The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-12-02

INDICATED at least, so far as Brown was con-
cerned; for to-day at noon his body was seen
by thousands dangling between heaven and
earth. Every writhe, and twist, and turn
of his body, while pendant from his gallows,
was deadly blow to fanaticism; every sti-
fed groan which his hempen cravat smoth-
cred ere they were born, was warning to
fanaticism every movement of his muscles,
| every contortion of his body, was at once
| lesson and an example to the cowardly and
unprincipled scoundrels whose tool he was.
They may be disposed to try the same
scheme again, but they will hardly find such
fools as old Brown and his fellow thieves
again. They will never find another set of
men who will undertake to steal our proper
ty and murder us; for the example of old
Brown will be forever before them, and will
deter them from the attempt.
Old Brown was seen dangling upon his
gallows to-day-with the minds eye-by
thousands and thousands of the citizens of
this country, and while we do not think that
the Southern people exult in blood, yet do
outraged laws have been indicated and JUS
tice has been melted out to one OF the most
daring, unprincipled, and unthinking scoun-
drels that ever blackened the foulest page of
history. The South has been awakened from
her quiet and insecure slam Der, and is now
upon her guard, and woe ! woe! to the man
or set OF men who dare undertake to follow
the dictates of those fanatical fools who urg-
ed old Brown on to his hellish deeds, and af-
ter getting his neck in a nosoe, only offer him
sympathy and will finally deny him entirely.
To those of the North who saw him wheth-
er with their optics, or with the visual orb
of the mind, be will prove warning, a
fearful warning, of how we treat those
who violate our laws and the brist-
ling wall of bayonets which surround
him will teach them that we are not only
determined to yindicate our laws, but that
we are perfectly able in every sense of the
term.
Coon BoYs.-Bill Black and Bull Griffin
are honest men, according to Hamlet's idea
of their vocation. They are both endowed
by nature with a superabundan ce of muscle,
and a phrenologist would probably discover
on their crania an abnormal development of
the organ of "combattiveness." For long,
long time these two elegant gentlemen have
been on most intimate terms. as intimate as
ever was Tam O'Shanter and Souter John
ny, and some portion of Burns poem desert
bling the relationship existing between Tam
and the son of Crispin, would be applicable
to the two "good boys" who are the burden
of our song. Strange then that these two
worthless should fall out but there's no tell
ing what may happen in this strange and
ever changing world, for even stranger
things than that has happened and will con
tinue to happen, and so this happened. 1t
appears that they had been fighting old
Hall-commonly known as Alcohol-who
had given them dig in the abdomen. which
affected their beads and appeared to oper-
ate on Bills bump OF 'combattiveness: when
he reached Cove street he was making sun
dry graceful and doubtless scientific gestic
ulations' which led.an admiring crowd of
little boys to believe that he was going, at
one "fell blow" to annihilate Bull, which
blow was to come as soon as Bill could sat
isfy his own mind that he had turned and
twisted his huge fists about sufficiently to en-
able him to concentrate all his science and
strength in his elbow and do the job decent
ly. Meanwhile he was muttering to himself
in dialect peculiarly his own, something
about "I'm a man." "I'm a Virginian;"
"Im ID if l cant just whip anything out
of town." &C., &C., leading us to conviction
that he felt at that moment
The stern joy which warriors feel
In foeman worthy OF their steel.
But Bill had mistaken his man! Bulls
bump of "combattiveness'' was not affected,
was mt even "ried", his "dander wasn't
up and he took no notice of Bill, but contin-
ued to sing that patriotic song columbia
the Gem Of the Ocean," in most melodious
voice, which appeared to be cross between
cracked clarionet and screeking cart
wheel. Finally Bill turned his attention to
neighboring lamp post, and threatened
and dared, and abused the post in the most
shameful manner. The post however, was
as immovable as Bull, and as little disposed
to fght it was also much more quiet than
Bull, who by this time was exceedingly bu-
sy in dividing his time between board
fence which he was holding up, his song
which had run in to all kinds of airs and d.
vers kinds of notes, and the crowd of ragged
urchins at whom he leveled all kinds of
oathes, in all conceivable tunes, and here we
left them wondering if these were fair speci-
mems of the f. f. VS., we hear spoken of
at the north with so much dirision.
We have since learned, however, that