. asthe flames at about his imbs and body be commenced the most frantic shrieks and appeats for mercy, fer death, for water. He seized his ehaing, they were hot and burned the flesh off bis hance He would drop them and catch sttbem againand again. ‘Then be would repeay his cries; but all to no purpose. Ina few moments bé was.a cherred mass, bones and flesh alike burned into a powder. Theee may be called the abuses of the system, but it could not survive such abuses as these. The children of slave owners were edueated to behold torture and fee warn! rebellions blood from infancy, and no wonder that their young minds became hardened in consequence, and they become sccustomed to the use of the bowie knife and revolver. In the State of Virginia there were no less than 600,000 slaves, and 20,000 were an- nually sold from this State to go to the rice and sugar fields of the far South. In that State alone there were 70,000 maluttoes, a fact whichapeaks alone ofthe morality of the people, whoare always the first to talk about an amal. ramation of the races. He declared slavery to be also a curse to the 81x millions of non #'aveholding whites in the Sonth, who were nothing but poor white trash, as despised and contemned by their wealthy brethren asahe slaves themselves, Slavery was also the bane of the national peace anaorder. It was the aim and view of John Brown to aur against so foulasyetem. Joha Brown wes a sta- ent of the Bible, and his last reason for believing in tho Divine authority of that blessed book was that it insisted always upon strict moral rectitude. Neither Avis, the javlor, nor Senater Mason, nor Governor Wise considered that Brown did bot believe and revere the Bible. Whether Brown had understood iho Bible right or wrong, there could be no doubt that he studied, marked and believed Xt He was emphatically a man of decds, and such in- North ¥Iba so long ax uny of my children or my wife may re main there as pesidenta.’ ‘The inscriptions that he speaks of were prepared the dny betore the execution, and are now in the possession of Mrs, Brown. Of hig own opitaph the following is an ERBEL COPY > ecoeaceroneseeee sree cece: carts ‘JOHN BROWN, BORN May @, (800; riten at Coarlestown, Vironia, Dee. 2, 1859. $ Peer Pr eae ehOO CELE BPIAITLERE PORE DORODEDODPEE PODS DORELT For utiver au’ Wateoa Brown he forwarded Ue ful- Jowmnig epitaphies PLAC CORT ILENE LE TELELOLED DIE EEOLEDIEODEDOLEOODOD DOLD $ OLIVER BROWN, ORS TSI9: N WATSON BROWN, $ 3 Wary 18805 3 3 Wak wounded at Harper's 3 $ Died Nov, 19. N DROWN A POET. Few pe are nw » berhaye, that Brown was We understand bo bas writin several pices of rdyme, The followiog linus were dedi- eotio turn of mind . cendiary passages a8 are contained in the Book of Exodus could bot fail to have their due influence upon tm, The reverend gentleman dwelt at some length on the character of Johu Brown, quoting Seplonsly from his published letters and from the reports uf the HRALD, to show that he was a troly upright aud religious man. He tien considered his object, which, he said, was never a general insurrection nor @ butchery of the masters by ihe slaves. It was simply to run off companies of slaves, as bo bad done in Missouri. The scenes in which’ John Brown acted 0 prominent a part to Kansas next came under review. His son Frederick was ered in cold blood, and tis son John marched ‘rotn Ogsawatomie to Tecumseh loaded with chains, which ate {eto his ekin, from the effects ot which he died—while the chaing are 'yet preserved by his sorrowing mother, The whele of “John Rrown’s conduct in Kansas wus based on self-defence, aud wheresoever he had to” take life it was m defence of his own, Fis conduct at Harper’s Ferry was re- markable for the same desire to avoid bloodshed. He justified his ac you the golden rule of doing to thers as ® them de to you. The moral haracter of bis attempt to rescue the enslaved ant op: d when viewed by the light of the laws of nature f God could not be denied. Who coudemas the a) rightot the oppressed to rise up in vindication of their liberty? Who condemns the Egyptians for doing «? Whe condemns the fathers of our own Revotn tion? Who condemns the Hungarians and Tatians, and the thousands of sleyes who arose in 1882, in Jamaica, gallows. John Brown bad followed bis honest convictions to the end, and he honored ‘him therefor. exclam against what he had.done, but one man. is a ma- Jority when God is on his side. Jonn Brown had only mis. taken bis duty. He had boldly executed what-he con- sidered bis duty. bearts and chorish, admiring them for