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SANDUSKY DAILY REGISTER. NOVEMBER!•»0 ***•4*®®rt uxt* 1 !ik#4 the t**rir* vary w«il andlivji btq«e® ibat wbrtj 1 ®h *n d U* tranM'am-dto ft rrgsmnt mtttrn ibnnid Iraprot* 1 hi*a!mlt;- kept m« from following the ex»®p‘« ®atbytut dtMM* t*Tlg yy.fnrtiiw CtKfitllft V I VM tfJiDNof Springdale, Cedar oonoty, Iowa; 8»ew-'per’s Ferry, be bad tbe body aent to art Tavkr of C*aada, and Francis Jack- o heater, and then, npon consultationtaoo Marruin famousof Boston,kljGarr« tun aboferrari t. he~7th Unit*t ttu *« lufantrT.atatk raJ Jackson.) Tbes* were tbe white men aom Kamioftaa, I.iaji» Terrlory. 1 ha long j tMmilv preset end DerticinatlDg. The OOlitprofeaaora of tbe ooiiege,m.IO.took*-lt;1 for cbarg* d d w ni», but it «M not for tbe better If we were her*hty treeted ndJ at tti» dej»ot mm were lined 100 per cr*CWtirno in onr new uoartere 1 ue f«»od wa* abotn-Fraooia decided to prepare tbe body of yonngown that it migbt be preeeryed in tbe iseum ot tbe eollege aa a specimen and ao object of lotereat and note. Tbe oro-ritmectic1feasor atroogiy appealedtyect#72■n themornMM ofcityt§ atop r») mind tn d’**rt aud ceae to Canada a* 1 waited pa »**r fly for a «roed chaio*. Why, air you wo*jd haru y baiieve mr when 1 **) I «ew • draert**r ehot down io cild blood after be :ad thrown up bin Lauda, a aignai that lie would ®ur* r«ndar. 1 La ;*oor fallow *ai eal ed to halt, after tmng warned that be won id he fired open Aa1 raid he came to a halt, faoed round, and rawedHi;*f.•aid that whenored membora of tbe party were JeremiahAnderson from Caoide; supposed to be equadroon end belonging to one of the tagi- of my profession end io tbe interest* and me oondalt; t and beating or the «i§ye colonics io tbe neighborhood of nme, aod aa a friend of aoienoe. to^i“e!^^^TScLairid Chat hem, Canada Went, O.borne Pa- to him the .aidter Anderaon, a bright malatto from tbe war waa over, tbe ooiiega, wbiob badCanada, a Virginian; lUngwtield New- been burned, would be rebuilt, aod tbat ftby, from Missouri, one of Brown’s rescued should again be deposited therein. Heslaves ot 1858, quite dark; Shield# Greene, cited the fact that tbe eon a of John Brown dark man. from Rochester, N. Y.,■ _I1I1eengaged with tbeircfamiliarly known aa “Emperor.” and intro- lather in tbe attempt to overthrow Vir— —- Wbod3 o thr j*worrerodWed©are!MtWI,Adhi* hand* owr at« bead. On *«wung thi* tao j tn»h« oartv ov Frederick Docglaaa; I gima’a oberiahedgu*m lowered h:iino*kr! baton thought . * f « A*hir» « lioht i hi»rn» Yirmni* wu nntitied to tbe bodvroiled it to hi* .houidrr. took n.m, end banod j John Copeland, of Oberlm, Obio, ft light h*coe v irgioie wee entitled to we doovcolored man, aod Lewia Bberrard Leary, i an object of warning and cariosity.w n truml m»ti« r* mre n. ver n.ao* pao.ic ror i m^tto, from North Carolina. Tbla answer to the demands aod appeals12 ^ Xi. rua tvB'ytwo p* of,*h,,.mJ j CepUin Brown was oblef. Tbe two daagti-tera of Captain Brown, Sarah aod Annie,were at tbe Kaonedy farm until tbe day ot tbe movement, Outober 16th, 1856. Tbeorigioal intention appears to have been to here moved about October 26tb.