Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-11-03

Virginia is still in fcrment. cold Gizzard
foot" is on his high horse, talking away by the
hour, distributing arms TO every county in the
disturbed commonwealth, and putting the
whole country into mortal terror at the in
terminable letter which is sure to come from
his pen Harper'S Ferry is yet in the par
oXysnls Of fright, aud Sandy Hook is in mo
mentary expectation Of a general massacre
Throughout the entire Cd Dominion there is
a hunting up of old swords, furnishing 0. rifles
and carefully inquiry into the state and supply
of the ammunition. The chivalry is agog for
deeds of high emprise, and demanding to he
led against the million of Browns and Smiths
whom its atfrighted Imagination has conjured
up "To arms to arms. We brave"
And what is the cause Of all this commo-
tiOn What has occurred to stir up thus the
courage of the undaunted sons Of Virginia :?
Why this blowing of trumpetS and marshal
ling of hosts this delivery of speeches Of
learned length and thnndering sound" and
rattle Of bayOnets as the mighty battaOnS
gather? Virginia has been invoded One
of her strongholdS has been captured Twenty
men, fifteen of them whites, and five black,
have marched into the bowels of the land,
taken a town, captured an armory, formed a
provisional government, treated Gov. Wise as
nobody blotted ont the Constitution of Vir-
ginia, and put her entire people into convul-
sions of terror. One old man, with nineteen
pnny hackers has done it all
If the thing had occurred at our Arsenal,
here in Pittsburg, our day police would have
put an end to the riot in an hour; but down
in that classic State, renowned for ebo.shinS
,,r1f Co.
there is a sudden hurrying to and fro Of mill
tary companies the aid Of the General Gov.
ernment is invoked three or four thousand
men are sped to the place of conflict old
Brown and his nineteen IunatcS are shot down,
and the several thousand people of Harper
Ferry, huddled together like sheep, as their
Governor uncomplimentarily observes, breathe
treer and easier again
But the end is not yet Brown is mortally
wounded, and fifteen of the fools who went
with him are dead ; but the appalling dismay
spread over Virginia by these twenty powerless
men is not dispeled The danger still con
tinues, though they cannot tell from whence
it is to come. There must be danger. some
where else why should the brave, chivalrc,
courageous NirginianS be ell of a tremble
Would they, the lion-hearted fellows of the
nation, the very embodiment of vigorous cour.
age, would they tremble, think you, if there
were not real danger? Not bit of it. Could
twenty men scare two hundred thousand fight
ing men ont Of their wits The thing is not
to be thought of. They are the conservators
of the national peace, and are not to be scared
by any amount of Browns. Not they. Did
not some three thousand Of them re e-capture
Harper's Ferry from the bood:thirsty Brown?
Yes, sir ! They did it easy.
Seriously, it is langhable to witness the ter.
ribe fear into which Virginia has been thrown
by apatry score of moon-Struek adventures
Bat why do they not let their fears subsde,
now that the danger is over, (if it ever exis.
ted and not try to put the whole country
into ferment because cowardly village has
been ranic stricken? Here in the North we