their truth and | cacse of aboltioa, and though her flag waves over her honest obedience to the ealls.of duty. He concluded by urging his hearers, perved ‘by the example of Joha | Florida, atsempés nothing for the disturbance of our re- Brown, to do their duty iu this exigency, and God would aseist them. Avapirit had been already awakened in the South, as well asin the North, which would do more for the present purpose than all the preaching in the North. The people of the South were alive tw their owa interests, The<ear of invasioa was strong,and people would patural- ly sock to destroy the cause,of gach fear; and bence élave- ry would be aboliehed by its present supporters. A¢ of dehn Brown's tataily, Arrival of Governor Willard, of Indiana, ana Other yesterday, in company with the Hon. John 8. Robinson and Dr. G. Rose, of that State, and Robert Crowley, of New York, brother-in law of John E. Cook, now under sentence of death at Charlestown. visit is understood to be the pardon of Cooke; but the ac- tion of the Legislature on Wednesday must render all efforts in that regard hopeless. The cave of Cook does not come within the jurisdiction of the Legislature, inasmuch as he is not convicted of treason, Governor to pardon or commute in that case, as he thinks , but he will hardly do either, in view of the adverse fentiments of the Legislature in relation to the pardon of any of the prisoners. and that upon which they doabtless rely, is 1 ope rate upon the Governor, through the Logislatur » then, cendemp American slaves for Pol AM ‘after, @titany ‘Was it morally wrong to help the panting f ‘ om? Abrabam wae wrong io fightivg like a tir we? Torn get Natit Lot wan '. Ge bondsmen of ‘wrong in com- liberated; Moses was wrong to hel bis Pilots and hemes ° ing nee to us dom Bat wi Sey ge guilty of trcagon, Inciting $16Ne8 to rebel, cand murder In the Girst degree, At least \s Wap go deciaca by a jury of cppressora If he was gality ‘or treason, wo wan Washing. fonyand Franklin, an’ th, leaders the Revolution. et in them we ita virtue, Why was Wash. fraton not Marge’, for his treason against Groat Brita? Simply "Jecanse his work was succeasiul, and bo could, not be ought to trial. Bat if it had have failed, oy che bad fallen into the hand of King George, he would DP we 8Wang for his treason, ag John Brown bai done. abe inviting of the slaves ‘eax only acrime by Virginian law. By God's Jaw it wags no crime. Moses did th samething on @ much 'arger scale, and yet we bono bys memory. As to murder in the first degree it? Where is the proof? Wher ign ~=with malice prepense to » tal fe? None whe'ever. Bat he killed men in Kansas,{ will be ansWeged. Yes—but always in self-defence ‘Hear bis auswer to Senator Mason :— Mr Mason —But r th sreisqulety. you killed some people passing along “Jonx Buowie—Well, sir, if there wan anything of that kin done, it wan witbont ty knowledge. Your own citizens, wh were my priguners will tell you that every possible mean were taken to preventit. Tid not allow my imew to re, Do even lo return a fire, when there was danger of Killing thos we rege Be m2ooent persona if 1 could belp it Yhey ‘we allowed ourselves repealed Thy and did bat returs I In the cage of Mahala Doyle, it had been clearly showa that the old man was far away when her thushead was killed, and get this woman whbed her'sen to be present to adjust the nocee around the neck of Brown. If this was the:character of the wo- map, he (the reverend gentleman) would not very mach Ifke to be’ secoed husband. Brown’s object and impulees-were noble, for he was actuated by sympathy ‘the oppressed and @ desire'to liberatethem. What- ever winor errors it hay ver; last, believe that he has goue to his ‘reward and to his rest. What a ‘was it that in‘this free land a mar should die as a public malefactor for attempting to liberate the enslaved! But he is gone, and over the gallows, whence hie spirit took its fight, there was, as it were, inscribed the words “Tresson, wurder, ingurrection;’” but the civilized world will read’ it “Hamanity, pa- trictism, religion.” John Brown was far less cri- minal in the sight of God than ey, yon or woman in Virginia who holds a slave. (the ‘preecher) would rather take John Brown’s ‘chanoes for @ ‘Seat. in heaven than those of the doctors of Divinity who apologize for slavery, and attempt to pervart the Bible to its support. Jobn Rowarwen deot, it is "true. Slavery took away bis'life, ‘but a eis deed, yet doth he hb he speak. ‘His @eath was lke the tremp of judg moent to all the South. The movement tre made