The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-12-06
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The ChAriestown correspondent Of The BAL
ttmore American writes lee. y ~ follows:
The quiet Of this morning contrasts strong-
~ with the bustlesand excitement Of the past
week, and 0ur people seem to be settlingdow =
10 q feeling Of Comparative case ana security.
The weather, which was so balmy and beau
tiful yesterday. has changed, apdis now cool
and piercing. II rained hard for a short time
last night, and a sIeet covers the pavement
this morning. rendering pedestrianiam rather
difficult operation.
The members Of a number OF the military
companies have obtained furloughs, and are
preparing to leave this morning Tor their
homes.
The report autographed last night in regard
TO the burning of the house of the late George
w. Turner, happily turns ont to be unbound.
ed, although the S took has been poisoned, as
we'll as thas Of the ncighhors.
INCIDENTS OF THE EXECUTION.
Browns death was undoubtedly very uiek,
but the movement OF the heart and beating OF
the pulse continued for nn unusual Ions. Pc
Rod. thirty-seyen minutes having passeu De-
fore the physicians pronounced life 10 be tho
roughly extinct. the neck not having Deeh
broken by the fall All the surgeons of the
different companies, some twenty in numbar,
were stationed in a line iminediaieiy ~ IIon
OF the gaIlows, and after be mao peeh hah.iIs
ten minutes, they proceeded, three ct q time,
to the floor of the gallows, feeling the pulse
and listening fol-. the throbs OF the heart
At quarter before twelve o'clock the body
was taken down. life being pronounced ex-
tinct, and placed in blaca wa.mu. ,h.,.
who had official positions AROUND the Railo" 2
for piece of the rope, aud one person wen S y
far as to cut the buttons on OF the Goa. % w,
deceased as the body was being pi''ceo AZ 'io
coffin.
The whole number of citizens on the ground
could not have exceeded three hundred, thousn
there were many ON the houses ana sheos ot
Charlestown, within sign. oI .ns sa., Ivy ~.
chi
exception Of a few at the windows OF alstan
dwellings few negroes were Wilma Sigu'
on the surrounding hills.
A large number of persons from Harper
Ferry and the surrounding country endeav-
ored to enter the town to witness the exfcu-
ton hut they were detained by the outer pick
ct guard until all was over.
4 FER the execution. Cook and Hazlett were
nnt in the same room formerly occupied by
Rrowp. Coppie and Stevens in another cell to-
oether and the two negroes, COPELAND and
Green. in the same cell together.
BROWNS KANSAS WORK.
I stated few days since that Capt. Brown
had acknowledged his participation in the
Kansas massacres III conyersing with Sheriff
Campbell. On the day before his execution he
conversed with Capt. Brown, of Stafford coun-
ty. one of the Generals aids, on the said SUBJ
iect, during W hich he said, that though he did
not commit these IN urders, he sanctioned them
because the victims were pro-slayery men
who stood between him and the execution of
fecsly justified in getting rid of Them.
THE BODIES OF THE INSURGENTS.
Whilst at Harper's Ferry, the gentlemen
with Mrs. Brown made an investigation as to
the disposition of the bodies of the insurgents
killed at the invasion. i'll an effort to find the
bodies of the two sons of Brown. They found
that three of them had been thrown in one
grave. and niue in another, helter-skelter, and
the top of the pile only covered by one foot of
loose earth. The receptacles were opened.
inn tn IN
Of the bodies, and the effort to recover them
was given up. The bodies will all, however,
be taken up and given proper interment.
Mrs Brown very favorably impressed all
who met with her, both at the Ferry and
Her deep afEiiction-the loss of
hus band. two sons, and two sons-in-law, (the
two Thcmpsons,) by this mad and fanatical
was calculated to awaken gen.
aral sympathy.
THE OTHER PRISONERS.
