Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 December 1859 — Page 1

NEW

SERIES-VOLrXI,

Execution of John Brown

HI8 LASJT HOURS. Affecting Interview with His wife. SCENES ANDIWCrtEKT9 OF THE OC-

CASIO*.

His Last Will and Testament.

DISPATCHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HARPER'S FERRY, Dec. 2. I left Baltimore this morning bound for this place, where I met your reporter, who visited Charlestown to gather the facts relative to the execution of Ossawatoroie Brown, full particulars of which I send you. At Baltimore, crowds endeavored to purchase tickets for Harper's Ferry, among whom were a number of Northern editors, but tho Company positively refused to sell any tickets cxcept to through passengers or to those whose business and character were known to the officers of the road. As a consequence, many

were

On the next morning they comniunieatcd with the officers iu command of the Virginia military here, that Mrs. Brawn had arrived, and that, the)1 wished to nocompany her to Charlestowu. The orticcr courteously responded, that he persumed there would be no difficulty in granting their request, and immediately telegraphed to General Taliaferro: at Chnrlostowr., who, in turn, telegraphed to Cov. Wise for instruction. A great number of messages were then exchanged, and finally it was ordered that Mrs. Brown should bo sent aloue to see he husband under an escort of military, and the others ot the party should be detained and watched. Mrs. Brown was greatly distressed at being compelled to go without her friends, but finally conseuted, aud was taken to Charlestown and allowed and interview ot two hours with her husband, but was not permitted to remain during the night. An anecdote is related of Brown in this connection, which is eminently characteristic: When Gen. Taliaferro had arranged for the visit of Mrs. Brown, he called on the prisoners and informed him that his wife would come to see him, and he wished to know how long an interview he desired.

Brown said—"Three or four hours," to which the General responded that that was too long an hour he thought was enough. Brown replied: "Very well, obey your orders, and do your duty. I have no favors to ask of the State of Virginia.',

This indomitable spirit was manifested to the very last. In his final interview with Cook, he accused him sternly of falsbood iu representing that he Cook, had been misled by him. He shook hands with all the prisoners, and handed each of them twenty five cents, remarkiug that the money was of no further use to him.

When parting from his wife, he asked the jailor as though it were the most casual and indifferent question, "At what hour am I to be executed?" And on being told 11 o'clock, he turned to his wife and said, "Very well if I think of anything else to say, I will write it down and leave it for yon."

On the scaffold, he refused to make tho usual signal to the Sheriff to let the drop fall, and resolutely declined the services of any clergyman. No one attended him but the Sheriff and his assistants. He has left two wills—one disposing of some some small landed property, and the other relating to the disposition of his pikes and Sharpe's rifles.

Of the final interview between himself and wife, it is to soon to speak. I learn that she is sleepless and nervous, but sternly represses external manifestations of her feelings.

WISE'S LETTS* TO NU. BROWN. RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 26, 1859. To Mrs. MARY A. BROWN, now in Philadelphia:

Madam: Yours of the 21st inst., addressed to me from Philadelphia, came to my hand this morning. Believe me madam, that I sadly thank you for your trust in my feelings as a man. Your situation touches these feelings deeply. Sympathizing, as I do, with your affliction, you shall have the exertion of my authority"and personal influ mce to assist you in gathering up the bones of jour son and husband in ir-

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deeent and tender in terment among

leir kindred. Would to God that public considerations could avert his doom, for the Omniscient knows that I take not the •lightest pleasure in the execution of any whom the laws condemn. May he have nwoy oo the erring and afflioted.

Eaclowl is aa order to Nij. OM Wa.

NO. 21.

disappoint

ed in the effort to gratify their curiosity, and tho number of passengers upon the road was unusually small.

Our train rcached the Ferry at a quarter before 12 o'clock, and we found the platform carfully guarded by soldiers, who closcly scanncd every passenger and kept tho space in front clear. Everywhere about the town soldiers were stationed, and the Government buildings had been turned into barracks, in which were quartered the U. S. troops from Old Point Comfort.

But few strangers were in the village, the visitors consisting chiefly of the adjacent country, who had come to hear of Brown's execution. A military company, which has just been organized here, was being marched through the streets with a drum and fife, and both sights and sounds conspired to remind one ot tho pomp and circumstances of glorious war.

I learned that Mrs. Brown, with a lady and two gentlemen friends, from Philadelphia, were staying at the Wager, having arrived on Wednesday night. I immediately sought one of the gentlemen, named McKim, who gave me the following narrative: He says that last week Brown wrote to his wife, saying if she thought she could bear tho meeting with calmness, he would be glad to take leave of her whereupon she determined to see him once more before he died. Mrs. McKim, knowing the value of woman's Hympathy aud companionship, under such trying circumstances, volenteered to accompany her, as also did Mr. McKim and another gentleman. The latter supplied themselves with the Lest testimonials as to respectability and character, and also with letters of introduction to Col. Lewis A. Washington and others, and reached Harper's Ferry on Wednesday night.

B. Taliaferro, in command at Charlestown, Va., to deliver to you the mortal remains of your husband, when all shall be over, to be delivered to your agent at Harper's Ferry, and if you attend the reception in person, to guard him sacredly in your solemn mission, with tenderness and truth.

I am very respectfully your humble servant, HENRY A. WISE. RICHMOND, VA., NOV. 26, 1859.

INSTRUCTIONS TO GEN. TALIAFERRO. Major General Wm. B. Taliaferro, in Command at Charlestown.-—

SIR: When John Brown is executed, on Friday the 2d proximo, you will place his mortal remains under strict guard, and protect them from mutilation. Place them in a plain, decent coffin, and have them taken to Harper's Ferry, there to await the orders and appeal of Mrs. Mary A. Brown, who has a duplicate of this order. You will also allow the bodies of her sons who fell at Harper's Ferry, to be disinterred, and taken by her, or her agent, or order. Respectfully,

HENRY A. WISE.

LAST INTERVIEW OF MR. AND MRS. BROWN. The following is a succinct and truthful account of the concluding interview between Mr. and Mrs. Brown. An escort of cavalry accompanied Mrs. Brown from Harper's Ferry under command of Captain Moore, of the Richmond Montgomery Guards. The carriage which conveyed her was stopped at the outskirts of town. All the military were ordered out, and the streets was thronged with aids and plumed officials, who appeared anxious to convey to the distressed woman an idea of their conscquence. The carriage was driven slowly through town while the women and children gaped from the windows, and mushroom soldiery strutted on the streets.

On arriving at the jail, which was closely guarded, the carriage stopped, and Capt. Moore, who rode with Mrs. Brown, jumped from the vehicle, and tendering her his arm, escorted her into the jail.

Capt. Brown was informed of his wife's arrival, and requested that she might be allowed to enter his room as soon as possible. In a few minutes the jailor conducted her into his presence. The meeting was affecting, and at first neither party spoke.

Brown embraced her, pressed her to his bosom and exclaimed, "My wife!" No tears were shed, but a deep drawn sigh told to well of the intensity of the feeling which each was undergoing.

After a few minutes thus spent, the Captain drew a chair, and Mrs. Brown sat down. He then spoke to her of his condition, told her that he was contented, and if it was not for parting with her and otliers whomc he loved, he would have no reIgrct in dying. Mrs. Brown entered fully into the feelings of her husband, and both were resigned lo the fate which awaited |him. (.'apt. Brown rcferrUcTTo the disposition of his property and the welfare of his children, and after spending an hour in conversation, supper w:is brought in by the kind jailor, rind the husband and wife sat down together to partake of their last meal. The Captain raised his hands, and asked God to bless the meal, and then with a cheerfulness which has no parallel, they commenced their repast. Front the time Mrs. Brown arrived old Captain

Brown's spirits rose and he exhibited light hcartedness which surprised those who were arouud him. Mrs. Brown remained with her husband until half past six o'clock, when she was informed that the interview must end. The Captain I desired that his wife might remain with him during the night, but the orders from I headquarters were to the contrary, and accordingly they separated. While the parting scene was one which showed much intensity of feeling, there was no exhibition of passion, and after an embrace, and kiss, and kind admonition from Brown, I they parted forever. I Mrs. Brown was conducted to her carI riagc, and under a similar escort with

Capt. Moore, who was kind and gentlemanly in his deportment, the carriage started for the Ferry.