bes thaken the citadel ‘of elavery to ‘its centre and tended to depreciate slave property in au alarming meaner. As John the Baptist'was to Herod, 80 would Jobn Brown be tothe South. After ‘Herod had be- headed Jobn the'Buptist he never heard of any miracu- lous movement bni hie exclaimed, “ Oh) that’s Joba the | Baptist!” avd -so it will be John Brown, Jotm Brown, John Brewn. ‘The reverend —- then gave a lucid account of the imsurrection in Jamaica in 1882, under the leadership of preacher uamed Solomon Sharp, acd sald that atompts of this kind were generally undertaken tey Christian men. Sharp’s insurrection failed and 2,060 sla ves were ‘ranged; but, nevertheless, in two years afterwa rds 800,000 slaves were liberated. John Brown’s religious; priuciples could not beshaken. Even on his wayto the gallows, he saw ® poor -Regro Woman with an infant in her arms, and peed a horiipeons and ey kigsed it, thus evincing a love and sympathy which was si than death. He had touched achord of Chriuia srmeainy throughout the worid,as was shown by the effect pro- duced-everywhere in the free States on the receipt of the intelligence of his death. Dr. Mattison very eloquently concluded by P deanagre that before the little negro child whom. John mm kissed shall grow up to ’ slavery will cease in Virginia, apel the spot on which Brown was hanged will bis marked ‘by a monument piled up Re the labor of tlae two free races. ‘That’babe will probably live to see it. Bunker-Hik monu- Ment was not built in ’76, noris Washi agton’s monument. is built; and therefore the dey will co me when universal jonor will be done to the memory of a man whose only aim was ‘to strike the chains from the captive end to let tna For te sluetag of the Doxology th r the ol © 7 ation ine : large congreg! SERVICES AT HOPE CHAPEL. SBRMON ON THE “PRESENT CRIS! 8,” BY!FV.GBO. F. NOYES, ‘The usual Sabbath exercises of the First “independent Society were held at Hope chape | yesterdey forencon. ‘The religious @xercises comme: sced at half-past ten o'clock. There was but a very thir ; attendance, only forty or fifty persons being preeont. T he sermon was'prench- ed by the Rev. Geo. F. Noyes, 1 woording to annownce- ment. His subject was the ‘Pre gent Crisis.”” ‘He referred to the establishr nent of slavery in “New Mexico, and stigmatized the injur stice of the State-iaw 3, Any negro found there was declo wed 2 runaway, and, wa- lees reclaimed within six m opths, wes sold into slavery to pay the expenses of -his -arres and imprisonment. He denoun: sed the permission whi :b was granted to Southern po stmasters to open arid destroy all newspapers-which might be supposed to proclaim any insurrectionary doctrines:in regard to t he Somh. He related his experie nce with the Custom Hause officers of France, when he ha d been eearched for int ow- dicted documents, andvhe regretted to find a sim: |ar stato of things existing ia his own country. During ‘the past week, in the doings of Covagrees the-slave power fiut begun to operate, and bad alr eady shown its hand. Ele epoke of these things in sorrow, The South, after all, vras the sufferer from the institution of slavery, becuase Slavery was opposed to educagion and civihzation. Th eit doty lay ip three directions : first, the North shauld feel rigbt ; second, it should! think right, and third, it sbovki have a hand strong and ready to execute whet the heart dicteted and the heat planned, Our Northern cities were dead ‘to all sounds but the ring of the almisshty dollar. He lamested that American freedom ehoulld be strangled by African slavery. He distrusted the power of any political party to obtain freedom for the slaves, because the people -were not awake to the true enormity ‘of slavery. The horrors of slavery were awful; yet forty thousand pulpits preach 6 of buman brotherhoed while snch a stete of affairs ex- isted. Such men as‘Wendell Phillips, whose eloquence, he contended, surpassed that of even tho illustrious Eye rett,bad given up the hepe of accomplishing anything at present. Still they-were “to labor and to wait.” He compared the nation to. farm in which all were interest. ‘ed, and he would net. put up afence between the North. mn and Southern portions to separate the tares of ‘the latier from the .wheat of the former. It was true that the South claimed that their tares were better ‘than the Northern wheat; but still he would urge his breth- ren to» philantbropically aid in exterminatiog those tares. ‘The bee: means of doig so was in legislation, and he.ad- ‘vised thom to send representatives who