£Iosrepidly d oaying aed hrutel ermy eernc#I ho oompieuiUi *ou grtuutoOng of the men never rem L Ltodqujo lure, 1 think, or eur*sythere would be torn*- lt;heuge* lnwd • By •upply-inc lb® noldier* with inferior to *d, th® oftioer®— j •upet iellv ihe tnlt;w« tfbeer—Ui»ee cocudemhieoitu.ey by the tnlnewctioo Thi«, with the treet-u w.t of the men it the general ceu**e (lt;*r ooin- |nieint in the lenkn. Am th« United Stale® at my iprofessor, I said that tbe memory ot John t Brown and biaeons; and their heroic bat* rtie at Harper's Ferry for tbe freedom of tbe •ieves, were held Inme to teave tbe•TillAmoDf I bone who had bees cogoi^iot ottbe movement from tbe ontset was FrankUerrett•uutida at prtMfnt it Me oomtoaed of aloTauly, jdifc, t* . iLvh u tu wbo#c 0ulf mm iu life n B. Saoboro, 01iliratdoiii Tbe Smith. Peterboro, N. Y.; his private secre- tbereC’jnoord. Mass.;too bigb esteem for]y npon tbe slave soil of Virginia; benoe I should send it to thefree soil of my own State, Indiana ”Tbe doctor continues end says he soshipped tbe body, end that be had held theremains ever since. He did not knowany brothers liviog, and bad notIc8IIIt\111andaiiai*-™ do not timpani of tim pav, it isitb® t )Yof. Mortou, Augustns Wattles, I notified the mother because be tbougt itdutuUioerlDg bruta oiln-ent. and the rile food . D . , ’ D r.n 1 nka. P miaht A.tu,.aup,.i.ed Cnti thoareviU arc iwctmed by tLe K’obard Rsalt. ueorge B. Gill, Luke P., might oensH unneoeseary paio.United state* anthuntirt n.lt;-r* wiii bead; .**n Persons and Kiohsrd J. Hinton, all of K*n- Tbe body seems well authenticated oy •umted umtifioo® army. sag; Harriet TubmaD, a well know oolored : other evidenoe, and it is now en route to ! IWe have reason to believe that tbere is i woman, James Kedpatb, Col. Wm. A North Elba to be buried with bis father'sCol. Leonhardt (then and now of remains, under tbe shadow of a granitethan poetr) w....... ^ KtDsas), John Brown, Jr., his brother Bal- rook whiohAtands in tbe door yard of theThe writer some months sjdc® was return j ii,« lt;.mit„ . *. anH ihum nilt;t hnmo ptnin p.mni. nlt;ilog tn m Bcftaio aod on tba train made| tbe scquaiotwDce of a recruiting sergeantin charge ot a Hjoad ot men recruited atBotUlo and bound lcr Jetlerson Barracks,irst Sr. Louis Tbe sergeaut admitted thatrth j probably not one ot tlie men Le bad inmon, tbe family at Nortb Elba, and those who were present at the Chatham, Canada, convention, where the provisional government so-called was organised. A majority of them were colored men. Tbe names signed to the constitution drafted by Cant. Brown and adopted at Chatham are as (ollows :old home. Green wereEdShieldsiq Coppio andoaptared, tried end bung at Charlestown, Ya. Coppio's body was delivered to relatives and buried at Salem,Ohio.\tIItGreen's body was buried at Cbarlet-towo, or probably taken by the Winchester doctors. Johni(tcharge would remain in the service bisanpdesertions weretoWilliam Charles Monroe, president ofthe oouventiou; G. J. Hoynolds, J. C.Grant, A. J. Smith, James M. Jones, Geo. U Gill, M P. Bailey, Wm. Lambert,miseiooed lt;lb cere aa well as the oomujis j 6. Hunton, C, W. Mofit, Jobn J. Jsokson,J. An (hrson, Alfred Wmpple, J sires M.Copeland, oaptared atthe ride works, aod after trial was hnog with Green. HisJrate *g common a* recruiting.-*. The non-com-sioned t dicers enj »y tho life. They arc ibody was delivered to friends, I believe, and taken to Oberlin.Aaron D. Stevens was shot several times and taken withWith AlbertWm.tbt, tj I well paid, have good food and an easyBawl, IV. H. Lehman Allred M Eilsworth Stephens John E. Cook, Stetcart Taylor, James Wtime. The privates are merely oattle andwcdesettions are a uatural ooretqaenoe. Geo.fifteenParnell, Goorge Aiken, Stephen Dsttin, to Virginia. Thoroae Hiok«n»fr, J hn Camerl, Robert* on ih« ii;hson Alexander. JiieUard lleall, Thomas F.a dag ot trace.HaFett, oaptared