New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-16
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
THE FATE OF BROwN-THE BUCHANAN VICTORY
-GIRARD'S HEIRs-BUsINEss AND MONEY
IDLE HANDs-FUEL FOR THE PoOR-REPUDIA-

THE FATE OF BkOWN-IHE bUChANaN 'NAohi
-GIRARD's HEIRs-BUsINEss AND MONEY
IDLE HANDs-FUEL FOR THE PoOR-REPUDA-
TION.
From Our Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. II, 1859.
Gov. Wise has numerous friends in this city. l
do not mean political supporters, because events
have not yet taken shape to require them to show
their hands, But he has personal friends, with
whom he may be in correspondence some of whom,
learn, profess to be able to foresee his action in
the case of Brown and his companions. 1t is al
legged that the pressure the Governor from every
quarter of the South demanding that the prisoners
he hanged, is fierce and unexampled, and that even
il lie were disposed to commute Browns sentence,
this pressure is strong that he will find himself
constrained to yield to ii. 1t would seem that
slaveholdng vengeance can be gratfed with nothing
short of death to all the misguided prisoners. 1t
NAV be that political calculation is to be mingled in
the decision Brown has SO far been treated as a
trump card in the hands of the Democracy, and
that card will undoubtedly be played with
determination 10 win. But many persons be-
lieye that Gov. Wise, no matter how erratlc
and impusive he may be, will not be forced by any
pressure, whether from the North or South, to do
any act winch nc docs not DtlcNt anu pIOPtl
under the circumstances. OF all others, he Is per-
haps the very man TO form fair and generous esti
mate of the antecedent conduct and present merits
of poor Brown. What an opportunity he now has
to sgnalize himself as occupying the lOitiest posi-
ton among humane and noble men. The prisoner
is an old man, whose life, in the common run, can
not be protracted many years. If he is danger
Gus fanatic to the SOath he be put out of harms
way within prison for the brief remainder of his
life. Such Communication might exasperate por-
ton of the South, but they would in time acquiesce
in it. The North would look upon it not as con-
eession extorted either by policy or fear, but as
magnanimous tender of the olive branch. The
opinion here is almost universal that the sparing of
Browns life and the permitting him to end his days
in prison would not only insure TO him punishment
enough, but that an effort 10 that end would place
Gov Wise in higher position than he has ever
occupied in public estimation. Yet IT must De con-
fessed that all the indications point the other way
1t is conceded that the Buchanan ofice-holders
here have bought their way through into majority
of Delegates to the Convention which is TO choose
Delegates 10 Charleston All this is with eye to
put Buchanan himself on the track for a second
| term. Every art of official hope and terror was
exhausted to secure this result the Post Office,
| Custom House, and Navy-Yard turning out with
shameless impudenee, their crowds of employees to
| override the rank and file. Even the Mint has
| been degraded to the same low partisan object
I'm 10 Cen Jacksons time, this institution was kept
untanted BY this form of corruption but since then
it has undergone the fate of every other public trust
| which has fallen under Democratic rule Ii is now
degraded 10 a headquarters of the most ultra part
sanship. Al ts understrsPpers, from clerks down