would be firm as granite on this subject. The doctrine of the irrepressible oonflicttvas a true one. It was taught byiJefferson him- eel, when he said that nothing was moro certainly writ. ten mm the book of fate than the delivery of the slaves slaveryeand freedom could nover exsist together. Unless the North willed it the Union could never be dissolved. Such an.ettempt would be regarded as treasen. In the present crisis they wene responsible to God .and their country te perform their duty. Some men had found reli gion ia tt—-they began te leve God when they began to love : their fellow men. No good idea had ever been incarnated ( without a.struggle. Slavery, he contended, would die! slowly—would die hara; but die it surely would. How | in Virgine? soon the slave was to came out of his bondage he knew not, but come out of it be eventually would. But a short time since a martyr had won immortal fame ona Virginia |‘Powe ts of Christendom—several of them, in whose do- cininio vg it onee-exisied, having abolished ‘it—yet none of em show any disposition to interfere with its existence here. ‘The only States that threaten our peace are States united with us by that-bond of union, the constitution, de- signed \'o throw ite:wgis of protection over all. Peoplo might Such heroes men would take: to their after the sermon e collection was taken up far the bene- OUR RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE Ricaoyp, Va., Dec. 9, 1859. Friends of Cook, the Préconer— Position of Senator Cald- well, of Wheeling, Among Members and Senators of the Legistature—Measures in Regard to Abolitim Emiwa- ries Stop 'o Slave Emancipation by Tesamentary Pro cess —Phe Oficial Vote for Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General—Troops for Charlestown—Douglas in Indiana. Governor Willard, of Indiana, arrived in this city on The object of their Tt is competent for the The only hope for Cook's frionds in OO ee eee eee | Dow presented by many as a-panaceafor the commercial ca 0 mean nothing but war from generation to generation que} to that announcement, following in the due order of | ®™€ capital for the con eve bts, comesthe developement, not without bloodshed, ot a . plot concocted in the North for the liberation of the slay 28 of the South by a aA thus {0 ell intetxs constituting the North, are +es; jb} for Jc a Brown's scheme of mingled vl Ha oly. from bondage, and thatytwo such inco That} sarty, the Northern people by th eb itpstee Conan | bare ioourtedvainoa: the Kiacperte hibit a 0 wamistakable purpose of pore. Sh v knows too well, and mination aga: ust our institutions, these reflections, myeelf or the oceasion to deal in language of doubtful im- port. True, Rorida, as the youngest Southern covereignties, can only of her sisters; yet this constitutes no reason time demanding the freest conference and frankest ex Breesion among those shoula remain silent. ‘that ber beard in ‘topes not loud but deep,” in favor of an eternal separation fram those whose wickedness and fanaticism forbid us longer to live with them ‘There are good grounds for the Soutdern States will not consent to see the genet ment pass into kancs avowedly hostile to the South. If such is their purpose, it is not unlikely that they will pre- Presidential pare for the emergency of the approaching election. What, if any, Will be neceerary, provide for Fiotiaa'e co-operation with them in the contin. gency svegested, I leave tor the wisdom of the Legislatare to determina, A REMINISCENCE OF OLD JOHN BROWN, trance money and improve) O14 John Brown, before he went to Kantas, resided in | prices to emigrate here, nn Cleveland, Ohio, where he was engaged in the wool trade, and was a member of tho firm of Perking & Brown. Their operations were pretty extensive in the purchase of wool for the Fastern manufacturers, wore xoveral Iarge wool buyors in tho wonthwestern’part of Oneik considerable intercourge, and which was the moans uf | 18%, fine of $80 ba. bringing Brown frequently to the village of Vernon, come ! and vicinity of late» AY? Deee Very frequent ia Detroit PRICE TWO CENTS. their individual or unofficial capacity, Bat inasmuch as apy action of this sort must conflict with their public course in this matter, they will hardly be indaced to use apy influence in behalf of Cook. Very many members deeply sympathize with Governor Willard; but inasmach asthe pardon of Cook through his influence would wear the complexion ef political (avoritiem, the impolicy of such @ course, aside from the general conviction of the justice of his sentence, already