Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1869-11-30
Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.1
HARpER's FERRY, November 8.

Il
or the point of Harper's Ferry 1 may say
that it has been next to dead ever since
John Brown invaded it, and that it is now
village of paupers, who hang upon the APP
preaching sale BY the United States of the
army and arsenal grounds as their last and
vital chance for existence. This sale takes
place in the latter part of the present month,
November.
In few years there will be few collectable
witnesses of this notable raid, and Improved
the chance at Harper's Ferry to hold inter-
views with most of them.
The resolute, though motley raiders, who
were killed at the Ferry, lie inferred across
the Shenandoah river, in Loudoun county, and
are eight in number First, Oliver Brown
was thrown in upon his back, and the negro,
Dangerfeld Newly, laid in his arms. Toget
the boots off the feet of Watson Brown, his
leg was partly wrenched off. In the same
grave we're placed Kagi, Stuart Taylor, Will
liam Lehman, Lewis Leary and Thompson, the
latter two negroes. Anderson, another slain
raider, was ''prepared" for the Winchester
School Of Anatomy.
The grave was opened when Mrs. Brown,
after her husbands execution, wished to re-
cover her sons, but their bodies could not be
identified, aud there they lie, on the banks of
ture last Sunday, feeling that 1 was upon
hallowed spot.
The only guide books published in Virginia
are one for Mount Veonon and one for liar
per's Ferry-the latter written by genial
Irishman named Josephus Barry. whose chief
pride is that John Brown shot at him with
revolver. It is from conversations with Barry
that derive many of these notes.
CharesJ. Faulkner, OK Minister to France,
was assigned by Judge Parker, jointly with
Lawson Bolts, to defend Brown, but the for
mer afterward withdrew. He lives at Mar
tinsburg, the town of Belle Boyd, but prac>
tees at tho new county seat of Shepherdstown,
and has a business of at least $4,000 year
the largest, probably, in West Virginia,
Lawson Bolts was afterward Colonel of the
Second Virginia (rebel) regiment, and was
killed at the second battle of Bull Run.
Mr.. Hawks son told me he heard Wilkes
n'ct!ii repeat Shakespeare and other poems at
his fathers house the night Brown was hanged;
for Booth was guardsman around the galluws,
and learned from Browns method of warfare
the secret of murder which he executed six
years afterward upon the body Of Lincoln.
The jury who found Brown guilty were
nearly all obscure people, and I could not
trace up the fate of any of them. At least
three are alive. Kelley, the armorer, who fred
the second shot on the part Of the citizens. is
alive, and poor. Throck morton, who fred the
first, is also living. and was pointed out to me.
The two canal locks opposite Harper's Fer
~ were kept, formerly, by John E. Cook and
Geo. Hardy. The latter is still at the lock.
and spoke to me freely about Cook It was
while keeping the lock at the bridge that Cook
married the girl who bore him child, and
while the child was still babe he had his
oh i11 rap,orol To Rro-n'o Ka-polv F,r- Ero
miles up the mountain gorges of Maryland,
and thence they departed, two days before the
raid, for the North. The widow of Cook is
now married to a mechanic named Johnston,
a soldier of the Union army, and the couple
have moved to the Western country. 1t is
the impression, at Harper's Ferry, that Cooks
child is still alive, in New York.
Kitznillsr, who was walking By the side of
Stevens, accommodating, when Stevens was
shot down, is alive and was one ofthe picked
hostages. When Stevens was shot, as he was
in the act of firing he lay upon the ground
following, and, among other things, he cried:
"My God fl have friend in the world,
if there is anybody who can pity dog, let
him come carry me away" One of the hos
tages, who was captured on the street, had
always been an early drinEer, and was on his
way for a cocktail when taken up. Being
quite unnerVed, he SAID to Brown
captain, for Gods sake let me go and get
q drink. l swear I'll come back"
"No, sir"
"Cap, you don't know what it is TO be a
slave to whisky, and then be shut up here be-
fore breakfast without drop. Let one of your
men go and get US bottle"
Brown looked pityingly at the old debau-
chez, and ordered one of the men to obey.
When the whisky was brought-a full bot
tle-Lewis Washington asked Brown 10 have
a drop.
you don't drink, Captain, do you ?"
NO. said Brown, that kind of stuff isn't
fit for hog to drink"
= The situation" on the fifteenth amend.