New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-16

creature of what he regarded great moral pnnepie
ard u, hieh with him had become passion more pow
Sri ,hsn Ell lie was honestly aud wholly devoted
20 IL ard hjs hu mare and npulsye nature bat server
10 cloud rather than aid his Judgment ihus wac OooA
imrsed 20 stain bis hands with murder. None can
COMPLAIN Of Virginia for the execution Oh ner AVE
CT invaded her territory and according to her iaws,
4 usty convicted; and whether the extreme penalty
sban Re inflicted is for Virginia alone to determlno
She has determined u, aud Cook must eXpute ms Oh
fense upon the scafold. would that Virginia had
dec,ded otherwise and mingled magnanmi y with JUS
tee; but Justly he dies in obedience 10 the penalty
of outraged law, John K. Cook will die widely Ia
mented. ,,
Brown Coppc and Tidd, are well known 10 the pubno
here. Merriam il young Bostonian, OF scarcely y
wears Of age He passed through part OF the haIsas
war and was fearless and mtiring in his efforts
against the Missourians who were at war with the
Ees-Siaie men. Subsequently be went 70 hayu ana
slent Winter there. He does not seem 70 nave oeeh
immediately connected with John Brown IN MS mar
pers Ferry instruction until about the ISL OF octO
Der He came 10 this place about thattime on he way
10 Harpers Ferry, and called on one Of our attor,
neys and had his will drawn, properly executed, anu
mailed 10 the executor in Boston. Tie represented him
sell as a tourist on bis way South and fearing acci'
dents wished bis will prepared. He IA a young
man of fine address, and evidently more than ordl-
nary culture. He was not IN the hight at harpers
Ferry, but was stationed at an outpost Tor some
purpose-perbaps TO receive and lead expected reen-
forcements. In company with Tdd, CoPPle ana
Brown, be came 10 Cbambersburgh the night Cook
was nut in Jail; and the whole remained in this
immediate vicinity for several days They were seen
freoueuty by different persons and suspected 70 be
tie fugitves; bat nothing was known of them, with
any degree of posliiveness, excepting by few VINO
were professionally otherwise conhdenuahy au-
vised Of their names and purpose. They sisp1 III
barn near town two nights and were seen there; ana
they called at several houses in town after dark to get
food IL is generally understood that they desired ana
contemplated the Of Cook from prison. ontthey
were prevailed upon not 10 attempt IT, lhey had eacn
fhaap hAu Ia
rifles IL IL believed that bnt white person eem-
municated with them directly during their stay here,
and that person was woman, though 1t IL more tnan
probable that they advised indirectly by several
af our citizens Although il was well known that they
were here no one attempted 70 hunt or arrest them
No reward had been offered for them. In TACT, the
Vireinians believed that ndd, Anderson and Brown
were dead and they did not know that there bad been
two Comics in u e insurrecton. Gov. Wise In
formed that four fugves were in this nelgh0orhood,
and he at once offered reward OF SOU head ior
them But it did not tempt any one to try the arrest
indeed il was well known that they could not be taken
alive They might have been overwhelmed by num-
hers and taken dead crippled; but, with each one
prepared 10 fire twenty -four balls, with fearful pre-
cision, in as many seconds, the attempt would nave
been a most costly one
After Cook had been remanded to Virginia, Mer-
RAN disguised himself and went 10 Boston direct by
railroad, passing through Philadelphia and New11 org
In Philadelphia he stopped at the Merchants hOtei
and believe registered hls name correctly he Was
known 10 but very few persons out OF boston, ana
when he passed through Philadelphia the general De-
lief was that he had died OF wounds received AT liar
,ers Ferry and been buried by bis companions ID the
mountains Obituary notices Of him had been pup
lshed in several of the NewYOrk and Boston papers,
lie reached Boston, and from thence he went TO Can
ada, where he still remains.
Tidd, Coppic and Brown, being better known,
started for Tie North Oh foot through the mountains
Brown was wounded, and often had 10 be assisted by
his COMPANIONS and at times they carried nun, 10 Ia
ctate their progress. The reached the norm MOUNT
ain near Strasbourg in this county, and from thence
passed on to Shirleys6Grg, in Huntington Oo9nty.
miles distant. From that place they went on 10 the
Juniata at Bells Mills, where they separated C0p-
pic reached Canada hrst and lid was some Gays pc
hind him. Brown has never gone 10 CSnadn' he 10
still in the Northern States, and Will pro0aoly remain
there. ... e
Both Cook and Hazlett arrested by citizens OF
Franklin County and after having the law exhausted
for their release, they were quietly renamed 70 the
Virginia authorities by due process OF our Courts,
and not an arm or a vote raised against IT, NO
Virginian ever attempted TO follow the fugluves:
Even when it was known in Virginia that Tour oil
them were in this county, no one came 70 ala III lner
arrest; and the only two they have secured were
given them by Pennsy lvania police and Pennsyivaha
Courts In addition to this, had John Brown sue
cee6ed in exciting servile nsnrrectlohl lama D
County which is now and will remain decideuly NC
publican in politics. would have sent thousahGs VI me
if necessary to protect the families aud the MONIES u
Vrenians and not one uOuid haze joined he JofceSC
Br0wn And yet citizen OF Franklin N9unsy a vn
not now enter Virginia. One OF our meena 49, "a
for Virginia short time ago TO work az MS o"So, an
he had scarcely crossed the line until he was oueeu III
iail. What would have been his iate nad ~ NOV I al
acquaintance CHANGED to pass the JAIL Is nau ~ ~
lecture. Ia addition TO this, Virginia 70 9vun ' ha.
toesin of civil war and breathing disunon through uer
press and her officials. And for what because SeN
enteen nadrnen unaided by and uhNhown 70 t tne
North excepting, perhaps, rev ~ .o,.nin,"n;,s
.I:c., 10y FRANKLIN.