expressed, will prevent apy effort being made in his behalf. Mr. Aifred Caldwell, the State Senator from the Wheel- ing district, who, it will be remembered, avowed strong seventeen miles west of Utica, where he is well remem- dered, At Vernon Brown made the acquaintanc: of a lawyer of the name of J. Whipple Jenkins, since deceased. Mr. Jenkins was a gentleman who occupied a prominent posi- tion in his profession, even at the QOucida county bar, boasting a8 it does of such legal luminaries, He was.not a brilliaut man, but well read, and possessed much tact and indomitable energy and industry. Old Jobo Brown employed hia #9 manage a suit of considerable importance betweerr@is Oemrané an Eastern republican doctrines in a speech at hishome last summer, | company. The cave was tried befose ase Gapreme Contt occupies 2 eumewhat isolated social position here at pre- | sunng a) Troy. It consumed more thao twenty days, sent. He is treated with extreme cooineas by his bro- | resulted in a verdict for Verkins & Brown. Eastern ther Senators and the members of the other House. At the hotel at pigbt, when all seem to be epgaged in con- versation, be sits aloue by the stove in the rowunda, as lit tle recognized as though he were an entire stranger to att Present. His position is by no means enviable. Were I in bis place I should resign my seat before twenty-four hours. He stands thie moment an Saolated exception to the generul body in which he serves, as regards the sen- timents entertained upon the slavery question. Mr. J. J. TaomPso, of Putuam county, offered the fol- lowing resolution in the House of Delegates to-day, which was adopted :-— Regnived, That tbe Committee of Courts of Justice be in- stracved Wo inquire into the expediency of authorising the ooun- ty courts op the uortbern and western borders of the State, for & least two ters of counties, to appoint a special pice, eoa- aisting of ——, whose duty it shall be to watch the motious of ai! Staiifon emisaarien, w beter" 5 lee- or ; turer, preacher, ar, or any other torm of slave currupter, Tiara view to tuend the community agnines euch and sil other ‘euemies of the institution of slavery. Mr. Joun SEDDON, of Stafford, offered the following reso- lution, which was also adopted :— Resolved, That the Committe of Courts of Justice be in- structed to foquire into the 2 expedien: sy ot proniiing ‘all tenta- BIATY € v ‘whetber by deed oF will, and toreport by Dill or otherwise. ‘The conrervative movenrents now on foot at the North wil avail nothing to stay the determination of the Legis- latures of Virgiwia, and the other Southern States, to pass measures of a very stringent eharacter, as well in regard to the commercial relations of the two seotions as to slavery ana its future protection. It is useless to put forth aesurances that the Brown tovasion has had no sympathizers at the North, outside of the abo- lidon fanatics. All such assurances are laughed at, and reoetved ony as resorts to obviate the disaster to North- compeny Carried the case to the Geartof Appeals, aud Mr. Jenkme was sti reusined as counsel for the Obio firm, ave Brown wentto Vervon tw assist his legal friend io preparing tis case for the court of final resort, H® had been in Vernon two or three days, Kttle progress having bech Inade in hig buainess, when one day, just ator the arrival of the Easiern mai), he came iuto Mr. Jenkins’ office, auc, addressing that geatleman, said abruptly— “orm going to Bastin ig : Sn Ae hes “Going to Bostoo! For what, pray?’’ respon . Je “Rewa that)” said Brown, at the same time bandiag bim # New York caily paper, aud pointing to @ particalar para raph. # ‘Vr, Jenkins took the paper, and read under the tele- graphic bead a brief account of the arrest in Boston of the fog) ive slave, Anthouy Burns. ““] see nothing here that should call you to Boston,” sald . Je iJ do,” eaid Brown; ‘I am going to Boston, and I will reecue Anthony Burns, or perish in the attempt.’”” “You witl have to abandon your case, then,” eaid Mr. J., pertussively, “It willcome on in @ few days, andl cannot possibly get ready for it without your assistanee.' “Let tt go, then,” responded Brown, energetically and almost fiercely. And he immediately prepared for his departure, and set out the same day, and almost the same hour. ‘Whether Brown participated in the rescue of Burns is not known, as his name does not figure in the het of those who covered themseives with glory, or something less resplendent, as the heroes of that transaction; but there can be little doubt that he was in Boston at the