for Harrison, who is still alive, was executed. Hfcz'ett was captored at Chambersbnrg and deliveredWilliam Thompson was shot on tbe 16th at the railroad bridge and taken into Fooik's hotel.1!20-*OtInODlUt_________ . ______ _ While in theCary, Rickard Richardson, Luke F Far- parlor, wounded aod a prisoner armed meo p®r annum for doing nothing and running sons, Thomas M, Kmnard, Martin H. He- came in, took him out, aod threw himao risks. The Government spends thon- ] Uney (he w*s commissioned Mtjor by ,over the bridge into tbe river, shootinghim as be fell. Miss Fuulke at ibe time gained praise for endeavoring to save hisThomas, 1 life.ov0V0sands ol dollars annually in tho recroiting 1 ,re^deot Lincoln and breveted Bn gad ler. , i.snerai). Robert \ ar vanken. Thomas M«iTioe .nd jet tt.e artuy i. tnnde ap ol dn-, v,,rjnwr Tui.l, Joha A.contented and brutally ttealetl meo who ttake advantage of the brst (»pportunity to Robert Newmao, 6'urnThe Government needs a standing 1 Ftdo, », J. H Harro, now ofdesert.The tact was, however, that her only It htj'jde, Aaroo I). Stevens, J. G. Shad, endeavor was to prevent bis being shot inJohn I the home, “beoause it would spoil the carpet. Stewart Taylor was killed on theftBroun,North CVo-i iIioa, Charles Smith, John \J Lagi, store- 18th by the IJ. S. M trines. What »rmy ol tw9r.ty-li?e or tilly thousgud ] Ury o( tSe C0DTectj()n. Tbo«iUltoi*«l Io1Iot his body is unknown. Danglefieid NewA local01rtuen, but there is net the slightest exeupe j the above formed the immediate following by was shot at tbe Arsnel gate.! guide book, the Aanals ofed by this deserter to the Toronto paperatolor any such state ol tfla.rs as that depict- of John Brown who aooompHDied him fr.-m— Kansas and to Harper’s Ferry in mostoases. It is with thesejtwe have to dr.Tbere were some others koowing of themovement, in more or less directand the War lK-partmets! is alone to blamelor permiitiag it to exist. The sta?ementsof this man Henry Brown arc SuitiataiU onwhich to bare an investigation, and theGoveramect shoo'd give bin; time and opportunityI Government refapor. Congress should takeBW the matter in hand and appoint a committicLaiv-tee to make a thorough investigation.% » \ *IC 4 OMPIHIM1N.way.Theodore Parker was informedof John Brown’s intention L. Steam, ot Biiston, knew and aided the last. Dr Samael G. Howe was also aware ol tbe movement in a general way.Thomas Wentworth Higgiuson the eame .Several Quaker families at Springdale, Iowa, were also entrusted with tbe secret. Colonel Hogh Forbes, ao Eoglish adven turer who made a trado of revolution, anderper’s Ferry” by JosephQs, jr, has the following, page 34-5 ;Dangerlield Newby was a tall, well built mulatto, aged about thirty years, in 1857 with a pleasing lace. He was *bot and Gnorge ktiied at the Arsenal gate, by somebody ic to! Mrs. Bailer’s bouse, opposite. He was killed about 11 o’clock a. m , on Monday, and he lay where he fell uutil the alter noon of Tuesday. The bullet struck him iq the lower part ol tbe neok and went down Into his body; tbe person who shot him being in a position more elevated thanNewby was6hia:Iwuahec0101Koterrioft to tfc» ol.im ol the Prohibi- movement.the plaoe where Newby was standing, who wrote a remarkable book for training From tbe relative position of the parties, soldiers, etc., in such warfare, was privy to the s ze ot tbe ballet, or some other oir-tiocists that their crusade egainit drinkingis like nuto the war of the abolitionistsAgainst slavery, the Chicago Tribune ridi* i ‘,Lte *9. WftSHe i« supposed to have cumetance, the hole in his neck was very President Baoharan. j large, and the writer heard a party remarkthat he believed a smoothing iron had been shot into him. Shortly after hisbetrayed it to Senator Harry Wilson was told, in 1858,Horaceblt;Pg!8comparisonit is in the following way :Greelev by I’jrbes. Both denonnoed tbojdeath * hog came rootingapparently unconscious, at first,attempt, and to appease them it wi« givenout as abandoned. The letter to Buohan-e“It is worth while to trace the analogythe Probibitiomats have instituted in oiucrabout him,that itscccatblPiwssa lord of creation that lay there. Thebog alter a while paused a d looked attentieto ascertain whether their faith is foundedupon reason. In tie first piace the slaves of the South were bound to their mastersan, however, the writer has reason to believe was written by a newspaper mao in ■ lively at the body, then snuffed around it,•m * * ... mmr _ ^ iff . m • X ■ _ 7 ^ • *by law and held by force. Is this true ot ihe slaves to drink ? Is there any lawwfcioh empowers the saloon keeper to reachout into the street, se:z® a parser by aodCincinnati, who had been in Kansas, andwas told of John Brown’s purpose Leonhardt. then reading lawr in tho office,of Chaso A Bali, of Cincinnati. Theretho man’s faceis, aud and fioa.'ly put its snout toby Col. | Soddenly the broto was seizsd withofIIaand with bristle* and tailwere doobtiess others who knew, but theseare all who are now recalled.Jooompei him to drink ? Is tbere any penalty for a refusal to drink t May the distillers and brewers order the con drinkersOf tbe original party from Kansas and North Elba, Richard Realf is the widestknown, trom bis saddle and Uubappy endpantc,ereot it scampered away as if for life. This display ot i-eneibility wa-i very creditableto that Log, but sunn a drove ot the sameorwgeuue crowded roQcd the dead mao, noneof which appeared to be actuated by thesame generous impulse as the first. TheTlotininIfto tie whipped for their oontnmaoy or pur-tuo them from a drinking State into a non-drinkmg state with a warrant to bring them back and to force their submission to^d tbeir master® f Io one word, is the drinking mso an involuntary slave to the m-.D nlaoturers and venders oting. from h a genius as a poet and his gal laotry as a soldier. Keait was an Eagiish-tnan by binb, about 4 4 years of age at the tune of his saicide in 0*klaQd. Cab, Octo1879. He is buried in the Ljoopertinacity with which death holds on to adead African is so well known that it hasber,MoontaiuCemetery, San Fracoisoo, andbeoome proverbial; but the King of Ter rors himself ooold not exceed‘Iatitiliquor, whose bondage is recognized by law aud enforcedlieby oonstabuiary ? “It ibe case betbe only monument to his memory is the daisies planted at his feet, as be aiked io hie last exquisite poem, by the loving care of his G. a. R. oomradea Realf leftthose hogsin zealous attention to the defunct Newby.Tney tugged away at him with might andand tbe writer sawROfermain,snoutinfo theBroomes equally apparent. Suppose tbe system of Slavery at tie South bad extendedin.haditeinsisted upon retaining the oondtiion which the Abolitiooista found thorn.John Brown at Cleveland, Ohio, in May, 1*58, alter the Chatham convention, to go to Lug.and. la New York, Kaelf toldSupitorttee,thepose these staves had enjoyed tbe privilege ot selecting their own masters and their own domiciles, and had been In the habitof removing from one locality where slavery was not tolerated