The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-02
9irtlnnun qispatftl.
FRIDAY MORNING ~. DEC. .. isso.
AFFAlRS AT CHARLEsTOWN,


AFFAIRS AT CHARLEsT0wN.
More Ramers- .The Life of john Brswn-.
The Prissners-.T The Approaching Execa.
tion, &c,
FROM OUR OWN CoRRHsFoNDENT j
CHARLEsTowN, agth Nov, at night
Rumors have rot ceased even yet. The latest
reached our quarters since sunset this evening.
II bears that the notorious DIR. boy. who was
condemned TO the penitentiary In Missouri for
ave years, lthe offence negro stealing) and was
rescued by Old Brown is on the way from
kansas with body OF rufIinns to return the
favor, by rescuing his benefactor. The in tel
aaeed Iaaa ne was e make the attempt
nave sense enough 10 know when he is well
OIL, ana not venture within reach OF the
aaiier, when he can keep out of it. Honor
among tn1eves may do wetl enough to talk OF,
but OF its existence in point Of fact, I have
very great doubts. suspect old Brown him.
self would not believe in such a report were
ne TO hear il, for he knows the composition of
his friend too well to be credulous. Pirates
and outlaws of every description live in con-
sinual fear of their lives, not SO much from the
law as from their own associates. That Old
Brown is one of these is proved by the clearest
evidence, the monstrons lies of the aboIition
newspapers. lie, therefore, can feel no conf
dence in any promise boy may make It was
ms rescue of Doy that SO warmed up the af-
fections of Hon. Joshua r. Giddings. Think
| vi Senator, sworn to support the Constftus
non. entertaining at his own house man
L who had recommended himself to his favor
oy notorious infraction of the law! Does it
not prove that the Constitution no longer has
any binding forcel Surely there can be no
unlon between any number of Common
weaiths where the criminals escaping from
]ustice In one OF them is openly protected
III another.
Speaking of the lies the abolitionists have
told about Old Brown, 1 am induced to
call your attention to life OF John Brown.
circulated here, and believe everywhere else
La tnat book the article first published by an
abolition paper published somewhere in the
west, that Old Brown was maddened by the
wrongs he had received from pro-slavery men
to the point Of doing what he did do, is re-
peated rerbattm, and without comment. The
Lawrence (kansas) Herald gave that state
ment the lie, point blank. 1t stated that
Brown and his sons committed The five horri-
bic murders ON Pottawatomie Greek in May
and that his son was not killed until the sue
ceeding fall. This statement, then, OF the ano-
iItionlsts, was lie out of the whole cloth
The same paper said that Brown and his gang
conceived the horrible design of interceptIug 2
the members of the Lecompten Convention,
one by one. and numbering them. Both these
assertions are corroborated in full by writer
| IN the Charleston Courier, for whose charac-
ter the editor of the Courier, one of the most
| iastldlous OF editors, does not hesitate TO
vouch. This writer says that he saw Browns
son killed with his own eyes-that he was
killed by preacher from Illinois, whose name
| is White-and that his slayer was an anti
| slavery man. Again, we have the evil
dence of Mr.. Penny basker, whose char.
| acter nobody has ever attempted to impeach.
