Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-12-14
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. LIST, 1855

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1st, 1859.
Messys. EdttorS-The weather has been
delightfully."- fine. and pleasant here for the
past week, warm, and clear, giving the city
the aspect of spring The. grass in the
capital grounds, looks fresh and green, and
were it not theg fist day of winter, the APP
pcarance would remind one that spring was
in reality approaching, or that autumn was
passing away. Members of Congress, and
those seeking places as clerks, and other
employees Of the House, are daily arriving
so that Washington begins to show signs of
that activity and hustle, which usually pre-
raiis during a.s;ssion of Congress. Specu-
lation is active, as to the organization of
the House, but nothing definite can be-
known until lo o'clock.'on Monday next,
the constitutional time for the meeting of
Congress. The most common, and indeed
the only absorbing topic of conservation, at
the Capitol. in Hotels. and in the streets,
is relative to John Brown. Gov. Wise and
his militia. a large majority of which have
to pass through Washington in route for
Harper's Ferry, and CharIestown. Nir-
ginia is a great State, and is engaged in a
great work. Gov. Wise has issued his proc
limation, and the old dominion is about to
he put under Martial law. 1t is estimated
that the captrue, trial, conviction, and ex-
ecution of Brown, and his comrades, will
have cost the State of Virginia it least one
hundred thousand dollars. a few more
such trials would materially lesson its (Fir-
ginia) State stocks in Wall St and in Eu-
rope, and it is already whispered that her
stocks are on the decline.
1 suppose that you have noticed in the
papers. how vigilant her sentinel soldiers
are, when on duty at CharlestOwn, one of
them a few nights since, saw an object APP
preaching. which he suspected to be a black
republican from Ohio, or some other free
state; and how he challenged it to stand,
and it stood not, but continued to advance
against the force and effect of the military
order made for the occasion, and %thereupon
he fired at, but did notht the object, which
proved to be a HACK COW. The god poo
pie of Charlestown became much alarmed,
and imagined that a thousand or more of
the rescucrs of Brown, were upon them,
AID that the telegraphic absurdities an
nouncing the gathering of armed hosts in
Ohio, and other localities. were true, and
thercEpon they fastened more closely their
doors. put out their lights, ana betoOk them
selves to hiding generally. 1T is con-
science that makes towards Of some pee
pie. The old COW should be forthwith
indited for treason against the State of
Virginia The following form under the
recent ruling Of her courts would probably
De SuHtSleQSl .- ---- 4- /
The State of Virginia IN +bo conrt &,
Jefferson County, f0"F'Sc
The grand Jurors sc. being duly empan-
nellcd, sworn, and charged upon their oaths
aforesaid. find and present. that one black
cow in the city of Charlestown, in the
said County of JefcRon. and within the
jurisdiction of this court, on the Goth day
of November, in the year of the invasun of
John Brown, one, and in the night season,
not having the fear of Gov. Wise before
her eyes. but being instigated b. the .'ir-
resistible conflict Between the freedom of
locomotion. and the slavery of restraint.
when challenged to stand, by our faithful
seminal on duty appointed, refused. and
did then and there, wilfully. wickedly. and
maliciously,. continue to walk against the
statutes In such case made and provided,
and against the peace and dignity of the
State of Virginia, and to the great c~onster-
nation. and alarm of the citizens of Charles
town in the peace then and then being. and
thereby the grand jurors aforesaid. do find
and charge, that said black COW is guilty
of treason, and ought to be hanged By the
neck until she be dead.
The papers inform US, that numerous ar
rests have been made in Virginia, and 9TH
er slave states, Of persons who sympathized
with John Brown, and that they have been
thrown into Jail, or compelled to give bonds :
in Large sums, to answer the charge of Sc q
dition. On Wednesday of this wetk, three
Of Ohio, merchants, on their way |
to the city of Baltimore on business, while
travelling in the cars of the Baltimore &
Ohio R. r., were forcibly seized by armed 4.
of Virginia and taken into custody, G
we're with great difficulty released, and al Z
owed to proceed upon their journey. 1t t
.ppearsthat some n at Grafton, pro-sla- :
rery spy. very likely a Government official, /
lad heard these men express sympathy for 4
John Brown, and utter anti-slavcry sent a
and thercupon sent a telegram to the t
authorities ola small town, on the B. 60. !.
;. R., giving a description of them, on the 0
trength of which they were arrested. The l.
lave states are thus furnishing conclusive v
violence of that a~ntagonism between free !
IOm and slavery, for the statement Of which !.
Coy. Seward in his Rochester speech. lie 4
bcea denounced asa brutal and blooly' /,
raitor by The press of the south, and by
he democratic press of the north A case =
f this kind has just occurred in this Dis q
riot, the laws of which and its police reg S
are under the exclusive jurisdie- d
Of the United States. and the free a:
tates therefore are responsible for this state :
{ thingss 81 the National Capital. There b
nth send YOU the Star published in this Al