The substance of Brown:s interview with his wife was relative to a settlement of his monitary affairs and the disposition of his body. Previous to her arrival he had desired that his body should be burned, and the ashes thereof urned, and in that condition removed. He also expressed a desire that the bodies of his two sons who were killed at Harper's Ferry should be disinterred, and after undergoing a similar process, be placed in the same urn with his own, and taken North.

This would have been impossible, as the physicans of Winchester had secured their bodies and dissected them.

Gov. Wise has given an order to the effect that if any person called for the body of Brown, who was entitled to it, that the Sheriff should hand the same over, and Mrs. Brown was assured by the authorities that the body would be sent to her address at Harper's Ferry. Brown spent some two or three hours, last night, writing and reading, and then retired to rest. He slept soundly, rose about six o'clock, cheerful and apparently unconcerned about the fate which awaited him. About half-past seven o'clock, after partaking of his breakfast, jailor Capt. Avis, who had been very kind to Brown, and who had endeared himself thereby, informed him that he could visit Cook, Coppic and the other prisoners, if he desired.— Accordingly, he was conductcd to the room of Cook first. INTERVIEW BETWEEN BROWN AND HIS FEL

LOW PRISONERS-:

On entering, a kindly recognition took placc, when Capt. Brown said, addressing Cook: "I am sorry you have not confined yourself to truth in your statement called your confession. I never sent you to Harper's Ferry as a spy, and your" statement to that effect is false."

Cook—"You certainly did." Capt. Brown (in a commanding tone)—"I did not not, sir you have, by your course, held yourself up as an object of contempt-, and deservedly so."

At this remark, Cook's head fell and he made so reply. Brown was next conducted to Stevens' room. The meeting between them wae cordial. Brown remarked that he wae aboot to die. Stevcni eeid. "I

feel assured that you will go to a better world than this." Capt Brown said, "Conduct yourself like a man, I know you will do so without my advising." They again shook hands and parted. He then repaired to the room of Coppic, where a conversation almost similar took place. Thence he went to the rooms of the negroes, whom he said he expected to die like men, and as became their condition and position.— The negroes gave him the assurance that they would die fearlessly, as they were fully assured that their action was just and proper. Brown then returned to his rtfom, and continued writing for some time.

THE EXECUTION.

As the hour approached for his execution, the Medical Faculty in attendance, the Sheriff of the county and the officers of the jail, visitsd his rcom and conversed with him. Brown was cheerful and talked as though tho hour which was appointed for his death was indifferent and far in in the future. Nothing of any material interest occurred in these interviews.

At nine o'clock, agreeably to the general order, two military companies commenced assuming their positions. One company was stationed in front of the jail another directly opposite of the Market House, and yet another in front of the Court House, which was only a few yards to the north of the prison. Two pieces of brass cannon were placed near the jail wall, on the road leading to the scaffold.

The place of execution was not more than half a mile from the jail. It was erected on an eminence, in the center of a twenty acre field. The grounds were laid off, and small white flags were stuck in the ground, beyond which no citizen was allowed to pass.

At the gate a military company were stationed, who refused to admit any person unless accompanied by a military escort. The representatives of the press, after much trouble, were escorted into the field, and assigned a position within one hundred yards of the scaffold.

At this time the military had assumed their positions on the field, and in the woods, to the north of the field of execution. The cavalry were seen scouting in every direction, while mounted men were stationed all along the fences of the field of execution, and could be seen riding to the south and cast.

The Richmond Company F. were assigned a position to the south of the scaffold, and within fifty yards of it, while the Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute were stationed in front, and within about the same distance. A Company of Cavalry were riding around the field, aud two or three companies of infantry were sta turned within twenty yards of the fences, as picket?.

Field officers, staff officers, and officers of the day, and officers not of the day, together with Aids to the Governor, were dashing along on spirited horses, riding to and fro, apparently giving exhibitions of excellent horsmanship, .and rivalling each other in this accomplishment.

Thus matters stood at half past ten o'clock, when Gen. Talaferro, with his staff, consisting of thirty-seven men. in various uniforms, and all mounted on spirited chargers, entered the field, and proceeded,! with all military decorum, to a position in front of the gallows, and in the rear of! the Cadets from the Military Institute,

The departure of the commanding officer from the town, was the signal for the bringing out of the prisoner. A furniture wagon was driven in front of the jail, and the military formed around it. Brown was then escorted from his room.