to another where itd. Sunnose tbev‘fineofbvwas reoogn ed theirhadaeters, rt fused to accept emancipation, rallied at the polls to vote for themaintenance of the institution, beaten the oonstables who wanted to strike off theirif.T-*yvntyidshackles, and even gone to tbe battlefield to fight for their right to he slaves. What progress would tbe Abolitionists have made under that condition of things! Could mil lions ot able-bodied men and women scat*idtered over the entire continent have been forcibly emancipated from a state which they enjoyed and from a bondage which they regarded a® a privilege! If not. then by force ot the v**ry analogy tbe Frohibi-tionists desire to establish they are en gaged in a bopeie** struggle at liberating a people who now believe themseves to be free ”Thaddens Hyatt and W. A. M. F. Amy,who afterward was secretary and acting governor of New Mexico. Mr. Hyatt gave him money to go to England, bis purposebeing to try and raise money for the expo dition. lu this fie failed. He went over to Fans for a brief trip, and thence oame to Hay re, where, selling his Ooft’s revolvers lor passage money, be sailed in a cot too ship to New Orleans, intending to see the slave states fcr himself. An impres Munable man, the kindness he met with made a great impression on him. He drifted somewhat aim'essly for severalone run it* I yf wound and drag oot a stringy eabetanoe ot some kind, which he is nut anatomist enough to oail by its right name It appeared to fie very long or veryeiastio, as it reached fully three yards from the man's neok, one end being in the bog's mouth and the other somewhere iu thewtiman’s body. This circumstance could not ia 1 to improve the flavor and enbanoe tbe vaiue ot pork at Harper's Ferry the next winter.tiiEWhat beoameof the remains after Logs had satisfied themselves, only some of tbe human bogs who lived there at the time oan tell.Now, as to the balance of the party leftto gaard the farm aud (he school house, with the arms. Owen Brown, tbe eldest sou ofalfiltf *having arrived io New Orleans inwhen the attack was ’ tected.months-May, 1859, aodmade on slavery was io Central Texas lecturing. ills name betrayed him at once.Under the advice ot George W. Pasohall, alterwards tamon* as a Unionist. Realf, to save himself Imm mob violence, wrote tothe governor of Texas and offeree to teslt tv. he was careiuliy guarded, brought to Washington, where his evidenoe amounted to nothing, and received over $600 for traveling and witness fees, whioh money he after wards divided at Cleveland betweenCaptain Brown, esoaped through Pennsylvania to Obio, where on tbe Western Reserve he was guarded and pro*Ue Is a man of 54 yearn of age, and liven in the Jay Cooke house (as a care taker) at Gibraltar, SandQsky bay,Lake Erie, Ohio. John E Cook, who was sent into the neighborhood of the Ferry to make arrests, escaped into Pennsylvania on the 17th with Oweu Brown, Barclay Coppic. Albert Usz-tt and Francis J. Mer riam. They wete afterwards joined by Osborne K Anderson and Charles Plnmmer Tidd. Cook wasPi1tlt;VI84reHonfora s acio FaoiphataieIu InehriatvfELLIS, Wabash, lod., says;an who had usedoseDr. C. S.