time, and it can hardly be believed that he remained inactive after having abandoned an important suit and made a journey of several hundred mites for that ae Seat pl ‘This hittie ineident, unimportant an teresting would be in the biatory of John Brown, the Ohio wool ove interests, which must resuit from the system of le- | Tater ig big with interest, as a brief and characteriatio Se ce snare tateats Toe the Soca Yee potion som is chapter ithe hstory of Joi Brom atte hero of Ox te act, and the stringency of this action will bave no other | Watemie an ‘per’ * . bounds than the constitation, They will go to the utmoss | New Yor, Dec. 20, 1860: Umit ef costititional privilege; while in & social polat of view restrainte and interdicts far more stringeut than | AE «BLACK KNIGHTS” CAVALRY OF VIR- could be applied under sanction of law will be enforced. GINIA. ‘Ati idle, utterly idle, to seek to arrest this determination or obviate such results by assurances that Brewn and his TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. apeociates feund no sympathy from the majerity of the Nerth, Tts people not only argue ix favor ef disunion az amecessity, but in their zeal for ft eceem suddenly w dis- cover vatura! benefits to the Soutk from wuch @ policy. | transpires in this place—especially is this true in regard to What before was esteemed a dircmecessity , involving ruin You will excuse one {who feels to bofh gections, is now regarded a blessing. All at | ‘he military operations. once the discovery is made that the ‘Soutte out of | an interest in correcting one of the many current errors, the Union, would become great and perous | small in itself, it is true, but not altogether insignificant, under the etimulous which her manufactures would derive | ¢., ce place im your columns. from separation and independence. {n fact, disunion is Tee, in your issue of the 6th, mention is made by your Charlestowa correspondent of » brigade of ‘“ Biack Knights,” commanded by Captain Ashby. These ‘ Black Cuarumsown, Va., Dec. 8, 1860. Mistakes are rife in all the published accounts of whet, Stagpation from whch the Sonth has been suffering; and Theeitate not to say that the first feasible opportunity will be ssized upon to bring about such € result. ee Aaa Mivo two houses of the. Laglslature were engaged for a | Knights seem to have, quite geet ions re considerable portioa of to-day in eounting the votes re- | fours reer ae akon them with a scorn which corded at the election fer Governor, Lieutenant dover- threatens to wither. The handsome “special” of Frank ner aad Atorney General. The following is the official vete a8 announced:— FOR GOVERFOR. describes them in language well adapted to the ro~ vans disposition of the majority of his readers. Never- 77,229 | theless, this triple testimony to the contrary notwith- om. standing, there is no such body of men in Charlestown. "They are a figment of the imagination—a chimera—a mere ‘The whole cavalry force at this point, in all three troops, is under the command of Captain John Scott, of Fauquier, && senior captain commanaing. There are two troops ‘rom Fauquier—one, the Black Horse, commanded ‘Captain Scott; the other, the Mountain Rangers, co! \- ed by Captam Ashby. The Black Horse is fally equipped. ‘Upon the day of the execution of John Brown ft acted ag escort for prisoner, beading and closing the proces- sion, It numbers seventy strong, and was originally or- ganized upon a political basis. Its members ama repeal of the piracy laws directed against the foreign slave John Letcher... Wm. 1. Goggin. Isacher’s majority..... ...-. Ro ss SOG Hert L. Montague Wo Stman T. Willey. Montague’s majority... sk See 7,999 ‘The vote for Atorney Gencral was not announced. ‘The Wytheville Grays, numbering over seventy mera, ! @ rrived here lastnight on their way to Onarlestown, to ‘pe | Prevent at the executions om the 16th instant. They waited | m the Governor immediately upon their arrival, and were taddretged ‘by Wim in a brief speech, in which he ‘sat 5 trade ag the means of that, “Hf needed an expense of five millions of doliarss w | tude. They advocate the Slave tats At St Meet enforce the sentence of the law against the Charlestown | Testoring the equi ‘of the South. ‘advocate prisoners, it would’ be inearred.”” img the Lavine fyi ee ‘with the marts of Europe Theara'the Hon. Mr: Robinson, of Tndiana, remark test | the fostering of 8 direct en Te ithe South may be night, thet Bougiss could not carry one district in tat | from Southern ports; ‘io bance to the North, State: He sald his