The Leavenworth weekly times., 1870-09-08

immediate neighborhood. II carried away
the roof and tore one end out Mr.. c. Flow
en, lSge barn, and blew down a string Of
his z nee, moving from their founda-
tio& A s that would weigh 800 pounds. 1t
also M pOfed his granary and scattered his
hay Ks to the four winds, and tore
Kitchen door from its hinges, carrying it
away 80 that it has not since been seen or
heard of in that neighborhood. The barn Of
Major Baldwin was blown down and conf
pletely demolished FenGs Ouf-houses,
grain and hay stacks, &c., were torn down
and much dan,,as1 IN ihH- -iaaanasaiHis neigh
6OrhcOd Of Kennekuk. No damage was done
BY the -sagM-so faf as Mr.. Walsh could
t1nf sweA pf tl4l ilAtc Htf fsed i for
setSalmM. Bt5wern this Jchy and Ken
nekuk, however, We understand that consid
cradle damage was done to fences, temPoary
leans, growing corn, &c.--dtchisos Iatrief.
John BrOWn'x la0use and Grave.
The hYvss is .unpsintal and vkain, though
equal to the ordinary farm houses Of the
reyiem. II stands we'll up the hills, sepa-
rated from the wilderness by Il few cleared
fields, commanding majestic view Of the
mountain world. \ few rods in front, u
huge boulder, surrounded by a plain board
fence, is the fit monument Of the fierce old
apostle III litcrty. At its foot is the grave.
The hcadsaone was brought from an oil
graveyard in New England. where it sto,sl
over the grave Of his father, Capt. John
Brown, who dic,l in New York in l716.
The whole stone is covered with the family
inscriptions: John Brown, executed ut
Charlsstown, Va. Dee. !, 1889; Oliver ani
Watson, his sons, both killed ut H.rlrr's
Ferry the san,e year; and his std Frederick,
murdered in Kansas by border r,lf'ians in
lS56. Above the little grassy enclosure
towers the mighty rock, almost a. high ~
the house, and cn its summit Is cut in mas
sive cl,acaCtcrs the inscription: John
Brown, 1859" Standing on the top of this
monumental Turk, Tor the hrs, time ] felt
that ccmlrrhcn,icd the character of the
man whose name it commemorate. l
c,uld we'll understand how such man,
formed in the mould of the
old Scotch Co,enanlers and Ensln'h furi-
ians, providing over the horrors of slavery,
6resceing the impending struggle for lib
ertv, mastk'ne,l bv the murder cf his
son and friends in kansrs, with the n,ich,y
northern hills looking down upon him, the
rush Of strong rivers, and the songs oi re-
sounding temIssts, and the mystery of the
illimitahle wilderness all about him, should
easily cp,,,c to think himself in-pirel ,o de-
Scend like mountain torrent, and sweep the
black curse from out the land. revcrsntly
raised my hat, and sung, 'Ichn Browns
brly lies a-m"ulicrinS in the grave: his
sA,l Is marching, on
Nv s.nylus hr.utrI,f ..,tt tw, men wE,,
seemed exploring the uninhabitrd place.
They tnk me in their hrckhcar,l; and we
joltc,i down to the valley. They told me the
estate WIS ne,rly all sold, ami the family
removed Ia California; that the man whn
owns the horr,c would sell it, with huu-
trc.i and sixty acre, ol land, f,r fifteen hun
dre.i dollars, wiShin. To- move To kans.,'.
I;crrilt Smiths negros> have aii lcit town;
and he is still the p,rSsessor of miles of this
wilderness. Last autumn the homestead
was purchased hy an association Of gentle
men in New York, and will doubtless bcprc-
-erve,i,-l~rhals To- bccumc famous place
of pilgrimage for onr children. My black
smith friend, with whom l rode. said,
''Everyhcdy in North Ella wanted To- >.II
out and go away. For his part he didn't
see why people wanted Z" come up there tr
are probably less than four hun.lr,r! people
now living in this large township at eighty
thousand acres.-Erom ''idiior.l,rtS "a In
gus," in September Numb.r ef OH mtd Nc~.
The wesscrn Nam ~ lsO Saw the >Scrnss.
[Frcm letter 10y q. Alfrc,l Townsend in ia, Chr
cage Tribune.
] saw Il man at Newport coming out upon
the cliff by Easton's beach. where the ocean
all at once lifts up, and looks i;rc to t,,r
with the gazer, over the rocks. The ocean
was ponring in long rolling waves I"twecn
Ochre Point AMI E:,>tons Point, .lrun,n,inc:
umler Forty Steps, and breaking with white
ness upon the sandy cr.S,rnt of the he.ich
The man. : face WAS %o pathetic and his look
So affected me that looked myself al the ,c,
again, and felt more than ever the glory at
it, lie .azed away Il little while, and then
observing me near his feet, he recovered
himself.
rs ,ha, the -c', ~ir?' he said-''lhc
ucranr"
"YeS."
''It's not hay, nor i channel; hut IL th.
whole thing; the genuine Ati,ntic?'
"ie>! There's nothing ra>t that I,n
Europe
lie lookc,! at i, again, in -ilcncc, f"r -,ruc
time, and then remarked:
1T looks just like the pictures If it. u
mighty fine. never saw 1t before
''What part of the world are you from
''Horn in Ohio, sir Moved To- kaIiS.;s
Always Western man. came Fat -
prr,s~c to lork III the ,..,. and now that NJ
here, =,Ic,S III! ,ni"v an h"'ir ri 1t.
~ he >;,t down "r the grassy clit .u,i
locked, and l~kcd, aml there ! ic,t him, =
delighted w"rshirpcr. He will, perhaps, ="
home Ia tell his bows how il s,nnls, h"w ]:
r"ars, how the boats g;,lIcp "n il. how the
land on its verge wears a naked lpok, - ii
sulittcn l,y its gales.