New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-02

tional guerrilla dash into formidable invasion :
With all the decay, dilapidation and min /,
wrought by war, it is "a true to-day as when
Jefferson wrote, that single view from one Of
these mountain heights I" is worth voyage
across the Atlantic" ' " ~
Almost the first object which greets the eye
on descending from the cars al the present i'm
provised depot, is the Old Engine House where.
John Brorn captured and kept at bay the whole
State of Virginia. Then, n few rods 10 tho
right, up the precipitous cliff and back IN cav
eruous recess stands a mysterious monument
The natives say it was put there just after John
Brown was hung; nobody knows how, or by
whom. The mystery is increased by the fact,
that in no possible way can the cavern be reach
ed except by q rope let down the projecting
| cliffs above. Our landlady-she of the rotund
face, and this city Fifth Avenue" whers
We sleep in our boots to prevent soilEg--ogI
icet-and pay fifty cents for night-wstch Of
ten leglons Of quadrupcds that possess our couch
and dispute tho invasion Of their forage and
diminishing ground-she it WAS, who, with ST.
pcrstitious awe, RECALLED US of old John Brown "
and his mysterious monument. But the natives
all talk of John Brown, much az the Oricanists
do Of Joan of Arc. Last night the Band played
"Old John Brown" And, en- passdnt, l heard.
q whole brigade join in that Hallclujah chorus
one moonlight night, when the echOing hills
made i; sound as if all the mighty-voiccd angels
Of Heaven were shouting it back from the sky.
Said lover OF the mnsic, but better lover VI
slavery, "What wonderful melody was bonn
Of that infamous crime" Woader(L, it is, in
deed Think of it, reader, The next time YOU
hear that chant, and explain, If you can, whst
it is, with words 50 simple, and even meaning
less, that SO steals away your inner life, unless
it be that though,
"John Browns body lies moldering In the grave
His son! goes Da'cting or"
| The time ,oiu come, when the historians pen
may indite fitting enlogy upon heroic, half.
crazed "old John Brown" but it is not now;
and in the long hereafter, it is not improbable
that even Harper's Ferry may be remembered
only as it il associated with his name. And tnis
recalls the avermentof Methodist clergyman
from Maryland, made in our hearing tho hrst
mouth of the war, and which though plausible
and confidently believed by the narrator, have
never seen in print. His statement was thai ne
was in possession of such facts as made IT clear
to his mind that old Jshn Brown was invited
and inveigled to Harper's Ferry and his course
of conduct by fictitious letters, written Inn ny
Southern men under assumed names, Tor the SOLO
purpose Of using his madness as means Oh
firing the Southern heart;" and that Henry q.
| Hise Of Virginia, was in fact the leading con-
spirator in deuding Browns quxotic brain.
What his means Of information were, we know
not; We are only assured that the person f'rlniy
believed the plausible statement. That hls cap
ture Of Virginia was used 10 It's utmost TO in'
fame the already excited passions OF the South,
all will remember. And again, en- passant, that
was good hit Of venerable, waggish Thad.
Stevens, pending the Congressional invcstga-
ton of the affair, when blatant member from
the Old Dominion addressing him said: John
Brown deserves to be hung as high as Haman,"
"Yes, yes" said the old Pennsylyanian with
solemn face Eyes, he does deserve hanging,
surely-the old mad-cap, coming into. your
State with thirteen men, when II he'd taken
twenty he'd have settled the Slavery question
forever. Yes, I'd hang him for not taking the
other seven"
Changes are being made In the disposition OF
our forces ~ meet the exigcncies of new move
mcnts. Our inlautry are mainly at rest, but in
constant readiness. Our cavalry is hard at
work, haTassing the enemy, but bring in no in
formation indicative Of any general engagement
IN this quarter. BKTA.