John  BROWN

JOHN BROWN ('Brown of Ossawatomie'), a noted character in American history, was born at Torrington, Connecticut, May 9, 1800. In his childhood he removed to Ohio, where he learned the tanner's trade. He married there, and in 1855 settled in Kansas. He lived at the village of Ossawatomie in that state, and there began his fight against slavery. He advocated immediate emancipation, and held that the negroes of the slave states merely waited for a leader in an insurrection that would result in their freedom. He attended the convention called at Chatham, Canada, in 1859, and was the leading spirit in organizing a raid upon the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plans were well laid, and carried out in great secrecy. He rented a farm house near Harper's Ferry in the summer of 1859, and on October 16th of that year, with about twenty followers, he surprised and captured the United States arsenal, with all its supplies and arms. To his surprise, the negroes did not come

We copy a few throbs of the public pulse on John Brown's death as indicating the general public feeling on the subject. The first is the simple announcement from Charlestown.

CHARLESTOWN, Dec. 2 - Noon.
Brown was taken from the jail about 11 o'clock in a furniture wagon. He conversed freely with the soldiers around him. The execution took place at a quarter past 11 o'clock. He died apparently very easy. His body was taken down after being suspended thirty-five minutes, and will be sent to Harper's Ferry at 4 o'clock this P.M., and from thence it will be conveyed north this evening.

ALBANY, Dec. 2. A hundred guns were fired to-day in the commemoration of John Brown's execution.

WARESTOWN, Wis., Dec. 2. Arrangements have been made to have all the bells in this city tolled at 2 o'clock P.M., for the death of Capt. John Brown.

WAUKESHA, Dec. 2. The bells are now tolling the death of John Brown.

The Milwaukee Ere Democrat of the 2d says:
'At 12 o'clock to-day, the city of