heresies were very generally repa- | Tid of the tribute which is, snnilly PAN Me here Giated there and that the misapprehension which pre- | S10 whe expense of their own. It its impossible to vailed with reference to repgth <u 'the State arose from ‘ cate a disaotution, the clamor made by tho few frieude who adhere to hier in { Obtain these in the Union, they advecaie « i» some few of the counties. ‘They never foil to pase recolu. that what they believe is the destiny of the Sanh may bons favoring his nommnation, #0 we ‘to civeate an idea tha he stands well in the Sate, while the grat majority who are opposed'to him express no preferenew. Mr. Rovinson Delieves he’ bas no chence for a neminat jon in view of the opposition to-him inthe South. Our Nebraska Correspondence. Omana Crrv,Nesrasxa, Ter, Nov. 21,31859. Coming Session of the Nebraska, Legislature—Correction of @ Reputlican Statement Concerning the Election of a Re- publican Representative in Congress from Nebraska— Death of Hon. Fenner Fergusm—The Harper's Ferry In- surrectim in the West—Breaking Ground on the North- ern Portion of the St. Joseple and Count Bluff Rail- roaa!—General News, &c. Ou the Sth of next month the sixth session of the Ne- braska Legislature assembles here. The Council is de- mocrati ‘¢ by a decided majority, and the House by a small majority’. Tunderstand as vet, however, there has been acen no anthentic list of the members of that body elect. The reyi¢ xyn of some portions of our code, and the pas- fage of ga 2 ie local laws, the repeal of others,and, may be, a bank chi u ‘ter, or some scheme of the kind wherewith to raise the ‘w ind, will be carried through. Sundry small axes are ti be ground, and the forty days’ sesston will and must be occupied. In both branches there is g90d material—men _of intelligence, energy and able reore- Bebtatives. T notice, copi black reptblica: MESSAGE’OF TEE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA .. Governor Perry seat bis message to the adjourned se 5. sion of the Florida Legislature last week. Under t! ye head of Federal Ret:tions, the Gover or discourses as fi 31. lows:— Prominent-among the purpeses for which the Uni was formed and ite Covstitation “ordained,” asaanounc ed by its patriotic foucders, was “to in:ure domestic traaq: ul lity.” As regards this purpose, passing events go to show that the work of statesmen of 1787 is likely to pro we a melanekoly failure. Does the Union ‘insure —does : it any longer promise otherwise'than in words of mocks! -y. “to insure to the Southern States of the Confederacy « mestic tranquillity?” Js Ht not mi that in the bosoms of the memb. ars of the perty now dominant throushout the North, ail f ra ternal feeling towards us ofthe Sonth ig evtirely de wv? When rerainded of their Goustititional obligations—ot pli gations fixed mpen them alike by the letter and x of of the constitntien, they appeal toa “higher law.” Hi iy- ing virtually anpulled the writen compact, there is no queation that they would proceed. to withdraw from the Union but for tbe fact that,along with great pecuniary advantages, it furnishes them facilities which they woald Rot otherwise enjoy for the prosecution of their designs a number of Eastern papers of the» mathe a somewhat singular telegraphic neing the election of Samuel Daily, repub- 3, despatch, anno O @gainst-the institutions of the South, n 0 in Congress. It te news That theso hostile desigas will contioue tobe prosecuted | HAM, 10" roprag ent Netenade iu Conte Ha ey 80 long as the confederacy lasts, would seem to be as | U8 of Nebra She) ooh Samuel G. of 300,, certain es anything of tho fugure. No leas than this | TCrwed & mak EY oe ctection from the Governor. dus been publicly avowed by one having authority to | Qua whe Certillc: Pao true detuncrat, aud an appowtees + peak, in language which admits of but one construc: | (en, F. isastaunc 2 "F. Ynued states’ District Attorney. t jon. "The Northern statesman most honored and trusted | 2 President Pierc venat three buudred majority he did ‘eratic strength of the Territory. Dar- sIhave heard that Daily bas-notified mm to contest his seat im Cog 5 ow issincere, and som: of his friends ‘the falsehood that ho: is. elected, journals, hoping thereby to make test. [have heard .shatthe per- wily money to conduct the canvass ing he would be defeated, and ob- i that he would contest Bstabrook’s ten the custom to pay the contest- 3 his per diem. or salary during - \o matter how poor, a show he tis, it invites such apologies for ‘om our far-off Territory to ‘go . 