#II prescribed it for a intoxicants to exoess for fifteen years, but during the last two years has entirely abstained, lie thinks the Aoid Phosphateis of muoli benefit to him ,*'Brolay Coppic and G.o. P. Tidd, fugitivesfrom Hsrpcr's Ferry, giving each an equaltginia and was buriedcaptQred, taken atterwardsto Viratahare with him-eit.brother-in-law.hung. HJs bodyWilliamsburg, N. Y., by aMrs. Virginia Cook alter-AtnovOf the parly of raiders, John Brown was wounded, captured aud hung at Charles-towu. Va., December 2, 1850. In thefight John Henri Kagi, the most brilliantward married a Union soldier named Johnston and moved to Bloomington, III., where she now resides. Barclay Copptc got away and returned to Iowa. Wrnen the war began be joined the 3d regiment Kansas volunteers and was commissioned second lieatenant. He went to Iowa, reftOfenP»'ttsOatoonBloruited some men and wasJOHN BROtVV’S MEN.W hat lb« atuf otIhoae U ho«m!«ro to the l»e*tru« lion ot Ma-Tho Itiowvory at Hari»er i I erry Heard Hound the Worldto ItHh, 1H,%W.• A«*October I othThe reoent remarkable disooyery of ihe skeleton of Watson Brown, tbe fonrth sonot Captain John Brown, shot at Harper'sFerry on the 14 *.h of October, 1859, has brought vividly before tbe public mind once more the wondrous story of tbe Uarmand, wa« slain at Bali's rifle works, orrather at a rock In the Shenandoah river. I His body laid two or throe days and was almost riddled to pieces with ballets, every brute who passed over thfe bridge with a loaded gun firing into it as tbe water washed its limbs. Ue was reported to have been buried by the river bank in a shallowbo*Y,h*n tZ't T,eveJ «o .»•* Y^-have been taken by the doctors as a snb-jeot. W itb him fell John Copeland, Sber-rard Lewis Leary, colored, Stewart Tayior,en route witbthem to the regiment when killed in An-gust, 1861, by the fail of a train through the Piatte river bridge, seven miles ea»t of St, Joe, Mo. The bridge had beeu burned by guerrillas. Coppic Is buried ou Pilot Koob in the Leaveoworth, Kansas, oeme-Cbarle* P. Tidd went to Ohio andWhen tbeISentered the volanteers and died on a gunboat of fever at Roanoke Idand, N. C. just as Barnside captured*ett f•oi Itoof#TI OLI*J»rry Anderion *nd William H. L,hm»n. |ttle Th*9 wr,te, do*8 not knowwhere he was buried. Frauds J. MerriWhat became ot their bodies no one can i . _tell, They were doubtless taken by am euooeeded ,n caching CanadaHeper’s Ferry raid. It impels tbe writer also to briefly note, as part of tbe current his tory of that memorable event, the fate or whereabouts ot tbe heroes who participated therein. There is no need of recounting the history of that tragedy, which, whether worldly wise or otherwise, by its heroic sincerity, devotion and sacrifice illuminated modern history, and lifted corsouls to a plane whence the crime and cowardice involved in slavery became soperceptibly hideous as to quickan the ethical instinots of even tbe mdest men and thestudents of tbe Jlt; fl ?rson M edtcai school atWinchester, Ya. At thoBrown,Brown,D. Stevens,Of*dullest women as if by touch of living fire, ow soonot any spot aix foot Uy two Will bold a mac nk« tbe®bu Brown will tiamp the abaking *auh From Blue Ridga u tbe aea.found tbat bis eon!engine there wereStewart Taylor,Adolphus Thompson, Aaron Shields Green and EJwsn Coppic these Oliver Brown w*s shot in the groin on tbe night of the 17tb, and died in great agony What become ot his body no oneknows Watson Brown was shot on the17th and died after the U. 8. marines, or - ]der Robert E. Lee, captured the ecgfnehouse. The late developments as to histhat it was taken toatterwards went to Hayti tbe second time. Daring the war he was io the field, most ofbMide* John I ,Ihe,‘'m“n “d C»rolin..Iu the latter state he was engaged in ratsleg oolored troop#. His death is involvedio gome doubt, but be went to Menoohouse,Watson atd OliverWilliam