| he says that Brown committed the murders
| III question forty miles from the frontier, and
| that they mad no connection whatever with
| Kansas politics. During the time of his de-
| tentIon by Brown, he saw his son come in
| with property to the amount of eight or
| ten thousand dollars, the contents of store
which they had plundered. The inference
| is, that he was u regular highway robber,
i circumstance connected
| mode of life-his formidable armory, his guns
| his habit of writing in ypher-corroborates
/ that inference. Now, however, lawyer Hoyt
has discovered that his mother was deranged,
| that arrangement is hereditary in his family
and that, as a necessary consequence, he was
| deranged, too. Indeed! Was all that fine
kansas work" which used so to gladden. the
| hearts of the abolitionists the work of a crazy
| man Was s. the battle of Black Jack" Landed
| heretofore the result OF military combina-
| tions only inferior to those conceived by Han
nibal or Napoleon, the achievement of a mad
| man! If, however, he was madman, he was
a very dangerous one. Why, then, did not his
| friends put him Ill a straigh jacket! Why
| was he allowed to go up and down the world,
violating the law and killing every body that
| attempted to carry it out! 1t is crediiable to
| Old Brown that he rejects this hypothesis with
scorn. am unable to account for the lies
told by the abolition papers with regard TO the
affairs of Kansas, or, rather, was until saw
from the New York Herald's extracts, that it
was done on system, as recommended in the
| abolition book published by a renegade North
Carolinian, and endorsed by sixty odd abeli-
| ton members of Congress. The Tribune had
| 4 correspondent there, who msrepresen ted
every thing TO the disadvantage of the South,
| and so had all the Northern abolition papers.
| This was another branch of the same kansas
work.
You are aware that orders have been received
| from the Governor, directing that no visitors
shall call on the prisoners from this time forth
| This is very good regulation, but it dooms
| many a visitor to a heavy disappointment. 1t
| is further reported that a few companies will
| be at the place of execution, the others being
so disposed as to guard the town. Arrange
ments will certainly be MADE to keep Off the
crowd as far as possible, and particular eau
tion will be observed against the admission of
| strangers to any position near the gallows.-
There are econtradictory rumors about the state
of Browns mind Some say he is penitent-
others that he is detected. gen tleman who
had a long conversation with him a few days
ago, assures me that he is neither the one nor
the other. He still believes, or pretends to be-
lieve, that he was serving God when he was
destroying his image 1t has also been said
that Cook was much cast down. The same
gentleman says this also is a mistake, and that
none OF them seem to have any real sense Of
religion. The negro, Emperor, is the only one
among them who has a Bible, except old Brown.
As for Cook, we found him reading Byron.
He is great admirer, it seems, of the great
poet, and probably has had him for model.
He certainly has succeeded in initiating, and
even transcending, the vices of his original.
recollect when imitation Of Byron WAS very
fashionable among young gentlemen, some of
them going SO far as to shave their TEN pleS in
order to give themselves the semblance of
retreating forehead, while others limped to
counterfeit a club foot If such gentlemen
could only have seen Cook, think it would
have cured them of the Byronics. He is one
Of the meanest looking men / ever saw. He
cannot look you in the face, and you would be
apt to mistake him for Yankee pedlar, try
ing to play the dandy.
n
day. was the arrival of the Armory Band
They are the lions, just now, to the exclusion
even of Old Brown. Along with them came
Tom Griffin, having been engaged by some of
the military companies 10 cook for them
1t is rumored that your Ude or Soyer, Zetaile,
is also about to take up his temporary resi-
dence here. all the troops having gone into
quarters. We have no Ude, no Zetelle, no
Soyer, and no Tom Griffin. Quarter Master
Baldwin has our cooking done for us, and
though it is little extempore yet is good, and
we have plenty. Indeed, l, and all the men,
have such glorious appetites that weenjoy
our meals more than we should at the
Presidents table, with appetites less KEEN
We have buckets full of strong coffee, and
you may depend on it, it tastes better than the
best Mocha. 1 still have invitations to dine
out every day, but think it wrong to ride
willing horse to death, and have, therefore,
determined to take my meals in my quarters,
in future Epicuies, and other self-indulgent
persons, may think il strange, in the mean
time, but it is nevertheless true, that / have
found Il straw bed and the fare of our quar-
tiers the greatest luxuries ever came across.
Exercise and the fresh air are worth all the
canvas backed ducks and stewed terrapins
in the world. It is to exercise that we owe
our fine health, aud our keen enjoy yment of
existence. 1t went hard with Us at first, but
we are all OF US twice the men we were when
we left home. r.
letter from Charlestown, dated the 30th,
to the Baltimore American, says: