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do with it, but trusted him as a worker
in a comiioa causa.
Ho wcs married twice and had twenty
children. Ho eworo his son? to devote
themselves with every privation to the
interests of the slave . At Harper's
Ferry he calmly felt the pulse of one of
tbetn, who was dying of wounds, whilo
ho held his ritlo in his other hand. In
one of his manuscript addresses to a
League of Gileadites," at Springfield
Mass., ho said: "Standby ono another
and by your friends while a diop of
blood remains, and bo banged if you
must, but tell no tiles out of school.'
Brown hired a small farm near
Harper's Ferry and went there with
some members of his family in June
ISoO. Ho also assembled tventy-two
men bolides himself, six of whom were
colored, and of all only six tinally cs
ciped alive. Militaiy drills had been
going on in various s'atts for some time
before ho went to Virginia He also
had boxes of pistols and rifles and 1,000
pikes. To this day it is not known that
he had any definite plan in regird to the
possible consequences of bis undertak
ing more than 'viiuply I lis establish
ment on slave toil or a dtfamible station
for fugit vo slaves, within reacn of the
Pennsylvania borJcr, so that bodies of
slaves could hold their own for a time
againEt a superior force, and could be
transferred, if necessary, through the
free States to Canada." Certainly there
was enough in this part of the plan to
blanch eveey cheek in Virginii.
Yep, the rippling laughter diid out.
and secret tsars came to many an eye.
The banjo gave forth no more the btii
ring cr plaintive melodie?, the evening
dance was unthought of, and ominous'y
enough, the 60i?gs of the negroes in the
fields, about the corn cribs arid tolncco
houses and at the cabins, were braid no
moic. Ihe slaves did not reid ntws
pap3re, but they had a niystJiious way
or communicating news, so that it wi nt
quickly from plantation to plantat on.
Toe whites talked wilh each other in
secret, a? they had never done before.
Silence or wbif pering. caution, watch
ing and dread had, in a few short hours
on the plantations, taken the place of
joy unconfined and universal. I stood
one morning on the porch of oneef
tese Virginia mansions viewing tho
beauties of the Blue Ridge mountains,
when a child of the household ap
proached me and Eaid, '-Whose dead?''
On Sunday night, October Hi, 1839,
Brown mustered eighteen of his men
and said, "Men. get on jour arms; we
will proceed to the Ferry." It wes very
dark and raining. At half past ten they
reached the armory gate and broke it in
with a crowbar, overpowering the few
watchmen on duty. Before midnight
the village was in their possession with
out tiring a gun. Six men wt rd then
sent out to bring in neighboring plant
ers with their tlavc3. Other citizens
were held as hostiges. Gradually the
citizens armed themsslves. and some
shots were exchanged, killicg teveral
men.
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the greatest excitement in Virginia, acd
in fact, throughout the entire country.
The rescue of Brown was talked of at the
North, but he did not encoursgo it.
Governor Wise was an excitable Bort of
a mac, who, white he did the justice to
Brown to Bay that "He inspired me with
c;r nt t list in h s integrity as a man of
truth,"' at the same time t?rnly and
bitterly preceded ti the execution of
the full penally for what he considered
insurrection acd war on the soil of Vir
ginia. The charms of Eocial life on the pln,
tilionshad deparleJ, and to many of
them it never retnrned. Depression,
Eirpicioi and alarm took the place of
tue delightful amenities o! cultivated in
lei course, and, with some, of sweet
fi r'.i'ioi s anil quick born love. Scoo,
tio. nrmid hosts of the South were
marching to the tvyies of "Dixie"' and
"My Maryland," an J from the Noith
came an endless host sirging:
"John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in
the grave,
But his soul is marching on."
1 may mention here ab incident of the
John Brown executioa. A greit num
ber of reporters wire at Chirlestown ts
the news was of absorbing ict?re3t,
when Governor Wiso issued an order for
the formation of the nflitary in a way
thu excluded all from the immediate
v c nuy o: tne execution, a protest on
the paitof the prees was made in vain,
and the reporters were at their wits'
end. Frark Leslie had a young writer
there by the name of Riwlings, who
was a person of excellent address and
sublime cheek. A stern governor and
warlike guards were nothing to him, and
solely through his blandishments at the
last moment, the order, as far as it con
cerned the press, was rescinded. It is
pleasant to note that the journals of
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Winter Wearing Apparel for men. hoys, and children
that perhaps was ever shown under one roof. Our buver
lias used every precau .011 in the selection of this stock.
All through the heated term he has, without one mo
ment's rest, searched the Eastern markets, and as a
most, hftirm" rlimriv fn lii nnf iritur irurri.' linw 1?mi1 !,..
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I" fore the buying public the most colossal stock of clothing"
C a stock of r all and Winter furnishing- goods that for
beauty, variety and excellence has no equal in America
f a stock of Hats which is acknowledged to be in every
f way the "Pink of Perfection" in point of beauty, cr-
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t looms of America as well as England, Ireland, Germany,
W Scotland, France and far away India have all con
tributed their share to make ours the most complete,
the most' varied as well as the largest exclusive stock
of ready-to-wear clothing- ever 'placed on sale within
the borders of the greatstate of Nebraska.
"Vptt Vnrlr nnrl nf ihtk vehnln nrmntrv
Col. Robert B. Lee arrived from Wash- acknowIed,d th,;r indebtedne68 u
ington i 1 the evening with a company . . iriHI- rt.r.nrt
of United S'ates marinep, as Brown had
allowed a train to pa68 through which
carriod the startling news of his raid.
He and his forca now reduce! to six
men wero La-ricndcd in tho engine
house, where tho were shot down, one
by one. Brown refused to surrender,
and encouraged his men to stand firm.
When finally captured, his two sons were
dead, and ho himself was supposed to be
dying. Gov. Henry A. Wise roached
Harper's Ferry with Eeveral hundred
state troops October 13. Brown was
tnea before a Virginia com t having
counsel sent from Massachusetts- con-
Town Topics.
They say that Croker is out o! Tam
many for good."
"Well, he never was in it for any
gootl."
Mr. Dan Showman- What do you
think of ballet dancing?
Rv. Simon Puro I I try not to.
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Iowa and Illinois, the UNION PACIFIC
victed, and sentenced to death by hang- ;n connedion with the C. & S. V. Ry.
ing. He died, with great fortitude, De- on-erB the best service and the fastest
camber !, 18.10. at Charleston, several of tjme. Call or write to me for time cards
hi3 folio vera suffering with him. rates etc. E. B. Slosson,
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