He was dressed in a black suit, much worn, the same lie had on when he made his attack on the Ferry, lie wore a slouch hat, shoes, aud red-colored stockings. His arms had been pinioned, and he marched out with a firm step and upright head. He was assisted into the wagon, aud took a seat on his coffin.

The train then proceeded to the sccnc of execution. The military escort was large and imposing. There was no music, and nothing was to be heard save the slowmeasured tread of the military, and the rumbling of the wheels of the wagon which was conveying Brown to his death.

Following the military were about two hundred citizens. The gate was entered, and the command brought to a halt. In a few minutes it again started, and proceeded to the gallows. The wagon was stopped a few yards from the steps which led to the platform, and Brown was assisted out and immediately started for the scaffold. On one side was the Sheriff, on the other one of his deputies.

Brown ascend the steps with a cheerful look, a firm, unshaken step, and an unblanchcd eye. Not an exhibition of fear was given. There was no evidence of a concioQsness of the terrible tragic scene which was about to take place, and in which he was to be the actor. As soon as he reached the platform, the military which accompanied him filed to the right and left, and took the positions which bad been previously assigned them. Brown looked at the crowd, then glanced at the scaffold.— The Deputy Sheriff extended his hand and took that of Brown, and, shaking it, bade him farewell.

No ministers were present, owing to the fact that Brown had refused their offices. The Sheriff approached him, shook his hand, and bade him good-bye. Brown stepped forward, when the Deputy Sheriff tied his legs, while the Sheriff drew the white cap over his head, and placed the fatal rope about his neck. As soon as this was done, Brown remarked to the Sheriff, '•you will have to guide nic from this out." The Sheriff asked, "Captain Brown have vou anything to say]" To which he replied, "Nothing."

Sheriff—"Will you take a handkerchief, and use it as a signal, letting it fall when you are ready?"

Captain Brown—"No sir, I am always readv. Do not keep mc unnecessarily long."

The Sheriff then stepped aside while the doomed man engaged in prayer. In a few minutes he steped softly from the scaffold, and, on leaving it, the Deputy Sheriff sprang the trap, and John Brown was suspended between the heavens and the earth.

Not erand «u heard except the creak

ing of the timbers of the scaffold and the whipping sound of the wind, as it played with the naked branches of the trees.

After he had hung for twenty minutes, Drs. Girard, D. E. Mason, John A. Straith, John Starry and H. P. Cooke, ascended the platform, and, after feeling his pulse, holding their cars to his chest, pronounced him dead. Ten physicians attached to the different military corps, then visited him, each one of them felt his pulse, and pronounced him dead. Thus ended this tragic scene, which commenced in violence and murder, and closed in shame and death.

INCIDENT3.

On the road to the scaffold, Brown remarked to the undertaker, who was in the wagon with him, on observing military in the field: "They have excluded all citizens." "Yes," was the reply. Captain Brown said: "Gentlemen, you are very calm and collected—much more so than I am and yet your condition is much more critical. I am cool," said he "I have suffered much more from modesty in my lifetime than I have from fear: For thirty years I have been educated to look on fear as a myth, and now I do not know what it is." After riding some distance further, and being beyond the limits ol the town, he said, addressing the same gentleman:

What a beautiful country you have I had no idea of its beauties and the excellence of its soil. This is the first time I have had the pleasure of seeing it." No other conversation took place, and lie quietly proceeded to his death.

Just previous to starting for the execution, Brown wrote the following and handed it to Mr. Iliram O'Bannon: 'I am now convinced that the great iniquity which hangs over this country cannot be purged without immense bloodshed. When I first came to this State I thought differently, but am now convinced that I was mistaken."

He requested Mr. O'Bannon not to give publicity to the above. After the body of Brown had hung for thirty-eight minutes, it was cut down and placed in the coffin. The rope with which he was hung was taken in charge by an officer, and afterwards cut up into pieces and distributed to those who were anxious to have it. .Parties cut the timbers of the gallows, and carried away the pieces, while others secured a lock of his hair. When the body wa3 placed in the coffin it was conveyed to town and placed in the jail.— Many persons desired to visit the jail for tho purpose of seeing it, but their curiosity was not gratified, A special train of cars was ordered from the Ferry, and at half-past six o'clock, under a strong military escort, the coffin was removed from the jail and taken to the cars, where it was placed in a special one, and an escort getting in, the train proceeded to the Ferry, where it arrived at half-past seven o'clock.