The execution of Brown has greatly de-
pressed the remaining prisoners, and all, with
tho exception of Cook, are looking forward
with certainty to their impending doom, and
making religious preparations with sincerity
and earnes tness. Cook evidently has not yet
abandoned his hope Of commnta:ion. Stevens
has almost entirely recovered from his
wounds, 'Gi.h the exception OF a considerable
soreness and q slight paralyZatiou on the right
side of his head, where several buckshot are
lodged near his ear. He has but little to say
and seems calm, quiet and resigned. There is
better Ieeilng In the community lor stevens
than any of the other prisoners, not only
on account of his great bodily sufferings, but
from the fact that he has eyinced SO much sin
certify, and has avoided all attempts to in
crease the excitement and agitation that pre-
walls in the country. He is TO be tried be-
fore the United States authorities. and may
probably escape with imprisonment. With.
regard to Hazlett, although he has been
identified with some certainty as having been
one of the party, Brown and the other pris-
q W I h II.
less. under the injunction of Brown, continue
to be faithful to their friends.
WILL OF JOHN BROWN.
The following is the will written and signed
by John Brown. during the interview with
his wife, on Thursday evening last:
CHARLEsTowS, Jefferson county, Va,
ist Decem Der, 1859. (
I give to- my son, John Brown. Jr. my sur
veyol IS compass and other surveyors articles,
if found also, my old granite monument, now
at North Eliza, n. Y. to receive upon its two
sides a further inscription, as j will hereafter
main at North Elba so long as any Of my chill
dren and my rife may remain there as resi-
dents.
| give To- my son Jason Brown my silver
watch, with my name engraved on inner case
give to my son Owen Brown my double
spring opera glass aud my rifle gun, IF found)
to me at Worcester, Mass. 1t is
z lobe-sighted and new. l give, also, to the
from the proceeds of my fathers estate, in
of his terrible suffering in Kan
sas, and his crippled condition from his child
hood
! give to my son Solomon Brown fifty dol.
lars in cash, TO be paid him from my fathers
estate, as an offset to the first two cases above
named.
/ give to my daughter, Ruth Thompson, my
large old Bible, obtaining the family record.
l give to each of my sous, and to each of my
other daughters my son-in law, Henry Thomp-
son, and TO each of my daugh.ers-in-lawa as
good a copy of the Bible as can be purchased
1t some bookstore in New York or Boston at
cost of five dollars each in cash; to be paid out
Of the proceeds OF my fathers estate.
give to each OF my grandchildren that may
be living when my fathers estate is settled as
good a copy of the Bible as can be purchased
las aboye) at cost Of three dollars each.
All the Bibles TO be purchased at one and the
same time, for cash. on the best terms.
/ desire to have (S50) fifty dollars each paid
cut of the final proceeds of my fathers estate,
to the following named persons, to wit: to
county, Conn, or to George Kellogg, Esq,
former agent of the New England Company
at that place, for the and benefit Of that CONF
paHy Also, fifty dollars to Silas Ravens, for
merry of Lewlsburg, Summit county, Ohio, if
he can be found also, fifty dollars to man of
Storek county, Ohio, at Can ton, who sued my
father in his lifetime, through Judge Hum
phrey and Mr. U pson. of Akron, to be paid by
J. ~ Drown W Inc Iusii ia PcisoH II nc Cun NC
found. His name / cannot remember. My
father made compromise with the man by
taking our house and lotat Manneyille. de-
sire that any remaining balance that may be-.
come my due from my fathers estate may be
paid in equal amounts to my wife, and to each
Of my children and to the widows of Watson
and Owen Brown, by my brother,
John Avis, Witness JOHN Brown.
REMAINS OF JOHN BROWN.
The following is the letter from Gov. Wise
to Mrs. Brown, with the order for delivery of
the body:
RICHMOND, VA, Nov. as, 1882
To airs Mary a. Brora
MADAM-Yours of the 21st inst, addressed
to me from Philadelphia, came to hand this