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 ton county, loaded with rifles, pistols and bikes. Sheriff Houk is now on the look.
 out for them.
 A gentleman named John Cu,chbert.
 son. who resides in Chambersburg. Pa.,
 informs us that Cooks wife did certainly
 go to Harrisburg on Tuesday, and took
 boarding at the same place where Browns
 daughter-in-aw has been lodging for the
 last two or three weeks. Cooks wife
 left the Ferry several days before the dis.
 turbance broke out. The stagedriver Q
 the Chambersburg line also confirms the
 statement in regard to her going to liar
 risburg.
 AN INTERVIEW WITH OLD BROWN.
 HARPER's FERRY, Oct. 20, 1859
 had an interview on yesterday with
 John Brown, the chief of the insurgents
 who took possession of Harper's Ferry.
 He was lying in the paymaster's office, inside of the national armory,in company
 with one of his brother conspirators named
 Stephens, both of them wounded, the
 former not seriously, by a sabre cut from
 Lieutenan, Green, of the marines, and
 the latter dangerously, by several rife
 shots. With the details of the transac-
 ton your readers are familiar The num-
 Der were only nineteen; but the prepara-
 lions for a stubborn maintenance of their
 position were complete, based upon the
 delusive fancy that thousands of slaves
 and on-slaveholding whites would rush
 to their standard. For the purpose of arming these expected recruits, they had 400 of the Massachusetts Arms Con- pany's naval revolvers, 200 sharps rifles, and 1000 spears, made of heavy piece of iron, with an iron guard mounted on neatly turned staff, which were found at the farm he had rented few miles from the Ferry, together with blankets, cloth ing, and everything necessary for cam palgn.
 Browns chests were stocked with every thing. He had writing paper and pen cis, to use in issuing bulletins to his army; dressing for wounds; surgical inslru- ments--in fact everything that human in- genuity could devise as essential for a military expedition. He evidently did not intend merely gathering n few hun dred slaves and marching them off to free State. He emphatically disclaims this purpose, but says it was his intention to have placed arms in their hands as quick as they came. to enable them to fight for the liberty of all their class Nor did he believe that the contest would soon be over. To use lis own language on the night he stopped the train, This is not the work of day. or a week, nor month, but much longer time" His purpose was to have rallied a force at the Ferry. of which the small number he began with was but nucleus, and then to maintain desperate resist ance until instruction had penetrated every corner in the South, and success had crowned the movement so madly begun by him. He was entirely ignorant of the character of our negro population, and wildly supposed that the philosophy of the !" irrepressible confict." had its thousands of believers in the South, who needed but bold leader like him to develop their feelings and rally them around his ban ner. He said to me that he never knew slave in hisif who did not jump up with | joy at the suggestion of freedom to him, and that he supposed many of them would have instantly avaIed themselves of the opportunity to keep in motion this move- ment. which would have eventually. in his opinion. set them all free. There never was such picture Of delusion as he exhibited. He was ac,ualed, he said, by the idea expressed by Gerrit Smith, that the time for moral suasion had passed by, and that the means used by him was the only one practical to effect the object they had in view.
 During my presence in the room with Brown he was subjected to a courteous examination with his own consent, for their own information. by Senator Mason, of Virginia, and the Hon. c. L. Valland- ingham. He answered all their questions to such an extent as would eliminate him. self; but when question was put with the view of getting at the connection of other parties in the free States with him, he would decline answering, showing that he has within his breast the knowl- edge of colleagues in the conspiracy, which, if exposed, would dethrone them from high political power in the free States.
 This Brown is the most remarkable | man of the kind this country has ever pro- duced The story of Guy Hawkes. dwin- dies into insignifcance alongside of his. His appetite for revolution was engender- ed in Kansas. Stimulated by connec- ton with the emissaries of the Emigrant Aid Society sent there to defeat peace ful solution of the question as to what the institutions of Kansas should be. Brown appears to know no such thing as fear, and awaits his fate like man who cares nothing for life. He is complete bun de of nerves. The Bible, he says, jusli- 6es him in what he did, and he has no excuse to make for it, but glori6es the act.
 The movement was initiated in May, 1859. at a convention held in Chatham, where constitution of govern ment was formed, thousands of the copies of which were found in his trunk.
 This convention elected him Command er-in-chief. Ever since then he has been engaged making the necessary ar co. ., Thra. ,x,ortha n rr.> L<, ,