Not more than tvo hundred citizens witnessed the execution. Many more would have been present, but the officer of the day, in placing sentinels on the avenues leading to the town, had selcctcd men from the military corps from a distance, and tliev, not being able to rccognize citizens of the county, they were excluded from town lest t'uey might be rescuers. Much indignation was felt and cx pressed on account of this arrangement and clamor became so sjreat that the com-!

on tion

granted

my wite may

in circulation that it was occasioned by the burning of the barn of the late Geo.

Iurner, who was killed at Harper rerry.

A squad of Cavalry was .mmediately dis-

patched to examine into the cau..e, who re-,^

turned and stated that it was owing to the burning of brush on a clearing. On Thursday, however, four of the horses belonging!

to Mr. Turner died of poison, while sever-15t

al others are the same.

sufferiui

trom tue enccta oi, strn

The only excitement which has existed has

furloughs, but they will be all pres-

ent on the IGth inst. JOHN BROWN'S WILL. CHARLESTOWN, ^Jefferson Co., Va., Nov.

I give to my son Jason Brown, my silver watch with my name engraved on the inner case. I give to my son Owen Brown, my double spy, or opera glass, and my rifle gun, if found, presented to me at Wor. cester, Mass. It is globed sighted, and new. I give, also, to the same son, fifty dollars in cash, to be paid him from the proceeds of my father's estate, in consideration of his terrible sufferings in Kansas, and his crippled condition from his childhood. I give to my son Salmon Brown fifty dollars in cash, t® be paid him from my father's estate, as an offset to the first of the two cases above named.

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the following named persons, to-wit: To Allen Hammond, Esq., of Rocltvilie,-Tol-land comity, Conn., or to George Kellogg, Esq., former agent of the New England Company at that plac*, for the use and

CRAWFORDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, DECEMBER 10, WHOLE NUMBER 913

Brown made also a second will, in which he authorizes the Sheriff of Jefferson county to sell his pikes and guns, and the proceeds to his wife, if they cau be found.—» This was made this morning.

Gov. Wise wrote a similar letter to the Sheriff of Jefferson county to the one he wrote to Gen. Taliaferro, as to the disposition of Brown's body. The gentlemen who nccompanifcd Mrs. Brown have kindly furnished me with the following statement:

They accompanicd Mrs. Brown to assist in disenterring and indentifying the remains of her sons, and to aid in bringing out the body of John Brown. In the former task they have been kindly aided byColonel Barbour and other citizens of Harper's Ferry. They found two graves, one containing three, and the other originally ten bodies. It was ascertained that the corpse of Watson Brown had been carried off by the surgeous for dissection. They found two bodies and supposed that one of them was that of Oliver Brown, but it was far gone in decomposition, and Mrs. Brown thought herself unequal to the task of recognition, so the bodies will be rc-cnterrcd here.

The body of John Brown arrived tonight at seven and a half o'clock, under an escort of the military, and was delivered by the undertaker to the gentlemen who accompany Mrs. Brown. It will leave at 3 o'clock in the morning. The party will stop in Philadelphia, where the remains will be placed in a metalic coffin, and taken without ostentation, to his old residence, North Elba Essex Co., New York. Brown himself has furnished a touching inscription for the tomb stone, which has not been allowed to transpire. Mrs. Brown, to-night, is quite unwell, but notwithstanding her indisposition, and the peculiar circumstances of her situation, she is annoyed by requests made lo see her by impertinent

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benefit of that Company also, fifty dollars the object which i3 kept mainly in view in COJSf

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to Silas Havens, formerly of Irvinsburg, I its construction. Louis Napoleon appears Summit county, Ohio, if he can be found, to be thoroughly impressed with the con- WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 5. Also, fifty dollars to a man formerly of viction that naval power, naval tactics, and SENATE.—The absentees were Ben-' Starke county, Ohio, who sued my father, in his lifetime, through Judge Humphreys, and Mr. Upson, of Akron, to be paid by J. R. Brown to the man in person, if he can be found. His name I cannot remember. My father made a compromise with the man, by turning out of the house and lot at Monrocville. I desired that any remaining balance that may become due from my father's estate, may be paid in equal amounts to my wife and to each of my children, and to the widows of Watson aud Oliver Brown, by my brother.

