Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-26
From the Memphis Appeal, Oct. 20, 1859. Insurrection at Harper's Ferry-Great Ex- citement-Fifteen ofthe Insurrectionists
 

Insurrection at Harper Ferry-Great Ex
 citement- Fifteen ofthe Insurrectionist:
 Killed.
 Baltimore, Oct. 17.-The United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry has been seized and the trains on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad going east and west have been stopped by rioters. The town is in posses. sion ot from six to seven hundred whites and blacks It was first alleged that this was an abolition movement, but It IS now supposed to have originated from the em- ployers on the government dam being cheat ed recently by an absconding contractor, the rioters taking this mode of getting their pay, by obtaining the money in the govern ment pay houses. The President has sent mariners and troops from Washington 10 force passage of the railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry at all hazards.
 The Governor of Virginia has sent troops from Richmond, and troops from Baltimore and Frederick also left for the scene of the riot last evening"
 The authorities of Washington City and Alexandria are alarmed, they fearing incur slonS ot the rioters.
 The telegraph wires were cut last night.
 Washington, P. MA gentleman who has just arrived from Frederick thinks the negroes ln the mob are participants only by compulsion.
 Baltimore, Oct. 1S.-At three o'clock this morning Harpers Ferry was taken pos session of by military companies from | Charlestown and Shepardstown, Virginia, and Frederick, Maryland. The insurrec- tlonists are entrenched in the armory, and hold Messrs Washington and Lapufald prisoners. The insurrectionists are com manded by Brown of Kansas notoriety; they originally numbered seventeen whites and five negroes, several of whom have been shot. Two men of the Martinsburg com pany were killed while charging the armory.
 A portion of the insurrectionists have left Harper's Ferry under the command of man named Cook, who, witha large par ty ot slaves, IS supposed to be moving to- ward Pennsylvania.
 Allen Evans, of Connecticut, one of the insurrectionists, is mortally wounded and is expected to die. He says the whole scheme was gotton up by Brown, who rep resented that the negroes would rise by the thousands, and that Maryland and Virginia would be made free States.
 Mr. Fountaine Breckman, the railway agent, was instantly killed by shot from the armory.
 Three of the insurrectionists are lying dead under the railway bridge.
 Captain Cook is second in command of the lnsumectionists, and is said to be pack ed m a school house four miles distant from Harper's Ferry with a large body of runa- way slaves.
 The armory was taken possession of about nine o'clock on Sunday night. and so quietly was it done that the citizens knew nothing of it until the trains were stopped.
 Col. Lee thinks that the number of troops at Harper's Ferry is sufficient to capture the insmTectionists
 Brown rented a farm four miles from Earper's Ferry, which has been the redez- vous of the insurrectionists Capt. Cook i lives in the vicinity. and formerly taught school. All the other whites are unknown. but it is supposed they were connected with Brown in Kansas.
 It IS reported, but the report needs con iirmation, that the insurrectionists have car- licl off a considerable amount of the go- vemment lunds
 Brown claims easy terms of capitulation as he did not pillage the town or insult fe- males
 The conflict on the railroad bridges was mainly between the railway tunnage men from Martnsburg and the nsurrectionists. Evan Dorsey, a railway conductor, was killed, and two men, named Bowman and | Hallette, were wounded.
 It is supposed that the insurrectionists will be tried under martil law and hung on the spot.
 A special report from the editor of the Bltimore American, dated six o'clock, A. NJ, says: Preparations are being made for an attack on the armory. Soldiers are post ed all around the grounds.
 The insurectionists have the follow ing persons in custody: Arnustad Ball. druaghtsman; Benj Mills, master; John P. Dangerfeld, paymastcr of the armory, and Clark Lewis.
 A negro named Lewis Leacy has just died, He confessed the plot was concocted by Brown, at a fair heldin Ohio two months | since.
 The insurrectionists sent flag of truce, saying if they were not protected by the soldiers they would hang the persons they held prisoners.