andiorWMBuDWbiormstoenter the republican army4 and so far as is known to tbe writer, died tbere. Osborne P. Anderson escaped to Cacara, and oame baok after the war began Me served as a recruiting agent, aod was a non-commissioned officer, He*He died in Washington 1871, and is buried tbere.inAnd eoon weinarching on”wasTill tbe etoTmj angel came® »t set.And open® e*lt; b lt;tan•j*-on door,And lt;iod » ‘t;reat Charter bold® and wa**® j tT all hi® bumble poorThe known members of tbe Harper's Ferry party were the following persona -John Brown of Kansas and Nortb Elba, N Y ; John Henri Kagi of Virginia and Kant-ar, Aaron D. Stevens (known tn Kansas as Colonel Whipple) ot Connecticut;Owen, Watson aod Oliver Brown, brothers, aod tbe sons of Captain Browo; Johnj E. Cook of New York and Kansas; Charles P. Tidd of New York and Kars s; William Lshmtn of Kansas and Mtine; William and Adolphns Thompson of New York t NorthTbe former had been in Kansasbody show clearly that it was Wmohcster, Ya, and there arranged as a subject. Dr. jArvisJ. Johnson, of Mor-gaosviiie, Ind , was sorgeon of tbs 27th Indiana, and in tbe spring of 1862 m as with Banks in the Shenandoah Yaliey Iq tbe medical college mosenm a body finely cared for was found, reported to be tbat of one oi John Brown’s sons. Dr. Johnson Ina reoent affidavit says:“By permission of Gen. Backs, I took charge of the specimen and removed it to the academy ho-pital, in Winchester, whichhospital was then under After its removal to theTbe only survivor of the Harper’s Ferry party actually present and in the fighting is Owen Brown. Of those otherwise identified with tbe movement, Luke F Parsonsdied a volunteer officer and was buried in the national cemetery near Fort Gibson, C. N., Indian Temtory. Tfie person known on the record as William Harrison, andwho did not reach tbe Ferry in time fromthe West, is a well known journalist. Messrs. Ssnborc, Redpa’h, Hinton and Morton are koowo.iElha.) Tbe former naa oeen to aod they were brothers of Henry Taomp-. son, mho is the husband of Rath, Captain Brown’s eldest daagbter. Then there were ; Albert Haxlitt of PeDoeylvenie and Kansas; Edwin and Barclay Copplt;c, brothersmy control, said hospital, a number of the prominent oitisens of Winchester called upon me at the hospital, and each and ail deolared that it was the remains of a son ot John Brown; that the said son had been killed at Harper’s Ferry, Vs., in October, 1859, at the time of tbeinsurrection.Oae of the professors of the said college also called nnon m* in oersor. and deli ecalled upon me in person, roanded tbat I return the specimen then gave me all the details of tfie maoner in which the body had been prepared, and said tbat be did it bimselt. He told meGsorge P. Gill, whose lil-heaith alone prevented bis being witb Brown, lives on a email farm near or at Springdale, Cedar county, Iowa. Colonel L»onbardt resides at or near Manhattan, Kan. George Henry H }t, the brilliant young lawyer who defended Captain Browo, was lieutenant colonel of tbe Fifteenth Kansas cavalry, and afterwards attorney general of tbe Stats. He returned to Massachusetts and was State Senator atone tirns. He died some years sinoe at Athol, Mass., and is buried tbWattles lies at M^neka, LinoKie.HiMr. Couthat alter young Brown was killed at Har-■!OOQQly,As to the members ot tbe Chathamconvention, but few ot them are known to fame. Frederiok Dooglasa resides berr, and has told bia'own story.It was a marvellous episode ig our bis-
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