naval

warfare,

been occasioned by the military. Thc Kiiropc. The whole continent is bristling very questiou for themselves. In Indi- [Laughter troops will remain. Some few will be arms and armed men .and imagination ana the politicians hid and obscured the! The House took the vote by acclamation

that direction, the great Powers, as they

It is morally certain that this country has

not in reality weakened her powers of ag-J

gresionby a single soldier on land, or a

I rive to my 1 single ho'rse-power by sea, sincc she has

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at a cost of three dollars each. All the thority for stating the incessant activity of weighed 52 tons. In classification Bibles to be purchased at one and the same her dockyards all around her coa3t, from 'ai)^ arrangement we might also copj after,

time, for cash, and on the best terms. I Toulon to Cherbourg, and the nature of.

by the carelessness with which he seems! into the facts attending the late invasion to regard the personnel of its officers. He and seizure of the armor}- and arsenal at looks on them as the mere pilots or Char- Harper's Ferry by a baud 6f armed men, ons of his conquering troops. What he is jatul report whether armed resistance to so busily constructing are not so many frig-1 the authorities and public force of the ates and first rates, to rule the waves aud United States, and the murder of any citthunder on the deep, as vast floating and izens of Virginia, or any troops sent thero impregnable fortresses, which, eased steel and filled with armed legions, shall roll rcsistlcssly upon his enemies coasts, like the wheeled tower of old upon the besieged city, and there vomit forth its subjugating masses. Floating batteries, not manoeuveriug squadrons, is the Napoleonic idea of a navv and, if the conflict he engaged, he proposes to take his enemies vessels, not by sea, but by land, and to pull down maritime supremacy by making himself master of the territory which lays claim to it. Of course, all such preparations can only have in view what many persons regard as the final and inevitable struggle with Great Britain. "The Emperor will never be satisfied,"! heard a farsighted American remark the other day, "until he has humbled the pride of England." And there is too much reason to suspect still that that object always lies at the bottom of his heart.

Besides the unremitting labor of the dock-yards, tho coast defences arc an incessant object of attention. The forts at Cherbourg, especially, are being heavily armed with rifled cannon, in the midst of what is called "profound peace" and the entente cordialc. Every little harbor along the coast of Normandy and Brittany is being inspected, and more or less protected and put in a safer posture. 1 was surprised to sec the care with which the telegraphic wires arc being carried all round the coast to remote placcs, without railway

communication or commercial traffic, and

New York reporters. She has received a where they could serve no purpose what-ling the inclcmcncy of the weather, thero very affecting letter from Coppic, who ex- ever save that of signals and observations, jis the desired attendance of ladies on tho presses his deep regard, devotion and cs-|I believe I am stating a simple fact when! floor. There were the customary salutateem for her husband, and his sympathy for 1 say that, anions naval men themselves, ti»ns among the members and others, and herself. A letter was also received by the certainty of a great and decisive strug- a pleasant excitement prevailed everyBrown, from his son John Brown, Jr., gle for supremacy with England is looked where. which is well written and showed him to be upon as admitting of no other interposi- Mr. Allcii. Clerk ot the last House, call•'a chip of the old block." tion than that of time and opportunity.— ed the House to order at noon, 'ihc din

I have now given you all the facts of The great question is to secure the co

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WAIT IN I KANCE. PARIS, NOV. C, 1 Si'D. TIIIC 1)1 RI:UI:NCI:. Extreme disquietude and uneasiness, a Ohio is one of the few free States which sort of vague apprehension that we are! at the last election gave a larger J.)cmo-1 slowly but steadily drifting toward some cratic vote than she did in 1 N(', at the groat conflict and catastrophe, which shall Presidential election. There were more a re vi a a re in to ad a a in re

mandms omeer was compelled to rcmo\e ,- i,, i» ,, ,- A _i„„, is still the prevailing feeling of society, Ranney than President Buchanan recenthose who were on sentinel duty, and place ,, ,c and the most marked feature which the cd, although tne total \otc ol the St.ue w.is members ot the county military companies! NO-N I I I I...,

