Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-11-26
From the Inlepenlent.
A PERSONAL INTERVIEW WITH CAP
TAIN BROWNS WIFE.
VISIT OF A LADY TO the cuAstKsrowS JAIL.

hasty account OF q personal interview last evening
with Mrs. NJ ,ry Brown, wife Of Capt. John Brown,
now under sentence Of death in Virginia for hsv-
iog bravely filled ia a brave deed.
| nm scarcely at liberty to mention at what
place Mrs. Brown has lately been staying or
whose hospitality she has been sharing. l may
say, however. that after her return from Balti-
moro, where she was stopped on her half made
journey to her husband, she has been the guest Of
a family residing in ore Of the most beautiful re-
gions Of a neighboring state, who have proved
themselves kind friends not only to herself but 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
n visit to Capt. Brown in his prison at CHARLES
town 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.. Sennott, the counsel for her husbands de-
fensc.
1 o~ouversed with her during tho entire evening.
But only ten minutcs' acquaintance is enough to
show that she is q woman worthy to DO tho wife
Of such u man. She is tall, large, and muscular,
giving the impression at FIRST sight of a frame ca-
pabse of great strength and long endurance. Her
face is grave and thoughtful, wearing, even in
this hour Of her trial, an expression Of soberness
rather than of sadness, as if, like her husband.
she had long since learned how to suffer and be
calm, Her manner is singclarly quiet and retir-
ing, although her natural simplicity and m0des:y
cannot hide the evident force of character, and
strength of will and judgment, which have fitted
her so long to be q counselor in her husbands
enterprises and q Importer in his trials.
She is a native of Whitehall, near Lake Cham
plain, and has been the mother of thirteen chill
dren; but, Notwithstanding the cares OF hor numer-
Gus family, and her many privations and struggles
independent of household burdens, she still ap-
pears as fresh and bale as if she were only now
in the prime and yigor Of life.
A NEWSPAPER CORRECTION.
The conversation, Of course, WINS of the scenes
of Harper's Ferry-both those which have already
been enacted, and those which are shortly to fol-
low. She alluded, with subdued though evident
emotion, TO the wounds of her husband, and to
the loss Of her two sons, Watson and Oliver, who
fell in the struggle. But she made no such re-
mark as that recently attributed to her in q New
England newspaper, chat four Of her sons had
already been slain, and she would be willing that
oil the rest of her family should be made a sacri-
Zee, if necessary, to the cause Of freedom" These
words, she said to me, could never possibly have
fallen from her lips; for she bad already felt too
many griefs to court any fresh sacrifices; and she
could not think, without pain. of a2y new death
etroko to her family. She would not shrink from
any necessary trial or struggle when the hour
same for it, bus she could not look forward with
composure to any further lessenirg of her family,
already too sadly broken. She regretted that such
a remark should have been put in her mouth,
"for," as she observed, "they were unmotherly
words"
She said that she had been so long accustomed
to sorrows that she had been trained to bear them
While living in Ohio, four Of her children died
from dysensery, within eteren days, three Of whon
rere carried to tie grace together on the same day
She mentioned, in this connections, that her hus
band had always been a watehful nurse and tn,
chief care-taker Of the children, and of herself
during periods Of sickness.
CAPT. BRowN's RELIGIOUS CHARACTER. ..
I advsrted, in abiding to Capt. Browns reli
gious opinions, to the common report that he wa
an Old School Presbyterian. She replied that h
had Leen a church-member ever since he vas
boy; that he united, at sixteen years of age, will
a Congregational church in Hudson, Ohio; an
that on removing to Pennsylvania, thirty year
ago, he transferred his membership to the Pre-;
byterian church, with which he had since remain
ed connected. She said that the religious elemer
of his character had always been the ruling me-
tive of his life. lie had always observed rel
gious exercises in bis household with e~xemplar
regularity. 1t had been for many years the Gu
tom Of the family to read the Bible every morninI
in regular course Of chapters, each member rea(
ing ia turn q verse. She said that her husband
familiarity with texts of Scripture was SO gre,
that be could detect almost the slightest misqu,
tation of any passage, and that if u portion of
worse IN almost any part of the Bible were rea
or repeated to him, he could Immediately rerei
the remainder. His conversation frequent
abounded with Scripture texts, and his letteI
were always filed with them.
/ asked if she knew what were his favorite pa
sages, to which she replied
"IIe had q great many; but one was, Remen6,
them that are in bonds as bound wih Them"
How molly his life has proved his deep-heartc
sympathy for the slave!
In his habits of living his wife testified that
was always singularlY self-denying. As an e
ample, he never suffered himself or his family
wear expensive clothing. His standing admon
tion was, LET US save the money, and give to tb
poor" Day before yesterday, when some clothe
were sent from New York to Mrs. Brown to 90 i
q box to her husband. among The articles was
new coat of fine brown cloth, which, when il, wa
shown to her. she Immediately pronounced too ga
for her husband to wear. 1t was accordingly sen
back; and last evening there came in return
coarser coat. which would better suit his taste
and which the brave old Puritan might not thin
too good for him to put on He never in his Iii
has used tobacco or ardent spirits. and neve
until within the last few gears, has taken tea
coffee. His mode of living has been SO rigid
temperate that, in Kansas. he would sometime
20 for days with scarcely a moutbful of food, an
suffer NO ~faintness or exhaustion.
so us LONG MEDiTArED DESIGN.