The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-11

Virginia. .
The Court however, has handed The prisoner 10
the United States Marshal paying attention to the OBJ
jections Of Mr.. Harding
CnAIuxsrowx, Nov. I0-l0PM
The Court to-day sentenced Cook and all the other pr
soners 70 be hung the 10th Of December. II is sup
posed that Governor Wise will respite Brown and hang all
the day The Court has adjourned for the term
OLD JOHN BROWN AND THE POTTAwATo-
NILE MASSACRE
correspondent Of tho New York Tribune named Rcd
path the history OF Old Browns acts In Kan
Sos which we published last week from the Lawrence
Herald Of Freedom stated that OF tho therein
contained fabricaons md in roply to tho assertion
that has been denied in Kansas that old John
Brown the leader Of the foray which resulted in the
cold bleoded massacre Of five or six Potsawaso
mile creek this correspondent prOnoances IL false, and
asserts that Brown great many miles distant from
tho scene OF that murderous attack at the time it was
committed. 1t will be seem from tho following extract
from the Chicago Press and Tribune OF Nov. 8, whose
black republcansm presume will not be doubted that
that paper confirms the statement made by tho Herald Of
Freedom but sets up plea in extcnunton of the bloody
crime:--
party Of 1--WE Of Baford's rufans fell in with Brown
while the latter was out surveying Taking him for one
Of CAhouns subalterns the Kansas survey, they told
him that they were charged with tho errand OF taking
Browns life, and they had soemnly sworn do IT, They
Gid no. know their victim personally, but they 70
TO his honse where they would make short work of all tho
inmates. Brown parted from them with the remark that
they would probably find the person they wanted At
horne The sequel is known. The would be murdcrers
spared the crime which they had in contemplation
country by few years. Whatever tie responsibility Of tie
act is that Of John Br0,sn and other, IF r,mor Is
ret in placing IL al his door,caih do mot question In
is worst light land do not to apologize for ,
not 70 be compared for moment with the Marais des
Cygnes massacre in the element Of cold biooded ferocy
After the Herald of Freedom there is journal hotter
posted tho history Of Kansas than the Chicago Press
and Tribune and the evidence contained in
worth more and will have weight in the community
than the assertions Of a thousand Redpaths
The last number OF the Herald Of Freedom "ventlates
tho history of Kansas with few facts concerning
the Pottawatome massacre. II says
Old Brown succeeded in getting seven to join his
company, one Of whom was Frederick Brown, son OF
the old man, who was subsequently shot while on his way
Ossawatonie the morning Of August 80, 1856 aud
not after he taken prisoner, has been alleged
Some of the surviving Of Old John Browns party
still reside in Kansas The curse Of Almighty God rests
On them and we have disposition expose them at
TO the public On the morning of May 25 OF
the heavy broadswords alluded to by last week. which
Old John Brown brought to Kansas, found leaning
against tent, wet with blood and covered with hair II
pronounced dogs hair, but soon after intelligence
received in camp Of the massacre Of the Wkensons
and boy les, On Pottawatome creek.
John Brown, Jr alluded to in the following extract is
the Of Old Browns who made TO walk thirty
miles with log chain around his cgs and who, accord
ing the statements recently made, died after OF
brain fever. He still living, and resides In Lndcnvile,
Ashtabula county, Ohio
John Brown, Jr, Immediately mounted his horse, in the
greatest possible excitement ordered his company to dis
band, and rode towards Ossawatome The news OF the
horid murder alluded TO adpreceded him. and tho peo
pie shocked his arrival there, because OF
and supposDg john J guilty Of the outrage, they turn
ed from him. He went from there TO the residence OF his
uncle Rev Mr. Adair, where he had sen, his wife aud
boy The reports or the awful murder Of his neghbors
the that his father, brother and six other
friends had been entity Of that terrible outrage and the
treatment he received at from his political
friends crazed him. He sought the woods, and wandered
about Tor days. with only an occasional CLEAN OF rcco!iec
on He became tangled In the brnshwood waded streams
sometimes out upon the open prairie, ana imagined
crowds pursuing him. For days he suffered only
sensitive and educated mind, wrecked by great wrong
like tho havo very briefly alluded to- could suffer-
lie remembers seeing his little boy once, and kissing him,
but call mind the mother. He learned by
that warrant out tor bis arrest charging him
With murder Conscious OF his innocence and having
still little spark Of memory, he resolved to give himself
up TO the authorities, which he did They believing him
guilty Of of the bascs crimes recorded in American
history, and hardly equaed in aocy by the sayages OF
the forest when led by revenge and Madness treated
him in a very bartarous Ii Is true that he
chained and marched in burning twenty i've
thirty miles, to what point We are not advised proba
bly, Paoa, but certainly not Lecompton. The fatigue,
burning sum- excitement and chains did not Of course,
improve his mental condition He continued wild with
dcirum, and when brought into camp with the
wanderra mind for many DAYS Afterwards. Yea. for
rnaths whenever vers,tiu turned as il sometimes
did mon No pottawa,omje murder And we attemntei
tn nvcse hs father for TINT act giving tho MITIGATING cir
cumsances current among free Jae mon at lie time his
Sauid snarlIe nn ontcd briilancy his ina ner
.onis asem the xxdest vehement and IN loud ANA
hos,a,ons .oica which was unconr,nn IN him on oher
ocrasnns ha would exclam uDo not attemnt "a Offer
envihng IN no,,iation Of such crime Nothnr can ex
cuse II II vas ,nrcnaed In atrocty and dspIayed only
cowardce. Had the same decd been done in open day
heir bads a. ynin;oh, aud to chi Than down in coJ
uioce5 he nr5,rm rhhs 81 Rro,so =, ",Gn y
And thug ha wonId run on for n long time much moro