I ,. JI winter of 1 8t)9 opens upon us. I can hard--thirty (housuvi less. In 1 cnn.-\haiu.I the ird. Immediately alter the execu-

I (Ik, I lv pretend to explain this feeling, or ac- Democratic ..Mate ticket received siut heavy smoke was ob»er\ed to the

»i A ,,..,0 count practically for its origin and progress.! thousand less votes than resident Jn-south-east ot the town, and a report was ,,

existing in almost all circles of society in difference in the two States is this: In is a pi a a in a a

c0 atcd herc and finding

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moment connected with this exciting event, ration, or at least the amiable neutrality of! were excluded from the floor and the memand as the hour is very late, will here close Russia. If that could be firmly nscer- hers took their seats. The roll wa3 called mv report. itainod, the pretexts for a trial of strength and 251 members answered to their names. —»o I would, probably, not be long found want-: The absentees were S trill worth and TnrIK'»Oi:s PllfCIWItATIONS roil jUr, Bandronn, of .Alabama: Brown find Adams, of Kentucky Hindinan and Kuss, of

iect of comment and remark bv natives of: ular Sovereignty grounds, while in I'enn- Numerous voices (impatient,) "Call tho

sub-Ohio the Democrats took Territorial Pop-

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equivocal posi- roll."

ition 'flic same difference maybe seen in The Clerk appointed Houston, Corwin. subdued the votes of Indiana and Illinois. The Adrian and Briggs tellers.

a cautious vent in the well sifted columns, tones of the public press. As I have said, Democratic vote in Illinois was 22,(."""Jj Mf- Morenco said, in listening to

prevailing and sombre impressions President. In Indiana it w.-r-s 12,OHII ,.r members were absent in order to enable

viction that they are not mere chimeras of test two years previous. In Illinois the the House adjourn till to-morrow.

Charlestown is very quiet, the popula- tlie brain, is t'_o surely demonstrated to Democrats made the issue clear and dis-j John Cochrane—I hope the gcntlcmau tion are not excited, and have never been, jeave

d0ubt upon the mind when we look tinct that the people of a Territory, like will withdraw the motion.

Much has been said of late on the sub- The South may go out of the Union when jmark of their friend.-hip and regard. ject of "disarming" since the last war but I the institution of slavery is seriously at- Mr. Burnett moved nn adjournment, io in point of fact it would appear, that so far tacked in the States where it exists but be determined ov yeaand nays. from anything having been really done in they will hardly deem it of sufficient cause Mr. Clark: o. fissouri, wanted to mikn

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daughter Ruth Thompson, my large Bible each of daughters, son, and good a chased Boston, cash, to be paid out of the proceeds of my I above all, in her marine that I ranee has h0]e country into districts so small that, father's estate. I give to each of my'never ceased for one instant todevrlop in-ia man could collect the statistics ot these:'5 ic qua ...ni.ns ot .omc .1 t.o., noi..

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desire to have fifty dollars each paid oat of these preparations is even more remarka-j the final proceeds of my father's estate, to ble than the rapidity and extent of them, S6?"0n a trial at Milwaukee a am in a It if at a a tho sources of mv information, but Ibe-|were $19,000 last year. ,-

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in the strict sense of those ijamin, Clay, Crittenden, Davis, Douglas,

terms, are at an end. In his view, ships I Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Hammond. Johnson, of arc now only to be constructed for the pur- Arkansas Polk, Sebastian, Seward, and pose of carrvini and landing large bodies: ioomos. of troops with speed and safety and with 1h« Senate was called to order at half true militarv prejudice, these latter are to past one clock by the \ice President.— be regarded as tho only engines of modern A prayer was then made by Dr. Gurlcy. warfare. Steam, in his eyes, has more Forty-eight Senators were present. than revolutionized navies it has almost John C. 'J en Eycke, of New lork, and, destroyed their influence in the decision of Henry P. Ilanna, of California, both apnational struggles, by bridging over seas pcared with their credentials, and, wcrcw and rendering all coasts accessible to in-j qualified. vading armies. At this moment, while so vastly increasing his mere amount of tonage, the Emperor almost offends his navy

Mr. Mason, of Va., submitted a resolution, which he would call up to-morrow, for the appointment of committee to inquire

to protect public property whether such invasion was made under color of any organizatiun intended to subvert the govern•» incut of any of the States of the Union the character and extent of such organization, whether any citizens of the United States, not present, were implicated therein or accessory thereto by contribution of money, arms, munitions, or otherwise tho character and extent of the military cquip: ments in the hands or under the control of said armed band where, how, and when the same was obtained, and transported to th? place invaded.