1 his chances for snocess are his remaining sober tor one for this district. E bot get the full dem ing the past few day Gen. KF. of his intent Possibly the poor fell are busy circulating through the Eastern b y his section, and whom that section manifest!y intends tc } place et the head of the gencral goverument, Instead of tb tranquillity which the constitution guarant-:es us, bas proclaimed an ‘irrepressible conflict,” which means, and up on thatinetitation whick lies at the basis of Southern prc *perity, power, civilization and happiness. As a go- ons who loaned poor 1} loaned it, firmly beliew tained a pledge from hin Seat. Ithas been too of ant for a eeat in Congres. the pending of his case, 1 could make, and the effec a. mowber ag poor Daily fi and do likewise,” knowin; af siim as they are for month atatime. His friei peral insurrection. that the so-called republican prising a majority of the Northern people. and Th ere canbe no dou ty 7, Com viliany} and folly. @ elections which Ferry catastrophe, ex- continuing in power. Its ty Fo great engines of influence, the press and the to forego the: puerile idea of pulpit, . are daily becoming more insulting and aggr will probably influence him honest democratic majori- towards ‘our institutions and people. t else, ‘no, Sof neice with, = have we! tovoxpest, while the Union continues, but the re: | ‘pf the bun ie ‘agate elect to. Congress from petiion "Bo.che-ca say when, here, how ohen or with | inie Territory ie bet a pal \ the 11th inst, at his resi- wi iy issues, of attempts like that lately thwarted dence ip Belloviea, N. 7. ur, bin oa hae ag It is worthy ofa passing thought, that though African | S*% N. ¥., in 1814, and ‘ racticed elaverry is 20 longer an institution of ‘most of eo Ccon, of Albany. After admis Warrant case for several years with his prece ply te moodle y nak to Albion, Gatboun county! Mich 8. a8 ap- years in the Michigan Legisiana “pS, mn ASS, Pointed by President Pierce Chk Tallof 1s7, when he waa TY, which office he held lected delegate to Corp eat resigned tis seat on the gress and rustus Hall, of lowa. Great, Britain, much ag she has done and suffered in the ker ee, oe Hon. Aug ‘iy, ind cbiiging ‘guson ‘a man of ab + warm friends own soil’, searly within sight of the southern coast of | '" “isposition, and possessing maus ei w eneinics, Hera is eagerly sought for ve nises too fully, the ool tions: of internetiont! comity. fe neither fear her, ee ere, te, Harpe ce eto nm Ve Ti . ir aggressi ant ere] 5 enso quiteother than foreign eources. ‘They come from eed vading sentiment amongst the good & that is, one who madly think that, because connected with us in our is Rag here upon this mattect, a vuree.. Ocew repubiic, they are answerable for our-sing, and authorized, lobu Brown and bis fautical co 7 spoken: by viriue of (tris respoustbility, to wage awar of exter. | 3°U hear a republican, more piainl) the amhir, Deighbor, endeavoring to vindicate Seems to have been knowledge of & foray upon the ««peculiar institution” in abolition, negre-seoreting hole, called Tat upon the Missoari river, some forty fivem atleast, co [am informed. Brown and some acquaintances aud friends there. The Hexaip on this subject seems to be gene here, and indeed, next to the Herat, Sores by his prompt and energetic course in the many trieuos in the West. A short time since the first ground was bi northern portion of the line of the 8 Joseph . Bluff Railroad, and it is generally bel ‘eved th: now be pushed on to rapid completion, \hereby « Council Biuff (just across the Misscun' river tr with a continuous railway route. Of all p, laces in om gd none. others, I awand the eph, in Missouri. It i ‘ Missouri river, Numbers eee meta here to go t St. Joseph. common is it, that if his neighbor or him, the reply is, “Why, he bas gone to Hard times are not getting softer. costiveness in the Western money, farms are offered at a mere trifle in ad You -will fiud no difficulty in perceivir nor dot oopaider ie becorsing eithey oe and least populous of the follow m aetion the lead why. at a common destiny, sho hr bya belie voice should be in peace and safety. Dope that most of the ral govern- om your part, to No bailey oe of is of a few week, the (ail has been u crimival cases sre yy hl be now in session here. At the same time there | AMMGAMATION.—A negro preacher in Detroit, who mare ried @ black man toa white woman—sich marriage ral —wae convicted on I ce €o., N. Y., with whom the Ch land firm had fons'ay last, anit sentenced tor ’ of $60 or be imprisoned ninety days. These