Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-21

NcJ FOt Ctty News see third page.
For Market Reports aud Marine News see fourth
page.
From the N. Y, Independent, Nov. II.
Personal interview with Captain BrsvTn's
wife.
write this morning, on hoard steamboat,
hasty account Of personal interview last even.
ing with Ars mary Brown, wife Of Captain
John Brown, now under sentence Of death in
Virginia, for having braVely failed in brave
deed.
sm scarcely at liberty to mention at what
place Mrs. Brown has lately been staying, or
whose hospitality she has been sharing. | may
say, however, that after her return from Bati-
more, where sho was stopped on her half made
journey TO her husband she has been a guest
Of family residing in Que Of the most beauti.
full regions Of a neghboring State, who have
proved themselves kind friends not only to he,-
selfbu to her husband, and WHO were the more
glad to bid her welcome to their house, because
the lady of their household with her son, had
already made a visit to Capt Brown, in his
prison at Charlestown, since his sentence of
death. Mrs. Browns stay with these friends
terminated this morning. She is now on her
way to Philadelphia, to meet Mr.. Sennot, the
counsel for her husbands defense.
l conyersed with her during tho entire even
ing. But only ten minutes acquaintance is
enough TO show that she is woman worthy to
be the wife Of such man. She is tall, large
and musculargiving the impression at first sight
of a frame capable Of great strength and long
endurance Her face is grave and thoughtful,
wearing, even in this hour of her trial, an ex.
preston Of soberness rather than of sadness, as
il, like her husband, she had long since learned
how to suffer and be calm Her manner is sin>
galarly quiet and retiring, although her natural
simplicity and modesty cannot hide the evident
force Of character and strength Of will and
Judgment, which have fitted her so long to be a
counsellor in her husbands enterprise and a
supporter in his trials.
She is a native Of Whitehall, near Lake
| Champlain, and has beeA the mother of thirteen
| children but notwithstanding the cares of her
numerous family, aud her many privalions and
struggles Independent of household burdens, she
still appears as fresh and hale as if she were now
in the prime aud vgOr of life
NEWSPAPER CORRECTION.
The conversation, of course, was of the
scenes OF Harpers Ferry-both those which
| have already been enacted, and those which
arc. shortly to follow. She alluded with aubdued
though evident emotion, to the wounds Of her
husband, and to the loss of her two sons, Wat
son and Oliver, who fell in the struggle. But
| she made no such remark as that recently at.
tributed to her in New England Newspaper,
"that four of her sons had already been slain.
and she would be willing that all the rest of her
fumlly should be made a sacriios il necessary
to the cause Of freedom" These words, she
! said TO mc, could never possibly have fallen
| trnm her lips for she had already felt too many
grieia to court any flesh sacrifices; and she
could not think, without pain, of any new
death stroke to her family. She would not
shrink from any necessary trial or struggle
when the hour came for it, but she could not
look forward with sOmpoEurc to any further
esseninR OF her family, already too sadly bro.
ken. She regretted that such a remark should
have been put in her mouth, "lor," as sho OBJ.
served, they were unmothery words"
She said that she had been so long accus.
TONED to sorroWs that she had been trained to
bear them. Whilo living in Ohio four of her
children died, from dysentery, within eleven
days, three of whom were carried to the grave
together on tho samo day. She mentioned in
this connection, that her husband had always
been watchlul nurse and tho chief care-tsGer
OF the childron, and Of herself, during periods
of sickness
CAPTAIN BROWNS RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.
adVerIed, in alluding to Captain Browns
! religious opinions, 90 the common report that
he was an Old School Presbyterian She re-.
Piled that he had been church member ever
since he was boy; that he united, at sixteen
years Of age, with Congregational church in
Hudson, Ohio; and that on removing TO Penn.
sylyania, thirty years ago, lie transferred his
membership to the Presbyterian church, with
which he had since remained connected She
said that the religious element of his character
had always been the ruling motive Of his life.
lie had always observed religious exercises in
his household with exemplary regularity. 1t
| had lppu lnr = -
family TO read tho Bible, every morning, in
! regular course Of chapters, each member road.
ing in turn verse. She said that her bus-
bands familiarity with texts OF Scriptures was
so great that be could detect almost the
slightest misquotalon Of any passage, and that
| If portion Of u verse in almost any part of
ths Bible were read or repeated to him, he
could Immediately repeat the remainder. His
conversation frequently abounded with Scrip.
ture texts, and his letters wero always filed
with them.
/ asked if she knew what were his favorite
passages, to which she replied:
'He had great many; but one was, Remem.
Der them thai are IN bonds a. bound tDifh then, ~
In his habits Of living, his wife testified that
he was always singularly sell-denying. As
AN example, ho never suffered himself or bis
family to wear expensive clothing. His stand.
ing admonition was, Let us save the money and
give TO the poor" Day before yesterday, when
some clothes were sent from New York TO Mrs
| Brown, TO 90 in box TO her husband among
| the articles was q new coat of brown plotL
which, when il was shown 10 her, she imnedi
ately pronounced too gay for her husband TO
we r. 1t was accordingly sent back; and last
evening there came in return a coarser coat
which would better suit his taste, and which
the brave old Puritan might not think too good
for him to put On lie never in his life has
used tobacco or ardent spirits, and never untl
within the last few years, has taken te, or
coffee. His mode Of living has been so rigiJlv
| temperate, that in Kansas, he would sometimes
60 for days with scarcely n mGuihful Of food.
and sulleT no ianlness or exhaustion.
MS LONG-HgDlTATED DEsiGNa.
referred incidentally TO the desipn upon
HarpeT'a Ferry ss having been premeditated
for two years, to which she immediately replied
"Not for two years, but for twenty! He had
been waiting twenty years for somo opportu-
nifty TO FREQ the hlavee; we had all been waiting
with him tho proper time when he should put
his resolve into action, aud when at last tha
enterprise OF Harper'S Ferry was planned we
all thought that tho time had now come; Mr.
Brown was sanguinS Of success; we oil were
equally confident; he had no idea, nor did anv
Of the family, that theeIperiment would result
in defeat: We ell looked TO il as fulfilling the
hopes Of many years."
l wrote down these sentences few moment.
after they were uttered, and az l repeated them
she added
"For ho had borne tho yoke Of the oppress-
ed AZ IL uDOn his own neek faF thasa A. a,