Also, to report what legislation, if any, is necessary by the Government for the future preservation of the pcacc of the country and the safety of public property.— The committee have full power to send for persons and papers.

Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, gave notice that when the resolution came up lie sho'd move to amend, by extending the inquiry to the seizure of the arsenal at Franklin, Missouri.

The customary resolutions were adopted to inform the House of Representatives and the President that the Senate was ready for business.

Mr. Gwinngavc notice of a Pacific Railroad bill. HOUSE.—The interest in the organization of the Honse is, if possible, On tho increase. Long before noon the galleries were densely filled,-and crowds were unable to obtain idmiss?on. Notwithstffnd-

ot voices immediately ceased, spectators

Arkansas, and Hamilton, of Texas. On motion of Mr. Phelps, the House agreed to proceed to ihc election of Speaker viva voce.

Mr. Houston nominated Mr. Sherman, of Ohio. Mr. Adrian nominated Mr. Jbvi.°. of Indiana.

Mr. Haskitijiominatc.d.Mr. Hickman,.of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stephens nominaied Mr Grow,"of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Briggs nominated Mr. Boctlcr, cf Virginia.

lorzer in 1S5S than it was in J-SoG for call or the roll, ne noticed that several

ijOO less in Sf.s than it was at the con- them to participate in the election, I move

g]a!)C^ upon the position of those of a State, should determine the sla Mr. Cobb—On, let iio hare one vole.—

fancy that it saw in the populations issue, and the consequence was a large I annd great laughter. of the old world at this moment, a repc- falling off in our vote.—C'in. En'j. tition of the fabled crop of dragon's teeth, waiting only for the fatal stone to be castj SOUTH CAIJOI.I.VA. amongst them to turn and consumate each We again hear the hoarse cry of

18th, 1859.—I give to my son John Brown: Jr., my surveyor's compass and other sur-j other's destruction. From the veyors's articles, if found also, my old of Calabria and Sicily to the steppes of I nor of that State, in his message, is of the win, Adrian, Hill, Hickman, Pennmgto granite monument, now at North Elba, N. Russia, from the pillars of Hercules to the opinion that a dissolution of the Confeder-, each Ilaskin, 2 McQueen, 1. Y., to reserve upon its two sides a further frontiers of Christianity and Islamism, ev- acy i3 inevitable, and advises the Legisla- No one having received a majority of tns inscription, as I will hereafter direct said ery people is up in arms as though waiting ture to make military preparation to meet votes cast, stone monument, however to remain at I and expecting to attack or be attacked the contingency. They made preparation Mr. Grow rose and said: As I desirn North Elba so lonf as any of my children I some for, some against their rulers or gov-! nearly thirty years ago for a similar event,: in no way to retard the organization of tb" or my wife may remain there a3 residents, eminent, some to vindicate new liberties, but the crisis did not arrive: and we are House, 1 withdraw rrry name as a candisome to protect old ones, but all equally ow decidcdly of the opinion that the date. I assure these gentlemen, who in fermeuted and excited by an armed agita- Union will last a great deal longer than kindness cast their vote fur mc, that I eha tion. the S^b Carolina Governor anticipates, treasure, through life, so distinguished

mountains union* from South Carolina. The 2 Phillips, 1 Gilmer, Nelfcrn,5 Corou.

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to do so for alleged encroadhments upon

are called, have ever since stood to their! the institution is the Territories, where it

arms, and the smaller or weaker ones are nerer existed or had a chance of obtaining Burnett objected to his proceeding, doing their best to imitate the exrmple.— a foothold.—Cin.Enq.

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Mr. Florence withdrew his motion, and the House proceeded to vote. Fir.-t vote for Speaker—Sherman, Gt) 'Dis-! Bocock, 80 Grow, A'i Boeder, 14 Davi?.

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right as an individual member to speak. I deny the power of the House to deprive ri^ht. I dccids for mvielf."

i, one lawver me of that other lawyer (Cries of go oa, go on.) Mr. Curtis—What part of the Conbiitu