Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-11-25

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"0h, won't that be gay y
ayes, indeed
: aOb, Paul, may he here to see /
VISA could wait 'ii' 1t vas all done
paul laughs, and looks admiriugly en-
the vivaciJus speaker
"Then, Paul, they'll catch those other
Williams, Gliding, and all those, aud hang
them, too, woi.,t they -
I'VE hope 81"
"Oh, must be here, P4ul g, M some
water"
Water, gentle lady, why iii you not
ak for blood II would have better sat
i,fsi your particular thirst, know.
Curiosity of the Negroes.
People may say what they please Of
the indifference Of the negroes to the pass
ing events, but it Is not true. They burn
with anxiety to learn every particular, bat
they fear to show it. i hotel servant bu-
sled himself the whole morriag a day or
two ago to extract from me something con-
cerning the prospects of Brown, without
appearing to ask direct question. At
last told him he'd better say what he
wanted "Well, Sir" he said very tim
idly, ''what do you think they II D., after
all, with Mr. Brown | told bjm they
would surely hang him 'Wel,, uow,'
he siil, argumeutatively, '.ion't YOU see
It would be a pity To DO apythingso 'brup;'
told him that II Brown were no, di,pos-
ed Of, the people in Virginia would think
themselves in bad seTape. ''Pity they
wasn't" said be, shutting away, very
much discomposed
The Tribune.
think the people here do not Ike TuE
TRIBUNE. It's circulation Is forbidden,
but J, leaks in nevertheless. saw man
today tear a copy with his teeth, after
reading something that di>p!ea-ed him.
was surprised that 50 nceudiary 4 d9eu-
mcnt did not burn hi, mouth.
John Brown, Letter To Mrs.. Child.
Mrs. LYDIA MARIA CuLb, the ceie-
bra,ed philanthropist anl authoress, not
knowing that Capt. Brown had any living
female friends, wrote a prjrafe letter to
him, enclosed in 4 letter to Gov. Wise,
Offering to GO to the place of Brown con-
tiuemeat, aud wait upon him. She hal
no desire to make a public matter of it,
but Gov. Wise wrote long reply, uos
very manly as we thought, accusing her
and others Of the blood "a. Harper Ferry,
saying she might g. if she chose at her
own risk, but she hal better not, &c.
Mrs. Child was Dot pleased with this
.'chivalric' exposure Of her private letter,
but as it has appeared, she also publishes
the following calm and touching letter
from Capt Brown, in reply
.s.-..'---
F,teaa (sueh YOU prove to be, though
stranger: Your most kind letter has
reached me, with the kind Offer to come
here and take care Of me. Allow me 10
express my gratitude for your great sym
pathy, and at the same time 10 propose to
YOU different course, together with my
reasons for wishing it. lshould certainly
be greatly pleased to become personally
with Que SO gifted ard so kind,
bat l can not avoid seeing some objections
to it, under present circumstances First,
am in charge of 4 most humane gentle
man, who, with his family, have rendered
me every possible attention have desired,
or that could be of the least advantage;
and am SO far recovered from my wounds
as no longer to require nursing. Then,
again, it would subject You to great per-
sonal Inconvenience and heavy expense, .
without doing me any good.
Allow HE to name to you another chan
mel, through which you may reach me
with your sympathies much more efee;u-
ally. have at home a wife, aud three
young daughters, The youngest but little
over five years Old, the Oldest nearly six
teen. | have also two daug ghters-iI-law,
whose husbands have both fallen near me
here. There is also another widow, Mrs.
Thompson, " hose husband fell here. Whe-
luCr sue Is UOtuCT vi uut, L tdu H't say
All these, my wife included, live at North
Eba, Essex county, New York. l have
, middle-aged son, who has been, III some
legree, a cripple from his childhood, who
IS oud have as much as he could well do
90 earn living He was amost dreadful
sufferer iu Kansas, and lost all be laid up.
He has not enough to clothe himself for
he Winter comfortably. have no living
.on. or sou-iu-law, who did not suiier ter
IDLY in Kansas.
Now, dear friend, would you not as
oon contribute fifty cents now, and like
um yearly, for the relief of those very
,oOr and deeply afflicted persons? To Gu
.ble them to supply themselves aud their
hildren with bread and very pain cloth
ng, aud to enable the children to receive
common English education VIII you
.lso devote your own energies to induce
,,hers to Join you in giving Ike amount,
n any other amount, to constitute little
IL r,- tho nurnose named